- QFTCIBSI Game 5, Rounds 9-10: Best Picture plots, Nobelists - 3 Updates
- Rotating quiz #213 - 1 Update
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Mar 15 09:33AM -0500 In article <T6KdneoXJYVXrXvLnZ2dnUU7-XHNnZ2d@giganews.com>, msb@vex.net says... > 1. 1950s: An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an > established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater > friends. All About Eve > woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family. > 4. 1980s: Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her > daughter's family problems. Terms Of Endearment > 5. 1950s: A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have > given up on the idea of love, meet at a dance and fall in love. Marty > 6. 2010s: A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival > of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions. The Artist > 7. 1980s: The accidental death of the older son of an affluent > family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, > the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son. Ordinary People > 8. 1950s: Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich > playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic > friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long. Gigi > 9. 1990s: A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life > crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend. American Beauty > 10. 1940s: Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to > discover that they and their families have been irreparably > changed. The Best Years Of Our Lives > a museum where you will find a stuffed dog that once belonged > to the 1904 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine. > Name the man. Pavlov > A2. In 2007, one of the 1962 Nobel Prize winners in Physiology > or Medicine became the first person to receive his own > personal genome map. Name the man. Watson > the maternal grandfather of which British-born Australian > woman who spent 10 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in the > early 1980s? Olivia Newton John > C1. The only man to have won two individual Nobel Prizes was > a biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 > and the Peace Prize in 1962. Name the man. Linus Pauling > C2. The 1911 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry died in 1934. > In 1935, that laureate's daughter also won a Nobel Prize > in Chemistry. What last name did they share? Curie > characterizes important parts of the international > community". In December 1991, his country ceased to exist. > Name the man. Gorbachev > struggle for democracy and human rights" in a country > that changed its name in 1989. Give either the old or the > current name of the country. Ang Sang Su Kyi -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| ArenEss <areness1@yahoo.com>: Mar 15 12:16PM -0500 >1. 1950s: An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an > established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater > friends. All ABout Eve? >2. 1930s: A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with > his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century. Cimarron> >3. 1930s: A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a > woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family. You Can't Taker It With You? >4. 1980s: Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her > daughter's family problems. Terms of Endearment? >5. 1950s: A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have > given up on the idea of love, meet at a dance and fall in love. Marty >6. 2010s: A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival > of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions. The Artist >7. 1980s: The accidental death of the older son of an affluent > family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, > the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son. Ordinary People >8. 1950s: Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich > playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic > friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long. Gigi >9. 1990s: A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life > crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend. American Beauty >10. 1940s: Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to > discover that they and their families have been irreparably > changed. The Best Years of Our Lives > a museum where you will find a stuffed dog that once belonged > to the 1904 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine. > Name the man. Pavlov > George Smoot won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006. > In 2009, he made a cameo appearance -- as himself -- in > episode 17 of season 2 of which sitcom? Big Bang Theory? > the maternal grandfather of which British-born Australian > woman who spent 10 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in the > early 1980s? Olivia Newton-John? > C1. The only man to have won two individual Nobel Prizes was > a biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 > and the Peace Prize in 1962. Name the man. Linus Pauling > C2. The 1911 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry died in 1934. > In 1935, that laureate's daughter also won a Nobel Prize > in Chemistry. What last name did they share? Curie? >D. The Nobel Prize in Literature > D1. The only man to have won both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize > in Literature was a man who won the Nobel in 1925. Name him. George Bernard Shaw? > D2. Due to injuries suffered in two plane crashes in Africa, > which man was unable to personally accept his 1954 Nobel > Prize in Literature? Ernest Hemmingway? > characterizes important parts of the international > community". In December 1991, his country ceased to exist. > Name the man. Gorbachev? > struggle for democracy and human rights" in a country > that changed its name in 1989. Give either the old or the > current name of the country. Burma > the Big Ten Conference, but left the conference in 1946. > Name the university. Hint: its intercollegiate sports > teams are known as the Maroons. University of Chicago > first intercollegiate football game in 1869, and whose > intercollegiate sporting teams are known as the Tigers. > Name the university. ArenEss |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Mar 15 04:30PM -0700 Mark Brader wrote: > friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long. > 9. 1990s: A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life > crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend. American Beauty > a museum where you will find a stuffed dog that once belonged > to the 1904 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine. > Name the man. Pavlov > George Smoot won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006. > In 2009, he made a cameo appearance -- as himself -- in > episode 17 of season 2 of which sitcom? Big Bang Theory > the maternal grandfather of which British-born Australian > woman who spent 10 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in the > early 1980s? Olivia Newton John > C1. The only man to have won two individual Nobel Prizes was > a biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 > and the Peace Prize in 1962. Name the man. Pauling > C2. The 1911 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry died in 1934. > In 1935, that laureate's daughter also won a Nobel Prize > in Chemistry. What last name did they share? Curie > D. The Nobel Prize in Literature > D1. The only man to have won both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize > in Literature was a man who won the Nobel in 1925. Name him. F Scott Fitzgerald > characterizes important parts of the international > community". In December 1991, his country ceased to exist. > Name the man. Havel > struggle for democracy and human rights" in a country > that changed its name in 1989. Give either the old or the > current name of the country. Burma > the Big Ten Conference, but left the conference in 1946. > Name the university. Hint: its intercollegiate sports > teams are known as the Maroons. University of Chicago > first intercollegiate football game in 1869, and whose > intercollegiate sporting teams are known as the Tigers. > Name the university. Princeton University -- Dan Tilque |
| ArenEss <areness1@yahoo.com>: Mar 15 12:51PM -0500 On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 16:00:06 -0800, Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com> wrote: >system has a planet far outside where the other planets are and even >further away than all currently known TNOs. What name did they give this >hypothetical planet? Planet X >5. They suggested a range of masses (in terms of Earth masses) that this >planet is likely to have. What is the low end of this range? 10 times >6. A number of solar system objects have had their existence predicted, >but only one of these was based on actual gravitational effects on other >bodies. Which one? Neptune >7. Gravitational waves were "seen" for the first time recently by an >observatory named LIGO. Which two states are the LIGO installations in? >(1 point each) Louisiana, California >8. The wave that was detected was thought to be from the merger of two >of what kind of object? Dense Brown Dwarfs? >9. What does the L in LIGO stand for? Laser ArenEss |
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