Saturday, September 08, 2018

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Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Sep 07 09:19PM

msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:Cf2dnWlR0rQi4QzGnZ2dnUU7-
 
> 1. What 1952 ground-breaking medical procedure earned Christine
> Jorgensen international fame when she was the first American
> to receive it?
 
Sex change operation
 
 
> 2. What was Barney Clark, also an American, the first to receive
> at the University of Utah in 1982 during a medical procedure?
 
Artificial heart
 
 
> * Traditional Units of Measure
 
> 3. A fathom is a measure of depth in bodies of water. How many
> feet deep is a fathom?
 
6
 
 
> 4. The height of a horse is traditionally measured in hands.
> How many inches make a hand?
 
10; 9
 
 
> * Phobias
 
> 5. Ichthyophobia is the fear of what?
 
Spiders
 
> 6. Gerontophobia is the fear of what?
 
Growing old
 
> considered extremely valuable; emperors were the only Romans
> allowed to use it, and it was the dye used on the garments of
> the high priests in Jerusalem. What color was this dye?
 
Purple
 
> kermes by soaking the insects in vinegar. The Romans loved this
> color so much that half of Spain's taxes to Rome were paid in
> sacks of kermes. What color was *this* dye?
 
Red
 
> premise of the Britcom, and you tell us the title.
 
> 1. Misadventures running a hotel in Torquay, involving the very
> rude owner and a Spanish waiter whose English is very poor.
 
Fawlty Towers
 
 
> 2. Over a span of 500 years, a family line of conniving schemers
> try to get ahead in society and become rich and powerful --
> or, at least, not get killed.
 
The Tudors
 
> support in the basement of a massive corporation.
 
> 6. Three Catholic priests are punished for their misdeeds by being
> banished to Craggy Island, the worst island in all of Ireland.
 
Father Brown
 
 
> 10. Every camera angle in this Britcom is a point-of-view shot
> assuming the viewpoint of one of the two main characters --
> two dysfunctional friends who share a flat.
 
Pete Gayde
Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Sep 08 01:44AM -0700

Mark Brader wrote:
 
> 1. What 1952 ground-breaking medical procedure earned Christine
> Jorgensen international fame when she was the first American
> to receive it?
 
sex change operation
 
 
> 2. What was Barney Clark, also an American, the first to receive
> at the University of Utah in 1982 during a medical procedure?
 
artificial heart
 
 
> * Traditional Units of Measure
 
> 3. A fathom is a measure of depth in bodies of water. How many
> feet deep is a fathom?
 
6 feet
 
 
> 4. The height of a horse is traditionally measured in hands.
> How many inches make a hand?
 
4 inches
 
 
> * Phobias
 
> 5. Ichthyophobia is the fear of what?
 
fish
 
> 6. Gerontophobia is the fear of what?
 
old people
 
> considered extremely valuable; emperors were the only Romans
> allowed to use it, and it was the dye used on the garments of
> the high priests in Jerusalem. What color was this dye?
 
purple
 
(Somewhere I read the following, but I don't know if it's true. Sounds
plausible, though: the dye was actually more red than purple, but due to
high demand, low supply, and greedy dyers, they started to cut the dye
with a cheap blue dye. At first this was unoticeable, but as time went
on, they kept adding more and more blue dye and it began looking purple.
Eventually everyone thought the color of the murex dye was actually purple.)
 
> kermes by soaking the insects in vinegar. The Romans loved this
> color so much that half of Spain's taxes to Rome were paid in
> sacks of kermes. What color was *this* dye?
 
blue
 
 
> 9. Name the mathematician, and 2004 co-winner of the Nobel Prize
> for Economics, who was portrayed by Russell Crowe in the movie
> "A Beautiful Mind".
 
Nash
 
> as a fictional couple whose romance was aided by the woman's
> famous uncle, played by Walter Matthau. Which Nobel-winning
> physicist did Matthau portray?
 
Einstein
 
> premise of the Britcom, and you tell us the title.
 
> 1. Misadventures running a hotel in Torquay, involving the very
> rude owner and a Spanish waiter whose English is very poor.
 
Faulty Towers
 
 
> 2. Over a span of 500 years, a family line of conniving schemers
> try to get ahead in society and become rich and powerful --
> or, at least, not get killed.
 
Blackadder
 
 
> 7. The last surviving member of the human race and a hologram
> replica of his hated roommate travel through space trying to
> return to Earth.
 
Red Dwarf
 
 
> 8. The Minister for the Department of Administrative Affairs tries
> to bring about change, but is consistently thwarted by the
> civil service, including his primary secretary.
 
Yes, Minister
 
 
--
Dan Tilque
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