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- Calvin's Quiz #367 - 2 Updates
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- Rotating quiz #162 - 1 Update
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Dec 01 02:03AM -0800 1 How many lines does a sonnet contain? 2 What is the smallest constellation? 3 In 1893 which country became the first to give all women the right to vote? 4 Which author wrote A Tale of Two Cities? 5 Which present-day European country was known to the Romans as Helvetia? 6 In classical music a piano trio is a chamber ensemble consisting of a piano, a violin and which other musical instrument? 7 In which 1959 film starring Peter Sellars did the fictional Duchy of Grand Fenwick declare war on the USA? 8 What is the topmost colour of a rainbow? 9 Which river flows through Washington DC? 10 The Battle of Appomattox Court House was one of the final battles in which war? cheers, Calvin |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Dec 01 10:26AM > 1 How many lines does a sonnet contain? Six > 2 What is the smallest constellation? Ursa Minor > 3 In 1893 which country became the first to give all women the right > to vote? New Zealand > 4 Which author wrote A Tale of Two Cities? Dickens > 5 Which present-day European country was known to the Romans as > Helvetia? Switzerland > 6 In classical music a piano trio is a chamber ensemble consisting > of a piano, a violin and which other musical instrument? Violincello > 8 What is the topmost colour of a rainbow? Red - for the main rainbow. For the secondary it is violet. For the tertiary it is again red and so forth. > 9 Which river flows through Washington DC? Potomac > 10 The Battle of Appomattox Court House was one of the final battles > in which war? US Civil War -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Dec 01 02:02AM -0800 On Thursday, November 27, 2014 9:58:13 AM UTC+10, Calvin wrote: > 1 Which saint's day is celebrated on Boxing Day? St Stephen As in, on the feast of > 2 What was the original title of the Thomas Keneally novel on which the film Schindler's List was based? Schindler's Ark > 3 During which conflict is the action of Ernest Hemingway's 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls set? Spanish Civil War > 4 Which actress played the title role in the 1944 film Mrs Miniver? Greg Garson It was actually 1942 as Chris pointed out. > 5 Which 1980s TV series followed a group of female Allied detainees held in a Japanese prison camp during WW2? Tenko > 6 Which Australian author's works include Mad Cows (1986) and Nip n Tuck (2001)? Kathy Lette > 7 In which year did Princess Diana die? 1997 > 8 Which singing voice is between a tenor and a soprano? [Contr]Alto / Mezzasoprano > 9 In which TV series did the character Dr. Zachary Smith feature? Lost in Space > 10 Which word describes a person fluent in several / many languages? Polyglot Though I liked Mark's suggestion of "Swiss" :-) Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 366 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 7 35 Mark Brader 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 7 38 Rob Parker 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 33 Chris Johnson 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 5 28 David Brown 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 4 26 Marc Dashevsky 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 4 27 Peter Smyth 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 4 27 Dan Tilque 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 22 Erland S 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 9 Bjorn Lundin - - - - - - - - - - --- ---------- 5 2 4 2 1 0 5 9 5 8 41 46% Mark just pips Rob in a tough one. cheers, calvin |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Nov 30 04:04PM +0100 >> This is Rotating Quiz 162. Entries must be posted by Sunday, >> November 23, 2014 at 10 PM (Eastern Standard Time). > Here are the answers; scores will be posted shortly. They did not make it to my server. Nor have I see RQ 163. So just in case, Chris forgot about it, I took the freedom to score the quiz which I did not enter myself. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total Mark Brader X X X - X X X ½ X X 8½ Marc D - - - - X - - - X X 3 Dan Blum - X X X X X X X X ½ 8½ Dan Tilque - X X X X - X - X - 6 Peter Smyth - X - - - X - X X - 4 Rob Parker - - X - X - X - X - 4 Pete - - - - X - X - - - 2 Calvin - - X - - - - - X - 2 Mark B gets ½ on question 8 for entering Whitestead of Whitehead. Dan Blum entered Lagrange for the last question. Mark pointed out that this seems to be an answer that fits the bill. I looked up the two men in my Swedish encyclopedia from the 1950s, and while there is a short sentence on the motion of planets in the article on Lagrange, there is a lot more in the article on Laplace. Declining to laziness, I also checked Wikipedia, and I get the same impression. Lagrange was also working in this field, but Laplace did the major work. I eventually decided that Lagrange was only worth a half point. This puts Mark and Dan on the same total score. Chris had stated: In case of a tie, the first tiebreaker will be whoever scored the most points on the hardest questions (defined post-facto as the ones which the fewest people got any points on). Second tiebreaker will be posting order. Mark was the only one to #1 correct, and he was also the first to enter. Thus, by my scoring, RQ 163 is Mark Brader's. However, let's give Chris a day or two to make his final verdict. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
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