• RQFTCIMM11 Game 10, Rounds 4-6: astrology, Shakespeare, TO riots

    From Mark Brader@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 12 23:13:34 2021
    These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2011-07-18,
    and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written
    by members of the Misplaced Modifiers, but have been reformatted
    and may have been retyped and/or edited by me. I will reveal the
    correct answers in about 3 days.

    For further information, including an explanation of the """ notation
    that may appear in these rounds, see my 2021-07-20 companion posting
    on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".


    * Game 10, Round 4 - Pseudo-Science - Astrology

    The belief in a connection between the cosmos and terrestrial
    matters has played an important part in human history. You may
    be more familiar with it as horse puckey.

    1. Each astrological age is approximately 2,150 years long,
    on average. In which astrological age are we now, according
    to the lyrics of a 5th Dimension hit?

    2. The Mayan tradition combined astronomy and astrology. The most
    famous Mayan astrological observatory still intact is the
    Caracol observatory in which ancient Mayan city?

    3. Particularly important in the development of the horoscope
    in astrology was this astrologer and astronomer whose work
    the "Tetrabiblos" laid the basis of the Western astrological
    tradition. Who?

    4. In 1556 this astronomer and seer was summoned to the French
    court by Queen Catherine de Medici, and commissioned to draw up
    the horoscope of the royal children. Pleased with the results,
    she remained his patron until his death. Name him.

    5. Name the method of interpreting the ongoing movement of the
    planets as they move through the horoscope. This is most often
    done for the birth chart of an individual. Particular attention
    is paid to changes of sign, or house.

    6. This motion of a planet is its apparent backward motion through
    the sky caused by the Earth traveling past a slower-moving outer
    planet, or when the Earth is itself passed by a faster-moving
    inner body. In astrology, this backward movement is thought
    to be unlucky. What is it called?

    7. She was one of the best-known American astrologers and psychics
    of the 20th century, due to her syndicated newspaper astrology
    column, some well-publicized predictions, and a best-selling
    biography, "My Life and Prophecies". She also was the author
    of "Do Cats have ESP?" Name her.

    8. Name this American astrologer and astrology consultant to the
    rich and famous. He wrote numerous books on the subject,
    including "My World of Astrology" and his autobiography "In the
    Sky", but he is probably the most widely known for his books
    on the popular sun-sign astrology.

    9. Modern astrologers use data provided by astronomers which are
    transformed to a set of astrological tables showing the
    changing zodiacal positions of the heavenly bodies through time.
    What are these tables called?

    10. Astrology itself can be divided into two camps: "Natural
    astrologers" study the motions of the heavenly bodies, timing of
    eclipses, etc. The other type studies the supposed correlations
    between the positions of various celestial objects and the
    affairs of human beings. What are they known as?


    * Game 10, Round 5 - Audio - Shakespeare

    Surprise! You get three rounds in this set (so the score for
    the game will be your best 7 out of 9 rounds). That's because
    I think the audio round in this game is playable in textual form,
    so I'm including it in this posting.

    In each case, name the play by Shakespeare that these lines come
    from (some edition of). (In the original game, questions #7-10
    required the players to name the actor or actress speaking in
    the audio clip, but I'll just make it "name the play" for these
    as well.)

    1. Man 1:
    She thank'd me,
    And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,
    I should but teach him how to tell my story,
    And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake:
    She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd,
    And I loved her that she did pity them.
    This only is the witchcraft I have used.
    Here comes the lady; let her witness it.
    Man 2:
    I think this tale would win my daughter too.

    2. Woman:
    Yet show some pity.
    Man:
    I show it most of all when I show justice;
    For then I pity those I do not know,
    Which a dismiss'd offence would after gall,
    And do him right that, answering one foul wrong,
    Lives not to act another. Be satisfied;
    Your brother dies to-morrow; be content.
    Woman:
    So you must be the first that gives this sentence,
    And he that suffers. O, it is excellent
    To have a giant's strength! But it is tyrannous
    To use it like a giant.

    3. Man:
    If I stand here, I saw Banquo!
    Woman:
    Fie, for shame!
    Man:
    Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time,
    Ay, and since too, murthers have been perform'd
    Too terrible for the ear. The time has been,
    That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
    And there an end; but now they rise again,
    With twenty mortal murthers on their crowns,
    And push us from our stools.
    Woman:
    You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting,
    With most admired disorder.

    4. Woman 1:
    Let's appoint him a meeting!
    Woman 2:
    What tempest, I trow, threw this whale, with so many tuns
    of oil in his belly, ashore at Windsor? If my husband saw
    this letter! It would give eternal food to his jealousy.
    Woman 1:
    My good man is as far from jealousy as I am from giving
    him cause.
    Woman 2:
    You are the happier woman.
    Woman 1:
    Let's consult together against this greasy knight.

    5. Woman:
    We are not the first
    Who with best meaning have incurr'd the worst.
    For thee, oppressed king, I am cast down;
    Myself could else outfrown false Fortune's frown.
    Shall we not see these daughters and these sisters?
    Man:
    No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison.
    We two alone will sing like birds i' th' cage.
    When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down
    And ask of thee forgiveness.

    6. Man:
    But this rough magic
    I here abjure; and, when I have requir'd
    Some heavenly music -- which even now I do --
    To work mine end upon their senses that
    This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
    Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
    And deeper than did ever plummet sound
    I'll drown my book.

    7. Man:
    The sixth age shifts
    Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
    With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
    His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
    For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
    Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
    And whistles in his sound.

    8. Man:
    Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
    Like a Colossus, and we petty men
    Walk under his huge legs and peep about
    To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
    Men at some time are masters of their fates:
    The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
    But in ourselves that we are underlings.
    Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that "Caesar"?
    Why should that name be sounded more than yours?

    9. Man:
    To sing a song that old was sung,
    From ashes ancient Gower is come;
    Assuming man's infirmities,
    To glad your ear, and please your eyes.
    It hath been sung at festivals,
    On ember-eves and holy-ales;
    And lords and ladies in their lives
    Have read it for restoratives

    10. Woman:
    Now to all sense 'tis gross
    You love my son; invention is asham'd,
    Against the proclamation of thy passion,
    To say thou dost not. Therefore tell me true;
    But tell me then, 'tis so; for, look, thy cheeks
    Confess't, th' one to th' other; and thine eyes
    See it so grossly shown in thy behaviours
    That in their kind they speak it; only sin
    And hellish obstinacy tie thy tongue,
    That truth should be suspected. Speak, is't so?


    * Game 10, Round 6 - Canadiana History - Toronto Riots and Demonstrations

    It's been over a year since Toronto hosted the G20 riots.
    Let's look back on some riotous days from our local history.

    1. June 2010. The so-called "5-meter law" passed by the Ontario
    government provides police with dubious justification for
    harassing citizens during the lead-up to the G20. The government
    would later promise to repeal the 1939 act under which the law
    was passed. Name that act.

    2. 1980-06-02. The "Punk Rock Riot". After fans get overheated
    at a concert by local punkers Teenage Head, this venue bans
    rock concerts for several years. Name it.

    3. 1918-08-01. Up and down Yonge St., police battle an angry mob
    of thousands, among them many returned war veterans.
    The rioters are intent on destroying restaurants and other
    businesses belonging to a Toronto ethnic group whose nation of
    origin has maintained neutrality through the First World War.
    Which ethnicity?

    4. 2000-06-15. Rocks and paint-bombs are hurled by demonstrators
    at police protecting Queen's Park. 300 mounted police respond
    with batons and pepper-spray. Toronto police chief Julian
    Fantino calls the actions of the organizers "domestic terrorism."
    Name the group behind the protest.

    5. 1992-05-04. The Yonge St. Riot leads to 30 arrests and hundreds
    of smashed windows. The riot starts out as a demonstration
    against the Toronto police shooting of alleged crack dealer
    Raymond Lawrence, but takes its main impetus from a US court
    decision handed down 5 days previously. In what case?

    6. Sunday, 1875-10-03. The Jubilee Riots. The presence of armed
    militia to keep the peace doesn't keep downtown Toronto from
    erupting into mayhem as a religious procession is attacked
    with stones and guns. Of which ethnicity are the marchers
    under attack?

    7. 1933-08-16. Fists, clubs, bricks, and pipes. A 6-hour brawl
    erupts in Willowvale Park after a swastika banner is unfurled at
    a baseball game involving the mostly Jewish Harbord Playground
    club. How do Torontonians know Willowvale Park today?

    8. During the 1930s, under Chief Dennis Draper, a special Toronto
    police team is formed to break strikes, disrupt demonstrations,
    and generally keep Toronto's lefties in check. In one instance,
    they disperse a crowd of 2,000 by turning their motorcycle
    exhaust pipes towards them to create a noxious cloud.
    Modeled and named after similar units in US police forces,
    how is this team known?

    9. 1980-08-19. A no-show by this rock star sends 13,000 fans at
    the CNE Grandstand into a frenzy. Police defend themselves
    from projectiles with folding chairs. 31 are arrested,
    12 hospitalized. Name the rocker.

    10. 1981-02-08. Several days after the heavy-handed Operation Soap
    arrests 287 gay men in Toronto, demonstrators take over the
    streets of downtown, marching aggressively on 52 Division and
    Queen's Park. How are these "riots" known?

    --
    Mark Brader | "Youths steal funds for charity"
    Toronto | --White Plains, NY, Reporter Dispatch
    msb@vex.net | February 17, 1982

    My text in this article is in the public domain.

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  • From Joshua Kreitzer@21:1/5 to Mark Brader on Fri Nov 12 21:59:08 2021
    On Friday, November 12, 2021 at 11:14:02 PM UTC-6, Mark Brader wrote:

    * Game 10, Round 4 - Pseudo-Science - Astrology

    1. Each astrological age is approximately 2,150 years long,
    on average. In which astrological age are we now, according
    to the lyrics of a 5th Dimension hit?

    Age of Aquarius

    3. Particularly important in the development of the horoscope
    in astrology was this astrologer and astronomer whose work
    the "Tetrabiblos" laid the basis of the Western astrological
    tradition. Who?

    Euclid (?)

    4. In 1556 this astronomer and seer was summoned to the French
    court by Queen Catherine de Medici, and commissioned to draw up
    the horoscope of the royal children. Pleased with the results,
    she remained his patron until his death. Name him.

    Nostradamus

    5. Name the method of interpreting the ongoing movement of the
    planets as they move through the horoscope. This is most often
    done for the birth chart of an individual. Particular attention
    is paid to changes of sign, or house.

    precession

    6. This motion of a planet is its apparent backward motion through
    the sky caused by the Earth traveling past a slower-moving outer
    planet, or when the Earth is itself passed by a faster-moving
    inner body. In astrology, this backward movement is thought
    to be unlucky. What is it called?

    retrograde

    7. She was one of the best-known American astrologers and psychics
    of the 20th century, due to her syndicated newspaper astrology
    column, some well-publicized predictions, and a best-selling
    biography, "My Life and Prophecies". She also was the author
    of "Do Cats have ESP?" Name her.

    Dixon

    * Game 10, Round 5 - Audio - Shakespeare

    Surprise! You get three rounds in this set (so the score for
    the game will be your best 7 out of 9 rounds). That's because
    I think the audio round in this game is playable in textual form,
    so I'm including it in this posting.

    In each case, name the play by Shakespeare that these lines come
    from (some edition of).

    2. Woman:
    Yet show some pity.
    Man:
    I show it most of all when I show justice;
    For then I pity those I do not know,
    Which a dismiss'd offence would after gall,
    And do him right that, answering one foul wrong,
    Lives not to act another. Be satisfied;
    Your brother dies to-morrow; be content.
    Woman:
    So you must be the first that gives this sentence,
    And he that suffers. O, it is excellent
    To have a giant's strength! But it is tyrannous
    To use it like a giant.

    "Measure for Measure"

    3. Man:
    If I stand here, I saw Banquo!
    Woman:
    Fie, for shame!
    Man:
    Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time,
    Ay, and since too, murthers have been perform'd
    Too terrible for the ear. The time has been,
    That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
    And there an end; but now they rise again,
    With twenty mortal murthers on their crowns,
    And push us from our stools.
    Woman:
    You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting,
    With most admired disorder.

    "Macbeth"

    6. Man:
    But this rough magic
    I here abjure; and, when I have requir'd
    Some heavenly music -- which even now I do --
    To work mine end upon their senses that
    This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
    Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
    And deeper than did ever plummet sound
    I'll drown my book.

    "The Tempest"

    7. Man:
    The sixth age shifts
    Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
    With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
    His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
    For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
    Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
    And whistles in his sound.

    "As You Like It"

    8. Man:
    Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
    Like a Colossus, and we petty men
    Walk under his huge legs and peep about
    To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
    Men at some time are masters of their fates:
    The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
    But in ourselves that we are underlings.
    Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that "Caesar"?
    Why should that name be sounded more than yours?

    "Julius Caesar"

    * Game 10, Round 6 - Canadiana History - Toronto Riots and Demonstrations

    It's been over a year since Toronto hosted the G20 riots.
    Let's look back on some riotous days from our local history.

    5. 1992-05-04. The Yonge St. Riot leads to 30 arrests and hundreds
    of smashed windows. The riot starts out as a demonstration
    against the Toronto police shooting of alleged crack dealer
    Raymond Lawrence, but takes its main impetus from a US court
    decision handed down 5 days previously. In what case?

    the "Rodney King" case
    (note: King was the victim, not the defendant)

    6. Sunday, 1875-10-03. The Jubilee Riots. The presence of armed
    militia to keep the peace doesn't keep downtown Toronto from
    erupting into mayhem as a religious procession is attacked
    with stones and guns. Of which ethnicity are the marchers
    under attack?

    Irish

    8. During the 1930s, under Chief Dennis Draper, a special Toronto
    police team is formed to break strikes, disrupt demonstrations,
    and generally keep Toronto's lefties in check. In one instance,
    they disperse a crowd of 2,000 by turning their motorcycle
    exhaust pipes towards them to create a noxious cloud.
    Modeled and named after similar units in US police forces,
    how is this team known?

    SWAT

    --
    Joshua Kreitzer
    gromit82@hotmail.com

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  • From Erland Sommarskog@21:1/5 to Mark Brader on Sat Nov 13 11:20:25 2021
    Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:
    * Game 10, Round 4 - Pseudo-Science - Astrology

    1. Each astrological age is approximately 2,150 years long,
    on average. In which astrological age are we now, according
    to the lyrics of a 5th Dimension hit?

    Acquarius

    4. In 1556 this astronomer and seer was summoned to the French
    court by Queen Catherine de Medici, and commissioned to draw up
    the horoscope of the royal children. Pleased with the results,
    she remained his patron until his death. Name him.

    Gallilei

    9. Modern astrologers use data provided by astronomers which are
    transformed to a set of astrological tables showing the
    changing zodiacal positions of the heavenly bodies through time.
    What are these tables called?

    Fake news

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  • From Dan Tilque@21:1/5 to Mark Brader on Sat Nov 13 09:40:07 2021
    On 11/12/21 9:13 PM, Mark Brader wrote:

    * Game 10, Round 4 - Pseudo-Science - Astrology

    The belief in a connection between the cosmos and terrestrial
    matters has played an important part in human history. You may
    be more familiar with it as horse puckey.

    1. Each astrological age is approximately 2,150 years long,
    on average. In which astrological age are we now, according
    to the lyrics of a 5th Dimension hit?

    Aquarius


    2. The Mayan tradition combined astronomy and astrology. The most
    famous Mayan astrological observatory still intact is the
    Caracol observatory in which ancient Mayan city?

    Chichen Itza


    3. Particularly important in the development of the horoscope
    in astrology was this astrologer and astronomer whose work
    the "Tetrabiblos" laid the basis of the Western astrological
    tradition. Who?

    4. In 1556 this astronomer and seer was summoned to the French
    court by Queen Catherine de Medici, and commissioned to draw up
    the horoscope of the royal children. Pleased with the results,
    she remained his patron until his death. Name him.

    5. Name the method of interpreting the ongoing movement of the
    planets as they move through the horoscope. This is most often
    done for the birth chart of an individual. Particular attention
    is paid to changes of sign, or house.

    progression


    6. This motion of a planet is its apparent backward motion through
    the sky caused by the Earth traveling past a slower-moving outer
    planet, or when the Earth is itself passed by a faster-moving
    inner body. In astrology, this backward movement is thought
    to be unlucky. What is it called?

    retrograde


    7. She was one of the best-known American astrologers and psychics
    of the 20th century, due to her syndicated newspaper astrology
    column, some well-publicized predictions, and a best-selling
    biography, "My Life and Prophecies". She also was the author
    of "Do Cats have ESP?" Name her.

    8. Name this American astrologer and astrology consultant to the
    rich and famous. He wrote numerous books on the subject,
    including "My World of Astrology" and his autobiography "In the
    Sky", but he is probably the most widely known for his books
    on the popular sun-sign astrology.

    9. Modern astrologers use data provided by astronomers which are
    transformed to a set of astrological tables showing the
    changing zodiacal positions of the heavenly bodies through time.
    What are these tables called?

    ephemerides


    10. Astrology itself can be divided into two camps: "Natural
    astrologers" study the motions of the heavenly bodies, timing of
    eclipses, etc. The other type studies the supposed correlations
    between the positions of various celestial objects and the
    affairs of human beings. What are they known as?


    * Game 10, Round 5 - Audio - Shakespeare

    Surprise! You get three rounds in this set (so the score for
    the game will be your best 7 out of 9 rounds). That's because
    I think the audio round in this game is playable in textual form,
    so I'm including it in this posting.

    In each case, name the play by Shakespeare that these lines come
    from (some edition of). (In the original game, questions #7-10
    required the players to name the actor or actress speaking in
    the audio clip, but I'll just make it "name the play" for these
    as well.)

    1. Man 1:
    She thank'd me,
    And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,
    I should but teach him how to tell my story,
    And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake:
    She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd,
    And I loved her that she did pity them.
    This only is the witchcraft I have used.
    Here comes the lady; let her witness it.
    Man 2:
    I think this tale would win my daughter too.

    2. Woman:
    Yet show some pity.
    Man:
    I show it most of all when I show justice;
    For then I pity those I do not know,
    Which a dismiss'd offence would after gall,
    And do him right that, answering one foul wrong,
    Lives not to act another. Be satisfied;
    Your brother dies to-morrow; be content.
    Woman:
    So you must be the first that gives this sentence,
    And he that suffers. O, it is excellent
    To have a giant's strength! But it is tyrannous
    To use it like a giant.

    3. Man:
    If I stand here, I saw Banquo!
    Woman:
    Fie, for shame!
    Man:
    Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time,
    Ay, and since too, murthers have been perform'd
    Too terrible for the ear. The time has been,
    That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
    And there an end; but now they rise again,
    With twenty mortal murthers on their crowns,
    And push us from our stools.
    Woman:
    You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting,
    With most admired disorder.

    MacBeth


    4. Woman 1:
    Let's appoint him a meeting!
    Woman 2:
    What tempest, I trow, threw this whale, with so many tuns
    of oil in his belly, ashore at Windsor? If my husband saw
    this letter! It would give eternal food to his jealousy.
    Woman 1:
    My good man is as far from jealousy as I am from giving
    him cause.
    Woman 2:
    You are the happier woman.
    Woman 1:
    Let's consult together against this greasy knight.

    5. Woman:
    We are not the first
    Who with best meaning have incurr'd the worst.
    For thee, oppressed king, I am cast down;
    Myself could else outfrown false Fortune's frown.
    Shall we not see these daughters and these sisters?
    Man:
    No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison.
    ` We two alone will sing like birds i' th' cage.
    When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down
    And ask of thee forgiveness.

    6. Man:
    But this rough magic
    I here abjure; and, when I have requir'd
    Some heavenly music -- which even now I do --
    To work mine end upon their senses that
    This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
    Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
    And deeper than did ever plummet sound
    I'll drown my book.

    7. Man:
    The sixth age shifts
    Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
    With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
    His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
    For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
    Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
    And whistles in his sound.

    8. Man:
    Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
    Like a Colossus, and we petty men
    Walk under his huge legs and peep about
    To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
    Men at some time are masters of their fates:
    The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
    But in ourselves that we are underlings.
    Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that "Caesar"?
    Why should that name be sounded more than yours?

    Julius Caesar


    9. Man:
    To sing a song that old was sung,
    From ashes ancient Gower is come;
    Assuming man's infirmities,
    To glad your ear, and please your eyes.
    It hath been sung at festivals,
    On ember-eves and holy-ales;
    And lords and ladies in their lives
    Have read it for restoratives

    10. Woman:
    Now to all sense 'tis gross
    You love my son; invention is asham'd,
    Against the proclamation of thy passion,
    To say thou dost not. Therefore tell me true;
    But tell me then, 'tis so; for, look, thy cheeks
    Confess't, th' one to th' other; and thine eyes
    See it so grossly shown in thy behaviours
    That in their kind they speak it; only sin
    And hellish obstinacy tie thy tongue,
    That truth should be suspected. Speak, is't so?


    * Game 10, Round 6 - Canadiana History - Toronto Riots and Demonstrations

    It's been over a year since Toronto hosted the G20 riots.
    Let's look back on some riotous days from our local history.

    1. June 2010. The so-called "5-meter law" passed by the Ontario
    government provides police with dubious justification for
    harassing citizens during the lead-up to the G20. The government
    would later promise to repeal the 1939 act under which the law
    was passed. Name that act.

    2. 1980-06-02. The "Punk Rock Riot". After fans get overheated
    at a concert by local punkers Teenage Head, this venue bans
    rock concerts for several years. Name it.

    3. 1918-08-01. Up and down Yonge St., police battle an angry mob
    of thousands, among them many returned war veterans.
    The rioters are intent on destroying restaurants and other
    businesses belonging to a Toronto ethnic group whose nation of
    origin has maintained neutrality through the First World War.
    Which ethnicity?

    Dutch; Greek


    4. 2000-06-15. Rocks and paint-bombs are hurled by demonstrators
    at police protecting Queen's Park. 300 mounted police respond
    with batons and pepper-spray. Toronto police chief Julian
    Fantino calls the actions of the organizers "domestic terrorism."
    Name the group behind the protest.

    5. 1992-05-04. The Yonge St. Riot leads to 30 arrests and hundreds
    of smashed windows. The riot starts out as a demonstration
    against the Toronto police shooting of alleged crack dealer
    Raymond Lawrence, but takes its main impetus from a US court
    decision handed down 5 days previously. In what case?

    LA police who beat Rodney King


    6. Sunday, 1875-10-03. The Jubilee Riots. The presence of armed
    militia to keep the peace doesn't keep downtown Toronto from
    erupting into mayhem as a religious procession is attacked
    with stones and guns. Of which ethnicity are the marchers
    under attack?

    Irish; Ukrainian


    7. 1933-08-16. Fists, clubs, bricks, and pipes. A 6-hour brawl
    erupts in Willowvale Park after a swastika banner is unfurled at
    a baseball game involving the mostly Jewish Harbord Playground
    club. How do Torontonians know Willowvale Park today?

    8. During the 1930s, under Chief Dennis Draper, a special Toronto
    police team is formed to break strikes, disrupt demonstrations,
    and generally keep Toronto's lefties in check. In one instance,
    they disperse a crowd of 2,000 by turning their motorcycle
    exhaust pipes towards them to create a noxious cloud.
    Modeled and named after similar units in US police forces,
    how is this team known?

    riot squad


    9. 1980-08-19. A no-show by this rock star sends 13,000 fans at
    the CNE Grandstand into a frenzy. Police defend themselves
    from projectiles with folding chairs. 31 are arrested,
    12 hospitalized. Name the rocker.

    10. 1981-02-08. Several days after the heavy-handed Operation Soap
    arrests 287 gay men in Toronto, demonstrators take over the
    streets of downtown, marching aggressively on 52 Division and
    Queen's Park. How are these "riots" known?

    Stonewall riots

    --
    Dan Tilque

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    Mark Brader <msb@vex.net> wrote:

    * Game 10, Round 4 - Pseudo-Science - Astrology

    1. Each astrological age is approximately 2,150 years long,
    on average. In which astrological age are we now, according
    to the lyrics of a 5th Dimension hit?

    Aquarius

    2. The Mayan tradition combined astronomy and astrology. The most
    famous Mayan astrological observatory still intact is the
    Caracol observatory in which ancient Mayan city?

    Chichen Itza

    3. Particularly important in the development of the horoscope
    in astrology was this astrologer and astronomer whose work
    the "Tetrabiblos" laid the basis of the Western astrological
    tradition. Who?

    Ptolemy

    4. In 1556 this astronomer and seer was summoned to the French
    court by Queen Catherine de Medici, and commissioned to draw up
    the horoscope of the royal children. Pleased with the results,
    she remained his patron until his death. Name him.

    John Dee

    6. This motion of a planet is its apparent backward motion through
    the sky caused by the Earth traveling past a slower-moving outer
    planet, or when the Earth is itself passed by a faster-moving
    inner body. In astrology, this backward movement is thought
    to be unlucky. What is it called?

    retrograde

    * Game 10, Round 5 - Audio - Shakespeare

    3. Man:
    If I stand here, I saw Banquo!
    Woman:
    Fie, for shame!
    Man:
    Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time,
    Ay, and since too, murthers have been perform'd
    Too terrible for the ear. The time has been,
    That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
    And there an end; but now they rise again,
    With twenty mortal murthers on their crowns,
    And push us from our stools.
    Woman:
    You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting,
    With most admired disorder.

    Macbeth

    4. Woman 1:
    Let's appoint him a meeting!
    Woman 2:
    What tempest, I trow, threw this whale, with so many tuns
    of oil in his belly, ashore at Windsor? If my husband saw
    this letter! It would give eternal food to his jealousy.
    Woman 1:
    My good man is as far from jealousy as I am from giving
    him cause.
    Woman 2:
    You are the happier woman.
    Woman 1:
    Let's consult together against this greasy knight.

    The Merry Wives of Windsor

    6. Man:
    But this rough magic
    I here abjure; and, when I have requir'd
    Some heavenly music -- which even now I do --
    To work mine end upon their senses that
    This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
    Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
    And deeper than did ever plummet sound
    I'll drown my book.

    The Tempest

    7. Man:
    The sixth age shifts
    Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
    With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
    His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
    For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
    Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
    And whistles in his sound.

    As You Like It

    8. Man:
    Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
    Like a Colossus, and we petty men
    Walk under his huge legs and peep about
    To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
    Men at some time are masters of their fates:
    The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
    But in ourselves that we are underlings.
    Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that "Caesar"?
    Why should that name be sounded more than yours?

    Julius Caesar

    * Game 10, Round 6 - Canadiana History - Toronto Riots and Demonstrations

    3. 1918-08-01. Up and down Yonge St., police battle an angry mob
    of thousands, among them many returned war veterans.
    The rioters are intent on destroying restaurants and other
    businesses belonging to a Toronto ethnic group whose nation of
    origin has maintained neutrality through the First World War.
    Which ethnicity?

    Chinese

    5. 1992-05-04. The Yonge St. Riot leads to 30 arrests and hundreds
    of smashed windows. The riot starts out as a demonstration
    against the Toronto police shooting of alleged crack dealer
    Raymond Lawrence, but takes its main impetus from a US court
    decision handed down 5 days previously. In what case?

    Rodney King

    6. Sunday, 1875-10-03. The Jubilee Riots. The presence of armed
    militia to keep the peace doesn't keep downtown Toronto from
    erupting into mayhem as a religious procession is attacked
    with stones and guns. Of which ethnicity are the marchers
    under attack?

    Irish

    --
    _______________________________________________________________________
    Dan Blum tool@panix.com
    "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."

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  • From Mark Brader@21:1/5 to All on Tue Nov 16 04:32:37 2021
    Mark Brader:
    These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2011-07-18,
    and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information...
    see my 2021-07-20 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from
    the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".


    * Game 10, Round 4 - Pseudo-Science - Astrology

    The belief in a connection between the cosmos and terrestrial
    matters has played an important part in human history. You may
    be more familiar with it as horse puckey.

    1. Each astrological age is approximately 2,150 years long,
    on average. In which astrological age are we now, according
    to the lyrics of a 5th Dimension hit?

    Aquarius. 4 for everyone -- Joshua, Erland, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum.

    I have seen it explained that the lyric about "the *dawning* of the
    Age of Aquarius" does not mean actually that this age has started;
    rather, it means that since it *will* be starting in a century or so,
    and since the transition is gradual, its astrological effects are
    beginning to be felt. However, "Aquarius" was the expected answer
    and I have no problem accepting it for quiz purposes.

    2. The Mayan tradition combined astronomy and astrology. The most
    famous Mayan astrological observatory still intact is the
    Caracol observatory in which ancient Mayan city?

    Chichen Itza. 4 for Dan Tilque and Dan Blum.

    3. Particularly important in the development of the horoscope
    in astrology was this astrologer and astronomer whose work
    the "Tetrabiblos" laid the basis of the Western astrological
    tradition. Who?

    Ptolemy. 4 for Dan Blum.

    4. In 1556 this astronomer and seer was summoned to the French
    court by Queen Catherine de Medici, and commissioned to draw up
    the horoscope of the royal children. Pleased with the results,
    she remained his patron until his death. Name him.

    Nostradamus. 4 for Joshua.

    5. Name the method of interpreting the ongoing movement of the
    planets as they move through the horoscope. This is most often
    done for the birth chart of an individual. Particular attention
    is paid to changes of sign, or house.

    Transiting.

    6. This motion of a planet is its apparent backward motion through
    the sky caused by the Earth traveling past a slower-moving outer
    planet, or when the Earth is itself passed by a faster-moving
    inner body. In astrology, this backward movement is thought
    to be unlucky. What is it called?

    Retrograde motion. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum.

    7. She was one of the best-known American astrologers and psychics
    of the 20th century, due to her syndicated newspaper astrology
    column, some well-publicized predictions, and a best-selling
    biography, "My Life and Prophecies". She also was the author
    of "Do Cats have ESP?" Name her.

    Jeanne Dixon. 4 for Joshua.

    8. Name this American astrologer and astrology consultant to the
    rich and famous. He wrote numerous books on the subject,
    including "My World of Astrology" and his autobiography "In the
    Sky", but he is probably the most widely known for his books
    on the popular sun-sign astrology.

    Sydney Omarr.

    9. Modern astrologers use data provided by astronomers which are
    transformed to a set of astrological tables showing the
    changing zodiacal positions of the heavenly bodies through time.
    What are these tables called?

    Ephemerides. (5 syllables; the singular is "ephemeris".)
    4 for Dan Tilque.

    10. Astrology itself can be divided into two camps: "Natural
    astrologers" study the motions of the heavenly bodies, timing of
    eclipses, etc. The other type studies the supposed correlations
    between the positions of various celestial objects and the
    affairs of human beings. What are they known as?

    Judicial astrologers.


    * Game 10, Round 5 - Audio - Shakespeare

    Surprise! You get three rounds in this set (so the score for
    the game will be your best 7 out of 9 rounds). That's because
    I think the audio round in this game is playable in textual form,
    so I'm including it in this posting.

    In each case, name the play by Shakespeare that these lines come
    from (some edition of). (In the original game, questions #7-10
    required the players to name the actor or actress speaking in
    the audio clip, but I'll just make it "name the play" for these
    as well.)

    1. Man 1:
    She thank'd me,
    And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,
    I should but teach him how to tell my story,
    And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake:
    She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd,
    And I loved her that she did pity them.
    This only is the witchcraft I have used.
    Here comes the lady; let her witness it.
    Man 2:
    I think this tale would win my daughter too.

    "Othello" (Act 1, Scene 3; Othello and the Duke of Venice).

    2. Woman:
    Yet show some pity.
    Man:
    I show it most of all when I show justice;
    For then I pity those I do not know,
    Which a dismiss'd offence would after gall,
    And do him right that, answering one foul wrong,
    Lives not to act another. Be satisfied;
    Your brother dies to-morrow; be content.
    Woman:
    So you must be the first that gives this sentence,
    And he that suffers. O, it is excellent
    To have a giant's strength! But it is tyrannous
    To use it like a giant.

    "Measure for Measure" (Act 2, Scene 2; Isabella and Angelo).
    4 for Joshua.

    3. Man:
    If I stand here, I saw Banquo!
    Woman:
    Fie, for shame!
    Man:
    Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time,
    Ay, and since too, murthers have been perform'd
    Too terrible for the ear. The time has been,
    That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
    And there an end; but now they rise again,
    With twenty mortal murthers on their crowns,
    And push us from our stools.
    Woman:
    You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting,
    With most admired disorder.

    "Macbeth" (Act 3, Scene 4; Macbeth and Lady Macbeth). 4 for Joshua,
    Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum.

    4. Woman 1:
    Let's appoint him a meeting!
    Woman 2:
    What tempest, I trow, threw this whale, with so many tuns
    of oil in his belly, ashore at Windsor? If my husband saw
    this letter! It would give eternal food to his jealousy.
    Woman 1:
    My good man is as far from jealousy as I am from giving
    him cause.
    Woman 2:
    You are the happier woman.
    Woman 1:
    Let's consult together against this greasy knight.

    "The Merry Wives of Windsor" (Act 2, Scene 1; Mrs. Page and
    Mrs. Ford). 4 for Dan Blum.

    I needed to look up the first-quoted line. It means "Let's arrange
    a meeting with him".

    5. Woman:
    We are not the first
    Who with best meaning have incurr'd the worst.
    For thee, oppressed king, I am cast down;
    Myself could else outfrown false Fortune's frown.
    Shall we not see these daughters and these sisters?
    Man:
    No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison.
    We two alone will sing like birds i' th' cage.
    When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down
    And ask of thee forgiveness.

    "King Lear" (Act 5, Scene 3, Cordelia and Lear).

    6. Man:
    But this rough magic
    I here abjure; and, when I have requir'd
    Some heavenly music -- which even now I do --
    To work mine end upon their senses that
    This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
    Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
    And deeper than did ever plummet sound
    I'll drown my book.

    "The Tempest" (Act 5, Scene 1; Prospero). 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.

    7. Man:
    The sixth age shifts
    Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
    With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
    His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
    For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
    Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
    And whistles in his sound.

    "As You Like It" (Act 2, Scene 7; Jaques). 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.

    8. Man:
    Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
    Like a Colossus, and we petty men
    Walk under his huge legs and peep about
    To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
    Men at some time are masters of their fates:
    The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
    But in ourselves that we are underlings.
    Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that "Caesar"?
    Why should that name be sounded more than yours?

    "Julius Caesar", of course. (Act 1, Scene 2; Cassius). 4 for Joshua,
    Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum.

    9. Man:
    To sing a song that old was sung,
    From ashes ancient Gower is come;
    Assuming man's infirmities,
    To glad your ear, and please your eyes.
    It hath been sung at festivals,
    On ember-eves and holy-ales;
    And lords and ladies in their lives
    Have read it for restoratives

    "Pericles, Prince of Tyre" (Prologue; Gower).

    If Wikipedia is correct, this play was formerly not included
    in "complete Shakespeare" collections, but now it often is,
    and is seen as a collaboration by Shakespeare and another writer.

    10. Woman:
    Now to all sense 'tis gross
    You love my son; invention is asham'd,
    Against the proclamation of thy passion,
    To say thou dost not. Therefore tell me true;
    But tell me then, 'tis so; for, look, thy cheeks
    Confess't, th' one to th' other; and thine eyes
    See it so grossly shown in thy behaviours
    That in their kind they speak it; only sin
    And hellish obstinacy tie thy tongue,
    That truth should be suspected. Speak, is't so?

    "All's Well that Ends Well" (Act 1, Scene 3; Countess of Rousillon).


    * Game 10, Round 6 - Canadiana History - Toronto Riots and Demonstrations

    It's been over a year since Toronto hosted the G20 riots.
    Let's look back on some riotous days from our local history.

    1. June 2010. The so-called "5-meter law" passed by the Ontario
    government provides police with dubious justification for
    harassing citizens during the lead-up to the G20. The government
    would later promise to repeal the 1939 act under which the law
    was passed. Name that act.

    Public Works Protection Act. (It was repealed in 2015.)

    2. 1980-06-02. The "Punk Rock Riot". After fans get overheated
    at a concert by local punkers Teenage Head, this venue bans
    rock concerts for several years. Name it.

    Ontario Place Forum.

    3. 1918-08-01. Up and down Yonge St., police battle an angry mob
    of thousands, among them many returned war veterans.
    The rioters are intent on destroying restaurants and other
    businesses belonging to a Toronto ethnic group whose nation of
    origin has maintained neutrality through the First World War.
    Which ethnicity?

    Greek. 2 for Dan Tilque.

    4. 2000-06-15. Rocks and paint-bombs are hurled by demonstrators
    at police protecting Queen's Park. 300 mounted police respond
    with batons and pepper-spray. Toronto police chief Julian
    Fantino calls the actions of the organizers "domestic terrorism."
    Name the group behind the protest.

    Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP).

    5. 1992-05-04. The Yonge St. Riot leads to 30 arrests and hundreds
    of smashed windows. The riot starts out as a demonstration
    against the Toronto police shooting of alleged crack dealer
    Raymond Lawrence, but takes its main impetus from a US court
    decision handed down 5 days previously. In what case?

    The police brutality alleged to have been committed in Los Angeles
    by LAPD Sgt. Stacey Koon and Officers Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind,
    Theodore Briseno, against Rodney King. They had just been acquitted,
    but this was seen as a miscarriage of justice. 4 for Joshua,
    Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum.

    6. Sunday, 1875-10-03. The Jubilee Riots. The presence of armed
    militia to keep the peace doesn't keep downtown Toronto from
    erupting into mayhem as a religious procession is attacked
    with stones and guns. Of which ethnicity are the marchers
    under attack?

    Irish. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. 3 for Dan Tilque.

    7. 1933-08-16. Fists, clubs, bricks, and pipes. A 6-hour brawl
    erupts in Willowvale Park after a swastika banner is unfurled at
    a baseball game involving the mostly Jewish Harbord Playground
    club. How do Torontonians know Willowvale Park today?

    Christie Pits Park.

    8. During the 1930s, under Chief Dennis Draper, a special Toronto
    police team is formed to break strikes, disrupt demonstrations,
    and generally keep Toronto's lefties in check. In one instance,
    they disperse a crowd of 2,000 by turning their motorcycle
    exhaust pipes towards them to create a noxious cloud.
    Modeled and named after similar units in US police forces,
    how is this team known?

    The Red Squad.

    9. 1980-08-19. A no-show by this rock star sends 13,000 fans at
    the CNE Grandstand into a frenzy. Police defend themselves
    from projectiles with folding chairs. 31 are arrested,
    12 hospitalized. Name the rocker.

    Alice Cooper.

    10. 1981-02-08. Several days after the heavy-handed Operation Soap
    arrests 287 gay men in Toronto, demonstrators take over the
    streets of downtown, marching aggressively on 52 Division and
    Queen's Park. How are these "riots" known?

    The Bathhouse Riots.


    Scores, if there are no errors:

    GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 5 6 BEST
    TOPICS-> Lit Geo Sci Aud Can THREE
    Joshua Kreitzer 28 25 16 20 8 73
    Dan Tilque 4 28 16 8 9 53
    Dan Blum 16 16 16 20 8 52
    Pete Gayde 3 29 -- -- -- 32
    Erland Sommarskog 0 8 4 0 0 12

    --
    Mark Brader, Toronto "Do people confuse me with Mark Brader?" msb@vex.net --Mark Barratt

    My text in this article is in the public domain.

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  • From Dan Blum@21:1/5 to Mark Brader on Wed Nov 17 01:16:01 2021
    Mark Brader <msb@vex.net> wrote:

    4. In 1556 this astronomer and seer was summoned to the French
    court by Queen Catherine de Medici, and commissioned to draw up
    the horoscope of the royal children. Pleased with the results,
    she remained his patron until his death. Name him.

    Nostradamus. 4 for Joshua.

    Did he do much astronomy? I thought he was a physician and of course
    did astrology.

    --
    _______________________________________________________________________
    Dan Blum tool@panix.com
    "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."

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  • From Mark Brader@21:1/5 to All on Wed Nov 17 00:33:40 2021
    Mark Brader:
    4. In 1556 this astronomer and seer...

    Nostradamus. 4 for Joshua.

    Dan Blum:
    Did he do much astronomy? I thought he was a physician and of course
    did astrology.

    In 1556 astronomy and astrology were all one subject.
    --
    Mark Brader, Toronto | "Close your tag and give it a rest, Jason"
    msb@vex.net | --FoxTrot (Bill Amend)

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