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* Calvin's Rare Entries Quiz #1 - RESULTS - 8 messages, 5 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/d32d06781a0a20d2?hl=en
* Calvin's Quiz #121 - 3 messages, 3 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/13cc157c0e0b74e4?hl=en
* QFTCI5GNM Final Round 3: Arts & Literature - 3 messages, 3 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/9fe95824c2618833?hl=en
* Rare Entries contest MSB71 with revised wording - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/9f368f6df23a05af?hl=en
* HOT VIDEOS 2 HOT PEOPLE AND ACTRESSES NEVER SEEN PHOTOS - 1 messages, 1
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TOPIC: Calvin's Rare Entries Quiz #1 - RESULTS
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/d32d06781a0a20d2?hl=en
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== 1 of 8 ==
Date: Thurs, Apr 28 2011 12:28 am
From: Erland Sommarskog
Calvin (calvin@phlegm.com) writes:
>> 3 Name a former Soviet republic that ends in "stan".
>
> Kyrgyzstan 4
> Tajikistan 3
> Turkmenistan 1
>
> Incorrect
> Bashkortostan- not a *former* republic.
Huh? None of these four places are former republics. At least none of them
has turned into monarchies as far as I know. All four or them are former
Soviet repuiblics. The one difference is that Bashskorostan is a former
ASSR (Autonomous Socialistic Soviet Replublic) and the other three used to
be SSRs, and today Bashkorostan is not independent - it's a republic with in
the Russian Federation, but not a Soviet Republic. But your question did
not restrict itself to SSRs or independent countries.
> Incorrect answers
> Albania - 70% Muslim a/c to the CIA fact book
> Chad - 53% Muslim a/c to the CIA fact book
Wikipedia says:
There are no official statistics regarding religious affiliation in
Albania. The CIA World Factbook gives a distribution of 70% Muslims,
20% Eastern Orthodox, and 10% Roman Catholics.[62] A Pew Research
Center demographic study from 2009 put the percentage of Muslims in
Albania at 79.9%.[63] In 2009 According to the World Christian
Encyclopedia, roughly 38% of Albanians are Muslim, and 36%
Christian.[64] According to the US State Department, estimates for
active participation in religious services are between 25 and 40%.[65]
Draw your own conclusion.
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
== 2 of 8 ==
Date: Thurs, Apr 28 2011 1:15 am
From: "Kevin Stone"
>> 4 Name a sport which I have played competitively (active 42 year old
>> Australian male originally from Brisbane, now living on the Gold Coast).
> Having said that, I expected the entrants to be almost exclusively rgt
> regulars who should have a fair idea of my background.
What about us across here in rec.puzzles?
>> 6 Name a country in which at least 75% of the population is Muslim
I'd not spotted the 75%!
Thanks for the contest.
--
Kev
== 3 of 8 ==
Date: Thurs, Apr 28 2011 5:25 am
From: swp
On Apr 28, 12:27 am, Calvin <cal...@phlegm.com> wrote:
> And the winner is: Mark Brader. Congratulations! The only entrant who
> didn't get all answers correct so a worthy winner.
>
reformatted for easier reading, and replaced wrong answer scores with
an asterix. and I like the idea of putting the totals on the left.
just sayin'
> # Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 BP Total
> 1 Mark Brader 2 1 1 3 2 1 2 1 2 1 48
> 2 Dan Tilque 1 1 4 * 1 2 1 1 1 1 -3 69
> 3 Kevin Stone 1 1 4 1 1 * 1 1 1 2 72
> 4 Nick Selwyn 3 1 3 * 2 2 1 1 1 1 324
> 5 Erland Sommar. 1 1 * 3 1 1 * 2 1 1 -2 484
> 6 Sam Buttrey * 1 3 * 1 2 1 1 1 1 486
> 7 Stephen Perry 2 1 4 * 1 2 * 1 2 1 -1 2591
> 8 Lieven Marchand 3 2 4 3 2 1 * 2 1 2 5184
> 9 Roy 3 2 3 * 2 9 2 1 1 1 5832
...
>
> > 4 Name a sport which I have played competitively (active 42 year old
> > Australian male originally from Brisbane, now living on the Gold Coast).
>
> Cricket 3
> Tennis 1
>
> Incorrect
> Running - not a sport
> Gully Cricket - never heard of it
bah. humbug!
> Aust Football - the rugby codes are far more popular in Queensland.
> Surfing - not my thing, but a sensible guess given where I live
> Marbles - not played competitively
>
> While I think the principle of asking a question to which no-one can be
> sure of the answer is sound enough, this clearly wasn't a good question.
> Having said that, I expected the entrants to be almost exclusively rgt
> regulars who should have a fair idea of my background. But there were lots
> of other correct answers including:
>
> rugby league
> rugby union
> golf
> basketball
> netball
> athletics
> swimming
> squash
>
...
>
> > 7 Name a cartoon marsupial whose name scores at least 10,000 matches on
> > Google.
>
> Rocko (the) Wallaby 2
> Pogo Possum 1
> Kanga 1
> Blinky Bill 1
> Sparkster 1
>
> Incorrect answers
> Little Roquefort - a mouse and therefore not a rodent
> Marsupilami - despite the name actually a monkey-like creature and
> therefore not a rodent
>
> Best answer: Dan for Sparkster
I protest my score on #7, since even wikipedia knows that a mouse is a
rodent:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse
> Thanks to those who entered and provided feedback. I was aiming for 10-15
> entries to keep it manageable, so 9 is a reasonable return. I'll do
> another one in due course, wiser for the experience.
Thank You for running this contest. I intend to do better in Mark
Brader's current one, which I encourage everyone to enter, chat about
on their blogs, post to their facebook pages, and otherwise make go
viral.
swp
== 4 of 8 ==
Date: Thurs, Apr 28 2011 6:29 am
From: Bruce Bowler
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:25:44 -0700, swp set fingers to keyboard and typed:
>> > 7 Name a cartoon marsupial whose name scores at least 10,000 matches
>> > on Google.
>>
>> Incorrect answers
>> Little Roquefort - a mouse and therefore not a rodent
>
> I protest my score on #7, since even wikipedia knows that a mouse is a
> rodent:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse
>
Yes, a mouse is rodent but a mouse is *not* a marsupial which is what the
question really asked for :-)
Bruce
== 5 of 8 ==
Date: Thurs, Apr 28 2011 1:51 pm
From: Erland Sommarskog
Calvin (calvin@phlegm.com) writes:
> Apologies if anyone was misled, but calvin@phlegm.com is unlikely to be a
> valid address.
Well by now, I know. But it was impossible to tell before hand. You
can - and should - add .invalid at the end.
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
== 6 of 8 ==
Date: Thurs, Apr 28 2011 3:15 pm
From: Calvin
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:29:45 +1000, Bruce Bowler <bbowler@bigelow.org>
wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:25:44 -0700, swp set fingers to keyboard and
> typed:
>
>
>>> > 7 Name a cartoon marsupial whose name scores at least 10,000 matches
>>> > on Google.
>>>
>>> Incorrect answers
>>> Little Roquefort - a mouse and therefore not a rodent
>>
>> I protest my score on #7, since even wikipedia knows that a mouse is a
>> rodent:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse
>>
>
> Yes, a mouse is rodent but a mouse is *not* a marsupial which is what the
> question really asked for :-)
Um, yes. That's what I meant :-)
--
cheers,
calvin
== 7 of 8 ==
Date: Thurs, Apr 28 2011 5:01 pm
From: Calvin
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:15:29 +1000, Kevin Stone
<newsNOSPAM@brainbashers.com> wrote:
>>> 4 Name a sport which I have played competitively (active 42 year old
>>> Australian male originally from Brisbane, now living on the Gold
>>> Coast).
>
>> Having said that, I expected the entrants to be almost exclusively rgt
>> regulars who should have a fair idea of my background.
>
> What about us across here in rec.puzzles?
We consider them poor relations :-)
> Thanks for the contest.
Thanks for playing.
--
cheers,
calvin
== 8 of 8 ==
Date: Thurs, Apr 28 2011 5:05 pm
From: Calvin
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:28:09 +1000, Erland Sommarskog
<esquel@sommarskog.se> wrote:
> Calvin (calvin@phlegm.com) writes:
>>> 3 Name a former Soviet republic that ends in "stan".
>>
>> Kyrgyzstan 4
>> Tajikistan 3
>> Turkmenistan 1
>>
>> Incorrect
>> Bashkortostan- not a *former* republic.
>
> Huh? None of these four places are former republics. At least none of
> them
> has turned into monarchies as far as I know. All four or them are former
> Soviet repuiblics. The one difference is that Bashskorostan is a former
> ASSR (Autonomous Socialistic Soviet Replublic) and the other three used
> to
> be SSRs, and today Bashkorostan is not independent - it's a republic
> with in
> the Russian Federation, but not a Soviet Republic. But your question did
> not restrict itself to SSRs or independent countries.
Fair enough- I'll allow it.
Revised scores will be posted once I consider any other protests.
>> Incorrect answers
>> Albania - 70% Muslim a/c to the CIA fact book
>> Chad - 53% Muslim a/c to the CIA fact book
>
> Wikipedia says:
>
> There are no official statistics regarding religious affiliation in
> Albania. The CIA World Factbook gives a distribution of 70% Muslims,
> 20% Eastern Orthodox, and 10% Roman Catholics.[62] A Pew Research
> Center demographic study from 2009 put the percentage of Muslims in
> Albania at 79.9%.[63] In 2009 According to the World Christian
> Encyclopedia, roughly 38% of Albanians are Muslim, and 36%
> Christian.[64] According to the US State Department, estimates for
> active participation in religious services are between 25 and 40%.[65]
>
> Draw your own conclusion.
I have. Protest dismissed :-)
--
cheers,
calvin
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TOPIC: Calvin's Quiz #121
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/13cc157c0e0b74e4?hl=en
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Thurs, Apr 28 2011 2:39 am
From: Dan Tilque
Calvin wrote:
>
>
> 1 Who played Magnum PI in the 1980s TV series of that name?
Tom Selleck
> 2 To the nearest 10 million, what is the population of Germany?
60 million
> 3 Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd co-starred in which 1999 thriller?
> 4 St Basil's Cathedral is located in which European capital city?
Moscow
> 5 Who co-starred with Robert Culp in the 1960s TV series I Spy?
Bill Cosby
> 6 Which Middle Eastern country's national sporting teams regularly
> compete in the European zone?
Israel
> 7 Which Hindu deity is often depicted as being blue and having four
> arms?
Shiva
> 8 Who is the apparent successor to Kim Jong-Il in North Korea?
> 9 In which 1995 Oscar winning film was the title character played by
> more than 40 different cast members?
> 10 Which Austrian painted the 1908 work The Kiss?
Adolf Hitler
--
Dan Tilque
== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Thurs, Apr 28 2011 1:38 pm
From: "Peter Smyth"
"Calvin" <calvin@phlegm.com> wrote in message
news:op.vukk3oeeyr33d7@04233-jyhzp1s.staff.ad.bond.edu.au...
>
>
> 1 Who played Magnum PI in the 1980s TV series of that name?
Tom Selleck
> 2 To the nearest 10 million, what is the population of Germany?
80 million
> 3 Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd co-starred in which 1999 thriller?
> 4 St Basil's Cathedral is located in which European capital city?
Moscow
> 5 Who co-starred with Robert Culp in the 1960s TV series I Spy?
> 6 Which Middle Eastern country's national sporting teams regularly
> compete in the European zone?
Israel (arguably Turkey too?)
> 7 Which Hindu deity is often depicted as being blue and having four
> arms?
Vishnu
> 8 Who is the apparent successor to Kim Jong-Il in North Korea?
Kim Il-Sung
> 9 In which 1995 Oscar winning film was the title character played by
> more than 40 different cast members?
> 10 Which Austrian painted the 1908 work The Kiss?
Peter Smyth
== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Thurs, Apr 28 2011 10:08 pm
From: Jeffrey Turner
On 4/26/2011 8:03 PM, Calvin wrote:
>
>
> 1 Who played Magnum PI in the 1980s TV series of that name?
Tom Selleck
> 2 To the nearest 10 million, what is the population of Germany?
> 3 Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd co-starred in which 1999 thriller?
> 4 St Basil's Cathedral is located in which European capital city?
> 5 Who co-starred with Robert Culp in the 1960s TV series I Spy?
Bill Cosby
> 6 Which Middle Eastern country's national sporting teams regularly
> compete in the European zone?
> 7 Which Hindu deity is often depicted as being blue and having four arms?
Shiva
> 8 Who is the apparent successor to Kim Jong-Il in North Korea?
> 9 In which 1995 Oscar winning film was the title character played by
> more than 40 different cast members?
> 10 Which Austrian painted the 1908 work The Kiss?
Klee
--Jeff
--
Money to get power;
Power to protect money.
--Medici family motto
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TOPIC: QFTCI5GNM Final Round 3: Arts & Literature
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/9fe95824c2618833?hl=en
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Thurs, Apr 28 2011 4:57 am
From: Marc Dashevsky
In article <4db90cf9$0$2445$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>, NOSPAMrobpparker@optusnet.com.au.FORME says...
> Damn!!!
>
> "Marc Dashevsky" <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.2822740ff56885c698a305@news.supernews.com...
> > In article <4db890bf$0$2446$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>, "Rob Parker"
> > <NO robpparker SPAM @ FOR optusnet.com.au ME>
> > says...
> >> > 15. The 1959 novel "Naked Lunch" was banned by Boston courts
> >> > in 1962 for obscenity, a ruling that was reversed in 1966.
> >> > Name the author.
> >>
> >> Edgar Rice Burroughs
> >
> > If you had only left off the first and middle names!
You must have been thinking of "Naked Tarzan."
--
Go to http://MarcDashevsky.com to send me e-mail.
== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Thurs, Apr 28 2011 9:47 am
From: tool@panix.com (Dan Blum)
Marc Dashevsky <usenet@marcdashevsky.com> wrote:
> In article <4db90cf9$0$2445$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>, NOSPAMrobpparker@optusnet.com.au.FORME says...
> > Damn!!!
> >
> > "Marc Dashevsky" <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com> wrote in message
> > news:MPG.2822740ff56885c698a305@news.supernews.com...
> > > In article <4db890bf$0$2446$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>, "Rob Parker"
> > > <NO robpparker SPAM @ FOR optusnet.com.au ME>
> > > says...
> > >> > 15. The 1959 novel "Naked Lunch" was banned by Boston courts
> > >> > in 1962 for obscenity, a ruling that was reversed in 1966.
> > >> > Name the author.
> > >>
> > >> Edgar Rice Burroughs
> > >
> > > If you had only left off the first and middle names!
> You must have been thinking of "Naked Tarzan."
Or something.
Philip Jose Farmer wtote a story ("The Jungle Rot Kid On The Nod") which was
his idea of Tarzan as written by William Burroughs.
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum tool@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Fri, Apr 29 2011 12:11 am
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)
As I said, this will be the last QFTCI posting until I come back from
vacation around Victoria Day. So you have that long to bone up on the
remaining subject areas. :-)
Mark Brader:
> These questions, were written to be asked in Toronto on 2010-12-13,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2010-11-16 companion posting on "Five Guys Named Moe
> Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI5GNM)".
> ** Final, Round 3 - Arts & Literature
> * Alliteratively Named Choreographers
> In each case, name the alliteratively named choreographer.
> 1. At 6 feet 6½ inches (1.99 m), this choreographer/director is
> unusually tall for a dancer. Over the course of his career,
> he has won 9 Tony Awards, including two in 1983, one for
> Best Actor in a Musical and one for Best Choreography for
> "My One and Only".
Tommy Tune. 4 for Joshua, Stephen, and Pete.
> 2. In a single year he choreographed "42nd Street", "Footlight
> Parade", and "Gold Diggers of 1933".
Busby Berkeley. 4 for Joshua, Pete, and Marc.
> 3. He was an American choreographer and activist who is
> credited with popularizing modern dance and revolutionizing
> African-American participation. His choreographic masterpiece
> "Revelations" is believed to be the best known and most
> often seen modern dance performance.
Alvin Ailey. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Stephen, Pete, and Marc.
> * Top 100 Crime and Mystery Novels
> In 1990, the British-based Crime Writers' Association (CWA)
> published its list of the Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time, and
> in 1995 the US-based Mystery Writers of America (MWA) followed
> suit with its Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time. We'll give
> you the title and date of a novel, and its rank on both lists;
> you name the author.
> 4. "The Daughter of Time" (1951): CWA #1, MWA #4.
Josephine Tey. 4 for Dan Blum and Stephen.
> 5. "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1934): CWA #30, MWA #14.
James M. Cain. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Stephen.
> 6. "The Mask of Dimitrios" (1939), also known as "A Coffin for
> Dimitrios": CWA #24, MWA #17.
Eric Ambler. 4 for Stephen.
> * Plagiarism Controversies
> 7. In 1892, this author was accused of plagiarizing Margaret
> T. Canby's story "The Frost Fairies" in her short story "The
> Frost King". The author was brought before a tribunal of
> the Perkins Institute for the Blind, where she was acquitted
> by a single vote. Name her.
Helen Keller. 4 for Dan Blum, Stephen, Peter, and Marc.
> 8. In 1978, this author was sued for plagiarism by Harold
> Courlander, author of the novel "The African". The author
> reportedly paid Mr. Courlander $650,000 in an out-of-court
> settlement. Name the author, or his novel that contained
> the allegedly plagiarized material.
Alex Haley, "Roots: The Saga of an American Family". 4 for Joshua,
Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Stephen, Pete, and Marc.
> 9. This American politician was forced to withdraw from the 1988
> Democratic US Presidential Nominations when it was alleged
> that he had failed a 1965 introductory law school course on
> legal methodology due to plagiarism. This did not impact
> too much on his long-term political career however, as he
> was elected 4 more times to the Senate before having to
> resign his seat to fill his current role. Name him.
Joe Biden. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Stephen, Erland,
Peter, Pete, and Marc.
> * 20th Century Painters
> In each case, name the painter.
> 10. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/fi.03/art/10.jpg
Ben Nicholson. Yeah, I thought it was Mondrian too.
> 11. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/fi.03/art/11.jpg
Paul Klee.
> 12. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/fi.03/art/12.jpg
Henri Matisse. 4 for Calvin.
> * Banned Books
> 13. Written between 1958 and 1968, the 3-volume work "The Gulag
> Archipelago", a nonfiction account of Soviet forced-labor
> camps, was banned by the Soviet Union, but in 2009 it was
> added to the Russian high school curriculum. Name the author.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Stephen,
Erland, Pete, Marc, and Rob.
> 14. The 1981 novel "July's People" was banned in apartheid-era
> South Africa but is now part of the school curriculum.
> Name the Nobel-laureate author.
Nadine Gordimer. 4 for Joshua.
> 15. The 1959 novel "Naked Lunch" was banned by Boston courts
> in 1962 for obscenity, a ruling that was reversed in 1966.
> Name the author.
William S. Burroughs. 4 for Joshua, Stephen, and Marc. 3 for
Dan Blum.
Scores, if there are no errors:
ROUND-> 2 3 TOTALS
TOPIC-> Sci Lit
Stephen Perry 38 40 78
Marc Dashevsky 44 28 72
Joshua Kreitzer 26 36 62
Dan Tilque 36 12 48
Pete Gayde 17 24 41
Rob Parker 35 4 39
Dan Blum -- 31 31
Peter Smyth 21 8 29
"Calvin" 10 4 14
Erland Sommarskog 4 8 12
--
Mark Brader | "I had never thought of Jesus as being
msb@vex.net | a variety of grape plant, but
Toronto | if you put it that way..." --Jan Sand
My text in this article is in the public domain.
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TOPIC: Rare Entries contest MSB71 with revised wording
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/9f368f6df23a05af?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Thurs, Apr 28 2011 3:52 pm
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)
I've decided to improve the wording of question 5 in my current
Rare Entries contest to more precisely cover what I intended to
ask for. Everyone who has already entered will be notified by
email and may change their answer on this question if they wish.
(Anyone who submits an entry and sees this posting afterwards is
also free to change their answer on that question if they wish --
just mention in your email that that's what you're doing.)
For the sake of simplicity I'm reposting the entire original
contest posting with the correction incorporated. Everything
below this paragraph is the same as in the original posting
except for question 5. My apologies for the inconvenience.
This is another Rare Entries contest in the MSB series.
As always, reply ONLY BY EMAIL to msb@vex.net; do not post to
any newsgroup. Entries must reach here by Tuesday, May 24, 2011
(by Toronto time, zone -4).
See below the questions for a detailed explanation, in which rule
2.2 has been corrected and the example in rule 2.1 has been changed
to conform. These corrections implement a change I announced at the
time of contest MSB69 but forgot to then actually put into the rules,
regarding wrong answers that relate to specific correct answers.
Now, this time around I'm going to be on vacation and off-net for most
of the contest period. Therefore, after the first couple of days
I will *not* be acknowledging entries as they arrive. I will ask a
friend to post one reminder in the middle of the contest period, and
I intend to post a second one when I come back a couple of days before
the contest ends.
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0. Pick one: "Conservative", "Liberal", "New Democratic", or
"Quebecois".
1. Name a newspaper which at some time in the 20th century
was published daily (at least 5 days per week) in London,
in English, for national distribution for sale in Great
Britain. (Papers that were given away rather than sold do
not qualify.)
2. Name a chemical element whose name in English starts with C.
3. Give a single word in English, used in the grammar of English
to designate a part of speech.
4. Name a movie title containing at least three different
(unequal) digits, *excluding* digits that form part of a
date or time. The title must be the primary title of the
movie in the Internet Movie Database <http://www.imdb.com>.
The movie must be a feature film telling a fictional story,
not a short or documentary. See also rules 4.2 (for "movie")
and 4.3.3 (for "digit"). Of course rule 4.3.4 does *not* apply
(since this is about characters, not words or numerals).
5. Name two adjacent countries (see rule 4.1.1) now existing,
whose entire mutual border is (or formerly was) an *inland
water border* (i.e. consisting of lakes and/or rivers), or an
inland water border plus one or more offshore continuations
of the border into seawater.
6. Name an author who wrote 50 or more works of fiction featuring
the same major character. You must name the character, but
this does not form part of your answer.
7. Give a surname that is shared by (1) someone who has been
president of the US and (2) someone who has been nominated
for an Oscar in one of the four acting categories.
8. Usually each athlete in the Olympic games is said to compete
as part of a "team" representing one independent country.
Name such a team at any past Olympics that did *not*
represent one then-independent country (again, see rule
4.1.1). (You must mention which year you have in mind,
but this does not form part of your answer.)
9. Give an adjective, in English, which can be applied to an
object or person being described or discussed, in order to
express the fact, claim, or possibility that this object or
person never actually existed.
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* 1. The Game
As usual, for each of the questions above, your objective is to give
an answer that (1) is correct, and (2) will be duplicated by as FEW
other people as possible. Feel free to use any reference material
you like to RESEARCH your answers; but when you have found enough
possible answers for your liking, you are expected to choose on your
own which one to submit, WITHOUT mechanical or computer assistance:
this is meant to be a game of wits.
* 2. Scoring
The scores on the different questions are MULTIPLIED to produce a
final score for each entrant. Low score wins; a perfect score is 1.
If your answer on a category is correct, then your score is the number
of people who gave that answer, or an answer I consider equivalent.
A wrong answer, or a skipped question, gets a high score as a penalty.
This is the median of:
- the number of entrants
- the square root of that number, rounded up to an integer
- double the highest score that anyone would have on this
question if all answers were deemed correct
* 2.1 Scoring Example
Say I ask for a color on the current Canadian flag. There are
26 entrants -- 20 say "red", 4 say "blue", and 1 each say "gules",
"white", and "blue square". After looking up gules I decide it's
the same color as red and should be treated as a duplicate answer;
then the 21 people who said either "red" or "gules" get 21 points
each. The person who said "white" gets a perfect score of 1 point.
"Blue square" is not a color and blue is not a color on the flag;
the 5 people who gave either of these answers each get the same
penalty score, which is the median of:
- number of entrants = 27
- sqrt(27) = 5.196+, rounded up = 6
- double the highest score = 21 x 2 = 42
or in this case, 27.
* 2.2 More Specific Variants
On some questions it's possible that one entrant will give an answer
that's a more specific variant of an answer given by someone else.
In that case the more specific variant will usually be scored as if
the two answers are different, but the other, less specific variant
will be scored as if they are the same.
In the above example, if I had decided (wrongly) to score gules as
a more specific variant of red, then "red" would still score 21,
but "gules" would now score 1.
If a wrong answer is clearly associated with a specific right
answer, I will score the right answer as if the wrong answer was a
more specific variant of it. In the above example, if there were
3 additional entrants who said "white square", then "white square"
would be scored as wrong, but the score for "white" would be 4, not 1.
"More specific" scoring will NOT apply if the question asks for an
answer "in general terms"; a more specific answer will then at best be
treated the same as the more general one, and may be considered wrong.
* 3. Entries
Entries must be emailed to the address given above. Please do not
quote the questions back to me, and do send only plain text in ASCII
or ISO 8859-1: no HTML, attachments, Micros--t character sets, etc.,
and no Unicode, please. (Entrants who fail to comply will be publicly
chastised in the results posting.)
Your message should preferably consist of just your 10 answers,
numbered from 0 to 9, along with any explanations required. Your
name should be in it somewhere -- a From: line or signature is fine.
(If I don't see both a first and a last name, or an explicit request
for a particular form of your name to be used, then your email address
will be posted in the results).
You can expect an acknowledgement when I read your entry. If this
bounces, it won't be sent again.
* 3.1 Where Leeway is Allowed
In general there is no penalty for errors of spelling, capitalization,
English usage, or other such matters of form, nor for accidentally
sending email in an unfinished state, so long as it's clear enough
what you intended. Sometimes a specific question may imply stricter
rules, though. And if you give an answer that properly refers to a
different thing related to the one you intended, I will normally take
it as written.
Once you intentionally submit an answer, no changes will be allowed,
unless I decide there was a problem with the question. Similarly,
alternate answers within an entry will not be accepted. Only the
first answer that you intentionally submit counts.
* 3.2 Clarifications
Questions are not intended to be hard to understand, but I may fail
in this intent. (For one thing, in many cases clarity could only be
provided by an example which would suggest one or another specific
answer, and I mustn't do that.)
In order to be fair to all entrants, I must insist that requests for
clarification must be emailed to me, NOT POSTED in any newsgroup.
But if you do ask for clarification, I'll probably say that the
question is clear enough as posted. If I do decide to clarify or
change a question, all entrants will be informed.
* 3.3 Supporting Information
It is your option whether or not to provide supporting information
to justify your answers. If you don't, I'll email you to ask for
it if I need to. If you supply it in the form of a URL, if at all
possible it should be a "deep link" to the specific relevant page.
There is no need to supply URLs for obvious, well-known reference
web sites, and there is no point in supplying URLs for pages that
don't actually support your answer.
If you provide any explanatory remarks along with your answers, you
are responsible for making it sufficiently clear that they are not
part of the answers. The particular format doesn't matter as long
as you're clear. In the scoring example above, "white square" was
wrong; "white (in the central square)" would have been taken as a
correct answer with an explanation.
* 4. Interpretation of questions
These are general rules that apply unless a question specifically
states otherwise.
* 4.1 Geography
* 4.1.1 Countries
"Country" means an independent country. Whether or not a place is
considered an independent country is determined by how it is listed
in reference sources.
For purposes of these contests, the Earth is considered to be divid-
ed into disjoint areas each of which is either (1) a country, (2) a
dependency, or (3) without national government. Their boundaries
are interpreted on a de facto basis. Any place with representatives
in a country's legislature is considered a part of that country rather
than a dependency of it.
The European Union is considered as an association of countries, not
a country itself.
Claims that are not enforced, or not generally recognized, don't count.
Places currently fighting a war of secession don't count. Embassies
don't count as special; they may have extraterritorial rights, but
they're still part of the host country (and city).
Countries existing at different historical times are normally
considered the same country if they have the same capital city.
* 4.1.2 States or provinces
Many countries or dependencies are divided into subsidiary political
entities, typically with their own subsidiary governments. At the
first level of division, these entities are most commonly called
states or provinces, but various other names are used; sometimes
varying even within the same country (e.g. to indicate unequal
political status).
Any reference to "states or provinces" in a question refers to
these entities at the first level of division, no matter what they
are called.
* 4.1.3 Distances
Distances between places on the Earth are measured along a great
circle path, and distance involving cities are based on the city
center (downtown).
* 4.2 Entertainment
A "movie" does not include any form of TV broadcast or video release;
it must have been shown in cinemas. "Oscar" and "Academy Award" are
AMPAS trademarks and refer to the awards given by that organization.
"Fiction" includes dramatizations of true stories.
* 4.3 Words and Numbers
* 4.3.1 Different Answers
Some questions specifically ask for a *word*, rather than the thing
that it names; this means that different words with the same meaning
will in general be treated as distinct answers. However, if two or
more inflectional variants, spelling variants, or other closely
related forms are correct answers, they will be treated as equivalent.
Similarly, if the question specifically asks for a name, different
things referred to by the same name will be treated as the same.
* 4.3.2 Permitted Words
The word that you give must be listed (or implied by a listing,
as with inflected forms) in a suitable dictionary. Generally
this means a printed dictionary published recently enough
to show reasonably current usage, or its online equivalent.
Other reasonably authoritative sources may be accepted on a
case-by-case basis. Words listed as obsolete or archaic usage
don't count, and sources that would list those words without
distinguishing them are not acceptable as dictionaries.
* 4.3.3 Permitted Numbers
Where the distinction is important, "number" refers to a specific
mathematical value, whereas "numeral" means a way of writing it.
Thus "4", "IV", and "four" are three different numerals representing
the same number. "Digit" means one of the characters "0", "1", "2",
etc. (These definitions represent one of several conflicting common
usages.)
* 4.3.4 "Contained in"
If a question asks for a word or numeral "contained" or "included"
in a phrase, title, or the like, this does not include substrings or
alternate meanings of words, unless explictly specified. For example,
if "Canada in 1967" is the title of a book, it contains the numeral
1967 and the preposition "in"; but it does not contain the word "an",
the adjective "in", or the numeral 96.
* 4.4 Tense and Time
When a question is worded in the present tense, the correctness of
your answer is determined by the facts at the moment you submit it.
(In a case where, in my judgement, people might reasonably be unaware
of the facts having changed, an out-of-date answer may be accepted as
correct.) Questions worded in the present perfect tense include the
present unless something states or implies otherwise. (For example,
Canada is a country that "has existed", as well as one that "exists".)
Different verbs in a sentence bear their usual tense relationship to
each other.
You are not allowed to change the facts yourself in order to make an
answer correct. For example, if a question asks for material on the
WWW, what you cite must already have existed before the contest was
first posted.
* 5. Judging
As moderator, I will be the sole judge of what answers are correct,
and whether two answers with similar meaning (like red and gules)
are considered the same, different, or more/less specific variants.
I will do my best to be fair on all such issues, but sometimes it is
necessary to be arbitrary. Those who disagree with my rulings are
welcome to complain (or to start a competing contest, or whatever).
I may rescore the contest if I agree that I made a serious error and
it affects the high finishers.
* 6. Results
Results will normally be posted within a few days of the contest
closing. They may be delayed if I'm unexpectedly busy or for
technical reasons. If I feel I need help evaluating one or more
answers, I may make a consultative posting in the newsgroups before
scoring the contest.
In the results posting, all entrants will be listed in order of score,
but high (bad) scores may be omitted. The top few entrants' full
answer slates will be posted. A table of answers and their scores
will be given for each question.
* 7. Fun
This contest is for fun. Please do have fun, and good luck to all.
--
Mark Brader | "Europe contains a great many cathedrals, which were
Toronto | caused by the Middle Ages, which means they are very old,
msb@vex.net | so you have to take color slide photographs of them."
| -- Dave Barry
My text in this article is in the public domain.
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