Calvin's Quiz #474

[Calvin]

7 questions only for this one.

1 Who wrote the 1936 novel "Gone with the Wind"?
2 Which position has been held by Avery Brundage and Lord Killanin, among others?
3 The fictional firms Wernham-Hogg and Dundler-Mifflin appear in which TV comedy program?
4 What is the most popular tourist attraction in Zambia?
5 Despite the name, Kansas City is actually located in which US state?
6 What English word has 3 double letters in a row?
7 Which mythical creatures can supposedly be recognised, when in human guise, by their long ring fingers?


cheers,
calvin

[Mark Brader]

Calvin:

> 1 Who wrote the 1936 novel "Gone with the Wind"?

Mitchell.

> 2 Which position has been held by Avery Brundage and Lord Killanin,
> among others?

Haed of the IOC.

> 3 The fictional firms Wernham-Hogg and Dundler-Mifflin appear in which
> TV comedy program?

I believe those are two different shows: "The Office" and "The Office".

> 4 What is the most popular tourist attraction in Zambia?

I presume that it's Victoria Falls and that this is also the most
popular tourist attraction in Zimbabwe.

> 5 Despite the name, Kansas City is actually located in which US state?

Once again there are two of them: one in Missouri and one in Kansas.
(The one in Missouri is the big one.)

> 6 What English word has 3 double letters in a row?

"Bookkeeper".

> 7 Which mythical creatures can supposedly be recognised, when in human
> guise, by their long ring fingers?

Trolls?
--
Mark Brader | "It doesn't have to actually *be* special, but you have
Toronto | to make people think it is, and sometimes the easiest way
m...@vex.net | to do that is to make it special." -- Peter Reiher

[Gareth Owen]

Calvin <334...@gmail.com> writes:

> 7 questions only for this one.
>
> 1 Who wrote the 1936 novel "Gone with the Wind"?

Margaret Mitchell

> 2 Which position has been held by Avery Brundage and Lord Killanin,
> among others?

President of the IOC

> 3 The fictional firms Wernham-Hogg and Dundler-Mifflin appear in which
> TV comedy program?

The Office

> 4 What is the most popular tourist attraction in Zambia?

Victoria Falls?

> 5 Despite the name, Kansas City is actually located in which US
> state?

Missouri

> 6 What English word has 3 double letters in a row?

BOOKKEEPER

> 7 Which mythical creatures can supposedly be recognised, when in human
> guise, by their long ring fingers?

Vampires

[Erland Sommarskog]

Calvin (334...@gmail.com) writes:
> 1 Who wrote the 1936 novel "Gone with the Wind"?

Was Atwood here name? I think the first name was Margaret anyway.

> 2 Which position has been held by Avery Brundage and Lord Killanin,
> among others?

Head of the International Olympics Committee.

> 4 What is the most popular tourist attraction in Zambia?

The Victoria Falls.

> 5 Despite the name, Kansas City is actually located in which US state?

As far as I know there are two of them, one in Kansas and one in Missouri,
but it is the latter that is the bigger one, and hte one in Kansas is just
a suburb.

> 6 What English word has 3 double letters in a row?

Bookkeeping

[Don Piven]

On 2/9/17 23:46, Calvin wrote:
>
> 7 questions only for this one.
>
> 1 Who wrote the 1936 novel "Gone with the Wind"?

Margaret Mitchell

> 2 Which position has been held by Avery Brundage and Lord Killanin, among others?

President of the International Olympic Committee

> 3 The fictional firms Wernham-Hogg and Dundler-Mifflin appear in which TV comedy program?

The Office

> 4 What is the most popular tourist attraction in Zambia?

Victoria Falls.

> 5 Despite the name, Kansas City is actually located in which US state?

Missouri. (I predict some discussion about this question.)

> 6 What English word has 3 double letters in a row?

Bookkeeper

> 7 Which mythical creatures can supposedly be recognised, when in human guise, by their long ring fingers?

Werewolves

[Dan Blum]

Calvin <334...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 1 Who wrote the 1936 novel "Gone with the Wind"?

Margaret Mitchell

> 2 Which position has been held by Avery Brundage and Lord Killanin, among others?

Poet Laureate

> 3 The fictional firms Wernham-Hogg and Dundler-Mifflin appear in which TV comedy program?

The Office

> 5 Despite the name, Kansas City is actually located in which US state?

Missouri
(Although there is also a Kansas City in Kansas.)

> 6 What English word has 3 double letters in a row?

bookkeeper

> 7 Which mythical creatures can supposedly be recognised, when in human guise, by their long ring fingers?

werewolves

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

[Bruce]

On Thu, 09 Feb 2017 21:46:54 -0800, Calvin wrote:

> 7 questions only for this one.
>
> 1 Who wrote the 1936 novel "Gone with the Wind"?

Mitchell

> 2 Which position has been held by Avery Brundage and Lord Killanin,
> among others?

President of the IOC

> 3 The fictional firms Wernham-Hogg and Dundler-Mifflin appear in
which
> TV comedy program?

The Office

> 4 What is the most popular tourist attraction in Zambia?

Victoria Falls

> 5 Despite the name, Kansas City is actually located in which US
state?

Kansas (and Missouri)

> 6 What English word has 3 double letters in a row?

subbookkeeper

> 7 Which mythical creatures can supposedly be recognised, when in
human
> guise, by their long ring fingers?

Werewolf ([obligatory Young Frankenstein reference] There wolf!)

>
>
> cheers,
> calvin

[Marc Dashevsky]

In article <a90565c7-dd11-4d5e...@googlegroups.com>, 334...@gmail.com says...

>
> 7 questions only for this one.
>
> 1 Who wrote the 1936 novel "Gone with the Wind"?

Margaret Mitchell

> 2 Which position has been held by Avery Brundage and Lord Killanin, among others?

head of IOC

> 3 The fictional firms Wernham-Hogg and Dundler-Mifflin appear in which TV comedy program?

The Office

> 4 What is the most popular tourist attraction in Zambia?

Victoria Falls

> 5 Despite the name, Kansas City is actually located in which US state?

Missouri

> 6 What English word has 3 double letters in a row?

bookkeeper

> 7 Which mythical creatures can supposedly be recognised, when in human guise, by their long ring fingers?

vampires?


--
Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address.

[Peter Smyth]

Calvin wrote:

>
> 7 questions only for this one.
>
> 1 Who wrote the 1936 novel "Gone with the Wind"?

Margaret Mitchell

> 2 Which position has been held by Avery Brundage and Lord Killanin,
> among others?

President of the IOC

> 3 The fictional firms Wernham-Hogg and Dundler-Mifflin
> appear in which TV comedy program?

The Office

> 4 What is the most popular tourist attraction in Zambia?

Serengeti

> 5 Despite the name, Kansas City is actually located in which US
state?

Missouri

> 6 What English word has 3 double letters in a row?

Bookkeeper

7 Which mythical creatures can supposedly be recognised, when in human
guise, by their long ring fingers?

Werewolf

Peter Smyth

[Dan Tilque]

Calvin wrote:
> 7 questions only for this one.
>
> 1 Who wrote the 1936 novel "Gone with the Wind"?

Margaret Mitchell

> 2 Which position has been held by Avery Brundage and Lord Killanin, among others?

Lord High Everything Else

> 3 The fictional firms Wernham-Hogg and Dundler-Mifflin appear in which TV comedy program?
> 4 What is the most popular tourist attraction in Zambia?

Victoria Falls

> 5 Despite the name, Kansas City is actually located in which US state?

Missouri and Kansas

There's two answers because there's actually two Kansas City's. The
larger is in Missouri and immediately across the border is the other in
Kansas. They're distinct cities, each with their own mayor, city
council, etc.

This is not the only place in the US where two cities with the same name
are adjacent across state borders. Texarkana AR/TX, Bristol TN/VA,
Bluefield VA/WV are three smaller examples and there's about half a
dozen or so villages in various places.

> 6 What English word has 3 double letters in a row?

bookkeeper (said his assistant, the subbookkeeper)

> 7 Which mythical creatures can supposedly be recognised, when in human guise, by their long ring fingers?

vampire

--
Dan Tilque

[Pete]

Calvin <334...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:a90565c7-dd11-4d5e...@googlegroups.com:

>
> 7 questions only for this one.
>
> 1 Who wrote the 1936 novel "Gone with the Wind"?

Mitchell

> 2 Which position has been held by Avery Brundage and Lord
> Killanin, among others?

International Olympic Committee President

> 3 The fictional firms Wernham-Hogg and
> Dundler-Mifflin appear in which TV comedy program?

The Office

> 4 What is the most popular tourist attraction in Zambia?

Victoria Falls

> 5 Despite the name,
> Kansas City is actually located in which US state?

Missouri (there is another city named Kansas City, which is in Kansas)

> 6 What English word has 3 double letters in a row?

bookkeeper

> 7 Which mythical creatures can
> supposedly be recognised, when in human guise, by their long ring
> fingers?

Vampires

>
>
> cheers,
> calvin
>

Pete Gayde

[ArenEss]

On Thu, 9 Feb 2017 21:46:54 -0800 (PST), Calvin <334...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>7 questions only for this one.
>
>1 Who wrote the 1936 novel "Gone with the Wind"?

Margaret Mitchell

>2 Which position has been held by Avery Brundage and Lord Killanin, among others?

IOC Chairperson

>3 The fictional firms Wernham-Hogg and Dundler-Mifflin appear in which TV comedy program?

The Office

>4 What is the most popular tourist attraction in Zambia?

Mosi-oa-Tunya

>5 Despite the name, Kansas City is actually located in which US state?

For the most part, Missouri. Kansas City does span over the Missouri
River into Kansas. In fact, the KC International Airport is on the
Kansas side as well.

>6 What English word has 3 double letters in a row?

Bookkeeper, Bookkeeping

>7 Which mythical creatures can supposedly be recognised, when in human guise, by their long ring fingers?

Werewolf

>
>
>cheers,
>calvin

ArenEss

[Mark Brader]

"Calvin":

> > 5 Despite the name, Kansas City is actually located in which US state?

Mark Brader:

> Once again there are two of them: one in Missouri and one in Kansas.
> (The one in Missouri is the big one.)

In fact the USGS GNIS lists two more: one in northwestern Oregon, and
one in eastern Tennessee. Both are classified as "a populated place
that is not a census designated or incorporated place having an official
federally recognized name." Google Maps recognizes both names and
agrees with the GNIS's coordinates, but their aerial imagery shows
only a few buildings at each location. Of course, a place doesn't
have to be an actual city just because it has "City" in its name, but
then, Calvin didn't ask for a city.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "As long as that blue light is on, the
m...@vex.net computer is safe." -- Hot Millions

My text in this article is in the public domain.

[Erland Sommarskog]

Mark Brader (m...@vex.net) writes:
> In fact the USGS GNIS lists two more: one in northwestern Oregon, and
> one in eastern Tennessee.

Oregon? I guess that then we are not in Kansas anymore.

The Oregon Inlet, by the way, is not in Oregon, but in which state?
(Assuming, that is, that there is not more than the one I know of!)

[Mark Brader]

Mark Brader:

> > In fact the USGS GNIS lists two more: one in northwestern Oregon, and
> > one in eastern Tennessee.

Erland Sommarskog:

> Oregon? I guess that then we are not in Kansas anymore.

I guess not.

The Kansas City in Missouri is named after the Kansas River, by the
way. I presume the other three places are named after it.

Next: Vancouver. :-)

> The Oregon Inlet, by the way, is not in Oregon, but in which state?
> (Assuming, that is, that there is not more than the one I know of!)

I have no idea!
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "If gravity stops working, a power cut is
m...@vex.net | the least of your problems." -- David Bell

[Dan Tilque]

Mark Brader wrote:
> Mark Brader:
>>> In fact the USGS GNIS lists two more: one in northwestern Oregon, and
>>> one in eastern Tennessee.

I've been to the one in Oregon. Or at least I occasionally bicycle out
to Kansas City Road north of Forest Grove. It's a longish ride from my
house, somewhere around 55 to 60 miles round trip. I don't know exactly
where along that road the "community" is, but I think it's in the part I
ride on.

>
> The Kansas City in Missouri is named after the Kansas River, by the
> way. I presume the other three places are named after it.

Kansas City, Kansas is. Long ago, they changed the name from something
else to match their neighbor.

>
> Next: Vancouver. :-)

Not quite adjacent to each other, though. And of course, neither is
named for the other. If one were, it would be the BC one named for the
Washington one, based on when the two were founded.

>
> Erland Sommarskog:

>> The Oregon Inlet, by the way, is not in Oregon, but in which state?
>> (Assuming, that is, that there is not more than the one I know of!)
>
> I have no idea!

Neither do I. There's actually a number of towns named Oregon in the US.
Once upon a time, it was the name of an exotic foreign land. So I'm
going to guess it's in Maine.


I was going to wait for this to be approved, but here's a good place to
show off my magnum opus. It's my first page contributed to Wikipedia:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:List_of_cities_outside_the_United_States_which_have_a_city,_town,_village,_or_hamlet_within_the_United_States_named_for_them>

Hope that's correct and sorry about the length of the url. I didn't want
one quite that long, but they didn't ask me; they just took the first
sentence of the page and lopped off the first three words.

At the rate they're going, it's going to be another 2 weeks before it
gets to the head of the approval queue, so that's a draft version. But I
can change it while in the queue, so if anyone has any additions or
corrections, let me know.

Oh, and as a complementary followup, I'm working on a list of
non-cities, i.e. regions or geographic features, with the same
qualifications.

--
Dan Tilque

[Mark Brader]

Mark Brader:
> > Next: Vancouver. :-)

Dan Tilque:

> Not quite adjacent to each other, though. And of course, neither is
> named for the other. If one were, it would be the BC one named for the
> Washington one, based on when the two were founded.

The interesting part, though, is that Vancouver, BC, is not on
Vancouver Island -- but was so named *because it's near it*.
This gave people in the rest of Canada some idea of where this
new city at the other end of the new railway might be.

(I'm not going to look it up, but there's a letter from William
Van Horne where he says something like "The proposed name meets
with general agreement here, as it gives everyone an approximate
idea of the location. I do not think the existence of an
insignificant place named Fort Vancouver in Washington need
be any obstacle.")
--
Mark Brader "All I can say is that the work
Toronto has been done well in every way."
m...@vex.net --William C. Van Horne, 1885-11-07

[Erland Sommarskog]

Dan Tilque (dti...@frontier.com) writes:
> Neither do I. There's actually a number of towns named Oregon in the US.
> Once upon a time, it was the name of an exotic foreign land. So I'm
> going to guess it's in Maine.

Well, at least on the right coast. :-)

Orgeon Inlet is in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and separates Bodie
Island from Pea Island. The passage is fairly recent: it was created by a
huricanee in 1846. According to Wikipedia, it was the members of the ship
Oregon that first reported that the island had been split, whence the
name. Also, according to Wikipedia, the inlet is today two miles further
south of where it first appeared because of drifting sand.

> I was going to wait for this to be approved, but here's a good place to
> show off my magnum opus. It's my first page contributed to Wikipedia:
>
><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:List_of_cities_outside_the_United_State
s_which_have_a_city,_town,_village,_or_hamlet_within_the_United_States_named_
for_them>
>

I was thinking of that list the other day, and particularly names that
are different in the Old and New World. To wit, here in Chile there is a
city called Vallenar. It is named of the founder Irish home town, Ballinagh.
There certainly is a bit of corruption there! True, B and V are pronounced
the same in Spanish, but on the other hand, ll in Ballinagh is presumably
not pronounced like ll in Latin American Spanish.

[Bruce]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 20:43:28 -0800, Dan Tilque wrote:


> I was going to wait for this to be approved, but here's a good place to
> show off my magnum opus. It's my first page contributed to Wikipedia:
>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Draft:List_of_cities_outside_the_United_States_which_have_a_city,_town,_village,_or_hamlet_within_the_United_States_named_for_them>
>
> Hope that's correct and sorry about the length of the url. I didn't want
> one quite that long, but they didn't ask me; they just took the first
> sentence of the page and lopped off the first three words.
>
> At the rate they're going, it's going to be another 2 weeks before it
> gets to the head of the approval queue, so that's a draft version. But I
> can change it while in the queue, so if anyone has any additions or
> corrections, let me know.

Boothbay Harbor probably same as Boothbay (since the former is named after
the latter).

Woolwich Maine named for Woolwich, UK

There are *a lot* of small towns in New England named after towns in the
UK.

[Dan Tilque]

Bruce wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 20:43:28 -0800, Dan Tilque wrote:
>
>
>>

>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
> Draft:List_of_cities_outside_the_United_States_which_have_a_city,_town,_village,_or_hamlet_within_the_United_States_named_for_them>

>
> Boothbay Harbor probably same as Boothbay (since the former is named after
> the latter).

According to Wikipedia, Boothbay was originally named Townsend, but "was
renamed Boothbay in 1842 after the hamlet of Boothby, which is located
about a mile east of Welton le Marsh in Lincolnshire, England."

I looked up Boothby, Lincolnshire and found two places with that name:
Boothby Graffoe and Boothby Pagnell. But I couldn't find where this
Welton le Marsh was, so I'm not sure which one it's named for.

As for Boothbay Harbor, I'm only looking for places immediately named
for places outside the US. If I included places named for other US
cities, I'd probably double the length of the list. In fact, someone
started such a Wikilist and I have a link to it at the bottom of mine.
But it's extremely incomplete.

>
> Woolwich Maine named for Woolwich, UK

Very good. Thank you.

>
> There are *a lot* of small towns in New England named after towns in the
> UK.

Yes, I know; have a bunch of them. But note that I only have one US
place for each non-US place. I tried to spread the cities around as much
as I could, so that it didn't look like they were *all* in New England.

--
Dan Tilque

[Dan Tilque]

Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> Dan Tilque (dti...@frontier.com) writes:
>
>>
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:List_of_cities_outside_the_United_States_which_have_a_city,_town,_village,_or_hamlet_within_the_United_States_named_for_them>

>
> I was thinking of that list the other day, and particularly names that
> are different in the Old and New World. To wit, here in Chile there is a
> city called Vallenar. It is named of the founder Irish home town, Ballinagh.
> There certainly is a bit of corruption there! True, B and V are pronounced
> the same in Spanish, but on the other hand, ll in Ballinagh is presumably
> not pronounced like ll in Latin American Spanish.

Yes, I learned to be very careful about spelling when compiling the list
and even then I occasionally made errors. At least one difference is an
outright misspelling (Bogata TX/Bogotá and maybe Matamoras/Matamoros),
but the rest are usually old spellings or old transliterations. Some
examples I can think of off-hand:

(US city listed first here)

Leipsic/Leipzig
Kief/Kiev
Vevay/Vevey
Sebastopol/Sevastopol
Angora/Ankara
Bagdad/Baghdad

For some the difference is just a doubled/not-doubled letter:

Montpelier/Montpellier
Upsala/Uppsala
Hanover/Hannover
Harlem/Haarlem
Loretto/Loreto
Monterey/Monterrey
(I think there's one more, but it doesn't come to mind.)

And then there's systematic changes like from Wade-Giles to pinyin for
Chinese and the moving of borders (and subsequent renaming of cities)
after WWII. Other systematic changes are the (mostly) standardization of
-burgh and -bourg to -burg in the US (e.g. Edinburg/Edinburgh and
Strasburg/Strasbourg) and the dropping of diacritics in the US (both
forced by the US Board on Geographic Names).

--
Dan Tilque

[Calvin]

On Friday, February 10, 2017 at 3:46:55 PM UTC+10, Calvin wrote:
> 7 questions only for this one.
>
> 1 Who wrote the 1936 novel "Gone with the Wind"?

Margaret Mitchell

> 2 Which position has been held by Avery Brundage and Lord Killanin, among others?

President of the IOC

> 3 The fictional firms Wernham-Hogg and Dundler-Mifflin appear in which TV comedy program?

The Office

> 4 What is the most popular tourist attraction in Zambia?

Victoria Falls

> 5 Despite the name, Kansas City is actually located in which US state?

Missouri
I thought the wording made it clear that the expected answer was not Kansas.

> 6 What English word has 3 double letters in a row?

Bookkeeper

> 7 Which mythical creatures can supposedly be recognised, when in human guise, by their long ring fingers?

Werewolves

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 474
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 63 Don Piven
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 63 Aren Ess
1 1 1 0 1 1 1 6 53 Peter Smyth
1 1 1 1 0 1 1 6 54 Bruce Bowler
1 1 1 1 1 1 0 6 58 Marc Dashevsky
1 1 1 1 1 1 0 6 58 Mark Brader
1 1 1 1 1 1 0 6 58 Pete Gayde
1 1 1 1 1 1 0 6 58 Gareth Owen
1 0 1 1 0 1 1 5 45 Dan Blum
0 1 0 1 1 1 0 4 39 Erland S
1 0 0 1 1 1 0 4 40 Dan Tilque
- - - - - - - - - - --- ----------
10 9 9 10 9 11 5 0 0 0 63 57%

Congratulations Don and Aren.

cheers,
calvin