- Calvin's Quiz #512 - ANSWERS & SCORES - 2 Updates
- QFTCISG Game 8, Rounds 2-3: Russian revolution, Merry Isthmus! - 3 Updates
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Dec 20 05:53PM -0800 On Monday, December 11, 2017 at 12:41:19 PM UTC+10, Calvin wrote: > 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 / brown ] Bear > 7 Name any TWO of the three locations which have hosted the Winter Olympics on more than one occasion. [2 of ] Innsbruck, Lake Placid, 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? The Dixie Chicks But the Dave Clark Ten made me smile thanks Chris :-) Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 512 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 9 77 Gareth Owen 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 9 78 Dan Blum 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 78 Dan Tilque 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 68 Bruce Bowler 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 8 69 Erland S 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 7 67 Pete Gayde 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 7 67 Marc Dashevsky 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 7 67 Aren Ess 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 7 68 Mark Brader 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 7 68 Peter Smyth 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 5 48 Chris Johnson - - - - - - - - - - --- ---------- 5 11 11 10 11 10 6 9 5 5 83 84% Congratulations Gareth on your win by the smallest possible margin. CQ is now in summer recess, with the next edition appearing c. second week of January. Merry Christmas all. cheers, calvin |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Dec 21 05:17AM > CQ is now in summer recess, with the next edition appearing c. second > week of January. Merry Christmas all. Merry Christmas Calvin (*grits teeth* and congratulations to your cricketers, who seem better than ours in every facet of the game) |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Dec 20 09:17AM -0800 Dan Tilque wrote: > Nova Scotia, New Brunswick > (I'd be very surprised if there's only 3 isthmi in a country the size of > Canada.) Wikipedia has a list of isthmuses (no surprise) and it only has three from Canada on it. No doubt that's where they got the number. Which means that there are three *named* isthmuses in Canada. Or at least three; it's possible the list is not complete. But if you look at the coast of BC, you can easily find more than that among the numerous fjords and inlets there. They probably don't have names, though. I expect I could find lots more by looking at all the lakes in Canada. -- Dan Tilque |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Dec 20 08:56PM +0100 > from Canada on it. No doubt that's where they got the number. Which > means that there are three *named* isthmuses in Canada. Or at least > three; it's possible the list is not complete. Yeah, that list does not look very complete - but how could a list of isthmuses ever be? For instance, Sweden is not on the list. Of course we have isthumuses! I noted that two isthmuses are listed for Argentina, and it so happens that I've been on both. Starting from the first one, I followed the coast up north, and it not take long before I found two more, one between two lakes (although since this is Patagonia, there may not be that much water in them) and little further north there is a very narrow isthumus that leads to a wider peninsula. None of these have any names on Google maps. You can find the latter if you look up Bahía Blanca on Google maps, and the go due south a little bit. |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Dec 20 06:11PM -0800 On Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at 3:53:31 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > back at those interesting times. > 1. Name the Russian czar who was forced to abdicate in the first > 1917 revolution. (Name and number required if applicable.) Nicolai II > of various revolutionary movements in Russia, as well as a > parliament. The Russian name of that parliament is also the name > of the lower house of Russia's current parliament -- what is it? Duma > only 8 months. > 4. Czar <answer 1> and his family were executed in July 1918 in > what is now Russia's 4th-largest city. Name it. Katerinberg > ensuing civil war was originally a wing of a revolutionary > Marxist political party. Their Russian name's literal meaning > refers to "the majority" -- what is it? Bolshevik > 6. In April 1917 <answer 5> leader Vladimir Lenin returned to > Russia, crossing Germany by a special train. In what neutral > country had he been living? Switzerland > signing a treaty with Germany and its allies. The treaty is > named after the city, now in Belarus, where it was signed. > What city? Minsk? > 8. Perhaps the best-known account of the <answer 5> revolution > was written by American journalist John Reed. Name the book. The October Revolution? > ultimate victory is largely credited to the founder and commander > of the Red Army. He was born Lev Bronstein, but what did he > change his name to? Trotsky > and October Revolutions of 1917 actually took place in March > and November according to our current calendar -- the Gregorian > calendar. What calendar was in use in Russia in 1917? Julian > which *two* provinces? > 2. The Isthmus of Darien in Central America is better known by > what other name? Panama > 3. The Isthmus of Perekop is a strategic strip of land connecting > mainland Ukraine to a much-fought-over peninsula. > What peninsula? Sebastopol? > 4. The Isthmus of Kra forms the narrowest part of which peninsula > located in Asia? Malaya > 5. The Isthmus of Suez is located on a peninsula with the same > name as the canal that runs through it. But what *year* was > the Suez Canal opened, within 2? 1876, 1891 > 6. Clear Island, or Cape Clear Island, is the southermost inhabited > island of Ireland and is divided by an isthmus called the Waist. > What *county* is it located in? Cork > the mainland to the Peloponnese or Peloponnesian Peninsula? > 8. The Karelian Isthmus is a stretch of land where what *two* > northern European countries are connected? Denmark and Germany > Australian state*? One was the infamous penal colony of > Port Arthur, so chosen to make escape especially difficult. > Name the state. Tasmania > 10. This isthmus forms part of an area disputed between Spain and > Great Britain. Name the isthmus. Gibraltar? cheers, calvin |
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