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* Calvin's Quiz #123 - 5 messages, 5 authors
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* Calvin's Quiz #122 - ANSWERS & SCORES - 5 messages, 3 authors
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TOPIC: Calvin's Quiz #123
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/42ab5fe9d06f78cb?hl=en
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== 1 of 5 ==
Date: Fri, May 6 2011 12:30 am
From: Erland Sommarskog
Rob Parker (NOSPAMrobpparker@optusnet.com.au.FORME) writes:
>> 3 The Giant's Causeway is a popular tourist attraction in which part of
>> the UK?
>
> Ireland
Oops!
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
== 2 of 5 ==
Date: Fri, May 6 2011 5:30 am
From: Bruce Bowler
On Fri, 06 May 2011 11:29:51 +1000, Calvin set fingers to keyboard and
typed:
> 1 A Night at the Opera and A Day at the races were 1970s albums for
> which rock band?
Queen
> 2 What shape is the human cochlea?
It's a spiral
> 3 The Giant's Causeway is a popular tourist attraction in which part
> of the UK?
Northern Ireland
> 4 Which Beatle was featured in the 2009 biopic Nowhere Boy?
Lennon
> 5 When asked what she wore on her wedding night, what did Marilyn
> Monroe famously reply?
OMG!
> 6 Which actress starred in the Purple Rose of Cairo and Broadway
> Danny Rose?
Mia Farrow?
> 7 Which breed of dog is also a Mexican state?
Chihuahua
> 8 What creature was found in a ginger beer bottle in the landmark
> 1931 tort law case of Donoghue v Stevenson?
Mr Gosling, and thus was born the "Dark and Stormy"
> 9 What nationality were the 1990s pop duo Roxette?
Swedish
> 10 Which tennis player was stabbed in Hamburg in 1993?
Monica Seles
--
Bruce
== 3 of 5 ==
Date: Fri, May 6 2011 10:24 am
From: John Masters
On 2011-05-06 02:29:51 +0100, Calvin said:
> 1 A Night at the Opera and A Day at the races were 1970s albums for
> which rock band?
Queen
> 2 What shape is the human cochlea?
Hammer shaped
> 3 The Giant's Causeway is a popular tourist attraction in which part of the UK?
Northern Ireland
> 4 Which Beatle was featured in the 2009 biopic Nowhere Boy?
John Lennon
> 5 When asked what she wore on her wedding night, what did Marilyn
> Monroe famously reply?
Nothing?
> 6 Which actress starred in the Purple Rose of Cairo and Broadway Danny Rose?
> 7 Which breed of dog is also a Mexican state?
Chiuahaua (Sorry about the spelling)
> 8 What creature was found in a ginger beer bottle in the landmark 1931
> tort law case of Donoghue v Stevenson?
Cockroach
> 9 What nationality were the 1990s pop duo Roxette?
German
> 10 Which tennis player was stabbed in Hamburg in 1993?
Graf?
--
I don't like the place at all. It's all wrong. An imposition on the
Landscape. I reckon that Stonehenge was build by the contemporary
equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle.
(Terry Pratchett)
== 4 of 5 ==
Date: Fri, May 6 2011 10:56 am
From: "Chris F.A. Johnson"
On 2011-05-06, Calvin wrote:
>
> 1 A Night at the Opera and A Day at the races were 1970s albums for which
> rock band?
Queen
> 2 What shape is the human cochlea?
Spiral
> 3 The Giant's Causeway is a popular tourist attraction in which part of
> the UK?
Northern Ireland
> 4 Which Beatle was featured in the 2009 biopic Nowhere Boy?
> 5 When asked what she wore on her wedding night, what did Marilyn Monroe
> famously reply?
Nothing
> 6 Which actress starred in the Purple Rose of Cairo and Broadway Danny
> Rose?
Mia Farrow
> 7 Which breed of dog is also a Mexican state?
Chihuahua
> 8 What creature was found in a ginger beer bottle in the landmark 1931
> tort law case of Donoghue v Stevenson?
Mouse
> 9 What nationality were the 1990s pop duo Roxette?
> 10 Which tennis player was stabbed in Hamburg in 1993?
Seles
--
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)
== 5 of 5 ==
Date: Fri, May 6 2011 12:54 pm
From: swp
On May 5, 9:29 pm, Calvin <cal...@phlegm.com> wrote:
> 1 A Night at the Opera and A Day at the races were 1970s albums for which
> rock band?
queen
> 2 What shape is the human cochlea?
spiral
> 3 The Giant's Causeway is a popular tourist attraction in which part of
> the UK?
northern ireland
> 4 Which Beatle was featured in the 2009 biopic Nowhere Boy?
john lennon
> 5 When asked what she wore on her wedding night, what did Marilyn Monroe
> famously reply?
nothing (although I'm not sure after which wedding)
> 6 Which actress starred in the Purple Rose of Cairo and Broadway Danny
> Rose?
mia farrow
> 7 Which breed of dog is also a Mexican state?
chihuahua
> 8 What creature was found in a ginger beer bottle in the landmark 1931
> tort law case of Donoghue v Stevenson?
mouse?
> 9 What nationality were the 1990s pop duo Roxette?
they're still swedish
> 10 Which tennis player was stabbed in Hamburg in 1993?
steffi graf?
swp
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TOPIC: Calvin's Quiz #122 - ANSWERS & SCORES
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/33efc1dfe11e4338?hl=en
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== 1 of 5 ==
Date: Fri, May 6 2011 10:20 am
From: John Masters
On 2011-05-06 02:26:47 +0100, Calvin said:
> On Wed, 04 May 2011 10:34:42 +1000, Calvin <calvin@phlegm.com> wrote:
>
>
>> 3 Which 4 letter English word reads the same forwards, back & upside
>> down (when written in capitals)?
>
> NOON
> 9/11
> BOOB was a nice try. And Stephen couldn't even give this one in caps :-)
> Try writing NOON upside down and you will see that the N's are wrong.
--
I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a
restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand
Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce.
(Terry Pratchett)
== 2 of 5 ==
Date: Fri, May 6 2011 10:50 am
From: John Masters
On 2011-05-06 18:20:03 +0100, John Masters said:
> On 2011-05-06 02:26:47 +0100, Calvin said:
>
>> On Wed, 04 May 2011 10:34:42 +1000, Calvin <calvin@phlegm.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 3 Which 4 letter English word reads the same forwards, back & upside
>>> down (when written in capitals)?
>>
>> NOON
>> 9/11
>> BOOB was a nice try. And Stephen couldn't even give this one in caps :-)
>
>
>> Try writing NOON upside down and you will see that the N's are wrong.
Here's an example - ᴎooᴎ
--
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box
when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
(Terry Pratchett)
== 3 of 5 ==
Date: Fri, May 6 2011 2:32 pm
From: Erland Sommarskog
John Masters (johnmasters@me.com) writes:
>> Try writing NOON upside down and you will see that the N's are wrong.
I wrote NOON on a piece of paper, and then I rotated that paper. It
still read NOON.
But If I do a vertical flip in my picture-processing program, the N
do indeed change to Cyrillic Is. But that wasn't really the question.
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
== 4 of 5 ==
Date: Fri, May 6 2011 2:48 pm
From: John Masters
On 2011-05-06 22:32:40 +0100, Erland Sommarskog said:
> John Masters (johnmasters@me.com) writes:
>>> Try writing NOON upside down and you will see that the N's are wrong.
>
> I wrote NOON on a piece of paper, and then I rotated that paper. It
> still read NOON.
>
> But If I do a vertical flip in my picture-processing program, the N
> do indeed change to Cyrillic Is. But that wasn't really the question.
It very much depends through which axis you invert it. Through the
vertical axis and yes, it still reads the same but turn it upside down
through the horizontal axis then no.
--
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box
when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
(Terry Pratchett)
== 5 of 5 ==
Date: Fri, May 6 2011 4:04 pm
From: Stan Brown
On Fri, 06 May 2011 11:26:47 +1000, Calvin wrote:
> > 3 Which 4 letter English word reads the same forwards, back & upside
> > down (when written in capitals)?
>
> NOON
> 9/11
> BOOB was a nice try. And Stephen couldn't even give this one in caps :-)
>
I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth, because I answered NOON,
but now we should perhaps note that an upside-down N is not an N. An
N rotated 180 degrees is still an N, but that's not what I think of
as "upside down".
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...
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