- CQ #608 - Answers & Scores - V2 - 3 Updates
- RQFTCI07 Game 6 Rounds 2-3: NYC clubs, recently extinct - 1 Update
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Aug 21 02:02PM -0500 Dan Tilque: >>> I have a question for you: Have you ever, even once in your career as >>> quiz-giver, considered that the expected answer is wrong? "Calvin": >> ...I prefer not to penalise participants for my shortcomings. Dan Tilque: > You obviously don't realize it, but you're penalizing people by not > doing it. I had the same thought. But I also thought about the Canadian Inquisition rule on the subject: # C9 NO DOUBLE JEOPARDY RULE # # - All points awarded at the game stand, except where a 2-point answer # supersedes a 1-point answer on a protest # - If the expected answer to a question is found to be wrong, either # on evaluating a protest or through the players' own research, all # players who gave it still keep the points as awarded at the game # - Protests made at one game do not affect the scoring of other games Our players seem happy with that. It means that if you leave the game thinking you got a certain question right, the points can't be taken away later. On the other hand, it's also a matter of what's practical in a game where answers are given over the table (remember being allowed to sit around a table with people?) and generally not written down. In this medium, where all answers can be reviewed and re-evaluated, taking points away does make sense and I say it would be fairer. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | Bad news disturbs his game; so does good; so msb@vex.net | also does the absence of news. --Stephen Leacock My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| swp <stephen.w.perry@gmail.com>: Aug 21 04:48PM -0700 On Thursday, August 20, 2020 at 2:26:26 PM UTC-4, Erland Sommarskog wrote: > Those that skip the zeroes. The format which was dominating in Sweden > when I grew up was d/m-yy(yy). So the date in February was 2/2-2020. > And, yeah, in that format nothing is palindromic. 11/11/11 comes to mind > looked in the Windows Control Panel for the various formats for different > locales, I found than one that uses zero-less formats. Just to name one: > English (United States). I wonder what the hebrew calendar, among others, would produce hat coincide with the roman calendar swp |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Aug 22 10:27AM +0200 >> when I grew up was d/m-yy(yy). So the date in February was 2/2-2020. >> And, yeah, in that format nothing is palindromic. > 11/11/11 comes to mind Which in the old Swedish format was 11/11-1111. |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Aug 21 07:03PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:IPSdnbgc8aHIa6DCnZ2dnUU7- > 1973-2006. Many famous punk and new wave acts played there, > including the Talking Heads, Blondie, and the Ramones. The short > name is okay. CBGBs > 3. 254 W. 54 St. Open 1977-86, it was operated by Steve Rubell. > Previously a radio and TV soundstage, it was the model for the > club featured in the movie "The Last Days of Disco". Studio 54 > open since 1935. Over a hundred jazz albums have been recorded > at the venue, including ones by Bill Evans and John Coltrane > in 1961. Village Vanguard > featuring performances by all the major jazz artists of the day. > In the '60s, it helped launch the careers of artists such as > Ella Fitzgerald, James Brown, and the Jackson 5. Apollo Theater > but a revival began in 1986. The name of the club comes from > the nickname of a jazz musician who headlined there, and itself > occurs in the titles of at least two jazz standards. Birdland > 9. An upscale restaurant and nightclub on the 65th floor of > the GE Building at Rockefeller Center. It first opened on > 1934-10-03, and was originally conceived as a formal supper club. Copa Cabana > the era, such as Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway, it generally > denied admission to blacks. A movie of the fictionalized > history of the club was directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Cotton Club > only flightless, but in fact wingless. They reached up to > 10 feet (3 m) in height and weighed 550 pounds (250 kg). > They are thought to have become extinct around 1500. Moa > 3. This was a flightless bird 3 feet (1 m) high that lived on the > islands of Mauritius. It's been extinct since the mid-to-late > 17th century. Dodo > were as many as 5,000,000,000 of them at the time of the > European conquest. The last one, named Martha, died in the > Cincinnati Zoo on 1914-09-01. Passenger Pigeon > centuries, in 1979 the World Health Organization certified the > eradication of this disease in the wild (though some labs still > have specimens). Smallpox > an endangered species, but at the end of the 20th century had > widely been considered extinct. This iconic bird is a symbol > of lost southern bayous and swamps. The short name is okay. Pete Gayde |
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