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| swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: Jan 17 08:59PM -0800 this is rotating quiz #243. today is january 17th, 2017. at least for a few more minutes... the winner will be the first choice to set rq 244, in a manner of their choosing. please answer 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 9pm edt (philadelphia/toronto time) on saturday, 2017-01-28, which gives a lot of time from the time of this posting. in case of a tie, the first tiebreaker will be who scored on the hardest questions; and the second tiebreaker will be who posted first. correct answers are worth 1 point each. have fun! 1. edward vi was the last english king of what dynasty? 2. who wrote the novel 'the ocean at the end of the lane' in 2013? 3. who played jor-el in the 1978 version of the movie 'superman'? 4. who was the last man to walk on the moon? 5. who is scheduled to perform at the half-time show of superbowl 51? 6. what organization announced that it is shutting down in may after 146 years? 7. how old is actress betty white? 8. jumbo sized eggs have what minimum weight per dozen? 9. what was rob reiner's feature film directing debut? 10. woody allen composed the score, co-wrote, directed & starred in what 1973 movie? 11. how old is melanie hamrick, mick jagger's ballerina girlfriend? 12. what are the only 2 pieces that can start a game of chess? 13. in what city was 'the drew carey show' set? 14. who did president barack obama greet at the white house on monday january 16th? 15. put these three values in order from least to greatest: pi, the square root of ten, 22/7 good luck! swp |
| swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: Jan 17 09:00PM -0800 On Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at 11:59:30 PM UTC-5, swp typo'd: |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 18 01:21AM -0600 Stephen Perry: > this is rotating quiz #243. "I don't think so, Tim." > 1. edward vi was the last english king of what dynasty? Tudor. > 2. who wrote the novel 'the ocean at the end of the lane' in 2013? Johnson. > 3. who played jor-el in the 1978 version of the movie 'superman'? Brando. > 4. who was the last man to walk on the moon? Cernan. > 5. who is scheduled to perform at the half-time show of superbowl 51? Swift? > 6. what organization announced that it is shutting down in may after 146 years? Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey's circus. > 7. how old is actress betty white? 95? > 8. jumbo sized eggs have what minimum weight per dozen? 20 ounces? > 9. what was rob reiner's feature film directing debut? "The Princess Bride"? > 10. woody allen composed the score, co-wrote, directed & starred in what > 1973 movie? "Sleeper"? > 11. how old is melanie hamrick, mick jagger's ballerina girlfriend? 25? > 12. what are the only 2 pieces that can start a game of chess? The 8 white pawns and the 2 white knights. > 13. in what city was 'the drew carey show' set? Cleveland. > 14. who did president barack obama greet at the white house on monday > january 16th? Lewis? > 15. put these three values in order from least to greatest: pi, the > square root of ten, 22/7 Pi, 22/7, the square root of ten. -- Mark Brader | Up until now, you have been told never to use Toronto | the Goto. I use it. I use a revolver too, but msb@vex.net | I don't give it to my children. --a Prof. Baird My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jan 18 01:50AM -0800 swp wrote: > 1. edward vi was the last english king of what dynasty? Tudor > 2. who wrote the novel 'the ocean at the end of the lane' in 2013? > 3. who played jor-el in the 1978 version of the movie 'superman'? > 4. who was the last man to walk on the moon? Eugene Cernan (RIP) > 5. who is scheduled to perform at the half-time show of superbowl 51? > 6. what organization announced that it is shutting down in may after 146 years? Ringling Bros. Circus > 8. jumbo sized eggs have what minimum weight per dozen? > 9. what was rob reiner's feature film directing debut? > 10. woody allen composed the score, co-wrote, directed & starred in what 1973 movie? Sleeper > 11. how old is melanie hamrick, mick jagger's ballerina girlfriend? > 12. what are the only 2 pieces that can start a game of chess? king's knight and queen's knight > 13. in what city was 'the drew carey show' set? > 14. who did president barack obama greet at the white house on monday january 16th? > 15. put these three values in order from least to greatest: pi, the square root of ten, 22/7 pi, 22/7, sqrt(10) -- Dan Tilque |
| bbowler <bbowler@bigelow.org>: Jan 17 03:48PM On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 17:51:25 -0600, Mark Brader wrote: > 1. British entrepreneur Richard Branson started what company > in 2004 to facilitate sub-orbital tourist flights and orbital > satellite launches? Virgin Galactic > 2. This $10,000,000 prize was created in 1996 to encourage space > ventures. The winner would have to launch a reusable manned ship > into space twice within 2 weeks. Name the prize. X-prize > He is also the designer of Voyager, the first plane to fly around the > world without stopping or refueling. He retired from his company, > Scaled Composites, in 2011. Burt Rutan > 4. What was the name of the ship that <answer 3> used to win > the <answer 2>? Spaceship 1 > 5. The major investor in <answer 3>'s winning project is also one > of the founders of Microsoft. He started Vulcan Aerospace in 2015 to > plan and build reusable vehicles for space travel. Who? Paul Allan > the first privately funded liquid-propellant rocket into space, is > the brainchild of another Silicon Valley billionaire. > Name him. Elon Musk > questions #7-9 only*. > 7. Name either the reusable launch vehicle or the spacecraft > developed by Elon Musk's SpaceX. Falcon 9 > 8. What was unusual about the landing of CRS-8, the first-stage > rocket launched this past April by SpaceX? Landed on a barge > 9. SpaceX is now working on a larger-scale project, which Musk > hopes to achieve in the next 30 years. What is the object of that > endeavor? Putting Man on Mars > 10. More than 100,000 people have applied to Mars One, another > proposed mission to the red planet, despite one the most notable > drawback to the plan. What drawback? If you go, you're not coming back. > 3. C (decoy) > 4. D (decoy) > 5. E. Name it. Cyprus > 6. F. Name it. Morocco > 7. G (decoy) > 8. H. Name it. Mongolia > 9. I (decoy) > 10. J. Name it. South Africa > 11. K (decoy) > 12. L. Name it. Vatican City > 14. N (decoy) > 15. O (decoy) > 16. P (decoy) Somalia > 17. Q. Name it. > 18. R. Name it. Finland > 19. S. Name it. > 20. T. Name it. Chile > 21. U (decoy) Greece |
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