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- QFTCIUA Game 3, Rounds 2-3: TO history, oceanography - 2 Updates
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| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Oct 11 05:46PM +0200 On 2014-10-10 18:03, Mark Brader wrote: > the weather forecast since 1951, with updates 4 times daily. > Atop which building is the beacon situated? *Or* just name > the cross street on University Av. where it's located. CN-tower ? > 5. Within 10 years, when was gas lighting first available in > Toronto? 1882 > 6. And electric lights? 1905 > 1. The deepest point in the world's oceans is the Challenger Deep, > at 10.99 km. Name the tectonic rift in the Pacific Ocean floor > where it can be found. Marianer grave? > 2. <answer 1> is under the jurisdiction of what country? The Philipines > 3. The ocean is divided into light zones according to depth. > The top zone is about 50 m: what is it called? Coast > ynlre qbja rkgraqf gb nobhg 200 z qrcgu va gur bcra bprna. > Bprnabtencuref pnyy guvf gur qlfcubgvp mbar -- be jung zber > pbyybdhvny anzr? platue > 5. One country has 15% of the world's 600,000 km of coastline. > Which one? Russia > times the length of the Andes, Rockies, and Himalayas combined. > It was originally named after the single ocean where a part of > it was first discovered: which one was that? Atlantic Ocean > 7. The highest tides in the world -- 15-plus meters between high > and low tide -- are found in what body of water? The English Channel, I think on the French side > in a horseshoe-shaped region extending 40,000 km from Australia, > along Asia to the Bering Strait, and down the entire West Coast > of North America. By what name is this seismic belt known? The ring of fire > 9. The tallest peak in Hawaii is a dormant volcano that, if measured > from the seabed to the summit, is over 4,000 feet taller than > is Mt. Everest if measured from sea level. Name it. Mount Aloha > currents. They can be found at 40-50 degrees latitude blowing > from west to east, and at 20 degrees latitude belowing from > east to west. Name either one. The Jet stream? -- -- Björn |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Oct 11 10:08PM -0700 Mark Brader wrote: > "Three-Way Piece #2" and now known as "The Archer", is by > what sculptor? > 2. How many purpose-built City Halls has Toronto had? 2 > are now *which two* major midtown streets? > 5. Within 10 years, when was gas lighting first available in > Toronto? 1868 > 6. And electric lights? 1894 > 7. What is the oldest hospital in Toronto? > 8. Who was Toronto's first mayor? Rob Ford (well, he's the first one I ever heard of) > 9. What is the significance of Scadding Cabin -- originally built > near Queen St. and the Don River, and moved to the Exhbition > Grounds in 1879? first European-style house in the area. > there was a wooden building of the same shape at that site, > which was sometimes given a name derived from its resemblance > to something rather gruesome. What was it called? Tombstone Building > 1. The deepest point in the world's oceans is the Challenger Deep, > at 10.99 km. Name the tectonic rift in the Pacific Ocean floor > where it can be found. Marianas Trench > 2. <answer 1> is under the jurisdiction of what country? USA > 3. The ocean is divided into light zones according to depth. > The top zone is about 50 m: what is it called? photosynthesis zone > pbyybdhvny anzr? > 5. One country has 15% of the world's 600,000 km of coastline. > Which one? Canada > times the length of the Andes, Rockies, and Himalayas combined. > It was originally named after the single ocean where a part of > it was first discovered: which one was that? Atlantic > 7. The highest tides in the world -- 15-plus meters between high > and low tide -- are found in what body of water? Bay of Fundy > in a horseshoe-shaped region extending 40,000 km from Australia, > along Asia to the Bering Strait, and down the entire West Coast > of North America. By what name is this seismic belt known? Ring of Fire > 9. The tallest peak in Hawaii is a dormant volcano that, if measured > from the seabed to the summit, is over 4,000 feet taller than > is Mt. Everest if measured from sea level. Name it. Mauna Loa > currents. They can be found at 40-50 degrees latitude blowing > from west to east, and at 20 degrees latitude belowing from > east to west. Name either one. jet stream -- Dan Tilque |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Oct 11 02:09PM +0200 > Interesting. After I send my answer I looked at www.forex.se > at it listed it selling $ for 7.42 > I'm very happy that Riksbanken has another opinion. What you see at Forex is the ask price, that is, the price at which they sell. If come to them with 100 USD, you will not get 742 SEK, but rather 702 SEK, assuming their spread is symmetrical. Furthermore, this is the spread for banknotes. If you need to buy a million dollar to pay an invoice from the US, your bank will not quote a price that extortionate, but maybe only something like 0.02 above the fixing. The purpose with a spread is of course to make money from the transactions. The fixing price is a mid price, that is, a price between ask and bid. The fixing price is typically used when you want to value something, without taking consideration of the spread. For instance, say that you buy and sell Google on the stock market, and you have a dollar account, so you pay everything in dollar. Still, when you make your tax return, you need to give the profit/loss in SEK, and to this end you use the fixing price to compute the value of the buy and sell transactions. Fixing prices are set only a few times a day. Riksbanken sets them twice. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 11 09:27AM -0500 Erland Sommarskog: > rate has been increasing considerably the last couple of months > into a territory it has not been for a while, so if you only had some > general feeling for it you would be wrong. (I would have been.) Me too. After Stephen posted his remark about his volatile these things are, I went to OANDA (which is a Toronto company in the business of tracking exchange rates) and looked up a 90-day chart of the rate. Try it yourself: go to http://www.oanda.com/currency/converter/ with JavaScript enabled; then scroll down to see the 30-day graph and click on "90 days". Mouse over the graph to see the rate on a particular day. It shows a fairly steady rise from 6.7886 on July 13 to a peak of 7.2661 on September 28, then a sharp oscillation over a range of 10 cents US since then. Compare the Canadian dollar over the same period; it's risen as well (it's really the US dollar that's falling), but by less than 5% over the 90 days. OANDA's published rates use multiple sources, so you'll see 7.2252 instead of Erland's precisely defined official answer of 7.2226 on the graph, but I'm talking about the shape of the graph here and that'll be similar no matter what source you use. > Björn Lundin 7.22 -0.0026 > CORRECT 7.2226 > Stephen W Perry 7.24 +0.0174 Wow, that's really impressively close. > But, obviously, he had an advantage over everyone else in the field, > and Stephen W Perry is hereby named International Champion of Swedish > Trivia! Hearty agreement. > Thanks to everyone who played! You're welcome. -- Mark Brader | "This is just the result of someone sitting down before Toronto | a computer and carefully removing his head first. msb@vex.net | It's a phenomenon which is becoming more and more common." | -- Leonard Wibberley My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Oct 11 06:17PM +0200 >> into a territory it has not been for a while, so if you only had some >> general feeling for it you would be wrong. (I would have been.) > Me too. But had you made it to the final, you would have been asked to give the rate for CAD/SEK. > Compare the Canadian dollar over the same period; it's > risen as well (it's really the US dollar that's falling), Well, the US dollar is rising, not falling. The curves shows how much you need to pay for one USD. > OANDA's published rates use multiple sources, so you'll see 7.2252 > instead of Erland's precisely defined official answer of 7.2226 on > the graph, Well, there can be more than one official answer. It depends on the time and the place/market. OANDA seems to compile their own. On http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/currencies/fx-fixings/ there are a whole number of them. I used the Riksbank rates, as they seemed more fit better with the context. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 11 11:45AM -0500 Mark Brader: >> Compare the Canadian dollar over the same period; it's >> risen as well (it's really the US dollar that's falling), Erland Sommarskog: > Well, the US dollar is rising, not falling. The curves shows how much > you need to pay for one USD. Oops, right. In Canada the news media usually quote the price of the CAD in USD, so if the graph is rising either the CAD is rising or he USD is falling, and I got into that mentality even though I would actually prefer to quote it the other way. Sorry about that. -- Mark Brader, Toronto / "A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour, msb@vex.net / tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before." My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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