Thursday, March 25, 2021

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Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Mar 24 09:25AM -0700

On 3/23/21 6:22 PM, Mark Brader wrote:
> in the sciences are often awarded jointly. What """is""" the
> largest number of people who are allowed to share one Nobel
> Prize for physics, for chemistry, or for physiology or medicine?
 
3
 
 
> 2. Within 10 years, when was the first set of Nobel Prizes awarded?
> The winners were Emil von Behring, Jean Dunant, Jacobus van't
> Hoff, Frédéric Passy, Sully Prudhomme, and Wilhelm Röntgen.
 
1900
 
> us within 2 years what year it was that they """last""" won.
> (Note that the present Ottawa Senators are not the same team
> that played under that name in the 1920s.)
 
Toronto Maple Leafs
 
> counting only actual statuettes?
 
> 7. The Science Fiction Achievement Award takes its nickname from
> the first name of an author named Gernsback. What is it?
 
Hugo
 
 
> 8. The Mystery Writers of America similarly issue an award given
> a writer's first name. What is this name?
 
Ellery
 
> about $50,000 US. Andrew Wiles collected the prize for work
> he had completed in 1994. What did he *prove*, justifying its
> traditional name by doing so?
 
the four-color theorem
 
> a vehicle that they had demonstrated in August 1977, operated
> by cyclist Bryan Allen. Either give the name of this vehicle,
> or tell what was special about it.
 
human-powered flight
 
 
> B1. What is "the holy piby"?
 
> B2. Please answer the previous question before decoding the
> rot13 for this one: Jung vf "jvfqbzjrrq"?
 
marijuana
 
 
> * C. Apple
 
> C1. The two founders of Apple Computer share a first name.
> Name *either one*.
 
Jobs
 
 
> * E. Art by Any Other Name
 
> E1. What is the more common name of the painting called
> "La Gioconda"?
 
Mona Lisa
 
 
> E2. What is the more common name of the painting called
> "Arrangement in Grey and Black Number One"?
 
Whistler's Mother
 
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Dan Tilque
Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Mar 24 08:21PM +0100

> in the sciences are often awarded jointly. What """is""" the
> largest number of people who are allowed to share one Nobel
> Prize for physics, for chemistry, or for physiology or medicine?
 
Three

> 2. Within 10 years, when was the first set of Nobel Prizes awarded?
> The winners were Emil von Behring, Jean Dunant, Jacobus van't
> Hoff, Frédéric Passy, Sully Prudhomme, and Wilhelm Röntgen.
 
1901

> us within 2 years what year it was that they """last""" won.
> (Note that the present Ottawa Senators are not the same team
> that played under that name in the 1920s.)
 
Toronto Maple Leafs

> 5. Who """is""" the only person to win 4 Oscars for acting in
> leading roles?
 
Meryl Streep

> about $50,000 US. Andrew Wiles collected the prize for work
> he had completed in 1994. What did he *prove*, justifying its
> traditional name by doing so?
 
Fermat's grand theorem
 
 
> * B. Ras Tafari Terms
 
> B2. Please answer the previous question before decoding the
> rot13 for this one: Jung vf "jvfqbzjrrq"?
 
Canabis

> * C. Apple
 
> C1. The two founders of Apple Computer share a first name.
> Name *either one*.
 
Steve Jobs
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