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These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2013-02-04,
and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written
by members of the Night Owls, but have been reformatted and may
have been retyped and/or edited by me. I will reveal the correct
answers in about 3 days.

For further information, including an explanation of the """
notation that may appear in these rounds, see my 2022-09-09
companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".

** Game 2, Round 9 - Miscellaneous - Fortune-Telling

There are many forms of fortune-telling using many different
types of objects. From the definitions that will be given to
you, pick the appropriate word from the list below. For example:
fortune-telling using lines from a palm of a hand is palmistry.

What is fortune-telling based on...

1. Salt?
2. Wine?
3. Fish offal?
4. Observing the tide?
5. Stones or stone charms?
6. Thunder, lightning, etc.?
7. Boiling the head of an ass?
8. Melting wax dropped in water?
9. Walking in circles until dizzy?
10. Things seen over one's shoulder?

** Game 2, Round 10 - Challenge Round - 1,2,3,4,5,6

* A. First-Place Presidential Losers

Just because a candidate won the popular vote -- got the most
votes from voters nationwide -- in a US presidential election,
that does not necessarily mean they won the presidency. Here are
two questions about times when they didn't.

A1. In 1824 no one won the majority of the electoral votes,
so as per the 12th Amendment, the president was elected from
among the top three finishers by the House of Representatives
(with each state having one vote). To the surprise of
most people, the winner by a vote of 13-7-4 was John Quincy
Adams, who had finished second both in electoral votes and
in the popular vote from those states that then used it.
But who was the second-place candidate, who had finished
first in both electoral votes and popular votes?

A2. In the 1876 election it seemed at first that the Democratic
candidate won both the popular vote and the electoral vote.
But because of fraud by both parties, the results in
Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida were in dispute.
A committee with 8 pro-Republican and 7 pro-Democratic
members finally decided to give all the disputed electoral
votes to the Republicans, so that Rutherford Hayes won the
presidency by single electoral vote. Who was the losing
Democratic candidate who had the most popular votes in 1876?

* B. Two for Tea

Two questions about the world's second-most-popular beverage,
after water.

B1. In which country was prepared ice tea bottled on a
commercial scale, in 1983? If anyone is interested,
Snapple did not start bottling ice tea until 1987.

B2. In which country was prepared ice tea first commercially
packaged in cans, in 1981?

* C. Third Cities

The largest and second-largest cities are often well known,
but can you name the *third-largest* city, according to the 2011
census, in these Canadian provinces? This means the city proper,
not the metropolitan area. (*Note*: The 2021 census results are
not yet available, but you may instead answer for the 2016 census,
and you need not say if you are doing that.)

C1. Calgary and Edmonton are the two largest cities in Alberta;
what city is third?

C2. Saskatoon and Regina are the two largest cities in
Saskatchewan; what city is third?

* D. Fore!!!

D1. The first Masters golf tournament in 1934, and the third one
in 1936, were won by the same man nicknamed the Joplin Ghost.
What was his name?

D2. Golf originated in Scotland. Until the early 17th century,
what material was most commonly used to make golf balls?

* E. Five Movies

Here are five... no, five is right out. Okay, here are *two*
questions about movies with "Five" in the title.

E1. "Slaughterhouse-Five" was the first winner of this award
for best science-fiction movie, in 1972. What award?

E2. Who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actress for "Five Easy Pieces"?

* F. 6th of Science

F1. What is the 6th element of the periodic table?

F2. Who won the 6th Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1906? This
British scientist is credited with discovering electrons
and isotopes, and inventing the mass spectrometer.

--
Mark Brader, Toronto "As long as that blue light is on, the
msb@vex.net computer is safe." -- Hot Millions

My text in this article is in the public domain.

Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:
> ** Game 2, Round 9 - Miscellaneous - Fortune-Telling
>
> 1. Salt?
> 2. Wine?

Oenomancy

> 4. Observing the tide?

Hydromancy

> 9. Walking in circles until dizzy?

Gyromancy

> 10. Things seen over one's shoulder?

Zygomancy

> ** Game 2, Round 10 - Challenge Round - 1,2,3,4,5,6
>
> * B. Two for Tea
> B1. In which country was prepared ice tea bottled on a
> commercial scale, in 1983? If anyone is interested,
> Snapple did not start bottling ice tea until 1987.

Japan
> B2. In which country was prepared ice tea first commercially
> packaged in cans, in 1981?

Japan
> * F. 6th of Science
>
> F1. What is the 6th element of the periodic table?

Carbon
> F2. Who won the 6th Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1906? This
> British scientist is credited with discovering electrons
> and isotopes, and inventing the mass spectrometer.

Rutherford

Mark Brader <msb@vex.net> wrote:

> ** Game 2, Round 9 - Miscellaneous - Fortune-Telling

> 1. Salt?

halomancy

> 2. Wine?

oenomancy

> 3. Fish offal?

ichthyomancy

> 4. Observing the tide?

hydromancy; ydromancy

> 5. Stones or stone charms?

lithomancy

> 6. Thunder, lightning, etc.?

meteormancy; tephramancy

> 7. Boiling the head of an ass?

cephalonamancy

> 8. Melting wax dropped in water?

ceromancy

> 9. Walking in circles until dizzy?

mazomancy

> 10. Things seen over one's shoulder?

retromancy

> ** Game 2, Round 10 - Challenge Round - 1,2,3,4,5,6

> * A. First-Place Presidential Losers

> A1. In 1824 no one won the majority of the electoral votes,
> so as per the 12th Amendment, the president was elected from
> among the top three finishers by the House of Representatives
> (with each state having one vote). To the surprise of
> most people, the winner by a vote of 13-7-4 was John Quincy
> Adams, who had finished second both in electoral votes and
> in the popular vote from those states that then used it.
> But who was the second-place candidate, who had finished
> first in both electoral votes and popular votes?

Jackson; Clay

> A2. In the 1876 election it seemed at first that the Democratic
> candidate won both the popular vote and the electoral vote.
> But because of fraud by both parties, the results in
> Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida were in dispute.
> A committee with 8 pro-Republican and 7 pro-Democratic
> members finally decided to give all the disputed electoral
> votes to the Republicans, so that Rutherford Hayes won the
> presidency by single electoral vote. Who was the losing
> Democratic candidate who had the most popular votes in 1876?

Tilden

> * B. Two for Tea

> B1. In which country was prepared ice tea bottled on a
> commercial scale, in 1983? If anyone is interested,
> Snapple did not start bottling ice tea until 1987.

India

> B2. In which country was prepared ice tea first commercially
> packaged in cans, in 1981?

India

> * D. Fore!!!

> D2. Golf originated in Scotland. Until the early 17th century,
> what material was most commonly used to make golf balls?

sheepskin

> * F. 6th of Science

> F1. What is the 6th element of the periodic table?

carbon

> F2. Who won the 6th Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1906? This
> British scientist is credited with discovering electrons
> and isotopes, and inventing the mass spectrometer.

Thomson

--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum tool@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."

On Sunday, October 2, 2022 at 2:30:23 PM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:

> ** Game 2, Round 9 - Miscellaneous - Fortune-Telling
>
> There are many forms of fortune-telling using many different
> types of objects. From the definitions that will be given to
> you, pick the appropriate word from the list below. For example:
> fortune-telling using lines from a palm of a hand is palmistry.
>
> What is fortune-telling based on...
>
> 1. Salt?

Halomancy

> 2. Wine?

Oenomancy

> 3. Fish offal?

Ichthyomancy

> 4. Observing the tide?

Hydromancy

> 5. Stones or stone charms?

Aleuromancy; Alphitomancy

> 6. Thunder, lightning, etc.?

Meteormancy

> 7. Boiling the head of an ass?

Cephalonamancy

> 8. Melting wax dropped in water?

Ceromancy

> 9. Walking in circles until dizzy?

Gyromancy

> 10. Things seen over one's shoulder?

Enoptromancy; Nomancy

> ** Game 2, Round 10 - Challenge Round - 1,2,3,4,5,6
>
> * A. First-Place Presidential Losers
>
> Just because a candidate won the popular vote -- got the most
> votes from voters nationwide -- in a US presidential election,
> that does not necessarily mean they won the presidency. Here are
> two questions about times when they didn't.
>
> A1. In 1824 no one won the majority of the electoral votes,
> so as per the 12th Amendment, the president was elected from
> among the top three finishers by the House of Representatives
> (with each state having one vote). To the surprise of
> most people, the winner by a vote of 13-7-4 was John Quincy
> Adams, who had finished second both in electoral votes and
> in the popular vote from those states that then used it.
> But who was the second-place candidate, who had finished
> first in both electoral votes and popular votes?

Andrew Jackson

Tilden

> * B. Two for Tea
>
> Two questions about the world's second-most-popular beverage,
> after water.
>
> B1. In which country was prepared ice tea bottled on a
> commercial scale, in 1983? If anyone is interested,
> Snapple did not start bottling ice tea until 1987.

Japan

> B2. In which country was prepared ice tea first commercially
> packaged in cans, in 1981?

Japan

> * E. Five Movies
>
> Here are five... no, five is right out. Okay, here are *two*
> questions about movies with "Five" in the title.
>
> E1. "Slaughterhouse-Five" was the first winner of this award
> for best science-fiction movie, in 1972. What award?

Saturn Award
> E2. Who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting
> Actress for "Five Easy Pieces"?

Karen Black

> * F. 6th of Science
>
> F1. What is the 6th element of the periodic table?

carbon

> F2. Who won the 6th Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1906? This
> British scientist is credited with discovering electrons
> and isotopes, and inventing the mass spectrometer.

Rutherford

--
Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82@hotmail.com

halomancy

> 2. Wine?

oenomancy

> 3. Fish offal?

ichthyomancy

> 4. Observing the tide?
> 5. Stones or stone charms?

lithomancy

> 6. Thunder, lightning, etc.?

meteormancy

> 7. Boiling the head of an ass?
> 8. Melting wax dropped in water?
> 9. Walking in circles until dizzy?

gyromancy

> 10. Things seen over one's shoulder?

scapulimancy

>
>
> ** Game 2, Round 10 - Challenge Round - 1,2,3,4,5,6
>
> * A. First-Place Presidential Losers
>
> Just because a candidate won the popular vote -- got the most
> votes from voters nationwide -- in a US presidential election,
> that does not necessarily mean they won the presidency. Here are
> two questions about times when they didn't.
>
> A1. In 1824 no one won the majority of the electoral votes,
> so as per the 12th Amendment, the president was elected from
> among the top three finishers by the House of Representatives
> (with each state having one vote). To the surprise of
> most people, the winner by a vote of 13-7-4 was John Quincy
> Adams, who had finished second both in electoral votes and
> in the popular vote from those states that then used it.
> But who was the second-place candidate, who had finished
> first in both electoral votes and popular votes?

Calhoun

>
> A2. In the 1876 election it seemed at first that the Democratic
> candidate won both the popular vote and the electoral vote.
> But because of fraud by both parties, the results in
> Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida were in dispute.
> A committee with 8 pro-Republican and 7 pro-Democratic
> members finally decided to give all the disputed electoral
> votes to the Republicans, so that Rutherford Hayes won the
> presidency by single electoral vote. Who was the losing
> Democratic candidate who had the most popular votes in 1876?

Tilden

>
>
> * B. Two for Tea
>
> Two questions about the world's second-most-popular beverage,
> after water.
>
> B1. In which country was prepared ice tea bottled on a
> commercial scale, in 1983? If anyone is interested,
> Snapple did not start bottling ice tea until 1987.
>
> B2. In which country was prepared ice tea first commercially
> packaged in cans, in 1981?
>
>
> * C. Third Cities
>
> The largest and second-largest cities are often well known,
> but can you name the *third-largest* city, according to the 2011
> census, in these Canadian provinces? This means the city proper,
> not the metropolitan area. (*Note*: The 2021 census results are
> not yet available, but you may instead answer for the 2016 census,
> and you need not say if you are doing that.)
>
> C1. Calgary and Edmonton are the two largest cities in Alberta;
> what city is third?

Red Deer

>
> C2. Saskatoon and Regina are the two largest cities in
> Saskatchewan; what city is third?

North Battleford; Moose Jaw

>
>
> * D. Fore!!!
>
> D1. The first Masters golf tournament in 1934, and the third one
> in 1936, were won by the same man nicknamed the Joplin Ghost.
> What was his name?

Snead

>
> D2. Golf originated in Scotland. Until the early 17th century,
> what material was most commonly used to make golf balls?

leather

>
>
> * E. Five Movies
>
> Here are five... no, five is right out. Okay, here are *two*
> questions about movies with "Five" in the title.
>
> E1. "Slaughterhouse-Five" was the first winner of this award
> for best science-fiction movie, in 1972. What award?

Hugo

>
> E2. Who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting
> Actress for "Five Easy Pieces"?
>
>
> * F. 6th of Science
>
> F1. What is the 6th element of the periodic table?

carbon

>
> F2. Who won the 6th Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1906? This
> British scientist is credited with discovering electrons
> and isotopes, and inventing the mass spectrometer.

Rutherford

--
Dan Tilque

Mark Brader:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2013-02-04,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information...
> see my 2022-09-09 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from
> the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".

Game 2 is over and JOSHUA KREITZER has won by a large margin.
Hearty congratulations!

> ** Game 2, Round 9 - Miscellaneous - Fortune-Telling

> There are many forms of fortune-telling using many different
> types of objects. From the definitions that will be given to
> you, pick the appropriate word from the list below. For example:
> fortune-telling using lines from a palm of a hand is palmistry.

This was the easiest round in the original game.

No, I don't know what they all mean, but I bet you can find out on
the Internet. (Still true.)

In the original game the list was one shorter. As a cat-lover, when
I saw that it started with a word that sounded almost like ailuromancy
but was not ailuromancy, I couldn't resist putting that word in too.

> What is fortune-telling based on...

> 1. Salt?

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

> 2. Wine?

Oenomancy. 4 for everyone -- Erland, Dan Blum, Joshua,
and Dan Tilque.

> 3. Fish offal?

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

> 4. Observing the tide?

Hydromancy (or ydromancy, an older spelling). 4 for Erland, Dan Blum
(the hard way), and Joshua.

> 5. Stones or stone charms?

Lithomancy. 4 for Dan Blum and Dan Tilque.

> 6. Thunder, lightning, etc.?

Meteormancy. 4 for Joshua and Dan Tilque. 3 for Dan Blum.

> 7. Boiling the head of an ass?

Cephalonomancy. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.

> 8. Melting wax dropped in water?

Ceromancy. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.

> 9. Walking in circles until dizzy?

Gyromancy. 4 for Erland, Joshua, and Dan Tilque.

> 10. Things seen over one's shoulder?

Retromancy. 4 for Dan Blum.

> ** Game 2, Round 10 - Challenge Round - 1,2,3,4,5,6

This was the hardest round in the original game, and tied for
second-hardest of the entire season.

> * A. First-Place Presidential Losers

> Just because a candidate won the popular vote -- got the most
> votes from voters nationwide -- in a US presidential election,
> that does not necessarily mean they won the presidency. Here are
> two questions about times when they didn't.

Andrew Jackson. 4 for Joshua. 3 for Dan Blum.

Henry Clay, the fourth-place candidate, threw his support to Adams,
who then took several states in the House whose electors had voted
for Clay or had been divided. Adams then named Clay secretary of
state and was promptly denounced for making a "corrupt bargain".
In the next election, 1828, Jackson again ran against Adams and this
time won easily. And John and John Quincy Adams are still the only
instance of a father and son who have each won the presidency once
only to be defeated for reelection.

Samuel Tilden. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque.

This, of course, was when the Republicans were still the good guys.
Just sayin'.

> * B. Two for Tea

> Two questions about the world's second-most-popular beverage,
> after water.

> B1. In which country was prepared ice tea bottled on a
> commercial scale, in 1983? If anyone is interested,
> Snapple did not start bottling ice tea until 1987.

Switzerland.

> B2. In which country was prepared ice tea first commercially
> packaged in cans, in 1981?

Japan. 4 for Erland and Joshua.

> * C. Third Cities

> The largest and second-largest cities are often well known,
> but can you name the *third-largest* city, according to the 2011
> census, in these Canadian provinces? This means the city proper,
> not the metropolitan area. (*Note*: The 2021 census results are
> not yet available, but you may instead answer for the 2016 census,
> and you need not say if you are doing that.)

The answers are still the same.

> C1. Calgary and Edmonton are the two largest cities in Alberta;
> what city is third?

Red Deer. 4 for Dan Tilque.

Lethbridge is fourth.

> C2. Saskatoon and Regina are the two largest cities in
> Saskatchewan; what city is third?

Prince Albert.

Moose Jaw is fourth.

> * D. Fore!!!

> D1. The first Masters golf tournament in 1934, and the third one
> in 1936, were won by the same man nicknamed the Joplin Ghost.
> What was his name?

Horton Smith.

> D2. Golf originated in Scotland. Until the early 17th century,
> what material was most commonly used to make golf balls?

Wood.

> * E. Five Movies

> Here are five... no, five is right out. Okay, here are *two*
> questions about movies with "Five" in the title.

> E1. "Slaughterhouse-Five" was the first winner of this award
> for best science-fiction movie, in 1972. What award?

Saturn. 4 for Joshua.

The Hugo is older; the first Hugo award for Best Dramatic Presentation
went to "The Incredible Shrinking Man" (1957).

> E2. Who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting
> Actress for "Five Easy Pieces"?

Karen Black. 4 for Joshua.

> * F. 6th of Science

> F1. What is the 6th element of the periodic table?

Carbon. 4 for everyone.

> F2. Who won the 6th Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1906? This
> British scientist is credited with discovering electrons
> and isotopes, and inventing the mass spectrometer.

J.J. Thomson. 4 for Dan Blum.

I """recently""" saw it expressed this way: J.J. Thomson won the
Nobel Prize for proving that the electron is a particle. His son,
G.P. Thomson, also won the Nobel Prize -- for proving that the
electron is a wave.

Scores, if there are no errors:

GAME 2 ROUNDS-> 2 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST
TOPICS-> Sci His Spo Lit Ent Mis Cha FIVE
Joshua Kreitzer 24 20 28 24 19 32 24 132
Dan Blum 16 11 4 20 0 35 15 97
Dan Tilque 20 8 20 12 0 24 12 88
Erland Sommarskog -- -- -- 0 36 12 8 56

--
Mark Brader | "I do have an idea ... based on the quite obvious fact
Toronto | that the number two is ridiculous and can't exist."
msb@vex.net | -- Ben Denison (Isaac Asimov, "The Gods Themselves")

My text in this article is in the public domain.

Subject	Author
RQFTCINO13 Game 2, Rounds 9-10: fortune-telling, 1-6 challenge	Mark Brader
RQFTCINO13 Game 2, Rounds 9-10: fortune-telling, 1-6 challenge	Erland Sommarskog
RQFTCINO13 Game 2, Rounds 9-10: fortune-telling, 1-6 challenge	Dan Blum
RQFTCINO13 Game 2, Rounds 9-10: fortune-telling, 1-6 challenge	Joshua Kreitzer
RQFTCINO13 Game 2, Rounds 9-10: fortune-telling, 1-6 challenge	Dan Tilque
RQFTCINO13 Game 2, Rounds 9-10 answers: fortune-telling, 1-6 challenge	Mark Brader