- RESULTS: Erland's Occasional Quiz: 12 questions - 3 Updates
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Aug 10 10:02PM +0200 This quiz is over. It proved to be quite difficult with no less than three stumpers. Well, for one man it was not difficult: Stephen spotted 9, way ahead of the rest. Well done, sir! Here is the scoreboard: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Total Stephen P 1 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 - - 1 1 9 Mark B - - - - 1 - - 1 - - 1 - 3 Dan B - 1 - - - 1 - 1 - - - - 3 Pete G - - 1 - - - - 1 - - - - 2 Dan T - - - - - 1 - - - - - - 1 > he competes for Sweden, thanks to his mother being Swedish. His elder > brother Antoine recently is active in a different sport and recently > agreed to play for the Swedish national team in. Which sport is it? Baseball. Apparently he has played for New York Mets. The notice about Antonio may be the only press the Swedish national baseball team get this year. > 2. Which artist wrote and recorded the a cappella song "Mercedes Benz"? Janis Joplin. I learnt from Wikipedia that was the last song she recorded. > 3. Himars has been in the news recently. What is it? It's an artillery system with a range of 80 km. The US have been very kind ship quite a few of them to Ukraine. > This planned city is intended to cover an area of 26 500 m². One of > the features is "The Line" planned to be 500 m high, 200 m wide and > 170 km long. In which country is this madness taking place? Saudi Arabia >5. At what sort of facility are you at, if you find yourself in a vehicle > from Cobus Industries? An airport. Cobus specialises in those buses that take you between the gate and the aircraft. I somewhat grudgingly accepted "airport bus", since I would not think of that as a "facility". On the other hand, while an airplane is involved, that answer has to count as wrong, since you are no longer in the airplane when you are in the bus. (Don't you just hate when the park the plane far away from the gate and you have to ride this this bus? I do.) >6. While certainly disputable, "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu is > often considered to be the world's first what? Novel. The answer "epic poem" gave me some troubles. I can't find any sign of that the story is written as a poem, but if Mark can give some source to support the answer, or if other entrants think this is a correct answer, I will score it as such. > 7. Which European country dates its inception to 895 A.D.? Hungary. Árpád came with his people from further east and settled on the Pannonian plain. (And, yes, Hungary has not existed uninterrupted since then.) > 8. The world of golf has experienced an upheaval lately due to the > appearance of the money-rich LIV tour, competing with the traditional > PGA tour. What does LIV stand for? 54. They play 54 holes in a competition rather than 72 on the PGA tour. >9. Tang ping was a fad(?) that arose in 2021. Explain it or just tell > what "tang ping" means. "Lying flat". It's a lifestyle and a social protested that started in China, mainly among young people, against the rat race and the 996 (work 9 to 9, 6 days a week) ideal. >10. In which country did I buy this T-shirt? > https://www.sommarskog.se/temp/tshirt.jpg Ukraine. The figure on the T-shirt is their coat of arms. Had Stephen checked out the results posting to my quiz the other week, he would know that I have indeed been to Ukraine. As a matter of fact between 2014 and 2019 I think made in total seven trips to this country. Since then first a pandemic and then a war has prevented further visits. But I hope that I will be able to return one day. > 11. Explain why C# is a Db language! C# (C sharp) and Db (D flat) is the same note in the tempered 12-note scale. (When I've tried this joke on people here in Sweden, no one has gotten it.) >12. A recently published research study suggests that if you are not able > to stand one leg for 10 seconds you run a 84 % higher risk to do what? > Be reasonably specific. Dying within ten years. The exact number of years was not required; I would have approved something like "five years" as well. But only "dying", since that risk never changes. Presumably, it is your balance problems as such that increases the death risk; rather this simple test gives a good indication of your overall health. In the test, you are supposed to have the free foot behind the standing foot, and your arms along the body. If I recall correctly, the study was published in British Medical Journal. Like Dan T, I found that I did it better standing on my left foot. Thanks to everyone for playing! |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Aug 10 08:15PM Erland Sommarskog: >> often considered to be the world's first what? > Novel. The answer "epic poem" gave me some troubles. I can't find any sign > of that the story is written as a poem, but if Mark can give some source... No, I was just guessing. >> appearance of the money-rich LIV tour, competing with the traditional >> PGA tour. What does LIV stand for? > 54. Oh! I thought I was joking! So that balances out. -- Mark Brader | "...there are lots of things that I don't remember, Toronto | but if you ask for an example, I can't remember any." msb@vex.net | --Michael Wares |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Aug 11 01:35AM > of that the story is written as a poem, but if Mark can give some source > to support the answer, or if other entrants think this is a correct answer, > I will score it as such. It is definitely not a poem. -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
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