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| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jul 27 02:18AM -0700 1 Which well-known author died in a French lunatic asylum in 1814? 2 Rome and Carthage fought each other in which series of second and third century AD wars? 3 In marketing, which letter of the alphabet gives its name to a score measuring the familiarity and appeal of a brand, company, or celebrity? 4 In digital imaging, what five-letter is the technical term for the smallest controllable element of a picture represented on a screen? 5 Which Roman Emperor made his horse a Senator? 6 Dulce et Decorum est is a 1917 poem by which British author and soldier? 7 Which author's works include The Commitments (1987) and The Van (1991)? 8 What do the initials G.U.R. signify on a golf course? 9 What is the sum of Charles, Williams and Henrys that have been King of England/Britain? 10 The German battleship The Graf Spree was scuttled off Montevideo following which 1939 WW2 battle? cheers, calvin |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 27 05:16AM -0500 Calvin: > 1 Which well-known author died in a French lunatic asylum in 1814? Marat? > 2 Rome and Carthage fought each other in which series of > second and third century AD wars? Punic. > 3 In marketing, which letter of the alphabet gives its > name to a score measuring the familiarity and appeal of a > brand, company, or celebrity? Q. > 4 In digital imaging, what five-letter is the technical > term for the smallest controllable element of a picture > represented on a screen? Pixel. > 5 Which Roman Emperor made his horse a Senator? Caligula. > 6 Dulce et Decorum est is a 1917 poem by which British > author and soldier? Owen. > 7 Which author's works include The Commitments (1987) and > The Van (1991)? Doyle. > 8 What do the initials G.U.R. signify on a golf course? No idea. "Green under repair"? > 9 What is the sum of Charles, Williams and Henrys that > have been King of England/Britain? What, you didn't want to repeat the sonnet question? :-) 14. > 10 The German battleship The Graf Spree was scuttled off > Montevideo following which 1939 WW2 battle? River Plate. (Which is to say, Rio de la Plata.) -- Mark Brader "That's what progress is for. Progress Toronto is for creating new forms of aggravation." msb@vex.net -- Keith Jackson My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 27 05:19AM -0500 "Calvin": > 10 The German battleship The Graf Spree was scuttled off Montevideo Oh... Spree is a German name, but what it's the name of is the river that Berlin is on. The man the ship was named after was Graf *Spee*. -- Mark Brader | Does anybody seriously believe that if a bunch of horses Toronto | saw a giant egg broken into pieces, their response would msb@vex.net | be: "Hey! Let's try to reassemble this!"? --Dave Barry |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jul 27 02:15AM -0700 On Sunday, July 19, 2015 at 8:43:43 AM UTC+10, Calvin wrote: > 1 The Hugo Boss fashion house is based in which European country? Germany He designed the SS's uniforms. You can't go wrong with black. > 2 How many lines are there in a sonnet? 14 > 3 Which prolific songwriter's credits include Night and Day and I Got You Under My Skin? Cole Porter > 4 Which actress portrayed the character Tracy, who marries James Bond, in the 1969 film On Her Majesty's Secret Service? Diana Rigg > 5 In the novel and film Fever Pitch which English Premier League football team does the main character support? Arsenal > 6 What are the administrative divisions of Switzerland called? Cantons The only question answered correctly by all 9 entrants. > 7 In 1579 the Netherlands achieved independence from which European country? Spain That's something of a simplification. See Dan's answer for a fuller explanation. > 8 At which game has the actor Omar Sharif represented his country? Bridge The question was written before his recent demise. > 9 Which word of Hindi origin refers to one who rides an elephant? Mahout > 10 Well, I'm running down the road tryin' to loosen my load; I've got seven women on my mind is the first line of which 1972 hit song? Take It Easy [Eagles] Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 402 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 9 52 Chris Johnson 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 8 45 Gareth Owen 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 8 47 Mark Brader 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 7 45 Marc Dashevsky 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 7 45 Pete Gayde 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 6 39 Peter Smyth 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 6 39 Dan Tilque 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 29 Erland S 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 16 Bjorn Lundin - - - - - - - - - - --- ---------- 4 5 6 4 5 9 7 8 3 6 57 63% Congratulations Chris. cheers, calvin |
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Jul 26 02:13PM +0200 On 2015-07-25 21:30, Mark Brader wrote: > All chefs cook; some also write. We'll give you the titles of > two books. You give us the name of the chef/author who wrote them. > 1. "Medium Raw", "Kitchen Confidential". Gordon Ramsey > 2. "My Life in France", "Mastering the Art of French Cooking". Gordon Ramsey > 3. "Roasting in Hell's Kitchen", "Playing with Fire". Gordon Ramsey > We name two movies from a trilogy; you name the other one. > 4. The Hannibal Lecter movies starring Anthony Hopkins: > "The Silence of the Lambs", "Hannibal", and ...? Lector > 6. Sergio Leone's "Dollars" or "Man with No Name" trilogy: > "For a Few Dollars More", "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", > and ...? translations again ... "För en handfull dollar" which I hope translates to For a handful of dollar > "big cheese" (from CHEEs). > 7. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-9/rebus/7.png > 8. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-9/rebus/8.png ZZ-top > 10. A medieval mace had bumps or flanges on its head, but not > spikes, and was not mounted on a wooden shaft. Name the similar > weapon that was mounted on a shaft and did have a spiked head. Spikklubba - Nail club ? > consisted of an ax blade topped with a spike mounted on a long > shaft or pole. It always had a hook or thorn on the back side > of the ax blade, for grappling mounted combatants. hillebard - no idea for suitable translation > * Canadian Folklore & Legends > 13. French Canadian folktales often feature a loup-garou. > What's that? Giant Beaver ? -- -- Björn |
| Pete <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Jul 26 06:48PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:_dedndXr3pVGfi7InZ2dnUU7-U- > two books. You give us the name of the chef/author who wrote them. > 1. "Medium Raw", "Kitchen Confidential". > 2. "My Life in France", "Mastering the Art of French Cooking". Julia Child > 3. "Roasting in Hell's Kitchen", "Playing with Fire". Flay > 6. Sergio Leone's "Dollars" or "Man with No Name" trilogy: > "For a Few Dollars More", "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", > and ...? Fistful of Dollars > "a house divided" and "CHEE CHEE" in large letters might be > "big cheese" (from CHEEs). > 7. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-9/rebus/7.png One in a million > 8. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-9/rebus/8.png High Seas > 9. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-9/rebus/9.png You can't have one without the other > has allegedly been seen by First Nations people since the > 19th century. The most common description is a sea serpent > 40-50 feet long. Answer in English or Salish. Pete |
| swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: Jul 26 12:25PM -0700 On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 4:32:34 AM UTC-4, Dan Tilque wrote: > > What's that? > werewolf > (there wolf, there castle) ... here a wolf, there a wolf, everywhere a wolf wolf. old macdonald had a farm, e-i-e-i-o. swp |
| swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: Jul 26 12:31PM -0700 On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 8:12:20 AM UTC-4, björn lundin wrote: > On 2015-07-25 21:30, Mark Brader wrote: > > 8. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-9/rebus/8.png > ZZ-top I would dearly love to know how you arrived at this one.. > > spikes, and was not mounted on a wooden shaft. Name the similar > > weapon that was mounted on a shaft and did have a spiked head. > Spikklubba - Nail club ? the word you have used is a flower, which in english is called "jimsonweed" and does have little spikes on the petals. this is just one of those things that I find amusing for no real reason. swp |
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Jul 26 10:08PM +0200 On 2015-07-26 21:31, swp wrote: >>> 8. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-9/rebus/8.png >> ZZ-top > I would dearly love to know how you arrived at this one.. There are c's at top. and some of you pronounce z as c... >>> weapon that was mounted on a shaft and did have a spiked head. >> Spikklubba - Nail club ? > the word you have used is a flower, which in english is called "jimsonweed" and does have little spikes on the petals. this is just one of those things that I find amusing for no real reason. Seems that just googling for 'spikklubba' gets you a flower. but this one is what I was after (even though is a masquerade boutique) <http://www.bodega.se/maskerad/maskeradtillbehor/vapen-kappar/battle-weapon.html> it is mentioned here to <https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stridsklubba#Spikklubba.2C_.C3.A4ven_kallad_morgonstj.C3.A4rna> it is here also referred to as morning star which I saw someone answer Never heard of that one. Turns out to be a flower too... -- -- Björn |
| swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: Jul 26 01:42PM -0700 On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 4:06:46 PM UTC-4, björn lundin wrote: > >> ZZ-top > > I would dearly love to know how you arrived at this one.. > There are c's at top. and some of you pronounce z as c... 'c' is sometimes pronounced like 'k' and sometimes like 's'. the letter itself is sounded out when reciting the alphabet in english as "sea", which this rebus uses. I have never thought of how kids use 'z' in place of 's' to take that next step like you did. very clever. wrong, but still very clever. swp |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jul 26 11:38PM +0200 > There are c's at top. and some of you pronounce z as c... Nah, depends on whom you mean with "you". If you are talking to an English- speaking person this is plain nonsense. But for speakers of languages that does not have the phoneme /z/ (that is, voiced /s/), it is possible to make this mistake. Examples of such languages are Spanish, Finnish, and, yes, you guessed it, Swedish. (I guess what Björn is referring to is that left-ponders usually name the letter Z as Zee, in difference to Zet that is used in Britain. But as noted, Björn missed the fine detail about the voicing.) -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Jul 27 12:08AM +0200 On 2015-07-26 23:38, Erland Sommarskog wrote: > does not have the phoneme /z/ (that is, voiced /s/), it is possible to > make this mistake. Examples of such languages are Spanish, Finnish, and, > yes, you guessed it, Swedish. This, I don't get. > (I guess what Björn is referring to is that left-ponders usually name the > letter Z as Zee, in difference to Zet that is used in Britain. This is a correct guess. But what I have heard, most North-americans say 'see' or 'sea' for both c and z while the British usually say 'see' or 'sea' for c and 'zed' for z > But as noted, > Björn missed the fine detail about the voicing.) Still, I don't get this part. The voicing, I just hear that in British z. Perhaps someone with English as mother-tongue can enlighten me? -- Björn |
| "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@cfaj.ca>: Jul 26 06:21PM -0400 On 2015-07-26, Bj??rn Lundin wrote: > This is a correct guess. > But what I have heard, most North-americans say > 'see' or 'sea' for both c and z North Americans say SEE for C. USAnians say ZEE for Z; Canadians (mostly) say ZED. -- Chris F.A. Johnson |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jul 26 05:36PM -0700 On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 5:30:36 AM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > All chefs cook; some also write. We'll give you the titles of > two books. You give us the name of the chef/author who wrote them. > 1. "Medium Raw", "Kitchen Confidential". Stewart, Oliver > 2. "My Life in France", "Mastering the Art of French Cooking". Stewart, Oliver > 3. "Roasting in Hell's Kitchen", "Playing with Fire". Ramsay > 6. Sergio Leone's "Dollars" or "Man with No Name" trilogy: > "For a Few Dollars More", "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", > and ...? A Fistful of Dollars > "big cheese" (from CHEEs). > 7. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-9/rebus/7.png > 8. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-9/rebus/8.png High Seas > 9. http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-9/rebus/9.png I want it to be "These go to 11" :-) > that one of them always points upward from a stable base. > They were part of defenses that served to slow the advances > of horses. Calthrop Named after me as it happens > * Canadian Folklore & Legends Bah! cheers, calvin |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jul 27 08:58AM +0200 > But what I have heard, most North-americans say > 'see' or 'sea' for both c and z They more likely say 'see' for c and 'zee' for z. I don't have any first- hand evidence around, but it is clear from Stephen's response that there is a mental difference between 'see' and 'zee'. This is necessarily not voicing; there can be other qualities that distinguishes the two phonemes, although I don't know exactly what this would be right now. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
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