- RQFTCI07 Game 4 Rounds 2-3: provinces/states and CanBooze - 3 Updates
- CQ #608 - 5 Updates
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Jul 31 11:07PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:k-2dnT7fJbvO77_CnZ2dnUU7- > divided into, and you name the country. > 1. Atacama, Tarapacá, Antofagasta, Libertador General Bernardo > O'Higgins. Chile > 2. Chiba, Niigata, Okayama, Fukushima. Japan > 3. Dagestan (or Makhachkala), Murmansk, Novgorod, Smolensk. Russa > 4. Drama, Arkadia, Lakonia, Korinthia (or the same with each K > changed to C). Greece > 5. Hainan, Shanxi, Guangdong, Zhejiang. China > 6. Limburg, Wallonia, Luxembourg, West-Vlaanderen. Belgium > 7. Nelson, Canterbury, Wellington, Marlborough. New Zealand > 8. Sikkim, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh. India > 9. Sonora, Hidalgo, Tlaxcala, Guanajuato. Mexico > 10. Tirol, Vorarlberg, Kärnten (or Carinthia), Steiermark (or > Styria). Austria > paper, so there were decoys provided -- 16 of them. Here they are. > Answer them if you like for fun, but for no points. > 11. Aceh, Papua, Irian Jaya Barat, Nusa Tenggara Timur. Indonesia > 12. Al-Qahirah, Bani Suwayf, Al-Iskandariyah, Al-Wadi al-Jadid. Saudi Arabia > 13. Bahia, Paraná, Maranhão, Mato Grosso. Brazil > 14. Budva, Zabljak, Pljevlja, Danilovgrad. Bulgaria > 15. Finnmark, Telemark, Nord-Trondelag, More og Romsdal. Norway > 16. Harare, Masvingo, Midlands, Manicaland. Zimbabwe > 17. Holguín, Camagüey, Pinar del Río, Sancti Spíritus. > 18. Kansas, Vermont, Kentucky, Mississippi. USA > 19. Lac, Biltine, Mayo-Kebbi, Moyen-Chari. > 20. Limburg, Zeeland, Groningen, Gelderland. Netherlands > 21. Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal. South Africa > 24. Salavan, Oudomxai, Phongsali, Louangphrabang. > 25. Vysocina, Karlovarsky Kraj, Kralovehradecky Kraj, > Moravskoslezsky Kraj. Croatia > 26. Wales, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland. United Kingdom > best-selling Canadian whisky brand outside of North America > and """is""" sold in more than 150 countries worldwide. > Who """makes""" it? Seagrams > 2. Where """is""" <answer 1> located? Hamilton > 4. Molson's was founded by John Molson, making it North America's > oldest brewing company, and Canada's second-oldest company of any > kind (after the Hudson's Bay Co.). In what year, within 5? 1801; 1812 > 5. Labatt Brewing Co. Ltd. """is""" a Canadian beer company, > founded by John Kinder Labatt in 1847 -- in what city? Ottawa; Montreal > wine """is""" produced in the Niagara region of Southern Ontario > and southern British Columbia. Name the largest wine-growing > area in BC. Kelowna; Okanagan > a citrus juice or pepper. *Note*: We're asking for the four > ingredients that you or your bartender would mix to make it, > not the ingredients that go into those! Pete Gayde |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jul 31 05:57PM -0700 On 7/30/20 12:10 AM, Mark Brader wrote: > divided into, and you name the country. > 1. Atacama, Tarapacá, Antofagasta, Libertador General Bernardo > O'Higgins. Chile > 2. Chiba, Niigata, Okayama, Fukushima. Japan > 3. Dagestan (or Makhachkala), Murmansk, Novgorod, Smolensk. Russia > 4. Drama, Arkadia, Lakonia, Korinthia (or the same with each K > changed to C). Greece > 5. Hainan, Shanxi, Guangdong, Zhejiang. China > 6. Limburg, Wallonia, Luxembourg, West-Vlaanderen. Belgium > 7. Nelson, Canterbury, Wellington, Marlborough. New Zealand > 8. Sikkim, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh. India > 9. Sonora, Hidalgo, Tlaxcala, Guanajuato. Mexico > 10. Tirol, Vorarlberg, Kärnten (or Carinthia), Steiermark (or > Styria). Austria > paper, so there were decoys provided -- 16 of them. Here they are. > Answer them if you like for fun, but for no points. > 11. Aceh, Papua, Irian Jaya Barat, Nusa Tenggara Timur. Indonesia > 12. Al-Qahirah, Bani Suwayf, Al-Iskandariyah, Al-Wadi al-Jadid. Egypt > 13. Bahia, Paraná, Maranhão, Mato Grosso. Brazil > 14. Budva, Zabljak, Pljevlja, Danilovgrad. Hungary > 15. Finnmark, Telemark, Nord-Trondelag, More og Romsdal. Norway > 16. Harare, Masvingo, Midlands, Manicaland. Zimbabwe > 17. Holguín, Camagüey, Pinar del Río, Sancti Spíritus. > 18. Kansas, Vermont, Kentucky, Mississippi. boy, that one's a real stumper! > 19. Lac, Biltine, Mayo-Kebbi, Moyen-Chari. > 20. Limburg, Zeeland, Groningen, Gelderland. Netherlands > 21. Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal. South Africa > 22. Loja, Esmeraldas, Morona-Santiago, Zamora-Chinchipe. > 23. Maasin, Camiguin, Catanduanes, Surigao del Sur. > 24. Salavan, Oudomxai, Phongsali, Louangphrabang. Burkina Faso > 25. Vysocina, Karlovarsky Kraj, Kralovehradecky Kraj, > Moravskoslezsky Kraj. > > 26. Wales, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland. another stumper! > best-selling Canadian whisky brand outside of North America > and """is""" sold in more than 150 countries worldwide. > Who """makes""" it? Seagram's > wine """is""" produced in the Niagara region of Southern Ontario > and southern British Columbia. Name the largest wine-growing > area in BC. Okanagan -- Dan Tilque |
| swp <stephen.w.perry@gmail.com>: Jul 31 08:17PM -0700 On Thursday, July 30, 2020 at 3:10:17 AM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote: > and our games involve 11 people sitting together around a long > table or a cluster of small tables. In the meantime I'll continue > reposting questions from the first season of 2007 here. noted. thank you. please stay safe. > divided into, and you name the country. > 1. Atacama, Tarapacá, Antofagasta, Libertador General Bernardo > O'Higgins. chile > 2. Chiba, Niigata, Okayama, Fukushima. japan > 3. Dagestan (or Makhachkala), Murmansk, Novgorod, Smolensk. russia > 4. Drama, Arkadia, Lakonia, Korinthia (or the same with each K > changed to C). greece > 5. Hainan, Shanxi, Guangdong, Zhejiang. china > 6. Limburg, Wallonia, Luxembourg, West-Vlaanderen. belgium > 7. Nelson, Canterbury, Wellington, Marlborough. new zealand > 8. Sikkim, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh. india > 9. Sonora, Hidalgo, Tlaxcala, Guanajuato. mexico > 10. Tirol, Vorarlberg, Kärnten (or Carinthia), Steiermark (or > Styria). austria > 25. Vysocina, Karlovarsky Kraj, Kralovehradecky Kraj, > Moravskoslezsky Kraj. > 26. Wales, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland. they are all places on earth > best-selling Canadian whisky brand outside of North America > and """is""" sold in more than 150 countries worldwide. > Who """makes""" it? beam suntory > 2. Where """is""" <answer 1> located? chicago > 3. What company's distillery, founded in 1832, forms what """is > now""" known in Toronto as the Distillery District? It was > owned in later years by <answer 1>. glen scotia > 4. Molson's was founded by John Molson, making it North America's > oldest brewing company, and Canada's second-oldest company of any > kind (after the Hudson's Bay Co.). In what year, within 5? 1786 > 5. Labatt Brewing Co. Ltd. """is""" a Canadian beer company, > founded by John Kinder Labatt in 1847 -- in what city? london, ontario > wine """is""" produced in the Niagara region of Southern Ontario > and southern British Columbia. Name the largest wine-growing > area in BC. okanagan valley > One is a county east of Toronto; the other is an area in > Southwestern Ontario defined by the Vintners Quality Alliance. > Each is on one of the Great Lakes. Name either one. north shore of lake erie > 8. """It's""" the provincial liquor monopoly of Quebec, with the > initials SAQ. What does it stand for? societe des alcools du quebec > for large glass bottles and one for small glass bottles and > tetra-paks. Name either one of the two amounts that """are""" > charged. $0.20 > a citrus juice or pepper. *Note*: We're asking for the four > ingredients that you or your bartender would mix to make it, > not the ingredients that go into those! vodka, clamato juice, tabasco sauce, worcestershire sauce > Mark Brader, Toronto | "It's a massive 'Get out of Euclid free' card." > msb@vex.net | --Matt Parker > My text in this article is in the public domain. swp |
| Bruce Bowler <bruce.bowler@gmail.com>: Jul 31 12:44PM On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 15:13:36 -0700, Calvin wrote: > 1 In 1849 which future US President was awarded a patent for a flotation > device? Lincoln > 2 Which 1987 film was loosely based on the life of Adrian Cronauer? Good Morning, Vietnam! > 3 Manga comics and comic novels developed in the late 19th century in > which country? Japan > 4 Which American performer won the Original Song Academy Award in 1994 > for the theme to Streets of Philadelphia? Springsteen > 5 What was unusual about the second day of February this year, which > hadn't happened for 909 years? 02/02/2020 - it was palindromic > 6 The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir is a memoir by which > former attorney, political commentator, Republican consultant, diplomat > and national security advisor? John Bolton > 7 What name is commonly given to a tube used to convey liquid upwards > from a reservoir and then down to a lower level of its own accord? Siphon > 8 Also known as indigestion, which D is a medical term covers a group of > nonspecific symptoms in the digestive tract? Dispepsia > 9 In the Christian liturgical calendar, Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and > ends on Holy Saturday, approximately how many weeks later? 6 > 10 To within 10%, the International Space Station orbits the Earth at > what average distance? ~221 nm. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 31 04:07PM -0500 Bruce Bowler: > ~221 nm. For greater clarity: he means naut.mi., not nanometers. -- Mark Brader, Toronto Don't put all your X in one window. msb@vex.net -- Peter Neumann |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Jul 31 11:31PM Calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote in > 1 In 1849 which future US President was awarded a patent for a > flotation device? Grant > 2 Which 1987 film was loosely based on the life > of Adrian Cronauer? Good Morning, Vietnam > 3 Manga comics and comic novels developed in > the late 19th century in which country? Japan > 4 Which American performer > won the Original Song Academy Award in 1994 for the theme to Streets > of Philadelphia? Prince > 5 What was unusual about the second day of > February this year, which hadn't happened for 909 years? Mars, Jupiter, Saturn in alignment > Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir is a memoir by which > former attorney, political commentator, Republican consultant, > diplomat and national security advisor? Bolton > 7 What name is commonly > given to a tube used to convey liquid upwards from a reservoir and > then down to a lower level of its own accord? Siphon > 8 Also known as > indigestion, which D is a medical term covers a group of nonspecific > symptoms in the digestive tract? Dispepsia > 9 In the Christian liturgical > calendar, Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Saturday, > approximately how many weeks later? 6 > 10 To within 10%, the > International Space Station orbits the Earth at what average distance? 90 miles > cheers, > calvin Pete Gayde |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jul 31 06:35PM -0700 On 7/30/20 3:13 PM, Calvin wrote: > 1 In 1849 which future US President was awarded a patent for a flotation device? Lincoln > 2 Which 1987 film was loosely based on the life of Adrian Cronauer? Good Morning, Vietnam! > 3 Manga comics and comic novels developed in the late 19th century in which country? Japan > 4 Which American performer won the Original Song Academy Award in 1994 for the theme to Streets of Philadelphia > 5 What was unusual about the second day of February this year, which hadn't happened for 909 years? palindrome in three different formats (mm/dd/yyyy, dd/mm/yyyy, yyyy/mm/dd) > 6 The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir is a memoir by which former attorney, political commentator, Republican consultant, diplomat and national security advisor? John Bolton > 7 What name is commonly given to a tube used to convey liquid upwards from a reservoir and then down to a lower level of its own accord? siphon > 8 Also known as indigestion, which D is a medical term covers a group of nonspecific symptoms in the digestive tract? > 9 In the Christian liturgical calendar, Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Saturday, approximately how many weeks later? 7 > 10 To within 10%, the International Space Station orbits the Earth at what average distance? 450 km -- Dan Tilque |
| swp <stephen.w.perry@gmail.com>: Jul 31 07:42PM -0700 On Thursday, July 30, 2020 at 6:13:37 PM UTC-4, Calvin wrote: > 1 In 1849 which future US President was awarded a patent for a flotation device? lincoln > 2 Which 1987 film was loosely based on the life of Adrian Cronauer? good morning vietnam > 3 Manga comics and comic novels developed in the late 19th century in which country? japan > 4 Which American performer won the Original Song Academy Award in 1994 for the theme to Streets of Philadelphia? bruce springsteen > 5 What was unusual about the second day of February this year, which hadn't happened for 909 years? it was a palindrome > 6 The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir is a memoir by which former attorney, political commentator, Republican consultant, diplomat and national security advisor? john bolton > 7 What name is commonly given to a tube used to convey liquid upwards from a reservoir and then down to a lower level of its own accord? syphon > 8 Also known as indigestion, which D is a medical term covers a group of nonspecific symptoms in the digestive tract? dyspepsia > 9 In the Christian liturgical calendar, Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Saturday, approximately how many weeks later? 6 > 10 To within 10%, the International Space Station orbits the Earth at what average distance? 254 miles > cheers, > calvin swp |
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