- QFTCIBSI Final, Round 4: History - 2 Updates
- Calvn's Quiz #441 - 1 Update
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: May 26 09:30AM +0200 On 2016-05-25 07:34, Mark Brader wrote: > Given the name of a historical figure, name any year during which > that person was alive (years of birth and death are acceptable). > 1. Martin Luther -- http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/year/1.jpg 1517 > 2. Joan of Arc -- http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/year/2.jpg 1428 > 3. Genghis Khan -- http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-4/year/3.jpg 1219 > material is from. > 4. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the > United States is hereby repealed. 3rd;4th > 5. A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a > free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall > not be infringed. 8th;7th > 6. No person shall be... compelled in any criminal case to be a > witness against himself... 5th > country where this revolution happened. For example, if we said > "Green Revolution, 2009-10", the answer would be Iran. > 7. Orange Revolution, 2004-05. Ukraine > 9. Saffron Revolution, 2007. Burma > of Cuneiform") records the deeds of Darius I on an inaccessible > cliffside in three different languages. Name any one of those > languages. Farsi > in 539 BC. A clay cylinder named for him may be the earliest > declaration of universal human rights. Name this king, who > died in 530 BC. Cyrus the Breat > Christian monastery. As a result, the battles of Yarmouk > (636) and Qadisiya (637) never occur. Name this man who, in > our timeline, most definitely did not become a Christian saint. Muhammed > of Europe's population, somewhat more than was the case in > our reality. What mid-14th-century event was Silverberg's > divergence point? the black death -- -- Björn |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): May 26 04:03AM -0500 Mark Brader: > > I dunno; I'd be more worried about having claimed that the 18th Amendment > > was the one that repealed the 18th Amendment. Erland Sommarskog: > Nah, the text said "eightteenth article of amendment". 18th article of which > amendment? It did not say, but I assumed that it was given by the > surrounding context. Ah, I didn't think of that misreading. The thing is that the US constitution has a screwy way of being amended. Rather than text being replaced, as the word "amendment" implies, all existing text stays in place forever and amendments are tacked onto the end as new articles, and it's understood that the newer content supersedes any older content that it conflicts with. This particular amendment is actually the only one (out of 27 so far) that specifically identifies what provision it is superseding. And since each amendment is an article, it can be referred to either as an amendment (the usual term), an article, or an article of amendment. All three designations occur in the consitution. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "Strange commas are enshrined in msb@vex.net | the US Constitution." --James Hogg My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: May 26 07:19AM > 1 What are the two competition lifts in an Olympic weightlifting > competition? Pull and press? (I have only heard the Swedish names, so I will have to guess wildly for the English ones. On top of all, there used to be three, and I am not 100% sure on which one that was discontinued.) > 2 In which year was the Soviet Union dissolved? 1991 > 3 What cartoon characters catchphrase was "Exit, stage left"? Rush made a live album with that name, although they are not really cartoon characters. > 4 What creature is the traditional symbol of the medical profession? Serpent > 5 Which is the only chemical element named after a US state? Californium > 7 Which German figure skater won two Olympic golds and four wold > championships? Katarina Witt > 8 CONMEBOL is the governing body for football (soccer) in which > continent? South America -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
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