- QFTCICR19 Game 5, Rounds 2-3: capital punishment - 3 Updates
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Mar 16 01:55PM > * Game 5, Round 2 - History - Capital Punishment > 1. Who was executed at Fotheringay Castle in 1587? Mary Queen of Scots > 3. Name any of the drugs standardly used for lethal injections. potassium cyanide > 4. Amnesty International has criticized Japan for giving prisoners > very little notice of their time of execution. What form of > execution does Japan use? electric chair; firing squad > 5. Since the US moratorium on the death penalty ended in 1976, > which is the only state where a firing squad has been used? Utah > 6. In Europe, the death penalty is currently under a moratorium > in Russia. Name the other European country where it is still > legal. Switzerland; Serbia > 7. Capital punishment is still legal in Israel, but has only ever > been used twice. One time was in 1962 -- who did they execute? Eichmann > 9. Within 1 year, when did France last use the guillotine? 1930; 1950 > 10. Australia withdrew its ambassador from *which country* in 2015 > after the execution of two Australians for drug-related offenses? Turkey; Thailand > * Game 5, Round 3 - Geography - Capital Punishment > 1. Nuuk is the capital of which island? Greenland > 2. What was the capital of British India before the government > was moved to New Delhi in 1912? Delhi > 3. Christiania was the former name of what current capital city? Stockholm > 4. Which current African capital city's name was also the title > of a 1966 movie starring Charlton Heston and Sir Laurence > Olivier? Dakar > 5. Bloemfontein and *which two other cities* are capitals of the > same country? Johannesburg and Pretoria > 6. Salisbury was the colonial-era capital of which country? Zimbabwe > 7. Oscar Niemeyer was the main architect for which capital city? Brasilia > 8. The capital of a US Atlantic Coast state shares its name with > a major port in Kent county, England. What name? Dover > 10. Manama is the capital of which Middle Eastern country? Bahrain -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Mar 16 10:40PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:q6SdnXwlbbA6NBHBnZ2dnUU7- > * Game 5, Round 2 - History - Capital Punishment > 1. Who was executed at Fotheringay Castle in 1587? Mary Queen of Scots > 4. Amnesty International has criticized Japan for giving prisoners > very little notice of their time of execution. What form of > execution does Japan use? hanging > 5. Since the US moratorium on the death penalty ended in 1976, > which is the only state where a firing squad has been used? Utah > 6. In Europe, the death penalty is currently under a moratorium > in Russia. Name the other European country where it is still > legal. Belarus; Turkey > 7. Capital punishment is still legal in Israel, but has only ever > been used twice. One time was in 1962 -- who did they execute? Eichmann (I thought it was only once there) > 9. Within 1 year, when did France last use the guillotine? 1977 (Someone once wrote that in 1977, you could talk to Charlie Chaplin and Groucho Marx in the morning, go to a Siouxsie and the Banshees concert in the afternoon, and be executed on the guillotine in the evening. Hopefully they didn't mean that the same person would experience all these things in the same day.) > 10. Australia withdrew its ambassador from *which country* in 2015 > after the execution of two Australians for drug-related offenses? Malaysia > jvyy abg or rabhtu, naq n fvatyr anzr jvgu n fubeg-sbez gvgyr > (yvxr "Ybeq Fgnayrl") jvyy nyfb abg or rabhtu. Vs lbh nafjrerq > va bar bs gubfr sbezf, tb onpx naq nqq zber. Ab ceboyrz. > * Game 5, Round 3 - Geography - Capital Punishment > 1. Nuuk is the capital of which island? Greenland > 2. What was the capital of British India before the government > was moved to New Delhi in 1912? Calcutta; Lucknow > 3. Christiania was the former name of what current capital city? Oslo > 4. Which current African capital city's name was also the title > of a 1966 movie starring Charlton Heston and Sir Laurence > Olivier? Khartoum > 5. Bloemfontein and *which two other cities* are capitals of the > same country? Pretoria and Cape Town > 6. Salisbury was the colonial-era capital of which country? Rhodesia (now known as Zimbabwe) > 7. Oscar Niemeyer was the main architect for which capital city? Brasilia > 8. The capital of a US Atlantic Coast state shares its name with > a major port in Kent county, England. What name? Dover > 10. Manama is the capital of which Middle Eastern country? Bahrain -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Mar 17 01:17AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:q6SdnXwlbbA6NBHBnZ2dnUU7- > Inquisition (QFTCI*)". > * Game 5, Round 2 - History - Capital Punishment > 1. Who was executed at Fotheringay Castle in 1587? Mary, Queen of Scots > took place. (Not its official name, which is that of the city > where it was located.) > 3. Name any of the drugs standardly used for lethal injections. Phenobarbitol > 4. Amnesty International has criticized Japan for giving prisoners > very little notice of their time of execution. What form of > execution does Japan use? Hanging > 5. Since the US moratorium on the death penalty ended in 1976, > which is the only state where a firing squad has been used? Utah > 6. In Europe, the death penalty is currently under a moratorium > in Russia. Name the other European country where it is still > legal. Hungary; Greece > 7. Capital punishment is still legal in Israel, but has only ever > been used twice. One time was in 1962 -- who did they execute? Eichmann > later dramatized in *what movie* starring Richard Attenborough > and John Hurt? > 9. Within 1 year, when did France last use the guillotine? 1965; 1962 > 10. Australia withdrew its ambassador from *which country* in 2015 > after the execution of two Australians for drug-related offenses? Indonesia; Iran > va bar bs gubfr sbezf, tb onpx naq nqq zber. > * Game 5, Round 3 - Geography - Capital Punishment > 1. Nuuk is the capital of which island? Tuvalu; Cook Island > 2. What was the capital of British India before the government > was moved to New Delhi in 1912? Bombay; Calcutta > 3. Christiania was the former name of what current capital city? Oslo > 4. Which current African capital city's name was also the title > of a 1966 movie starring Charlton Heston and Sir Laurence > Olivier? Khartoum > 5. Bloemfontein and *which two other cities* are capitals of the > same country? Johannesburg and Pretoria > 6. Salisbury was the colonial-era capital of which country? Rhodesia > 7. Oscar Niemeyer was the main architect for which capital city? Brasilia > 8. The capital of a US Atlantic Coast state shares its name with > a major port in Kent county, England. What name? Boston > 9. What is the capital of Nunavut? > 10. Manama is the capital of which Middle Eastern country? Bahrain Pete Gayde |
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