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Rotating Quiz #246, Containing a House
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Mark Brader
Feb 20, 2017, 1:40:53 PM2/20/17
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Welcome to Rotating Quiz #246, Containing a House.
I'd like to thank Don Piven for running RQ 245 and for writing a
contest that allowed me to win. The winner of RQ 246, in turn, will
be the first choice to set RQ 247, in whatever manner they prefer.
Please answer these questions based only on your own knowledge;
put all of your answers in a single posting, quoting the question
before each one. You have 6 days from the time of posting, which
means that answer slates must be posted before about 1:40 pm
(by Toronto time, zone -5) on Sunday, February 26.
This is a Quiz Quilt in the manner of Robert Jen, but not exactly.
As we haven't had one for a while, I'll spell out what that means.
For each of questions #1-10, write down the thing being described
or referred to. A few questions may have multiple possible answers,
but only the ones that fit with the quilt are valid.
If you write down the correct answers to these 10 questions in order
along successive rows of a grid, you will find the "quilt" answer
reading *either upward or downward* in one of these positions:
(1) vertically along a column, or (2) diagonally to/from one of
the left-hand corners, or (3) zigzaggily along the last letters
of the answers.
For example, if there were only 3 questions and the answers were
T W O H Y
A H
M O E S
then the quilt answer might be any of (1) TAM, MAT, WHO, or OHW;
(2) THE, EHT, MHO, or OHM; (3) SHY, or YHS -- but, as they are not
(as far as I know) words or names, you could immediately eliminate
OHW, EHT, and YHS.
In fact the quilt answer is a *single English word or name* and
the contest title is a clue, possibly a vague or cryptic one,
pointing to it.
Scoring is out of 13: 1 point each (half a point if misspelled)
for answers #1-10 and 3 points for the quilt. In case of a tie,
the first tiebreaker is who got the quilt answer; the second
tiebreaker is who scored on the hardest questions; and the third
tiebreaker is who posted first.
Naturally, you are to answer all questions from your own knowledge
only. Please post a single message with your answers, quoting the
questions you are answering and placing your answer below each one.
1. Of all the countries in the world, this small one in Asia has
the longest name where, as it is spelled in English, vowels
and consonants alternate for the entire name.
2. Two principal types of metamorphic rock are formed from granite.
One is schist. The other tends to be more boldly striped;
what's it called?
3. Hillary Clinton seems to have bumped into a glass one after all.
4. This is a synonym (or a near-synonym, depending on which
definition you use) for "vaccination". Looking at the word's
etymology, you might think it involves an injection into the
eye; but, thankfully, it doesn't.
5. This was the title of the ancient Egyptian monarchs.
6. This can be a synonym for "lodging", such as hotels and inns.
It can also refer to a compromise to settle a dispute; still
another meaning refers or to a person's way of adapting to a
situation such as a disability.
7. Fill in the blank: in this sentence there are five _____ of
the upper or lower case letter O.
8. This may refer to a model or statue of something or someone,
specifically one that's considerably smaller than the real thing.
9. This adjective is used for books such as Ecclesiasticus and Tobit
that appear in the original King James version of the Christian
Bible, but not in some other versions; and, more generally,
it refers to "facts" that may be well known but are, let's say,
dubious at best.
10. An oil company takes its name from this word, the opposite of
the traditional geographic term Oriental.
11. Give the quilt answer.
--
Mark Brader "The routes 'London' and 'not London' are
Toronto not necessarily mutually exclusive."
m...@vex.net --Tim Stevens for ATOC, UK
My text in this article is in the public domain.
I'd like to thank Don Piven for running RQ 245 and for writing a
contest that allowed me to win. The winner of RQ 246, in turn, will
be the first choice to set RQ 247, in whatever manner they prefer.
Please answer these questions based only on your own knowledge;
put all of your answers in a single posting, quoting the question
before each one. You have 6 days from the time of posting, which
means that answer slates must be posted before about 1:40 pm
(by Toronto time, zone -5) on Sunday, February 26.
This is a Quiz Quilt in the manner of Robert Jen, but not exactly.
As we haven't had one for a while, I'll spell out what that means.
For each of questions #1-10, write down the thing being described
or referred to. A few questions may have multiple possible answers,
but only the ones that fit with the quilt are valid.
If you write down the correct answers to these 10 questions in order
along successive rows of a grid, you will find the "quilt" answer
reading *either upward or downward* in one of these positions:
(1) vertically along a column, or (2) diagonally to/from one of
the left-hand corners, or (3) zigzaggily along the last letters
of the answers.
For example, if there were only 3 questions and the answers were
T W O H Y
A H
M O E S
then the quilt answer might be any of (1) TAM, MAT, WHO, or OHW;
(2) THE, EHT, MHO, or OHM; (3) SHY, or YHS -- but, as they are not
(as far as I know) words or names, you could immediately eliminate
OHW, EHT, and YHS.
In fact the quilt answer is a *single English word or name* and
the contest title is a clue, possibly a vague or cryptic one,
pointing to it.
Scoring is out of 13: 1 point each (half a point if misspelled)
for answers #1-10 and 3 points for the quilt. In case of a tie,
the first tiebreaker is who got the quilt answer; the second
tiebreaker is who scored on the hardest questions; and the third
tiebreaker is who posted first.
Naturally, you are to answer all questions from your own knowledge
only. Please post a single message with your answers, quoting the
questions you are answering and placing your answer below each one.
1. Of all the countries in the world, this small one in Asia has
the longest name where, as it is spelled in English, vowels
and consonants alternate for the entire name.
2. Two principal types of metamorphic rock are formed from granite.
One is schist. The other tends to be more boldly striped;
what's it called?
3. Hillary Clinton seems to have bumped into a glass one after all.
4. This is a synonym (or a near-synonym, depending on which
definition you use) for "vaccination". Looking at the word's
etymology, you might think it involves an injection into the
eye; but, thankfully, it doesn't.
5. This was the title of the ancient Egyptian monarchs.
6. This can be a synonym for "lodging", such as hotels and inns.
It can also refer to a compromise to settle a dispute; still
another meaning refers or to a person's way of adapting to a
situation such as a disability.
7. Fill in the blank: in this sentence there are five _____ of
the upper or lower case letter O.
8. This may refer to a model or statue of something or someone,
specifically one that's considerably smaller than the real thing.
9. This adjective is used for books such as Ecclesiasticus and Tobit
that appear in the original King James version of the Christian
Bible, but not in some other versions; and, more generally,
it refers to "facts" that may be well known but are, let's say,
dubious at best.
10. An oil company takes its name from this word, the opposite of
the traditional geographic term Oriental.
11. Give the quilt answer.
--
Mark Brader "The routes 'London' and 'not London' are
Toronto not necessarily mutually exclusive."
m...@vex.net --Tim Stevens for ATOC, UK
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Dan Blum
Feb 20, 2017, 3:13:00 PM2/20/17
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Mark Brader <m...@vex.net> wrote:
> 1. Of all the countries in the world, this small one in Asia has
> the longest name where, as it is spelled in English, vowels
> and consonants alternate for the entire name.
United Arab Emirates
> 1. Of all the countries in the world, this small one in Asia has
> the longest name where, as it is spelled in English, vowels
> and consonants alternate for the entire name.
> 2. Two principal types of metamorphic rock are formed from granite.
> One is schist. The other tends to be more boldly striped;
> what's it called?
> 3. Hillary Clinton seems to have bumped into a glass one after all.
> 4. This is a synonym (or a near-synonym, depending on which
> definition you use) for "vaccination". Looking at the word's
> etymology, you might think it involves an injection into the
> eye; but, thankfully, it doesn't.
> 5. This was the title of the ancient Egyptian monarchs.
> 6. This can be a synonym for "lodging", such as hotels and inns.
> It can also refer to a compromise to settle a dispute; still
> another meaning refers or to a person's way of adapting to a
> situation such as a disability.
> 7. Fill in the blank: in this sentence there are five _____ of
> the upper or lower case letter O.
> 8. This may refer to a model or statue of something or someone,
> specifically one that's considerably smaller than the real thing.
> 9. This adjective is used for books such as Ecclesiasticus and Tobit
> that appear in the original King James version of the Christian
> Bible, but not in some other versions; and, more generally,
> it refers to "facts" that may be well known but are, let's say,
> dubious at best.
> 10. An oil company takes its name from this word, the opposite of
> the traditional geographic term Oriental.
> 11. Give the quilt answer.
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Don Piven
Feb 20, 2017, 5:38:50 PM2/20/17
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G N E I S S
C E I L I N G
I N O C U L A T I O N
P H A R A O H
A C C O M M O D A T I O N
O C C U R R E N C E S
M I N I A T U R E
A P O C R Y P H A L
O C C I D E N T A L
Don Piven
Feb 20, 2017, 5:41:45 PM2/20/17
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That's an EVIL quiz format! More!
Marc Dashevsky
Feb 21, 2017, 10:33:43 AM2/21/17
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In article <bKadnSaom8KtpTbF...@giganews.com>, m...@vex.net says...
> 2. Two principal types of metamorphic rock are formed from granite.
> One is schist. The other tends to be more boldly striped;
> what's it called?
gneiss
> 3. Hillary Clinton seems to have bumped into a glass one after all.
ceiling
> 4. This is a synonym (or a near-synonym, depending on which
> definition you use) for "vaccination". Looking at the word's
> etymology, you might think it involves an injection into the
> eye; but, thankfully, it doesn't.
innoculation
> 5. This was the title of the ancient Egyptian monarchs.
pharaoh
> 6. This can be a synonym for "lodging", such as hotels and inns.
> It can also refer to a compromise to settle a dispute; still
> another meaning refers or to a person's way of adapting to a
> situation such as a disability.
>
> 7. Fill in the blank: in this sentence there are five _____ of
> the upper or lower case letter O.
occurences
> 8. This may refer to a model or statue of something or someone,
> specifically one that's considerably smaller than the real thing.
miniature
> 9. This adjective is used for books such as Ecclesiasticus and Tobit
> that appear in the original King James version of the Christian
> Bible, but not in some other versions; and, more generally,
> it refers to "facts" that may be well known but are, let's say,
> dubious at best.
apocryphal
> 10. An oil company takes its name from this word, the opposite of
> the traditional geographic term Oriental.
Occidental
> 11. Give the quilt answer.
nope
1. l e b a n o n
2. g n e i s s
3. c e i l i n g
4. i n n o c u l a t i o n
5. p h a r a o h
6.
7. o c c u r e n c e s
8. m i n i a t u r e
9. a p o c r y p h a l
10. o c c i d e n t a l
--
Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address.
> 1. Of all the countries in the world, this small one in Asia has
> the longest name where, as it is spelled in English, vowels
> and consonants alternate for the entire name.
lebanon
> the longest name where, as it is spelled in English, vowels
> and consonants alternate for the entire name.
> 2. Two principal types of metamorphic rock are formed from granite.
> One is schist. The other tends to be more boldly striped;
> what's it called?
> 3. Hillary Clinton seems to have bumped into a glass one after all.
> 4. This is a synonym (or a near-synonym, depending on which
> definition you use) for "vaccination". Looking at the word's
> etymology, you might think it involves an injection into the
> eye; but, thankfully, it doesn't.
> 5. This was the title of the ancient Egyptian monarchs.
> 6. This can be a synonym for "lodging", such as hotels and inns.
> It can also refer to a compromise to settle a dispute; still
> another meaning refers or to a person's way of adapting to a
> situation such as a disability.
>
> 7. Fill in the blank: in this sentence there are five _____ of
> the upper or lower case letter O.
> 8. This may refer to a model or statue of something or someone,
> specifically one that's considerably smaller than the real thing.
> 9. This adjective is used for books such as Ecclesiasticus and Tobit
> that appear in the original King James version of the Christian
> Bible, but not in some other versions; and, more generally,
> it refers to "facts" that may be well known but are, let's say,
> dubious at best.
> 10. An oil company takes its name from this word, the opposite of
> the traditional geographic term Oriental.
> 11. Give the quilt answer.
1. l e b a n o n
2. g n e i s s
3. c e i l i n g
4. i n n o c u l a t i o n
5. p h a r a o h
6.
7. o c c u r e n c e s
8. m i n i a t u r e
9. a p o c r y p h a l
10. o c c i d e n t a l
--
Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address.
Peter Smyth
Feb 21, 2017, 1:03:31 PM2/21/17
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Mark Brader wrote:
> 1. Of all the countries in the world, this small one in Asia has
> the longest name where, as it is spelled in English, vowels
> and consonants alternate for the entire name.
LEBANON
> 1. Of all the countries in the world, this small one in Asia has
> the longest name where, as it is spelled in English, vowels
> and consonants alternate for the entire name.
> 2. Two principal types of metamorphic rock are formed from granite.
> One is schist. The other tends to be more boldly striped;
> what's it called?
BASALT
> One is schist. The other tends to be more boldly striped;
> what's it called?
> 3. Hillary Clinton seems to have bumped into a glass one after all.
CEILING
> 4. This is a synonym (or a near-synonym, depending on which
> definition you use) for "vaccination". Looking at the word's
> etymology, you might think it involves an injection into the
> eye; but, thankfully, it doesn't.
IMMUNIZATION
> definition you use) for "vaccination". Looking at the word's
> etymology, you might think it involves an injection into the
> eye; but, thankfully, it doesn't.
> 5. This was the title of the ancient Egyptian monarchs.
PHARAOH
> 6. This can be a synonym for "lodging", such as hotels and inns.
> It can also refer to a compromise to settle a dispute; still
> another meaning refers or to a person's way of adapting to a
> situation such as a disability.
>
> 7. Fill in the blank: in this sentence there are five _____ of
> the upper or lower case letter O.
OCCURRENCES
> It can also refer to a compromise to settle a dispute; still
> another meaning refers or to a person's way of adapting to a
> situation such as a disability.
>
> 7. Fill in the blank: in this sentence there are five _____ of
> the upper or lower case letter O.
> 8. This may refer to a model or statue of something or someone,
> specifically one that's considerably smaller than the real thing.
MINIATURE
> specifically one that's considerably smaller than the real thing.
> 9. This adjective is used for books such as Ecclesiasticus and Tobit
> that appear in the original King James version of the Christian
> Bible, but not in some other versions; and, more generally,
> it refers to "facts" that may be well known but are, let's say,
> dubious at best.
APOCRYPHA
> that appear in the original King James version of the Christian
> Bible, but not in some other versions; and, more generally,
> it refers to "facts" that may be well known but are, let's say,
> dubious at best.
> 10. An oil company takes its name from this word, the opposite of
> the traditional geographic term Oriental.
>
> 11. Give the quilt answer.
Peter Smyth
> the traditional geographic term Oriental.
>
> 11. Give the quilt answer.
Gareth Owen
Feb 22, 2017, 2:08:47 PM2/22/17
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m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) writes:
> This is a Quiz Quilt in the manner of Robert Jen, but not exactly.
1.
> This is a Quiz Quilt in the manner of Robert Jen, but not exactly.
2.
3. CEILING
4. INNOCULATION
5. PHAROAH - OK, you're just picking words I can't speel now
6. ACCOMODATION
7. OCCURENCES
8. MINATURE
9. APOCRYPHAL
A. OCCIDENTAL
B.
Calvin
Feb 22, 2017, 10:31:32 PM2/22/17
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On Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at 4:40:53 AM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
> 1. Of all the countries in the world, this small one in Asia has
> the longest name where, as it is spelled in English, vowels
> and consonants alternate for the entire name.
United Arab Emirates
> 1. Of all the countries in the world, this small one in Asia has
> the longest name where, as it is spelled in English, vowels
> and consonants alternate for the entire name.
> 2. Two principal types of metamorphic rock are formed from granite.
> One is schist. The other tends to be more boldly striped;
> what's it called?
>
> 3. Hillary Clinton seems to have bumped into a glass one after all.
> 4. This is a synonym (or a near-synonym, depending on which
> definition you use) for "vaccination". Looking at the word's
> etymology, you might think it involves an injection into the
> eye; but, thankfully, it doesn't.
> 5. This was the title of the ancient Egyptian monarchs.
> 6. This can be a synonym for "lodging", such as hotels and inns.
> It can also refer to a compromise to settle a dispute; still
> another meaning refers or to a person's way of adapting to a
> situation such as a disability.
>
> 7. Fill in the blank: in this sentence there are five _____ of
> the upper or lower case letter O.
>
> 8. This may refer to a model or statue of something or someone,
> specifically one that's considerably smaller than the real thing.
> 9. This adjective is used for books such as Ecclesiasticus and Tobit
> that appear in the original King James version of the Christian
> Bible, but not in some other versions; and, more generally,
> it refers to "facts" that may be well known but are, let's say,
> dubious at best.
>
> 10. An oil company takes its name from this word, the opposite of
> the traditional geographic term Oriental.
> 11. Give the quilt answer.
cheers,
calvin
Dan Tilque
Feb 22, 2017, 10:43:31 PM2/22/17
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Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> 1. Of all the countries in the world, this small one in Asia has
> the longest name where, as it is spelled in English, vowels
> and consonants alternate for the entire name.
United Arab Emirates
>
>
> 1. Of all the countries in the world, this small one in Asia has
> the longest name where, as it is spelled in English, vowels
> and consonants alternate for the entire name.
>
> 2. Two principal types of metamorphic rock are formed from granite.
> One is schist. The other tends to be more boldly striped;
> what's it called?
>
> 3. Hillary Clinton seems to have bumped into a glass one after all.
>
> 4. This is a synonym (or a near-synonym, depending on which
> definition you use) for "vaccination". Looking at the word's
> etymology, you might think it involves an injection into the
> eye; but, thankfully, it doesn't.
>
> 5. This was the title of the ancient Egyptian monarchs.
>
> 6. This can be a synonym for "lodging", such as hotels and inns.
> It can also refer to a compromise to settle a dispute; still
> another meaning refers or to a person's way of adapting to a
> situation such as a disability.
>
> 7. Fill in the blank: in this sentence there are five _____ of
> the upper or lower case letter O.
>
> 8. This may refer to a model or statue of something or someone,
> specifically one that's considerably smaller than the real thing.
>
> 9. This adjective is used for books such as Ecclesiasticus and Tobit
> that appear in the original King James version of the Christian
> Bible, but not in some other versions; and, more generally,
> it refers to "facts" that may be well known but are, let's say,
> dubious at best.
>
> 10. An oil company takes its name from this word, the opposite of
> the traditional geographic term Oriental.
>
> 11. Give the quilt answer.
>
--
Dan Tilque
Mark Brader
Feb 23, 2017, 12:25:49 AM2/23/17
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Dan Tilque:
> occurances
Hmm. I wrote:
| 1 point each (half a point if misspelled)
Good thing I didn't think of making it a quarter-point if there was
a second error in the same word.
--
Mark Brader | "...it's always easier to see the mud when it's
Toronto | coming toward your side rather than from your side."
m...@vex.net | --Mike Kruger
> occurances
Hmm. I wrote:
| 1 point each (half a point if misspelled)
a second error in the same word.
--
Mark Brader | "...it's always easier to see the mud when it's
Toronto | coming toward your side rather than from your side."
m...@vex.net | --Mike Kruger
Mark Brader
Feb 25, 2017, 2:55:31 AM2/25/17
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Less than 35 hours now remain to enter RQ 246 before it closes.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "If each hand had an extra digit, we'd probably be
m...@vex.net | planning for a 144-year flood." --Mark Monmonier
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "If each hand had an extra digit, we'd probably be
m...@vex.net | planning for a 144-year flood." --Mark Monmonier
Mark Brader
Feb 26, 2017, 3:22:43 PM2/26/17
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Mark Brader:
first to post, but also getting all the correct answers with only
one spelling error. Nobody else came close. Hearty congratulations!
Please start RQ 247 at your earliest convenience, Dan.
(Posted and emailed.)
> This is a Quiz Quilt in the manner of Robert Jen, but not exactly.
> As we haven't had one for a while, I'll spell out what that means.
> For each of questions #1-10, write down the thing being described
> or referred to. A few questions may have multiple possible answers,
> but only the ones that fit with the quilt are valid.
> If you write down the correct answers to these 10 questions in order
> along successive rows of a grid, you will find the "quilt" answer
> reading *either upward or downward* in one of these positions:
> (1) vertically along a column, or (2) diagonally to/from one of
> the left-hand corners, or (3) zigzaggily along the last letters
> of the answers.
...
how it would interact with half-points. But it didn't matter this
time, since Dan had a clear win.
> Naturally, you are to answer all questions from your own knowledge
> only. Please post a single message with your answers, quoting the
> questions you are answering *and placing your answer below each one*.
(Emphasis added. Don and Gareth, this means you!)
> 1. Of all the countries in the world, this small one in Asia has
> the longest name where, as it is spelled in English, vowels
> and consonants alternate for the entire name.
United Arab Emirates. 1 for Dan Blum, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
Lebanon was a popular wrong answer and actually has the second-longest
name in Asia that meets the vowel/consonant criterion. Worldwide
at least 34 countries meet it; there are 35 if the Y in Guyana is
considered a consonant, but I think it's correctly a vowel, indicating
"ghee--ah--na" rather than "ghee--yah--na".
Sorted by length, the other 32 are: Dominica, Kiribati, Suriname;
Bahamas, Belarus, Comoros, Senegal; Belize, Canada, Kosovo, Malawi,
Mexico, Monaco, Panama, Tuvalu; Benin, Gabon, Italy, Japan, Nepal,
Niger, Qatar, Sudan, Yemen; Cuba, Fiji, Iran, Iraq, Mali, Oman,
Peru, Togo.
> 2. Two principal types of metamorphic rock are formed from granite.
> One is schist. The other tends to be more boldly striped;
> what's it called?
Gneiss. (Sounds like "nice".) 1 for Don, Marc, and Dan Tilque.
½ for Dan Blum.
> 3. Hillary Clinton seems to have bumped into a glass one after all.
Ceiling. 1 for everyone -- Dan Blum, Don, Marc, Peter, Gareth,
Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
> 4. This is a synonym (or a near-synonym, depending on which
> definition you use) for "vaccination". Looking at the word's
> etymology, you might think it involves an injection into the
> eye; but, thankfully, it doesn't.
Inoculation. 1 for Dan Blum, Don, Calvin, and Dan Tilque. ½ for Marc
and Gareth.
> 5. This was the title of the ancient Egyptian monarchs.
Pharaoh. 1 for Dan Blum, Don, Marc, Peter, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
½ for Gareth.
> 6. This can be a synonym for "lodging", such as hotels and inns.
> It can also refer to a compromise to settle a dispute; still
> another meaning refers or to a person's way of adapting to a
> situation such as a disability.
Accommodation. 1 for Dan Blum and Don. ½ for Gareth and Dan Tilque.
> 7. Fill in the blank: in this sentence there are five _____ of
> the upper or lower case letter O.
Occurrences. 1 for Dan Blum, Don, and Peter. ½ for Marc, Gareth,
and Dan Tilque.
It would've been more fun to make it "letter E" and adjust the wording
to make "nineteen _____" correct, but that would have provided too
much help with the correct spelling of the answer.
> 8. This may refer to a model or statue of something or someone,
> specifically one that's considerably smaller than the real thing.
Miniature. 1 for Dan Blum, Don, Marc, Peter, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
½ for Gareth.
> 9. This adjective is used for books such as Ecclesiasticus and Tobit
> that appear in the original King James version of the Christian
> Bible, but not in some other versions; and, more generally,
> it refers to "facts" that may be well known but are, let's say,
> dubious at best.
Apocryphal. 1 for Dan Blum, Don, Marc, Gareth, and Dan Tilque.
One entrant said "apocrypha"; that's the corresponding noun, but
the question specified an adjective.
> 10. An oil company takes its name from this word, the opposite of
> the traditional geographic term Oriental.
Occidental. 1 for Dan Blum, Don, Marc, Gareth, Calvin,
and Dan Tilque.
> 11. Give the quilt answer.
Unicameral. (Referring to legislative bodies that consist of a single
house, like the parliament of Norway or New Zealand as opposed to
that of the UK or Canada.) 3 for Dan Blum and Calvin.
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Most of the words from #2 to #9 were chosen from lists of words in
English that even native English-speakers find difficult to spell:
yes, Gareth, I was doing it on purpose.
Additionally, when I was at the University of Waterloo and Frank
Tompa was one of my favorite computer-science professors, he used to
mention his fantasy of giving a test where the only question asked
for the correct spelling of a word that occurred frequently in our
classes and assignments, but which he very often saw misspelled -- #7.
So that bit of the quiz is also a small homage to him.
Scores, if there are no errors:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 TOTALS
Dan Blum 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 12½
"Calvin" 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 3 9
Dan Tilque 1 1 1 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 0 9
Don Piven 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 9
Marc Dashevsky 0 1 1 ½ 1 0 ½ 1 1 1 0 7
Gareth Owen 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 0 5½
Peter Smyth 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 4
3 3½ 7 5 6½ 3 4½ 6½ 5 6 6
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Mark Brader, Toronto | "I wish to God these calculations had been
m...@vex.net | executed by steam!" -- Charles Babbage, 1821
> Welcome to Rotating Quiz #246, Containing a House.
> I'd like to thank Don Piven for running RQ 245 and for writing a
> contest that allowed me to win. The winner of RQ 246, in turn, will
> be the first choice to set RQ 247, in whatever manner they prefer.
Well, DAN BLUM has walked away with this one, not only being the
> I'd like to thank Don Piven for running RQ 245 and for writing a
> contest that allowed me to win. The winner of RQ 246, in turn, will
> be the first choice to set RQ 247, in whatever manner they prefer.
first to post, but also getting all the correct answers with only
one spelling error. Nobody else came close. Hearty congratulations!
Please start RQ 247 at your earliest convenience, Dan.
(Posted and emailed.)
> This is a Quiz Quilt in the manner of Robert Jen, but not exactly.
> As we haven't had one for a while, I'll spell out what that means.
> For each of questions #1-10, write down the thing being described
> or referred to. A few questions may have multiple possible answers,
> but only the ones that fit with the quilt are valid.
> If you write down the correct answers to these 10 questions in order
> along successive rows of a grid, you will find the "quilt" answer
> reading *either upward or downward* in one of these positions:
> (1) vertically along a column, or (2) diagonally to/from one of
> the left-hand corners, or (3) zigzaggily along the last letters
> of the answers.
> In fact the quilt answer is a *single English word or name* and
> the contest title is a clue, possibly a vague or cryptic one,
> pointing to it.
> Scoring is out of 13: 1 point each (half a point if misspelled)
> for answers #1-10 and 3 points for the quilt. In case of a tie,
> the first tiebreaker is who got the quilt answer; the second
> tiebreaker is who scored on the hardest questions; and the third
> tiebreaker is who posted first.
Well, the second tiebreaker was underspecified; I didn't think about
> the contest title is a clue, possibly a vague or cryptic one,
> pointing to it.
> Scoring is out of 13: 1 point each (half a point if misspelled)
> for answers #1-10 and 3 points for the quilt. In case of a tie,
> the first tiebreaker is who got the quilt answer; the second
> tiebreaker is who scored on the hardest questions; and the third
> tiebreaker is who posted first.
how it would interact with half-points. But it didn't matter this
time, since Dan had a clear win.
> Naturally, you are to answer all questions from your own knowledge
> only. Please post a single message with your answers, quoting the
(Emphasis added. Don and Gareth, this means you!)
> 1. Of all the countries in the world, this small one in Asia has
> the longest name where, as it is spelled in English, vowels
> and consonants alternate for the entire name.
Lebanon was a popular wrong answer and actually has the second-longest
name in Asia that meets the vowel/consonant criterion. Worldwide
at least 34 countries meet it; there are 35 if the Y in Guyana is
considered a consonant, but I think it's correctly a vowel, indicating
"ghee--ah--na" rather than "ghee--yah--na".
Sorted by length, the other 32 are: Dominica, Kiribati, Suriname;
Bahamas, Belarus, Comoros, Senegal; Belize, Canada, Kosovo, Malawi,
Mexico, Monaco, Panama, Tuvalu; Benin, Gabon, Italy, Japan, Nepal,
Niger, Qatar, Sudan, Yemen; Cuba, Fiji, Iran, Iraq, Mali, Oman,
Peru, Togo.
> 2. Two principal types of metamorphic rock are formed from granite.
> One is schist. The other tends to be more boldly striped;
> what's it called?
½ for Dan Blum.
> 3. Hillary Clinton seems to have bumped into a glass one after all.
Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
> 4. This is a synonym (or a near-synonym, depending on which
> definition you use) for "vaccination". Looking at the word's
> etymology, you might think it involves an injection into the
> eye; but, thankfully, it doesn't.
and Gareth.
> 5. This was the title of the ancient Egyptian monarchs.
½ for Gareth.
> 6. This can be a synonym for "lodging", such as hotels and inns.
> It can also refer to a compromise to settle a dispute; still
> another meaning refers or to a person's way of adapting to a
> situation such as a disability.
> 7. Fill in the blank: in this sentence there are five _____ of
> the upper or lower case letter O.
and Dan Tilque.
It would've been more fun to make it "letter E" and adjust the wording
to make "nineteen _____" correct, but that would have provided too
much help with the correct spelling of the answer.
> 8. This may refer to a model or statue of something or someone,
> specifically one that's considerably smaller than the real thing.
½ for Gareth.
> 9. This adjective is used for books such as Ecclesiasticus and Tobit
> that appear in the original King James version of the Christian
> Bible, but not in some other versions; and, more generally,
> it refers to "facts" that may be well known but are, let's say,
> dubious at best.
One entrant said "apocrypha"; that's the corresponding noun, but
the question specified an adjective.
> 10. An oil company takes its name from this word, the opposite of
> the traditional geographic term Oriental.
and Dan Tilque.
> 11. Give the quilt answer.
house, like the parliament of Norway or New Zealand as opposed to
that of the UK or Canada.) 3 for Dan Blum and Calvin.
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Most of the words from #2 to #9 were chosen from lists of words in
English that even native English-speakers find difficult to spell:
yes, Gareth, I was doing it on purpose.
Additionally, when I was at the University of Waterloo and Frank
Tompa was one of my favorite computer-science professors, he used to
mention his fantasy of giving a test where the only question asked
for the correct spelling of a word that occurred frequently in our
classes and assignments, but which he very often saw misspelled -- #7.
So that bit of the quiz is also a small homage to him.
Scores, if there are no errors:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 TOTALS
Dan Blum 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 12½
"Calvin" 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 3 9
Dan Tilque 1 1 1 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 0 9
Don Piven 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 9
Marc Dashevsky 0 1 1 ½ 1 0 ½ 1 1 1 0 7
Gareth Owen 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 0 5½
Peter Smyth 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 4
3 3½ 7 5 6½ 3 4½ 6½ 5 6 6
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "I wish to God these calculations had been
m...@vex.net | executed by steam!" -- Charles Babbage, 1821
Gareth Owen
Feb 26, 2017, 3:33:26 PM2/26/17
to
*@*! YOU!!
:)
(I did realise that shortly after, but left the comment in).
I don't consider myself a bad speller, but I ain't a great one either.
> Gareth Owen 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 0 5½
See?
:)
(I did realise that shortly after, but left the comment in).
I don't consider myself a bad speller, but I ain't a great one either.
> Gareth Owen 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 0 5½
Dan Blum
Feb 26, 2017, 5:30:39 PM2/26/17
to
Mark Brader <m...@vex.net> wrote:
> Well, DAN BLUM has walked away with this one, not only being the
> first to post, but also getting all the correct answers with only
> one spelling error. Nobody else came close. Hearty congratulations!
> Please start RQ 247 at your earliest convenience, Dan.
> (Posted and emailed.)
Thanks! I will try to have something up by Wednesday.
> Well, DAN BLUM has walked away with this one, not only being the
> first to post, but also getting all the correct answers with only
> one spelling error. Nobody else came close. Hearty congratulations!
> Please start RQ 247 at your earliest convenience, Dan.
> (Posted and emailed.)
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