- RQ #265 - Presidents' Lives - ANSWERS & SCORES - 2 Updates
- Calvin's Quiz #500 - 4 Updates
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Aug 25 10:05AM -0500 In article <XnsA7DBCC2E7C87BYazorman@127.0.0.1>, esquel@sommarskog.se says... > > 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??? You're right -- I know that. -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Aug 25 11:21PM -0700 Erland Sommarskog wrote: > And it was sort of interesting challenge to figure out the age of > Lincoln from the pictures I've seen of him. Lincoln's birth year was one of those I knew. Trivia about that: Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the exact same day: Feb 12, 1809. -- Dan Tilque |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Aug 25 10:08AM -0500 In article <e55daff0-58ac-47fc-8f4c-a1bb2ff7e224@googlegroups.com>, 334152@gmail.com says... > 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"? Cher > 2 Which two colours are most often confused by colour blind people? blue and green > 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? 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 -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Aug 25 09:22PM +0100 > 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"? Cheer > 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? Roberto Duran? > 4 In which 1983 film does David Bowie portray an Allied Major in a > Japanese POW camp? Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence > 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? Prague? > 10 According to the Bible, who did Pontius Pilate release instead of > Jesus? Barrabas |
| swp <stephen.w.perry@gmail.com>: Aug 25 01:23PM -0700 On Thursday, August 24, 2017 at 9:08:18 PM UTC-4, Calvin wrote: > CQ#500! And they said I'd never amount to anything! congratulations! > CQ#1 appeared on 3 March 2010. Thanks to everyone who has been along for the ride. it's been fun, with only a few bumps along the way. > 1 Who won Best Actress Oscar in 1988 film "Moonstruck"? cher > 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? thomas hearns > 4 In which 1983 film does David Bowie portray an Allied Major in a Japanese POW camp? merry christmas mr. lawrence > 5 In which decade was the Irish potato famine? 1845-1852, so you will need to count both the 1840s and 1850s > 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? the dog star aka sirius a > 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, which is now called slavkov u brna I believe > 10 According to the Bible, who did Pontius Pilate release instead of Jesus? barabbas (barabus is a character in "vampire:the masquerade–bloodlines") swp |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Aug 25 09:14PM Calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote in > 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"? Cher > 2 Which two colours are most often confused by colour blind > people? Red and blue > 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? > The Man Who Fell To Earth > 5 In which decade was the Irish potato famine? 1850s > 6 Which R&B star married Whitney Houston in 1992? 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? Polaris > 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? Brno > 10 According to the Bible, who did Pontius Pilate release > instead of Jesus? Barabbas > cheers, > calvin Pete Gayde |
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