- Joe's Christmas Quiz - 2 Updates
- QFTCIRS Game 6, Rounds 4,6: national parks and biographies - 1 Update
| Joe Masters <joe@joemasters.me.uk>: Dec 22 08:21PM And the theme is .... 1. What links: Humphrey Bogart; Sissy Spacek; Annie Lennox; Dido; Jimmy Buffett? 2. Charles Dickens wrote five 'Christmas Books', the first and best known being A Christmas Carol. Name any one of the other four. 3. On Christmas Eve/Christmas Day 1826 there was a riot at West point Military Academy. What caused the riot? Alternatively give the name by which the riot has come to be known. 4. Clarence Odbody (angel second class) appears in what festive film? 5. Which Christmas hit was named after a JP Donleavy novel? 6. According to the Guiness Book of Records how long in metres was the world's longest Christmas Cracker? Answer within 10%. 7. What links: Dean Martin; Charlie Chaplin; James Brown; Eartha Kitt; George Michael? Answers after Christmas. -- "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): Dec 23 04:54AM > 1. What links: Humphrey Bogart; Sissy Spacek; Annie Lennox; Dido; Jimmy > Buffett? They were all born on Christmas. > 4. Clarence Odbody (angel second class) appears in what festive film? It's a Wonderful Life > 6. According to the Guiness Book of Records how long in metres was the > world's longest Christmas Cracker? Answer within 10%. 20 > 7. What links: Dean Martin; Charlie Chaplin; James Brown; Eartha Kitt; > George Michael? They all died on Christman. -- _______________________________________________________________________ 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>: Dec 22 08:03PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:u4idnSnB0r3BHGPAnZ2dnUU7- > West, where there is no shortage of such things, something > has to be much more grand than blue water in a big hole." > Park established in 1902. Crater Lake > then skip this. A walk along dimly lit paths with rocks and > pits and pools illuminated, big F-ing deal." Park established > in 1930. Mammoth Cave > grow here. The place is huge and traffic and parking is super > painful. The last thing is once you see water come out of the > ground once, you're good." Park established 1872. Yellowstone > wasn't even different colored layers, it was brown. Unless you > are really into old west history or prehistoric mammals, don't > go here." Park established 1978, previously a National Monument. Badlands > much more dramatic, but the turnouts are small and feel dangerous > if you have young kids. The taco bar is incredibly boring." > Park established 1919. Death Valley > only have a 35% chance of seeing the mountain, 25 miles away > from the visitors center in July." Park established in 1917, > give its current name. Denali > nowhere to go I parked in a wide pull over spot with no signs and > was told by a park ranger I had to leave. I will never go back! > If I do it will be on the Canadian side." Park established 1910. Glacier > 9. "Terrible service. There was no safety net. My kids both > fell in. They didn't even have room service. Way too deep > in my opinion." Park established 1919. Hot Springs > 10. "Lack luster experience all around. You're better off > going to Hanging Lake, or just not coming to Colorado at all." > Park established 1915. Rocky Mountain > for fame, she was just trying to make the world a little better > and a little freer. But along the way, the feminist pioneer's > searing dissents and steely strength have inspired millions. Ruth Bader Ginsburg > Her royal birth gave her claim to the thrones of two nations; > her marriage to the young French dauphin promised to put a third > glorious crown on her noble head. Marie Antoinette > than the subject; few have been so persistently maligned in > the folklore of history... freed from the distortions of myth > and Royalist propaganda, he was of man of contradictions. Winston Churchill; Disraeli > moving to build the Canada he wants, the Canada a significant > proportion of Canadian voters want, or they wouldn't have > elected him three times. Justin Trudeau > substance, and how the controversial public figure intertwined > with the charismatic private man and committed father, tracing > his deep friendships, with women especially, and bitter enmities. Winston Churchill > 9. 1998. By Juan Williams, subtitled "American Revolutionary". > A definitive biography of the great lawyer and Supreme Court > justice. Thurgood Marshall > American Revolution, who rose to become President of the United > States , who was learned beyond all but a few, and regarded by > some as out of his senses. Thomas Jefferson; George Washington > After completing the route, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh whfg > nafjrerq "Znel" sbe nal dhrfgvba, lbh arrq gb tb onpx naq fcrpvsl > juvpu Znel lbh zrnag. Pete Gayde |
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