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| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Mar 27 11:11PM +0200 >> > 145BC, 218 AD, 613, 1097 and 1268? >> Antioch > And I should have acknowledged Erland's singleton here. I will have to confess that was very much of a guess. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| swp <stephen.w.perry@gmail.com>: Mar 27 03:35PM -0700 On Sunday, March 26, 2017 at 11:53:40 PM UTC-4, Calvin wrote: > And I should have acknowledged Erland's singleton here. > cheers, > calvin from whence comes the holy hand grenade! (whatever that means) |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Mar 27 10:31PM -0700 Calvin wrote: >>> 3 Which Syrian city has lent its name to 5 major battles, in 145BC, 218 AD, 613, 1097 and 1268? >> Antioch > And I should have acknowledged Erland's singleton here. Instead, you should acknowledge that you goofed up on that one. Antioch is currently some ruins near Antakya, Turkey. Yes, it's *near* Syria, but Turkey owns that corner of the Levant. -- Dan Tilque |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Mar 27 11:53PM -0700 Dan Tilque wrote: > Instead, you should acknowledge that you goofed up on that one. Antioch > is currently some ruins near Antakya, Turkey. Yes, it's *near* Syria, > but Turkey owns that corner of the Levant. I should also mention that both Aleppo and Damascus (answers given by various people) have at least 5 battles each, although not in those years. So at the very least, people who gave those answers should get credit. -- Dan Tilque |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Mar 28 07:11AM > various people) have at least 5 battles each, although not in those > years. So at the very least, people who gave those answers should get > credit. I think I was considering Aleppo, but 2016 seemed to be missing from the list of years. I'm not sure that the question would have been any simpler if Calvin had said Turkish city. In fact that would also have been wrong since it is not a city today. But it seems that when it was a city, it could be described as "Syrian". I find this sentence in Wikiepedia: " It was one of the four cities of the Syrian tetrapolis". It would have been different if Calvin had said "Which city in Syria...", but he didn't. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| Bruce <bbowler@bigelow.org>: Mar 27 01:08PM On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 17:27:11 -0700, Calvin wrote: > 1 Tim Cook is currently CEO of which technology company? Apple > 2 How many strings does a standard bass guitar have? 4 > 3 Bull, leopard and zebra are varieties of which animal? finches > 4 In 1947 Boulder Dam was officially re-named in honour of which former > US president? Hoover > 5 What is the main ingredient of the German dish sauerkraut? Cabbage > 6 Which 17 year-old married Guildford Dudley on 6th of June 1553 only to > be executed 8 months later? > 7 By population, what is the second largest city in England? Leeds > 8 Which hit song of 1973 includes the following line: "While the other > kids were Rocking Round the Clock."? American Pie > 9 In which 1985 Sydney Pollack film (which won seven Oscars ) does most |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Mar 27 01:54PM Calvin wrote: > 1 Tim Cook is currently CEO of which technology company? Apple > 2 How many strings does a standard bass guitar have? Four > 3 Bull, leopard and zebra are varieties of which animal? > 4 In 1947 Boulder Dam was officially re-named in honour of which > former US president? Herbert Hoover > 5 What is the main ingredient of the German dish sauerkraut? Cabbage > 6 Which 17 year-old married Guildford Dudley on 6th of June 1553 only > to be executed 8 months later? Lady Jane Grey > 7 By population, what is the second largest city in England? Birmingham > other kids were Rocking Round the Clock."? > 9 In which 1985 Sydney Pollack film (which won seven Oscars ) does > most of the action take place almost precisely on the equator? Out of Africa > 10 Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston had a hit with "When You Believe" > from the soundtrack to which 1998 DreamWorks animated film? Prince of Egypt Peter Smyth |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Mar 27 11:12PM +0200 >> "Rescue at Entebbe"? > In case you were curious about that answer, I'll explain where it > came from. Yeah, it's not common to see you fail on a movie question. I also feel a little bad for not making this one, given that I had a question on it in my most recent rotating quiz. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| swp <stephen.w.perry@gmail.com>: Mar 27 03:40PM -0700 On Sunday, March 26, 2017 at 10:46:08 PM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote: > Toronto That's more than I can say about most > msb@vex.net people I know." -- Frimbo > My text in this article is in the public domain. Uncle Steve laughed at this and said you forgot to generalize your answer. I think you guys are strange. |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Mar 27 10:44PM -0700 Calvin wrote: > 1 Tim Cook is currently CEO of which technology company? Apple > 2 How many strings does a standard bass guitar have? 12 > 3 Bull, leopard and zebra are varieties of which animal? finch > 4 In 1947 Boulder Dam was officially re-named in honour of which former US president? Herbert Hoover > 5 What is the main ingredient of the German dish sauerkraut? cabbage > 6 Which 17 year-old married Guildford Dudley on 6th of June 1553 only to be executed 8 months later? Lady Jane Grey > 7 By population, what is the second largest city in England? Manchester > 8 Which hit song of 1973 includes the following line: "While the other kids were Rocking Round the Clock."? American Pie > 9 In which 1985 Sydney Pollack film (which won seven Oscars ) does most of the action take place almost precisely on the equator? Tropic of Cancer :) -- Dan Tilque |
| swp <stephen.w.perry@gmail.com>: Mar 27 03:33PM -0700 On Sunday, March 26, 2017 at 4:43:09 PM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote: > communications. But I figured that even if the same thing hasn't been > more famously said by someone else, it would be a guessable answer. > They do actually sell some items that don't require assembly. When aunt Christine has taco night, uncle Steve likes to say "oh good. dinner. some assembly required." > A few entrants were cheeky enough to try "in numerical order". > If that was the right answer then none of them would have been > arbitrary, or else all of them would, depending on how you look at it. I think the answer of "intentional" should count! Uncle Steve says let it go, but I thought that was really good. > Gareth Owen 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 9 > Erland Sommarskog 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 7 > "Calvin" 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 6 Uncle Steve says congratulations to Dan. I am only doing this because I can't beat him at Word With Friends and was unable to resist the temptation when he bet me a week of typing for him against my getting to drive his car for a month. He probably just really wanted a chauffeur. |
| Bruce <bbowler@bigelow.org>: Mar 27 01:05PM On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 23:54:46 -0500, Mark Brader wrote: > companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)". > * Game 10, Round 7 - Science - It's Your Body > 1. What mineral is necessary for the production of thyroid hormones? iodine > 2. During childbirth, which hormone is released to produce uterine > contractions? oxytocin > 3. Red blood cells are produced where in the body? bone marrow > 4. In the "fight or flight" response, the hormone epinephrine is > released by which gland(s)? pituitary > 5. Which organ in the immune system recycles iron, removes old red > blood cells, and holds a reserve of blood that can be used in case of > hemorrhagic shock? spleen > 6. The Rh factor of blood was discovered by immunizing rabbits > with red blood cells from which other animal? Rhesus monkeys > system. In which *other* body system do they play an important part? > 9. Gigantism is a rare condition which occurs when too much growth > hormone is produced by which gland(s)? pituitary > 10. The skin is the largest organ of the human body. What is the > largest *internal* organ, by mass? liver > After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs nal bs lbhe > nafjref jrer "obar" be "zbaxrl", tb onpx naq znxr gurz zber fcrpvsvp. > * Game 10, Round 8 - Canadiana - Every Dog has his Day nope |
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