- Rotating Quiz #193 - 2 Updates
- QFTCI5GNM15 Game 1, Rounds 2-3: iconic hotels and mathematicians - 1 Update
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Aug 19 05:19PM Erland Sommarskog wrote: > 1. In which city do you find the busiest railway station in terms of > passengers by year? Tokyo > Bonus question: In which city do you find the second-busiest railway > station? Tokyo > borshch? > 4. Which country does former UN General Secretary Kofi Annan hail > from? Ghana > Bonus question: His wife Nane is from a different country. Which? > 5. Who is said to be the world's first programmer? Charles Babbage > Bonus question: "The Lady" is about a living person. What's her name? > 9. Which Swiss city did both Deep Purple and Frank Zappa visit in > November 1971? Montreux > 10. The historical region of Bessarabia largely coincides which with > which independent state existing today? > 11. Singhalese is the dominating language of which country? Sri Lanka > 12. The football club Boca Juniors comes from which city? Buenos Aires > (Well, it's a big town, so there are plentiful of teams, but I have > one particular in mind. Anyway, I would be impressed if you correctly > named any of the other.) Independiente Peter Smyth |
| Pete <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Aug 20 02:35AM Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> wrote in > unassorted questions + some bonus questions. > As always, you should answer using your knowledge only. No sources, no > googling. Score is based on the main questions, and the bonus questions > serve as the first tie breaker. If two entrants have the same score on > both main and bonus questions, I will make a subjective judgement of the > Answer by posting to the newsgroup. > 1. In which city do you find the busiest railway station in terms of > passengers by year? Moscow > Bonus question: In which city do you find the second-busiest railway > station? > 2. What is Weibo? Chinese web search site > 3. What is the characteristic ingredient in most varieties of the dish > borshch? Beets > 4. Which country does former UN General Secretary Kofi Annan hail from? Ghana > 5. Who is said to be the world's first programmer? > 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? New Orleans > Bonus question: "The Lady" is about a living person. What's her name? > 9. Which Swiss city did both Deep Purple and Frank Zappa visit in > November 1971? Montreux > which independent state existing today? > 11. Singhalese is the dominating language of which country? > 12. The football club Boca Juniors comes from which city? Buenos Aires > Bonus question: Name the other major football team from this city. River Plate (Well, > it's a big town, so there are plentiful of teams, but I have one > particular in mind. Anyway, I would be impressed if you correctly named > any of the other.) Pete |
| Pete <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Aug 20 02:31AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:qYidnTnKF88vUE_InZ2dnUU7- > by her boyfriend Sid Vicious. Name this iconic New York hotel. > 3. Located at 8221 Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles, this iconic hotel > was where John Belushi died of a drug overdose in 1982. Name it. Beverly Hills Hotel > she prepared for an appearance at the Grammys. She never made > it to the show; she drowned in the bath of Suite 403 due to > the effects of heart disease and cocaine. Name the hotel. Beverly Hills 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. Mumbai > 1860 when the Empress Eugenie entertained Queen Victoria there. > Name this hotel, where Chef Gordon Ramsay ran the main restaurant > until 2013. Bristol > 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 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 > 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 > this British mathematician, philosopher, logician, historian, > writer, social critic, and political activist won the 1950 > Nobel for literature. Pete |
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