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Calvin
May 25, 2017, 2:05:38 AM5/25/17
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My apologies RGTers. I went to mark this quiz only to discover I hadn't posted it!
1 Who was the American President when man first walked on the moon?
2 Passing thought China, India and Bangladesh, what is the tenth largest river in the world (by water flow)?
3 Which Frenchwoman is currently managing director of the International Monetary Fund?
4 What, according to Charles M Schultz, constitutes happiness?
5 Name any of the 3 Shakespeare plays in which Sir John Falstaff appears.
6 What does an upside-down flag traditionally signal?
7 What physical feature do anteaters such as the echidna and armadillo lack that virtually all other mammals possess?
8 What fictional substance is also the tile of a 1997 remake of the 1961 film "The Absent-Minded Professor"?
9 Extending from the lumbar to the back to the thighs, which is the longest nerve in the human body?
10 Which 1988 Tim Burton comedy fantasy film won the best makeup Oscar in 1989?
cheers,
calvin
1 Who was the American President when man first walked on the moon?
2 Passing thought China, India and Bangladesh, what is the tenth largest river in the world (by water flow)?
3 Which Frenchwoman is currently managing director of the International Monetary Fund?
4 What, according to Charles M Schultz, constitutes happiness?
5 Name any of the 3 Shakespeare plays in which Sir John Falstaff appears.
6 What does an upside-down flag traditionally signal?
7 What physical feature do anteaters such as the echidna and armadillo lack that virtually all other mammals possess?
8 What fictional substance is also the tile of a 1997 remake of the 1961 film "The Absent-Minded Professor"?
9 Extending from the lumbar to the back to the thighs, which is the longest nerve in the human body?
10 Which 1988 Tim Burton comedy fantasy film won the best makeup Oscar in 1989?
cheers,
calvin
Gareth Owen
May 25, 2017, 2:25:35 AM5/25/17
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Calvin <334...@gmail.com> writes:
> My apologies RGTers. I went to mark this quiz only to discover I
> hadn't posted it!
>
> 1 Who was the American President when man first walked on the moon?
Nixon
> My apologies RGTers. I went to mark this quiz only to discover I
> hadn't posted it!
>
> 1 Who was the American President when man first walked on the moon?
> 2 Passing thought China, India and Bangladesh, what is the tenth
> largest river in the world (by water flow)?
> 3 Which Frenchwoman is currently managing director of the
> International Monetary Fund?
> 4 What, according to Charles M Schultz, constitutes happiness?
> 5 Name any of the 3 Shakespeare plays in which Sir John Falstaff
> appears.
> 6 What does an upside-down flag traditionally signal?
> 7 What physical feature do anteaters such as the echidna and armadillo
> lack that virtually all other mammals possess?
> 8 What fictional substance is also the tile of a 1997 remake of the
> 1961 film "The Absent-Minded Professor"?
> 9 Extending from the lumbar to the back to the thighs, which is the
> longest nerve in the human body?
> 10 Which 1988 Tim Burton comedy fantasy film won the best makeup Oscar
> in 1989?
Mark Brader
May 25, 2017, 4:20:04 AM5/25/17
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"Calvin":
responses to MSBKO6 Round 10!
> 1 Who was the American President when man first walked on the moon?
Nixon.
> 2 Passing thought China, India and Bangladesh, what is the tenth largest
> river in the world (by water flow)?
Ganges. Nice typo there.
> 3 Which Frenchwoman is currently managing director of the International
> Monetary Fund?
L'Argent. :-)
> 4 What, according to Charles M Schultz, constitutes happiness?
A warm puppy.
> 5 Name any of the 3 Shakespeare plays in which Sir John Falstaff appears.
Oh dear. I think they're some of the Henry IV-VI plays, but which ones
are in how many parts? I'll try "Henry V" with no part number.
> 6 What does an upside-down flag traditionally signal?
Distress. Or so it is claimed, but you know, there are quite a lot of
flags out there that when inverted either look the same (e.g. France),
or almost the same (e.g. UK), or like the flag of another country (e.g.
Indonesia). So...
> 7 What physical feature do anteaters such as the echidna and armadillo
> lack that virtually all other mammals possess?
Scaly armor.
> 8 What fictional substance is also the tile of a 1997 remake of the 1961
> film "The Absent-Minded Professor"?
Flubber.
> 9 Extending from the lumbar to the back to the thighs, which is the
> longest nerve in the human body?
Sciatic.
> 10 Which 1988 Tim Burton comedy fantasy film won the best makeup Oscar in 1989?
"Beetlejuice".
--
Mark Brader | "You guys have your own pagan religion...
Toronto | Instead of sacrificing sheep, you sacrifice sleep."
m...@vex.net | -- John Cramer
My text in this article is in the public domain.
> My apologies RGTers. I went to mark this quiz only to discover I hadn't
> posted it!
I had a similar reaction when checking to see if there'd been any quick
> posted it!
responses to MSBKO6 Round 10!
> 1 Who was the American President when man first walked on the moon?
> 2 Passing thought China, India and Bangladesh, what is the tenth largest
> river in the world (by water flow)?
> 3 Which Frenchwoman is currently managing director of the International
> Monetary Fund?
> 4 What, according to Charles M Schultz, constitutes happiness?
> 5 Name any of the 3 Shakespeare plays in which Sir John Falstaff appears.
are in how many parts? I'll try "Henry V" with no part number.
> 6 What does an upside-down flag traditionally signal?
flags out there that when inverted either look the same (e.g. France),
or almost the same (e.g. UK), or like the flag of another country (e.g.
Indonesia). So...
> 7 What physical feature do anteaters such as the echidna and armadillo
> lack that virtually all other mammals possess?
> 8 What fictional substance is also the tile of a 1997 remake of the 1961
> film "The Absent-Minded Professor"?
> 9 Extending from the lumbar to the back to the thighs, which is the
> longest nerve in the human body?
> 10 Which 1988 Tim Burton comedy fantasy film won the best makeup Oscar in 1989?
--
Mark Brader | "You guys have your own pagan religion...
Toronto | Instead of sacrificing sheep, you sacrifice sleep."
m...@vex.net | -- John Cramer
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Erland Sommarskog
May 25, 2017, 5:40:11 AM5/25/17
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Calvin (334...@gmail.com) writes:
> 1 Who was the American President when man first walked on the moon?
Richard Millhouse Nixon
> 1 Who was the American President when man first walked on the moon?
> 2 Passing thought China, India and Bangladesh, what is the tenth
> largest river in the world (by water flow)?
> 3 Which Frenchwoman is currently managing director of the
> International Monetary Fund?
> 5 Name any of the 3 Shakespeare plays in which Sir John Falstaff
> appears.
> 6 What does an upside-down flag traditionally signal?
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se
Dan Tilque
May 25, 2017, 5:45:33 AM5/25/17
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Calvin wrote:
> My apologies RGTers. I went to mark this quiz only to discover I hadn't posted it!
>
> 1 Who was the American President when man first walked on the moon?
Nixon
> My apologies RGTers. I went to mark this quiz only to discover I hadn't posted it!
>
> 1 Who was the American President when man first walked on the moon?
> 2 Passing thought China, India and Bangladesh, what is the tenth largest river in the world (by water flow)?
> 3 Which Frenchwoman is currently managing director of the International Monetary Fund?
> 4 What, according to Charles M Schultz, constitutes happiness?
> 5 Name any of the 3 Shakespeare plays in which Sir John Falstaff appears.
> 6 What does an upside-down flag traditionally signal?
> 7 What physical feature do anteaters such as the echidna and armadillo lack that virtually all other mammals possess?
> 8 What fictional substance is also the tile of a 1997 remake of the 1961 film "The Absent-Minded Professor"?
> 9 Extending from the lumbar to the back to the thighs, which is the longest nerve in the human body?
> 10 Which 1988 Tim Burton comedy fantasy film won the best makeup Oscar in 1989?
Dan Tilque
Peter Smyth
May 25, 2017, 8:19:19 AM5/25/17
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Calvin wrote:
> 1 Who was the American President when man first walked on the moon?
Richard Nixon
> 1 Who was the American President when man first walked on the moon?
> 2 Passing thought China, India and Bangladesh, what is the tenth
> largest river in the world (by water flow)?
> 3 Which Frenchwoman is currently managing director of the
> International Monetary Fund?
> 4 What, according to Charles M Schultz, constitutes happiness?
> 5 Name any of the 3 Shakespeare plays in which Sir John Falstaff
> appears.
> 6 What does an upside-down flag traditionally signal?
> 7 What physical feature do anteaters such as the echidna and
> armadillo lack that virtually all other mammals possess?
> 8 What fictional substance is also the tile of a 1997 remake of the
> 1961 film "The Absent-Minded Professor"?
> 9 Extending from the lumbar to the back to the thighs, which is the
> longest nerve in the human body?
> 10 Which 1988 Tim Burton comedy fantasy film won the best makeup
> Oscar in 1989?
Peter Smyth
Dan Blum
May 25, 2017, 8:24:31 AM5/25/17
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Calvin <334...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1 Who was the American President when man first walked on the moon?
Nixon
> 1 Who was the American President when man first walked on the moon?
> 2 Passing thought China, India and Bangladesh, what is the tenth largest river in the world (by water flow)?
> 4 What, according to Charles M Schultz, constitutes happiness?
> 5 Name any of the 3 Shakespeare plays in which Sir John Falstaff appears.
> 6 What does an upside-down flag traditionally signal?
> 7 What physical feature do anteaters such as the echidna and armadillo lack that virtually all other mammals possess?
> 8 What fictional substance is also the tile of a 1997 remake of the 1961 film "The Absent-Minded Professor"?
> 9 Extending from the lumbar to the back to the thighs, which is the longest nerve in the human body?
> 10 Which 1988 Tim Burton comedy fantasy film won the best makeup Oscar in 1989?
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_______________________________________________________________________
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"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Bruce
May 25, 2017, 3:55:41 PM5/25/17
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On Wed, 24 May 2017 23:05:37 -0700, Calvin wrote:
> My apologies RGTers. I went to mark this quiz only to discover I hadn't
> posted it!
>
> 1 Who was the American President when man first walked on the moon?
Nixon?
> My apologies RGTers. I went to mark this quiz only to discover I hadn't
> posted it!
>
> 1 Who was the American President when man first walked on the moon?
> 2 Passing thought China, India and Bangladesh, what is the tenth
largest
> river in the world (by water flow)?
> 3 Which Frenchwoman is currently managing director of the
International
> Monetary Fund?
> 4 What, according to Charles M Schultz, constitutes happiness?
> 5 Name any of the 3 Shakespeare plays in which Sir John Falstaff
> appears.
> 6 What does an upside-down flag traditionally signal?
> 7 What physical feature do anteaters such as the echidna and
armadillo
> lack that virtually all other mammals possess?
> 8 What fictional substance is also the tile of a 1997 remake of the
1961
> film "The Absent-Minded Professor"?
> 9 Extending from the lumbar to the
> back to the thighs, which is the longest nerve in the human body?
> 10 Which 1988 Tim Burton comedy fantasy film won the best makeup Oscar
> in 1989?
swp
May 25, 2017, 8:25:43 PM5/25/17
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On Thursday, May 25, 2017 at 4:20:04 AM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:
> "Calvin":
> > My apologies RGTers. I went to mark this quiz only to discover I hadn't
> > posted it!
>
> I had a similar reaction when checking to see if there'd been any quick
> responses to MSBKO6 Round 10!
well, for certain values of 'quick'
> "Calvin":
> > My apologies RGTers. I went to mark this quiz only to discover I hadn't
> > posted it!
>
> I had a similar reaction when checking to see if there'd been any quick
> responses to MSBKO6 Round 10!
>
> > 7 What physical feature do anteaters such as the echidna and armadillo
> > lack that virtually all other mammals possess?
>
> Scaly armor.
> --
> Mark Brader | "You guys have your own pagan religion...
> Toronto | Instead of sacrificing sheep, you sacrifice sleep."
> m...@vex.net | -- John Cramer
>
> My text in this article is in the public domain.
Mark Brader
May 26, 2017, 12:08:35 AM5/26/17
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"Calvin":
>> Scaly armor.
Stephen Perry:
> *snort!*
Arrgh.
--
Mark Brader "Succeed, and you'll be remembered for a very long time.
Toronto Fail, and you'll be remembered even longer."
m...@vex.net -- Hel Faczel (John Barnes: ...the Martian King)
>>> 7 What physical feature do anteaters such as the echidna and armadillo
>>> lack that virtually all other mammals possess?
Mark Brader:
>>> lack that virtually all other mammals possess?
>> Scaly armor.
Stephen Perry:
> *snort!*
Arrgh.
--
Mark Brader "Succeed, and you'll be remembered for a very long time.
Toronto Fail, and you'll be remembered even longer."
m...@vex.net -- Hel Faczel (John Barnes: ...the Martian King)
Pete Gayde
May 27, 2017, 3:55:22 AM5/27/17
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Calvin <334...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:053e4e3e-a4ed-42af...@googlegroups.com:
> My apologies RGTers. I went to mark this quiz only to discover I
> hadn't posted it!
>
> 1 Who was the American President when man first walked on the
> moon?
Nixon
> 2 Passing thought China, India and Bangladesh, what is the
> tenth largest river in the world (by water flow)?
Ganges
> 3 Which
> Frenchwoman is currently managing director of the International
> Monetary Fund?
> 4 What, according to Charles M Schultz, constitutes happiness?
A Warm Puppy
> 5 Name any of the 3 Shakespeare plays in which Sir John
> Falstaff appears.
> 6 What does an upside-down flag traditionally signal?
> 7 What physical feature do anteaters such as the echidna
> and armadillo lack that virtually all other mammals possess?
> 8 What fictional substance is also the tile of a 1997 remake
> of the 1961 film "The Absent-Minded Professor"?
Flubber
> 9 Extending from the lumbar to
> the back to the thighs, which is the longest nerve in the human body?
Sciatic
> 10 Which 1988 Tim Burton comedy fantasy film won the best makeup
> Oscar in 1989?
>
> cheers,
> calvin
>
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Pete Gayde
news:053e4e3e-a4ed-42af...@googlegroups.com:
> My apologies RGTers. I went to mark this quiz only to discover I
> hadn't posted it!
>
> 1 Who was the American President when man first walked on the
> moon?
> 2 Passing thought China, India and Bangladesh, what is the
> tenth largest river in the world (by water flow)?
> 3 Which
> Frenchwoman is currently managing director of the International
> Monetary Fund?
> 4 What, according to Charles M Schultz, constitutes happiness?
> 5 Name any of the 3 Shakespeare plays in which Sir John
> Falstaff appears.
> 6 What does an upside-down flag traditionally signal?
> 7 What physical feature do anteaters such as the echidna
> and armadillo lack that virtually all other mammals possess?
> 8 What fictional substance is also the tile of a 1997 remake
> of the 1961 film "The Absent-Minded Professor"?
> 9 Extending from the lumbar to
> the back to the thighs, which is the longest nerve in the human body?
> 10 Which 1988 Tim Burton comedy fantasy film won the best makeup
> Oscar in 1989?
>
> cheers,
> calvin
>
> This email has been checked for viruses by AVG.
> http://www.avg.com
>
>
Pete Gayde
Calvin
May 30, 2017, 9:10:33 PM5/30/17
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On Thursday, May 25, 2017 at 4:05:38 PM UTC+10, Calvin wrote:
> 1 Who was the American President when man first walked on the moon?
Richard Milhous Nixon
> 1 Who was the American President when man first walked on the moon?
> 2 Passing thought China, India and Bangladesh, what is the tenth largest river in the world (by water flow)?
Singleton for Dan
> 3 Which Frenchwoman is currently managing director of the International Monetary Fund?
> 4 What, according to Charles M Schultz, constitutes happiness?
> 5 Name any of the 3 Shakespeare plays in which Sir John Falstaff appears.
> 6 What does an upside-down flag traditionally signal?
> 7 What physical feature do anteaters such as the echidna and armadillo lack that virtually all other mammals possess?
> 8 What fictional substance is also the tile of a 1997 remake of the 1961 film "The Absent-Minded Professor"?
> 9 Extending from the lumbar to the back to the thighs, which is the longest nerve in the human body?
> 10 Which 1988 Tim Burton comedy fantasy film won the best makeup Oscar in 1989?
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 487
1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 44 Dan Blum
1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 6 33 Dan Tilque
1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 6 38 Mark Brader
1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 6 38 Bruce Bowler
0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 5 30 Marc Dashevsky
1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 20 Peter Smyth
1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 4 26 Pete Gayde
1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 4 27 Gareth Owen
1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 10 Erland S
- - - - - - - - - - --- ----------
8 1 2 6 3 7 2 7 5 5 46 51%
That was a tough set, and an outstanding performance from Dan B.
cheers,
calvin
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