Calvin's Rare Entries Quiz #1
Calvin
I'll have a go at one of these things. There's a fair chance some of these
questions have not been thought through sufficiently, for which I
apologise in advance. Constructive feedback is welcome, either via email
or in this ng after entries close.
The rules will be the same as for Mark's comps, excepting that wrong
answers will score the number of people who enter, and I may award bonus
marks (bonus reductions, I guess) for the best answer to each question.
"Best" will mean whatever I want it to mean, but usually approximates
"most original".
For those unfamiliar with the game, the object is to find correct answers
to the 10 questions which have the fewest other people giving the same
answer and you may use reference materials.
Enter by emailing your answers and any supporting docs / URLs to
334152[at]gmail.com by midnight Tuesday, 26th April, Gold Coast time (UTC
+10 hours).
And Happy Easter!
1 Name someone who has captained the Australian cricket team in a Test
match since 1980.
2 Name an Internet browser which has NOT had a new version released in the
past two years and whose name scores at least 10,000 matches on Google.
3 Name a former Soviet republic that ends in "stan".
4 Name a sport which I have played competitively (active 42 year old
Australian male originally from Brisbane, now living on the Gold Coast).
5 Name a current Australian university which incorporates a former CAE
(College of Advanced Education).
6 Name a country in which at least 75% of the population is Muslim and
whose national flag does NOT contain the colour green.
7 Name a cartoon marsupial whose name scores at least 10,000 matches on
Google.
8 Name an actor who has portrayed James Bond in a movie.
9 Name a city which is the largest in its country by population but is NOT
a national capital.
10 Name an element named after a place.
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calvin
Peter Smyth
"Calvin" <cal...@phlegm.com> wrote in message
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> The rules will be the same as for Mark's comps, excepting that wrong
> answers will score the number of people who enter, and I may award
> bonus marks (bonus reductions, I guess) for the best answer to each
> question. "Best" will mean whatever I want it to mean, but usually
> approximates "most original".
I don't think this is a good idea as it is too arbitary. Presumably the
"most original" answer will have scored 1 point anyway so that should be
reward enough.
Peter Smyth
Calvin
wrote:
The bonus reduction will usually be -1 so won't have much effect on the
rankings. Enough to separate ties and that's about it.
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calvin
robpparker SPAM @foroptusnet.com.aume Rob Parker
will give them 0 for the whole game.
I think I'll aim for originality; as a consequence, I'll probably get a huge
number of "wrongs", and loose by a country mile. But what the hell, it's
only a game ;-)
Rob
"Calvin" <cal...@phlegm.com> wrote in message
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swp
optusnet.com.au ME> wrote:
> So, if someone gets a bonus reduction of -1 applied to a unique anwser, that
> will give them 0 for the whole game.
>
> I think I'll aim for originality; as a consequence, I'll probably get a huge
> number of "wrongs", and loose by a country mile. But what the hell, it's
> only a game ;-)
>
> Rob
>
> "Calvin" <cal...@phlegm.com> wrote in message
>
> news:op.vt3t9...@04233-jyhzp1s.staff.ad.bond.edu.au...
>
>
>
> > wrote:
>
> >> "Calvin" <cal...@phlegm.com> wrote in message
> >>news:op.vtyj0...@04233-jyhzp1s.staff.ad.bond.edu.au...
>
> >>> The rules will be the same as for Mark's comps, excepting that wrong
> >>> answers will score the number of people who enter, and I may award
> >>> bonus marks (bonus reductions, I guess) for the best answer to each
> >>> question. "Best" will mean whatever I want it to mean, but usually
> >>> approximates "most original".
>
> >> I don't think this is a good idea as it is too arbitary. Presumably the
> >> "most original" answer will have scored 1 point anyway so that should be
> >> reward enough.
>
> > The bonus reduction will usually be -1 so won't have much effect on the
> > rankings. Enough to separate ties and that's about it.
>
> > --
>
> > cheers,
>
> - Show quoted text -
I'm pretty sure he meant the -1 would be applied to the final score,
not the individual score.
swp
Calvin
> I'm pretty sure he meant the -1 would be applied to the final score,
> not the individual score.
Indeed.
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calvin
Erland Sommarskog
> Enter by emailing your answers and any supporting docs / URLs to
> 334152[at]gmail.com by midnight Tuesday, 26th April, Gold Coast time (UTC
> +10 hours).
different address, and have problems of getting through to the address
in his header, the address is above.
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Esra Sdrawkcab
<esq...@sommarskog.se> wrote:
> Calvin (cal...@phlegm.com) writes:
>> Enter by emailing your answers and any supporting docs / URLs to
>> 334152[at]gmail.com by midnight Tuesday, 26th April, Gold Coast time
>> (UTC
>> +10 hours).
> In case anyone else missed that Calvin wanted the replies to a completely
> different address, and have problems of getting through to the address
> in his header, the address is above.
>
Isn't Gold Coast now called Ghana?
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"Nuns! NUNS! Reverse! Reverse!"
Dan Tilque
Yes, but it's also a city in Queensland:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Coast,_Queensland
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Esra Sdrawkcab
wrote:
but does it have it's own timezone? Anyway, I preferred Tweed Heads.
swp
> Enter by emailing your answers and any supporting docs / URLs to
> 334152[at]gmail.com by midnight Tuesday, 26th April, Gold Coast time (UTC
> +10 hours).
>
> And Happy Easter!
I hope you had a happy easter as well.
the contest entry period is now over.
let the bickering begin!
swp
Calvin
>>> Isn't Gold Coast now called Ghana?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, but it's also a city in Queensland:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Coast,_Queensland
>
> but does it have it's own timezone? Anyway, I preferred Tweed Heads.
A city doesn't have its own time zone of course, but the problem with
saying "Australian Eastern Time" is that some parts of the east coast have
daylight saving and others don't. Tweed Heads for instance is only 20 km
away but an hour ahead in summer.
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calvin
Calvin
> I'll have a go at one of these things. There's a fair chance some of
> these questions have not been thought through sufficiently, for which I
> apologise in advance. Constructive feedback is welcome, either via email
> or in this ng after entries close.
>
> The rules will be the same as for Mark's comps, excepting that wrong
> answers will score the number of people who enter, and I may award bonus
> marks (bonus reductions, I guess) for the best answer to each question.
> "Best" will mean whatever I want it to mean, but usually approximates
> "most original".
>
> For those unfamiliar with the game, the object is to find correct
> answers to the 10 questions which have the fewest other people giving
> the same answer and you may use reference materials.
>
> Enter by emailing your answers and any supporting docs / URLs to
> 334152[at]gmail.com by midnight Tuesday, 26th April, Gold Coast time
> (UTC +10 hours).
>
> And Happy Easter!
And the winner is: Mark Brader. Congratulations! The only entrant who
didn't get all answers correct so a worthy winner.
# Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 BP Total
1 Mark Brader 2 1 1 3 2 1 2 1 2 1 48
2 Dan Tilque 1 1 4 9 1 2 1 1 1 1 -3 69
3 Kevin Stone 1 1 4 1 1 9 1 1 1 2 72
4 Nick Selwyn 3 1 3 9 2 2 1 1 1 1 324
5 Erland Sommar. 1 1 9 3 1 1 9 2 1 1 -2 484
6 Sam Buttrey 9 1 3 9 1 2 1 1 1 1 486
7 Stephen Perry 2 1 4 9 1 2 9 1 2 1 -1 2591
8 Lieven Marchand 3 2 4 3 2 1 9 2 1 2 5184
9 Roy 3 2 3 9 2 9 2 1 1 1 5832
Mark Brader
1 Mark Taylor
2 Grail
3 Turkmenistan
4 Cricket
5 Griffith
6 Bahrain
7 Rocko
8 Sean Connery
9 Lagos
10 Francium
Dan Tilque
1 Ricky Ponting
2 Midas WWW
3 Kyrgyzstan
4 Marbles
5 New England
6 Kyrgyzstan
7 Sparkster
8 Daniel Craig
9 Brisbane, Aust
10 Lutetium
Kevin Stone
1 Kim Hughes
2 Netscape Navigator 2.02
3 Kyrgyzstan
4 Tennis
5 Charles Sturt
6 Chad
7 Blinky Bill
8 Reg Gadney
9 Douala, Cameroon
10 Polonium
> 1 Name someone who has captained the Australian cricket team in a Test
> match since 1980.
Allan Border 3
Mark Taylor 2
Adam Gilchrist 1
Kim Hughes 1
Ricky Ponting 1
Incorrect
Rob Baker - under age matches are not Test matches, whatever Wikipedia
says. I would have accepted a female Test captain however.
Best Answer (and therefore -1 reduction): Erland for Adam Gilchrist, who
only captained a handful of times while the regular captain was injured.
> 2 Name an Internet browser which has NOT had a new version released in
> the past two years and whose name scores at least 10,000 matches on
> Google.
Mosaic 2
Grail 1
Cello 1
Inktomi 1
Galeon 1
Chameleon 1
Netscape Navigator 2.02 1
Midas WWW 1
I would have considered Netscape Navigator 2.02 equivalent to any other
Netscape browser had anyone else given it.
Best answer: Erland for Chameleon, not to be confused with K-meleon.
> 3 Name a former Soviet republic that ends in "stan".
Kyrgyzstan 4
Tajikistan 3
Turkmenistan 1
Incorrect
Bashkortostan- not a *former* republic.
> 4 Name a sport which I have played competitively (active 42 year old
> Australian male originally from Brisbane, now living on the Gold Coast).
Cricket 3
Tennis 1
Incorrect
Running - not a sport
Gully Cricket - never heard of it
Aust Football - the rugby codes are far more popular in Queensland.
Surfing - not my thing, but a sensible guess given where I live
Marbles - not played competitively
While I think the principle of asking a question to which no-one can be
sure of the answer is sound enough, this clearly wasn't a good question.
Having said that, I expected the entrants to be almost exclusively rgt
regulars who should have a fair idea of my background. But there were lots
of other correct answers including:
rugby league
rugby union
golf
basketball
netball
athletics
swimming
squash
> 5 Name a current Australian university which incorporates a former CAE
> (College of Advanced Education).
Griffith 2
La Trobe 2
Macquarie 1
Edith Cowan 1
Western Sydney 1
Charles Sturt 1
New England 1
> 6 Name a country in which at least 75% of the population is Muslim and
> whose national flag does NOT contain the colour green.
Kyrgyzstan 2
Qatar 2
Bahrain 1
Kosovo 1
Indonesia 1
Incorrect answers
Albania - 70% Muslim a/c to the CIA fact book
Chad - 53% Muslim a/c to the CIA fact book
Best answer: Stephen and Dan for Kyrgyzstan. Despite the fact that two
players gave this answer I judged it the best as (1) it was also a valid
answer to Q.3 and (2) it is precisely 75% Muslim a/c to the CIA fact book.
> 7 Name a cartoon marsupial whose name scores at least 10,000 matches on
> Google.
Rocko (the) Wallaby 2
Pogo Possum 1
Kanga 1
Blinky Bill 1
Sparkster 1
Incorrect answers
Little Roquefort - a mouse and therefore not a rodent
Marsupilami - despite the name actually a monkey-like creature and
therefore not a rodent
Best answer: Dan for Sparkster
> 8 Name an actor who has portrayed James Bond in a movie.
Roger Moore 2
Sean Connery 1
Bill Caco 1
Timothy Dalton 1
David Niven 1
Danny Murphy 1
Reg Gadney 1
Daniel Craig 1
This question needed to have more caveats, but all of these can be found
on imdb so I allowed them.
> 9 Name a city which is the largest in its country by population but is
> NOT a national capital.
Lagos, Nigeria 2
Guayaquil, Ecuador 1
Sao Paulo, Brazil 1
Toronto, Canada 1
Almaty, Kazakhstan 1
Douala, Cameroon 1
Brisbane, Aust 1
New York, USA 1
Best answer: Dan for Brisbane (as defined by the city boundary, not the
metro area).
> 10 Name an element named after a place.
Polonium 2
Francium 1
Scandium 1
Tellurium 1
Ytterbium 1
Holmium 1
Yttrium 1
Lutetium 1
Thanks to those who entered and provided feedback. I was aiming for 10-15
entries to keep it manageable, so 9 is a reasonable return. I'll do
another one in due course, wiser for the experience.
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cheers,
calvin
Calvin
<esq...@sommarskog.se> wrote:
> Calvin (cal...@phlegm.com) writes:
>> Enter by emailing your answers and any supporting docs / URLs to
>> 334152[at]gmail.com by midnight Tuesday, 26th April, Gold Coast time
>> (UTC
>> +10 hours).
> In case anyone else missed that Calvin wanted the replies to a completely
> different address, and have problems of getting through to the address
> in his header, the address is above.
Apologies if anyone was misled, but cal...@phlegm.com is unlikely to be a
valid address. Bloody spammers....
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calvin
Mark Brader
> And the winner is: Mark Brader. Congratulations!
Thanks!
> The only entrant who didn't get all answers correct so a worthy winner.
Huh?
Your tabular formatting is broken, by the way.
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Toronto type English very slowly and loudly."
m...@vex.net --Lars Eighner
Dan Tilque
>
>
> And the winner is: Mark Brader. Congratulations! The only entrant who
> didn't get all answers correct so a worthy winner.
I think you mean "did get all answers correct"
>
>> 3 Name a former Soviet republic that ends in "stan".
>
> Kyrgyzstan 4
> Tajikistan 3
> Turkmenistan 1
Interesting that everyone missed Uzbekistan, which is the only other
correct answer.
>
>> 4 Name a sport which I have played competitively (active 42 year
>> old Australian male originally from Brisbane, now living on the Gold
>> Coast).
>
> Marbles - not played competitively
You never played keepsies? That was always competitive.
As far as the table goes, in order to get it lined up, you need to
create it in a text editor with a monospaced font. Use spaces, not tabs,
between columns. Then copy/paste it to whatever editor your newsreader
uses for posts.
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Dan Tilque
Erland Sommarskog
>> 3 Name a former Soviet republic that ends in "stan".
>
> Kyrgyzstan 4
> Tajikistan 3
> Turkmenistan 1
>
> Incorrect
> Bashkortostan- not a *former* republic.
Huh? None of these four places are former republics. At least none of them
has turned into monarchies as far as I know. All four or them are former
Soviet repuiblics. The one difference is that Bashskorostan is a former
ASSR (Autonomous Socialistic Soviet Replublic) and the other three used to
be SSRs, and today Bashkorostan is not independent - it's a republic with in
the Russian Federation, but not a Soviet Republic. But your question did
not restrict itself to SSRs or independent countries.
> Incorrect answers
> Albania - 70% Muslim a/c to the CIA fact book
> Chad - 53% Muslim a/c to the CIA fact book
Wikipedia says:
There are no official statistics regarding religious affiliation in
Albania. The CIA World Factbook gives a distribution of 70% Muslims,
20% Eastern Orthodox, and 10% Roman Catholics.[62] A Pew Research
Center demographic study from 2009 put the percentage of Muslims in
Albania at 79.9%.[63] In 2009 According to the World Christian
Encyclopedia, roughly 38% of Albanians are Muslim, and 36%
Christian.[64] According to the US State Department, estimates for
active participation in religious services are between 25 and 40%.[65]
Draw your own conclusion.
Kevin Stone
>> Australian male originally from Brisbane, now living on the Gold Coast).
> Having said that, I expected the entrants to be almost exclusively rgt
> regulars who should have a fair idea of my background.
What about us across here in rec.puzzles?
>> 6 Name a country in which at least 75% of the population is Muslim
I'd not spotted the 75%!
Thanks for the contest.
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Kev
swp
> And the winner is: Mark Brader. Congratulations! The only entrant who
> didn't get all answers correct so a worthy winner.
>
reformatted for easier reading, and replaced wrong answer scores with
an asterix. and I like the idea of putting the totals on the left.
just sayin'
> # Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 BP Total
> 1 Mark Brader 2 1 1 3 2 1 2 1 2 1 48
> 2 Dan Tilque 1 1 4 * 1 2 1 1 1 1 -3 69
> 3 Kevin Stone 1 1 4 1 1 * 1 1 1 2 72
> 4 Nick Selwyn 3 1 3 * 2 2 1 1 1 1 324
> 5 Erland Sommar. 1 1 * 3 1 1 * 2 1 1 -2 484
> 6 Sam Buttrey * 1 3 * 1 2 1 1 1 1 486
> 7 Stephen Perry 2 1 4 * 1 2 * 1 2 1 -1 2591
> 8 Lieven Marchand 3 2 4 3 2 1 * 2 1 2 5184
> 9 Roy 3 2 3 * 2 9 2 1 1 1 5832
...
>
> > 4 Name a sport which I have played competitively (active 42 year old
> > Australian male originally from Brisbane, now living on the Gold Coast).
>
> Cricket 3
> Tennis 1
>
> Incorrect
> Running - not a sport
> Gully Cricket - never heard of it
bah. humbug!
> Aust Football - the rugby codes are far more popular in Queensland.
> Surfing - not my thing, but a sensible guess given where I live
> Marbles - not played competitively
>
> While I think the principle of asking a question to which no-one can be
> sure of the answer is sound enough, this clearly wasn't a good question.
> Having said that, I expected the entrants to be almost exclusively rgt
> regulars who should have a fair idea of my background. But there were lots
> of other correct answers including:
>
> rugby league
> rugby union
> golf
> basketball
> netball
> athletics
> swimming
> squash
>
...
>
> > 7 Name a cartoon marsupial whose name scores at least 10,000 matches on
> > Google.
>
> Rocko (the) Wallaby 2
> Pogo Possum 1
> Kanga 1
> Blinky Bill 1
> Sparkster 1
>
> Incorrect answers
> Little Roquefort - a mouse and therefore not a rodent
> Marsupilami - despite the name actually a monkey-like creature and
> therefore not a rodent
>
> Best answer: Dan for Sparkster
I protest my score on #7, since even wikipedia knows that a mouse is a
rodent:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse
> Thanks to those who entered and provided feedback. I was aiming for 10-15
> entries to keep it manageable, so 9 is a reasonable return. I'll do
> another one in due course, wiser for the experience.
Thank You for running this contest. I intend to do better in Mark
Brader's current one, which I encourage everyone to enter, chat about
on their blogs, post to their facebook pages, and otherwise make go
viral.
swp
Bruce Bowler
>> > 7 Name a cartoon marsupial whose name scores at least 10,000 matches
>> > on Google.
>>
>> Incorrect answers
>> Little Roquefort - a mouse and therefore not a rodent
>
> I protest my score on #7, since even wikipedia knows that a mouse is a
> rodent:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse
>
Yes, a mouse is rodent but a mouse is *not* a marsupial which is what the
question really asked for :-)
Bruce
Erland Sommarskog
> Apologies if anyone was misled, but cal...@phlegm.com is unlikely to be a
> valid address.
Well by now, I know. But it was impossible to tell before hand. You
can - and should - add .invalid at the end.
Calvin
wrote:
Um, yes. That's what I meant :-)
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calvin
Calvin
<newsN...@brainbashers.com> wrote:
>>> 4 Name a sport which I have played competitively (active 42 year old
>>> Australian male originally from Brisbane, now living on the Gold
>>> Coast).
>
>> Having said that, I expected the entrants to be almost exclusively rgt
>> regulars who should have a fair idea of my background.
>
> What about us across here in rec.puzzles?
We consider them poor relations :-)
> Thanks for the contest.
Thanks for playing.
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calvin
Calvin
<esq...@sommarskog.se> wrote:
> Calvin (cal...@phlegm.com) writes:
>>> 3 Name a former Soviet republic that ends in "stan".
>>
>> Kyrgyzstan 4
>> Tajikistan 3
>> Turkmenistan 1
>>
>> Incorrect
>> Bashkortostan- not a *former* republic.
>
> Huh? None of these four places are former republics. At least none of
> them
> has turned into monarchies as far as I know. All four or them are former
> Soviet repuiblics. The one difference is that Bashskorostan is a former
> ASSR (Autonomous Socialistic Soviet Replublic) and the other three used
> to
> be SSRs, and today Bashkorostan is not independent - it's a republic
> with in
> the Russian Federation, but not a Soviet Republic. But your question did
> not restrict itself to SSRs or independent countries.
Fair enough- I'll allow it.
Revised scores will be posted once I consider any other protests.
>> Incorrect answers
>> Albania - 70% Muslim a/c to the CIA fact book
>> Chad - 53% Muslim a/c to the CIA fact book
>
> Wikipedia says:
>
> There are no official statistics regarding religious affiliation in
> Albania. The CIA World Factbook gives a distribution of 70% Muslims,
> 20% Eastern Orthodox, and 10% Roman Catholics.[62] A Pew Research
> Center demographic study from 2009 put the percentage of Muslims in
> Albania at 79.9%.[63] In 2009 According to the World Christian
> Encyclopedia, roughly 38% of Albanians are Muslim, and 36%
> Christian.[64] According to the US State Department, estimates for
> active participation in religious services are between 25 and 40%.[65]
>
> Draw your own conclusion.
I have. Protest dismissed :-)
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Erland Sommarskog
for religious affiliation was probably not a good idea.
Calvin
I've allowed Erland's answer of Bashkortostan to Q3 which moves him into
second place. His answers were:
Kim Hughes
Netscape Navigator 2.02
Kyrgyzstan
Tennis
Charles Sturt
Chad
Blinky Bill
Reg Gadney
Douala, Cameroon
Polonium
I trust this aligns properly...
# Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 BP Total
1 Mark Brader 2 1 1 3 2 1 2 1 2 1 48
2 Erland Sommarskog 1 1 1 3 1 1 9 2 1 1 -2 52
3 Dan Tilque 1 1 4 9 1 2 1 1 1 1 -3 69
4 Kevin Stone 1 1 4 1 1 9 1 1 1 2 72
5 Nick Selwyn 3 1 3 9 2 2 1 1 1 1 324
6 Sam Buttrey 9 1 3 9 1 2 1 1 1 1 486
7 Stephen Perry 2 1 4 9 1 2 9 1 2 1 -1 2591
8 Lieven Marchand 3 2 4 3 2 1 9 2 1 2 5184
9 Roy rthe...@hotmail.com 3 2 3 9 2 9 2 1 1 1 5832
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calvin
Erland Sommarskog
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:27:27 +1000, Calvin <cal...@phlegm.com> wrote:
>
> I've allowed Erland's answer of Bashkortostan to Q3 which moves him into
> second place. His answers were:
>
> Kim Hughes
> Netscape Navigator 2.02
> Kyrgyzstan
> Tennis
> Charles Sturt
> Chad
> Blinky Bill
> Reg Gadney
> Douala, Cameroon
> Polonium
No, this was someone else's answers. I was the one who answered Chameleon.
> I trust this aligns properly...
It exceeds 80 column, so it gets a bit complicated to read.
Duke
> 1 Name someone who has captained the Australian cricket team in a Test
> match since 1980.
Me: Rob Baker
Calvin:
> Incorrect
> Rob Baker - under age matches are not Test matches, whatever Wikipedia says...
Well, it's your contest, but it's not just Wikipedia. The ICC itself
uses the term "test matches" to refer to certain U19 matches. See, for
example, their news release:
http://icc-cricket.yahoo.net/events_and_awards/u19/newsdetails.php?newsId=10668_1278382980,
whose first sentence says:
"The ECB has announced a 14-man England U19 squad for the two-match
Test series against Sri Lanka U19s beginning on Wednesday, 21 July in
Northampton..."
The BBC also uses "test match" for certain U19 matches (see, e.g.,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/hi/english/static/cricket/statistics/scorecards/2011/01/86717/html/scorecard.stm)
Just FYI. Next time I'll...well, I don't imagine this will come up
again, actually.
Duke Lefty
Calvin
<esq...@sommarskog.se> wrote:
> Calvin (cal...@phlegm.com) writes:
>> On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:27:27 +1000, Calvin <cal...@phlegm.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've allowed Erland's answer of Bashkortostan to Q3 which moves him into
>> second place. His answers were:
>>
>> Kim Hughes
>> Netscape Navigator 2.02
>> Kyrgyzstan
>> Tennis
>> Charles Sturt
>> Chad
>> Blinky Bill
>> Reg Gadney
>> Douala, Cameroon
>> Polonium
>
> No, this was someone else's answers. I was the one who answered
> Chameleon.
Yes, and Bashkortostan. How's this:
Adam Gilchrist
Chameleon
Bashkortostan
Cricket
Western Sydney
Kosovo
Marsupilami
Roger Moore
Almaty
Yttrium
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calvin
Calvin
> Calvin:
>> 1 Name someone who has captained the Australian cricket team in a Test
>> match since 1980.
>
> Me: Rob Baker
>
> Calvin:
>> Incorrect
>> Rob Baker - under age matches are not Test matches, whatever Wikipedia
>> says...
>
> Well, it's your contest, but it's not just Wikipedia. The ICC itself
> uses the term "test matches" to refer to certain U19 matches. See, for
> example, their news release:
> http://icc-cricket.yahoo.net/events_and_awards/u19/newsdetails.php?newsId=10668_1278382980,
> whose first sentence says:
> "The ECB has announced a 14-man England U19 squad for the two-match
> Test series against Sri Lanka U19s beginning on Wednesday, 21 July in
> Northampton..."
>
>
> The BBC also uses "test match" for certain U19 matches (see, e.g.,
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/hi/english/static/cricket/statistics/scorecards/2011/01/86717/html/scorecard.stm)
Well they are wrong and ought to know better.
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calvin
Nick Wedd
Calvin <cal...@phlegm.com> writes
>> 4 Name a sport which I have played competitively (active 42 year
>>old Australian male originally from Brisbane, now living on the Gold
>>Coast).
>
>Cricket 3
>Tennis 1
>
>Incorrect
>Running - not a sport
>Gully Cricket - never heard of it
>Aust Football - the rugby codes are far more popular in Queensland.
>Surfing - not my thing, but a sensible guess given where I live
>Marbles - not played competitively
>
>While I think the principle of asking a question to which no-one can be
>sure of the answer is sound enough, this clearly wasn't a good
>question. Having said that, I expected the entrants to be almost
>exclusively rgt regulars who should have a fair idea of my background.
>But there were lots of other correct answers including:
>
>rugby league
>rugby union
>golf
>basketball
>netball
>athletics
>swimming
>squash
Running is not a sport, but swimming is? Why?
Nick
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Nick Wedd ni...@maproom.co.uk
Calvin
> Running is not a sport, but swimming is? Why?
Athletics (or Track & Field) is a sport. Running is an activity.
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cheers,
calvin