OQFTCI Final Round 10: Challenge Round

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I wrote two triples in this round.


Final, Round 10: Challenge Round

A. Great Lines from Film Noir

Identify the movies that the following lines are drawn from.
(If you want to show off, name the actor and character as well.
No points will be awarded or deducted for this.)

A1. "I'm still big. It's the pictures that got small."

A2. "I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like
them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on
long winter evenings."

A3. "Some people are better off dead. Like your wife and my
father, for instance."


B. Roman nicknames

B1. Which ancient Roman was known as "the Censor"? He was
an elected public official who held his office for life,
and a moralist, busybody, and tightwad. A modern right-wing
think tank is named after him.

B2. Which ancient Roman was known as "the Delayer"? (In Latin,
the term is Cunctator.) He prudently refused to come out
and fight Hannibal. A left-wing British political movement,
one of whose members was George Bernard Shaw, was named
after him -- but we need the name of the man himself, not
the group's name.

B3. Who was known as "the Arbiter" or "the Arbiter of Delights"?
He served in Nero's court as the person responsible for
procuring the emperor's pleasures, and the bawdy novel
"The Satyricon" is ascribed to him.


C. Canadian mountain passes

C1. In Alberta and BC, highway 1 is the Trans-Canada Highway,
and the CPR main line mostly runs alongside it. By which
pass do they cross the Continental Divide, at the border
between the two provinces?

C2. In Alberta and BC, highway 16 these days is officially
a second route of the Trans-Canada Highway. It similarly
follows the CNR main line, crossing the Continental Divide
at the provincial border west of Jasper -- by which pass?

C3. During the Klondike gold rush, prospectors who chose to
sail to Skagway, Alaska, faced a dreadful hike over the
mountain range that was eventually agreed to form the border
with Canada. They had a choice of two passes, one named for
the local tribe, the other now carrying a road and a railway.
Name either pass.


D. Recording the oral tradition

D1. Name the scholar who published "The English and Scottish
Popular Ballads" in 5 volumes between 1883 and 1898.
He collected manuscripts dating from the 15th to the 19th
century and transcribed performances. His catalogue of
ballads is named after him.

D2. Beginning in the 1930s, this anthropologist travelled the
American South collecting songs and tales for the Library
of Congress. He produced many recordings and wrote several
books, including "The Land Where the Blues Began". Name him.

D3. In the 1930s a professor of ancient Greek went to Europe
to record modern epic poets. He wanted to prove that Homer
must have composed his poems more-or-less spontaneously.
After this folklorist died, his collaborator published his
work in a book called "The Singer of Tales". Name either the
collaborator, or the folklorist, or the country he visited
to record the poems -- any one.


E. Euro Lit

Who wrote these pairs of works?

E1. "The Periodic Table", "The Drowned and the Saved".
This writer is Italian.

E2. "Dog Years", "The Flounder". This writer is German.

E3. "The Joke", "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting".
This writer is Czech.


F. Movies About Scientists

F1. The 1940 film "Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet" told of the
controversial development of a medical remedy. Either tell
us what condition this remedy was for, or who played the
title character.

F2. In a 1994 comedy, Albert Einstein facilitates his niece's
romance. Either tell us the title of the movie, or who
played Einstein.

F3. This 1989 drama about the project to develop the atomic bomb
features Dwight Schultz as Robert Oppenheimer. Either tell
us the title of the movie, or name the better-known star
who played General Groves.

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In article <SsGdnTiEDaEKu9HUnZ2dnUVZ_jCdnZ2d RemoveThis @vex.net>, msb RemoveThis @vex.net says...
> Final, Round 10: Challenge Round
>
> A. Great Lines from Film Noir
>
> Identify the movies that the following lines are drawn from.
> (If you want to show off, name the actor and character as well.
> No points will be awarded or deducted for this.)
>
> A1. "I'm still big. It's the pictures that got small."
Sunset Boulevard

> A2. "I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like
> them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on
> long winter evenings."
The Big Sleep

> A3. "Some people are better off dead. Like your wife and my
> father, for instance."
Strangers On A Train

> B. Roman nicknames
>
> B1. Which ancient Roman was known as "the Censor"? He was
> an elected public official who held his office for life,
> and a moralist, busybody, and tightwad. A modern right-wing
> think tank is named after him.
Cato

> B2. Which ancient Roman was known as "the Delayer"? (In Latin,
> the term is Cunctator.) He prudently refused to come out
> and fight Hannibal. A left-wing British political movement,
> one of whose members was George Bernard Shaw, was named
> after him -- but we need the name of the man himself, not
> the group's name.
>
> B3. Who was known as "the Arbiter" or "the Arbiter of Delights"?
> He served in Nero's court as the person responsible for
> procuring the emperor's pleasures, and the bawdy novel
> "The Satyricon" is ascribed to him.
>
>
> C. Canadian mountain passes
>
> C1. In Alberta and BC, highway 1 is the Trans-Canada Highway,
> and the CPR main line mostly runs alongside it. By which
> pass do they cross the Continental Divide, at the border
> between the two provinces?
>
> C2. In Alberta and BC, highway 16 these days is officially
> a second route of the Trans-Canada Highway. It similarly
> follows the CNR main line, crossing the Continental Divide
> at the provincial border west of Jasper -- by which pass?
>
> C3. During the Klondike gold rush, prospectors who chose to
> sail to Skagway, Alaska, faced a dreadful hike over the
> mountain range that was eventually agreed to form the border
> with Canada. They had a choice of two passes, one named for
> the local tribe, the other now carrying a road and a railway.
> Name either pass.
>
>
> D. Recording the oral tradition
>
> D1. Name the scholar who published "The English and Scottish
> Popular Ballads" in 5 volumes between 1883 and 1898.
> He collected manuscripts dating from the 15th to the 19th
> century and transcribed performances. His catalogue of
> ballads is named after him.
>
> D2. Beginning in the 1930s, this anthropologist travelled the
> American South collecting songs and tales for the Library
> of Congress. He produced many recordings and wrote several
> books, including "The Land Where the Blues Began". Name him.
Alan Lomax

> D3. In the 1930s a professor of ancient Greek went to Europe
> to record modern epic poets. He wanted to prove that Homer
> must have composed his poems more-or-less spontaneously.
> After this folklorist died, his collaborator published his
> work in a book called "The Singer of Tales". Name either the
> collaborator, or the folklorist, or the country he visited
> to record the poems -- any one.
>
>
> E. Euro Lit
>
> Who wrote these pairs of works?
>
> E1. "The Periodic Table", "The Drowned and the Saved".
> This writer is Italian.
Primo Levi

> E2. "Dog Years", "The Flounder". This writer is German.
>
> E3. "The Joke", "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting".
> This writer is Czech.
>
>
> F. Movies About Scientists
>
> F1. The 1940 film "Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet" told of the
> controversial development of a medical remedy. Either tell
> us what condition this remedy was for, or who played the
> title character.
Syphilis

> F2. In a 1994 comedy, Albert Einstein facilitates his niece's
> romance. Either tell us the title of the movie, or who
> played Einstein.
Gene Wilder

> F3. This 1989 drama about the project to develop the atomic bomb
> features Dwight Schultz as Robert Oppenheimer. Either tell
> us the title of the movie, or name the better-known star
> who played General Groves.
Fat Man and Little Boy

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