- Rotating Quiz #277 reminder - 3 Updates
- QFTCISG Game 8, Rounds 9-10: anatomy, cynical challenge - 1 Update
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Jan 01 02:13AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:6JidnTxJlaWBOtXHnZ2dnUU7- > had others. If nothing is said otherwise, information is about > a current team and its current home stadium. > 1. The principal team playing at Paul Brown Stadium. Cincinnati Bengals > Toyota Stadium. > 5. Football team formed in 1995, whose home was renamed from Alltel > Stadium to EverBank Field. Carolina Panthers > 6. Football team playing at the Brisbane Cricket Ground. Brisbane Bears > 7. The principal team playing at Ford Field. Detroit Lions > 8. Football team playing at BC Place. BC Lions > 9. WNBA team playing at the Target Center, Minneapolis. > 10. Football team, formed in 1995, whose home was renamed from > Ericsson Stadium to Bank of America Stadium. Carolina Panthers > 11. NHL team whose home was renamed from BankAtlantic Center to > BB&T Center. Pittsburgh Penguins > 12. EIHL team whose home arena is the National Ice Centre. > 13. The principal team playing at Tim Hortons Field. Hamilton Tiger Cats > 14. The principal team playing at Comerica Park. Detroit Tigers > one of the teams in this quiz was formed by the merger of two > teams that themselves would *each* have fitted the theme of > the quiz. Name both. Pete Gayde |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 31 11:19PM -0600 Mark Brader: > This is Rotating Quiz #277, and this one is for the sports fans, in > the hope that the next RQer who sets a single-topic quiz chooses > a topic other than sports. Your winner, and the next RQer, is DAN TILQUE. Lukewarm congratulations! > sports (or former names, or former teams). Answers may omit any > geographical or sponsorship part of the name, e.g. "Maple Leafs" > would be sufficient without "Toronto". Answers may repeat. All team names were felines (see also Rare Entries contest MSB55, from 2007) and appeared in alphabetical order. > 1. The principal team playing at Paul Brown Stadium. Cincinnati Bengals. (NFL -- American football.) 1 for Dan and Pete. > 2. NBA team that played under this name 2004-14. For most of that > time they played at the Time Warner Cable Arena. Charlotte Bobcats (now Hornets -- basketball). 1 for Dan. > 3. Minor-league baseball team that played at LaGrave Field in Fort > Worth 2001-14, most recently in the United League. Fort Worth Cats. > 4. Football team formed in 2006, whose home arena has been known > in English as the Free State Stadium, Vodaphone Stadium, and > Toyota Stadium. Toyota Cheetahs (SARU -- rugby, Bloemfontein). > 5. Football team formed in 1995, whose home was renamed from Alltel > Stadium to EverBank Field. Jacksonville Jaguars (NFL). 1 for Dan. > 6. Football team playing at the Brisbane Cricket Ground. Brisbane Lions (AFL -- Australian football). > 7. The principal team playing at Ford Field. Detroit Lions (NFL). 1 for Dan and Pete. > 8. Football team playing at BC Place. BC Lions (CFL -- Canadian football, Vancouver). 1 for Dan and Pete. > 9. WNBA team playing at the Target Center, Minneapolis. Minnesota Lynx (women's basketball). > 10. Football team, formed in 1995, whose home was renamed from > Ericsson Stadium to Bank of America Stadium. Carolina Panthers (NFL, Charlotte NC). 1 for Dan and Pete. > 11. NHL team whose home was renamed from BankAtlantic Center to > BB&T Center. Florida Panthers (hockey). > 12. EIHL team whose home arena is the National Ice Centre. GMB Nottingham Panthers (hockey). > 13. The principal team playing at Tim Hortons Field. Hamilton Tiger-Cats (CFL). I accepted "Tigers-Cats". 1 for Dan and Pete. > 14. The principal team playing at Comerica Park. Detroit Tigers (AL -- baseball). 1 for Dan and Pete. > 15. NHL team that played 1920-25 at the Barton St. Arena, Hamilton. Hamilton Tigers. 1 for Dan. There's no excuse for missing this one, since I mentioned the team on 2017-12-27 in the answers posting for QFTCISG Game 8, Round 6. > one of the teams in this quiz was formed by the merger of two > teams that themselves would *each* have fitted the theme of > the quiz. Name both. #13: Hamilton Tigers, Hamilton Wildcats (not Cats). Nobody tried this. Scores, if there are no errors: Dan Tilque 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 9 Pete Gayde 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 6 Erland Sommarskog 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 2 2 1 -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "B-b-but laziness is the only virtue I have *left*!" msb@vex.net | -- Jutta Degener My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Dec 31 10:02PM -0800 Mark Brader wrote: > Your winner, and the next RQer, is DAN TILQUE. Lukewarm congratulations! And an unenthusiastic thank you :) Next RQ will be up tomorrow. -- Dan Tilque |
| Jason Kreitzer <jk71875@gmail.com>: Dec 31 08:35PM -0800 On Friday, December 29, 2017 at 11:15:30 PM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote: > ** Game 8, Round 9 - Science - Where in the Body? > In which organ of the body would you find these parts? > 1. Kupffer cells, central portal area, bile canaliculi? Liver > 2. Loop of Henie, juxtaglomerular apparatus, renal pyramids? Kidneys > 3. Bronchiole, alveoli, pneumocytes? Lungs > 4. Fundus, cardiac sphincter, gastric pit? > 5. White pulp, red pulp, Malpighian corpuscles? Blood > 6. Broad ligament, infundibulum, corpus luteum (sometimes)? > And in which part of the body would you find these bones? > 7. Frontal bone, zygomatic bone, mandible? Skull > 8. Ischium, ilium, sacrum. > 9. Coracoid process, glenoid fossa, scapular spine? > 10. Calcaneus, talus, phalanges? Feet > call themselves "juggalos"? And what's with the bizarre > makeup? They look like a scary Ronald McDonald and Bozo. > Jeez, the '90s had some terrible bands. Insane Clown Posse. Oh, and I found two spelling errors in this question, including typing "there" instead of "their." > costume changes? First a jacket covered in Kermit the > Frog stuffed animals, then a suit made out of real meat? > Did she have a bad childhood or was she just born that way? Lady Gaga > whether or not he was really killed by that soldier, or if > he was still living in a display about humans in a zoo on > some alien planet. "Slaughterhouse Five" > B2. They call this a novel? It's just a long comic book with > fake superheroes and a glowing blue giant dude, that > supposedly won the Vietnam War! "Watchmen" > C1. But there's no skill involved, all you do is spin the > spinner and decide whether or not you want to buy insurance. > What a dumb game! "The Game of Life" > C2. But no one ever finishes the game, it takes forever and > we always end up just calling it when someone builds the > first hotel. "Monopoly" > stone in a fancy box and charge a fortune? And it comes with > a -- "Trainer's Manual"? I guess some people in the '70s > were really lonely. And guess what dumb name they gave it! Pet rock > to please, they can easly be trained". For frick's sake, > they're just *brine shrimp*. But guess what dumb name they > gave them! Sea Monkeys > E1. That was soooo boring to see. Reversing tides? The water > is flowing in one direction, and you have to wait 3 hours > to see it flow back the other way. Remember that city? Niagara Falls. Slowly I turned. Step by step. One by one... |
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