- QFTCIMI515 Game 3, Rounds 4-6: royals, Glee, QBs - 6 Updates
- QFTCIMI515 Game 3, Rounds 2-3 answers: TO schools and light - 2 Updates
- Rare Entries Contest OQ-01 Correction the First - 1 Update
- Calvin's Quiz #385 - 6 Updates
- Calvin's Quiz #384 - ANSWER & SCORES - 1 Update
| "Peter Smyth" <psmyth@ukf.net>: Mar 23 06:32PM Mark Brader wrote: > handout order, including the 8 decoys. Answer the decoys if you > like for fun, but for no points. > 1. Name her. Grace Kelly > 3. (decoy) > 4. (decoy) > 5. Name her. Princess Margaret > 6. Name him. King George VI, King Edward VIII > 7. (decoy -- the girl). > 8. Name her. Princess Beatrice, Princess Eugenie > 16. Name the man. > 17. Name him. > 18. Name her. Grace Kelly > here you'll simply be given the song title. And what we need to > know is the original artist (singer or band as applicable). > 1. "Bad Romance". Lady Gaga > 2. "I Kissed a Girl". Katy Perry > 3. "Uptown Girl". Billy Joel > 4. "Black or White". Michael Jackson > 5. "Gold Digger". Usher > 6. "Tik Tok". > 7. "Rehab". Amy Winehouse > 8. "Rolling in the Deep". Adele > 9. "Dream On". > 10. "Losing My Religion". REM > for two earlier quarterbacks for that team. You name the team (in > any unambiguous manner). > 1. Joe Flacco; Kyle Boller, Vinny Testaverde. Bengals > 2. Kyle Orton; Ryan Fitzpatrick, Jim Kelly. Seahawks > 3. Tom Brady; Drew Bledsoe, Steve Grogan. Patriots > 4. Ben Roethlisberger; Kordell Stewart, Terry Bradshaw. Cardinals > 5. Andrew Luck; Peyton Manning, Jim Harbaugh. Broncos > 6. Ryan Tannehill; Dan Marino, Bob Griese. Dolphins > 7. Russell Wilson; Matt Hasselbeck, Warren Moon. Redskins > 8. Tony Romo; Troy Aikman, Roger Staubach. Cowboys > 9. Jay Cutler; Rex Grossman, Jim McMahon. Giants > 10. Aaron Rodgers; Brett Favre, Bart Starr. Packers Peter Smyth |
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Mar 23 09:45PM +0100 On 2015-03-23 03:16, Mark Brader wrote: > 6. Name him. > 7. (decoy -- the girl). > 8. Name her. You must be joking with that hat! > 11. (decoy) > 12. (decoy) > 13. (decoy -- the infant) Price Charles of Wales > know is the original artist (singer or band as applicable). > 1. "Bad Romance". > 2. "I Kissed a Girl". Kate Perry > 3. "Uptown Girl". > 4. "Black or White". Michael Jackson > 8. "Rolling in the Deep". > 9. "Dream On". > 10. "Losing My Religion". R.E.M -- -- Björn |
| swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: Mar 23 01:46PM -0700 On Sunday, March 22, 2015 at 10:16:02 PM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote: > * Game 3, Round 4 - History - European Royals > Please see the handout: > http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/3-4/royal.jpg ... > 1. Name her. queen beatrix > 3. (decoy) > 4. (decoy) > 5. Name her. princess margaret > 6. Name him. king george v > 7. (decoy -- the girl). > 8. Name her. princess beatrice > 9. Name her. anastasia > 10. Name him. czar nicholas II > 12. (decoy) > 13. (decoy -- the infant) > 14. Name her. ... > 15. (decoy) > 16. Name the man. king juan carlos of spain > 17. Name him. king george v > 18. Name her. grace kelly > * Game 3, Round 5 - Audio - Gleefully Yours > Yes, you get the audio round this time. yippee! next time with youtube clips? > here you'll simply be given the song title. And what we need to > know is the original artist (singer or band as applicable). > 1. "Bad Romance". lady gaga > 2. "I Kissed a Girl". katy perry (<waving>hi cuz</waving>) > 3. "Uptown Girl". billy joel > 4. "Black or White". michael jackson > 5. "Gold Digger". cat stevens ; kanye west > 6. "Tik Tok". ke$ha > 7. "Rehab". amy winehouse > 8. "Rolling in the Deep". Adele > 9. "Dream On". aerosmith > 10. "Losing My Religion". r.e.m. ... I'm such a gleek ... > for two earlier quarterbacks for that team. You name the team (in > any unambiguous manner). > 1. Joe Flacco; Kyle Boller, Vinny Testaverde. baltimore ravens > 2. Kyle Orton; Ryan Fitzpatrick, Jim Kelly. buffalo bills > 3. Tom Brady; Drew Bledsoe, Steve Grogan. new england patriots > 4. Ben Roethlisberger; Kordell Stewart, Terry Bradshaw. pittsburgh steelers > 5. Andrew Luck; Peyton Manning, Jim Harbaugh. indianapolis colts > 6. Ryan Tannehill; Dan Marino, Bob Griese. miami dolphins > 7. Russell Wilson; Matt Hasselbeck, Warren Moon. seattle seahawks > 8. Tony Romo; Troy Aikman, Roger Staubach. dallas cowboys > 9. Jay Cutler; Rex Grossman, Jim McMahon. Chicago Bears > 10. Aaron Rodgers; Brett Favre, Bart Starr. green bay packers swp |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Mar 23 11:11PM +0100 > * Game 3, Round 5 - Audio - Gleefully Yours > 10. "Losing My Religion". R.E.M. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Mar 24 03:05AM -0700 On Monday, March 23, 2015 at 12:16:02 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > handout order, including the 8 decoys. Answer the decoys if you > like for fun, but for no points. > 1. Name her. Princess Margaret > 5. Name her. Princess Margaret > 6. Name him. > 8. Name her. Princess Beatrice, Princess Eugenie > 9. Name her. Queen Elizabeth the late Queen Mother > 10. Name him. Prince Philip > 14. Name her. > 16. Name the man. King Carlos > 17. Name him. Prince Philip > 18. Name her. Grace Kelly > know is the original artist (singer or band as applicable). > 1. "Bad Romance". > 2. "I Kissed a Girl". Perry > 3. "Uptown Girl". Billy Joel > 4. "Black or White". Jackson > 5. "Gold Digger". > 6. "Tik Tok". U2 > 7. "Rehab". Winehouse > 8. "Rolling in the Deep". > 9. "Dream On". > 10. "Losing My Religion". REM > for two earlier quarterbacks for that team. You name the team (in > any unambiguous manner). > 1. Joe Flacco; Kyle Boller, Vinny Testaverde. Jets, Eagles > 2. Kyle Orton; Ryan Fitzpatrick, Jim Kelly. Bills > 3. Tom Brady; Drew Bledsoe, Steve Grogan. Patriots, Colts > 4. Ben Roethlisberger; Kordell Stewart, Terry Bradshaw. Steelers > 5. Andrew Luck; Peyton Manning, Jim Harbaugh. Colts > 6. Ryan Tannehill; Dan Marino, Bob Griese. Dolphins > 7. Russell Wilson; Matt Hasselbeck, Warren Moon. Houston > 8. Tony Romo; Troy Aikman, Roger Staubach. Cowboys > 9. Jay Cutler; Rex Grossman, Jim McMahon. Bears > 10. Aaron Rodgers; Brett Favre, Bart Starr. Packers cheers, calvin |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Mar 23 05:13PM -0700 Mark Brader wrote: > 3. (decoy) > 4. (decoy) > 5. Name her. Queen Elizabeth > 14. Name her. > 15. (decoy) > 16. Name the man. King Juan Carlos > 1. "Bad Romance". > 2. "I Kissed a Girl". > 3. "Uptown Girl". Billy Joel > for two earlier quarterbacks for that team. You name the team (in > any unambiguous manner). > 1. Joe Flacco; Kyle Boller, Vinny Testaverde. Buccaneers > 2. Kyle Orton; Ryan Fitzpatrick, Jim Kelly. > 3. Tom Brady; Drew Bledsoe, Steve Grogan. Patriots > 4. Ben Roethlisberger; Kordell Stewart, Terry Bradshaw. Steelers > 5. Andrew Luck; Peyton Manning, Jim Harbaugh. Colts > 6. Ryan Tannehill; Dan Marino, Bob Griese. Dolphins > 7. Russell Wilson; Matt Hasselbeck, Warren Moon. Seahawks > 8. Tony Romo; Troy Aikman, Roger Staubach. Cowboys > 9. Jay Cutler; Rex Grossman, Jim McMahon. Rams ? > 10. Aaron Rodgers; Brett Favre, Bart Starr. Packers -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 23 08:10AM -0500 Mark Brader: >>> people. We'll give you a few facts about the person; you name >>> the person, giving their *first and last name* (since they both >>> form part of the school's name). Stephen Perry: >> Joseph Brant (Public School). > protest. see #3 above. I got the last name correct, don't I get a > "partial" for this one as well? No. My standard for partial credit is "more than half right", and I decide the weighting of "half". For #3 you had a variant of the right first name. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "I've always wanted to be a mad scientist! msb@vex.net | Or perhaps just mad!" -- Robert L. Biddle My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Mar 20 11:33PM +0100 On 2015-03-20 03:43, Mark Brader wrote: > 1. What is the process which, using light, supplies nearly all of > the organic compounds and most of the energy necessary for life > on Earth. Photosynthesis? > 2. Some living organisms produce their own light, that is they > glow in the dark. What is this process called? bioluminance > 3. The speed of light in what situation is a universal constant? in vacuum > 4. Light is emitted in small packets. What are they called? fotons > 5. Light exhibits the characteristics of both waves and particles. > What is this property of light referred to as? indecisive? > 7. In the International System of Units, what is the unit which > measures the total amount of visible light emitted by a source? Lux > 8. By what process does a solar cell convert light into electricity? by moving electrons ? > 9. This unit, named after a Swedish scientist, can be used to > measure the wavelength of light in increments of 1/10,000,000,000 > of a meter. Name the unit. Ångström > 10. Visible light, x-rays, and radio waves are all forms of EMR. > What does EMR stand for? Electro Magnetic Radiation -- Björn |
| Orlando Quattro <oquattro@magma.ca>: Mar 23 10:13PM -0400 Question 1 turns out to have been poorly worded and in need of clarification. Please use the revised wording of the question. Thanks to those who pointed out the problems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rules 4.1.1, 4.1.3, 4.2, and 4.3.4 are relevant to certain questions. 0. Name an independent country where one might expect to find penguins. 1. Give the name of a tincture used in English heraldry. 2. Unambiguously identify an opera from which music has been featured in at least five full length feature films that are not simply performances of the opera in question, and which have each grossed at least $25 million (USD) at the box office, as shown by the IMDB (Internet Movie DataBase) in their "Box office / business" section, or other authoritative source. 3. name a contemporary string instrument that might be found in a modern day symphony orchestra, chamber orchestra, or chamber music ensemble, but NOT only in an early music ensemble. The instrument must be employed in an ensemble role, and NOT solely as a solo performer. 4. Name a nation with a team entered in the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup. 5. Name a North American venue that has hosted a Formula One grand prix. 6. Unambiguously identify a globally recognized landmark that contains the word "red" as part of its name. Global recognition means that a Google search produces at least one hundred thousand hits. The Google search must be of the form: ("landmark name" "location") 7. Name one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, as listed in Greek tourist guides from the 1st and 2nd centuries BC, and which were all in existence immediately prior to 226 BC. 8. Name an automobile manufacturer that has featured an animal on an on-car badge. The badge may be for a marque or a specific model. 9. Name a country with an active railway station at an elevation higher than 7,000 feet (2,133 metres). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rules for Orlando Quattro's Rare Entry Contests These are shamelessly borrowed from Mark Brader, who provided years of entertainment with a long series of Rare Entries contests. I feel that years of refinement lend these a certain authority, which is not to say that I will not end up further refining them in the light of experience with with my own rare entry contests. Also, Mark took the trouble to place the text of his postings in the public domain, which makes me comfortable taking advantage of his experience in this regard. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Rule 1. The Game For each of the questions in the quiz, your objective is to give an answer that (1) is correct, and (2) will be duplicated by as FEW other quiz entrants as possible. Feel free to use any reference material you like to RESEARCH your answers; but when you have found enough possible answers for your liking, you are expected to choose on your own which one to submit, WITHOUT mechanical or computer assistance: this is meant to be a game of wits. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Rule 2. Scoring The scores on the different questions are MULTIPLIED to produce a final score for each entrant. Low score wins; a perfect score is 1. If your answer on a category is correct, then your score is the number of people who gave that answer, or an answer That I deem equivalent. A wrong answer, or a skipped question, gets a high score as a penalty. This is the median of: - the number of entrants - the square root of that number, rounded up to an integer - double the largest score achieved by anyone on this question Rule 2.1 Scoring Example Say I ask for a colour on the current Canadian flag. There are 27 entrants, of whom 20 say "red", 4 say "blue", and 1 each say "gules", "white", and "blue square". After looking up gules I decide it's the same colour as red and should be treated as a duplicate answer; then the 21 people who said either "red" or "gules" get 21 points each. The person who said "white" gets a perfect score of 1 point. "Blue square" is not a colour and blue is not a colour on the flag; the 5 people who gave either of these answers each get the same penalty score, which is the median of: - number of entrants = 27 - sqrt(27) = 5.196+, rounded up = 6 - double the largest score = 21 x 2 = 42 Yielding a median, in this case, of 27. Rule 2.2 Scoring More Specific Variants On some questions it's possible that one entrant will give an answer that is a more specific variant of an answer given by someone else. In that case the more specific variant will usually be scored as if the two answers are different, but the other, less specific variant will be scored as if they are the same. In the above Canadian flag example, if I had decided (incorrectly) to score gules as a more specific variant of red, then "red" would still score 21, but "gules" would now score 1. If a wrong answer is clearly associated with a specific right answer, I will score the right answer as if the wrong answer was a more specific variant of it. In the above Canadian flag example, if there were 3 additional entrants who said "white square", then "white square" would be scored as wrong, but the score for "white" would be 4, not 1. "More specific" scoring will NOT apply if the question asks for an answer "in general terms"; a more specific answer will then at best be treated the same as the more general one, and may be considered wrong. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Rule 3. Entries Entries must be emailed to the address given above. Please do not quote the questions back to me, and DO send ONLY PLAIN TEXT in ASCII or ISO 8859-1: no HTML, no attachments, no Micros--t character sets, etc., and NO Unicode, please. (Entrants who fail to comply will be publicly chastised in the results posting.) Your message should preferably consist of just your 10 answers, numbered from 0 to 9, along with any explanations required. Your name should be in it somewhere -- a From: line or signature is fine. (If I don't see both a first and a last name, or an explicit request for a particular form of your name to be used, then your email address will be posted in the results). You can expect an acknowledgement when I read your entry. If this bounces, it will NOT be sent again. Entries must be received before the entry deadline specified for the quiz. I may, at my discretion, apply latitude based on the log entries from my mail server, provided that they unambiguously show that your entry was received by your mail server before the entry deadline. Rule 3.1 Where Leeway is Allowed for Entries In general there is no penalty for errors of spelling, capitalization, English usage, or other such matters of form, nor for accidentally sending email in an unfinished state, so long as it is clear enough to discern what you intended. Sometimes though, a specific question may imply stricter rules. And if you give an answer that properly refers to a different thing related to the one you intended, I will normally take it as written. Once you intentionally submit an answer, no changes will be allowed, unless I decide there was a problem with the question. Similarly, alternate answers within an entry will not be accepted. Only the first answer that you intentionally submit counts. Rule 3.2 Clarifications for Entries Questions are not intended to be hard to understand, but I may fail in this intent. (For one thing, in many cases clarity could only be provided by an example that would suggest one or another specific answer, and that would compromise the question.) In order to be fair to all entrants, I must insist that requests for clarification must be emailed to me, NOT POSTED in any newsgroup. But if you do ask for clarification, I will probably say that the question is clear enough as posted. If I do decide to clarify or change a question, all entrants will be informed. Rule 3.3 Supporting Information for Entries It is your option whether or not to provide supporting information to justify your answers. If you don't, I'll email you to ask for it if I need to. If you supply it in the form of a URL, if at all possible it should be a "deep link" to the specific relevant page. There is no need to supply URLs for obvious, well-known reference web sites, and there is no point in supplying URLs for pages that don't actually support your answer. If you provide any explanatory remarks along with your answers, you are responsible for making it sufficiently clear that they are not part of the answers. The particular format doesn't matter as long as you are clear. In the scoring example above, "white square" was wrong; "white (in the central square)" would have been taken as a correct answer with an explanation. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Rule 4. Interpretation of Questions These are general rules that apply unless a question specifically states otherwise. Rule 4.1 Geography Rule 4.1.1 Countries "Country" means an independent country. Whether or not a place is considered an independent country is determined by how it is listed in reference sources. The primary reference is the list of UN (United Nations) two-digit country codes. For purposes of these contests, the Earth is considered to be divid- ed into disjoint areas each of which is either (1) a country, (2) a dependency, or (3) without national government. Their boundaries are interpreted on a de facto basis. Any place with representatives in a country's legislature is considered a part of that country rather than a dependency of it. The European Union is considered as an association of countries, not a country itself. Claims that are not enforced, or not generally recognized, don't count. Places currently fighting a war of secession don't count. Embassies don't count as special; they may have extraterritorial rights, but they're still part of the host country (and city). Countries existing at different historical times are normally considered the same country if they have the same capital city. Rule 4.1.2 States or provinces Many countries or dependencies are divided into subsidiary political entities, typically with their own subsidiary governments. At the first level of division, these entities are most commonly called states or provinces, but various other names are used; sometimes varying even within the same country (e.g. to indicate unequal political status). Any reference to "states or provinces" in a question refers to these entities at the first level of division, no matter what they are called. Rule 4.1.3 Nations In International Sports When an international sporting event is involved, for instance the ICC Cricket World Cup, some entries may appear as nations, but not in fact be independent countries as defined in rule 4.1.1. England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are all examples of this, when the country of Great Britain is not represented. In the case of any question where such a distinction is pertinent, I will endeavour to make this clear in the wording of the question. Rule 4.1.4 Distances Distances between places on the Earth are measured along a great circle path, and distance involving cities are based on the city center (downtown). Rule 4.2 Entertainment A "movie" does not include any form of solely TV broadcast (TV Movie) or video release; it must have been shown in cinemas. "Oscar" and "Academy Award" are AMPAS trademarks and refer to the awards given by that organization. "Fiction" includes dramatizations of true stories. Rule 4.3 Words and Numbers Rule 4.3.1 Different Answers Some questions specifically ask for a *word*, rather than the thing that it names; this means that different words with the same meaning will in general be treated as distinct answers. However, if two or more inflectional variants, spelling variants, or other closely related forms are correct answers, they will be treated as equivalent. Similarly, if the question specifically asks for a name, different things referred to by the same name will be treated as the same. Rule 4.3.2 Permitted Words On questions that specifically ask for a word, the word that you give must be listed (or implied by a listing, as with inflected forms) in a suitable dictionary. Generally this means a printed dictionary published recently enough to show reasonably current usage, or its online equivalent. Other reasonably authoritative sources may be accepted on a case-by-case basis. Words listed as obsolete or archaic usage don't count, and sources that would list those words without distinguishing them are not acceptable as dictionaries. Rule 4.3.3 Permitted Numbers Where the distinction is important, "number" refers to a specific mathematical value, whereas "numeral" (or numeric representation) means a way of writing it. Thus "4", "IV", and "four" are three different numeric representations of the same number. "Digit" means one of the characters "0", "1", "2", etc. (These definitions represent one of several conflicting common usages.) Rule 4.3.4 "Contained in" If a question asks for a word or numeral "contained" or "included" in a phrase, title, or the like, this does not include substrings or alternate meanings of words, unless explictly specified. For example, if "Canada in 1967" is the title of a book, it contains the numeral 1967 and the preposition "in"; but it does not contain the word "an", the adjective "in", or the numeral 96. Rule 4.4 Tense and Time When a question is worded in the present tense, the correctness of your answer is determined by the facts at the moment you submit it. (In a case where, in my judgement, people might reasonably be unaware of the facts having changed, an out-of-date answer may be accepted as correct.) Questions worded in the present perfect tense include the present unless something states or implies otherwise. (For example, Canada is a country that "has existed", as well as one that "exists".) Different verbs in a sentence bear their usual tense relationship to each other. You are not allowed to change the facts yourself in order to make an answer correct. For example, if a question asks for material on the WWW, what you cite must already have existed before the contest was first posted. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Rule 5. Judging As moderator, I will be the sole judge of what answers are correct, and whether two answers with similar meaning (such as red and gules) are considered the same, different, or more/less specific variants. I will do my best to be fair on all such issues, but sometimes it is necessary to be arbitrary. Those who disagree with my rulings are welcome to complain (or to start a competing contest, or whatever). I may rescore the contest if I agree that I made a serious error and it affects the high finishers. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Rule 6. Results Results will normally be posted within a few days of the contest closing. They may be delayed if I'm unexpectedly busy or for technical reasons. If I feel I need help evaluating one or more answers, I may make a consultative posting in the newsgroups before scoring the contest. In the results posting, all entrants will be listed in order of score, but very high (bad) scores may be omitted. The top few entrants' full |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 23 08:14AM -0500 "Calvin": > 1 Which South American city is also a hot spice and a Porsche model? Cayenne. > 2 Which flame-haired former editor of Britain's Sun newspaper was recently cleared of phone-hacking charges? Johnson? > 3 Standing over 3,750m high, what is the name of New Zealand's highest mountain? Mt. Cook. > 4 Which actress played the female lead in the 1963 Hitchcock film The Birds? Hedren. > 5 In which year did Prince Andrew marry Sarah Ferguson? 2000? > 6 Which planet comes closest to Earth at its nearest point? Venus. > 7 On a cricket scorecard, what does the abbreviation "LB" stand for? Leg before wicket? > 8 The Uffizi gallery is located in which Italian city? Florence. > 9 Who directed the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain? Lee? > 10 Which 1965 book by Frank Herbert, the first in a series, is the best-selling science fiction novel of all time? "Dune". -- Mark Brader | "Mechanics, musicians, and programmers all know Toronto | how to arrange numerous small units into logical msb@vex.net | patterns such that the arrangement has the power | to move something in a profound way." -- Barry Kort My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| "Peter Smyth" <psmyth@ukf.net>: Mar 23 06:37PM Calvin wrote: > 1 Which South American city is also a hot spice and a Porsche model? Cayenne > 2 Which flame-haired former editor of Britain's Sun newspaper was > recently cleared of phone-hacking charges? Rebecca Brooks > 3 Standing over 3,750m high, what is the name of New Zealand's > highest mountain? Mount Doom > 4 Which actress played the female lead in the 1963 Hitchcock film > The Birds? Hedren > 5 In which year did Prince Andrew marry Sarah Ferguson? 1986 > 6 Which planet comes closest to Earth at its nearest point? Venus > 7 On a cricket scorecard, what does the abbreviation "LB" stand for? Leg Bye > 8 The Uffizi gallery is located in which Italian city? Florence > 9 Who directed the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain? Lee > 10 Which 1965 book by Frank Herbert, the first in a series, is the > best-selling science fiction novel of all time? Dune Peter Smyth |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Mar 23 02:24PM -0500 In article <9cfb87d3-b28e-4f38-9d7c-778cb9dd29a4@googlegroups.com>, 334152@gmail.com says... > 1 Which South American city is also a hot spice and a Porsche model? Cayenne > 2 Which flame-haired former editor of Britain's Sun newspaper was recently cleared of phone-hacking charges? Brooks > 3 Standing over 3,750m high, what is the name of New Zealand's highest mountain? > 4 Which actress played the female lead in the 1963 Hitchcock film The Birds? Tippi Hendren > 5 In which year did Prince Andrew marry Sarah Ferguson? 2008 > 6 Which planet comes closest to Earth at its nearest point? Mars > 7 On a cricket scorecard, what does the abbreviation "LB" stand for? > 8 The Uffizi gallery is located in which Italian city? Firenze > 9 Who directed the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain? Ang Lee > 10 Which 1965 book by Frank Herbert, the first in a series, is the best-selling science fiction novel of all time? Dune -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Mar 23 09:48PM +0100 On 2015-03-23 11:56, Calvin wrote: > 1 Which South American city is also a hot spice and a Porsche model? Cayenne > 2 Which flame-haired former editor of Britain's Sun newspaper was recently cleared of phone-hacking charges? > 3 Standing over 3,750m high, what is the name of New Zealand's highest mountain? Peak Mordor? > 4 Which actress played the female lead in the 1963 Hitchcock film The Birds? > 5 In which year did Prince Andrew marry Sarah Ferguson? 1983 > 6 Which planet comes closest to Earth at its nearest point? Venus > 7 On a cricket scorecard, what does the abbreviation "LB" stand for? > 8 The Uffizi gallery is located in which Italian city? Venice -- -- Björn |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Mar 23 11:07PM +0100 > 1 Which South American city is also a hot spice and a Porsche model? Cayenne > 2 Which flame-haired former editor of Britain's Sun newspaper was > recently cleared of phone-hacking charges? All I remember is that the first name starts with R... > 5 In which year did Prince Andrew marry Sarah Ferguson? 1979 > 6 Which planet comes closest to Earth at its nearest point? Venus > 8 The Uffizi gallery is located in which Italian city? Firenze > 9 Who directed the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain? Ang Lee > 10 Which 1965 book by Frank Herbert, the first in a series, is the > best-selling science fiction novel of all time? Dune -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Mar 23 08:35AM -0700 Calvin wrote: > 1 Which South American city is also a hot spice and a Porsche model? Cayenne > 2 Which flame-haired former editor of Britain's Sun newspaper was recently cleared of phone-hacking charges? > 3 Standing over 3,750m high, what is the name of New Zealand's highest mountain? Mt Cook > 4 Which actress played the female lead in the 1963 Hitchcock film The Birds? > 5 In which year did Prince Andrew marry Sarah Ferguson? 1982 > 6 Which planet comes closest to Earth at its nearest point? Venus > 7 On a cricket scorecard, what does the abbreviation "LB" stand for? left behind > 8 The Uffizi gallery is located in which Italian city? > 9 Who directed the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain? > 10 Which 1965 book by Frank Herbert, the first in a series, is the best-selling science fiction novel of all time? Dune -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 23 08:13AM -0500 "Calvin": > > 7 The peacock is the national bird of which Asian country? > India > Iran was a popular guess For an obvious reason. Oh well. -- Mark Brader | "Rleadse negiifu uoug assount 'u somrletiing the fogm... Toronto | We arologiize fog anu iinsonneniiense." msb@vex.net | --Seen in spam |
| You received this digest because you're subscribed to updates for this group. You can change your settings on the group membership page. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it send an email to rec.games.trivia+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. |
No comments:
Post a Comment