* Game 2, Round 8 - Science - Weather
1. What is the name of the scale used for measuring tornado
intensity?
2. What name is given to the ocean current responsible for keeping
the ocean waters and air temperatures off the western coast of
North America relatively cool?
3. What kind of storm is a haboob?
4. The wettest place in the United States is located in which
state? This locale average about 500 inches of rain per annum,
and precipitation falls on over 90% of the days in the year.
6. What is the name given to lines on a meteorological map that
connect places of equal air pressure?
7. Name the 1992 hurricane that hit southern Florida, causing
$26,500,000,000 US of damage, a record at the time.
8. This weather event has been called the greatest natural disaster
in Canadian history. Insurance claims topped $800,000,000 and
the monthly national GDP dropped by almost 1% in January of
the year of the event. Name this weather disaster (for full
points include the year, within 1).
9. This is a luminous, and often audible, electric discharge.
It occurs around objects, especially pointed ones, when the
electrical field strength near their surfaces attains a value
near 1,000 volts per centimeter. It often occurs during stormy
weather and might be seen on a ship's mast or yardarm, aircraft,
lightning rods, and steeples. Name this weather phenomenon.
10. What common name is given to lightning that occurs so far away
from the observer that no thunder can be heard? It is sometimes
confused with "dry lightning" because often it's not raining
at the observer's location.
* Game 2, Round 8 - Science - Weather
1. What is the name of the scale used for measuring tornado
intensity?
2. What name is given to the ocean current responsible for keeping
the ocean waters and air temperatures off the western coast of
North America relatively cool?
4. The wettest place in the United States is located in which
state? This locale average about 500 inches of rain per annum,
and precipitation falls on over 90% of the days in the year.
6. What is the name given to lines on a meteorological map that
connect places of equal air pressure?
I will reveal the correct answers in about 3 days.
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2012-01-30,
and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written
by members of Footloose and Firkin Free, 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 2, Round 7 - Canadiana Arts - Canadian Artists
Please see: <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/02-07/art.pdf>.
We give you the name of a well-known Canadian artist, and you
give us the number corresponding to one of their works.
1. Tom Thomson.
2. Lawren Harris.
3. Norval Morrisseau.
4. Alex Colville.
5. Jean Paul Riopelle.
6. Ken Danby.
7. Emily Carr.
8. Arthur Lismer.
9. Kathleen Munn.
10. Frederick Verner.
* Game 2, Round 8 - Science - Weather
2. What name is given to the ocean current responsible for keeping
the ocean waters and air temperatures off the western coast of
North America relatively cool?
4. The wettest place in the United States is located in which
state? This locale average about 500 inches of rain per annum,
and precipitation falls on over 90% of the days in the year.
6. What is the name given to lines on a meteorological map that
connect places of equal air pressure?
9. This is a luminous, and often audible, electric discharge.
It occurs around objects, especially pointed ones, when the
electrical field strength near their surfaces attains a value
near 1,000 volts per centimeter. It often occurs during stormy
weather and might be seen on a ship's mast or yardarm, aircraft,
lightning rods, and steeples. Name this weather phenomenon.
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2012-01-30,
and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written
by members of Footloose and Firkin Free, 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 2, Round 7 - Canadiana Arts - Canadian Artists
Please see: <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/02-07/art.pdf>.
We give you the name of a well-known Canadian artist, and you
give us the number corresponding to one of their works.
1. Tom Thomson.
2. Lawren Harris.
3. Norval Morrisseau.
4. Alex Colville.
5. Jean Paul Riopelle.
6. Ken Danby.
7. Emily Carr.
8. Arthur Lismer.
9. Kathleen Munn.
10. Frederick Verner.
Here are the other 8 artists in alphabetical order. Decode the
rot13 if you want to name them for fun, but for no points.
11. Eboreg Ongrzna.
12. Orawnzva Purr Purr.
13. N.L. Wnpxfba.
14. Wnpdhrf Fpuretraf.
15. Wnpx Funqobyg.
16. Serqn Crzoregba Fzvgu.
17. Serqrevpx Ineyrl.
18. Ubzre Jngfba.
* Game 2, Round 8 - Science - Weather
1. What is the name of the scale used for measuring tornado
intensity?
2. What name is given to the ocean current responsible for keeping
the ocean waters and air temperatures off the western coast of
North America relatively cool?
3. What kind of storm is a haboob?
4. The wettest place in the United States is located in which
state? This locale average about 500 inches of rain per annum,
and precipitation falls on over 90% of the days in the year.
5. Meteorologists call these winds föhn winds, from the German.
Argentinians call them zonda winds, and South Africans,
bergwinds. What name is given to this type of wind in certain
parts of Canada where they occur?
6. What is the name given to lines on a meteorological map that
connect places of equal air pressure?
7. Name the 1992 hurricane that hit southern Florida, causing
$26,500,000,000 US of damage, a record at the time.
8. This weather event has been called the greatest natural disaster
in Canadian history. Insurance claims topped $800,000,000 and
the monthly national GDP dropped by almost 1% in January of
the year of the event. Name this weather disaster (for full
points include the year, within 1).
9. This is a luminous, and often audible, electric discharge.
It occurs around objects, especially pointed ones, when the
electrical field strength near their surfaces attains a value
near 1,000 volts per centimeter. It often occurs during stormy
weather and might be seen on a ship's mast or yardarm, aircraft,
lightning rods, and steeples. Name this weather phenomenon.
10. What common name is given to lightning that occurs so far away
from the observer that no thunder can be heard? It is sometimes
confused with "dry lightning" because often it's not raining
at the observer's location.
* Game 2, Round 7 - Canadiana Arts - Canadian Artists
Please see: <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/02-07/art.pdf>.
We give you the name of a well-known Canadian artist, and you
give us the number corresponding to one of their works.
1. Tom Thomson.
2. Lawren Harris.
3. Norval Morrisseau.
4. Alex Colville.
5. Jean Paul Riopelle.
6. Ken Danby.
7. Emily Carr.
8. Arthur Lismer.
9. Kathleen Munn.
10. Frederick Verner.
Here are the other 8 artists in alphabetical order. Decode the
rot13 if you want to name them for fun, but for no points.
11. Eboreg Ongrzna.
12. Orawnzva Purr Purr.
13. N.L. Wnpxfba.
14. Wnpdhrf Fpuretraf.
15. Wnpx Funqobyg.
16. Serqn Crzoregba Fzvgu.
17. Serqrevpx Ineyrl.
18. Ubzre Jngfba.
* Game 2, Round 8 - Science - Weather
1. What is the name of the scale used for measuring tornado
intensity?
2. What name is given to the ocean current responsible for keeping
the ocean waters and air temperatures off the western coast of
North America relatively cool?
3. What kind of storm is a haboob?
4. The wettest place in the United States is located in which
state? This locale average about 500 inches of rain per annum,
and precipitation falls on over 90% of the days in the year.
5. Meteorologists call these winds föhn winds, from the German.
Argentinians call them zonda winds, and South Africans,
bergwinds. What name is given to this type of wind in certain
parts of Canada where they occur?
6. What is the name given to lines on a meteorological map that
connect places of equal air pressure?
7. Name the 1992 hurricane that hit southern Florida, causing
$26,500,000,000 US of damage, a record at the time.
8. This weather event has been called the greatest natural disaster
in Canadian history. Insurance claims topped $800,000,000 and
the monthly national GDP dropped by almost 1% in January of
the year of the event. Name this weather disaster (for full
points include the year, within 1).
9. This is a luminous, and often audible, electric discharge.
It occurs around objects, especially pointed ones, when the
electrical field strength near their surfaces attains a value
near 1,000 volts per centimeter. It often occurs during stormy
weather and might be seen on a ship's mast or yardarm, aircraft,
lightning rods, and steeples. Name this weather phenomenon.
10. What common name is given to lightning that occurs so far away
from the observer that no thunder can be heard? It is sometimes
confused with "dry lightning" because often it's not raining
at the observer's location.
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2012-01-30,
and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information...
see my 2021-07-20 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from
the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
* Game 2, Round 7 - Canadiana Arts - Canadian Artists
Please see: <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/02-07/art.pdf>.
We give you the name of a well-known Canadian artist, and you
give us the number corresponding to one of their works.
1. Tom Thomson.
2. Lawren Harris.
3. Norval Morrisseau.
4. Alex Colville.
5. Jean Paul Riopelle.
6. Ken Danby.
7. Emily Carr.
8. Arthur Lismer.
9. Kathleen Munn.
10. Frederick Verner.
Here are the other 8 artists in alphabetical order. Decode the
rot13 if you want to name them for fun, but for no points.
11. Robert Bateman.
12. Benjamin Chee Chee.
13. A.Y. Jackson.
14. Jacques Schergens.
15. Jack Shadbolt.
16. Freda Pemberton Smith.
17. Frederick Varley.
18. Homer Watson.
* Game 2, Round 8 - Science - Weather
1. What is the name of the scale used for measuring tornado
intensity?
2. What name is given to the ocean current responsible for keeping
the ocean waters and air temperatures off the western coast of
North America relatively cool?
3. What kind of storm is a haboob?
4. The wettest place in the United States is located in which
state? This locale average about 500 inches of rain per annum,
and precipitation falls on over 90% of the days in the year.
5. Meteorologists call these winds föhn winds, from the German.
Argentinians call them zonda winds, and South Africans,
bergwinds. What name is given to this type of wind in certain
parts of Canada where they occur?
6. What is the name given to lines on a meteorological map that
connect places of equal air pressure?
7. Name the 1992 hurricane that hit southern Florida, causing
$26,500,000,000 US of damage, a record at the time.
8. This weather event has been called the greatest natural disaster
in Canadian history. Insurance claims topped $800,000,000 and
the monthly national GDP dropped by almost 1% in January of
the year of the event. Name this weather disaster (for full
points include the year, within 1).
9. This is a luminous, and often audible, electric discharge.
It occurs around objects, especially pointed ones, when the
electrical field strength near their surfaces attains a value
near 1,000 volts per centimeter. It often occurs during stormy
weather and might be seen on a ship's mast or yardarm, aircraft,
lightning rods, and steeples. Name this weather phenomenon.
10. What common name is given to lightning that occurs so far away
from the observer that no thunder can be heard? It is sometimes
confused with "dry lightning" because often it's not raining
at the observer's location.
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