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Today's topics:
* Calvin's Quiz #174 - 3 messages, 3 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/352c76c91cd55943?hl=en
* Rotating Quiz #37 - ANSWERS & SCORES - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/77c46d4c564614c1?hl=en
* BOOTMGR not found - 3 messages, 2 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/0381d9035472b9bf?hl=en
* Toughest Logic Puzzle - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/75db3e962e258309?hl=en
* Rotating Quiz #38 - 3 messages, 3 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/cfaab7a6c78c74b8?hl=en
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TOPIC: Calvin's Quiz #174
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/352c76c91cd55943?hl=en
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Sat, Oct 29 2011 6:33 am
From: Pete
Calvin <calvin@phlegm.com> wrote in
news:op.v31ma1ktyr33d7@04233-26jz62s.staff.ad.bond.edu.au:
>
>
> 1 Which branch of medicine is concerned with artificial human
> limbs?
Prosthetetics
> 2 What was the given name of Margaret Thatcher's husband?
Thomas
> 3 In which novel and film do the Oompa Loompas appear?
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
> 4 Which Peanuts character offers psychiatric advice?
Lucy
> 5 Who are Amy, Beth, Jo and Meg?
Little Women
> 6 What is the main commercial use of the whale product ambergris ?
Perfume
> 7 Who served 18 years at Robben Island prison in the 1970s and
80s?
Mandela
> 8 Which American actor helped establish the Sundance Film
> Festival in 1978?
Robert Redford
> 9 Is the coffee bean actually a bean, a nut or seed?
Nut
> 10 Who was Marilyn Monroe's last husband?
Arthur Miller
>
Pete
== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Sun, Oct 30 2011 1:23 am
From: "Chris F.A. Johnson"
On 2011-10-28, Calvin wrote:
>
>
> 1 Which branch of medicine is concerned with artificial human limbs?
> 2 What was the given name of Margaret Thatcher's husband
Dennis (or is it Denis?)
> 3 In which novel and film do the Oompa Loompas appear?
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
> 4 Which Peanuts character offers psychiatric advice?
> 5 Who are Amy, Beth, Jo and Meg?
Little Women
> 6 What is the main commercial use of the whale product ambergris ?
Perfume
> 7 Who served 18 years at Robben Island prison in the 1970s and
80s?
Mandela
> 8 Which American actor helped establish the Sundance Film Festival
in 1978?
Redford
> 9 Is the coffee bean actually a bean, a nut or seed?
Yes.
Nut
> 10 Who was Marilyn Monroe's last husband?
Arthur Miller
--
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)
== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Sun, Oct 30 2011 11:54 am
From: Stan Brown
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:50:51 +1000, Calvin wrote:
>
> 1 Which branch of medicine is concerned with artificial human limbs?
Prosthetics
> 2 What was the given name of Margaret Thatcher's husband
Denis
> 3 In which novel and film do the Oompa Loompas appear?
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
> 4 Which Peanuts character offers psychiatric advice?
Lucy
> 5 Who are Amy, Beth, Jo and Meg?
Little Women?
> 6 What is the main commercial use of the whale product ambergris ?
Base for perfumes
> 7 Who served 18 years at Robben Island prison in the 1970s and 80s?
Pope Pius XII
> 8 Which American actor helped establish the Sundance Film Festival in 1978?
Robert Redford
> 9 Is the coffee bean actually a bean, a nut or seed?
A seed
> 10 Who was Marilyn Monroe's last husband?
Pope Pius XII
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...
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TOPIC: Rotating Quiz #37 - ANSWERS & SCORES
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/77c46d4c564614c1?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sun, Oct 30 2011 1:17 am
From: "Chris F.A. Johnson"
On 2011-10-27, David B wrote:
...
><Mark B> 0
><Marc D> 4
><Chris J> 6
><Rob P> 4
><Calvin> 3
>
> Tie breaker:
> Not needed.
>
> Well done Chris, over to you for Rotating Quiz #38.
I'll have it up in a day or so. (I'm having some connectivity
problems.)
--
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)
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TOPIC: BOOTMGR not found
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/0381d9035472b9bf?hl=en
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Sun, Oct 30 2011 12:32 pm
From: Stan Brown
Computer: Dell Inspiron 1764 (no Windows disk or Dell recovery disks)
System: 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium SP1
Full backups on external USB hard drive (Acronis TI2011)
Available: bootable DVD of Acronis TI2011 (full)
The story:
My hard drive crashed, and I thought it would be no problem since I
had a full Acronis backup from the night before. But after a
successful Acronis restore, when I try to boot I get "BOOTMGR is
missing -- Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart". No way to get into the
recovery console.
What I've tried:
1. Ubuntu 32-bit boots fine from CD, and qparted says that the C
drive is bootable. I read advice on the Web to put the C partition
right smack at the start of the physical drive, and that's where it
is.
2. Advice on the Web says to do a repair install, which I would do if
I had a Windows disk. A friend has a Dell OEM disk of 32-bit Windows
7 Professional, but it declines to do the repair because it says the
Windows versions don't match. It *did* install successfully (putting
my 64-bit Windows as Windows Old), and 32-bit Win 7 Pro seems to run,
but Dell's site won't let me download 32-bit drivers because my
service tag is for a system with 64-bit Windows installed. And I
really don't think I can live with VGA screen resolution and no
touchpad driver. :-)
3. I then re-recovered my 64-bit Win 7 Home Premium, but apparently
the 32-bit Windows 7 install didn't create a boot record because when
I try to boot the recovered hard drive I again get "BOOTMGR is
missing".
4. In Acronis, when I browse to my backup of C, it gives me the
option to recover either or both of the C partition and the "MBR and
track 0". I checked both and Acronis said it was successful, but the
hard drive wouldn't boot. I then tried restoring *only* "MBR and
track 0", and again got the success message, but booting from hard
drive again gave "BOOTMGR is missing".
Questions:
(a) Should C maybe *not* be right at the start of the hard drive?
Maybe if there was some empty space before the first partition,
Acronis would not just give a success message but actually restore
the MBR? If so, how much empty space should I have?
(b) Any way to use an Ubuntu bootable disk to create a proper MBR
that Windows will accept? I'd rather not install Ubuntu in a
separate partition, because I like running it in a virtual machine
under Windrows, but if that's what it takes to get Windows working
I'm willing to do it.
(c) Howtogeek.com recommends buying a Windows repair disk from
http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/download-windows-vista-x64-recovery-
disc/
Has anyone done this? I'm a little leery because of the possibility
of malware, and also I wonder if it's legal. I hold no brief for
Microsoft, but I don't want to buy pirate software. I'd be annoyed,
too, if I laid out $9.75 and it didn't work.
(d) Other suggestions? Surely someone before this has restored a
Windows system successfully from an Acronis backup. (As I write
these words I realize that I haven't yet posted to an Acronis forum.
I guess that's my next step, but I'll bet someone here in the Win 7
newsgroup has the requisite knowledge.)
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...
== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Sun, Oct 30 2011 12:42 pm
From: Stan Brown
My apologies -- I posted without noticing that I had clicked on the
wrong newsgroup name. I'll try to cancel it, but we know how much
good that will do.
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...
== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Sun, Oct 30 2011 12:41 pm
From: Erland Sommarskog
Stan Brown (the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm) writes:
> My hard drive crashed, and I thought it would be no problem since I
> had a full Acronis backup from the night before. But after a
> successful Acronis restore, when I try to boot I get "BOOTMGR is
> missing -- Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart". No way to get into the
> recovery console.
Sounds awful, but wouldn't Acronis's forums be a better place? Or
will you publish the correct answers in five days? :-)
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
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TOPIC: Toughest Logic Puzzle
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/75db3e962e258309?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sun, Oct 30 2011 11:33 am
From: divya bisht
Toughest Logic Puzzle
http://hardest-puzzle.blogspot.com/2011/10/toughest-logic-puzzle.html
Please Solve This
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TOPIC: Rotating Quiz #38
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/cfaab7a6c78c74b8?hl=en
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Sun, Oct 30 2011 7:40 pm
From: "Chris F.A. Johnson"
1. By what name is (was) Archibald Leach better known?
2. One of the most popular chess openings is named after this 16th
century Spanish bishop and chess author
3. Aerangis, Cattleya, Dendrobium and Phalaenopsis belong to what
biological family?
4. The City of Baguio is the summer capital of what country?
5. Who was the emperor of Rome when Vesuvius erupted in 79AD?
6. Who wrote "The Last Days of Pompeii"?
7. Who painted "Les Demoiselles D'Avignon" (though he called it "Le
Bordel d'Avignon")?
8. W.G. Grace (1848-1915) was pre-eminent in what sport?
9. Schubert wrote one of only two pieces written for this short-lived
instrument that was fretted and tuned like a guitar, but bowed like
a cello; what was it called?
10. In 1967, a supertanker was shipwrecked off the coast of Cornwall;
what was its name?
--
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)
== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Sun, Oct 30 2011 9:38 pm
From: Marc Dashevsky
In article <lde1o8-hhr.ln1@cjlocal.ca>, cfajohnson@gmail.com says...
>
> 1. By what name is (was) Archibald Leach better known?
Cary Grant
> 2. One of the most popular chess openings is named after this 16th
> century Spanish bishop and chess author
Ruy Lopez
> 3. Aerangis, Cattleya, Dendrobium and Phalaenopsis belong to what
> biological family?
some plant family
> 4. The City of Baguio is the summer capital of what country?
Brazil
> 5. Who was the emperor of Rome when Vesuvius erupted in 79AD?
>
> 6. Who wrote "The Last Days of Pompeii"?
Pliny the Younger
> 7. Who painted "Les Demoiselles D'Avignon" (though he called it "Le
> Bordel d'Avignon")?
Picasso
> 8. W.G. Grace (1848-1915) was pre-eminent in what sport?
cricket (this name has come up on this group often enough that I seem
to have finally remembered it)
> 9. Schubert wrote one of only two pieces written for this short-lived
> instrument that was fretted and tuned like a guitar, but bowed like
> a cello; what was it called?
>
> 10. In 1967, a supertanker was shipwrecked off the coast of Cornwall;
> what was its name?
--
Go to http://MarcDashevsky.com to send me e-mail.
== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Sun, Oct 30 2011 11:25 pm
From: Dan Tilque
Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> 1. By what name is (was) Archibald Leach better known?
aaarrrgghh!
>
> 2. One of the most popular chess openings is named after this 16th
> century Spanish bishop and chess author
Ruy Lopez
>
> 3. Aerangis, Cattleya, Dendrobium and Phalaenopsis belong to what
> biological family?
grasses
>
> 4. The City of Baguio is the summer capital of what country?
Philippines
>
> 5. Who was the emperor of Rome when Vesuvius erupted in 79AD?
Nero
>
> 6. Who wrote "The Last Days of Pompeii"?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
>
> 7. Who painted "Les Demoiselles D'Avignon" (though he called it "Le
> Bordel d'Avignon")?
van Gogh
>
> 8. W.G. Grace (1848-1915) was pre-eminent in what sport?
boxing
>
> 9. Schubert wrote one of only two pieces written for this short-lived
> instrument that was fretted and tuned like a guitar, but bowed like
> a cello; what was it called?
>
> 10. In 1967, a supertanker was shipwrecked off the coast of Cornwall;
> what was its name?
Torrey Canyon
--
Dan Tilque
Nale: Sabine, find us a lair, somewhere we can hole up for 2 to 3 weeks.
Someplace where no one will notice a teenage schoolgirl bound and gagged.
Sabine: I'll start near the hentai bookstore and work my way out.
-- Rich Burlew, OotS#258
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