| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Dec 01 07:55PM +0100 > grounds that it had proved to be the actual name of a different place. > Thanks, but Google Maps does not know of any plaza of that name in > Buenos Aires -- other cities, yes -- so I'm giving the points. But the question also said that there was a street with the same name. > It's "Gjöa" and not the Norwegian spelling "Gjøa" because Norway > was still part of Sweden when they left. See question #A2 of > Game 2, Round 10. For crying out loud, never say that when you are in Oslo, Mark! Norway was never part of Sweden, but it was part of Sweden-Norway. It was a union where Norway ran most of their own business, but not all. And while they had - still have - a bit of problem on how the written standard of Norwegian should be, that had very little to do with Swedish legacy. (But a lot to do with Danish legacy.) I don't know much about the boat, but I note that the Swedish article in Wikipedia has it as Gjøa. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 01 07:23PM -0600 Mark Brader: >> It's "Gjöa" and not the Norwegian spelling "Gjøa" because Norway >> was still part of Sweden when they left. Erland Sommarskog: > Norway was never part of Sweden, but it was part of Sweden-Norway. It > was a union where Norway ran most of their own business, but not all. Next thing you're going to tell me that Scotland was never part of England. :-) > I don't know much about the boat, but I note that the Swedish article > in Wikipedia has it as Gjøa. It's preserved at the Fram museum in Oslo, which I visited in 1990 and again in 2005. I was surprised to find this photo on their web site: http://frammuseum.no/filarkiv/expeditions/nwp/gjoa_i_san_francisco043_large.jpg showing the spelling "Gjøa". This led me to project the slides I took on both visits (see signature quote) showing the ship. The one in 1990 also clearly shows the spelling "Gjøa", and that's the way I recorded it when I indexed the slides from that trip. On the one I shot in 2005, it's less clear which way the O is decorated (as an English-speaker might say), I think this is also "Gjøa". When I indexed those slides, I recorded it as "Gjöa", but that wasn't until some years after the trip itself. Conclusion: It was always "Gjøa", and I don't know where I got the other spelling from. Apologies to all. Of course this did not affect the scoring of the round. -- Mark Brader | "Europe contains a great many cathedrals, which were Toronto | caused by the Middle Ages, which means they are very old, msb@vex.net | so you have to take color slide photographs of them." | -- Dave Barry My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Dec 01 03:50PM > * Game 3, Round 7 - Leisure - Arcade Games > 1. Space Invaders. 12 > 2. Missile Command. 4 > 3. Frogger. 7 > 4. Q*bert. 13 > 5. Galaga. 2 > 6. Zaxxon. 6 > 7. Berzerk. 5 > 8. Pole Position. 11 > 9. Joust. 10 > 10. Donkey Kong. 9 > * Game 3, Round 8 - Science - 9 Planets from Outer Space > 1. On which """planet""" is the length of a day most similar > to ours? Mars > 2. Which """planet"""'s orbit takes it closest of all """planets""" > to the Earth? Venus > 3. Which was the first """planet""" discovered using a telescope? > By "discovered" we mean that it was recognized to be a > """planet""". Uranus > photograph the same part of the sky on different nights, then > using a Blink-Comparator to look for differences between the > two photographic plates? Pluto > 5. The four largest """planets""" in the Solar System are called > the gas giants. Name *all four*. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune > 6. There are also four """planets""" in the Solar System now known > to have rings around them. Name *any two*. Saturn and Jupiter > 7. Seven of the nine """planets""" have at least one """known""" > satellite, or moon. Name the two that do not. Mercury and Venus > """planet""" with the greatest number of """known""" satellites. > Name it. *Note*: This is a historical question, so you must > give the answer that was correct in 2003. Jupiter > anticlockwise, like the North Pole on Earth, is on the south > side of the """planet"""'s orbital plane as seen from the Sun. > Name any one of the three. Uranus > shape is from an exact circle. Name any one of the three > """planets""" with the most eccentric orbits (that is, the > least circular). Pluto -- _______________________________________________________________________ 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>: Dec 01 07:59PM +0100 > from whichever page of the 2-page handout it appears on. > http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/o3/7/games.pdf > 1. Space Invaders. 6 > 8. Pole Position. 11 > 10. Donkey Kong. 9 > * Game 3, Round 8 - Science - 9 Planets from Outer Space > 1. On which """planet""" is the length of a day most similar > to ours? Mars > 2. Which """planet"""'s orbit takes it closest of all """planets""" > to the Earth? Venus > 3. Which was the first """planet""" discovered using a telescope? > By "discovered" we mean that it was recognized to be a > """planet""". Uranus > photograph the same part of the sky on different nights, then > using a Blink-Comparator to look for differences between the > two photographic plates? Neptune > 5. The four largest """planets""" in the Solar System are called > the gas giants. Name *all four*. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune > 6. There are also four """planets""" in the Solar System now known > to have rings around them. Name *any two*. Saturn, Uranus > 7. Seven of the nine """planets""" have at least one """known""" > satellite, or moon. Name the two that do not. Mercury, Venus > """planet""" with the greatest number of """known""" satellites. > Name it. *Note*: This is a historical question, so you must > give the answer that was correct in 2003. Jupiter > anticlockwise, like the North Pole on Earth, is on the south > side of the """planet"""'s orbital plane as seen from the Sun. > Name any one of the three. Venus > shape is from an exact circle. Name any one of the three > """planets""" with the most eccentric orbits (that is, the > least circular). Neptune |
| Bruce Bowler <bruce.bowler@gmail.com>: Dec 01 07:15PM On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 23:33:24 -0600, Mark Brader wrote: > from whichever page of the 2-page handout it appears on. > http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/o3/7/games.pdf > 1. Space Invaders. 2 > 2. Missile Command. 2 > 3. Frogger. 7 > 4. Q*bert. 13 > 6. Zaxxon. > 7. Berzerk. > 8. Pole Position. 11 > 9. Joust. > 10. Donkey Kong. 9 > So there were 5 decoys. If you like, decode the rot13 and pick out > those games for fun, but for no points: > 11. Fcevag 1. 8 > 12. Zf. Cnp-Zna. 14 > 13. Qvt Qht. 15 > 14. Chapu-Bhg!!. 3 > 15. Pneaviny. 1 > some answers will repeat. > 1. On which """planet""" is the length of a day most similar > to ours? Mars > 2. Which """planet"""'s orbit takes it closest of all """planets""" > to the Earth? Mars > 3. Which was the first """planet""" discovered using a telescope? > By "discovered" we mean that it was recognized to be a """planet""". Saturn > photograph the same part of the sky on different nights, then using a > Blink-Comparator to look for differences between the two photographic > plates? Uranus, Neptune > 5. The four largest """planets""" in the Solar System are called > the gas giants. Name *all four*. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune > 6. There are also four """planets""" in the Solar System now known > to have rings around them. Name *any two*. Saturn, Uranus > 7. Seven of the nine """planets""" have at least one """known""" > satellite, or moon. Name the two that do not. Mercury, Venus > """planet""" with the greatest number of """known""" satellites. Name > it. *Note*: This is a historical question, so you must give the > answer that was correct in 2003. Jupiter > anticlockwise, like the North Pole on Earth, is on the south side of > the """planet"""'s orbital plane as seen from the Sun. Name any one > of the three. Venus > what is called eccentricity; that is, in how different their shape is > from an exact circle. Name any one of the three """planets""" with > the most eccentric orbits (that is, the least circular). Venus |
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