- QFTCIWSS Game 10, Rounds 9-10: dancing movies, colorful challenge - 1 Update
- Calvin's Quiz #546 - 2 Updates
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Dec 12 09:01PM -0800 Mark Brader wrote: > was "Flashdance", which was the third-highest-grossing movie > of any kind in 1983. In "Flashdance", *who plays Alex Owens*, > welder by day, exotic dancer by night? John Trevolta :) > and "Singin' in the Rain". Film critic Pauline Kael said of her: > "When she wraps her phenomenal legs around Astaire, she can be > forgiven everything." By what name is she best known? Ginger Rogers > Roy Scheider as an egomaniacal director and choreographer, > was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by > the Library of Congress. All that Jazz > severe case of this disease -- which helped his colleague, > Walter Reed, prove that mosquitoes were responsible for > its spread. Name the disease. yellow fever > resulted in the deaths of an estimated 75-200 million > people in Europe and Asia, the peak of which was in the > mid-14th century. What is it commonly known as? black death > Award and MVP Award in 1971 and is a six-time All-Star, > and one of five players to start in the All-Star Game for > both the American and National Leagues. Vida Blue > C1. This geological formation up to 350 feet (110 m) high forms > an 8-mile (13 km) section of the Kent coastline in England, > facing France. What is it called? white cliffs of Dover > then curves west across Ethiopia and northwest into Sudan, > a total of at least 900 miles (1,450 km), before becoming > part of a larger river system. Name this specific river. Blue Nile > recounted his journey in the segregationist US Deep South. > Griffin temporarily darkened his skin to pass as a black > man and explore life from the other side of the color line. Black Like Me > society featuring a subculture of extreme youth violence. > The book is partially written in a Russian-influenced argot > called Nadsat. A Clockwork Orange -- Dan Tilque |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Dec 12 08:48PM -0800 Mark Brader wrote: >> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists/TV/2006/1-1000 > To, #3; too, #111; two, #149. And there, #62; they're, #189; but their, #238. > Whodathunkit? Should note the title has "TV" in it. This is a frequency of spoken words, specifically, spoken in TV dialog. Which is why the two most common are "you" and "I", respectively. If it were written words, the most common would be "the" by a very large margin. If it were spoken in ordinary conversation, I understand the most common would be "I". Not that I think this makes the answer wrong. But it could be different depending on which one you chose. -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 12 10:55PM -0600 Mark Brader: >>>> So, Calvin, which list of the 200 most commonly used English words were >>>> you referring to? "Calvin": >>> I suspect it was this one: >>> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists/TV/2006/1-1000 Mark Brader: >> To, #3; too, #111; two, #149. And there, #62; they're, #189; but their, #238. Dan Tilque: > words, specifically, spoken in TV dialog... > Not that I think this makes the answer wrong. But it could be different > depending on which one you chose. Good point. Just for interest, I tried another one of the lists there -- the one from contemporary fiction: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists/Contemporary_fiction To, #3; too, #116; two, #123. And there, #57, their, #101 -- but they're, #525. Which makes sense because many fiction writers will only use "they're" in dialogue. -- Mark Brader "Update Notes... v6.8.14 Toronto Introduced bugs and degraded performance" msb@vex.net --Randall Munroe My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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