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| swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: May 04 03:50PM -0700 On Saturday, May 2, 2015 at 2:34:08 PM UTC-4, Dan Blum wrote: > This is Rotating Quiz 180. Entries must be posted by Saturday, May > 9th, 2015 at 11 PM (Eastern Daylight Time). noted > posting order. > 1. From the Latin for "by things," this is the usual English term for > representing a word or phrase using pictures which represent sounds. rebus > of the absurd and existentialism, as expressed in works such as The > Plague and The Stranger. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature > in 1957. camus > common in large stars that become supernovas; it has no exothermic > fusion reactions, so once it's produced via fusion (or via an unstable > fusion product decaying into it) it just builds up at a star's core. iron > for his advertisements (often printed in comic books) selling his > "dynamic tension" system; some ads showed small men getting sand > kicked in their faces by bullies. charles atlas > the leader of a group, but is more often used as the official title > for rules of certain small countries. (I would like the usual English > transliteration.) turgon > genus, but most got split out, including the "poison" species. Note > that I am looking for the common name for these plants, not the > technical genus name. sumac > of the Open Access Directory. He may be better known to people who > hang out here as the creator or Nomic, a game in which the rules can > be modified while playing. peter suber > 8. This somewhat antiquated English word has two unrelated > meanings. It can mean "hoarfrost" or it can be an alternate spelling > of a word which applies to poetry in a couple of ways. rime > help) in 1899 and was very popular in the pre-war years. Some notable > fans of the game were the actress Sarah Bernhardt and Chess champion > Emanuel Lasker. draughts > 10. This is the common Japanese word (and these days, a common English > word) for seaweed used to wrap sushi. nori swp |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): May 04 09:49PM -0500 So *that's* the theme! Well found, Stephen. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "So *you* say." --Toddy Beamish msb@vex.net | (H.G. Wells, "The Man Who Could Work Miracles") |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): May 05 04:07AM > So *that's* the theme! Well found, Stephen. I had been thinking he hadn't found the theme because if he had some of his answers would presumably have been different. Maybe there's an accidental second theme? -- _______________________________________________________________________ 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>: May 05 07:31AM > I had been thinking he hadn't found the theme because if he had some of > his answers would presumably have been different. Maybe there's an > accidental second theme? Looking at Stephen's answers, I spot a pattern which I can improve by replacing one answer with one that makes sense in the context. However to get the fifth pair, I would have expected a question about a city (or a beer) in Argentina. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: May 05 03:04AM -0700 Dan Blum wrote: > posting order. > 1. From the Latin for "by things," this is the usual English term for > representing a word or phrase using pictures which represent sounds. rebus > of the absurd and existentialism, as expressed in works such as The > Plague and The Stranger. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature > in 1957. Camus > common in large stars that become supernovas; it has no exothermic > fusion reactions, so once it's produced via fusion (or via an unstable > fusion product decaying into it) it just builds up at a star's core. iron > the leader of a group, but is more often used as the official title > for rules of certain small countries. (I would like the usual English > transliteration.) emir > genus, but most got split out, including the "poison" species. Note > that I am looking for the common name for these plants, not the > technical genus name. sumac > of the Open Access Directory. He may be better known to people who > hang out here as the creator or Nomic, a game in which the rules can > be modified while playing. Suber > 8. This somewhat antiquated English word has two unrelated > meanings. It can mean "hoarfrost" or it can be an alternate spelling > of a word which applies to poetry in a couple of ways. rime > Emanuel Lasker. > 10. This is the common Japanese word (and these days, a common English > word) for seaweed used to wrap sushi. nori -- Dan Tilque |
| Pete <pagrsg@wowway.com>: May 04 11:40PM Calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote in > 3 Which university did Prince William and Kate > Middleton both attend? > 4 Who in Greek mythology was the first woman on earth? Erda > 5 Who wrote the epic fantasy novels in the Games > of Thrones saga? Martin > definitively prove what theory, at least 2,000 years after it was > first proposed? > 7 Which river passes through Montreal and Quebec City? St Lawrence > 8 What colour is Art and Literature in Trivial Pursuit? Blue > Boys' 1966 album Pet Sounds? > cheers, > calvin Pete |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: May 05 02:58AM -0700 Calvin wrote: > 1 Who wrote the 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude? > 2 Which African country was the scene of the Mau Mau rebellion of the 1950s? Mozambique > 3 Which university did Prince William and Kate Middleton both attend? Cambridge > 4 Who in Greek mythology was the first woman on earth? > 5 Who wrote the epic fantasy novels in the Games of Thrones saga? George R. R. Martin > 6 In 1851 Leon Foucault's pendulum was used to definitively prove what theory, at least 2,000 years after it was first proposed? That the Earth rotates. > 7 Which river passes through Montreal and Quebec City? St Lawrence > 8 What colour is Art and Literature in Trivial Pursuit? pink > 9 Which Australian mammal is also known as the Ornithorhynchus anatinus? duckbilled platypus -- Dan Tilque |
| swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: May 04 04:03PM -0700 On Saturday, May 2, 2015 at 1:59:04 PM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote: > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-02-23, > and should be interpreted accordingly. noted > Chisinau | Lilongwe | Port Moresby | Washington > Dodoma | London | Pristina | Windhoek > 1. Liechtenstein. vaduz > 2. Sierra Leone. freetown > 3. Zambia. lusaka > 4. Eritrea. asmara > 5. Honduras. Tegucigalpa > 6. Suriname. paramaribo > 7. Tonga. Nuku'alofa > 8. Namibia. windhoek > 9. Kosovo. pristina > 10. Kyrgyzstan. bishkek > that he had forged his mistress's husband's signature on a > hospital form so that she could receive an abortion? He returned > in 1980 as Secretary of State and Minister of Communications. fox > 2. Who resigned as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2008 after > leaving NATO briefing notes at his girlfriend's home? He, too, > has made a comeback, as Minister of Small Business & Tourism. turner ; clark > 3. Which future prime minister left the cabinet in 1975 in an > apparent scrap with Pierre Elliott Trudeau over economic > policies? turner ; clark > 4. National Defence Minister Douglas Harkness resigned in 1963 from > John Diefenbaker's cabinet over what widely debated defense > issue? putting u.s. nuclear weapons in canadian > 5. Which prime minister himself resigned after seven of his unhappy > cabinet ministers resigned in 1896 -- including Sir Charles > Tupper, who then succeeded him as PM? mackenzie > 6. Who resigned her seat in Hamilton East in 1996, reluctantly > following through on a promise to do so if Parliament passed > the GST? turner ; clark > 7. Which future premier resigned from the cabinet of Brian Mulroney > in 1990 after trying to speak to a judge about a case on which > the judge was ruling? turner ; clark > 8. Which Minister of Fisheries and Oceans resigned in 1985 owing > to a scandal related to the sale of tainted tuna? turner ; clark > 9. Which outspoken Secretary of State resigned in 1968 in the > dying days of the Lester Pearson government, simply because > she refused to serve in a Trudeau cabinet? turner ; clark > 10. Which Minister for International Cooperation resigned as an > MP in 2012 after years of criticism of her spending habits? turner ; clark swp |
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