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| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Sep 20 07:29PM -0700 Mark Brader wrote: > ** Game 5, Round 9 - Sports - The NBA Draft > The annual NBA Draft takes place this week. > 1. How many rounds are there currently in the NBA Draft? 2 > 2. Within 3 years, in what year was the first NBA Draft? 1952 > time, was not drafted first overall in 1984; that honor went > instead to this fellow Hall of Fame player, known for his > spinning-fakeout post attack named the "Dream Shake". Name him. Hakeem Olajuwon > drafts in NBA history; in addition to Jordan and <answer 6>, > it also produced two more Hall of Fame players, both of whom > were members of the 1992 Olympic "Dream Team". Name either one. Clyde Drexler > that he not play for them. What team was that? You must give > the city name where they were playing *then* -- they would move > less than 5 years later. Vancouver Grizzlies > is the lowest-drafted player ever to be named to both the > All-Star and All-NBA teams. At 5'9", he is also the shortest > player to ever make an All-NBA team. Who? Isaiah Thomas > with both the Montreal Expos and San Francisco Giants. > Three of his sons went on to impressive baseball careers > of their own. Name the family. Bonds > the sons of his twin brother. Currently his grandson > is the family's third generation of IndyCar drivers. > Name the family. Andretti > to as electrodynamics. The SI unit of electric current is > named after him, and his is one of 72 names inscribed in > the Eiffel Tower. Name him. Ampere > a correction -- after the launch of Apollo 11 in 1969. > NASA's Space Flight Center is named after him. What was > his name? Goddard > for selling knockoffs of their products, including their > iconic handbags. Name the family, which is also the name > of the fashion line. Gucci > 23 grandchildren. In addition to shoes, they also make > eyewear, perfume, belts, scarves, bags, and watches. > Name the company. Gucci -- Dan Tilque |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Sep 21 03:48AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:zOKdnVFtrb6u5zzGnZ2dnUU7- > ** Game 5, Round 9 - Sports - The NBA Draft > The annual NBA Draft takes place this week. > 1. How many rounds are there currently in the NBA Draft? 6; 5 > 2. Within 3 years, in what year was the first NBA Draft? 1957; 1964 > drafts in NBA history; in addition to Jordan and <answer 6>, > it also produced two more Hall of Fame players, both of whom > were members of the 1992 Olympic "Dream Team". Name either one. Barkley > that he not play for them. What team was that? You must give > the city name where they were playing *then* -- they would move > less than 5 years later. Seattle Supersonics > is the lowest-drafted player ever to be named to both the > All-Star and All-NBA teams. At 5'9", he is also the shortest > player to ever make an All-NBA team. Who? Archibald > West, Chris Kaman, Josh Howard, Mo Williams, and Kyle Korver > -- all of whom have been All-Stars. In what year was this > remarkably talented draft? 2004; 2005 > and renowned sitar player, whose associations with Western > rock stars helped popularize classical Hindustani music. > He died in 2012. Name him. Ravi Shankar > the sons of his twin brother. Currently his grandson > is the family's third generation of IndyCar drivers. > Name the family. Andretti > to as electrodynamics. The SI unit of electric current is > named after him, and his is one of 72 names inscribed in > the Eiffel Tower. Name him. Ampere > a correction -- after the launch of Apollo 11 in 1969. > NASA's Space Flight Center is named after him. What was > his name? Goddard > for selling knockoffs of their products, including their > iconic handbags. Name the family, which is also the name > of the fashion line. Gucci > 23 grandchildren. In addition to shoes, they also make > eyewear, perfume, belts, scarves, bags, and watches. > Name the company. Gucci Pete Gayde |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Sep 20 02:11PM > speckled band is not the snake itself; it's a strip of fabric > or something that the villain dangles over the victim to guide > the snake down to him. No, there is a piece of fabric (a bell cord) but the snake is the speckled band. -- _______________________________________________________________________ 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>: Sep 20 08:46PM +0200 > 3 Which piece of sporting equipment can be found on the moon? Golf club > 6 Who composed the 1886 music suite 'The Carnival of the Animals'? Verdi > 7 What is the French word for Germany? Allemagne > 8 In which sport could one compete for the ?Air Canada Silver Broom > Trophy?? Curling > 9 In which India city is the Sikhs? Golden Temple? Srinagar > 10 In an 1892 Sherlock Holmes short story, what type of creature is > 'The Speckled Band'? Werewolf |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Sep 20 04:23PM -0500 Mark Brader: >> Snake, if any. But if I'm recalling the story correctly, the >> speckled band is not the snake itself; it's a strip of fabric >> or something... Dan Blum: > No, there is a piece of fabric (a bell cord) but the snake is the > speckled band. So it is. Good thing I said "if", eh? -- Mark Brader | "The default choice ... is in many ways the most Toronto | important thing. ... People can get started msb@vex.net | without reading a big manual." -- Brian Kernighan |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Sep 20 09:41PM Calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote in > 1 What term refers to the practice of snugly wrapping an infant > with blankets or other cloths? Swaddling > Nations blueprint? Correct answers will contain three words, including > 'goals'. > 3 Which piece of sporting equipment can be found on the moon? Golf ball > 4 Which US filmmaker's works include 'Super Size Me' (2004) > and 'Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?' (2008)? > 5 Which body of water separates Greenland and Iceland? Sea of Greenland > 6 Who composed the 1886 music suite 'The Carnival of the Animals'? Saint Saens > 7 What is the French word for Germany? Allemagne > 8 In which sport could one compete for the > 'Air Canada Silver Broom Trophy'? Curling > 9 In which India city is the Sikhs' Golden Temple? Amritsar > 10 In an 1892 Sherlock Holmes short story, > what type of creature is 'The Speckled Band'? Snake > I am away for a week so it won't be marked before 28/9. > cheers, > calvin Pete Gayde |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Sep 20 09:16PM +0200 Welcome to Rotating Quiz 307. This quiz has a sort of anti-theme: there are no questions in this quiz that asks for a country or other sort of place. (Which is a little odd to be a quiz of mine.) But apart from that it is a mixed bag of unrelated questions (except for the two that obviously are related). The regular rules apply: post answers to the newsgroup and answer only based on your knowledge. Each question is worth one point. The bonus questions are the first tie-breaker. Second tie-breaker is a subjective evaluation of the incorrect answers (where a reasonable, but incorrect, answer is better than none at all, but a really far out answer can be worse than nothing at all.) Last tie breaker is posting order. I plan to score this quiz Thursday 28th (a little longer than usual to give Calvin a chance to enter.) 1. "Hooked on a Feeling" as originally a hit for which artist? Answer this question before you proceed with the rest of the questions. 2. Explain the concept of karoshi. 3. António Guterres is the head of which organisation? 4. Danish Mads Mikkelsen played the villain in which Bond movie? 5. Since little more than a month Armand Duplantis is the new holder of the US record in pole vault with 6.05. There are a few remarkable facts about this record. Name any of them for a regular point. Name one more for a bonus point. 6. The last song on Todd Rundgren's iconical pop album "Something/ Anything?" from 1972 is called "Slut". Why does the song have this title? 7. Nougat, Pie, Eclair and KitKat are all what? 8. Catedral de San Marcos in Arica in northern Chile was a sort of an IEKA thing of the 19th century. It was built and constructed in France and shipped over to Peru (to which Arica belonged to at the time) in pieces and assembled at the site. The company that constructed the church bore the name of which constructor and designer? 9. What are you solving if you are employing the Runge-Kutta method? 10. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern did what second earlier this year? Bonus question: Who was the first to do this? 11. Earlier this year, France and Croatia met in the final of the World Cup in football. Chance has it that national teams from these countries will meet in another international final later this year. In which sport? You did answer question one, didn't you? Now it's too late to go back and change. 12. The famous ooka-chaka chant was not on the original recording of "Hooked on a Feeling", but it was added by which artist? |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Sep 20 03:10PM -0500 Erland Sommarskog: > 3. António Guterres is the head of which organisation? IOC? > 7. Nougat, Pie, Eclair and KitKat are all what? Candy bars. > time) in pieces and assembled at the site. The company that > constructed the church bore the name of which constructor and > designer? Eiffel? > 9. What are you solving if you are employing the Runge-Kutta method? Is "differential equation" close enough? When I learned the term, it was a method for doing the sort of calculations involved when you have an equation giving you the acceleration of a body at different points along its path, and you want to estimate its position at different times. > 10. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern did what second earlier > this year? Give birth while in office. > Bonus question: Who was the first to do this? Jacinda Ardern? -- Mark Brader "Exercise 5-3: ... When should you Toronto have stopped adding features...?" msb@vex.net -- Kernighan & Pike My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Sep 20 08:43PM > 2. Explain the concept of karoshi. dropping dead suddenly due to overwork > 4. Danish Mads Mikkelsen played the villain in which Bond movie? Casino Royale > time) in pieces and assembled at the site. The company that > constructed the church bore the name of which constructor and > designer? Eiffel > 9. What are you solving if you are employing the Runge-Kutta method? a system of linear equations > 10. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern did what second earlier > this year? gave birth as a head of government -- _______________________________________________________________________ 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>: Sep 20 09:13PM +0200 > Congratulations Erland. RQ#307 is yours to do with as you will. Thanks Calvin! Since the quiz sort of covered my home ground, I was not too surprised, so I started early this time. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Sep 20 08:43PM +0200 >> 7 Which sauce traditionally accompanies turkey at Thanksgiving? > Cranberry > One entrant answered BBQ, but alas not for Q3. But nevertheless I got a point for it! Which does not exactly seem right... > 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 17 Erland S |
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