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| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: May 11 06:01PM -0700 Dear RGTers This is Rotating Quiz #255, consisting of 12 questions. Post your answers here but first you will need to access the PDF located at: http://www.quizzingaustralia.org/uploads/7/7/8/1/7781317/rq255.pdf Answers in a week or so. Good Luck! cheers, calvin |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): May 11 09:04PM -0500 "Calvin": > http://www.quizzingaustralia.org/uploads/7/7/8/1/7781317/rq255.pdf 1. Wellington 2. Queenstown 3. Dunedin 4. Auckland 5. Waitangi 6. Palmerston North 7. Tongariro 8. Christchurch 9. Gore 10. Hamilton 11. Rotorua 12. Aoteroa -- Mark Brader | I fear what might happen if, like Skynet, the Toronto | Republican Party ever became self-aware. msb@vex.net | --D.F. Manno My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): May 12 02:27AM > Answers in a week or so. Good Luck! > cheers, > calvin 1. Wellington 3. Wellington 4. Auckland 6. Auckland 7. Auckland 8. Auckland -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: May 12 09:53AM Calvin wrote: > Answers in a week or so. Good Luck! > cheers, > calvin 1. Wellington 2. 3. Christchurch 4. Auckland 5. Waitangi 6. Christchurch 7. Hamilton 8. Christchurch 9. Hamilton 10. Wellington 11. 12. Peter Smyth |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: May 11 06:33PM -0700 1 Which hit song of 1968 includes the following line: "Wonder how you manage to make ends meet"? 2 Which author created the literary character Tarzan? 3 Which biblical character was the father of Ham, Shem and Japheth? 4 Which is the only northern hemisphere country to have won the Rugby World Cup? 5 Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx played police detectives in which 2006 film? 6 Which element makes up about 90% of the alloy bronze? 7 Which sport do the Pittsburgh Pirates play professionally? 8 Who was the Greek god wealth? 9 Which 1970s UK TV comedy series was set in Slade prison? 10 Whose best-selling 1997 album was titled "Come on Over"? cheers, calvin |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): May 11 08:53PM -0500 Calvin: > 1 Which hit song of 1968 includes the following line: "Wonder how > you manage to make ends meet"? > 2 Which author created the literary character Tarzan? Burroughs. > 3 Which biblical character was the father of Ham, Shem and Japheth? Noah. > 4 Which is the only northern hemisphere country to have won the > Rugby World Cup? England. > 5 Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx played police detectives in which > 2006 film? > 6 Which element makes up about 90% of the alloy bronze? Copper. > 7 Which sport do the Pittsburgh Pirates play professionally? Baseball. > 8 Who was the Greek god wealth? Pluto. > 9 Which 1970s UK TV comedy series was set in Slade prison? > 10 Whose best-selling 1997 album was titled "Come on Over"? Twain. -- Mark Brader "Those who do not understand UNIX Toronto are condemned to reinvent it." msb@vex.net -- Henry Spencer My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): May 12 02:29AM > 1 Which hit song of 1968 includes the following line: "Wonder how you manage to make ends meet"? Lady Madonna > 2 Which author created the literary character Tarzan? Edgar Rice Burroughs > 3 Which biblical character was the father of Ham, Shem and Japheth? Noah > 4 Which is the only northern hemisphere country to have won the Rugby World Cup? England > 6 Which element makes up about 90% of the alloy bronze? copper > 7 Which sport do the Pittsburgh Pirates play professionally? baseball -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: May 12 04:14AM Calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote in > 1 Which hit song of 1968 includes the following line: "Wonder how > you manage to make ends meet"? Lady Madonna > 2 Which author created the literary character Tarzan? Burroughs > 3 Which biblical character was the father of > Ham, Shem and Japheth? Noah > 4 Which is the only northern hemisphere > country to have won the Rugby World Cup? England > 5 Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx played police detectives > in which 2006 film? > 6 Which element makes up about 90% of the alloy bronze? Copper > 7 Which sport do the Pittsburgh Pirates play professionally? Baseball > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > http://www.avg.com Pete Gayde |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: May 12 06:52AM +0100 > 1 Which hit song of 1968 includes the following line: "Wonder how you > manage to make ends meet"? Lady Madonna > 2 Which author created the literary character Tarzan? Burroughs > 3 Which biblical character was the father of Ham, Shem and Japheth? Noah > 4 Which is the only northern hemisphere country to have won the Rugby > World Cup? Now you're just trolling me. ...England... > 5 Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx played police detectives in which 2006 > film? Miami Vice > 6 Which element makes up about 90% of the alloy bronze? Copper > 7 Which sport do the Pittsburgh Pirates play professionally? Baseball > 8 Who was the Greek god wealth? Croesus?? > 9 Wehich 1970s UK TV comedy series was set in Slade prison? Porridge > 10 Whose best-selling 1997 album was titled "Come on Over"? Shania Twain |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: May 12 07:12AM > 1 Which hit song of 1968 includes the following line: "Wonder how > you manage to make ends meet"? Lady Madonna > 3 Which biblical character was the father of Ham, Shem and Japheth? King David > 4 Which is the only northern hemisphere country to have won the > Rugby World Cup? England > 6 Which element makes up about 90% of the alloy bronze? Copper > 7 Which sport do the Pittsburgh Pirates play professionally? Baseball > 8 Who was the Greek god wealth? Crossus -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: May 12 09:48AM Calvin wrote: > 1 Which hit song of 1968 includes the following line: "Wonder how you > manage to make ends meet"? > 2 Which author created the literary character Tarzan? Edgar Rice Burroughs > 3 Which biblical character was the father of Ham, Shem and Japheth? Noah > 4 Which is the only northern hemisphere country to have won the Rugby > World Cup? England > 5 Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx played police detectives in which 2006 > film? > 6 Which element makes up about 90% of the alloy bronze? Copper > 7 Which sport do the Pittsburgh Pirates play professionally? Ice Hockey > 8 Who was the Greek god wealth? > 9 Which 1970s UK TV comedy series was set in Slade prison? Porridge > 10 Whose best-selling 1997 album was titled "Come on Over"? Shania Twain Peter Smyth |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: May 11 06:30PM -0700 On Friday, May 5, 2017 at 10:57:18 AM UTC+10, Calvin wrote: > 1 George Best made more that 350 appearances for which English football (soccer) club? Manchester United > 2 Jeff Wayne's 1978 concept album was based on, and named for, which 1897 science fiction novel? The War of the Worlds > 3 Which Australian band released the 1981 album "Business as Usual"? Men At Work > 4 Which 1981 John Huston film starred Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone, Max von Sydow and Pelé? [Escape to] Victory > 5 In which year did Charles Lindbergh make his first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean? 1927 > 6 The Mediterranean island of Santorini is part of which nation? Greece > 7 Also the author of one of the Gospels, who is the patron saint of artists, physicians and surgeons, among others? St Luke > 8 How many oxygen atoms are in one sulphuric acid molecule? 4 [H2SO4] > 9 Which continent is named after a mythological princess? Europe [Europa] > 10 First performed in 2013, the jukebox musical "Beautiful" concerns the life and career of which American composer and singer-songwriter (b. 1942)? Carole King Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 485 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 10 66 Aren Ess 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 49 Don Piven 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 8 51 Gareth Owen 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 7 44 Dan Tilque 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 7 45 Dan Blum 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 6 31 Peter Smyth 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 6 38 Pete Gayde 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 6 44 Mark Brader 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 4 19 Erland S 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 3 14 Marc Dashevsky - - - - - - - - - - --- ---------- 6 8 6 2 6 8 6 8 9 6 65 65% Congratulations Aren, if that is your real name :-) cheers, calvin |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): May 11 08:51PM -0500 "Calvin": > > 8 How many oxygen atoms are in one sulphuric acid molecule? > 4 [H2SO4] Ahem. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "I can be gullible about these kinds of things. msb@vex.net | Or so people tell me, and I believe them." |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: May 11 06:21PM -0700 On Wednesday, May 10, 2017 at 3:47:35 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > lasted 45 years before being definitively disproved. Charles > Dawson seemingly unearthed the missing link between apes > and humans. What was this specimen generally called? Neanderthal > puvpxra" jnf nyfb gur fhowrpg bs na rkgrafvir negvpyr va gur > fnzr zntnmvar. Gur zntnmvar choyvfurq n ergenpgvba 5 zbaguf > yngre naq nqzvggrq vg unq orra qhcrq. Anzr gur zntnmvar. Nature, Science > members then admitted they had moved to caves in the previous > decade and pretended to be Stone Age people under pressure from > a government minister. In what country did this take place? Mexico, Brazil > harvesting from a "spaghetti tree". Hundreds of British viewers > called in to find out how they could grow their own pasta. > Name the BBC series. Newsnight > sailors, likewise by stitching together parts of different > animals. But this one was no hoax -- what Australian animal > was it? Platypus > * Game 2, Round 6 - History - Events of 1917 > 1. On 1917-01-17, the United States finalized its $25,000,000 > purchase from Denmark of which islands? Aleutians > though more well known for her extravagant lifestyle and numerous > marriages than her acting ability. She died in 2016 at age 99. > Name her. Zsa Zsa Gabor > 3. On 1917-03-02, the US created which territory, making its > people US citizens? Puerto Rico > 4. On 1917-03-26, which now-defunct team became the first US-based > hockey team to win the Stanley Cup? City and team name required. > 5. Which ruler abdicated the throne on 1917-03-15? Kaiser Wilhelm II > 6. Which 6-day battle that cost more than 6,500 Canadians their > lives began on 1917-04-09? Messines Ridge? > 7. On 1917-04-16, which man issued his radical April Theses? > 8. On 1917-05-21, a great fire swept though which southern American > city, raging for 10 hours and destroying 1,900 structures? Buenos Aires, Rio > 9. On 1917-10-15, this mother of two was executed in France. > Who was she? Mata Hari > 10. On 1917-12-06, what was the name of munitions ship that exploded > in Halifax harbor, creating the largest man-made explosion to > that date? cheers, calvin |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): May 11 12:37PM -0500 Earlier, I (Mark Brader) wrote (paragraphs are rearranged for convenience of this followup): > person posting as "Calvin". This one is on the theme of science > (including technology), and within that broad subject, each question > will refer to a different field. ... > who have survived the earlier rounds may continue to enter. > For the later rounds you will have a maximum of 4 days to enter, > though I would prefer, and in practice expect, a faster pace. We've now gone more than 48 hours without a new entry, so the contest is closed. Specifically, it's open only to Dan Blum, Bruce Bowler, Marc Dashevsky, Joshua Kreitzer, Gareth Owen, Stephen Perry, Peter Smyth, Erland Sommarskog, Dan Tilque, and the entrants posting as "ArenEss" and "Calvin". > or 220 lb. -- and I will accept any reasonable choice of unit. > On each round, the person whose answer is farthest from the correct > value is eliminated. "Farthest" will be determined by the ratio... Unfortunately, it turned out that entrants did not find these rules to be specified clearly enough. Some felt that if they wrote things on paper, that might be considered an aid to calculation. So let me make it very clear: *no*, writing on things paper does *not* constitute assistance to knowing the answer. Just don't try constructing an analog computer using origami (or pencils) or that sort of thing, or looking at any paper that already has relevant information written on it. But in view of the above issue, it seems unreasonable to eliminate anyone based on the original question 1. Some people might have used a less precise method and then innocently disqualified themselves from revising it by seeing other people's entries. So I'm throwing it out and substituting a different question, and since there are 11 entrants, there will probably be 9 more rounds after this. You now have 4 days to enter, from the time of posting. Question 1A is, of course, about math: 1A. What is the numerical value of pi cubed? -- Mark Brader "Fighting off all of the species which you Toronto have insulted would be a full-time mission." msb@vex.net "Deja Q", ST:TNG, Richard Danus My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): May 11 06:29PM > Question 1A is, of course, about math: > 1A. What is the numerical value of pi cubed? 31.1806567408 -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| ArenEss <areness1@yahoo.com>: May 11 01:51PM -0500 >Question 1A is, of course, about math: >1A. What is the numerical value of pi cubed? 31.0062 ArenEss |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: May 11 09:03PM +0200 > Question 1A is, of course, about math: > 1A. What is the numerical value of pi cubed? You're evil man! Using pen (not pencil) and paper I got the result 31.070322 -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: May 11 08:08PM +0100 > Question 1A is, of course, about math: > 1A. What is the numerical value of pi cubed? 31.025 |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): May 11 02:30PM -0500 Mark Brader: > > 1A. What is the numerical value of pi cubed? Erland Sommarskog: > You're evil man! Naah -- if I was, I would have asked for the square root of pi! (Yes, there is a way to directly calculate square -- and higher -- roots on paper. But it's... a bit complicated.) -- Mark Brader What is it about Toronto Haiku that people find so msb@vex.net Infatuating? --Pete Mitchell My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: May 11 03:37PM -0500 In article <RqKdnVRkBPL8PInEnZ2dnUU7-N_NnZ2d@giganews.com>, msb@vex.net says... > Question 1A is, of course, about math: > 1A. What is the numerical value of pi cubed? 31.0074 -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: May 11 09:33PM Mark Brader wrote: > after this. You now have 4 days to enter, from the time of posting. > Question 1A is, of course, about math: > 1A. What is the numerical value of pi cubed? 31.01 Peter Smyth |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: May 11 03:00PM -0700 Mark Brader wrote: > Question 1A is, of course, about math: > 1A. What is the numerical value of pi cubed? 31.00622 -- Dan Tilque |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: May 11 06:08PM -0700 On Friday, May 12, 2017 at 3:37:42 AM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > Question 1A is, of course, about math: > 1A. What is the numerical value of pi cubed? 31 cheers, calvin |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: May 11 05:59PM -0700 On Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 6:25:22 AM UTC+10, Erland Sommarskog wrote: > So Calvin, come on and set Rotating Quiz 0xFF at your liking! Coming up thanks. cheers, calvin |
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