Wednesday, November 21, 2018

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Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Nov 20 05:03PM -0800

On Tuesday, November 20, 2018 at 8:32:09 AM UTC+10, Erland Sommarskog wrote:
 
> They had Leeds as #4 and Glasgow #5 as I recall. My entry Liverpool
> might have have been #6. I can't recall that I paid attention to
> Newcastle.
 
City population questions are often problematic but any source that listed Newcastle #5 in the UK has some serious deficiencies.
 
cheers,
calvin
Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Nov 20 10:55PM -0800

Mark Brader wrote:
> 3. Henry Moore.
> 4. Marcel Duchamp.
> 5. Andy Warhol.
 
15
 
> 7. Svfu ahzore KV.
> 8. Gur frpbaq svfu.
> 9. Svfu gra.
 
Picasso
 
> 10. #Sbhegrra.
 
Salvador Dali
 
> at the Hospital for Sick Children. Sick Kids received royalties
> from the sale of the trademarked product for the next 25 years.
> Name it or give a sufficiently specific description.
 
Pablum
 
 
> 5. It should not be surprising that a Canadian, Arthur Sicard,
> invented the snowblower. Within 4 years, in what year did he
> invent it?
 
1937
 
 
> 6. Likewise, you might know that Joseph-Armand Bombardier invented
> the snowmobile -- and again, within 4 years, when was that?
 
1949
 
> name, but his most important was probably the Fessenden
> oscillator, providing the first operational version of what
> system for military use?
 
radar
 
 
> 9. The Royal Canadian Navy's DATAR (Digital Automated Tracking and
> Resolving) computer, built in 1953, was the first computer to
> use what type of input device?
 
keyboard
 
 
> 10. Which film format, invented in Montreal, was developed by a
> company originally called "Multiscreen"?
 
IMAX
 
 
 
--
Dan Tilque
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