From: msb@vex.net

Mark Brader:

These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2025-01-13,
and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
please see my 2024-08-30 companion posting on "Questions from the
Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".

** Game 1, Round 9 - Miscellaneous - Famous Epitaphs

Gravestone epitaphs are sometimes as unique as the people they
memorialize. Here are 10 epitaphs of famous people. We give the
inscription on the headstone or other marker. You name the person.

1. "Let 'er rip."

Leslie Nielsen. 4 for Joshua.

See: http://i.pinimg.com/736x/5b/55/a3/5b55a380ec8560c80abd7f945ad3b375.jpg

2. "That's all folks."

Mel Blanc. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Pete.

See: http://www.seeing-stars.com/Images/Slides/Markers/MelBlanc.JPG

3. "The best is yet to come."

Frank Sinatra. 4 for Pete.

But it was later changed to "Sleep warm, Poppa".
See: http://www.palmspringslife.com/history/frank-sinatra-grave/

4. "There goes the neighborhood."

Rodney Dangerfield.

See: http://i.pinimg.com/474x/65/98/29/659829baafe84b3d42a09ad17241a749.jpg

5. "Everybody loves somebody sometime."

Dean Martin. 4 for Dan Tilque, Joshua, and Pete.

See: http://i.pinimg.com/474x/62/be/36/62be36afd65d1ac95aca6ab2a94c6021.jpg

6. "If you seek his monument, look around you."

Sir Christopher Wren. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.

It's written in a circle, in Latin. See: https://www.digar.ee/viewer/content/69332/261334/OEBPS/Images/ISU_6670_e.jpg

7. "I will NOT be right back after this message."

Merv Griffin.

See: http://i.pinimg.com/736x/15/8b/af/158bafc29b6d19ba34d5ba5b5efdda3f.jpg

8. "Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman pass by."

William Butler Yeats.

See: http://travelpast50.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/yeats-grave-sligo-drumcliffe.jpg

9. "Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, I'm free
at last."

Martin Luther King Jr. 4 for Erland, Dan Blum, Joshua, and Pete.

See: http://npplan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/MLK-019.jpg

10. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly
into the past."

F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald (accepting either).
4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.

See: http://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/413da531-87a6-486c-a1b0-681084127c8f_3024x3024.jpeg

** Game 1, Round 10 - Classical Challenge Round

* A. Literature - Classical Books

A1. Who wrote "Meditations"?

Marcus Aurelius. (Both words required.) 4 for Joshua.

A2. In what book by Plato would you find the "Allegory of the
Cave" myth?

"The Republic". 4 for Dan Tilque. 3 for Erland. 2 for Joshua.

* B. History - Rise and Fall

These two questions are about major historical milestones in the
ancient world.

B1. In which century did the Roman empire conquer Greece?

2nd BC (it was 146 BC). 4 for Dan Tilque, Erland, and Pete.

B2. In which century did the Western Roman Empire fall?
(The term "Western Roman Empire" makes the distinction
between Rome and Byzantium... which is sometimes known as
the Eastern Roman empire. As well, the consensus among
historians is that the fall corresponds to when the last
Roman emperor Romulus Augustulus was deposed by Germanic
warlords.)

5th (it was 476). 4 for Dan Tilque, Erland, Dan Blum, and Joshua.

* C. Sports - Classical Sports

C1. Name *any one of the five* sports that were part of the
pentathlon in ancient times. Note that there is little
to no overlap between the ancient and modern versions of
the pentathlon.

Long jump, discus, running (180 m race), javelin, wrestling.
4 for Dan Tilque, Erland, Joshua (the hard way), and Pete.

The modern pentathlon currently consists of fencing, freestyle
swimming, equestrian show jumping, and running combined with
laser-pistol shooting.

C2. A violent sport called pankration was introduced into the
ancient Olympic Games in 648 BC. This a combination of
two individual modern sports. Name *either one*.

Boxing, wrestling. 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, and Joshua.

The rules allowed hitting, kicking, twisting of limbs, strangling,
and struggling on the ground; biting and gouging were the only
rouls. The contest ended when one fighter acknowledged defeat,
lost consciousness, or died.

* D. Miscellaneous - The Gods

These two questions are about the Roman rebranding of Greek gods.
Who is the Roman god or goddess corresponding to...

D1. Aphrodite?

Venus. 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, and Joshua.

D2. Zeus?

Jupiter. 4 for Dan Tilque, Erland, Dan Blum, and Joshua.

* E. Entertainment - Classical Playwrights

E1. Which Greek playwright wrote "Antigone", "Oedipus Rex",
and "Oedipus at Colonus"?

Sophocles. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.

E2. Which Greek playwright wrote "Medea", "Orestes", and "The
Trojan Women"?

Euripides. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.

* F. Science - Early Mathematicians

F1. This mathematician is believed to have lived around the
time of the 4th century BC. He is known as the "father
of geometry". He wrote the treatise "Elements", which
established the foundations of geometry and dominated the
field until the 19th century. Who was he?

Euclid. 4 for Dan Tilque, Erland, Dan Blum, and Joshua.

F2. This mathematician and engineer is believed to have lived
around the time of the 3rd century BC. He is best known for
an eponymous named principle which states that the upward
buoyant force that is exerted on a body immersed in a fluid,
whether fully or partially, is equal to the weight of the
fluid that the body displaces. Who was he?

Archimedes. 4 for Dan Tilque, Erland, Dan Blum, and Joshua.


Scores, if there are no errors:

GAME 1 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 BEST
TOPICS-> Geo A+L His Can Spo Ent Sci Mis Cha SEVEN
Joshua Kreitzer 27 36 16 28 0 40 16 24 42 213
Dan Blum 28 32 8 4 0 12 40 16 32 168
Dan Tilque 27 28 8 0 0 4 36 4 36 143
Pete Gayde 23 32 11 0 17 19 23 16 8 141
Erland Sommarskog 4 8 8 0 8 -- -- 4 27 59

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