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| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jun 06 06:54AM -0700 On 6/4/20 4:59 PM, Mark Brader wrote: > trip-of-a-lifetime implanted into his brain. Unfortunately, > the process reveals that he is really a secret agent with a > history of Martian missions. Total Recall > A New Year's Eve party is in full swing on board when an aging > ship is capsized by a tsunami and the passengers experience > "hell upside down". Poseidon Adventure > B1. In what popular 1990s TV show was the next-door neighbor > Wilson's face never shown in full? Instead it was always > obscured by a tall fence between yards, or some other object. Home Improvement > Name the men's basketball teams of these universities. > D1. Villanova U. > D2. Gonzaga U. Bulldogs (spent 9th grade at Gonzaga Preparatory School, whose team name is the Bullpups) > John F. Kennedy's PT Boat 109, slicing it in two and > igniting its fuel tanks. In what *Pacific island group* > did this incident occur? Solomons > E2. Name the book of short biographies for which Kennedy won > the Pulitzer Prize. Profiles in Courage > Zoo escaped and evaded capture for weeks. Due to their > outlaw exploits, they were given nicknames. Give *either* > nickname. Bonnie and Clyde -- Dan Tilque |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jun 07 03:20AM -0700 On Friday, June 5, 2020 at 9:59:17 AM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > by Albanian sex traffickers as soon as she steps out of Charles > de Gaulle Airport. Luckily her dad's particular set of skills > helps get her back. Taken > surface, only to find that their boat has left them stranded, > miles from the Australian coast, surrounded by sharks and > jellyfish. The Lonergans, but not sure on the title. Blue Waters or something? The boat captain was clearly negligent but it was likely murder / suicide - we shall never know for sure. > perfect family is having lunch. The husband sprints away, > taking his phone and his gloves, but leaving behind his wife > and children. Sounds like The Simpsons :-) > trip-of-a-lifetime implanted into his brain. Unfortunately, > the process reveals that he is really a secret agent with a > history of Martian missions. Total Recall > heating, no food and no access to the finest wines available to > humanity, one of them says, "We've gone on holiday by mistake!" > Then they strangle, half-pluck, and cook a chicken. Withnail and I > 7. 1977. Cave-dwelling cannibals attack, the Carter family fights > back, and as the trailer's peerless tag line puts it: "The > lucky ones died first." Dunno, but that sounds like the worst of the lot. > couple travel to a fabled Swedish festival where a seemingly > pastoral paradise transforms into a sinister, dread-soaked > nightmare as the locals reveal their terrifying agenda. Is it a Wicker Man remake? > ** Game 8, Round 10 - Challenge Round of the TTC Subway Stations > * A. Geography, or "Museum" > A1. In what city is the Van Gogh Museum located? Amsterdam, Paris > A2. In what city is the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum located? Krakow, Warsaw > B1. In what popular 1990s TV show was the next-door neighbor > Wilson's face never shown in full? Instead it was always > obscured by a tall fence between yards, or some other object. Home Improvement > B2. In what popular 2004-12 TV show was the title character's > best friend an oncologist named James Wilson? Frasier > We will give you three characters from the same Jane Austen > novel. You give the title. > C1. Jane Fairfax, Frank Churchill, George Knightley. Emma > C2. Col. Brandon, Elinor Dashwood, John Willoughby. Sense amd Sensibility > John F. Kennedy's PT Boat 109, slicing it in two and > igniting its fuel tanks. In what *Pacific island group* > did this incident occur? Guam, Hawaii > E2. Name the book of short biographies for which Kennedy won > the Pulitzer Prize. Profiles of (in?) Courage > Zoo escaped and evaded capture for weeks. Due to their > outlaw exploits, they were given nicknames. Give *either* > nickname. Bonney > G2. Which two of the five actual stations in the category titles > are closest together geographically, and opened on the > same day? You call that fun? :-) cheers, calvin |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jun 06 07:18PM +0200 >> American football. There's no accounting for that. > No, the *other* other kind of football. Just ask Erland, he knows all > about this kind of football. Yeah, I said that to myself, the Timbers play real football, don't they? I was about to make a comment, but I left the strike to Dan. I was quite sure that they don't play American "football", since I know that Portland does not have an NFL team. I've been riding the train from Portland to Seattle a Sunday morning when there was a Seahawks game. The train was packed. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 06 02:19PM -0500 Dan Tilque: > No, the *other* other kind of football. You must be talking about some sport other than football. -- Mark Brader "Update Notes... v6.8.14 Toronto Introduced bugs and degraded performance" msb@vex.net --Randall Munroe |
| Bruce Bowler <bruce.bowler@gmail.com>: Jun 03 02:35PM On Mon, 01 Jun 2020 17:13:10 -0500, Mark Brader wrote: > | Warhol | Frigorie | Nail | Wheaton > 1. What is defined as a measure of capacity for wine equal to > 63 US gallons? hogshead > 2. What measure, defined as the amount of land tillable in one > plowing season, is equal to about 15 acres? oxgang > 3. What is defined in computing as a 4-bit aggregation, or half > an octet? nibble > 5. What is defined as a length equal to exactly 5'7" -- the height > of an MIT freshman in 1958 when he was used to measure the length of > the Harvard Bridge between Boston and Cambridge? Smoot > 6. What is defined as a measure of time equal to 15 minutes? > 7. What is defined as the smallest detectable movement of a > computer mouse? mickey > 8. What is defined as the risk equal to a one-in-a-million chance > of death? micromort > 9. What is defined as the amount of odor of one standard person? big max index > gloves in freezing conditions and was hampered by the opinion that he > could not win in cold weather after losing two Western Finals at home > in Calgary. Doug Flutie |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jun 06 06:34AM -0700 On 6/4/20 3:43 PM, Calvin wrote: > 2 In the Toy Story movie franchise, what name is inexpertly handwritten on the sole of Woody's right boot? > 3 In relation to the stock exchange, what three words does the acronym ETF most commonly stand for? > 4 Which native American name is traditionally used by skydivers as they leap from an aircraft? Geronimo > 5 What was the maiden name of the Duchess of Cambridge? Middleton > 7 Which city is the official seat of the EU parliament? > 8 Which actress was Mrs. Alec Baldwin from 1993 to 2002? > 9 In the field of education, what four disciplines does the acronym STEM refer to? Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics > 10 First published in 1970, the Australian magazine Tracks considers itself the "bible" of which sport? hunting -- Dan Tilque |
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