- Björn's Knock-out dates - Answer Q10 and new Q11 - 5 Updates
- Calvin's Quiz #382 - 6 Updates
- Calvin's Quiz #381 - ANSWERS & SCORES - 1 Update
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Mar 02 03:33PM +0100 On 2015-02-28 10:43, Björn Lundin wrote: This round is now closed, since all answers have arrived. Correct date : 12-Nov-2014 Q10: Contender Entered Date First Date Second Date Diff1 Diff2 Best --------------------------------------------------------------------- swp Nov-12 12-Nov-2014 12-Nov-2015 0 365 0 David B Nov-01 01-Nov-2014 01-Nov-2015 11 354 11 Russ Oct-30 30-Oct-2014 30-Oct-2015 13 352 13 Dan Blum Oct-15 15-Oct-2014 15-Oct-2015 28 337 28 Worst guess off by: 28 Steven Perry nails another one. Dan Blum falls off the edge, and is eliminated I agree with Steven's comment, this is an important date. Another one, perhaps not quite so important, but still far from irrelevant, is : Q11 What date was the iPod presented for the first time ? Steve Jobs present this music player at an Apple event in 2001 This round closes at the latest Mar 5, 2015 20:00 CET, and is open for everyone in above table, but for Dan Blum. -- -- Björn |
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Mar 02 04:12PM +0100 On 2015-03-02 15:33, Björn Lundin wrote: > On 2015-02-28 10:43, Björn Lundin wrote: > Correct date : 12-Nov-2014 I forgot to add som links about this. <http://sci.esa.int/rosetta/> On 12 November 2014, ESA's Rosetta mission soft-landed its Philae probe on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the first time in history that such an extraordinary feat has been achieved. During the next phase of the mission, Rosetta will accompany the comet through perihelion (August 2015) until the nominal end of the mission. On its 10 year journey towards comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the spacecraft has passed by two asteroids: 2867 Steins (in 2008) and 21 Lutetia (in 2010). The spacecraft entered deep-space hibernation mode in June 2011, and 'woke up' on 20 January 20 ..... <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philae_%28spacecraft%29> states the time as well During this first bounce, at 16:20 UTC SCET, the lander is believed to have struck a surface prominence, which slowed its rotation to once every 24 seconds and sent the craft tumbling.[31][33] Philae touched down a second time at 17:25:26 UTC SCET and rebounded at 3 cm/s (1.2 in/s).[30][31] The lander came to a final stop on the surface at 17:31:17 UTC SCET SCET : <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_Event_Time> -- -- Björn |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 02 09:54AM -0600 Björn Lundin: > I forgot to add som links about this. > <http://sci.esa.int/rosetta/> ... > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philae_%28spacecraft%29> ... You forgot the most important one: http://xkcd1446.org/#0 (Requires JavaScript enabled. There are 144 frames altogether, of which the first few are blank. [On the day, they appeared successively in something like real time at http://xkcd.com.] Step between frames using the horizontal arrow keys or the Next/Prev buttons.) -- Mark Brader "Those who do not study history Toronto are condemned to repeat the course" msb@vex.net (after George Santayana) My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Russ <askme @ sayplease.com>: Mar 02 12:32PM -0600 On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 15:33:09 +0100, Björn Lundin >This round closes at the latest Mar 5, 2015 20:00 CET, >and is open for everyone in above table, but for Dan Blum. I'll guess January 6th, as I think that would have been one of the days of the Consumer Electronics Show, which possible would have been a good choice for a product unveiling. Russ |
| "David B" <askforemail@gmail.com>: Mar 03 10:51AM I will guess at just before Christmas: 1st November -- David |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Mar 02 12:29PM +0100 > 1 Which city is the centre of the Italian fashion industry? Milano > 2 Whose official London residence is Lambeth Palace? Foreign Minister > 3 Who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1931 novel The Good Earth? Mannfred Mann's Earth Band. No, wait that was an album released over 40 years later. > 4 To which European country do the islands of Gozo and Comino belong? Italy > 6 Who did Diana Ross portray in the 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues? Fitzgerald > 7 Which car manufacturer shares its name with the cross-legged > position in yoga? Tata motors > 8 In heraldry, what colour is represented by the tincture gules? Green > 10 With around 95 million people, what is the second most populous > country in Africa? DR Congo -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 02 07:56AM -0600 "Calvin": > 1 Which city is the centre of the Italian fashion industry? Milan. > 2 Whose official London residence is Lambeth Palace? Bishop of London. > 3 Who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1931 novel The Good Earth? Buck. > 4 To which European country do the islands of Gozo and Comino belong? Italy? > 5 Which character did George Hamilton play in the 1978 comedy Love at > First Bite? Dracula? > 6 Who did Diana Ross portray in the 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues? Holliday. > 7 Which car manufacturer shares its name with the cross-legged position in yoga? Lotus. > 8 In heraldry, what colour is represented by the tincture gules? Red. > 9 What is the name of the white target ball in lawn bowls? Jack. > 10 With around 95 million people, what is the second most populous > country in Africa? South Africa? -- Mark Brader | It is easy to run a secure computer system. You Toronto | merely have to disconnect all dial-up connections, msb@vex.net | put the machine and its terminals in a shielded | room, and post a guard at the door. | -- Frederick T. Grampp & Robert H. Morris My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Mar 02 03:35PM +0100 On 2015-03-02 11:21, Calvin wrote: > 1 Which city is the centre of the Italian fashion industry? Milano > 2 Whose official London residence is Lambeth Palace? US embassy > 3 Who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1931 novel The Good Earth? > 4 To which European country do the islands of Gozo and Comino belong? Spain > 5 Which character did George Hamilton play in the 1978 comedy Love at First Bite? > 6 Who did Diana Ross portray in the 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues? Ella Fitzgerald > 7 Which car manufacturer shares its name with the cross-legged position in yoga? Lotus > 8 In heraldry, what colour is represented by the tincture gules? Yellow > 9 What is the name of the white target ball in lawn bowls? > 10 With around 95 million people, what is the second most populous country in Africa? Niger -- Björn |
| "Peter Smyth" <psmyth@ukf.net>: Mar 02 06:20PM Calvin wrote: > 1 Which city is the centre of the Italian fashion industry? Milan > 2 Whose official London residence is Lambeth Palace? Archbishop of Canterbury > 3 Who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1931 novel The Good Earth? > 4 To which European country do the islands of Gozo and Comino belong? Malta > 5 Which character did George Hamilton play in the 1978 comedy Love > at First Bite? ? 6 Who did Diana Ross portray in the 1972 film Lady Sings > the Blues? Billie Holliday > 7 Which car manufacturer shares its name with the > cross-legged position in yoga? Lotus > 8 In heraldry, what colour is represented by the tincture gules? Red > 9 What is the name of the white target ball in lawn bowls? Jack > 10 With around 95 million people, what is > the second most populous country in Africa? Egypt Peter Smyth |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Mar 02 02:56PM -0600 In article <8e687736-7857-4bb2-89c8-b7ab1ef301c5@googlegroups.com>, 334152@gmail.com says... > 1 Which city is the centre of the Italian fashion industry? Milan > 2 Whose official London residence is Lambeth Palace? > 3 Who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1931 novel The Good Earth? Pearl Buck > 4 To which European country do the islands of Gozo and Comino belong? Cyprus > 5 Which character did George Hamilton play in the 1978 comedy Love at First Bite? Dracula > 6 Who did Diana Ross portray in the 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues? Billie Holiday > 7 Which car manufacturer shares its name with the cross-legged position in yoga? Lotus > 8 In heraldry, what colour is represented by the tincture gules? red > 9 What is the name of the white target ball in lawn bowls? > 10 With around 95 million people, what is the second most populous country in Africa? Egypt -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@cfaj.ca>: Mar 02 03:46PM -0500 On 2015-03-02, Calvin wrote: > 1 Which city is the centre of the Italian fashion industry? Milan > 2 Whose official London residence is Lambeth Palace? Archbishop of Canterbury > 3 Who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1931 novel The Good Earth? Pearl S. Buck > 4 To which European country do the islands of Gozo and Comino belong? > 5 Which character did George Hamilton play in the 1978 comedy Love at First Bite? Dracula > 6 Who did Diana Ross portray in the 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues? Billie Holiday > 7 Which car manufacturer shares its name with the cross-legged position in yoga? Lotus > 8 In heraldry, what colour is represented by the tincture gules? Red > 9 What is the name of the white target ball in lawn bowls? Jack > 10 With around 95 million people, what is the second most populous country in Africa? Ethiopia -- Chris F.A. Johnson |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 02 07:55AM -0600 "Calvin": > Well done Marc and Chris. Wrong. -- Mark Brader "How can we believe that?" Toronto "Because this time it's true!" msb@vex.net -- Lynn & Jay: YES, PRIME MINISTER |
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