- RESULTS Erland's occasional quiz: Odd one out - 2 Updates
- RQFTCI07 Game 3 Rounds 2-3 answers: old France, literary openings - 2 Updates
- RQFTCI07 Game 3 Rounds 4,6: zoonoses and and in real life - 1 Update
- CQ #607 - 1 Update
| swp <stephen.w.perry@gmail.com>: Jul 22 05:46PM -0700 On Monday, July 20, 2020 at 9:53:23 AM UTC-4, Erland Sommarskog wrote: > Congratulations, the honour and glory is yours for the rest of the > day! Mark Brader comes in second, and Pete Gayde makes it to the > bronze position thanks to having the first tie breaker correct. wow. thank you. this is what it must have felt like to win one of Mark Brader's rare entries contests. I enjoyed playing very much. > > 3. Events in European history: 1569, 1772, 1793, 1795, 1939 my busia is spinning in her grave because I did not get this one. time for a trip back to remind myself where 1/2 of my roots came from. > >12. Four of these pictures are from the same country. Which is from a > > different country? after telling us I don't remember how many times that you were taking or had taken a trip to chile I am surprised more people didn't get this. another place to add to my itinerary. after I invade canada and make them give back a certain postal code. the images led me to try http://www.sommarskog.se/temp/ which I found is open for all to access. which leads to the real odd one out: http://www.sommarskog.se/temp/profilephoto.jpg > Thanks to everyone for playing! thank you again for doing this. swp |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jul 23 10:36AM +0200 > after telling us I don't remember how many times that you were taking or > had taken a trip to chile Actually, I've only been there twice. And the first time, it was only for a few days when getting from the Argentian part of Tierra del Fuego to the Argentian mainland. On the other hand, I've been to Argentina three times. (And this might have occsionally exhibited in my quizzes.) But. yes, travelling from Chile from south to north (or vice versa) will give you a display of radically different landscapes. It still irks me that I missed out on the transition from the verdant south to the drier subtropical area around Santiago and Valparaíso. But there is not that much to see in this area, except for some national parks (including one which has a feature which obviously must have been the inspiration for Frank Zappa's "Inca Roads"). Alas, they closed all national parks the summer I was their due to the risk for forest fires. So I took a bus directly from Villarrica to Valparaíso, but these buses only go by night. |
| swp <stephen.w.perry@gmail.com>: Jul 22 05:24PM -0700 On Monday, July 20, 2020 at 10:53:55 PM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote: > > from the Benedictines. Name this monk *or* the order that he > > helped to build. > (St.) Bernard (of Clairvaux); Cistercian order. bah! a dog of a question. > > controversial measures, dictated that the heir to the throne > > must be male? > Salic Law. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque. I protest. the question asked for the body of law, not the law itself. the estates-general wrote and implemented salic law. > I reluctnatly scored "Malcom X" as almost correct since it was > the important part of the title. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. > 3 for Stephen. I protest. you gave us 'autobiography' in the question, it is implied. > Scores, if there are no errors: see above > Toronto | I myself would start with dismay and *work my way up* > msb@vex.net | to righteous indignation." --Murphy Brown > My text in this article is in the public domain. swp, who started this post with righteous indignation and fears he will end in dismay |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 22 09:27PM -0500 Mark Brader: >>> controversial measures, dictated that the heir to the throne >>> must be male? >> Salic Law. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque. Stephen Perry: > I protest. the question asked for the body of law, not the law itself. > the estates-general wrote and implemented salic law. But it didn't ask *whose* body of law. Denied. >> the important part of the title. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. >> 3 for Stephen. > I protest. you gave us 'autobiography' in the question, it is implied. It didn't ask *whose* autobiography. They don't all have that word in the title. Denied. >> My text in this article is in the public domain. > swp, who started this post with righteous indignation and fears he will > end in dismay Could be. -- Mark Brader|"But how can we do something about something that isn't happening?" Toronto |"It's much easier to solve an imaginary problem than a real one." msb@vex.net| --Lynn & Jay: "Yes, Prime Minister" (2013) My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jul 22 09:39AM -0700 On 7/20/20 7:56 PM, Mark Brader wrote: > benign inoculation lymphoreticulosis. Give the easy name. > 3. What disease is most commonly transferred to humans from living > birds? (No, not bird flu.) influenza > 5. This disease is best known for deadly epidemics elsewhere, but > in the southwest US, the ground squirrel provides a reservoir > for it. hantavirus > also known to occur in horses, cats, bats, chipmunks, > skunks, squirrels, domestic rabbits, and (significantly) > birds. What is it? West Nile virus > 7. In the movie "Hud", the memorable scene of the cattle slaughter > portrays the ranchers' response to an outbreak of what disease? hoof & mouth disease > 8. What disease, now rare in North America, can be caught from > eating undercooked pork? Be sufficiently specific. trichinosis > 9. What tick-borne disease identified in the 20th century takes > its name from a town in New England? Lyme disease > 10. Another tick-borne disease is named after a region of North > America, but is actually found throughout the continent. > What is it? Rocky Mountain spotted fever > 2. This obstetrician won an Oscar for his first professional acting > job, in a 1984 drama of oppression. > 3. Baroness Haden-Guest """is""" better known as who? Jamie Lee Curtis (married to Christopher Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest) > then became an actor. He """has""" starred in a long-running > 1990s TV sitcom as well as a number of successful movies. > 7. Omar Sharif was a world-class player of what? bridge > 8. Hedy Lamarr and her co-worker George Antheil received a patent > in 1942 in what field? telecommunications > 9. During World War II he turned from acting to flying bombers, > eventually rising to brigadier general in the US Air Force. James Stewart -- Dan Tilque |
| R. Ess <Chifan@yahoo.com>: Jul 22 10:52AM -0500 On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 15:05:28 -0700 (PDT), Calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote: >1 What four-letter term refers to the angle formed by a line that runs down the centre shaft of a golf club, and a line running through the face of the club? Excluding putters, it varies from about 10 degrees for a driver to 60 plus degrees for some wedges. LOFT >2 Which artist's 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home heralded the start of the "electric" phase of his musical career? BOB DYLAN >3 The 1995 Rugby World Cup was hosted and won by which country? SOUTH AFRICA >4 Which six-letter word is derived from the name of St Mary Bethlehem Hospital in London? BEDLAM >5 What is the more common two-word name of the remote Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility, located in the South Pacific Ocean some 2,688 km from the nearest lands? POINT NEMO >6 With a population of about three million people, what island is located some 30 km east of Bali? LOMBOK >7 Which boxer memorably responded to a reporter's question regarding an upcoming opponent's tactics with "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."? MIKE TYSON >8 Phil Collins' first US number one hit was the title song for which 1984 film starring Rachel Ward, Jeff Bridges and James Woods? IN THE AIR TONIGHT >9 Caledonia was the Roman name for which modern-day country? SCOTLAND >10 Which musical note lies between a quaver and a minim? CROTCHET ArenEss |
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