- Calvin's Quiz #375 - 1 Update
- Rotating Quiz #166: Everybody Loves a Lord - 12 Updates
| "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@cfaj.ca>: Jan 15 11:32PM -0500 On 2015-01-13, Calvin wrote: > 1 Which surrealist painted the 1931 work The Persistence of Memory? Dali > 2 Who were the two stars of the 2005 film Mr. & Mrs. Smith? Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie > 3 Which actor's roles included portrayals of the real life George Custer and Grover Cleveland, and a fictional psychology professor attempting to teach human morals to a chimpanzee,? > 4 Which French singer was nicknamed The Little Sparrow? Edit Piaf > 5 The song There's No Business Like Show Business features in which Irving Berlin musical first performed in 1946? Annie Get Your Gun > 6 From which European country does Stella Artois beer originate? Belgium > 7 Crime writer Dame Ngaio Marsh hailed from which Commonwealth country? New Zealand > 8 Julie Andrews won a Best Actress Oscar for her role in which 1964 film? The Sound of Music > 9 In 1985 who became the first unseeded man to win the Wimbledon singles title? Ashe > 10 Which actor played the title role in the 1982 film Gandhi? Ben Kingsley -- Chris F.A. Johnson |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 15 05:40AM -0600 Dan Blum: > and have never seen it. However, through advertising its name became > a popular neologism and, while also not as popular as it was, the word > is better-known today than the drink. I'll try Radar's favorite, NEHI, hoping you wanted the brand name rather than the specific flavor. > 2. The usual Western name of this Chinese tea is a corruption of the > Chinese name which means "black dragon." It is made by oxidizing the > leaves and withering them in the sun before otherwise processing them. OOLONG, I suppose. > to accommodate automobile traffic). It is possibly best known outside > France for the eponymous edict of Henry IV which granted extensive > rights to Protestants. NANTES. > is not his only important work, as his 1972 Nobel Prize citation does > mention it. Five of his students have gone on to win the economics > Nobel. You had me wondering for a minute what might be an alternative to rank, in the context of economics! This must be CONDORCET. > have had a wide variety of names including quickbeam, service tree, and > mountain ash. The modern name for the genus is not related to any of > those names. What is it? ROWAN. > here, not the traditional pre-British Raj name which has been also been > used recently (I'll score the latter as correct but it doesn't fit the > acrostic). Best I have is CHITTAGONG. > discovered on two different occasions in 1878, but for a reason > I decline to investigate the second discoverer, Per Teodor Cleve, > got to name it; he named it after the city where he grew up. Three rare earths are named after the village of Ytterby, but I can only think of one named after a city and that's HOLMIUM. > Council of Nicaea (which reinstated the use of icons in the Empire), > although this took place while she was regent for her son. Her surname > is not required and I would be astonished if anyone knows it. Never heard of her. Since A looks likely in this position I'll guess ANNA. > as "Unified <answer 4>" in Korean history. Over time its power decayed > until it was supplanted by the Goryeo/Koryo dynasty in the 10th > century. NO GUESS. > to sire quite a number of children including the Sphinx, Cerberus, the > Nemean Lion, and Chimera. His name is similar to the name for a kind > of storm although it is probably unrelated. Well, I never heard of TYPHON, but it sounds Greek and looks like a storm-type name. > 11. Acrostic? So obviously it's NONCRCHANT. Er, well, NONCHALANT can't possibly fit unless LANTHANUM is named after a city, but that's what I'll go with. That is, I'm sticking with HOLMIUM but saying NONCHALANT anyway. And I have a nasty feeling that the Subject line clue refers to something in a musical. Musicals, minor Greek mythology, *and* Asian history. Sigh. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "Here I sit, ego the size of a planet..." msb@vex.net | --Steve Summit (after Douglas Adams) My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 15 05:42AM -0600 Mark Brader: > Three rare earths are named after the village of Ytterby, but I can > only think of one named after a city and that's HOLMIUM. (After checking a periodic table) Arrgh. I forgot about LUTETIUM. It's going to be that, isn't it? -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "If any form of pleasure is exhibited, report msb@vex.net | to me and it will be prohibited." --DUCK SOUP |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jan 15 03:14PM > > only think of one named after a city and that's HOLMIUM. > (After checking a periodic table) > Arrgh. I forgot about LUTETIUM. It's going to be that, isn't it? The name of the disoverer was provided for a reason. -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jan 15 03:15PM > as "Unified <answer 4>" in Korean history. Over time its power decayed > until it was supplanted by the Goryeo/Koryo dynasty in the 10th > century. Sorry, this should say "Unified <answer 9>" - the questions got re-ordered partway through. -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Bruce Bowler <bbowler@bigelow.org>: Jan 15 06:28PM On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 00:24:32 -0600, Marc Dashevsky wrote: >> was, the word is better-known today than the drink. > Moxie -- still available in the odd store in Massachusetts in Rhode > Island and just about everywhere (odd store or not) in Maine :-) |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 15 01:20PM -0600 Dan Blum: > The name of the disoverer was provided for a reason. Sadly, I did not know the gentleman. -- Mark Brader | "...most people who borrow over $1,000,000 from a bank Toronto | would at least remember the name of the bank." msb@vex.net | -- Judge Donald Bowman, Tax Court of Canada |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jan 15 09:06PM +0100 > 2. The usual Western name of this Chinese tea is a corruption of the > Chinese name which means "black dragon." It is made by oxidizing the > leaves and withering them in the sun before otherwise processing them. Oolong > to accommodate automobile traffic). It is possibly best known outside > France for the eponymous edict of Henry IV which granted extensive > rights to Protestants. Rennes > is not his only important work, as his 1972 Nobel Prize citation does > mention it. Five of his students have gone on to win the economics > Nobel. Friedman > here, not the traditional pre-British Raj name which has been also been > used recently (I'll score the latter as correct but it doesn't fit the > acrostic). Cherapunji > discovered on two different occasions in 1878, but for a reason > I decline to investigate the second discoverer, Per Teodor Cleve, > got to name it; he named it after the city where he grew up. Hafnium > as "Unified <answer 4>" in Korean history. Over time its power decayed > until it was supplanted by the Goryeo/Koryo dynasty in the 10th > century. Shilla (But what does Shilla have to do with a Nobel laurate from 1972?) -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jan 15 09:08PM +0100 >> only think of one named after a city and that's HOLMIUM. > (After checking a periodic table) > Arrgh. I forgot about LUTETIUM. It's going to be that, isn't it? I considered it, but Per is not a very French name. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jan 15 09:14PM +0100 > 3. This French city is in Brittany and was for many years the ducal seat. No, it is in Pays-de-la-Loire! OK, so I should have known about the edict, but Brittany lured me. It did not seem really right that Renne is on the Loire, but I have not been to that part of Brittany, only the Western parts. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 15 02:28PM -0600 Dan Blum: > > 3. This French city is in Brittany and was for many years the ducal seat. Erland Sommarskog: > No, it is in Pays-de-la-Loire! > OK, so I should have known about the edict, but Brittany lured me... I, conversely, had forgotten about the Brittany part when I got to the edict part! -- Mark Brader | "Some societies define themselves by being open to new Toronto | influences, others define their identity by resisting. msb@vex.net | In either case, they take the consequences." --Donna Richoux |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jan 15 10:24PM > > OK, so I should have known about the edict, but Brittany lured me... > I, conversely, had forgotten about the Brittany part when I got to the > edict part! Sorry, I didn't realize there was a new "Brittany." It was in Brittany for over a thousand years. -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 15 05:25PM -0600 Dan Blum: >>>> 3. This French city is in Brittany and was for many years the ducal seat. Erland Sommarskog: >>> No, it is in Pays-de-la-Loire! >>> OK, so I should have known about the edict, but Brittany lured me... Mark Brader: >> I, conversely, had forgotten about the Brittany part when I got to the >> edict part! Dan Blum: > Sorry, I didn't realize there was a new "Brittany." It was in Brittany > for over a thousand years. It was? (Checks.) Huh, this contest is educational. I knew Brittany was basically a peninsula in northwestern France, but I always thought it was the *other* one -- the Cotentin Peninsula, which is somewhat farther from Nantes. (I've spent some time traveling around France, too, but I haven't been to either peninsula.) -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "He is even more important than my cat, msb@vex.net | which is saying something." --Flash Wilson My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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