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| Pete <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Sep 27 01:35PM Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> wrote in > Dan Blum, Björn Lundin, Calvin, Russ, Stephen W Perry, David B and Rob > Parker. > Q4: On what day did Alfred Nobel die? Answer on the format YYYY-MM-DD. 1901-01-01 > Answers should be in no later than Saturday 27th, 22:00 Swedish time, > preferrably earlier. Pete |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Sep 27 07:07PM +0200 > Q4: On what day did Alfred Nobel die? Answer on the format YYYY-MM-DD. David B 1875-12-19 -7603 days Russ 1893-12-10 -1037 Mark Brader 1895-01-01 -650 Dan Blum 1895-06-30 -470 CORRECT ANSWER 1896-12-10 Jeffery Turner 1898-12-12 +791 Stephen W Perry 1900-01-01 +1176 Pete 1901-01-01 +1541 Björn Lundin 1903-11-15 +2589 Rob Parker 1905-04-27 +3118 Calvin 1933-03-30 +13317 Calvin is knocked out. Kudos to Russ who was the only one to have the date and month correct, although he was off with a few years. I was not aware this fact myself, and even somehow failed to pay any attention to it when I first looked it up. It certainly helps to come reasonably close if you know when the first Nobel prizes were awarded. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Sep 27 07:17PM +0200 This contest is now open only to Jeffery Turner, Mark Brader, Pete, Dan Blum, Björn Lundin, Russ, Stephen W Perry, David B and Rob Parker. Q5: The southernmost point of Sweden is Smygehuk. The furthest north you can get in Sweden by public road is Maunu. What driving distance do Google maps give for the shortest route from Smygehuk to Maunu? Answer in km. Answers should be in no later than Wednesday Oct 1, 22:00 Swedish time. Preferably earlier. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Sep 27 05:18PM > can get in Sweden by public road is Maunu. What driving distance do > Google maps give for the shortest route from Smygehuk to Maunu? Answer in > km. 1400 km -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Sep 27 08:00PM +0200 On 2014-09-27 19:07, Erland Sommarskog wrote: > Erland Sommarskog (esquel@sommarskog.se) writes: > Kudos to Russ who was the only one to have the date and month correct, > although he was off with a few years. The date, I should have got. Dec-10 is the day of the Nobel prize -- Björn |
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Sep 27 08:04PM +0200 On 2014-09-27 19:17, Erland Sommarskog wrote: > km. > Answers should be in no later than Wednesday Oct 1, 22:00 Swedish time. > Preferably earlier. I live about 50 km from Smygehuk. Unfortunately, I never took that road trip... But I do know that the distance across Sweden north/south is about 1580 km, as the crow flies. As the car drives, I'd say 2103 km -- Björn |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Sep 27 01:15PM -0500 Erland Sommarskog: > can get in Sweden by public road is Maunu. What driving distance do > Google maps give for the shortest route from Smygehuk to Maunu? Answer in > km. 2222.2 km (Estimated as follows: I think the country covers about 12-14 degrees of latitude, from the high 50s to almost 70. Bump it up to 20 degrees to allow for the wiggliness of roads. 1 degree = 60 nautical miles and 1 nautical mile = 1852 m. 1200 x 1.852 is 2222.4. Knock off .2 to produce an answer that doesn't look as if it was calculated to 5 significant digits based on an input with 1 significant digit.) -- Mark Brader | "Yeah. Writers working under tight restrictions produce Toronto | novel material -- like, for example, epigrams employing msb@vex.net | backward alphabetization." --Randall Munroe My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| "Rob Parker" <NOSPAMrobpparker@optusnet.com.au.FORME>: Sep 28 08:50AM +1000 > can get in Sweden by public road is Maunu. What driving distance do > Google maps give for the shortest route from Smygehuk to Maunu? Answer in > km. 1750 km Rob |
| Jeffrey Turner <jturner@localnet.com>: Sep 27 08:39PM -0400 On 9/27/2014 1:17 PM, Erland Sommarskog wrote: > km. > Answers should be in no later than Wednesday Oct 1, 22:00 Swedish time. > Preferably earlier. 800 --Jeff |
| Pete <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Sep 28 02:48AM Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> wrote in > you can get in Sweden by public road is Maunu. What driving distance > do Google maps give for the shortest route from Smygehuk to Maunu? > Answer in km. 1800 > Answers should be in no later than Wednesday Oct 1, 22:00 Swedish > time. Preferably earlier. Pete |
| Russ <rns2XX7@att.net>: Sep 28 06:01AM -0500 On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 19:17:23 +0200, Erland Sommarskog >km. >Answers should be in no later than Wednesday Oct 1, 22:00 Swedish time. >Preferably earlier. 2000 km Russ |
| Pete <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Sep 28 02:53AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in > You name the country. All spellings are as used in the CIA World > Factbook. > 1. Anhui, Gansu, Hebei, Hubei. Taiwan; China > 2. Batman, Hakkari, Samsun, Van. Turey > 3. Cordoba, Formosa, Rio Negro, Santa Fe. Argentina > 4. Distrito Federal, Espirito Santo, Parana, Rio Grande do Norte. Colombia; Venezuela > 5. Borno, Edo, Gombe, Jigawa. Japan > 6. Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly North-West Frontier > Province), Punjab, Sindh. Pakistan > 7. Assam, Kerala, Nagaland, Sikkim. India > 8. Basel-Landschaft, Basel-Stadt, Schaffhausen, Zug. Switzerland > 9. Andalucia, Extremadura, Illes Baleares (Balearic Islands), > Murcia. Spain > 10. Chiapas, Colima, Hidalgo, Sonora. Mexico > A. History - American Western Outlaws > A1. Robert Leroy Parker was one half of a famous duo in the > Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. What's he better known as? Sundance Kid > A2. Born William Henry McCarty Jr. in New York City, this > famous outlaw took part in the Lincoln County War and died > when he was 21. What was his infamous nickname? Billy the Kid > B1. Albanian-born Anjeze Gonxhe Bojaxhiu lived and worked the > majority of her life in India caring for the poor. She was > beatified in 2003. What's she better known as? Mother Teresa > in Italy. Although never ordained as a priest, he founded > the Franciscan religious order and was proclaimed a saint > by Pope Gregory IX. What is he known as today? St Bernard > Renaissance. He normally signed his paintings with his > full birth name in Greek letters; but what other name is > he now known by? El Greco > dramatic use of light in his work, and was also a formative > influence on Baroque painting. He's better known by the > name of a town: what is it? Leonardo da Vinci > D1. Don Diego de la Vega is a character created by Johnson > McCulley and first serialized in a work called "The Curse > of Capistrano". What was his secret identity? Zorro > Baroness Orczy set during the Reign of Terror at the > beginning of the French Revolution. What was his secret > identity? The Scarlet Pimpernel > He is a 3-time World Cup winner and in 2000 shared the > FIFA Player of the Century prize with Diego Maradona. > How is he known worldwide? Pele > E2. Garik Kimovich Weinstein is a Russian chess grandmaster, > a former world chess champion, a writer and political > activist. How is he known worldwide? Garry Kasparov > and built a cosmetics empire in the US. At the peak of her > career she was one of the wealthiest women in the world. > What name was she known by for business purposes? Estee Lauder > on Time magazine's 1998 list of the 20 most influential > business geniuses of the 20th century. What name was she > better known by? Estee Lauder Pete |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Sep 28 01:50AM -0700 Mark Brader wrote: > You name the country. All spellings are as used in the CIA World > Factbook. > 1. Anhui, Gansu, Hebei, Hubei. Malaysia > 2. Batman, Hakkari, Samsun, Van. Turkey > 3. Cordoba, Formosa, Rio Negro, Santa Fe. Colombia > 4. Distrito Federal, Espirito Santo, Parana, Rio Grande do Norte. Brazil > 5. Borno, Edo, Gombe, Jigawa. Papua New Guinea > 6. Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly North-West Frontier > Province), Punjab, Sindh. Pakistan > 7. Assam, Kerala, Nagaland, Sikkim. India > 8. Basel-Landschaft, Basel-Stadt, Schaffhausen, Zug. Switzerland > 9. Andalucia, Extremadura, Illes Baleares (Balearic Islands), > Murcia. Spain > 10. Chiapas, Colima, Hidalgo, Sonora. Mexico > A2. Born William Henry McCarty Jr. in New York City, this > famous outlaw took part in the Lincoln County War and died > when he was 21. What was his infamous nickname? Billy the Kid > B1. Albanian-born Anjeze Gonxhe Bojaxhiu lived and worked the > majority of her life in India caring for the poor. She was > beatified in 2003. What's she better known as? Mother Theresa > in Italy. Although never ordained as a priest, he founded > the Franciscan religious order and was proclaimed a saint > by Pope Gregory IX. What is he known as today? Francis of Assisi ? > Renaissance. He normally signed his paintings with his > full birth name in Greek letters; but what other name is > he now known by? El Greco > D1. Don Diego de la Vega is a character created by Johnson > McCulley and first serialized in a work called "The Curse > of Capistrano". What was his secret identity? Zorro > Baroness Orczy set during the Reign of Terror at the > beginning of the French Revolution. What was his secret > identity? Scarlet Pimpernel > He is a 3-time World Cup winner and in 2000 shared the > FIFA Player of the Century prize with Diego Maradona. > How is he known worldwide? Pele ? > E2. Garik Kimovich Weinstein is a Russian chess grandmaster, > a former world chess champion, a writer and political > activist. How is he known worldwide? Kasparov? -- Dan Tilque |
| Pete <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Sep 28 02:58AM > titles and was ranked #1 in the world in 1975 (according > to some systems). He was the first African-American > on the US Davis Cup team. Arthur Ashe > best known in the US) for his Pomp and Circumstance Marches; > the trio from the first of these is commonly played at > American graduation ceremonies. Edward Elgar > her first, The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book; it has many > editions since it was first published in 1896, but not all > with that title. Frances Farmer > film awards, but some people also claim to take these awards > given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association seriously. > Unlike the Oscars, these also include television awards. Golden Globe > also provided food, medical services, etc. It was one of the > first places listed in the National Register of Historic > Places. Hull House > in New York City, where she helped prevent the Lower > Manhattan Expressway, and later moved to Toronto, where > she helped prevent the Spadina Expressway. Pete |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Sep 28 12:48AM -0700 Dan Blum wrote: > titles and was ranked #1 in the world in 1975 (according > to some systems). He was the first African-American > on the US Davis Cup team. Arthur Ashe > best known in the US) for his Pomp and Circumstance Marches; > the trio from the first of these is commonly played at > American graduation ceremonies. Emerson > film awards, but some people also claim to take these awards > given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association seriously. > Unlike the Oscars, these also include television awards. Golden Globes > also provided food, medical services, etc. It was one of the > first places listed in the National Register of Historic > Places. Halfway House > that toppled Ceausescu but was a major player afterwards; > he was elected president in the first free elections held > in Romania (in 1990), and again in 1992 and 2000. Iliescu -- Dan Tilque |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Sep 27 02:32PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:7sSdnffzXLBtG7 >> "victim" and no comma after "wife".) > No, then it would have sounded as though he had several wives and > I was trying to specify which one. Mike Tyson is currently married to his third wife, and as far as I know, only his first wife accused him of hitting her. So that's what I would have meant. -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
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