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* Rotating Quiz #40 - 2 messages, 2 authors
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* QFTCI11 Final Round 2: Science - 1 messages, 1 author
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TOPIC: Rotating Quiz #40
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/151bc006ce398945?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Tues, Nov 15 2011 11:25 pm
From: Dan Tilque
Calvin wrote:
>
> Fun with language ;-)
>
>
> Part 1: What is the time?
>
> Each of the following phrases asks "What is the time?". Match the text
> to a European language. [They are all mainstream languages, no dialects
> of anything tricky like that. This will be harder if your newsreader
> doesn't display the diacritics :-)]
I had to tell it it was in UTF-8, For some reason it couldn't figure
that out, even though it was in your header.
>
> 1 Wat is de tijd
Dutch
> 2 Какво е времето
Russian
> 3 Co je to čas
Czech
> 4 Vad är på gång
Swedish
> 5 O que é o tempo
Spanish
>
>
> Part 2: Do you expect me to talk?
>
> From the foreign language translation, supply the title of a James Bond
> film.
>
> 6 L'homme avec le pistolet d'or
Man with the Golden Gun
> 7 Orbis non sufficit
The World is not Enough
> 8 Una vista a uccidere il
A View to a Kill
> 9 Der Spion der mich liebte
The Spy Who Loved Me
> 10 Digitus aurum
Goldfinger
--
Dan Tilque
"I can't believe this. Trapped in Ryoval's basement with a sex-starved
teenage werewolf. There was nothing about this in any of my Imperial
Academy training manuals..."
-- "Labyrinth", Lois McMaster Bujold
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Tues, Nov 15 2011 11:47 pm
From: Joachim Parsch
Calvin schrieb:
>
> Fun with language ;-)
>
> Part 1: What is the time?
>
> Each of the following phrases asks "What is the time?". Match the text to
> a European language. [They are all mainstream languages, no dialects of
> anything tricky like that. This will be harder if your newsreader doesn't
> display the diacritics :-)]
>
>1 Wat is de tijd
Dutch.
>2 ????? ? ???????
Russian? :-)
>3 Co je to cas
Romanian? (no idea, really)
>4 Vad är på gång
Danish.
>5 O que é o tempo
Spanish.
> Part 2: Do you expect me to talk?
>
> From the foreign language translation, supply the title of a James Bond
> film.
>
> 6 L'homme avec le pistolet d'or
The man with a golden gun.
> 7 Orbis non sufficit
The world is not enough.
> 8 Una vista a uccidere il
A view to a kill.
> 9 Der Spion der mich liebte
The spy who loved me.
> 10 Digitus aurum
Goldfinger.
Joachim
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TOPIC: QFTCI11 Final Round 2: Science
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/5ee8e529fe7a5062?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 16 2011 12:04 am
From: Joachim Parsch
Mark Brader schrieb:
>
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2011-04-04,
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
> both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
> Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,
> based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
> the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
> the correct answers in about 3 days. For further information see
> my 2011-09-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI11, QFTCIMM)".
>
> I wrote 3 triples in this round.
>
> * Final, Round 2 - Science
>
> A. Physics Miscellany
>
> A1. What radioactive isotope is used for carbon dating of
> organic material?
C14.
> A2. Add the prefix "de-" to the surname of a German scientist
> and you get what word that means "to reduce an unwanted
> magnetic field"?
Degauss.
> A3. What is the name for a phase of matter that is composed
> of electrically conductive ions and electrons? It's often
> called the fourth state of matter.
Plasma.
> B. Terms in Recreational Math
>
> There is no clear boundary between recreational math and serious
> math, but the terms we're asking you about are more likely to
> occur in a recreational context.
>
> B1. If a square grid is filled in with distinct numbers,
> what property needs to be satisfied for it to be called a
> "magic square"? Be complete.
The sum of every row, column (and diagonal) has to be the same.
> B2. The term "pentomino" ("pen-TOM-in-oh") refers to any
> one of 12 specific shapes, which are members of a larger
> class of shapes called "polyominoes" ("POL-ee-OM-in-ohz").
> What sort of shape is a pentomino?
5 squares, "glued" together side by side (there are 12 different
possibilities to do this).
> B3. This series of numbers begins with two 1's, and after
> that, each successive number is the sum of the previous
> two: thus it goes 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc. As the
> numbers get larger, the ratio between successive ones
> approaches the irrational value called the golden ratio,
> golden section, or golden mean. What is the name of
> the series?
Fibonacci.
> C. Non-Metric Units
>
> C1. There are two non-metric units used in astronomy for
> expressing interstellar distances. One is the light-year;
> the other is defined on a different basis and works
> out to about 3¼ light-years. Name this larger unit.
> The distance to Sirius, for example, is equal to about
> 8.6 light-years, or about 2.6 of what unit?
Parsec.
> C2. There are two units called a chain. One of them is equal
> to 100 feet. The other was the usual one used in British
> territory and was part of a progression of successively
> larger units that went inch, foot, yard, rod, chain,
> furlong, mile. How long was this chain, either in feet,
> yards, or rods?
110yards = 1 chain?
> C3. For many people in Britain today, the intuitive unit for
> one's body weight is still the stone. How much is
> a stone?
1 stone = 2 steaks.
> D. Fungi
>
> D1. "Saccharomyces cerevisiae" is a fungus species that is
> the basis of at least several hundred million dollars
> of business annually around the world. What is its
> common name?
>
> D2. What word is the name for the study of fungi? Hint:
> it's not "mushroomology", but it does start with M.
Mykology.
> D3. What generic term for a poisonous or inedible mushroom
> sounds like a piece of furniture?
>
> E. Lunar Features
>
> This triple is the only one in the game that will have a handout.
> Please see: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/fi02/moon.jpg
>
> If you're used to looking at the moon in a telescope that produces
> inverted images, you might want to hold the handout with south at
> the top; otherwise, we suggest putting north at the top.
>
> E1. The lunar crater at the center of the white square
> has a prominent ray system, as you see, and is named
> for a prominent astronomer. Name the crater.
>
> E2. The lunar crater at the center of the black square
> has an even more prominent ray system, and is named for
> a noted astronomer whose theory of the solar system lost
> out to Copernicus's. Name the crater.
Crater of Ptolemäus.
> E3. The large dark areas of the moon are mostly called seas,
> or in Latin maria ("MAR-ee-uh"), but just one -- the
> largest one, marked with a white X -- is called an ocean.
> Its name is weather-related. What ocean is it? Answer in
> English or Latin.
>
> If you'd like to identify the other features for fun, but for
> no points, decode the rot13: Gur oynpx + fvta naq oynpx K ner
> pengref bs ab cnegvphyne vagrerfg. Gur bgure juvgr flzobyf ner
> frnf; anzr gurz va Ratyvfu be Yngva.
>
> E4. Juvgr gevnatyr.
>
> E5. Juvgr cyhf fvta.
Joachim
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