- Calvin's Quiz #440 - 5 Updates
- Calvin's Quiz #439 - ANSWERS & SCORES - 2 Updates
- QFTCIBSI Game 10, Rounds 9-10: stars, imaginary - 1 Update
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: May 16 08:16PM -0700 1 In which city was Martin Luther King Jr assassinated? 2 Commonly used in art and architecture, what is the value of the Golden Mean or Golden Ratio (to one decimal place)? 3 In which 1836 Charles Dickens novel do the characters Sam Weller and Alfred Jingle appear? 4 William Shatner played the title role in which 1980s US TV police drama? 5 Which European capital hosted the 1912 summer Olympics? 6 The Torah is a collection of holy scriptures in which religion? 7 Muesli originated in which European country? 8 Gus Fring, Marie Schrader, and Skyler White are characters in which US TV series? 9 Which country's internet domain is .es? 10 Brandon Flowers is the vocalist for which chart-topping US rock band? cheers, calvin |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: May 16 09:42PM -0700 Calvin wrote: > 1 In which city was Martin Luther King Jr assassinated? Memphis, TN > 2 Commonly used in art and architecture, what is the value of the Golden Mean or Golden Ratio (to one decimal place)? 1.6 > 3 In which 1836 Charles Dickens novel do the characters Sam Weller and Alfred Jingle appear? Great Expectations > 4 William Shatner played the title role in which 1980s US TV police drama? T. J. Hooker > 5 Which European capital hosted the 1912 summer Olympics? London > 6 The Torah is a collection of holy scriptures in which religion? Judaism > 7 Muesli originated in which European country? Switzerland > 8 Gus Fring, Marie Schrader, and Skyler White are characters in which US TV series? > 9 Which country's internet domain is .es? Spain -- Dan Tilque |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: May 17 12:04AM -0500 In article <e9d7fe79-d4de-45d4-a4cf-a5227e8d6709@googlegroups.com>, 334152@gmail.com says... > 1 In which city was Martin Luther King Jr assassinated? Memphis > 2 Commonly used in art and architecture, what is the value of the Golden Mean or Golden Ratio (to one decimal place)? 1.61 > 3 In which 1836 Charles Dickens novel do the characters Sam Weller and Alfred Jingle appear? > 4 William Shatner played the title role in which 1980s US TV police drama? T.J. Hooker > 5 Which European capital hosted the 1912 summer Olympics? Paris > 6 The Torah is a collection of holy scriptures in which religion? Judaism > 7 Muesli originated in which European country? Switzerland > 8 Gus Fring, Marie Schrader, and Skyler White are characters in which US TV series? Breaking Bad > 9 Which country's internet domain is .es? Spain -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: May 17 07:19AM > 1 In which city was Martin Luther King Jr assassinated? Memphis, TN > 2 Commonly used in art and architecture, what is the value of the > Golden Mean or Golden Ratio (to one decimal place)? 1.51 > 5 Which European capital hosted the 1912 summer Olympics? Stockholm > 6 The Torah is a collection of holy scriptures in which religion? Judaism > 7 Muesli originated in which European country? Switzerland > 9 Which country's internet domain is .es? España -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): May 17 03:31AM -0500 "Calvin": > 1 In which city was Martin Luther King Jr assassinated? Memphis. > 2 Commonly used in art and architecture, what is the value of the > Golden Mean or Golden Ratio (to one decimal place)? 1.6, or 0.6 if you go the other way. > 3 In which 1836 Charles Dickens novel do the characters Sam Weller > and Alfred Jingle appear? Pickwick Papers? > 4 William Shatner played the title role in which 1980s US TV > police drama? "T.J. Hooker". > 5 Which European capital hosted the 1912 summer Olympics? London? > 6 The Torah is a collection of holy scriptures in which religion? Judaism. > 7 Muesli originated in which European country? Germany? > 8 Gus Fring, Marie Schrader, and Skyler White are characters in > which US TV series? No idea, so I'll say "Parks & Recreation". > 9 Which country's internet domain is .es? Spain. > 10 Brandon Flowers is the vocalist for which chart-topping US rock band? "The Chart-Topping Rock Band". -- Mark Brader | Obviously an off by 1 error somewhere. You know Toronto | the kind, where you intend to put something simple msb@vex.net | like "while (1=0) {" and type "while (1=1) {" instead. --Stephen Perry My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: May 16 08:13PM -0700 On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 3:20:35 PM UTC+10, Calvin wrote: > 1 The Curragh horse racing track is located in which country? Ireland > 2 The North and South Islands of New Zealand separated by what body of water? Cook Strait > 3 Which Grammy-winning country music star has also performed under the fictional rock persona Chris Gaines? Garth Brooks > 4 In 1928 who became the first person to fly from Australia to New Zealand? Charles Kingsford-Smith / Charles Ulm Singleton for Mark > 5 Which geographic point is currently located on Boothia's peninsula in Canada? Magnetic North was the expected answer but as Mark pointed out it has moved on and is now nearer Ellesmere Island. > 6 Which actor played Idi Amin in the 2006 film "The Last King of Scotland"? Forest Whittaker > 7 How many square inches are there in one square foot? 144 > 8 Which duo's works are sometimes referred to as the Savoy Operas? Gilbert & Sullivan > 9 Gozo and Komino are islands belonging to which Mediterranean country? Malta > 10 In terms of the Oscars, what links Casablanca, Paris and Chicago? [Only] cities included in Best Picture titles Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 439 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 8 43 Mark Brader 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 44 Peter Smyth 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 8 44 Gareth Owen 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 6 39 Chris Johnson 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 4 27 Dan Tilque 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 4 27 Erland S 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 29 Marc Dashevsky 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 23 Pete Gayde 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 24 Bjorn Lundin - - - - - - - - - - --- ---------- 7 3 2 1 8 5 9 7 3 3 48 53% Congratulations Mark who takes a tough one, just pipping Peter and Gareth, cheers, calvin |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): May 17 03:28AM -0500 "Calvin": > in Canada? > Magnetic North was the expected answer but as Mark pointed out it has > moved on and is now nearer Ellesmere Island. It moved on *decades ago*, and I say that people who gave that answer should be scored wrong. (If that means that I get scored wrong too, because I didn't name a specific point, that's fine.) -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "*Nature*, Mr. Allnutt, is what we are put in this msb@vex.net | world *to rise above*." -- The African Queen |
| Pete <pagrsg@wowway.com>: May 16 04:01PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:8O6dnchOZ5disaXKnZ2dnUU7- > * Game 10, Round 9 - Science - Lives of the Stars > 1. Stars are "born" from the accumulation of clouds of hydrogen > gas in which appropriately-nicknamed regions of space? Cosmic nursery > 3. "Baby" stars that aren't large enough to sustain the fusion of > ordinary hydrogen end up as which kind of star? Despite the > name, they would probably appear magenta or dark red. White star > 5. Stars somewhat larger than our sun generate most of their > energy using the CNO cycle. Besides hydrogen and <answer 4>, > what *three* other elements are involved in the CNO cycle? Carbon, nitrogen, oxygen > 6. The heaviest stable element created by ordinary stellar fusion > is this metallic element, the commonest on Earth by mass. > Name it. Magnesium; Mangenese > 8. After a Type II <answer 7>, what is left of the original star > is typically one of these objects, on the order of 10 km across, > with a mass perhaps twice that of the sun. What objects? Black hole > guvf pnfr) pnaabg bpphcl gur fnzr dhnaghz fgngr. Gur cevapvcyr > gnxrf vgf anzr sebz gur culfvpvfg jub jba gur 1945 Culfvpf > Abory sbe cebcbfvat vg. Jub? Heisenberg > 10. Bhe fha vf gbb fznyy gb orpbzr n arhgeba fgne. Nsgre n ahzore > bs rkcybfvir riragf, gur fha jvyy svanyyl orpbzr bar bs juvpu > glcr bs fgne, snqvat gb oynpx bire gevyyvbaf bs lrnef? Dwarf > confirmed that the princess in question died with the > rest of her family. Name the Romanov princess who did not > actually survive. Anastasia > the subsequent scandal cost Dan Rather his job. Name the > lieutenant who was not actually criticized by Lt.Col. Killian > (or not in these memos, anyway). Kerry > important sources for the Atlantis legend are the works of > this man, in particular "Timaeus" and "Critias", which used > Atlantis for allegorical purposes. Name the author. Homer > it contributed to the exploration of Colombia, Venezuela, > and the Amazon River. Name this legendary city, famous > for its wealth. El Dorado > series. There are three types of balls in a Quidditch game. > The most important is the Golden Snitch. Name either of > the other two types of Quidditch balls. Quaffle > E1. Before the discovery of oxygen, what was the fire-like > substance which was supposedly contained by flammable > objects and released during the process of burning? Brimstone > this imaginary heavy-metal band had non-hits such as > "Give Me Your Money", "Bitch School", and "Big Bottom". > Name the band. Spinal Tap > is documented in the movie "All You Need is Cash". On two > occasions they appeared on "Saturday Night Live" with guest > host Eric Idle. Name the band. The Rutles Pete Gayde |
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