| bbowler <bbowler@bigelow.org>: Oct 19 01:41PM On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 23:45:33 -0500, Mark Brader wrote: > coulda-beens of past US presidential elections. > 1. Which Democrat ran unsuccessfully against Dwight Eisenhower in > 1952 and 1956? Stevenson > candidate for his party's 1988 presidential nomination, but was > undone by rumored marital infidelity and stories of bad debts from a > previous campaign. Who is he? Gary Hart > 5. Who was the Socialist candidate who ran for president five times > from 1900 to 1920? His best showing was in 1912, when he scored 6% > of the popular vote. In 1920, he ran from jail. Debs > 6. Of course, Franklin Roosevelt had the longest record of winning > presidential elections. Name any one of the four second-place > finishers that he defeated. Hoover > or <answer 5>, but some other candidates who got a second kick at > winning the presidency actually managed to pull it off. Who is the > most recent losing candidate to later become president? Nixon > apparently taking support equally from both George H.W. Bush and Bill > Clinton. He ran under a different banner in 1996 with less success. > Name him. H. Ross Perot > "on top of the face": incidental, inconsequential, insignificant, > meaningless, negligible, paltry, petty, superficial, trivial, > unimportant? Superficial > 2. Which one of these words is derived from Latin roots meaning > "talk together": colloquy, confab, conference, consultation, > conversation, debate, dialogue, discussion, palaver, parley? Dialogue > 3. Which one of these words is derived from a Dutch word meaning > "master": boss, bureaucrat, chancellor, director, executive, > magistrate, manager, marshal, officer, president? Magistrate > comes to us by way of another language): break, intermission, > interval, leisure, relax, repose, rest, siesta, tranquilize, > vacation? Siesta > 5. Which one of these words is derived from a Latin word meaning > "bristle" or "tremble", via French: angst, doubt, dread, fear, > fright, horror, jitters, scare, suspicion, terror? Suspicion > 6. Which one of these words is derived from the Latin word for > "needle": acute, astute, brainy, bright, clever, discerning, > intelligent, knowledgeable, perspicacious, smart? Acute > for "answer", but you can see that it came to us through both Italian > and French: answer, comeback, refutation, rejoinder, repartee, reply, > response, riposte, solution, wisecrack? riposte > 8. Which one of these words is originally a place name: brawl, > donnybrook, fight, fray, melee, rhubarb, riot, ruckus, rumble, > slugfest? donnybrook > 9. Which one of these words is derived from the Arabic word for > "cannabis": assassinate, execute, extirpate, guillotine, hang, > liquidate, lynch, murder, regicide, slaughter? execute > 10. Which one of these words is derived from a Greek word for > "one who destroys an image": agnostic, apostate, atheist, doubter, > freethinker, heathen, heretic, iconoclast, infidel, skeptic? iconoclast |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Oct 19 01:51PM > * Game 10, Round 2 - History - US Presidential Losers > 1. Which Democrat ran unsuccessfully against Dwight Eisenhower in > 1952 and 1956? Adlai Stevenson > candidate for his party's 1988 presidential nomination, but > was undone by rumored marital infidelity and stories of bad > debts from a previous campaign. Who is he? Gary Hart > for advocating that silver as well as gold should be a standard > for currency; later on he supported Prohibition, and, famously, > opposed Darwinism. Name him. William Jennings Bryan > in 1872. Despite the corruption of Grant's first term as > president, and despite having two parties behind him, he lost > badly and died 3 weeks after voting day. Who was he? Horace Greeley > 5. Who was the Socialist candidate who ran for president five times > from 1900 to 1920? His best showing was in 1912, when he scored > 6% of the popular vote. In 1920, he ran from jail. Eugene Debs > 6. Of course, Franklin Roosevelt had the longest record of winning > presidential elections. Name any one of the four second-place > finishers that he defeated. Alf Landon > or <answer 5>, but some other candidates who got a second kick at > winning the presidency actually managed to pull it off. Who is > the most recent losing candidate to later become president? Richard Nixon > apparently taking support equally from both George H.W. Bush > and Bill Clinton. He ran under a different banner in 1996 with > less success. Name him. Ross Perot > 9. Gur 1968 Avkba/Uhzcuerl ryrpgvba unq n guveq pnaqvqngr jub > tbg 13.5% bs gur cbchyne ibgr naq 46 Ryrpgbeny Pbyyrtr ibgrf. > Uvf ehaavat zngr jnf Pbyq Jne trareny Phegvf YrZnl. Anzr uvz. George Wallace > Qrjrl'f ehaavat zngr jnf n sbezre Tbireabe bs Pnyvsbeavn naq > n shgher Puvrs Whfgvpr bs gur HF Fhcerzr Pbheg. Fb... znlor > abg fhpu n ybfre nsgre nyy. Jub jnf ur? Earl Warren > "on top of the face": incidental, inconsequential, insignificant, > meaningless, negligible, paltry, petty, superficial, trivial, > unimportant? superficial > 2. Which one of these words is derived from Latin roots meaning > "talk together": colloquy, confab, conference, consultation, > conversation, debate, dialogue, discussion, palaver, parley? colloquy > 3. Which one of these words is derived from a Dutch word meaning > "master": boss, bureaucrat, chancellor, director, executive, > magistrate, manager, marshal, officer, president? boss > (it comes to us by way of another language): break, intermission, > interval, leisure, relax, repose, rest, siesta, tranquilize, > vacation? siesta > 5. Which one of these words is derived from a Latin word meaning > "bristle" or "tremble", via French: angst, doubt, dread, fear, > fright, horror, jitters, scare, suspicion, terror? terror > 6. Which one of these words is derived from the Latin word for > "needle": acute, astute, brainy, bright, clever, discerning, > intelligent, knowledgeable, perspicacious, smart? acute > for "answer", but you can see that it came to us through both > Italian and French: answer, comeback, refutation, rejoinder, > repartee, reply, response, riposte, solution, wisecrack? riposte > 8. Which one of these words is originally a place name: brawl, > donnybrook, fight, fray, melee, rhubarb, riot, ruckus, rumble, > slugfest? donnybrook > 9. Which one of these words is derived from the Arabic word for > "cannabis": assassinate, execute, extirpate, guillotine, hang, > liquidate, lynch, murder, regicide, slaughter? assassinate > "one who destroys an image": agnostic, apostate, atheist, > doubter, freethinker, heathen, heretic, iconoclast, infidel, > skeptic? iconoclast -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Oct 19 07:26PM +0200 On 2016-10-19 06:45, Mark Brader wrote: > also-rans and coulda-beens of past US presidential elections. > 1. Which Democrat ran unsuccessfully against Dwight Eisenhower in > 1952 and 1956? Kennedy > 5. Who was the Socialist candidate who ran for president five times > from 1900 to 1920? His best showing was in 1912, when he scored > 6% of the popular vote. In 1920, he ran from jail. Joe Hill ? > or <answer 5>, but some other candidates who got a second kick at > winning the presidency actually managed to pull it off. Who is > the most recent losing candidate to later become president? Nixon > apparently taking support equally from both George H.W. Bush > and Bill Clinton. He ran under a different banner in 1996 with > less success. Name him. Ross Perot > "on top of the face": incidental, inconsequential, insignificant, > meaningless, negligible, paltry, petty, superficial, trivial, > unimportant? superficial > 2. Which one of these words is derived from Latin roots meaning > "talk together": colloquy, confab, conference, consultation, > conversation, debate, dialogue, discussion, palaver, parley? discussion; dialogue > 3. Which one of these words is derived from a Dutch word meaning > "master": boss, bureaucrat, chancellor, director, executive, > magistrate, manager, marshal, officer, president? magistrate; manager > (it comes to us by way of another language): break, intermission, > interval, leisure, relax, repose, rest, siesta, tranquilize, > vacation? intermission > 5. Which one of these words is derived from a Latin word meaning > "bristle" or "tremble", via French: angst, doubt, dread, fear, > fright, horror, jitters, scare, suspicion, terror? scare; suspicion > 6. Which one of these words is derived from the Latin word for > "needle": acute, astute, brainy, bright, clever, discerning, > intelligent, knowledgeable, perspicacious, smart? acute; intelligent > for "answer", but you can see that it came to us through both > Italian and French: answer, comeback, refutation, rejoinder, > repartee, reply, response, riposte, solution, wisecrack? riposte; response > 8. Which one of these words is originally a place name: brawl, > donnybrook, fight, fray, melee, rhubarb, riot, ruckus, rumble, > slugfest? fray;brawl > 9. Which one of these words is derived from the Arabic word for > "cannabis": assassinate, execute, extirpate, guillotine, hang, > liquidate, lynch, murder, regicide, slaughter? assassinate > "one who destroys an image": agnostic, apostate, atheist, > doubter, freethinker, heathen, heretic, iconoclast, infidel, > skeptic? iconoclast -- -- Björn |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Oct 19 09:29PM +0200 > candidate for his party's 1988 presidential nomination, but > was undone by rumored marital infidelity and stories of bad > debts from a previous campaign. Who is he? Gary Hart > 5. Who was the Socialist candidate who ran for president five times > from 1900 to 1920? His best showing was in 1912, when he scored > 6% of the popular vote. In 1920, he ran from jail. Joe Hill > 6. Of course, Franklin Roosevelt had the longest record of winning > presidential elections. Name any one of the four second-place > finishers that he defeated. Hoover > or <answer 5>, but some other candidates who got a second kick at > winning the presidency actually managed to pull it off. Who is > the most recent losing candidate to later become president? Assuming that you mean a person who made it to the finals, I believe that would be Richard Nixon. Else Ronald Reagan is a later case, who was in the race 1976, but did not win his party's nomination.) > apparently taking support equally from both George H.W. Bush > and Bill Clinton. He ran under a different banner in 1996 with > less success. Name him. Ross Perot > 9. Gur 1968 Avkba/Uhzcuerl ryrpgvba unq n guveq pnaqvqngr jub > tbg 13.5% bs gur cbchyne ibgr naq 46 Ryrpgbeny Pbyyrtr ibgrf. > Uvf ehaavat zngr jnf Pbyq Jne trareny Phegvf YrZnl. Anzr uvz. George Wallace > "on top of the face": incidental, inconsequential, insignificant, > meaningless, negligible, paltry, petty, superficial, trivial, > unimportant? Superficial > 2. Which one of these words is derived from Latin roots meaning > "talk together": colloquy, confab, conference, consultation, > conversation, debate, dialogue, discussion, palaver, parley? conference > 3. Which one of these words is derived from a Dutch word meaning > "master": boss, bureaucrat, chancellor, director, executive, > magistrate, manager, marshal, officer, president? boss > (it comes to us by way of another language): break, intermission, > interval, leisure, relax, repose, rest, siesta, tranquilize, > vacation? siesta > 5. Which one of these words is derived from a Latin word meaning > "bristle" or "tremble", via French: angst, doubt, dread, fear, > fright, horror, jitters, scare, suspicion, terror? scare > 6. Which one of these words is derived from the Latin word for > "needle": acute, astute, brainy, bright, clever, discerning, > intelligent, knowledgeable, perspicacious, smart? acute > for "answer", but you can see that it came to us through both > Italian and French: answer, comeback, refutation, rejoinder, > repartee, reply, response, riposte, solution, wisecrack? response > 8. Which one of these words is originally a place name: brawl, > donnybrook, fight, fray, melee, rhubarb, riot, ruckus, rumble, > slugfest? donnybrook > 9. Which one of these words is derived from the Arabic word for > "cannabis": assassinate, execute, extirpate, guillotine, hang, > liquidate, lynch, murder, regicide, slaughter? assassinate > "one who destroys an image": agnostic, apostate, atheist, > doubter, freethinker, heathen, heretic, iconoclast, infidel, > skeptic? iconoclast -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Oct 20 01:22AM -0700 Erland Sommarskog wrote: > Assuming that you mean a person who made it to the finals, I believe > that would be Richard Nixon. Else Ronald Reagan is a later case, who > was in the race 1976, but did not win his party's nomination.) There's one more recent than that. Bush Senior ran for president in 1980 and also didn't get the nomination. I can't think of any others, although the way things are going, Hillary Clinton will join this club. Like you and everyone else, I assumed they were talking about people who got their party nomination. After all, this quiz was by and for Canadians, and they wouldn't be expected to remember all the also-ran candidates. -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 20 03:45AM -0500 Dan Tilque: > Like you and everyone else, I assumed they were talking about people who > got their party nomination. Yes, those are the candidates for the presidency. The others in the primaries are only candidates to *be* candidates for the presidency. -- Mark Brader | "I noted with some interest that Fahrenheit was Toronto | also used in the weather forecast, but there the msb@vex.net | gas marks were missing." -- Ivan A. Derzhanski |
| swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: Oct 19 06:32PM -0700 On Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 10:25:18 PM UTC-4, swp wrote: > answer slates must be posted before 9pm edt (philadelphia/toronto time) on wednesday, 2016-10-19, which gives about 6 days from the time of this posting. what was I thinking? scoring this during the Cubs-dodgers game. all mistakes are attributed to the dodgers; LET'S GO CUBS!! > have fun! first, the expected answers 1. what was awarded to Bob Dylan this week? the nobel prize in literature (I am certain that we were all equally shocked by this.) 2. what is the default name of the amazon echo device's 'personality'? alexa 3. name the characters in this image: http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=16977138 yakko, wacko, & dot; aka the warner brothers and their sister dot 4. what was the last year the Chicago Cubs played in the MLB world series? 1945; they last *won* in 1908 5. russia held a nuclear war exercise on 10/4-10/7 involving how many people? 40 million 6. the television show 'supernatural' began its new season on october 13th. what season is it? 14 7. canadian thanksgiving was this past october 10th. what year did it begin as an official canadian holiday? 1879 8. who was the original lead singer for the musical group 'chicago'? peter cetera 9. 'pizza the hut' was a character played by Dom DeLuise in what 1987 movie? spaceballs 10. A couple celebrating their crystal wedding anniversary have been married for how many years? 15 now lets see how to score this... 3 Dan Blum 1 Mark Brader 3 Gareth Owen 2 Marc Dashevsky 1 Peter Smyth 4 Dan Tilque 4 Pete so there were some unintentional stumpers in there. but in the end, there can be only 1 winner. I decalre Dan Tilque to be the winner! congratulations Dan!! D! A! N! Dan! Dan! Dan! rq236 is yours to do with as you please. thank you each for playing. swp |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Oct 20 01:06AM -0700 swp wrote: > I decalre Dan Tilque to be the winner! congratulations Dan!! Wow, did not expect to win this one. As it happens I have a quiz pre-made for this, but it probably needs a bit of polishing up. I'll try to post it tomorrow. -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 19 11:06PM -0500 Mark Brader: >> to anticipate this answer and ask for a properly specific one. So, >> 4 for Marc. 3 for Dan Blum, Erland, Dan Tilque, Calvin, and Pete. >> 1 for Bruce. Erland Sommarskog: > Hrmpf! I said "Reflections of light from Earth". What light would Earth > reflect if not light from the glorious Helios? Alpha Centauri? You didn't say it *was* being reflected by the Earth. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "Any story that needs a critic to explain it, msb@vex.net | needs rewriting." -- Larry Niven |
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