- Calvin's Quiz #474 - 6 Updates
- QFTCIMM16 Game 7, Rounds 4,6: apologies and theater - 1 Update
| ArenEss <areness1@yahoo.com>: Feb 15 09:54AM -0600 On Thu, 9 Feb 2017 21:46:54 -0800 (PST), Calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote: >7 questions only for this one. >1 Who wrote the 1936 novel "Gone with the Wind"? Margaret Mitchell >2 Which position has been held by Avery Brundage and Lord Killanin, among others? IOC Chairperson >3 The fictional firms Wernham-Hogg and Dundler-Mifflin appear in which TV comedy program? The Office >4 What is the most popular tourist attraction in Zambia? Mosi-oa-Tunya >5 Despite the name, Kansas City is actually located in which US state? For the most part, Missouri. Kansas City does span over the Missouri River into Kansas. In fact, the KC International Airport is on the Kansas side as well. >6 What English word has 3 double letters in a row? Bookkeeper, Bookkeeping >7 Which mythical creatures can supposedly be recognised, when in human guise, by their long ring fingers? Werewolf >cheers, >calvin ArenEss |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 15 11:41AM -0600 "Calvin": > > 5 Despite the name, Kansas City is actually located in which US state? Mark Brader: > Once again there are two of them: one in Missouri and one in Kansas. > (The one in Missouri is the big one.) In fact the USGS GNIS lists two more: one in northwestern Oregon, and one in eastern Tennessee. Both are classified as "a populated place that is not a census designated or incorporated place having an official federally recognized name." Google Maps recognizes both names and agrees with the GNIS's coordinates, but their aerial imagery shows only a few buildings at each location. Of course, a place doesn't have to be an actual city just because it has "City" in its name, but then, Calvin didn't ask for a city. -- Mark Brader, Toronto "As long as that blue light is on, the msb@vex.net computer is safe." -- Hot Millions My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Feb 15 07:32PM -0300 > In fact the USGS GNIS lists two more: one in northwestern Oregon, and > one in eastern Tennessee. Oregon? I guess that then we are not in Kansas anymore. The Oregon Inlet, by the way, is not in Oregon, but in which state? (Assuming, that is, that there is not more than the one I know of!) |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 15 04:41PM -0600 Mark Brader: > > In fact the USGS GNIS lists two more: one in northwestern Oregon, and > > one in eastern Tennessee. Erland Sommarskog: > Oregon? I guess that then we are not in Kansas anymore. I guess not. The Kansas City in Missouri is named after the Kansas River, by the way. I presume the other three places are named after it. Next: Vancouver. :-) > The Oregon Inlet, by the way, is not in Oregon, but in which state? > (Assuming, that is, that there is not more than the one I know of!) I have no idea! -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "If gravity stops working, a power cut is msb@vex.net | the least of your problems." -- David Bell My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Feb 15 08:43PM -0800 Mark Brader wrote: > Mark Brader: >>> In fact the USGS GNIS lists two more: one in northwestern Oregon, and >>> one in eastern Tennessee. I've been to the one in Oregon. Or at least I occasionally bicycle out to Kansas City Road north of Forest Grove. It's a longish ride from my house, somewhere around 55 to 60 miles round trip. I don't know exactly where along that road the "community" is, but I think it's in the part I ride on. > The Kansas City in Missouri is named after the Kansas River, by the > way. I presume the other three places are named after it. Kansas City, Kansas is. Long ago, they changed the name from something else to match their neighbor. > Next: Vancouver. :-) Not quite adjacent to each other, though. And of course, neither is named for the other. If one were, it would be the BC one named for the Washington one, based on when the two were founded. >> The Oregon Inlet, by the way, is not in Oregon, but in which state? >> (Assuming, that is, that there is not more than the one I know of!) > I have no idea! Neither do I. There's actually a number of towns named Oregon in the US. Once upon a time, it was the name of an exotic foreign land. So I'm going to guess it's in Maine. I was going to wait for this to be approved, but here's a good place to show off my magnum opus. It's my first page contributed to Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:List_of_cities_outside_the_United_States_which_have_a_city,_town,_village,_or_hamlet_within_the_United_States_named_for_them> Hope that's correct and sorry about the length of the url. I didn't want one quite that long, but they didn't ask me; they just took the first sentence of the page and lopped off the first three words. At the rate they're going, it's going to be another 2 weeks before it gets to the head of the approval queue, so that's a draft version. But I can change it while in the queue, so if anyone has any additions or corrections, let me know. Oh, and as a complementary followup, I'm working on a list of non-cities, i.e. regions or geographic features, with the same qualifications. -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 15 11:23PM -0600 Mark Brader: > > Next: Vancouver. :-) Dan Tilque: > Not quite adjacent to each other, though. And of course, neither is > named for the other. If one were, it would be the BC one named for the > Washington one, based on when the two were founded. The interesting part, though, is that Vancouver, BC, is not on Vancouver Island -- but was so named *because it's near it*. This gave people in the rest of Canada some idea of where this new city at the other end of the new railway might be. (I'm not going to look it up, but there's a letter from William Van Horne where he says something like "The proposed name meets with general agreement here, as it gives everyone an approximate idea of the location. I do not think the existence of an insignificant place named Fort Vancouver in Washington need be any obstacle.") -- Mark Brader "All I can say is that the work Toronto has been done well in every way." msb@vex.net --William C. Van Horne, 1885-11-07 My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Feb 15 06:21PM > visit to Poland, the chancellor of Germany made a silent apology > by he spontaneously kneeling in front of a memorial to the > Jewish victims of the Warsaw Ghetto. Name him. Helmut Kohl, Willi Brandt > "Stolen Generations", National Sorry Day was celebrated every > year from 1998 to 2005, until the name was changed to the > National Day of Healing. In what country? Australia > overthrow of this kingdom 100 years earlier. US Marines backed > the coup, which was orchestrated by American sugar barons. > 5 years later the kingdom was annexed by the US. Which kingdom? Hawaii > 4. In 1997, Bill Clinton formally apologized for the unethical > "Tuskegee experiment", in which -- without their knowledge -- > 400 black males were left untreated for *what disease*? Syphilis > British PM Gordon Brown issued a posthumous apology in 2009 for > the mistreatment of the man whose "unique contribution helped > to turn the tide of the war". Who was the man? Alan Turing > 6. It took over 350 years and a 13-year investigation for the > Vatican to finally apologize for their shoddy treatment of > this astronomer. Who did John Paul II apologize to? Gallileo Galillei > set up a fund to redress the trauma suffered. In 2007, Japan's > PM Shinzo Abe denied the violations and then apologized for > denying them. Who were the victims of these Japanese crimes? Chinese > the discriminatory "head tax". The tax ended when the government > decided simply to bar all Chinese immigrants from entering the > country instead. Within 2 years, when did *that* happen? 1927 > 10. In 2010, British PM David Cameron apologized on behalf of > the UK for what 1972 incident? Name or describe it. Bloody Sunday > 1. Name the play in which you'd hear the following line: > "To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a > misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness." The Importance of Being Earnest > 2. Charles Marlow, free and easy with servant girls, is intimidated > by women of his own class -- so, to catch him, Kate poses as > a maid. Name the 1773 play or its author. She Stoops To Conquer (or The Mistakes Of A Night) > 3. Eugene O'Neill's most highly-regarded drama concerns some > 16 hours in the life of the retired actor James Tyrone, his > morphine-addicted wife, and his two sons. Name the play. Long Days Journey Into Night > 4. "He has written a play in which nothing happens, twice." > Which 1953 work was critic Vivian Mercier referring to? Beckett > were even permitted some sexual frankness. By what collective > name are the humorous works of such playwrights as William > Congreve, William Wycherley, and John Vanburgh best known? Restoration Comedies > 6. Who wrote "Hay Fever", "Private Lives", and "Blithe Spirit"? Coward > 7. Who wrote "White Biting Dog", "Perfect Pie", and "Palace of > the End"? No idea > 8. "She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile", > says one character -- created by *which author* for his first > play, "The Rivals"? Sheridan > the protagonist's ruin professes so many different motives for > his nastiness that ultimately none are convincing. Name this > enigmatic malcontent. Iago > 10. In 4 words, complete this quotation from "A Streetcar Named > Desire" by Tennessee Williams: "I have always depended on..." > On what? the kindness of strangers |
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