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| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Dec 11 08:15PM -0800 Hi everyone usual rules- use your own knowledge only and post a single reply here within the next seven days. Good luck! 1 Which Australian rock band had hits with "April Sun in Cuba" (1977) and "Are You Old Enough?" (1978)? 2 Which six-letter word can mean to wedge something, an alcoholic spirit, a cut or score the skin, or to decisively end? 3 What links Bob Hope, Henry Winkler, Dwight Eisenhower, James Watson and Billy Graham? 4 What is the official language of Suriname? 5 What is the largest internal organ in the human body? 6 Which ethno-linguistic group, native to Europe and Asia, is classified into East, West and South? 7 What word of Greek origin refers to (among other meanings) the complete final destruction of the world, as described in the book of Revelation. 8 A famous painting by Jacques-Louis David shows which leader crossing the Alps on horseback? 9 What is the official language of Andorra? 10 What was the nickname of American jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker? 11 Which lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for correctly assessing in 1983 that reports of incoming American missiles were a false positive? 12 What links the previous 11 answers? cheers, calvin |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 11 11:57PM -0600 "Calvin": > 1 Which Australian rock band had hits with "April Sun in Cuba" > (1977) and "Are You Old Enough?" (1978)? Devo? > 2 Which six-letter word can mean to wedge something, an alcoholic > spirit, a cut or score the skin, or to decisively end? Scotch. > 3 What links Bob Hope, Henry Winkler, Dwight Eisenhower, James > Watson and Billy Graham? Wives named Mamie? > 4 What is the official language of Suriname? Dutch. > 5 What is the largest internal organ in the human body? Liver. > 6 Which ethno-linguistic group, native to Europe and Asia, is > classified into East, West and South? Slavic. > 7 What word of Greek origin refers to (among other meanings) the > complete final destruction of the world, as described in the book > of Revelation. Apocalypse. > 8 A famous painting by Jacques-Louis David shows which leader > crossing the Alps on horseback? Napoleon. > 9 What is the official language of Andorra? Catalan. > 10 What was the nickname of American jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker? Bird. > became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from > nuclear war" for correctly assessing in 1983 that reports of > incoming American missiles were a false positive? Johnsonski. :-) > 12 What links the previous 11 answers? None of them have the letter X in them. (Well, it's true!) -- Mark Brader | "Youths steal funds for charity" Toronto | --White Plains, NY, Reporter Dispatch msb@vex.net | February 17, 1982 My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Dec 12 09:55AM Calvin wrote: > Hi everyone > usual rules- use your own knowledge only and post a single reply here within the next seven days. Good luck! > 1 Which Australian rock band had hits with "April Sun in Cuba" (1977) and "Are You Old Enough?" (1978)? INXS > 2 Which six-letter word can mean to wedge something, an alcoholic spirit, a cut or score the skin, or to decisively end? > 3 What links Bob Hope, Henry Winkler, Dwight Eisenhower, James Watson and Billy Graham? > 4 What is the official language of Suriname? Dutch > 5 What is the largest internal organ in the human body? Liver > 6 Which ethno-linguistic group, native to Europe and Asia, is classified into East, West and South? > 7 What word of Greek origin refers to (among other meanings) the complete final destruction of the world, as described in the book of Revelation. Apocalypse > 8 A famous painting by Jacques-Louis David shows which leader crossing the Alps on horseback? Alexander the Great > 9 What is the official language of Andorra? Spanish > 10 What was the nickname of American jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker? > 11 Which lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for correctly assessing in 1983 that reports of incoming American missiles were a false positive? > 12 What links the previous 11 answers? Peter Smyth |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Dec 11 03:44PM -0800 On Monday, December 11, 2017 at 5:19:48 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > On the pages in English at lemans.org you will find many uses of the > word "race" for their 24-hour contest. For example, at [1] it says > that the sporting regulations "lay down the rules of the race". Maybe so, but the winner is judged by distance not speed so it is a test of endurance (in my view) and not a race. In any case (i.e. however broad one's definition of a race) the question was clearly asking for a specific sport so there had to be something inherent in its rules that met the other criteria. Any form of movement could be contested over 24 hours. cheers, calvin |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 11 06:36PM -0600 "Calvin": >>>>> I don't believe 24 hour events can genuinely be considered races. > ...the winner is judged by distance not speed so it is a > test of endurance (in my view) and not a race. Your contest, your view. Thanks for responding. > In any case (i.e. however broad one's definition of a race) the > question was clearly asking for a specific sport... I thought it was clearly asking for a sport where 24-hour (or similar) competitions are conducted, because how else would you have a race without a finish line? (Obviously, I didn't think of the possibility that there is a finish line but the racers do not cross it.) There aren't that many sports with 24-hour competitions, so it made sense that you might only know of one. -- Mark Brader "One should never listen to oneself. Toronto I mean, who are one to judge?" msb@vex.net -- Barry Etheridge My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Dec 12 09:24AM +0100 > was clearly asking for a specific sport so there had to be something > inherent in its rules that met the other criteria. Any form of movement > could be contested over 24 hours. Not really. The question reads "In which sport *can* one win a race without crossing a finishing line?" That is, the question suggests that there are varities of the sport where you don't pass a finishing line, but it does not say that all competitions are like that. Which certainly is true for swimming as well, as when it is conducted in open water there is a finishing line which you cross. |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Dec 11 06:27PM > 1 In 1908 who became the first black boxer to be world heavyweight > boxing champion? Jack Johnson > 2 In 1903 who became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize? Marie Curie > 3 Which country's secret intelligence service is known as Mossad? Israel > 4 Which website's slogan is 'We Open Governments'? Wikileaks > 5 Josep Broz Tito was president of which country from 1943-1980? Yugoslavia > 6 Which animal appears on the state flag of California? Bear > 7 Name any TWO of the three locations which have hosted the Winter > Olympics on more than one occasion. St Moritz, Rome > 8 With the slogan 'Rumour has it' and receiving over 300,000 hits per > day, which US website debunks/validates urban myths? Snopes > 9 In the nervous system, which structure enables a neuron (i.e. nerve > cell) to pass a signal to another neuron? Synapse > 10 The name of which American music trio is sometimes abbreviated to > DCX? Dixie Chicks |
| ArenEss <areness1@yahoo.com>: Dec 11 01:13PM -0600 On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 18:41:18 -0800 (PST), Calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote: >1 In 1908 who became the first black boxer to be world heavyweight boxing champion? Joe Louis? >2 In 1903 who became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize? Marie Curie? >3 Which country's secret intelligence service is known as Mossad? Israel? >4 Which website's slogan is 'We Open Governments'? Wikileaks? >5 Josep Broz Tito was president of which country from 1943-1980? Yugoslavia? >6 Which animal appears on the state flag of California? Bear? >7 Name any TWO of the three locations which have hosted the Winter Olympics on more than one occasion. Sapporo? >8 With the slogan 'Rumour has it' and receiving over 300,000 hits per day, which US website debunks/validates urban myths? Snoopes? >9 In the nervous system, which structure enables a neuron (i.e. nerve cell) to pass a signal to another neuron? Axon >10 The name of which American music trio is sometimes abbreviated to DCX? DiXie Chicks? ArenEss |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Dec 11 02:01PM -0600 In article <c00fcd51-4665-4183-8805-8b5a6051d2c3@googlegroups.com>, 334152@gmail.com says... > 1 In 1908 who became the first black boxer to be world heavyweight boxing champion? Jack Johnson > 2 In 1903 who became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize? Marie Curie > 3 Which country's secret intelligence service is known as Mossad? Israel > 4 Which website's slogan is 'We Open Governments'? Wikileaks > 5 Josep Broz Tito was president of which country from 1943-1980? Yugoslavia > 6 Which animal appears on the state flag of California? grizzly bear > 7 Name any TWO of the three locations which have hosted the Winter Olympics on more than one occasion. Lake Placid and Chamonix > 8 With the slogan 'Rumour has it' and receiving over 300,000 hits per day, which US website debunks/validates urban myths? snopes.com > 9 In the nervous system, which structure enables a neuron (i.e. nerve cell) to pass a signal to another neuron? axon -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| Bruce Bowler <bbowler@bigelow.org>: Dec 11 08:26PM On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 18:41:18 -0800, Calvin wrote: > 1 In 1908 who became the first black boxer to be world heavyweight > boxing champion? > 2 In 1903 who became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize? Curie > 3 Which country's secret intelligence service is known as Mossad? Israel > 4 Which website's slogan is 'We Open Governments'? > 5 Josep Broz Tito was president of which country from 1943-1980? Yugoslavia > 6 Which animal appears on the state flag of California? Bear > 7 Name any TWO of the three locations which have hosted the Winter > Olympics on more than one occasion. Lake Placid and St Moritz > 8 With the slogan 'Rumour has it' and receiving over 300,000 hits per > day, which US website debunks/validates urban myths? snopes.com > 9 In the nervous system, which structure enables a neuron (i.e. nerve > cell) to pass a signal to another neuron? Synapse > 10 The name of which American music trio is sometimes abbreviated to > DCX? Dixie Chicks |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Dec 11 06:05PM -0800 Calvin wrote: > 1 In 1908 who became the first black boxer to be world heavyweight boxing champion? > 2 In 1903 who became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize? Marie Curie > 3 Which country's secret intelligence service is known as Mossad? Israel > 4 Which website's slogan is 'We Open Governments'? Wikileaks > 5 Josep Broz Tito was president of which country from 1943-1980? Yugoslavia > 6 Which animal appears on the state flag of California? bear > 7 Name any TWO of the three locations which have hosted the Winter Olympics on more than one occasion. Lake Placid and Innsbruck > 8 With the slogan 'Rumour has it' and receiving over 300,000 hits per day, which US website debunks/validates urban myths? Snopes > 9 In the nervous system, which structure enables a neuron (i.e. nerve cell) to pass a signal to another neuron? synapse > 10 The name of which American music trio is sometimes abbreviated to DCX? Dixie Chicks -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 11 09:32PM -0600 Dan Tilque: > synapse Dang, I shoulda gotten that. See signature quote. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "I knew [the answers]... but the synapses msb@vex.net | just wouldn't s-nap." --Michael Wares |
| Bruce Bowler <bbowler@bigelow.org>: Dec 11 01:01PM On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 04:41:22 -0600, Mark Brader wrote: > book. > 1. Published 1719. "Wrecked on a Desert Island", "Friday's > Education", "Visit of the Mutineers". Robinson Crusoe > 2. Published 1894. "Kaa's Hunting", "Tiger! Tiger!", "Shiv and > the Grasshopper". The Jungle Book > 3. Published 1838. "The Burglary", "The Flight of Sikes", > "Fagin's Last Night Alive". Oliver Twist > 4. Published 1911. "The Shadow", "The Never-Bird", "Wendy's Story". Peter Pan > Begins". > 6. Published 1869. "At Full Steam", "The Nautilus", "An Underwater > Forest". 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea > 10. Published 1995. "The Clock of the Time Dragon", "The Birth > of a Witch", "Galinda". > * Game 7, Round 6 - Sports - Major League Soccer nope |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Dec 11 08:25AM -0600 In article <Q7adnZAN-ZXPkrDHnZ2dnUU7-IHNnZ2d@giganews.com>, msb@vex.net says... > you name the book. > 1. Published 1719. "Wrecked on a Desert Island", "Friday's > Education", "Visit of the Mutineers". Robinson Crusoe > 2. Published 1894. "Kaa's Hunting", "Tiger! Tiger!", "Shiv and > the Grasshopper". The Jungle Book > 3. Published 1838. "The Burglary", "The Flight of Sikes", > "Fagin's Last Night Alive". Oliver Twist > 4. Published 1911. "The Shadow", "The Never-Bird", "Wendy's Story". Peter Pan > 5. Published 1898. "The Eve of War", "The Heat Ray", "The Fighting > Begins". The War of the Worlds > 6. Published 1869. "At Full Steam", "The Nautilus", "An Underwater > Forest". 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea > 7. Published 1922. "Calypso", "Cyclops", "Penelope". > 8. Published 1957. "The John Galt Line", "Miracle Metal", "The > Utopia of Greed". Atlas Shrugged > only 10 teams. Name *any* of the original ten teams. You must > give the full original name, like "Houston Colt .45s" rather > than "Houston Astros". New England Revolution -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
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