OQFTCI Game 3 R9-10: the CNE, challenge round

These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2003-02-03.
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know that a question is out of date and a different answer is now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 wrote two pairs in the challenge round.


Game 3, Round 9: Canadiana - Let's Go to the "Ex"

1. Within 5 years, in what year was the CNE founded (under the name
"Toronto Industrial Exhibition")?

2. Either tell us, within 5¢, the price of general admission in
1879; or else tell us exactly what the price of general admission
(including taxes) will be in 2003.

3. In 1882, the closing hour was extended to 10:00 as the Ex had
become the first exhibition in the world to adopt which
technological advance?

4. Over the next few years the CNE was home to what form of
transportation, the first of its kind in Canada? In 1883
it didn't work properly, but many people rode on it starting
in 1884. Be sufficiently specific.

5. The oldest sound recording still in existence was recorded at
the Exhibition by Thomas Edison in 1888, and featured greetings
from Lord Stanley (of Stanley Cup fame) to which politician?
You can give his name or his political position.

6. In 1938, an experimental television broadcast was conducted from
the Horticulture Building to the Automotive Building. It featured
an interview of boxer Jack Dempsey by what legendary Canadian
broadcaster?

7. Within one year, what was the last year that a Blue Jay baseball
game was played at Exhibition Stadium?

8. Who runs the Midway?

9. For many years, a popular exhibit in the Horse Palace was a
sculpture made out of what? (There was a new one every year.)

10. What is the oldest building on the CNE grounds, built in 1794
and moved to the CNE in 1879?


Game 3, Round 10 - Challenge Round

A. Travel Guides

A1. The first in this line of guidebooks was, claimed its editors,
"put together in a backstreet Chinese hotel in Singapore
in 1975", and "written at a kitchen table and collated,
trimmed and stapled by hand." Now there are over 650 books
in the series. Name it.

A2. This line of guidebooks has been published since 1835,
originally in German. The books became so well known that
their name is sometimes used colloquially as a synonym for
"guidebook".

B. TV Moms

In these questions you will be asked to name the actress who
played the mother in the given program.

B1. Who played Florida Evans in "Good Times"?

B2. Who played Olivia Walton in "The Waltons"?

C. Documentaries about Musicians

In these questions you will be asked to name the musician who was
the subject of an Academy-Award-winning documentary feature film.

C1. Name the often-married big band leader and clarinetist was
the subject of a 1985 biography by Brigitte Berman.

C2. This violinist's 1979 tour of China was documented by
Murray Lerner.

D. Canadian Prime Ministers

D1. Name any year during which Arthur Meighen was Prime Minister.

D2. Within 1, what year did Richard Bennett become Prime Minister?

E. Scientific Masterworks in Latin

E1. The Latin title of this book translates to "The Mathematical
Principles of Natural Philosophy". What great scientist
wrote it?

E2. The Latin title of this book may be translated as "About
the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres". Again, name
the author.

F. NBA All-Star Game

F1. The 2003 NBA All-Star Game will be played this coming Sunday.
Which Houston Rockets rookie will start at center for the
Western Conference team?

F2. Where will the game be held this year? Name either the
arena or the city.
--
Mark Brader, "Technically, it is readable by a human being."
Toronto, msb.TakeThisOut@vex.net -- David Slocombe

My text in this article is in the public domain.

On Aug 25, 11:33 pm, m....TakeThisOut@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote:
>
> Game 3, Round 9: Canadiana - Let's Go to the "Ex"
>
> 1. Within 5 years, in what year was the CNE founded (under the name
>    "Toronto Industrial Exhibition")?

1874; 1863

> 2. Either tell us, within 5¢, the price of general admission in
>    1879; or else tell us exactly what the price of general admission
>    (including taxes) will be in 2003.

5 cents; 16 cents

> 3. In 1882, the closing hour was extended to 10:00 as the Ex had
>    become the first exhibition in the world to adopt which
>    technological advance?

electric lighting

> 4. Over the next few years the CNE was home to what form of
>    transportation, the first of its kind in Canada?  In 1883
>    it didn't work properly, but many people rode on it starting
>    in 1884.  Be sufficiently specific.

escalator; elevator

> 5. The oldest sound recording still in existence was recorded at
>    the Exhibition by Thomas Edison in 1888, and featured greetings
>    from Lord Stanley (of Stanley Cup fame) to which politician?
>    You can give his name or his political position.

the Governor General of Canada; the Prime Minister of Canada

> 7. Within one year, what was the last year that a Blue Jay baseball
>    game was played at Exhibition Stadium?

1988; 1991

> Game 3, Round 10 - Challenge Round
>
> A. Travel Guides
>
>    A1. The first in this line of guidebooks was, claimed its editors,
>        "put together in a backstreet Chinese hotel in Singapore
>        in 1975", and "written at a kitchen table and collated,
>        trimmed and stapled by hand."  Now there are over 650 books
>        in the series.  Name it.

Lonely Planet

>    A2. This line of guidebooks has been published since 1835,
>        originally in German.  The books became so well known that
>        their name is sometimes used colloquially as a synonym for
>        "guidebook".

Baedeker

> B. TV Moms
>
>    B1. Who played Florida Evans in "Good Times"?

Esther Rolle

> C. Documentaries about Musicians
>
>    C1. Name the often-married big band leader and clarinetist was
>        the subject of a 1985 biography by Brigitte Berman.

Artie Shaw

>    C2. This violinist's 1979 tour of China was documented by
>        Murray Lerner.

Itzhak Perlman

> D. Canadian Prime Ministers
>
>    D1. Name any year during which Arthur Meighen was Prime Minister.

1875; 1895

>    D2. Within 1, what year did Richard Bennett become Prime Minister?

1885; 1895

> E. Scientific Masterworks in Latin
>
>    E1. The Latin title of this book translates to "The Mathematical
>        Principles of Natural Philosophy".  What great scientist
>        wrote it?

Isaac Newton

>    E2. The Latin title of this book may be translated as "About
>        the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres".  Again, name
>        the author.

Galileo; Copernicus

> F. NBA All-Star Game
>
>    F1. The 2003 NBA All-Star Game will be played this coming Sunday.
>        Which Houston Rockets rookie will start at center for the
>        Western Conference team?

Yao Ming

>    F2. Where will the game be held this year?  Name either the
>        arena or the city.

Atlanta; Phoenix (this question might be easier if it were being asked
contemporaneously)

--
Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com