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| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 05 11:48PM -0600 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2017-10-16, and should be interpreted accordingly. On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty. Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup, based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal the correct answers in about 3 days. All questions were written by members of Smith & Guessin' and are used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information see my 2017-09-25 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)". * Game 4, Round 7 - Entertainment - The Marx Brothers 1. Groucho Marx and his comedian brothers worked together for many years. Gummo left the act to join the army before the other four switched from stage to screen. Name all three of the others. 2. Five of the Marx Brothers' feature films were named by the American Film Institute as among the top 100 comedy films of all time. Within 1, in how many feature films did three or four of the brothers appear together between 1929 and 1949 inclusive? 3. Name the Marx Brothers film which finished highest on the AFI list, at #5. It involves a war with a country named Sylvania. 4. Please decode the rot13 for questions #4-6 only after answering the previous questions. Anzr gur bgure svpgvbany pbhagel va "Qhpx Fbhc". 5. Bar bs gur oebguref' zbfg snzbhf fprarf vf gur zveebe fprar va "Qhpx Fbhc". Anzr gur pbzvp npgerff jub erperngrq gur fprar gbtrgure jvgu Unecb ba n 1950f GI fubj. Fur nyfb nccrnerq jvgu gur oebguref va gurve 1938 svyz "Ebbz Freivpr". 6. Gur ebpx tebhc Dhrra anzrq gjb bs gurve gbc-fryyvat nyohzf bs gur 1970f nsgre Znek Oebguref svyzf: "N Avtug ng gur Bcren" naq "N Qnl ng gur Enprf". Va n gunax-lbh abgr gb gur onaq, jung qvq Tebhpub fnl ur jnf pnyyvat uvf arkg zbivr? 7. Groucho Marx called her "practically the 5th Marx Brother" (obviously, this was after Gummo had left the act). Name this actress who is best remembered as the brothers' comic foil in 7 of their films. 8. Name the NBC radio and TV show Groucho starred in from 1947 to 1961. 9. On <answer 8>, what did a contestant have to do to win $100? 10. The last Marx Brothers movie was "Love Happy" in 1949, not one of their best. It may be best-known for a walk-on role by a blonde actress who later became a Hollywood legend. Name her. * Game 4, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - Eponyms These are words that were originally people's names, or people whose names became words, or the like. In all cases you may answer either with the original name or the derived word. 1. This word means to refuse commercial relations with someone as a form of protest. It comes from an Irish land agent who refused to adhere to Irish land reforms in the 1800s; in retaliation, the Irish Land League refused his business in stores and in other economic transactions. 2. This word comes from an English laborer who was allegedly caught destroying weaving machines in the 18th century. Some time later a group of laborers called themselves by this word, which today means an opponent of technological progress. 3. This style of sweater was inspired not by Thomas Brudenell's name, but by his title in the UK's aristocracy. He wore a knitted waistcoat to keep warm and was seen to wear it during campaigning in the Crimean War. 4. We're not done with clothing named after British aristocratic titles: this boot was named after Arthur Wellesley's title. Modeled after the Hessian boot, it had a low-cut heel and the lip was stacked to end mid-calf. It was the perfect boot for riding or evening attire. 5. This term originated during the American Revolution when a Virginia justice of the peace started to extrajudicially incarcerate loyalists. The Continental Congress then passed a law exonerating him, naming it after the lawman in question. The word has existed since then, but has come to have an even darker meaning. 6. This US term refers to the act of reading a suspected criminal their legal rights. These rights are named after a 1960s man who was convicted of kidnapping and rape, but who was later released as officers had failed to inform him of his rights and he therefore never received counsel. 7. This word comes from the author of the novel "Venus in Furs". Throughout the novel the protagonist is in submissive relationships with a number of dominating women. A German neurologist latter coined this term from his name, meaning to get sexual pleasure from being hurt or abused. 8. This 16th-century Italian adventurer wrote a number of memoirs about his life. Due to a number of elaborate affairs with women, his name is now synonymous with "womanizer". Name him. 9. The practice of locating district boundaries so as to give one party an unfair advantage comes from a combination of origins. The first half comes from a Massachusetts senator who signed the legislation to adopt new state electoral boundaries. The second half of the word comes from the fact that a cartoonist thought one of these newly constructed boundaries looked like a salamander. 10. In England this word originally meant a clumsy, unwieldy fellow. The word gained its modern usage after P.T. Barnum bought an elephant from the London Zoo and changed its name to advertise for the circus. Now we recognize the word as meaning "huge". What was this elephant's name? -- Mark Brader, Toronto | I am a mathematician, sir. I never permit myself msb@vex.net | to think. --Stuart Mills (Carr: The Three Coffins) My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Nov 06 06:28AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:KKadnd8tR40samLEnZ2dnUU7- > many years. Gummo left the act to join the army before the > other four switched from stage to screen. Name all three of > the others. Chico, Harpo, Zeppo > American Film Institute as among the top 100 comedy films of > all time. Within 1, in how many feature films did three or four > of the brothers appear together between 1929 and 1949 inclusive? 13 > 3. Name the Marx Brothers film which finished highest on the AFI > list, at #5. It involves a war with a country named Sylvania. "Duck Soup" > 4. Please decode the rot13 for questions #4-6 only after answering > the previous questions. Anzr gur bgure svpgvbany pbhagel va > "Qhpx Fbhc". Freedonia > va "Qhpx Fbhc". Anzr gur pbzvp npgerff jub erperngrq gur fprar > gbtrgure jvgu Unecb ba n 1950f GI fubj. Fur nyfb nccrnerq jvgu > gur oebguref va gurve 1938 svyz "Ebbz Freivpr". Lucille Ball > gur 1970f nsgre Znek Oebguref svyzf: "N Avtug ng gur Bcren" > naq "N Qnl ng gur Enprf". Va n gunax-lbh abgr gb gur onaq, > jung qvq Tebhpub fnl ur jnf pnyyvat uvf arkg zbivr? "Bohemian Rhapsody" (?) > (obviously, this was after Gummo had left the act). Name this > actress who is best remembered as the brothers' comic foil in > 7 of their films. Margaret Dumont > 8. Name the NBC radio and TV show Groucho starred in from 1947 > to 1961. "You Bet Your Life" > 9. On <answer 8>, what did a contestant have to do to win $100? say the secret word > 10. The last Marx Brothers movie was "Love Happy" in 1949, not > one of their best. It may be best-known for a walk-on role by > a blonde actress who later became a Hollywood legend. Name her. Marilyn Monroe > who refused to adhere to Irish land reforms in the 1800s; > in retaliation, the Irish Land League refused his business > in stores and in other economic transactions. boycott > destroying weaving machines in the 18th century. Some time > later a group of laborers called themselves by this word, > which today means an opponent of technological progress. Luddite > Modeled after the Hessian boot, it had a low-cut heel and the > lip was stacked to end mid-calf. It was the perfect boot for > riding or evening attire. Wellington > a law exonerating him, naming it after the lawman in question. > The word has existed since then, but has come to have an even > darker meaning. lynch > who was convicted of kidnapping and rape, but who was later > released as officers had failed to inform him of his rights > and he therefore never received counsel. Miranda > relationships with a number of dominating women. A German > neurologist latter coined this term from his name, meaning to > get sexual pleasure from being hurt or abused. masochism > 8. This 16th-century Italian adventurer wrote a number of memoirs > about his life. Due to a number of elaborate affairs with women, > his name is now synonymous with "womanizer". Name him. Casanova > The second half of the word comes from the fact that a cartoonist > thought one of these newly constructed boundaries looked like > a salamander. gerrymander > elephant from the London Zoo and changed its name to advertise > for the circus. Now we recognize the word as meaning "huge". > What was this elephant's name? Jumbo -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Nov 06 09:55AM +0100 > who refused to adhere to Irish land reforms in the 1800s; > in retaliation, the Irish Land League refused his business > in stores and in other economic transactions. boycott > destroying weaving machines in the 18th century. Some time > later a group of laborers called themselves by this word, > which today means an opponent of technological progress. Ludd > name, but by his title in the UK's aristocracy. He wore a > knitted waistcoat to keep warm and was seen to wear it during > campaigning in the Crimean War. Cardigan > relationships with a number of dominating women. A German > neurologist latter coined this term from his name, meaning to > get sexual pleasure from being hurt or abused. Masochist > 8. This 16th-century Italian adventurer wrote a number of memoirs > about his life. Due to a number of elaborate affairs with women, > his name is now synonymous with "womanizer". Name him. Casanova > The second half of the word comes from the fact that a cartoonist > thought one of these newly constructed boundaries looked like > a salamander. Gerrymeandering > elephant from the London Zoo and changed its name to advertise > for the circus. Now we recognize the word as meaning "huge". > What was this elephant's name? Jumbo -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Nov 06 10:55AM Mark Brader wrote: > many years. Gummo left the act to join the army before the > other four switched from stage to screen. Name all three of > the others. Harpo, Chico, Zeppo > American Film Institute as among the top 100 comedy films of > all time. Within 1, in how many feature films did three or four > of the brothers appear together between 1929 and 1949 inclusive? 15 > 3. Name the Marx Brothers film which finished highest on the AFI > list, at #5. It involves a war with a country named Sylvania. Duck Soup > the 1970s after Marx Brothers films: "A Night at the Opera" > and "A Day at the Races". In a thank-you note to the band, > what did Groucho say he was calling his next movie? This Album is Rubbish > 10. The last Marx Brothers movie was "Love Happy" in 1949, not > one of their best. It may be best-known for a walk-on role by > a blonde actress who later became a Hollywood legend. Name her. Marilyn Monroe > who refused to adhere to Irish land reforms in the 1800s; > in retaliation, the Irish Land League refused his business > in stores and in other economic transactions. Boycott > destroying weaving machines in the 18th century. Some time > later a group of laborers called themselves by this word, > which today means an opponent of technological progress. Luddite > Modeled after the Hessian boot, it had a low-cut heel and the > lip was stacked to end mid-calf. It was the perfect boot for > riding or evening attire. Wellington > who was convicted of kidnapping and rape, but who was later > released as officers had failed to inform him of his rights > and he therefore never received counsel. Miranda > relationships with a number of dominating women. A German > neurologist latter coined this term from his name, meaning to > get sexual pleasure from being hurt or abused. Masochism > 8. This 16th-century Italian adventurer wrote a number of memoirs > about his life. Due to a number of elaborate affairs with women, > his name is now synonymous with "womanizer". Name him. Casanova > The second half of the word comes from the fact that a cartoonist > thought one of these newly constructed boundaries looked like > a salamander. Gerrymander > elephant from the London Zoo and changed its name to advertise > for the circus. Now we recognize the word as meaning "huge". > What was this elephant's name? Peter Smyth |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Nov 05 11:32AM > 1. Various member of the Rostov, Kuragin and Bezukhov families. War and Peace > 2. Guildenstern. The Princess Bride > 3. Humbert Humbert. Humbert Humbert > 4. Count Alexei Vronsky, Prince Stepan Oblonsky, Count Alexei > Alexandrovich <omitted>. (Based on the consensus list, this > one is the #1 ranked book of all time.) Anna Karenina > 5. Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, "Pap", Jim, Buck Grangerford. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer > 6. Marcel, the narrator; Charles Swann; Gilberte Swann; Comtesse > de Marsantes; Basin, Duke De Geurmantes. Published 1913-27. A La Recherche De Temps Perdu > 7. Emma <omitted>, Charles <omitted>, Rodolphe Boulanger, Leon > Dupuis. Published 1856. Madame Bovary > 8. Nick Carraway, Daisy Fay Buchanan, Jordan Baker. The Great Gatsby > 9. Dorothea Brooke, Tertius Lydgate, Mary Garth. Published 1871-72 > and subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life". Tess of the Dubervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge > 10. José Arcadio Buendía, Úrsula Iguarán, Jose Arcadio II (Segundo). > Published 1967. 100 Years of Solitude > 1. Basketball star Michael Jordan played in the Olympics in 1984 > and 1992. Name the 1996 movie in which he starred with that > Oscar-winning rabbit, Bugs Bunny. Space Jam > 2. Speaking of 1996 movies starring basketball players, name the > flick which starred Shaquille O'Neal as a 5,000-year-old genie > who appears from a magic boom-box to grant a boy three wishes. Kazaam > 3. Name the NBA star who played himself in "Trainwreck", a 2015 > comedy which starred Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson, > and Tilda Swinton. Lebron James > two "Home Alone" movies. She then left acting for sports, > competing for the US in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics -- in which > martial-art sport? Tae Kwon Do; Karate > 5. Now to swimming. Name the 5-time Olympic champion swimmer who > gained even greater fame by playing Tarzan in 12 movies. Johnny Weissmuller > 6. Still with swimming, name the 1932 Olympic champ who later > starred in more than 100 movies. He is the only actor to have > played all three of Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers. Buster Crabbe > weightlifting in 1948. But he's best remembered as one of the > tougher villains James Bond has faced. Name Sakata's character > in a 1964 Bond film. Oddjob > 8. Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn Jenner, won the 1976 Olympic decathlon. > He also won the 1980 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor -- > in which disastrous comedy film starring the Village People? Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band > a lawsuit over a web site they co-founded at Harvard in 2004. > Name *either* that web site *or* the 2010 film in which they > were portrayed. The Social Network (Not an attempted answer, but I think the website was called "Harvard Connection") > included a future pediatrician who wrote one of the best-selling > books of all time, "Baby and Child Care", first published > in 1946. Name him. Benjamin Spock |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Nov 05 05:16PM -0800 On Friday, November 3, 2017 at 5:01:43 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > name that book. In some cases we will omit part of a character's > name as it would be too helpful. > 1. Various member of the Rostov, Kuragin and Bezukhov families. War and Peace > 2. Guildenstern. > 3. Humbert Humbert. Lolita > 4. Count Alexei Vronsky, Prince Stepan Oblonsky, Count Alexei > Alexandrovich <omitted>. (Based on the consensus list, this > one is the #1 ranked book of all time.) Anna Karenina > 5. Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, "Pap", Jim, Buck Grangerford. Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn > 6. Marcel, the narrator; Charles Swann; Gilberte Swann; Comtesse > de Marsantes; Basin, Duke De Geurmantes. Published 1913-27. Remembrance of Things Past > 7. Emma <omitted>, Charles <omitted>, Rodolphe Boulanger, Leon > Dupuis. Published 1856. The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask > 8. Nick Carraway, Daisy Fay Buchanan, Jordan Baker. The Great Gatsby > 9. Dorothea Brooke, Tertius Lydgate, Mary Garth. Published 1871-72 > and subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life". Middlemarch > 10. José Arcadio Buendía, Úrsula Iguarán, Jose Arcadio II (Segundo). > Published 1967. 100 Years of Solitude > 1. Basketball star Michael Jordan played in the Olympics in 1984 > and 1992. Name the 1996 movie in which he starred with that > Oscar-winning rabbit, Bugs Bunny. Space Jam, The Air up There > 2. Speaking of 1996 movies starring basketball players, name the > flick which starred Shaquille O'Neal as a 5,000-year-old genie > who appears from a magic boom-box to grant a boy three wishes. Aladdin > 3. Name the NBA star who played himself in "Trainwreck", a 2015 > comedy which starred Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson, > and Tilda Swinton. James, Curry > two "Home Alone" movies. She then left acting for sports, > competing for the US in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics -- in which > martial-art sport? Judo, Tae Kwan Do > 5. Now to swimming. Name the 5-time Olympic champion swimmer who > gained even greater fame by playing Tarzan in 12 movies. Weissmuller > weightlifting in 1948. But he's best remembered as one of the > tougher villains James Bond has faced. Name Sakata's character > in a 1964 Bond film. Odd Job > 8. Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn Jenner, won the 1976 Olympic decathlon. > He also won the 1980 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor -- > in which disastrous comedy film starring the Village People? You Can't Stop the Music > a lawsuit over a web site they co-founded at Harvard in 2004. > Name *either* that web site *or* the 2010 film in which they > were portrayed. > included a future pediatrician who wrote one of the best-selling > books of all time, "Baby and Child Care", first published > in 1946. Name him. Spock cheers, calvin |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 05 11:46PM -0600 Mark Brader: > name that book. In some cases we will omit part of a character's > name as it would be too helpful. > 1. Various member of the Rostov, Kuragin and Bezukhov families. "Voyna i Mir" (by Leo Tolstoy), or in English, "War and Peace". 4 for Peter, Dan, Marc, Gareth, and Calvin. > 2. Guildenstern. "Hamlet" (by William Shakespeare). (We didn't say the books would all be novels.) 4 for Peter, Dan, Marc, and Joshua. > 3. Humbert Humbert. "Lolita" (by Vladimir Nabokov). No, not "Humbert Humbert". 4 for Dan, Marc, Joshua, Jason, and Calvin. > 4. Count Alexei Vronsky, Prince Stepan Oblonsky, Count Alexei > Alexandrovich <omitted>. (Based on the consensus list, this > one is the #1 ranked book of all time.) "Anna Karenina" (again, by Leo Tolstoy), or in English, "Anna Karenina". 4 for Dan, Marc, Gareth, and Calvin. > 5. Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, "Pap", Jim, Buck Grangerford. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (by Mark Twain). "Huckleberry Finn" was sufficient, so I scored "Huck Finn" as almost correct. 4 for Dan and Joshua. 3 for Gareth. 1 for Calvin. > 6. Marcel, the narrator; Charles Swann; Gilberte Swann; Comtesse > de Marsantes; Basin, Duke De Geurmantes. Published 1913-27. "À la recherche du temps perdu" (by Marcel Proust), or in English, "Remembrance of Times Past", "Remembrance of Things Past", or "In Search of Lost Time". 4 for Peter, Dan, Joshua, Gareth, and Calvin. > 7. Emma <omitted>, Charles <omitted>, Rodolphe Boulanger, Leon > Dupuis. Published 1856. "Madame Bovary" (by Gustave Flaubert), which was #2 on the list. 4 for Dan, Marc, Joshua, and Gareth. > 8. Nick Carraway, Daisy Fay Buchanan, Jordan Baker. "The Great Gatsby" (by F. Scott Fitzgerald). 4 for Dan, Marc, Joshua, Jason, Gareth, and Calvin. > 9. Dorothea Brooke, Tertius Lydgate, Mary Garth. Published 1871-72 > and subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life". "Middlemarch" (by George Eliot). 4 for Calvin. > 10. José Arcadio Buendía, Úrsula Iguarán, Jose Arcadio II (Segundo). > Published 1967. "Cien Años de Soledad" (by Gabriel García Márquez), or in English, "One Hundred Years of Solitude". 4 for Dan, Marc, Gareth, and Calvin. > 1. Basketball star Michael Jordan played in the Olympics in 1984 > and 1992. Name the 1996 movie in which he starred with that > Oscar-winning rabbit, Bugs Bunny. "Space Jam". 4 for Peter, Dan, Bruce, Joshua, Jason, and Gareth. 3 for Calvin. > 2. Speaking of 1996 movies starring basketball players, name the > flick which starred Shaquille O'Neal as a 5,000-year-old genie > who appears from a magic boom-box to grant a boy three wishes. "Kazaam". 4 for Marc, Joshua, Jason, and Gareth. > 3. Name the NBA star who played himself in "Trainwreck", a 2015 > comedy which starred Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson, > and Tilda Swinton. LeBron James. 4 for Dan, Joshua, and Gareth. 3 for Calvin. > two "Home Alone" movies. She then left acting for sports, > competing for the US in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics -- in which > martial-art sport? Judo. 4 for Bruce, Marc, and Joshua. 3 for Peter, Dan, and Calvin. > 5. Now to swimming. Name the 5-time Olympic champion swimmer who > gained even greater fame by playing Tarzan in 12 movies. Johnny Weissmuller. 4 for Peter, Dan, Marc, Joshua, Jason, Gareth, and Calvin. > 6. Still with swimming, name the 1932 Olympic champ who later > starred in more than 100 movies. He is the only actor to have > played all three of Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers. Buster Crabbe. 4 for Dan, Joshua, Jason, and Gareth. > weightlifting in 1948. But he's best remembered as one of the > tougher villains James Bond has faced. Name Sakata's character > in a 1964 Bond film. Oddjob (in "Goldfinger"). 4 for everyone -- Peter, Dan, Bruce, Marc, Joshua, Jason, Gareth, and Calvin. > 8. Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn Jenner, won the 1976 Olympic decathlon. > He also won the 1980 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor -- > in which disastrous comedy film starring the Village People? "Can't Stop the Music". 4 for Dan, Joshua, and Jason. 3 for Calvin. > a lawsuit over a web site they co-founded at Harvard in 2004. > Name *either* that web site *or* the 2010 film in which they > were portrayed. Facebook, "The Social Network". (Both twins were played by Armie Hammer.) 4 for everyone. > included a future pediatrician who wrote one of the best-selling > books of all time, "Baby and Child Care", first published > in 1946. Name him. Benjamin Spock. 4 for everyone. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 4 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS TOPICS-> Can Geo Lit Spo Joshua Kreitzer 5 24 24 40 93 Dan Blum 3 16 36 35 90 Peter Smyth 0 29 12 23 64 Gareth Owen -- -- 27 32 59 "Calvin" -- -- 29 28 57 Marc Dashevsky 0 4 28 24 56 Jason Kreitzer 8 0 8 32 48 Dan Tilque 0 28 -- -- 28 Pete Gayde 3 24 -- -- 27 Erland Sommarskog 0 24 -- -- 24 Bruce Bowler -- -- 0 20 20 -- Mark Brader, Toronto | And perhaps another sigquote for Mark, who msb@vex.net | seems to be running low... --Steve Summit My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Nov 05 05:00PM -0800 On Tuesday, October 31, 2017 at 3:31:03 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > * Game 4, Round 2 - Canadiana History - Scandals Pass > is, including metropolitan counties.) > 1. County of Cornwall; Bristol Channel; county of Somerset; county > of Dorset; English Channel. Hint: its largest city is Plymouth. Devon > 2. County of Lancashire; Greater Manchester; county of Cheshire; > Dee Estuary; Irish Sea. Hint: its largest city is Liverpool. Merseyside > The next two are about provinces of Belgium. > 3. A country also named <answer 3>; France; provinces of Namur > and Liège, Belgium. Flanders, Wallonia > 4. Netherlands; provinces of Limburg, Flemish Brabant, and East > Flanders, Belgium. Hint: it includes Belgium's largest city, > which is also named <answer 4>. Wallonia, Flanders > The next two are about states of Germany. > 5. State of Brandenburg, Germany. (That is, this state surrounds > the one you want.) Berlin > 6. Czechia; Austria; Switzerland; states of Baden-Württemberg, > Hesse, Thuringia (Thüringen), and Saxony (Sachsen), Germany. > Hint: it is the country's largest state by area. Bavaria > The next two are about countries in Asia. > 7. China; Tajikistan; Uzbekistan; Kazakhstan. Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan > 8. Caspian Sea; Kazakhstan; Uzbekistan; Afghanistan; Iran. Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan > islands are omitted from the lists of bordering places. > 9. Sardinia; Corsica; Ligurian Sea; mainland Italy; Sicily; Strait > of Sicily; Tunisia; the main Mediterranean Sea. Tyrrhenian Sea > 10. Mainland Italy; Adriatic Sea; Albania; Greece; the main > Mediterranean Sea. Amalfi Sea? This round would have worked better with redacted maps :-) cheers, calvin |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 05 08:26PM -0600 "Calvin": > This round would have worked better with redacted maps :-) Yes, well, there was a reason to not do that. If Calvin's answers had been posted on time, he would have scored 0 points on Round 2 and 27 on Round 3. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "Could you guys please stop agreeing? msb@vex.net | It's wearing me out." --Bob Lieblich |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Nov 05 11:26AM > a. what is the only elemental metal that does not rust? Mercury? > b. what is is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only > one end? Tongue > c. what is the only number that cannot be represented using roman > numerals? Hooo boy... you'll get letters. Lets go with zero. > d. rounded to the nearest 10%, what percentage of all living things > live in the ocean? 90% > e. why do Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip? Thinner air is less lift - less lift means more take-off room. > f. what are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside? Strawberry > g. what has he highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per > hundred grams? Avacado > h. how far away from the earth does the moon move every year? 6 ft > i. how much heavier does the earth get each year due to falling space > dust? 1 Ton > j. what is the largest river flowing into the adriatic sea? The Po?? |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Nov 05 03:19PM > a. what is the only elemental metal that does not rust? gold I don't think there's really only one, however. > b. what is is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end? tongue > c. what is the only number that cannot be represented using roman numerals? zero Although there are lots of others - any negative number and any non-integer. > d. rounded to the nearest 10%, what percentage of all living things live in the ocean? 70% > e. why do Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip? air pressure is lower so planes require a greater takeoff speed > f. what are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside? strawberries > g. what has he highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams? avocado > h. how far away from the earth does the moon move every year? one inch > i. how much heavier does the earth get each year due to falling space dust? two Imperial tons > j. what is the largest river flowing into the adriatic sea? Volga -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Nov 05 03:50PM > > a. what is the only elemental metal that does not rust? > gold > I don't think there's really only one, however. If "rust" is defined as "oxidize" then a bit of research leads me to conclude that there is no answer. If noble metals are considered to oxidize so rarely as to be acceptable answers then there are several depending on exactly how you define it - gold, but maybe also osmium, definitely silver, etc. (Silver tarnish is a sulfur compound, not oxidation.) -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Nov 05 06:05PM -0800 On Sunday, November 5, 2017 at 2:25:01 AM UTC+10, swp wrote: > a. what is the only elemental metal that does not rust? Gold > b. what is is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end? Tongue > c. what is the only number that cannot be represented using roman numerals? 0 > d. rounded to the nearest 10%, what percentage of all living things live in the ocean? 90% > e. why do Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip? The atmosphere is thinner > f. what are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside? Strawberries > g. what has he highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams? Avocado > h. how far away from the earth does the moon move every year? 2 km > i. how much heavier does the earth get each year due to falling space dust? 5,000 tons > j. what is the largest river flowing into the adriatic sea? Po cheers, calvin |
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