- Rotating Quiz #293 - Islands - ANSWERS & SCORES - 4 Updates
- QFTCIBP Game 10, Rounds 2-3: pseudonyms, neighbors - 2 Updates
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jun 11 11:22PM +0200 > Congratulations Erland! You win hosting rights for RQ#294. Thanks! It was embarrassing that I confused the name of Hispaniola. As it turned out, it did not matter, since the hint ">1 country" was misleading. I will try to have RQ 294 up tomorrow. It will be, well, a little different from other RQs. You are warned. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 11 05:40PM -0500 Erland Sommarskog: > It was embarrassing that I confused the name of Hispaniola. Huh? You did not any answer that looked like a confusion of "Hispaniola". > As it turned out, it did not matter, since the hint ">1 country" was > misleading. Is it turned out, that was not a hint for Hispaniola. How was it misleading? -- Mark Brader | ...roll the imaginary 60-meter sphere across the landscape Toronto | (for safety reasons, do not use a real sphere). msb@vex.net | --Randall Munroe |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jun 12 09:00AM +0200 > Erland Sommarskog: >> It was embarrassing that I confused the name of Hispaniola. > Huh? You did not any answer that looked like a confusion of "Hispaniola". See! That is how embarrassing it was! (I entered Dominica.) >> misleading. > Is it turned out, that was not a hint for Hispaniola. How was it > misleading? With ">1 country" appearing twice, you would think that remaining entries would be single-country islands. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 12 03:21AM -0500 Erland Sommarskog: >>> It was embarrassing that I confused the name of Hispaniola. Mark Brader: >> Huh? You did not any answer that looked like a confusion of "Hispaniola". Erland Sommarskog: > See! That is how embarrassing it was! (I entered Dominica.) Ah! >>> misleading... > With ">1 country" appearing twice, you would think that remaining entries > would be single-country islands. Oh. Well, I didn't, so I didn't think of that. -- Mark Brader "I think [they] wanted ... us ... to try [them] out Toronto and then tell the world how good they are, and msb@vex.net it's tempting to do just that." -- Steve Summit My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jun 11 05:02AM -0700 Mark Brader wrote: > It was not publicly known until 1977 that she was a woman. > Her 1976 novella "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" won both the > Nebula Award and the Hugo Award for Best Novella. James Tiptree Jr. > 5. His real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Born in 1832, he > was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, > and photographer. Lewis Carroll > include "Stranger in a Strange Land" and "Starship Troopers". > Similarly to King, he wrote stories under various pseudonyms > so that two or three could be published in a single magazine. Anson McDonald > and you name the only state that borders all three. For example, > if we said New York, Ohio, and Maryland, you would say Pennsylvania. > 1. Colorado, Missouri, South Dakota. Nebraska > 2. California, Oregon, Utah. Nevada > Questions #3-4 work the same way, only instead of US states, > the places are Ontario municipalities. > 3. Niagara-on-the-Lake, Pelham, Welland. St Catharines; Hamilton > 4. Leeds & the Thousand Islands, Loyalist, South Frontenac. > And for #5-10, it's countries. > 5. Iraq, Jordan, Turkey. Syria > 6. Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar. Thailand > 7. Libya, Niger, Sudan. Central African Republic > 8. Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe. Botswana > 9. Brazil, Colombia, Guyana. Venezuela > 10. Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador. Peru -- Dan Tilque |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Jun 11 06:38PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:ub2dnUZJzbEFJoHGnZ2dnUU7- > which described the period that they spent on the island. > Some of her other novels include "La Mare au diable", "Indiana", > "Lélia", "Mauprat", and "Consuelo". George Sand > or Karen Blixen. Born in 1885, she was a Danish author who is > best known for "Out of Africa" and "Babette's Feast", both of > which have been adapted into Oscar-winning motion pictures. Isak Dinesen > first author to be inducted into the Romance Writers of America > Hall of Fame. Under what pen name does she write futuristic > crime novels, including the "in Death" series? Jackie Collins > 5. His real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Born in 1832, he > was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, > and photographer. Lewis Carroll > writer and musician. He wrote his popular series of books under > a pseudonym to present them as memoirs by an acquaintance of > the main characters. What pseudonym? Lemony Snicket > final collection of stories before his death in World War I, > and several of its stories (in particular "The Open Window") > are reprinted frequently in anthologies. Wilfred Owen > and you name the only state that borders all three. For example, > if we said New York, Ohio, and Maryland, you would say Pennsylvania. > 1. Colorado, Missouri, South Dakota. Nebraska > 2. California, Oregon, Utah. Nevada > Questions #3-4 work the same way, only instead of US states, > the places are Ontario municipalities. > 3. Niagara-on-the-Lake, Pelham, Welland. Niagara Falls > 4. Leeds & the Thousand Islands, Loyalist, South Frontenac. Windsor > And for #5-10, it's countries. > 5. Iraq, Jordan, Turkey. Syria > 6. Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar. Thailand > 7. Libya, Niger, Sudan. Chad > 8. Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe. Zambia > 9. Brazil, Colombia, Guyana. Suriname > 10. Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador. Peru Pete Gayde |
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