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| Don Piven <don@piven.net>: Jul 11 06:32PM -0500 This is Rotating Quiz #262. Entries must be posted by Wednesday, 19 July 2017 at 0000h UTC. (Western Hemisphere posters note that this is Tuesday evening.) As is customary, answers are based on your own personal knowledge, divine revelation, or wild-ass guess; external research is discouraged. Scoring is based solely on the number of correct answers; ties are broken in favor of the person who posted earliest. The winner is entitled to set the next Rotating Quiz in a format of their choosing. Please post your answers to all questions in a single followup in the newsgroup, quoting the questions and placing your answer below each one. Unless the question asks for more than one answer, only one answer is allowed per question. - - - - - This quiz concerns the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, played tonight (11 July 2017), as well as all of its predecessors. Note that some of the questions may refer to the outcome of tonight's game, so you might want to wait until the All-Star Game is over before posting your answers. 1) Who hit the first home run in an All-Star Game? 2) Name the only player to hit a grand slam in an All-Star Game. 3) This Hall-of-Fame, Cy Young Award-winning pitcher once gave up three home runs in one of his All-Star Game appearances. 4) Hammerin' Hank Aaron holds the record for number of All-Star Game roster appearances with 25. Which two legendary players are tied for second and third in number of roster appearances? 5) The All-Star Game has gone into extra innings 11 times. Two All-Star Games are tied for the most innings played. How many innings? 6) Whitey Ford might have been a legendary pitcher for the New York Yankees, but he also holds the record for the most hits given up by a pitcher appearing in at least one All-Star Game. Plus or minus two, how many hits did he give up in his ten appearances? 7) The 2002 All-Star Game ended with the score tied 7-7 after eleven innings, because the teams ran out of what? 8) 1961 was a weird year in All-Star Game history. First, two All-Star Games were played, one on July 11, and one on July 31. The second game ended in a tie after regulation play. Why? 9) In the 2007 All-Star Game, the Seattle Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki did this for the first time in his major league career, also becoming the only person to do so in an All-Star Game. What was this feat? 10) The New York Mets' Dwight Gooden has a spot in All-Star Game history he might not want to have earned; in two of his four All-Star appearances, he was charged with what? 11) Plus or minus 5, how many total home runs have been hit in all of the All-Star Games? (INCLUDING this year's game, so you might want to wait to post your answers until after the game is over.) Play ball! |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jul 12 03:48AM > 5) The All-Star Game has gone into extra innings 11 times. Two All-Star > Games are tied for the most innings played. How many innings? 13 > Yankees, but he also holds the record for the most hits given up by a > pitcher appearing in at least one All-Star Game. Plus or minus two, how > many hits did he give up in his ten appearances? 10 > 7) The 2002 All-Star Game ended with the score tied 7-7 after eleven > innings, because the teams ran out of what? pitchers > 11) Plus or minus 5, how many total home runs have been hit in all of > the All-Star Games? (INCLUDING this year's game, so you might want to > wait to post your answers until after the game is over.) 123 -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jul 11 08:10PM -0700 On Tuesday, July 11, 2017 at 11:06:38 AM UTC+10, Calvin wrote: > > 7 Using a photoelectric photometer, astronomers can measure the number of pulses per second generated by a star pulse. This measure is proportional to what other property of stars? > Magnitude / Brightness Having considered the various follow-up posts I've decided to let the original scores stand. Despite the question's documented shortcomings, I don't believe that only considering a small subset such as pulsars is a reasonable interpretation. cheers, calvin |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jul 11 08:11PM -0700 On Wednesday, July 12, 2017 at 1:10:25 PM UTC+10, Calvin wrote: > > > 7 Using a photoelectric photometer, astronomers can measure the number of pulses per second generated by a star pulse. This measure is proportional to what other property of stars? > > Magnitude / Brightness > Having considered the various follow-up posts I've decided to let the original scores stand. Despite the question's documented shortcomings, I don't believe that only considering a small subset such as pulsars is a reasonable interpretation. But it's nice to see that it inspired the title of RQ262 :-) cheers, calvin |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Jul 11 01:08PM -0500 In article <a0fb2cea-c625-4cee-a676-bfc0f72f0e7e@googlegroups.com>, 334152@gmail.com says... > 1 Typically made with French fries, bacon, cheese and gravy, what is the unofficial national dish of Canada? poutine > 2 Who was the first President of Zimbabwe from 1980-87? > 3 Who was Tom Cruise's first wife? Nicole Kidman > 4 Which 1977 album by Queen shares its name with a defunct British national newspaper? > 5 To which section of an orchestra does the bassoon belong? woodwinds > 6 Who was the father of English monarch King Edward VI? > 7 Tina Turner sang the theme to which 1995 James Bond film? > 8 American writer Peter Benchley wrote which 1974 novel, and (with Carl Gottlieb) the screenplay for the 1975 film of the same name? Jaws > 9 The Hugo Boss fashion house is based in which European country? > 10 What is the second lowest layer of the atmosphere, located above the troposphere? stratosphere -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Jul 11 07:30PM Calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote in > 1 Typically made with French fries, bacon, cheese and gravy, what > is the unofficial national dish of Canada? Poutine > 2 Who was the first President of Zimbabwe from 1980-87? Patton > 3 Who was Tom Cruise's first wife? Nicole Kidman > 4 Which 1977 album by Queen shares its name with a defunct > British national newspaper? News of the World > 5 To which section of an orchestra does the bassoon belong? Woodwinds > 6 Who was the father of English monarch King Edward VI? George IV > 8 American writer Peter Benchley wrote which 1974 > novel, and (with Carl Gottlieb) the screenplay for the 1975 film of > the same name? Jaws > 9 The Hugo Boss fashion house is based in which > European country? France > 10 What is the second lowest layer of the > atmosphere, located above the troposphere? Exosphere > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > http://www.avg.com Pete Gayde |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jul 11 01:31PM > > Rotating Quiz #261 is over and Don Piven is the winner with a > > near-perfect score. He may now proceed to set RQ #262. > Thanks for all your trouble Dan. That was an *excellent* quiz. Thanks! -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jul 11 01:34PM > anyone is still puzzled: part of each question actually had nothing > at all to do with the person being named, but instead hinted at a > phrase that might be abbreviated by their first-name initials. I knew I forgot something. > > > be entirely suitable for children. > > P. G. Wodehouse > Parental Guidance suggested -- US MPAA movie classification. Also used in the UK, I thought, or I probably wouldn't have included it. I didn't use J. P. Morgan because although the US, Canada, and the UK all have justices of the peace, their roles vary considerably from country to country and from state to state in the US, so it was hard to write a clue for that part. > > > recorded a number of hip-hop tracks. > > M. C. Escher > Reference to M. C. Hammer. There are lots of hip-hop artists that use "M. C." It may be from the old "master of ceremonies" or it may not. -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
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