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- QFTCIUA Game 6, Rounds 4,6: Canquotes, rivers - 2 Updates
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| Pete <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Nov 21 05:36PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:GZKdnUExs69HHfDJnZ2dnUU7- > type of person speaking; you give the person's name. > 1. "An election is no time to discuss serious issues." > Soon-to-be-defeated PM. Trudeau > 3. "I don't know... a proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? > It's a proof. A proof is a proof, and when you have a good > proof, it's because it's proven." Prime minister. Trudeau > about going there, but the wife is really nervous. I just see > myself in a pot of boiling water with all these natives dancing > around me." Toronto politician. Rob Ford > big, fat, black cats." Prairie premier and political reformer. > 7. "There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation." > Prime minister. Trudeau; Diefenbaker > 8. "It's true, it's true that we have been defeated, but basically > by what? By money and the ethnic vote, essentially." Bitter > separatist. Le Pen > 9. "Vive le Québec libre!" A world leader overstays his Canadian > welcome. DeGaulle > * Game 6, Round 6 - Geography - Rivers, Just Rivers > 1. Which North American river flows downstream through Bismarck, > then Sioux City, then Omaha? Missouri > 2. Which river flows downstream from Fargo through Winnipeg? > 3. Which river rises in Jasper National Park and flows through > Fort McMurray? McKenzie > 4. Which river flows into the Pacific Ocean at Astoria, Oregon, > and has the Snake River as its largest tributary? Columbia > 5. Switching continents, what is the main river of Ukraine? > It flows through Kiev and into the Black Sea. Dnieper > 6. What is the main river of Poland, passing through Krakow and > Warsaw before flowing into Gdansk Bay? Elbe; Oder > 7. What is the main river of Glasgow, Scotland, historically > important for trade and shipbuilding? Govan > 8. What is the main river of Newcastle, England, also historically > important for trade and shipbuilding? Tyne > 9. Which river rises on the Tibetan plateau and passes two nations' > capitals: Vientiane (Laos) and Phnom Penh (Cambodia)? Mekong > 10. Which river, also rising on the Tibetan plateau, is Pakistan's > major river, reaching the Arabian Sea south of Karachi? Indus Pete |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Nov 22 02:58AM -0800 On Thursday, November 20, 2014 3:49:15 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > * Game 6, Round 6 - Geography - Rivers, Just Rivers > 1. Which North American river flows downstream through Bismarck, > then Sioux City, then Omaha? Mississippi > 2. Which river flows downstream from Fargo through Winnipeg? > 3. Which river rises in Jasper National Park and flows through > Fort McMurray? Mississippi > and has the Snake River as its largest tributary? > 5. Switching continents, what is the main river of Ukraine? > It flows through Kiev and into the Black Sea. Dniepre > Warsaw before flowing into Gdansk Bay? > 7. What is the main river of Glasgow, Scotland, historically > important for trade and shipbuilding? Clyde > 8. What is the main river of Newcastle, England, also historically > important for trade and shipbuilding? Tyne > 9. Which river rises on the Tibetan plateau and passes two nations' > capitals: Vientiane (Laos) and Phnom Penh (Cambodia)? Mekong, Irrawaddy > 10. Which river, also rising on the Tibetan plateau, is Pakistan's > major river, reaching the Arabian Sea south of Karachi? cheers, calvin |
| Pete <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Nov 21 05:42PM "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> wrote in news:cksojb-tku.ln1 > tiebreaker will be posting order. > 1. Princeton's Yakov Sinai won what Norwegian prize for mathematics in > 2014? Nobel > mathematician? > 4. President Nixon called this mathematician, who worked for the RAND > Corporation, "the most dangerous man in America". Feynman > 5. This Harvard math professor wrote and performed satirical songs, > including "The Vatican Rag", "National Brotherhood Week" and "New > Math". Lehrer > 6. A mathematician, concert pianist, logician, Taoist philosopher, and > magician, his books include "What Is the Name of This Book?" and > "The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes". Steve Allen > that the Earth rotates around the Sun. He wrote "Treatise on > Demonstration of Problems of Algebra", but is best known today for > his poetry. Omar Khayyam > "the science of fluxions". > 10. This 18th/19th century French mathematician redeveloped and > improved Newton's work on planetary motions using calculus. Pascal Pete |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Nov 22 02:55AM -0800 On Monday, November 17, 2014 8:08:03 PM UTC+10, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > known as the "Nobel Prize of mathematics"? > 3. The movie, "A Beautiful Mind" deals with the life of which > mathematician? Nash > his poetry. > 8. This mathematician is famous for co-authoring the historical > "Principia Mathematica" with Bertrand Russell. Newton > 9. This 17th century British mathematician invented what he called > "the science of fluxions". Newton > 10. This 18th/19th century French mathematician redeveloped and > improved Newton's work on planetary motions using calculus. Pascal cheers, calvin |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Nov 22 02:53AM -0800 Well hello 1 Which organisation has the motto: Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity? 2 What was the capital city of West Germany? 3 Jonathan Rhys Meyers played King Henry VIII in which HBO TV series? 4 What is the name of the light sensitive membrane which is the inner lining of the wall of the eyeball? 5 What is the official language of Colombia? 6 What word describes the bending of light from one medium to another? 7 Which author wrote the eighteenth century novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman? 8 How long did the Arab/Israeli war of 1967 last? 9 What foodstuff is used in tempera painting? 10 By knocking out Ingermar Johansson in 1960, who became the first boxer to regain the heavyweight world title? cheers, calvin |
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