Thursday, January 28, 2016

Digest for rec.games.trivia@googlegroups.com - 8 updates in 4 topics

Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jan 27 08:42PM -0800

Dan Tilque wrote:
 
Answers (the language is parens)
 
 
> 1. yellow (sc)
 
Amarillo TX (Spanish)
 
> 2. red stick (sc)
 
Baton Rouge LA (French)
 
> 3. mouse's mouth (se)
 
Boca Raton FL (Spanish)
 
> 4. wooded (nw)
 
Boise ID (French)
 
> 5. to draw fish out of water (Tennessee)
 
Chattanooga TN (Cherokee)
 
> 6. wild garlic (nc)
 
Chicago IL (Miami-Illinois)
 
> 7. heart of an awl (nw)
 
Coeur d'Alene ID (French)
 
> 8. body of Christ (sc)
 
Corpus Christi TX (Latin)
 
> 9. of the monks (nc)
 
Des Moines IA (French)
 
> 10. the step (sw)
 
El Paso TX (Spanish)
 
> 11. clear water (nc)
 
Eau Claire WI (French)
 
> 12. ash tree (sw)
 
Fresno CA (Spanish)
 
> 13. the meadows (sw)
 
Las Vegas NV (Spanish)
 
> 14. the cats (sw)
 
Los Gatos CA (Spanish)
 
> 15. mercy (sw)
 
Merced CA (Spanish)
 
I gave credit for Mercedes here. It seemed close enough to a typo, and I
gave credit for a couple of them elsewhere.
 
> 16. city of water (nc)
 
Minneapolis MN (Dakota and Greek)
 
> 17. modest (sw)
 
Modesto CA (Spanish)
 
> 18. royal mountain (c)
 
Montreal QC (French)
 
> 19. red people city (sc)
 
Oklahoma City OK (Choctaw and English)
 
> 20. famous land (Florida)
 
Orlando FL (Italian)
 
Note: This name is the Italian form of Roland, which is a Frankish
(Germanic) name. Thus the "land" part of it is actually cognate with the
English word.
 
> 21. tall tree (sw)
 
Palo Alto CA (Spanish)
 
> 22. where the river narrows (c)
 
Quebec QC (Algonquin)
 
> 23. queen (c)
 
Regina SK (Latin)
 
> 24. sacrament (sw)
 
Sacramento CA (Spanish)
 
> 25. peace (nw, ne)
 
Salem OR, MA (Hebrew)
 
> 26. saint faith (sw)
 
Santa Fe NM (Spanish)
 
> 27. high land (nc)
 
Terre Haute IN (French)
 
> 28. place where we dug potatoes (Kansas)
 
Topeka KS (Kansa-Osage)
 
> 29. where there are trees in the water (c)
 
Toronto ON (Iroquoian)
 
> 30. many waters (nw)
 
Walla Walla WA (Walla Walla)
 
 
Scores: To avoid line-wrap, I've broken the table into two parts
 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Mark B 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Erland 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1
Dan Blum 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0
Chris Johnson 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0
Marc D 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
Pete 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
"Calvin" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
 
16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 T
Mark B 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 26
Erland 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 22
Dan Blum 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 20
Chris Johnson 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 17
Marc D 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 15
Pete 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 13
"Calvin" 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 6
 
Thanks to everyone who played. Congratulations to Mark and a Well Done
to Erland.
 
So over to Mark for RQ #209...
 
--
Dan Tilque
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 27 11:03PM -0600

This is Rotating Quiz #209.
 
 
My thanks to Dan Tilque for running RQ 208 and for writing a
contest that allowed me to win. The winner of RQ 209, in turn,
will be the first choice to set RQ 210, in whatever manner they
prefer.
 
Please answer these questions based only on your own knowledge; put
all of your answers in a single posting, quoting the question before
each one. In case of a tie, the first tiebreaker is shown below;
the second tiebreaker will be who answered the hardest questions;
and the third tiebreaker will be who posted first.
 
Answer slates must be posted by Tuesday, February 2 (by Toronto
time, zone -5), which gives you almost exactly 6 days from the
time of posting.
 
 
*ATTENTION!* This is not QFTCI! In all cases where the name
of a real or fictional person is asked for, you *must* give the
*two-word* name as commonly used. Normally this will be the
first and last name, but for historical figures it might be a
name and soubriquet. Likewise, for a real or fictional business,
you must give the full name as commonly used.
 
 
1. This man was a wide receiver for the Washington Redskins for
14 years, 1980-93. In his whole 16-year NFL career his total
gains on running plays were over 13,000 yards, and on passes
a similar amount. He made the Hall of Fame in 2008. Name him.
 
2. Who made the erroneous calculations that led to the numbering
of years we now use, resulting in several years of the lifetime
of Jesus being called "Before Christ"?
 
3. Who announced in 1865 the concepts of dominant and recessive
hereditary traits, based on his years of experiments with
pea plants?
 
4. Speaking of living things, tamarins, uakaris, and kipunjis are
all species of what?
 
5. What pianist who lived 1917-82 had the middle name Sphere?
 
6. Speaking of musicians, from 1966 to 1968, who were Davy, Michael,
Micky, and Peter?
 
7. For most of the run of "Seinfeld", what was the coffee show
where the characters regularly got together?
 
8. Speaking of TV series, what obsessive-compulsive man was the
title character of both a TV series and a tie-in series of comic
mystery novels? The books were written first by Lee Goldberg
and then by Hy Conrad.
 
9. Speaking of mystery novels, Anne Perry has written a number
of them that are set in Victorian-era Britain. One of her
lead characters is Thomas Pitt. Name the other one, who was
introduced as an amnesiac in "The Face of a Stranger".
 
10. And speaking of death, the poison aconite (or aconitine) is
derived from a similarly named genus of plants, which are also
called wolf's bane because the poison was used against wolves.
Still another name for the plants relates the shape of their
blue flowers to an item of clothing. What's that name?
 
11. Decode the rot13 for the tiebreaker question only after you
have finished with the quiz: Ubj znal dhrfgvbaf unq lbh nafjrerq
jura lbh svtherq bhg jung gur gurzr jnf? (Naq, whfg nf n znggre
bs vagrerfg, juvpu barf?)
 
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "What's fair got to do with it? It's going
msb@vex.net | to happen." -- Lawrence of Arabia
 
My text in this article is in the public domain.
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 27 11:04PM -0600

This is Rotating Quiz #209, reposted because I forgot to start
a new thread the first time. (Sorry about that.) Post your
answers in either thread.
 
 
My thanks to Dan Tilque for running RQ 208 and for writing a
contest that allowed me to win. The winner of RQ 209, in turn,
will be the first choice to set RQ 210, in whatever manner they
prefer.
 
Please answer these questions based only on your own knowledge; put
all of your answers in a single posting, quoting the question before
each one. In case of a tie, the first tiebreaker is shown below;
the second tiebreaker will be who answered the hardest questions;
and the third tiebreaker will be who posted first.
 
Answer slates must be posted by Tuesday, February 2 (by Toronto
time, zone -5), which gives you almost exactly 6 days from the
time of posting.
 
 
*ATTENTION!* This is not QFTCI! In all cases where the name
of a real or fictional person is asked for, you *must* give the
*two-word* name as commonly used. Normally this will be the
first and last name, but for historical figures it might be a
name and soubriquet. Likewise, for a real or fictional business,
you must give the full name as commonly used.
 
 
1. This man was a wide receiver for the Washington Redskins for
14 years, 1980-93. In his whole 16-year NFL career his total
gains on running plays were over 13,000 yards, and on passes
a similar amount. He made the Hall of Fame in 2008. Name him.
 
2. Who made the erroneous calculations that led to the numbering
of years we now use, resulting in several years of the lifetime
of Jesus being called "Before Christ"?
 
3. Who announced in 1865 the concepts of dominant and recessive
hereditary traits, based on his years of experiments with
pea plants?
 
4. Speaking of living things, tamarins, uakaris, and kipunjis are
all species of what?
 
5. What pianist who lived 1917-82 had the middle name Sphere?
 
6. Speaking of musicians, from 1966 to 1968, who were Davy, Michael,
Micky, and Peter?
 
7. For most of the run of "Seinfeld", what was the coffee show
where the characters regularly got together?
 
8. Speaking of TV series, what obsessive-compulsive man was the
title character of both a TV series and a tie-in series of comic
mystery novels? The books were written first by Lee Goldberg
and then by Hy Conrad.
 
9. Speaking of mystery novels, Anne Perry has written a number
of them that are set in Victorian-era Britain. One of her
lead characters is Thomas Pitt. Name the other one, who was
introduced as an amnesiac in "The Face of a Stranger".
 
10. And speaking of death, the poison aconite (or aconitine) is
derived from a similarly named genus of plants, which are also
called wolf's bane because the poison was used against wolves.
Still another name for the plants relates the shape of their
blue flowers to an item of clothing. What's that name?
 
11. Decode the rot13 for the tiebreaker question only after you
have finished with the quiz: Ubj znal dhrfgvbaf unq lbh nafjrerq
jura lbh svtherq bhg jung gur gurzr jnf? (Naq, whfg nf n znggre
bs vagrerfg, juvpu barf?)
 
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "What's fair got to do with it? It's going
msb@vex.net | to happen." -- Lawrence of Arabia
 
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jan 27 09:18PM -0800

On Thursday, January 28, 2016 at 3:03:06 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
 
> 3. Who announced in 1865 the concepts of dominant and recessive
> hereditary traits, based on his years of experiments with
> pea plants?
 
Gregor Mendel (a monk)
 
> 4. Speaking of living things, tamarins, uakaris, and kipunjis are
> all species of what?
 
Monkey
 
> 5. What pianist who lived 1917-82 had the middle name Sphere?
 
Monk
 
> 6. Speaking of musicians, from 1966 to 1968, who were Davy, Michael,
> Micky, and Peter?
 
The Monkees
 
> 7. For most of the run of "Seinfeld", what was the coffee show
> where the characters regularly got together?
 
Monks

> title character of both a TV series and a tie-in series of comic
> mystery novels? The books were written first by Lee Goldberg
> and then by Hy Conrad.
 
Ellery Queen?
 
> called wolf's bane because the poison was used against wolves.
> Still another name for the plants relates the shape of their
> blue flowers to an item of clothing. What's that name?
 
Monkey's Paw
 
> have finished with the quiz: Ubj znal dhrfgvbaf unq lbh nafjrerq
> jura lbh svtherq bhg jung gur gurzr jnf? (Naq, whfg nf n znggre
> bs vagrerfg, juvpu barf?)
 
4
 
cheers,
calvin
Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jan 28 08:13AM


> Merced CA (Spanish)
 
> I gave credit for Mercedes here. It seemed close enough to a typo, and I
> gave credit for a couple of them elsewhere.
 
That was too kind of you! That wasn't a typo, just a completely wild
guess. I know that there is a city by the name of Mercedes, but that is in
the Corrientes province in Argentina. (And it's smaller than Walla Walla.
But I've been there, even if it was less than an hour.)
 
 
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
Pete <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Jan 28 12:57AM

msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:POidnWFcfqzapzrLnZ2dnUU7-
 
> 3. The first winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901 won
> the award because he discovered the what?
 
> 4. Which Canadian province extends the furthest north?
 
Yukon
 
 
> 5. Annika Sorenstam, Bobby Jones, and Fuzzy Zoeller (pronounced
> "Zeller") are famous names in which sport?
 
Golf
 
 
> 6. What month is the wettest month of the year, on average,
> in Vancouver?
 
April
 
 
> 10. Named after the man who allegedly invented it in 1914, what
> dance is similar in look to a waltz, but is in 4/4 time rather
> than 3/4?
 
Foxtrot
 
> is perhaps best-known today for a financial award given to
> foreign students pursing post-graduate studies at Oxford.
> Name that businessman.
 
Cecil Rhodes
 
> is located in another region named Kimberley in an Australian
> state. *Name this state*, the largest in Australia, with
> its capital at Perth.
 
Western Australia
 
> ring is depicted on the Luxury Tax space, which lies between
> the two most valuable properties in the game. Name *both*
> of these properties.
 
Park Place and Boardwalk
 
> did take his cover of it to #1 for 2 weeks in January
> 1975, topping the #4 performance of his previous single
> "The Bitch is Back". Name *him*.
 
Elton John
 
> of the Earth, which contains the D'' sublayer and has the
> Mohorovicic discontinuity as its upper boundary. Name this
> layer of the Earth.
 
Mantle
 
> "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz". Name this *author*, who
> may be better known for a novel where Myrtle Wilson is run
> over by a car belonging to the title resident of West Egg.
 
Pete
Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jan 27 12:33PM -0800

Calvin wrote:
> 1 Which chess piece captures in a different direction to that in which it otherwise moves?
 
pawn
 
> 2 Following the split of Sudan, what is now the largest African country by area?
 
Algeria
 
> 3 In mathematics, which terms describes a positive integer that is equal to the sum of all its proper positive divisors?
 
perfect number
 
> 4 Peggy' is a common diminutive of which female given name?
 
Margaret
 
> 5 Which British author (1903-1966) was, from 1929 to 1930, married to a woman with the same given name as him?
> 6 In 2006, Naypyidaw became the capital city of which south-east Asian country?
 
Burma
 
> 7 Along with his backing band 'The Range', who released the hit 1986 bluegrass album 'The Way It Is'?
> 8 Created in 1991, which annual awards for scientific research recognise achievements that 'first make people laugh, and then make them think'?
 
Ignobel Prizes
 
> 9 Which language has the most native speakers in the EU?
 
German
 
 
--
Dan Tilque
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 27 12:33PM -0600

Mark Brader:
>> The real title is the one shown onscreen, which *did*
>> have "Episode V".

Gareth Owen:
> Well that makes no sense - the opening crawl doesn't say "Star Wars"....
 
"Star Wars" appears before the crawl, followed by the rest of the title,
which does include "Episode V":
 
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,924123,00.html
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-in-the-star-wars-saga-empire-strikes-forward-20151202-story.html
http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/yoda-space-hefner-and-amorous-sweats-read-the-original-empire-strikes-back-review/
 
> And if the title is what's shown onscreen, surely it should be called
> "A long time ago in a galaxy far far away".
 
It's not necessarily the *first* thing that's shown onscreen, y'know.
If it was, there would be a lot of movies with titles like "A Martin
Scorsese film".

> Anyway, its your quiz and you can be as idiotic as you like, but that's
> *especially* idiotic.
 
Thankew.

> > "Episode IV: A New Hope" to the title of the first movie.
 
> No. It came out about a year *before* the "New Hope" was added (which
> was for the VHS release in 1981)
 
On this peripheral point it turns out we were both wrong. Multiple sources
confirm that it was added for a cinema release, but it was indeed in 1981.
--
Mark Brader | But I think we can do better next time. (Where the
Toronto | word "we" refers to [those] who do the hard work while
msb@vex.net | I sit back and complain...) -- Keith Thompson
 
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