- rotating quiz: 252 ANSWERS AND SCORES - 6 Updates
| swp <stephen.w.perry@gmail.com>: Apr 26 06:06PM -0700 On Saturday, April 15, 2017 at 9:38:26 PM UTC-4, swp wrote: > my apologies for the delay. again. sorry about that, life's been busy lately. first up, the expected answers: 1. april gave birth to a healthy baby boy 2017-04-15. where? animal adventure park, harpursville, ny I'm giving 1/2 point for references to a zoo, or knowing that april was a giraffe. she got popular from a live feed while pregnant, and gave birth on camera. sounds like something madonna might have wanted to do in the late 1980s. 2. 'tusk' was a hit song for what band? fleetwood mac 3. what happened to a canadian man on a united airlines flight from houston to calgary on april 8th? stung by scorpion this was after the incident with dr dao, who was beaten and dragged off the aircraft. "we beat our competitors prices. not you." 4. the philadelphia museum of art hosted an exhibition for the works of what great painter in 2012? Vincent van Gogh this was not meant to be a stumper. and I really like his work. 5. what game includes play modes such as 'survival mode', 'hardcore mode', and 'story mode'? minecraft 6. icarly was a tv show from 2007-2012. who played carly? miranda cosgrove ok, this was a stumper. but my daughter, niece, and several of their friends asked me to include it. they also wanted questions about 'sam and cat' and something called 'victorious' - but I refrained. to those kids, those are legitimate history questions. 7. he is known as the father of medicine hippocrates the hippocratic oath has a nice ring to it. the galenic oath not so much. 8. what was dustin hoffman's character's name in 'rainman'? raymond babbitt 1/2 point for just 1 of the names. 9. what european nation's name means "little fortress"? luxembourg 10. the edvard munch museum is located in what city? oslo and now, the scoring table: name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 total ---------- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ----- Mark B + 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 3.5 Erland 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 Peter S + 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2.5 Marc D 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 + 1 1 4.5 ArenEss 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 Dan B 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 Calvin 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 + 0 1 3.5 Gareth + 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 4.5 ---------- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ----- totals 2+ 6 1 0 1 0 6 4 1 7 28.5 so we have 2 players tied at the top. Marc entered sooner than Gareth, but that tie-breaker is superseded by Gareth's singleton answer of "minecraft" on q5. Gareth Owen is the winner!! G! A! R! E! T! H! Gareth!! he may now set RQ253 in a manner of his own choosing. thank you each for playing. swp, who feels old and misses his pet trilobite fluffy. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Apr 26 08:38PM -0500 Stephen Perry: > 3. what happened to a canadian man on a united airlines flight from > houston to calgary on april 8th? > stung by scorpion Yes, but he also arrived at his destination without being beaten up, as I said! > this was after the incident with dr dao, who was beaten and dragged off > the aircraft. No, not if it was on April 8... but actually both incidents were on April 9. I haven't found any reports giving the time of day, so I don't know which one was first. Wait a minute... if the scorpion bite was on April 9, this means that I accidentally gave a correct and complete answer on this one! I'll declare myself ineligible to be the next moderator for scoring that way, but I want a full point for this! (I think it's reasonable to assume without proof that there was at least one Canadian man on that flight on April 8.) > "we beat our competitors prices. not you." Har! > Gareth Owen is the winner!! G! A! R! E! T! H! Gareth!! he may now set > RQ253 in a manner of his own choosing. Congratulations Gareth! -- Mark Brader "So the American government went to IBM Toronto to come up with a data encryption standard msb@vex.net and they came up with...?" "EBCDIC!" My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| swp <stephen.w.perry@gmail.com>: Apr 26 06:43PM -0700 On Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 9:38:14 PM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote: > that way, but I want a full point for this! (I think it's reasonable > to assume without proof that there was at least one Canadian man on > that flight on April 8.) granted. but the scorpion bite was the second public relations disaster for united airlines. the incident with the rabbit is #3. > Toronto to come up with a data encryption standard > msb@vex.net and they came up with...?" "EBCDIC!" > My text in this article is in the public domain. swp |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Apr 27 03:03AM > 9. what european nation's name means "little fortress"? > luxembourg Maybe. The etymology of the name is pretty confused, I would say. -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Apr 26 10:59PM -0500 Stephen Perry: > but the scorpion bite was the second public relations disaster > for united airlines. the incident with the rabbit is #3. Or #4: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39401145 -- Mark Brader, Toronto "Don't get clever at 5PM Friday." msb@vex.net -- Tom Van Vleck |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Apr 27 08:03AM >> 9. what european nation's name means "little fortress"? >> luxembourg > Maybe. The etymology of the name is pretty confused, I would say. I did not do any deep research of the name, but from what I could see on Wikipedia there is nothing that indicates that "luxem" would have an origin from some word meaning "little". And even less means "little" today, which actually was the question. On the other hand, I can only blame myself for not nailing this one. Because while the meaning of "luxem" is unclair, the meaning of "bourg" is not, and it is the only country name in Europe which includes a component that means "fortress". Somehow I managed to look over this obvious answer. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
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