OQFTCI Final Round 4: Arts & Literature

These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2003-04-07.
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based only on your own knowledge.

See my September 22 companion posting "Old Questions from the
Canadian Inquisition (OQFTCI)" for further details. I will reveal
the correct answers in about 3 days.

I wrote two triples in this round.


Final, Round 4: Arts and Literature

* Name All Four

1. Name all four Teletubbies, in the TV series of that name.

2. Name all four houses of Hogwarts, in the Harry Potter books
and movies.

3. Name all four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, in the TV series of
that name.


* Commemorations

Please refer to the handouts (in the original game, we used actual
money).

4. Name the composer whose name we have covered over:
http://torquiz.freeshell.org/2003-1/questions/Final/money1.gif

5. Name the scientist whose name we have covered over:
http://torquiz.freeshell.org/2003-1/questions/Final/money2.jpg

6. Again there are two people on this bill:
http://torquiz.freeshell.org/2003-1/questions/Final/money3.JPG
But this time neither one is the Queen. They both were
journalists and poets; the woman was also a social reformer,
teacher, and novelist; the man was also a lawyer, but is probably
most famous for a single song. Name either one.


* Shakespeare's geography

Shakespeare doesn't always show a precise knowledge of geography.
Sometimes his characters don't either. Here are three passages
containing either geographical ignorance or arguments about
geography. In each case name the Shakespeare play. (In the
original game, we performed the bits.)

7. This tragicomedy, or so-called "dark comedy", is one of
Shakespeare's last plays. It opens in "Sicilia". King Leontes
suspects his wife of infidelity and sends messengers to Apollo's
oracle at a place that Shakespeare calls "Delphos" to find out.
Before the messengers return, the king sends Antigonus into
exile in Bohemia carrying the king's disowned infant daughter.
Scene 3 is set as follows: Bohemia. The sea-coast. Enter
Antigonus with a child, and a Mariner.

ANTIGONUS: Thou art perfect then our ship hath touched upon
The deserts of Bohemia?

MARINER: Ay, my lord, and fear
We have landed in ill time; the skies look grimly.
..............................................
Besides, this place is famous for the creatures
Of prey that keep upon it.

8. Near the start of this history, the Archbishop of Canterbury is
speaking to his young king. He is outlining a tempting dynastic
claim based on disputed geography, and he intends to persuade
the king to go to war against France.

KING: My learnèd lord, we pray you to proceed,
And justly and religiously unfold
Why the Law Salique, that they have in France,
Or should or should not bar us in our claim.

CANTERBURY: There is no bar
To make against your highness' claim to France
But this, which they produce from Pharamond,
........................................
"No woman shall succeed in Salique land":
Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze
To be the realm of France ................
...........................................
Yet their own authors faithfully affirm
That the land Salique is in Germany,
Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe ......

9. In this rather severe comedy, another very late play, Gonzalo,
Sebastian, Adrian, and Antonio, who is the usurping Duke of
Milan, spend most of their time wandering around lost. But in
this scene they find the time to argue about historical geography:

GONZALO: Methinks our garments are now as fresh as
when we put them on first in Afric, at the marriage
of the King's fair daughter Claribel to the King
of Tunis.

ADRIAN: Tunis was never grac'd before with such a paragon
to their queen.

GONZALO: Not since widow Dido's time.

ADRIAN: "Widow Dido" said you? You make me study of that.
She was of Carthage, not of Tunis.

GONZALO: This Tunis, sir, was Carthage.

ADRIAN: Carthage?

GONZALO: I assure you, Carthage.

ANTONIO: His word is more than the miraculous harp.

SEBASTIAN: He hath rais'd the wall and houses too.

ANTONIO: What impossible matter will he make easy next?

SEBASTIAN: I think he will carry this island home in his
pocket and give it his son for an apple.


* Scientific quotes

In each case, name the scientist who said the following.

10. This was said by a physicist and mathematician in the 17th
century: "I do not know what I may appear to the world.
But to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on
the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a
smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the
great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

11. This was said by a philosopher who had also written on
mathematics, in the 20th century: "Mathematics may be defined
as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about,
nor whether what we are saying is true."

12. This 20th/21st century physicist and professor of mathematics
said that he had been given the following piece of advice:
"Each equation in the book would halve the sales."


* Exceptional Paintings

13. On this handout you are shown six paintings:
http://torquiz.freeshell.org/2003-1/questions/Final/country.pdf
Five were painted by artists born in the same country. Give the
number of the exception.

14. On this handout you are shown six paintings:
http://torquiz.freeshell.org/2003-1/questions/Final/painter2.pdf
Five were painted by the same artist. Give the number of the
exception.

15. On this handout you are shown six paintings:
http://torquiz.freeshell.org/2003-1/questions/Final/century.pdf
Five were painted in the same century. Give the number of
the exception.

--
Mark Brader, Toronto, msb.DeleteThis@vex.net
MARTIANS BUILD TWO IMMENSE CANALS IN TWO YEARS.
Vast Engineering Works Accomplished in an Incredibly Short Time
by Our Planetary Neighbors. --N.Y.Times headline, August 27, 1911

My text in this article is in the public domain.

On Dec 7, 7:12 pm, m... DeleteThis @vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote:
> I wrote two triples in this round.
>
> Final, Round 4: Arts and Literature
>
> * Name All Four
>
> 1. Name all four Teletubbies, in the TV series of that name.

dipsy, laa-laa, po, & tinky winky

> 2. Name all four houses of Hogwarts, in the Harry Potter books
>    and movies.

slytherin, gryffindor, hufflepuff, and ravenclaw

> 3. Name all four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, in the TV series of
>    that name.

donatello, leonardo, michelangelo, & rafael

> * Commemorations
>
> Please refer to the handouts (in the original game, we used actual
> money).
>
> 4. Name the composer whose name we have covered over:
>    http://torquiz.freeshell.org/2003-1/questions/Final/money1.gif

gah!

> 5. Name the scientist whose name we have covered over:
>    http://torquiz.freeshell.org/2003-1/questions/Final/money2.jpg

darwin

> 6. Again there are two people on this bill:
>    http://torquiz.freeshell.org/2003-1/questions/Final/money3.JPG
>    But this time neither one is the Queen.  They both were
>    journalists and poets; the woman was also a social reformer,
>    teacher, and novelist; the man was also a lawyer, but is probably
>    most famous for a single song.  Name either one.

banjo peterson (waltzing matilda wasn't it?)

> * Shakespeare's geography
>
> Shakespeare doesn't always show a precise knowledge of geography.
> Sometimes his characters don't either.  Here are three passages
> containing either geographical ignorance or arguments about
> geography.  In each case name the Shakespeare play.  (In the
> original game, we performed the bits.)
>
> 7. This tragicomedy, or so-called "dark comedy", is one of
>    Shakespeare's last plays.  It opens in "Sicilia".  King Leontes
>    suspects his wife of infidelity and sends messengers to Apollo's
>    oracle at a place that Shakespeare calls "Delphos" to find out.
>    Before the messengers return, the king sends Antigonus into
>    exile in Bohemia carrying the king's disowned infant daughter.
>    Scene 3 is set as follows:  Bohemia.  The sea-coast.  Enter
>    Antigonus with a child, and a Mariner.
>
>    ANTIGONUS: Thou art perfect then our ship hath touched upon
>             The deserts of Bohemia?
>
>    MARINER: Ay, my lord, and fear
>             We have landed in ill time; the skies look grimly..
>             ..............................................
>             Besides, this place is famous for the creatures
>             Of prey that keep upon it.

a winter's tale

> 8. Near the start of this history, the Archbishop of Canterbury is
>    speaking to his young king.  He is outlining a tempting dynastic
>    claim based on disputed geography, and he intends to persuade
>    the king to go to war against France.
>
>    KING:   My learnèd lord, we pray you to proceed,
>            And justly and religiously unfold
>            Why the Law Salique, that they have in France,
>            Or should or should not bar us in our claim.
>
>    CANTERBURY: There is no bar
>            To make against your highness' claim to France
>            But this, which they produce from Pharamond,
>               ........................................
>            "No woman shall succeed in Salique land":
>            Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze
>            To be the realm of France ................
>               ...........................................
>            Yet their own authors faithfully affirm
>            That the land Salique is in Germany,
>            Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe ......

henry v

> 9. In this rather severe comedy, another very late play, Gonzalo,
>    Sebastian, Adrian, and Antonio, who is the usurping Duke of
>    Milan, spend most of their time wandering around lost.  But in
>    this scene they find the time to argue about historical geography:
>
>       GONZALO: Methinks our garments are now as fresh as
>                when we put them on first in Afric, at the marriage
>                of the King's fair daughter Claribel to the King
>                of Tunis.
>
>       ADRIAN:  Tunis was never grac'd before with such a paragon
>                to their queen.
>
>       GONZALO: Not since widow Dido's time.
>
>       ADRIAN:  "Widow Dido" said you?  You make me study of that.
>                She was of Carthage, not of Tunis.
>
>       GONZALO: This Tunis, sir, was Carthage.
>
>       ADRIAN:  Carthage?
>
>       GONZALO: I assure you, Carthage.
>
>       ANTONIO: His word is more than the miraculous harp.
>
>       SEBASTIAN: He hath rais'd the wall and houses too.
>
>       ANTONIO: What impossible matter will he make easy next?
>
>       SEBASTIAN: I think he will carry this island home in his
>                pocket and give it his son for an apple.

the tempest

> * Scientific quotes
>
> In each case, name the scientist who said the following.
>
> 10. This was said by a physicist and mathematician in the 17th
>    century: "I do not know what I may appear to the world.
>    But to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on
>    the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a
>    smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the
>    great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

newton (he said it while standing on the shoulders of giants)

> 11. This was said by a philosopher who had also written on
>    mathematics, in the 20th century: "Mathematics may be defined
>    as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about,
>    nor whether what we are saying is true."

bertrand russell

> 12. This 20th/21st century physicist and professor of mathematics
>    said that he had been given the following piece of advice:
>    "Each equation in the book would halve the sales."

stephen hawking

> * Exceptional Paintings
>
> 13. On this handout you are shown six paintings:
>    http://torquiz.freeshell.org/2003-1/questions/Final/country.pdf
>    Five were painted by artists born in the same country.  Give the
>    number of the exception.

france; belgium

> 14. On this handout you are shown six paintings:
>    http://torquiz.freeshell.org/2003-1/questions/Final/painter2.pdf
>    Five were painted by the same artist.  Give the number of the
>    exception.

not picasso...

> 15. On this handout you are shown six paintings:
>    http://torquiz.freeshell.org/2003-1/questions/Final/century.pdf
>    Five were painted in the same century.  Give the number of
>    the exception.

1; 5 (complete and total wags)

swp