* Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Name the Author
10. (1948.) "It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks
were striking thirteen."
* Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - NHL Records, Past and Present
1. The """shortest-ever""" overtime in the history of the NHL
playoffs took place in 1986. Either name the player who
scored the winning goal, or tell within 10 seconds how long
that overtime was.
2. The two """longest-ever""" overtime games in NHL history were
played in 1933 and 1936, both in the Stanley Cup semifinals.
Both games required the same number of overtime periods.
Either tell us how many overtime periods that was, or name
either of the players who scored the winning goals.
3. For 3 seasons when the NHL had 12 teams, the playoffs were
structured so that the Stanley Cup Final would have to match
one of the so-called "original six" teams with one of the six
new expansion teams. Name the team that lost all 12 games of
those three final series.
4. And name the """only team that has""" won 14 consecutive
playoff games. These consisted of the last 11 playoff games
of one year and the first 3 of the next.
9. And who was the first to score 50 goals in his *first* season
in the NHL?
10. The record for most goals in a season, of course, """belongs"""
to Wayne Gretzky. That was the 1980-81 season, which was 80
games long. Within 1, how many goals did he score?
* Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Name the Author
2. (1914.) "His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling
faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the
descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
3. (1989.) "After the show, the Hsus, the Jongs, and the St. Clairs
from the Joy Luck Club came up to my mother and father."
4. (1921, England.) "Birkin looked at the pale fingers, the
inert mass. He remembered a dead stallion he had seen: a dead
mass of maleness, repugnant. He remembered also the beautiful
face of one whom he had loved, and who had died still having
the faith to yield to the mystery."
6. (1984.) "Summer without baseball: a disruption to the psyche.
An unexplainable aimlessness engulfs me. I stay later and
later each evening in the small office at the rear of my shop."
7. (1843.) "For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I
am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed
would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject
their own evidence. Yet, mad I am not..."
8. (1982, Canada.) "The range of guests who come to our fortnightly
High Table dinners is wide, and provides us with extraordinarily
good company. Sometimes we get a surprise -- an economist who
turns out to be a poet, for instance. (I mean a poet in the
formal sense: all economists are rapt, fanciful creatures...)"
9. (1987, Canada.) "I always believed in ghosts. When I was
little I saw them in my father's small field in Goa. That was
very long ago, before I came to Bombay to work as an ayah."
10. (1948.) "It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks
were striking thirteen."
* Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - NHL Records, Past and Present
1. The """shortest-ever""" overtime in the history of the NHL
playoffs took place in 1986. Either name the player who
scored the winning goal, or tell within 10 seconds how long
that overtime was.
2. The two """longest-ever""" overtime games in NHL history were
played in 1933 and 1936, both in the Stanley Cup semifinals.
Both games required the same number of overtime periods.
Either tell us how many overtime periods that was, or name
either of the players who scored the winning goals.
3. For 3 seasons when the NHL had 12 teams, the playoffs were
structured so that the Stanley Cup Final would have to match
one of the so-called "original six" teams with one of the six
new expansion teams. Name the team that lost all 12 games of
those three final series.
4. And name the """only team that has""" won 14 consecutive
playoff games. These consisted of the last 11 playoff games
of one year and the first 3 of the next.
8. A second era of high scoring was World War II. "Rocket"
Richard's 50 goals in 50 games in 1944-45 set a modern-era
record of 1 goal per game that stood for over 30 years. But
as the season has grown still longer, many players have now
scored at least 50 goals in a season. Who was the first man
to do that *twice*?
9. And who was the first to score 50 goals in his *first* season
in the NHL?
10. The record for most goals in a season, of course, """belongs"""
to Wayne Gretzky. That was the 1980-81 season, which was 80
games long. Within 1, how many goals did he score?
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 1998-04-06, and
should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written by
members of the Usual Suspects, 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 2020-06-23 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
I wrote one of these rounds and one question in the other.
* Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Name the Author
Who wrote the following passages? All writers are known as
novelists and/or short-story writers, but some selections may be
from their non-fiction work. We give you the year of composition
or publication for each passage, and sometimes the country.
1. (1992.) "On a perfect summer day in Montreal, local raspberries
in season, two tickets to that night's ball game riding in my
breast pocket, I went to meet some friends at a downtown bar
I favored at the time: Woody's Pub, on Bishop Street."
2. (1914.) "His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling
faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the
descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
3. (1989.) "After the show, the Hsus, the Jongs, and the St. Clairs
from the Joy Luck Club came up to my mother and father."
4. (1921, England.) "Birkin looked at the pale fingers, the
inert mass. He remembered a dead stallion he had seen: a dead
mass of maleness, repugnant. He remembered also the beautiful
face of one whom he had loved, and who had died still having
the faith to yield to the mystery."
5. (1977, Canada.) "Sarah was speculating about how she would be
doing this whole trip if Edward had conveniently died. It wasn't
that she wished him dead, but she couldn't imagine any other
way for him to disappear. He was omnipresent; he pervaded her
life like a kind of smell..."
6. (1984.) "Summer without baseball: a disruption to the psyche.
An unexplainable aimlessness engulfs me. I stay later and
later each evening in the small office at the rear of my shop."
7. (1843.) "For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I
am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed
would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject
their own evidence. Yet, mad I am not..."
8. (1982, Canada.) "The range of guests who come to our fortnightly
High Table dinners is wide, and provides us with extraordinarily
good company. Sometimes we get a surprise -- an economist who
turns out to be a poet, for instance. (I mean a poet in the
formal sense: all economists are rapt, fanciful creatures...)"
9. (1987, Canada.) "I always believed in ghosts. When I was
little I saw them in my father's small field in Goa. That was
very long ago, before I came to Bombay to work as an ayah."
10. (1948.) "It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks
were striking thirteen."
* Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - NHL Records, Past and Present
Where we ask for a team, you can give either the city name or
the team name. Where we ask for a duration, it always refers to
playing time.
1. The """shortest-ever""" overtime in the history of the NHL
playoffs took place in 1986. Either name the player who
scored the winning goal, or tell within 10 seconds how long
that overtime was.
2. The two """longest-ever""" overtime games in NHL history were
played in 1933 and 1936, both in the Stanley Cup semifinals.
Both games required the same number of overtime periods.
Either tell us how many overtime periods that was, or name
either of the players who scored the winning goals.
3. For 3 seasons when the NHL had 12 teams, the playoffs were
structured so that the Stanley Cup Final would have to match
one of the so-called "original six" teams with one of the six
new expansion teams. Name the team that lost all 12 games of
those three final series.
4. And name the """only team that has""" won 14 consecutive
playoff games. These consisted of the last 11 playoff games
of one year and the first 3 of the next.
5. We now turn to the regular season for the remaining questions.
In the NHL's earliest years, scores were high and a star player
could dominate the game in a way never seen today. The league's
first season, 1917-18, was 22 games long. One man missed
2 games and still scored 44 goals. This goals-per-game record
"""still stands today""", as does his record, 2 years later,
of scoring 7 goals in the same game. Name him.
6. In the late 1920s the amount of scoring fell drastically,
until the relaxation of forward-passing rules allowed it to
rise again. Over a period of 4 years the record for best
goaltending average went to 1.12 goals per game, then 1.05,
and finally 0.92! Name either of the two goalies who achieved
these three successive records.
7. """Two""" goalies share the record of having allowed the
fewest goals per game in the league in 5 consecutive seasons.
Name either one.
8. A second era of high scoring was World War II. "Rocket"
Richard's 50 goals in 50 games in 1944-45 set a modern-era
record of 1 goal per game that stood for over 30 years. But
as the season has grown still longer, many players have now
scored at least 50 goals in a season. Who was the first man
to do that *twice*?
9. And who was the first to score 50 goals in his *first* season
in the NHL?
10. The record for most goals in a season, of course, """belongs"""
to Wayne Gretzky. That was the 1980-81 season, which was 80
games long. Within 1, how many goals did he score?
Please decode the rot13 after you have finished with all questions
on the round: Vs bar bs lbhe nafjref jnf "Uhyy", lbh arrq gb tb
onpx naq fhccyl gur zna'f svefg anzr.
* Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Name the Author
Who wrote the following passages? All writers are known as
novelists and/or short-story writers, but some selections may be
from their non-fiction work. We give you the year of composition
or publication for each passage, and sometimes the country.
1. (1992.) "On a perfect summer day in Montreal, local raspberries
in season, two tickets to that night's ball game riding in my
breast pocket, I went to meet some friends at a downtown bar
I favored at the time: Woody's Pub, on Bishop Street."
2. (1914.) "His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling
faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the
descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
3. (1989.) "After the show, the Hsus, the Jongs, and the St. Clairs
from the Joy Luck Club came up to my mother and father."
4. (1921, England.) "Birkin looked at the pale fingers, the
inert mass. He remembered a dead stallion he had seen: a dead
mass of maleness, repugnant. He remembered also the beautiful
face of one whom he had loved, and who had died still having
the faith to yield to the mystery."
5. (1977, Canada.) "Sarah was speculating about how she would be
doing this whole trip if Edward had conveniently died. It wasn't
that she wished him dead, but she couldn't imagine any other
way for him to disappear. He was omnipresent; he pervaded her
life like a kind of smell..."
6. (1984.) "Summer without baseball: a disruption to the psyche.
An unexplainable aimlessness engulfs me. I stay later and
later each evening in the small office at the rear of my shop."
7. (1843.) "For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I
am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed
would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject
their own evidence. Yet, mad I am not..."
8. (1982, Canada.) "The range of guests who come to our fortnightly
High Table dinners is wide, and provides us with extraordinarily
good company. Sometimes we get a surprise -- an economist who
turns out to be a poet, for instance. (I mean a poet in the
formal sense: all economists are rapt, fanciful creatures...)"
9. (1987, Canada.) "I always believed in ghosts. When I was
little I saw them in my father's small field in Goa. That was
very long ago, before I came to Bombay to work as an ayah."
10. (1948.) "It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks
were striking thirteen."
* Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - NHL Records, Past and Present
Where we ask for a team, you can give either the city name or
the team name. Where we ask for a duration, it always refers to
playing time.
1. The """shortest-ever""" overtime in the history of the NHL
playoffs took place in 1986. Either name the player who
scored the winning goal, or tell within 10 seconds how long
that overtime was.
2. The two """longest-ever""" overtime games in NHL history were
played in 1933 and 1936, both in the Stanley Cup semifinals.
Both games required the same number of overtime periods.
Either tell us how many overtime periods that was, or name
either of the players who scored the winning goals.
3. For 3 seasons when the NHL had 12 teams, the playoffs were
structured so that the Stanley Cup Final would have to match
one of the so-called "original six" teams with one of the six
new expansion teams. Name the team that lost all 12 games of
those three final series.
4. And name the """only team that has""" won 14 consecutive
playoff games. These consisted of the last 11 playoff games
of one year and the first 3 of the next.
5. We now turn to the regular season for the remaining questions.
In the NHL's earliest years, scores were high and a star player
could dominate the game in a way never seen today. The league's
first season, 1917-18, was 22 games long. One man missed
2 games and still scored 44 goals. This goals-per-game record
"""still stands today""", as does his record, 2 years later,
of scoring 7 goals in the same game. Name him.
6. In the late 1920s the amount of scoring fell drastically,
until the relaxation of forward-passing rules allowed it to
rise again. Over a period of 4 years the record for best
goaltending average went to 1.12 goals per game, then 1.05,
and finally 0.92! Name either of the two goalies who achieved
these three successive records.
7. """Two""" goalies share the record of having allowed the
fewest goals per game in the league in 5 consecutive seasons.
Name either one.
8. A second era of high scoring was World War II. "Rocket"
Richard's 50 goals in 50 games in 1944-45 set a modern-era
record of 1 goal per game that stood for over 30 years. But
as the season has grown still longer, many players have now
scored at least 50 goals in a season. Who was the first man
to do that *twice*?
9. And who was the first to score 50 goals in his *first* season
in the NHL?
10. The record for most goals in a season, of course, """belongs"""
to Wayne Gretzky. That was the 1980-81 season, which was 80
games long. Within 1, how many goals did he score?
Please decode the rot13 after you have finished with all questions
on the round: Vs bar bs lbhe nafjref jnf "Uhyy", lbh arrq gb tb
onpx naq fhccyl gur zna'f svefg anzr.
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 1998-04-06, and
should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written by
members of the Usual Suspects, 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 2020-06-23 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
I wrote one of these rounds and one question in the other.
* Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Name the Author
Who wrote the following passages? All writers are known as
novelists and/or short-story writers, but some selections may be
from their non-fiction work. We give you the year of composition
or publication for each passage, and sometimes the country.
1. (1992.) "On a perfect summer day in Montreal, local raspberries
in season, two tickets to that night's ball game riding in my
breast pocket, I went to meet some friends at a downtown bar
I favored at the time: Woody's Pub, on Bishop Street."
2. (1914.) "His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling
faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the
descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
3. (1989.) "After the show, the Hsus, the Jongs, and the St. Clairs
from the Joy Luck Club came up to my mother and father."
4. (1921, England.) "Birkin looked at the pale fingers, the
inert mass. He remembered a dead stallion he had seen: a dead
mass of maleness, repugnant. He remembered also the beautiful
face of one whom he had loved, and who had died still having
the faith to yield to the mystery."
5. (1977, Canada.) "Sarah was speculating about how she would be
doing this whole trip if Edward had conveniently died. It wasn't
that she wished him dead, but she couldn't imagine any other
way for him to disappear. He was omnipresent; he pervaded her
life like a kind of smell..."
6. (1984.) "Summer without baseball: a disruption to the psyche.
An unexplainable aimlessness engulfs me. I stay later and
later each evening in the small office at the rear of my shop."
7. (1843.) "For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I
am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed
would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject
their own evidence. Yet, mad I am not..."
8. (1982, Canada.) "The range of guests who come to our fortnightly
High Table dinners is wide, and provides us with extraordinarily
good company. Sometimes we get a surprise -- an economist who
turns out to be a poet, for instance. (I mean a poet in the
formal sense: all economists are rapt, fanciful creatures...)"
9. (1987, Canada.) "I always believed in ghosts. When I was
little I saw them in my father's small field in Goa. That was
very long ago, before I came to Bombay to work as an ayah."
10. (1948.) "It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks
were striking thirteen."
* Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - NHL Records, Past and Present
Where we ask for a team, you can give either the city name or
the team name. Where we ask for a duration, it always refers to
playing time.
1. The """shortest-ever""" overtime in the history of the NHL
playoffs took place in 1986. Either name the player who
scored the winning goal, or tell within 10 seconds how long
that overtime was.
2. The two """longest-ever""" overtime games in NHL history were
played in 1933 and 1936, both in the Stanley Cup semifinals.
Both games required the same number of overtime periods.
Either tell us how many overtime periods that was, or name
either of the players who scored the winning goals.
3. For 3 seasons when the NHL had 12 teams, the playoffs were
structured so that the Stanley Cup Final would have to match
one of the so-called "original six" teams with one of the six
new expansion teams. Name the team that lost all 12 games of
those three final series.
4. And name the """only team that has""" won 14 consecutive
playoff games. These consisted of the last 11 playoff games
of one year and the first 3 of the next.
5. We now turn to the regular season for the remaining questions.
In the NHL's earliest years, scores were high and a star player
could dominate the game in a way never seen today. The league's
first season, 1917-18, was 22 games long. One man missed
2 games and still scored 44 goals. This goals-per-game record
"""still stands today""", as does his record, 2 years later,
of scoring 7 goals in the same game. Name him.
6. In the late 1920s the amount of scoring fell drastically,
until the relaxation of forward-passing rules allowed it to
rise again. Over a period of 4 years the record for best
goaltending average went to 1.12 goals per game, then 1.05,
and finally 0.92! Name either of the two goalies who achieved
these three successive records.
7. """Two""" goalies share the record of having allowed the
fewest goals per game in the league in 5 consecutive seasons.
Name either one.
8. A second era of high scoring was World War II. "Rocket"
Richard's 50 goals in 50 games in 1944-45 set a modern-era
record of 1 goal per game that stood for over 30 years. But
as the season has grown still longer, many players have now
scored at least 50 goals in a season. Who was the first man
to do that *twice*?
9. And who was the first to score 50 goals in his *first* season
in the NHL?
10. The record for most goals in a season, of course, """belongs"""
to Wayne Gretzky. That was the 1980-81 season, which was 80
games long. Within 1, how many goals did he score?
Please decode the rot13 after you have finished with all questions
on the round: If one of your answers was "Hull", you need to go
back and supply the man's first name.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "Beware the Calends of April also."
m...@vex.net -- Peter Neumann
My text in this article is in the public domain.
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 1998-04-06,
and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information...
see my 2020-06-23 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from
the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
I wrote one of these rounds and one question in the other.
* Game 10, Round 7 - Literature - Name the Author
Who wrote the following passages? All writers are known as
novelists and/or short-story writers, but some selections may be
from their non-fiction work. We give you the year of composition
or publication for each passage, and sometimes the country.
1. (1992.) "On a perfect summer day in Montreal, local raspberries
in season, two tickets to that night's ball game riding in my
breast pocket, I went to meet some friends at a downtown bar
I favored at the time: Woody's Pub, on Bishop Street."
2. (1914.) "His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling
faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the
descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
3. (1989.) "After the show, the Hsus, the Jongs, and the St. Clairs
from the Joy Luck Club came up to my mother and father."
4. (1921, England.) "Birkin looked at the pale fingers, the
inert mass. He remembered a dead stallion he had seen: a dead
mass of maleness, repugnant. He remembered also the beautiful
face of one whom he had loved, and who had died still having
the faith to yield to the mystery."
5. (1977, Canada.) "Sarah was speculating about how she would be
doing this whole trip if Edward had conveniently died. It wasn't
that she wished him dead, but she couldn't imagine any other
way for him to disappear. He was omnipresent; he pervaded her
life like a kind of smell..."
6. (1984.) "Summer without baseball: a disruption to the psyche.
An unexplainable aimlessness engulfs me. I stay later and
later each evening in the small office at the rear of my shop."
7. (1843.) "For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I
am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed
would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject
their own evidence. Yet, mad I am not..."
8. (1982, Canada.) "The range of guests who come to our fortnightly
High Table dinners is wide, and provides us with extraordinarily
good company. Sometimes we get a surprise -- an economist who
turns out to be a poet, for instance. (I mean a poet in the
formal sense: all economists are rapt, fanciful creatures...)"
9. (1987, Canada.) "I always believed in ghosts. When I was
little I saw them in my father's small field in Goa. That was
very long ago, before I came to Bombay to work as an ayah."
10. (1948.) "It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks
were striking thirteen."
* Game 10, Round 8 - Sports - NHL Records, Past and Present
Where we ask for a team, you can give either the city name or
the team name. Where we ask for a duration, it always refers to
playing time.
1. The """shortest-ever""" overtime in the history of the NHL
playoffs took place in 1986. Either name the player who
scored the winning goal, or tell within 10 seconds how long
that overtime was.
2. The two """longest-ever""" overtime games in NHL history were
played in 1933 and 1936, both in the Stanley Cup semifinals.
Both games required the same number of overtime periods.
Either tell us how many overtime periods that was, or name
either of the players who scored the winning goals.
3. For 3 seasons when the NHL had 12 teams, the playoffs were
structured so that the Stanley Cup Final would have to match
one of the so-called "original six" teams with one of the six
new expansion teams. Name the team that lost all 12 games of
those three final series.
4. And name the """only team that has""" won 14 consecutive
playoff games. These consisted of the last 11 playoff games
of one year and the first 3 of the next.
5. We now turn to the regular season for the remaining questions.
In the NHL's earliest years, scores were high and a star player
could dominate the game in a way never seen today. The league's
first season, 1917-18, was 22 games long. One man missed
2 games and still scored 44 goals. This goals-per-game record
"""still stands today""", as does his record, 2 years later,
of scoring 7 goals in the same game. Name him.
6. In the late 1920s the amount of scoring fell drastically,
until the relaxation of forward-passing rules allowed it to
rise again. Over a period of 4 years the record for best
goaltending average went to 1.12 goals per game, then 1.05,
and finally 0.92! Name either of the two goalies who achieved
these three successive records.
7. """Two""" goalies share the record of having allowed the
fewest goals per game in the league in 5 consecutive seasons.
Name either one.
8. A second era of high scoring was World War II. "Rocket"
Richard's 50 goals in 50 games in 1944-45 set a modern-era
record of 1 goal per game that stood for over 30 years. But
as the season has grown still longer, many players have now
scored at least 50 goals in a season. Who was the first man
to do that *twice*?
9. And who was the first to score 50 goals in his *first* season
in the NHL?
10. The record for most goals in a season, of course, """belongs"""
to Wayne Gretzky. That was the 1980-81 season, which was 80
games long. Within 1, how many goals did he score?
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