Saturday, February 27, 2016

Digest for rec.games.trivia@googlegroups.com - 6 updates in 3 topics

"Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Feb 26 03:30PM +0100

On 2016-02-26 02:19, Calvin wrote:
> 1 Since 1995, Britain's Jonathan Edwards has held the world record in which athletic event?
 
Tri-step? (A bit uncertain of the name, but where you take three steps
starting on the board and then make a longjump)
 
> 2 Bruce Willis portrayed a character called David Addison in which 1980s US TV series?
> 3 Sharing its name with a bird, what is India's best-selling brand of beer?
pea cock?
 
> 4 Which British band won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981 with 'Making Your Mind Up'?
Bucks Fizz
> 5 In September 2015 who was elected leader of the British Labour Party?
Corbyn
 
> 6 New Zealand's Valerie Adams has won two Olympic gold medals in which athletic event?
> 7 Which French-born nobleman was briefly de-facto ruler of England following an 1264 revolt against King Henry III?
> 8 What does the business-related acronym IPO stand for?
Intellectual Property Ownership
 
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Björn
"Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Feb 26 06:30PM

Calvin wrote:
 
 
> 1 Since 1995, Britain's Jonathan Edwards has held the world record
> in which athletic event?
Triple Jump
> 1980s US TV series?
 
> 3 Sharing its name with a bird, what is India's best-selling brand
> of beer?
Kingfisher
> 4 Which British band won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981 with
> 'Making Your Mind Up'?
Bucks Fizz
> 5 In September 2015 who was elected leader of the British Labour
> Party?
Jeremy Corbyn
> 6 New Zealand's Valerie Adams has won two Olympic gold medals in
> which athletic event?
Shot Put
> 7 Which French-born nobleman was briefly de-facto ruler of England
> following an 1264 revolt against King Henry III?
Stephen of Blois
> 8 What does the business-related acronym IPO stand for?
Initial Public Offering
> 9 Which leader's 1945 understated assessment of WW2 was that 'the
> war situation has developed not necessarily to [country's name]
> advantage'?
Emperor Hirohito
> 10 The 2002 jukebox musical "Movin' Out" concerns youths growing up
> on Long Island in the 1960s and features the songs of which American
> singer-songwriter?
 
 
Peter Smyth
Pete <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Feb 26 10:02PM

Calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote in
 
> 1 Since 1995, Britain's Jonathan Edwards has held the world record
> in which athletic event?
 
Decathlon
 
> 2 Bruce Willis portrayed a character
> called David Addison in which 1980s US TV series?
 
Moonlighting
 
> 3 Sharing its
> name with a bird, what is India's best-selling brand of beer?
 
Kingfisher
 
> of the British Labour Party?
> 6 New Zealand's Valerie Adams has won
> two Olympic gold medals in which athletic event?
 
Archery
 
> French-born nobleman was briefly de-facto ruler of England following
> an 1264 revolt against King Henry III?
> 8 What does the business-related acronym IPO stand for?
 
Initial Public Offering
 
> 9 Which leader's 1945
> understated assessment of WW2 was that 'the war situation has
> developed not necessarily to [country's name] advantage'?
 
Stalin
 
> singer-songwriter?
 
> cheers,
> calvin
 
Pete
Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Feb 27 06:38AM


> 1 Since 1995, Britain's Jonathan Edwards has held the world record in
> which athletic event?
 
Triple Jump
 
> 2 Bruce Willis portrayed a character called David Addison in which
> 1980s US TV series?
 
Moonlighting
 
> 3 Sharing its name with a bird, what is India's best-selling brand of
> beer?
 
Kingfisher
 
> 4 Which British band won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981 with
> Making Your Mind Up'?
 
Bucks Fizz
 
> 5 In September 2015 who was elected leader of the British Labour
> Party?
 
Jeremy Corbyn
 
> 6 New Zealand's Valerie Adams has won two Olympic gold medals in which
> athletic event?
 
Shot putt
 
> 7 Which French-born nobleman was briefly de-facto ruler of England
> following an 1264 revolt against King Henry III?
 
Simon de Montfort?
 
> 8 What does the business-related acronym IPO stand for?
 
Initial public offering
 
> 9 Which leader's 1945 understated assessment of WW2 was that 'the war
> situation has developed not necessarily to [country's name]
> advantage'?
 
Hirohito
 
> 10 The 2002 jukebox musical "Movin' Out" concerns youths growing up on
> Long Island in the 1960s and features the songs of which American
> singer-songwriter?
 
Billy Joel
Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Feb 27 06:27AM

>> which animated children's TV show?
 
> Octonauts
> No one got this. See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1710177/
 
Really? We love it at our house. "Shiver me whiskers!!"
swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: Feb 26 05:41PM -0800

On Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 8:57:31 PM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:
> Mark Brader, Toronto | "The Dopeler effect: dumb ideas sound smarter
> msb@vex.net | when they come at you in a hurry."
 
> My text in this article is in the public domain.
 
aw crud. well, I lasted longer than expected. (that's what she said!) my wag for this question is ...
 
1869-06-30
 
swp
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