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| swp <stephen.w.perry@gmail.com>: Oct 06 02:22PM -0700 On Monday, October 5, 2020 at 10:46:49 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 > as commonly used after they became famous. All of these people were > born in the 1800s except for the one who """is""" still alive today. > 1. Babington, politician and writer. tom macauley > 2. Kingdom, engineer. brunel > 3. Taliaferro ("TAH-liv-er"), writer and educator. booker washington > 4. Stearns, writer. t. s. elliot > 5. Gabriel, painter. dante rossetti > 6. Spencer, politician and writer. winnie churchill > 7. Moffat, magnate and writer. conrad black > 8. Gamaliel, politician. warren harding > 9. Kinnan, writer. marjorie rawlings > 10. Jennings, lawyer and politician. william bryan (not ken) > 6 decoys with the rest. Answer for the decoys if you like for fun, > but for no points. > 1. Picture A: science-fiction, 1993-99. nana visitor > 2. Picture B: comedy-drama, 1972-83. william christopher > 3. (Decoy) picture C (science-fiction/fantasy/romance, 1993-97). lane smith > 4. (Decoy) picture D (drama, 1981-89). gordon thompson > 5. Picture E: drama, 1978-91. patrick duffy > 6. (Decoy) picture F (comedy-romance, 1977-86). ted lange > 7. Picture G: western, 1955-75. not dirk blocker > 8. Picture H: comedy, 1974-84. marion ross > 9. (Decoy) picture I (comedy, 1993-2004). jane leeves > 10. (Decoy) picture J (comedy, 1991-99). earl hindman > 11. Picture K: comedy, 1982-93. john ratzenberger > 12. Picture L: comedy, 1969-74. christopher knight > 13. (Decoy) picture M (drama, 1981-87). chuck haid > 14. Picture N: comedy, 1982-89. justine bateman > 15. Picture O: action-adventure, 1983-87. dirk benedict > 16. Picture P: comedy, 1978-82. jan smithers > m...@vex.net | a variety of grape plant, but > Toronto | if you put it that way..." --Jan Sand > My text in this article is in the public domain. swp |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Oct 07 02:06AM > * Game 10, Round 2 - Miscellaneous - Middle Names > 1. Babington, politician and writer. Macauley > 2. Kingdom, engineer. Brunel > 3. Taliaferro ("TAH-liv-er"), writer and educator. Russell > 4. Stearns, writer. Eliot > 5. Gabriel, painter. Rosetti > 6. Spencer, politician and writer. Churchill > 7. Moffat, magnate and writer. Carnegie > 8. Gamaliel, politician. Harding > 9. Kinnan, writer. Chesterton > 10. Jennings, lawyer and politician. Bryan > * Game 10, Round 3 - Entertainment - Supporting Cast, or Who are These? > 1. Picture A: science-fiction, 1993-99. Nana Visitor > 2. Picture B: comedy-drama, 1972-83. William Christopher > 11. Picture K: comedy, 1982-93. John Ratzenberger -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Oct 07 12:13AM -0700 On 10/5/20 7:46 PM, Mark Brader wrote: > born in the 1800s except for the one who """is""" still alive today. > 1. Babington, politician and writer. > 2. Kingdom, engineer. Brunel > 3. Taliaferro ("TAH-liv-er"), writer and educator. > 4. Stearns, writer. Eliot > 5. Gabriel, painter. > 6. Spencer, politician and writer. Churchill > 8. Gamaliel, politician. > 9. Kinnan, writer. > 10. Jennings, lawyer and politician. Bryant -- Dan Tilque |
| ArenEss <areness1@yahoo.com>: Oct 06 05:22PM -0500 On Sat, 3 Oct 2020 02:49:29 -0700 (PDT), Calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote: >1 Green, golden, purple, fuzzy, hardy and Arctic are varieties of which fruit? KIWI >2 Rita Wilson is married to which Oscar-winning actor? TOM HANKS >3 In number theory, a positive integer that is neither abundant nor deficient must what have unusual quality? PERFECT NUMBER >4 Named for an English city, what name is traditionally given to a sporting match between two teams in the same town, state or vicinity? classic" DERBY (In Chicago, we call it a "the crosstown classic" >5 George Bernard Shaw once humorously defined what activity as "the vertical expression of horizontal desire"? DANCING >6 According to Greek Mythology, after being spurned by Narcissus, which heart-broken nymph pined away until only her voice remained? ECHO >7 The cities of Graz and Linz are located in which European country? AUSTRIA >8 Also known as colophony and Greek pitch and denoted by E number E915, which solid form of conifer resin has a myriad of uses including being a component in ink, varnish, adhesive and soap? Due to its friction-increasing abilities it is also popular with musicians, dancers and sportspeople. ROSIN >9 Founded in 1909, which US media company owns titles including Epicurious, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Vogue? CONDE NAST >10 Which Hollywood legend (1901-1960) was married five times, including to fellow actor Carol Lombard and English socialite Sylvia Ashley? CLARK GABLE ArenEss |
| Bruce Bowler <bruce.bowler@gmail.com>: Oct 06 12:21PM On Mon, 05 Oct 2020 14:28:23 -0500, Mark Brader wrote: > Bruce Bowler: >> Canada and New Zealand > Interesting idea of "other". In the words of the immortal Homer Simpson "d'oh" |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Oct 06 08:19PM +0200 >> during the siege; Lake Onega or Ozero); Sweden (Vänern). Still true. >> 4 for Joshua and Erland (the hard way). > Should have remembered Lake Lagoda Hey, you did not even remember it long enough to spell it correctly in your comment! I'm not sure what Mark wants to say with "Lake Onega or Ozero", but "ozero" is the name of the lake. "Ozero" is simply the word for "lake" in Russian. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Oct 06 08:20PM +0200 > "Foreman" was not quite close enough to accept as almost correct, > even if it hadn't been given with a first name that was also wrong. Well, at least there is a known person by the name Milos Foreman, isn't there? I had a nagging feeling when I typed the name that something was wrong, but I could not put my finger on it. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 06 01:56PM -0500 Mark Brader: >> "Foreman" was not quite close enough to accept as almost correct, >> even if it hadn't been given with a first name that was also wrong. Erland Sommarskog: > Well, at least there is a known person by the name Milos Foreman, isn't > there? Ah, you were thinking of the movie director Milos Forman. (Originally from Czechoslovakia.) -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "X-ray of girl shows bureaucratic mentality" msb@vex.net | --Globe & Mail, Toronto, January 18, 1988 |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 06 02:24PM -0500 Mark Brader: >>> Russia (Lake Ladoga, by which Leningrad was supplied when possible >>> during the siege; Lake Onega or Ozero)... Erland Sommarskog: > I'm not sure what Mark wants to say with "Lake Onega or Ozero", but "ozero" > is the name of the lake. "Ozero" is simply the word for "lake" in Russian. I think Erland meant to say "is not the name". The actual name is Onega. But, first, a word for "lake" is actually a plausible name for a lake. Compare constructions like "Avon River" and "La Brea Tar Pits". And second, I do seem to have been wrong there. I don't know if the error was mine originally. When I posted the round in 2008, Erland commented in his answer posting that the two in Russia were named "Ladoga and, um Onega?" But when I posted the answer, I said the were Ladoga and Ozero. Now I didn't write the question originally, but I suspect that whoever did write it didn't mention those names in the answer, and I "helpfully" added them when editing the round to post here. In which case, my apologies for the error. -- Mark Brader | "To a security officer the ideal world was one where Toronto | nobody talked to anyone else... [But] of course... msb@vex.net | such a world rarely did anything worth securing | in the first place." -- Tom Clancy My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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