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* Calvin's Quiz #117 - 4 messages, 4 authors
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TOPIC: Calvin's Quiz #117
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/18c0759e56fb6cca?hl=en
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== 1 of 4 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 12 2011 7:19 pm
From: swp
On Apr 12, 7:18 pm, Calvin <cal...@phlegm.com> wrote:
> 1 Which two nations compete for rugby union's Bledisloe Cup
australia and .. new zealand?
> 2 What is supposedly the only object that a werewolf is vulnerable to?
silver bullet (although beheading it or throwing it into a vat of acid
would probably ruin its day as well)
> 3 Which British actor is married to supermodel Miranda Kerr?
orlando 'you lucky bastard' bloom
> 4 Which present day country was once known as Formosa?
taiwan
> 5 Which Caribbean nation produces Red Stripe beer?
jamaica
> 6 In a standard modern orchestra, what is the smallest woodwind instrument?
piccolo
> 7 In which card game can a player score "one for his knob"?
egyptian rat screw (ok, mark will know it's cribbage, but I like this
game better)
> 8 Before marrying Paul, Linda McCartney worked in which field of the arts?
papparazzi?
> 9 Which movie studio created Bugs Buggy?
bugs buggy .. that was a volkswagon. bugs bunny, on the other hand,
was a warner brothers cartoon.
> 10 Which fruit is the main ingredient of a Warldorf salad?
in a waldorf salad, it's apple
swp, who believes that people who spell worse than he does shouldn't
be allowed to
== 2 of 4 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 12 2011 9:06 pm
From: Jeffrey Turner
On 4/12/2011 7:18 PM, Calvin wrote:
>
> 1 Which two nations compete for rugby union's Bledisloe Cup?
> 2 What is supposedly the only object that a werewolf is vulnerable to?
> 3 Which British actor is married to supermodel Miranda Kerr?
> 4 Which present day country was once known as Formosa?
taiwan
> 5 Which Caribbean nation produces Red Stripe beer?
jamaica
> 6 In a standard modern orchestra, what is the smallest woodwind instrument?
> 7 In which card game can a player score "one for his knob"?
cribbage
> 8 Before marrying Paul, Linda McCartney worked in which field of the arts?
> 9 Which movie studio created Bugs Buggy?
warner bros.
> 10 Which fruit is the main ingredient of a Warldorf salad?
apple
--jeff
--
Money to get power;
Power to protect money.
--Medici family motto
== 3 of 4 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 12 2011 11:54 pm
From: Dan Tilque
Calvin wrote:
>
> 1 Which two nations compete for rugby union's Bledisloe Cup?
England Wales
> 2 What is supposedly the only object that a werewolf is vulnerable to?
silver bullets
> 3 Which British actor is married to supermodel Miranda Kerr?
> 4 Which present day country was once known as Formosa?
Taiwan
> 5 Which Caribbean nation produces Red Stripe beer?
Jamaica
> 6 In a standard modern orchestra, what is the smallest woodwind
> instrument?
flute
> 7 In which card game can a player score "one for his knob"?
cribbage
> 8 Before marrying Paul, Linda McCartney worked in which field of the
> arts?
dance
> 9 Which movie studio created Bugs Buggy?
Warner Brothers
> 10 Which fruit is the main ingredient of a Warldorf salad?
apple
--
Dan Tilque
== 4 of 4 ==
Date: Wed, Apr 13 2011 12:40 am
From: "Peter Smyth"
"Calvin" <calvin@phlegm.com> wrote in message
news:op.vtuloys6yr33d7@04233-jyhzp1s.staff.ad.bond.edu.au...
>
> 1 Which two nations compete for rugby union's Bledisloe Cup?
Australia & New Zealand
> 2 What is supposedly the only object that a werewolf is vulnerable to?
Silver
> 3 Which British actor is married to supermodel Miranda Kerr?
> 4 Which present day country was once known as Formosa?
Taiwan
> 5 Which Caribbean nation produces Red Stripe beer?
Jamaica
> 6 In a standard modern orchestra, what is the smallest woodwind
> instrument?
Piccolo
> 7 In which card game can a player score "one for his knob"?
Cribbage
> 8 Before marrying Paul, Linda McCartney worked in which field of the
> arts?
Photography
> 9 Which movie studio created Bugs Buggy?
Warner Bros
> 10 Which fruit is the main ingredient of a Warldorf salad?
Apple
Peter Smyth
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TOPIC: Rare Entries DJT01 ANSWERS
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/257e813261ae8732?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 12 2011 8:46 pm
From: Dan Tilque
gerson wrote:
> "Dan Tilque" <dtilque@frontier.com> wrote
>
>> 7. Name an organized sport that has goals but no goalkeepers. Note that "goal" here refers to a stationary physical object used in
>> the scoring of points for the game, not as a synonym of "objective".
>>
>> 1 netball
>
> google
> netball goalkeeper
>
> shows "netball" actually does have a goalkeeper !
>
You're right. The only thing I knew about netball was that it was sort
of a variant of basketball. So I figured it had roughly the same
positions. This, it turns out, is incorrect.
As far as the other issue, I've decided that all synonyms of names will
be treated as correct but different. This will only apply to this
contest. I'll have a new rule for them on the next one.
I'll have an updated scoring soon.
--
Dan Tilque
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 12 2011 11:40 pm
From: Dan Tilque
Here's the revised scores. These changes are reflected here:
1. When an item asked for a name, all synonyms are considered correct
but different. This changed #0, #3, and #9.
2. Non-Western chess pieces are wrong on #3.
3. Netball is a wrong answer on #7.
Alan Curry and John Gerson are still in first and second places, but
Mark Brader is now tied for 3rd with Nick Selwyn.
Read in monospaced font to get proper alignment.
ALAN CURRY JOHN GERSON
0 Venus 0 Mars
1 zinc 1 iron
2 Sea of Sardinia 2 Sea of Sicily
3 bishop 3 king
4 Spain 4 Hungary
5 New Ireland Province 5 Paraná
6 John C. Calhoun 6 Thomas Jefferson
7 Skee-ball 7 archery
8 mountain lion 8 painter
9 brass knuckles 9 copper (boiler)
NICK SELWYN MARK BRADER
0 Venus 0 Venus
1 nickel 1 silver
2 Sea of Crisis 2 Sea of Azov
3 knight 3 rook
4 UK 4 Spain
5 Papua New Guinea 5 Simbu, Papua New Guinea
6 Grover Cleveland 6 Thomas Jefferson
7 rugby 7 Canadian football
8 catamount 8 panther
9 steel (flint &) 9 branding iron
Here's the complete table of scores. Those with * following their names
have changed scores.
Total Q0 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9
160 4 2 1 5 2 1 1 1 2 1 Alan Curry
216 1 3 1 3 2 2 3 1 1 2 John Gerson
288 4 1 1 3 2 1 1 3 4 1 Nick Selwyn
288 4 1 4 1 2 1 3 1 3 1 Mark Brader *
384 3 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 Garmt de Vries *
480 1 2 1 3 2 1 2 2 5 2 Calvin
800 1 2 4 1 2 5 1 1 W 1 Roy (rthearle@hotmail.com) *
1536 4 2 1 3 2 2 2 2 4 1 Lieven Marchand *
1536 W 3 1 2 2 1 2 2 4 1 Sam Buttrey *
1800 1 W 1 5 W 2 1 1 5 1 Peter Smyth
4800 4 1 4 3 2 5 2 1 5 1 Haran Pilpel
5400 4 3 1 3 2 5 1 3 5 1 Joseph P *
5760 W 3 4 5 1 1 1 W 1 2 Erland Sommarskog *
6480 4 W 1 3 3 5 1 2 3 1 Kevin Stone *
14580 3 W 1 5 3 2 1 3 3 3 Rob Parker
23040 4 2 1 3 2 5 2 W 4 2 Bruce Bowler *
24300 3 3 1 5 3 2 W 3 5 1 Lejonel Norling
43200 W 3 1 W 1 W 3 1 1 W Stephen Perry *
Only the scoring for items 0, 3, 7, and 9 changed, but I'll include them
all for your convenience.
0. Name a Solar System body that a spacecraft has orbited.
4 Earth
4 Venus
3 Saturn
1 Mars
1 Moon
1 Sun
1 Terra
Wrong
1 Io
1 Titan
1 Vesta
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1. Give a chemical element that is an intentional constituent of a coin
issued by a national government since 1950. The coin must have been
issued for circulation, not for collectors or investment purposes.
'Intentional' is meant to rule out various trace elements that are
virtually impossible to remove from metal; the element must be one that
is desired by the makers to be in the coin. Yapese Rai stones, which are
sometimes called coins, are excluded from this question.
3 aluminum
3 iron
2 carbon
2 copper
2 zinc
1 chromium
1 nickel
1 silver
Wrong
1 lead
1 niobium
1 ruthenium
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2. Give the name of a cartographic feature whose English name is of the
form "Sea of Xxxx".
4 Sea of Azov
1 Sea of Crete
1 Sea of Crisis
1 Sea of Galilee
1 Sea of Marmara
1 Sea of Moisture (Mare Humorum)
1 Sea of Muscovy
1 Sea of Okhotsk
1 Sea of Oman
1 Sea of Rhûn
1 Sea of Sardinia
1 Sea of Showers
1 Sea of Sicily
1 Sea of Vapours
1 Sea of William Henry Smith
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3. Give the English name for a chess piece. Note that pawns are not
considered to be pieces in chess.
5 bishop
3 king
3 knight
+ 1 white queen's knight
3 queen
2 castle
1 rook
Wrong
1 elephant
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4. Name a country the United States has officially declared war on.
3 Italy
2 Austria-Hungary
2 Bulgaria
2 Hungary
2 Japan
2 Spain
2 United Kingdom
1 Germany
1 Romania
Wrong
1 Dominican Republic
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5. Name a country or state/province whose official flag contains an
asterism. That is, it has an arrangement of stars which intentionally
mimics that of a star pattern in the sky.
5 New Zealand
2 Australia
2 Paraná, Brazil
2 Victoria, Australia
1 Alaska, USA
1 New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea
1 Niue
1 Papua New Guinea
1 Simbu, Papua New Guinea
1 Tierra del Fuego, Antárida y las Islas del Atlántico Sur, Argentina
Wrong
1 Tuvalu
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6. Name a US President or Vice President whom a city was named after.
The city must have a population of at least 10,000.
[The largest city named after the person is in parens after the name.]
3 Thomas Jefferson (Jefferson City MO)
2 Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln NE)
2 James Monroe (Monrovia, Liberia)
2 John Tyler (Tyler TX)
1 John Quincy Adams (Quincy IL)
1 John C Calhoun (Calhoun GA)
1 Grover Cleveland (Cleveland MS)
1 Andrew Jackson (Jacksonville FL)
1 William McKinley (McKinleyville CA)
1 William Howard Taft (Taft, Eastern Samar, Philippines)
1 Martin van Buren (Van Buren AR)
1 George Washington (Washington DC)
Wrong
1 Mariano Acosta (Vice President of Argentina)
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7. Name an organized sport that has goals but no goalkeepers. Note that
"goal" here refers to a stationary physical object used in the scoring
of points for the game, not as a synonym of "objective".
3 Australian Rules football
3 rugby
+ 2 union rugby
+ + 1 rugby sevens
2 korfball
2 polo
1 archery
1 beach basketball
1 Canadian football
1 hurling
1 Skeeball
1 wheelchair rugby league
Wrong
1 golf
1 netball (has goalkeeper)
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8. Give a common (uncapitalized) English term which is sometimes used to
refer to Puma concolor (a.k.a. Felis concolor). The term may be either
single word or multiple word, but terms that differ from each other only
by minor spelling variation, spaces, hyphens, apostrophes, or other
punctuation will be considered the same.
5 puma
4 catamount
3 panther
2 mountain lion
1 devil cat
1 mountain cat
1 painter
Wrong
1 Indian devil (capitalized term)
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9. Some things get their name from the material they are (or were)
typically made from. Examples are drinking glasses and eyeglasses (even
though eyeglasses are now usually made from acrylic). Name something of
this category where the material is some sort of metal.
3 copper
+ 2 copper (vessel for doing laundry)
2 tin can
1 branding iron
1 brass knuckles
1 copperplate
1 flat iron
1 iron maiden
1 irons (golf clubs)
1 lead pencil
1 nickel (coin)
1 steel (flint and steel)
1 tin
1 tin-tack
1 waffle iron
Wrong
1 copper bottom deal
--
Dan Tilque
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TOPIC: QFTCI5GNM Game 10 Rounds 2-3: -ologies, road to WW2
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 12 2011 9:04 pm
From: Jeffrey Turner
On 4/10/2011 11:50 PM, Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2010-12-06,
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
> both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
> Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,
> based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
> the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
> the correct answers in about 3 days. For further information see
> my 2010-11-16 companion posting on "Five Guys Named Moe Questions
> from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI5GNM)".
>
> All questions were written by members of Five Guys Named Moe,
> and are used here by permission, but have been reformatted and
> may have been retyped and/or edited by me. (This also applies
> to the last question set of Game 9, where I accidentally omitted
> this paragraph.)
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 2 - Science - -Ologies
>
> We'll give you a medical specialty; you name the body part that
> is the focus of that specialty.
>
> 1. Otology.
ears
> 2. Osteology.
bones
> 3. Enterology.
intestines
> 4. Gastrology.
stomach
> 5. Heparology.
liver
> 6. Nephrology.
kidneys
> 7. Hysterology.
uterus
> 8. Arthrology.
joints
> 9. Chondrology.
blood vessels
> 10. Stomatology.
pores
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 3 - History - The Road to World War II
>
> World War II began on September 1, 1939, when the Nazis invaded
> Poland, but there were many signposts along the way to tell the
> world what was coming.
>
> 1. Neville Chamberlain takes all the flak for the signing of
> the Munich Pact, but what other Allied leader also signed it?
Petain
>
> 2. In July 1936, when the Spanish Civil War broke out, General
> Franco was rebelling against which duly elected president
> of the Second Spanish Republic?
>
> 3. During September 1931, the Imperial Japanese army invaded
> which Chinese state?
Manchuria
>
> 4. In October of 1935, what nation was invaded by Italy?
Ethiopia
>
> 5. Who was chancellor of Germany prior to Hitler and served as
> his first vice-chancellor in 1933 and 1934?
>
> 6. What were the anti-Semitic laws passed by the Nazis in
> 1935 called?
>
> 7. In 1933 the Nazis established the first concentration camp.
> Which one?
>
> 8. Name the paramilitary group that was instrumental in
> Mussolini's rise to power in Italy.
brown shirts
>
> 9. What event was triggered by the assassination of German
> diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a German-born
> Polish Jew, in Paris, France?
>
> 10. Hitler's initial attempt to take power in Germany is
> generally known as what?
beer hall putsch
--jeff
--
Money to get power;
Power to protect money.
--Medici family motto
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TOPIC: Rotating Quiz #11
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 12 2011 9:12 pm
From: Jeffrey Turner
On 4/10/2011 3:34 PM, Mark Brader wrote:
> Post your answers in this thread, based only on your own knowledge.
> You have 5 days from the instant of posting to answer. This time
> spelling counts -- misspell a correct answer and you only get a
> half-point.
>
> As in QFTCI, please place each answer on a separate line after
> quoting the corresponding question.
>
> 1. What surname was shared by two US presidents and a star
> player who retired from basketball in 1996?
johnson
>
> 2. What name is shared by another retired basketball star of
> similar fame, the Green Lantern's secret identity (in some
> versions), a river, and a country?
jordan
>
> 3. When TV viewers first heard of this alien species, they were
> enemies of humanity, serving in some stories as an analogue
> for the Communist bloc. In later years they were an ally
> of humans, noble warriors with a strong sense of loyalty
> despite some savage tendencies and customs -- and they looked
> very different. What species was this? (Give the singular.)
klingon
>
> 4. This former Soviet republic is very familiar to fans of
> geography quizzes at www.sporcle.com. Its capital is Bishkek,
> and if "Wheel of Fortune" rules are used, then its 3-syllable
> name contains only one vowel. Name the country.
kyrgyzstan
>
> 5. What unit of measure is equal to roundly 950 ml or 1,150 ml
> depending on which English-speaking country you live in?
quart
>
> 6. What 14-letter adjective means "most perfectly typical" and
> has an etymology referring to the "fifth element" supposed
> to exist in addition to earth, fire, wind, and water?
quintessential
>
> 7. What noble gas has atomic number 54 and shares the first
> part of its name with a company formerly known as Blackwater?
xenon
>
> 8. What name, which might be said to fit the pattern of the
> quiz in two places, was first made famous by two Persian
> kings of the 5th century BC?
xerxes
>
> 9. Mildred Didrikson achieved great success in various sports,
> but died of cancer in her 40s. What was her married name?
zaharias
>
> 10. This name of a Greek letter also forms a component of the
> name of an Oscar-winning actress whose husband is a much
> older Oscar-winner. What is it?
zeta
--jeff
--
Money to get power;
Power to protect money.
--Medici family motto
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 12 2011 11:02 pm
From: "Rob Parker"
> 1. What surname was shared by two US presidents and a star
> player who retired from basketball in 1996?
Johnson
> 2. What name is shared by another retired basketball star of
> similar fame, the Green Lantern's secret identity (in some
> versions), a river, and a country?
Jordan
> 3. When TV viewers first heard of this alien species, they were
> enemies of humanity, serving in some stories as an analogue
> for the Communist bloc. In later years they were an ally
> of humans, noble warriors with a strong sense of loyalty
> despite some savage tendencies and customs -- and they looked
> very different. What species was this? (Give the singular.)
Klingon
> 4. This former Soviet republic is very familiar to fans of
> geography quizzes at www.sporcle.com. Its capital is Bishkek,
> and if "Wheel of Fortune" rules are used, then its 3-syllable
> name contains only one vowel. Name the country.
Kazakhstan
> 5. What unit of measure is equal to roundly 950 ml or 1,150 ml
> depending on which English-speaking country you live in?
Quart
> 6. What 14-letter adjective means "most perfectly typical" and
> has an etymology referring to the "fifth element" supposed
> to exist in addition to earth, fire, wind, and water?
Quintessential
> 7. What noble gas has atomic number 54 and shares the first
> part of its name with a company formerly known as Blackwater?
Xenon
> 8. What name, which might be said to fit the pattern of the
> quiz in two places, was first made famous by two Persian
> kings of the 5th century BC?
Xerxes
> 9. Mildred Didrikson achieved great success in various sports,
> but died of cancer in her 40s. What was her married name?
no idea
> 10. This name of a Greek letter also forms a component of the
> name of an Oscar-winning actress whose husband is a much
> older Oscar-winner. What is it?
Zeta
Rob
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