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* Calvin's Quiz #121 - 4 messages, 4 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/13cc157c0e0b74e4?hl=en
* Calvin's Rare Entries Quiz #1 - 10 messages, 6 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/d32d06781a0a20d2?hl=en
* Rare Entries contest MSB71 begins - 2 messages, 2 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/9f368f6df23a05af?hl=en
* QFTCI5GNM Final Round 3: Arts & Literature - 3 messages, 3 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/9fe95824c2618833?hl=en
* Rotating Quiz #13, April 26 - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/3d1048954e452b8e?hl=en
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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 4 ==
Date: Wed, Apr 27 2011 12:14 am
From: Erland Sommarskog
Calvin (calvin@phlegm.com) writes:
> 2 To the nearest 10 million, what is the population of Germany?
85 million
> 4 St Basil's Cathedral is located in which European capital city?
London
> 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?
His younger son whose surname also is Kim of course, but I don't remember
his first name. (Which in case of a Koran is the last name.)
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
== 2 of 4 ==
Date: Wed, Apr 27 2011 5:47 am
From: swp
On Apr 26, 8:03 pm, Calvin <cal...@phlegm.com> 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?
85,000,000
> 3 Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd co-starred in which 1999 thriller?
double jeopardy
> 4 St Basil's Cathedral is located in which European capital city?
london?
> 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?
his son, mr. kim the lesser
> 9 In which 1995 Oscar winning film was the title character played by more
> than 40 different cast members?
pulp fiction?
> 10 Which Austrian painted the 1908 work The Kiss?
gustav klimpt?
(too many guesses this time)
swp
== 3 of 4 ==
Date: Wed, Apr 27 2011 10:47 am
From: "Chris F.A. Johnson"
On 2011-04-27, 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?
80 million
> 3 Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd co-starred in which 1999 thriller?
Double Jeopardy
> 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?
Turkey
> 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?
> 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?
Munch
--
Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfajohnson.com>
Author: =======================
Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress)
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
== 4 of 4 ==
Date: Wed, Apr 27 2011 3:01 pm
From: "Rob Parker"
> 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?
Men In Black II (?)
> 4 St Basil's Cathedral is located in which European capital city?
Geneva (?)
> 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?
Turkey (?)
> 7 Which Hindu deity is often depicted as being blue and having four arms?
Vishsnu
> 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?
no idea
> 10 Which Austrian painted the 1908 work The Kiss?
Klimt
Rob (with more than the usual number of WAGs this time around)
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TOPIC: Calvin's Rare Entries Quiz #1
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/d32d06781a0a20d2?hl=en
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== 1 of 10 ==
Date: Wed, Apr 27 2011 1:07 am
From: "Esra Sdrawkcab"
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:06:31 +0100, Erland Sommarskog
<esquel@sommarskog.se> wrote:
> Calvin (calvin@phlegm.com) writes:
>> Enter by emailing your answers and any supporting docs / URLs to
>> 334152[at]gmail.com by midnight Tuesday, 26th April, Gold Coast time
>> (UTC
>> +10 hours).
> In case anyone else missed that Calvin wanted the replies to a completely
> different address, and have problems of getting through to the address
> in his header, the address is above.
>
Isn't Gold Coast now called Ghana?
--
"Nuns! NUNS! Reverse! Reverse!"
== 2 of 10 ==
Date: Wed, Apr 27 2011 3:22 am
From: Dan Tilque
Esra Sdrawkcab wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:06:31 +0100, Erland Sommarskog
> <esquel@sommarskog.se> wrote:
>
>> Calvin (calvin@phlegm.com) writes:
>>> Enter by emailing your answers and any supporting docs / URLs to
>>> 334152[at]gmail.com by midnight Tuesday, 26th April, Gold Coast time
>>> (UTC
>>> +10 hours).
>> In case anyone else missed that Calvin wanted the replies to a completely
>> different address, and have problems of getting through to the address
>> in his header, the address is above.
>>
>
> Isn't Gold Coast now called Ghana?
>
Yes, but it's also a city in Queensland:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Coast,_Queensland
--
Dan Tilque
== 3 of 10 ==
Date: Wed, Apr 27 2011 4:35 am
From: "Esra Sdrawkcab"
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:22:04 +0100, Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>
wrote:
> Esra Sdrawkcab wrote:
>> On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:06:31 +0100, Erland Sommarskog
>> <esquel@sommarskog.se> wrote:
>>
>>> Calvin (calvin@phlegm.com) writes:
>>>> Enter by emailing your answers and any supporting docs / URLs to
>>>> 334152[at]gmail.com by midnight Tuesday, 26th April, Gold Coast time
>>>> (UTC
>>>> +10 hours).
>>> In case anyone else missed that Calvin wanted the replies to a
>>> completely
>>> different address, and have problems of getting through to the address
>>> in his header, the address is above.
>>>
>> Isn't Gold Coast now called Ghana?
>>
>
> Yes, but it's also a city in Queensland:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Coast,_Queensland
but does it have it's own timezone? Anyway, I preferred Tweed Heads.
>
--
"Nuns! NUNS! Reverse! Reverse!"
== 4 of 10 ==
Date: Wed, Apr 27 2011 5:48 am
From: swp
On Apr 14, 10:32 pm, Calvin <cal...@phlegm.com> wrote:
> Enter by emailing your answers and any supporting docs / URLs to
> 334152[at]gmail.com by midnight Tuesday, 26th April, Gold Coast time (UTC
> +10 hours).
>
> And Happy Easter!
I hope you had a happy easter as well.
the contest entry period is now over.
let the bickering begin!
swp
== 5 of 10 ==
Date: Wed, Apr 27 2011 4:01 pm
From: Calvin
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:35:59 +1000, Esra Sdrawkcab <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>>> Isn't Gold Coast now called Ghana?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, but it's also a city in Queensland:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Coast,_Queensland
>
> but does it have it's own timezone? Anyway, I preferred Tweed Heads.
A city doesn't have its own time zone of course, but the problem with
saying "Australian Eastern Time" is that some parts of the east coast have
daylight saving and others don't. Tweed Heads for instance is only 20 km
away but an hour ahead in summer.
--
cheers,
calvin
== 6 of 10 ==
Date: Wed, Apr 27 2011 9:27 pm
From: Calvin
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:32:52 +1000, Calvin <calvin@phlegm.com> wrote:
> I'll have a go at one of these things. There's a fair chance some of
> these questions have not been thought through sufficiently, for which I
> apologise in advance. Constructive feedback is welcome, either via email
> or in this ng after entries close.
>
> The rules will be the same as for Mark's comps, excepting that wrong
> answers will score the number of people who enter, and I may award bonus
> marks (bonus reductions, I guess) for the best answer to each question.
> "Best" will mean whatever I want it to mean, but usually approximates
> "most original".
>
> For those unfamiliar with the game, the object is to find correct
> answers to the 10 questions which have the fewest other people giving
> the same answer and you may use reference materials.
>
> Enter by emailing your answers and any supporting docs / URLs to
> 334152[at]gmail.com by midnight Tuesday, 26th April, Gold Coast time
> (UTC +10 hours).
>
> And Happy Easter!
And the winner is: Mark Brader. Congratulations! The only entrant who
didn't get all answers correct so a worthy winner.
# 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 9 1 2 1 1 1 1 -3 69
3 Kevin Stone 1 1 4 1 1 9 1 1 1 2 72
4 Nick Selwyn 3 1 3 9 2 2 1 1 1 1 324
5 Erland Sommar. 1 1 9 3 1 1 9 2 1 1 -2 484
6 Sam Buttrey 9 1 3 9 1 2 1 1 1 1 486
7 Stephen Perry 2 1 4 9 1 2 9 1 2 1 -1 2591
8 Lieven Marchand 3 2 4 3 2 1 9 2 1 2 5184
9 Roy 3 2 3 9 2 9 2 1 1 1 5832
Mark Brader
1 Mark Taylor
2 Grail
3 Turkmenistan
4 Cricket
5 Griffith
6 Bahrain
7 Rocko
8 Sean Connery
9 Lagos
10 Francium
Dan Tilque
1 Ricky Ponting
2 Midas WWW
3 Kyrgyzstan
4 Marbles
5 New England
6 Kyrgyzstan
7 Sparkster
8 Daniel Craig
9 Brisbane, Aust
10 Lutetium
Kevin Stone
1 Kim Hughes
2 Netscape Navigator 2.02
3 Kyrgyzstan
4 Tennis
5 Charles Sturt
6 Chad
7 Blinky Bill
8 Reg Gadney
9 Douala, Cameroon
10 Polonium
> 1 Name someone who has captained the Australian cricket team in a Test
> match since 1980.
Allan Border 3
Mark Taylor 2
Adam Gilchrist 1
Kim Hughes 1
Ricky Ponting 1
Incorrect
Rob Baker - under age matches are not Test matches, whatever Wikipedia
says. I would have accepted a female Test captain however.
Best Answer (and therefore -1 reduction): Erland for Adam Gilchrist, who
only captained a handful of times while the regular captain was injured.
> 2 Name an Internet browser which has NOT had a new version released in
> the past two years and whose name scores at least 10,000 matches on
> Google.
Mosaic 2
Grail 1
Cello 1
Inktomi 1
Galeon 1
Chameleon 1
Netscape Navigator 2.02 1
Midas WWW 1
I would have considered Netscape Navigator 2.02 equivalent to any other
Netscape browser had anyone else given it.
Best answer: Erland for Chameleon, not to be confused with K-meleon.
> 3 Name a former Soviet republic that ends in "stan".
Kyrgyzstan 4
Tajikistan 3
Turkmenistan 1
Incorrect
Bashkortostan- not a *former* republic.
> 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
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
> 5 Name a current Australian university which incorporates a former CAE
> (College of Advanced Education).
Griffith 2
La Trobe 2
Macquarie 1
Edith Cowan 1
Western Sydney 1
Charles Sturt 1
New England 1
> 6 Name a country in which at least 75% of the population is Muslim and
> whose national flag does NOT contain the colour green.
Kyrgyzstan 2
Qatar 2
Bahrain 1
Kosovo 1
Indonesia 1
Incorrect answers
Albania - 70% Muslim a/c to the CIA fact book
Chad - 53% Muslim a/c to the CIA fact book
Best answer: Stephen and Dan for Kyrgyzstan. Despite the fact that two
players gave this answer I judged it the best as (1) it was also a valid
answer to Q.3 and (2) it is precisely 75% Muslim a/c to the CIA fact book.
> 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
> 8 Name an actor who has portrayed James Bond in a movie.
Roger Moore 2
Sean Connery 1
Bill Caco 1
Timothy Dalton 1
David Niven 1
Danny Murphy 1
Reg Gadney 1
Daniel Craig 1
This question needed to have more caveats, but all of these can be found
on imdb so I allowed them.
> 9 Name a city which is the largest in its country by population but is
> NOT a national capital.
Lagos, Nigeria 2
Guayaquil, Ecuador 1
Sao Paulo, Brazil 1
Toronto, Canada 1
Almaty, Kazakhstan 1
Douala, Cameroon 1
Brisbane, Aust 1
New York, USA 1
Best answer: Dan for Brisbane (as defined by the city boundary, not the
metro area).
> 10 Name an element named after a place.
Polonium 2
Francium 1
Scandium 1
Tellurium 1
Ytterbium 1
Holmium 1
Yttrium 1
Lutetium 1
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.
--
cheers,
calvin
== 7 of 10 ==
Date: Wed, Apr 27 2011 9:31 pm
From: Calvin
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:06:31 +1000, Erland Sommarskog
<esquel@sommarskog.se> wrote:
> Calvin (calvin@phlegm.com) writes:
>> Enter by emailing your answers and any supporting docs / URLs to
>> 334152[at]gmail.com by midnight Tuesday, 26th April, Gold Coast time
>> (UTC
>> +10 hours).
> In case anyone else missed that Calvin wanted the replies to a completely
> different address, and have problems of getting through to the address
> in his header, the address is above.
Apologies if anyone was misled, but calvin@phlegm.com is unlikely to be a
valid address. Bloody spammers....
--
cheers,
calvin
== 8 of 10 ==
Date: Wed, Apr 27 2011 9:58 pm
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)
"Calvin":
> And the winner is: Mark Brader. Congratulations!
Thanks!
> The only entrant who didn't get all answers correct so a worthy winner.
Huh?
Your tabular formatting is broken, by the way.
--
Mark Brader "I cannot reply in French, but I will
Toronto type English very slowly and loudly."
msb@vex.net --Lars Eighner
== 9 of 10 ==
Date: Wed, Apr 27 2011 11:48 pm
From: Dan Tilque
Calvin wrote:
>
>
> And the winner is: Mark Brader. Congratulations! The only entrant who
> didn't get all answers correct so a worthy winner.
I think you mean "did get all answers correct"
>
>> 3 Name a former Soviet republic that ends in "stan".
>
> Kyrgyzstan 4
> Tajikistan 3
> Turkmenistan 1
Interesting that everyone missed Uzbekistan, which is the only other
correct answer.
>
>> 4 Name a sport which I have played competitively (active 42 year
>> old Australian male originally from Brisbane, now living on the Gold
>> Coast).
>
> Marbles - not played competitively
You never played keepsies? That was always competitive.
As far as the table goes, in order to get it lined up, you need to
create it in a text editor with a monospaced font. Use spaces, not tabs,
between columns. Then copy/paste it to whatever editor your newsreader
uses for posts.
--
Dan Tilque
== 10 of 10 ==
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
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TOPIC: Rare Entries contest MSB71 begins
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/9f368f6df23a05af?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Wed, Apr 27 2011 6:48 am
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)
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).
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.
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Wed, Apr 27 2011 3:50 pm
From: pacman@kosh.dhis.org (Alan Curry)
In article <2sKdnQk4UMk7gyXQnZ2dnUVZ_hKdnZ2d@vex.net>,
Mark Brader <msb@vex.net> wrote:
>* 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",
Where did the 27th entrant go, and does he have the bellhop's missing
dollar?
>"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.
25 is right out.
--
Alan Curry
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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: Wed, Apr 27 2011 2:54 pm
From: "Rob Parker"
> ** Final, Round 3 - Arts & Literature
>
> 4. "The Daughter of Time" (1951): CWA #1, MWA #4.
P.D. James (?)
> 5. "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1934): CWA #30, MWA #14.
Dorothy Sayers
> 10. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/fi.03/art/10.jpg
Kandinski
> 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.
Solzenitzhen (almost certainly spelt incorrectly)
> 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
Rob
== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Wed, Apr 27 2011 4:43 pm
From: Marc Dashevsky
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!
--
Go to http://MarcDashevsky.com to send me e-mail.
== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Wed, Apr 27 2011 11:45 pm
From: "Rob Parker"
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!
>
> --
> Go to http://MarcDashevsky.com to send me e-mail.
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TOPIC: Rotating Quiz #13, April 26
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/3d1048954e452b8e?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Wed, Apr 27 2011 5:18 pm
From: "Rob Parker"
> 1. Which German mathematician & astronomer was born in 1777?
Copernicus (?)
> 2.Who directed the film "Se7en"?
>
> 3. In which year was "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" published? I will accept
> either of two answers and a year either side of each.
1930; 1935
> 4. Which artist, probably best known as a singer/songwriter, published in
> 1972 a collection of poetry entitled "Seventh Heaven"?
>
> 5.Of the seven Greek Muses which is the muse of comedy?
Thalia
Note: there are nine muses, which spoils the theme a little ;-)
> 6. Which heavy metal band recorded the album "Seventh Son of a Seventh
> Son"?
Iron Maiden
> 7. What was the nickname of the hair obsessed parking valet in "77 Sunset
> Strip"?
Kookie
> 8. Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Envy, Pride. What's missing?
Wrath
> 9. One of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the Colossus of Rhodes
> is a statue of which Greek God?
Apollo (?)
> 10. Which Roman legend was the basis of a short story by Stephen Vincent
> Benét which itself formed the basis of the film "Seven Brides for Seven
> Brothers"?
Rob
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