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| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Jul 27 01:10PM +0200 On 2015-07-27 11:18, Calvin wrote: > 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? The Punic 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? O > 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 > 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? 11 -- -- Björn |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jul 27 11:12AM > 1 Which well-known author died in a French lunatic asylum in 1814? Rosseau? > 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? X > 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? Nero > 9 What is the sum of Charles, Williams and Henrys that have been > King of England/Britain? 18 -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Jul 27 09:25AM -0500 In article <1f7c2255-d6aa-4761-a790-49e559fbb514@googlegroups.com>, 334152@gmail.com says... > 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? 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? T > 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 > 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? 19 -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Jul 27 10:17AM -0500 In article <MPG.301ffb6d65971c3d989739@news.eternal-september.org>, usenet@MarcDashevsky.com says... > > 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? > Punic Is that "AD" supposed to be "BC"? -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@cfaj.ca>: Jul 27 01:00PM -0400 On 2015-07-27, Calvin wrote: > 1 Which well-known author died in a French lunatic asylum in 1814? Marquis de Sade > 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? > 9 What is the sum of Charles, Williams and Henrys that have been King of England/Britain? 16 > 10 The German battleship The Graf Spree was scuttled off Montevideo following which 1939 WW2 battle? River Plate -- Chris F.A. Johnson |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Jul 27 06:05PM Calvin wrote: > 1 Which well-known author died in a French lunatic asylum in 1814? Victor Hugo > 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? Wilfred Owen > 7 Which author's works include The Commitments (1987) and The Van > (1991)? Roddy Doyle > 8 What do the initials G.U.R. signify on a golf course? Never heard of GUR, do you mean GIR (Greens In Regulation)? > 9 What is the sum of Charles, Williams and Henrys that have been King > of England/Britain? 14 > 10 The German battleship The Graf Spree was scuttled off Montevideo > following which 1939 WW2 battle? Peter Smyth |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 27 01:12PM -0500 "Calvin": > 4 In digital imaging, what five-letter is the technical term for the > smallest controllable element of a picture represented on a screen? On the most recent (Friday's) episode of "Jeopardy!", in the category POP CULTURE, they asked: # IN THE NEW MOVIE "PIXELS", # ALIENS SEND OUR OWN # VIDEO GAME CHARACTERS TO # MENACE EARTH, INCLUDING # THIS ONE SEEN HERE and showed a few seconds of video. After one of the players had correctly named the character, Alex Trebek added%: "And that movie opens today". And then the word turns up here. HMMM! % - Actually there was a quick cut before and after he said that, suggesting that the planned opening date had been changed since the show was recorded, or alternatively that he'd omitted to mention the opening date but saying it was the quid pro quo for using the clip; and that, in either case, it was then corrected before broadcast. -- Mark Brader | "To a guy, an RGB value is three bits rather than bytes. Toronto | ...000 Black, 001 Blue, 010 Green, ..., 111 White." msb@vex.net | My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jul 27 03:31PM -0700 Calvin wrote: > 1 Which well-known author died in a French lunatic asylum in 1814? de Sade > 2 Rome and Carthage fought each other in which series of second and third century AD wars? Punic 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? 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? Housman ? > 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? 14 -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 28 12:45AM -0500 Gareth Owen quotes Wikipedia: > "A poll of readers conducted by The Mathematical Intelligencer in 1990 > named Euler's identity as the "most beautiful theorem in mathematics"." I was curious enough about what was actually asked to pursue this. For example, were readers allowed to choose freely between all theorems or were they given a list of candidates? Was the theorem referred to by the alleged name of "Euler's identity" or was it described, as by giving the equation? The answers are that there was a list, and this and most of the other theorems were given as equations or similar, not by name. The equation in question was actually given in the form e^(i pi) = -1, and no name for it was given. The poll was actually in the fall 1988 issue (at pages 30-31) of the Mathematical Intelligencer; the *results* were published in 1990 (summer issue, pages 37-41). It was conducted by David Wells, a writer who, according to his author-blurb in the results article, "won a scholarship to Cambridge University, England, but then failed his degree, a rare achievement". The 1988 article, the poll itself, is available online only behind a paywall. However, courtesy of a friend at a university library, I have now seen it. Wells began by quoting six writers on the subject of beauty or esthetics in math: Aristotle, Hardy, von Neumann, Poincare, Weyl, and Morris Kline. He then said: | Beauty does seem to be an essential, if little discussed, aspect | of mathematics and the work of mathematicians. Yet no one can say | precisely of what beauty in mathematics consists, and professional | mathematicians will not necessarily agree on their definitions | of mathematical beauty, on their practical judgements of which | theorems, proofs, concepts, or strategies are the most beautiful, | or on the role their personal feelings for mathematical beauty | play in their own work. | | This questionnaire is a simple attempt to gather some data... He provided a list of 24 theorems and asked readers to photocopy the page and send it in, rating the beauty of each one on a scale from 0 to 10. He also invited comments. The paper with the full results *is* available online; see: http://www.gwern.net/docs/math/1990-wells.pdf To summarize, he received a number of responses with many identical responses of either blank, 0, or 10; ignoring these for purposes of tabulation, there were 68 usable ones. The average scores of the 24 theorems varied from 3.9 to 7.7. And the top 10 most beautiful theorems, the ones scoring 6 or higher, were: [1] e^(i pi) = -1 [2] Euler's formula for a polyhedron: V+F = E+2 [3] The number of primes is infinite. [4] There are 5 regular polyhedra. [5] 1 + 1/2^2 + 1/3^2 + 1/4^2 + ... = pi^2 / 6 [6] A continuous mapping of the closed unit disk into itself has a fixed point. [7] There is no rational number whose square is 2. [8] pi is transcendental. [9] Every plane map can be colored with 4 colors. [10] Every prime number of the form 4*n + 1 is the sum of two integral squares in exactly one way. If this is interesting to you, you should certainly read the results paper, which contains several interesting comments about what factors contributed, or might have contributed, to people's judgments. Two interesting points about the equation in question. First, Wells wondered if people rated it highly because it was well known to have been described as beautiful. And second, two readers suggested that if the equation in question was given in the form that Stephen used -- e^(i pi) + 1 = 0 -- then it would be even more beautiful. To which Wells responded by asking whether a "small and 'inessential' change" can affect a theorem's esthetic: "How would i^i = e^(-pi/2) have scored?", he wondered. -- Mark Brader | "What a strange field. Studying beings instead of mathematics. Toronto | Could lead to recursive problems in logic." msb@vex.net | -- Robert L. Forward (The Flight of the Dragonfly) My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| bbowler <bbowler@bigelow.org>: Jul 27 03:25PM On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 14:30:35 -0500, 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". Anthony Bourdain > 2. "My Life in France", "Mastering the Art of French Cooking". Julia Child > 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 ...? Manhunter > 6. Sergio Leone's "Dollars" or "Man with No Name" trilogy: > "For a Few Dollars More", "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", > and ...? Fist Full of Dollars > are possible. For example, "HO USE" might represent "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 six of one, half a dozen of the other > 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. Morning star > * Canadian Folklore & Legends > 13. French Canadian folktales often feature a loup-garou. > What's that? werewolf (there wolf - said in your best Marty Feldmann accent) |
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