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| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: May 30 06:13PM -0700 1 Which Indian state, bounded by Maharashtra, Karnataka and the Arabian Sea, is the smallest with an area of just 3,700 square km? 2 In metres per second squared, what is the value of "g", the acceleration that the Earth imparts to objects on or near its surface due to gravity (to one decimal place)? 3 The Passion Play is performed every 10 years in which German town? 4 What is the only US State that has the name of an English county in it? 5 Which member of Monty Python directed the 1985 film "Brazil"? 6 Which is the only mammal that can exist on an entirely liquid diet? 7 Which British nurse [1865-1915] helped some 200 Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium during the First World War before being executed by a German firing squad? 8 Which English author's works include "High Fidelity" (1995) and "About a Boy" (1998)? 9 What is measured using the SI unit ohms? 10 William Burke and William Hare infamously traded which items? cheers, calvin |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): May 31 02:58AM > 1 Which Indian state, bounded by Maharashtra, Karnataka and the Arabian Sea, is the smallest with an area of just 3,700 square km? Goa > 2 In metres per second squared, what is the value of "g", the acceleration that the Earth imparts to objects on or near its surface due to gravity (to one decimal place)? 9.8 > 3 The Passion Play is performed every 10 years in which German town? Oberammergau > 4 What is the only US State that has the name of an English county in it? New Hampshire > 5 Which member of Monty Python directed the 1985 film "Brazil"? Terry Gilliam > 6 Which is the only mammal that can exist on an entirely liquid diet? vampire bat > 8 Which English author's works include "High Fidelity" (1995) and "About a Boy" (1998)? Nick Hornsby > 9 What is measured using the SI unit ohms? electrical resistance > 10 William Burke and William Hare infamously traded which items? human corpses -- _______________________________________________________________________ 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 31 04:08AM Calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote in > 1 Which Indian state, bounded by Maharashtra, Karnataka and the > Arabian Sea, is the smallest with an area of just 3,700 square km? Mumbai > due to gravity (to one decimal place)? > 3 The Passion Play is performed every 10 years in which German > town? Oberammergau > 4 What is the only > US State that has the name of an English county in it? New Hampshire > 5 Which member of Monty Python directed the 1985 film "Brazil"? Terry Gilliam > 6 Which is the only mammal that can exist on an entirely liquid > diet? Human > 8 Which English author's works include "High > Fidelity" (1995) and "About a Boy" (1998)? > 9 What is measured using the SI unit ohms? Resistance > 10 William Burke and William Hare > infamously traded which items? Wives > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > http://www.avg.com Pete Gayde |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: May 30 09:07PM -0700 Calvin wrote: > 1 Which Indian state, bounded by Maharashtra, Karnataka and the Arabian Sea, is the smallest with an area of just 3,700 square km? Gujarat > 2 In metres per second squared, what is the value of "g", the acceleration that the Earth imparts to objects on or near its surface due to gravity (to one decimal place)? 9.8 m/sec^2 > 3 The Passion Play is performed every 10 years in which German town? Munich > 4 What is the only US State that has the name of an English county in it? New Hampshire (isn't this a repeat from a recent quiz?) > 5 Which member of Monty Python directed the 1985 film "Brazil"? > 6 Which is the only mammal that can exist on an entirely liquid diet? baleen whales > 7 Which British nurse [1865-1915] helped some 200 Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium during the First World War before being executed by a German firing squad? > 8 Which English author's works include "High Fidelity" (1995) and "About a Boy" (1998)? > 9 What is measured using the SI unit ohms? electrical resistance -- Dan Tilque |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: May 30 09:09PM -0700 Dan Tilque wrote: >> 1 Which Indian state, bounded by Maharashtra, Karnataka and the >> Arabian Sea, is the smallest with an area of just 3,700 square km? > Gujarat Dammit. As soon as I hit "Send", I realized the answer is Goa. -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): May 31 12:45AM -0500 Calvin: > 1 Which Indian state, bounded by Maharashtra, Karnataka and the > Arabian Sea, is the smallest with an area of just 3,700 square km? Goa? > 2 In metres per second squared, what is the value of "g", the > acceleration that the Earth imparts to objects on or near its > surface due to gravity (to one decimal place)? 9.8 > 3 The Passion Play is performed every 10 years in which German town? Oberammergau. Actually, it has one *season* of performances every 10 years. > 4 What is the only US State that has the name of an English county in it? New Hampshire. > 5 Which member of Monty Python directed the 1985 film "Brazil"? Gilliam. > 6 Which is the only mammal that can exist on an entirely liquid diet? Vampire bat? > 7 Which British nurse [1865-1915] helped some 200 Allied soldiers > escape from occupied Belgium during the First World War before > being executed by a German firing squad? Cavell. > 8 Which English author's works include "High Fidelity" (1995) and > "About a Boy" (1998)? Johnson. > 9 What is measured using the SI unit ohms? Electrical resistance. > 10 William Burke and William Hare infamously traded which items? Corpses. -- Mark Brader "Do YOU trust US?" Toronto "YES!! Well, we try to." msb@vex.net -- A Walk in the Woods, by Lee Blessing My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: May 31 06:54AM Calvin wrote: > 1 Which Indian state, bounded by Maharashtra, Karnataka and the > Arabian Sea, is the smallest with an area of just 3,700 square km? Goa > 2 In metres per second squared, what is the value of "g", the > acceleration that the Earth imparts to objects on or near its surface > due to gravity (to one decimal place)? 9.8 > 3 The Passion Play is performed every 10 years in which German town? > 4 What is the only US State that has the name of an English county > in it? New Hampshire > 5 Which member of Monty Python directed the 1985 film "Brazil"? Terry Gilliam > 6 Which is the only mammal that can exist on an entirely liquid diet? Humans > executed by a German firing squad? > 8 Which English author's works include "High Fidelity" (1995) and > "About a Boy" (1998)? Nick Hornby > 9 What is measured using the SI unit ohms? Resistance > 10 William Burke and William Hare infamously traded which items? Dead bodies Peter Smyth |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: May 31 07:14AM > 1 Which Indian state, bounded by Maharashtra, Karnataka and the > Arabian Sea, is the smallest with an area of just 3,700 square km? Goa > 2 In metres per second squared, what is the value of "g", the > acceleration that the Earth imparts to objects on or near its surface > due to gravity (to one decimal place)? 9.81 > 3 The Passion Play is performed every 10 years in which German town? Regensburg > 4 What is the only US State that has the name of an English county > in it? Kentucky > 5 Which member of Monty Python directed the 1985 film "Brazil"? Terry Gilliam > 7 Which British nurse [1865-1915] helped some 200 Allied soldiers > escape from occupied Belgium during the First World War before being > executed by a German firing squad? Florence Nightingale > 9 What is measured using the SI unit ohms? Resistance > 10 William Burke and William Hare infamously traded which items? Pictures of little girls -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: May 31 02:44AM -0600 In article <0ccb2e3f-72b2-496a-8acf-7081296eda20@googlegroups.com>, 334152@gmail.com says... > 1 Which Indian state, bounded by Maharashtra, Karnataka and the Arabian Sea, is the smallest with an area of just 3,700 square km? Goa > 2 In metres per second squared, what is the value of "g", the acceleration that the Earth imparts to objects on or near its surface due to gravity (to one decimal place)? 32 > 3 The Passion Play is performed every 10 years in which German town? > 4 What is the only US State that has the name of an English county in it? New Hampshire > 5 Which member of Monty Python directed the 1985 film "Brazil"? Terry Gilliam > 7 Which British nurse [1865-1915] helped some 200 Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium during the First World War before being executed by a German firing squad? > 8 Which English author's works include "High Fidelity" (1995) and "About a Boy" (1998)? > 9 What is measured using the SI unit ohms? electrical resistance -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: May 31 04:03AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:B8idnSgxw7PtBrbEnZ2dnUU7- > newspaper said the nation lost its soul that year. > 2. England won its first and only FIFA World Cup in London's old > Wembley Stadium in what year? 1966 > 3. Britain abolished the death penalty for murder in 1965, but not > for two other crimes. They still remained on the statute books > until 1998 as punishable by death. Name either one of the two. Treason > 4. Ending centuries of on-again, off-again hostility and conflict, > the Entente Cordiale was signed in 1904 between Britain and > what country? France > 5. At what battle in 1916 during the First World War were tanks > introduced by the British? Verdun > 6. The first transatlantic transmission of *what* took place in > 1928, between London and New York? Telephone > 7. In 1945 Britain's Labour Party won a majority of seats in > Parliament for the first time, defeating Winston Churchill's > government. Who succeeded Churchill as prime minister? Eden > It appeared that she was trying to grab a horse owned by King > George V and plant a flag on it. What was the subject of > her protest? Women's suffrage > 9. In 1957, what became the first British colony in Africa to > achieve independence? Kenya > Christopher Columbus. She was granted the title "Servant > of God" by the Catholic Church in 1974, 470 years after > her death. Name her. Isabella > from the original Palouse horse, named for the Palouse > River, which flows through Washington (state) and Idaho. > What is the breed called? Palomino > her family during the first two decades of the 20th century. > The novel is split into 5 parts, covering different stages > of their lives. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn > * D. Sports: Harlem Globetrotters > D1. Which jazz standard, written in 1925, later became the > theme song for the Harlem Globetrotters? Sweet Georgia Brown > Harlem Globetrotters. Over that period, this team won only > 6 times, losing more than 13,000 games to the Globetrotters. > Give the full name of this hapless opposing team. Washington Generals > contiguous US. > E1. #2 in length at about 75 miles (120 km) is Padre Island, > which lies in the Gulf of Mexico. Which state is it in? Texas > this classic cocktail? > After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh whfg > fnvq irezbhgu sbe nal nafjre, tb onpx naq znxr vg zber fcrpvsvp. Pete Gayde |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: May 30 06:10PM -0700 On Thursday, May 25, 2017 at 4:05:38 PM UTC+10, Calvin wrote: > 1 Who was the American President when man first walked on the moon? Richard Milhous Nixon > 2 Passing thought China, India and Bangladesh, what is the tenth largest river in the world (by water flow)? Brahmaputra Singleton for Dan > 3 Which Frenchwoman is currently managing director of the International Monetary Fund? Christine Lagarde > 4 What, according to Charles M Schultz, constitutes happiness? A warm puppy [Peanuts] > 5 Name any of the 3 Shakespeare plays in which Sir John Falstaff appears. The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry IV Part 1 or 2 > 6 What does an upside-down flag traditionally signal? Distress, or similar > 7 What physical feature do anteaters such as the echidna and armadillo lack that virtually all other mammals possess? Teeth > 8 What fictional substance is also the tile of a 1997 remake of the 1961 film "The Absent-Minded Professor"? Flubber > 9 Extending from the lumbar to the back to the thighs, which is the longest nerve in the human body? Sciatic > 10 Which 1988 Tim Burton comedy fantasy film won the best makeup Oscar in 1989? Beetlejuice Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 487 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 44 Dan Blum 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 6 33 Dan Tilque 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 6 38 Mark Brader 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 6 38 Bruce Bowler 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 5 30 Marc Dashevsky 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 20 Peter Smyth 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 4 26 Pete Gayde 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 4 27 Gareth Owen 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 10 Erland S - - - - - - - - - - --- ---------- 8 1 2 6 3 7 2 7 5 5 46 51% That was a tough set, and an outstanding performance from Dan B. cheers, calvin |
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