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| swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: Mar 11 08:36PM -0700 the usual rules of conduct and posting apply. the winner of RQ 173 will be the first choice to set RQ 174, in whatever manner they prefer. answer slates must be posted by noon philadelphia time (zone -4) on tuesday, 2015-03-17; that gives you over 6 days from the time of posting. each question is worth 2 points, 1 point for each half of the answer. the answers are alphabetical, but not intentionally. 1. a male neck feature plus my favorite dessert with a scoop of ice cream on top 2. macedonian conqueror meets the largest island in europe 3. tyra banks' reality tv series with a hobby kit in HO scale 4. march madness game with a popular dress style once known as farthingale 5. a singularity swallows an ace in golf 6. leaping from a bridge tied to a giant rubber band with an expression of great happiness 7. a common phone feature melded with a 1995 movie 8. u.s. agency charged with protecting america's natural resources and a type of feng sui consultant 9. a foreigner studying abroad and an inexperienced automobile operator 10. alternate title for 'The Village of Stepanchikovo' (by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1859) with a genealogy staple 11. sign in shop window with a steve mcqueen tv series from 1958-1961 12. 1964 anthony quinn movie with pieces of tomatoes, sliced cucumbers, onion, feta cheese, and olives, seasoned with salt and oregano, and dressed with olive oil good luck! swp |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Mar 12 03:43AM > 1. a male neck feature plus my favorite dessert with a scoop of ice cream on top Adam's apple pie > 2. macedonian conqueror meets the largest island in europe Alexander the Great Britain > 3. tyra banks' reality tv series with a hobby kit in HO scale America's Next Top Model train > 4. march madness game with a popular dress style once known as farthingale basketball gown > 5. a singularity swallows an ace in golf black hole in one > 6. leaping from a bridge tied to a giant rubber band with an expression of great happiness bungee jumping for joy > 7. a common phone feature melded with a 1995 movie call Waiting for Guffman > 8. u.s. agency charged with protecting america's natural resources and a type of feng sui consultant Department of the Interior designer > 9. a foreigner studying abroad and an inexperienced automobile operator exchange student driver > 12. 1964 anthony quinn movie with pieces of tomatoes, sliced cucumbers, onion, feta cheese, and olives, seasoned with salt and oregano, and dressed with olive oil Zorba the Greek salad -- _______________________________________________________________________ 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): Mar 11 10:53PM -0500 Stephen Perry: > 1. a male neck feature plus my favorite dessert with a scoop of ice > cream on top Adam's Apple Pie à la Mode. > 2. macedonian conqueror meets the largest island in europe Alexander the Great Britain. > 3. tyra banks' reality tv series with a hobby kit in HO scale America's Next Top Model Railroad. > 4. march madness game with a popular dress style once known as farthingale Basketballroom? (No, I didn't think so.) > 5. a singularity swallows an ace in golf Black Hole in One. > 6. leaping from a bridge tied to a giant rubber band with an expression > of great happiness Bungee Jumping for Joy. > 7. a common phone feature melded with a 1995 movie Call Waiting for Guffman. > 8. u.s. agency charged with protecting america's natural resources and > a type of feng sui consultant Department of the Interior Designer. > 9. a foreigner studying abroad and an inexperienced automobile operator Exchange Student Driver. > 10. alternate title for 'The Village of Stepanchikovo' (by Fyodor > Dostoyevsky, 1859) with a genealogy staple Karamazov Family Tree? > 11. sign in shop window with a steve mcqueen tv series from 1958-1961 Help Wanted Man? > 12. 1964 anthony quinn movie with pieces of tomatoes, sliced cucumbers, > onion, feta cheese, and olives, seasoned with salt and oregano, and > dressed with olive oil Zorba the Greek Salad. -- Mark Brader What is it about Toronto Haiku that people find so msb@vex.net Infatuating? --Pete Mitchell My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Mar 12 12:47AM -0500 In article <78313843-9115-4355-84db-d4bfa3dd2420@googlegroups.com>, Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com says... > the usual rules of conduct and posting apply. the winner of RQ 173 will be the first choice to set RQ 174, in whatever manner they prefer. answer slates must be posted by noon philadelphia time (zone -4) on tuesday, 2015-03-17; that gives you over 6 days from the time of posting. > each question is worth 2 points, 1 point for each half of the answer. the answers are alphabetical, but not intentionally. > 1. a male neck feature plus my favorite dessert with a scoop of ice cream on top Adam's apple pie a la mode > 2. macedonian conqueror meets the largest island in europe Alexander the Great Britain > 3. tyra banks' reality tv series with a hobby kit in HO scale > 4. march madness game with a popular dress style once known as farthingale > 5. a singularity swallows an ace in golf black hole in one > 6. leaping from a bridge tied to a giant rubber band with an expression of great happiness bungee jump with joy > 7. a common phone feature melded with a 1995 movie > 8. u.s. agency charged with protecting america's natural resources and a type of feng sui consultant > 9. a foreigner studying abroad and an inexperienced automobile operator exchange student driver > 10. alternate title for 'The Village of Stepanchikovo' (by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1859) with a genealogy staple xxxxxx family tree > 11. sign in shop window with a steve mcqueen tv series from 1958-1961 > 12. 1964 anthony quinn movie with pieces of tomatoes, sliced cucumbers, onion, feta cheese, and olives, seasoned with salt and oregano, and dressed with olive oil Zorba the Greek salad > good luck! good quiz! -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@cfaj.ca>: Mar 12 03:00AM -0400 On 2015-03-12, swp wrote: > the usual rules of conduct and posting apply. the winner of RQ 173 will be the first choice to set RQ 174, in whatever manner they prefer. answer slates must be posted by noon philadelphia time (zone -4) on tuesday, 2015-03-17; that gives you over 6 days from the time of posting. > each question is worth 2 points, 1 point for each half of the answer. the answers are alphabetical, but not intentionally. > 1. a male neck feature plus my favorite dessert with a scoop of ice cream on top Adam's apple pie a la mode > 2. macedonian conqueror meets the largest island in europe Alexander the Great Britain > 3. tyra banks' reality tv series with a hobby kit in HO scale America's Next Top Model railway > 4. march madness game with a popular dress style once known as farthingale basketball hoop skirt > 5. a singularity swallows an ace in golf black hole in one > 6. leaping from a bridge tied to a giant rubber band with an expression of great happiness bungee jumping with joy > 7. a common phone feature melded with a 1995 movie > 8. u.s. agency charged with protecting america's natural resources and a type of feng sui consultant Environmental Protection Agency of Woo > 9. a foreigner studying abroad and an inexperienced automobile operator Exchange student driver > 10. alternate title for 'The Village of Stepanchikovo' (by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1859) with a genealogy staple The Friend of the Family tree > 11. sign in shop window with a steve mcqueen tv series from 1958-1961 Help Wanted: Dead or Alive > 12. 1964 anthony quinn movie with pieces of tomatoes, sliced cucumbers, onion, feta cheese, and olives, seasoned with salt and oregano, and dressed with olive oil Zorba the Greek salad -- Chris F.A. Johnson |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Mar 12 02:26AM Rotating Quiz #172 is over and Stephen Perry is the winner. The theme was of course weapons. > has been covered many times, most notably by Duane Eddy and Art of > Noise. Children of the 80s may remember it as the music from the > arcade game Spy Hunter. Peter Gunn 3 for Stephen, Calvin, Mark, Pete, and Marc > 1922. She is also known for cataloging more stars than anyone else - > approximately half a million. An award named for her is presented > annually by the American Astronomical Society. Annie Jump Cannon 3 for Stephen > resulting ice strong and resistant to melting); this substance is > named for him. Successful prototypes were made but the project > (codenamed Habbakuk) did not get farther than that. Geoffrey Pyke (the substance is pykrete) Magnus Pyke was his cousin. I thought of using him but thought the chances of any American knowing him for anything other than his appearance in the video for "She Blinded Me With Science" were slim. I have no idea who Andrew Pyke is, if anyone. > he was scheduled to take a Soyuz flight to the International Space > Station as part of a documentary, but this was cancelled. He currently > spends much of his time producing film and television. Lance Bass 3 for Stephen and Pete > surprising when one knows that his father was a prominent member of > the Socialist Labor Party of America (which also accounts for his > name). Armand Hammer 3 for Stephen, Mark, Pete, and Marc > has released live albums, collaborations, etc., as well.) He has also > appeared in many movies from 1971 to today, and won a Golden Globe for > his role in A Star is Born. Kris Kristofferson 3 for Mark, Pete, and Marc > most famous lines gives us the phrase "the world is my oyster." Since > his full name is never given, the other part of the answer is his > title. Ancient (or Ensign) Pistol 3 for Stephen > was established in a city which had a longstanding AHL team which was > quite successful and only shut down because of the NHL franchise. The > new team's most pprominent line was known as The French Connection. Buffalo Sabres (not taking points off for spelling) 3 for Stephen, Mark, and Pete > this, she has since produced several more extremely successful albums > and in 2012 was the highest-paid female musician in the world > (according to Forbes magazine). Britney Spears (not taking points off for spelling here either, although I was tempted) 3 for Stephen, Pete, Marc, and Erland > Venice. In the late 1970s he turned to writing and published six > novels and numerous volumes of memoirs, beginning with A Postillion > Struck by Lightning. Dirk Bogarde 3 for Mark Scores: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total ---------------------------------- Stephen 3 3 0 3 3 0 3 3 3 0 21 Pete 3 0 0 3 3 3 0 3 3 0 18 Mark 3 0 0 0 3 3 0 3 0 3 15 Marc 3 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 3 0 12 Erland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 Calvin 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: Mar 11 07:29PM -0700 On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 10:26:43 PM UTC-4, Dan Blum wrote: > Rotating Quiz #172 is over and Stephen Perry is the winner. > The theme was of course weapons. ... > > his role in A Star is Born. > Kris Kristofferson > 3 for Mark, Pete, and Marc can you explain this one for me? swp |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Mar 12 03:26AM > > Kris Kristofferson > > 3 for Mark, Pete, and Marc > can you explain this one for me? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris Admittedly it isn't pronounced like the name (at least, I don't think it is), but I was having trouble coming up with answers. I kind of regretted using up Kenneth Arrow a few RQs ago. -- _______________________________________________________________________ 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): Mar 11 07:55AM -0500 Erland Sommarskog: > they have the same meaning. The classic example is "semester" which means > something completely different in Swedish than it does in other languages. > (It means "vacation".) No, the classic example is "gift", which means a present in English, "married" in Swedish, and "poison" in German (and Swedish, spoiling the symmetry a bit). -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "To err is human, but to error requires a computer." msb@vex.net | -- Harry Lethall |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Mar 11 01:58PM > * Game 2, Round 6 - Sports - By the Numbers > 1. Which Boston Red Sox left-hander finished the 1916 baseball > season with 23 wins, 12 losses, and a 1.75 ERA? Babe Ruth > 2. Who, in 1944-45, was the first NHL hockey player to score > 50 goals in 50 games? Orr; Hull > 4. In what event did Bob Beamon set an apparently unbeatable mark > of 29'2?" on 1968-10-18 in Mexico City? long jump > That same season, he set the as-yet-unbroken record for longest > hitting streak. Exactly how many consecutive games did he > hit in? 45; 50 > 7. Which heavyweight boxing champion -- the only heavyweight > champion to remain undefeated during his entire professional > career -- retired with a record of 49-0 in 1956? Marciano -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Mar 11 03:44PM > No, the classic example is "gift", which means a present in English, > "married" in Swedish, and "poison" in German (and Swedish, spoiling > the symmetry a bit). It's the classic example for Swedes, duh. :-) (And I certainly appreciate that other people have very little understanding of our idea of having six months of vacation.) By the way, I used the Wikipedia article as starting point, and tried a number of other languages. Norwegian and Danish also has "rffekt" and Nord-Frisian had "efekt". But else I found a number of quite unrelated works. Italian has "potenza" and this word (with different spelling) is also used in Catalan and Spanish. Whether the French "puissance" is a form of the same word, I am not sure of. Dutch has "vermogen" and German has "Leistung". Polish has "moc" (which I would translate to "power" in English). Russian has Moshchost' which may be a cognate of "moc", but I am not sure. Czech has "vıkon". And the list goes on. One would like to think that for "modern" concepts that more or less the same word is used in many languages, but that is not always the case, and the your language that resembles an English word, you can easily walk into a trap which I did. (Hey, I did look up "capacitance", because that one I was not sure of.) -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Mar 11 05:01PM +0100 On 2015-03-11 11:29, Erland Sommarskog wrote: > Occasionally I have gotten away with using a Swedish term, but then I > have usually pointed it out as one. And in this case I did not even > answer with a Swedish word. So I have no objection with Mark's ruling. Nor have I. I just made a remark that was not totally obvious to me, that physics have somewhat different terminology across borders. I find that interesting. Translation of book/film titles is a trap, but physics ? Well yes. -- Björn |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 11 11:33AM -0500 Erland Sommarskog: > (Hey, I did look up "capacitance", because that one I was not sure of.) Do you mean before answering? -- Mark Brader | "You're not entitled to a trial." msb@vex.net | "Anybody's entitled to a trial, damn you!" Toronto | "That is absolutely true. But you see, you are NOT anybody..." -- John Brunner, "The Shockwave Rider" |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 11 11:34AM -0500 I just noticed I failed to start a new thread when I posted this set of questions. Please answer in either thread; the 3-day deadline will run from the original posting. These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-01-19, 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 MI5, 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 2015-02-23 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)". * Game 2, Round 4 - Canadiana - Before and After We'll describe two famous Canadians. The last name of the first person is the first name of the second person -- or sounds like it. You give the *combined name* formed by overlapping the two. For example, if we said, "Chest-thumping Quebec songstress meets Leafs captain", you'd answer by combining Celine Dion and Dion Phaneuf to make "Celine Dion Phaneuf". If the shared name isn't spelled the same way, either spelling will do. 1. Schuster's comedy partner meets the Great One. 2. Doug McKenzie meets the Leader of the Opposition. 3. "The Diviners" meets "The Book of Negroes". 4. Naomi Klein's father-in-law meets Sector Sarajevo commander. 5. Little Big Man Oscar nominee meets heavyweight boxer. 6. CBC's Scottish-born "greatest Canadian" meets German-born "Generation X" author. 7. Adorable Francophone Governor-General meets Le Gros Bill. 8. Figure-skating sweetheart of the 1940's meets "A Boy at the Leafs' Camp". 9. Wrongly convicted Mi'kmaq meets "global village" academic. 10. 16-time Grammy winner meets "He shoots, he scores!" * Game 2, Round 6 - Sports - By the Numbers By their numbers ye shall know them. 1. Which Boston Red Sox left-hander finished the 1916 baseball season with 23 wins, 12 losses, and a 1.75 ERA? 2. Who, in 1944-45, was the first NHL hockey player to score 50 goals in 50 games? 3. Which New York Islander, not as aggressive as his name might suggest, became the second player to score 50-in-50 in 1980-81? 4. In what event did Bob Beamon set an apparently unbeatable mark of 29'2½" on 1968-10-18 in Mexico City? 5. The most notorious "record" in Canadian history was set by Ben Johnson in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. What was his short-lived world record time for the 100 m? Give it exactly. 6. In 1941, Joe di Maggio lead the majors in RBIs with 125. That same season, he set the as-yet-unbroken record for longest hitting streak. Exactly how many consecutive games did he hit in? 7. Which heavyweight boxing champion -- the only heavyweight champion to remain undefeated during his entire professional career -- retired with a record of 49-0 in 1956? 8. On 2011-10-16, Fauja Singh finished the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in 8 hours 11 minutes 6 seconds. Why was this apparently unremarkable time in fact quite noteworthy? Be fully specific. 9. Which Englishman holds the interesting record of most Formula 1 wins -- 16 -- by a driver *who never won a World Championship*? 10. The longstanding NFL rushing record of 16,726 yards fell on Oct. 2002-10-07. Name either the Chicago Bear who held the record or the Dallas Cowboy who broke it. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | I still remember the first time his reality check msb@vex.net | bounced. -- Darlene Richards My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Mar 11 04:46PM > Erland Sommarskog: >> (Hey, I did look up "capacitance", because that one I was not sure of.) > Do you mean before answering? Yes. And to clarify, I looked up the Swedish word "kapacitans" in an English-Swedish dictionary. My impression is that this is permitted as long as it's only a translation thing. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| "Peter Smyth" <psmyth@ukf.net>: Mar 11 06:29PM Mark Brader wrote: > suggest, became the second player to score 50-in-50 in 1980-81? > 4. In what event did Bob Beamon set an apparently unbeatable mark > of 29'2½" on 1968-10-18 in Mexico City? Long Jump > 5. The most notorious "record" in Canadian history was set by > Ben Johnson in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. What was his > short-lived world record time for the 100 m? Give it exactly. 9.79 > 7. Which heavyweight boxing champion -- the only heavyweight > champion to remain undefeated during his entire professional > career -- retired with a record of 49-0 in 1956? Marciano > Marathon in 8 hours 11 minutes 6 seconds. Why was this > apparently unremarkable time in fact quite noteworthy? > Be fully specific. He was 100 years old > 9. Which Englishman holds the interesting record of most Formula 1 > wins -- 16 -- by a driver *who never won a World Championship*? Stirling Moss > 10. The longstanding NFL rushing record of 16,726 yards fell on Oct. > 2002-10-07. Name either the Chicago Bear who held the record or > the Dallas Cowboy who broke it. Smith (we had this a few rounds ago didn't we?) Peter Smyth |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Mar 11 09:15PM +0100 > that physics have somewhat different terminology across borders. > I find that interesting. Translation of book/film titles is a trap, > but physics ? Well yes. To dwell on this a little more, this may amuse some people. It is only when talking about the physical property that "power" translates to "effekt" in Swedish. Normally, you would translate it as "förmåga" (compare the Dutch "vermogen" in my previous post), "makt" ("might") or "kraft". And the latter is in Swedish the name of another physical property: "force". -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Mar 11 09:23PM +0100 > * Game 2, Round 6 - Sports - By the Numbers > 4. In what event did Bob Beamon set an apparently unbeatable mark > of 29'2½" on 1968-10-18 in Mexico City? Long-jumping. > 5. The most notorious "record" in Canadian history was set by > Ben Johnson in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. What was his > short-lived world record time for the 100 m? Give it exactly. 9.79 > That same season, he set the as-yet-unbroken record for longest > hitting streak. Exactly how many consecutive games did he > hit in? 52 > 7. Which heavyweight boxing champion -- the only heavyweight > champion to remain undefeated during his entire professional > career -- retired with a record of 49-0 in 1956? Jack Johnson > 9. Which Englishman holds the interesting record of most Formula 1 > wins -- 16 -- by a driver *who never won a World Championship*? Jackie Stewart -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 11 03:37PM -0500 Erland Sommarskog: >>> (Hey, I did look up "capacitance", because that one I was not sure of.) Mark Brader: >> Do you mean before answering? Erland Sommarskog: > Yes. And to clarify, I looked up the Swedish word "kapacitans" in an > English-Swedish dictionary. My impression is that this is permitted as long > as it's only a translation thing. No, it's not allowed. The rules say "based only on your own knowledge". I'll forgive it this time but don't do it again. This means you, too, Björn. -- Mark Brader, Toronto "Suspicion breeds confidence." msb@vex.net -- BRAZIL My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Mar 11 10:23PM +0100 On 2015-03-11 21:37, Mark Brader wrote: > No, it's not allowed. The rules say "based only on your own knowledge". > I'll forgive it this time but don't do it again. > This means you, too, Björn. Looking up *after* is not allowed ? I do not look up anything *before* answering. -- Björn |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Mar 11 11:00PM +0100 > No, it's not allowed. The rules say "based only on your own knowledge". > I'll forgive it this time but don't do it again. OK. I have a recollection that you have let it pass in the past, when I have made a note that I've used the dictionary. But I may be confused. In any case, it is not something I have done very often. Only when I have known the answer in Swedish and I have had very little clue of the English gloss. And only when it had been clear that using the dictionary would give me any other surplus information. In this particular case, I started by transcribing "kapacitans" into English, but first I did not get the spelling rigtht and then I got in doubt that it really was that simple. Which in proved to be in that particular case - but it certainly wasn't the case with "effekt"! -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 11 05:19PM -0500 Björn Lundin: > Looking up *after* is not allowed ? > I do not look up anything *before* answering. Of course you can look at whatever you like after posting; I wasn't talking about that. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "This is what customers do: they invent everything msb@vex.net | you haven't thought of." -- David Slocombe |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Mar 11 05:11PM -0700 On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 3:01:05 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > * Game 2, Round 4 - Canadiana - Before and After Pass I Will > By their numbers ye shall know them. > 1. Which Boston Red Sox left-hander finished the 1916 baseball > season with 23 wins, 12 losses, and a 1.75 ERA? Ruth > 2. Who, in 1944-45, was the first NHL hockey player to score > 50 goals in 50 games? Howe, Orr > 3. Which New York Islander, not as aggressive as his name might > suggest, became the second player to score 50-in-50 in 1980-81? Howe, Orr > 4. In what event did Bob Beamon set an apparently unbeatable mark > of 29'2½" on 1968-10-18 in Mexico City? Long jump > 5. The most notorious "record" in Canadian history was set by > Ben Johnson in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. What was his > short-lived world record time for the 100 m? Give it exactly. 9.79 seconds > That same season, he set the as-yet-unbroken record for longest > hitting streak. Exactly how many consecutive games did he > hit in? 45, 46 > 7. Which heavyweight boxing champion -- the only heavyweight > champion to remain undefeated during his entire professional > career -- retired with a record of 49-0 in 1956? Marciano > Marathon in 8 hours 11 minutes 6 seconds. Why was this > apparently unremarkable time in fact quite noteworthy? > Be fully specific. He had one leg, no legs > 9. Which Englishman holds the interesting record of most Formula 1 > wins -- 16 -- by a driver *who never won a World Championship*? Moss 4 times second iirc > 10. The longstanding NFL rushing record of 16,726 yards fell on Oct. > 2002-10-07. Name either the Chicago Bear who held the record or > the Dallas Cowboy who broke it. Payton cheers, calvin |
| swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: Mar 11 07:19PM -0700 On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 12:34:30 PM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote: > * Game 2, Round 4 - Canadiana - Before and After ... > 1. Schuster's comedy partner meets the Great One. johnny wayne gretzky > 2. Doug McKenzie meets the Leader of the Opposition. dave thomas mulcair(?) > 3. "The Diviners" meets "The Book of Negroes". > 4. Naomi Klein's father-in-law meets Sector Sarajevo commander. sinclair lewis mackenzie > 5. Little Big Man Oscar nominee meets heavyweight boxer. chief dan george foreman > 6. CBC's Scottish-born "greatest Canadian" meets German-born > "Generation X" author. tommy douglas coupland > 7. Adorable Francophone Governor-General meets Le Gros Bill. > 8. Figure-skating sweetheart of the 1940's meets "A Boy at the > Leafs' Camp". barbara scott young > 9. Wrongly convicted Mi'kmaq meets "global village" academic. > 10. 16-time Grammy winner meets "He shoots, he scores!" ... this was a lot harder than I suspected. > By their numbers ye shall know them. > 1. Which Boston Red Sox left-hander finished the 1916 baseball > season with 23 wins, 12 losses, and a 1.75 ERA? babe ruth > 2. Who, in 1944-45, was the first NHL hockey player to score > 50 goals in 50 games? maurice richard > 3. Which New York Islander, not as aggressive as his name might > suggest, became the second player to score 50-in-50 in 1980-81? mike bossy (why tina fey named her book after his trousers is anyone's guess) > 4. In what event did Bob Beamon set an apparently unbeatable mark > of 29'2½" on 1968-10-18 in Mexico City? long jump > 5. The most notorious "record" in Canadian history was set by > Ben Johnson in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. What was his > short-lived world record time for the 100 m? Give it exactly. 9.79 > That same season, he set the as-yet-unbroken record for longest > hitting streak. Exactly how many consecutive games did he > hit in? 56 > 7. Which heavyweight boxing champion -- the only heavyweight > champion to remain undefeated during his entire professional > career -- retired with a record of 49-0 in 1956? rocky marciano (hey, they're filming a new "rocky" movie in philadelphia right now. he is the trainer for apollo creed's son.) > Marathon in 8 hours 11 minutes 6 seconds. Why was this > apparently unremarkable time in fact quite noteworthy? > Be fully specific. he was 100 years old > 9. Which Englishman holds the interesting record of most Formula 1 > wins -- 16 -- by a driver *who never won a World Championship*? moss?? > 10. The longstanding NFL rushing record of 16,726 yards fell on Oct. > 2002-10-07. Name either the Chicago Bear who held the record or > the Dallas Cowboy who broke it. walter payton swp |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Mar 11 05:05PM -0700 On Monday, March 9, 2015 at 11:59:54 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > > 1 ... Erland S > Oooh, nice pattern! A pity Pete and Björn couldn't complete it by > agreeing as to which of them was only going to get 2 right. I'll try to find a one point penalty somewhere :-) cheers, calvin |
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