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| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 25 04:58AM -0500 Welcome to Rotating Quiz #237. I'd like to thank Dan Tilque for running RQ 236 and for once again writing a contest that allowed me to win, even if I didn't notice that the contest number was one of the answers. That won't be the case this time, anyway. The winner of RQ 237, in turn, will be the first choice to set RQ 238, in whatever manner they prefer. Please answer these questions based only on your own knowledge; put all of your answers in a single posting, quoting the question before each one. Answer slates must be posted before Halloween (by Toronto time, zone -4), which gives you 5 days and about 18 hours from the time of posting. For certain questions answers need not be exact, but I won't reveal specifics in advance. In case of a tie, the first tiebreaker is who scored on the hardest questions; the second tiebreaker is whose answers were most exact where others were accepted, and the third tiebreaker is who posted first. 1. [Entertainment] In what 1961 movie does James Cagney play a Coca-Cola representative in Berlin? 2. [Entertainment] What US TV series that ran 2005-10 did this round make me think of? 3. [Literature] How many books by Douglas Adams comprised the "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" trilogy"? 4. [History] French history includes the First Republic, Second Republic, and so on. What number is the present republic? 5. [Literature] In a 1970 novel by Leon Uris, Abraham Cady is sued by Adam Kelno for defamation after writing a novel describing events at a concentration camp. In which Queen's Bench courtroom does the trial take place? 6. [Sports] How many inches in diameter is a soccer ball? 7. [Science] The "astronomical unit" is the radius, or to be more precise the semi-major axis, of the Earth's orbit. How many astronomical units is the same measure for Saturn's orbit? 8. [Geography] How many countries does the Danube River enter? This includes countries that it only runs along the border of. 9. [Science] How many vertebrae are in a normal human spine, not counting fused vertebrae such as the coccyx? 10. [Sports] What was the first player number to be officially retired throughout major-league baseball? 11. [Geography] Australia, Germany, and India are all subdivided into polities mostly known in English as states. Ignoring any other types of subdivisions, how many states are there in all three countries combined? 12. [History] Accepting the point of view that the office of Prime Minister of the UK began with Sir Robert Walpole even though that title had not yet been invented, how many different people have held it? 13. [Science] What is the greatest number of protons in the nucleus of an atom generally considered non-radioactive? (Actually it is very, *very* slightly radioactive, with a half-life around 20,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.) 14. [Sports] What year was the last time the Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup? 15. [Literature] In what novel is it explained: "Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world"? 16. [History] What year were East and West Germany reunited as a single country? 17. [Entertainment] According to a movie starring Raquel Welch, in what year BC were cavemen attacked by dinosaurs? 18. [Geography] According to the CIA World Factbook, how many square kilometers is the land area of Russia? -- Mark Brader | In the face of such devastating logic as "despite Toronto | what you say you mean, you must mean this and you msb@vex.net | are wrong", I cede the territory. --Truly Donovan My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Oct 24 08:15PM -0700 Dan Tilque wrote: > Your job, of course, is to match the above meanings with the words > below. To make things a bit easier, there are no dummy meanings. > 1. bonanza calm sea (Spanish) > 2. eclair lightning (French) > 3. fiasco to make a bottle (Italian) > 4. halcyon kingfisher (Greek) > 5. larva ghost (Latin) > 6. linguini little tongues (Italian) > 7. meershaum sea foam (German) > 8. penne quill (Italian) > 9. proton first (Greek) > 10. rostrum beak (Latin) > 11. strudel whirlpool (German) > 12. torpedo stiffness (Latin) > gazebo lingo > Match those with these meanings: > 13. I believe credo > 14. I disturb* turbo > 15. I forbid veto > 16. I gleam* radio > 17. I hear audio > 18. I lick* lingo > 19. I look out for* proviso (surprised no one got this one) > 20. I see video > 21. I sing canto > 22. I taste* gusto > 23. I will please placebo > 24. I will wash lavabo Scores: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 T --------------------------------------------------- Mark B. 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 18 Dan B. 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 17 Erland 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 16 Chris 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 15 Marc D. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 10 Interesting set of scores. Marc would have done much better if he hadn't skipped the first part, even if he was just guessing. Come on, Marc, couldn't you have gotten 4 right to make all the totals sequential? Anyway, Mark Brader is the winner. Congratulations. And over to you for RQ #237. -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 24 11:20PM -0500 Dan Tilque: > > 16. I gleam* > radio Oh, I get it now! > Interesting set of scores. Marc would have done much better if he hadn't > skipped the first part, even if he was just guessing. Come on, Marc, > couldn't you have gotten 4 right to make all the totals sequential? Good point! > Anyway, Mark Brader is the winner. Congratulations. And over to you for > RQ #237. Thanks, and all right. -- Mark Brader | "But how do you figure out whether the programmer Toronto | knew what he was doing when you find his code msb@vex.net | after he's gone?" -- Roger Critchlow |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Oct 24 11:44PM -0500 In article <numimr$ged$1@dont-email.me>, dtilque@frontier.com says... > Interesting set of scores. Marc would have done much better if he hadn't > skipped the first part, even if he was just guessing. Come on, Marc, > couldn't you have gotten 4 right to make all the totals sequential? I simply didn't see the first set until I was looking at the other entries. I must have been pretty distracted. -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| bbowler <bbowler@bigelow.org>: Oct 24 03:05PM On Sat, 22 Oct 2016 06:18:05 -0500, Mark Brader wrote: > don't have to say anything, and you don't have to do anything. Not a > thing. Oh, maybe just whistle." Give the continuation -- the next > two sentences. You know how to whistle, don't you? Just put your lips together and blow. > 2. 1942: "Major Strasser has been shot." Give the continuation. Round up the usual suspects > 3. 1941, spoken while picking up a black statuette: "Heavy. > What is it?" Give the reply. It's the Maltese Falcon > 4. 1979, two people talking: "You smell that?" -- "What?" -- > "Napalm, boy. Nothing else in the world smells like that." > Give the sentence that continues the last line. I love the smell of napalm in the morning > 5. 1992, two people talking: "You want answers?" -- "I think I'm > entitled to them." -- "You want answers?" -- "I want the truth!" Give > the reply to the last line. You can't handle the truth! > 6. 1939: "Home. I'll go home. And I'll think of some way to get > him back." Give the continuation. After all, tomorrow is another day > 7. 1933: "What does it matter? The airplanes got him." Give the > reply. It's two sentences long, but the second one is the one that > will count. It was beauty killed the beast > 9. 1976: "I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want > you to get up right now, and go to the window, open it, and stick > your head out and yell: ..." Yell what? I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore > 10. 1967: "Virgil. Funny name for a nigger boy from Philadelphia. > What do they call you up there?" Give the reply. They call me Mr. Tibbs |
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