| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jan 26 04:15AM -0800 On 1/25/21 2:33 PM, Mark Brader wrote: > 5. "Cabbagetown" (novel). > 6. "The Alexandria Quartet" (novels). > 7. "Utopia" (novel). Thomas More > 1. Convicted of heresy in 1633 for his astronomical theories, > this scientist spent the rest of his life under house arrest. > Who was he? Galileo > among other things he advanced the theory that fire is a reaction > combining other substances with "oxygen", a name that he invented > along with "hydrogen". Then he was executed. Why? he was a royalist during the Reign of Terror > 3. This German-born British physicist served 9 years in prison, > just for telling the Soviets how to make an atom bomb! After his > release for good behavior, he moved to East Germany. Who was he? Fuchs > in 1952, and apparently committed suicide 2 years later. > What alternative sentence to incarceration had he undergone in > the meantime? chemical castration > allegedly by the Israelis. > 8. This biologist was murdered in 1985, presumably because she > spoke out against the poaching of gorillas. Name her. Dian Fossey > in 212 BC. Allegedly he was working on a diagram drawn on the > ground, and told the soldier to stop messing it up. Name the > scientist. Archimedes > 10. Although the story is disputed in some quarters, two Chinese > astronomers named Hsi and Ho were allegedly executed in or > around 2,134 BC. Why? failure to see a comet -- Dan Tilque |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jan 26 08:37PM +0100 > 1. Convicted of heresy in 1633 for his astronomical theories, > this scientist spent the rest of his life under house arrest. > Who was he? Gallileo > among other things he advanced the theory that fire is a reaction > combining other substances with "oxygen", a name that he invented > along with "hydrogen". Then he was executed. Why? The French Revolution came in the way and executed people all over the place. > until he started expressing the wrong political views. Then he > was sentenced to internal exile, and from 1979 to 1986 lived > in Gorky with severe limits on his communications. Name him. Sakharov > in 1952, and apparently committed suicide 2 years later. > What alternative sentence to incarceration had he undergone in > the meantime? Sterilisation > in 212 BC. Allegedly he was working on a diagram drawn on the > ground, and told the soldier to stop messing it up. Name the > scientist. Pythagoras |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Jan 27 01:19AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:Xu-dnZidQO3I2pL9nZ2dnUU7- > imaginary place name in their title. We'll name the book or series, > and tell you a little more about it; you name the *author*. > 1. "The Cairo Trilogy" (novels). Mahfouz > 2. "The Pisan Cantos" (poems). Pound > 3. "Goodbye to Berlin" (novel). Isherwood > 4. "Swimming to Cambodia" (memoir). Spalding Gray > 7. "Utopia" (novel). More > 8. "Europe on $5 a Day" (guidebook). Fodor > 9. "Democracy in America" (book-length essay). Alexis de Tocqueville > 1. Convicted of heresy in 1633 for his astronomical theories, > this scientist spent the rest of his life under house arrest. > Who was he? Galileo > among other things he advanced the theory that fire is a reaction > combining other substances with "oxygen", a name that he invented > along with "hydrogen". Then he was executed. Why? the French Revolution > 3. This German-born British physicist served 9 years in prison, > just for telling the Soviets how to make an atom bomb! After his > release for good behavior, he moved to East Germany. Who was he? Fuchs > until he started expressing the wrong political views. Then he > was sentenced to internal exile, and from 1979 to 1986 lived > in Gorky with severe limits on his communications. Name him. Sakharov > in 1952, and apparently committed suicide 2 years later. > What alternative sentence to incarceration had he undergone in > the meantime? chemical castration > She was murdered in 415, some say by a mob, or it might have > been a fanatical sect of monks, but by Christians in any case. > Name her. Hypatia > 8. This biologist was murdered in 1985, presumably because she > spoke out against the poaching of gorillas. Name her. Fossey > 10. Although the story is disputed in some quarters, two Chinese > astronomers named Hsi and Ho were allegedly executed in or > around 2,134 BC. Why? failing to predict an eclipse -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| Pete Gayde <pete.gayde@gmail.com>: Jan 26 07:25PM -0600 Mark Brader wrote: > 1. "The Cairo Trilogy" (novels). > 2. "The Pisan Cantos" (poems). > 3. "Goodbye to Berlin" (novel). Deighton > 6. "The Alexandria Quartet" (novels). > 7. "Utopia" (novel). > 8. "Europe on $5 a Day" (guidebook). Frommer > 1. Convicted of heresy in 1633 for his astronomical theories, > this scientist spent the rest of his life under house arrest. > Who was he? Copernicus > until he started expressing the wrong political views. Then he > was sentenced to internal exile, and from 1979 to 1986 lived > in Gorky with severe limits on his communications. Name him. Sakharov > in 1952, and apparently committed suicide 2 years later. > What alternative sentence to incarceration had he undergone in > the meantime? Chemical castration > allegedly by the Israelis. > 8. This biologist was murdered in 1985, presumably because she > spoke out against the poaching of gorillas. Name her. Fossey > 10. Although the story is disputed in some quarters, two Chinese > astronomers named Hsi and Ho were allegedly executed in or > around 2,134 BC. Why? Pete Gayde |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jan 26 08:32PM +0100 >> their record company, who insisted that they add two more words, >> producing a name that alludes to a well-known aphorism. > The Mothers of Invention. 4 for Joshua. This is kind of embarrassing, given that I've always been a big fan of Frank Zappa. I knew the story that they had to add two words, but I think I have missing out "politer form of a popular obscenity" all through the years, and it was there I lead astray. As if not obscenities itself is a lead that we are talking about Frank Zappa! |
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