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TOPIC: Calvin's Quiz #178
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/7ae7b0d37852f92b?hl=en
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== 1 of 4 ==
Date: Mon, Nov 14 2011 12:13 am
From: Erland Sommarskog
Calvin (calvin@phlegm.com) writes:
> 2 Aironi and Benneton Treviso are professional Italian club teams
> competing in which sport?
Bicycling
> 3 Jeremy Irons won a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of which
> Danish-born British socialite in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune?
Karen Blixen
> 7 Parts of which island have been variously ruled by the Netherlands,
> Germany, Britain and Australia among others?
New Guinea
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Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
== 2 of 4 ==
Date: Mon, Nov 14 2011 11:49 am
From: swp
On Sunday, November 13, 2011 7:08:59 PM UTC-5, Calvin wrote:
> Here's a harder set just for a change.
>
> 1 Canadian / American Douglas Kirkland (b 1934) is best known for his
> achievements in which field of the arts?
photographer
> 2 Aironi and Benneton Treviso are professional Italian club teams
> competing in which sport?
basketball
> 3 Jeremy Irons won a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of which
> Danish-born British socialite in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune?
claus von bulow (and don't call him 'santa')
> 4 To determine which property of a celestial object, generally a star, is
> it necessary to assume that it is 10 parsecs (approximately 32.6 light
> years) from the observer?
absolute magnitude
> 5 The idiomatic phrase "These go to 11", meaning that something is being
> exploited up to or even beyond its limits, originated in which 1984
> mockumentary?
this is spinal tap
> 6 Which analogue television encoding system is used throughout North and
> Central America, Japan and South Korea, and is the equivalent of the PAL
> or SECAM formats used in other countries?
ntsc
> 7 Parts of which island have been variously ruled by the Netherlands,
> Germany, Britain and Australia among others?
cyprus?
> 8 Which American guitarist and singer (1911-1938) didn't achieve
> commercial success until the 1961 release of a compilation album titled
> "King of the Delta Blues Singers"?
johnson?
> 9 What does the acronym GDH, first coined in 1972 by the King of Bhutan in
> an attempt to subjectively measure the quality of his citizens' lives,
> stand for?
gross domestic happiness?
> 10 From the Latin for "winged feet', what term refers to various
> semi-aquatic mammals including seals, walruses and sea loins?
pteropodum?
hmmm, you were right, this was hard. way too many guesses.
swp
== 3 of 4 ==
Date: Mon, Nov 14 2011 5:39 pm
From: Stan Brown
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:08:59 +1000, Calvin wrote:
>
> Here's a harder set just for a change.
>
> 1 Canadian / American Douglas Kirkland (b 1934) is best known for his
> achievements in which field of the arts?
Acting
> 2 Aironi and Benneton Treviso are professional Italian club teams
> competing in which sport?
> 3 Jeremy Irons won a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of which
> Danish-born British socialite in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune?
Klaus von Bulow
> 4 To determine which property of a celestial object, generally a star, is
> it necessary to assume that it is 10 parsecs (approximately 32.6 light
> years) from the observer?
Answer to the question as asked: No.
Answer to the question I think you meant to ask: absolute magnitude
or luminosity.
> 5 The idiomatic phrase "These go to 11", meaning that something is being
> exploited up to or even beyond its limits, originated in which 1984
> mockumentary?
"This Is Spinal tap"
> 6 Which analogue television encoding system is used throughout North and
> Central America, Japan and South Korea, and is the equivalent of the PAL
> or SECAM formats used in other countries?
NTSC
> 7 Parts of which island have been variously ruled by the Netherlands,
> Germany, Britain and Australia among others?
New Guinea
> 8 Which American guitarist and singer (1911-1938) didn't achieve
> commercial success until the 1961 release of a compilation album titled
> "King of the Delta Blues Singers"?
Pope Pius XII
> 9 What does the acronym GDH, first coined in 1972 by the King of Bhutan in
> an attempt to subjectively measure the quality of his citizens' lives,
> stand for?
Gross Domestic Happiness?
> 10 From the Latin for "winged feet', what term refers to various
> semi-aquatic mammals including seals, walruses and sea loins?
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...
== 4 of 4 ==
Date: Mon, Nov 14 2011 6:26 pm
From: "Rob Parker"
> 1 Canadian / American Douglas Kirkland (b 1934) is best known for his
> achievements in which field of the arts?
music (?)
> 2 Aironi and Benneton Treviso are professional Italian club teams
> competing in which sport?
football (aka soccer)
> 3 Jeremy Irons won a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of which
> Danish-born British socialite in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune?
no idea
> 4 To determine which property of a celestial object, generally a star, is
> it necessary to assume that it is 10 parsecs (approximately 32.6 light
> years) from the observer?
magnitude
> 5 The idiomatic phrase "These go to 11", meaning that something is being
> exploited up to or even beyond its limits, originated in which 1984
> mockumentary?
Spinal Tap
> 6 Which analogue television encoding system is used throughout North and
> Central America, Japan and South Korea, and is the equivalent of the PAL
> or SECAM formats used in other countries?
NTSC
> 7 Parts of which island have been variously ruled by the Netherlands,
> Germany, Britain and Australia among others?
New Guinea
> 8 Which American guitarist and singer (1911-1938) didn't achieve
> commercial success until the 1961 release of a compilation album titled
> "King of the Delta Blues Singers"?
Robert Johnson
> 9 What does the acronym GDH, first coined in 1972 by the King of Bhutan in
> an attempt to subjectively measure the quality of his citizens' lives,
> stand for?
Gross Domestic Happiness
> 10 From the Latin for "winged feet', what term refers to various
> semi-aquatic mammals including seals, walruses and sea loins?
pinopods (?)
Rob
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