| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Dec 02 07:33PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:0PadndWDIMs5SFjCnZ2dnUU7- > from whichever page of the 2-page handout it appears on. > http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/o3/7/games.pdf > 1. Space Invaders. 12 > 2. Missile Command. 2; 10 > 3. Frogger. 7 > 4. Q*bert. 13 > 5. Galaga. 2; 10 > 6. Zaxxon. 2; 10 > 7. Berzerk. 1; 4 > 8. Pole Position. 8; 11 > 9. Joust. 5 > 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. 5 > 12. Zf. Cnp-Zna. 14 > 13. Qvt Qht. 15 > 14. Chapu-Bhg!!. 3 > 15. Pneaviny. 1 > that some answers will repeat. > 1. On which """planet""" is the length of a day most similar > to ours? Mars; Venus > 2. Which """planet"""'s orbit takes it closest of all """planets""" > to the Earth? Mars; Venus > 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? Neptune; Uranus > 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. Saturn; 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. Neptune; Uranus > shape is from an exact circle. Name any one of the three > """planets""" with the most eccentric orbits (that is, the > least circular). Neptune; Uranus Peter Gayde |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Dec 02 08:21PM +0100 > Next thing you're going to tell me that Scotland was never part of > England. :-) It was many years since I read about this, but wasn't the case for a while around year 1300? By the way, there is one part of Norway that has been part of Sweden, to wit what was then known as Trondheims Län. It lasted from 1658 to 1660. (And then there are parts of Sweden that once were in Norway.) /Erland |
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