| bbowler <bruce.bowler@gmail.com>: May 18 03:10PM On Mon, 17 May 2021 00:32:42 -0500, Mark Brader wrote: > I did not write either of these rounds. > * Game 6, Round 4 - Entertainment - Pen Portraits nope > steer the canoe in a straight line. What is the resulting steering > stroke called? (We don't mean "stern stroke"; that's not specific > enough.) J stroke > 4. On a canoe, what is the "painter" and where is it? Tied to the bow, used to secure the canoe to the shore > 5. Most canoes have two seats and one or more narrow bars extending > across the width of the canoe to support the sides and for paddlers > to lean against. What are these bars called? Thwarts > 6. A solo canoeist usually sits a little to the side he/she is > paddling on, so that the canoe tilts to that side. What else is > unusual about a solo paddler's position in the canoe? They generally sit in what would normally be the bow, but they face the stern so end up paddling the canoe "backwards" |
| Pete Gayde <pete.gayde@gmail.com>: May 19 01:10AM -0500 Mark Brader wrote: > the mid-20th-century period. > 1. Dwight MacDonald said: "She is as wholesome as a bowl of corn > flakes and at least as sexy." Doris Day > 2. Someone said of herself: "I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck > like an ostrich, and long limp hair. You have to be good to > survive with that equipment." Bette Davis > can spell and possibly play the piano. She's a wispy, thin > little thing, but you're really in the presence of somebody when > you see that girl." Marilyn Monroe > 4. Rex Reed said: "Most of the time he sounds like he has a mouth > full of wet toilet paper." Marlon Brando > 5. Howard Hughes said: "His ears make him look like a taxicab with > both doors open." Mickey Rooney > 6. James Whale said: "His face fascinated me. I made drawings of > his head, adding sharp bony ridges where I imagined the skull > might have joined." Humphrey Bogart > 7. Harriet Van Horne said: "She would have made an exemplary prison > matron, possibly at Buchenwald. She had the requisite sadism, > paranoia, and taste for violence." Joan Crawford > But we do know that Christopher Plummer said of the same person: > "Working with her is like being hit over the head with a > Valentine card." Julie Andrews > 9. David Bowie said: "He epitomized the very thing that's so > campily respectable today -- the male hustler. He had quite a > sordid little reputation. I admire him immensely." James Dean > 10. Cecil Beaton said: "She has a face that belongs to the sea and > the wind, with large rocking-horse nostrils and teeth that you > just know bite an apple every day." Julie Andrews > tb onpx naq chg va n svefg anzr. > * Game 6, Round 6 - Sports - Canoeing > 1. Which Indian group gave us the word "canoe"? Mohawk > of canoe and exported it around the world. What city? > 9. When paddling solo into a strong headwind, where in a canoe > should you sit? Front > 10. If your canoe begins to tip, you can stabilize it with a quick > paddle motion, for example, slapping the water sharply. What is > this technique called? Pete Gayde |
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