- QFTCI5EP Game 8, Rounds 4,6: EGOTs, world's fairs - 1 Update
- Calvin's Quiz #495 - 1 Update
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jul 23 06:43PM -0700 On Saturday, July 22, 2017 at 3:19:56 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > role as Anita in an Oscar-winning film, and she rounded out the > Grand Slam with Emmy wins in 1977 and 1978, the latter for her > special guest appearances on "The Rockford Files". Morena > Rights, she also won three Tony Awards, the first in 1947 for > "Happy Birthday", the second in 1958 for "Time Remembered", > and the third, an honorary Lifetime Achievement Award, in 1980. Hepburn > play "Ondine" that same year. Her Grammy and Emmy wins came > much later in her career, both awarded posthumously after her > death in 1993. Hepburn > Recording, two Daytime Emmy wins, and an Oscar for Best > Supporting actress for portraying a character named Oda Mae > Brown in a successful 1990 film. Goldberg > Awards, the last presented in 1961 for directing "Big Fish, > Little Fish". But he might be best known for his Oscar win as > Best Supporting Actor in a 1981 romantic comedy. Prince > He won his Tony in 1969 for "The Great White Hope", a Spoken-Word > Grammy in 1977, and the first two of three Emmys in 1991 for his > supporting role in "Heat Wave" and lead role in "Gabriel's Fire". Newman > with a Living Legend Award at the Grammies in 1997. That same > year her album "Gently" was nominated for a Grammy in the Best > Traditional Pop Vocal category, but didn't win. Morena > for Best Musical to the cast of "Hamilton!". President Obama > said he felt verklempt as he presented her with the Medal of > Freedom in 2015. Andrews > Most notable was the Crystal Palace, the structure that housed > the exhibits, which was constructed of cast iron and plate glass. > In what city was the Great Exhibition of 1851 held? London > Tragedy struck when the city's popular mayor, Carter Harrison > Sr., was assassinated two days before the end of the festivities. > In what city was the 1893 fair held? New York, Boston > the Eiffel Tower, the fair also commemorated the centennial of > which significant moment in the host nation's history that is > traditionally thought to have started the French Revolution? Storming of the Bastille > in America and by new inventions such as the telephone, the > typewriter, and the mechanical calculator. Within one year, > in what year was the fair held? 1876 > Bell Labs' Voder (the first attempt to synthesize human speech), > the Magna Carta, and the 1st World Science Fiction Convention. > In what city was the fair held? Toronto, Vancouver > precursor to the fax machine. It was also the public debut of > what revolutionary new machine now commonly found in hospitals > and airports? X-ray machine > Harmony for Mankind". Special exhibits included the Tower of the > Sun, a moon rock from the Apollo 11 mission -- and demonstrations > of *what floating public-transportation technology*? Magnetic levitation train > 9. World Expo 88 featured the theme "Leisure in the Age of > Technology", and the mascot for the fair was a platypus named > Expo Oz. In what Australian state-capital city was Expo 88 held? Brisbane > 10. The 2017 Expo will be held in the city of Astana -- which is > in what country? Kazakhstan cheers, calvin |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Jul 23 09:01PM Calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote in > 1 Which US state is known as the "Bluegrass State"? Kentucky > 2 Which human sense relies on an organ called the corti? Eye > 3 "Operation Barbarossa" was the code name for Nazi Germany's > WW2 invasion of which country? Soviet Union > 4 Since 1996, the Olympic modern > pentathlon has been contested over how many days? 2 > 5 Which of Henry VIII's wives was known as the Flanders Mare? Anne of Cleves > 6 Which US > supermarket fake news tabloid was founded in 1926 by William Griffin? National Enquirer > 7 Pink Eye is an alternative name for which medical condition? Conjunctivitis > 8 How often should one perform a quotidian task? Once a year > 9 Which manufacturer has made the i30 model since 2007? Infiniti > 10 Which river is the natural habitat of pink river dolphins (Inia > Geoffrensis)? Indus > cheers, > calvin Pete Gayde |
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