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* Rotating Quiz #38 - 6 messages, 6 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/cfaab7a6c78c74b8?hl=en
* Calvin's Quiz #174 - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/352c76c91cd55943?hl=en
* QFTCI11 Game 10 Rounds 9-10 answers; scoring delayed - 2 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/1d40c9883a164b06?hl=en
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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 6 ==
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
== 2 of 6 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 31 2011 3:34 am
From: "David B"
> 7. Who painted "Les Demoiselles D'Avignon" (though he called it "Le
> Bordel d'Avignon")?
Picasso.
> 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?
Cello.
== 3 of 6 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 31 2011 11:50 am
From: "Peter Smyth"
"Chris F.A. Johnson" wrote in message news:lde1o8-hhr.ln1@cjlocal.ca...
>
>
>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?
>
>4. The City of Baguio is the summer capital of what country?
>
>5. Who was the emperor of Rome when Vesuvius erupted in 79AD?
Nero
>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?
Cricket
>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?
Peter Smyth
== 4 of 6 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 31 2011 1:07 pm
From: John Masters
On 2011-10-31 02:40:21 +0000, Chris F.A. Johnson said:
> 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?
Orchids
> 4. The City of Baguio is the summer capital of what country?
>
> 5. Who was the emperor of Rome when Vesuvius erupted in 79AD?
Nero
> 6. Who wrote "The Last Days of Pompeii"?
Harris
>
> 7. Who painted "Les Demoiselles D'Avignon" (though he called it "Le
> Bordel d'Avignon")?
Manet
>
> 8. W.G. Grace (1848-1915) was pre-eminent in what sport?
Cricket
>
> 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
== 5 of 6 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 31 2011 2:30 pm
From: Erland Sommarskog
Chris F.A. Johnson (cfajohnson@gmail.com) writes:
> 4. The City of Baguio is the summer capital of what country?
Bhutan
> 5. Who was the emperor of Rome when Vesuvius erupted in 79AD?
Vespanius
> 7. Who painted "Les Demoiselles D'Avignon" (though he called it "Le
> Bordel d'Avignon")?
One of Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh come close at hand. I settle for
Gauguin.
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
== 6 of 6 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 31 2011 8:38 pm
From: Pete
"Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> wrote in news:lde1o8-hhr.ln1
@cjlocal.ca:
>
> 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
Tal
>
> 3. Aerangis, Cattleya, Dendrobium and Phalaenopsis belong to what
> biological family?
>
> 4. The City of Baguio is the summer capital of what country?
Nepal
>
> 5. Who was the emperor of Rome when Vesuvius erupted in 79AD?
Nero
>
> 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?
Cricket
>
> 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?
Psalter
>
> 10. In 1967, a supertanker was shipwrecked off the coast of Cornwall;
> what was its name?
>
>
Pete
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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 1 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 31 2011 3:17 am
From: "David B"
> 1 Which branch of medicine is concerned with artificial human limbs?
Prosthetics.
> 2 What was the given name of Margaret Thatcher's husband
Dennis.
> 3 In which novel and film do the Oompa Loompas appear?
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
> 4 Which Peanuts character offers psychiatric advice?
Lucy.
> 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?
Seed.
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TOPIC: QFTCI11 Game 10 Rounds 9-10 answers; scoring delayed
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/1d40c9883a164b06?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 31 2011 11:09 am
From: Michael Wares
Mark Brader has been temporarily separated by problems at vex.net
both from Usenet and from his email there, and has asked me to post
the following for him.
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For anyone who may have been waiting on tenterhooks, here are the
answers to the latest set of QFTCI11 questions. I will score the
game and continue with new postings as soon as I'm connected again.
Please see the existing thread for the full questions and the URL
for the handout.
Game 10, Round 9
1. Thirty Years War: 1618-48
2. Lifetime of Alexander the Great: 356-323 BC
3. Second Punic War: 218-202 BC
4. Muhammad's life after the Hegira: 622-632
5. War of the Roses: 1455-85
6. The Regency: 1811-20
7. The Restoration: 1660-85
8. Reign of Richard the Lionheart: 1189-99
9. Hundred Years War: 1337-1453 [sic]
10. War of the Spanish Succession: 1701-14
Game 10, Round 10
A1. L.A. area team: Logo 5 (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, baseball)
A2. U. of Arizona football: Logo 2 (Wildcats)
Logo 1 - Houston/Tennessee Oilers (now Titans, football)
Logo 3 - Albuquerque Isotopes (Pacific Coast League baseball)
Logo 4 - Atlanta (now Calgary) Flames (hockey)
B1. Symbol 3: Fascism (Fascist Party)
B2. Symbol 3 on US coins: Dime
C1. Electric current: Equation 3, I
C2. Distance traveled: Equation 5, s
Equation 2 - Force = mass x acceleration
Equation 4 - The basis for how exponentiation of complex numbers
is defined
Equation 5 - Wave speed = frequency x wavelength
D1. Columbia River: 1
D2. Congo River: 2
River 3: Yukon
River 4: Loire
River 5: Colorado
E1. Premier 4: BC (Christy Clark)
E2. Premier 1: Newfoundland and Labrador (Kathy Dunderdale)
Premier 2: Ed Stelmach, Alberta
Premier 3: Eva Aariak, Nunavut
Premier 5: Jean Charest, Quebec
F1. Married to Orson Welles: Woman 2 (Rita Hayworth)
F2. Married to Roger Vadim: Woman 4 (Brigitte Bardot). Jane Fonda is
not
on the handout.
Woman 1: Raquel Welch
Woman 3: Marilyn Monroe
Woman 5: Jayne Mansfield
--
Posted by Michael Wares for Mark Brader (normally msb@vex.net)
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 31 2011 11:21 am
From: Michael Wares
Mark Brader has asked me to post a correction:
> C2. Distance traveled: Equation 5, s
This should be: "Equation 1".
Sorry.
Michael Wares
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