- QFTCIBP Final, Round 9: Canadiana - 1 Update
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| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Jul 12 03:42AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:QqidnYkeJPdY1tnGnZ2dnUU7- > ** Final, Round 9 - Canadiana > * Firsts -- Where in Canada? > 1. In what city was "O Canada" first performed, in 1880? Ottawa; Toronto > 2. In 1887, the first migratory bird sanctuary in North America > -- The "Last Mountain Lake Bird Sanctuary" -- was established by > Lieutenant-Governor Edgar Dewdney in what current-day province? Alberta; British Columbia > 3. In 1959, at the urging of its mayor Stephen Juba, what city > was the first in North America to use a central emergency number? Winnipeg -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Jul 11 09:47PM Mark Brader wrote: > 1. This is an official language of Haiti and of nowhere else. > Its full name in English is two words, but just give the > second one. Creole > 2. If Wikipedia is correct, "hlutabréfamarkaður" is the word for > "stock market" in this language. Icelandic > 3. This British possession is considered the world's most isolated > inhabited island. It has about 250 residents and no airport, > and is 1,500 miles from either St. Helena or South Africa. Tristan da Cunha > 6. The Ryan company designed the model NYP airplane, and built > just one of them, for a single flight planned by this pilot. > Give just the surname. Lindbergh > everywhere else. This was the treaty of what? > 8. The last time that the UK *on its own* went to war (de facto), > which country were they fighting against? Argentina > * Quilt > 9. What is the quilt answer? ATLANTIC Peter Smyth |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 11 01:01PM -0500 Dan Tilque: > You chopped off the first part of that sentence. It started "If you > include brown dwarfs, ..." Sorry, I didn't see that! -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "We are full of digital chain letters and msb@vex.net | warnings about marmalade." --Matt Ridley |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jul 11 02:36PM -0700 Erland Sommarskog wrote: >> before the EU was formed. > I guess that Dan to simplify equates EU with its predecessors, or simply > sees it as the same thing which have had different names over the years. Hey, I was just citing Wikipedia. Blame them. -- Dan Tilque |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Jul 11 09:33PM Calvin wrote: > 1 Which 2003 movie's subtitle was 'Rise of the Machines'? Terminator 3 > 2 Which Australian singer/songwriter has a backing group called the Bad Seeds? Nick Cave > 3 Which Austrian composer (1732-1809) is recognised as the 'Father of the Symphony'? Mozart > 4 Which continent lies in the northern, southern, eastern and western Hemispheres? Africa > 5 Which corpulent, orchid-loving private eye was created by Rex Stout? > 6 Which creature is most likely to make a sibilant noise? Snake > 7 Which German Admiral offered his country's unconditional surrender on the 7th May 1945? Donitz > 8 Which individual (b. 1941) has been awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature, a Pulitzer Prize, the > Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Légion d'Honneur, as well as one (or more) Grammies, Oscars and > Golden Globe? Bob Dylan > 9 Which movie was released in France under the title 'La Guerre des Etoiles'? Star Wars > 10 Which NFL team lost four consecutive Superbowls from 1990-1993? Buffalo Bills Peter Smyth |
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