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- Calvin's Quiz #447 - 1 Update
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jul 12 04:14PM -0700 1 A lack of calcium in the diet causes what bone disease? 2 Along with Faith and Hope, which Christian saint was martyred in the second century AD? 3 The city of Mandalay is located in which south east Asian country? 4 What two-word term both describes visual acuity and a form of the sport of cricket? 5 Louis Armstrong International Airport is located in which American city? 6 Linke and gauche are the German and French equivalents of which English word? 7 The dramatised version of which 1976 Alex Haley novel is one of the most watched TV series of all time? 8 Which English mathematician and inventor is credited with having designed the world's first general-purpose computer in 1837? 9 What insect shares its name with a cocktail which includes Crème de Menthe and Crème de Cacao? 10 Not to be confused with a card game, what is the nickname for the New Zealand men's lawn bowls team? cheers, calvin |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 12 06:24PM -0500 "Calvin": > 1 A lack of calcium in the diet causes what bone disease? Hmm. I can think of two conditions featuring weakened bones. Rickets is caused by a deficiency of vitamin D, and osteoporosis is a disease you can get in old age without changing your diet, so it's not a dietary deficiency disease. I'll go with osteoporosis, anyway, since I don't have anything better. > 2 Along with Faith and Hope, which Christian saint was > martyred in the second century AD? Charity? > 3 The city of Mandalay is located in which south east Asian country? Malaysia? > 4 What two-word term both describes visual acuity and a form > of the sport of cricket? 20/20. > 5 Louis Armstrong International Airport is located in which > American city? New Orleans. > 6 Linke and gauche are the German and French equivalents of > which English word? Left. > 7 The dramatised version of which 1976 Alex Haley novel is > one of the most watched TV series of all time? "Roots". > 8 Which English mathematician and inventor is credited with > having designed the world's first general-purpose computer in > 1837? Charles Babbage. > 9 What insect shares its name with a cocktail which includes > Crème de Menthe and Crème de Cacao? Grasshopper. > 10 Not to be confused with a card game, what is the nickname > for the New Zealand men's lawn bowls team? Pokers? -- Mark Brader, Toronto | Keep out of eyes--if this occurs, rinse with water. msb@vex.net | (Directions seen on shampoo bottle) My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jul 13 10:13AM +0200 > 2 Along with Faith and Hope, which Christian saint was martyred in > the second century AD? Santa Claus > 3 The city of Mandalay is located in which south east Asian country? Burma > 5 Louis Armstrong International Airport is located in which American > city? Nashville > 6 Linke and gauche are the German and French equivalents of which > English word? Left > 8 Which English mathematician and inventor is credited with having > designed the world's first general-purpose computer in 1837? Charles Babbage > 9 What insect shares its name with a cocktail which includes Crème > de Menthe and Crème de Cacao? Mojito -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Jul 12 12:43PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:O-adnVT2SM6OLxnKnZ2dnUU7- > * Game 7 (2016-07-04), Round 1 - Current Events > 1. Last week the Iraqi army completed taking back *which city* > from the so-called Islamic State? Fallujah > 2. Last week the US Supreme Court overturned restrictions on the > operation of abortion clinics in *which state*, a decision that > is likely to have implications in other parts of the country? Texas > 4. "The Idea of North", an exhibit centered on works by painter > Lawren Harris, opened at the Art Gallery of Ontario on July 1. > Which polymath curated the show? Kanye West (?) > last week, apparently because an erstwhile Brexit ally withdrew > his support and announced a run for the job himself. Name this > treacherous rival. Gove (?) > hey, personal computers and the Internet did. Who is the famed > futurist who predicted all these things and coined the phrase > "information overload", and who died last week at the age of 87? Toffler > best-known book described his time in various concentration camps > as a teenager and his loss of faith in God, also died at age 87. > Name him. Elie Wiesel > made one of the finest films of the 1970s, and died at age 77. > The other, an Iranian, made dozens of films and won the Palme > d'Or at Cannes in 1997. Name either. Michael Cimino > he had his ex's nickname, "SLIM", which was inked on the > fingers of his right hand, changed to "SCUM". Who is this > walking advertisement for Wite-Out, if not for class? Johnny Depp > 4. Last week the National Capital Commission had to apologize > for summarily shutting down a business operated by Ottawa > sisters Eliza and Adela Andrews. What kind of enterprise was it? lemonade stand > Tbir jvyy abg or thi. Anzr rvgure bs gur gjb erznvavat > pnaqvqngrf sbe Oevgvfu cevzr zvavfgre, nsgre ibgvat ol > Pbafreingvir ZCf ryvzvangrq gur bgure cergraqref. Theresa May > 9. Noel ["NO-elle"] Neill died last week at the age of 95. > What was *her* claim to fame? playing Lois Lane -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jul 12 01:57PM > * Game 7 (2016-07-04), Round 1 - Current Events > 1. Last week the Iraqi army completed taking back *which city* > from the so-called Islamic State? Basra > 2. Last week the US Supreme Court overturned restrictions on the > operation of abortion clinics in *which state*, a decision that > is likely to have implications in other parts of the country? Texas > 3. What form of pop-culture recognition will Justin Trudeau > receive this coming August 31? His father received a similar > honor in 1979. wax figure at Madam Tussaud's > 5. After BC farmer Avtar Hothi and his son came upon a woman in > distress in the North Thompson River last week, in what unusual > way did he pull her to safety? with a tractor; with a horse > hey, personal computers and the Internet did. Who is the famed > futurist who predicted all these things and coined the phrase > "information overload", and who died last week at the age of 87? Toffler > best-known book described his time in various concentration camps > as a teenager and his loss of faith in God, also died at age 87. > Name him. Elie Wiesel > * Game 8 (2016-07-11), Round 1 - Current Events > 1. Name the NASA spacecraft that entered orbit around Jupiter one > week ago. Juno > he had his ex's nickname, "SLIM", which was inked on the > fingers of his right hand, changed to "SCUM". Who is this > walking advertisement for Wite-Out, if not for class? Johnny Depp > 5. A controversial $100,000,000 theme park opened in Kentucky > last week. So what is the theme? Be sufficiently specific. Noah's Ark > Tbir jvyy abg or thi. Anzr rvgure bs gur gjb erznvavat > pnaqvqngrf sbe Oevgvfu cevzr zvavfgre, nsgre ibgvat ol > Pbafreingvir ZCf ryvzvangrq gur bgure cergraqref. May > murder of his girlfriend. Tell us either Messi's sentence in > months, or Pistorius's sentence in years. Exact answer required, > and you must say who you're talking about. 6 years (Pistorius) > 9. Noel ["NO-elle"] Neill died last week at the age of 95. > What was *her* claim to fame? first actress to play Lois Lane -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Jul 12 09:18AM -0500 In article <O-adnVT2SM6OLxnKnZ2dnUU7-Y_NnZ2d@giganews.com>, msb@vex.net says... > canceled, but let's not spoil it for the others, okay?) > 1. Last week the Iraqi army completed taking back *which city* > from the so-called Islamic State? Falujah > 2. Last week the US Supreme Court overturned restrictions on the > operation of abortion clinics in *which state*, a decision that > is likely to have implications in other parts of the country? Texas > hey, personal computers and the Internet did. Who is the famed > futurist who predicted all these things and coined the phrase > "information overload", and who died last week at the age of 87? Alvin Toffler > best-known book described his time in various concentration camps > as a teenager and his loss of faith in God, also died at age 87. > Name him. Elie Wiesel > * Game 8 (2016-07-11), Round 1 - Current Events > 1. Name the NASA spacecraft that entered orbit around Jupiter one > week ago. Juno > made one of the finest films of the 1970s, and died at age 77. > The other, an Iranian, made dozens of films and won the Palme > d'Or at Cannes in 1997. Name either. Michael Cimino > sisters Eliza and Adela Andrews. What kind of enterprise was it? > 5. A controversial $100,000,000 theme park opened in Kentucky > last week. So what is the theme? Be sufficiently specific. Noah's Ark > murder of his girlfriend. Tell us either Messi's sentence in > months, or Pistorius's sentence in years. Exact answer required, > and you must say who you're talking about. 5 (Pistorius) > but last week a comedian and actress revealed that she almost > died during a bout with the throat condition, requiring surgery > and a week in hospital. Name her. Sarah Silverman > 9. Noel ["NO-elle"] Neill died last week at the age of 95. > What was *her* claim to fame? Lois Lane on Superman TV show -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Jul 12 05:38PM Mark Brader wrote: > canceled, but let's not spoil it for the others, okay?) > 1. Last week the Iraqi army completed taking back *which city* > from the so-called Islamic State? Basra > 2. Last week the US Supreme Court overturned restrictions on the > operation of abortion clinics in *which state*, a decision that > is likely to have implications in other parts of the country? Texas > last week, apparently because an erstwhile Brexit ally withdrew > his support and announced a run for the job himself. Name this > treacherous rival. Michael Gove > * Game 8 (2016-07-11), Round 1 - Current Events > 1. Name the NASA spacecraft that entered orbit around Jupiter one > week ago. Juno > made one of the finest films of the 1970s, and died at age 77. > The other, an Iranian, made dozens of films and won the Palme > d'Or at Cannes in 1997. Name either. Francis Ford Coppola > he had his ex's nickname, "SLIM", which was inked on the > fingers of his right hand, changed to "SCUM". Who is this > walking advertisement for Wite-Out, if not for class? Johnny Depp > sisters Eliza and Adela Andrews. What kind of enterprise was it? > 5. A controversial $100,000,000 theme park opened in Kentucky > last week. So what is the theme? Be sufficiently specific. Noah's Ark > Gove will not be guv. Name either of the two remaining > candidates for British prime minister, after voting by > Conservative MPs eliminated the other pretenders. Theresa May > murder of his girlfriend. Tell us either Messi's sentence in > months, or Pistorius's sentence in years. Exact answer required, > and you must say who you're talking about. 6 years (Pistorius) > 10. What public health measure did the Toronto Board of Health > approve last Monday, though final go-ahead still has to be > given by City Council? Ban on smoking in public places Peter Smyth |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jul 13 01:10AM -0700 Mark Brader wrote: > canceled, but let's not spoil it for the others, okay?) > 1. Last week the Iraqi army completed taking back *which city* > from the so-called Islamic State? Fallujah > 2. Last week the US Supreme Court overturned restrictions on the > operation of abortion clinics in *which state*, a decision that > is likely to have implications in other parts of the country? Mississippi > last week, apparently because an erstwhile Brexit ally withdrew > his support and announced a run for the job himself. Name this > treacherous rival. Gove > * Game 8 (2016-07-11), Round 1 - Current Events > 1. Name the NASA spacecraft that entered orbit around Jupiter one > week ago. Juno > 4. Last week the National Capital Commission had to apologize > for summarily shutting down a business operated by Ottawa > sisters Eliza and Adela Andrews. What kind of enterprise was it? lemonade stand > 5. A controversial $100,000,000 theme park opened in Kentucky > last week. So what is the theme? Be sufficiently specific. Noah's Ark with animatronic animals > Tbir jvyy abg or thi. Anzr rvgure bs gur gjb erznvavat > pnaqvqngrf sbe Oevgvfu cevzr zvavfgre, nsgre ibgvat ol > Pbafreingvir ZCf ryvzvangrq gur bgure cergraqref. Theresa May > murder of his girlfriend. Tell us either Messi's sentence in > months, or Pistorius's sentence in years. Exact answer required, > and you must say who you're talking about. Pistorius, 6 years -- Dan Tilque |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jul 13 12:27AM -0700 Welcome to Rare Entries Contest DJT03. As usual, reply only by email to dtilque@frontier.com Answer by Tuesday, July 19, 2016. This is only a week, which is much shorter than usual for these contests. However, in the past contests, I get a surge of replies early on and then a long period with no replies. So I'm shortening it to skip that long period. The reply email should only have a set of answers numbered 0 to 9. Do not include any of the text from this post in your reply. (Note: it's much easier to score the contest without intruding text, so please leave it off.) Make sure the subject line of your reply contains the string "DJT03". The object is to find correct answers to the 10 items which have the fewest other people giving the same answer. Wrong answers will be penalized. Feel free to use any reference materials you wish to research your answers. Scoring: For each item, the score will be set to how many people gave a particular answer. If someone gives an answer no one else gives, they score 1; if one other person gives that answer, both score 2; etc. Total score will be the ten individual scores multiplied together. Low score wins. Wrong answers will get a score that's 3 plus the highest score for a valid answer for that item. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0. Name a spacecraft that has visited Jupiter, either flyby or orbit. 1. Name a country that is a member of NATO but is not in the EU. 2. Name a country that is in the EU but is not a member of NATO. 3. Name a country whose flag has more than 5 stars on it. 4. Name a chemical element that was named after a Solar System body. 5. Name a US state whose future territory the Lewis and Clark Expedition travelled in between 14 May 1804 and 23 Sept 1806. 6. Name a professional sports league that currently has at least one team in the US and at least one in Canada. 7. Name an international sports federation whose usual acronym is 4 letters beginning with FI--. The federation must be the highest level organization for its sport. The sport must be athletic in nature, so board games, card games, etc. are right out. 8. Give a two-part compound term which has an idiomatic meaning different from the literal meaning of the words. The first part of the term must be a color and the second must be an article of clothing, headgear, or footwear. For example, if the question had asked for a fish instead of clothing, then "red herring" would be a valid answer. 9. Give the name of a body of water whose English name is of the form "Sea of Xxxx", where Xxxx can be a name of any length. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Some may be thinking I'm repeating #9 from an earlier Rare Entries contest. However, it's not exactly the same. The previous one asked for a "cartographic feature" while this one wants a "body of water". So there's a different set of valid answers. OK, remember you only have a week to answer. I'll post a reminder a day before the contest ends. Have Fun! -- Dan Tilque |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jul 12 02:01PM +0200 > sometimes people accidently see someone else's answers before they were > able to send in their own, so they're forced to recuse themselves. > So any one have any thoughts or preferences? Any other potential problems? A potential problem that I see is that answers could be contested already during the contest and this could lead to long to long threads. Keep in mind that it is not uncommon that answers are on the edge. Also, many entrants may prefer to wait with sending in their submission because they want to conduct some serious research. During this period they have to be careful not to open someone else's entry. I think the research is the key here. For the "use-your-knowledge-only" quizzes that we have, I typically look at the questions and either post my slate directly, or decide to skip. Only if the quiz is really interesting and I have a lack of time for the moment, I keep the quiz until later. So if you plan to forbid research, answers to the newsgroups would be OK. But if you plan to stick with the traditional rules, I recommend against it. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| "gerson" <gerson@bigpond.net.au>: Jul 12 10:43PM +1000 "Dan Tilque" wrote ... other potential problems? I use to play trivia night in a pub near where i live here in Melbourne, Australia, (there are many such pubs that run trivia nights both here and in England and maybe elsewhere for all I know (taking note of English tv prog "Eggheads")), and our team thought it was ok to take advantage of available resources to get answers to questions. So, E.G. "what color is Galliano", well anybody could rush up to the bar and have a look at the Galliano bottle should they have known that Galliano is a drink (or sidle up if they think and consider that there are people there that don't know it's a drink). So, I mean So-o, whose ever answers are posted first (and second etc. too) will be fair game ie "available resources" to some others, no matter what. So therefore, I must say, emailing's the only way. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 12 02:31PM -0500 John Gerson: > of English tv prog "Eggheads")), and our team thought it > was ok to take advantage of available resources to get answers to > questions... Well, not in the pub trivia league *I* play in. That would be cheating. > So, I mean So-o, whose ever answers are posted first (and > second etc. too) will be fair game ie "available resources" to some > others, no matter what. In the trivia contests like QFTCI and Calvin's quiz, we already trust people not to cheat, so I don't think this is a big issue. However, Erland's concern about accidentally reading followups makes sense to me. -- Mark Brader | "No woman in my time will be Prime Minister or Chancellor Toronto | or Foreign Secretary ... Anyway, I wouldn't want to be msb@vex.net | Prime Minister." -- Margaret Thatcher, 1969 My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| "gerson" <gerson@bigpond.net.au>: Jul 13 10:31AM +1000 "Mark Brader" wrote > > was ok to take advantage of available resources to get answers to > > questions... > Well, not in the pub trivia league *I* play in. That would be cheating Depends what people think the rules are, or ought to be, and I used the Galliano thing to say it's not really possible to avoid "cheating" in some circumstances, and I didn't say I approved of it, and oh, we used to win half the time anyway because we had an advertising man who used to read the newspapers end to end *and* remembered what was in them, and another bloke who was keen on james bond movies and pop music plus, and me who might know how many hearts in an octopus > Mark Brader | "No woman in my time will be Prime Minister or Chancellor > Toronto | or Foreign Secretary ... Anyway, I wouldn't want to be > msb@vex.net | Prime Minister." -- Margaret Thatcher, 1969 shades of Andrew Peacock |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jul 12 04:09PM -0700 On Friday, July 8, 2016 at 11:34:37 AM UTC+10, Calvin wrote: > 1 The words klutz and bagel were absorbed into English from which other language? Yiddish > 2 What is the more common name for the "Cyathea dealbata", the unofficial floral emblem of New Zealand? Silver fern Both words were required > 3 Which 1995 animated film was their first Disney movie to be based on the life of a real person? Pocahontas > 4 In a standard tennis match what is the maximum number of consecutive set points one player might have? 6 [in a tie break] The range of answers given (or not given) suggests there are not many tennis players here > 5 By what name is the Dutch-speaking area in Belgium's north known? Flanders. I also accepted "Flemish region" > 6 What is one gross times one score? 2880 > 7 "There and Back Again" is an alternative title of which 1937 fantasy novel? The Hobbit > 8 In 2022 which city will become the first to have hosted both the summer and winter Olympic Games? Beijing > 9 Which 8-letter word refers to someone who renounces their religion? Apostate > 10 According to a 1794 poem by William Blake, which animal is "burning bright, In the forests of the night"? Tiger / Tyger Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 447 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 9 61 Peter Smyth 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 64 Mark Brader 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 8 60 Gareth Owen 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 61 Chris Johnson 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 61 Bruce Bowler 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 7 57 Dan Tilque 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 7 57 Marc Dashevsky 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 4 36 Pete Gayde 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 3 24 Erland S 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 20 Bjorn Lundin - - - - - - - - - - --- ---------- 10 3 7 1 10 8 8 4 7 7 65 65% Congratulations Peter. cheers, calvin |
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