barring mistakes on my part, the winner is ... Dan Tilque!!
congratulations Dan! very well done. D! A! N! DAN! DAN! DAN!
rq 228 is yours to with with as you please.
and now, the expected answers...
1. in England on March 17, 1845, who patented the rubber band?
stephen perry
2. what is the largest river flowing into the Adriatic Sea?
po
3. who is cambridge university's lucasian professor of mathematics?
michael cates, who replaced michael green in 2015, who replaced stephen hawking in 2009
4. which great lake is the only one with its bottom above sea level?
lake erie
5. in what state is auburn university located?
alabama
6. how many provinces does china have?
23
7. this german statesman was nicknamed 'die alte'
konrad adenauer
8. cosmonaut sergei krikalev spent nearly a year aboard this space station
mir
9. what is the name of the former abc news anchorman who is from toronto?
peter jennings
10. 'hands across america' tried to form a human chain from one end of the U.S. to the other. what year?
1986
11. what is the biological classification between family & species?
genus
12. who was the first golfer to earn more than $100,000 in a single year?
arnold palmer
and the answer slate:
name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 total
---------- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -----
DanB 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 5
MarkB 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 4
Erland 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 3
Gareth 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 4
Chris 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 5
Peter 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 3
DanT 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 7
Pete 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 4
Calvin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
MarcD 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 5
---------- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -----
totals 0 4 0 3 5 1 4 7 5 1 7 4 41
the first question was not meant to be a stumper.
I thought the third might be.
swp