These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2011-07-18,
and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written
by members of the Misplaced Modifiers, 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 2021-07-20 companion posting
on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".

* Game 10, Round 4 - Pseudo-Science - Astrology

The belief in a connection between the cosmos and terrestrial
matters has played an important part in human history. You may
be more familiar with it as horse puckey.

1. Each astrological age is approximately 2,150 years long,
on average. In which astrological age are we now, according
to the lyrics of a 5th Dimension hit?

2. The Mayan tradition combined astronomy and astrology. The most
famous Mayan astrological observatory still intact is the
Caracol observatory in which ancient Mayan city?

3. Particularly important in the development of the horoscope
in astrology was this astrologer and astronomer whose work
the "Tetrabiblos" laid the basis of the Western astrological
tradition. Who?

4. In 1556 this astronomer and seer was summoned to the French
court by Queen Catherine de Medici, and commissioned to draw up
the horoscope of the royal children. Pleased with the results,
she remained his patron until his death. Name him.

5. Name the method of interpreting the ongoing movement of the
planets as they move through the horoscope. This is most often
done for the birth chart of an individual. Particular attention
is paid to changes of sign, or house.

6. This motion of a planet is its apparent backward motion through
the sky caused by the Earth traveling past a slower-moving outer
planet, or when the Earth is itself passed by a faster-moving
inner body. In astrology, this backward movement is thought
to be unlucky. What is it called?

7. She was one of the best-known American astrologers and psychics
of the 20th century, due to her syndicated newspaper astrology
column, some well-publicized predictions, and a best-selling
biography, "My Life and Prophecies". She also was the author
of "Do Cats have ESP?" Name her.

8. Name this American astrologer and astrology consultant to the
rich and famous. He wrote numerous books on the subject,
including "My World of Astrology" and his autobiography "In the
Sky", but he is probably the most widely known for his books
on the popular sun-sign astrology.

9. Modern astrologers use data provided by astronomers which are
transformed to a set of astrological tables showing the
changing zodiacal positions of the heavenly bodies through time.
What are these tables called?

10. Astrology itself can be divided into two camps: "Natural
astrologers" study the motions of the heavenly bodies, timing of
eclipses, etc. The other type studies the supposed correlations
between the positions of various celestial objects and the
affairs of human beings. What are they known as?

* Game 10, Round 5 - Audio - Shakespeare

Surprise! You get three rounds in this set (so the score for
the game will be your best 7 out of 9 rounds). That's because
I think the audio round in this game is playable in textual form,
so I'm including it in this posting.

In each case, name the play by Shakespeare that these lines come
from (some edition of). (In the original game, questions #7-10
required the players to name the actor or actress speaking in
the audio clip, but I'll just make it "name the play" for these
as well.)

1. Man 1:
She thank'd me,
And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,
I should but teach him how to tell my story,
And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake:
She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd,
And I loved her that she did pity them.
This only is the witchcraft I have used.
Here comes the lady; let her witness it.
Man 2:
I think this tale would win my daughter too.

2. Woman:
Yet show some pity.
Man:
I show it most of all when I show justice;
For then I pity those I do not know,
Which a dismiss'd offence would after gall,
And do him right that, answering one foul wrong,
Lives not to act another. Be satisfied;
Your brother dies to-morrow; be content.
Woman:
So you must be the first that gives this sentence,
And he that suffers. O, it is excellent
To have a giant's strength! But it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.

3. Man:
If I stand here, I saw Banquo!
Woman:
Fie, for shame!
Man:
Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time,
Ay, and since too, murthers have been perform'd
Too terrible for the ear. The time has been,
That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
And there an end; but now they rise again,
With twenty mortal murthers on their crowns,
And push us from our stools.
Woman:
You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting,
With most admired disorder.

4. Woman 1:
Let's appoint him a meeting!
Woman 2:
What tempest, I trow, threw this whale, with so many tuns
of oil in his belly, ashore at Windsor? If my husband saw
this letter! It would give eternal food to his jealousy.
Woman 1:
My good man is as far from jealousy as I am from giving
him cause.
Woman 2:
You are the happier woman.
Woman 1:
Let's consult together against this greasy knight.

5. Woman:
We are not the first
Who with best meaning have incurr'd the worst.
For thee, oppressed king, I am cast down;
Myself could else outfrown false Fortune's frown.
Shall we not see these daughters and these sisters?
Man:
No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison.
We two alone will sing like birds i' th' cage.
When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down
And ask of thee forgiveness.

6. Man:
But this rough magic
I here abjure; and, when I have requir'd
Some heavenly music -- which even now I do --
To work mine end upon their senses that
This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And deeper than did ever plummet sound
I'll drown my book.

7. Man:
The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound.

8. Man:
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves that we are underlings.
Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that "Caesar"?
Why should that name be sounded more than yours?

9. Man:
To sing a song that old was sung,
From ashes ancient Gower is come;
Assuming man's infirmities,
To glad your ear, and please your eyes.
It hath been sung at festivals,
On ember-eves and holy-ales;
And lords and ladies in their lives
Have read it for restoratives

10. Woman:
Now to all sense 'tis gross
You love my son; invention is asham'd,
Against the proclamation of thy passion,
To say thou dost not. Therefore tell me true;
But tell me then, 'tis so; for, look, thy cheeks
Confess't, th' one to th' other; and thine eyes
See it so grossly shown in thy behaviours
That in their kind they speak it; only sin
And hellish obstinacy tie thy tongue,
That truth should be suspected. Speak, is't so?

* Game 10, Round 6 - Canadiana History - Toronto Riots and Demonstrations

It's been over a year since Toronto hosted the G20 riots.
Let's look back on some riotous days from our local history.

1. June 2010. The so-called "5-meter law" passed by the Ontario
government provides police with dubious justification for
harassing citizens during the lead-up to the G20. The government
would later promise to repeal the 1939 act under which the law
was passed. Name that act.

2. 1980-06-02. The "Punk Rock Riot". After fans get overheated
at a concert by local punkers Teenage Head, this venue bans
rock concerts for several years. Name it.

On Friday, November 12, 2021 at 11:14:02 PM UTC-6, Mark Brader wrote:

> * Game 10, Round 4 - Pseudo-Science - Astrology
>
> 1. Each astrological age is approximately 2,150 years long,
> on average. In which astrological age are we now, according
> to the lyrics of a 5th Dimension hit?

Age of Aquarius

> 3. Particularly important in the development of the horoscope
> in astrology was this astrologer and astronomer whose work
> the "Tetrabiblos" laid the basis of the Western astrological
> tradition. Who?

Euclid (?)

> 4. In 1556 this astronomer and seer was summoned to the French
> court by Queen Catherine de Medici, and commissioned to draw up
> the horoscope of the royal children. Pleased with the results,
> she remained his patron until his death. Name him.

Nostradamus

> 5. Name the method of interpreting the ongoing movement of the
> planets as they move through the horoscope. This is most often
> done for the birth chart of an individual. Particular attention
> is paid to changes of sign, or house.

precession
> 6. This motion of a planet is its apparent backward motion through
> the sky caused by the Earth traveling past a slower-moving outer
> planet, or when the Earth is itself passed by a faster-moving
> inner body. In astrology, this backward movement is thought
> to be unlucky. What is it called?

retrograde

> 7. She was one of the best-known American astrologers and psychics
> of the 20th century, due to her syndicated newspaper astrology
> column, some well-publicized predictions, and a best-selling
> biography, "My Life and Prophecies". She also was the author
> of "Do Cats have ESP?" Name her.

Dixon

> * Game 10, Round 5 - Audio - Shakespeare
>
> Surprise! You get three rounds in this set (so the score for
> the game will be your best 7 out of 9 rounds). That's because
> I think the audio round in this game is playable in textual form,
> so I'm including it in this posting.
>
> In each case, name the play by Shakespeare that these lines come
> from (some edition of).
>
> 2. Woman:
> Yet show some pity.
> Man:
> I show it most of all when I show justice;
> For then I pity those I do not know,
> Which a dismiss'd offence would after gall,
> And do him right that, answering one foul wrong,
> Lives not to act another. Be satisfied;
> Your brother dies to-morrow; be content.
> Woman:
> So you must be the first that gives this sentence,
> And he that suffers. O, it is excellent
> To have a giant's strength! But it is tyrannous
> To use it like a giant.

"Measure for Measure"

> 3. Man:
> If I stand here, I saw Banquo!
> Woman:
> Fie, for shame!
> Man:
> Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time,
> Ay, and since too, murthers have been perform'd
> Too terrible for the ear. The time has been,
> That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
> And there an end; but now they rise again,
> With twenty mortal murthers on their crowns,
> And push us from our stools.
> Woman:
> You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting,
> With most admired disorder.

"Macbeth"

> 6. Man:
> But this rough magic
> I here abjure; and, when I have requir'd
> Some heavenly music -- which even now I do --
> To work mine end upon their senses that
> This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
> Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
> And deeper than did ever plummet sound
> I'll drown my book.

"The Tempest"
> 7. Man:
> The sixth age shifts
> Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
> With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
> His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
> For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
> Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
> And whistles in his sound.

"As You Like It"

> 8. Man:
> Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
> Like a Colossus, and we petty men
> Walk under his huge legs and peep about
> To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
> Men at some time are masters of their fates:
> The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
> But in ourselves that we are underlings.
> Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that "Caesar"?
> Why should that name be sounded more than yours?

"Julius Caesar"

> * Game 10, Round 6 - Canadiana History - Toronto Riots and Demonstrations
>
> It's been over a year since Toronto hosted the G20 riots.
> Let's look back on some riotous days from our local history.
>
> 5. 1992-05-04. The Yonge St. Riot leads to 30 arrests and hundreds
> of smashed windows. The riot starts out as a demonstration
> against the Toronto police shooting of alleged crack dealer
> Raymond Lawrence, but takes its main impetus from a US court
> decision handed down 5 days previously. In what case?

the "Rodney King" case
(note: King was the victim, not the defendant)
> 6. Sunday, 1875-10-03. The Jubilee Riots. The presence of armed
> militia to keep the peace doesn't keep downtown Toronto from
> erupting into mayhem as a religious procession is attacked
> with stones and guns. Of which ethnicity are the marchers
> under attack?

Irish

> 8. During the 1930s, under Chief Dennis Draper, a special Toronto
> police team is formed to break strikes, disrupt demonstrations,
> and generally keep Toronto's lefties in check. In one instance,
> they disperse a crowd of 2,000 by turning their motorcycle
> exhaust pipes towards them to create a noxious cloud.
> Modeled and named after similar units in US police forces,
> how is this team known?

SWAT
--
Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82@hotmail.com

Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:
> * Game 10, Round 4 - Pseudo-Science - Astrology
>
> 1. Each astrological age is approximately 2,150 years long,
> on average. In which astrological age are we now, according
> to the lyrics of a 5th Dimension hit?

Acquarius
> 4. In 1556 this astronomer and seer was summoned to the French
> court by Queen Catherine de Medici, and commissioned to draw up
> the horoscope of the royal children. Pleased with the results,
> she remained his patron until his death. Name him.

Gallilei
> 9. Modern astrologers use data provided by astronomers which are
> transformed to a set of astrological tables showing the
> changing zodiacal positions of the heavenly bodies through time.
> What are these tables called?

Fake news

On 11/12/21 9:13 PM, Mark Brader wrote:
>
> * Game 10, Round 4 - Pseudo-Science - Astrology
>
> The belief in a connection between the cosmos and terrestrial
> matters has played an important part in human history. You may
> be more familiar with it as horse puckey.
>
> 1. Each astrological age is approximately 2,150 years long,
> on average. In which astrological age are we now, according
> to the lyrics of a 5th Dimension hit?

Aquarius

>
> 2. The Mayan tradition combined astronomy and astrology. The most
> famous Mayan astrological observatory still intact is the
> Caracol observatory in which ancient Mayan city?

Chichen Itza

>
> 3. Particularly important in the development of the horoscope
> in astrology was this astrologer and astronomer whose work
> the "Tetrabiblos" laid the basis of the Western astrological
> tradition. Who?
>
> 4. In 1556 this astronomer and seer was summoned to the French
> court by Queen Catherine de Medici, and commissioned to draw up
> the horoscope of the royal children. Pleased with the results,
> she remained his patron until his death. Name him.
>
> 5. Name the method of interpreting the ongoing movement of the
> planets as they move through the horoscope. This is most often
> done for the birth chart of an individual. Particular attention
> is paid to changes of sign, or house.

progression

>
> 6. This motion of a planet is its apparent backward motion through
> the sky caused by the Earth traveling past a slower-moving outer
> planet, or when the Earth is itself passed by a faster-moving
> inner body. In astrology, this backward movement is thought
> to be unlucky. What is it called?

retrograde

>
> 7. She was one of the best-known American astrologers and psychics
> of the 20th century, due to her syndicated newspaper astrology
> column, some well-publicized predictions, and a best-selling
> biography, "My Life and Prophecies". She also was the author
> of "Do Cats have ESP?" Name her.
>
> 8. Name this American astrologer and astrology consultant to the
> rich and famous. He wrote numerous books on the subject,
> including "My World of Astrology" and his autobiography "In the
> Sky", but he is probably the most widely known for his books
> on the popular sun-sign astrology.
>
> 9. Modern astrologers use data provided by astronomers which are
> transformed to a set of astrological tables showing the
> changing zodiacal positions of the heavenly bodies through time.
> What are these tables called?

ephemerides

>
> 10. Astrology itself can be divided into two camps: "Natural
> astrologers" study the motions of the heavenly bodies, timing of
> eclipses, etc. The other type studies the supposed correlations
> between the positions of various celestial objects and the
> affairs of human beings. What are they known as?
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 5 - Audio - Shakespeare
>
> Surprise! You get three rounds in this set (so the score for
> the game will be your best 7 out of 9 rounds). That's because
> I think the audio round in this game is playable in textual form,
> so I'm including it in this posting.
>
> In each case, name the play by Shakespeare that these lines come
> from (some edition of). (In the original game, questions #7-10
> required the players to name the actor or actress speaking in
> the audio clip, but I'll just make it "name the play" for these
> as well.)
>
> 1. Man 1:
> She thank'd me,
> And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,
> I should but teach him how to tell my story,
> And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake:
> She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd,
> And I loved her that she did pity them.
> This only is the witchcraft I have used.
> Here comes the lady; let her witness it.
> Man 2:
> I think this tale would win my daughter too.
>
> 2. Woman:
> Yet show some pity.
> Man:
> I show it most of all when I show justice;
> For then I pity those I do not know,
> Which a dismiss'd offence would after gall,
> And do him right that, answering one foul wrong,
> Lives not to act another. Be satisfied;
> Your brother dies to-morrow; be content.
> Woman:
> So you must be the first that gives this sentence,
> And he that suffers. O, it is excellent
> To have a giant's strength! But it is tyrannous
> To use it like a giant.
>
> 3. Man:
> If I stand here, I saw Banquo!
> Woman:
> Fie, for shame!
> Man:
> Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time,
> Ay, and since too, murthers have been perform'd
> Too terrible for the ear. The time has been,
> That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
> And there an end; but now they rise again,
> With twenty mortal murthers on their crowns,
> And push us from our stools.
> Woman:
> You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting,
> With most admired disorder.

MacBeth

>
> 4. Woman 1:
> Let's appoint him a meeting!
> Woman 2:
> What tempest, I trow, threw this whale, with so many tuns
> of oil in his belly, ashore at Windsor? If my husband saw
> this letter! It would give eternal food to his jealousy.
> Woman 1:
> My good man is as far from jealousy as I am from giving
> him cause.
> Woman 2:
> You are the happier woman.
> Woman 1:
> Let's consult together against this greasy knight.
>
> 5. Woman:
> We are not the first
> Who with best meaning have incurr'd the worst.
> For thee, oppressed king, I am cast down;
> Myself could else outfrown false Fortune's frown.
> Shall we not see these daughters and these sisters?
> Man:
> No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison.
> ` We two alone will sing like birds i' th' cage.
> When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down
> And ask of thee forgiveness.
>
> 6. Man:
> But this rough magic
> I here abjure; and, when I have requir'd
> Some heavenly music -- which even now I do --
> To work mine end upon their senses that
> This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
> Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
> And deeper than did ever plummet sound
> I'll drown my book.
>
> 7. Man:
> The sixth age shifts
> Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
> With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
> His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
> For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
> Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
> And whistles in his sound.
>
> 8. Man:
> Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
> Like a Colossus, and we petty men
> Walk under his huge legs and peep about
> To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
> Men at some time are masters of their fates:
> The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
> But in ourselves that we are underlings.
> Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that "Caesar"?
> Why should that name be sounded more than yours?

Julius Caesar

>
> 9. Man:
> To sing a song that old was sung,
> From ashes ancient Gower is come;
> Assuming man's infirmities,
> To glad your ear, and please your eyes.
> It hath been sung at festivals,
> On ember-eves and holy-ales;
> And lords and ladies in their lives
> Have read it for restoratives
>
> 10. Woman:
> Now to all sense 'tis gross
> You love my son; invention is asham'd,
> Against the proclamation of thy passion,
> To say thou dost not. Therefore tell me true;
> But tell me then, 'tis so; for, look, thy cheeks
> Confess't, th' one to th' other; and thine eyes
> See it so grossly shown in thy behaviours
> That in their kind they speak it; only sin
> And hellish obstinacy tie thy tongue,
> That truth should be suspected. Speak, is't so?
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 6 - Canadiana History - Toronto Riots and Demonstrations
>
> It's been over a year since Toronto hosted the G20 riots.
> Let's look back on some riotous days from our local history.
>
> 1. June 2010. The so-called "5-meter law" passed by the Ontario
> government provides police with dubious justification for
> harassing citizens during the lead-up to the G20. The government
> would later promise to repeal the 1939 act under which the law
> was passed. Name that act.
>
> 2. 1980-06-02. The "Punk Rock Riot". After fans get overheated
> at a concert by local punkers Teenage Head, this venue bans
> rock concerts for several years. Name it.
>
> 3. 1918-08-01. Up and down Yonge St., police battle an angry mob
> of thousands, among them many returned war veterans.
> The rioters are intent on destroying restaurants and other
> businesses belonging to a Toronto ethnic group whose nation of
> origin has maintained neutrality through the First World War.
> Which ethnicity?

Mark Brader <msb@vex.net> wrote:

> * Game 10, Round 4 - Pseudo-Science - Astrology

> 1. Each astrological age is approximately 2,150 years long,
> on average. In which astrological age are we now, according
> to the lyrics of a 5th Dimension hit?

Aquarius

> 2. The Mayan tradition combined astronomy and astrology. The most
> famous Mayan astrological observatory still intact is the
> Caracol observatory in which ancient Mayan city?

Chichen Itza

> 3. Particularly important in the development of the horoscope
> in astrology was this astrologer and astronomer whose work
> the "Tetrabiblos" laid the basis of the Western astrological
> tradition. Who?

Ptolemy

> 4. In 1556 this astronomer and seer was summoned to the French
> court by Queen Catherine de Medici, and commissioned to draw up
> the horoscope of the royal children. Pleased with the results,
> she remained his patron until his death. Name him.

John Dee

> 6. This motion of a planet is its apparent backward motion through
> the sky caused by the Earth traveling past a slower-moving outer
> planet, or when the Earth is itself passed by a faster-moving
> inner body. In astrology, this backward movement is thought
> to be unlucky. What is it called?

retrograde

> * Game 10, Round 5 - Audio - Shakespeare

> 3. Man:
> If I stand here, I saw Banquo!
> Woman:
> Fie, for shame!
> Man:
> Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time,
> Ay, and since too, murthers have been perform'd
> Too terrible for the ear. The time has been,
> That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
> And there an end; but now they rise again,
> With twenty mortal murthers on their crowns,
> And push us from our stools.
> Woman:
> You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting,
> With most admired disorder.

Macbeth

> 4. Woman 1:
> Let's appoint him a meeting!
> Woman 2:
> What tempest, I trow, threw this whale, with so many tuns
> of oil in his belly, ashore at Windsor? If my husband saw
> this letter! It would give eternal food to his jealousy.
> Woman 1:
> My good man is as far from jealousy as I am from giving
> him cause.
> Woman 2:
> You are the happier woman.
> Woman 1:
> Let's consult together against this greasy knight.

The Merry Wives of Windsor

> 6. Man:
> But this rough magic
> I here abjure; and, when I have requir'd
> Some heavenly music -- which even now I do --
> To work mine end upon their senses that
> This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
> Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
> And deeper than did ever plummet sound
> I'll drown my book.

The Tempest

> 7. Man:
> The sixth age shifts
> Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
> With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
> His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
> For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
> Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
> And whistles in his sound.

As You Like It

> 8. Man:
> Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
> Like a Colossus, and we petty men
> Walk under his huge legs and peep about
> To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
> Men at some time are masters of their fates:
> The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
> But in ourselves that we are underlings.
> Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that "Caesar"?
> Why should that name be sounded more than yours?

Julius Caesar

> * Game 10, Round 6 - Canadiana History - Toronto Riots and Demonstrations

> 3. 1918-08-01. Up and down Yonge St., police battle an angry mob
> of thousands, among them many returned war veterans.
> The rioters are intent on destroying restaurants and other
> businesses belonging to a Toronto ethnic group whose nation of
> origin has maintained neutrality through the First World War.
> Which ethnicity?

Chinese

> 5. 1992-05-04. The Yonge St. Riot leads to 30 arrests and hundreds
> of smashed windows. The riot starts out as a demonstration
> against the Toronto police shooting of alleged crack dealer
> Raymond Lawrence, but takes its main impetus from a US court
> decision handed down 5 days previously. In what case?

Rodney King

> 6. Sunday, 1875-10-03. The Jubilee Riots. The presence of armed
> militia to keep the peace doesn't keep downtown Toronto from
> erupting into mayhem as a religious procession is attacked
> with stones and guns. Of which ethnicity are the marchers
> under attack?

Irish

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

Mark Brader:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2011-07-18,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information...
> see my 2021-07-20 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from
> the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".

> * Game 10, Round 4 - Pseudo-Science - Astrology

> The belief in a connection between the cosmos and terrestrial
> matters has played an important part in human history. You may
> be more familiar with it as horse puckey.

> 1. Each astrological age is approximately 2,150 years long,
> on average. In which astrological age are we now, according
> to the lyrics of a 5th Dimension hit?

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

I have seen it explained that the lyric about "the *dawning* of the
Age of Aquarius" does not mean actually that this age has started;
rather, it means that since it *will* be starting in a century or so,
and since the transition is gradual, its astrological effects are
beginning to be felt. However, "Aquarius" was the expected answer
and I have no problem accepting it for quiz purposes.

> 2. The Mayan tradition combined astronomy and astrology. The most
> famous Mayan astrological observatory still intact is the
> Caracol observatory in which ancient Mayan city?

Chichen Itza. 4 for Dan Tilque and Dan Blum.

> 3. Particularly important in the development of the horoscope
> in astrology was this astrologer and astronomer whose work
> the "Tetrabiblos" laid the basis of the Western astrological
> tradition. Who?

Ptolemy. 4 for Dan Blum.

> 4. In 1556 this astronomer and seer was summoned to the French
> court by Queen Catherine de Medici, and commissioned to draw up
> the horoscope of the royal children. Pleased with the results,
> she remained his patron until his death. Name him.

Nostradamus. 4 for Joshua.

> 5. Name the method of interpreting the ongoing movement of the
> planets as they move through the horoscope. This is most often
> done for the birth chart of an individual. Particular attention
> is paid to changes of sign, or house.

Transiting.

> 6. This motion of a planet is its apparent backward motion through
> the sky caused by the Earth traveling past a slower-moving outer
> planet, or when the Earth is itself passed by a faster-moving
> inner body. In astrology, this backward movement is thought
> to be unlucky. What is it called?

Retrograde motion. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum.

> 7. She was one of the best-known American astrologers and psychics
> of the 20th century, due to her syndicated newspaper astrology
> column, some well-publicized predictions, and a best-selling
> biography, "My Life and Prophecies". She also was the author
> of "Do Cats have ESP?" Name her.

Jeanne Dixon. 4 for Joshua.

> 8. Name this American astrologer and astrology consultant to the
> rich and famous. He wrote numerous books on the subject,
> including "My World of Astrology" and his autobiography "In the
> Sky", but he is probably the most widely known for his books
> on the popular sun-sign astrology.

Sydney Omarr.

> 9. Modern astrologers use data provided by astronomers which are
> transformed to a set of astrological tables showing the
> changing zodiacal positions of the heavenly bodies through time.
> What are these tables called?

Ephemerides. (5 syllables; the singular is "ephemeris".)
4 for Dan Tilque.

> 10. Astrology itself can be divided into two camps: "Natural
> astrologers" study the motions of the heavenly bodies, timing of
> eclipses, etc. The other type studies the supposed correlations
> between the positions of various celestial objects and the
> affairs of human beings. What are they known as?

Judicial astrologers.

> * Game 10, Round 5 - Audio - Shakespeare

> Surprise! You get three rounds in this set (so the score for
> the game will be your best 7 out of 9 rounds). That's because
> I think the audio round in this game is playable in textual form,
> so I'm including it in this posting.

> In each case, name the play by Shakespeare that these lines come
> from (some edition of). (In the original game, questions #7-10
> required the players to name the actor or actress speaking in
> the audio clip, but I'll just make it "name the play" for these
> as well.)

> 1. Man 1:
> She thank'd me,
> And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,
> I should but teach him how to tell my story,
> And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake:
> She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd,
> And I loved her that she did pity them.
> This only is the witchcraft I have used.
> Here comes the lady; let her witness it.
> Man 2:
> I think this tale would win my daughter too.

"Othello" (Act 1, Scene 3; Othello and the Duke of Venice).

> 2. Woman:
> Yet show some pity.
> Man:
> I show it most of all when I show justice;
> For then I pity those I do not know,
> Which a dismiss'd offence would after gall,
> And do him right that, answering one foul wrong,
> Lives not to act another. Be satisfied;
> Your brother dies to-morrow; be content.
> Woman:
> So you must be the first that gives this sentence,
> And he that suffers. O, it is excellent
> To have a giant's strength! But it is tyrannous
> To use it like a giant.

"Measure for Measure" (Act 2, Scene 2; Isabella and Angelo).
4 for Joshua.

> 3. Man:
> If I stand here, I saw Banquo!
> Woman:
> Fie, for shame!
> Man:
> Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time,
> Ay, and since too, murthers have been perform'd
> Too terrible for the ear. The time has been,
> That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
> And there an end; but now they rise again,
> With twenty mortal murthers on their crowns,
> And push us from our stools.
> Woman:
> You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting,
> With most admired disorder.

"Macbeth" (Act 3, Scene 4; Macbeth and Lady Macbeth). 4 for Joshua,
Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum.

> 4. Woman 1:
> Let's appoint him a meeting!
> Woman 2:
> What tempest, I trow, threw this whale, with so many tuns
> of oil in his belly, ashore at Windsor? If my husband saw
> this letter! It would give eternal food to his jealousy.
> Woman 1:
> My good man is as far from jealousy as I am from giving
> him cause.
> Woman 2:
> You are the happier woman.
> Woman 1:
> Let's consult together against this greasy knight.

"The Merry Wives of Windsor" (Act 2, Scene 1; Mrs. Page and
Mrs. Ford). 4 for Dan Blum.

I needed to look up the first-quoted line. It means "Let's arrange
a meeting with him".

> 5. Woman:
> We are not the first
> Who with best meaning have incurr'd the worst.
> For thee, oppressed king, I am cast down;
> Myself could else outfrown false Fortune's frown.
> Shall we not see these daughters and these sisters?
> Man:
> No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison.
> We two alone will sing like birds i' th' cage.
> When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down
> And ask of thee forgiveness.

"King Lear" (Act 5, Scene 3, Cordelia and Lear).

> 6. Man:
> But this rough magic
> I here abjure; and, when I have requir'd
> Some heavenly music -- which even now I do --
> To work mine end upon their senses that
> This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
> Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
> And deeper than did ever plummet sound
> I'll drown my book.

"The Tempest" (Act 5, Scene 1; Prospero). 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.

> 7. Man:
> The sixth age shifts
> Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
> With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
> His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
> For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
> Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
> And whistles in his sound.

"As You Like It" (Act 2, Scene 7; Jaques). 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum.

> 8. Man:
> Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
> Like a Colossus, and we petty men
> Walk under his huge legs and peep about
> To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
> Men at some time are masters of their fates:
> The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
> But in ourselves that we are underlings.
> Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that "Caesar"?
> Why should that name be sounded more than yours?

Mark Brader <msb@vex.net> wrote:

> > 4. In 1556 this astronomer and seer was summoned to the French
> > court by Queen Catherine de Medici, and commissioned to draw up
> > the horoscope of the royal children. Pleased with the results,
> > she remained his patron until his death. Name him.

> Nostradamus. 4 for Joshua.

Did he do much astronomy? I thought he was a physician and of course
did astrology.

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Mark Brader:
> > > 4. In 1556 this astronomer and seer...
>
> > Nostradamus. 4 for Joshua.

Dan Blum:
> Did he do much astronomy? I thought he was a physician and of course
> did astrology.

In 1556 astronomy and astrology were all one subject.
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Mark Brader, Toronto | "Close your tag and give it a rest, Jason"
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