Saturday, April 30, 2011

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* QFTCI5GNM Final Round 3 answers: Arts & Literature - 2 messages, 2 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/9fe95824c2618833?hl=en
* Calvin's Rare Entries Quiz #1 - RESULTS - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/d32d06781a0a20d2?hl=en
* Calvin's Quiz #121 - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/13cc157c0e0b74e4?hl=en

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TOPIC: QFTCI5GNM Final Round 3 answers: Arts & Literature
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== 1 of 2 ==
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.


== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Fri, Apr 29 2011 2:35 pm
From: Erland Sommarskog


Erland Sommarskog (esquel@sommarskog.se) writes:
>> 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.
>
> Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. No it wasn't, but there is a connection!

Steely Dan is reportedly a device that figures in the book.

--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se

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TOPIC: Calvin's Rare Entries Quiz #1 - RESULTS
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Apr 29 2011 2:33 pm
From: Erland Sommarskog


Calvin (calvin@phlegm.com) writes:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:28:09 +1000, Erland Sommarskog
><esquel@sommarskog.se> wrote:
>> 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 :-)

Oh, that wasn't a protest. My conclusion was that using a hard number
for religious affiliation was probably not a good idea.


--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se

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TOPIC: Calvin's Quiz #121
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Apr 29 2011 5:11 pm
From: Pete


Calvin <calvin@phlegm.com> wrote in
news:op.vukk3oeeyr33d7@04233-jyhzp1s.staff.ad.bond.edu.au:

>
>
> 1 Who played Magnum PI in the 1980s TV series of that name?

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?

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?

Vishnu

> 8 Who is the apparent successor to Kim Jong-Il in North Korea?

Kim Jong-Un

> 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?

Klimt

>
>

Pete


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Friday, April 29, 2011

The Frontstretch Newsletter: Special Edition At the Track April 30, 2011

THE FRONTSTRETCH NEWSLETTER
Presented by Frontstretch.com
The Best Seat at the Track, The Best View on the Net!
April 30th, 2011
Special Edition: Richmond, Virginia

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Hey Frontstretch Readers!
Earlier this week we debuted the first ever Frontstretch podcast. Check in with host Doug Turnbull as he goes through the news of the week (Editor's Note: The Bayne story broke just after our taping, so check out Amy Henderson's column if you'd like the latest, up-to-date information on that breaking news). This week's exclusive driver audio is Brian Vickers; listen to him explain his disappointing start to 2011, pending free agency, his fitness regimen post-blood clot health scare and how he defines "beating and banging" on the Cup circuit. Plus, join Henderson and Tom Bowles as we have a writer's roundtable on Cup influence in the Nationwide Series, Dale Earnhardt, Jr.'s resurgence and so much more! It's all part of our newest feature, something you can download every week on Frontstretch.com. Love it, hate it or just have something to say? Email us at editors@frontstretch.com to share your feedback.

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Denny Hamlin Dominates; Leads 199 Laps to Win Nationwide Race at Richmond
by Bryan Davis Keith

One week removed from an embarrassing display of officiating that saw four of six yellow flags at Nashville fly for debris that were strangely invisible, the exact opposite happened. Three cautions, two of which occurred in the last 10 laps, were the only breaks in 251 laps of racing at Richmond, an event that was thoroughly dominated by Denny Hamlin, who in winning the Bubba Burger 250 continued Joe Gibbs Racing's utter dominance of the series on a night that Kyle Busch had the night off and Carl Edwards was off the mark. Paul Menard, Justin Allgaier, Elliott Sadler and Brad Keselowski rounded out the top 5.

Though Hamlin was challenged by Aric Almirola at the race's midpoint, the No. 20 car was by far the class of the field on Friday night, losing none of its steam over the course of the race's lengthy green flag runs. Those runs wreaked havoc on the field's fuel mileage calculations, with Scott Wimmer, polesitter Edwards, Charles Lewandoski, and Nationwide title contender Ricky Stenhouse Jr. all running out of fuel under green flag conditions. For Stenhouse, the error turned a top 5 run into a costly 21st place finish that dropped him to fifth in points.

Allgaier's third place finish as one of only five cars on the lead lap when the checkered flag flew allowed him to preserve the points lead even as a surging Elliott Sadler scored his fourth top 5 in the last five races. Sadler and Jason Leffler sit within 10 points of the series lead heading into Darlington.

For more, check out this morning's Nationwide Series Breakdown (see link down further in the newsletter)

Sprint Cup News and Notes

by Jay Pennell

Can Junior Break The Streak At Richmond?

Sitting third in the standings, Dale Earnhardt Jr. comes into this weekend's race in Richmond facing a 101-race winless streak that extends back to 2008. With three wins at Richmond, many see this weekend as yet another potential opportunity for the driver of the No. 88 Chevrolet to end the winless draught.

However, since his third Richmond win in 2006, Earnhardt Jr. has not fared so well on the 0.75-mile track. Despite battling Kyle Busch for the win in 2008, Earnhardt Jr. has only one top 10 at Richmond in his last nine races. Since contending for the victory in both 2008 races, Earnhardt has gone on to finish 27th, 21st, 32nd and 34th. Not exactly the kind of numbers that would indicate a strong run in the works.

Yet for Earnhardt Jr., these statistics are more indicative of his overall struggles, not just at Richmond.

"I've run good at a lot of race tracks in my career, but if you take out the three or four (tracks) that are my best, I struggled at all three or four of them in the last couple years. My last couple years I have struggled every weekend and it's not a good reflection of how well I can do at this place. Hopefully with the changes we've made that seem to be working everywhere else and I hope they work this weekend."

Even though he has put together two top 5s and five top 10s, Earnhardt Jr. is not ready to celebrate his success.

"I hope I can come into the next race and keep up the consistency and do it again and do it again. I don't have time to worry about anything else other than to just keep going," he said. "It's a lot of pressure to try to keep going and to try to keep up with all the expectations everyone has for you.

"When we accomplish certain goals like winning a race, winning a couple races, or make the Chase, or win a race in the Chase, or battle for the championship – those are the things I can get excited about and get happy with, I'll enjoy those moments. I'm happy to be consistent, but we still have another step to go." 

Kurt Busch Still Searching For Answers And A-Plus Performances

Through the first eight races of the season, Kurt Busch has been among the frontrunners and sits fifth in the points. Yet despite his strong runs, Busch is still searching for improvement in all areas of his team. Critical of his team, the engineering and their in-race adjustments week-in and week-out, Busch knows if he wants to hoist the Sprint Cup Series trophy at the end of the year it will take A-plus performances and nothing less.

"There are different areas all over the place that you always have to continue to look at and evaluate," he said. "If we don't have an "A" or an "A-plus" in that category, we need to work on it."

Among the things Busch says his team needs to work on heading into the summer stretch is tweaking the chassis to help the front end turn better in the corner. Coming off a championship season in the Nationwide Series with Brad Keselowski, Penske Racing is trying to incorporate some of the same front end technology used on the Nationwide side of things last year into their Cup program this year – with mixed results.

Looking at nearly all areas of the organization, Busch described team owner Roger Penske as using a feather to "polish things here and there." Through testing, continued work with the engineers, engine builders and pit crew, the goal is to run top 5 each and every week.

"We find improvement all the time, especially these next few weeks with our testing schedule," Busch said. "We're going to hit Indianapolis, Gresham Motorsports Park and Road Atlanta. We've got three tests in three weeks coming up. We're just trying to move forward and not sit still. You always have to keep looking, whether it's front end geometry, whether it's a road course, getting that forward bite. You name it; we're out there working hard for it."

Nationwide Series News and Notes
by Jay Pennell and Bryan Davis Keith

Chris Buescher Thrust Into Nationwide Debut

When the telephone rang on Thursday and young Chris Buescher was told to grab his stuff and head to the airport, he thought he was in trouble. The 18-year-old Roush Fenway Racing development driver was preparing to run this weekend's race ARCA race when he was summoned to the Richmond International Raceway to fill in for the ailing Trevor Bayne.

Hospitalized for symptoms from an insect bite following the Texas race, Bayne was suddenly hospitalized again prior to the Richmond race. Struggling with bouts of fatigue and nausea, Bayne is currently being evaluated in a North Carolina hospital as doctors try to find answers. While the thought is the symptoms are a result of the insect bite, nothing has been confirmed.

"Obviously Trevor wanted to be in Richmond and he's upset about not being able to compete. However, his health is our top priority and we insisted that he have these tests to get to the bottom of his symptoms," team president Steve Newmark said in a team release Thursday. "We will work to provide you with further updates as they become available." 

Jack Roush said he had not talked to Bayne on Friday, adding he had not put any thought to keeping Buescher in the car past this weekend. Team officials explained they were talking all precautions to ensure Bayne's health and letting the doctors do what they need to do. According to one team official, Bayne never fully recovered from his initial hospital visit, with the symptoms – fatigue, nausea, etc. – getting worse and worse.  

ARCA regular Chris Buescher – the cousin of James Buescher – has been tapped as Bayne's replacement for the weekend, making his first Nationwide Series start of his career. At only 18 years old, Buescher has only 17 ARCA starts, with two wins last season both coming at the Toledo Speedway.

Preparing to race this weekend in Salem, Buescher suddenly found himself piloting a car he had never driven at a track he had never raced at. The move occurred so fast, Buescher was seen at the track for practice in an apparently borrowed firesuit with Ricky Stenhouse Jr.'s name on it.

"We planned on running some of the speedways in ARCA this year, and trying to run the full schedule, we're still going to run Salem tomorrow and Sunday," he said. "As of two days ago this wasn't even planned at all. It's a little earlier than expected, but I'll take it. I'm excited, a little nervous, but I think it's a good car and we'll run good."

Roush Fenway Racing teammates Carl Edwards and David Ragan express concern for Bayne's condition, but were confident the Daytona 500 champion would pull through.

"I don't know exactly what is going on with Trevor," Edwards said. "I got to know Trevor a little bit like you guys have here lately and he is a real strong young man physically, mentally, emotionally. I think whatever they find out through all of this I am sure he will deal with it better than any of us expect. He is a heck of a guy. We are all behind him 100-percent."

One of Bayne's closest friends, fellow driver Michael McDowell would not go into any specifics about Bayne's condition. Refusing to say whether or not the illness was related to an insect bite, McDowell had a look of concern on his face, but remained steadfast to respect his friend's privacy.

Buescher finished a solid 17th without incident in Friday's race. For more information, be sure to check out the full interview with Jay Pennell only on Frontstretch.

McClure Keeping Top 30 In Perspective After Near-Death Experience

Barely a day removed from narrowly escaping a direct hit from a tornado on his family home, Nationwide regular Eric McClure was back at work at Richmond, focused on securing a solid points day, with his No. 14 teetering dangerously close to falling out of the top 30 in owner points. Though, the driver admitted, that battle was put in a whole other perspective following the week's deadly weather.

"I'm not really worrying about the top 30 anymore," said McClure Friday morning, less than 12 hours after arriving at the race track. That being said though, McClure came to the track to work, and the need for his squad to perform Friday night wasn't lost on him after a rough start to the 2011 campaign.

"We've been one bad adjustment from being really good the first 5-6 races," said McClure of his year thus far, which has been compounded by mechanical failures at Daytona and Texas. The previous weekend at Nashville was perhaps the worst of the season for the Tri-Star Motorsports team, with unrelated engine issues plaguing both McClure and teammate Mike Bliss at a track that left the entire organization stumped.

"Nashville was the first time [this season] things were really bad" McClure noted of the previous race. In addition to a lacking setup, McClure's No. 14 suffered an ignition problem late in the going, with Bliss suffering a separate mechanical issue.

Still, heading into a home-state race, McClure was encouraged by signs not visible on the score sheet.

"We are for the most part running 25th or better," he spoke of 2011. "Legitimate 25th or better, not everyone fell out and we finished 25th. We're racing the guys we're supposed to be racing. [Plus], I've gotten to pass some cars this year. That's been fun."

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Hey, Frontstretch Readers!
We know you love the roar of raw horsepower under the hood that powers 43 of the best drivers in the world every weekend, but did you ever wonder how the sponsor on top of that hood also contributes to keeping the sport moving? What about the contributions of official NASCAR companies? If you think they are simply writing checks, think again. Check out our newest feature - Sunday Money. This weekly Frontstretch exclusive provides you with a behind the scenes look at how NASCAR, its affiliates and team sponsors approach the daunting task of keeping fans interested and excited about the sport for 38 weeks of the year.

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TODAY ON THE FRONTSTRETCH:

Nationwide Series Breakdown: Bubba Burger 250
by Bryan Davis Keith

Beyond the Cockpit - Chris Buescher Gets Called to the Big Leagues
by Jay Pennell

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Coming Monday in the Frontstretch Newsletter:
-- Matthew and Daniel Hansen 400 Race Recap by TBA
-- Big Six: Matthew and Daniel Hansen 400 by Amy Henderson
-- Links to your favorite Frontstretch articles, and more!
 
Monday on the Frontstretch:

Matt McLaughlin's Thinkin' Out Loud: Matthew and Daniel Hansen 400 by Matt McLaughlin
Matt will be here with his overall thoughts about the action from Saturday night's action from Richmond.

Monday Morning Tear-Down by Bryan Davis Keith
Bryan takes a look at the biggest story from the weekend and analyzes it without pulling any punches.

Bowles-Eye View by Tom Bowles
Tom brings back his weekly post-race commentary with all of the insight you need from a weekend of racing at Richmond.

Running Their Mouth: Matthew and Daniel Hansen 400 by Brody Jones
Did he really say that?  You bet he did! Brody brings you the most interesting, unusual, and downright crazy quotes to come from the drivers after Saturday night's race from Richmond.
 
Bubble Breakdown by Dave Thompson
Dave takes a look at the backmarkers battling for the 35th and final "locked in" spot and sees how their performances pay off at Richmond.

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The Frontstretch Newsletter: 4/29/11 Denny Hamlin Showdown! Podcast Debut!

THE FRONTSTRETCH NEWSLETTER
Presented by Frontstretch.com
The Best Seat at the Track, The Best View on the Net!
April 29th, 2011
Volume V, Edition LXXVI

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Hey Frontstretch Readers!
Today we debut the first ever Frontstretch podcast. Check in with host Doug Turnbull as he goes through the news of the week (Editor's Note: The Bayne story broke just after our taping, so check out Amy Henderson's column if you'd like the latest, up-to-date information on that illness). This week's exclusive driver audio is Brian Vickers; listen to him explain his disappointing start to 2011, pending free agency, his fitness regimen post-blood clot health scare and how he defines "beating and banging" on the Cup circuit. Plus, join Henderson and Tom Bowles as we have a writer's roundtable on Cup influence in the Nationwide Series, Dale Earnhardt, Jr.'s resurgence and so much more! It's all part of our newest feature, something you can download every week on Frontstretch.com. Love it, hate it or just have something to say? Email us at editors@frontstretch.com to share your feedback.

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Top News
by Summer Dreyer

Eric McClure's Home Suffers Tornado Damage

As a round of tornadoes swept across the Southeast on Wednesday, leaving hundreds dead, countless more injured, and some cities and neighborhoods decimated, one of NASCAR's own was left in the path of destruction and survived what he described as the "most helpless and scary" moment of his life to ESPN.com's David Newton.

Eric McClure, driver for TriStar Motorsports in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, huddled in the basement with his wife, three children, and two dogs in his home in Abingdon, VA following a church service on Wednesday night.  McClure and his family spent nearly four hours underneath their basement staircase waiting out a storm in which a tornado significantly damaged McClure's home. Though no injuries were sustained to any of McClure's family members or pets, the house was left unlivable.

"It's tough to just sit there and wait," McClure said. "It got real dead for five or six seconds. Then it felt like a train came through the house. That's when we put our heads down and just waited it out. The thing was just shaking the house. I don't wish that on anybody."

McClure and his family are staying in his father's house, which received minor damage. McClure's house suffered severe damage including blown out windows and flooding, and significant damage to the back porch and kitchen when a large tree fell into the house.

McClure is planning to compete in Friday night's Nationwide Series race at Richmond International Raceway, but said, "If I don't drive, they're already working on somebody to run the car if they need to."

McClure is currently 18th in points, 125 points out of the lead. His best finish through eight races this season was a 20th place running at Las Vegas Motor Speedway back in March.

Trevor Bayne Hospitalized, Will Not Race in Richmond

After being hospitalized and released earlier this month for an insect bite on his left elbow, Daytona 500 champion Trevor Bayne has been hospitalized for symptoms thought to be related to the insect bite and is undergoing tests and treatment. The tests will keep Bayne out of the No. 16 NASCAR Nationwide Series car for Roush Fenway Racing in this weekend's race at Richmond International Raceway.

"Trevor was not feeling well early this week and he is currently being evaluated for lingering symptoms that may be related to his previous insect bite," said RFR president Steve Newmark.

Bayne, who is tied with Reed Sorenson at fourth in the standings, four points out of the lead heading into Richmond, will be replaced by one of 18-year-old RFR developmental driver Chris Buescher.

Have news for Summer and The Frontstretch?  Don't hesitate to let us know; email us at phil.allaway@frontstretch.com with a promising lead or tip.

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Hey, Frontstretch Readers!
We know you love the roar of raw horsepower under the hood that powers 43 of the best drivers in the world every weekend, but did you ever wonder how the sponsor on top of that hood also contributes to keeping the sport moving? What about the contributions of official NASCAR companies? If you think they are simply writing checks, think again. Check out our newest feature - Sunday Money. This weekly Frontstretch exclusive provides you with a behind the scenes look at how NASCAR, its affiliates and team sponsors approach the daunting task of keeping fans interested and excited about the sport for 38 weeks of the year.

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In Case You Missed It
by Brett Poirier

Larry the Cable Guy Announced as Honorary Pace Car Driver at Charlotte

Larry the Cable Guy, comedian and voice of Mater in the upcoming "Cars 2" movie, will be the honorary pace car driver on May 29th for the Coca Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The comedian will also attend the drivers meeting and various other events on race day.

Larry the Cable Guy will be on hand to help celebrate the June 24 release of Disney Pixar's "Cars 2." On Coca Cola 600 weekend, there will be full-size replicas of Larry's character Mater and Lightning McQueen. The two cars will also take the track for the pre-race parade laps.

"I am excited to Git R Done in the pace car at Charlotte Motor Speedway and lead the field to the start of NASCAR's Coca Cola 600," Larry the Cable Guy said. "It will be an honor to be a part of the most patriotic pre-race show in America."

In May of 2006, Charlotte Motor Speedway also teamed up with Disney Pixar to show the premiere of "Cars" on outdoor movie screens at the track with 35,000 fans in attendance.

Richard and Judy Childress Receive Recognition For Their Charity Work

Richard Childress Racing reported on Thursday that Richard Childress and his wife Judy were honored twice in April for their charitable work. Richard Childress visited several injured soldiers at the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, MD. It wasn't anything new for Childress, who has visited troops in the U.S., Iraq, Bosnia and Spain. At the seventh annual Armed Forces Foundation Congressional Gala in Washington, D.C. on April 6th, Childress received the Bill and Beverly Young Humanitarian of the Year Award.

A few days later, Childress received another award. Richard Childress and his wife Judy were honored by the Winston-Salem (N.C.) branch of Exchange/S.C.A.N. (Stop Child Abuse Now) organization. The couple was given the 2011 Founders Award for their work to help children. In 2008, the Childress' opened the Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center to help children that have sustained serious injuries.

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Frontstretch Folio: Matthew and Daniel Hansen 400
by Summer Dreyer

This weekend, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series heads to Richmond International Raceway for the Crown Royal presents the Matthew and Daniel Hansen 400. Saturday's race will be the ninth race of the season. The Matthew and Daniel Hansen 400 will be broadcast live Saturday, April 30, on FOX at 7:30 PM ET and MRN Radio at 6:30 PM ET. Drivers will compete for 400 laps (300 miles) before taking the checkered flag.

Records and Facts

Brian Vickers holds the track qualifying record with a lap of 20.772 sec at 129.983 mph in qualifying for the 2004 Chevy American Revolution 400. Vickers finished eighth in the race after leading 32 laps. The pole was Vickers' first of the season, and he would go on to win one more. He finished out the 2004 season with four top 10s and an average finish of 22nd in 36 races that year. He finished the season 25th in points.

Dale Jarrett holds the record for the fastest race run at Richmond International Raceway with a speed of 109.047 mph in the 1997 Exide NASCAR Select Batteries 400. Jarrett led 39 of the 400 laps run and had a margin of victory of 1.802 sec over second-place Jeff Burton. Jeff Gordon finished third, followed by Geoffrey Bodine and Rusty Wallace. The win was Jarrett's fifth of the season and he would go on to win two more. In the 32 races that year, Jarrett grabbed 20 top 5s, 23 top 10s, and an average finish of 10th. He finished second in points.

Kyle Busch is the defending race winner of this event, leading 195 of the 400 laps to win the 2010 Crown Royal Presents the Heath Calhoun 400 by 0.755 sec over second-place Jeff Gordon. Kevin Harvick finished third, followed by Jeff Burton and Carl Edwards to round out the top 5. The win was Busch's first of the season, and he would go on to win two more races before the 2010 season was out. In 36 starts, Busch grabbed 10 top 5s, 18 top 10s, and an average finish of 14th to finish eighth in points.

Track Facts

Track/Race Length:
0.75 mile oval, 400 laps (300 miles)
Pit Road Speed: 45 mph
Degree of Banking: 14 degrees in the turns
Frontstretch: 1,290 ft., banked 8 degrees
Backstretch: 860 ft., banked 2 degrees
Grandstand Seating: 97,912

Pre-race Schedule

Practice: Friday, April 29, 12:00 – 2:00 PM ET on SPEED
Qualifying: Friday, April 29, 5:35 PM ET on SPEED
Happy Hour: Friday, April 29, 2:45 – 3:30 PM ET on SPEED

Race Day Forecast

Saturday: Sunny
High: 74
Low: 51

Say What?!

"We are back to a short track again this weekend and Richmond is one of my favorite short tracks. We ran well at Martinsville and were competitive at Phoenix, and both of those tracks help you get a feel for Richmond. Our short track cars are better than they have ever been and I'm ready to race at one of my favorite tracks under the lights Saturday night." -David Ragan

"I love Richmond, and I don't know of another driver that doesn't like this track. But it is a very challenging short track. One of the keys to going fast here is getting the DuPont Chevrolet to turn the middle of the corner. But it's tough to get the car to turn the middle without getting the car too loose in and too loose off." -Jeff Gordon

"It's a fun track for me and a fan favorite too. We should have a couple more tracks on the schedule like Richmond because it's neat for fans to be able to see their drivers up close on the track. On top of that, it's always a great night race. I love Richmond and I've ran good there. You can race two and three wide and can pass. All around, it's a good competitive track to race at." -Bobby Labonte

Summer Dreyer is a Senior Writer for Frontstretch.com. She can be reached via email at summer.dreyer@frontstretch.com.

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Keepin' It Short: Racing The Way It Oughta Be
by Mike Neff

The modern world of NASCAR national touring series racing has evolved into a high-tech, scientific endeavor that involves as much engineering and computer input as it does good, ol' fashioned ingenuity and wrench turning. Fortunately, for many race fans local short tracks still offer a chance to watch people compete who have some technical input but still spend as much time experimenting with things to make their cars go faster. Thursday night at Richmond International Raceway was a celebration of that kind of racing even though one of the Top Guns in the business took the win.

Denny Hamlin, for the fourth year in a row, put on a charity race to raise money for his foundation and in the process shone the spotlight on some of the best Late Model racers in the country. 49 race cars hit the track for practice and qualifying for the event with 14 "celebrity" drivers being guaranteed a spot in the race. That left 22 spots available for the best shoes from local tracks to showcase their abilities and make a run at taking a win from some of the Cup regulars who were entered in the event. After qualifying was finished Matt McCall, a local racer and engineer for Richard Childress Racing was the fastest car of the bunch.

While McCall's pole was impressive considering he beat out the likes of Kyle Busch and Hamlin for the top spot, there was an even better story that shook out during the hours leading up to qualifying. At the end of the first practice session of the day for the Late Models, 2005 Whelen All-American National Champion Peyton Sellers had his engine expire. He was the second fastest car in the session but did not have a spare engine at the track to put into his car. In true local racing fashion Sellers contacted his friend Rusty Skewes, who has a shop some 20 miles from the race track. Skewes loaned an older engine to Sellers whose crew drove to the shop, picked up the engine, drove back to the track and dropped it in the car just in time for it to be the last one of the track for qualifying.

While it is somewhat commonplace in the Cup series for race teams to change an engine during a practice day and be back in commission in under an hour, that isn't something a small race organization pulls off during their normal routines. While Sellers ended up not being competitive in the big race, the fact that his team changed an engine and he was able to put the car into the show was no small feat. It is no wonder that he won a national title with a team like that behind his efforts.

The spirit of cooperation did not end with Sellers' engine experience. During the red flag that halted the K&N East Series race for rain, Joey Logano stopped by to talk with Travis Pastrana about the Late Model that the X Games star would be piloting later in the evening. As it turns out, the car was the steed that Logano had raced the previous year in the charity event. So "Sliced Bread" didn't mess around, offering Pastrana some encouraging words and a couple of suggestions to try and help the newcomer get the most out of his ride in the charity race.

In the end the night not only showcased what is good about short track racing, it also raised some money for some worthy causes including Cystic Fibrosis, St. Jude's Hospital, The Children's Hospital of Richmond and, due to the bad weather over the last few days, tornado victims across the country. When the evening came to an end, Denny Hamlin had finally taken home a victory in his own event for the first time, but the real winners were the fans and especially the charities that receive donations from the Denny Hamlin Foundation.

NOTE: For Denny Hamlin Showdown Official Results And The Story of the Race Itself, Click Here.

Upcoming Short Track Schedule:
Fri : Apr 29 - Batesville Motor Speedway ; Batesville : AR - Mid-South Racing Association
Fri : Apr 29 – Farley Speedway ; Farley : IA – IMCA Modifieds
Fri : Apr 29 – Farley Speedway ; Farley : IA – Open Late Models
Fri : Apr 29 - USA Speedway ; Sterlington : LA - SUPR Late Models
Fri : Apr 29 - Callaway Raceways ; Fulton : MO - United Late Model Association
Fri : Apr 29 - Valley Speedway ; Grain Valley : MO - POWRI Midgets
Fri : Apr 29 – Rocky Top Raceway ; Coal Grove : OH – Midwest Dirt Racing League
Fri : Apr 29 - Outlaw Motor Speedway ; Wainwright : OK - USMTS Modifieds
Fri : Apr 29 - Thunderbird Speedway ; Muskogee : OK - Oil Capital Racing Series
Fri : Apr 29 - Bedford Speedway ; Bedford : PA - Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series
Fri : Apr 29 – Lernerville Speedway ; Sarver : PA – All-Star Late Model Series
Fri : Apr 29 - Path Valley Speedway ; Spring Run : PA - PA Sprint Series
Fri : Apr 29 - Williams Grove Speedway ; Mechanicsburg : PA - ARDC Midgets
Fri : Apr 29 - El Paso Speedway Park ; El Paso : TX - Renegade Sprint Car Series
Fri : Apr 29 - Manitowoc Expo Raceway ; Manitowoc : WI - Wisconsin Dirt Late Model Association
Sat : Apr 30 – Mobile International Speedway ; Mobile : AL – Pro Late Models
Sat : Apr 30 - Firebird Raceway ; Chandler : AZ - NHRA Lucas Oil Series
Sat : Apr 30 - I-30 Speedway ; Benton : AR - SUPR Late Models
Sat : Apr 30 - Bakersfield Speedway ; Bakersfield : CA – West Coast Shootout Series
Sat : Apr 30 - Auto Club Speedway ; Fontana : CA - Vintage Auto Racing Association
Sat : Apr 30 - Bakersfield Speedway ; Oildale : CA - California Lightning Sprints
Sat : Apr 30 - Chowchilla Speedway ; Chowchilla : CA - BCRA Midgets
Sat : Apr 30 - Marysville Raceway Park ; Marysville : CA - Golden State Challenge
Sat : Apr 30 - Mazda Raceway at Laguna Seca ; Monterrey : CA - Historic Sportscar Racing West
Sat : Apr 30 - Placerville Speedway ; Placerville : CA - California Sprint Car Civil War Series
Sat : Apr 30 - Thunderbowl Raceway ; Tulare : CA - Taco Bravo Ocean Sprints
Sat : Apr 30 - Thunderbowl Raceway ; Tulare : CA - USAC 360 Sprint Series
Sat : Apr 30 - Colorado National Speedway ; Erie : CO - Englewood Racing Association
Sat : Apr 30 - Waterford Speedbowl ; Waterford : CT - New England Truck Series
Sat : Apr 30 - Volusia Speedway Park ; Barberville : FL - Florida Mini-Sprint Association
Sat : Apr 30 - Road Atlanta ; Braselton : GA - Historic Sportscar Racing East
Sat : Apr 30 - Road Atlanta ; Braselton : GA - V8 Stock Car Road Racing Series
Sat : Apr 30 – West Liberty Raceway ; West Liberty : IA – Open Late Models
Sat : Apr 30 - Avcom Park ; Avon : IL - IMRA TQ Series
Sat : Apr 30 - Lucas Oil Raceway ; Clermont : IN - NHRA Lucas Oil Series
Sat : Apr 30 - Tri-State Speedway ; Haubstad : IN - WoO Sprint Cars
Sat : Apr 30 - Iowa Speedway ; Newton : IA - ChumpCar World Series
Sat : Apr 30 - Great American Dirt Track ; Jetmore : KS - Championship Late Model Association
Sat : Apr 30 - Great American Dirt Track ; Jetmore : KS - MARS DIRTcar Series
Sat : Apr 30 - Great American Dirt Track ; Jetmore : KS - Midwest LateModel Racing Association
Sat : Apr 30 - Great American Dirt Track ; Jetmore : KS – National Championship Racing Association
Sat : Apr 30 - Bluegrass Speedway ; Bardstown : KY - WoO Late Model Series
Sat : Apr 30 - Ark-La-Tex Speedway ; Vivian : LA - Ark-La-Tex Winged Modifieds
Sat : Apr 30 - Beech Ridge Motor Speedway ; Scarboro : ME - PASS Modifieds
Sat : Apr 30 - Beech Ridge Motor Speedway ; Scarboro : ME - PASS North Late Model Series
Sat : Apr 30 - Beech Ridge Motor Speedway ; Scarboro : ME - PASS Sportsman
Sat : Apr 30 - Beech Ridge Motor Speedway ; Scarboro : ME - Pro Four Modfieds of New England
Sat : Apr 30 - Central Missouri Speedway ; Warrensburg : MO - United Late Model Association
Sat : Apr 30 - Lucas Oil Speedway ; Wheatland : MO - POWRI Midgets
Sat : Apr 30 - Lucas Oil Speedway ; Wheatland : MO - United Late Model Association
Sat : Apr 30 - Scotland County Speedway ; Memphis : MO - United Late Model Association
Sat : Apr 30 - Las Vegas Motor Speedway – The Bullring ; Las Vegas : NV - MMRA – Baby Grands
Sat : Apr 30 - The Strip at Las Vegas ; Las Vegas : NV - Super Chevy Show
Sat : Apr 30 - Canaan Speedway ; Canaan : NH - PASS Modifieds
Sat : Apr 30 - Monadnock Speedway ; Winchester : NH - Modified Racing Series of New England
Sat : Apr 30 - Woodhull Raceway ; Woodhull : NY - BRP CanAm Late Model Series
Sat : Apr 30 - Columbus Motor Speedway ; Columbus : OH - Buckeye Super Sprints
Sat : Apr 30 – K-C Raceway ; Chillicothe : OH – All Star Late Model Series
Sat : Apr 30 – Mid America Speedway ; South Coffeyville : OK – Show Me Racing Series
Sat : Apr 30 - West Siloam Speedway ; West Siloam Springs : OK - USMTS Modifieds
Sat : Apr 30 - Cottage Grove Speedway ; Cottage Grove : OR - Northwest Wingless Sprint Tour
Sat : Apr 30 – McKean County Raceway ; East Smethport : PA – United Late Models
Sat : Apr 30 - Roaring Knob Speedway ; Markleysburg : PA - Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series
Sat : Apr 30 - Williams Grove Speedway ; Mechanicsburg : PA - Super Sportsmen
Sat : Apr 30 - Battleground Speedway ; Houston : TX - ASCS / Gulf South Region
Sat : Apr 30 - Shady Oaks Speedway ; Goliad : TX - Dwarf Car Series of Texas
Sat : Apr 30 - Texas World Speedway ; Bryan : TX - National Auto Sport Association
Sat : Apr 30 - Miller Motorsports Park ; Salt Lake City : UT - NASCAR Camping World West Series
Sat : Apr 30 - Miller Motorsports Park ; Salt Lake City : UT - SCCA Trans-Am Series
Sat : Apr 30 - Miller Motorsports Park ; Salt Lake City : UT - SCCA World Challenge
Sat : Apr 30 - Virginia Int Raceway ; Danville : VA - Skip Barber National Series
Sat : Apr 30 - Virginia Int Raceway ; Danville : VA - Skip Barber Regional Series
Sat : Apr 30 - Beaver Dam Raceway ; Beaver Dam : WI - Interstate Racing Association
Sat : Apr 30 - Madison Int Speedway ; Oregon : WI - ASA Midwest Tour
Sat : Apr 30 - Plymouth Dirt Track ; Plymouth : WI - Wisconsin Dirt Late Model Association
Sun : May 1 - Firebird Raceway ; Chandler : AZ - NHRA Lucas Oil Series
Sun : May 1 - Yavapai Downs ; Prescott Valley : AZ - AMA Grand National Series
Sun : May 1 - Auto Club Speedway ; Fontana : CA - Vintage Auto Racing Association
Sun : May 1 - Mazda Raceway at Laguna Seca ; Monterrey : CA - Historic Sportscar Racing West
Sun : May 1 - Stafford Motor Speedway ; Stafford Springs : CT - NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour
Sun : May 1 - Road Atlanta ; Braselton : GA - Historic Sportscar Racing East
Sun : May 1 - Road Atlanta ; Braselton : GA - Mazda MX-5 Cup
Sun : May 1 - Salem Speedway ; Salem : IN - ARCA Late Models
Sun : May 1 - Winchester Speedway ; Winchester : IN - CRA Super Series
Sun : May 1 - Iowa Speedway ; Newton : IA - ChumpCar World Series
Sun : May 1 - Great American Dirt Track ; Jetmore : KS - Championship Late Model Association
Sun : May 1 - Great American Dirt Track ; Jetmore : KS - MARS DIRTcar Series
Sun : May 1 - Great American Dirt Track ; Jetmore : KS - Midwest LateModel Racing Association
Sun : May 1 - Monett Speedway ; Monett : MO - USMTS Modifieds
Sun : May 1 - Las Vegas Motor Speedway – The Bullring ; Las Vegas : NV - MMRA – Baby Grands
Sun : May 1 - The Strip at Las Vegas ; Las Vegas : NV - Super Chevy Show
Sun : May 1 - Little Rock Speedway ; Rockingham : NC - INEX Legend Cars
Sun : May 1 - Rockingham Raceway Park ; Rockingham : NC - Allison Legacy Race Series
Sun : May 1 - Millstream Speedway ; Findlay : OH - Michigan Traditional Sprints
Sun : May 1 - Mountain Speedway ; Hazeltown : PA - ATQMRA TQ Midgets
Sun : May 1 - Cycle Ranch ; San Antonio : TX - The Off-Road Championship Series
Sun : May 1 - Texas World Speedway ; Bryan : TX - National Auto Sport Association
Sun : May 1 - Miller Motorsports Park ; Salt Lake City : UT - SCCA Trans-Am Series
Sun : May 1 - Miller Motorsports Park ; Salt Lake City : UT - SCCA World Challenge
Sun : May 1 - Thunder Road International Speedbowl ; Barrie : VT - ACT US Tour
Sun : May 1 - Virginia International Raceway ; Danville : VA - Skip Barber National Series
Sun : May 1 - Virginia International Raceway ; Danville : VA - Skip Barber Regional Series
Sun : May 1 - Madison International Speedway ; Oregon : WI - ASA Midwest Tour
Mon : May 2 - Watkins Glen International ; Watkins Glen : NY - National Auto Sport Association
Tue : May 3 - Watkins Glen International ; Watkins Glen : NY - National Auto Sport Association
Thu : May 5 - Heart O Texas Speedway ; Waco : TX - USMTS Modifieds

Mike Neff is a Senior Writer for Frontstretch.com.  He can be reached via email at mike.neff@frontstretch.com.

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TODAY ON THE FRONTSTRETCH:

When It's Not About the Racing, the Racing Community Is at its Best
by Amy Henderson

Four Burning Questions: Thoughts to Trevor, Denny's Drama and NASCAR Momentum
by Mike Lovecchio

Regan Smith Driver Diary: Meeting a True Hero and Surviving Tally
by Regan Smith

NASCAR's Fan Council Canceled by Fan
by Jeff Meyer

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FRONTSTRETCH TRIVIA:
 
Q:
  If you've been reading either Frontstretch, or the Frontstretch Newsletter this week, then you've noticed a lot of articles about Cup drivers in the Nationwide Series.  It was generally viewed as a positive move designed to get more track time.  However, some drivers have paid the price for their double-dipping in the past.  Examples of this include Ernie Irvan suffering what amounted to a career-ending injury in his own Busch car at Michigan in August 1999, and Steve Park's infamous injury at Darlington in September 2001.

At Richmond, Johnny Benson suffered an injury that put him out of the car for a few races while driving in the Busch race in 2002.  What happened?

Check back Monday for the answer, here in the Frontstretch Newsletter!
 
Thursday's Answer:
 
Q:  In the 2000 Pontiac Excitement 400, Geoff Bodine made his return to the Winston Cup Series after recovering from injuries suffered in his infamous crash at Daytona.  Bodine ran well during the race, but eventually had to take relief.  Who relieved him and what happened to Bodine's No. 60 Power Team Chevrolet after Bodine stepped out of the car?
 
A:  Geoff Bodine was relieved by his younger brother, Todd.  Todd had already crashed the No. 91 Chevrolet for LJ Racing (in what turned out to be the team's final start in the series) earlier in the event and had nothing to do.

Geoff gave it his all, but simply ran out of energy late in the race, forcing Joe Bessey Motorsports to find relief for Geoff.  Todd stepped up and the change was made under green.  Changing drivers under green cost the Power Team No. 60 three laps.  However, with the help of cautions (and no Lucky Dogs, since they did not exist at the time), Todd got the No. 60 back on the lead lap and drove it to a 13th-place finish behind winner Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

 
Frontstretch Trivia Guarantee: Take the shirt off our backs! If we've provided an incorrect answer to the Frontstretch Trivia question, be the first to email the corrected trivia answer to trivia@frontstretch.com and we'll send you a Frontstretch T-Shirt ... FREE!

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Coming Monday in the Frontstretch Newsletter:
-- Matthew and Daniel Hansen 400 Race Recap by TBA
-- Big Six: Matthew and Daniel Hansen 400 by Amy Henderson
-- Links to your favorite Frontstretch articles, and more!
 
Monday on the Frontstretch:

Matt McLaughlin's Thinkin' Out Loud: Matthew and Daniel Hansen 400 by Matt McLaughlin
Matt will be here with his overall thoughts about the action from Saturday night's action from Richmond.

Monday Morning Tear-Down by Bryan Davis Keith
Bryan takes a look at the biggest story from the weekend and analyzes it without pulling any punches.

Bowles-Eye View by Tom Bowles
Tom brings back his weekly post-race commentary with all of the insight you need from a weekend of racing at Richmond.

Running Their Mouth: Matthew and Daniel Hansen 400 by Brody Jones
Did he really say that?  You bet he did! Brody brings you the most interesting, unusual, and downright crazy quotes to come from the drivers after Saturday night's race from Richmond.
 
Bubble Breakdown by Dave Thompson
Dave takes a look at the backmarkers battling for the 35th and final "locked in" spot and sees how their performances pay off at Richmond.

Nationwide Series Breakdown: Bubba Burger 250 by Bryan Davis Keith
Bryan has all the post-race analysis you need after Friday night's Nationwide Series race from Richmond.

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* Calvin's Rare Entries Quiz #1 - RESULTS - 8 messages, 5 authors
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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
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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.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

* 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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TOPIC: HOT VIDEOS 2 HOT PEOPLE AND ACTRESSES NEVER SEEN PHOTOS
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Thurs, Apr 28 2011 11:09 pm
From: cdcdc

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