| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Dec 29 09:10AM -0800 On 12/28/20 12:08 AM, Mark Brader wrote: > 1. Provincial highways in Ontario are classified into King's, > secondary, and tertiary highways. What """is""" the highest > King's highway number? 424 > 2. On the TTC (okay, that's Toronto Transit Commission), what is > the highest route number operating today, within 3? 999 (guess based on the hint in question 10) > 4. According to Boeing, this model of airliner is the most > successful in history. On average there """are""" 1,000 of > them in the air at any time. 747 > 5. The hostage crisis at the American embassy in Tehran began in > 1979 and lasted to the end of Jimmy Carter's presidency. > How many days was it, within 10? 444 > 6. In computers, how many distinct values can a standard 8-bit > byte represent? 256 > 7. How many pounds are there in a long hundredweight (that is, > the British hundredweight)? 112 > 8. According to the novel by Ray Bradbury, what is the ignition > temperature of book paper in degrees Fahrenheit? 451 > 10. In most of the US and Canada we have 911, but what is the common > emergency phone number now adopted by most European countries? > Hint: this answer has already come up once in this round. 999 > A1. This hero is aided by Princess Narda and the gigantic Lothar. > His comic strip, created in 1934 by Lee Falk, """still > appears""" in daily newspapers. Prince Valiant > D1. What is your job if, during a certain activity in your > typical working day, you are careful to inform the co-worker > sitting next to you when your speed has reached V-1? copilot > pnyyrq gur I-1. Jung fcrpvsvp pngrtbel bs zbqrea jrncba, > nyorvg jvgu n orggre ratvar naq n zhpu zber fbcuvfgvpngrq > pbageby flfgrz, vf zbfg fvzvyne gb gur I-1? cruise missile > * F. The Northernmost Extent > F1. In the days before the megacity, which member municipality > of Metropolitan Toronto extended the farthest north? East York > equally far, then we're going to need all of them. And the > question, of course, is: which province, or provinces, > """extends""" the farthest north? Newfoundland and Labrador -- Dan Tilque |
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