Rotating Quiz #178

swp

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Apr 17, 2015, 8:33:17 PM4/17/15

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welcome to rq 178. the usual rules apply.

this is a fill-in-the-blank round. each blank word is worth 1 point.

the word in the middle will make sense as the last and first word of a
phrase, saying, movie, or popular product.
for example, in
blank ----- heater
the missing word to complete the chain is 'space'
blank space
space heater

I'll score this round on april 23rd after 9pm (gmt-4).
The first and last letters of the answers spell out something.

1. dark ----- of london
2. broken ----- of darkness
3. jock ---- cream
4. grape ---- pop
5. wonder ----- of the year
6. bullet proof ----- defense
7. hoop ----- steak
8. best exotic marigold ----- california
9. beats ----- book
10. pirate ----- gaga
11. punch ----- driver
12. final ----- results

good luck!

swp

Mark Brader

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Apr 17, 2015, 10:04:20 PM4/17/15

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Tower, heart, itch, soda, woman, alibi, skirt, hotel, audio, radio,
drunk, and... exams?

("This was harder than it looks.")
--
Mark Brader | The last 10% of the performance sought contributes
Toronto | one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.
m...@vex.net | -- Norm Augustine

Erland Sommarskog

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Apr 18, 2015, 4:27:05 AM4/18/15

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swp (Stephen...@gmail.com) writes:
> The first and last letters of the answers spell out something.

Well, the first and last letters of the answers that you thought of. We'll
see how well my mind-reading goes.

> 1. dark ----- of london

streets, prince, lord could all fit. Maybe "chocolate" too. But not
"mayor", because Boris is very blond.

> 2. broken ----- of darkness

Since this is not confined to London, "mayor" could fit here. But
"prince" sounds more poetic.

> 3. jock ---- cream

ice

> 4. grape ---- pop

fruit

> 5. wonder ----- of the year

girl, or for that matter, boy.

> 6. bullet proof ----- defense

football

> 7. hoop ----- steak

strip

> 8. best exotic marigold ----- california

from

> 9. beats ----- book

crazy (Well, at least "Beat Crazy" is an album from Joe Jackson.)

> 10. pirate ----- gaga

lady

> 11. punch ----- driver

bus

> 12. final ----- results

quiz

--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se

Peter Smyth

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Apr 18, 2015, 5:33:02 PM4/18/15

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swp wrote:

> welcome to rq 178. the usual rules apply.
>
> this is a fill-in-the-blank round. each blank word is worth 1 point.
>
> the word in the middle will make sense as the last and first word of a
> phrase, saying, movie, or popular product.
> for example, in
> blank ----- heater
> the missing word to complete the chain is 'space'
> blank space
> space heater
>
> I'll score this round on april 23rd after 9pm (gmt-4).
> The first and last letters of the answers spell out something.
>
> 1. dark ----- of london

> 2. broken HEART of darkness
> 3. jock ---- cream
> 4. grape JUICE pop
> 5. wonder GOAL of the year

> 6. bullet proof ----- defense
> 7. hoop ----- steak

> 8. best exotic marigold HOTEL california
> 9. beats AUDIO book
> 10. pirate RADIO gaga
> 11. punch DRUNK driver
> 12. final EXAM results

Peter Smyth

Calvin

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Apr 18, 2015, 5:48:10 PM4/18/15

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On Saturday, April 18, 2015 at 10:33:17 AM UTC+10, swp wrote:
> welcome to rq 178. the usual rules apply.
>
> this is a fill-in-the-blank round. each blank word is worth 1 point.
>
> the word in the middle will make sense as the last and first word of a
> phrase, saying, movie, or popular product.
> for example, in
> blank ----- heater
> the missing word to complete the chain is 'space'
> blank space
> space heater
>
> I'll score this round on april 23rd after 9pm (gmt-4).
> The first and last letters of the answers spell out something.
>
> 1. dark ----- of london

tower

> 2. broken ----- of darkness

heart

> 3. jock ---- cream
> 4. grape ---- pop

soda

> 5. wonder ----- of the year

woman

> 6. bullet proof ----- defense

zone?

> 7. hoop ----- steak

> 8. best exotic marigold ----- california

hotel

> 9. beats ----- book
> 10. pirate ----- gaga

radio

> 11. punch ----- driver

> 12. final ----- results

quiz :-)

cheers,
calvin

Marc Dashevsky

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Apr 18, 2015, 8:47:42 PM4/18/15

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In article <5e248f6b-88e2-4477...@googlegroups.com>, Stephen...@gmail.com says...

>
> welcome to rq 178. the usual rules apply.
>
> this is a fill-in-the-blank round. each blank word is worth 1 point.
>
> the word in the middle will make sense as the last and first word of a
> phrase, saying, movie, or popular product.
> for example, in
> blank ----- heater
> the missing word to complete the chain is 'space'
> blank space
> space heater
>
> I'll score this round on april 23rd after 9pm (gmt-4).
> The first and last letters of the answers spell out something.
>
> 1. dark ----- of london

werewolf!

> 2. broken ----- of darkness

heart

> 3. jock ---- cream

itch

> 4. grape ---- pop
soda

> 5. wonder ----- of the year

woman

> 6. bullet proof ----- defense

glass?

> 7. hoop ----- steak
skirt

> 8. best exotic marigold ----- california

hotel

> 9. beats ----- book

me

> 10. pirate ----- gaga
lady?

> 11. punch ----- driver
drunk

> 12. final ----- results
exam

> good luck!
>
> swp

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David B

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Apr 20, 2015, 7:21:16 AM4/20/15

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1. dark -TOWER- of London
2. broken -HEART- of darkness
3. jock -STRAP- cream
4. grape -FRUIT- pop
5. wonder -WOMAN- of the year
6. bullet proof -WINDOWS- defence
7. hoop -SKIRT- steak
8. best exotic marigold -HOTEL- California
9. beats -AUDIO- book
10. pirate -RADIO- gaga
11. punch -DRUNK- driver
12. final -EXAM- results

--
David B
http://mr2roc.org/

Rob Parker

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Apr 20, 2015, 6:56:22 PM4/20/15

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> 1. dark ----- of london

tower

> 2. broken ----- of darkness

heart
> 3. jock ---- cream
itch

> 4. grape ---- pop
> 5. wonder ----- of the year

woman

> 6. bullet proof ----- defense

glass

> 7. hoop ----- steak
skirt

> 8. best exotic marigold ----- california

hotel

> 9. beats ----- book
> 10. pirate ----- gaga

radio

> 11. punch ----- driver
drunk
> 12. final ----- results

test

Rob

Dan Blum

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Apr 20, 2015, 11:44:23 PM4/20/15

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swp <Stephen...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 1. dark ----- of london

times

(The answer should end in "r" but this seems right.)

> 2. broken ----- of darkness

heart

> 3. jock ---- cream

itch

> 4. grape ---- pop

soda

> 5. wonder ----- of the year

woman

> 6. bullet proof ----- defense

alibi

> 7. hoop ----- steak

skirt

> 8. best exotic marigold ----- california

hotel

> 10. pirate ----- gaga

radio

> 11. punch ----- driver

drunk

--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."

David B

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Apr 21, 2015, 5:32:24 AM4/21/15

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"David B" <askfo...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:<mh2ndg$lul$1...@dont-email.me>...

I've now read the quiz rules again and realise that quite a few of these are
wrong and this was harder than it looks.

swp

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Apr 24, 2015, 12:42:39 AM4/24/15

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On Friday, April 17, 2015 at 8:33:17 PM UTC-4, swp wrote:
> welcome to rq 178. the usual rules apply.

Mark Brader is hereby chastised for breaking with custom and
tradition in his answer posting. and for thinking of doing it
before me. he compounded his sin by also posting a perfect
score as the first entry. Congratulations Mark!! very well done.
You get to host RQ 179 in a manner of your choosing.

> this is a fill-in-the-blank round. each blank word is worth 1 point.

I tried to make all of the words 5 letters, but couldn't come up
with a before and/or after phrase for some of the letters I needed.
It occurred to me after the fact that I could have written a short
program to make this; the phrase I wanted is the initial input,
along with my standard scrabble dictionary, and the program would
figure out what the first and last letters of each word need to be
and then select words that fit the pattern. an additional restriction
on the number of letters in the words could be added, of course.
then it could take a dictionary of short phrases and pattern match
again to fit the selected words into before/after positions. the
end result is to replace the found words with dashes in the before/after
pairs and output the results. lots of pattern matching. yummy!

> the word in the middle will make sense as the last and first word of a
> phrase, saying, movie, or popular product.
> for example, in
> blank ----- heater
> the missing word to complete the chain is 'space'
> blank space
> space heater
>
> I'll score this round on april 23rd after 9pm (gmt-4).
> The first and last letters of the answers spell out something.
>
> 1. dark ----- of london

tower

> 2. broken ----- of darkness

heart

> 3. jock ---- cream

itch

> 4. grape ---- pop

soda

> 5. wonder ----- of the year

woman

> 6. bullet proof ----- defense

alibi

> 7. hoop ----- steak

skirt

> 8. best exotic marigold ----- california

hotel

> 9. beats ----- book

audio

> 10. pirate ----- gaga

radio

> 11. punch ----- driver

drunk

> 12. final ----- results

exams

'this was harder than it looks' is spelt out by the first and last letters.

if you didn't notice, the number of dashes I used was equal to the number of letters in the expected answer. I was very lenient with the scoring, because there were some really good answers that were unexpected and reasonable.

name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 total
---------- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -----
Mark B 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 12+
Erland 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 5
Peter S 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 8
Calvin 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 8
Marc D 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 10
David B 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 10
Rob P 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 9
Dan B 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 10
---------- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -----
totals 5 7 4 7 8 4 6 7 3 8 6 7 72

swp