Calvin's Quiz #124
Calvin
1 What was the name of Dorothy's dog in 'The Wizard of Oz'?
2 The criminal organisations Triads originated in which country?
3 Ferric oxides are more commonly known as what?
4 What do the rings in the Olympic flag represent?
5 How many countries border Spain?
6 Which country did Kapil Dev play cricket for?
7 Whose 1995 autobiography was titled Long Walk to Freedom?
8 Which actor starred in the 1959 movie The Mouse That Roared?
9 Which teeth are also known as the eye teeth?
10 Which English punk group had a 1979 hit with London Calling?
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cheers,
calvin
John Masters
> 1 What was the name of Dorothy's dog in 'The Wizard of Oz'?
Toto
> 2 The criminal organisations Triads originated in which country?
China
> 3 Ferric oxides are more commonly known as what?
Rust
> 4 What do the rings in the Olympic flag represent?
The five continents
> 5 How many countries border Spain?
2
> 6 Which country did Kapil Dev play cricket for?
India
> 7 Whose 1995 autobiography was titled Long Walk to Freedom?
Nelson Mandela
> 8 Which actor starred in the 1959 movie The Mouse That Roared?
Peter Sellars
> 9 Which teeth are also known as the eye teeth?
Molars
> 10 Which English punk group had a 1979 hit with London Calling?
The Clash
Marc Dashevsky
> 1 What was the name of Dorothy's dog in 'The Wizard of Oz'?
> 2 The criminal organisations Triads originated in which country?
Homg Kong
> 3 Ferric oxides are more commonly known as what?
rust
> 4 What do the rings in the Olympic flag represent?
continents
> 5 How many countries border Spain?
3
> 6 Which country did Kapil Dev play cricket for?
India
> 7 Whose 1995 autobiography was titled Long Walk to Freedom?
> 8 Which actor starred in the 1959 movie The Mouse That Roared?
Peter Sellers
> 9 Which teeth are also known as the eye teeth?
canines
> 10 Which English punk group had a 1979 hit with London Calling?
Clash
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Toto
> 2 The criminal organisations Triads originated in which country?
China
> 3 Ferric oxides are more commonly known as what?
rust
> 4 What do the rings in the Olympic flag represent?
no idea
> 5 How many countries border Spain?
3
> 6 Which country did Kapil Dev play cricket for?
India
> 7 Whose 1995 autobiography was titled Long Walk to Freedom?
Nelson Mandela
> 8 Which actor starred in the 1959 movie The Mouse That Roared?
Peter Sellers
> 9 Which teeth are also known as the eye teeth?
Incisors
> 10 Which English punk group had a 1979 hit with London Calling?
The Clash
Rob
Peter Smyth
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>1 What was the name of Dorothy's dog in 'The Wizard of Oz'?
>2 The criminal organisations Triads originated in which country?
>3 Ferric oxides are more commonly known as what?
>4 What do the rings in the Olympic flag represent?
>5 How many countries border Spain?
>6 Which country did Kapil Dev play cricket for?
>7 Whose 1995 autobiography was titled Long Walk to Freedom?
>8 Which actor starred in the 1959 movie The Mouse That Roared?
>9 Which teeth are also known as the eye teeth?
>10 Which English punk group had a 1979 hit with London Calling?
Peter Smyth
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>cheers,
>calvin
Dan Tilque
>
>
> 1 What was the name of Dorothy's dog in 'The Wizard of Oz'?
Toto
> 2 The criminal organisations Triads originated in which country?
China
> 3 Ferric oxides are more commonly known as what?
rust
> 4 What do the rings in the Olympic flag represent?
continents
> 5 How many countries border Spain?
4
> 6 Which country did Kapil Dev play cricket for?
Kenya
> 7 Whose 1995 autobiography was titled Long Walk to Freedom?
Nelson Mandella
> 8 Which actor starred in the 1959 movie The Mouse That Roared?
David Niven
> 9 Which teeth are also known as the eye teeth?
canines
> 10 Which English punk group had a 1979 hit with London Calling?
>
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Dan Tilque
swp
> 1 What was the name of Dorothy's dog in 'The Wizard of Oz'?
toto
> 2 The criminal organisations Triads originated in which country?
china
> 3 Ferric oxides are more commonly known as what?
rust
> 4 What do the rings in the Olympic flag represent?
the continents
> 5 How many countries border Spain?
4
> 6 Which country did Kapil Dev play cricket for?
australia
> 7 Whose 1995 autobiography was titled Long Walk to Freedom?
nelson mandela
> 8 Which actor starred in the 1959 movie The Mouse That Roared?
peter sellers
> 9 Which teeth are also known as the eye teeth?
canines
> 10 Which English punk group had a 1979 hit with London Calling?
the clash
swp
Jeffrey Turner
>
>
> 1 What was the name of Dorothy's dog in 'The Wizard of Oz'?
> 2 The criminal organisations Triads originated in which country?
> 3 Ferric oxides are more commonly known as what?
> 4 What do the rings in the Olympic flag represent?
> 5 How many countries border Spain?
> 6 Which country did Kapil Dev play cricket for?
> 7 Whose 1995 autobiography was titled Long Walk to Freedom?
> 8 Which actor starred in the 1959 movie The Mouse That Roared?
> 9 Which teeth are also known as the eye teeth?
> 10 Which English punk group had a 1979 hit with London Calling?
--Jeff
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Bruce Bowler
typed:
> 1 What was the name of Dorothy's dog in 'The Wizard of Oz'?
Toto
> 2 The criminal organisations Triads originated in which country?
China
> 3 Ferric oxides are more commonly known as what?
Rust
> 4 What do the rings in the Olympic flag represent?
Which facet of the rings? Colors, number of rings? 5 is supposed to be
representative of 1 ring per continent from which athletes compete (of
course there are now 6 continents from which athletes compete). Each
country that competes has at least one of the 5 colors of the rings in
their national flag.
> 5 How many countries border Spain?
4
> 6 Which country did Kapil Dev play cricket for?
No idea
> 7 Whose 1995 autobiography was titled Long Walk to Freedom?
Nelson Mandella
> 8 Which actor starred in the 1959 movie The Mouse That Roared?
Peter Sellers
> 9 Which teeth are also known as the eye teeth?
Canine
>10 Which English punk group had a 1979 hit with London Calling?
The Clash
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Bruce
Erland Sommarskog
> 1 What was the name of Dorothy's dog in 'The Wizard of Oz'?
Toto
> 2 The criminal organisations Triads originated in which country?
China (and particularly Hongkong I believe.)
> 3 Ferric oxides are more commonly known as what?
Don't know about all of them, but Fe4O3 is known as rust. Iron-II-oxides,
FeO is colourless and not a matter of corrsion itself.
> 4 What do the rings in the Olympic flag represent?
The inhabited continetns.
> 5 How many countries border Spain?
Four: France, Andorra, Portugal, Morroco
> 6 Which country did Kapil Dev play cricket for?
India
> 10 Which English punk group had a 1979 hit with London Calling?
The Clash
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Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se
Pete
jyhzp1s.staff.ad.bond.edu.au:
>
>
> 1 What was the name of Dorothy's dog in 'The Wizard of Oz'?
Toto
> 2 The criminal organisations Triads originated in which country?
Russia
> 3 Ferric oxides are more commonly known as what?
Rust
> 4 What do the rings in the Olympic flag represent?
5 continents
> 5 How many countries border Spain?
5 (Portugal, Andorra, France, UK [Gibraltar], Morocco)
> 6 Which country did Kapil Dev play cricket for?
Pakistan
> 7 Whose 1995 autobiography was titled Long Walk to Freedom?
Mandela
> 8 Which actor starred in the 1959 movie The Mouse That Roared?
David Niven
> 9 Which teeth are also known as the eye teeth?
Bicuspids
> 10 Which English punk group had a 1979 hit with London Calling?
Sex Pistols
>
Pete
Calvin
> 1 What was the name of Dorothy's dog in 'The Wizard of Oz'?
Toto (originally typed Tito LOL)
10/10
> 2 The criminal organisations Triads originated in which country?
China, also accepting Hong Kong
7/10
> 3 Ferric oxides are more commonly known as what?
Rust
10/10
> 4 What do the rings in the Olympic flag represent?
The five continents
9/10
> 5 How many countries border Spain?
3 (Portugal, Andorra and France)
2/10
I should have specified "land border" so no one was tempted to include
Morocco sorry. It doesn't make any sense to include the external territory
of Gibraltar (ie the UK). By that reckoning Australia borders Norway via
their respective Antarctic territories.
> 6 Which country did Kapil Dev play cricket for?
India
5/10
> 7 Whose 1995 autobiography was titled Long Walk to Freedom?
Nelson Mandela
8/10
> 8 Which actor starred in the 1959 movie The Mouse That Roared?
Peter Sellers, in multiple roles as usual.
6/10
> 9 Which teeth are also known as the eye teeth?
Canines
4/10
> 10 Which English punk group had a 1979 hit with London Calling?
The Clash
8/10
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL Quiz 124
1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 8 Bruce Bowler
1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 6 Dan Tilque
1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 6 Erland S
1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 6 Jeffrey Turner
1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 8 John Masters
1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 9 Marc Dashevsky
1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 Pete Gayde
1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 6 Peter Smyth
1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 8 Rob Parker
1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 8 swp
10 7 10 9 2 5 8 6 4 8 69 TOTAL
69%
Well done Marc who finished just ahead of the peloton.
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cheers,
calvin
Dan Tilque
>> 5 How many countries border Spain?
>
> 3 (Portugal, Andorra and France)
> 2/10
> I should have specified "land border" so no one was tempted to include
> Morocco sorry. It doesn't make any sense to include the external
> territory of Gibraltar (ie the UK). By that reckoning Australia borders
> Norway via their respective Antarctic territories.
But Spain does have a land border with Morocco. Two of them, in fact. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceuta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melilla
Ceuta and Melilla are considered by Spain to be an integral part of
Spain, unlike Gibralter and the UK, for example. The citizens there
elect members to Spain's parliament, again unlike Gibralter and the UK.
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Dan Tilque
Dan Tilque
>> 5 How many countries border Spain?
>
> 3 (Portugal, Andorra and France)
> 2/10
> I should have specified "land border" so no one was tempted to include
> Morocco sorry. It doesn't make any sense to include the external
> territory of Gibraltar (ie the UK). By that reckoning Australia borders
> Norway via their respective Antarctic territories.
But Spain does have a land border with Morocco. Two of them, in fact. See:
Calvin
wrote:
I'm inclined to accept that. Any arguments to the contrary?
Note that if I do I'll still accept the expected answer of 3.
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cheers,
calvin
Erland Sommarskog
The answer of 5 should also be accepted, since it's impossible to read
your thoughts to know you count Gibraltar. In fact, I would have no problem
to accept if you would count that as the only correct answer.
Rob Parker
enclaves - but if they are formally part of the country of Spain, then I
accept that the correct answer is 4. I don't agree with Erland that the
answer of 5 is correct, since Gibraltar is not a country (it's a territory),
and your question asked for 'countries'. Unless you've defined what a
country is - as Mark Brader does in his Rare Entries quizzes. And you
haven't, so for me, in this question you shouldn't accept a territory as a
correct answer; you also shouldn't accept 3 as a correct answer (I was one
of those with that) since it's wrong.
On the other hand, since exclaves are also considered to be territories (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclave) then the only correct answer is 3,
since Morocco borders Spanish territories and not Spain. Except that, if
you check dictionary definitions, then 'exclave' is "part of a country" (see
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/exclave).
Nice can of worms ;-)
Over to you - but there should be only one correct answer.
Rob
"Calvin" <cal...@phlegm.com> wrote in message
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Bruce Bowler
typed:
> Well, I haven't come across the concept of exclaves before - I do know
> about enclaves - but if they are formally part of the country of Spain,
> then I accept that the correct answer is 4. I don't agree with Erland
> that the answer of 5 is correct, since Gibraltar is not a country (it's
> a territory), and your question asked for 'countries'. Unless you've
> defined what a country is - as Mark Brader does in his Rare Entries
> quizzes. And you haven't, so for me, in this question you shouldn't
> accept a territory as a correct answer; you also shouldn't accept 3 as a
> correct answer (I was one of those with that) since it's wrong.
>
> On the other hand, since exclaves are also considered to be territories
> (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclave) then the only correct answer
> is 3, since Morocco borders Spanish territories and not Spain. Except
> that, if you check dictionary definitions, then 'exclave' is "part of a
> country" (see http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/exclave).
>
> Nice can of worms ;-)
I think it's more than a can :-)
If using wikipedia as the source, then their definition of country
includes territories (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country)
"A country is a geographical region. A country may be the territory of a
sovereign state, the territory of a non-sovereign (or formerly sovereign)
political division, or a region associated with a certain people or
certain characteristics."
> Over to you - but there should be only one correct answer.
+1
Calvin
wrote:
I'll just leave things as they are then. It's getting too complicated and
after all there's nothing of consequence at stake.
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cheers,
calvin
Dan Tilque
>>>
>>> On the other hand, since exclaves are also considered to be territories
>>> (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclave) then the only correct answer
>>> is 3, since Morocco borders Spanish territories and not Spain.
Suppose the people of Yukon Territory got tired of being oppressed by
those tyrants down in Ottawa and had a war for independence. And then,
due to serious bungling by the Canadian armed forces, they won that war.
They then go on to elect a national government, join the UN, get
recognized by all the other countries, etc. In other words, Yukon is now
an independent country.
In such a situation, how many countries would you say that the United
States has land borders with? Two or three? By the reasoning above, the
answer would be two, since Alaska is an exclave, and thus not really
part of the US.
Except
>>> that, if you check dictionary definitions, then 'exclave' is "part of a
>>> country" (see http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/exclave).
Exactly, so the answer to the above scenario would be an undisputed
three. And since the scenario is exactly parallel to that of
Spain/Ceuta/Melilla and Morocco, the answer to the question is at least
four.
>>>
>>> Nice can of worms ;-)
It's not really that bad. I'll try to simplify.
3 is a correct answer only in that it was Calvin's expected answer when
he posed it. Otherwise it's wrong.
4 is the correct answer if "country" = "sovereign country"[1]. As far as
I can tell, this is the definition of "country" we use most often on
trivia questions.
5 is the correct answer if "country" = "territory" which is one of the
definitions of the word.
>
> I'll just leave things as they are then. It's getting too complicated
> and after all there's nothing of consequence at stake.
>
If you wish. But since you are usually fairly liberal about these
things, I expected you to accept any of 3, 4, or 5.
[1] Note that even "sovereign country" is a slippery concept, although
that slipperiness doesn't come into play here. But are Transnistria,
Somaliland, Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Kosovo, and
Northern Cyprus sovereign countries?
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Dan Tilque
John Masters
All I can say is I'm glad I answered 2.
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Calvin
wrote:
> 3 is a correct answer only in that it was Calvin's expected answer when
> he posed it. Otherwise it's wrong.
The difficulty is that I had already marked them right. I am reluctant to
then take away points from those who answered 3 because I got it "wrong".
> If you wish. But since you are usually fairly liberal about these
> things, I expected you to accept any of 3, 4, or 5.
Normally I would but two people spoke against that motion.
I'll try to be more careful with my questions in future.
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