| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 05 02:52PM -0500 Mark Brader: >>> black holes. Happily, the nearest one is nearly 13,000,000,000 >>> light-years away. What are they called? >> Quasars. 4 for Joshua and Dan Blum. Dan Tilque: > correct. A blazar is a supermassive BH one of whose jets are pointed > more or less directly at Earth, so they appear to be intrinsically the > brightest objects in the Universe. Okay, I hadn't heard of that one. 4 for Dan Tilque also. >> White dwarfs may also be be formed as supernova remnents, but they're >> planet-sized... > I've never heard of white dwarfs being a supernova remnant. I learned that they could be before neutron stars were discovered, so that might be out of date, but I did check on it before posting that comment. I don't remember what web sites I looked at, but here's one possibility: http://ircamera.as.arizona.edu/NatSci102/NatSci102/lectures/whitedwrf.htm > You may be mixing it up with Type Ia supernovas... No, I wasn't. >> They are also planet-sized. > Technically, they will "burn" their deuterium (into helium) if they're > at least .13 solar masses. Shhh. Maybe nobody will notice. :-) Scores, if there are now no errors: GAME 1 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS TOPICS-> Ent Geo Sci Spo Dan Blum 30 29 40 0 99 Joshua Kreitzer 8 12 20 28 68 Dan Tilque 4 16 40 8 68 Erland Sommarskog 0 24 20 8 52 "Calvin" -- -- 24 12 36 -- Mark Brader "I suppose that the distances from us [to the Toronto stars] vary so much that some are two or three msb@vex.net times as remote as others." -- Galileo |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jun 05 04:20AM -0700 On 6/4/19 5:28 PM, Mark Brader wrote: > 3. In the climax of *which Shakespeare* play does Tamora discover > that her two sons were baked into a pie she's been eating? > 4. Who was the mother of Queen Elizabeth I? Anne Boleyn > 5. The Koran calls this place "Um al-Qura" -- "the Mother of All > Cities". What do we call it? Babylon > 6. While Jimmy Carter was president, his mother wrote two memoirs. > She died in 1983 at the age of 85. Give her first name. Linda > 8. Candy Lightner, of Fair Oaks, California, started this > organization in 1980 after two of her children were injured and > one killed in separate auto accidents. Name the organization. Mothers Against Drunk Driving > 9. In the US, only two presidential wives had a child who was > also elected president. Barbara Bush was one. Who was the > other? First and last name, please. Abigail Adams > of them. > 1. This novel by Herman Melville was adapted into an opera of the > same title by Benjamin Britten. Name it. Moby Dick > novels? > 3. Who wrote "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"? > 4. Who wrote "The Story of Rip Van Winkle"? Washington Irving > 5. Who wrote the "Leatherstocking Tales" of frontier life, with > their hero Natty Bumppo? James Fenimore Cooper > 6. Whose most famous novel is "The Carpetbaggers"? Bret Hart > 7. Which Paris-based American writer coined the phrase "the Lost > Generation"? Ernest Hemingway -- Dan Tilque |
| Bruce Bowler <bruce.bowler@gmail.com>: Jun 05 02:18PM On Tue, 04 Jun 2019 19:28:22 -0500, Mark Brader wrote: > Do your moms proud on this round, eh? > 1. CNN announcer Anderson Cooper's mom is 95 years old and was > arguably more famous in her day than he is now. Who is she? Gloria Vanderbilt > Cities". What do we call it? > 6. While Jimmy Carter was president, his mother wrote two memoirs. > She died in 1983 at the age of 85. Give her first name. (Miss) Lilian > and one actor, Paul Jasmin, were mixed to provide the voice of this > infamous mother in a 1960 horror movie. Name the film or the > character. Psycho > 8. Candy Lightner, of Fair Oaks, California, started this > organization in 1980 after two of her children were injured and one > killed in separate auto accidents. Name the organization. MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Drivers) > 9. In the US, only two presidential wives had a child who was > also elected president. Barbara Bush was one. Who was the other? > First and last name, please. Abigail Adams > 10. This "Hollywood royalty" mother and daughter died within one > day of each other in December 2016. Name *either*. Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher > same title by Benjamin Britten. Name it. > 2. Which character features in all seven of Raymond Chandler's > novels? Philip Marlow > 3. Who wrote "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"? > 4. Who wrote "The Story of Rip Van Winkle"? Washington Irving > 5. Who wrote the "Leatherstocking Tales" of frontier life, with > their hero Natty Bumppo? James Fennimore Cooper > unfinished? > 9. Besides novals, what *other* type of writing is Paul Theroux > associated with? Screenwriter, Poet |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jun 05 08:58PM +0200 > house in Lake Weir, Florida, on 1935-01-16. Another son, Arthur, > would be killed 4 years later trying to escape from Alcatraz. > Name that loving mom. Bonnie > 4. Who was the mother of Queen Elizabeth I? Anne of Boylen > 5. The Koran calls this place "Um al-Qura" -- "the Mother of All > Cities". What do we call it? Cairo |
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