2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon EDT on Monday, August 18.
No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.
A note from your QoD Meister/Thematic tour director: As I said previously, we don't have time to retrace our steps through previous tour stops. So, let's jump four whole Olympiads ahead from yesterday's QoD, to Helsinki!
1. Finnish belongs to the Finno-Ugric group of languages. Name one of the other two modern European languages belonging to this group.
2. The 1952 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to what Alsatian physician for his philosophy of "reverence for life", particularly for his work with a hospital that bears his name in Lambaréné, Gabon (formerly French Equatorial Africa)?
3. An arm of the Baltic Sea, what gulf lies between the western coast of Finland and the eastern coast of Sweden?
4. What Finnish classical composer is know for writing the symphonic poem Finlandia, as well as such works as the Karelia Suite, The Swan of Tuonela, and seven symphonies?
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Re: QoD - August 15, 2008
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1. Swedish?
2. Albert Schweitzer
3. North Sea?
4. Jean Sebelius?
2. Albert Schweitzer
3. North Sea?
4. Jean Sebelius?
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2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon EDT on Monday, August 18.
No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.
A note from your QoD Meister/Thematic tour director: As I said previously, we don't have time to retrace our steps through previous tour stops. So, let's jump four whole Olympiads ahead from yesterday's QoD, to Helsinki!
1. Finnish belongs to the Finno-Ugric group of languages. Name one of the other two modern European languages belonging to this group.
lolcat
2. The 1952 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to what Alsatian physician for his philosophy of "reverence for life", particularly for his work with a hospital that bears his name in Lambaréné, Gabon (formerly French Equatorial Africa)?
Dr. Jack Kevorkian
3. An arm of the Baltic Sea, what gulf lies between the western coast of Finland and the eastern coast of Sweden?
The Gulf of Helga
4. What Finnish classical composer is know for writing the symphonic poem Finlandia, as well as such works as the Karelia Suite, The Swan of Tuonela, and seven symphonies?
Yanni
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No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.
A note from your QoD Meister/Thematic tour director: As I said previously, we don't have time to retrace our steps through previous tour stops. So, let's jump four whole Olympiads ahead from yesterday's QoD, to Helsinki!
1. Finnish belongs to the Finno-Ugric group of languages. Name one of the other two modern European languages belonging to this group.
lolcat
2. The 1952 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to what Alsatian physician for his philosophy of "reverence for life", particularly for his work with a hospital that bears his name in Lambaréné, Gabon (formerly French Equatorial Africa)?
Dr. Jack Kevorkian
3. An arm of the Baltic Sea, what gulf lies between the western coast of Finland and the eastern coast of Sweden?
The Gulf of Helga
4. What Finnish classical composer is know for writing the symphonic poem Finlandia, as well as such works as the Karelia Suite, The Swan of Tuonela, and seven symphonies?
Yanni
LFHP
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Re: QoD - August 15, 2008
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1. Sami (Lapp)?
2. Albert Schweitzer
3. Gulf of Bothnia
4. Sibelius
2. Albert Schweitzer
3. Gulf of Bothnia
4. Sibelius
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1. Estonian
2. Schweitzer
3. Gulf of Finland
4.
2. Schweitzer
3. Gulf of Finland
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Re: QoD - August 15, 2008
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1. Estonian and Hungarian
2. Albert Schweitzer
3. The Gulf of Bothnia
4. Jean Sibelius
2. Albert Schweitzer
3. The Gulf of Bothnia
4. Jean Sibelius
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Can you count to one, plasticene?plasticene wrote:Spoiler
1. Estonian and Hungarian
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1. Finnish belongs to the Finno-Ugric group of languages. Name one of the other two modern European languages belonging to this group.
HUNGARIAN
2. The 1952 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to what Alsatian physician for his philosophy of "reverence for life", particularly for his work with a hospital that bears his name in Lambaréné, Gabon (formerly French Equatorial Africa)?
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
3. An arm of the Baltic Sea, what gulf lies between the western coast of Finland and the eastern coast of Sweden?
Yeah, right. (What happened to our geography agreement, dude?) Okay, one should at least swing, GULF OF FINLAND
4. What Finnish classical composer is know for writing the symphonic poem Finlandia, as well as such works as the Karelia Suite, The Swan of Tuonela, and seven symphonies?
SIBELIUS Isn't it a Jeopardy law that when in doubt, Finnish composer = Sibelius, Norse composer = Grieg, Swedish composer = get with the program, Swedes? Not that I'm in doubt, of course, but you could have saved time and just said what Finnish composer? Ha!
HUNGARIAN
2. The 1952 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to what Alsatian physician for his philosophy of "reverence for life", particularly for his work with a hospital that bears his name in Lambaréné, Gabon (formerly French Equatorial Africa)?
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
3. An arm of the Baltic Sea, what gulf lies between the western coast of Finland and the eastern coast of Sweden?
Yeah, right. (What happened to our geography agreement, dude?) Okay, one should at least swing, GULF OF FINLAND
4. What Finnish classical composer is know for writing the symphonic poem Finlandia, as well as such works as the Karelia Suite, The Swan of Tuonela, and seven symphonies?
SIBELIUS Isn't it a Jeopardy law that when in doubt, Finnish composer = Sibelius, Norse composer = Grieg, Swedish composer = get with the program, Swedes? Not that I'm in doubt, of course, but you could have saved time and just said what Finnish composer? Ha!
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I'm darned good and ready.
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I don't remember any agreement.Here's Fanny! wrote:(What happened to our geography agreement, dude?)
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1. Finnish belongs to the Finno-Ugric group of languages. Name one of the other two modern European languages belonging to this group.
Lapp?
2. The 1952 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to what Alsatian physician for his philosophy of "reverence for life", particularly for his work with a hospital that bears his name in Lambaréné, Gabon (formerly French Equatorial Africa)?
Grrrrrr. Tip of my tongue. Pass
3. An arm of the Baltic Sea, what gulf lies between the western coast of Finland and the eastern coast of Sweden?
Gulf of Bothnia
4. What Finnish classical composer is know for writing the symphonic poem Finlandia, as well as such works as the Karelia Suite, The Swan of Tuonela, and seven symphonies?
Sibelius
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1. Finnish belongs to the Finno-Ugric group of languages. Name one of the other two modern European languages belonging to this group.
Hungarian
2. The 1952 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to what Alsatian physician for his philosophy of "reverence for life", particularly for his work with a hospital that bears his name in Lambaréné, Gabon (formerly French Equatorial Africa)?
Albert Schweitzer.
3. An arm of the Baltic Sea, what gulf lies between the western coast of Finland and the eastern coast of Sweden?
The gulf of Finland
4. What Finnish classical composer is know for writing the symphonic poem Finlandia, as well as such works as the Karelia Suite, The Swan of Tuonela, and seven symphonies?
Sivelious
Hungarian
2. The 1952 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to what Alsatian physician for his philosophy of "reverence for life", particularly for his work with a hospital that bears his name in Lambaréné, Gabon (formerly French Equatorial Africa)?
Albert Schweitzer.
3. An arm of the Baltic Sea, what gulf lies between the western coast of Finland and the eastern coast of Sweden?
The gulf of Finland
4. What Finnish classical composer is know for writing the symphonic poem Finlandia, as well as such works as the Karelia Suite, The Swan of Tuonela, and seven symphonies?
Sivelious
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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Re: QoD - August 15, 2008
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MarleysGh0st wrote:2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon EDT on Monday, August 18.
No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.
A note from your QoD Meister/Thematic tour director: As I said previously, we don't have time to retrace our steps through previous tour stops. So, let's jump four whole Olympiads ahead from yesterday's QoD, to Helsinki!
1. Finnish belongs to the Finno-Ugric group of languages. Name one of the other two modern European languages belonging to this group.
I'll guess Swedish.
2. The 1952 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to what Alsatian physician for his philosophy of "reverence for life", particularly for his work with a hospital that bears his name in Lambaréné, Gabon (formerly French Equatorial Africa)?
I'll guess Albert Schweitzer.
3. An arm of the Baltic Sea, what gulf lies between the western coast of Finland and the eastern coast of Sweden?
I'll guess the Gulf of Finland.
4. What Finnish classical composer is know for writing the symphonic poem Finlandia, as well as such works as the Karelia Suite, The Swan of Tuonela, and seven symphonies?
I'll guess Sibelius.
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Re: QoD - August 15, 2008
MarleysGh0st wrote:2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon EDT on Monday, August 18.
No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.
A note from your QoD Meister/Thematic tour director: As I said previously, we don't have time to retrace our steps through previous tour stops. So, let's jump four whole Olympiads ahead from yesterday's QoD, to Helsinki!
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1. Finnish belongs to the Finno-Ugric group of languages. Name one of the other two modern European languages belonging to this group.
Hungarian. One of those oddities you come across in the trivial world that don't seem to go together but that tends to stick in the darker recesses of the trivial mind...
2. The 1952 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to what Alsatian physician for his philosophy of "reverence for life", particularly for his work with a hospital that bears his name in Lambaréné, Gabon (formerly French Equatorial Africa)?
When I hear "Alsatian physician" it usually brings only one name to mind, Albert Schweitzer.
3. An arm of the Baltic Sea, what gulf lies between the western coast of Finland and the eastern coast of Sweden?
Gulf of Bothnia? I know it is up there somewhere and I think the Gulf of Finland is the southern arm.
4. What Finnish classical composer is know for writing the symphonic poem Finlandia, as well as such works as the Karelia Suite, The Swan of Tuonela, and seven symphonies?
Sibelius. Is there more than one well known Finnish composer???
Hungarian. One of those oddities you come across in the trivial world that don't seem to go together but that tends to stick in the darker recesses of the trivial mind...
2. The 1952 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to what Alsatian physician for his philosophy of "reverence for life", particularly for his work with a hospital that bears his name in Lambaréné, Gabon (formerly French Equatorial Africa)?
When I hear "Alsatian physician" it usually brings only one name to mind, Albert Schweitzer.
3. An arm of the Baltic Sea, what gulf lies between the western coast of Finland and the eastern coast of Sweden?
Gulf of Bothnia? I know it is up there somewhere and I think the Gulf of Finland is the southern arm.
4. What Finnish classical composer is know for writing the symphonic poem Finlandia, as well as such works as the Karelia Suite, The Swan of Tuonela, and seven symphonies?
Sibelius. Is there more than one well known Finnish composer???
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Re: QoD - August 15, 2008
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1. Basque?
2. Schweitzer
3. Gulf of Bothnia
4. Sibelius
2. Schweitzer
3. Gulf of Bothnia
4. Sibelius
* Either Arglebargle IV or someone else.
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Re: QoD - August 15, 2008
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1. Finnish belongs to the Finno-Ugric group of languages. Name one of the other two modern European languages belonging to this group.
Lapp?
2. The 1952 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to what Alsatian physician for his philosophy of "reverence for life", particularly for his work with a hospital that bears his name in Lambaréné, Gabon (formerly French Equatorial Africa)?
Albert Schweitzer?
3. An arm of the Baltic Sea, what gulf lies between the western coast of Finland and the eastern coast of Sweden?
The Gulf of Swedland?
4. What Finnish classical composer is know for writing the symphonic poem Finlandia, as well as such works as the Karelia Suite, The Swan of Tuonela, and seven symphonies?
Sibelius
Lapp?
2. The 1952 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to what Alsatian physician for his philosophy of "reverence for life", particularly for his work with a hospital that bears his name in Lambaréné, Gabon (formerly French Equatorial Africa)?
Albert Schweitzer?
3. An arm of the Baltic Sea, what gulf lies between the western coast of Finland and the eastern coast of Sweden?
The Gulf of Swedland?
4. What Finnish classical composer is know for writing the symphonic poem Finlandia, as well as such works as the Karelia Suite, The Swan of Tuonela, and seven symphonies?
Sibelius
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Counting's fine, reading's another matterMarleysGh0st wrote:Can you count to one, plasticene?plasticene wrote:Spoiler
1. Estonian and Hungarian
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Speaking of counting, are you going to run into trouble with the wording of your question? Namely that there are more than two other members of the Finno-Ugric family currently spoken in Europe. Karelian (spoken in parts of Russia) is definitely a member, and Sami ("Lapp") may or may not be a member--Wikipedia's Sami article implies that there is some disagreement among linguists, but the Finno-Ugric article lists it in its chart.
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plasticene wrote:Spoiler
Speaking of counting, are you going to run into trouble with the wording of your question? Namely that there are more than two other members of the Finno-Ugric family currently spoken in Europe. Karelian (spoken in parts of Russia) is definitely a member, and Sami ("Lapp") may or may not be a member--Wikipedia's Sami article implies that there is some disagreement among linguists, but the Finno-Ugric article lists it in its chart.
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Yeah, spending a little time as a QoD Meister gives you on-the-job training in how to write solid questions. My intent was more like, "Name one of the two Modern European languages who names are identical (in adjective form) to the names of the countries for which they are official languages."
But I think it's easier to leave out the fine print and just hand out points for answers I didn't anticipate!
But I think it's easier to leave out the fine print and just hand out points for answers I didn't anticipate!
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1. Finnish belongs to the Finno-Ugric group of languages. Name one of the other two modern European languages belonging to this group.
Magyar?? wag
2. The 1952 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to what Alsatian physician for his philosophy of "reverence for life", particularly for his work with a hospital that bears his name in Lambaréné, Gabon (formerly French Equatorial Africa)?
Schweitzer
3. An arm of the Baltic Sea, what gulf lies between the western coast of Finland and the eastern coast of Sweden?
Gulf of Bothnia
4. What Finnish classical composer is know for writing the symphonic poem Finlandia, as well as such works as the Karelia Suite, The Swan of Tuonela, and seven symphonies?
Sibelius
Magyar?? wag
2. The 1952 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to what Alsatian physician for his philosophy of "reverence for life", particularly for his work with a hospital that bears his name in Lambaréné, Gabon (formerly French Equatorial Africa)?
Schweitzer
3. An arm of the Baltic Sea, what gulf lies between the western coast of Finland and the eastern coast of Sweden?
Gulf of Bothnia
4. What Finnish classical composer is know for writing the symphonic poem Finlandia, as well as such works as the Karelia Suite, The Swan of Tuonela, and seven symphonies?
Sibelius
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1. Finnish belongs to the Finno-Ugric group of languages. Name one of the other two modern European languages belonging to this group.
It has to be someplace fairly nearby, I think. I guess Estonian.
2. The 1952 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to what Alsatian physician for his philosophy of "reverence for life", particularly for his work with a hospital that bears his name in Lambaréné, Gabon (formerly French Equatorial Africa)?
Mr. Herr Doktor Albert Schweitzer
3. An arm of the Baltic Sea, what gulf lies between the western coast of Finland and the eastern coast of Sweden?
Gulf of Bothnia. (I love map questions.)
4. What Finnish classical composer is know for writing the symphonic poem Finlandia, as well as such works as the Karelia Suite, The Swan of Tuonela, and seven symphonies?
Mr. Johann Sibelius
It has to be someplace fairly nearby, I think. I guess Estonian.
2. The 1952 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to what Alsatian physician for his philosophy of "reverence for life", particularly for his work with a hospital that bears his name in Lambaréné, Gabon (formerly French Equatorial Africa)?
Mr. Herr Doktor Albert Schweitzer
3. An arm of the Baltic Sea, what gulf lies between the western coast of Finland and the eastern coast of Sweden?
Gulf of Bothnia. (I love map questions.)
4. What Finnish classical composer is know for writing the symphonic poem Finlandia, as well as such works as the Karelia Suite, The Swan of Tuonela, and seven symphonies?
Mr. Johann Sibelius
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