Re: QFTCI 03-12 R8-10: languages, solar system, challenge round

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Game 8, Round 8 (Miscellaneous): Other Voices, Other Words

You may not be a polyglot, but probably you've taken a first-year
language course, or travelled, or at least eaten at restaurants where
some of the menu is not in English. In this round, we will give
you some basic words in other languages, and you tell us what they
mean in English. As a general clue, all of these words are nouns.
We'll have more specific clues along the way.

1. "Tamago" ("tah-mah-guh", without emphasis on any syllable).
This word is in Japanese, and you might encounter it in a
restaurant. It is also related to "tamagotchi", the so-called
digital pet that was all the rage a few years ago.
Egg
2. "Cuore" ("KWOR-ay"). This is an Italian word, and we hope that if
you get to use it, it's because your love life is improving and
not because you're in hospital.
Heart
3. "Arbeit" ("AR-bite"). We hope trivia is more enjoyable than what
this German word refers to.

4. "Hermano" ("air-MAHN-oh"). This Spanish word may refer to one
of your relatives.
Father, Brother
5. "Vannaya" ("VAN-eye-uh"). In this case the word is Russian,
but if you're travelling, it's one of the first words you should
learn in any language.

6. "Zimmer" ("TSIM-mer"). You might use this word in a German hotel.
Bed
7. "Letto" (LET-to). Another Italian word, and, like "cuore",
it could be useful if you have a new lover -- or if you end up
in hospital.
Heart
8. "Chyelovyek" ("chyell-oh-VYEK", with ch as in "chin" and y as in
"yell"). This Russian word inspired a term in the slang that
Anthony Burgess created for "A Clockwork Orange".

9. "Mozo" ("MO-so"). To help you with this Spanish word, we'll
give you two other words with the same meaning: "mesero"
("may-SAIR-oh") and "camarero" ("cam-uh-RAIR-oh").

10. "Kodomo" ("kuh-duh-muh", without emphasis on any syllable). No,
this Japanese word does not mean dragon, though if you have some
of these at home, you may think they are monsters.
Rat

Game 8, Round 9 (Science): The Solar System

Answers in this round may repeat and may appear in later questions
without being edited out.

1. This planet is only a few percent smaller than the Earth in both
mass and diameter, but its surface is ferociously hot.
Its atmosphere is extremely dense and consists mostly of carbon
dioxide, with clouds of sulfuric acid, yet. Name the planet.
Venus
2. Only one planet has a ring system bright enough to be seen in a
small telescope. Name the planet.
Saturn
3. <answer 2> is one of four planets that are large in diameter but
almost all of their volume consists of gas, or to put it another
way, it's atmosphere all the way down. The other three are also
now known to have ring systems. Name any two of the other three.
Jupiter, Uranus
4. This planet is significantly smaller than the Earth, but its
day is about the same length. It has a thin atmosphere consisting
mostly of carbon dioxide.
Mars
5. This planet's year is 88 days long (that is 88 Earth days),
and it's in a tidal resonance so that it rotates exactly 1½ times
during that period. Because it was so hard to observe visually,
astronomers thought until 1965 that it rotated exactly once
during its year, thus always keeping one face toward the Sun.
Mercury
6. Name the man who was the first to discover that the Sun's face has
spots on it, and that Jupiter has moons. He was also the first
to observe the motion of the planet Neptune from day to day,
but he didn't realize it; he just thought it was a star whose
position he'd gotten wrong the first time.

7. Neptune was actually discovered over 230 years later, after
astronomers trying to work out the orbit of another planet
couldn't get it right. They finally figured out that an unknown
planet's gravity must be affecting it, and worked out where to
look for what we now call Neptune. When someone actually tried
searching, they needed only half an hour to find it. What was
the other planet, the one whose orbit was problematic?
Uranus
8. In the early 20th century, Percival Lowell attempted a similar
computation based on the orbit of Neptune, and proposed an
outer planet that he called Planet X. Then he died. His facts
were eventually realized to be wrong, but by that time a search
had already been conducted, resulting in Clyde Tombaugh's 1930
discovery of what?
Pluto
9. This body, discovered on January 1, 1801, was considered to be a
planet at first. After it was realized to be just the biggest
of many, it was eventually redesignated as a minor planet or
asteroid, and lately a dwarf planet like Pluto. Name it.
Ceres
10. Name the largest moon of any other planet besides the Earth, and
you must also say which planet it belongs to. Pluto is a planet
for purposes of this question.
Titan (Saturn)

Game 8, Round 10: Challenge Round

A. Chinese Philosophers (Writing, not Eating)

For these you must give their full names.

A1. This philosopher, possibly a contemporary of Confucius,
wrote the Tao Te Ching, the definitive Taoist text.

A2. The 6th century BC text "The Art of War" has in recent
decades become beloved of corporate executives and other
go-getters. Name the author.
Sun Tzu

B. European Union

B1. The European Union may be viewed as a successor or a renaming
of the European Economic Community, sometimes called the
Common Market. Name either the year that the EEC was founded
or the number of founding countries, within 1 in either case.
6
B2. The EU added two new members this year, which are adjacent
countries. Name either one, or else say how many countries
are now members, within 2.
26

C. Iraqi Cities

C1. What is the largest city in the ethnic and cultural area
known as Kurdistan?

C2. What is the second-largest city in Iraq and the country's
main port?
Basra

D. Names of Chemical Elements

D1. Four elements, all in the group called rare earths or
lanthanides, are named after the same village in Sweden.
Name any one of them.
Ytterbium
D2. By a generous count five elements are named after the
present-day names of countries, and one present-day country
is named after an element. Give any one of these six names
(i.e. the one country or one of the five elements).
Germanium

E. Part-Time Canadians at the New Yorker

E1. He was born in the UK but raised in Elmira, Ontario, and
has a degree from the U of T. He's been a staff writer for
the New Yorker since 1996. He is perhaps best known for
two bestselling books: one concerning so-called "social
epidemics", the other a study of instinctive thinking.
Who is he?

E2. This writer, born in Philadelphia but raised in Montreal,
has written for the New Yorker since 1986. During the
late 1990s he wrote the "Paris Journals" for the magazine,
later collected and published as "Paris to the Moon".
He has also written a children's novel and a book of essays
about his children growing up in New York, titled "Through
the Children's Gate". Name him.

F. Peter Greenaway movies

F1. Peter Greenaway's most mainstream film starred Helen Mirren
and Michael Gambon in two of the four titular roles.
Give the title -- exactly. Be careful.

F2. Which Greenaway film was an adaptation of "The Tempest" and
starred John Gielgud?


Peter Smyth

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