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| Joe <joe@oxtedonline.com>: Apr 27 01:02PM +0100 On 2018-04-21 06:25:26 +0000, Joe said: It doesn't look as if there will be any more entrants so I am closing this early. Herewith the answers to RQ 290. > 1. Name this building. > https://www.dropbox.com/s/zcqkf3v54jp0fd2/Q1.jpeg?dl=0 > Hint: you will probably see a lot more of it next month. Windsor Castle. Site of the Royal Wedding next month. > 2. Freiberger, Suffolk Punch and Lokai are breeds of which animal? They are all horses. > 3. Of whom did Edward Gibbon write "The more scandalous charges were > suppressed; [Answer] was accused only of piracy, rape, sodomy, murder > and incest."? The vicar of Christ, aka The Bishop of Rome or the Pope. Specifically Pope John XXIII not to be confused with the 20th century John XXIII. Usually referred to as an Antipope, he was one of three claimants to the Papacy. 'Some infamous bishop' is not specific enough, sorry. > 4. Which singer was born Farrokh Bulsara in 1946. Freddie Mercury, lead singer with Queen. > Richard Bachman? One of these, Thinner (1984) sold 28,000 copies on the > first run. When Bachman's real name was revealed it sold ten times as > many. Stephen King > 6. Name the android portrayed by Lance Henriksen in the film Aliens. Bishop > 7. Which French actor/singer was nominated for the Academy Award for > Best Actor in 1929 for The Love Parade and again in 1930 for The Big > Pond? Maurice Chevalier > suits (red, yellow, green and black) of 14 cards each, numbered 1 to 14 > plus a [Answer] card? It was designed for those cultures, e.g. Puritan > or Mennonite, who consider a regular deck of cards sinful. Rook > 9. Which administrative region of Italy has Milan as its capital? Lombardy. This is where Lombard Banking originated. Lombard Banking is where the lender takes goods as security against the loan and charges a fee to the borrower to reclaim the goods. Pawn shops are often known as Lombards. > 10. What is the theme? Chess. The answers to clues 1 to 8 are arranged in the order in which the pieces start on the board. Rook (aka Castle) Knight (aka Horse) Bishop Queen King Bishop Knight (Chevalier in French) Rook Scores as follows: Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 Total Mark 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 6 Erland 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 Peter 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 Calvin 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 5 Marc 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Dan 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 8 Totals 3 1 0 6 3 1 3 2 4 2 Dan Blum wins by a clear margin. Congratulations and over to you for RQ 291. -- "To err, as they say, is human. To forgive is divine. To err by withholding your forgiveness until it's too late is to become divinely fucked up." ― Jonathan Tropper, The Book of Joe |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Apr 27 01:57PM > Dan Blum wins by a clear margin. Congratulations and over to you for RQ 291. Thanks! I feel better now about missing Mark's game-themed RQ while I was away. I will try to have something up by late Sunday. -- _______________________________________________________________________ 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): Apr 27 03:39PM -0500 If you expand the tabs as every 4 positions and sort the lines, the score table becomes legible as: Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 Total Dan 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 8 Mark 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 6 Calvin 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 5 Peter 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 Erland 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 Marc 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Totals 3 1 0 6 3 1 3 2 4 2 Well done, Dan Blum. -- Mark Brader | "Oh, sure, you can make anything sound sleazy if you, Toronto | you know, tell it exactly the way it happened." msb@vex.net | -- Bruce Rasmussen: "Anything But Love" |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Apr 27 06:55PM +0100 > 1 In computing, CSV files are commonly used to store data. What three > words does CSV stand for? Comma Separated Variable > 2 Which playwright's lesser-known works include 'The Night of the > Iguana' (1961) and 'The Rose Tattoo' (1951)? Tennessee Williams > 3 Jean-Claude Van Damme and Matt Battaglia have played the title > character Luc Devereaux in which film franchise? Kickboxer? > 4 Who designed the Banqueting House in London's Whitehall? Wren? > 5 Those suffering from gout have elevated levels of which acid in the > blood? Lactic?? > 6 'Tea for the Tillerman' is a 1970 album by which British > singer-songwriter? Cat Stevens (as he was then) > 7 Which element has the chemical symbol Hg? Mercury > 8 Which team sport features in the 1985 comedy film 'Teen Wolf'? Basketball > 9 Clouds', 'Lysistrata' and 'The Frogs' are plays by which playwright > (c. 446-386 BC)? Aristophanes > 10 In which US state is the Air Force facility commonly known as Area > 51 located? Nevada |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Apr 27 06:52PM +0100 >> km Darien Gap, located in which Central American country? > Panama > It's a little more complicated as Erland explained I got this one >> 8 At around 200,000 km, which country has the world's longest coastline? > Canada, eh This one too >> 9 Which Irish-American considers himself Lord of the Dance? > Michael Flatley And this one >> 10 Which crustacean provides the staple diet of the blue whale? > Krill And this one |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Apr 27 02:03PM > * Game 6, Round 7 - Sports - Winter Olympic Mascots > 3. B. Helsinki; Oslo > 5. D. Nagano > * Game 6, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - Technological Acronyms > 1. HTTP. hypertext transfer protocol > 2. USB. universal serial bus > 3. HDMI. high-density monitor interface > 4. GUI. graphical user interface > 5. LAN. local area network > 6. VPN. virtual private network > 7. RFID. radio frequency identification > 9. CPU. central processing unit > 10. RAM. random access memory -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
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