Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Digest for rec.games.trivia@googlegroups.com - 3 updates in 3 topics

Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Nov 20 03:43PM -0800

On Monday, November 20, 2017 at 2:20:26 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
> > I just happened to catch bits of the latter on TV last night.
> > [Finney's] French accent (as Poirot) was terrible.
 
> Ah, but Poirot isn't French!
 
I never claimed he was.
 
cheers,
calvin
Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Nov 20 11:47AM -0800

Mark Brader wrote:
>> Forget to log into email for a couple days and this entire quiz passes
>> me by.
 
> Well, if you're reading Usenet by email...
 
I read Usenet with my email reader. But I'm lazy and still use my old
computer to do so. Just haven't gotten around to moving it to my new
computer.
 
--
Dan Tilque
gwowen@gmail.com: Nov 20 03:57AM -0800

On Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at 10:48:41 PM UTC, Calvin wrote:
> 1 In mathematics, what is the value of the imaginary number "i"?
 
log(-1) / pi
 
> 2  In which city was the ill-fated Titanic built?
 
Belfast
 
> 3 Which foodstuff is most commonly associated with a zester?
 
Lemon
 
> 4 Which actress' first and last names together are an anagram of "Germany"? [BOTH names please]
 
Meg Ryan
 
> 5 Which composer's 6th Symphony is known as the 'Pathétique'?
 
Tchaikovsky
 
> 6 Which royal is the current Earl of Wessex?
 
Prince Edward
 
> 7 Which five-letter word completes the title of a 1969 autobiography by Maya Angelou: "I Know Why The Caged Bird ..."?
 
Sings
 
> 8 Which mountain in Greece is the legendary home of the Ancient gods?
 
Olympus
 
> 9 Which 1999 psychological horror film by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez gained box office receipts worth some 4,000 times its budget?
 
The Blair Witch Project
 
> 10 In classical music a piano trio is a chamber ensemble consisting of a piano, a violin and which other musical instrument?
 
Cello
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