- Rotating Quiz #238 -- Groups of N - 1 Update
- QFTCI16 Final, Round 4: Miscellaneous - 2 Updates
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Nov 03 08:19PM > attention. > 3. Name the three members of the Trimurti. That is, the three > principal gods of Hinduism. Vishnu, Shiva, Rama > 4. Name the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. Death, War, Famine, Pestilence > 5. Name the five spacecraft that have left or will leave the Solar System. Voyager, Voyager II, Pioneer 10 ... erm Pioneer 11 and 12? > 6. Name the six tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy. Sioux, Cherokee, > 7. Name the seven metalic elements known in classical antiquity. Gold, Silver, Platinum, Iron, Copper, Tin, > 8. Name the eight US states that border on one or more of the Great Lakes. Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Michigan > 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.) Asgard, Valhalla, Midgard, Hel The one with the Ice Giants, The one with all the dark elves [Best Friends episode ever], > 10. Name the ten countries that the Danube flows through. Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, Bulgaria Netherlands, Albania, Czech Republic, Hungary, Serbia > 11. Name the eleven basic color words in English. Red, Yellow, Green, Brown, Blue, Pink, Black, White Orange, Indigo, Violet, Chartreuse Is this an actual thing? I mean, who gets to decide? > 12. Name the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac. Rat, Monkey, Elephant, Crocodile, Jazz Musician, Goblin, Trump Supporter, Banjo, Eggplant, Neoconservative, Badger > 13. Name the thirteen dwarves in The Hobbit. Thorin, Ori, Dori, Nori, Fili, Kili, Biffour, Boffour, Bombour, Balin, Dwalin, Òin, Glòin |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Nov 08 06:03PM > * A. Things Called "Go" > A1. "GO" Transit was an acronym. For what? Get off > 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? 256, 400 > 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? A programming language > her critiques of contemporary feminism, analyses of classic > and popular culture, and self-aggrandizing style. Her > breakthrough book was 1990's "Sexual Personae". Name her. Camille Paglia? > In 2011 he published "The Better Angels of our Nature", > arguing that violence in human societies has been steadily > decreasing over the centuries. Name him. Oliver Sacks, > culture and low, and at-least-somewhat accessible popular > writings. He's the narrator of the documentary film "The > Pervert's Guide to Ideology". Alain de Bouton??? > * C. The Acid Tongue of Gore Vidal > C1. Upon learning of the 1984 death of which rival did Vidal > respond, "A wise career move"? Norman Mailer, John Updike > "crypto-Nazi" in a televised 1968 debate, in return being > called a "queer"? Just for context, he had previously called > the same person "the Marie Antoinette of the right wing". William Buckley, George Will > influential in several music genres, located in the same > small town in Alabama. The title of the doc is the name > of the town and of one of the studios. Name it. Muscle Shoals > hand -- American singer who was obscure in his own country > but had been a significant cultural icon in apartheid-era > South Africa. Name the film. Searching For Sugar Man > of a group of mostly African-American backup singers who > worked for some of the greatest stars of rock music, such > as Sting and the Rolling Stones. 6 Feet from Stardom. (Well, some distance) > * E. Fictional Afterlives > E1. Which fictional race believes in a heaven, if you can call > it that, called Sto'Vo'Kor? Klingons > afterlife where each person has their own personalized > heaven from which they can look down upon the current > goings-on below on earth? The Lovely Bones > afterlife called "Sugarcandy Mountain" where, among other > things, it was Sunday every day and clover was in season > all year round? Animal Farm > F1. * A word pertaining to excrement. > * In theology, a term pertaining to the end times, the end > of the world, or final destiny. Scatological, Eschatological (sp?) > * An American writer, scriptwriter of "The Princess Bride", > "Marathon Man", "All The President's Men", and "Butch > Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". William Golding & William Goldman > F3. * A militaristic species in the "Star Trek" universe. > * A family of reality-TV pseudo-celebrities. The Cardassians, The Kardashians |
| Pete <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Nov 08 09:40PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:--ednVpxlr_blr3FnZ2dnUU7- > 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? Computer language > her critiques of contemporary feminism, analyses of classic > and popular culture, and self-aggrandizing style. Her > breakthrough book was 1990's "Sexual Personae". Name her. Paretsky > * C. The Acid Tongue of Gore Vidal > C1. Upon learning of the 1984 death of which rival did Vidal > respond, "A wise career move"? Agnew; J. Edgar Hoover > "crypto-Nazi" in a televised 1968 debate, in return being > called a "queer"? Just for context, he had previously called > the same person "the Marie Antoinette of the right wing". William Buckley > influential in several music genres, located in the same > small town in Alabama. The title of the doc is the name > of the town and of one of the studios. Name it. Muscle Shoals > * E. Fictional Afterlives > E1. Which fictional race believes in a heaven, if you can call > it that, called Sto'Vo'Kor? Klingons > Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". > F3. * A militaristic species in the "Star Trek" universe. > * A family of reality-TV pseudo-celebrities. Pete Gayde |
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