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* Calvin's Quiz #154 - 4 messages, 4 authors
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* Rotating Quiz #26 - 1 messages, 1 author
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* QFTCI11 Game 4 Rounds 7-8: making you sick, Shakespeare - 1 messages, 1
author
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TOPIC: Calvin's Quiz #154
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/8d5177c0391ac359?hl=en
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== 1 of 4 ==
Date: Thurs, Aug 11 2011 10:26 pm
From: Joachim Parsch
Calvin schrieb:
>
> 1 How many tricks are needed for a grand-slam in the card game bridge?
13
> 2 What is the smallest US state by population?
Rhode Island?
> 3 A "7-10 split" is a term used in which sport?
Black Jack
> 4 What was the eighth month in the ancient Roman Calendar?
October
> 5 The disease hepatitis affects which organ?
Liver
> 6 What does the business acronym TQM stand for?
> 7 Europe's Black Death plague occurred during which century?
14th century (around 1350)
> 8 Which fictional book's chief rival is the Encyclopaedia Galactica?
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
> 9 Angelsea is located in which country of the British isles?
Wales?
> 10 In which year was John Lennon shot?
1980
== 2 of 4 ==
Date: Thurs, Aug 11 2011 10:54 pm
From: John Masters
On 2011-08-12 02:35:44 +0000, Calvin said:
> 1 How many tricks are needed for a grand-slam in the card game bridge?
13
> 2 What is the smallest US state by population?
Alaska
> 3 A "7-10 split" is a term used in which sport?
American football
> 4 What was the eighth month in the ancient Roman Calendar?
October
> 5 The disease hepatitis affects which organ?
Liver
> 6 What does the business acronym TQM stand for?
> 7 Europe's Black Death plague occurred during which century?
15th
> 8 Which fictional book's chief rival is the Encyclopaedia Galactica?
Hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy
> 9 Angelsea is located in which country of the British isles?
Wales
> 10 In which year was John Lennon shot?
1984
== 3 of 4 ==
Date: Thurs, Aug 11 2011 11:56 pm
From: Dan Tilque
Calvin wrote:
>
>
> 1 How many tricks are needed for a grand-slam in the card game bridge?
13
> 2 What is the smallest US state by population?
Wyoming
> 3 A "7-10 split" is a term used in which sport?
10-pin bowling
> 4 What was the eighth month in the ancient Roman Calendar?
October
> 5 The disease hepatitis affects which organ?
liver
> 6 What does the business acronym TQM stand for?
Total Quality Management
> 7 Europe's Black Death plague occurred during which century?
14th
> 8 Which fictional book's chief rival is the Encyclopaedia Galactica?
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
> 9 Angelsea is located in which country of the British isles?
England
> 10 In which year was John Lennon shot?
1986
--
Dan Tilque
Keeping Pluto dead has taken a lot of work.
-- Mike Brown "How I killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming"
== 4 of 4 ==
Date: Fri, Aug 12 2011 12:19 am
From: Erland Sommarskog
Calvin (calvin@phlegm.com) writes:
> 1 How many tricks are needed for a grand-slam in the card game bridge?
7
> 2 What is the smallest US state by population?
Alaska
> 3 A "7-10 split" is a term used in which sport?
Sailing
> 4 What was the eighth month in the ancient Roman Calendar?
Depends on how ancient you mean, but waaaaay long back it was October. If
you are looking for the name August had before Octavianus, I'm afraid I
don't knwo.
> 5 The disease hepatitis affects which organ?
Liver
> 7 Europe's Black Death plague occurred during which century?
14th
> 8 Which fictional book's chief rival is the Encyclopaedia Galactica?
Foundation
> 9 Angelsea is located in which country of the British isles?
Wales
> 10 In which year was John Lennon shot?
1980
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
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TOPIC: Rotating Quiz #26
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/ee12eaec3a0734a0?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Thurs, Aug 11 2011 10:37 pm
From: Joachim Parsch
Dan Tilque schrieb:
>
> Below is Rotating Quiz #26. For no real reason, I've made it a WWII
> trivia quiz. One point for each question, but several of them have the
> possibility of getting a bonus which will be used to break ties.
>
> 1. What city was under siege for almost 900 days during WWII?
Leningrad.
> 2. Truk (lagoon/atoll) was the location of the main Japanese naval base
> in the central Pacific. By what name is it known today? (spelling must
> be exact)
>
> 3. What science fiction author served as a radar specialist and
> instructor during WWII? (Hint: he later wrote the semi-autobiographical
> novel _Glide Path_ about his experience.)
Arthur C. Clarke.
> 4. What was the first fleet-to-fleet naval battle in history in which
> neither side's ships sighted nor fired upon each other?
>
> 5. What was the name of the Canadian beach in the Normandy Invasion?
>
> 6. There are two instances of a father and his son both being awarded
> the US Medal of Honor. In both cases, the sons earned them for actions
> they performed in WWII. Give the family name of either. You may give two
> answers without penalty. If either is correct, you get the point; get
> both for a tie-breaker bonus. (Hint: one of the two in each family is a
> well-known person.)
>
> 7. In 1938, Germany occupied and annexed Austria. By what
> German-language name is this action known as?
Anschluss.
> 8. What was the German codename for their invasion of the Soviet Union
> in 1941?
Unternehmen Barbarossa.
> 9. A fictional US Navy cargo ship plies the back areas of the Pacific
> Theater during WWII. "For the most part it stays on its regular run,
> from Tedium to Apathy and back; about five days each way. It makes an
> occasional trip to Monotony, and once it made a run all the way to
> Ennui, a distance of two thousand miles from Tedium." Name either the
> ship or the novel/movie/TV show it appears in. (Name both for a
> tie-breaker bonus.)
>
> 10. Eight European governments went into exile, either directly or via
> other countries, to England, when their country was occupied by the
> Germans. Name six of them. (name more than six for tie-breaker
> bonus(es). Note the first 6 countries named will be your answer for the
> point and the next one or two for the bonus.)
Norway, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, France, Czechoslovakia
Joachim
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TOPIC: QFTCI11 Game 4 Rounds 7-8: making you sick, Shakespeare
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/73ebf7c3d84e0e6c?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Aug 12 2011 12:14 am
From: Erland Sommarskog
Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:
> And at least one of them was set in a Nordic country, and was a correct
> answer, too.
Hey, I know about that play. Although the prince has a very strange name,
it's neither Fredrik nor Christian! I considered that to use that answer,
but it seemed so...trivial.
I could threaten with taking revenge by using quotes from Strindberg, but
the truth is I wouldn't do any better there. Even if the quotes were in
Swedish.
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
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