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Calvin
Dec 11, 2017, 11:16:01 PM12/11/17
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Hi everyone
usual rules- use your own knowledge only and post a single reply here within the next seven days. Good luck!
1 Which Australian rock band had hits with "April Sun in Cuba" (1977) and "Are You Old Enough?" (1978)?
2 Which six-letter word can mean to wedge something, an alcoholic spirit, a cut or score the skin, or to decisively end?
3 What links Bob Hope, Henry Winkler, Dwight Eisenhower, James Watson and Billy Graham?
4 What is the official language of Suriname?
5 What is the largest internal organ in the human body?
6 Which ethno-linguistic group, native to Europe and Asia, is classified into East, West and South?
7 What word of Greek origin refers to (among other meanings) the complete final destruction of the world, as described in the book of Revelation.
8 A famous painting by Jacques-Louis David shows which leader crossing the Alps on horseback?
9 What is the official language of Andorra?
10 What was the nickname of American jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker?
11 Which lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for correctly assessing in 1983 that reports of incoming American missiles were a false positive?
12 What links the previous 11 answers?
cheers,
calvin
usual rules- use your own knowledge only and post a single reply here within the next seven days. Good luck!
1 Which Australian rock band had hits with "April Sun in Cuba" (1977) and "Are You Old Enough?" (1978)?
2 Which six-letter word can mean to wedge something, an alcoholic spirit, a cut or score the skin, or to decisively end?
3 What links Bob Hope, Henry Winkler, Dwight Eisenhower, James Watson and Billy Graham?
4 What is the official language of Suriname?
5 What is the largest internal organ in the human body?
6 Which ethno-linguistic group, native to Europe and Asia, is classified into East, West and South?
7 What word of Greek origin refers to (among other meanings) the complete final destruction of the world, as described in the book of Revelation.
8 A famous painting by Jacques-Louis David shows which leader crossing the Alps on horseback?
9 What is the official language of Andorra?
10 What was the nickname of American jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker?
11 Which lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for correctly assessing in 1983 that reports of incoming American missiles were a false positive?
12 What links the previous 11 answers?
cheers,
calvin
Mark Brader
Dec 12, 2017, 12:57:55 AM12/12/17
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"Calvin":
> 2 Which six-letter word can mean to wedge something, an alcoholic
> spirit, a cut or score the skin, or to decisively end?
Scotch.
> 3 What links Bob Hope, Henry Winkler, Dwight Eisenhower, James
> Watson and Billy Graham?
Wives named Mamie?
> 4 What is the official language of Suriname?
Dutch.
> 5 What is the largest internal organ in the human body?
Liver.
> 6 Which ethno-linguistic group, native to Europe and Asia, is
> classified into East, West and South?
Slavic.
> 7 What word of Greek origin refers to (among other meanings) the
> complete final destruction of the world, as described in the book
> of Revelation.
Apocalypse.
> 8 A famous painting by Jacques-Louis David shows which leader
> crossing the Alps on horseback?
Napoleon.
> 9 What is the official language of Andorra?
Catalan.
> 10 What was the nickname of American jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker?
Bird.
> 11 Which lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces
> became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from
> nuclear war" for correctly assessing in 1983 that reports of
> incoming American missiles were a false positive?
Johnsonski. :-)
> 12 What links the previous 11 answers?
None of them have the letter X in them. (Well, it's true!)
--
Mark Brader | "Youths steal funds for charity"
Toronto | --White Plains, NY, Reporter Dispatch
m...@vex.net | February 17, 1982
My text in this article is in the public domain.
> 1 Which Australian rock band had hits with "April Sun in Cuba"
> (1977) and "Are You Old Enough?" (1978)?
Devo?
> (1977) and "Are You Old Enough?" (1978)?
> 2 Which six-letter word can mean to wedge something, an alcoholic
> spirit, a cut or score the skin, or to decisively end?
> 3 What links Bob Hope, Henry Winkler, Dwight Eisenhower, James
> Watson and Billy Graham?
> 4 What is the official language of Suriname?
> 5 What is the largest internal organ in the human body?
> 6 Which ethno-linguistic group, native to Europe and Asia, is
> classified into East, West and South?
> 7 What word of Greek origin refers to (among other meanings) the
> complete final destruction of the world, as described in the book
> of Revelation.
> 8 A famous painting by Jacques-Louis David shows which leader
> crossing the Alps on horseback?
> 9 What is the official language of Andorra?
> 10 What was the nickname of American jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker?
> 11 Which lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces
> became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from
> nuclear war" for correctly assessing in 1983 that reports of
> incoming American missiles were a false positive?
> 12 What links the previous 11 answers?
--
Mark Brader | "Youths steal funds for charity"
Toronto | --White Plains, NY, Reporter Dispatch
m...@vex.net | February 17, 1982
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Peter Smyth
Dec 12, 2017, 4:55:45 AM12/12/17
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Calvin wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> usual rules- use your own knowledge only and post a single reply here within the next seven days. Good luck!
>
>
> 1 Which Australian rock band had hits with "April Sun in Cuba" (1977) and "Are You Old Enough?" (1978)?
INXS
> Hi everyone
>
> usual rules- use your own knowledge only and post a single reply here within the next seven days. Good luck!
>
>
> 1 Which Australian rock band had hits with "April Sun in Cuba" (1977) and "Are You Old Enough?" (1978)?
> 2 Which six-letter word can mean to wedge something, an alcoholic spirit, a cut or score the skin, or to decisively end?
> 3 What links Bob Hope, Henry Winkler, Dwight Eisenhower, James Watson and Billy Graham?
> 4 What is the official language of Suriname?
Dutch
> 3 What links Bob Hope, Henry Winkler, Dwight Eisenhower, James Watson and Billy Graham?
> 4 What is the official language of Suriname?
> 5 What is the largest internal organ in the human body?
Liver
> 6 Which ethno-linguistic group, native to Europe and Asia, is classified into East, West and South?
> 7 What word of Greek origin refers to (among other meanings) the complete final destruction of the world, as described in the book of Revelation.
Apocalypse
> 7 What word of Greek origin refers to (among other meanings) the complete final destruction of the world, as described in the book of Revelation.
> 8 A famous painting by Jacques-Louis David shows which leader crossing the Alps on horseback?
Alexander the Great
> 9 What is the official language of Andorra?
Spanish
> 10 What was the nickname of American jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker?
> 11 Which lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for correctly assessing in 1983 that reports of incoming American missiles were a false positive?
> 12 What links the previous 11 answers?
Peter Smyth
> 11 Which lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for correctly assessing in 1983 that reports of incoming American missiles were a false positive?
> 12 What links the previous 11 answers?
Erland Sommarskog
Dec 12, 2017, 2:55:14 PM12/12/17
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Mark Brader (m...@vex.net) writes:
>> 12 What links the previous 11 answers?
>
> None of them have the letter X in them. (Well, it's true!)
Not if Peter's answers is correct. :-)
>> 12 What links the previous 11 answers?
>
> None of them have the letter X in them. (Well, it's true!)
Erland Sommarskog
Dec 12, 2017, 2:55:21 PM12/12/17
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Calvin (334...@gmail.com) writes:
> 1 Which Australian rock band had hits with "April Sun in Cuba"
> (1977) and "Are You Old Enough?" (1978)?
Easybeats
> 1 Which Australian rock band had hits with "April Sun in Cuba"
> (1977) and "Are You Old Enough?" (1978)?
> 4 What is the official language of Suriname?
> 5 What is the largest internal organ in the human body?
> 6 Which ethno-linguistic group, native to Europe and Asia, is
> classified into East, West and South?
> 7 What word of Greek origin refers to (among other meanings) the
> complete final destruction of the world, as described in the book of
> Revelation.
> 8 A famous painting by Jacques-Louis David shows which leader
> crossing the Alps on horseback?
> 9 What is the official language of Andorra?
> 10 What was the nickname of American jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker?
Dan Blum
Dec 12, 2017, 3:52:24 PM12/12/17
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Calvin <334...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 3 What links Bob Hope, Henry Winkler, Dwight Eisenhower, James Watson and Billy Graham?
golf
> 3 What links Bob Hope, Henry Winkler, Dwight Eisenhower, James Watson and Billy Graham?
> 4 What is the official language of Suriname?
> 5 What is the largest internal organ in the human body?
> 6 Which ethno-linguistic group, native to Europe and Asia, is classified into East, West and South?
> 7 What word of Greek origin refers to (among other meanings) the complete final destruction of the world, as described in the book of Revelation.
> 8 A famous painting by Jacques-Louis David shows which leader crossing the Alps on horseback?
> 9 What is the official language of Andorra?
> 10 What was the nickname of American jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker?
> 11 Which lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for correctly assessing in 1983 that reports of incoming American missiles were a false positive?
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Dan Tilque
Dec 12, 2017, 6:04:30 PM12/12/17
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Calvin wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> usual rules- use your own knowledge only and post a single reply here within the next seven days. Good luck!
>
>
> 1 Which Australian rock band had hits with "April Sun in Cuba" (1977) and "Are You Old Enough?" (1978)?
Men at Work
> Hi everyone
>
> usual rules- use your own knowledge only and post a single reply here within the next seven days. Good luck!
>
>
> 1 Which Australian rock band had hits with "April Sun in Cuba" (1977) and "Are You Old Enough?" (1978)?
> 2 Which six-letter word can mean to wedge something, an alcoholic spirit, a cut or score the skin, or to decisively end?
> 3 What links Bob Hope, Henry Winkler, Dwight Eisenhower, James Watson and Billy Graham?
> 4 What is the official language of Suriname?
> 5 What is the largest internal organ in the human body?
> 6 Which ethno-linguistic group, native to Europe and Asia, is classified into East, West and South?
> 7 What word of Greek origin refers to (among other meanings) the complete final destruction of the world, as described in the book of Revelation.
> 8 A famous painting by Jacques-Louis David shows which leader crossing the Alps on horseback?
> 9 What is the official language of Andorra?
> 10 What was the nickname of American jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker?
> 11 Which lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for correctly assessing in 1983 that reports of incoming American missiles were a false positive?
> 12 What links the previous 11 answers?
--
Dan Tilque
Mark Brader
Dec 12, 2017, 7:47:51 PM12/12/17
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"Calvin":
--
Mark Brader "All economic statistics are best seen as
Toronto a peculiarly boring form of science fiction..."
m...@vex.net --Paul Krugman
>>> 12 What links the previous 11 answers?
Mark Brader:
>> None of them have the letter X in them. (Well, it's true!)
Erland Sommarskog:
> Not if Peter's answers is correct. :-)
Ah, but I was answering for *my* answers -- so *there*! :-)
--
Mark Brader "All economic statistics are best seen as
Toronto a peculiarly boring form of science fiction..."
m...@vex.net --Paul Krugman
Calvin
Dec 18, 2017, 8:45:59 PM12/18/17
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On Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 2:16:01 PM UTC+10, Calvin wrote:
> 1 Which Australian rock band had hits with "April Sun in Cuba" (1977) and "Are You Old Enough?" (1978)?
DRAGON Variation
> 1 Which Australian rock band had hits with "April Sun in Cuba" (1977) and "Are You Old Enough?" (1978)?
No-one got this- I didn't realise how unknown they are internationally.
> 2 Which six-letter word can mean to wedge something, an alcoholic spirit, a cut or score the skin, or to decisively end?
> 3 What links Bob Hope, Henry Winkler, Dwight Eisenhower, James Watson and Billy Graham?
I was messing around with different name combinations and inadvertently left the fifth one in there. They are honourary awards of course. No one got this, which is no surprise given the error in the question and the fact that no-one nailed the theme.
> 4 What is the official language of Suriname?
> 5 What is the largest internal organ in the human body?
> 6 Which ethno-linguistic group, native to Europe and Asia, is classified into East, West and South?
> 7 What word of Greek origin refers to (among other meanings) the complete final destruction of the world, as described in the book of Revelation.
> 8 A famous painting by Jacques-Louis David shows which leader crossing the Alps on horseback?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Crossing_the_Alps
> 9 What is the official language of Andorra?
> 10 What was the nickname of American jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker?
> 11 Which lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for correctly assessing in 1983 that reports of incoming American missiles were a false positive?
Singleton for Dan B
> 12 What links the previous 11 answers?
http://www.thechesswebsite.com/chess-openings/
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 Q11 Q12 TOTAL TB RQ276
0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 8 26 Mark Brader
0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 6 22 Dan Tilque
0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 5 17 Dan Blum
0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 5 18 Erland S
0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 14 Peter Smyth
- - - - - - - - - - - - --- ----------
0 2 0 5 5 3 4 2 3 2 1 0 27 54%
Congratulations Mark, and over to you for RQ277.
cheers,
calvin
Erland Sommarskog
Dec 19, 2017, 3:10:40 AM12/19/17
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Calvin (334...@gmail.com) writes:
> On Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 2:16:01 PM UTC+10, Calvin wrote:
>
>> 1 Which Australian rock band had hits with "April Sun in Cuba"
>> (1977) and "Are You Old Enough?" (1978)?
>
> DRAGON Variation
> No-one got this- I didn't realise how unknown they are internationally.
>
Had you include "The Body and the Beat", I should have spotted them. I have
> On Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 2:16:01 PM UTC+10, Calvin wrote:
>
>> 1 Which Australian rock band had hits with "April Sun in Cuba"
>> (1977) and "Are You Old Enough?" (1978)?
>
> DRAGON Variation
> No-one got this- I didn't realise how unknown they are internationally.
>
that album, and that song is also the only memorable song on the album.
(So if any of these songs are on that album, I don't recall it anyway.)
I don't think I knew they were from Australia. It is something I picked
up in a cut-out bin many years ago.
gwo...@gmail.com
Dec 19, 2017, 9:56:18 AM12/19/17
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On Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at 1:45:59 AM UTC, Calvin wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 2:16:01 PM UTC+10, Calvin wrote:
>
> > 1 Which Australian rock band had hits with "April Sun in Cuba" (1977) and "Are You Old Enough?" (1978)?
>
> DRAGON Variation
> No-one got this- I didn't realise how unknown they are internationally.
I consider myself fairly well up on such things, and I have literally never heard of them before reading this answer.
> On Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 2:16:01 PM UTC+10, Calvin wrote:
>
> > 1 Which Australian rock band had hits with "April Sun in Cuba" (1977) and "Are You Old Enough?" (1978)?
>
> DRAGON Variation
> No-one got this- I didn't realise how unknown they are internationally.
Mark Brader
Dec 26, 2017, 12:57:06 AM12/26/17
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Last week, "Calvin" wrote:
> Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 Q11 Q12 TOTAL TB RQ276
> 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 8 26 Mark Brader
> Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 Q11 Q12 TOTAL TB RQ276
> 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 8 26 Mark Brader
> Congratulations Mark, and over to you for RQ277.
Oh! Sorry, I missed the results until now because the entire subject
line was in block capitals and therefore it was killfiled as spam.
Okay, one 277 coming up.
--
Mark Brader | "But [he] had already established his own reputation
Toronto | as someone who wrote poetry that mentioned the el."
m...@vex.net | --Al Kriman
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