- Rotating Quiz #218: double jeopardy - 4 Updates
- QFTCIBSI Game 9, Rounds 9-10: movie mash-up, alpha challege - 1 Update
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: May 03 08:35PM +0100 > 1. in 1690 what english philosopher wrote, "wherever law ends, > tyranny begins." Locke? > 2. what is the machine that is more commonly called a "lie detector?" Polygraph > 3. jakob roggeveen discovered what south pacific island 2 days after > good friday in 1722? Easter Island > 4. eric blair wrote under this pen name George Orwell > 5. incan ruins have been found on islands in this lake on the border > of bolivia & peru Titicaca > 6. this was the first non-precious metal man made into tools & > decorative items Copper > 7. great floods in the 13th century created the zuider zee in what country? Holland > 8. what scotsman, who has a major river named for him, completed the > first overland trip across canada? Simon Fraser? > 9. ketchup heir john heinz was a u.s. senator representing what state? (sticks pin in map) Kentucky > 10. what is the name for the hot, dry winds that blow down the rockies > across southern alberta? Chinook --- wait, are these all names of helicopters??? > 11. what was the westernmost city represented in major league baseball > for the 1st half of the 1900s? St Louis > 12. what 'singing cowboy' rode a horse named trigger? Roy Rogers > 13. who took refuge in the vatican embassy in panama city on december > 24th, 1989? Manuel Noreiga > 14. rick baker won the first oscar ever presented in the "makeup" > category for what movie? Star Wars? --- sorry "Star Wars - Episode IV - Special Greedo Shot First Edition- A New Hope in the Journal of The Whills" > 15. Who was the original clarabell on "howdy doody", who later became > "captain kangaroo" Nope |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: May 03 10:58PM +0200 > 1. in 1690 what english philosopher wrote, "wherever law ends, tyranny > begins." John Locke > 3. jakob roggeveen discovered what south pacific island 2 days after > good friday in 1722? Easter Island > 4. eric blair wrote under this pen name Ellery Queen > 5. incan ruins have been found on islands in this lake on the border of > bolivia & peru Titicaca > 6. this was the first non-precious metal man made into tools & > decorative items Nickel > 7. great floods in the 13th century created the zuider zee in what > country? The Netherlands > 12. what 'singing cowboy' rode a horse named trigger? Roy Rogers > 13. who took refuge in the vatican embassy in panama city on december > 24th, 1989? Noriega -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): May 03 04:08PM -0500 Gareth Owen: > Chinook --- wait, are these all names of helicopters??? Titicaca?? -- Mark Brader | "I can direct dial today a man my parents warred with. Toronto | They wanted to kill him, I want to sell software to him." msb@vex.net | -- Brad Templeton |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: May 04 12:31AM -0700 swp wrote: > 1. in 1690 what english philosopher wrote, "wherever law ends, tyranny begins." Locke > 2. what is the machine that is more commonly called a "lie detector?" polygraph > 3. jakob roggeveen discovered what south pacific island 2 days after good friday in 1722? Easter Island > 4. eric blair wrote under this pen name George Orwell > 5. incan ruins have been found on islands in this lake on the border of bolivia & peru Titicaca > 6. this was the first non-precious metal man made into tools & decorative items copper > 7. great floods in the 13th century created the zuider zee in what country? Netherlands > 8. what scotsman, who has a major river named for him, completed the first overland trip across canada? MacKenzie > 9. ketchup heir john heinz was a u.s. senator representing what state? Pennsylvania > 10. what is the name for the hot, dry winds that blow down the rockies across southern alberta? Chinook > 11. what was the westernmost city represented in major league baseball for the 1st half of the 1900s? St Louis > 12. what 'singing cowboy' rode a horse named trigger? Roy Rogers > 13. who took refuge in the vatican embassy in panama city on december 24th, 1989? Noriega > 14. rick baker won the first oscar ever presented in the "makeup" category for what movie? Star Wars -- Dan Tilque |
| bbowler <bbowler@bigelow.org>: May 03 01:25PM On Sun, 01 May 2016 23:17:12 -0500, Mark Brader wrote: > 1. "Pretty Pelican Enemy". > 2. "Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Vampire". > 3. "Good Private Supremacy". Damon > 4. "Apocalypse Rebel Without a Rider". Brando > 5. "Annie Hunter, If You Can". DiCaprio > 6. "Immortal Air Force Spy". > 7. "Charlie's Extra Lyrics". Hanks > 8. "Requiem for a Beautiful Diamond". > 9. "The Talented Doors in Love". Paltrow > 10. "One Flew Over the Shorty Twins". Nicholson > A. Alpha: Alphabetical Lists in History > A1. In an alphabetical list of US presidents by first name, > who comes first? Abraham Lincoln > B. Bravo, the Television Network > B1. Name the man who hosts the Bravo show "Inside the Actors > Studio". James Lipton > B2. Now in its 10th season, the first series of "Real > Housewives..." featured Vicki, Jeana, Lauri, Jo, and Kimberley, > who were the "Real Housewives" of *where in California*? Beverly Hills > Here are two questions about most-watched YouTube videos of any kind. > C1. Uploaded in July 2012, what song is by far the most watched > YouTube video of all time, with nearly 2,500,000,000 views? Gangnam Style > C2. Which female singer has 2 of the 6 most-watched videos of > all time? Both of the songs were released in 2014. Adele > distributaries: the Damietta and *what other distributary*? Hint: > it shares its name with a small Egyptian village that is most > famous for a granodiorite stone tablet discovered there in 1799. Rosetta > also determining the speed and direction of blood flow. > The technology utilizes an effect first identified by *which > Austrian scientist* in 1842? Doppler > E2. An echocardiogram is a sonogram of the heart. But it is not > abbreviated to ECG, because that abbreviation was already taken. > What does the E stand for in ECG? Electro > Century, takes its name from the Spanish for "double step"? > F2. What ballroom dance, with gliding turns, takes its name > from the German for "roll" or "turn"? Waltz |
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