- QFTCI5GNM15 Game 1, Rounds 2-3: iconic hotels and mathematicians - 3 Updates
- Rotating Quiz #193 - 1 Update
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Aug 19 02:38AM -0500 Mark Brader: > > Their stay caused an uproar in puritanical Toronto... "Calvin": > Dunno, but "then puritanical" surely? If you like. -- Mark Brader | "The occasional accidents had been much overemphasized, Toronto | and later investigations ... revealed that nearly 90% msb@vex.net | ... could have been prevented." --Wiley Post, 1931 |
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Aug 19 09:51AM +0200 On 2015-08-18 08:16, Mark Brader wrote: > Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises", this Parisian hotel is probably > best known as the place where Diana, Princess of Wales, and > Dodi Fayed dined on the night of their fatal car crash. Name it. Ritz Hotel > 5. In 2008, an Islamist terrorist group attacked two hotels, the Taj > Mahal Palace and the Oberoi, killing 167 people. Name the *city* > where both hotels are located. Colombo > 6. Good things happen in hotels as well. Name the iconic hotel > which is credited with the creation of the Singapore Sling. Raffels Hotel > 8. Ernest Hemingway and Somerset Maugham were two of the famous > guests to grace the Gritti Palace. In which *European city* > would you find this luxury hotel? Monte Carlo > 9. Now operating as a hotel and resort, the Goldeneye was originally > built by Ian Fleming in 1946 and was where he wrote all his > James Bond novels. In which *country* is it located? Portugal > in spreading the Hindu-Arabic numeral system in Europe, but > he is best known today for the number sequence named after him > under a different name. By what name do we generally know him? Fibbonachi > 5. (Lived 1596-1650.) He is credited as being the father of > analytical geometry. The system for locating a point on a > plane is named after him. Descartes aka Cartesius in Latin > 6. (Lived in the 4th-3rd centuries BC.) He is known as the father > of geometry. His 13-book treatise, "The Elements", is one of > the most influential works in the history of mathematics. Euklides -- -- Björn |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Aug 19 12:57AM -0700 Mark Brader wrote: > Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises", this Parisian hotel is probably > best known as the place where Diana, Princess of Wales, and > Dodi Fayed dined on the night of their fatal car crash. Name it. Paris Hilton > The bad: Dylan Thomas was staying here when he died of pneumonia. > The ugly: Nancy Spungen was stabbed to death here, purportedly > by her boyfriend Sid Vicious. Name this iconic New York hotel. Waldorf-Astoria (I thought Dylan Thomas died of an alcohol overdose.) > 5. In 2008, an Islamist terrorist group attacked two hotels, the Taj > Mahal Palace and the Oberoi, killing 167 people. Name the *city* > where both hotels are located. Delhi > 9. Now operating as a hotel and resort, the Goldeneye was originally > built by Ian Fleming in 1946 and was where he wrote all his > James Bond novels. In which *country* is it located? Jamaica > In each case, name the mathematician described. > 1. (Lived 1924-2010.) He invented the word "fractal" and was > the first mathematician to study them seriously. Mandelbrot > in spreading the Hindu-Arabic numeral system in Europe, but > he is best known today for the number sequence named after him > under a different name. By what name do we generally know him? Fibonacci > 3. (Lived 1550-1617.) This Scottish mathematician invented > logarithms. Napier > 5. (Lived 1596-1650.) He is credited as being the father of > analytical geometry. The system for locating a point on a > plane is named after him. Descartes > 6. (Lived in the 4th-3rd centuries BC.) He is known as the father > of geometry. His 13-book treatise, "The Elements", is one of > the most influential works in the history of mathematics. Euclid > 7. (Lived 1749-1827.) Sometimes called "the French Newton", he > solved the problem of perturbations in planetary orbits that > had eluded Newton. Laplace > formed from the gravitational collapse of immense, dying stars. > 9. (Lived 1831-79.) This Scottish mathematical physicist formulated > the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation. Kelvin -- Dan Tilque |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Aug 19 01:46AM -0500 In article <XnsA4FAE52927D64Yazorman@127.0.0.1>, esquel@sommarskog.se says... > 2. What is Weibo? > 3. What is the characteristic ingredient in most varieties of the dish > borshch? beet > 4. Which country does former UN General Secretary Kofi Annan hail from? Ghana > Bonus question: His wife Nane is from a different country. Which? China > 5. Who is said to be the world's first programmer? Ada Lovelace > 6. How much is a lakh? > 7. The line "I smell homecooking. It's only the river, it's only river", > alludes to which North American city? Pittsburgh > November 1971? > 10. The historical region of Bessarabia largely coincides which with > which independent state existing today? Moldova > 11. Singhalese is the dominating language of which country? Thailand -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
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