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* SWPKO #9 - 6 messages, 5 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/79ae0c242a5f8027?hl=en
* QFTCIC Game 8, Rounds 9-10: milk users, challenge round - 4 messages, 4
authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/c2cd089f2edd1bb4?hl=en
* World Of War Craft Fans Its Time To Reveal Deadly Secrets......!!! - 1
messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/d5551a6c3ad3699e?hl=en
* SWPKO #7 - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/0580258ca99d3ca8?hl=en
* Rotating Quiz 130: RESULTS AND SCORES - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/04788efbb0214342?hl=en
* Rotating Quiz 131 - 9 messages, 8 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/d53b2867cdb4a63d?hl=en
* Rare Entries contest MSB78 begins - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/cd2c171f16901921?hl=en
* The Greatest online game this year , Don't miss it - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/0df7859f73f04c51?hl=en
* calvin's quiz #341 - Battles - ANSWERS & SCORES - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/8dc8a246a338837a?hl=en
* calvin's quiz #342 - People - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/9f654f3a78576a18?hl=en
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TOPIC: SWPKO #9
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/79ae0c242a5f8027?hl=en
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== 1 of 6 ==
Date: Sat, Feb 8 2014 5:25 pm
From: swp
Welcome to the impossible round, Round 9! I intentionally included this question
in the original list of 10 to make sure that there was a round where no one had
any advantage. Now that I've said that, I am sure at least one of you will come
forward to say that this is also your favorite movie and know the answer.
The contest is now open to Pete, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Mark Brader.
***
#9. According to the SCMODS system in the patrol car, how many outstanding
warrants did Elwood Blues have in the movie "The Blues Brothers"?
***
swp
== 2 of 6 ==
Date: Sat, Feb 8 2014 7:37 pm
From: tool@panix.com (Dan Blum)
swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com> wrote:
> Welcome to the impossible round, Round 9! I intentionally included this question
> in the original list of 10 to make sure that there was a round where no one had
> any advantage. Now that I've said that, I am sure at least one of you will come
> forward to say that this is also your favorite movie and know the answer.
It's one of my wife's favorite movies, but that's unfortunately not good
enough.
> The contest is now open to Pete, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Mark Brader.
> ***
> #9. According to the SCMODS system in the patrol car, how many outstanding
> warrants did Elwood Blues have in the movie "The Blues Brothers"?
> ***
36
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum tool@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
== 3 of 6 ==
Date: Sat, Feb 8 2014 7:56 pm
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)
Stephen Perry:
> Now that I've said that, I am sure at least one of you will come
> forward to say that this is also your favorite movie and know the answer.
Well, it's *a* favorite, but...
> #9. According to the SCMODS system in the patrol car, how many outstanding
> warrants did Elwood Blues have in the movie "The Blues Brothers"?
124?
--
Mark Brader | "Warning! Drinking beer, wine or spirits during
Toronto | pregnancy can harm your baby." (City of Toronto
msb@vex.net | notice in restaurant washrooms--men's and women's)
My text in this article is in the public domain.
== 4 of 6 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 9 2014 8:09 am
From: Dan Tilque
swp wrote:
> Welcome to the impossible round, Round 9! I intentionally included this question
> in the original list of 10 to make sure that there was a round where no one had
> any advantage. Now that I've said that, I am sure at least one of you will come
> forward to say that this is also your favorite movie and know the answer.
>
> The contest is now open to Pete, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Mark Brader.
>
> ***
> #9. According to the SCMODS system in the patrol car, how many outstanding
> warrants did Elwood Blues have in the movie "The Blues Brothers"?
> ***
65
--
Dan Tilque
Helix, if everything goes according to plan, the plan has been
compromised. -- Sam Starfall in "Freefall"
== 5 of 6 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 10 2014 3:27 pm
From: swp
On Saturday, February 8, 2014 8:25:49 PM UTC-5, swp wrote:
> Welcome to the impossible round, Round 9! I intentionally included this question
> in the original list of 10 to make sure that there was a round where no one had
> any advantage. Now that I've said that, I am sure at least one of you will come
> forward to say that this is also your favorite movie and know the answer.
>
> The contest is now open to Pete, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Mark Brader.
>
> ***
> #9. According to the SCMODS system in the patrol car, how many outstanding
> warrants did Elwood Blues have in the movie "The Blues Brothers"?
> ***
>
> swp
This is a reminder that entries can be submitted until 8:25pm (GMT-5) on February 11th, 2014. In the event that Pete is does not submit an entry by then he will be eliminated. Which would be a really bad way to lose this contest. If I can find his email I will send him a reminder directly.
swp
== 6 of 6 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 10 2014 10:46 pm
From: Pete
swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com> wrote in
news:75d40ddd-566a-4891-b2cf-29d2d69a2a23@googlegroups.com:
> Welcome to the impossible round, Round 9! I intentionally included
> this question in the original list of 10 to make sure that there was a
> round where no one had any advantage. Now that I've said that, I am
> sure at least one of you will come forward to say that this is also
> your favorite movie and know the answer.
>
> The contest is now open to Pete, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Mark
> Brader.
>
> ***
> #9. According to the SCMODS system in the patrol car, how many
> outstanding
> warrants did Elwood Blues have in the movie "The Blues Brothers"?
> ***
>
> swp
>
37
Pete (who lives about 15 miles from the old Joliet Prison but doesn't know
the answer)
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TOPIC: QFTCIC Game 8, Rounds 9-10: milk users, challenge round
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/c2cd089f2edd1bb4?hl=en
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== 1 of 4 ==
Date: Sat, Feb 8 2014 10:18 pm
From: Dan Tilque
Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 9 - Sports - "Got Milk?"
>
> Please see the handout at
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/8-9/milk.pdf
>
> and in each case, name the athlete in the "Got Milk?" ad.
>
> Again, there were 8 decoys and I have sorted everything into
> numerical sequence, and again, you're getting full color while
> the original game had a black-and-white handout.
>
> Answer the decoys if you like for fun, but for no points.
>
> 1. (decoy)
> 2. Name him.
> 3. Name him.
> 4. (decoy)
> 5. Name *any two* of the three.
> 6. Name him.
> 7. (decoy)
> 8. Name *both*.
> 9. Name her.
> 10. Name him.
> 11. (decoy)
> 12. (decoy)
> 13. (decoy)
> 14. Name him.
> 15. Name him.
> 16. (decoy)
> 17. Name her.
> 18. (decoy)
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 10 - Challenge
>
> Your categories are:
>
> A. Kirk (Sports)
> B. Bones (Science)
> C. Scotty (Geography)
> D. Chekhov (Literature)
> E. Sulu (History)
> F. Spock (Entertainment)
>
>
> A. Kirk
>
> A1. This past week saw the anniversary of *whose* home run
> for the Dodgers off Dennis Eckersley in Game 1 of the 1988
> World Series? He was named National League MVP.
>
> A2. Currently quarterback for the Washington Redskins, he played
> college football for Michigan State University. Who is he?
>
> B. Bones
>
> B1. What is the smallest and lightest bone in the human body?
incus
>
> B2. What is the strongest, heaviest, and longest bone in the
> human body?
femur
>
> C. Scotty
>
> In each case, name the city.
>
> C1. This city is regarded as the capital of the Scottish
> Highlands. It's not far from the site of the 18th century
> Battle of Culloden.
Aberdeen
>
> C2. This city is Scotland's third most populous. Its nicknames
> include The Granite City, The Grey City, and The Silver
> City with the Golden Sands. Since the discovery of North
> Sea oil in the 1970s, other nicknames have been the Oil
> Capital of Europe and the Energy Capital of Europe.
Aberdeen
>
> D. Chekhov
>
> In each case, name the play.
>
> D1. Chekhov's last play opened at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904.
> Although intended as a comedy, Stanislavski insisted on
> directing it as a tragedy.
>
> D2. At this play's famously disastrous premiere in 1896, the
> audience was so hostile that one of the lead actresses
> lost her voice. Chekhov announced that he was finished
> writing plays.
>
> E. Sulu
>
> E1. A samurai with no lord or master during Japan's feudal
> period was called what?
ronin
>
> E2. In the Edo-period social structure, what was the term for
> large land owners subordinate only to the Shogun?
daimyo
>
> F. Spock
>
> Yes, this one is actually about "Star Trek".
>
> F1. In the episode "Amok Time", Spock undergoes pon farr.
> This ordeal includes a blood fever, violent aggression and
> then death -- unless the sufferer does what?
has sex
>
> F2. Before his death saving Enterprise from the detonation
> of the Genesis Device in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan",
> Spock gave his katra to who?
>
>
--
Dan Tilque
== 2 of 4 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 9 2014 9:01 am
From: Jason Kreitzer
On Friday, February 7, 2014 10:49:23 PM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2013-11-18,
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> All questions were written by members of Clueless, and are used
>
> here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have been
>
> retyped and/or edited by me. For further information see my
>
> 2013-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
>
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
>
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 9 - Sports - "Got Milk?"
>
>
>
> Please see the handout at
>
>
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/8-9/milk.pdf
>
>
>
> and in each case, name the athlete in the "Got Milk?" ad.
>
>
>
> Again, there were 8 decoys and I have sorted everything into
>
> numerical sequence, and again, you're getting full color while
>
> the original game had a black-and-white handout.
>
>
>
> Answer the decoys if you like for fun, but for no points.
>
>
>
> 1. (decoy)
>
> 2. Name him.
>
> 3. Name him.
>
> 4. (decoy)
>
> 5. Name *any two* of the three.
>
> 6. Name him.
>
> 7. (decoy)
>
> 8. Name *both*.
>
> 9. Name her.
> Danica Patrick
> 10. Name him.
>
> 11. (decoy)
>
> 12. (decoy)
>
> 13. (decoy)
> "Stone Cold" Steve Austin
> 14. Name him.
>
> 15. Name him.
>
> 16. (decoy)
>
> 17. Name her.
> Kristy Yamaguchi
> 18. (decoy)
>
>
>
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 10 - Challenge
>
>
>
> Your categories are:
>
>
>
> A. Kirk (Sports)
>
> B. Bones (Science)
>
> C. Scotty (Geography)
>
> D. Chekhov (Literature)
>
> E. Sulu (History)
>
> F. Spock (Entertainment)
>
>
>
>
>
> A. Kirk
>
>
>
> A1. This past week saw the anniversary of *whose* home run
>
> for the Dodgers off Dennis Eckersley in Game 1 of the 1988
>
> World Series? He was named National League MVP.
>
>
>
> A2. Currently quarterback for the Washington Redskins, he played
>
> college football for Michigan State University. Who is he?
>
> RGIII
>
> B. Bones
>
>
>
> B1. What is the smallest and lightest bone in the human body?
>
>
>
> B2. What is the strongest, heaviest, and longest bone in the
>
> human body?
>
>
>
> C. Scotty
>
>
>
> In each case, name the city.
>
>
>
> C1. This city is regarded as the capital of the Scottish
>
> Highlands. It's not far from the site of the 18th century
>
> Battle of Culloden.
>
>
>
> C2. This city is Scotland's third most populous. Its nicknames
>
> include The Granite City, The Grey City, and The Silver
>
> City with the Golden Sands. Since the discovery of North
>
> Sea oil in the 1970s, other nicknames have been the Oil
>
> Capital of Europe and the Energy Capital of Europe.
>
>
>
> D. Chekhov
>
>
>
> In each case, name the play.
>
>
>
> D1. Chekhov's last play opened at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904.
>
> Although intended as a comedy, Stanislavski insisted on
>
> directing it as a tragedy.
>
>
>
> D2. At this play's famously disastrous premiere in 1896, the
>
> audience was so hostile that one of the lead actresses
>
> lost her voice. Chekhov announced that he was finished
>
> writing plays.
>
>
>
> E. Sulu
>
>
>
> E1. A samurai with no lord or master during Japan's feudal
>
> period was called what?
>
>
>
> E2. In the Edo-period social structure, what was the term for
>
> large land owners subordinate only to the Shogun?
>
>
>
> F. Spock
>
>
>
> Yes, this one is actually about "Star Trek".
>
>
>
> F1. In the episode "Amok Time", Spock undergoes pon farr.
>
> This ordeal includes a blood fever, violent aggression and
>
> then death -- unless the sufferer does what?
>
>
>
> F2. Before his death saving Enterprise from the detonation
>
> of the Genesis Device in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan",
>
> Spock gave his katra to who?
>
> McCoy
>
>
>
> --
>
> Mark Brader | "If you have to go in, you go in.
>
> Toronto | The choice was made the day you took your oath."
>
> msb@vex.net | --Dan Duddy, New York Fire Department
>
>
>
> My text in this article is in the public domain.
== 3 of 4 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 9 2014 9:51 am
From: Jeffrey Turner
On 2/7/2014 10:49 PM, Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 9 - Sports - "Got Milk?"
>
> Please see the handout at
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/8-9/milk.pdf
>
> and in each case, name the athlete in the "Got Milk?" ad.
>
> Again, there were 8 decoys and I have sorted everything into
> numerical sequence, and again, you're getting full color while
> the original game had a black-and-white handout.
>
> Answer the decoys if you like for fun, but for no points.
>
> 1. (decoy)
> 2. Name him.
> 3. Name him.
> 4. (decoy)
> 5. Name *any two* of the three.
> 6. Name him.
> 7. (decoy)
> 8. Name *both*.
Ali and Ali
> 9. Name her.
> 10. Name him.
> 11. (decoy)
> 12. (decoy)
> 13. (decoy)
> 14. Name him.
> 15. Name him.
> 16. (decoy)
> 17. Name her.
> 18. (decoy)
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 10 - Challenge
>
> Your categories are:
>
> A. Kirk (Sports)
> B. Bones (Science)
> C. Scotty (Geography)
> D. Chekhov (Literature)
> E. Sulu (History)
> F. Spock (Entertainment)
>
>
> A. Kirk
>
> A1. This past week saw the anniversary of *whose* home run
> for the Dodgers off Dennis Eckersley in Game 1 of the 1988
> World Series? He was named National League MVP.
>
> A2. Currently quarterback for the Washington Redskins, he played
> college football for Michigan State University. Who is he?
RG III
> B. Bones
>
> B1. What is the smallest and lightest bone in the human body?
Stirrups
> B2. What is the strongest, heaviest, and longest bone in the
> human body?
Femur
> C. Scotty
>
> In each case, name the city.
>
> C1. This city is regarded as the capital of the Scottish
> Highlands. It's not far from the site of the 18th century
> Battle of Culloden.
>
> C2. This city is Scotland's third most populous. Its nicknames
> include The Granite City, The Grey City, and The Silver
> City with the Golden Sands. Since the discovery of North
> Sea oil in the 1970s, other nicknames have been the Oil
> Capital of Europe and the Energy Capital of Europe.
>
> D. Chekhov
>
> In each case, name the play.
>
> D1. Chekhov's last play opened at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904.
> Although intended as a comedy, Stanislavski insisted on
> directing it as a tragedy.
>
> D2. At this play's famously disastrous premiere in 1896, the
> audience was so hostile that one of the lead actresses
> lost her voice. Chekhov announced that he was finished
> writing plays.
>
> E. Sulu
>
> E1. A samurai with no lord or master during Japan's feudal
> period was called what?
>
> E2. In the Edo-period social structure, what was the term for
> large land owners subordinate only to the Shogun?
>
> F. Spock
>
> Yes, this one is actually about "Star Trek".
>
> F1. In the episode "Amok Time", Spock undergoes pon farr.
> This ordeal includes a blood fever, violent aggression and
> then death -- unless the sufferer does what?
>
> F2. Before his death saving Enterprise from the detonation
> of the Genesis Device in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan",
> Spock gave his katra to who?
--Jeff
== 4 of 4 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 9 2014 12:03 pm
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)
Jason, if you do not stop posting your answers marked ">" as if they were
part of the quoted text, they will no longer be scoreed.
--
Mark Brader | "I can direct dial today a man my parents warred with.
Toronto | They wanted to kill him, I want to sell software to him."
msb@vex.net | -- Brad Templeton
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TOPIC: World Of War Craft Fans Its Time To Reveal Deadly Secrets......!!!
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/d5551a6c3ad3699e?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
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TOPIC: SWPKO #7
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/0580258ca99d3ca8?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 9 2014 6:29 am
From: Erland Sommarskog
swp (Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com) writes:
> Erland Sommarskog is eliminated, just as I was finally getting
> comfortable with spelling his name.
What! My name is very easy to spell. Just like it sounds. :-) No artsy stuff
like ph or anything...
And I was really silly when I posted my answer. As I said, I know little
about Niagara, but I have been to the Iguazu falls, so it gave me some
idea, not the least of the water speed. And despite that I used 10 m/s
rather than 1 m/s. (I rode in a bode on top of the falls, and I was
surprised how calm the waters were up there.)
Anyway, it was a good thing I was ruled out. My gut reaction to the
Saturn questions was lower than Joshua's, and since was away from the
computer for 24 hours, I would have delayed the contest.
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
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TOPIC: Rotating Quiz 130: RESULTS AND SCORES
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/04788efbb0214342?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 9 2014 9:48 am
From: Gareth Owen
Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> writes:
> 1. Al Oerter was a four time Olympic champion. In which event?
Discus
Representing USA Oerter won in 1956, 1960, 1964 and 1968, and was the
first man to throw a discus 200ft. Diagnosed with a cardiovascular
disease when in his late 60s, it was recommended he have a transplant.
Oerter replied "I've had an interesting life. I'm going out with what
I had." He died in 2007, age 71.
> 2. What is the best known recording by performance poet / proto-rapper
> Gil Scott-Heron?
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
(The revolution will be no rerun brothers,
The revolution, will be live.)
> 3. Of what kind of structure were "Florianturm" in Dortmund and "La Ronde",
> Honolulu, among the first in the world?
Rotating Restaurants
> 4. Back in the days of vinyl records (times which still haven't ended
> for some of us) the most common formats rotated at 33 1/3 RPM (long
> players) and 45 RPM (singles). What were next two most common
> rotation speeds for vinyl records? (1/2 mark each)
78 RPM, 16 2/3 RPM.
My first record player had both of these speeds on it - the latter was
great for slowing down albums to figure out Mick was singing or what
Keith was playing.
16 2/3 was often denoted simply as "16", so any value in the interval
[16,17) scored the point.
> 5. Which music magazine was founded in 1985 by Bob Guccione, Jr, as an
> alternative/college-rock competitor to the increasingly-mainstream Rolling
> Stone?
Spin
> 6. What agricultural revolution was developed in Waasland, Belgium, and
> popularised by Charles Townshend (UK) and George Washington Carver (US)?
> [be specific for full credit]
Four field crop rotation [crop rotation with an additional feed crop
(typically turnips)]. This breakthrough earned Townshend the nickname
"Turnip Townshend".
Dan Tilque got the closest, and I ummed and ahhed about giving him full
credit, but erred on the side of being a misery (I have a reputation to
maintain).
[Crop rotation was worth partial credit, but in some form or other
preexisted the Belgian innovation by thousands of years]
> 7. Born 14 May, 1775, which British painter's works include "Chichester
> Canal", "The Slave Ship" and "The Shipwreck of the Minotaur"?
JMW Turner. As Mark pointed out, they weren't necessarily his *best*
known works
> 8. If a figure skater performs a perfect double axel, through how many
> degrees will they have rotated in the jump?
900. An axel is the only major skating jump with the take off skating
forward, and the landing skating backwards. A double axel and contains
two additional rotations, for 2.5 complete rotations.
> 9. "Turning and turning in the widening gyre" is the opening line of
> which poem?
The Second Coming, by WB Yeats.
For a short poem it contains several well known lines. My favourite of
these is "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of
passionate intensity".
Doesn't that describe everything thats wrong with everything?
> 10. During which Revolution was the German steamship SS Ypiranga the
> centre of a major diplomatic incident over the breach of an arms
> embargo?
The Mexican Revolution. The US embargoed European and Asian nations from
supplying arms to the warring parties, and a German ship attempted to
supply the Huerta government. The US initially blockaded the shipment,
then released it after domestic and international pressure of the
legality of the action.
This started April 21, 1914, predating WWI by 3 months.
Scores
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total
Mark Brader 1 0 1 1 1 .5 1 1 0 1 7.5
swp 1 1 0 .5 1 .5 1 0 0 1 6
Peter Smyth 1 0 0 .5 0 0 0 1 0 0 2.5
Jeffrey Turner 0 1 1 1 1 .5 0 0 0 0 4.5
Bruce Bowler 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 4
Erland Sommar~1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Marc Dashevsky 0 0 0 1 0 .5 1 0 0 0 2.5
Pete 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 5
Rob Parker 1 0 0 .5 0 .5 1 0 0 0 3
Dan Tilque 1 0 1 .5 0 .5 1 0 0 0 4
calvin 1 0 1 .5 0 .5 1 0 0 0 4
David B 1 0 1 1 0 .5 1 0 0 0 4.5
Soooo ... I guess WB Yeats isn't that big outside of Ireland :)
And the winner is Mark Brader.
Congratulations Mark, you're back in the hotseat I'm afraid.
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TOPIC: Rotating Quiz 131
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/d53b2867cdb4a63d?hl=en
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== 1 of 9 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 9 2014 3:20 pm
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)
This is Rotating Quiz #131. The contest will run for 6 days from
the moment of posting, so by Toronto time (zone -5) you have until
about 6:20 PM on Saturday, February 15.
Please answer based only on your own knowledge and, of course,
do not discuss the questions in the newsgroup before answering.
Please post your answers to all questions in a single followup
in the newsgroup, quoting the questions and placing your answer
below each one. Only one attempt per question. In case of a
tie, the first tiebreaker will be who got the hardest questions
correct, if a second tiebreaker is needed then I will rescore
based on a finer-grained scale than "right or wrong"; and the
third tiebreaker will be who posted first.
Okay, this time you get the hard one I've been saving. I don't
think it will take many correct answers to win, so please try even
if you don't have a lot of good guesses. Apologies to those of
you on other continents, but this quiz is
US States "Jeopardy!"
Which means, in each case I'll supply a list of states the answer
and you must name the question that that list is the answer to.
No, don't bother trying anything like "Which states are named
either 'Alaska' or 'Louisiana'?" or "Which state is nicknamed
the Pelican State?" You have to come up with a connection or
distinctive property less arbitrary than that, either the one
I was thinking of or another one that's also correct and which
I decide is equally good.
The properties I expect you to find are of different kinds --
some geographical, some historical, some regarding the state's
name, etc. Within each list the states are shown alphabetically.
Don't bother thinking about official state nicknames, official
birds, animals, snacks, drugs, mottos, or that sort of thing --
I consider those too arbitrary to be interesting. But beyond
that, anything goes.
Quasi-hint: in some cases when I thought of a question I also
thought of some closely related questions I could ask. I then
typically included *all* the versions, and then kept them grouped
together. So when you think of one answer, it may be a hint to the
question before, or the one after. Or some other nearby question.
Or all of the above. Or not.
1. Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia.
2. Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, and especially Virginia.
3. Alaska, Louisiana.
4. Louisiana.
5. Nebraska.
6. Maine, Nebraska.
7. Maine.
8. Missouri, Tennessee.
9. Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah.
10. Alaska, Hawaii.
11. Hawaii.
12. Arizona, Hawaii.
13. New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, South
Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, West Virginia.
14. New Jersey, New York.
15. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, New Jersey, New York.
16. Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon.
17. Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii,
Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia.
18. Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas,
Vermont, Virginia.
19. California, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, Texas.
20. Missouri, Oklahoma, Utah, but not really Idaho or New York.
21. Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma, Utah, but not really Idaho.
22. Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana,
Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode
Island, South Carolina, Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming.
23. Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia.
24. Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia.
25. Alaska, California, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana,
Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota,
Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota,
Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
26. Alaska, Idaho, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York,
North Dakota, Vermont, Washington.
27. Alaska, Minnesota, Washington.
28. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
29. Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota,
Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Wisconsin.
30. Maine, West Virginia.
31. Hawaii, Texas, and arguably Vermont.
32. Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia,
West Virginia.
33. Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington.
34. California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia,
Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland,
Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia.
35. Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida,
Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska,
Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
36. Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,
Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin.
37. California, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, New York, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Texas.
38. Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,
Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan,
Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, New York, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin.
39. California, Florida, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Texas.
--
Mark Brader | "Don't be silly. A pedant is something you hang
Toronto | round your neck, or else you hang them by the neck."
msb@vex.net | --Rob Bannister
My text in this article is in the public domain.
== 2 of 9 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 9 2014 6:32 pm
From: swp
On Sunday, February 9, 2014 6:20:13 PM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:
> This is Rotating Quiz #131. The contest will run for 6 days from
> the moment of posting, so by Toronto time (zone -5) you have until
> about 6:20 PM on Saturday, February 15.
>
> 1. Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia.
what are the commonwealths?
> 2. Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, and especially Virginia.
in what states are there one or more cities which are independent of any *county* organization?
> 3. Alaska, Louisiana.
what states don't use *counties* as their top level subdivision?
> 4. Louisiana.
what states uses parishes instead of counties?
> 5. Nebraska.
what is the only state with a single house (unicameral?) in its legislature?
> 6. Maine, Nebraska.
what states can split their electoral votes instead of giving all of them to a single candidate?
> 7. Maine.
what is the only state to border just 1 other state?
> 8. Missouri, Tennessee.
what states border 8 other states?
> 9. Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah.
what states meet at the '4 corners' point?
> 10. Alaska, Hawaii.
what states don't have a land border with any other state?
> 11. Hawaii.
what is the only state that was once a kingdom?
> 12. Arizona, Hawaii.
what states, either entirely or partially, don't observe daylight savings time?
> 13. New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, South
> Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, West Virginia.
what states changed their minimum wage at the start of 2014?
> 14. New Jersey, New York.
what states can lay claim to hosting the superbowl in 2014?
> 15. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, New Jersey, New York.
what states require an ultrasound before an abortion?
> 16. Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon.
what states dont tax online purchases?
> 17. Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii,
> Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska,
> New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio,
> Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia.
what states have u.s. presidents been from?
> 18. Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas,
> Vermont, Virginia.
wow. I got nothing.
> 19. California, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, Texas.
nope, drawing a blank here too. and I am almost an hour into trying to answer all of these.
> 20. Missouri, Oklahoma, Utah, but not really Idaho or New York.
ok, my eyes are crossing and my vision is blurry.
> 21. Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma, Utah, but not really Idaho.
it's been great playing but I think I'll take the money and go home.
> 22. Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana,
> Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode
> Island, South Carolina, Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming.
>
> 23. Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New
> Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
> Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia.
>
> 24. Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New
> Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
> Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia.
>
> 25. Alaska, California, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana,
> Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana,
> Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota,
> Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota,
> Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
>
> 26. Alaska, Idaho, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York,
> North Dakota, Vermont, Washington.
>
> 27. Alaska, Minnesota, Washington.
>
> 28. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio,
> Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
>
> 29. Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota,
> Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Wisconsin.
>
> 30. Maine, West Virginia.
>
> 31. Hawaii, Texas, and arguably Vermont.
>
> 32. Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia,
> West Virginia.
>
> 33. Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington.
>
> 34. California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia,
> Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland,
> Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia.
>
> 35. Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida,
> Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska,
> Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
>
> 36. Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,
> Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
> New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin.
>
> 37. California, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, New York, Ohio,
> Pennsylvania, Texas.
>
> 38. Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,
> Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan,
> Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, New York, Ohio,
> Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin.
>
> 39. California, Florida, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
> Texas.
>
> --
> Mark Brader | "Don't be silly. A pedant is something you hang
> Toronto | round your neck, or else you hang them by the neck."
> msb@vex.net | --Rob Bannister
>
> My text in this article is in the public domain.
swp, who thinks this list was *way* too long and should have been broken up into multiple RQs.
== 3 of 9 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 9 2014 10:46 pm
From: Joshua Kreitzer
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in
news:UoadneYR24CwkGXPnZ2dnUVZ_rKdnZ2d@vex.net:
> 1. Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia.
Which states are designated as "commonwealths" in their official name?
> 2. Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, and especially Virginia.
Which states include independent cities that are not part of any county?
> 3. Alaska, Louisiana.
Which states don't call their subdivisions "counties"?
> 4. Louisiana.
Which state calls its subdivisions "parishes"?
> 5. Nebraska.
Which state has a unicameral legislature?
> 6. Maine, Nebraska.
Which states split their electoral votes according to the winner of each
congressional district (with 2 votes going to the statewide winner)?
> 7. Maine.
Which state has a one-syllable name?
> 8. Missouri, Tennessee.
Which states each border eight other U.S. states?
> 9. Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah.
Which states meet at the Four Corners?
> 10. Alaska, Hawaii.
Which states don't border any other state?
> 11. Hawaii.
Which state is located completely on islands?
> 12. Arizona, Hawaii.
Which states don't use daylight saving time?
> 17. Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii,
> Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska,
> New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio,
> Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia.
Which states include the birthplace of any U.S. president?
> 24. Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New
> Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
> Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia.
What were the 13 original states?
> 26. Alaska, Idaho, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York,
> North Dakota, Vermont, Washington.
Which states have land borders with Canada, but aren't Montana?
> 27. Alaska, Minnesota, Washington.
Which states include territory that can be reached by land from the
contiguous states only by passing through Canada?
> 28. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio,
> Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
Which states border any of the Great Lakes?
> 31. Hawaii, Texas, and arguably Vermont.
Which states were once independent countries?
--
Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82@hotmail.com
== 4 of 9 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 10 2014 11:22 am
From: "Peter Smyth"
Mark Brader wrote:
> 1. Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia.
states with commonwealth in their names
> 2. Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, and especially Virginia.
>
> 3. Alaska, Louisiana.
>
> 4. Louisiana.
states using civil law
> 5. Nebraska.
states with a unicameral legislature
> 6. Maine, Nebraska.
states that can split their electoral college votes
> 7. Maine.
>
> 8. Missouri, Tennessee.
>
> 9. Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah.
states that meet at a quadripoint
> 10. Alaska, Hawaii.
states not contiguous with the main US land area
> 11. Hawaii.
states with the Union Jack on the flag
> 12. Arizona, Hawaii.
>
> 13. New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, South
> Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, West Virginia.
>
> 14. New Jersey, New York.
>
> 15. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, New Jersey, New York.
>
> 16. Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon.
>
> 17. Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii,
> Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska,
> New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio,
> Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia.
states in which US presidents have been born
> 18. Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas,
> Vermont, Virginia.
>
> 19. California, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, Texas.
>
> 20. Missouri, Oklahoma, Utah, but not really Idaho or New York.
>
> 21. Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma, Utah, but not really Idaho.
States with capitals containing the word City
> 22. Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana,
> Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode
> Island, South Carolina, Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming.
States whose capitals is their largest city
> 23. Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New
> Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
> Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia.
>
> 24. Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New
> Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
> Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia.
>
> 25. Alaska, California, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana,
> Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana,
> Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota,
> Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota,
> Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
>
> 26. Alaska, Idaho, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York,
> North Dakota, Vermont, Washington.
>
> 27. Alaska, Minnesota, Washington.
>
> 28. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio,
> Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
>
> 29. Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota,
> Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Wisconsin.
>
> 30. Maine, West Virginia.
>
> 31. Hawaii, Texas, and arguably Vermont.
>
> 32. Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia,
> West Virginia.
>
> 33. Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington.
>
> 34. California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia,
> Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland,
> Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia.
>
> 35. Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida,
> Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska,
> Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
>
> 36. Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,
> Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
> New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin.
>
> 37. California, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, New York, Ohio,
> Pennsylvania, Texas.
>
> 38. Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,
> Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan,
> Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, New York, Ohio,
> Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin.
>
> 39. California, Florida, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
> Texas.
Peter Smyth
== 5 of 9 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 10 2014 2:32 pm
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)
Stephen Perry
> thinks this list was *way* too long and should have been broken
> up into multiple RQs.
Naah, it wasn't a good enough idea for that. What I actually should
have done was to suspend the rule that you have to post all your answers
at one time, and invite entrants to come back and add answers so long as
they hadn't read other people's responses. But too late now. We've had
three entries so far, anyway, so it's not completely impossible.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "To err is human, but to error requires a computer."
msb@vex.net | -- Harry Lethall
My text in this article is in the public domain.
== 6 of 9 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 10 2014 6:46 pm
From: Marc Dashevsky
In article <UoadneYR24CwkGXPnZ2dnUVZ_rKdnZ2d@vex.net>, msb@vex.net says...
>
> This is Rotating Quiz #131. The contest will run for 6 days from
> the moment of posting, so by Toronto time (zone -5) you have until
> about 6:20 PM on Saturday, February 15.
>
> Please answer based only on your own knowledge and, of course,
> do not discuss the questions in the newsgroup before answering.
>
> Please post your answers to all questions in a single followup
> in the newsgroup, quoting the questions and placing your answer
> below each one. Only one attempt per question. In case of a
> tie, the first tiebreaker will be who got the hardest questions
> correct, if a second tiebreaker is needed then I will rescore
> based on a finer-grained scale than "right or wrong"; and the
> third tiebreaker will be who posted first.
>
>
> Okay, this time you get the hard one I've been saving. I don't
> think it will take many correct answers to win, so please try even
> if you don't have a lot of good guesses. Apologies to those of
> you on other continents, but this quiz is
>
> US States "Jeopardy!"
>
> Which means, in each case I'll supply a list of states the answer
> and you must name the question that that list is the answer to.
>
>
> No, don't bother trying anything like "Which states are named
> either 'Alaska' or 'Louisiana'?" or "Which state is nicknamed
> the Pelican State?" You have to come up with a connection or
> distinctive property less arbitrary than that, either the one
> I was thinking of or another one that's also correct and which
> I decide is equally good.
>
> The properties I expect you to find are of different kinds --
> some geographical, some historical, some regarding the state's
> name, etc. Within each list the states are shown alphabetically.
>
> Don't bother thinking about official state nicknames, official
> birds, animals, snacks, drugs, mottos, or that sort of thing --
> I consider those too arbitrary to be interesting. But beyond
> that, anything goes.
>
>
> Quasi-hint: in some cases when I thought of a question I also
> thought of some closely related questions I could ask. I then
> typically included *all* the versions, and then kept them grouped
> together. So when you think of one answer, it may be a hint to the
> question before, or the one after. Or some other nearby question.
> Or all of the above. Or not.
>
>
> 1. Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia.
What are the states organized as commonwealths?
> 2. Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, and especially Virginia.
>
> 3. Alaska, Louisiana.
Which states give their names to the two largest "Purchases" of land by the U.S.
> 4. Louisiana.
Which state is named after a French king?
> 5. Nebraska.
>
> 6. Maine, Nebraska.
>
> 7. Maine.
>
> 8. Missouri, Tennessee.
>
> 9. Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah.
Which states meet at the Four Corners?
> 10. Alaska, Hawaii.
Which states do not share any part of a border with another state?
> 11. Hawaii.
What is the only state that is not on a continental plate?
> 12. Arizona, Hawaii.
>
> 13. New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, South
> Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, West Virginia.
>
> 14. New Jersey, New York.
>
> 15. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, New Jersey, New York.
>
> 16. Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon.
>
> 17. Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii,
> Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska,
> New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio,
> Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia.
>
> 18. Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas,
> Vermont, Virginia.
>
> 19. California, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, Texas.
>
> 20. Missouri, Oklahoma, Utah, but not really Idaho or New York.
>
> 21. Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma, Utah, but not really Idaho.
>
> 22. Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana,
> Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode
> Island, South Carolina, Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming.
Which state capitals are also the largest city in the state?
> 23. Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New
> Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
> Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia.
>
> 24. Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New
> Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
> Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia.
Which states ratified the Articles of Confederation.
[They were not states when they signed the Declaration of Independence.]
> 25. Alaska, California, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana,
> Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana,
> Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota,
> Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota,
> Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
>
> 26. Alaska, Idaho, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York,
> North Dakota, Vermont, Washington.
Which states have a land border with Canada?
> 27. Alaska, Minnesota, Washington.
Which states have a land border with more than one Canadian province or territory?
> 28. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio,
> Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
Which states abut the Great Lakes?
> 29. Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota,
> Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Wisconsin.
Which states does the Missiissippi River border or run through?
> 30. Maine, West Virginia.
In which states did people wake up in after going to bed the
previous night in another state, without having moved?
> 31. Hawaii, Texas, and arguably Vermont.
>
> 32. Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia,
> West Virginia.
>
> 33. Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington.
>
> 34. California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia,
> Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland,
> Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia.
>
> 35. Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida,
> Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska,
> Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
>
> 36. Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,
> Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
> New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin.
Which states have MLB franchises.
> 37. California, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, New York, Ohio,
> Pennsylvania, Texas.
>
> 38. Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,
> Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan,
> Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, New York, Ohio,
> Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin.
Which states have NFL franchises.
> 39. California, Florida, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
> Texas.
== 7 of 9 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 11 2014 11:31 am
From: Bruce Bowler
On Sun, 09 Feb 2014 17:20:13 -0600, Mark Brader wrote:
> This is Rotating Quiz #131. The contest will run for 6 days from the
> moment of posting, so by Toronto time (zone -5) you have until about
> 6:20 PM on Saturday, February 15.
>
> Please answer based only on your own knowledge and, of course,
> do not discuss the questions in the newsgroup before answering.
>
> Please post your answers to all questions in a single followup in the
> newsgroup, quoting the questions and placing your answer below each one.
> Only one attempt per question. In case of a tie, the first tiebreaker
> will be who got the hardest questions correct, if a second tiebreaker is
> needed then I will rescore based on a finer-grained scale than "right or
> wrong"; and the third tiebreaker will be who posted first.
>
>
> Okay, this time you get the hard one I've been saving. I don't think it
> will take many correct answers to win, so please try even if you don't
> have a lot of good guesses. Apologies to those of you on other
> continents, but this quiz is
>
> US States "Jeopardy!"
>
> Which means, in each case I'll supply a list of states the answer and
> you must name the question that that list is the answer to.
>
>
> No, don't bother trying anything like "Which states are named either
> 'Alaska' or 'Louisiana'?" or "Which state is nicknamed the Pelican
> State?" You have to come up with a connection or distinctive property
> less arbitrary than that, either the one I was thinking of or another
> one that's also correct and which I decide is equally good.
>
> The properties I expect you to find are of different kinds --
> some geographical, some historical, some regarding the state's name,
> etc. Within each list the states are shown alphabetically.
>
> Don't bother thinking about official state nicknames, official birds,
> animals, snacks, drugs, mottos, or that sort of thing --
> I consider those too arbitrary to be interesting. But beyond that,
> anything goes.
>
>
> Quasi-hint: in some cases when I thought of a question I also thought of
> some closely related questions I could ask. I then typically included
> *all* the versions, and then kept them grouped together. So when you
> think of one answer, it may be a hint to the question before, or the one
> after. Or some other nearby question. Or all of the above. Or not.
>
>
> 1. Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia.
What states of commonwealth in their official name?
> 2. Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, and especially Virginia.
>
> 3. Alaska, Louisiana.
>
> 4. Louisiana.
What state's common law is based on French law rather than English law?
> 5. Nebraska.
>
> 6. Maine, Nebraska.
What 2 states are not 'winner take all' in the electoral college?
> 7. Maine.
What state was once part of Massachusetts?
> 8. Missouri, Tennessee.
>
> 9. Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah.
What states meet at 'four corners'?
> 10. Alaska, Hawaii.
What are the last 2 states admitted to the union?
> 11. Hawaii.
What state was most recently ruled by a king?
> 12. Arizona, Hawaii.
>
> 13. New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, South
> Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, West Virginia.
>
> 14. New Jersey, New York.
>
> 15. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, New Jersey, New York.
>
> 16. Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon.
>
> 17. Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii,
> Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, New
> Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
> South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia.
>
> 18. Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas,
> Vermont, Virginia.
>
> 19. California, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, Texas.
>
> 20. Missouri, Oklahoma, Utah, but not really Idaho or New York.
>
> 21. Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma, Utah, but not really Idaho.
>
> 22. Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana,
> Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South
> Carolina, Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming.
>
> 23. Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New
> Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
> Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia.
>
> 24. Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New
> Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
> Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia.
What are the original 13 colonies?
> 25. Alaska, California, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana,
> Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska,
> Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon,
> Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota,
> Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
>
> 26. Alaska, Idaho, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York,
> North Dakota, Vermont, Washington.
>
> 27. Alaska, Minnesota, Washington.
>
> 28. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio,
> Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
>
> 29. Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota,
> Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Wisconsin.
>
> 30. Maine, West Virginia.
>
> 31. Hawaii, Texas, and arguably Vermont.
>
> 32. Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia,
> West Virginia.
>
> 33. Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington.
>
> 34. California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia,
> Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland,
> Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia.
>
> 35. Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida,
> Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio,
> Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
>
> 36. Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,
> Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
> New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin.
>
> 37. California, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, New York, Ohio,
> Pennsylvania, Texas.
>
> 38. Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,
> Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota,
> Missouri, North Carolina, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee,
> Texas, Washington, Wisconsin.
>
> 39. California, Florida, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
> Texas.
== 8 of 9 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 11 2014 12:27 pm
From: Dan Tilque
Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> Okay, this time you get the hard one I've been saving. I don't
> think it will take many correct answers to win, so please try even
> if you don't have a lot of good guesses. Apologies to those of
> you on other continents, but this quiz is
>
> US States "Jeopardy!"
>
> Which means, in each case I'll supply a list of states the answer
> and you must name the question that that list is the answer to.
>
>
> No, don't bother trying anything like "Which states are named
> either 'Alaska' or 'Louisiana'?" or "Which state is nicknamed
> the Pelican State?" You have to come up with a connection or
> distinctive property less arbitrary than that, either the one
> I was thinking of or another one that's also correct and which
> I decide is equally good.
>
> The properties I expect you to find are of different kinds --
> some geographical, some historical, some regarding the state's
> name, etc. Within each list the states are shown alphabetically.
>
> Don't bother thinking about official state nicknames, official
> birds, animals, snacks, drugs, mottos, or that sort of thing --
> I consider those too arbitrary to be interesting. But beyond
> that, anything goes.
>
>
> Quasi-hint: in some cases when I thought of a question I also
> thought of some closely related questions I could ask. I then
> typically included *all* the versions, and then kept them grouped
> together. So when you think of one answer, it may be a hint to the
> question before, or the one after. Or some other nearby question.
> Or all of the above. Or not.
>
>
> 1. Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia.
Which states call themselves Commonwealths?
>
> 2. Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, and especially Virginia.
>
> 3. Alaska, Louisiana.
Which states do not have counties?
>
> 4. Louisiana.
Which state is subdivided into parishes instead of counties?
>
> 5. Nebraska.
Which state has a unicameral legislature?
>
> 6. Maine, Nebraska.
Which states may split up their electoral votes?
>
> 7. Maine.
Which state is adjacent to only one other states?
>
> 8. Missouri, Tennessee.
Which states are adjacent to eight other states?
>
> 9. Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah.
What are the only four states to meet at a single point?
>
> 10. Alaska, Hawaii.
Which states are not adjacent to any other state?
>
> 11. Hawaii.
Which state is made up entirely of islands?
>
> 12. Arizona, Hawaii.
Which states do not have Daylight Saving Time?
>
> 13. New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, South
> Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, West Virginia.
What states were formed by the division into two parts of a previously
existing contiguous polity?
>
> 14. New Jersey, New York.
What adjacent states share the word "New" in their names?
>
> 15. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, New Jersey, New York.
What states are adjacent to another state whose name has the same
initial letter?
>
> 16. Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon.
>
> 17. Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii,
> Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska,
> New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio,
> Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia.
>
> 18. Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas,
> Vermont, Virginia.
>
> 19. California, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, Texas.
>
> 20. Missouri, Oklahoma, Utah, but not really Idaho or New York.
>
> 21. Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma, Utah, but not really Idaho.
>
> 22. Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana,
> Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode
> Island, South Carolina, Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming.
>
> 23. Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New
> Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
> Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia.
What states were represented in the First Continental Congress?
>
> 24. Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New
> Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
> Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia.
What were the original thirteen states?
>
> 25. Alaska, California, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana,
> Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana,
> Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota,
> Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota,
> Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
>
> 26. Alaska, Idaho, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York,
> North Dakota, Vermont, Washington.
>
> 27. Alaska, Minnesota, Washington.
>
> 28. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio,
> Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
What are the Great Lakes states?
>
> 29. Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota,
> Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Wisconsin.
What are the Mississippi River states?
>
> 30. Maine, West Virginia.
What states were formed from a part of another state?
>
> 31. Hawaii, Texas, and arguably Vermont.
What states were previously independent countries? (arguably California
belongs in this list, but it's a much weaker argument than Vermont's)
>
> 32. Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia,
> West Virginia.
What states were named after monarchs?
>
> 33. Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington.
What states were named after people who were not manarchs?
>
> 34. California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia,
> Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland,
> Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia.
>
> 35. Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida,
> Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska,
> Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
>
> 36. Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,
> Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
> New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin.
>
> 37. California, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, New York, Ohio,
> Pennsylvania, Texas.
>
> 38. Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,
> Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan,
> Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, New York, Ohio,
> Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin.
>
> 39. California, Florida, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
> Texas.
>
--
Dan Tilque
Helix, if everything goes according to plan, the plan has been
compromised. -- Sam Starfall in "Freefall"
== 9 of 9 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 11 2014 1:36 pm
From: Erland Sommarskog
Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:
> 4. Louisiana.
Which state shares the name with the territory that the US acquired
from France in 1803?
> 5. Nebraska.
Which state did borrow its name to a Bruce Springsteen album?
> 7. Maine.
In the film "Serving Sara" in which state was the male main character's
former colleague on a mission when he was sent to serve Sara her papers
before Sara's husband was served his?
> 9. Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah.
Through which states does the Colorado river run?
> 10. Alaska, Hawaii.
Which two states were most recently admitted to the United States?
> 11. Hawaii.
In which state was President Barack Obama born?
> 23. Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New
> Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
> Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia.
Which of the original 13 states where British colonies by year 1700?
> 24. Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New
> Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
> Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia.
Which were the 13 original members of the United States?
> 30. Maine, West Virginia.
Which two states were originally part of other states?
> 32. Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia,
> West Virginia.
Which US states have women's names?
Except that I would cut Louisana and add Maryland.
> 39. California, Florida, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
> Texas.
>
39, don't you think that might have added a wee bit too many questions
to this quiz? :-)
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
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TOPIC: Rare Entries contest MSB78 begins
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 9 2014 5:33 pm
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)
It's been fun, for sure. But I think this 78th Rare Entries
contest in the MSB series will probably be the last one.
As always, reply ONLY BY EMAIL to msb@vex.net; do not post to
any newsgroup. Entries must reach here by Tuesday, March 4, 2014
(by Toronto time, zone -5). I intend to post three reminders
before then. See below the questions for a detailed explanation,
which is unchanged from last time.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rules 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.3.2, and 4.4 are relevant to certain
questions.
0. Name a 4-letter English word that is the name of a type
of animal *and* whose basic score in Scrabble is at least
10 points. This scoring means to total the values indicated
for each letter in the word: any of AEILNORSTU = 1; DG = 2;
BCMP = 3; FHVWY = 4; K = 5; JX = 8; QZ = 10. For example,
the word DINGO scores 2+1+1+2+1 = 7.
1. Name a chemical element that forms triatomic molecules with
oxygen, consisting of 1 of its atoms and 2 oxygen atoms.
2. Name a city where the (summer or winter) Olympic games have
been held, or are now being held, during this century. This
means the main host city commonly referred to in connection
with each respective Olympics.
3. Name a city now existing in a country now existing, that was
the capital of that country for at least 8 years, but now
is not. In cases where there is/was an official capital
and a different de facto capital, the official capital is
what counts.
4. Give a single noun that may be used in English to indicate a
criminal action that damages property but does not necessarily
injure a person.
5. Name a country, still existing today, that has defeated, by
military combat, a serious attempt by part of itself to
secede.
Here "serious" means that the attempt (1) either had the
support of a large part of the population, or sufficient
military force that popular support was irrelevant; and
(2) the secessionists had de facto control of significant
territory for at least 5 days after military conflict began.
An "attempt to secede" must involve a declaration of
independence or actions clearly indicating such intent.
"Part of itself" does not include dependencies.
6. Name a person who has hosted "The Tonight Show" seen on
the American network NBC (as a regular host, not a temporary
substitute).
7. Name a commonwealth now existing. This means a country or
dependency, a state or province, or an organization of these,
that currently exists and has an official name that in its
English-language version refers to it as a "commonwealth".
8. Name a country now existing that is doubly landlocked.
That is, not only does it have no seacoast, but neither does
any country bordering it.
9. (The end.) Describe a visible or audible signal, other than
spoken words, that is or has been routinely used by the
appropriate official at a professional sporting competition
to indicate that play is complete.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
* 1. The Game
As usual, for each of the questions above, your objective is to give
an answer that (1) is correct, and (2) will be duplicated by as FEW
other people as possible. Feel free to use any reference material
you like to RESEARCH your answers; but when you have found enough
possible answers for your liking, you are expected to choose on your
own which one to submit, WITHOUT mechanical or computer assistance:
this is meant to be a game of wits.
* 2. Scoring
The scores on the different questions are MULTIPLIED to produce a
final score for each entrant. Low score wins; a perfect score is 1.
If your answer on a category is correct, then your score is the number
of people who gave that answer, or an answer I consider equivalent.
A wrong answer, or a skipped question, gets a high score as a penalty.
This is the median of:
- the number of entrants
- the square root of that number, rounded up to an integer
- double the highest score that anyone would have on this
question if all answers were deemed correct
* 2.1 Scoring Example
Say I ask for a color on the current Canadian flag. There are
27 entrants -- 20 say "red", 4 say "blue", and 1 each say "gules",
"white", and "blue square". After looking up gules I decide it's
the same color as red and should be treated as a duplicate answer;
then the 21 people who said either "red" or "gules" get 21 points
each. The person who said "white" gets a perfect score of 1 point.
"Blue square" is not a color and blue is not a color on the flag;
the 5 people who gave either of these answers each get the same
penalty score, which is the median of:
- number of entrants = 27
- sqrt(27) = 5.196+, rounded up = 6
- double the highest score = 21 x 2 = 42
or in this case, 27.
* 2.2 More Specific Variants
On some questions it's possible that one entrant will give an answer
that's a more specific variant of an answer given by someone else.
In that case the more specific variant will usually be scored as if
the two answers are different, but the other, less specific variant
will be scored as if they are the same.
In the above example, if I had decided (wrongly) to score gules as
a more specific variant of red, then "red" would still score 21,
but "gules" would now score 1.
If a wrong answer is clearly associated with a specific right
answer, I will score the right answer as if the wrong answer was a
more specific variant of it. In the above example, if there were
3 additional entrants who said "white square", then "white square"
would be scored as wrong, but the score for "white" would be 4, not 1.
"More specific" scoring will NOT apply if the question asks for an
answer "in general terms"; a more specific answer will then at best be
treated the same as the more general one, and may be considered wrong.
* 3. Entries
Entries must be emailed to the address given above. Please do not
quote the questions back to me, and do send only plain text in ASCII
or ISO 8859-1: no HTML, attachments, Micros--t character sets, etc.,
and no Unicode, please. (Entrants who fail to comply will be publicly
chastised in the results posting.)
Your message should preferably consist of just your 10 answers,
numbered from 0 to 9, along with any explanations required. Your
name should be in it somewhere -- a From: line or signature is fine.
(If I don't see both a first and a last name, or an explicit request
for a particular form of your name to be used, then your email address
will be posted in the results).
You can expect an acknowledgement when I read your entry. If this
bounces, it won't be sent again.
* 3.1 Where Leeway is Allowed
In general there is no penalty for errors of spelling, capitalization,
English usage, or other such matters of form, nor for accidentally
sending email in an unfinished state, so long as it's clear enough
what you intended. Sometimes a specific question may imply stricter
rules, though. And if you give an answer that properly refers to a
different thing related to the one you intended, I will normally take
it as written.
Once you intentionally submit an answer, no changes will be allowed,
unless I decide there was a problem with the question. Similarly,
alternate answers within an entry will not be accepted. Only the
first answer that you intentionally submit counts.
* 3.2 Clarifications
Questions are not intended to be hard to understand, but I may fail
in this intent. (For one thing, in many cases clarity could only be
provided by an example which would suggest one or another specific
answer, and I mustn't do that.)
In order to be fair to all entrants, I must insist that requests for
clarification must be emailed to me, NOT POSTED in any newsgroup.
But if you do ask for clarification, I'll probably say that the
question is clear enough as posted. If I do decide to clarify or
change a question, all entrants will be informed.
* 3.3 Supporting Information
It is your option whether or not to provide supporting information
to justify your answers. If you don't, I'll email you to ask for
it if I need to. If you supply it in the form of a URL, if at all
possible it should be a "deep link" to the specific relevant page.
There is no need to supply URLs for obvious, well-known reference
web sites, and there is no point in supplying URLs for pages that
don't actually support your answer.
If you provide any explanatory remarks along with your answers, you
are responsible for making it sufficiently clear that they are not
part of the answers. The particular format doesn't matter as long
as you're clear. In the scoring example above, "white square" was
wrong; "white (in the central square)" would have been taken as a
correct answer with an explanation.
* 4. Interpretation of questions
These are general rules that apply unless a question specifically
states otherwise.
* 4.1 Geography
* 4.1.1 Countries
"Country" means an independent country. Whether or not a place is
considered an independent country is determined by how it is listed
in reference sources.
For purposes of these contests, the Earth is considered to be divid-
ed into disjoint areas each of which is either (1) a country, (2) a
dependency, or (3) without national government. Their boundaries
are interpreted on a de facto basis. Any place with representatives
in a country's legislature is considered a part of that country rather
than a dependency of it.
The European Union is considered as an association of countries, not
a country itself.
Claims that are not enforced, or not generally recognized, don't count.
Places currently fighting a war of secession don't count. Embassies
don't count as special; they may have extraterritorial rights, but
they're still part of the host country (and city).
Countries existing at different historical times are normally
considered the same country if they have the same capital city.
* 4.1.2 States or provinces
Many countries or dependencies are divided into subsidiary political
entities, typically with their own subsidiary governments. At the
first level of division, these entities are most commonly called
states or provinces, but various other names are used; sometimes
varying even within the same country (e.g. to indicate unequal
political status).
Any reference to "states or provinces" in a question refers to
these entities at the first level of division, no matter what they
are called.
* 4.1.3 Distances
Distances between places on the Earth are measured along a great
circle path, and distance involving cities are based on the city
center (downtown).
* 4.2 Entertainment
A "movie" does not include any form of TV broadcast or video release;
it must have been shown in cinemas. "Oscar" and "Academy Award" are
AMPAS trademarks and refer to the awards given by that organization.
"Fiction" includes dramatizations of true stories.
* 4.3 Words and Numbers
* 4.3.1 Different Answers
Some questions specifically ask for a *word*, rather than the thing
that it names; this means that different words with the same meaning
will in general be treated as distinct answers. However, if two or
more inflectional variants, spelling variants, or other closely
related forms are correct answers, they will be treated as equivalent.
Similarly, if the question specifically asks for a name, different
things referred to by the same name will be treated as the same.
* 4.3.2 Permitted Words
On questions that specifically ask for a word, The word that you
give must be listed (or implied by a listing, as with inflected
forms) in a suitable dictionary. Generally this means a printed
dictionary published recently enough to show reasonably current
usage, or its online equivalent. Other reasonably authoritative
sources may be accepted on a case-by-case basis. Words listed
as obsolete or archaic usage don't count, and sources that would
list those words without distinguishing them are not acceptable
as dictionaries.
* 4.3.3 Permitted Numbers
Where the distinction is important, "number" refers to a specific
mathematical value, whereas "numeral" means a way of writing it.
Thus "4", "IV", and "four" are three different numerals representing
the same number. "Digit" means one of the characters "0", "1", "2",
etc. (These definitions represent one of several conflicting common
usages.)
* 4.3.4 "Contained in"
If a question asks for a word or numeral "contained" or "included"
in a phrase, title, or the like, this does not include substrings or
alternate meanings of words, unless explictly specified. For example,
if "Canada in 1967" is the title of a book, it contains the numeral
1967 and the preposition "in"; but it does not contain the word "an",
the adjective "in", or the numeral 96.
* 4.4 Tense and Time
When a question is worded in the present tense, the correctness of
your answer is determined by the facts at the moment you submit it.
(In a case where, in my judgement, people might reasonably be unaware
of the facts having changed, an out-of-date answer may be accepted as
correct.) Questions worded in the present perfect tense include the
present unless something states or implies otherwise. (For example,
Canada is a country that "has existed", as well as one that "exists".)
Different verbs in a sentence bear their usual tense relationship to
each other.
You are not allowed to change the facts yourself in order to make an
answer correct. For example, if a question asks for material on the
WWW, what you cite must already have existed before the contest was
first posted.
* 5. Judging
As moderator, I will be the sole judge of what answers are correct,
and whether two answers with similar meaning (like red and gules)
are considered the same, different, or more/less specific variants.
I will do my best to be fair on all such issues, but sometimes it is
necessary to be arbitrary. Those who disagree with my rulings are
welcome to complain (or to start a competing contest, or whatever).
I may rescore the contest if I agree that I made a serious error and
it affects the high finishers.
* 6. Results
Results will normally be posted within a few days of the contest
closing. They may be delayed if I'm unexpectedly busy or for
technical reasons. If I feel I need help evaluating one or more
answers, I may make a consultative posting in the newsgroups before
scoring the contest.
In the results posting, all entrants will be listed in order of score,
but high (bad) scores may be omitted. The top few entrants' full
answer slates will be posted. A table of answers and their scores
will be given for each question.
* 7. Fun
This contest is for fun. Please do have fun, and good luck to all.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "If it's on TV, it has to be true!
msb@vex.net (I read that on the Internet.)"
My text in this article is in the public domain.
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TOPIC: The Greatest online game this year , Don't miss it
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 11 2014 9:16 am
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TOPIC: calvin's quiz #341 - Battles - ANSWERS & SCORES
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 11 2014 1:25 pm
From: calvin <334152@gmail.com>
On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 07:34:35 +1000, calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote:
> During which war did the following battles occur?
>
>
> 1 Battle of Lone Pine
WW One
> 2 Battle of Ladysmith
[Second] Boer War
> 3 Battle of Agincourt
Hundred Years War
> 4 Battle of Long Tan
Vietnam War
> 5 Operation Desert Storm
First Gulf War. I accepted any reference to Iraq.
> 6 Battle of Bull Run
US Civil War
Accepting War of Northern Aggression, War Between the States and whatever
else you people call it from time to time.
> 7 Battle of Austerlitz
Napoleonic Wars, or "Napoleon v. Europe" as Rob called it :-)
> 8 Battle of Pusan Perimeter
Korean War
> 9 Battle of Stalingrad
WW Two
> 10 Battle of Yorktown
American Revolution / War of Independence
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 341
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 10 71 Stephen Perry
1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 65 Rob Parker
0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 69 Marc Dashevsky
0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 66 Mark Brader
0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 66 Dan Tilque
0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 66 Peter Smyth
0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 7 59 Pete Gayde
0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 6 52 Erland S
0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 6 53 Jeffrey Turner
- - - - - - - - - - --- ----------
2 6 9 3 9 9 7 9 9 8 71 79%
This was a difficult one to mark so please check your scores.
Congratulations Stephen.
--
cheers,
calvin
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TOPIC: calvin's quiz #342 - People
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Date: Tues, Feb 11 2014 1:27 pm
From: calvin <334152@gmail.com>
For their achievements in which field of endeavour are the following
individuals best known?
1 Man Ray
2 Lancelot "Capability" Brown
3 Mary Seacole
4 Frank Lloyd Wright
5 Adam Smith
6 Charles Babbage
7 Dorothy Parker
8 Tim Berners-Lee
9 Sandra Day O'Connor
10 Jackie Joyner-Kersee
--
cheers,
calvin
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