| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Oct 04 08:04PM +0200 >> MOCKBA > Don't do this again, okay? This game is conducted in English and in > ASCII or ISO 8859-1 characters. I don't see any non-ASCII characters there. Do you? (And, alas, my newsreader is not capable of the full Unicode set, so it will not stray out of Latin-1.) |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 04 03:09PM -0500 Erland Sommarskog: >>> MOCKBA Mark Brader: >> Don't do this again, okay? This game is conducted in English and in >> ASCII or ISO 8859-1 characters. Erland Sommarskog: > I don't see any non-ASCII characters there. Do you? Oh, I thought it was an attempt to use Cyrillic. If you meant Mockba, you get 0 on this question. Scores, if there are now no errors: GAME 6 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST TOPICS-> Can Ent Sci Geo Can Mis Spo Cha SIX Joshua Kreitzer 4 36 36 22 22 40 26 30 190 Dan Blum 0 31 36 14 16 40 6 12 149 Dan Tilque 0 8 28 0 8 36 6 20 106 Pete Gayde 8 32 12 4 4 40 -- -- 100 Erland Sommarskog -- -- 4 16 0 36 32 4 94 -- Mark Brader "Hacking for 8 years gives a guy a memory. Toronto If you was with a woman -- I'd've noticed." msb@vex.net PHANTOM LADY My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Pete Gayde <pete.gayde@gmail.com>: Oct 04 11:52PM -0500 Mark Brader wrote: > (*Note*: And since that's what we're talking about, only the answers > that were correct in 2011 will be accepted.) > 1. Juventus. Turin > 2. Hearts, or the Heart of Midlothian. Edinburgh > 3. Whitecaps. Vancouver > 4. Ajax ["EYE-ax"]. Amsterdam > 5. Benfica. Lisbon > 6. Boca Juniors. Buenos Aires > 7. Spartak. Moscow > 8. Olympique. Give *either one* of two possible answers. Marseilles > 9. América. Mexico City > 10. Galatasaray. Istanbul > B1. According to a Top 10 list in May 2011, this man's last > words were: "I need a house full of Navy SEALs like I need > a hole in the head". Whose? Osama bin Laden > B2. According to a list in April 2011, one of the top 10 > surprises found on this person's birth certificate was the > phrase "Notarized by Magnum P.I." Who is this referring to? Tom Selleck > * F. MBA Programs > We give the name of the MBA program; you mame the university. > F1. Asper School of Business, named after the founder of CanWest. Okanagan > F2. Richard Ivey School of Business. Okanagan Pete Gayde |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 05 12:16AM -0500 If Pete Gayde's answers had been posted on time, he would have scored 40 points on Round 9 and 4 points on Round 10 for a final score of 136, which would have placed 3rd. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "Common sense isn't any more common on Usenet msb@vex.net | than it is anywhere else." --Henry Spencer My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 05 12:22AM -0500 Mark Brader: > If Pete Gayde's answers had been posted on time, he would have scored > 40 points on Round 9 and 4 points on Round 10 for a final score of 136, > which would have placed 3rd. Oops, disregard that! Pete's answers *were* on time, but I miscounted days again, this time scoring the contest early rather than late. They are accepted, assuming that Pete didn't cheat by looking at the answers I posted. I also miscomputed Erland's total when adjusting his score before. Sorry about all that, folks. Scores, if there are *now* no errors: GAME 6 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST TOPICS-> Can Ent Sci Geo Can Mis Spo Cha SIX Joshua Kreitzer 4 36 36 22 22 40 26 30 190 Dan Blum 0 31 36 14 16 40 6 12 149 Pete Gayde 8 32 12 4 4 40 40 4 136 Dan Tilque 0 8 28 0 8 36 6 20 106 Erland Sommarskog -- -- 4 16 0 36 32 4 92 -- Mark Brader "The past keeps getting cooler! Toronto (And there's more of it every day!)" msb@vex.net --Randall Munroe My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Oct 04 08:11PM +0200 > * Game 7, Round 3 - Geography - Swiss Cities > Bitte sehen, veuillez voir, per favore consultare, per plaischair > consultar, Didn't someone say in another post that this quiz is in English? :-) > 1. Interlaken. L (And if that city does not have that name it should, given where it sits!) > 2. Luzern. H > 3. Kreuzlingen. (Hint: it's a suburb of Konstanz.) B (I thought, "isn't Konstanz in Germany, but I get now.) > 4. Montreux. K > 5. Geneva. I > 6. Bern. G > 7. Basel. A > 8. Neuchâtel. C > 9. Zürich. D > 10. Lugano. P > There were 6 decoys. Decode the rot13 if you want to try them for > fun, but for no points. > 11. Fpunssunhfra. F > 12. Puhe. M > 13. Jvagreguhe. E > 14. Fvba. C (Yeah, I have C up there too, but for reason I read Neuchâtel as entirely French name) > 15. Ynhfnaar. J > 16. Oryyvamban. O |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Oct 05 02:34AM > * Game 7, Round 2 - Entertainment - The Films of Dennis Hopper > 1. Hopper kicked off his movie career playing opposite James Dean > in what 1955 classic? On the Waterfront > 2. Hopper was twice nominated for Oscars, though he never won. > His first nomination came in 1969 for Best Original Screenplay. > For which movie? Easy Rider > as a crazed acolyte of Marlon Brando's Captain Kurtz. Hopper's > profession in the movie matched one of his real-life passions. > What was his character's profession? demolitions expert > 5. Hopper's portrayal of the sadistic Frank Booth in this 1986 > movie ranked 36th on AFI's "Top 50 Movie Villains of All Time" > list. Name the movie. Blue Velvet > 9. Hopper could always be relied on to play a good maniac. He was > back to his old nutty tricks as an urban extortionist in this > 1994 thriller about a runaway bus. Speed > * Game 7, Round 3 - Geography - Swiss Cities > 1. Interlaken. L; H > 2. Luzern. J; G > 3. Kreuzlingen. (Hint: it's a suburb of Konstanz.) F > 4. Montreux. C; K > 5. Geneva. I > 6. Bern. E; G > 7. Basel. M; N > 8. Neuch?tel. N; K > 9. Z?rich. D > 10. Lugano. O; P -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
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