Tuesday, November 05, 2019

Digest for rec.games.trivia@googlegroups.com - 3 updates in 1 topic

tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Nov 04 02:48PM


> 1. Q: Did you hear oxygen went on a date with potassium?
> A: Yeah, it went OK.
> Explain the pun.
 
O and K are oxygen and potassium's respective atomic symbols.
 
> 2. There are two Marvel Comics characters who, if they decided to,
> could make great "alloys". Name *both*.
 
Iron Man and Silver Surfer
 
> Hint: The correct word describes a solid that sometimes forms
> from a chemical reaction in a liquid solution. It falls out
> of solution, and collects in the bottom of the vial.
 
precipitate
 
> with his luggage. He says, "No, I'm traveling light." This joke
> actually embodies two different physics puns. One is that a
> photon is literally light that is traveling. Explain the other.
 
photons have no mass and therefore are as "light" as anything can be
 
> 9. A *blank* walks into a bar and asks the bartender how much
> a drink costs. The answer is "For you, no charge".
> What subatomic particle fills in the blank?
 
neutron
 
> 10. Two chemists go into a bar. The first one says "I think I'll
> have an H2O." The second one says "I think I'll have an H2O too"
> -- and he died. Or perhaps dyed. Explain the pun.
 
H2O2 is hydrogen peroxide, which is poisonous
 
> in 1884 in unbound sections as work continued. The full first
> edition of the dictionary was published in 1928 in 10 volumes.
> Which edition of the OED is the most current completed edition?
 
third
 
> was detailed in a popular book, "The Surgeon of Crowthorne".
> He did all of it while imprisoned as criminally insane.
> What crime had he been charged with?
 
murder
 
> for encoding images as compressed color bitmap graphics files
> which enables them to be displayed, stored, and transmitted
> between networks." The images are often animated.
 
gif
 
> person of a type characterized by brash and loutish behaviour
> and the wearing of designer-style clothes (esp. sportswear);
> usually with connotations of a low social status."
 
chav
 
> 5. In 2005 the UK word was the name of a type of logic puzzle you
> might find in a newspaper.
 
sudoku
 
> 7. This verb was the US word in 2009. You might use it when you
> delete someone from your Facebook list.
 
unfriend
 
> 10. The UK word for 2007 was a two-word phrase, defined as
> "a measure of the carbon emissions of a particular individual,
> organization, or community".
 
carbon footprint
 
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_______________________________________________________________________
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"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Bruce Bowler <bruce.bowler@gmail.com>: Nov 04 08:06PM

On Sun, 03 Nov 2019 23:48:39 -0600, Mark Brader wrote:
 
 
> 1. Q: Did you hear oxygen went on a date with potassium?
> A: Yeah, it went OK.
> Explain the pun.
 
O is Oxygen, K is potassium on the periodic table
 
> Hint: The correct word describes a solid that sometimes forms from a
> chemical reaction in a liquid solution. It falls out of solution,
> and collects in the bottom of the vial.
 
Precipitate
 
 
> 5. Organic chemistry is difficult. Those who study it have *blank*
> of trouble. Fill in the blank. Hint: The correct answer describes a
> type of organic compound with one carbon-carbon triple bond.
 
Alkyne
 
> A: An itsy-bitsy book.
> Fill in the blank. Hint: The answer he should have given is that
> it's an instrument used to cut tissue into thin slices.
 
Microtome
 
> A: The only *blank* I want to see is at the cellular level.
> Fill in the blank. Hint: It refers as the indentation created in a
> cell's surface when it is about to divide.
 
cleavage
 
> 9. A *blank* walks into a bar and asks the bartender how much
> a drink costs. The answer is "For you, no charge".
> What subatomic particle fills in the blank?
 
neutron
 
> 10. Two chemists go into a bar. The first one says "I think I'll
> have an H2O." The second one says "I think I'll have an H2O too"
> -- and he died. Or perhaps dyed. Explain the pun.
 
Hydrogen peroxide isn't good to drink
 
> in 1884 in unbound sections as work continued. The full first
> edition of the dictionary was published in 1928 in 10 volumes. Which
> edition of the OED is the most current completed edition?
 
June 2019
 
> for encoding images as compressed color bitmap graphics files which
> enables them to be displayed, stored, and transmitted between
> networks." The images are often animated.
 
GIF
 
 
> 6. Despite its definition being "the series of radical political
> and cultural upheavals occurring among students and young people in
> the 1960s", this was chosen as word of the year in 2017.
 
sit in
 
> 7. This verb was the US word in 2009. You might use it when you
> delete someone from your Facebook list.
 
unfriend
 
> 8. The word for 2015 wasn't really a word at all.
 
emoji
 
> not until Sarah Palin made it up. In her defense she claimed,
> "Shakespeare liked to coin new words too." The "New Oxford American
> Dictionary" defines it as "suggesting a general sense of 'reject'".
 
Refudiate
 
> 10. The UK word for 2007 was a two-word phrase, defined as
> "a measure of the carbon emissions of a particular individual,
> organization, or community".
 
carbon footprint
Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Nov 05 02:05AM

msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:sZ6dnbcxd8IqJiLAnZ2dnUU7-
 
> 1. Q: Did you hear oxygen went on a date with potassium?
> A: Yeah, it went OK.
> Explain the pun.
 
O and K are the chemical symbols for oxygen and potassium, respectively.
 
> Hint: The correct word describes a solid that sometimes forms
> from a chemical reaction in a liquid solution. It falls out
> of solution, and collects in the bottom of the vial.
 
Precipitate
 
> with his luggage. He says, "No, I'm traveling light." This joke
> actually embodies two different physics puns. One is that a
> photon is literally light that is traveling. Explain the other.
 
A photon has no mass
 
 
> 10. Two chemists go into a bar. The first one says "I think I'll
> have an H2O." The second one says "I think I'll have an H2O too"
> -- and he died. Or perhaps dyed. Explain the pun.
 
H2O2 is hydrogen peroxide. It is poisonous and is used in dying hair
 
> in 1884 in unbound sections as work continued. The full first
> edition of the dictionary was published in 1928 in 10 volumes.
> Which edition of the OED is the most current completed edition?
 
15; 16
 
> for encoding images as compressed color bitmap graphics files
> which enables them to be displayed, stored, and transmitted
> between networks." The images are often animated.
 
GIF
 
> usually with connotations of a low social status."
 
> 5. In 2005 the UK word was the name of a type of logic puzzle you
> might find in a newspaper.
 
Sudoku
 
> in the 1960s", this was chosen as word of the year in 2017.
 
> 7. This verb was the US word in 2009. You might use it when you
> delete someone from your Facebook list.
 
Unfriend
 
 
> 10. The UK word for 2007 was a two-word phrase, defined as
> "a measure of the carbon emissions of a particular individual,
> organization, or community".
 
Pete Gayde
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Monday, November 04, 2019

Digest for rec.games.trivia@googlegroups.com - 4 updates in 2 topics

msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 03 11:48PM -0600

These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-09-23,
and should be interpreted accordingly.
 
On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
the correct answers in about 3 days.
 
All questions were written by members of the Red Smarties and are
used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have
been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information see
my 2019-10-16 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
 
 
* Game 2, Round 7 - Science - Science Puns
 
1. Q: Did you hear oxygen went on a date with potassium?
A: Yeah, it went OK.
Explain the pun.
 
2. There are two Marvel Comics characters who, if they decided to,
could make great "alloys". Name *both*.
 
3. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the *what*?.
Hint: The correct word describes a solid that sometimes forms
from a chemical reaction in a liquid solution. It falls out
of solution, and collects in the bottom of the vial.
 
4. A photon checks into a hotel and is asked if he needs any help
with his luggage. He says, "No, I'm traveling light." This joke
actually embodies two different physics puns. One is that a
photon is literally light that is traveling. Explain the other.
 
5. Organic chemistry is difficult. Those who study it have *blank*
of trouble. Fill in the blank. Hint: The correct answer
describes a type of organic compound with one carbon-carbon
triple bond.
 
6. Q: How did the English major define *blank* on his biology exam?
A: An itsy-bitsy book.
Fill in the blank. Hint: The answer he should have given is
that it's an instrument used to cut tissue into thin slices.
 
7. Considering what Gregor Mendel experimented on, what must he
have exclaimed when he founded genetics?
 
8. Q: What did the prudish biologist say?
A: The only *blank* I want to see is at the cellular level.
Fill in the blank. Hint: It refers as the indentation created
in a cell's surface when it is about to divide.
 
9. A *blank* walks into a bar and asks the bartender how much
a drink costs. The answer is "For you, no charge".
What subatomic particle fills in the blank?
 
10. Two chemists go into a bar. The first one says "I think I'll
have an H2O." The second one says "I think I'll have an H2O too"
-- and he died. Or perhaps dyed. Explain the pun.
 
 
* Game 2, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - The Oxford English Dictionary
 
1. Work began on the OED in 1857, and publication first began
in 1884 in unbound sections as work continued. The full first
edition of the dictionary was published in 1928 in 10 volumes.
Which edition of the OED is the most current completed edition?
 
2. W.C. Minor, an American army surgeon in the civil war, was one
of the largest contributors of quotations to the OED. His work
was detailed in a popular book, "The Surgeon of Crowthorne".
He did all of it while imprisoned as criminally insane.
What crime had he been charged with?
 
The Oxford Dictionaries group actually produces many other
dictionaries besides the OED. Also, each year they announce a
"word of the year", or sometimes separate words of the year for
the UK and the US. The remaining questions are about these words:
in each case name them. If they are only US or UK words of the
year, we will mention it explicitly.
 
3. The 2012 US word of the year is defined as "a standard format
for encoding images as compressed color bitmap graphics files
which enables them to be displayed, stored, and transmitted
between networks." The images are often animated.
 
4. The 2004 word was British slang, derogatory. It means "a young
person of a type characterized by brash and loutish behaviour
and the wearing of designer-style clothes (esp. sportswear);
usually with connotations of a low social status."
 
5. In 2005 the UK word was the name of a type of logic puzzle you
might find in a newspaper.
 
6. Despite its definition being "the series of radical political
and cultural upheavals occurring among students and young people
in the 1960s", this was chosen as word of the year in 2017.
 
7. This verb was the US word in 2009. You might use it when you
delete someone from your Facebook list.
 
8. The word for 2015 wasn't really a word at all.
 
9. The US word for 2010 also wasn't a word at all -- at least,
not until Sarah Palin made it up. In her defense she claimed,
"Shakespeare liked to coin new words too." The "New Oxford
American Dictionary" defines it as "suggesting a general sense of
'reject'".
 
10. The UK word for 2007 was a two-word phrase, defined as
"a measure of the carbon emissions of a particular individual,
organization, or community".
 
--
Mark Brader | "This is a moral that runs at large;
Toronto | Take it. -- You're welcome. -- No extra charge."
msb@vex.net | -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
 
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Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Nov 04 06:59AM +0100


> 1. Q: Did you hear oxygen went on a date with potassium?
> A: Yeah, it went OK.
> Explain the pun.
 
O = Oxygen, K = Potaissum
 
> 7. Considering what Gregor Mendel experimented on, what must he
> have exclaimed when he founded genetics?
 
Peas, brother

> 9. A *blank* walks into a bar and asks the bartender how much
> a drink costs. The answer is "For you, no charge".
> What subatomic particle fills in the blank?
 
Neutron

> 10. Two chemists go into a bar. The first one says "I think I'll
> have an H2O." The second one says "I think I'll have an H2O too"
> -- and he died. Or perhaps dyed. Explain the pun.
 
Hydrongenperoxide, H2O2, is not good for your health. But it can make
you blonder.

> for encoding images as compressed color bitmap graphics files
> which enables them to be displayed, stored, and transmitted
> between networks." The images are often animated.
 
GIF

> person of a type characterized by brash and loutish behaviour
> and the wearing of designer-style clothes (esp. sportswear);
> usually with connotations of a low social status."
 
Brat
 
> 5. In 2005 the UK word was the name of a type of logic puzzle you
> might find in a newspaper.
 
Sodoku

> 8. The word for 2015 wasn't really a word at all.
 
A smiley
Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Nov 04 01:59AM -0800

On 11/3/19 9:48 PM, Mark Brader wrote:
 
> 1. Q: Did you hear oxygen went on a date with potassium?
> A: Yeah, it went OK.
> Explain the pun.
 
element symbols: O = oxygen, K = potassium
 
 
> 2. There are two Marvel Comics characters who, if they decided to,
> could make great "alloys". Name *both*.
 
Iron Man and Silver Surfer
 
> Hint: The correct word describes a solid that sometimes forms
> from a chemical reaction in a liquid solution. It falls out
> of solution, and collects in the bottom of the vial.
 
precipitate
 
> with his luggage. He says, "No, I'm traveling light." This joke
> actually embodies two different physics puns. One is that a
> photon is literally light that is traveling. Explain the other.
 
photons are massless, so they're not hauling along any baggage
 
> A: An itsy-bitsy book.
> Fill in the blank. Hint: The answer he should have given is
> that it's an instrument used to cut tissue into thin slices.
 
microtome
 
 
> 7. Considering what Gregor Mendel experimented on, what must he
> have exclaimed when he founded genetics?
 
peas on Earth
 
> A: The only *blank* I want to see is at the cellular level.
> Fill in the blank. Hint: It refers as the indentation created
> in a cell's surface when it is about to divide.
 
cleavage
 
 
> 9. A *blank* walks into a bar and asks the bartender how much
> a drink costs. The answer is "For you, no charge".
> What subatomic particle fills in the blank?
 
neutron
 
 
> 10. Two chemists go into a bar. The first one says "I think I'll
> have an H2O." The second one says "I think I'll have an H2O too"
> -- and he died. Or perhaps dyed. Explain the pun.
 
"H2O too" = H2O2 hydrogen peroxide, a poison, also used in dying cloth
 
> in 1884 in unbound sections as work continued. The full first
> edition of the dictionary was published in 1928 in 10 volumes.
> Which edition of the OED is the most current completed edition?
 
3rd
 
> for encoding images as compressed color bitmap graphics files
> which enables them to be displayed, stored, and transmitted
> between networks." The images are often animated.
 
GIF
 
> usually with connotations of a low social status."
 
> 5. In 2005 the UK word was the name of a type of logic puzzle you
> might find in a newspaper.
 
sudoku
 
 
> 6. Despite its definition being "the series of radical political
> and cultural upheavals occurring among students and young people
> in the 1960s", this was chosen as word of the year in 2017.
 
counterculture ??
 
 
> 7. This verb was the US word in 2009. You might use it when you
> delete someone from your Facebook list.
 
unfriend
 
 
> 10. The UK word for 2007 was a two-word phrase, defined as
> "a measure of the carbon emissions of a particular individual,
> organization, or community".
 
carbon footprint
 
--
Dan Tilque
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 03 11:46PM -0600

Mark Brader:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-09-23,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... I will reveal the correct
> answers in about 3 days.
 
Er, sorry about that.

 
> In each case, name the movie. Note: casts may be voice casts.
> If a movie is part of a series, the *specific title* is required.
 
> 1. 1993, Tom Hanks, Antonio Banderas, Denzel Washington.
 
"Philadelphia". 4 for Dan Blum.
 
> 2. 1999, Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack.
 
"Toy Story 2" (voice cast). 4 for Dan Blum.
 
> 3. 1990, Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith.
 
"The Bonfire of the Vanities". 4 for Calvin.
 
> 4. 1996, Tom Hanks, Liv Tyler, Steve Zahn.
 
"That Thing You Do".
 
> 5. 1984, Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy.
 
"Splash". 4 for Dan Blum and Calvin.
 
> 6. 1998, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Parker Posey.
 
"You've Got Mail". 3 for Dan Blum. 2 for Calvin.
 
> 7. 1989, Tom Hanks, Beasley.
 
"Turner & Hooch". 4 for Calvin.
 
> 8. 2002, Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christopher Walken.
 
"Catch Me If You Can". 4 for Dan Blum.
 
> 9. 2013, Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Faysal Ahmed.
 
"Captain Phillips". 4 for Dan Blum.
 
> 10. 2006, Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen.
 
"The Da Vinci Code".
 
 
> "The World Set Free". The novel is said to have been partially
> responsible for motivating Hungarian physicist Leó Szilárd,
> who was an acquaintance of Wells, to succeed in his work.
 
Atomic bomb. 4 for Dan Blum.
 
Whereas the real-world "atomic bomb" differs from conventional ones
primarily in that it produces a gigantic explosion from a relatively
small device, Wells's "atomic bomb" (which was also relatively small)
differed in that, once the explosion started, the thing *went on*
producing explosive force continuously, forever, though with intensity
that gradually diminished just as real-life radioactivity does.
Instead of a wasteland, the target was turned into something like
an erupting volcano.
 
> goes to J.J. Astor's 1894 novel "A Journey in Other Worlds",
> a futuristic tale set in the year 2000, but Jules Verne also
> predicted it in an 1880 issue of the "Pall Mall Gazette".
 
Spaceship. 4 for Dan Tilque.
 
> 3. Popularized by various authors, but especially by Isaac Asimov,
> this expression derives from a Czech expression for "forced
> labor".
 
Robot. (It was, of course, Karel Capek who originally invented the
word, in Czech.) 4 for everyone -- Dan Blum, Erland, Dan Tilque,
and Calvin.
 
In fact, "Jeopardy"! mentioned Capek in connection with robots on
its 2019-10-15 episode. In the category "Automatons", for $400:
"CZECH WRITER KAREL CAPEK WROTE THE PLAY 'R.U.R.', SHORT FOR
'ROSSUM'S UNIVERSAL' THESE AUTOMATA". It was answered correctly
on the first try.
 
> 4. This expression is a trademarked term, named after the children's
> book "Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle". In practice the
> expression is often used generically for any device of its kind.
 
Taser. 4 for Dan Blum and Dan Tilque.
 
> of niche subculture interests is said to have been coined in
> 1940 by Russ Chauvenet, who was a major force in the beginning
> of sci-fi fandom.
 
Fanzine. (Also accepting the short form "zine", although it's not
a portmanteau.) 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, and Calvin.
 
> popularized by "Neuromancer" author William Gibson. It comes
> from the earlier expression "cybernetics", and describes what
> we would later also call "the Web" or "the Internet".
 
Cyberspace. 4 for Dan Blum and Dan Tilque.
 
> whose title is very similar to the expression. In the story,
> people use teleportation booths to rapidly join large gatherings
> and riots as they happen. We need the expression used today.
 
Flash mob. (The story is "Flash Crowd".) 4 for Dan Blum, Dan Tilque,
and Calvin.
 
> 8. The earliest use recorded so far of this expression has been
> found in E.E. Smith's "Galactic Patrol" from 1937, meaning to
> launch off a planet.
 
Blast-off. 4 for Dan Blum.
 
> University YMCA. Originally he meant the expression to refer
> to a compartmentalization of morality. Now it refers to a realm
> consisting of concurrent or parallel universes or realities.
 
Multiverse. 4 for Dan Blum and Dan Tilque.
 
> and water from mineral oxides, releasing absorptive gases to
> trap the feeble heat of the far-off Sun." Name the expression
> for this sort of thing.
 
Terraforming. 4 for Dan Blum and Dan Tilque.
 
Making a planet habitable for humans? Hmm, good idea. The way
things are going, in not too many years we'll have to start trying
it on the Earth.
 
 
Scores, if there are no errors:
 
GAME 2 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS
TOPICS-> His Can Ent Lit
Dan Blum 39 0 23 36 98
Dan Tilque 36 24 0 32 92
"Calvin" 19 0 14 12 45
Joshua Kreitzer 40 0 -- -- 40
Erland Sommarskog 24 4 0 4 32
Pete Gayde 28 0 -- -- 28
Bruce Bowler 24 4 -- -- 28
 
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Toronto you go to bed. So go to bed before you do
msb@vex.net the last thing." -- David Jacques Way
 
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Saturday, November 02, 2019

Digest for rec.games.trivia@googlegroups.com - 8 updates in 3 topics

Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Oct 28 07:13AM

msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:y_2dnbjOl_eyDyvAnZ2dnUU7-
> wagons and head out on *which* famous wagon trail? Meanwhile,
> across the Atlantic, Alexander Bain invented the first fax
> machine.
 
Oregon Trail
 
> Egypt's Old Kingdom, a continent away these extinct mammals
> thrived on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia.
> Which mammals?
 
woolly mammoth

> 3. What was modern-day Turkey known as, when the Chicago Cubs won
> their last World Series prior to 2016?
 
Ottoman Empire
 
> 4. While Jack the Ripper was leaving bodies around London, this
> entertainment company was founded in Japan, although they then
> only made playing cards. Name the company.
 
Nintendo
 
> New Mexico government for centuries, beginning in 1610, or
> 10 years before the landing of the Puritans at *which East
> Coast site*? (Two words required.)
 
Plymouth Rock

> Wars" movie in theatres. That same year, Hamida Djandoubi
> was killed in France, the last person in Western Europe to die
> this way. Which way?
 
guillotine
 
> 7. The same year that Commander David Scott was driving a moon buggy
> around during Apollo 15, Switzerland changed their constitution
> to provide which human right?
 
women's suffrage
 
> 8. While the Brooklyn Bridge was under construction (and 6 years
> from completion), a combined force of Lakota, Northern Cheyenne,
> and Arapaho tribes won which decisive battle?
 
Little Bighorn
 
> 9. When Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed, this inventor was alive
> to see it (although his brother was not) and was asked whether
> he had any regrets about his invention. Who?
 
Wright

> the foundation of this empire, and continued to teach during its
> rise to prominence and eventual total destruction by colonizers.
> Which empire?
 
Inca; Aztec
 
> * Game 2, Round 3 - Canadiana Geography - Canadian Rivers
 
> Canada has over 2,000,000 lakes and rivers, and 20% of the world's
> fresh water. Here are questions about some of the rivers.
 
I am going to skip these.
 
--
Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82@hotmail.com
Bruce Bowler <bruce.bowler@gmail.com>: Oct 28 03:25PM

On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 02:01:03 -0500, Mark Brader wrote:
 
 
> 1. In 1843, the Great Migration saw 1,000 emigrants pack up their
> wagons and head out on *which* famous wagon trail? Meanwhile, across
> the Atlantic, Alexander Bain invented the first fax machine.
 
Oregon Trail
 
> Egypt's Old Kingdom, a continent away these extinct mammals thrived
> on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia.
> Which mammals?
 
Mammoth
 
 
> 4. While Jack the Ripper was leaving bodies around London, this
> entertainment company was founded in Japan, although they then only
> made playing cards. Name the company.
 
Sony
 
> New Mexico government for centuries, beginning in 1610, or 10 years
> before the landing of the Puritans at *which East Coast site*? (Two
> words required.)
 
Plymouth Rock
 
> Wars" movie in theatres. That same year, Hamida Djandoubi was killed
> in France, the last person in Western Europe to die this way. Which
> way?
 
Guillotine
 
 
> 8. While the Brooklyn Bridge was under construction (and 6 years
> from completion), a combined force of Lakota, Northern Cheyenne,
> and Arapaho tribes won which decisive battle?
 
Little Bighorn
 
> 9. When Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed, this inventor was alive
> to see it (although his brother was not) and was asked whether he had
> any regrets about his invention. Who?
 
Orville Wright
 
> the foundation of this empire, and continued to teach during its rise
> to prominence and eventual total destruction by colonizers.
> Which empire?
 
Ottoman
 
 
> 1. This river is 4,241 km long. Its source is Thutade Lake and
> its mouth is in the Beaufort Sea. It is completely within the
> Northwest Territories. Name the river.
 
McKenzie
 
 
> 5. This river is 1,271 km long. Its source is in the Laurentian
> Mountains, and its mouth is in the St. Lawrence River. It flows in
> Ontario and Quebec. Name the river.
 
Niagara
 
Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Oct 26 01:48AM

msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:cvqdnTWoYtIRAC_AnZ2dnUU7-
 
> ** Game 1, Round 9 - Sports - Tennis
 
> 1. Tennis is played on a rectangular court. Within 10% of the
> correct answer, How long is a regulation court?
 
40 feet
 
> 2. And, again within 10%, how wide is it? You may answer for
> either singles or doubles, but must specify which question you
> are answering.
 
25 feet (singles)

> without touching it into the diagonally opposite service box.
> What is it called if the ball touches the net but lands in the
> correct service box, forcing the person serving to re-serve?
 
let
 
> 4. What is a service called that travels over the net without
> touching it, lands in the diagonally opposite service box,
> and is not returned by the opponent?
 
ace

> 5. In tennis scoring, what is the official term for a score of 0?
 
love
 
> 6. In tennis scoring, what official term is used if the score is
> tied at 40-40?
 
deuce

> 7. Which term refers to *any* situation where the player who is
> leading needs only one more point to win the game?
 
game point
 
> 8. If the leading player is at <answer 7> and is *not* the player
> who is serving, what other team also describes this situation?
 
break point

> 9. Name any Grand Slam tennis tournament played on grass.
 
Wimbledon
 
> 10. Name any Grand Slam tennis tournament played on clay.
 
French Open

> to recall the loss of approximately 700 soldiers from the
> 1st Newfoundland Regiment on July 1, 1916. In what battle
> were they lost?
 
Vimy

 
> B1. What is the name of the mountain range that runs through
> the western third of the island of Newfoundland, and is
> part of the Appalachian system.
 
Laurentians

--
Joshua Kreitzer
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Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Oct 28 01:20PM

msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:cvqdnTWoYtIRAC_AnZ2dnUU7-
> the game.
 
> 1. Tennis is played on a rectangular court. Within 10% of the
> correct answer, How long is a regulation court?
 
50 feet; 60 feet
 
 
> 2. And, again within 10%, how wide is it? You may answer for
> either singles or doubles, but must specify which question you
> are answering.
 
30 feet (doubles)
 
> without touching it into the diagonally opposite service box.
> What is it called if the ball touches the net but lands in the
> correct service box, forcing the person serving to re-serve?
 
Let
 
 
> 4. What is a service called that travels over the net without
> touching it, lands in the diagonally opposite service box,
> and is not returned by the opponent?
 
Ace
 
 
> 5. In tennis scoring, what is the official term for a score of 0?
 
Love
 
 
> 6. In tennis scoring, what official term is used if the score is
> tied at 40-40?
 
Deuce
 
 
> 7. Which term refers to *any* situation where the player who is
> leading needs only one more point to win the game?
 
Ad in
 
 
> 8. If the leading player is at <answer 7> and is *not* the player
> who is serving, what other team also describes this situation?
 
Ad out
 
 
> 9. Name any Grand Slam tennis tournament played on grass.
 
Wimbledon
 
 
> 10. Name any Grand Slam tennis tournament played on clay.
 
French Open
 
 
> * F. Science
 
> F1. What type of whale is most commonly found in Newfoundland
> waters?
 
Humpback; Blue
 
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> fcrpvrf Preihf pnanqrafvf nf va Abegu Nzrevpna hfntr, be "zbbfr"
> vs lbh zrnag gur fcrpvrf "Nyprf nyprf" nf va Oevgvfu hfntr.
 
Pete Gayde
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 01 11:21PM -0500

Mark Brader:
 
> 1. A specific group of climate protesters shut down bridges in
> Halifax, Montreal, Edmonton, and Vancouver, as well as the
> Bloor Viaduct in Toronto. By what name is the group known?
 
Extinction Rebellion. 4 for Erland and Dan Tilque.
 
> 2. In a surprise move, two people were named co-winners of the 2019
> Booker Prize. Margaret Atwood was one of them: for what book
> did she win?
 
"The Testaments".
 
> 3. And name *either* the author or the book that was the other
> co-winner.
 
"Girl, Woman, Other" by Bernardine Evaristo.
 
After some previous cases where the people organizing the prize had
named co-winners, they made it an official rule that they would never
do that again, so this was a surprise. They basically explained it
by saying they really had to, because two candidates were equally
deserving and any other decision would be unfair.
 
> 4. Although she was an early favorite for the Nobel Prize for
> Literature, Margaret Atwood did not win that too. Name the
> Austrian who did.
 
Peter Handke. 4 for Erland.
 
> and Didier Queloz, for their contributions to understanding
> the evolution of the universe and Earth's place in the cosmos.
> Name the Canadian-born scientist.
 
James Peebles.
 
> 6. Christina Koch and Jessica Meir did something Friday that was
> an international first. What was it?
 
First space walk by multiple women together, and also the first by
only women. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Pete.
 
> 7. For the first time since 1981, what were Iranian women allowed
> to do on October 10?
 
Attend (I accepted "see") a soccer game. (Iran vs. Cambodia.)
4 for Erland and Pete.
 
> 8. In CONCACAF action last week, the Team Canada men's team scored
> a landmark victory to move a step closer to making it to the
> 2020 World Cup. Who did they beat for the first time since 1985?
 
USA. 4 for Erland and Pete.
 
> 9. This stage, film, and television actor died this week at age 97.
> He is possibly best known for his role as Walter Findlay on
> the TV series "Maude". Name him.
 
Bill Macy. (Not the same guy as William H. Macy.) 4 for Joshua.
 
> 10. A founding member of the band Cream, this drummer died October 6
> at age 80. Name him.
 
Peter Edwards "Ginger" Baker. 4 for Erland, Dan Blum, Joshua,
and Pete.
 
 
> * Game 6 (2019-10-28), Round 1 - Current Events
 
Sorry, I should have marked that as "Canadiana Current Events".
At the original game our QM forgot to mention it, or I didn't
hear him say it, and I didn't notice it was all Canadiana.
 
> Percentages are rounded to the nearest 0.1 percentage point.
 
> 1. Trudeau's Liberals won a minority, ending up with 157 seats.
> How many seats did the second-place Conservatives get, exactly?
 
121. 4 for Erland.
 
> 2. However, the Conservatives won the popular vote, with 34.4%.
> What percentage of the popular vote did the Liberals have,
> within 1 percentage point?
 
33.1% (accepting 32.1%-34.1%). 4 for Erland, Joshua, and Dan Tilque.
 
> 3. Which party has third-party status in Parliament, in spite of
> taking only 7.7% of the popular vote?
 
Bloc Québécois (accepting BQ). 4 for Erland and Joshua.
 
> 4. Give the name of the only independent elected, in the riding
> of Vancouver Granville.
 
(Former Liberal) Jody Wilson-Raybould.
 
 
> 6. Tuesday, it was announced that this party anthem by Maestro
> Fresh Wes will be the first rap song to be inducted into the
> Canadian Songwriters Hall of Game. Name the song.
 
"Let Your Backbone Slide".
 
> a portrait of this man, the founder of Manitoba, on the 175th
> anniversary of his birth. It is also the first coin to be
> engraved in Michif, the official language of his nation. Who?
 
Louis Riel.
 
Without checking, I suspect this is the first case of the government
commemorating in this way a person they executed for treason.
 
> 8. Sierra Robinson and 14 other youths filed a lawsuit against
> the federal government Friday for individual injuries, asking
> the federal court to compel the Canadian government to do what?
 
Develop a climate recovery plan using the best available science.
(Anything along these lines was acceptable.) 4 for Dan Tilque.
 
> 9. Which New York Knicks rookie set a record for the most points
> by a Canadian in his NBA debut last week?
 
R.J. Barrett.
 
> 10. Eight people were inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of
> Fame last Wednesday. Name *any one* of them.
 
Athletes Alex Bilodeau (freestyle skiing), Colette Bourgonje
(wheelchair racing and para-Nordic skiing), Martin Brodeur (hockey),
Jayne Hefford (hockey), Waneek Horn-Miller (water polo), and Vicki
Keith (swimming); builders Guylaine Bernier (rowing) and Doug Mitchell
(football).
 
 
Scores, if there are no errors:
 
GAMES-> 1 2 3 4 5 6 BEST FOUR
Erland Sommarskog 8 12 0 0 20 12 52
Pete Gayde 11 20 0 2 16 0 49
Joshua Kreitzer 20 0 -- -- 12 8 40
Dan Blum 19 6 4 0 8 0 37
Dan Tilque 4 12 -- -- 4 8 28
Bruce Bowler 15 8 -- -- -- -- 23
 
--
Mark Brader | Up until now, you have been told never to use
Toronto | the Goto. I use it. I use a revolver too, but
msb@vex.net | I don't give it to my children. --a Prof. Baird
 
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Nov 02 05:37AM +0100

>> but surprise! Queen Elizabeth II awarded Atwood a rare royal
>> honor last week, for her services to literature. To what *order*
>> was Atwood named?
 
And the answer was?
tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Nov 02 04:38AM

> > but surprise! Queen Elizabeth II awarded Atwood a rare royal
> > honor last week, for her services to literature. To what *order*
> > was Atwood named?
 
So what was it?
 
 
> Louis Riel.
 
> Without checking, I suspect this is the first case of the government
> commemorating in this way a person they executed for treason.
 
That's why I didn't guess him.
 
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum tool@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Nov 02 02:11AM -0500

Mark Brader:
> > > but surprise! Queen Elizabeth II awarded Atwood a rare royal
> > > honor last week, for her services to literature. To what *order*
> > > was Atwood named?
 
Dan Blum:
> So what was it?
 
Oh, sorry. The Companions of Honour. Nobody got it and I must've
deleted one too many lines from the file when scoring.

 
> > Without checking, I suspect this is the first case of the government
> > commemorating in this way a person they executed for treason.
 
> That's why I didn't guess him.
 
(Evil chuckle.)
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "Police Stop Slaying Suspect Look-alikes"
msb@vex.net | --Yakima, WA, Herald-Republic, 2001-08-26
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Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Oct 31 05:32PM -0700

On Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 11:37:15 AM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
> > responses to Q9.
 
> I missed that possible reading. But it doesn't matter, since, as
> you can see above,as nobody named either one in response to #9.
 
I was tempted to :-)
 
cheers,
calvin
tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Oct 31 02:09PM


> * Game 2, Round 4 - Entertainment - Tom Hanks Movies by Principal Cast
 
> 1. 1993, Tom Hanks, Antonio Banderas, Denzel Washington.
 
Philadelphia
 
> 2. 1999, Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack.
 
Toy Story 2
 
> 3. 1990, Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith.
 
Joe vs. the Volcano
 
> 5. 1984, Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy.
 
Splash
 
> 6. 1998, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Parker Posey.
 
You've Got Mail; Sleepless in Seattle
 
> 7. 1989, Tom Hanks, Beasley.
 
Castaway
 
> 8. 2002, Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christopher Walken.
 
Catch Me If You Can
 
> 9. 2013, Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Faysal Ahmed.
 
Captain Phillips
 
> "The World Set Free". The novel is said to have been partially
> responsible for motivating Hungarian physicist Le? Szil?rd,
> who was an acquaintance of Wells, to succeed in his work.
 
atomic bomb
 
> goes to J.J. Astor's 1894 novel "A Journey in Other Worlds",
> a futuristic tale set in the year 2000, but Jules Verne also
> predicted it in an 1880 issue of the "Pall Mall Gazette".
 
astronaut
 
> 3. Popularized by various authors, but especially by Isaac Asimov,
> this expression derives from a Czech expression for "forced
> labor".
 
robot
 
> 4. This expression is a trademarked term, named after the children's
> book "Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle". In practice the
> expression is often used generically for any device of its kind.
 
taser
 
> of niche subculture interests is said to have been coined in
> 1940 by Russ Chauvenet, who was a major force in the beginning
> of sci-fi fandom.
 
fanzine
 
> popularized by "Neuromancer" author William Gibson. It comes
> from the earlier expression "cybernetics", and describes what
> we would later also call "the Web" or "the Internet".
 
cyberspace
 
> whose title is very similar to the expression. In the story,
> people use teleportation booths to rapidly join large gatherings
> and riots as they happen. We need the expression used today.
 
flash mob
 
> 8. The earliest use recorded so far of this expression has been
> found in E.E. Smith's "Galactic Patrol" from 1937, meaning to
> launch off a planet.
 
blast off
 
> University YMCA. Originally he meant the expression to refer
> to a compartmentalization of morality. Now it refers to a realm
> consisting of concurrent or parallel universes or realities.
 
multiverse
 
> and water from mineral oxides, releasing absorptive gases to
> trap the feeble heat of the far-off Sun." Name the expression
> for this sort of thing.
 
terraforming
 
--
_______________________________________________________________________
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>: Oct 31 06:47PM +0100


> 3. Popularized by various authors, but especially by Isaac Asimov,
> this expression derives from a Czech expression for "forced
> labor".
 
Robot
Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Oct 31 11:16AM -0700

On 10/30/19 11:41 PM, Mark Brader wrote:
> 3. 1990, Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith.
> 4. 1996, Tom Hanks, Liv Tyler, Steve Zahn.
> 5. 1984, Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy.
 
Volunteers
 
> goes to J.J. Astor's 1894 novel "A Journey in Other Worlds",
> a futuristic tale set in the year 2000, but Jules Verne also
> predicted it in an 1880 issue of the "Pall Mall Gazette".
 
spaceship
 
 
> 3. Popularized by various authors, but especially by Isaac Asimov,
> this expression derives from a Czech expression for "forced
> labor".
 
robot
 
 
> 4. This expression is a trademarked term, named after the children's
> book "Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle". In practice the
> expression is often used generically for any device of its kind.
 
taser
 
> of niche subculture interests is said to have been coined in
> 1940 by Russ Chauvenet, who was a major force in the beginning
> of sci-fi fandom.
 
fanzine
 
> popularized by "Neuromancer" author William Gibson. It comes
> from the earlier expression "cybernetics", and describes what
> we would later also call "the Web" or "the Internet".
 
cyberspace
 
> whose title is very similar to the expression. In the story,
> people use teleportation booths to rapidly join large gatherings
> and riots as they happen. We need the expression used today.
 
flash mob
 
 
> 8. The earliest use recorded so far of this expression has been
> found in E.E. Smith's "Galactic Patrol" from 1937, meaning to
> launch off a planet.
 
lift off
 
> University YMCA. Originally he meant the expression to refer
> to a compartmentalization of morality. Now it refers to a realm
> consisting of concurrent or parallel universes or realities.
 
multiverse
 
> and water from mineral oxides, releasing absorptive gases to
> trap the feeble heat of the far-off Sun." Name the expression
> for this sort of thing.
 
terraforming
 
--
Dan Tilque
Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Oct 31 05:29PM -0700

On Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 4:41:16 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
 
> 1. 1993, Tom Hanks, Antonio Banderas, Denzel Washington.
> 2. 1999, Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack.
> 3. 1990, Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith.
 
Bonfire of the Vanities
 
> 4. 1996, Tom Hanks, Liv Tyler, Steve Zahn.
> 5. 1984, Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy.
 
Splash!
 
> 6. 1998, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Parker Posey.
 
Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail
 
> 7. 1989, Tom Hanks, Beasley.
 
Turner and Hooch
 
> 8. 2002, Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christopher Walken.
> 9. 2013, Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Faysal Ahmed.
 
The Airport
 
> goes to J.J. Astor's 1894 novel "A Journey in Other Worlds",
> a futuristic tale set in the year 2000, but Jules Verne also
> predicted it in an 1880 issue of the "Pall Mall Gazette".
 
Blast off

> 3. Popularized by various authors, but especially by Isaac Asimov,
> this expression derives from a Czech expression for "forced
> labor".
 
Robot
 
> 4. This expression is a trademarked term, named after the children's
> book "Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle". In practice the
> expression is often used generically for any device of its kind.
 
Ray Gun
 
> of niche subculture interests is said to have been coined in
> 1940 by Russ Chauvenet, who was a major force in the beginning
> of sci-fi fandom.
 
Fanzine
 
> whose title is very similar to the expression. In the story,
> people use teleportation booths to rapidly join large gatherings
> and riots as they happen. We need the expression used today.
 
Flash Mob
 
> 8. The earliest use recorded so far of this expression has been
> found in E.E. Smith's "Galactic Patrol" from 1937, meaning to
> launch off a planet.
 
Exolaunch, terrestrial launch
 
> and water from mineral oxides, releasing absorptive gases to
> trap the feeble heat of the far-off Sun." Name the expression
> for this sort of thing.
 
Well they were tough!
 
cheers,
calvin
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