- Calvin's Quiz #500 - 5 Updates
- RQ #265 - Presidents' Lives - ANSWERS & SCORES - 6 Updates
- Calvin's Quiz #499 - ANSWERS & SCORES - 1 Update
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Aug 24 06:08PM -0700 CQ#500! And they said I'd never amount to anything! CQ#1 appeared on 3 March 2010. Thanks to everyone who has been along for the ride. 1 Who won Best Actress Oscar in 1988 film "Moonstruck"? 2 Which two colours are most often confused by colour blind people? 3 In 1988 who became the first boxer to have won world championships in five different weight categories? 4 In which 1983 film does David Bowie portray an Allied Major in a Japanese POW camp? 5 In which decade was the Irish potato famine? 6 Which R&B star married Whitney Houston in 1992? 7 What 2-word term refers to process of subjecting an author's scholarly work to the scrutiny of experts in the same field before publication? 8 What is the brightest star in the Earth's night sky? 9 Widely regarded as Napoleon's greatest military victory, near which city (then in the Austro-Hungarian empire but now in the Czech Republic) did the Battle of the Three Emperors take place in 1802? 10 According to the Bible, who did Pontius Pilate release instead of Jesus? cheers, calvin |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Aug 24 07:01PM -0700 Calvin wrote: > CQ#1 appeared on 3 March 2010. Thanks to everyone who has been along for the ride. > 1 Who won Best Actress Oscar in 1988 film "Moonstruck"? > 2 Which two colours are most often confused by colour blind people? red-green > 3 In 1988 who became the first boxer to have won world championships in five different weight categories? Sugar Ray Leonard > 4 In which 1983 film does David Bowie portray an Allied Major in a Japanese POW camp? King Rat > 5 In which decade was the Irish potato famine? 1840s > 6 Which R&B star married Whitney Houston in 1992? > 7 What 2-word term refers to process of subjecting an author's scholarly work to the scrutiny of experts in the same field before publication? peer review > 8 What is the brightest star in the Earth's night sky? Sirius > 9 Widely regarded as Napoleon's greatest military victory, near which city (then in the Austro-Hungarian empire but now in the Czech Republic) did the Battle of the Three Emperors take place in 1802? Austerlitz > 10 According to the Bible, who did Pontius Pilate release instead of Jesus? Barabbas -- Dan Tilque |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Aug 25 03:19AM > 1 Who won Best Actress Oscar in 1988 film "Moonstruck"? Cher > 2 Which two colours are most often confused by colour blind people? red and green > 5 In which decade was the Irish potato famine? 1840s > 6 Which R&B star married Whitney Houston in 1992? Bobby Brown > 7 What 2-word term refers to process of subjecting an author's scholarly work to the scrutiny of experts in the same field before publication? peer review > 8 What is the brightest star in the Earth's night sky? Sirius > 9 Widely regarded as Napoleon's greatest military victory, near which city (then in the Austro-Hungarian empire but now in the Czech Republic) did the Battle of the Three Emperors take place in 1802? Austerlitz > 10 According to the Bible, who did Pontius Pilate release instead of Jesus? Barabbas -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Aug 25 07:28AM > CQ#500! And they said I'd never amount to anything! > CQ#1 appeared on 3 March 2010. Thanks to everyone who has been along for > the ride. And thanks for running them this long! > 2 Which two colours are most often confused by colour blind people? Red and green > 5 In which decade was the Irish potato famine? 1860s > 7 What 2-word term refers to process of subjecting an author's > scholarly work to the scrutiny of experts in the same field before > publication? Peer review > 8 What is the brightest star in the Earth's night sky? Sirius > 9 Widely regarded as Napoleon's greatest military victory, near > which city (then in the Austro-Hungarian empire but now in the Czech > Republic) did the Battle of the Three Emperors take place in 1802? Austerlitz > 10 According to the Bible, who did Pontius Pilate release instead of > Jesus? Barabass -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Aug 25 08:55AM Calvin wrote: > 1 Who won Best Actress Oscar in 1988 film "Moonstruck"? > 2 Which two colours are most often confused by colour blind people? Red/Green > 3 In 1988 who became the first boxer to have won world championships in > five different weight categories? Sugar Ray Leonard > 4 In which 1983 film does David Bowie portray an Allied Major in a > Japanese POW camp? > 5 In which decade was the Irish potato famine? 1860s > 6 Which R&B star married Whitney Houston in 1992? Bobby Brown > 7 What 2-word term refers to process of subjecting an author's scholarly > work to the scrutiny of experts in the same field before publication? Peer Review > 8 What is the brightest star in the Earth's night sky? Sirius > did the Battle of the Three Emperors take place in 1802? > 10 According to the Bible, who did Pontius Pilate release instead of > Jesus? Barabbas Peter Smyth |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Aug 24 01:50PM > Dan B is the clear winner and so gains the hosting rights for RQ #266. Over to you. Thanks. I'll probably post over the weekend. -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Aug 24 09:50AM -0500 In article <XnsA7DB5EF4B2686Yazorman@127.0.0.1>, esquel@sommarskog.se says... > I am not surprised that I was the end of the pack, as I just entered a bunch > of guesses. I am little more surprised that so few entered, since coming up > with guesses were not that hard. I generally don't enter quizzes for which I have to guess all the answers. Lincoln is the only date (death) I knew. I thought I knew GW's birth year but over the ages I seem to have transposed the last two digits. -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Aug 24 08:04PM +0200 > I generally don't enter quizzes for which I have to guess all the answers. > Lincoln is the only date (death) I knew. Not even FDR??? -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Aug 24 05:52PM -0700 On Thursday, August 24, 2017 at 5:20:05 PM UTC+10, Erland Sommarskog wrote: > Calvin (334152@gmail.com) writes: > > * Coolidge was easily the worst answered, > As a matter of fact, he was not answered at all. Indeed. Make that Hoover! cheers, calvin |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Aug 24 07:09PM -0700 Marc Dashevsky wrote: > I generally don't enter quizzes for which I have to guess all the answers. > Lincoln is the only date (death) I knew. I thought I knew GW's birth year > but over the ages I seem to have transposed the last two digits. I largely agree with this. But I make a distinction between making total WAGs and educated guesses. If I can make an educated guess, it adds some fun that is missing when I have no clue at all. In this case, I knew the years of their presidency and I know that most presidents got into office in their 50s or early 60s, I could make educated guesses. So it was worth entering, even though I only knew three of the years for certain. -- Dan Tilque |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Aug 25 07:25AM > presidents got into office in their 50s or early 60s, I could make > educated guesses. So it was worth entering, even though I only knew > three of the years for certain. I would agree with this. Had Calvin posted 10 pictures of Australian Prime Ministers and their names and then asked us to tell who's who, I would not have been bothered. But here it was possible with educated guesses. Nevermind that for some of the Presidents I was quite foggy of their period in office, but it was clear that the list was chronological, so that helped. And it was sort of interesting challenge to figure out the age of Lincoln from the pictures I've seen of him. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Aug 24 06:03PM -0700 On Friday, August 18, 2017 at 10:19:54 AM UTC+10, Calvin wrote: > 1 Which hit song of 1965 includes the following lines: You're trying hard not to show it / But baby, baby I know it? You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling > 2 'The Moon's A Balloon' (1971) was the best-selling memoir of which British actor? David Niven > 3 What 2-word term is both a leading female singer in an Opera, and someone who is temperamental and hard to please? Prima Donna > 4 Which bird is the national symbol of France? Rooster / Cockerel > 5 What nationality was the writer and artist Christy Brown, best known for his 1954 autobiography "My Left Foot"? Irish > 6 In humans, what term refers to the two lower chambers of the heart? ventricles > 7 What's the capital city of Mali? Bamako > 8 A Taikonaut is which country's equivalent of an astronaut? China > 9 Which two singers duetted on the 1981 hit "Endless Love"? Lionel Ritchie and Diana Ross Singleton for Gareth > 10 Russia shares land borders with some 14 countries. Which is the shortest, barely 20km in length? North Korea Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 499 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 8 36 Gareth Owen 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 6 32 Pete Gayde 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 5 22 Erland S 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 5 22 Mark Brader 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 5 24 Dan Tilque 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 5 25 Peter Smyth 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 5 31 Dan Blum 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 20 Marc Dashevsky - - - - - - - - - - --- ---------- 7 3 5 2 6 7 4 5 1 3 43 54% Congratulations Gareth. cheers, calvin |
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