- Calvin's Quiz #566 - 4 Updates
- QFTCIUA19 Game 2, Rounds 7-8: TBBT, TMTM - 1 Update
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jun 19 01:38PM > 1 In 2012 Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted for the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over Lockerbie, died in which country some three years after his humanitarian release from a Scottish prison? Libya > 2 Why was the amusement park??in??Pripyat,??Ukraine, which was scheduled to open on 1 May 1986, permanently closed four days earlier? contamination from the Chernobyl disaster > 3 In which European language are all nouns capitalised? German > 7 In mathematics, what is the value of the imaginary number i when squared? (i.e. i^2) -1 > 8 Which four-letter exclamation is the catchphrase the Sesame Street??character Sherlock Hemlock? Egad! > 9 What is the two-word Latin term for an argument that has gone on too long, literally to a sickening degree? ad nauseam > 10 Which two words complete this quote from a poem by the British author Saki, aka Hector Hugh Munro: "The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, ???"? she went -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jun 19 08:47PM +0200 > the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over Lockerbie, died in which > country some three years after his humanitarian release from a Scottish > prison? Libya > 2 Why was the amusement park in Pripyat, Ukraine, which was > scheduled to open on 1 May 1986, permanently closed four days earlier? Because they no longer had any prospective visitors. Nor did they all of a sudden have any staff - everyone had left town. I have been there. It's an eerie place. > 3 In which European language are all nouns capitalised? gERMAN. > 7 In mathematics, what is the value of the imaginary number i when > squared? (i.e. i^2) -1 > 8 Which four-letter exclamation is the catchphrase the Sesame > Street character Sherlock Hemlock? Ouch > 9 What is the two-word Latin term for an argument that has gone on > too long, literally to a sickening degree? Ad nauseum |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Jun 20 04:54AM Calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote in > for the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over Lockerbie, died in > which country some three years after his humanitarian release from a > Scottish prison? Libya > 2 Why was the amusement > park in Pripyat, Ukraine, which was scheduled to open on 1 May > 1986, permanently closed four days earlier? Chernobyl disaster > 3 In which European language are all nouns capitalised? Moscow > 4 Technically speaking, > scissors do not cut material but function using what other technique? Cleaving > to plastics. > 6 Which Shakespearean play shares its title with a > 1935 ballet by Sergei Prokofiev and a 1981 hit by Dire Straits? Romeo and Juliet > 7 > In mathematics, what is the value of the imaginary number i when > squared? (i.e. i^2) 1 > 8 Which four-letter exclamation is the > catchphrase the Sesame Street character Sherlock Hemlock? Egad > 9 What > is the two-word Latin term for an argument that has gone on too long, > literally to a sickening degree? Ad Nauseum > 10 Which two words complete this > quote from a poem by the British author Saki, aka Hector Hugh Munro: > "The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, …"? he went > Answers will not appear before 1st July. > cheers, > calvin Pete Gayde |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 20 12:06AM -0500 "Calvin": > > 3 In which European language are all nouns capitalised? Pete Gayde: > Moscow Interesting language. Pete may have been thinking of the fact that Russian has no instances of capital letters that are shaped differently from the corresponding lower-case ones the way E, G, and many others are in English. I could see this creating a false impression that Russian does not have lower-case letters at all. -- Mark Brader | "Next time I will proofread my before sending it out. ;-)" Toronto | --Kevin Rushforth msb@vex.net | "What? What!? Proofread your what??!!!" --Larry Smith My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Jun 20 04:46AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:3MCdndHuDt1JRZrAnZ2dnUU7- > character and give you a hint, and you give us the actor or actress > who played them. > 1. Leonard's mom, formerly of "The Good Wife". Baranski > 2. Sheldon's mom, an Oscar nominee for 2017. > 3. Amy's mom, a three-time Oscar nominee and one-time winner. > We're her biggest fan. Kathy Bates > 5. Penny's dad, an Oscar winner for Best Song of 1976. > 6. Amy's dad. A real-life magician who actually has a first name, > or at least, used to. (It's Raymond.) Teller > Proton". This 89-year-old comic actor won a Grammy for Album > of the Year in 1961 and has received the Mark Twain Prize for > American Humor. Bob Newhart > Delicacies on offer include snake blood and meat, turtle blood > and meat, and "deer penis wine." Until 1991, it was a legal > brothel district. Name that Asian capital city. Bangkok; Hanoi > selling jewelry, carpets, brassware, leather goods, hookahs, > ceramics, pottery -- all under ornate, grandiose passageways > spread across 60-odd streets. Name the city. Istanbul > 3. Pike Place Market -- the USA's oldest surviving market, spanning > 4 hectares and attracting 40,000 people per day. Name the city > where this waterfront tourist trap operates. Seattle > 5. La Boqueria, also known as Las Ramblas -- with 200 vendors, it is > considered one of the finest food markets in Europe. Name the > city. Barcelona > it's listed on the Victorian Heritage Register and offers seafood > and deli foods, as well as hand-crafted clothing and jewelry. > Name the city. Hint: It's not in England. Mumbai > 8. The Stanley Market and the Temple Street Night Market are two > world-famous shopping districts in this city. Name it. Hong Kong > and Saturday. Featuring produce from farms more than 100 km > away, it serves more than 250,000 customers a week during > peak season. Name the city. Pete Gayde |
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