- QFTCIBP Game 6, Rounds 7-8: mascots and acronyms - 2 Updates
- QFTCIBP Game 6, Rounds 9-10: devel econ, kids' TV - 4 Updates
- MSBKO7 Round 2 - 8 Updates
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: May 01 02:57AM -0500 In article <Q96dnbzXKJoWM3_HnZ2dnUU7-QXNnZ2d@giganews.com>, msb@vex.net says... > * Game 6, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - Technological Acronyms > Expand each acronym to what it stands for. > 1. HTTP. hypertext transport protocol > 2. USB. universal serial bus > 3. HDMI. high definition multimedia interface > 4. GUI. graphical user-interface > 5. LAN. local-area netork > 6. VPN. virtual private network > 7. RFID. radio frequency identification > 8. NFC. no freakin clue > 9. CPU. central processing unit > 10. RAM. random-access memory -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): May 01 03:25AM -0500 If Marc Dashevsky's answers had been posted on time, he would have scored 0 points on Round 7 and 35 on Round 8. -- Mark Brader | "To a guy, an RGB value is three bits rather than bytes. Toronto | ...000 Black, 001 Blue, 010 Green, ..., 111 White." msb@vex.net | |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Apr 30 01:52PM > of a nation's residents, and is the most commonly used measure > of inequality. The value 0 expresses perfect equality; a 1 is > maximum inequality. Name the statistic. GINI coefficient > intended to help developing or smaller countries have greater > control over their economies without shutting their doors to > trade and international monetary markets. Name the economist. Keynes; Friedman > to an activity she wants to participate in or a place that > she wants to go. She is accompanied by her talking purple > backpack and a monkey companion named Boots. Dora the Explorer > in which each question was introduced with a clue that > contained cultural and geographic information delivered as > part of a sketch, making the show more than a competition. Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? > elementary school teacher, Ms. Frizzle, and her class. > They go on field trips to impossible locations, such as the > solar system, clouds, the past, and inside the human body. Magic School Bus > Segments featured children doing science-based sketches > and experiments. The show also included "Soundtrack of > Science" segments, which were parody songs and music videos. Bill Nye the Science Guy > for kids who aged out of "Sesame Street", and it contained > a more "mature" type of sketch humor to teach kids grammar > and reading skills. The Electric Company > classics like "I'm Just a Bill". The original run of the > show also had episodes covering multiplication, grammar, > and science. Schoolhouse Rock -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Apr 30 02:52PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:id6dnROnNuUNBXvHnZ2dnUU7- > intended to help developing or smaller countries have greater > control over their economies without shutting their doors to > trade and international monetary markets. Name the economist. Friedman > His main argument is that famine occurs not only from a lack > of food but also from inequalities built into mechanisms for > distributing food. Name him. Friedman > laissez-faire economics, austerity measures, and international > institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the > World Bank. Name him. Friedman > to an activity she wants to participate in or a place that > she wants to go. She is accompanied by her talking purple > backpack and a monkey companion named Boots. Dora the Explorer > in which each question was introduced with a clue that > contained cultural and geographic information delivered as > part of a sketch, making the show more than a competition. Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? > elementary school teacher, Ms. Frizzle, and her class. > They go on field trips to impossible locations, such as the > solar system, clouds, the past, and inside the human body. The Magic School Bus > the French language, was produced by CBC Television and > ran from 1959-1973. It featured a female host with a mouse > puppet named Suzie who generally spoke English. Chez Helen > classics like "I'm Just a Bill". The original run of the > show also had episodes covering multiplication, grammar, > and science. Schoolhouse Rock > through a series of songs, stories, arts, crafts, and > imagination games. The show's original co-hosts were a > child and a dog who lived in a treehouse. Mr Dressup Pete Gayde |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Apr 30 12:59PM -0700 Mark Brader wrote: > also provides a test of the extent to which market exchange > rates result in goods costing the same in different countries. > Name the index. Big Mac Index > laissez-faire economics, austerity measures, and international > institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the > World Bank. Name him. Paul Krugman > in which each question was introduced with a clue that > contained cultural and geographic information delivered as > part of a sketch, making the show more than a competition. Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego -- Dan Tilque |
| Jason Kreitzer <jk71875@gmail.com>: Apr 30 07:39PM -0700 On Monday, April 30, 2018 at 12:16:22 AM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote: > to an activity she wants to participate in or a place that > she wants to go. She is accompanied by her talking purple > backpack and a monkey companion named Boots. "Dora the Explorer" > Segments featured children doing science-based sketches > and experiments. The show also included "Soundtrack of > Science" segments, which were parody songs and music videos. "Bill Nye the Science Guy" > classics like "I'm Just a Bill". The original run of the > show also had episodes covering multiplication, grammar, > and science. "Schoolhouse Rock" |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Apr 30 01:34PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:M6-dndkPBOpNtHjHnZ2dnUU7- > gross domestic product* of Monaco, on a purchasing power > parity basis, was how many times the corresponding statistic > for Montenegro? 40 Pete Gayde |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Apr 30 02:07PM -0500 Mark Brader: > gross domestic product* of Monaco, on a purchasing power > parity basis, was how many times the corresponding statistic > for Montenegro? Monaco $115,700 US (in 2015) Montenegro $17,400 US (in 2017) Answer is 6.649425 This was interesting: the first 6 entrants all guessed low and the last 3 all guessed high. Stephen Perry 0.75 /8.866 John Masters 1.2 /5.541 Dan Tilque 2.9 /2.293 Dan Blum 3.7 /1.797 Bruce Bowler 4 /1.662 Peter Smyth 5.2 /1.279 ** CORRECT ** 6.649425 Calvin 7.77 *1.168 Joshua Kreitzer 10 *1.504 Pete Gayde 40 *6.015 Stephen Perry is eliminated!! -- Mark Brader | "The net exists to be used. It is a powerful tool msb@vex.net | and as long as people treat it as a tool and not a toy Toronto | it will prosper." --Jerry Schwarz on Usenet, 1982 My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Apr 30 02:10PM -0500 This contest is now open only to Dan Blum, Bruce Bowler, Pete Gayde, Joshua Kreitzer, John Masters, Peter Smyth, Dan Tilque, and the entrant posting as "Calvin". See the earlier postings for full rules. 3. According to latest numbers given for each country in the CIA World Factbook as of when this contest began, the *gross domestic product* (total this time, not per capita) of Germany, on a purchasing power parity basis, was how many times the corresponding statistic for the United States? (When I started the contest I drafted a list of 10 questions, 5 pairs each with 2 questions based on similar statistics, or the same statistic for different types of entity. I then randomized the whole list and the two GDP-related questions happened to come together.) -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "It's a massive 'Get out of Euclid free' card." msb@vex.net | --Matt Parker My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Apr 30 12:25PM -0700 Mark Brader wrote: > domestic product* (total this time, not per capita) of Germany, > on a purchasing power parity basis, was how many times the > corresponding statistic for the United States? 0.26 -- Dan Tilque |
| Joe <joe@oxtedonline.com>: Apr 30 08:32PM +0100 On 2018-04-30 19:10:00 +0000, Mark Brader said: > same statistic for different types of entity. I then randomized > the whole list and the two GDP-related questions happened to > come together.) 0.6 -- "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 30 08:04PM > domestic product* (total this time, not per capita) of Germany, > on a purchasing power parity basis, was how many times the > corresponding statistic for the United States? 0.33 -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Bruce Bowler <bbowler@bigelow.org>: Apr 30 08:15PM On Mon, 30 Apr 2018 14:10:00 -0500, Mark Brader wrote: > same statistic for different types of entity. I then randomized > the whole list and the two GDP-related questions happened to > come together.) 0.25 |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Apr 30 11:17PM Mark Brader wrote: > domestic product* (total this time, not per capita) of Germany, > on a purchasing power parity basis, was how many times the > corresponding statistic for the United States? 0.91 Peter Smyth |
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