OQFTCI Game 4 R2-3: Canadian place names, eponyms

These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2003-02-10.
I will accept the answers that were correct then and there. If you
know that a question is out of date and a different answer is now
correct, please say so (either along with your answers, or in a
separate posting afterwards) and I will also accept that answer.

On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,
based only on your own knowledge.

See my July 23 companion posting "Old Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (OQFTCI)" for further details.

I will reveal the correct answers in about 3 days.

I did not write these rounds.


Game 4, Round 2: Geography/Canadiana - Place names

1. The Churchill River was named around the year 1710 for General
John Churchill, who was active at the time fighting against
Louis XIV. By what name is this victorious general better known?

2. An artificial lake, or reservoir, near Saskatoon was named after
a Canadian prime minister. Name this reservoir.

3. What is the name of Winnipeg's major French district? It used
to be an independent town.

4. What is the English-language nickname of Montreal's black
district, where Oscar Peterson and Oliver Jones grew up?

5. What imposing geographical feature was named after the first
director of the Geological Survey of Canada?

6. Gimli, Manitoba, is named after a place in which country?

7. In which province can you find a place named Pinchgut Tickle?

8. Which BC coastal community, located near the mouth of the Skeena
River, is named for the first governor of the Hudson's Bay
Company?

9. What accounts for the name of the Edmonton suburb Fort
Saskatchewan?

10. Keewatin, Norman, and Rat Portage were joined in 1905 to make
what Ontario town?


Game 4, Round 3: Miscellaneous - Eponyms

(In each case, name the person or thing mentioned as "this".)

1. A chemist initially developed this line of products in
Massachusetts in 1942. He also created the sociable marketing
scheme still associated with it.

2. This philosopher, who died in 1662, gave his name to a computer
language.

3. The inventor of this modern bathing device originally hoped to
relieve the pain of his son's rheumatoid arthritis.

4. This singer took her name from a modified version of the name
of the city where she was born, and in turn gave it to a dessert.

5. Jean Chrétien suffers from the type of palsy named after this
Scottish surgeon.

6. Although this line of luxury comestibles may not be named after
the famous lady whose name they bear, fans will agree it means
"gift of god".

7. This line of automobiles is named after a designer born in
Switzerland on Christmas Day, 1878.

8. This garment takes its name from a French trapeze artist who
wore it but probably did not invent it.

9. This lady gave her name to a garment designed to be worn by
invalids sitting up in bed.

10. This saint gave his name to an order of monks and the liqueur
originally produced by them.

--
Mark Brader "I used to own a mind like a steel trap.
Toronto Perhaps if I'd specified a brass one, it
msb.DeleteThis@vex.net wouldn't have rusted like this." --Greg Goss

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> I did not write these rounds.

Good for you.

> Game 4, Round 2: Geography/Canadiana - Place names

Gaah.

> 1. The Churchill River was named around the year 1710 for General
>    John Churchill, who was active at the time fighting against
>    Louis XIV.  By what name is this victorious general better known?

John Bull?

> 2. An artificial lake, or reservoir, near Saskatoon was named after
>    a Canadian prime minister.  Name this reservoir.

Shatner.

> 3. What is the name of Winnipeg's major French district?  It used
>    to be an independent town.

Shatneur.

> 4. What is the English-language nickname of Montreal's black
>    district, where Oscar Peterson and Oliver Jones grew up?

(I shudder to imagine.)

> 5. What imposing geographical feature was named after the first
>    director of the Geological Survey of Canada?

Lake Huron?

> 6. Gimli, Manitoba, is named after a place in which country?

(Hey, wait a minute, Gimli is a character in Lord of the Rings.) I'll
take a shot at Finland.

> 7. In which province can you find a place named Pinchgut Tickle?

Labrador?

> 8. Which BC coastal community, located near the mouth of the Skeena
>    River, is named for the first governor of the Hudson's Bay
>    Company?

Frobisher?

> 9. What accounts for the name of the Edmonton suburb Fort
>    Saskatchewan?

Something to do with F Troop.

> 10. Keewatin, Norman, and Rat Portage were joined in 1905 to make
>    what Ontario town?

Windsor?

> Game 4, Round 3: Miscellaneous - Eponyms

> 1. A chemist initially developed this line of products in
>    Massachusetts in 1942.  He also created the sociable marketing
>    scheme still associated with it.

Tupperware?

> 2. This philosopher, who died in 1662, gave his name to a computer
>    language.

Blaise Pascal.

> 3. The inventor of this modern bathing device originally hoped to
>    relieve the pain of his son's rheumatoid arthritis.

Jacuzzi.

> 4. This singer took her name from a modified version of the name
>    of the city where she was born, and in turn gave it to a dessert.

Nellie Melba. (From Melbourne?)

> 5. Jean Chrétien suffers from the type of palsy named after this
>    Scottish surgeon.

Bell?

> 6. Although this line of luxury comestibles may not be named after
>    the famous lady whose name they bear, fans will agree it means
>    "gift of god".

Godiva. (Fans? or oglers?)

> 7. This line of automobiles is named after a designer born in
>    Switzerland on Christmas Day, 1878.

Daimler?

> 8. This garment takes its name from a French trapeze artist who
>    wore it but probably did not invent it.

Jules Leotard.

> 9. This lady gave her name to a garment designed to be worn by
>    invalids sitting up in bed.

Jenny somebody?

> 10. This saint gave his name to an order of monks and the liqueur
>    originally produced by them.

Benedict.