| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jun 12 05:43PM +0200 I have come to the realisation that I unfortunately had a disconnect in my brain when I composed one of the questions. Question #6 should read: > 6. Wars of the Roses: Barnet, Northhampton, Tekwesbury, Towton, Wakefield. I will gladly accept new answers on this question from people who have already posted their entries. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 12 04:59PM -0500 Erland Sommarskog: > Question #6 should read: > > 6. Wars of the Roses: Barnet, Northhampton, Tekwesbury, Towton, Wakefield. But I'm not from *any* of those! I'll guess Towton. -- Mark Brader | "This was the ancient Greek equivalent Toronto | of 'citation needed'." msb@vex.net | --Matt Parker |
| Pete Gayde <pete.gayde@gmail.com>: Jun 12 09:14PM -0500 Erland Sommarskog wrote: > I post the results posting. > Have fun! > 1: Rivers: Amazon, Congo, Danube, Hudson, Tagus. Hudson > 2. Names: Giovanni, Hans, Ivan, James, João. Giovanni > 3: Astronomy: Ceres, Io, Ganymede, Phobos, Titan, Phobos > 4: Sports: Sue Bird, Tonya Harding, Mikaela Shiffrin, Hope Solo, > Serena Williams. Tonya Harding > 5: Coastal city climate: Agadir (Morocco), Dubai (UAE), Lima (Perù), > Singapore (Singapore), Walvis Bay (Namibia). Lima > 6. Wars of the Roses: Barnet, Nottingham, Tekwesbury, Towton, Wakefield. Barnet > 7: Medecine: Chickenpox, Covid-19, Ebola, Measels, Winter vomiting bug Winter vomiting bug > 8: Literature: Honoré de Balzac, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, > Henrik Ibsen, Bernard Shaw, Leo Tolstoy Henrik Ibsen > 9: Apostles: Andrew, John, Paul, Peter, Thomas. Paul > 10: Symbols: Refer to https://www.sommarskog.se/temp/quiz10.pdf and > select a letter a, b, c, d or e. b > 11: Food: Eggplant, Falafel, Kabanos, Quorn, Tofu Kabanos > 12: Music: Keith Emerson, Yngwie Malmsteen, Pat Metheny, Jimmy Page, > Django Reinhardt. Keith Emerson (all others guitarists) Pete Gayde |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jun 13 03:48AM > 1: Rivers: Amazon, Congo, Danube, Hudson, Tagus. Danube: mouth is not at the Atlantic or a bay leading into it > 2. Names: Giovanni, Hans, Ivan, James, Jo?o. James: not derived from John > 3: Astronomy: Ceres, Io, Ganymede, Phobos, Titan, Ceres: not a moon > 4: Sports: Sue Bird, Tonya Harding, Mikaela Shiffrin, Hope Solo, > Serena Williams. Sue Bird > 5: Coastal city climate: Agadir (Morocco), Dubai (UAE), Lima (Per?), > Singapore (Singapore), Walvis Bay (Namibia). Walvis Bay: not tropical > 6. Wars of the Roses: Barnet, Nottingham, Tekwesbury, Towton, Wakefield. Wakefield (It's "Tewkesbury," by the way.) > 7: Medecine: Chickenpox, Covid-19, Ebola, Measels, Winter vomiting bug Winter vomiting bug > 8: Literature: Honor? de Balzac, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, > Henrik Ibsen, Bernard Shaw, Leo Tolstoy Tolstoy: didn't write any plays > 9: Apostles: Andrew, John, Paul, Peter, Thomas. Paul > 10: Symbols: Refer to https://www.sommarskog.se/temp/quiz10.pdf and > select a letter a, b, c, d or e. b > 11: Food: Eggplant, Falafel, Kabanos, Quorn, Tofu Eggplant: not processed by humans > 12: Music: Keith Emerson, Yngwie Malmsteen, Pat Metheny, Jimmy Page, > Django Reinhardt. Pat Metheny -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Pete Gayde <pete.gayde@gmail.com>: Jun 12 09:06PM -0500 Mark Brader wrote: > nominees in that order; and you give us the title. > 1. 1937, Fredric March, Janet Gaynor, William Wellman. > 2. 1945, Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Leo McCarey. Going My Way; Bells of St Marys > 4. 1958, Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Brooks. > 5. 1961, Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, Robert Rossen. > 6. 1967, Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Arthur Penn. Bonnie and Clyde > 7. 1970, Ryan O'Neal, Ali MacGraw, Arthur Hiller. Love Story > 8. 1974, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, Roman Polanski. Chinatown > In each case name the author, or *any one* author if there are more > than one. > 1. "The Science of Hitting". Ted Williams > 2. "The Art of Pitching". Ryan > 3. "Tomorrow I'll be Perfect". > 4. "Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball". George Will > 5. "The Boys of Summer". Angell > 6. "The Iowa Baseball Confederacy". > 7. "The Natural". > 8. "Catch: A Major League Life". Bench; Berra > 9. "Season Ticket". > 10. "The Perfect Yankee: The Incredible Story of the Greatest Miracle > in Baseball History". Larsen Pete Gayde |
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