| Bruce Bowler <bruce.bowler@gmail.com>: Jul 24 12:09PM On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 22:56:11 -0500, Mark Brader wrote: > answer -- unless there is an explicit note requiring otherwise. See the > companion posting for further details. > This set is going to be rough for a lot of you, I think. Yup... > Give *both* meanings. > 2. Sign A also has two meanings, related to each other, used in > different countries. Give *both*. speed limit 60kph or 60mph > 3. Explain sign H, seen on freeways. lane ends, merge left; exit to the left; > confusing. But you can figure it out, so you tell us: > which other sign on the handout """is now""" used with the same > meaning intended for S? L > as France and Germany it also has a general meaning that would be the > same no matter what place was mentioned. What's that? > 9. What is sign C? no entry > 11. The other signs on the handout were decoys, of course -- > identify them if you like for fun, but for no points. > Please answer for each one on a separate line. E pass on right F traffic circle/rotary G the 1 o'clock exit on the Swindon circle is closed I turn here to go to the secret nuclear bunker L train tracks ahead N side road O windy road P Steep grade Q bumpy road R road narrows S RR crossing gates > * Game 3, Round 8 - Canadiana - Local TV newscasters nope. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jul 24 01:15PM > > L > As this is the only one you got right, I'm curious what you thought > it might mean. Railroad crossing. The symbols on the S sign look like tie spikes. -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 24 10:37AM -0500 Mark Brader: > > As this is the only one you got right, I'm curious what you thought > > it might mean. Dan Blum: > Railroad crossing. The symbols on the S sign look like tie spikes. Huh. Right answer, wrong reason! -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "Domine, defende nos msb@vex.net | Contra hos motores bos!" -- A. D. Godley |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jul 24 05:12PM > Dan Blum: > > Railroad crossing. The symbols on the S sign look like tie spikes. > Huh. Right answer, wrong reason! Then I really don't get it, and I am not surprised they replaced it. -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jul 24 09:13PM +0200 >> > Railroad crossing. The symbols on the S sign look like tie spikes. >> Huh. Right answer, wrong reason! > Then I really don't get it, and I am not surprised they replaced it. It took me a while, but eventually I realised they are supposed to be the bars that come down as a train is approaching. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jul 24 10:35PM > > Then I really don't get it, and I am not surprised they replaced it. > It took me a while, but eventually I realised they are supposed to be > the bars that come down as a train is approaching. OK, sure. To me that is a classic example of a symbol I can only recognize when I already know what it's supposed to be. -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 24 06:56PM -0500 [Sign S on the handout] Erland Sommarskog: > > It took me a while, but eventually I realised they are supposed to be > > the bars that come down as a train is approaching. Dan Blum: > OK, sure. To me that is a classic example of a symbol I can only > recognize when I already know what it's supposed to be. Whereas the replacement, sign L, will only be recognizable if you're familiar with the way level crossings *used* to work in, say, England: the gates were swung horizontally (by hand) and were across either the road or the railway at all times, depending on whether or not a train was either crossing or approaching. See: http://c8.alamy.com/comp/DBC4R4/manually-operated-railway-level-crossing-at-cantley-norfolk-england-DBC4R4.jpg (That particular one is still like that according to Google Street View, but there aren't many left any more.) -- Mark Brader Be there or be... hmmm. I can't pretend that a Toronto six-hour seminar on trivia skills is exactly the msb@vex.net opposite of "square." --Ken Jennings My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Jul 25 04:10AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:rqydnVv5NJBGxofCnZ2dnUU7- > Give *both* meanings. > 2. Sign A also has two meanings, related to each other, used in > different countries. Give *both*. 60 kph speed limit; 60 kph minimum speed > 3. Explain sign H, seen on freeways. No shoulder > 4. In countries that use it, such as France and Germany, what does > sign K mean? Yield > 6. In Canada a flashing green traffic light """has""" two meanings > in different provinces. A third meaning """occurs""" in Austria, > Russia, and some other countries. What is that? Yield to crossing traffic > 8. Sign J mentions a specific town, Champeix, but in countries such > as France and Germany it also has a general meaning that would > be the same no matter what place was mentioned. What's that? You are leaving the town named on the sign > 9. What is sign C? Lane ending soon > 10. And to finish the round with appropriate punctuation, what is > sign T? Hazard ahead > 11. The other signs on the handout were decoys, of course -- > identify them if you like for fun, but for no points. > Please answer for each one on a separate line. Pete Gayde |
| swp <stephen.w.perry@gmail.com>: Jul 24 09:14PM -0700 On Thursday, July 23, 2020 at 11:56:16 PM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote: > by members of the Usual Suspects, but have been reformatted and > may have been retyped and/or edited by me. I will reveal the > correct answers in about 3 days. noted > accept the new correct answer -- unless there is an explicit note > requiring otherwise. See the companion posting for further details. > This set is going to be rough for a lot of you, I think. noted > I originally wrote one of these rounds. and the sign said "everybody welcome, come in, kneel down and pray" but when they passed around the plate at the end of it all I didn't have a penny to pay so I got me a pen and a paper and I made up my own little sign I said, "thank you, Lord, for thinkin' 'bout me I'm alive and doin' fine" whoa! Signs, signs, everywhere a sign blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign? > version as shown here. It has one meaning that """is""" found > only in Germany and a related meaning in other countries. > Give *both* meanings. end speed limit - germany, end speed zone - rest of europe > 2. Sign A also has two meanings, related to each other, used in > different countries. Give *both*. speed limit 60 km/hr in europe, except in the uk where it is speed limit 60 mph > 3. Explain sign H, seen on freeways. 300 m to the next exit > 4. In countries that use it, such as France and Germany, what does > sign K mean? priority road > 5. In France what does it mean if you see "RAPPEL" under a speed > limit sign? reminder of the current speed limit > 6. In Canada a flashing green traffic light """has""" two meanings > in different provinces. A third meaning """occurs""" in Austria, > Russia, and some other countries. What is that? signal change to yellow coming soon > too confusing. But you can figure it out, so you tell us: > which other sign on the handout """is now""" used with the same > meaning intended for S? l - railroad crossing > 8. Sign J mentions a specific town, Champeix, but in countries such > as France and Germany it also has a general meaning that would > be the same no matter what place was mentioned. What's that? you are leaving that city so the local speed limit has ended > 9. What is sign C? no parking > 10. And to finish the round with appropriate punctuation, what is > sign T? general hazard > 11. The other signs on the handout were decoys, of course -- > identify them if you like for fun, but for no points. > Please answer for each one on a separate line. do this, don't do that, can't you read the signs... > I've sorted the round in order of the handout, thus interspersing > the 11 decoys with the others. Answer for the decoys as well if > you like for fun, but for no points. right. this concept of fun has a different meaning down here > 1. Citytv. dwight drummond > 2. CFTO. > 3. CBC. diana swain > Mark Brader, Toronto "Well, I'm back", he said. > msb@vex.net -- Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings) > My text in this article is in the public domain. swp |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jul 25 09:25AM +0200 > the gates were swung horizontally (by hand) and were across either the > road or the railway at all times, depending on whether or not a train > was either crossing or approaching. See: Yeah, those I've never seen. And you could ask what the point is have these gates across the railway. If they are in that position when the train comes, it cannot end well. In Sweden, at least, there is a second sign for railway crossing, which impossible to mistake for something else, since it features a steam locomotive. This is a crossing *without* gates or bars, so be careful! https://encrypted- tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQ3AAGJWRDChj779bFuk5RYrbvIVFuYQvd7FEBu NWmOlknyfhCLyd7mmXVYIOoO1i4YrkL8YonE&usqp=CAc |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Jul 24 02:12PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:EKadnQ3Z3cbuxIvCnZ2dnUU7- > benign inoculation lymphoreticulosis. Give the easy name. > 3. What disease is most commonly transferred to humans from living > birds? (No, not bird flu.) SARS > birds. What is it? > 7. In the movie "Hud", the memorable scene of the cattle slaughter > portrays the ranchers' response to an outbreak of what disease? Mad cow disease > 8. What disease, now rare in North America, can be caught from > eating undercooked pork? Be sufficiently specific. Trichonosis > 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? Lyme disease > * Game 3, Round 6 - Entertainment - Meanwhile in Real Life > These questions are about actors and actresses and other occupations or > positions they have held in real life. Except as noted, name the person > being described. > 1. This economist and law professor """has also been""" a comedian and, > from 1997 to 2002, a game show host. Ben Stein > 4. He was still serving as a US senator when he joined the cast > of a long-running weekly TV drama in 2002 -- playing an elected > official on the show. Name him. Fred > 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. Jimmy Stewart > 10. Another actor-pilot was a cabinetmaker before becoming a movie > star, and """has been""" known to fly search and rescue missions in > his helicopter. Pete Gayde |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 24 10:39AM -0500 If Pete Gayde had posted his answers on time, he would have scored 8 points on Round 4 and 16 on Round 6. -- Mark Brader "Now, let's assume the correct answer will Toronto eventually be written on this board at the msb@vex.net coordinates (x,y)..." --Randall Munroe |
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