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Calvin
Nov 13, 2011, 7:08:59 PM11/13/11
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Here's a harder set just for a change.
1 Canadian / American Douglas Kirkland (b 1934) is best known for his
achievements in which field of the arts?
2 Aironi and Benneton Treviso are professional Italian club teams
competing in which sport?
3 Jeremy Irons won a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of which
Danish-born British socialite in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune?
4 To determine which property of a celestial object, generally a star, is
it necessary to assume that it is 10 parsecs (approximately 32.6 light
years) from the observer?
5 The idiomatic phrase "These go to 11", meaning that something is being
exploited up to or even beyond its limits, originated in which 1984
mockumentary?
6 Which analogue television encoding system is used throughout North and
Central America, Japan and South Korea, and is the equivalent of the PAL
or SECAM formats used in other countries?
7 Parts of which island have been variously ruled by the Netherlands,
Germany, Britain and Australia among others?
8 Which American guitarist and singer (1911-1938) didn't achieve
commercial success until the 1961 release of a compilation album titled
"King of the Delta Blues Singers"?
9 What does the acronym GDH, first coined in 1972 by the King of Bhutan in
an attempt to subjectively measure the quality of his citizens' lives,
stand for?
10 From the Latin for "winged feet', what term refers to various
semi-aquatic mammals including seals, walruses and sea loins?
--
cheers,
calvin
Pete
Nov 13, 2011, 8:18:31 PM11/13/11
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Calvin <cal...@phlegm.com> wrote in
news:op.v4wtc...@04233-26jz62s.staff.ad.bond.edu.au:
>
> Here's a harder set just for a change.
>
> 1 Canadian / American Douglas Kirkland (b 1934) is best known for
> his achievements in which field of the arts?
Painting
> 2 Aironi and Benneton Treviso are professional Italian club teams
> competing in which sport?
Basketball
> 3 Jeremy Irons won a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of which
> Danish-born British socialite in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune?
> 4 To determine which property of a celestial object, generally a
> star, is it necessary to assume that it is 10 parsecs (approximately
> 32.6 light years) from the observer?
> 5 The idiomatic phrase "These go to 11", meaning that something is
> being exploited up to or even beyond its limits, originated in which
> 1984 mockumentary?
This Is Spinal Tap
> 6 Which analogue television encoding system is used throughout
> North and Central America, Japan and South Korea, and is the
> equivalent of the PAL or SECAM formats used in other countries?
NTSC
> 7 Parts of which island have been variously ruled by the
> Netherlands, Germany, Britain and Australia among others?
Papua New Guinea
> 8 Which American guitarist and singer (1911-1938) didn't achieve
> commercial success until the 1961 release of a compilation album
> titled "King of the Delta Blues Singers"?
Robert Johnson
> 9 What does the acronym GDH, first coined in 1972 by the King of
> Bhutan in an attempt to subjectively measure the quality of his
> citizens' lives, stand for?
> 10 From the Latin for "winged feet', what term refers to various
> semi-aquatic mammals including seals, walruses and sea loins?
Pinnipeds
>
Pete
news:op.v4wtc...@04233-26jz62s.staff.ad.bond.edu.au:
>
> Here's a harder set just for a change.
>
> 1 Canadian / American Douglas Kirkland (b 1934) is best known for
> his achievements in which field of the arts?
> 2 Aironi and Benneton Treviso are professional Italian club teams
> competing in which sport?
> 3 Jeremy Irons won a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of which
> Danish-born British socialite in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune?
> 4 To determine which property of a celestial object, generally a
> star, is it necessary to assume that it is 10 parsecs (approximately
> 32.6 light years) from the observer?
> 5 The idiomatic phrase "These go to 11", meaning that something is
> being exploited up to or even beyond its limits, originated in which
> 1984 mockumentary?
> 6 Which analogue television encoding system is used throughout
> North and Central America, Japan and South Korea, and is the
> equivalent of the PAL or SECAM formats used in other countries?
> 7 Parts of which island have been variously ruled by the
> Netherlands, Germany, Britain and Australia among others?
> 8 Which American guitarist and singer (1911-1938) didn't achieve
> commercial success until the 1961 release of a compilation album
> titled "King of the Delta Blues Singers"?
> 9 What does the acronym GDH, first coined in 1972 by the King of
> Bhutan in an attempt to subjectively measure the quality of his
> citizens' lives, stand for?
> 10 From the Latin for "winged feet', what term refers to various
> semi-aquatic mammals including seals, walruses and sea loins?
>
Pete
Marc Dashevsky
Nov 14, 2011, 12:25:14 AM11/14/11
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In article <op.v4wtc...@04233-26jz62s.staff.ad.bond.edu.au>, cal...@phlegm.com says...
> 4 To determine which property of a celestial object, generally a star, is it necessary to assume that it is 10 parsecs (approximately 32.6 light years) from the observer?
mass
> 5 The idiomatic phrase "These go to 11", meaning that something is being exploited up to or even beyond its limits, originated in which 1984 mockumentary?
This Is Spinal Tap
> 6 Which analogue television encoding system is used throughout North and Central America, Japan and South Korea, and is the equivalent of the PAL or SECAM formats used in other countries?
NTSC
> 7 Parts of which island have been variously ruled by the Netherlands, Germany, Britain and Australia among others?
Java
> 8 Which American guitarist and singer (1911-1938) didn't achieve commercial success until the 1961 release of a compilation album titled "King of the Delta Blues Singers"?
Robert Johnson
> 9 What does the acronym GDH, first coined in 1972 by the King of Bhutan in an attempt to subjectively measure the quality of his citizens' lives, stand for?
Gross Domestic Happiness
> 10 From the Latin for "winged feet', what term refers to various semi-aquatic mammals including seals, walruses and sea loins?
pinniped
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>
> Here's a harder set just for a change.
>
> 1 Canadian / American Douglas Kirkland (b 1934) is best known for his achievements in which field of the arts?
> 2 Aironi and Benneton Treviso are professional Italian club teams competing in which sport?
> 3 Jeremy Irons won a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of which Danish-born British socialite in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune?
Klaus von Bulow
> Here's a harder set just for a change.
>
> 1 Canadian / American Douglas Kirkland (b 1934) is best known for his achievements in which field of the arts?
> 2 Aironi and Benneton Treviso are professional Italian club teams competing in which sport?
> 3 Jeremy Irons won a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of which Danish-born British socialite in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune?
> 4 To determine which property of a celestial object, generally a star, is it necessary to assume that it is 10 parsecs (approximately 32.6 light years) from the observer?
> 5 The idiomatic phrase "These go to 11", meaning that something is being exploited up to or even beyond its limits, originated in which 1984 mockumentary?
> 6 Which analogue television encoding system is used throughout North and Central America, Japan and South Korea, and is the equivalent of the PAL or SECAM formats used in other countries?
> 7 Parts of which island have been variously ruled by the Netherlands, Germany, Britain and Australia among others?
> 8 Which American guitarist and singer (1911-1938) didn't achieve commercial success until the 1961 release of a compilation album titled "King of the Delta Blues Singers"?
> 9 What does the acronym GDH, first coined in 1972 by the King of Bhutan in an attempt to subjectively measure the quality of his citizens' lives, stand for?
> 10 From the Latin for "winged feet', what term refers to various semi-aquatic mammals including seals, walruses and sea loins?
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Chris F.A. Johnson
Nov 14, 2011, 2:27:57 AM11/14/11
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On 2011-11-14, Calvin wrote:
>
> Here's a harder set just for a change.
>
> 1 Canadian / American Douglas Kirkland (b 1934) is best known for his
> achievements in which field of the arts?
Photography
>
> Here's a harder set just for a change.
>
> 1 Canadian / American Douglas Kirkland (b 1934) is best known for his
> achievements in which field of the arts?
> 2 Aironi and Benneton Treviso are professional Italian club teams
> competing in which sport?
> 3 Jeremy Irons won a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of which
> Danish-born British socialite in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune?
I could lay my hands on!)
> 4 To determine which property of a celestial object, generally a star, is
> it necessary to assume that it is 10 parsecs (approximately 32.6 light
> years) from the observer?
> 5 The idiomatic phrase "These go to 11", meaning that something is being
> exploited up to or even beyond its limits, originated in which 1984
> mockumentary?
> 6 Which analogue television encoding system is used throughout North and
> Central America, Japan and South Korea, and is the equivalent of the PAL
> or SECAM formats used in other countries?
> 7 Parts of which island have been variously ruled by the Netherlands,
> Germany, Britain and Australia among others?
> 8 Which American guitarist and singer (1911-1938) didn't achieve
> commercial success until the 1961 release of a compilation album titled
> "King of the Delta Blues Singers"?
> 9 What does the acronym GDH, first coined in 1972 by the King of Bhutan in
> an attempt to subjectively measure the quality of his citizens' lives,
> stand for?
> 10 From the Latin for "winged feet', what term refers to various
> semi-aquatic mammals including seals, walruses and sea loins?
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Dan Tilque
Nov 14, 2011, 2:44:20 AM11/14/11
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Calvin wrote:
>
> Here's a harder set just for a change.
>
> 1 Canadian / American Douglas Kirkland (b 1934) is best known for his
> achievements in which field of the arts?
music
>
> Here's a harder set just for a change.
>
> 1 Canadian / American Douglas Kirkland (b 1934) is best known for his
> achievements in which field of the arts?
> 2 Aironi and Benneton Treviso are professional Italian club teams
> competing in which sport?
> 3 Jeremy Irons won a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of which
> Danish-born British socialite in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune?
> 4 To determine which property of a celestial object, generally a
> star, is it necessary to assume that it is 10 parsecs (approximately
> 32.6 light years) from the observer?
> 5 The idiomatic phrase "These go to 11", meaning that something is
> being exploited up to or even beyond its limits, originated in which
> 1984 mockumentary?
> 6 Which analogue television encoding system is used throughout North
> and Central America, Japan and South Korea, and is the equivalent of the
> PAL or SECAM formats used in other countries?
> 7 Parts of which island have been variously ruled by the Netherlands,
> Germany, Britain and Australia among others?
> 8 Which American guitarist and singer (1911-1938) didn't achieve
> commercial success until the 1961 release of a compilation album titled
> "King of the Delta Blues Singers"?
> 9 What does the acronym GDH, first coined in 1972 by the King of
> Bhutan in an attempt to subjectively measure the quality of his
> citizens' lives, stand for?
> 10 From the Latin for "winged feet', what term refers to various
> semi-aquatic mammals including seals, walruses and sea loins?
--
Dan Tilque
"I can't believe this. Trapped in Ryoval's basement with a sex-starved
teenage werewolf. There was nothing about this in any of my Imperial
Academy training manuals..."
-- "Labyrinth", Lois McMaster Bujold
Erland Sommarskog
Nov 14, 2011, 3:13:02 AM11/14/11
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Calvin (cal...@phlegm.com) writes:
> 2 Aironi and Benneton Treviso are professional Italian club teams
> competing in which sport?
Bicycling
> 2 Aironi and Benneton Treviso are professional Italian club teams
> competing in which sport?
> 3 Jeremy Irons won a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of which
> Danish-born British socialite in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune?
> 7 Parts of which island have been variously ruled by the Netherlands,
> Germany, Britain and Australia among others?
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se
swp
Nov 14, 2011, 2:49:27 PM11/14/11
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On Sunday, November 13, 2011 7:08:59 PM UTC-5, Calvin wrote:
> Here's a harder set just for a change.
>
> 1 Canadian / American Douglas Kirkland (b 1934) is best known for his
> achievements in which field of the arts?
photographer
> Here's a harder set just for a change.
>
> 1 Canadian / American Douglas Kirkland (b 1934) is best known for his
> achievements in which field of the arts?
> 2 Aironi and Benneton Treviso are professional Italian club teams
> competing in which sport?
> 3 Jeremy Irons won a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of which
> Danish-born British socialite in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune?
> 4 To determine which property of a celestial object, generally a star, is
> it necessary to assume that it is 10 parsecs (approximately 32.6 light
> years) from the observer?
> 5 The idiomatic phrase "These go to 11", meaning that something is being
> exploited up to or even beyond its limits, originated in which 1984
> mockumentary?
> 6 Which analogue television encoding system is used throughout North and
> Central America, Japan and South Korea, and is the equivalent of the PAL
> or SECAM formats used in other countries?
> 7 Parts of which island have been variously ruled by the Netherlands,
> Germany, Britain and Australia among others?
> 8 Which American guitarist and singer (1911-1938) didn't achieve
> commercial success until the 1961 release of a compilation album titled
> "King of the Delta Blues Singers"?
> 9 What does the acronym GDH, first coined in 1972 by the King of Bhutan in
> an attempt to subjectively measure the quality of his citizens' lives,
> stand for?
> 10 From the Latin for "winged feet', what term refers to various
> semi-aquatic mammals including seals, walruses and sea loins?
hmmm, you were right, this was hard. way too many guesses.
swp
Stan Brown
Nov 14, 2011, 8:39:32 PM11/14/11
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On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:08:59 +1000, Calvin wrote:
>
> Here's a harder set just for a change.
>
> 1 Canadian / American Douglas Kirkland (b 1934) is best known for his
> achievements in which field of the arts?
Acting
>
> Here's a harder set just for a change.
>
> 1 Canadian / American Douglas Kirkland (b 1934) is best known for his
> achievements in which field of the arts?
> 2 Aironi and Benneton Treviso are professional Italian club teams
> competing in which sport?
> 3 Jeremy Irons won a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of which
> Danish-born British socialite in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune?
> 4 To determine which property of a celestial object, generally a star, is
> it necessary to assume that it is 10 parsecs (approximately 32.6 light
> years) from the observer?
Answer to the question I think you meant to ask: absolute magnitude
or luminosity.
> 5 The idiomatic phrase "These go to 11", meaning that something is being
> exploited up to or even beyond its limits, originated in which 1984
> mockumentary?
> 6 Which analogue television encoding system is used throughout North and
> Central America, Japan and South Korea, and is the equivalent of the PAL
> or SECAM formats used in other countries?
> 7 Parts of which island have been variously ruled by the Netherlands,
> Germany, Britain and Australia among others?
> 8 Which American guitarist and singer (1911-1938) didn't achieve
> commercial success until the 1961 release of a compilation album titled
> "King of the Delta Blues Singers"?
> 9 What does the acronym GDH, first coined in 1972 by the King of Bhutan in
> an attempt to subjectively measure the quality of his citizens' lives,
> stand for?
> 10 From the Latin for "winged feet', what term refers to various
> semi-aquatic mammals including seals, walruses and sea loins?
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Shikata ga nai...
Rob Parker
Nov 14, 2011, 9:26:48 PM11/14/11
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> 1 Canadian / American Douglas Kirkland (b 1934) is best known for his
> achievements in which field of the arts?
music (?)
> achievements in which field of the arts?
> 2 Aironi and Benneton Treviso are professional Italian club teams
> competing in which sport?
> 3 Jeremy Irons won a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of which
> Danish-born British socialite in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune?
> 4 To determine which property of a celestial object, generally a star, is
> it necessary to assume that it is 10 parsecs (approximately 32.6 light
> years) from the observer?
> 5 The idiomatic phrase "These go to 11", meaning that something is being
> exploited up to or even beyond its limits, originated in which 1984
> mockumentary?
> 6 Which analogue television encoding system is used throughout North and
> Central America, Japan and South Korea, and is the equivalent of the PAL
> or SECAM formats used in other countries?
> 7 Parts of which island have been variously ruled by the Netherlands,
> Germany, Britain and Australia among others?
> 8 Which American guitarist and singer (1911-1938) didn't achieve
> commercial success until the 1961 release of a compilation album titled
> "King of the Delta Blues Singers"?
> 9 What does the acronym GDH, first coined in 1972 by the King of Bhutan in
> an attempt to subjectively measure the quality of his citizens' lives,
> stand for?
> 10 From the Latin for "winged feet', what term refers to various
> semi-aquatic mammals including seals, walruses and sea loins?
Rob
David B
Nov 15, 2011, 10:50:33 AM11/15/11
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Calvin, could you take the chair on the rotation Quiz please?
_______________________________
> 1 Canadian / American Douglas Kirkland (b 1934) is best known for his
> achievements in which field of the arts?
Acting?
> 2 Aironi and Benneton Treviso are professional Italian club teams
> competing in which sport?
Cycling?
> 4 To determine which property of a celestial object, generally a star,
> is it necessary to assume that it is 10 parsecs (approximately 32.6 light
> years) from the observer?
Brightness.
> 5 The idiomatic phrase "These go to 11", meaning that something is
> being exploited up to or even beyond its limits, originated in which 1984
> mockumentary?
Spinal Tap.
> 6 Which analogue television encoding system is used throughout North
> and Central America, Japan and South Korea, and is the equivalent of the
> PAL or SECAM formats used in other countries?
NTSC.
> 9 What does the acronym GDH, first coined in 1972 by the King of Bhutan
> in an attempt to subjectively measure the quality of his citizens' lives,
> stand for?
Gross Domestic Harmony?
> 10 From the Latin for "winged feet', what term refers to various
> semi-aquatic mammals including seals, walruses and sea loins?
Pinnipeds.
_______________________________
> 1 Canadian / American Douglas Kirkland (b 1934) is best known for his
> achievements in which field of the arts?
> 2 Aironi and Benneton Treviso are professional Italian club teams
> competing in which sport?
> 4 To determine which property of a celestial object, generally a star,
> is it necessary to assume that it is 10 parsecs (approximately 32.6 light
> years) from the observer?
> 5 The idiomatic phrase "These go to 11", meaning that something is
> being exploited up to or even beyond its limits, originated in which 1984
> mockumentary?
> 6 Which analogue television encoding system is used throughout North
> and Central America, Japan and South Korea, and is the equivalent of the
> PAL or SECAM formats used in other countries?
> 9 What does the acronym GDH, first coined in 1972 by the King of Bhutan
> in an attempt to subjectively measure the quality of his citizens' lives,
> stand for?
> 10 From the Latin for "winged feet', what term refers to various
> semi-aquatic mammals including seals, walruses and sea loins?
Mark Brader
Nov 15, 2011, 8:04:36 PM11/15/11
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"Calvin":
> 2 Aironi and Benneton Treviso are professional Italian club teams
competing in which sport?
Car racing?
> 3 Jeremy Irons won a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of which
> Danish-born British socialite in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune?
Von Bulow.
> 4 To determine which property of a celestial object, generally a star, is
> it necessary to assume that it is 10 parsecs (approximately 32.6 light
> years) from the observer?
Absolute magnitude.
> 5 The idiomatic phrase "These go to 11", meaning that something is being
> exploited up to or even beyond its limits, originated in which 1984
> mockumentary?
Funny, a version of that one was one of my questions in last night's
Canadian Inquisition game. I got it then too. "This is Spinal Tap".
> 6 Which analogue television encoding system is used throughout North and
> Central America, Japan and South Korea, and is the equivalent of the PAL
> or SECAM formats used in other countries?
NTSC.
> 7 Parts of which island have been variously ruled by the Netherlands,
> Germany, Britain and Australia among others?
New Guinea.
> 8 Which American guitarist and singer (1911-1938) didn't achieve
> commercial success until the 1961 release of a compilation album titled
> "King of the Delta Blues Singers"?
> 9 What does the acronym GDH, first coined in 1972 by the King of Bhutan in
> an attempt to subjectively measure the quality of his citizens' lives,
> stand for?
> 10 From the Latin for "winged feet', what term refers to various
> semi-aquatic mammals including seals, walruses and sea loins?
Pinniped.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "We did not try to keep writing until
m...@vex.net | things got full." --Dennis Ritchie
My text in this article is in the public domain.
> 1 Canadian / American Douglas Kirkland (b 1934) is best known for his
> achievements in which field of the arts?
Film?
> achievements in which field of the arts?
> 2 Aironi and Benneton Treviso are professional Italian club teams
competing in which sport?
> 3 Jeremy Irons won a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of which
> Danish-born British socialite in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune?
> 4 To determine which property of a celestial object, generally a star, is
> it necessary to assume that it is 10 parsecs (approximately 32.6 light
> years) from the observer?
> 5 The idiomatic phrase "These go to 11", meaning that something is being
> exploited up to or even beyond its limits, originated in which 1984
> mockumentary?
Canadian Inquisition game. I got it then too. "This is Spinal Tap".
> 6 Which analogue television encoding system is used throughout North and
> Central America, Japan and South Korea, and is the equivalent of the PAL
> or SECAM formats used in other countries?
> 7 Parts of which island have been variously ruled by the Netherlands,
> Germany, Britain and Australia among others?
> 8 Which American guitarist and singer (1911-1938) didn't achieve
> commercial success until the 1961 release of a compilation album titled
> "King of the Delta Blues Singers"?
> 9 What does the acronym GDH, first coined in 1972 by the King of Bhutan in
> an attempt to subjectively measure the quality of his citizens' lives,
> stand for?
> 10 From the Latin for "winged feet', what term refers to various
> semi-aquatic mammals including seals, walruses and sea loins?
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "We did not try to keep writing until
m...@vex.net | things got full." --Dennis Ritchie
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Calvin
Nov 15, 2011, 8:10:52 PM11/15/11
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On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:04:36 +1000, Mark Brader <m...@vex.net> wrote:
> Funny, a version of that one was one of my questions in last night's
> Canadian Inquisition game. I got it then too. "This is Spinal Tap".
I've had 'Shylock was a character in which Shakespeare play" three times
> Funny, a version of that one was one of my questions in last night's
> Canadian Inquisition game. I got it then too. "This is Spinal Tap".
in the past two weeks.
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cheers,
calvin
Peter Smyth
Nov 16, 2011, 4:03:49 PM11/16/11
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Peter Smyth
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>
>
>Here's a harder set just for a change.
>
>1 Canadian / American Douglas Kirkland (b 1934) is best known for his
>achievements in which field of the arts?
Photography
>
>Here's a harder set just for a change.
>
>1 Canadian / American Douglas Kirkland (b 1934) is best known for his
>achievements in which field of the arts?
>2 Aironi and Benneton Treviso are professional Italian club teams
>competing in which sport?
Rugby Union
>competing in which sport?
>3 Jeremy Irons won a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of which
>Danish-born British socialite in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune?
Prince Phillip
>Danish-born British socialite in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune?
>4 To determine which property of a celestial object, generally a star, is
>it necessary to assume that it is 10 parsecs (approximately 32.6 light
>years) from the observer?
parallax
>it necessary to assume that it is 10 parsecs (approximately 32.6 light
>years) from the observer?
>5 The idiomatic phrase "These go to 11", meaning that something is being
>exploited up to or even beyond its limits, originated in which 1984
>mockumentary?
This is Spinal Tap
>exploited up to or even beyond its limits, originated in which 1984
>mockumentary?
>6 Which analogue television encoding system is used throughout North and
>Central America, Japan and South Korea, and is the equivalent of the PAL
>or SECAM formats used in other countries?
NTSC
>Central America, Japan and South Korea, and is the equivalent of the PAL
>or SECAM formats used in other countries?
>7 Parts of which island have been variously ruled by the Netherlands,
>Germany, Britain and Australia among others?
New Guinea
>Germany, Britain and Australia among others?
>8 Which American guitarist and singer (1911-1938) didn't achieve
>commercial success until the 1961 release of a compilation album titled
>"King of the Delta Blues Singers"?
>9 What does the acronym GDH, first coined in 1972 by the King of Bhutan in
>an attempt to subjectively measure the quality of his citizens' lives,
>stand for?
Gross Domestic Happiness
>commercial success until the 1961 release of a compilation album titled
>"King of the Delta Blues Singers"?
>9 What does the acronym GDH, first coined in 1972 by the King of Bhutan in
>an attempt to subjectively measure the quality of his citizens' lives,
>stand for?
>10 From the Latin for "winged feet', what term refers to various
>semi-aquatic mammals including seals, walruses and sea loins?
pinnipeds
>semi-aquatic mammals including seals, walruses and sea loins?
Peter Smyth
Calvin
Nov 16, 2011, 6:22:18 PM11/16/11
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On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:08:59 +1000, Calvin <cal...@phlegm.com> wrote:
>
> Here's a harder set just for a change.
I hope you enjoyed them.
>
> Here's a harder set just for a change.
> 1 Canadian / American Douglas Kirkland (b 1934) is best known for his
> achievements in which field of the arts?
3/11
> 2 Aironi and Benneton Treviso are professional Italian club teams
> competing in which sport?
1/11
Well done Peter
> 3 Jeremy Irons won a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of which
> Danish-born British socialite in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune?
5/11
Was Prince Phillip a serious answer???
> 4 To determine which property of a celestial object, generally a star,
> is it necessary to assume that it is 10 parsecs (approximately 32.6
> light years) from the observer?
5/11
I paid 0.5 for "Magnitude". My generosity knows no bounds.
> 5 The idiomatic phrase "These go to 11", meaning that something is being
> exploited up to or even beyond its limits, originated in which 1984
> mockumentary?
9/11
> 6 Which analogue television encoding system is used throughout North and
> Central America, Japan and South Korea, and is the equivalent of the PAL
> or SECAM formats used in other countries?
10/11
> 7 Parts of which island have been variously ruled by the Netherlands,
> Germany, Britain and Australia among others?
7/11
"Papua New Guinea" scored half. That is the country currently occupying
the eastern half of the island, not the island itself.
> 8 Which American guitarist and singer (1911-1938) didn't achieve
> commercial success until the 1961 release of a compilation album titled
> "King of the Delta Blues Singers"?
5/11
> 9 What does the acronym GDH, first coined in 1972 by the King of Bhutan
> in an attempt to subjectively measure the quality of his citizens'
> lives, stand for?
7/11
> 10 From the Latin for "winged feet', what term refers to various
> semi-aquatic mammals including seals, walruses and sea loins?
6.5/11
Rob's unorthodox spelling scored half
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL Quiz 178
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1 0 1 0.5 1 1 0.5 1 1 0 7 Chris Johnson
1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 7 Peter Smyth
1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 7 Stephen Perry
0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 6 Marc Dashevsky
0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 6 Mark Brader
0 0 0 0.5 1 1 1 1 1 0.5 6 Rob Parker
0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 6 Stan Brown
0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 5 Dan Tilque
0 0 0 0 1 1 0.5 1 0 1 4.5 Pete Gayde
0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 3 David Brown
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 Erland S
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3 1 5 5 9 10 7 5 7 6.5 58.5 53%
Congratulations Chris, Peter and Stephen. I'll have to made them harder
still :-)
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cheers,
calvin
Mark Brader
Nov 16, 2011, 6:38:59 PM11/16/11
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"Calvin":
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> > 4 To determine which property of a celestial object, generally a star,
> > is it necessary to assume that it is 10 parsecs (approximately 32.6
> > light years) from the observer?
>
> Absolute Magnitude
> 5/11
> I paid 0.5 for "Magnitude". My generosity knows no bounds.
Indeed.
> > is it necessary to assume that it is 10 parsecs (approximately 32.6
> > light years) from the observer?
>
> Absolute Magnitude
> 5/11
> I paid 0.5 for "Magnitude". My generosity knows no bounds.
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