| swp <stephen.w.perry@gmail.com>: Jul 04 07:30AM -0700 On Thursday, July 4, 2019 at 4:21:55 AM UTC-4, Erland Sommarskog wrote: > (Since Air New Zealand and Singapore Airlines are government-owned, we can > assume they do.) Right now I have the feeling that "flag carrier" is > something which is in the eye of the beholder. I did not look on the page for "flag carrier" at all. I looked at each individual page for the airlines in the questions. Each of them, except luftansa, says that they are the "flag carrier" for their respective country. swp |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 04 09:36AM -0500 Erland Sommarskog: > governments and that Lufthansa does not get from the German government... > Right now I have the feeling that "flag carrier" is something which > is in the eye of the beholder. Well, I certainly have no expertise on this. No further comment from me. -- Mark Brader "I used to think that the name C++ Toronto was a euphemism for D-." msb@vex.net --Peter Moylan |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 05 12:05AM -0500 Erland Sommarskog [spelling corrected]: >> Charles de Gaulle Étoile, Montmartre, Oberkampf, Odéon, >> Porte de Clignancourt. > Montmartre - not a métro station in Paris. Incidentally, this question might have been even trickier if had been asked, say, 25 years earlier. Montmartre is a district ("faubourg", which originally meant a suburb) on a hill in the northern part of Paris. Depending on where you draw the boundaries of central Paris, it is somewhat outside them, but not very far outside. Now *in* central Paris, about a mile south of Montmartre, is a certain intersection of two streets: one of changes them name at the intersection from Boulevard Poissonière to Boul. Montmartre, while the other changes name from Rue du Faubourg Montmartre to just plain Rue Montmartre. Now, there is a Metro station at this intersection, and it used to be called Rue Montmartre. While this name was perfectly logical, apparently it confused enough tourists who wanted to *go* to Montmartre that eventually the RATP decided to change it. Since 1998 it has been Grands Boulevards (Great Boulevards). (By the way, the actual station nearest Montmartre is Abbesses.) -- Mark Brader | Occam's razor cuts both ways. (I've spent Toronto | most of my life waiting for a chance to msb@vex.net | say that.) --Michael Wares My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jul 05 10:15AM +0200 > which originally meant a suburb) on a hill in the northern part > of Paris. Depending on where you draw the boundaries of central > Paris, it is somewhat outside them, but not very far outside. Obviously, if I had this posted quiz 25 years ago, I would have had to figure out some other fake station. I wanted a name of a well-known location in Paris. My first idea (before I had checked any map) was Tour Eiffel, and indeed there is no station with that name, but there is Champs de Mars Tour Eiffel, so I had to look for something else. |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jul 04 04:07PM -0700 On Thursday, July 4, 2019 at 6:31:45 AM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > 2 for Calvin. > As Joshua noted, "'70s" was wrong; the show aired 1982-86. > The car's own name on it was KITT. I request the full 4 points here as my first (incorrect) answer was heavily influenced by the incorrect 1970s reference. cheers, calvin |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 04 09:43PM -0500 Mark Brader: >> 2 for Calvin. >> As Joshua noted, "'70s" was wrong; the show aired 1982-86. >> The car's own name on it was KITT. "Calvin": > I request the full 4 points here as my first (incorrect) answer was > heavily influenced by the incorrect 1970s reference. "The Rockford Files" was not a show featuring an intelligent car. Sorry, but protest denied. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "UNIX make moving not pain msb@vex.net | but almost pleasure." -- "Housewife", 1941 |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Jul 04 04:27PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:NvidnajcI5dpjYDAnZ2dnUU7- > country that officially claims it. Some questions have more than > one possible answer. > 1. Khmer. Cambodia > 2. Tagalog. Philippines > 3. Walloon. Belgium > 4. Amharic. Sri Lanka > 5. Catalan. Spain > 6. Pashto. Afghanistan > 7. Malagasy. Morocco > 8. Swahili -- any of four countries. Kenya > 9. Urdu. > 10. Among this country's 10 official languages are English, Sotho, > Tsonga, Xhosa, and Zulu. South Africa > surgical sutures? > A2. In 1979, Pakistani-born Abdus Salam won the Nobel Prize -- > in what category? Literature > * B. Islamic History > B1. What international movement started with revolts in Tunisia > in late 2010? Arab Spring > B2. In what century (by the calendar we use) was the prophet > Mohammed born? 6th; 7th > praying to the Bayt Allah (the House of God). Name either > the place or the-place-within-the-place, within Mecca, > that they are praying to. Kabbalah > C2. What country has the greatest number of Muslim citizens -- > about 13% of the religion's 1,800,000,000 worldwide > adherents? Indonesia > D1. This Liverpool FC forward, and Egyptian national, often > celebrates his goals by performing the sujud (the Muslim > prostration to God). Salah > D2. Ibtihaj Mohammed became the first American to compete in > the Olympics wearing a hijab. She chose her sport because > she could wear it without altering the uniform. What sport? Athletics > * E. Islamic Literature > E1. This man, dubbed the astronomer-poet, reformed the Seljuq > calendar, but is most famous for his "Rubaiyat". Who is he? Kayyam > E2. Kurshidbanu Natavan died in 1892. The daughter of the > Gulu-Khan, she is most famous for her ghazels or amatory > odes. Which largely Muslim country is she from? Iran; Iraq > F1. What is the name of the facial veil, worn by some Muslim > women, that leaves the eye area open? > F2. What are the two largest denominations of Islam? Shia and Sunni Pete Gayde |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jul 04 04:16PM -0700 On Thursday, July 4, 2019 at 6:32:57 AM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > ** Game 3, Round 9 - Geography - Official Languages > 1. Khmer. Cambodia > 2. Tagalog. Philippines > 3. Walloon. Belgium > 4. Amharic. Iran, Turkey > 5. Catalan. Spain, Andorra > 6. Pashto. Pakistan, Afghanistan > 7. Malagasy. > 8. Swahili -- any of four countries. Kenya > 9. Urdu. India > 10. Among this country's 10 official languages are English, Sotho, > Tsonga, Xhosa, and Zulu. RSA > such as forceps and catheters. But his greatest innovation > was the use of what wrongly-named biological material for > surgical sutures? Cat gut? > A2. In 1979, Pakistani-born Abdus Salam won the Nobel Prize -- > in what category? Physics, Chemistry > in late 2010? > B2. In what century (by the calendar we use) was the prophet > Mohammed born? 7th > C2. What country has the greatest number of Muslim citizens -- > about 13% of the religion's 1,800,000,000 worldwide > adherents? Indonesia > D1. This Liverpool FC forward, and Egyptian national, often > celebrates his goals by performing the sujud (the Muslim > prostration to God). Saha > D2. Ibtihaj Mohammed became the first American to compete in > the Olympics wearing a hijab. She chose her sport because > she could wear it without altering the uniform. What sport? Boxing, Tae Kwon Do > * F. Islamic Miscellany > F1. What is the name of the facial veil, worn by some Muslim > women, that leaves the eye area open? Hijab > F2. What are the two largest denominations of Islam? Sunni and Shia cheers, calvin |
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