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* Calvin's Quiz #122 - ANSWERS & SCORES - 1 messages, 1 author
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* Calvin's Quiz #123 - 2 messages, 2 authors
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* Rotating Quiz #14 - ANSWERS & SCORES - 1 messages, 1 author
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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 1 ==
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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TOPIC: Calvin's Quiz #123
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/42ab5fe9d06f78cb?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Sat, May 7 2011 1:47 pm
From: Pete
Calvin <calvin@phlegm.com> wrote in
news:op.vu1c31tdyr33d7@04233-jyhzp1s.staff.ad.bond.edu.au:
>
> 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 like a Nautilus
> 3 The Giant's Causeway is a popular tourist attraction in which
> part of the UK?
Scotland
> 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?
Keaton
> 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?
Cricket
> 9 What nationality were the 1990s pop duo Roxette?
German
> 10 Which tennis player was stabbed in Hamburg in 1993?
Seles
>
Pete
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Sat, May 7 2011 10:46 pm
From: Dan Tilque
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?
tube?
> 3 The Giant's Causeway is a popular tourist attraction in which part
> of the UK?
Wales
> 4 Which Beatle was featured in the 2009 biopic Nowhere Boy?
Ringo?
> 5 When asked what she wore on her wedding night, what did Marilyn
> Monroe famously reply?
perfume
> 6 Which actress starred in the Purple Rose of Cairo and Broadway
> Danny Rose?
> 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?
German
> 10 Which tennis player was stabbed in Hamburg in 1993?
Steffi Graf
--
Dan Tilque
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TOPIC: Rotating Quiz #14 - ANSWERS & SCORES
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/f9f42edad3e55965?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sat, May 7 2011 4:09 pm
From: "Rob Parker"
"Rob Parker" <NO robpparker SPAM @ FOR optusnet.com.au ME> wrote in message news:4dbe4f12$0$13392$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
> Here is the next in the Rotating Quiz series. Post your answers to the
> group, based on your own knowledge (ie. no looking things up). The answers
> and winner will be revealed in about 5 days from now. This time, there's no
> theme - but there is a slight Australian bias ;-)
>
> 1. Which 'Big ... ' tourist icon is located just north of Coff's Harbour?
... Banana
No points for (sort of) knowing that Coff's Harbour is on the north coast of New South Wales.
> 2. Who writes the Discworld novels?
Sir Terry Pratchett
> 3. What place holds the record for the highest recorded temperature in
> Australia?
Oodnadatta
On 2 Jan 1960 a temperature of 50.7 C (123 F) was recorded.
"Some hellhole in the outback", although correct, is not specific enough ;-)
> 4. Who was the Australian Nobel laureate whose award related to the
> development of penicillin?
Howard Florey
He shared the prize with (Scot) Alexander Fleming and (German-born Brit) Ernst Chain.
> 5. In the IT world, what does the acronym WAIS stand for?
Wide Area Information Server/Service
Western Australian Institute of Sport does fit the them, but not the criteria in the question. System is close enough by me.
> 6. Which is the least successful Australian Football League team?
Gold Coast Suns
The new team on the block this year, with a spectacularly bad season thus far.
> 7. What was the (unofficial) theme song of the 1983 Australia II America's
> Cup team?
Down Under, by Men At Work.
In 2010, the Federal Court ruled that the flute riff had been pinched from a 1935 song "Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree".
> 8. Who announced his retirement from cricket commentary in February 2009?
Richie Benaud.
Despite the announcement, Benaud is still very much involved in Channel Nine's cricket broadcasts, albeit less as an actual commentator these days.
> 9. Where is the lowest point in Australia?
Lake Eyre.
Not accepting GBR - to do so would mean that many of the world's countries (all those on a coast) have land below sea level, which is not widely accepted. 0.5 for Stephen, who wanted a bit both ways.
> 10. Who was/is the shortest serving Australian Prime Minister?
Frank Forde.
His term of 8 days, following the death of John Curtin in 1945, was shorter than the 3 weeks of John ("Black Jack") McEwen following the disappearance of Harold Holt while swimming at Portsea in 1967.
Scores
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 Total
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 John Masters
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 Peter Smyth
0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 .5 1 5.5 SWP
1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 7 Calvin
0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 Marc Dashevsky
0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 Dan Tilque
And the winner is ... Peter Smyth, who was betting on Calvin to win ... which he did, narrowly, from Stephen.
So now it's over to Calvin for the next in this series.
Thanks all for participating,
Rob
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