- RQFTCINO13 Game 6, Rounds 7-8: Dickens, hominids - 3 Updates
| swp <stephen.w.perry@gmail.com>: Nov 19 06:22AM -0800 On Saturday, November 19, 2022 at 12:04:07 AM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote: > We'll give you the name of a Dickens character; you tell us which > work they're from. > 1. Nell Trent. the old curiosity shop > 2. Bob Cratchit. a christmas carol > 3. John Jarndyce. bleak house > 4. Sydney Carton. a tale of two cities > 5. Wackford Squeers. nicholas nickleby > 6. Edward Murdstone. david copperfield > 7. Thomas Gradgrind. hard times > 8. Estella Havisham. great expectations > 9. Augustus Snodgrass. the pickwick papers > 10. Bill Sikes or Sykes. oliver twist > hunter himself, as well as the former chair of the National > Museums of Kenya and head of the Kenya wildlife services. > We need his first name. dick ;-) > 2. What is the name of the gorge on the southern edge of the > Serengeti Plain in Tanzania, where Mary and Louis Leakey worked > for over 30 years searching for ancient hominids? olduvai gorge [home of olduvai university per larson] > 3. What is the *nickname* of the 40% complete, 1 m tall fossil > skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis found in the Hadar region > of Ethiopia in 1974? lucy > Scientists hissing and scratching!! Name either of the > paleoanthropologists who headed the dig where <answer 3> > was found. johnson ; africa > debate about what specimens belong to the species and the actual > name (to some it goes by Australopithecus rather than Homo), > what does "habilis" mean for this species? able > 6. What important fossils did Mary Leakey discover at the Laetoli > site in Tanzania in 1978? These 3,600,000-year-old fossils > lend proof to early bipedalism. footprints? > 7. In 1890, Eugene Dubois discovered and named Pithecanthropus > erectus (later renamed Homo erectus) in the Dutch East Indies. > What is the *nickname* of his find? java man [clearly an early programmer] > nicks on the skull that look like they might have come from > an eagle's bill. The nickname refers to the region in South > Africa where it was found. bob ; sun city > from Zafarraya in Southern Spain. Knowing that exact dating is > a science with rough edges, we'll allow you 3,000 years' leeway > either way. How old, within that margin, is this Neanderthal? 30000 > 10. The Neanderthals are officially called Homo sapiens > neanderthalensis. What, then, is our own official name? homo sapiens sapiens [well, the rest of you maybe. I am homo sapiens superior] > Toronto | coming toward your side rather than from your side." > m...@vex.net | --Mike Kruger > My text in this article is in the public domain. swp |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Nov 19 02:55PM > * Game 6, Round 7 - Literature - Dickens Characters > 1. Nell Trent. The Old Curiousity Shop > 2. Bob Cratchit. A Christmas Carol > 3. John Jarndyce. Bleak House; Great Expectations > 4. Sydney Carton. A Tale of Two Cities > 5. Wackford Squeers. Martin Chuzzlewit; David Copperfield > 6. Edward Murdstone. David Copperfield; Bleak House > 7. Thomas Gradgrind. Great Expectations; Martin Chuzzlewit > 8. Estella Havisham. Bleak House > 9. Augustus Snodgrass. The Mystery of Edwin Drood; David Copperfield > 10. Bill Sikes or Sykes. Oliver Twist > hunter himself, as well as the former chair of the National > Museums of Kenya and head of the Kenya wildlife services. > We need his first name. Richard Leakey > 2. What is the name of the gorge on the southern edge of the > Serengeti Plain in Tanzania, where Mary and Louis Leakey worked > for over 30 years searching for ancient hominids? Olduvai > 3. What is the *nickname* of the 40% complete, 1 m tall fossil > skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis found in the Hadar region > of Ethiopia in 1974? Lucy > debate about what specimens belong to the species and the actual > name (to some it goes by Australopithecus rather than Homo), > what does "habilis" mean for this species? good with its hands > 6. What important fossils did Mary Leakey discover at the Laetoli > site in Tanzania in 1978? These 3,600,000-year-old fossils > lend proof to early bipedalism. footprints > 7. In 1890, Eugene Dubois discovered and named Pithecanthropus > erectus (later renamed Homo erectus) in the Dutch East Indies. > What is the *nickname* of his find? Java Man > from Zafarraya in Southern Spain. Knowing that exact dating is > a science with rough edges, we'll allow you 3,000 years' leeway > either way. How old, within that margin, is this Neanderthal? 15,000 years > 10. The Neanderthals are officially called Homo sapiens > neanderthalensis. What, then, is our own official name? Homo sapiens sapiens -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Nov 20 12:02AM -0800 On 11/18/22 21:04, Mark Brader wrote: > work they're from. > 1. Nell Trent. > 2. Bob Cratchit. A Christmas Carol > 6. Edward Murdstone. > 7. Thomas Gradgrind. > 8. Estella Havisham. Great Expectations > hunter himself, as well as the former chair of the National > Museums of Kenya and head of the Kenya wildlife services. > We need his first name. Charles > 2. What is the name of the gorge on the southern edge of the > Serengeti Plain in Tanzania, where Mary and Louis Leakey worked > for over 30 years searching for ancient hominids? Olduvai > 3. What is the *nickname* of the 40% complete, 1 m tall fossil > skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis found in the Hadar region > of Ethiopia in 1974? Lucy > Scientists hissing and scratching!! Name either of the > paleoanthropologists who headed the dig where <answer 3> > was found. Johanson > debate about what specimens belong to the species and the actual > name (to some it goes by Australopithecus rather than Homo), > what does "habilis" mean for this species? handy > 6. What important fossils did Mary Leakey discover at the Laetoli > site in Tanzania in 1978? These 3,600,000-year-old fossils > lend proof to early bipedalism. footprints > 7. In 1890, Eugene Dubois discovered and named Pithecanthropus > erectus (later renamed Homo erectus) in the Dutch East Indies. > What is the *nickname* of his find? Java Man > nicks on the skull that look like they might have come from > an eagle's bill. The nickname refers to the region in South > Africa where it was found. Dart > from Zafarraya in Southern Spain. Knowing that exact dating is > a science with rough edges, we'll allow you 3,000 years' leeway > either way. How old, within that margin, is this Neanderthal? 46,000 years > 10. The Neanderthals are officially called Homo sapiens > neanderthalensis. What, then, is our own official name? Homo sapiens sapiens -- Dan Tilque |
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