- Rotating Quiz #237 - 1 Update
- QFTCI16 Game 10, Rounds 7-8: poetry and grand slams - 2 Updates
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Oct 26 07:30PM -0700 On Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 7:59:03 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > Coca-Cola representative in Berlin? > 2. [Entertainment] What US TV series that ran 2005-10 did this > round make me think of? Party of Five > 3. [Literature] How many books by Douglas Adams comprised the > "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" trilogy"? 5 > 4. [History] French history includes the First Republic, Second > Republic, and so on. What number is the present republic? 5th > 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? Mila 18 > 6. [Sports] How many inches in diameter is a soccer ball? 12 > 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? 20 > 8. [Geography] How many countries does the Danube River enter? > This includes countries that it only runs along the border of. 20 > 9. [Science] How many vertebrae are in a normal human spine, > not counting fused vertebrae such as the coccyx? 20 > 10. [Sports] What was the first player number to be officially > retired throughout major-league baseball? 20 > into polities mostly known in English as states. Ignoring any > other types of subdivisions, how many states are there in all > three countries combined? 53 > 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? 55 > 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.) 91 > 14. [Sports] What year was the last time the Toronto Maple Leafs > won the Stanley Cup? 1991 > 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"? Nineteen Eighty Four > 16. [History] What year were East and West Germany reunited as a > single country? 1991 > 17. [Entertainment] According to a movie starring Raquel Welch, > in what year BC were cavemen attacked by dinosaurs? 5001 > 18. [Geography] According to the CIA World Factbook, how many > square kilometers is the land area of Russia? 20 million cheers, calvin |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Oct 26 03:39PM Mark Brader wrote: > Stand in the desert..." > 5. I wander'd lonely as a cloud > That floats on high o'er vales and hills... William Wordsworth > 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of > the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals. > Name all four. Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, US Open > 2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all > three. Grass, Clay, Hard (technically there are some differences between the Australian hardcourt and the US hardcourt) > Slam tournament. One of the main reasons is because this Swiss > player has won 17 of the 67 total Grand Slam tournaments during > that period. His 17 wins is the current record. Roger Federer > Grand Slam tournaments since 2000. This player is a clay court > specialist, and 9 of those 14 wins were at the French Open, > the only Grand Slam tournament that uses clay courts. Rafael Nadal > 5. This Serbian player is on track to surpass Rafael Nadal in > Grand Slam tournament wins. He currently has 12, including > both the Australian and French Opens this year. Novak Djokovic > and Djokovic. He has lost to one or the other in 7 Grand > Slam tournament finals. He most recently beat Milos Raonic > [rhymes with "cow nitch"] at this year's Wimbledon. Andy Murray > wild-card spot. In the finals he managed to beat Patrick Rafter. > His win inspired the 2004 movie "Wimbledon", starring Paul > Bettany and Kirsten Dunst. Goran Ivanisevic > American to win a Grand Slam tournament, namely the US Open > in 2003. He did make the finals of Wimbledon three times, > but lost all three times to, yes, Federer. Andy Roddick > 300 and both have won Grand Slam tournaments this century. > The one not named Federer is this player who won the 2014 > Australian Open and the 2015 French Open. Stan Wawrinka > 10. The only Australian to win a Grand Slam tournament since 2000 > is this player who is known for his trademark "backwards baseball > cap" look. He won the US Open in 2001 and Wimbledon in 2002. Lleyton Hewitt Peter Smyth |
| Pete <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Oct 26 07:00PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:qc-dnfEqnNKifpLFnZ2dnUU7- > openings, *either* name the poet *or* just give the title of the poem. > 1. Come live with me and be my love > And we will all the pleasures prove... Shelley; Whitman > 2. When I consider how my light is spent > Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide... Shelley; Whitman > 3. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, > The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea... Shelley; Whitman > 4. I met a traveller from an antique land > Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone > Stand in the desert..." Whitman; Shelley > 5. I wander'd lonely as a cloud > That floats on high o'er vales and hills... Whitman; Shelley > 6. The sea is calm tonight. > The tide is full, the moon lies fair > Upon the straits... Whitman; Shelley > Maids heard the goblins cry: > "Come buy our orchard fruits, > Come buy, come buy..." Whitman; Shelley > "To turn you out, to turn you out", the Colour-Sergeant said. > "What makes you look so white, so white?" said Files-on-Parade. > "I'm dreadin' what I've got to watch", the Colour-Sergeant said... Shelley; Whitman > 9. Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs > About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green... Whitman; Shelley > The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, > The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, > And... Whitman; Shelley > 1. In tennis the phrase Grand Slam refers to four tournaments of > the ATP tour -- that's the Association of Tennis Professionals. > Name all four. Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, U.S. Open > 2. ATP tournaments are played on three types of courts. Name all > three. Clay, Grass, Hard > Fynz gbheanzrag. Bar bs gur znva ernfbaf vf orpnhfr guvf Fjvff > cynlre unf jba 17 bs gur 67 gbgny Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf qhevat > gung crevbq. Uvf 17 jvaf vf gur pheerag erpbeq. Federer > Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf fvapr 2000. Guvf cynlre vf n pynl pbheg > fcrpvnyvfg, naq 9 bs gubfr 14 jvaf jrer ng gur Serapu Bcra, > gur bayl Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag gung hfrf pynl pbhegf. Nadal > 5. Guvf Freovna cynlre vf ba genpx gb fhecnff Ensnry Anqny va > Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag jvaf. Ur pheeragyl unf 12, vapyhqvat > obgu gur Nhfgenyvna naq Serapu Bcraf guvf lrne. Djokovic > naq Qwbxbivp. Ur unf ybfg gb bar be gur bgure va 7 Tenaq > Fynz gbheanzrag svanyf. Ur zbfg erpragyl orng Zvybf Enbavp > [eulzrf jvgu "pbj avgpu"] ng guvf lrne'f Jvzoyrqba. Murray > Nzrevpna gb jva n Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag, anzryl gur HF Bcra > va 2003. Ur qvq znxr gur svanyf bs Jvzoyrqba guerr gvzrf, > ohg ybfg nyy guerr gvzrf gb, lrf, Srqrere. Roddick > 300 naq obgu unir jba Tenaq Fynz gbheanzragf guvf praghel. > Gur bar abg anzrq Srqrere vf guvf cynlre jub jba gur 2014 > Nhfgenyvna Bcra naq gur 2015 Serapu Bcra. Wawrinka > 10. Gur bayl Nhfgenyvna gb jva n Tenaq Fynz gbheanzrag fvapr 2000 > vf guvf cynlre jub vf xabja sbe uvf genqrznex "onpxjneqf onfronyy > pnc" ybbx. Ur jba gur HF Bcra va 2001 naq Jvzoyrqba va 2002. Cash Pete Gayde |
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