- QFTCIMI520 Game 5, Rounds 7-8: best directors, WHA - 2 Updates
- Calvin's Quiz #597 - 1 Update
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Apr 27 11:07PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:e9-dnTRMoMtKizjDnZ2dnUU7- > 1. Didn't win for "Fargo" or "True Grit"; did win, 2007. > 2. Didn't win for "Apocalypse Now", "The Godfather", or > "The Godfather Part III"; did win, 1974. Coppolla > 4. Didn't win for "The Aviator", "Gangs of New York", "Goodfellas", > "Hugo", "The Irishman", "The Last Temptation of Christ", > "Raging Bull", or "The Wolf of Wall Street"; did win, 2006. Scorsese > 5. Didn't win for "Chinatown" or "Tess"; did win, 2002. Polanski > 6. Didn't win for "Brief Encounter", "Doctor Zhivago", "Great > Expectations", "A Passage to India", or "Summertime"; did win, > 1957 and 1962. Lawrence of Arabia > 7. Didn't win for "Double Indemnity", "Sabrina", "Some Like It Hot", > "Stalag 17", "Sunset Blvd.", or "Witness for the Prosecution"; > did win, 1945 and 1960. The Best Years of Our Lives > 10. Didn't win for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "E.T. > the Extra-Terrestrial", "Lincoln", "Munich", "Raiders of the > Lost Ark"; did win, 1993 and 1998. Schindler's List > 2. Another originally announced team, the Dayton Arrows -- spelled > A-R-R-O-W-S -- moved before the inaugural season began in 1972. > What team did the Dayton Arrows become? Houston Aeros > 3. The San Francisco Sharks also moved before play was underway, > to become one of the Canadian franchises and a future NHL team. > Which still-missed team was this? Quebec Nordiques > 4. By far the biggest star to join the WHA at its inception was > Bobby Hull. Which WHA team did he join? Winnipeg Jets > and Maple Leaf Gardens as the Toronto Toros. In 1976 the Toros > moved south but managed to retain both their alliteration and > their species identification. What did the Toronto Toros become? Birmingham Bulls > 6. The Toros signed a few former Toronto Maple Leafs, including > two star forwards who played in the 1972 "Summit Series" > against the USSR. Name either. Paul Henderson > 7. From 1973 to 1979, first the <answer 2> and then the New England > Whalers had three players simultaneously with the same surname. > What was that name? Howe > 8. Which scrappy Boston Bruins forward was signed to a $2,600,000 US > contract by the Philadelphia Blazers in 1972, allegedly making > him the highest-paid pro athlete in the world? Sanderson > Much to the embarrassment of the league, the trophy was not > ready in time for the deciding game. What was the name of that > not-yet-extant cup? AVCO Cup > 1979-80 season. They're all still active, but only one has > remained continuously in its original city and retains its name > from WHA days. Which franchise is this? Edmonton Oilers Pete Gayde |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Apr 28 02:02AM -0700 On 4/25/20 10:06 PM, Mark Brader wrote: > 1. Didn't win for "Fargo" or "True Grit"; did win, 2007 > > 2. Didn't win for "Apocalypse Now", "The Godfather", or > "The Godfather Part III"; did win, 1974. The Godfather Part II -- Dan Tilque |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Apr 27 06:50PM Calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote in > 1 In the NBA and NBL, teams are (in most cases) required to > attempt a basket within how many seconds of gaining possession? 24 > 2 Which future US President had the misfortune to lose both his wife and > his mother on the same day, 14 February 1884? Theodore Roosevelt > 3 Now in its 30th > season, The Simpsons has surpassed which western drama for the most > episodes of a prime-time, scripted TV series? Gunsmoke > 4 Ian Fraser > Kilmister, better known as Lemmy, founded which British rock band? Iron Butterfly > 5 The Lass That Loved a Sailor is the alternative title of which > Gilbert and Sullivan operetta? HMS Pinafore > 6 With over 65 billion messages > sent per day, what is the world's most used, smart phone based, > instant messaging service? > 7 Which word, derived from the Greek > antonym for chaos, means an orderly, harmonious and systematic > universe? Utopia > mortar? > 10 Which former world heavyweight champion is perhaps > better known these days for his eponymous kitchen grills? George Foreman > cheers, > calvin Pete Gayde |
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