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| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Jan 02 11:35AM Mark Brader wrote: > * Game 9, Round 2 - History - Israel > 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following > the end of the British mandate for Palestine? 1949 > 2. Who was Israel's founding prime minister? David Ben-Gurion > 3. Name the only woman to serve as Israel's prime minister. Golda Meir > 100 years ago, in 1917, during World War I. That same year, > Britain's foreign minister said his government favored creating a > Jewish national home in the region. Name that foreign minister. Salisbury, Balfour > 5. Moving to sports, how many times has Israel played in the World > Cup soccer finals (tournament)? 0, 1 > 6. Israel has won 9 Olympic medals, but only one gold, in > windsurfing in 2004. Name the host city where those games > were played. Athens > 9. That hostage rescue was ordered by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. > In what year was he assassinated by a right-wing Jew who opposed > Rabin's peace accords with the PLO and Jordan? 1996, 1997 > 10. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann remains the only person > executed by Israel after a civilian trial. From what country > was Eichmann seized in 1960 to face trial in Israel? Argentina > with the others, and I've supplied questions for those. Answer them > if you like for fun, but for no points. > 1. Name the bay, which is nestled between France and Spain. Biscay > 2. Name the two European countries that border the Gulf of > Bothnia. Finland and Sweden > 4. Name this bay in northeastern Vietnam, known for its emerald > wters and towering limestone islands. > 5. This body of water is the largest bay in the world. Hudson Bay > of Hormuz (at left) with the Arabian Sea. > 12. This bay, near the southern tip of Africa, is named after the > more famous mountain in the right background. Table Bay Peter Smyth |
| Bruce Bowler <bbowler@bigelow.org>: Jan 02 02:33PM On Mon, 01 Jan 2018 21:59:00 -0600, Mark Brader wrote: > * Game 9, Round 2 - History - Israel > 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following > the end of the British mandate for Palestine? 1947, 1948 > 2. Who was Israel's founding prime minister? Ben-Gurion > 3. Name the only woman to serve as Israel's prime minister. Golda Meir > in 1976. Israeli commandos freed more than 100 hostages from a > hijacked Air France plane. In what country did the rescue take > place? Uganda > 10. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann remains the only person > executed by Israel after a civilian trial. From what country was > Eichmann seized in 1960 to face trial in Israel? Argentina > others, and I've supplied questions for those. Answer them if you like > for fun, but for no points. > 1. Name the bay, which is nestled between France and Spain. Biscay > 2. Name the two European *countries* that border the Gulf of > Bothnia. Sweden and Finland > artifact. What is it, in English? > 4. Name this bay in northeastern Vietnam, known for its emerald > wters and towering limestone islands. Tonkin > 5. This body of water is the largest bay in the world. Bengal > 6. This bay is an estuary; Delaware, the District of Columbia, > Maryland, and Virginia each either have shoreline on the bay or are > nearby. Chesapeake > of Hormuz (at left) with the Arabian Sea. > 12. This bay, near the southern tip of Africa, is named after the > more famous mountain in the right background. Table Bay |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Jan 02 10:49AM -0600 In article <Mq2dne1_DpkZntbHnZ2dnUU7-c_NnZ2d@giganews.com>, msb@vex.net says... > * Game 9, Round 2 - History - Israel > 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following > the end of the British mandate for Palestine? 1948 > 2. Who was Israel's founding prime minister? Ben-Gurion > 3. Name the only woman to serve as Israel's prime minister. Golda Meir > 100 years ago, in 1917, during World War I. That same year, > Britain's foreign minister said his government favored creating a > Jewish national home in the region. Name that foreign minister. Balfour > in 1976. Israeli commandos freed more than 100 hostages from > a hijacked Air France plane. In what country did the rescue > take place? Uganda > 9. That hostage rescue was ordered by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. > In what year was he assassinated by a right-wing Jew who opposed > Rabin's peace accords with the PLO and Jordan? 1995 > 10. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann remains the only person > executed by Israel after a civilian trial. From what country > was Eichmann seized in 1960 to face trial in Israel? Argentina > 1. Name the bay, which is nestled between France and Spain. > 2. Name the two European *countries* that border the Gulf of > Bothnia. Sweden and Finland > 4. Name this bay in northeastern Vietnam, known for its emerald > wters and towering limestone islands. > 5. This body of water is the largest bay in the world. bay of Bengal > 6. This bay is an estuary; Delaware, the District of Columbia, > Maryland, and Virginia each either have shoreline on the bay > or are nearby. Chesapeake > 7. This bay or gulf, named after the adjacent city, can be found > in southwestern Italy. That's a volcano in the background. bay of Naples > 8. This gulf is located in the northeastern part of the tropical > Atlantic Ocean, between Cape Lopez in Gabon and Cape Palmas > in Liberia. bay of Guinea > Hudson Bay. > 11. This gulf, near the center of the picture, connects the Strait > of Hormuz (at left) with the Arabian Sea. Persian gulf > 12. This bay, near the southern tip of Africa, is named after the > more famous mountain in the right background. Table Mountain bay -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jan 02 08:36PM +0100 > * Game 9, Round 2 - History - Israel > 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following > the end of the British mandate for Palestine? 1948 > 2. Who was Israel's founding prime minister? Ben-Gurion > 3. Name the only woman to serve as Israel's prime minister. Golda Meir > 100 years ago, in 1917, during World War I. That same year, > Britain's foreign minister said his government favored creating a > Jewish national home in the region. Name that foreign minister. Grey > 5. Moving to sports, how many times has Israel played in the World > Cup soccer finals (tournament)? One (in 1970, playing in the same group as Sweden). > 6. Israel has won 9 Olympic medals, but only one gold, in > windsurfing in 2004. Name the host city where those games > were played. Athens > 7. In what year did Egyptian president Anwar Sadat visit Israel in > what was the first recognition of Israel by an Arab head > of state? 1977 > in 1976. Israeli commandos freed more than 100 hostages from > a hijacked Air France plane. In what country did the rescue > take place? Uganda > 9. That hostage rescue was ordered by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. > In what year was he assassinated by a right-wing Jew who opposed > Rabin's peace accords with the PLO and Jordan? 1996 > 10. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann remains the only person > executed by Israel after a civilian trial. From what country > was Eichmann seized in 1960 to face trial in Israel? Argentina > * Game 9, Round 3 - Geography - Bays and Gulfs > 1. Name the bay, which is nestled between France and Spain. Biscaya > 2. Name the two European *countries* that border the Gulf of > Bothnia. Sweden and Finland > 5. This body of water is the largest bay in the world. Bay of Bengal > 7. This bay or gulf, named after the adjacent city, can be found > in southwestern Italy. That's a volcano in the background. Napoli > 8. This gulf is located in the northeastern part of the tropical > Atlantic Ocean, between Cape Lopez in Gabon and Cape Palmas > in Liberia. West-African Gulf > 9. (Decoy.) This bay lies near the northernmost point of New > Zealand's South Island, about 110 miles WNW of Wellington on > the North Island. Nelson Bay > 11. This gulf, near the center of the picture, connects the Strait > of Hormuz (at left) with the Arabian Sea. Persian Gulf |
| Jason Kreitzer <jk71875@gmail.com>: Jan 02 06:15PM -0800 On Monday, January 1, 2018 at 10:59:06 PM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote: > * Game 9, Round 2 - History - Israel > 1. In what year did Israel become an independent state following > the end of the British mandate for Palestine? 1948 > 2. Who was Israel's founding prime minister? David Ben-Gurion > 3. Name the only woman to serve as Israel's prime minister. Golda Meir > 100 years ago, in 1917, during World War I. That same year, > Britain's foreign minister said his government favored creating a > Jewish national home in the region. Name that foreign minister. Balfour > 7. In what year did Egyptian president Anwar Sadat visit Israel in > what was the first recognition of Israel by an Arab head > of state? 1978? > in 1976. Israeli commandos freed more than 100 hostages from > a hijacked Air France plane. In what country did the rescue > take place? Uganda > 9. That hostage rescue was ordered by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. > In what year was he assassinated by a right-wing Jew who opposed > Rabin's peace accords with the PLO and Jordan? 1996? > 10. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann remains the only person > executed by Israel after a civilian trial. From what country > was Eichmann seized in 1960 to face trial in Israel? Argentina? > 1. Name the bay, which is nestled between France and Spain. > 2. Name the two European *countries* that border the Gulf of > Bothnia. Austria and Czech Republic? |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Jan 02 11:09AM -0600 In article <J5KdnZj5ZoxBj9rHnZ2dnUU7-ePNnZ2d@giganews.com>, msb@vex.net says... > ** 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? kidney > 3. Bronchiole, alveoli, pneumocytes? lung > 4. Fundus, cardiac sphincter, gastric pit? stomach > 5. White pulp, red pulp, Malpighian corpuscles? marrow > 6. Broad ligament, infundibulum, corpus luteum (sometimes)? uterus; ovary > And in which part of the body would you find these bones? > 7. Frontal bone, zygomatic bone, mandible? head > 8. Ischium, ilium, sacrum. abdomen > 9. Coracoid process, glenoid fossa, scapular spine? shoulders > 10. Calcaneus, talus, phalanges? foot > 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 > 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! 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 monkey -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 02 02:05PM -0600 If Marc Dashevsky had posted his answers on time, he would have scored 31 points on Round 9 and 20 on Round 10 for a final score of 159. -- Mark Brader "I don't see much sense in that." Toronto "No, there isn't. But there was *going* to be msb@vex.net when I began it. It's just that something happened to it on the way." --A.A. Milne |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Jan 02 11:26AM Dan Tilque wrote: > This quiz may look like it's just a random collection of questions. Well it is, but it does have a theme. However it's not like the usual themes for RQs. There's no pattern or commonality in the answers, but rather there's something unusual about the questions. You won't get any points for finding the theme, but that could get you more points than otherwise. > Like Mark's Canadian Inquisition quizzes, you can give two answers for each question, but unlike them, there's no penalty for giving wrong answers. One point for every right answer and the usual rules apply. Quiz concludes in 7 days on 08-Jan-2018. > 1. Which actor-turned-politician was Jerry Brown's immediate predecessor as governor of California? Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger > 2. What was the first NASDAQ-traded stock to be included in the Dow-Jones Industrial Average? Microsoft, Apple > 3. Hyderabad, a city of over 1 million people, is located in which country? Pakistan, India > 4. What Olympic sport was invented at a western Massachusetts YMCA in the 1890s? Basketball, Handball > 5. What artist created the character Dennis The Menace, first published on or about 12 March 1951? > 6. What defensive wall, named for an emperor, was built by the Roman Empire on the northern border of Roman Britain? Hadrian's Wall > 7. Who won an Academy Award for playing the role of Vito Corleone? Marlon Brando, Robert de Niro > 8. What famous person was born on 12 February 1809? Queen Victoria, Abraham Lincoln > 9. What is the penalty for an offside violation in football? Indirect Free Kick > 10. He was probably the most famous writer that his country has ever produced, and he died on or about 23 April 1616. Who was he? William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes > 11. What 1987 action-adventure movie featured an actor who would later be elected governor of a US state? Terminator > 12. Who was he? Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jesse Ventura |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Jan 02 10:37AM -0600 In article <p2e3i1$sn8$1@dont-email.me>, dtilque@frontier.com says... > Quiz concludes in 7 days on 08-Jan-2018. > 1. Which actor-turned-politician was Jerry Brown's immediate predecessor > as governor of California? Ahnold > 2. What was the first NASDAQ-traded stock to be included in the > Dow-Jones Industrial Average? > 3. Hyderabad, a city of over 1 million people, is located in which country? India > 4. What Olympic sport was invented at a western Massachusetts YMCA in > the 1890s? Basketball was invented in a Springfield YMCA and volleyball was invented in a Holyoke YMCA, both in the 1890s and both in western Mass. {I'm a Springfield native.] > 5. What artist created the character Dennis The Menace, first published > on or about 12 March 1951? Ketcham > 6. What defensive wall, named for an emperor, was built by the Roman > Empire on the northern border of Roman Britain? Hadrian's wall > 7. Who won an Academy Award for playing the role of Vito Corleone? Brando > 8. What famous person was born on 12 February 1809? Abraham Lincoln > 9. What is the penalty for an offside violation in football? 5 yards > 10. He was probably the most famous writer that his country has ever > produced, and he died on or about 23 April 1616. Who was he? Shakespeare > 11. What 1987 action-adventure movie featured an actor who would later > be elected governor of a US state? > 12. Who was he? Ahnold -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
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