- Rotating Quiz #270: Fight or Flight - 1 Update
- QFTCISG Game 2, Rounds 2-3: PM quotes, streets - 2 Updates
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Oct 08 03:01AM -0700 Dan Blum wrote: > Ottoman rule for some time it acted independently and was a major > pirate base before the Barbary Wars. Not longer after those it fell > under colonial rule. Algiers > with mercury vapor, so it unsurprisingly was mostly replaced by easier > methods within about twenty years. However, the name is often > incorrectly applied to other types of 19th-century photograph. daguerreotype > (as one might expect) it is the closest capital to the equator, so > there's that. (The answer is the name of the country, not the > capital.) Ecuador > 5. This large coral atoll is self-governing but exists in free > association with New Zealand, which generally handles its foreign > affairs. Niue > accessed via more or less horizontal tunnels ("more or less" because > they often slope a bit to drain water from the mine). Such a tunnel is > generally called what? drift -- Dan Tilque |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Oct 07 12:25PM > * Game 2, Round 2 - Canadiana History - Prime Minister Quotes > 5. "There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation." Pierre Trudeau > 8. "Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects." Hint: it was > after 1950. Diefenbaker > 10. "At one point people are going to have to realize that maybe > I know what I'm doing." Harper; Mulroney > * Game 2, Round 3 - Geography - Famous Streets of the World > 1. In what European city would you find the Unter den Linden? Amsterdam > 2. Which street in Washington DC links the White House and > Capitol Hill? Pennsylvania Avenue > 3. Name the famous high-priced, tr?s-chic shopping street in > Beverly Hills. Rodeo Drive > 4. Still with high priced and tr?s chic, in what American city > would you drop lots of money on Worth Av.? Dallas; Houston > 5. In which European city would you find Varvaka St., the oldest > street in the city, known for its churches and medieval sites? Kiev; Odessa > 6. Which American city has Woodward Av. as its main drag? Denver; Reno > 7. In which Asian city would you head to Orchard Rd. for shopping > and entertainment? Hong Kong; Singapore > 8. In which city would you find more than 300 shops and stores on > Oxford St. -- a mecca for, among other things, men's fashion? London > 9. In which American city would you find Lombard St., called the > crookedest street in the world? San Francisco > 10. Which Canadian city is famous for the intersection of > Portage Av. and Main St.? Toronto; Vancouver -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Oct 08 02:53AM -0700 Mark Brader wrote: > leave the answer ambiguous. > 1. "The 19th century was the century of the United States. I think > we can claim it is Canada that shall fill the 20th century." Laurier > 2. "Not necessarily conscription, but conscription if necessary." King > going to do it. This is wrong for Canada, and I am not going > to ask Canadians to pay the price.'" > 7. "A British subject I was born; a British subject I will die." MacKenzie > I know what I'm doing." > * Game 2, Round 3 - Geography - Famous Streets of the World > 1. In what European city would you find the Unter den Linden? Vienna > 2. Which street in Washington DC links the White House and > Capitol Hill? Pennsylvania Ave. > 3. Name the famous high-priced, très-chic shopping street in > Beverly Hills. Rodeo Drive > 6. Which American city has Woodward Av. as its main drag? > 7. In which Asian city would you head to Orchard Rd. for shopping > and entertainment? Hong Kong > 8. In which city would you find more than 300 shops and stores on > Oxford St. -- a mecca for, among other things, men's fashion? London > 9. In which American city would you find Lombard St., called the > crookedest street in the world? San Francisco > 10. Which Canadian city is famous for the intersection of > Portage Av. and Main St.? Winnipeg -- Dan Tilque |
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