Calvin's Quiz #151
Calvin
1 Which country won the 2010 Davis Cup?
2 What is the name of the German parliament building?
3 The Dirty Harry films were set in which US city?
4 With what type of music is the US radio program the Grand Ole Opry
associated?
5 Urdu and English are the two official languages of which country?
6 What is Christiaan Barnard's claim to fame?
7 Who was the first director of the FBI?
8 Errol Flynn and Kevin Costner have both portrayed which fictional
character?
9 What is the most common consonant in the English language?
10 In which British TV show do two teams buy antiques to sell at auction
for profit?
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cheers,
calvin
Dan Tilque
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> 1 Which country won the 2010 Davis Cup?
Australia
> 2 What is the name of the German parliament building?
Reichstag
> 3 The Dirty Harry films were set in which US city?
San Francisco
> 4 With what type of music is the US radio program the Grand Ole Opry
> associated?
Country Western
> 5 Urdu and English are the two official languages of which country?
Pakistan
> 6 What is Christiaan Barnard's claim to fame?
first doctor to perform a successful heart transplant
> 7 Who was the first director of the FBI?
J Edgar Hoover (although he was just the first under that name. The
agency was known as just the Bureau of Investigation at the time he
became director and for years before that)
> 8 Errol Flynn and Kevin Costner have both portrayed which fictional
> character?
Robin Hood
> 9 What is the most common consonant in the English language?
t (assuming you mean written English. In spoken English, it's probably /s/)
> 10 In which British TV show do two teams buy antiques to sell at
> auction for profit?
>
Alas, my streak of perfect scores on your quizzes ends at 2. Even if I
guessed right on answer 1 above (unlikely), I haven't the faintest idea
about this question.
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Dan Tilque
Joachim Parsch
Calvin schrieb:
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> 1 Which country won the 2010 Davis Cup?
Serbia.
> 2 What is the name of the German parliament building?
Reichstag (that's the building, the parliament itself is called
"Bundestag")
> 3 The Dirty Harry films were set in which US city?
San Francisco.
> 4 With what type of music is the US radio program the Grand Ole Opry
> associated?
> 5 Urdu and English are the two official languages of which country?
Pakistan.
> 6 What is Christiaan Barnard's claim to fame?
First heart transplantation.
> 7 Who was the first director of the FBI?
> 8 Errol Flynn and Kevin Costner have both portrayed which fictional
> character?
Robin Hood.
> 9 What is the most common consonant in the English language?
N
> 10 In which British TV show do two teams buy antiques to sell at auction
> for profit?
Joachim
Erland Sommarskog
> 1 Which country won the 2010 Davis Cup?
Serbia
> 3 The Dirty Harry films were set in which US city?
New York
> 4 With what type of music is the US radio program the Grand Ole Opry
> associated?
Country
> 5 Urdu and English are the two official languages of which country?
Pakistan
> 6 What is Christiaan Barnard's claim to fame?
The first heart transplants
> 8 Errol Flynn and Kevin Costner have both portrayed which fictional
> character?
Some pirate
> 9 What is the most common consonant in the English language?
S
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Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se
Mark Brader
> 1 Which country won the 2010 Davis Cup?
> 2 What is the name of the German parliament building?
Reichstag.
> 3 The Dirty Harry films were set in which US city?
San Francisco.
> 4 With what type of music is the US radio program the Grand Ole Opry
> associated?
Country.
> 5 Urdu and English are the two official languages of which country?
Pakistan.
> 6 What is Christiaan Barnard's claim to fame?
Performed the first human heart transplant.
> 7 Who was the first director of the FBI?
Hoover.
> 8 Errol Flynn and Kevin Costner have both portrayed which fictional
> character?
Robin Hood.
> 9 What is the most common consonant in the English language?
T.
> 10 In which British TV show do two teams buy antiques to sell at auction
> for profit?
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Mark Brader | "This was followed by a vocal response which
Toronto | would now be reserved for kicking a ball in a net."
m...@vex.net | --Derrick Beckett
Rob Parker
Sure wasn't Oz
> 2 What is the name of the German parliament building?
no idea
> 3 The Dirty Harry films were set in which US city?
San Francisco
> 4 With what type of music is the US radio program the Grand Ole Opry
> associated?
Country & Western (and they're both pretty awful, for the most part)
> 5 Urdu and English are the two official languages of which country?
Pakistan
> 6 What is Christiaan Barnard's claim to fame?
Performed the first heart transplant
> 7 Who was the first director of the FBI?
J Edgar Hoover
> 8 Errol Flynn and Kevin Costner have both portrayed which fictional
> character?
Robin Hood
> 9 What is the most common consonant in the English language?
T
> 10 In which British TV show do two teams buy antiques to sell at auction
> for profit?
no idea
Rob
David
Africa
> 2 What is the name of the German parliament building?
Reikstaag (sp?)
> 3 The Dirty Harry films were set in which US city?
New York?
> 4 With what type of music is the US radio program the Grand Ole Opry
> associated?
African
> 5 Urdu and English are the two official languages of which country?
Pakistan
> 6 What is Christiaan Barnard's claim to fame?
First Heart Transplant
> 7 Who was the first director of the FBI?
J.Edgar Hoover
> 8 Errol Flynn and Kevin Costner have both portrayed which fictional
> character?
Robin Hood
> 9 What is the most common consonant in the English language?
T ?
> 10 In which British TV show do two teams buy antiques to sell at
> auction for profit?
Bargain Hunt
Jeffrey Turner
>
>
> 1 Which country won the 2010 Davis Cup?
> 2 What is the name of the German parliament building?
> 3 The Dirty Harry films were set in which US city?
> 4 With what type of music is the US radio program the Grand Ole Opry
> associated?
> 5 Urdu and English are the two official languages of which country?
> 6 What is Christiaan Barnard's claim to fame?
> 7 Who was the first director of the FBI?
> 8 Errol Flynn and Kevin Costner have both portrayed which fictional
> character?
> 9 What is the most common consonant in the English language?
> 10 In which British TV show do two teams buy antiques to sell at auction
> for profit?
--Jeff
Marc Dashevsky
> 1 Which country won the 2010 Davis Cup?
> 2 What is the name of the German parliament building?
Reichstag
> 3 The Dirty Harry films were set in which US city?
San Francisco
> 4 With what type of music is the US radio program the Grand Ole Opry associated?
Country
> 5 Urdu and English are the two official languages of which country?
Pakistan
> 6 What is Christiaan Barnard's claim to fame?
performed first heart transplant in a human
> 7 Who was the first director of the FBI?
J. Edgar Hoover
> 8 Errol Flynn and Kevin Costner have both portrayed which fictional character?
Robin Hood
> 9 What is the most common consonant in the English language?
n
> 10 In which British TV show do two teams buy antiques to sell at auction for profit?
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Go to http://MarcDashevsky.com to send me e-mail.
Pete
news:op.vzmhg...@04233-jyhzp1s.staff.ad.bond.edu.au:
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>
> 1 Which country won the 2010 Davis Cup?
Spain
> 2 What is the name of the German parliament building?
Bundestag
> 3 The Dirty Harry films were set in which US city?
San Francisco
> 4 With what type of music is the US radio program the Grand Ole
> Opry associated?
Country
> 5 Urdu and English are the two official languages of which
> country?
Pakistan
> 6 What is Christiaan Barnard's claim to fame?
First doctor to perform a heart transplant
> 7 Who was the first director of the FBI?
J Edgar Hoover
> 8 Errol Flynn and Kevin Costner have both portrayed which
> fictional character?
Robin Hood
> 9 What is the most common consonant in the English language?
R
> 10 In which British TV show do two teams buy antiques to sell at
> auction for profit?
>
Pete
Peter Smyth
news:op.vzmhg...@04233-jyhzp1s.staff.ad.bond.edu.au...
>
>
>
>1 Which country won the 2010 Davis Cup?
>2 What is the name of the German parliament building?
>3 The Dirty Harry films were set in which US city?
>4 With what type of music is the US radio program the Grand Ole Opry
>associated?
>5 Urdu and English are the two official languages of which country?
>6 What is Christiaan Barnard's claim to fame?
>7 Who was the first director of the FBI?
>8 Errol Flynn and Kevin Costner have both portrayed which fictional
>character?
>9 What is the most common consonant in the English language?
>10 In which British TV show do two teams buy antiques to sell at auction
>for profit?
Peter Smyth
Calvin
> 1 Which country won the 2010 Davis Cup?
Serbia
3/10
> 2 What is the name of the German parliament building?
Reichstag
8/10
> 3 The Dirty Harry films were set in which US city?
San Francisco
7/10
> 4 With what type of music is the US radio program the Grand Ole Opry
> associated?
Country / Western [I don't know what the difference is, and don't want to
know]
8/10
> 5 Urdu and English are the two official languages of which country?
Pakistan
10/10
> 6 What is Christiaan Barnard's claim to fame?
First human heart transplant doctor
10/10
> 7 Who was the first director of the FBI?
J Edgar Hoover
7/10
What a chap.
> 8 Errol Flynn and Kevin Costner have both portrayed which fictional
> character?
Robin Hood
8/10
> 9 What is the most common consonant in the English language?
T
6/10
> 10 In which British TV show do two teams buy antiques to sell at auction
> for profit?
Bargain Hunt
2/10
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL Quiz 151
- - - - - - - - - - --- ----------
0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 8 Dan Tilque
0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 David
1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 Erland S
0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 7 Jeffrey Turner
1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 6 Joachim Parsch
0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 7 Marc Dashevsky
0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 8 Mark Brader
0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 7 Pete Gayde
1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 8 Peter Smyth
0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 7 Rob Parker
- - - - - - - - - - --- ----------
3 8 7 8 10 10 7 8 6 2 69 TOTAL
69%
The trend of ties continues with Dan, Mark and Peter sharing the spoils.
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cheers,
calvin