- Rotating Quiz #176 -- Answers and Scores - 1 Update
- Calvin's Quiz #387 - 2 Updates
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Apr 09 11:26PM -0700 Dan Tilque wrote: RQ #176 is over and the winner is Mark Brader. Congratulations. > First, a puzzle. > 1. Give the next item in this list: > water, sun, rock, beryl, borax As some of you figured out, the sequence is the etymology of the chemical elements. The next element is carbon, which derives from the Latin word "carbo". My Latin-English dictionary defines that as "burning or burnt wood". I decided to give full credit for either "charcoal" or "coal". > It's possible you solved the puzzle, but still don't know the next item. > If that's the case, then you can get one point for which Wikipedia > subject you'd look at to find the answer. "Carbon" received a full point here. "Periodic table of the elements" is not a Wikipage I'd expect to find such detail on individual elements, but since it showed they'd solved the puzzle, I gave a half point for it. > system is called either WISE 1049-5319 or Luhman 16, with the latter > being favored because it's easier to remember. How far away is Luhman > 16? (2 points if within .5 ly, 1 point if within 1 ly) 6.6 ly In retrospect, I should have given a hint for this one and I had a good one. It seems this system is actually closer to Alpha Centauri than the Sun is. This would have put an upper bound of about 8 ly to the answer, at least to those who got the hint. (Alpha C-Luhman 16 distance is 3.6 ly.) BTW, last year Luhman also discovered another nearby cool object, WISE 0855-0714, which is only 7.2 ly away. It has an estimated mass between 3 and 10 M_jupiter, meaning it's too small to be a brown dwarf. Instead it's either a sub-brown dwarf or a rogue planet, depending on your preference. Its (top-of-clouds) temperature is below 0 C. > 3. About 100 years ago, someone discovered a star that has the highest > proper motion of any star. It's the second closest system to the Sun and > was named after the discoverer. What is its name? Barnard's Star > range, it still would have been invisible to the naked eye. These > results were reported in February of this year. The star is also named > after its discoverer. What is its name? Scholz's Star > candidacy for US President. But he wasn't actually born in the US. Where > was he born? (Give the city name for full credit; state/province or > country will get partial credit.) Calgary, Alberta, Canada > candidate in fairly recent years and was born in the Panama Canal Zone. > Both represented the same state in the US Senate. Name them for one > point each. Barry Goldwater and John McCain > e. Wayne Gretzky > f. Pamela Anderson > g. Arnold Schwarzenegger "Naturalized US citizens" was the expected answer. However, since immigration is a requirement for naturalization and I didn't give any counterexamples of people who immigrated but didn't naturalize, I gave full credit for "immigrant to the US". > 8. And speaking of Guy Lombardo, he was most famous for being conductor > of the Royal Canadians and playing Auld Lang Syne on New Years Eve. But > he was also a top-level competitor in a sport. Which sport? hydroplane speedboat racing According to Wikipedia, he retired from racing in 1959. I have memories of watching such races as a young boy and hearing Lombardo's name spoken by the announcer, but I'm not 100% sure these memories are accurate. I'd have been 5 when he retired. > was on one of the first commemoratives, a quarter dollar minted for the > Columbian Exposition in 1893. The other was a much more recent coinage, > also a quarter. Name them for one point each. Isabella I of Castile and Kamehameha I of Hawaii Isabelle/Isabella and Kamehameha were sufficient for full credit. I gave a half point for Ferdinand, since it showed the responder got the hint. "King of Hawaii" was good for a half point; "Duke Kahanamoku" received no points. > spun-off from? The spin-off aired from 2006 to 2011. The other show is a > long-running SF show still in production. One point for naming it if you > don't know the other answer. Torchwood, spin-off from Doctor Who I was surprised at how many got this one. Scores: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 T Mark Brader 2 0 2 0 2 2 2 0 1.5 2 13.5 Dan Blum 0.5 0 2 0 1 2 2 0 2 2 11.5 Stephen Perry 2 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 1 2 11 Pete 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0.5 2 6.5 Peter Smyth 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 2 6 Calvin 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 Marc Dashevsky 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.5 0 0.5 Erland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Thanks for playing everyone. Now over to Mark for RQ #177... -- Dan Tilque |
| "Peter Smyth" <psmyth@ukf.net>: Apr 09 05:23PM Calvin wrote: > 1 What painful condition, caused by elevated levels of uric acid in > the blood, was historically known as the disease of kings? Gout > 2 What total score is required to win a standard game of cribbage? 121 > 3 What does the intergovernmental forum acronym APEC stand for? Association of Petroleum Exporting Countries > 4 Which American engineer (1856-1915) was one of the first management > consultants and is regarded as the father of scientific management? > 5 In which country is Farsi the official language? Iran > 6 British rower Steve Redgrave won gold medals at how many successive > Olympics? 5 > 7 Which sport is the subject of Lindsay Anderson's 1963 film This > Sporting Life starring Richard Harris in the lead role? Horse Racing > 8 What day is always on the first Sunday after the first full moon > after the vernal equinox? Easter Sunday > 9 Where in the human body are the carotid arteries mostly located? Neck > 10 Who is the only British Prime Minister to have served under three > different monarchs? Stanley Baldwin PEter Smyth |
| swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: Apr 09 01:44PM -0700 On Tuesday, April 7, 2015 at 5:19:28 PM UTC-4, Calvin wrote: > 1 What painful condition, caused by elevated levels of uric acid in the blood, was historically known as the disease of kings? gout > 2 What total score is required to win a standard game of cribbage? 121 > 3 What does the intergovernmental forum acronym APEC stand for? asia pacific economic consortium > 4 Which American engineer (1856-1915) was one of the first management consultants and is regarded as the father of scientific management? fred taylor > 5 In which country is Farsi the official language? iran > 6 British rower Steve Redgrave won gold medals at how many successive Olympics? 5 > 7 Which sport is the subject of Lindsay Anderson's 1963 film This Sporting Life starring Richard Harris in the lead role? rugby > 8 What day is always on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox? easter (flawed question, but I'm sure you've figured that out by now) > 9 Where in the human body are the carotid arteries mostly located? neck > 10 Who is the only British Prime Minister to have served under three different monarchs? baldwin? swp |
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