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* Rotating Quiz #18 - 2 messages, 2 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/705920394e0d557f?hl=en
* Rare Entries DJT02 - 2 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/fe0cc400d8a37432?hl=en
* QFTCI5GNM Final Round 8: History - 4 messages, 4 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/2c55d20b36bb84fa?hl=en
* Rotating Quiz #17 - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/dd37c336ff98c290?hl=en
* Calvin's Quiz #133 - ANSWERS & SCORES - 4 messages, 2 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/84538de66c772cee?hl=en
* Calvn's Quiz #134 - 5 messages, 5 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/13dce6a488bccef5?hl=en

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TOPIC: Rotating Quiz #18
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/705920394e0d557f?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Sat, Jun 4 2011 10:57 pm
From: "Rob Parker"

> 1. a mutiny occurred aboard what British Royal Navy ship on 28 April
> 1789?

HMS Bounty

> 2. what is the name of lieutenant commander data's evil brother in the
> star trek franchise?
> 3. what is the common abbreviation for c6 h14 n4 o2, an essential
> amino acid?

Lys is the abbreviation; Lysine is its common name

> 4. name the region to the east of central america, north of south
> american and south of north america

The Caribbean

> 5. what current new york mets announcer was also a hall of fame player
> for the pittsburgh pirates?
> 6. what is the title of the French literary folktale written by
> charles perrault
> 7. who played lieutenant theodore groves in the movie pirates of the
> caribbean: at world's end?
> 8. everyone knows that errol flynn played the lead in captain blood,
> but who played colonel bishop?
> 9. what is the only letter in the basic modern latin alphabet in which
> the upper case has a closed section and the lower case does not?

> 10. what is the common short name of the company that produces the
> pirates of the caribbean movies?

Walt Disney

Rob

== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Sun, Jun 5 2011 4:49 pm
From: Calvin

On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:16:24 +1000, swp <stephen.w.perry@gmail.com> wrote:

> 1. a mutiny occurred aboard what British Royal Navy ship on 28 April
> 1789?

The Bounty

> 2. what is the name of lieutenant commander data's evil brother in the
> star trek franchise?

> 3. what is the common abbreviation for c6 h14 n4 o2, an essential
> amino acid?

> 4. name the region to the east of central america, north of south
> american and south of north america

Caribbean

> 5. what current new york mets announcer was also a hall of fame player
> for the pittsburgh pirates?

> 6. what is the title of the French literary folktale written by
> charles perrault

> 7. who played lieutenant theodore groves in the movie pirates of the
> caribbean: at world's end?

Crook?

> 8. everyone knows that errol flynn played the lead in captain blood,
> but who played colonel bishop?

> 9. what is the only letter in the basic modern latin alphabet in which
> the upper case has a closed section and the lower case does not?

> 10. what is the common short name of the company that produces the
> pirates of the caribbean movies?
>
> bonus points are available.

Theodolite

cheers,
calvin

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TOPIC: Rare Entries DJT02
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/fe0cc400d8a37432?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Sun, Jun 5 2011 5:39 am
From: Dan Tilque

Welcome to my second Rare Entries contest. I have several changes from
my first contest.

1. Instead of using Mark's rules, I've come up with my own. They're
shorter than Mark's, but I'll expect I'll be adding more as needed.

2. In my first contest, I followed Mark's practice of having the contest
last 20 days. I found that to be way too long, so I've reduced it to
about two weeks.

3. I'm making this contest be sort of a double contest. I'm doing this
by posting the exact same contest to the Straight Dope Message Board.
I'll score the two separately and, if it doesn't look like too much
work, I'll also score the two as a combined contest. I'd appreciate it
if you refrain from entering both contests.

As usual, reply ONLY BY EMAIL to dtilque@frontier.com DO NOT post
answers to this newsgroup. Anyone who does will be disqualified.

Entries must reach here by 10 p.m. Friday, June 17, 2011 (Pacific
Daylight Time, UTC -7).

Do not include any of the text from this posting with your answers. Just
send a list of your answers numbered from 0 through 9, plus the name you
want to be credited under (a signature is usually sufficient for this).
Make sure that the subject line includes the string "DJT02". Also,
please answer with plain text rather than rich text.

If you really feel you must include text from this contest, then please
top post your answers so that I can see all of them without scrolling.
I'm considering applying a penalty to those who persist in interleaving
their answers.

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0. Name a Solar System body that a spacecraft has landed on or impacted.
Atmospheric probes count as impactors, although flying through the coma
of a comet does not count as an atmospheric probe.

1. Name a current or former capital city which was named for a US President.

2. Name a real person who was not a US president and whose image has
appeared on a US coin issued for circulation. Models used by coin
designers are excluded from this question; only a person that an image
is meant to represent is a valid answer. Coins intended only for
collectors and/or investment purposes are excluded.

3. Name a Great Lake.

4. Give the make or model of an automobile or light truck which has an
astronomical theme. The vehicle does not have to be currently in production.

5. Name an organized sport that has more than one mode of scoring. A
mode of scoring is determined by the number of points (see definition
4.5) scored. All actions that score the same number of points count as a
single mode. Administratively assigned points (e.g. for forfeits or
penalties) do not count as a mode of scoring. Tennis is excluded from
this question; it has only one mode of scoring, but has a funny way of
counting to four.

6. Give a word (definition 4.1) which has the meaning of some shade of
red. Note that pink, orange, and purple are separate colors and not
considered to be a shade of red.

7. Name a prime minister of Canada who served at least 2 years in that
office.

8. Name an album released by the Beatles.

9. Name material that bicycle frames are made of.

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Rules
=====

For each of the items 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.

1.0 Scoring
===========

For each item, the score will be set to how many entrants gave a
particular answer. If someone gives an answer no one else gives, they
score 1; if one other entrant gives that answer, both score 2; etc. Each
entrant's total score will be their ten individual scores multiplied
together. Low score wins.

Wrong answers will score the lesser of (1) twice the highest correct
score for that item and (2) half the total number of participants in the
contest.

2.0 Synonyms
============

Synonymous answers will be treated as the same answer. There are two
exceptions to this:

1) A request for a name or term for a single person or object. These, by
their very nature, will all be synonyms, so obviously it makes no sense
to treat them as the same answer.

2) A request for an English word for something. The item must
specifically request a *word* and not a name or something else.
Otherwise, the phrasing of the item does not make a difference.

3.0 More Specific Variants
==========================

On some items 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 be scored as if the two answers are
different, but the other, less specific variant, will be scored as if
they are the same.

4.0 Definitions
===============

4.1 *word* means a lowercase, solidly-written, English word found in a
general-purpose English dictionary. (The OED, by the way, is not a
general-purpose dictionary; it's a historical dictionary.)

4.2 *term* may be either a single word or multi-word phrase for something.

4.3 *geographic* means something found on maps of Earth or a part
thereof. Fantasy maps or maps of other planets do not count.

4.4 *cartographic* means something found on a map, either fictional or
otherwise. However, the map must have existed before the contest began
and must be accessible on the Internet.

4.5 *point* -- When referring to sports, "point" will be considered a
generic term for any kind of score, no matter if they are called goals,
runs, strokes, etc. by a particular sport.

5.0 Clarifications
==================

Please email any requests for clarification of an item. DO NOT POST them
to the newsgroup/thread. If I agree that one needs to be made, I'll post
a correction and anyone who's already submitted an entry will be allowed
to change their answer for that item.

Please do not discuss the items or possible answers in the
newsgroup/thread. Doing so may result in disqualification.

6.0 Misc
========

Unless specifically stated in an item, there is no penalty for errors of
spelling, capitalization, punctuation, etc. so long as it's clear what
you intended.

If you supply an answer which is incorrect, but related to a correct
answer, then I may, at my own discretion, allow it as if you'd given the
correct answer. For example, if an item asks for a national capital city
with certain characteristics and you submit the name of a country, then
I may consider your entry to be that country's capital. However, don't
count on this; it's not automatic.

Only give one answer per item. If multiple answers are supplied for an
item or multiple sets of answers are submitted, the first one will be
considered your submission and the rest ignored.

Entry
=====

Email all answers to dtilque@frontier.com Do not post them to this
newsgroup/thread. Anyone who does will be disqualified.

Do not include any of the text from this message with your answers. Your
entry should just have a list of ten answers numbered 0 through 9 plus
the name/handle you want to receive credit under. If you absolutely
*must* include text, then do not interleave your answers. Instead,
please top post your answers, so that I can see them in the message
without scrolling down.

Please answer in plain text and not in rich text format.

You should receive an acknowledgement email within a couple days of your
entry.

--
Dan Tilque

== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Sun, Jun 5 2011 1:08 pm
From: Dan Tilque

Dan Tilque wrote:

>
> 5. Name an organized sport that has more than one mode of scoring. A
> mode of scoring is determined by the number of points (see definition
> 4.5) scored. All actions that score the same number of points count as a
> single mode. Administratively assigned points (e.g. for forfeits or
> penalties) do not count as a mode of scoring. Tennis is excluded from
> this question; it has only one mode of scoring, but has a funny way of
> counting to four.

Ammendment to this item:

Target sports are also excluded.

--
Dan Tilque

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TOPIC: QFTCI5GNM Final Round 8: History
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== 1 of 4 ==
Date: Sun, Jun 5 2011 4:26 pm
From: Calvin

On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 02:22:34 +1000, Mark Brader <msb@vex.net> wrote:

> ** Final, Round 8 - History
>
> * African-American Famous Firsts
>
> 1. Who was the first African-American to become a Supreme
> Court justice?

Marshall

> 2. Who was the first African-American Miss America? She had
> to relinquish her crown when nude Penthouse pictures surfaced.

Williams

> 3. Who was the first African-American actress to win an Oscar?
> The year was 1939 and it was for a supporting role in an
> iconic film.

Gone With the Wind presumably but no clue as to the actor.

> * Karl Marx
>
> 4. Prior to "The Communist Manifesto", Marx wrote critiques on
> the works of what German philosopher?

Kant

> 5. With whom did Marx co-write "The Communist Manifesto"?

Engels

> 6. Marx's great work, published in three volumes (two of them
> posthumous), is titled what?

LOL. I thought it *was* The Communist Manifesto.

> * Famous Last Words
>
> The following are said to be the dying words of famous people, and
> while some quotes may be in dispute, these are generally identified
> with these people. Name the speaker.
>
> 7. Died in 1900 at age 46. This playwright and author, glancing
> around his rented room, said, "This wallpaper is killing me;
> one of us has got to go."

Oscar Wilde

> 8. Died in 1957 at age 57. This film star said, "I never should
> have switched from scotch to martinis."

Humphrey Bogart?

> 9. Died in 1932 at age 65. This showman said, "Curtain!
> Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great!
> The show looks good, the show looks good."

Ziegfield, WC Fields

Zhukov?

> 11. This American general graduated from the United States
> Military Academy in 1909 with a commission as a cavalary
> officer. Accompanied by 10 soldiers of the 6th Infantry
> Regiment, and using 3 armored cars, he conducted the
> US's first armored-vehicle attack during the Pancho Villa
> Expedition in 1916. Name him.

Pershing?

Patton?

> * Conspiracies
>
> 13. What is Warren Commission Exhibit #399? Be specific.

The magic bullet, a piece of Kennedy's head.

> 14. The US Government is quick to kill any conspiracy theories
> regarding the killings of JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King,
> and uses what phrase to describe the three different shooters?

Lone wolf

> 15. Dorothy Kilgallen conducted an interview with Jack Ruby
> and later obtained a copy of Ruby's testimony to the Warren
> Commission. She had told colleagues she was "about to blow
> the JFK case sky high." Shortly thereafter she was found
> dead... just hours after appearing on what game show?

Dunno

cheers,
calvin

== 2 of 4 ==
Date: Sun, Jun 5 2011 4:54 pm
From: tool@panix.com (Dan Blum)

Mark Brader <msb@vex.net> wrote:
> ** Final, Round 8 - History

> * African-American Famous Firsts

> 1. Who was the first African-American to become a Supreme
> Court justice?

Thurgood Marshall

> 2. Who was the first African-American Miss America? She had
> to relinquish her crown when nude Penthouse pictures surfaced.

Vanessa Williams

> 3. Who was the first African-American actress to win an Oscar?
> The year was 1939 and it was for a supporting role in an
> iconic film.

McDaniels

> * Karl Marx

> 4. Prior to "The Communist Manifesto", Marx wrote critiques on
> the works of what German philosopher?

Hegel

> 5. With whom did Marx co-write "The Communist Manifesto"?

Engels

> 6. Marx's great work, published in three volumes (two of them
> posthumous), is titled what?

Das Kapital

> * Famous Last Words

> 7. Died in 1900 at age 46. This playwright and author, glancing
> around his rented room, said, "This wallpaper is killing me;
> one of us has got to go."

Oscar Wilde

> 8. Died in 1957 at age 57. This film star said, "I never should
> have switched from scotch to martinis."

Humphrey Bogart

> 9. Died in 1932 at age 65. This showman said, "Curtain!
> Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great!
> The show looks good, the show looks good."

Ziegfeld; Busby Berkeley

> * Before they were Generals

Patton

Bradley

> * Conspiracies

> 14. The US Government is quick to kill any conspiracy theories
> regarding the killings of JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King,
> and uses what phrase to describe the three different shooters?

lone gunman

To Tell the Truth; What's My Line?

--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum tool@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."

== 3 of 4 ==
Date: Sun, Jun 5 2011 7:55 pm
From: "Rob Parker"

> ** Final, Round 8 - History
>
> 4. Prior to "The Communist Manifesto", Marx wrote critiques on
> the works of what German philosopher?

Kant

> 5. With whom did Marx co-write "The Communist Manifesto"?

Engels

> 6. Marx's great work, published in three volumes (two of them
> posthumous), is titled what?

Das Kapital

> 9. Died in 1932 at age 65. This showman said, "Curtain!
> Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great!
> The show looks good, the show looks good."

PT Barnum; WC Fields

Patton

Rob

== 4 of 4 ==
Date: Sun, Jun 5 2011 8:29 pm
From: Jeffrey Turner

On 6/4/2011 12:22 PM, Mark Brader wrote:

> ** Final, Round 8 - History
>
> * African-American Famous Firsts
>
> 1. Who was the first African-American to become a Supreme
> Court justice?

Thurgood Marshall

> 2. Who was the first African-American Miss America? She had
> to relinquish her crown when nude Penthouse pictures surfaced.

Vanessa Williams

> 3. Who was the first African-American actress to win an Oscar?
> The year was 1939 and it was for a supporting role in an
> iconic film.

Gone With the Wind...

> * Karl Marx
>
> 4. Prior to "The Communist Manifesto", Marx wrote critiques on
> the works of what German philosopher?

Hegel

> 5. With whom did Marx co-write "The Communist Manifesto"?

Engels

> 6. Marx's great work, published in three volumes (two of them
> posthumous), is titled what?

Grundrisse

Oscar Wilde

> 8. Died in 1957 at age 57. This film star said, "I never should
> have switched from scotch to martinis."
>
> 9. Died in 1932 at age 65. This showman said, "Curtain!
> Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great!
> The show looks good, the show looks good."

> * Before they were Generals
>
> 10. This Russian lieutenant-general was also a poet and was
> conscripted into the Red Army in 1938. He was wounded
> in combat during the defense of Bryansk in October
> 1941. From 1942 onwards he was assigned to the Central
> Scientific-Developmental Firing Range for Rifle Firearms of
> the Chief Artillery Directorate of the Red Army. Name him.
>
> 11. This American general graduated from the United States
> Military Academy in 1909 with a commission as a cavalary
> officer. Accompanied by 10 soldiers of the 6th Infantry
> Regiment, and using 3 armored cars, he conducted the
> US's first armored-vehicle attack during the Pancho Villa
> Expedition in 1916. Name him.

Patton

> 12. This American general graduated from the US Military Academy
> in 1936. General George Patton said of him "I'm supposed to
> be the best tank commander in the Army, but I have one peer...
> He's the world champion." His 37th Armor Regiment was one
> of the leaders in the effort to relieve the 101st Airborne
> Division during the Battle of the Bulge. Name him.
>
>
> * Conspiracies
>
> 13. What is Warren Commission Exhibit #399? Be specific.
>
> 14. The US Government is quick to kill any conspiracy theories
> regarding the killings of JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King,
> and uses what phrase to describe the three different shooters?

Lone gunman

What's My Line

--Jeff

--
It is very easy for rich people to preach
the virtues of self-reliance to the poor.
--Winston Churchill

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TOPIC: Rotating Quiz #17
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/dd37c336ff98c290?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sun, Jun 5 2011 4:34 pm
From: Calvin

On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 04:38:53 +1000, Chris F.A. Johnson
<cfajohnson@gmail.com> wrote:

>> 5. What is the art of Pod Shaving (or podshaving)?
>
> Making cricket bats

You live and learn.

cheers,
calvin

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TOPIC: Calvin's Quiz #133 - ANSWERS & SCORES
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/84538de66c772cee?hl=en
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== 1 of 4 ==
Date: Sun, Jun 5 2011 8:32 pm
From: Calvin

On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:20:17 +1000, Calvin <calvin@phlegm.com> wrote:

> 1 Anarchy in the U.K. was a 1976 hit song for which band?

The Sex Pistols
6/10
It was first released in late 1976, presumably reaching its chart peaks in
1977.

> 2 Which golfer won the British Open 5 times between 1975 and 1983?

Tom Watson
2/10

> 3 How high is a standard tennis net at its centre (in feet)?

3 feet
7/10
5 feet would make it an interesting game...

> 4 Robbie Coltrane and Eric Idle co-starred in which 1990 comedy film?

Nuns on the Run
2/10

> 5 Which American city is also known as The Windy City?

Chicago
9/10

> 6 What is the medical name for German Measles?

Rubella
9/10

> 7 Who is Warren Beatty's famous sister?

Shirley Maclaine
5/10

> 8 Chernobyl is located in which former Soviet republic?

Ukraine
9/10

> 9 In darts, how many points are scored for a bullseye?

50
10/10

> 10 What nationality was tennis player Goran Ivanisevic?

Croatian, awarding half points for Yugoslavian
6/10

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL Quiz 133
- - - - - - - - - - --- ----------
0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 Chris Johnson
1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 6 Dan Tilque
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 4 Erland S
1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 5 Jeffrey Turner
1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 7 John Masters
0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 6 Marc Dashevsky
0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0.5 5.5 Mark Brader
0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 Pete Gayde
1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 8 Peter Smyth
1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0.5 8.5 Rob Parker
- - - - - - - - - - --- ----------
6 2 7 2 9 9 5 9 10 6 65 TOTAL
65%

Well done Rob!

cheers,
calvin

== 2 of 4 ==
Date: Sun, Jun 5 2011 9:33 pm
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)

"Calvin":
> > 10 What nationality was tennis player Goran Ivanisevic?
>
> Croatian, awarding half points for Yugoslavian
> 6/10

Huh? You asked what nationality he *was*. Yugoslavian is correct.
--
Mark Brader "You have a truly warped mind.
Toronto I admire that in a person."
msb@vex.net -- Bill Davidsen

== 3 of 4 ==
Date: Sun, Jun 5 2011 9:54 pm
From: Calvin

On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:33:09 +1000, Mark Brader <msb@vex.net> wrote:

> "Calvin":
>> > 10 What nationality was tennis player Goran Ivanisevic?
>>
>> Croatian, awarding half points for Yugoslavian
>> 6/10
>
> Huh? You asked what nationality he *was*. Yugoslavian is correct.

Given that he is still alive, "was" in this context means "when he was
playing top-level tennis". That's how 8/10 entrants interpreted it.

cheers,
calvin

== 4 of 4 ==
Date: Mon, Jun 6 2011 12:02 am
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)

Mark Brader:
> > Huh? You asked what nationality he *was*. Yugoslavian is correct.

"Calvin":
> Given that he is still alive, "was" in this context means "when he was
> playing top-level tennis".

Oh, we were supposed to guess that?

> That's how 8/10 entrants interpreted it.

Or they didn't notice it said "was".

(Me, I had no idea when he was alive, and was just guessing right.
But I did guess right, and they didn't.)
--
Mark Brader | "And I won't like [this usage] any better if you
Toronto | produce examples from Shakespeare, Milton, Johnson ...
msb@vex.net | Or, indeed, myself." --Mike Lyle

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TOPIC: Calvn's Quiz #134
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== 1 of 5 ==
Date: Sun, Jun 5 2011 8:34 pm
From: Calvin

1 In which European country are princes alternately named Frederick and
Christian?
2 The abbreviation GSM is commonly used to grade varieties of which office
product?
3 Which Frenchman controversially handled the ball in a 2010 WC soccer
qualifier v. Ireland?
4 Did Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France how many times?
5 Which country hosted the first British Empire games in 1930?
6 Which section of newspapers is jocularly referred to as Hatch, Match and
Dispatch?
7 In which month of the year is Groundhog Day?
8 Where in the human body is the thyroid gland located?
9 In the 1938 screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby, what type of creature is
baby?
10 Harrods department store is located in which London district?

cheers,
calvin

== 2 of 5 ==
Date: Sun, Jun 5 2011 9:31 pm
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)

Calvin writes:
> 1 In which European country are princes alternately named Frederick and
> Christian?

Denmark?

> 2 The abbreviation GSM is commonly used to grade varieties of which office
> product?

Paper.

> 3 Which Frenchman controversially handled the ball in a 2010 WC soccer
> qualifier v. Ireland?

Zidane?

> 4 Did Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France how many times?

Did he? I'll say 6.

> 5 Which country hosted the first British Empire games in 1930?

Canada?

> 6 Which section of newspapers is jocularly referred to as Hatch, Match and
> Dispatch?

Births, weddings, and deaths.

> 7 In which month of the year is Groundhog Day?

February.

> 8 Where in the human body is the thyroid gland located?

Neck.

> 9 In the 1938 screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby, what type of creature is
> baby?

Leopard.

> 10 Harrods department store is located in which London district?

Knightsbridge.
--
Mark Brader | "I can direct dial today a man my parents warred with.
Toronto | They wanted to kill him, I want to sell software to him."
msb@vex.net | -- Brad Templeton

My text in this article is in the public domain.

== 3 of 5 ==
Date: Sun, Jun 5 2011 9:36 pm
From: Marc Dashevsky

In article <op.vwmxj5x9yr33d7@04233-jyhzp1s.staff.ad.bond.edu.au>, calvin@phlegm.com says...
> 1 In which European country are princes alternately named Frederick and Christian?
> 2 The abbreviation GSM is commonly used to grade varieties of which office product?
> 3 Which Frenchman controversially handled the ball in a 2010 WC soccer qualifier v. Ireland?
> 4 Did Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France how many times?
no

> 5 Which country hosted the first British Empire games in 1930?
> 6 Which section of newspapers is jocularly referred to as Hatch, Match and Dispatch?
> 7 In which month of the year is Groundhog Day?
February

> 8 Where in the human body is the thyroid gland located?
throat

> 9 In the 1938 screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby, what type of creature is baby?
leopard

> 10 Harrods department store is located in which London district?

--
Go to http://MarcDashevsky.com to send me e-mail.

== 4 of 5 ==
Date: Sun, Jun 5 2011 9:42 pm
From: John Masters

On 2011-06-06 04:34:43 +0100, Calvin said:

> 1 In which European country are princes alternately named Frederick and
> Christian?

Dennmark

> 2 The abbreviation GSM is commonly used to grade varieties of which
> office product?

Paper

> 3 Which Frenchman controversially handled the ball in a 2010 WC soccer
> qualifier v. Ireland?

Thierry Henry

> 4 Did Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France how many times?

> 5 Which country hosted the first British Empire games in 1930?

Canada

> 6 Which section of newspapers is jocularly referred to as Hatch, Match
> and Dispatch?

Births, Marriages & Deaths

> 7 In which month of the year is Groundhog Day?

March

> 8 Where in the human body is the thyroid gland located?

Neck

> 9 In the 1938 screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby, what type of creature is baby?

Leopard

> 10 Harrods department store is located in which London district?

Knightsbridge

--
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: Sun, Jun 5 2011 10:30 pm
From: Pete

Calvin <calvin@phlegm.com> wrote in
news:op.vwmxj5x9yr33d7@04233-jyhzp1s.staff.ad.bond.edu.au:

>
>
> 1 In which European country are princes alternately named
> Frederick and Christian?

Norway

> 2 The abbreviation GSM is commonly used to grade varieties of
> which office product?

Paper

> 3 Which Frenchman controversially handled the ball in a 2010 WC
> soccer qualifier v. Ireland?

Thierry Henry

> 4 Did Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France how many times?

> 5 Which country hosted the first British Empire games in 1930?

Canada

> 6 Which section of newspapers is jocularly referred to as Hatch,
> Match and Dispatch?

Birth, Wedding, and Death announcements? (In every newspaper I know of,
Birth and Wedding announcements are separated from Obituaries)

> 7 In which month of the year is Groundhog Day?

February

> 8 Where in the human body is the thyroid gland located?

Neck

> 9 In the 1938 screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby, what type of
> creature is baby?

Panther

> 10 Harrods department store is located in which London district?

Soho

>
>

Pete

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