- Rotating Quiz #282 - Answers and Scores - 6 Updates
- QFTCIBP Game 1, Rounds 4,6: geometry and ping-pong - 1 Update
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Feb 23 05:50AM -0800 Dan Tilque wrote: > A. Private spaceship companies. > 1. The first launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy was made recently. What > item did it put into orbit? Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster. Any answer refering to a car, as long as it's not the wrong make, will be accepted. > 2. Elon Musk is not the only billionaire with a private spaceship > company. Who else owns one? I inadvertantly gave a question with two answers. Definitely not deliberate, as in a recent RQ I posted. Either answer will be accepted. Jeff Bezos Richard Branson > 3. What is its name? Virgin Galactic Blue Origin > B. Capital cities of nations. > 4. Which is the alphabetically first capital city? Abu Dhabi, UAE > 5. Which is alphabetically last? Zagreb, Croatia > C. Largest cities by initial letter. > Name the largest city in the world that begins with each of these letters: > 6. B Beijing > 7. D Delhi > 8. I Istanbul > 9. K Karachi > 10. O Osaka > 11. P Paris > 12. R Rio de Janiero I used this list as reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_by_population Wikipedia has several lists about these things, but I feel this is the best one. Using just the city proper, for example, gets into the variable of how various countries create local governments. Scoring: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 T --------------------------------------------- Dan Blum 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 8 Peter Smyth 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 7 Erland 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 7 Mark Brader 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 6 So Dan Blum wins a close one. Congratulations. RQ #283 is yours. Thanks for playing everyone. -- Dan Tilque |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Feb 23 02:50PM > So Dan Blum wins a close one. Congratulations. RQ #283 is yours. Thanks! I'll try to have something up before Monday. -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 23 06:40PM -0600 Dan Tilque: > > B. Capital cities of nations. > > 4. Which is the alphabetically first capital city? > Abu Dhabi, UAE Dang! Who'd've thought that there'd be *two* starting with "Abu"? Well done, Dan B. -- Mark Brader, Toronto But that's what all the other msb@vex.net individualists are doing! |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 23 06:41PM -0600 Dan Tilque: > Mark Brader 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 6 Nope. I missed Istanbul. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "To great evils we submit; we resent msb@vex.net | little provocations." --William Hazlitt, 1822 |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Feb 24 01:49AM > Dan Tilque: > > Mark Brader 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 6 > Nope. I missed Istanbul. As did I, now that I look. That puts me in a tie with Peter and Erland, assuming their scores are correct. -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 23 09:57PM -0600 Dan Tilque: > > > Mark Brader 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 6 Mark Brader: > > Nope. I missed Istanbul. Dan Blum: > As did I, now that I look. Looking again, I find that I somehow looked back at Dan B.'s answer when I meant to look back at my own. Dan *did* miss Istanbul, but I *didn't*. > That puts me in a tie with Peter and > Erland, assuming their scores are correct. Agreed. I now get: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 TOTALS Erland Sommarskog 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 7 Peter Smyth 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 7 Dan Blum 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 7 Mark Brader 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 6 3 2 2 0 3 3 1 3 2 4 2 2 Sorry about the error. Dan T. didn't specify a tiebreaker criterion, just "usual rules". If the first tiebreaker is hardest questions and it's computed numerically the same way "Calvin" does it on his contests, then I make it that Dan B. has a 19, and since lower is better, he's beaten by both Peter and Erland, tied at 18. Peter was the first to post, so if that's the second tiebreaker, then it's Peter who wins. Dan T., can you please confirm or correct this, as applicable? -- Mark Brader, Toronto Carpe pecuniam! msb@vex.net --Roger L. Smith My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Feb 23 10:56PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:I7KdnUD8xehO0RPHnZ2dnUU7- > by what follows; for example, D is 1/2 times bh.) > 1. Surface area of a sphere. > 2. Area of a circle. I > 3. Volume of a sphere. K > 4. Volume of a cylinder. E > 5. Area of a triangle. D > 6. Surface area of a cylinder. > 7. Volume of a cone. F > 8. Euler's identity. L > For questions #9-10, see the diagram at the bottom of the handout. > 9. Which line on the diagram (as usual, name it by its two > endpoints) represents the sine of angle theta? OR > 10. What trig function of angle theta does line PR represent? Cosine > combines precision skills and blinding speeds when played at the > highest levels. > 1. What year was the game first played at the Olympics? 1960; 1964 > 2. The balls are usually one of two colors, in order to contrast > with the table. White is one. What is the other? Orange; Yellow > 3. Which well-known US board-games manufacturer purchased the > rights to the name "Ping-Pong", and enforced the trademark on > it during the 1920s? Milton Bradley > 4. Within 5 years, when was the International Table Tennis > Federation (ITTF) founded? 1960; 1971 > 5. Table tennis rackets are usually called paddles in North America. > What are they usually called in Britain? Racket > 6. There are two general styles of grip in table tennis. > Both of their names refer to things commonly done with the hands. > Name either grip. Handshake > championships at the Olympic Games, World Championships, and > World Cup. Jan-Ove Waldner was the first player to complete > the Grand Slam. What country is he from? Denmark; Norway > 9. In the January 2018 ITTF men's world ranking list, the top 5 > ranked players are all from either China or -- what European > nation? Denmark; Norway > two ranked players are from China and the third is from > Singapore. What other Asian country are the next three ranked > players from? Taiwan; Vietnam Pete Gayde |
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