- Rotating Quiz #282 - 5 Updates
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Feb 17 04:17AM -0800 Welcome to RQ #282. There's no theme to this one. Usual rules apply and one point per question. Quiz will end next Thursday, 22-Feb-2018. Note: assume usual English spellings for sections B and C. A. Private spaceship companies. 1. The first launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy was made recently. What item did it put into orbit? 2. Elon Musk is not the only billionaire with a private spaceship company. Who else owns one? 3. What is its name? B. Capital cities of nations. 4. Which is the alphabetically first capital city? 5. Which is alphabetically last? C. Largest cities by initial letter. Name the largest city in the world that begins with each of these letters: 6. B 7. D 8. I 9. K 10. O 11. P 12. R -- Dan Tilque |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Feb 17 12:32PM Dan Tilque wrote: > Note: assume usual English spellings for sections B and C. > A. Private spaceship companies. > 1. The first launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy was made recently. What item did it put into orbit? A car > 3. What is its name? > B. Capital cities of nations. > 4. Which is the alphabetically first capital city? Accra > 5. Which is alphabetically last? Wellington > C. Largest cities by initial letter. > Name the largest city in the world that begins with each of these letters: > 6. B Beijing > 7. D Delhi > 8. I Istanbul > 9. K Kyoto > 10. O Osaka > 11. P Paris > 12. R Rio De Janeiro Peter Smyth |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 17 02:17PM -0600 Dan Tilque: > A. Private spaceship companies. > 1. The first launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy was made recently. What > item did it put into orbit? A car. > B. Capital cities of nations. > 4. Which is the alphabetically first capital city? Abuja. (Conveniently, last night I did a Sporcle quiz on things starting with A, and one of them was capitals.) > 5. Which is alphabetically last? Zagreb. > Name the largest city in the world that begins with each of these letters: > 6. B Beijing. > 7. D Dhaka. > 8. I Istanbul. > 9. K Karachi. > 10. O Osaka. > 11. P Phnom Penh. > 12. R Rome. -- Mark Brader | "This is a moral that runs at large; Toronto | Take it. -- You're welcome. -- No extra charge." msb@vex.net | -- Oliver Wendell Holmes My guesses in this article are in the public domain. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Feb 18 04:52AM > A. Private spaceship companies. > 1. The first launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy was made recently. What > item did it put into orbit? Tesla car > 2. Elon Musk is not the only billionaire with a private spaceship > company. Who else owns one? Richard Branson > 3. What is its name? Virgin Galactic > B. Capital cities of nations. > 4. Which is the alphabetically first capital city? Abuja > 5. Which is alphabetically last? Zagreb > C. Largest cities by initial letter. > Name the largest city in the world that begins with each of these letters: > 6. B Beijing > 7. D Dhaka > 8. I Islamabad > 9. K Kolkata > 10. O Osaka > 11. P Pune > 12. R Rio de Janeiro -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Feb 18 10:29AM +0100 > 2. Elon Musk is not the only billionaire with a private spaceship > company. Who else owns one? Richard Brancon > 3. What is its name? Virgin Galctical > 4. Which is the alphabetically first capital city? Abuja > 5. Which is alphabetically last? Zagreb > C. Largest cities by initial letter. > Name the largest city in the world that begins with each of these letters: > 6. B Since Bombay begins with M, it must be Buenos Aires. :-) > 7. D Dhaka > 8. I Istanbul > 9. K Karachi > 10. O Osaka > 11. P Paris > 12. R Rangoon when it doesn't start on Y. |
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