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* Calvin's Quiz #131 - 2 messages, 2 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/0b588fe8987c87c2?hl=en
* *REVISED RESULTS* of Rare Entries contest MSB71 - 2 messages, 2 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/9f368f6df23a05af?hl=en
* QFTCIMM Current Events 1-2 - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/32863a9f10a9de00?hl=en
* Rotating Quiz #17 - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/dd37c336ff98c290?hl=en
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TOPIC: Calvin's Quiz #131
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/0b588fe8987c87c2?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Fri, May 27 2011 8:32 pm
From: Pete
Calvin <calvin@phlegm.com> wrote in
news:op.vv31wbzoyr33d7@04233-jyhzp1s.staff.ad.bond.edu.au:
>
>
> 1 What is the name given to the beam placed above a window or
> door?
Header
> 2 What wood are cricket bats traditionally made from?
Ash
> 3 Nova Scotia is a province in which country?
Canada
> 4 The original bullet train connected Tokyo with which other
> Japanese city?
Osaka
> 5 Which make of car is featured in the 1985 film
> Back to the Future?
DeLorean
> 6 How many dots are there on a pair of dice?
42
> 7 Which Australian married Billy Connolly in 1989?
> 8 In which country is the city of Salzburg located?
Austria
> 9 On which date did WW One officially end?
November 18, 1918
> 10 What were the names of the two rival gangs in the musical 'West
> Side Story'?
Sharks and Jets
>
>
Pete
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Sat, May 28 2011 7:59 pm
From: Jeffrey Turner
On 5/26/2011 6:54 PM, Calvin wrote:
>
>
> 1 What is the name given to the beam placed above a window or door?
lintel
> 2 What wood are cricket bats traditionally made from?
ash
> 3 Nova Scotia is a province in which country?
Canuckistan
> 4 The original bullet train connected Tokyo with which other Japanese city?
Osaka
> 5 Which make of car is featured in the 1985 film Back to the Future?
DeLorean
> 6 How many dots are there on a pair of dice?
42
> 7 Which Australian married Billy Connolly in 1989?
> 8 In which country is the city of Salzburg located?
Austria (there's only one?)
> 9 On which date did WW One officially end?
11/11/18
> 10 What were the names of the two rival gangs in the musical 'West Side
> Story'?
Jets and Sharks
--Jeff
--
It is very easy for rich people to preach
the virtues of self-reliance to the poor.
--Winston Churchill
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TOPIC: *REVISED RESULTS* of Rare Entries contest MSB71
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/9f368f6df23a05af?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Sat, May 28 2011 8:18 am
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader)
Well, it looks as though I've goofed three times in the scoring of MSB71
(I hate it when that happens) and all of them affect leading finishers.
Previously I wrote:
> There were only 21 entrants this time. The winner is DAN TILQUE.
> Lukewarm congratulations! In second place was Erland Sommarskog,
> and in third place, the entrant whose email address is
> rthearle@hotmail.com.
Erland showed fine sportsmanship by emailing me to disqualify his
own answer of Sid Roland Rommerud for question 6, based on his own
further research. Apparently some works that he first told me were
collaborations between Rommerud and another writer were really by
the other author alone, and this reduces Rommerud's contribution to
the series below the critical 50 works.
Erland drops from 2nd to 3rd place.
The entrant whose email address is rthearle@hotmail.com drops from
3rd place to 5th. His answer on question 5 was Finland and Sweden.
It turns out that while the two countries have only an inland water
border on the mainland from about latitude 66 to 69 N, their seawater
border around latitude 60 N comes briefly onto land to cross the tiny
island of Märket. So they become a wrong answer.
(Curiously, the island cannot be found in Google Maps, either in the
maps themselves or satellite imagery, and I wondered at first if it
was an Internet hoax, particularly in view of the unusual shape of
the land border on it and the April 1 date of some newspaper articles
cited by Wikipedia. Erland kindly helped check it out, and we found
enough confirmatory sources to decide that it must be genuine.)
On the other hand, Peter Smyth's answer of "infinitive" on question 3
is correct according to some sources. So Peter moves up from 7th
place to 2nd. John Gerson and Dan Unger keep the same scores but
move down one place.
Here are the three leaders' answer slates (some abbreviated) as
corrected:
DAN TILQUE PETER SMYTH ERLAND SOMMARSKOG
[0] Conservative Liberal Quebecois
[1] Daily Star Morning Star Independent
[2] Cadmium Chromium Cerium
[3] Determiner Infinitive Verb
[4] Pu-239 ...120 Days of Sodom 491
[5] Germany/Luxembourg Argentina/Uruguay Argentina/Paraguay
[6] Stan Lee Tom Batiuk (wrong answer)
[7] Washington Harrison Jackson
[8] Bermuda Rhodesia Ex-USSR countries
[9] Mythological Phantasmic Hypothetical
Here is the revised scoring table:
RANK SCORE ENTRANT Q0 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9
1. 72 Dan Tilque 9 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 2
2. 120 Peter Smyth 5 2 3 1 1 4 1 1 1 1
3. 576 Erland Sommarskog 3 2 4 2 2 1 WR 1 1 1
4. 720 Stephen Perry 9 WR 2 2 1 2 2 1 1 1
5. 960 rthearle@hotmail.com 5 1 4 1 2 WR 1 3 1 1
6. 1152 John Gerson 9 2 1 1 1 4 2 2 1 4
7. 1296 Dan Unger 3 2 3 3 2 2 1 2 3 1
8. 1920 Nick Selwyn 4 1 5 3 1 1 1 2 4 4
9. 2160 Ted Schuerzinger 4 1 5 3 WR 1 1 3 1 2
10. 2700 Alan Curry 5 1 5 6 3 1 2 3 1 1
11. 3456 Kevin Stone 9 2 1 6 1 1 2 2 WR 1
=11. 3456 Duke Lefty 3 1 4 6 1 WR 2 3 1 1
13. 4800 Bruce Bowler 5 WR 3 1 1 WR 2 1 4 1
14. 5832 Haran Pilpel 9 2 1 6 3 1 2 3 3 1
15. 7776 Joshua Kreitzer 9 2 3 3 2 4 3 2 1 1
Grip 9 1 2 3 1 WR 1 2 3 4
Pete Gayde 4 2 5 3 1 2 3 2 4 2
Rob Parker 5 2 4 WR 1 2 2 2 1 4
Dave Filpus 4 1 5 6 3 1 3 2 WR 2
334152@gmail.com 9 WR 3 2 2 4 2 3 4 1
Lejonel Norling 9 2 3 6 2 1 2 WR WR 1
Scores of 10,000 or worse are still not shown.
And here are the revised answer lists for the three questions where
they changed:
| 3. Give a single word in English, used in the grammar of English
| to designate a part of speech.
6 Conjunction
3 Adverb
3 Preposition
2 Determiner [= Determiners]
2 Verb
1 Exclamation
1 Infinitive
1 Interjection
1 Pronoun
WRONG:
1 Predicate
| 5. Name two adjacent countries (see rule 4.1.1) now existing,
| whose entire mutual border is (or formerly was) an *inland
| water border* (i.e. consisting of lakes and/or rivers), or an
| inland water border plus one or more offshore continuations
| of the border into seawater.
4 Argentina, Uruguay (Uruguay, de la Plata)
2 DR Congo, Tanzania (L. Tanganyika)
2 Moldova, Romania (Prut, Danube)
1 Argentina, Paraguay (Pilcomayo, Brazo Sur, Paraguay, Paraná)
1 Armenia, Iran (Aras)
1 Azerbaijan, Turkey (Aras)
1 Benin, Niger (Mékrou, Niger)
1 Botswana, Zambia (Zambezi)
1 Central African Republic, DR Congo (Bomu, Ubangi)
1 Germany, Luxembourg (Our, Sauer)
1 Guyana, Suriname (Corentyne)
1 North Korea, Russia (Tumen)
WRONG:
1 Croatia, Hungary
1 Finland, Sweden
1 Israel, Jordan
1 Malawi, Tanzania
| 6. Name an author who wrote 50 or more works of fiction featuring
| the same major character. You must name the character, but
| this does not form part of your answer.
3 Erle Stanley Gardner (Perry Mason)
2 G.K. Chesterton (Father Brown)
2 Georges Simenon (Jules Maigret)
2 Prentiss Ingraham (Buffalo Bill)
2 Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe)
2 W.E. Johns (Biggles)
1 Evan Hunter (Steve Carella)
1 Gus Edson (Dondi) (comic strips)
1 John Swartzwelder (Bart Simpson) (TV episodes)
1 Luis Senarens (Jack Wright)
1 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)
1 Stan Lee (Spider-Man) (comic books)
1 Tom Batiuk (John Darling) (comic strips)
WRONG:
1 Sid Roland Rommerud
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "As for Canada's lack of mystique,
msb@vex.net it is not unique." -- Mark Leeper
My text in this article is in the public domain.
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Sat, May 28 2011 9:10 am
From: Erland Sommarskog
Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:
> Erland showed fine sportsmanship by emailing me to disqualify his
> own answer of Sid Roland Rommerud for question 6, based on his own
> further research. Apparently some works that he first told me were
> collaborations between Rommerud and another writer were really by
> the other author alone, and this reduces Rommerud's contribution to
> the series below the critical 50 works.
For those who care, here are some more details.
In total there are 54 books about the "twin detectives" Klas and Göran
Bergendahl and their cousin Hubert Norlén (who is the bright guy that
mainly solves the mysteries) published by Sivar Ahlrud.
Sivar Ahlrud is a psuedonym used by Sid Roland Rommerud and Ivar Ahlstedt.
They collaborated on the first books, but they also wrote some of the
books alone. Ahlstedt passed away in 1967, so after 1967 Rommerud wrote
all books alone. Rommerud died in 1974, but some other people wrote and
published four books in the name of Ahlrud in the 1980s.
Of the 50 books published by the real Sivar Ahlrud, four were re-worked
version of the oldest books.
Since Mark asked for an author, it was apparent that Ahlrud was an incorrect
answer, why I had to go with one of the two. The Wikipedia article I
first checked, did not mention that they wrote some of their books on
their own, but it would be more surprising if this was not the case.
I believe that I owned some 30+ of the books when I was a kid.
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
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TOPIC: QFTCIMM Current Events 1-2
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/32863a9f10a9de00?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sat, May 28 2011 9:19 pm
From: Jeffrey Turner
On 5/26/2011 11:47 AM, Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> * Game 1 (2011-05-09), Round 1 - Current Events
>
> 1. There is a lovely little town north of Islamabad, named for
> the British army major who founded it in 1853, a town where a
> certain Osama Bin Laden was living until his demise last week.
> Name that town.
Abottabad
> 2. Already infamous as the NDP's so-called "Vegas" candidate,
> newly elected MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau ran into trouble this
> week. What electoral offence have several citizens of her
> riding accused her of?
>
> 3. Toronto rolled out its new bike-sharing program last week.
> Eventually there will be 1000 bikes at 80 stations.
> Name the program.
>
> 4. Save the Children published its Mothers Index last week.
> The index measures lengths of maternity leaves, women's
> life expectancy, maternal and child mortality, and and other
> indicators to reveal the best place to be a mom. Afghanistan
> came in last. Canada was 20th. Which country was first?
Norway
> 5. Within half a percentage point, what percentage of eligible
> voters actually voted in last Monday's federal election,
> according to Elections Canada?
76
> 6. French soccer, a.k.a. football, was rocked last week by
> allegations that its national team coach had made a secret
> agreement with other coaches and officials to do what?
>
> 7. Vancouver journalist Dorothy Parvaz arrived in Damascus,
> Syria, last week to cover the protests there, and was
> immediately detained by the Syrian government upon her
> arrival. Which news service does she work for?
>
> 8. The leader of the Apache tribe asked the U.S. president for
> a formal apology last week for the government's use of a code
> name to refer to Osama Bin-laden. What was the code name?
Geronimo
> 9. Which on-line gaming network was the target last week of a
> security breach that stole the private credit card data of 100
> million users? Name either the network or the parent company.
>
> 10. Well, Yuri Gagarin beat him into space by a month, but at
> least the first American in space was honoured posthumously
> with his own stamp last week to commemorate the 50th
> anniversary of his flight. Name him.
Grissom
> * Game 2 (2011-05-16), Round 1 - Current Events
>
> 1. A pilot for which US airline kicked two Muslim men off
> his plane because "some passengers might be uncomfortable"?
> The men were on their way to a conference on Muslim
> stereotyping.
>
> 2. Which party won a majority in the Scottish parliament for
> the first time, a victory which could lead to a separation
> referendum?
>
> 3. Doug Ford pissed off a city other than Toronto, for a
> change, when he suggested a certain NFL team would be ripe for
> relocation to our burg. Officials of which city vehemently
> denied the rumour?
Buffalo
> 4. The defending NBA champions were eliminated in the second
> round of playoffs in 4 straight games by the Dallas Mavericks.
> Name the soon-to-be-ex champs.
LA Lakers
> 5. Name the singer whose album "Fumbling Toward Ecstasy" was
> turned into a ballet debuted this week by Ballet Alberta.
>
> 6. Which Canadian entertainment icon was in Toronto this week
> signing copies of her new book "From this Moment On"?
>
> 7. This new 30-story thrill ride at Canada's Wonderland was
> scheduled to debut with the opening of the park this weekend.
> It has been delayed due to the lousy spring weather. Name it.
>
> 8. Which horse won the Kentucky Derby?
The one that came in second in the Preakness.
> 9. Forzani Group -- the Canadian retail sports chain which
> includes Athlete's World, Sportchek, and Nevada Bob's among
> other stores -- was purchased for $771 million by which
> Canadian retail giant?
>
> 10. In another buyout this week, Microsoft is spending
> $8.5 billion to acquire which communications company?
Skype
--Jeff
--
It is very easy for rich people to preach
the virtues of self-reliance to the poor.
--Winston Churchill
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TOPIC: Rotating Quiz #17
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/t/dd37c336ff98c290?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sat, May 28 2011 9:19 pm
From: Jeffrey Turner
On 5/27/2011 10:53 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> As usual, use only your own knowledge when answering. I will score
> this round in about 5 days, and post results next Friday.
>
>
> 1. In Dick Francis's more than 40 novels, only two heroes appear in
> more than one book. Name either.
>
> 2. Name the actor who played the same part in both the 1922 Douglas
> Fairbanks and 1938 Errol Flynn productions of Robin Hood.
>
> 3. Which US state has a city named Las Vegas (pop. ~15,000) that is
> home to Highlands University?
>
> 4. Which cat was "not skin and bones; in fact he's remarkably fat"?
Garfield
> 5. What is the art of Pod Shaving (or podshaving)?
>
> 6. Who composed the Trout Quintet?
>
> 7. Kamsky, Kramnik and Khalifman are eminent in what field?
>
> 8. During WWII, the team of British codebreakers, computer pioneer
> Alan Turing among them, worked where?
>
> 9. Name the Welsh poet after whom Frank Lloyd Wright named his
> Wisconsin summer home.
Dylan Thomas
> 10. Who painted "American Gothic"?
--Jeff
--
It is very easy for rich people to preach
the virtues of self-reliance to the poor.
--Winston Churchill
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