| Pete Gayde <pete.gayde@gmail.com>: Apr 13 12:13AM -0500 Mark Brader wrote: > nickname/soubriquet. > 1. This German-American and former director of the Bauhaus designed > the T-D Centre in Toronto, and the Seagram Building in New York. Gropius > 2. A Chinese-American, born in 1917, """is""" the architect of > Toronto's Commerce Court, the Louvre Pyramid in Paris, and > Place Ville Marie in Montreal. I.M. Pei > 3. A Finnish-born architect was responsible for the TWA terminal > at John F. Kennedy Airport, and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. Saarinen > main government buildings in Chandigarh, India. > 5. This exponent of the "prairie style" was the architect for the > Guggenheim Museum in New York. Frank Lloyd Wright > 6. This architect, who was also an astronomer and mathematician, > designed St. Paul's Cathedral in London. Johnson; Pepys > designed another Guggenheim Museum -- a """new""" one in Bilbao, > Spain, widely called by architects the most important building > of """this""" century. Gehry > 9. This artist and architect could take credit for Florence's > Medici Chapel, and St. Peter's in Rome. Michaelangelo > 10. A writer, politician, and diplomat designed Monticello, in > Virginia, and also the University of Virginia. Who? Thomas Jefferson > * Game 3, Round 6 - Science - Rocket Science > 1. What is the essential difference between a rocket and a jet > engine? Rockets generally travel vertically, jets horizontally > naq shry ner zvkrq gbtrgure va cbjqre be fvzvyne sbez. Gur anzr > bs gurve vairagbe vf haxabja gbqnl, fb whfg gryy hf jung pbhagel > gurl jrer vairagrq va. China > what man, who together with his key team members defected to > the Americans late in the war and ended up in a leading position > on Project Apollo? Werner von Braun > American, who was well aware of the theoretical possibility that > his work could lead to space exploration but lacked the military > funding that <answer 4> had. What was this American's name? Goddard > than gravity. Now: when a burned-out rocket or anything else > *orbiting around* a planet or star, what mathematical shape > must its orbit have? Elliptical > of an object's orbit around the Earth, and another pair of > specific terms for the high and low points of an orbit around > the Sun. Name *any one* of the four words. Apogee Pete Gayde |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Apr 12 07:10PM -0700 On 4/11/21 11:58 PM, Mark Brader wrote: > And I would have > wondered aloud how he came to the guess that the Penn Central RR was > formed from six bankrupt railroads, one of which was the Penn Central. When you merge companies, there's absolutely no requirement that the successor company take an entirely new name. In fact, taking a new name is an exception; keeping the name of one of the predecessors is most common. -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Apr 12 09:56PM -0500 Mark Brader: >> And I would have >> wondered aloud how he came to the guess that the Penn Central RR was >> formed from six bankrupt railroads, one of which was the Penn Central. Dan Tilque: > When you merge companies, there's absolutely no requirement that the > successor company take an entirely new name. True, but the question would've been worded differently if it hadn't. > In fact, taking a new name is an exception; keeping the name of one > of the predecessors is most common. In the analogous event in Canada just after World War I, the successor took a new name but with the same initials as one of its predecessors. I refer, of course, to the Canadian Northern Railway and the Canadian National Railways (now Railway since it got reprivatized). If the Canadian Northern is mentioned in a context where initials would normally be used, today it's refendered as "C.No.R." -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "Most people are other people. Their thoughts msb@vex.net | are someone else's opinions..." --Oscar Wilde My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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