Sunday, November 13, 2016

Digest for rec.games.trivia@googlegroups.com - 15 updates in 5 topics

msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 13 01:40AM -0600

Mark Brader:
> see my 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
 
 
> I wrote two triples in this round.
 
A and C.
 
This was the easiest round in the original game.
 
 
> the one declaring may, instead of declaring trumps, say
> 'biritch', which means that the hands shall be played
> without trumps."
 
"Biritch, or Russian whist" is what it's called in that rule book.
Today we spell it "bridge". I'm accepting any of those, but not
plain "whist", which did not have any declaring. ("Biritch" means
notrump.) 4 for Pete, Gareth (presumably), Dan Tilque, and Dan Blum.
 
> the conclusion an equal number of hands must be played";
> also, "Three hands out, all out." Hint: it's not a card
> game.
 
Base ball. Today we spell it "baseball". ("Aces" means runs,
and "hands" appears to mean half-innings in the first quoted rule
but players in the second one.) 4 for Joshua, Peter, Gareth,
and Dan Tilque.
 
> touched the tree with it, may drop from either side if he
> can, but the opposite side may oblige him to go to his own
> side of the tree."
 
Football as played as Rugby school. Today we call it "rugby".
("Tree" means tree. There were trees on the playing field!)
4 for Dan Tilque.
 
 
 
> B1. Which one of the following is not a form of solitaire?
> Black Widow, Captive Queens, Flower Garden, Idiot's Delight,
> Osmosis, Otis Elevator, Penguin.
 
Otis Elevator (a form of poker) was the expected answer, but one
entrant called attention to a non-solitaire card game called Osmosis,
so I accepted that answer also. 4 for Joshua, Peter, and Dan Blum.
3 for Pete.
 
> B2. If a side has won a game in a current rubber of bridge,
> it is then said to be what (aside from happy, presumably)?
 
Vulnerable. 4 for Marc, Peter, Pete, Erland, Gareth, Dan Tilque,
and Dan Blum.
 
> B3. When a player wins at cribbage by a margin of 31 or more
> points, what has he or she achieved?
 
Skunk (among other terms). 4 for Marc, Pete, Dan Tilque,
and Dan Blum. 3 for Gareth.
 
I found multiple sources confirming that the cribbage scoreboard may
be considered as divided into a succession of 30-point"streets",
but no references to winning "by a street", which logically would
mean winning by 30 or more. I decided to score that answer as
"almost correct".
 
 
> * C. What is this Sport?
 
> In each case, name the sport being played in the picture.
 
> C1. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-6/what/c1.jpg
 
(Team) handball. 4 for Joshua, Marc, Björn, Peter, Pete, Erland,
Gareth, and Dan Tilque.
 
> C2. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-6/what/c2.jpg
> The ball is yellow; look near the posts.
 
Australian ("Aussie rules") football. 4 for Peter, Pete, and Gareth.
 
> C3. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-6/what/c3.jpg
> The ball is white; look to the left of the man in the
> yellow helmet, in front of another player's leg.
 
Hurling. (Played principally in Ireland, on the same field used
for Gaelic football.) 4 for Peter, Gareth, and Dan Tilque.
 
 
> show "Reach for the Top" in Newfoundland. But then he was
> somehow lured away from that plum gig by a long-lasting
> stint with "Hockey Night in Canada". Name him.
 
Bob Cole.
 
> he was the voice of the Montreal Expos for 32 years, he's
> practically one of us. He currently works for the Miami
> Marlins.
 
Dave Van Horne.
 
> D3. This former hurdler went into broadcasting after retirement
> and worked the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto. She is part
> of CBC's coverage of the 2016 Summer Olympics.
 
Perdita Felicien.
 
 
> them to a particular Canadian city, many fans were hoping
> the team would be renamed after which former NHL club that
> had previously been there in the 1920s?
 
Hamilton Tigers (as you will remember from Game 7, Round 7).
 
> E2. Which was the first, and so far the only, US-based team to
> win the Grey Cup?
 
Baltimore Stallions. (In 1995. The CFL only had teams in the US for
2 years, 1994-95. When the NHL tried it, it lasted somewhat longer.)
 
> hosted the first-ever game of the Basketball Association
> of America (forerunner to the NBA), losing 68-66 to the
> New York Knickerbockers?
 
Toronto Huskies.
 
 
> certain city. Players roll dice and pick cards in order
> to be able to attack other players, while at the same time
> maintaining their own state of health.
 
King of Tokyo (or King of New York). 4 for Dan Blum.
 
> F2. This 2-player strategy game takes its name from a quote by
> John F. Kennedy. Players represent the US and USSR and
> play out scenarios based on the post-WW2 era.
 
Twilight Struggle. 4 for Dan Blum.
 
> models a scenario where four diseases have broken out and
> the players take the roles of medical specialists who have
> to work together to find cures.
 
Pandemic. 4 for Gareth and Dan Blum.
 
 
Scores, if there are no errors:
 
FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Ent Geo Mis Spo
Joshua Kreitzer 44 48 48 12 152
Dan Blum 36 30 36 28 130
Gareth Owen 44 -- 46 31 121
Dan Tilque 16 56 20 28 120
Marc Dashevsky 48 24 32 12 116
Pete Gayde 43 34 16 23 116
Peter Smyth -- 30 12 24 66
Erland Sommarskog -- 40 -- 8 48
Jason Kreitzer 28 -- 12 -- 40
Björn Lundin 4 20 4 4 32
 
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Mark Brader "...living through a coup involves a lot of
Toronto sitting around refreshing web pages."
msb@vex.net --Harriet Boulding
 
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Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Nov 13 08:08AM

> entrant called attention to a non-solitaire card game called Osmosis,
> so I accepted that answer also. 4 for Joshua, Peter, and Dan Blum.
> 3 for Pete.
 
Black Widow (and other less polite variations) are alternative names for
what MS Windows calls "Hearts".
http://whiteknucklecards.com/games/blackmaria.html
 
My father taught me the game as "Black Bitch", but that's fathers for you.
 
> but no references to winning "by a street", which logically would
> mean winning by 30 or more. I decided to score that answer as
> "almost correct".
 
A winning score is 121, as you need to peg out of the final street[0].
If the opponent is still in the third street (61-90 points), the margin
would be 31+.
 
I'd always understood the phrases "winning by a street" (which is not
uncommon in the UK) and "streets ahead" both came from cribbage.
The evidenve for this seems pretty tenuous though.
 
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/win-by-a-street.2495240/
 
[0] 120 points leaves you "in the hole", where some regional variations
impose weird rules on you.
Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Nov 13 08:18AM


> I'd always understood the phrases "winning by a street" (which is not
> uncommon in the UK) and "streets ahead" both came from cribbage.
> The evidenve for this seems pretty tenuous though.
 
I have a poorly baby sleeping on me with only this laptop within reach,
so I've gone totally down the rabbit-hole on this. Here's a story about
the show-runner of NBC's "Community" trying to introduce "Streets ahead"
into American English...
 
https://britishisms.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/streets-ahead/
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 13 03:38AM -0600

Mark Brader:
>> entrant called attention to a non-solitaire card game called Osmosis,
>> so I accepted that answer also. 4 for Joshua, Peter, and Dan Blum.
>> 3 for Pete.

Gareth Owen:
> Black Widow (and other less polite variations) are alternative names for
> what MS Windows calls "Hearts".
> http://whiteknucklecards.com/games/blackmaria.html
 
Okay. I knew Black Maria, but not the other name, and I couldn't find
it on a search like "black widow" "card game", so I assumed it was a
guess.
 
4 for Joshua, *Marc*, Marc, Peter, *Gareth*, and Dan Blum. 3 for Pete.
 

> My father taught me the game as "Black Bitch", but that's fathers for you.
 
I'm reminded of one time I was on a train in Europe and saw some young
people playing a card game I didn't recognize. I asked what it was and
they seemed very embarrassed and then said "President". And I realized
it was the game I'd heard called "The President and the Asshole".
(This, too, has many variations in its name.)

 
 
> A winning score is 121, as you need to peg out of the final street[0].
> If the opponent is still in the third street (61-90 points), the margin
> would be 31+.
 
As I said. But you've glossed "winning by a street" as "opponent is
still in the third street when you're off the fourth". That looks to
me like "winning by more than a street". I suggest that 121-91 should
logically still be "winning by a street".
 
I tried this Google search:
 
cribbage "win|won|winning by a street"
 
There were a handful of hits, only three of which gave specific meanings.
One said it's winning by at least 30, one said they thought it was 30.
The third said that players "in the same street" are no more than 30
apart, and to "win by a street" is to win by more than 30; and since
the first part of the sentence is off by 1, I think the second is too.
 
Pending additional evidence (and after reading several sets of rules
of cribbage online), I stand by my ruling. Do *you* think I should
have given full points?
 
 
Scores, if there there are now no errors:
 
FINAL ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Ent Geo Mis Spo
Joshua Kreitzer 44 48 48 12 152
Dan Blum 36 30 36 28 130
Gareth Owen 44 -- 46 35 125
Dan Tilque 16 56 20 28 120
Marc Dashevsky 48 24 32 16 120
Pete Gayde 43 34 16 23 116
Peter Smyth -- 30 12 24 66
Erland Sommarskog -- 40 -- 8 48
Jason Kreitzer 28 -- 12 -- 40
Björn Lundin 4 20 4 4 32
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Toronto | round your neck, or else you hang them by the neck."
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Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Nov 13 10:08AM


> Pending additional evidence (and after reading several sets of rules
> of cribbage online), I stand by my ruling. Do *you* think I should
> have given full points?
 
No. Like I said, the evidence is thin. Three points is totally fair.
 
What I can tell you is that that's what its always been called in
i) pubs around the South Cheshire region
ii) my college bar
 
Beyond that, I got nuthin.
 
FWIW, I've *never* heard it referred to as "skunk", which seems very
common in North American cribbage circles. I have heard that term for
beating someone at 15-ball pool when they have all seven of their balls
left on the table.
 
Still, far from the most baffling thing about Americans this week.
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 13 04:51AM -0600

Gareth Owen:
 
> What I can tell you is that that's what its always been called in
> i) pubs around the South Cheshire region
> ii) my college bar
 
But in these milieus, would it have been used in such a way that a
121-91 win did not count? For example, if I was playing Carcassonne,
where the scores are kept by moving tokens around a 50-point loop,
I'd say I'd won by a lap if I won 130-80; it wouldn't need to be
130-79.

> FWIW, I've *never* heard it referred to as "skunk", which seems very
> common in North American cribbage circles.
 
The other words I might have expected were "lurch" and "schneider".
 
> I have heard that term for beating someone at 15-ball pool
 
I guess you mean 8-ball. (The game where each player "owns" 7 of
the balls, either the stripes or the solid colors -- or in a British
pub, either the reds or the yellows -- and after sinking all of them,
must then sink the black 8-ball.)
 
> when they have all seven of their balls left on the table.
 
I haven't, but I've never played that seriously or mixed with people
who do. I think I've heard of "schneider" as an occasional term for
a shutout win in sports, so if "skunk" and "schneider" are synonymous
in one context, it makes sense that they would be in another.
 

> Still, far from the most baffling thing about Americans this week.
 
I'm not touching that one with a big-league trump card.
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Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Nov 13 10:59AM

>> ii) my college bar
 
> But in these milieus, would it have been used in such a way that a
> 121-91 win did not count?
 
Yes, because someone with 91 points has their lead peg in the first hole
of the 4th street. Winning by a street meant both the opponents pegs
are still on the third street. Your logic is correct, but a lead of 31
looks objectivelt different on the physical scoreboard.

> the balls, either the stripes or the solid colors -- or in a British
> pub, either the reds or the yellows -- and after sinking all of them,
> must then sink the black 8-ball.)
 
yes. that one.
 
>> Still, far from the most baffling thing about Americans this week.
 
> I'm not touching that one with a big-league trump card.
 
I meant #3 Michigan's loss to Iowa, obviously.
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 13 01:20AM -0600

(Round 6 is now closed. Answers and scores will be posted shortly
after this message.)
 
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-08-09,
and should be interpreted accordingly.
 
On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
the correct answers in about 3 days.
 
All questions were written by members of the Usual Suspects and
are used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may
have been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information
see my 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
 
 
I wrote 3 triples in this round.
 
 
** Final, Round 7 -- History
 
* A. WW2 Campaigns
 
In each case, name the World War II battle or campaign from the
commanders given. The people we name may be those in direct
operational command or at a higher level.
 
A1. Commanders on the offense included Hermann Göring, Albert
Kesselring, and Hugo Sperrle; on the defense, Hugh Dowding,
Keith Park, and Trafford Leigh-Mallory. Name the battle
or campaign, which began in mid-1940.
 
A2. Commanders on the offense included Frederick Browning,
Brian Horrocks, James Gavin, and Roy Urquhart. On the
defense, Wilhelm Bittrich, Gerd von Rundstedt, and
Walther Model. Name the battle or campaign, which began
in September 1944.
 
A3. Commanders on the offense included Sepp Dietrich,
Hasso-Eccard von Manteuffel, and Walther Model; on the
defense, George Patton, William H. Simpson, and Anthony
McAuliffe. Name the battle or campaign, which began in
December 1944.
 
A4. Extra question for fun, but for no points: What did all
three of these campaigns have in common?
 
 
* B. Merged Cities
 
B1. In 1998, as you may remember, all the member municipalities
then existing in Metropolitan Toronto were merged to form
the present city of Toronto. One of them was the old city
of Toronto; name *all* the others (and no extras).
 
B2. This European capital city was formed by the merger of
three cities or towns and is named after the two largest
ones. What is it?
 
B3. Name the two cities that merged, also taking in some nearby
townships, to form Thunder Bay, Ontario.
 
 
* C. Refugee Camps
 
In what countries are each of the following refugee camps?
 
C1. The Jungle.
C2. Dadaab.
C3. Zaatari.
 
 
* D. Under Siege
 
D1. Which of the sieges that took place during the Indian
Rebellion included a false promise of safe evacuation by
Nana Sahib and ended in the Bibighar Massacre?
 
D2. How many days did the Siege of Leningrad last, within 5%
of the true number?
 
D3. Who was sent in 1884 to evacuate the British garrison at
Khartoum, but ended up besieged?
 
 
* E. Mayors of New York
 
E1. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-7/nyc/e1.jpg
 
This man was first elected in the 1920s and was mayor for
6 years, during which he discouraged the police from
enforcing the Prohibition laws. He was part of the Tammany
Hall machine and was forced to resign over corruption.
And as you see here, he was something of a dandy. Name him.
 
E2. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-7/nyc/e2.jpg
 
This man had 12 years as mayor, and was a big supporter of
Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal even though they were of
opposite parties. Here he is speaking on the radio (not
reading the comics apparently). Name him.
 
E3. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/f-7/nyc/e3.jpg
 
During this man's 12 years as mayor, mostly in the 1980s,
he liked to stand on street corners and ask people, "How'm
I doing?" After he was defeated for re-election, he said
"The people have spoken -- and they must be punished."
Name him.
 
 
* F. Nicaragua
 
F1. Who was the American adventurer who wrangled for himself the
presidency of Nicaragua in 1857 after taking part in a civil
war and organizing some election skullduggery? Driven out a
year later, he escaped with his skin but got himself executed
in Honduras in 1860 in the aftermath of another intrigue.
 
F2. The Americans called him a bandit, but the Nicaraguans
call him a general and many revere him to this day. Who is
the revolutionary guerrilla leader against a US-supported
government who was shot by the Nicaraguan National Guard
in 1934?
 
F3. Please decode the rot13 only after you are finished with the
previous question. Gur Fnaqvavfgnf tnvarq cbjre va
Avpnenthn va 1979 nsgre gur bireguebj bs gur qvpgngbe Fbzbmn.
Gurl ybfg vg 11 lrnef yngre jura gur pbhagel'f svefg srznyr
cerfvqrag jnf ryrpgrq. Fur vf gur jvqbj bs n cebzvarag
arjfcncre choyvfure jub jnf nffnffvangrq va 1978, yvxryl
orpnhfr bs uvf bireg bccbfvgvba gb Fbzbmn. Anzr ure.
 
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Toronto "Well, he went through all the emotions."
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Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Nov 13 09:08AM +0100

> B2. This European capital city was formed by the merger of
> three cities or towns and is named after the two largest
> ones. What is it?
 
Budapest

> In what countries are each of the following refugee camps?
 
> C1. The Jungle.
 
France (also in a recent Current Events)
 
> C2. Dadaab.
 
Kenya (also in my most recent RQ)
 
> D2. How many days did the Siege of Leningrad last, within 5%
> of the true number?
 
900

> the revolutionary guerrilla leader against a US-supported
> government who was shot by the Nicaraguan National Guard
> in 1934?
 
Sandin

> cerfvqrag jnf ryrpgrq. Fur vf gur jvqbj bs n cebzvarag
> arjfcncre choyvfure jub jnf nffnffvangrq va 1978, yvxryl
> orpnhfr bs uvf bireg bccbfvgvba gb Fbzbmn. Anzr ure.
 
Her name has falled out of my memory - once-Sandinista Daniel Ortega
is back in power.
 
 
 
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Nov 13 01:53AM -0800

Mark Brader wrote:
> Kesselring, and Hugo Sperrle; on the defense, Hugh Dowding,
> Keith Park, and Trafford Leigh-Mallory. Name the battle
> or campaign, which began in mid-1940.
 
invasion of Norway
 
> defense, Wilhelm Bittrich, Gerd von Rundstedt, and
> Walther Model. Name the battle or campaign, which began
> in September 1944.
 
Market-Garden
 
> defense, George Patton, William H. Simpson, and Anthony
> McAuliffe. Name the battle or campaign, which began in
> December 1944.
 
Battle of the Bulge
 
 
> B2. This European capital city was formed by the merger of
> three cities or towns and is named after the two largest
> ones. What is it?
 
Budapest
 
 
> * C. Refugee Camps
 
> In what countries are each of the following refugee camps?
 
> C1. The Jungle.
 
France
 
> C2. Dadaab.
 
Kenya
 
> C3. Zaatari.
 
Iraq
 
> Nana Sahib and ended in the Bibighar Massacre?
 
> D2. How many days did the Siege of Leningrad last, within 5%
> of the true number?
 
900
 
> I doing?" After he was defeated for re-election, he said
> "The people have spoken -- and they must be punished."
> Name him.
 
Koch
 
> war and organizing some election skullduggery? Driven out a
> year later, he escaped with his skin but got himself executed
> in Honduras in 1860 in the aftermath of another intrigue.
 
Walker
 
> the revolutionary guerrilla leader against a US-supported
> government who was shot by the Nicaraguan National Guard
> in 1934?
 
Sandino
 
 
--
Dan Tilque
"Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Nov 13 10:00AM

Mark Brader wrote:
 
 
> B2. This European capital city was formed by the merger of
> three cities or towns and is named after the two largest
> ones. What is it?
Budapest
 
> * C. Refugee Camps
 
> In what countries are each of the following refugee camps?
 
> C1. The Jungle.
France
> C2. Dadaab.
Jordan
> C3. Zaatari.
Jordan
> Nana Sahib and ended in the Bibighar Massacre?
 
> D2. How many days did the Siege of Leningrad last, within 5%
> of the true number?
365
> Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal even though they were of
> opposite parties. Here he is speaking on the radio (not
> reading the comics apparently). Name him.
LaGuardia
> I doing?" After he was defeated for re-election, he said
> "The people have spoken -- and they must be punished."
> Name him.
Koch
> president was elected. She is the widow of a prominent
> newspaper publisher who was assassinated in 1978, likely
> because of his overt opposition to Somoza. Name her.
 
 
Peter Smyth
"Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Nov 07 04:39PM

Mark Brader wrote:
 
 
> ** Final, Round 4 -- Miscellaneous
 
> * A. Things Called "Go"
 
> A1. "GO" Transit was an acronym. For what?
Greater Ontario?
> A2. Go is a game played on a gridded board like chess or
> checkers, but is played on the intersections of the lines.
> How many intersections wide is a standard Go board?
15
> A3. Something else called Go was invented by Robert Griesemer,
> Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It incorporates ideas from Alef,
> Oberon, Scheme, C, and others. What is it?
Programming language
 
> * E. Fictional Afterlives
 
> E1. Which fictional race believes in a heaven, if you can call
> it that, called Sto'Vo'Kor?
Klingons
> * An American writer, scriptwriter of "The Princess Bride",
> "Marathon Man", "All The President's Men", and "Butch
> Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".
William Golding and William Goldman
> F3. * A militaristic species in the "Star Trek" universe.
> * A family of reality-TV pseudo-celebrities.
Klingon and Kardashian
 
Peter Smyth
Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Nov 05 10:25PM -0700

Dan Tilque wrote:
> attention.
 
> 3. Name the three members of the Trimurti. That is, the three principal
> gods of Hinduism.
 
Brahmam, Shiva, Vishnu
 
 
> 4. Name the four horsemen of the Apocalypse.
 
War, Famine, Pestilence, Death
 
 
> 5. Name the five spacecraft that have left or will leave the Solar System.
 
Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, New Horizons
 
 
> 6. Name the six tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy.
 
Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca, Tuscarora
 
 
> 7. Name the seven metalic elements known in classical antiquity.
 
gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, tin, mercury
 
 
> 8. Name the eight US states that border on one or more of the Great Lakes.
 
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin,
Minnesota
 
 
> 9. Name the nine worlds of Norse mythology. (If you don't know the Norse
> names, I'll accept descriptions, either what beings they're home to or
> what elements they're a world of.)
 
(I hope these non-ascii characters come through)
 
Ásgarðr (Asgard) (the Aesir or major gods)
Miðgarðr (Midgard) (humans, accepting Middle-Earth, but not "Earth")
Jötunheimr (giants)
Hel (Helheimr or Náir) (the dead)
Álfheimr (light elves)
Svartálfaheimr (dark elves or dwarves)
Vanaheimr (Vanir or minor gods)
Niflheimr (ice or cold)
Múspellsheimr (fire)
 
 
> 10. Name the ten countries that the Danube flows through.
 
Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania,
Moldova, Ukraine
 
 
> 11. Name the eleven basic color words in English.
 
black, white, red, yellow, green, blue, brown, grey, orange, pink, purple
 
 
> 12. Name the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac.
 
rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster,
dog, pig
 
 
> 13. Name the thirteen dwarves in The Hobbit.
 
Thorin Oakenshield, Fili, Kili, Balin, Dwalin, Oin, Gloin, Ori, Dori,
Nori, Bifur, Bofur, Bombur
 
 
> I don't know of any good groups of 14, so you guys are spared any
> further questions.
 
Scores:
 
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 T
-----------------------------------------
Dan Blum 3 4 4 3 7 8 6 6 11 10 8 70
Gareth Owen 2 4 4 0 5 5 5 5 9 2 13 54
Mark Brader 2 3 4 1 6 8 0 9 10 7 3 53
Marc Dashevski 2 0 2 3 7 8 0 6 11 7 6 52
Erland 1 0 0 0 7 8 0 10 9 6 0 41
 
And the winner is Dan Blum, by quite a margin. Kodos to Gareth for
knowing all the dwarves in the Hobbit. And Erland, your knowledge of
your own country's mythology is atrocious.
 
OK, Dan, RQ #239 is yours to do with as you please.
 
 
--
Dan Tilque
Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Nov 06 07:47PM

> why...
 
> Obviously, I do know of some of the tales from the old mythology, but I am
> not sure that I have ever heard of the concept of the "nine worlds".
 
My knowledge was based entirely on the two Thor movies and this 1980s
video game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valhalla_(video_game)
Pete <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Nov 12 07:19PM

> the MGM Grand, the latter of which he built after purchasing the MGM
> movie studio. He also invested heavily in the auto industry and tried
> to take over Chrysler in the mid-90s.
 
Manoogian
 
> changed over time but I am pretty sure she has always been a childhood
> friend of Clark Kent and/or Superboy in Smallville. Sometimes she has
> still been his friend as an adult.
 
Lana Lang
 
> and associates were doing; since she was married to a prominent member
> of Nixon's Cabinet, many of these things turned out to be true. In
> particular her husband served 19 minths in prison.
 
Mitchell
 
> she shifted somewhat from traditional pop to country over the
> years. Her signature song was "Tennessee Waltz." She is much better
> known by her professional name, which is <answer 6>.
 
Doris Day
 
> 2000s became best-known for his roles in comedies, which include Old
> School, Dodgeball, and The Wedding Crashers. He appeared on the second
> season of True Detective on HBO.
 
Owen Wilson
 
 
Pete Gayde
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