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* Calvin's Quiz #340 - ANSWERS & SCORES - 4 messages, 4 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/473f9b1647b04fd4?hl=en
* SWPKO #4 - 5 messages, 5 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/508e1ff5471d2794?hl=en
* calvin's quiz #341 - Battles - 8 messages, 8 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/8dc8a246a338837a?hl=en
* SWPKO #3 RESULTS - 3 messages, 3 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/79301a6dc2027e81?hl=en
* QFTCIC Game 8, Rounds 4,6: north to south, Jacks - 3 messages, 2 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/615216f9f77ca2f2?hl=en
* Rotating Quiz 129 - 3 messages, 2 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/2a1e35f56ee344fa?hl=en

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TOPIC: Calvin's Quiz #340 - ANSWERS & SCORES
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/473f9b1647b04fd4?hl=en
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== 1 of 4 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 1:30 pm
From: calvin <334152@gmail.com>


On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:57:04 +1000, calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote:

> Which cities are commonly referred to by the following nicknames?
>
> 1 The Eternal City (Europe)

Rome

> 2 Beantown (Americas)

Boston

> 3 The City of Sails (Australasia)

Auckland

> 4 The City of Lights (Europe)

Paris
As Marc noted, it's actually "light"

> 5 The Windy City (Americas)

Chicago

> 6 The Stampede City (Americas)

Calvary

> 7 The Motor City / Motown (Americas)

Detroit

> 8 City of Dreaming Spires (Europe)

Oxford

> 9 The Big Easy (Americas)

New Orleans

> 10 The City of Churches (Australasia)

Adelaide or Christchurch. It is sadly less appropriate in the latter case
following the recent earthquakes.


Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 340
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 10 75 Stephen Perry
1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 67 Rob Parker
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 8 66 Pete Gayde
1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 8 69 Mark Brader
1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 8 69 Dan Tilque
1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 8 69 Marc Dashevsky
1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 8 69 Jeffrey Turner
1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 7 63 Bruce Bowler
1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 6 49 Gareth Owen
1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 29 Erland S
- - - - - - - - - - --- ----------
10 8 3 9 9 8 10 3 9 6 75 75%

Well done Perry.

--
cheers,
calvin




== 2 of 4 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 2:30 pm
From: Erland Sommarskog


calvin (334152@gmail.com) writes:
>> 6 The Stampede City (Americas)
>
> Calvary


Ah, the Cavalary!




== 3 of 4 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 6:05 pm
From: swp


On Monday, February 3, 2014 4:30:56 PM UTC-5, Calvin wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:57:04 +1000, calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote:
> Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 340
> 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 10 75 Stephen Perry
> 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 67 Rob Parker
> 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 8 66 Pete Gayde
> 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 8 69 Mark Brader
> 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 8 69 Dan Tilque
> 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 8 69 Marc Dashevsky
> 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 8 69 Jeffrey Turner
> 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 7 63 Bruce Bowler
> 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 6 49 Gareth Owen
> 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 29 Erland S
> - - - - - - - - - - --- ----------
> 10 8 3 9 9 8 10 3 9 6 75 75%
>
> Well done Perry.
>
> --
> cheers,
> calvin

please, call me Stephen.

swp




== 4 of 4 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 10:10 pm
From: Jeffrey Turner


On 2/3/2014 5:30 PM, Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> calvin (334152@gmail.com) writes:
>>> 6 The Stampede City (Americas)
>>
>> Calvary
>
>
> Ah, the Cavalary!

Calgary

http://www.calgarystampede.com/







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TOPIC: SWPKO #4
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/508e1ff5471d2794?hl=en
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== 1 of 5 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 1:33 pm
From: calvin <334152@gmail.com>


On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 04:30:04 +1000, swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com> wrote:

> As promised, I started a new thread.
>
> The contest is now open to Pete, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Joshua Kreitzer,
> Calvin,
> Mark Brader, Peter Smyth, Russ, and Erland Sommarskog.
>
> ***
> #4. What date is the 2014 World Cup scheduled to *finish*?
> Please use YYYY-MM-DD format when answering.
> ***


2014-07-28
Must be around then and that's mrs calvin's birthday, so what the hell.

--
cheers,
calvin




== 2 of 5 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 2:28 pm
From: Erland Sommarskog


swp (Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com) writes:
> #4. What date is the 2014 World Cup scheduled to *finish*?
> Please use YYYY-MM-DD format when answering.

2014-07-13


--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se




== 3 of 5 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 3:27 pm
From: Russ


On Mon, 3 Feb 2014 10:30:04 -0800 (PST), swp
<Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com> wrote:

>As promised, I started a new thread.
>
>The contest is now open to Pete, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Joshua Kreitzer, Calvin,
>Mark Brader, Peter Smyth, Russ, and Erland Sommarskog.
>
>***
> #4. What date is the 2014 World Cup scheduled to *finish*?
> Please use YYYY-MM-DD format when answering.
>***
>
>swp, who has many non-date-related questions lined up starting with #5


2015-07-15


Russ S.




== 4 of 5 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 5:50 pm
From: Dan Tilque


swp wrote:
>
> ***
> #4. What date is the 2014 World Cup scheduled to *finish*?
> Please use YYYY-MM-DD format when answering.
> ***

2014-07-25

--
Dan Tilque

Helix, if everything goes according to plan, the plan has been
compromised. -- Sam Starfall in "Freefall"




== 5 of 5 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 6:42 pm
From: Joshua Kreitzer


swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com> wrote in
news:d76eec51-b027-4ad6-8250-eaa06d3d7a83@googlegroups.com:

> As promised, I started a new thread.
>
> The contest is now open to Pete, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Joshua
> Kreitzer, Calvin, Mark Brader, Peter Smyth, Russ, and Erland
> Sommarskog.
>
> ***
> #4. What date is the 2014 World Cup scheduled to *finish*?
> Please use YYYY-MM-DD format when answering.
> ***
>

2014-07-20

--
Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82@hotmail.com





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TOPIC: calvin's quiz #341 - Battles
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/8dc8a246a338837a?hl=en
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== 1 of 8 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 1:34 pm
From: calvin <334152@gmail.com>



During which war did the following battles occur?


1 Battle of Lone Pine
2 Battle of Ladysmith
3 Battle of Agincourt
4 Battle of Long Tan
5 Operation Desert Storm
6 Battle of Bull Run
7 Battle of Austerlitz
8 Battle of Pusan Perimeter
9 Battle of Stalingrad
10 Battle of Yorktown


--
cheers,
calvin




== 2 of 8 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 2:32 pm
From: Erland Sommarskog


calvin (334152@gmail.com) writes:
> During which war did the following battles occur?
>
>
> 1 Battle of Lone Pine

Tudor Wars

> 2 Battle of Ladysmith

Tudor Wars

> 3 Battle of Agincourt

100-year War

> 4 Battle of Long Tan

Aung Shan uprising

> 5 Operation Desert Storm

Kuwait war 1991

> 6 Battle of Bull Run

US Civil War

> 7 Battle of Austerlitz

Napolean War

> 8 Battle of Pusan Perimeter

Korean War

> 9 Battle of Stalingrad

WW II

> 10 Battle of Yorktown
>

Tudor Wars


--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se




== 3 of 8 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 3:03 pm
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)


"Calvin":
> 1 Battle of Lone Pine

War of 1812, the one fought in North America.

> 2 Battle of Ladysmith

Boer War, aka Second Boer War.

> 3 Battle of Agincourt

Hundred Years War.

> 4 Battle of Long Tan

Chinese Communist Revolution.

> 5 Operation Desert Storm

Second (Persian) Gulf War.

> 6 Battle of Bull Run

US Civil War.

> 7 Battle of Austerlitz

Napoleonic Wars.

> 8 Battle of Pusan Perimeter

Korean War.

> 9 Battle of Stalingrad

Second World War.

> 10 Battle of Yorktown

American Revolution.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "You don't SIT IN the traffic jam;
msb@vex.net | you ARE the traffic jam." -- Werner Icking

My text in this article is in the public domain.




== 4 of 8 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 3:05 pm
From: "Rob Parker"


> 1 Battle of Lone Pine

World War I

> 2 Battle of Ladysmith

War of the Roses (?)

> 3 Battle of Agincourt

Hundred Years War

> 4 Battle of Long Tan

Vietnamese War

> 5 Operation Desert Storm

Gulf War

> 6 Battle of Bull Run

American Civil War

> 7 Battle of Austerlitz

Napoleon v. Europe

> 8 Battle of Pusan Perimeter

Korean War

> 9 Battle of Stalingrad

World War II

> 10 Battle of Yorktown

American War of Independence


Rob






== 5 of 8 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 6:03 pm
From: Dan Tilque


calvin wrote:
>
> During which war did the following battles occur?
>
>
> 1 Battle of Lone Pine

Commanche War ?

> 2 Battle of Ladysmith

Boer War

> 3 Battle of Agincourt

100 Years War

> 4 Battle of Long Tan

Opium War

> 5 Operation Desert Storm

Gulf War II

> 6 Battle of Bull Run

American Civil War

> 7 Battle of Austerlitz

Napoleanic Wars

> 8 Battle of Pusan Perimeter

Korean War

> 9 Battle of Stalingrad

World War II

> 10 Battle of Yorktown

American War for Independence


--
Dan Tilque

Helix, if everything goes according to plan, the plan has been
compromised. -- Sam Starfall in "Freefall"




== 6 of 8 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 6:21 pm
From: swp


On Monday, February 3, 2014 4:34:35 PM UTC-5, Calvin wrote:
> During which war did the following battles occur?
>
> 1 Battle of Lone Pine

world war i (nice aussie question!)

> 2 Battle of Ladysmith

2nd boer war

> 3 Battle of Agincourt

hundred years' war

> 4 Battle of Long Tan

vietnam war

> 5 Operation Desert Storm

gulf war i

> 6 Battle of Bull Run

american civil war is your expected answer. the correct answer is that this was really the first battle of manassas (virginia) in the war of northern aggression.

> 7 Battle of Austerlitz

napoleonic wars against the 3rd coalition. featured in the book 'war and peace'

> 8 Battle of Pusan Perimeter

korean war

> 9 Battle of Stalingrad

world war ii

> 10 Battle of Yorktown

american revolution


swp, who swears he wasn't at all of them.




== 7 of 8 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 9:46 pm
From: Marc Dashevsky


In article <op.xap57xew2wood3@homepc>, 334152@gmail.com says...
>
> During which war did the following battles occur?
> 1 Battle of Lone Pine
> 2 Battle of Ladysmith
Boer War

> 3 Battle of Agincourt
100 Year War

> 4 Battle of Long Tan
Vietnam War

> 5 Operation Desert Storm
Iraq War I

> 6 Battle of Bull Run
U.S. Civil War

> 7 Battle of Austerlitz
Napoleanic Wars

> 8 Battle of Pusan Perimeter
Korean War

> 9 Battle of Stalingrad
WWII

> 10 Battle of Yorktown
U.S. Revolutionary War






== 8 of 8 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 10:13 pm
From: Jeffrey Turner


On 2/3/2014 4:34 PM, calvin wrote:
>
> During which war did the following battles occur?
>
>
> 1 Battle of Lone Pine
> 2 Battle of Ladysmith
> 3 Battle of Agincourt
Hundred Years' War
> 4 Battle of Long Tan
> 5 Operation Desert Storm
US-Iraq War
> 6 Battle of Bull Run
US Civil War
> 7 Battle of Austerlitz
WWI
> 8 Battle of Pusan Perimeter
Korean War
> 9 Battle of Stalingrad
WWII
> 10 Battle of Yorktown
American Revolution






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TOPIC: SWPKO #3 RESULTS
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/79301a6dc2027e81?hl=en
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 2:26 pm
From: Erland Sommarskog


swp (Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com) writes:
> 1946-10-01 Mark Brader
> 1946-10-01 Dan Tilque
> 1946-10-01 Pete
> 2015-02-04 David B
>
> So David B has saved 3 players from the tie-breaker of earliest entry.
> Be thankful, and when you speak of him, speak kindly.

It's kind of funny that three contestants would clash exactly on that
date. Because, when I looked it up on Wikipedia, that was the day this
particular trial ended.


--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se




== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 2:48 pm
From: Dan Tilque


Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> swp (Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com) writes:
>> 1946-10-01 Mark Brader
>> 1946-10-01 Dan Tilque
>> 1946-10-01 Pete
>> 2015-02-04 David B
>>
>> So David B has saved 3 players from the tie-breaker of earliest entry.
>> Be thankful, and when you speak of him, speak kindly.
>
> It's kind of funny that three contestants would clash exactly on that
> date. Because, when I looked it up on Wikipedia, that was the day this
> particular trial ended.
>
>

Actually, I didn't clash on that date. My answer was 1946-09-03, almost
a full month earlier.

--
Dan Tilque




== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 6:08 pm
From: swp


On Monday, February 3, 2014 5:48:16 PM UTC-5, Dan Tilque wrote:
> Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> > swp (Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com) writes:
> >> 1946-10-01 Mark Brader
> >> 1946-10-01 Dan Tilque
> >> 1946-10-01 Pete
> >> 2015-02-04 David B
> >>
> >> So David B has saved 3 players from the tie-breaker of earliest entry.
> >> Be thankful, and when you speak of him, speak kindly.
> >
> > It's kind of funny that three contestants would clash exactly on that
> > date. Because, when I looked it up on Wikipedia, that was the day this
> > particular trial ended.
> >
> >
>
> Actually, I didn't clash on that date. My answer was 1946-09-03, almost
> a full month earlier.
>
> --
> Dan Tilque

and so it was. sorry about that, I must have done a copy&paste error. fortunately it did not change the outcome.

and I thought I mentioned the date of the sentencing in the results post.

swp





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TOPIC: QFTCIC Game 8, Rounds 4,6: north to south, Jacks
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/615216f9f77ca2f2?hl=en
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 4:25 pm
From: Jeffrey Turner


On 2/1/2014 7:10 PM, Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Geography - North to South
>
> In each question we name four cities in the same country, in
> alphabetical order. You list them in order by latitude from
> north to south. You may abbreviate the cities to initial letters
> if you like. If you are giving two guesses, please give two
> complete lists of four.
>
> 1. Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Multan.
> 2. Bologna, Florence, Siena, Venice.
> 3. Hammerfest, Lillehammer, Oslo, Trondheim.
> 4. Kyoto, Nagasaki, Osaka, Tokyo.
> 5. Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth.
> 6. Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Liège.
> 7. Cancun, Guadalajara, Mexico City, Oaxaca.
G,MC,O,C
> 8. Curitiba, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador.
> 9. Ayr, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Oban.
> 10. Casablanca, Fez, Marrakesh, Rabat.
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 6 - Miscellaneous - Famous Jacks (HANDOUT)
>
> Here is a round on men named Jack -- real and fictional. Please see
> the 2-page handout at:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/8-6/jacks.pdf
>
> Except as indicated, give the surname of each Jack.
>
> I have sorted the questions into numerical sequence for convenience;
> there were 8 decoys, which I have included in their sequential position.
> Identify the decoys if you like for fun, but for no points.
>
> 1. (decoy)
> 2. A sports icon.
Johnson
> 3. A fictional character played in a series of movies by Johnny Depp.
Sparrow
> 4. (decoy)
> 5. (decoy)
> 6. (decoy)
> 7. (decoy)
> 8. A controversial real-life person.
> 9. A British soap-opera character.
> 10. A controversial real-life person.
> 11. (decoy)
> 12. (decoy)
> 13. An actor, shown posing with Elmo.
Black
> 14. This is Jack Lemmon; name the *movie*.
The Front Page
> 15. TV actor.
Lord
> 16. TV character.
Sam Watterston
> 17. (decoy)
> 18. This is Jack Nicholson; name the *movie*.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

--Jeff




== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 8:48 pm
From: Dan Tilque


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 4 - Geography - North to South
>
> In each question we name four cities in the same country, in
> alphabetical order. You list them in order by latitude from
> north to south. You may abbreviate the cities to initial letters
> if you like. If you are giving two guesses, please give two
> complete lists of four.
>
> 1. Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Multan.
> 2. Bologna, Florence, Siena, Venice.
> 3. Hammerfest, Lillehammer, Oslo, Trondheim.
> 4. Kyoto, Nagasaki, Osaka, Tokyo.
> 5. Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth.
> 6. Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Liège.
> 7. Cancun, Guadalajara, Mexico City, Oaxaca.
> 8. Curitiba, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador.
> 9. Ayr, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Oban.
> 10. Casablanca, Fez, Marrakesh, Rabat.
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 6 - Miscellaneous - Famous Jacks (HANDOUT)
>
> Here is a round on men named Jack -- real and fictional. Please see
> the 2-page handout at:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/8-6/jacks.pdf
>
> Except as indicated, give the surname of each Jack.
>
> I have sorted the questions into numerical sequence for convenience;
> there were 8 decoys, which I have included in their sequential position.
> Identify the decoys if you like for fun, but for no points.


>
> 1. (decoy)
> 2. A sports icon.
> 3. A fictional character played in a series of movies by Johnny Depp.
> 4. (decoy)
> 5. (decoy)
> 6. (decoy)
> 7. (decoy)
> 8. A controversial real-life person.
> 9. A British soap-opera character.
> 10. A controversial real-life person.
> 11. (decoy)
> 12. (decoy)
> 13. An actor, shown posing with Elmo.
> 14. This is Jack Lemmon; name the *movie*.
> 15. TV actor.
> 16. TV character.
> 17. (decoy)
> 18. This is Jack Nicholson; name the *movie*.
>


--
Dan Tilque

Helix, if everything goes according to plan, the plan has been
compromised. -- Sam Starfall in "Freefall"




== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 8:51 pm
From: Dan Tilque


Mark Brader wrote:

Note: I accidently replied with a post that had no answers. Please
ignore that post.

>
> * Game 8, Round 4 - Geography - North to South
>
> In each question we name four cities in the same country, in
> alphabetical order. You list them in order by latitude from
> north to south. You may abbreviate the cities to initial letters
> if you like. If you are giving two guesses, please give two
> complete lists of four.
>
> 1. Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Multan.

I M L K

> 2. Bologna, Florence, Siena, Venice.

B V S F

> 3. Hammerfest, Lillehammer, Oslo, Trondheim.

T L H O

> 4. Kyoto, Nagasaki, Osaka, Tokyo.

T O K N

> 5. Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth.

C P A M

> 6. Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Liège.

A B L G

> 7. Cancun, Guadalajara, Mexico City, Oaxaca.

MC G C O

> 8. Curitiba, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador.
> 9. Ayr, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Oban.
> 10. Casablanca, Fez, Marrakesh, Rabat.
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 6 - Miscellaneous - Famous Jacks (HANDOUT)
>
> Here is a round on men named Jack -- real and fictional. Please see
> the 2-page handout at:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/8-6/jacks.pdf
>
> Except as indicated, give the surname of each Jack.
>
> I have sorted the questions into numerical sequence for convenience;
> there were 8 decoys, which I have included in their sequential position.
> Identify the decoys if you like for fun, but for no points.
>
> 1. (decoy)
> 2. A sports icon.
> 3. A fictional character played in a series of movies by Johnny Depp.
> 4. (decoy)
> 5. (decoy)
> 6. (decoy)
> 7. (decoy)
> 8. A controversial real-life person.
> 9. A British soap-opera character.
> 10. A controversial real-life person.
> 11. (decoy)
> 12. (decoy)
> 13. An actor, shown posing with Elmo.
> 14. This is Jack Lemmon; name the *movie*.
> 15. TV actor.

Jack Lord

> 16. TV character.

Jack Silberman

> 17. (decoy)
> 18. This is Jack Nicholson; name the *movie*.

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest


--
Dan Tilque





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TOPIC: Rotating Quiz 129
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/2a1e35f56ee344fa?hl=en
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 8:55 pm
From: Dan Tilque


Mark Brader wrote:
> This is Rotating Quiz #129. The contest will run for 6 days
> and 4 hours from the moment of posting, so you have until about
> 1:40 am Monday night (morning of Tuesday, February 4) by Toronto
> time, zone -5.
>
> 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. This is not QFTCI -- you're only allowed one attempt
> per question. The last two questions are tiebreakers.
>
> 1. In 1963, George Plimpton, a sportswriter who was not an
> athlete, was given the chance to suit up with a professional
> football game and play in an intra-squad practice game.
> Name the book he wrote about his experiences.
>
> 2. In Madonna's song "Like a Virgin", after the title words
> are sung for the first time, what line comes next?

it feels like the very first time

>
> 3. In playing the major scale, after the tonic note the sequence
> of intervals is tone-tone-semitone-tone-tone-tone-semitone.
> In the same notation, what is it for the natural minor scale
> (the most common minor scale in our culture)?
>
> 4. In the era of the IBM 360 series, the memory of a large
> computer around 1970 consisted of a 3-dimensional array
> of wires threaded through ring-shaped pieces of ferrite
> at their intersections. Each piece of ferrite represented
> either a 0 or a 1 bit depending on how it was magnetized.
> But what was one of these pieces called?

core

>
> 5. Name Sam Spade's partner who is killed in "The Maltese
> Falcon".
>
> 6. The American F-89 fighter plane, the British FV101 tank,
> and the Czech vz.61 machine gun were all given the name of
> what venomous creature?

scorpion

>
> 7. What do the following celebrities have in common (that most
> others do not)? Joseph Fiennes, Linda Hamilton, Jill
> Hennessy, Scarlett Johanssen, Isabella Rossellini, Keifer
> Sutherland.
>
> 8. What is "alive without breath, as cold as death"?
>
> 9. Within 1, when was the last year that a team -- Chicago --
> won their third NBA championship in a row?

1994

>
> 10. Within the city limits of New York there is one track for
> horse racing. What is its name?
>
> 11. First tiebreaker: Identify the hidden theme.

too few answers to see a pattern

>
> 12. Second tiebreaker: Write an interesting additional question
> fitting the theme. (Please also provide the answer, in rot13.)
>


--
Dan Tilque

Helix, if everything goes according to plan, the plan has been
compromised. -- Sam Starfall in "Freefall"




== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 11:50 pm
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)


Mark Brader:
> This is Rotating Quiz #129. The contest will run for 6 days
> and 4 hours from the moment of posting, so you have until about
> 1:40 am Monday night (morning of Tuesday, February 4) by Toronto
> time, zone -5.

The reason for the extra 4 hours was so that the contest wouldn't
end in the middle of a Canadian Inquisition game, when I knew
I wouldn't be around to score it.

I allowed half points for answers that incorporated the relevant
information but were not in the required form.

> 1. In 1963, George Plimpton, a sportswriter who was not an
> athlete, was given the chance to suit up with a professional
> football game and play in an intra-squad practice game.
> Name the book he wrote about his experiences.

"Paper Lion". 1 for Stephen, Marc, and Gareth. As Gareth noted,
he also wrote about similar experiences in several other sports.

> 2. In Madonna's song "Like a Virgin", after the title words
> are sung for the first time, what line comes next?

"Touched for the very first time." 1 for John, Stephen, David,
Peter, Calvin, Gareth, and Rob.

> 3. In playing the major scale, after the tonic note the sequence
> of intervals is tone-tone-semitone-tone-tone-tone-semitone.
> In the same notation, what is it for the natural minor scale
> (the most common minor scale in our culture)?

Tone-semitone-tone-tone-semitone-tone-tone. 1 for Marc, David,
Gareth, and Rob. ½ for Stephen.

The white keys of a piano produce the major scale if C is the tonic
note, but they produce the minor scale if A is.

> 4. In the era of the IBM 360 series, the memory of a large
> computer around 1970 consisted of a 3-dimensional array
> of wires threaded through ring-shaped pieces of ferrite
> at their intersections. Each piece of ferrite represented
> either a 0 or a 1 bit depending on how it was magnetized.
> But what was one of these pieces called?

A core. 1 for Stephen, Marc, Rob, and Dan. ½ for David and Gareth.
John did himself in by adding "copper" to his answer.

> 5. Name Sam Spade's partner who is killed in "The Maltese
> Falcon".

Miles Archer. 1 for John, Jeff, and Gareth.

> 6. The American F-89 fighter plane, the British FV101 tank,
> and the Czech vz.61 machine gun were all given the name of
> what venomous creature?

Scorpion. 1 for John, Stephen, Jeff, Gareth, Rob, and Dan.

> 7. What do the following celebrities have in common (that most
> others do not)? Joseph Fiennes, Linda Hamilton, Jill
> Hennessy, Scarlett Johanssen, Isabella Rossellini, Keifer
> Sutherland.

Twins. 1 for John, Stephen, David, Calvin, Jeff, and Gareth.

The second and third on the list are identical twins, the others
fraternal. As far as I can tell from the Internet, Jacob Fiennes
is a gamekeeper, Leslie Hamilton Gearren is a nurse, Jacqueline
Hennessy is a writer, Hunter Johansson works in politics, Isotta
Rossellini is a university professor, and Rachel Sutherland works
in TV production; several of them have appeared with their twins in
movies or on TV at one time or another.

> 8. What is "alive without breath, as cold as death"?

A fish. 1 for Stephen, David, Calvin, Jeff, Gareth, and Rob.

The quotation is the start of a riddle-like poem recited by Gollum
in Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings". It continues:

Alive without breath;
as cold as death;
never thirsting, ever drinking;
clad in mail, never clinking.
Drowns on dry land,
thinks an island
is a mountain,
thinks a fountain
is a puff of air.

So sleek, so fair!
What a joy to meet!
We only wish
to catch a fish,
so juicy-sweet!

> 9. Within 1, when was the last year that a team -- Chicago --
> won their third NBA championship in a row?

1998 (accepting 1997-99). 1 for John, Stephen, and Marc.

> 10. Within the city limits of New York there is one track for
> horse racing. What is its name?

Aqueduct. 1 for John, Stephen, Peter, Jeff, and Gareth.

Belmont is in the NYC metropolitan area but outside the city limits.
Pimlico is in Baltimore.


And, hey look, at this point we have a tie!

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TOTALS

Stephen Perry 1 1 ½ 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 8½
Gareth Owen 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 0 1 8½
John Adams 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 6
Rob Parker 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 5
Jeff Turner 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 5
Marc Dashevsky 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 4
David B. 0 1 1 ½ 0 0 1 1 0 0 4½
"Calvin" 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3
Dan Tilque 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2
Peter Smyth 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
Erland Sommarskog 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

3 7 4½ 5 3 6 6 6 3 5


> 11. First tiebreaker: Identify the hidden theme.

Signs of the zodiac, sometimes in punny allusion -- 6 in the answers
(Lion, Archer, scorpion, twins, fish, water-bearer) and 4 in the
questions (virgin, scales, RAM, Bulls).

As the entries were posted with nobody spotting the theme, I began
to worry that the tiebreaker would be unusable if it was needed --
I hadn't considered the possibility that two entrants would tie but
neither of them be able to answer #11. And, of course, if they didn't,
then the second tiebreaker would also be unusable.

But thankfully that didn't happen. Jeff and Gareth got #11, and so,
hearty congratulations to GARETH OWEN as the winner of this contest!

> 12. Second tiebreaker: Write an interesting additional question
> fitting the theme. (Please also provide the answer, in rot13.)

The two signs I didn't use were the goat (Capricorn) and the crab
(Cancer), so my intent was that the additional question should use
one of those; but I couldn't think of a way to make that explicit
without revealing something about the theme. In fact one entrant
wrote an additional question relating to one of those two signs and
and the other duplicated a sign I'd used in the contest. In random
order, their questions were:

12A. Who said, "What makes a muskrat defend his musk?"
12B. In the Harry Potter books by JK Rowling, who along with
Gregory Goyle, was Draco Malfoy's tubby lackey?

And the answers in rot13:

12A. Gur Pbjneqyl Yvba
12B. Ivaprag Penoor

I would have gotten the latter but not the former.


Thank you all for playing, and now it's over to Gareth for RQ 130.

--
Mark Brader, Toronto "Argh! Hoist by my own canard :-) !"
msb@vex.net -- Steve Summit

My text in this article is in the public domain.




== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 3 2014 11:53 pm
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)


Oops, I just posted the results of RQ 129 without changing the
subject line. I hate it when that happens. I'll repeat them
in full (and cancel the previous message, which doesn't work).


Mark Brader:
> This is Rotating Quiz #129. The contest will run for 6 days
> and 4 hours from the moment of posting, so you have until about
> 1:40 am Monday night (morning of Tuesday, February 4) by Toronto
> time, zone -5.

The reason for the extra 4 hours was so that the contest wouldn't
end in the middle of a Canadian Inquisition game, when I knew
I wouldn't be around to score it.

I allowed half points for answers that incorporated the relevant
information but were not in the required form.

> 1. In 1963, George Plimpton, a sportswriter who was not an
> athlete, was given the chance to suit up with a professional
> football game and play in an intra-squad practice game.
> Name the book he wrote about his experiences.

"Paper Lion". 1 for Stephen, Marc, and Gareth. As Gareth noted,
he also wrote about similar experiences in several other sports.

> 2. In Madonna's song "Like a Virgin", after the title words
> are sung for the first time, what line comes next?

"Touched for the very first time." 1 for John, Stephen, David,
Peter, Calvin, Gareth, and Rob.

> 3. In playing the major scale, after the tonic note the sequence
> of intervals is tone-tone-semitone-tone-tone-tone-semitone.
> In the same notation, what is it for the natural minor scale
> (the most common minor scale in our culture)?

Tone-semitone-tone-tone-semitone-tone-tone. 1 for Marc, David,
Gareth, and Rob. ½ for Stephen.

The white keys of a piano produce the major scale if C is the tonic
note, but they produce the minor scale if A is.

> 4. In the era of the IBM 360 series, the memory of a large
> computer around 1970 consisted of a 3-dimensional array
> of wires threaded through ring-shaped pieces of ferrite
> at their intersections. Each piece of ferrite represented
> either a 0 or a 1 bit depending on how it was magnetized.
> But what was one of these pieces called?

A core. 1 for Stephen, Marc, Rob, and Dan. ½ for David and Gareth.
John did himself in by adding "copper" to his answer.

> 5. Name Sam Spade's partner who is killed in "The Maltese
> Falcon".

Miles Archer. 1 for John, Jeff, and Gareth.

> 6. The American F-89 fighter plane, the British FV101 tank,
> and the Czech vz.61 machine gun were all given the name of
> what venomous creature?

Scorpion. 1 for John, Stephen, Jeff, Gareth, Rob, and Dan.

> 7. What do the following celebrities have in common (that most
> others do not)? Joseph Fiennes, Linda Hamilton, Jill
> Hennessy, Scarlett Johanssen, Isabella Rossellini, Keifer
> Sutherland.

Twins. 1 for John, Stephen, David, Calvin, Jeff, and Gareth.

The second and third on the list are identical twins, the others
fraternal. As far as I can tell from the Internet, Jacob Fiennes
is a gamekeeper, Leslie Hamilton Gearren is a nurse, Jacqueline
Hennessy is a writer, Hunter Johansson works in politics, Isotta
Rossellini is a university professor, and Rachel Sutherland works
in TV production; several of them have appeared with their twins in
movies or on TV at one time or another.

> 8. What is "alive without breath, as cold as death"?

A fish. 1 for Stephen, David, Calvin, Jeff, Gareth, and Rob.

The quotation is the start of a riddle-like poem recited by Gollum
in Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings". It continues:

Alive without breath;
as cold as death;
never thirsting, ever drinking;
clad in mail, never clinking.
Drowns on dry land,
thinks an island
is a mountain,
thinks a fountain
is a puff of air.

So sleek, so fair!
What a joy to meet!
We only wish
to catch a fish,
so juicy-sweet!

> 9. Within 1, when was the last year that a team -- Chicago --
> won their third NBA championship in a row?

1998 (accepting 1997-99). 1 for John, Stephen, and Marc.

> 10. Within the city limits of New York there is one track for
> horse racing. What is its name?

Aqueduct. 1 for John, Stephen, Peter, Jeff, and Gareth.

Belmont is in the NYC metropolitan area but outside the city limits.
Pimlico is in Baltimore.


And, hey look, at this point we have a tie!

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TOTALS

Stephen Perry 1 1 ½ 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 8½
Gareth Owen 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 0 1 8½
John Adams 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 6
Rob Parker 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 5
Jeff Turner 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 5
Marc Dashevsky 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 4
David B. 0 1 1 ½ 0 0 1 1 0 0 4½
"Calvin" 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3
Dan Tilque 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2
Peter Smyth 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
Erland Sommarskog 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

3 7 4½ 5 3 6 6 6 3 5


> 11. First tiebreaker: Identify the hidden theme.

Signs of the zodiac, sometimes in punny allusion -- 6 in the answers
(Lion, Archer, scorpion, twins, fish, water-bearer) and 4 in the
questions (virgin, scales, RAM, Bulls).

As the entries were posted with nobody spotting the theme, I began
to worry that the tiebreaker would be unusable if it was needed --
I hadn't considered the possibility that two entrants would tie but
neither of them be able to answer #11. And, of course, if they didn't,
then the second tiebreaker would also be unusable.

But thankfully that didn't happen. Jeff and Gareth got #11, and so,
hearty congratulations to GARETH OWEN as the winner of this contest!

> 12. Second tiebreaker: Write an interesting additional question
> fitting the theme. (Please also provide the answer, in rot13.)

The two signs I didn't use were the goat (Capricorn) and the crab
(Cancer), so my intent was that the additional question should use
one of those; but I couldn't think of a way to make that explicit
without revealing something about the theme. In fact one entrant
wrote an additional question relating to one of those two signs and
and the other duplicated a sign I'd used in the contest. In random
order, their questions were:

12A. Who said, "What makes a muskrat defend his musk?"
12B. In the Harry Potter books by JK Rowling, who along with
Gregory Goyle, was Draco Malfoy's tubby lackey?

And the answers in rot13:

12A. Gur Pbjneqyl Yvba
12B. Ivaprag Penoor

I would have gotten the latter but not the former.


Thank you all for playing, and now it's over to Gareth for RQ 130.

--
Mark Brader, Toronto "Argh! Hoist by my own canard :-) !"
msb@vex.net -- Steve Summit

My text in this article is in the public domain.




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