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.

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?

4. 2000-06-15. Rocks and paint-bombs are hurled by demonstrators
at police protecting Queen's Park. 300 mounted police respond
with batons and pepper-spray. Toronto police chief Julian
Fantino calls the actions of the organizers "domestic terrorism."
Name the group behind the protest.

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?

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?

7. 1933-08-16. Fists, clubs, bricks, and pipes. A 6-hour brawl
erupts in Willowvale Park after a swastika banner is unfurled at
a baseball game involving the mostly Jewish Harbord Playground
club. How do Torontonians know Willowvale Park today?

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?

9. 1980-08-19. A no-show by this rock star sends 13,000 fans at
the CNE Grandstand into a frenzy. Police defend themselves
from projectiles with folding chairs. 31 are arrested,
12 hospitalized. Name the rocker.

10. 1981-02-08. Several days after the heavy-handed Operation Soap
arrests 287 gay men in Toronto, demonstrators take over the
streets of downtown, marching aggressively on 52 Division and
Queen's Park. How are these "riots" known?

--
Mark Brader | "Youths steal funds for charity"
Toronto | --White Plains, NY, Reporter Dispatch
msb@vex.net | February 17, 1982

My text in this article is in the public domain.