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Calvin
Jun 18, 2019, 11:26:34 PM6/18/19
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1 In 2012 Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted for the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over Lockerbie, died in which country some three years after his humanitarian release from a Scottish prison?
2 Why was the amusement park in Pripyat, Ukraine, which was scheduled to open on 1 May 1986, permanently closed four days earlier?
3 In which European language are all nouns capitalised?
4 Technically speaking, scissors do not cut material but function using what other technique?
5 What was the Collins Dictionary word of the year for 2018? It had seen a four-fold increase in use since 2013, chiefly in relation to plastics.
6 Which Shakespearean play shares its title with a 1935 ballet by Sergei Prokofiev and a 1981 hit by Dire Straits?
7 In mathematics, what is the value of the imaginary number i when squared? (i.e. i^2)
8 Which four-letter exclamation is the catchphrase the Sesame Street character Sherlock Hemlock?
9 What is the two-word Latin term for an argument that has gone on too long, literally to a sickening degree?
10 Which two words complete this quote from a poem by the British author Saki, aka Hector Hugh Munro: "The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, …"?
Answers will not appear before 1st July.
cheers,
calvin
Mark Brader
Jun 19, 2019, 2:32:58 AM6/19/19
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"Calvin":
> 2 Why was the amusement park in Pripyat, Ukraine, which was
> scheduled to open on 1 May 1986, permanently closed four days
> earlier?
The nuclear accident at Chernobyl.
> 3 In which European language are all nouns capitalised?
German.
> 4 Technically speaking, scissors do not cut material but
> function using what other technique?
They tear it.
> 5 What was the Collins Dictionary word of the year for 2018?
> It had seen a four-fold increase in use since 2013, chiefly in
> relation to plastics.
"Garbage patch"?
> 6 Which Shakespearean play shares its title with a 1935 ballet
> by Sergei Prokofiev and a 1981 hit by Dire Straits?
"Othello"?
> 7 In mathematics, what is the value of the imaginary number i
> when squared? (i.e. i^2)
-1.
> 8 Which four-letter exclamation is the catchphrase the Sesame
> Street character Sherlock Hemlock?
Egad?
> 9 What is the two-word Latin term for an argument that has
> gone on too long, literally to a sickening degree?
Ad nauseam.
> 10 Which two words complete this quote from a poem by the
> British author Saki, aka Hector Hugh Munro: "The cook was a
> good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, ..."?
She went?
--
Mark Brader | "...she was quite surprised to find that she remained
Toronto | the same size: to be sure, this generally happens
m...@vex.net | when one eats cake, but..." --Lewis Carroll
My text in this article is in the public domain.
> 1 In 2012 Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person
> convicted for the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over
> Lockerbie, died in which country some three years after his
> humanitarian release from a Scottish prison?
Libya?
> convicted for the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over
> Lockerbie, died in which country some three years after his
> humanitarian release from a Scottish prison?
> 2 Why was the amusement park in Pripyat, Ukraine, which was
> scheduled to open on 1 May 1986, permanently closed four days
> earlier?
> 3 In which European language are all nouns capitalised?
> 4 Technically speaking, scissors do not cut material but
> function using what other technique?
> 5 What was the Collins Dictionary word of the year for 2018?
> It had seen a four-fold increase in use since 2013, chiefly in
> relation to plastics.
> 6 Which Shakespearean play shares its title with a 1935 ballet
> by Sergei Prokofiev and a 1981 hit by Dire Straits?
> 7 In mathematics, what is the value of the imaginary number i
> when squared? (i.e. i^2)
> 8 Which four-letter exclamation is the catchphrase the Sesame
> Street character Sherlock Hemlock?
> 9 What is the two-word Latin term for an argument that has
> gone on too long, literally to a sickening degree?
> 10 Which two words complete this quote from a poem by the
> British author Saki, aka Hector Hugh Munro: "The cook was a
She went?
--
Mark Brader | "...she was quite surprised to find that she remained
Toronto | the same size: to be sure, this generally happens
m...@vex.net | when one eats cake, but..." --Lewis Carroll
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Dan Blum
Jun 19, 2019, 9:38:03 AM6/19/19
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Calvin <334...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1 In 2012 Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted for the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over Lockerbie, died in which country some three years after his humanitarian release from a Scottish prison?
Libya
> 1 In 2012 Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted for the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over Lockerbie, died in which country some three years after his humanitarian release from a Scottish prison?
> 2 Why was the amusement park??in??Pripyat,??Ukraine, which was scheduled to open on 1 May 1986, permanently closed four days earlier?
contamination from the Chernobyl disaster
> 3 In which European language are all nouns capitalised?
> 7 In mathematics, what is the value of the imaginary number i when squared? (i.e. i^2)
> 8 Which four-letter exclamation is the catchphrase the Sesame Street??character Sherlock Hemlock?
Egad!
> 9 What is the two-word Latin term for an argument that has gone on too long, literally to a sickening degree?
> 10 Which two words complete this quote from a poem by the British author Saki, aka Hector Hugh Munro: "The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, ???"?
she went
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Erland Sommarskog
Jun 19, 2019, 2:47:53 PM6/19/19
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Calvin (334...@gmail.com) writes:
> 1 In 2012 Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted for
> the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over Lockerbie, died in which
> country some three years after his humanitarian release from a Scottish
> prison?
Libya
> 1 In 2012 Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted for
> the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over Lockerbie, died in which
> country some three years after his humanitarian release from a Scottish
> prison?
> 2 Why was the amusement park in Pripyat, Ukraine, which was
> scheduled to open on 1 May 1986, permanently closed four days earlier?
of a sudden have any staff - everyone had left town.
I have been there. It's an eerie place.
> 3 In which European language are all nouns capitalised?
> 7 In mathematics, what is the value of the imaginary number i when
> squared? (i.e. i^2)
> 8 Which four-letter exclamation is the catchphrase the Sesame
> Street character Sherlock Hemlock?
> 9 What is the two-word Latin term for an argument that has gone on
> too long, literally to a sickening degree?
Pete Gayde
Jun 20, 2019, 12:54:13 AM6/20/19
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Calvin <334...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:2ce312f7-72bb-4ef3...@googlegroups.com:
>
> 1 In 2012 Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted
> for the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over Lockerbie, died in
> which country some three years after his humanitarian release from a
> Scottish prison?
Libya
> 2 Why was the amusement
> park in Pripyat, Ukraine, which was scheduled to open on 1 May
> 1986, permanently closed four days earlier?
Chernobyl disaster
> 3 In which European language are all nouns capitalised?
Moscow
> 4 Technically speaking,
> scissors do not cut material but function using what other technique?
Cleaving
> 5 What was the Collins Dictionary word of the year for 2018? It
> had seen a four-fold increase in use since 2013, chiefly in relation
> to plastics.
> 6 Which Shakespearean play shares its title with a
> 1935 ballet by Sergei Prokofiev and a 1981 hit by Dire Straits?
Romeo and Juliet
> 7
> In mathematics, what is the value of the imaginary number i when
> squared? (i.e. i^2)
1
> 8 Which four-letter exclamation is the
> catchphrase the Sesame Street character Sherlock Hemlock?
Egad
> 9 What
> is the two-word Latin term for an argument that has gone on too long,
> literally to a sickening degree?
Ad Nauseum
> 10 Which two words complete this
> quote from a poem by the British author Saki, aka Hector Hugh Munro:
> "The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, …"?
he went
>
> Answers will not appear before 1st July.
>
> cheers,
> calvin
>
Pete Gayde
news:2ce312f7-72bb-4ef3...@googlegroups.com:
>
> 1 In 2012 Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted
> for the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over Lockerbie, died in
> which country some three years after his humanitarian release from a
> Scottish prison?
> 2 Why was the amusement
> park in Pripyat, Ukraine, which was scheduled to open on 1 May
> 1986, permanently closed four days earlier?
> 3 In which European language are all nouns capitalised?
> 4 Technically speaking,
> scissors do not cut material but function using what other technique?
> 5 What was the Collins Dictionary word of the year for 2018? It
> had seen a four-fold increase in use since 2013, chiefly in relation
> to plastics.
> 6 Which Shakespearean play shares its title with a
> 1935 ballet by Sergei Prokofiev and a 1981 hit by Dire Straits?
> 7
> In mathematics, what is the value of the imaginary number i when
> squared? (i.e. i^2)
> 8 Which four-letter exclamation is the
> catchphrase the Sesame Street character Sherlock Hemlock?
> 9 What
> is the two-word Latin term for an argument that has gone on too long,
> literally to a sickening degree?
> 10 Which two words complete this
> quote from a poem by the British author Saki, aka Hector Hugh Munro:
> "The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, …"?
>
> Answers will not appear before 1st July.
>
> cheers,
> calvin
>
Mark Brader
Jun 20, 2019, 1:06:53 AM6/20/19
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"Calvin":
> Moscow
Interesting language.
Pete may have been thinking of the fact that Russian has no instances
of capital letters that are shaped differently from the corresponding
lower-case ones the way E, G, and many others are in English. I could
see this creating a false impression that Russian does not have lower-case
letters at all.
--
Mark Brader | "Next time I will proofread my before sending it out. ;-)"
Toronto | --Kevin Rushforth
m...@vex.net | "What? What!? Proofread your what??!!!" --Larry Smith
> > 3 In which European language are all nouns capitalised?
Pete Gayde:
> Moscow
Interesting language.
Pete may have been thinking of the fact that Russian has no instances
of capital letters that are shaped differently from the corresponding
lower-case ones the way E, G, and many others are in English. I could
see this creating a false impression that Russian does not have lower-case
letters at all.
--
Mark Brader | "Next time I will proofread my before sending it out. ;-)"
Toronto | --Kevin Rushforth
m...@vex.net | "What? What!? Proofread your what??!!!" --Larry Smith
Erland Sommarskog
Jun 20, 2019, 7:22:45 AM6/20/19
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Mark Brader (m...@vex.net) writes:
> Pete may have been thinking of the fact that Russian has no instances
> of capital letters that are shaped differently from the corresponding
> lower-case ones the way E, G, and many others are in English. I could
> see this creating a false impression that Russian does not have lower-case
> letters at all.
That is not entirely correct. It is true that in Cyrillic that most
> Pete may have been thinking of the fact that Russian has no instances
> of capital letters that are shaped differently from the corresponding
> lower-case ones the way E, G, and many others are in English. I could
> see this creating a false impression that Russian does not have lower-case
> letters at all.
lowercase letters in *print* face are just smaller versions of their
uppercase caracters. But some are different, for instance A and E,
where Cyrillic also has "a" and "e".
Cyrillic lowercase can also be written with a cursive glyphs (or whatever
the exact term). In this style, there are more lowercase that are different
from the uppercase letters. These are mainly used with hand-
writing, but they can also be used in print, and they can be quite
confusing for someone who is more used to read the Latin script. To wit,
many of these lowercase shapes are identical with the Latin characters -
but the mapping is different. For instance, if you see the shape "m"
in Cyrillic text, that is not a lowercase M - it's a lowercase T!
Pete Gayde
Jun 20, 2019, 11:59:10 AM6/20/19
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m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in
news:APmdnVhxqvz6iZbA...@giganews.com:
> "Calvin":
>> > 3 In which European language are all nouns capitalised?
>
> Pete Gayde:
>> Moscow
>
> Interesting language.
>
> Pete may have been thinking of the fact that Russian has no instances
> of capital letters that are shaped differently from the corresponding
> lower-case ones the way E, G, and many others are in English. I could
> see this creating a false impression that Russian does not have
> lower-case letters at all.
Actually, Pete misread the question and immediately wished that he could
have edited his response after he submitted it (similar to the quote in
Mark's signature).
Pete
news:APmdnVhxqvz6iZbA...@giganews.com:
> "Calvin":
>> > 3 In which European language are all nouns capitalised?
>
> Pete Gayde:
>> Moscow
>
> Interesting language.
>
> Pete may have been thinking of the fact that Russian has no instances
> of capital letters that are shaped differently from the corresponding
> lower-case ones the way E, G, and many others are in English. I could
> see this creating a false impression that Russian does not have
> lower-case letters at all.
have edited his response after he submitted it (similar to the quote in
Mark's signature).
Pete
Mark Brader
Jun 20, 2019, 5:39:37 PM6/20/19
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Erland Sommarskog:
You're right, I forgot about handwritten Russian. Thanks.
--
Mark Brader "This must be a serious issue!
Toronto It's spawned a new interjection!"
m...@vex.net --Steve Summit
> That is not entirely correct. It is true that in Cyrillic that most
> lowercase letters in *print* face are just smaller versions of their
> uppercase caracters. But some are different, for instance A and E,
> where Cyrillic also has "a" and "e".
>
> Cyrillic lowercase can also be written with a cursive glyphs (or whatever
> the exact term). In this style, there are more lowercase that are different
> from the uppercase letters. These are mainly used with hand-
> writing...
> lowercase letters in *print* face are just smaller versions of their
> uppercase caracters. But some are different, for instance A and E,
> where Cyrillic also has "a" and "e".
>
> Cyrillic lowercase can also be written with a cursive glyphs (or whatever
> the exact term). In this style, there are more lowercase that are different
> from the uppercase letters. These are mainly used with hand-
You're right, I forgot about handwritten Russian. Thanks.
--
Mark Brader "This must be a serious issue!
Toronto It's spawned a new interjection!"
m...@vex.net --Steve Summit
Dan Tilque
Jun 23, 2019, 6:57:35 PM6/23/19
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On 6/18/19 8:26 PM, Calvin wrote:
>
> 1 In 2012 Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted for the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over Lockerbie, died in which country some three years after his humanitarian release from a Scottish prison?
Libya
>
> 1 In 2012 Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted for the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over Lockerbie, died in which country some three years after his humanitarian release from a Scottish prison?
> 2 Why was the amusement park in Pripyat, Ukraine, which was scheduled to open on 1 May 1986, permanently closed four days earlier?
> 3 In which European language are all nouns capitalised?
> 4 Technically speaking, scissors do not cut material but function using what other technique?
> 5 What was the Collins Dictionary word of the year for 2018? It had seen a four-fold increase in use since 2013, chiefly in relation to plastics.
> 6 Which Shakespearean play shares its title with a 1935 ballet by Sergei Prokofiev and a 1981 hit by Dire Straits?
> 7 In mathematics, what is the value of the imaginary number i when squared? (i.e. i^2)
> 8 Which four-letter exclamation is the catchphrase the Sesame Street character Sherlock Hemlock?
> 9 What is the two-word Latin term for an argument that has gone on too long, literally to a sickening degree?
> 10 Which two words complete this quote from a poem by the British author Saki, aka Hector Hugh Munro: "The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, …"?
Dan Tilque
Calvin
Jul 1, 2019, 12:54:25 AM7/1/19
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On Wednesday, June 19, 2019 at 1:26:34 PM UTC+10, Calvin wrote:
> 1 In 2012 Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted for the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over Lockerbie, died in which country some three years after his humanitarian release from a Scottish prison?
Libya
> 1 In 2012 Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted for the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over Lockerbie, died in which country some three years after his humanitarian release from a Scottish prison?
> 2 Why was the amusement park in Pripyat, Ukraine, which was scheduled to open on 1 May 1986, permanently closed four days earlier?
> 3 In which European language are all nouns capitalised?
> 4 Technically speaking, scissors do not cut material but function using what other technique?
No-one got this
> 5 What was the Collins Dictionary word of the year for 2018? It had seen a four-fold increase in use since 2013, chiefly in relation to plastics.
Or this, though it is cheating a bit to call it a word.
> 6 Which Shakespearean play shares its title with a 1935 ballet by Sergei Prokofiev and a 1981 hit by Dire Straits?
Singleton for Pete
> 7 In mathematics, what is the value of the imaginary number i when squared? (i.e. i^2)
> 8 Which four-letter exclamation is the catchphrase the Sesame Street character Sherlock Hemlock?
> 9 What is the two-word Latin term for an argument that has gone on too long, literally to a sickening degree?
> 10 Which two words complete this quote from a poem by the British author Saki, aka Hector Hugh Munro: "The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, …"?
> Answers will not appear before 1st July.
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB 566
1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 7 29 Mark Brader
1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 7 29 Dan Blum
1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 6 22 Pete Gayde
1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 5 23 Dan Tilque
1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 5 23 Erland S
- - - - - - - - - - --- ----------
5 5 4 0 0 1 4 3 5 3 30 60%
Congratulations Mark and Dan B.
cheers,
calvin
Mark Brader
Jul 1, 2019, 2:03:31 AM7/1/19
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"Calvin":
> Congratulations Mark and Dan B.
Thanks.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto, m...@vex.net
"History tells us that the Boston 'T' Party was succeeded
the next day by the Boston 'U' Party, where American rebels
yanked all the extraneous U's out of words like 'colour'
and threw them into Boston Harbour. Harbor. Whatever."
--Adam Beneschan
> > 4 Technically speaking, scissors do not cut material but function using what other technique?
>
> Shearing
> No-one got this
Isn't it a form of tearing?
>
> Shearing
> No-one got this
> Congratulations Mark and Dan B.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto, m...@vex.net
"History tells us that the Boston 'T' Party was succeeded
the next day by the Boston 'U' Party, where American rebels
yanked all the extraneous U's out of words like 'colour'
and threw them into Boston Harbour. Harbor. Whatever."
--Adam Beneschan
Calvin
Jul 2, 2019, 8:50:05 PM7/2/19
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On Monday, July 1, 2019 at 4:03:31 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
> "Calvin":
> > > 4 Technically speaking, scissors do not cut material but function using what other technique?
> >
> > Shearing
> > No-one got this
>
> Isn't it a form of tearing?
There was a similar protest in the original game. It is a form of tearing, but tearing does not require a blade and does not necessarily make a clean cut so that answer was ruled insufficiently specific. Sorry.
> "Calvin":
> > > 4 Technically speaking, scissors do not cut material but function using what other technique?
> >
> > Shearing
> > No-one got this
>
> Isn't it a form of tearing?
cheers,
calvin
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