Re: OQFTCI Game 10 R9-10: sync calendars, challenge round
- From: "Rob Parker" <NOrobpparkerSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:59:14 +1100
Game 10, Round 9: History - Synchronize Your Calendars
The bad news is that this round is going to have a long preamble.
The good news, at least for those players who desperately need
to catch up at this point, is that it's a precision round, so you
can score up to 60 points. Each question asks for the year of a
certain event. Give it within the required margin and you get the
normal score... but there is a 2-point bonus available for giving
the exact year.
The bonus is available only on your first answer. So if you answer
only once, you can score 6 (exact), 4 (close), or 0 (wrong); and
if you give two guesses, you can score:
6 - first guess exact, second guess close
5 - first guess exact, second guess wrong
4 - first guess close, second guess exact or close
3 - first guess close, second guess wrong
2 - first guess wrong, second guess exact or close
0 - both guesses wrong.
One more thing: we said that there was a specific margin for "close"
answers on each question, but we aren't going to tell you in advance
what it is. The rule is that you need to come within a margin of
2 years *plus one additional year for each century before the 21st*
when the event took place. Thus for 19th-century events you have
to be within 4 years; but for 11th-century events, if there are any,
you can be 12 years off. And similarly for other centuries.
If there are any questions where *nobody* comes within the allowed
margin, then on those questions only, I will accept an answer within
double the margin (e.g. within 8 years for 19th-century events) as
"almost correct", scoring 1 point less than indicated above.
Got all that? Then here we go.
1. What year did American Commodore Matthew Perry sail to Japan for
the first time with a small fleet of steam warships, and begin the
negotiations that ended some 250 years of Japanese isolationism?
1870; 1882
2. Alexander the Great died at age 33, ending the largest empire
the world had yet known. In what year?
355 BC; 315 BC
3. In London, the Great Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations
was held, in the original Crystal Palace, which had been erected
in its original Hyde Park location specifically for that purpose.
In what year?
1850
4. Four years after posting his 95 Theses at Wittenberg, Martin
Luther was called before the Diet of Worms ("DEE-et of VORMSS",
with "orm" as in "form") and found himself outlawed as well
as excommunicated. When did this punishment happen?
1620; 1640
5. What year did the Panama Canal open?
1913
6. What year did the original Canadian Pacific Railway main line
open completely? We want the year that the railway was opened
to the general public for travel over its full length, not the
Last Spike ceremony, which was the year before.
1917
7. When did King John of England sign the Magna Carta, thus conceding
that his royal power was not unlimited?
1215
8. When did the US adopt its Constitution in place of the original
Articles of Confederation? We need the year when the Constitution
was declared to be effective and the first elections were held
under it, although not all states had yet ratified it, while
the minimum requisite total of 9 had been reached the year before.
1776; 1770
9. Name the year when the Edict of Milan legalized Christianity
in the Roman Empire. It was sponsored by Constantine, who was
not yet the sole Emperor.
111; 222
10. And finally, to fit the title of the round... name the year
when the British Empire skipped 11 days in September, abandoning
the Julian calendar in favor of the Gregorian.
1652; 1672
Game 10, Round 10: Challenge Round
C2. The music opens with a famous solo for what woodwind
instrument, playing in its extreme upper range?
Oboe
E1. Iqaluit is Inuktitut for "place of..." what type of living
thing?
Seal; polar bear
E2. Charlottetown was named for the wife of what monarch?
George IV
F1. State the name given to a line on a weather map or chart
connecting points of equal pressure.
Isobar
Rob
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