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Erland Sommarskog
Oct 1, 2019, 5:54:18 PM10/1/19
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Here is a set of 12 questions. I believe this set to be a bit
difficult, so don't shy even if you only know a few questions.
Some questions certainly invite for educated or just wild guesses.
For this quiz, I employ the same system as Mark Brader. That is,
you can enter one or two answers. If you enter a single answer and
it is correct, you get 4 points. If you enter two answers, your
first answer is worth 3 points if correct, and the second is worth
2 points when correct. Like Mark, I may award partial points for
answers that are almost correct.
Post your answers to the newsgroup. You must use your own knowledge
only, no googling, asking grandma etc.
I plan to score this quiz on Sunday 6th. I will be accepting answers
until I post the results posting.
Have fun!
1. In which country do you find the world's busiest air route in
terms of number of flights per year?
2. Recently, the world's biggest bicycle garage was inaugurated
in Utrecht, Netherlands. Within 1000, how many bicycles does
it fit?
3. The FIBA World Cup in basketball finished recently. Which
team emerged as the winner?
4. In 1904 Montenegro declared war on which country despite that
they did not have any common border or even a common neighbour,
neither by land nor by sea?
5. The Roman emperor Diocletian built an enormous palace around
the turn of the 4th century AD. Today the remains of the
palace forms the centre of which Mediterranean city?
6. Bayonne is a French city, located on the Biscayan coast, some
40 km north of the Spanish border. Most signs in Bayonne are
in French only, but some are tri-lingual. Name any of the
other two languages on the signs. (These are languages native
to the area around Bayonne.)
7. The composer Arnold Schönberg is associated with which form
compositional technique?
8. Jonny Cash and Ritchie Blackmore (ex-guitarist of Deep Purple)
are both known by which four-word moniker?
9. Which world leader recently faced criticism for old pictures
where this person appears with a "blackface"?
10. What sort of activity are you looking forward to if you are
interacting with amadeus.net or amadeus.com?
11. The books of which author include characters such as Steve
Carella and Meyer Meyer?
12. On http://www.sommarskog.se/temp/IMG_2198.jpg you can see some
rocks that have been formed over a completely different material.
What two-word name is usually given to a site where you find
such rocks?
difficult, so don't shy even if you only know a few questions.
Some questions certainly invite for educated or just wild guesses.
For this quiz, I employ the same system as Mark Brader. That is,
you can enter one or two answers. If you enter a single answer and
it is correct, you get 4 points. If you enter two answers, your
first answer is worth 3 points if correct, and the second is worth
2 points when correct. Like Mark, I may award partial points for
answers that are almost correct.
Post your answers to the newsgroup. You must use your own knowledge
only, no googling, asking grandma etc.
I plan to score this quiz on Sunday 6th. I will be accepting answers
until I post the results posting.
Have fun!
1. In which country do you find the world's busiest air route in
terms of number of flights per year?
2. Recently, the world's biggest bicycle garage was inaugurated
in Utrecht, Netherlands. Within 1000, how many bicycles does
it fit?
3. The FIBA World Cup in basketball finished recently. Which
team emerged as the winner?
4. In 1904 Montenegro declared war on which country despite that
they did not have any common border or even a common neighbour,
neither by land nor by sea?
5. The Roman emperor Diocletian built an enormous palace around
the turn of the 4th century AD. Today the remains of the
palace forms the centre of which Mediterranean city?
6. Bayonne is a French city, located on the Biscayan coast, some
40 km north of the Spanish border. Most signs in Bayonne are
in French only, but some are tri-lingual. Name any of the
other two languages on the signs. (These are languages native
to the area around Bayonne.)
7. The composer Arnold Schönberg is associated with which form
compositional technique?
8. Jonny Cash and Ritchie Blackmore (ex-guitarist of Deep Purple)
are both known by which four-word moniker?
9. Which world leader recently faced criticism for old pictures
where this person appears with a "blackface"?
10. What sort of activity are you looking forward to if you are
interacting with amadeus.net or amadeus.com?
11. The books of which author include characters such as Steve
Carella and Meyer Meyer?
12. On http://www.sommarskog.se/temp/IMG_2198.jpg you can see some
rocks that have been formed over a completely different material.
What two-word name is usually given to a site where you find
such rocks?
Dan Blum
Oct 1, 2019, 6:02:39 PM10/1/19
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Erland Sommarskog <esq...@sommarskog.se> wrote:
>
> 1. In which country do you find the world's busiest air route in
> terms of number of flights per year?
USA
>
> 1. In which country do you find the world's busiest air route in
> terms of number of flights per year?
> 2. Recently, the world's biggest bicycle garage was inaugurated
> in Utrecht, Netherlands. Within 1000, how many bicycles does
> it fit?
> 4. In 1904 Montenegro declared war on which country despite that
> they did not have any common border or even a common neighbour,
> neither by land nor by sea?
>
> 5. The Roman emperor Diocletian built an enormous palace around
> the turn of the 4th century AD. Today the remains of the
> palace forms the centre of which Mediterranean city?
>
> 6. Bayonne is a French city, located on the Biscayan coast, some
> 40 km north of the Spanish border. Most signs in Bayonne are
> in French only, but some are tri-lingual. Name any of the
> other two languages on the signs. (These are languages native
> to the area around Bayonne.)
>
> 7. The composer Arnold Sch?nberg is associated with which form
> compositional technique?
use of the 12-tone scale
>
> 8. Jonny Cash and Ritchie Blackmore (ex-guitarist of Deep Purple)
> are both known by which four-word moniker?
>
> 9. Which world leader recently faced criticism for old pictures
> where this person appears with a "blackface"?
> 11. The books of which author include characters such as Steve
> Carella and Meyer Meyer?
> 12. On http://www.sommarskog.se/temp/IMG_2198.jpg you can see some
> rocks that have been formed over a completely different material.
> What two-word name is usually given to a site where you find
> such rocks?
>
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Pete Gayde
Oct 1, 2019, 6:31:14 PM10/1/19
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Erland Sommarskog <esq...@sommarskog.se> wrote in
news:XnsAADBF32CB...@127.0.0.1:
> Here is a set of 12 questions. I believe this set to be a bit
> difficult, so don't shy even if you only know a few questions.
> Some questions certainly invite for educated or just wild guesses.
>
> For this quiz, I employ the same system as Mark Brader. That is,
> you can enter one or two answers. If you enter a single answer and
> it is correct, you get 4 points. If you enter two answers, your
> first answer is worth 3 points if correct, and the second is worth
> 2 points when correct. Like Mark, I may award partial points for
> answers that are almost correct.
>
> Post your answers to the newsgroup. You must use your own knowledge
> only, no googling, asking grandma etc.
>
> I plan to score this quiz on Sunday 6th. I will be accepting answers
> until I post the results posting.
>
> Have fun!
>
>
>
> 1. In which country do you find the world's busiest air route in
> terms of number of flights per year?
Russia; China
>
> 2. Recently, the world's biggest bicycle garage was inaugurated
> in Utrecht, Netherlands. Within 1000, how many bicycles does
> it fit?
15000; 18000
>
> 3. The FIBA World Cup in basketball finished recently. Which
> team emerged as the winner?
France; Argentina
>
> 4. In 1904 Montenegro declared war on which country despite that
> they did not have any common border or even a common neighbour,
> neither by land nor by sea?
Russia
>
> 5. The Roman emperor Diocletian built an enormous palace around
> the turn of the 4th century AD. Today the remains of the
> palace forms the centre of which Mediterranean city?
Naples; Genoa
>
> 6. Bayonne is a French city, located on the Biscayan coast, some
> 40 km north of the Spanish border. Most signs in Bayonne are
> in French only, but some are tri-lingual. Name any of the
> other two languages on the signs. (These are languages native
> to the area around Bayonne.)
Basque
>
> 7. The composer Arnold Schönberg is associated with which form
> compositional technique?
Serial
>
> 8. Jonny Cash and Ritchie Blackmore (ex-guitarist of Deep Purple)
> are both known by which four-word moniker?
The Man in Black
>
> 9. Which world leader recently faced criticism for old pictures
> where this person appears with a "blackface"?
Justin Trudeau
>
> 10. What sort of activity are you looking forward to if you are
> interacting with amadeus.net or amadeus.com?
Musical composition
>
> 11. The books of which author include characters such as Steve
> Carella and Meyer Meyer?
>
> 12. On http://www.sommarskog.se/temp/IMG_2198.jpg you can see some
> rocks that have been formed over a completely different material.
> What two-word name is usually given to a site where you find
> such rocks?
Petrified forest
>
>
Pete Gayde
news:XnsAADBF32CB...@127.0.0.1:
> Here is a set of 12 questions. I believe this set to be a bit
> difficult, so don't shy even if you only know a few questions.
> Some questions certainly invite for educated or just wild guesses.
>
> For this quiz, I employ the same system as Mark Brader. That is,
> you can enter one or two answers. If you enter a single answer and
> it is correct, you get 4 points. If you enter two answers, your
> first answer is worth 3 points if correct, and the second is worth
> 2 points when correct. Like Mark, I may award partial points for
> answers that are almost correct.
>
> Post your answers to the newsgroup. You must use your own knowledge
> only, no googling, asking grandma etc.
>
> I plan to score this quiz on Sunday 6th. I will be accepting answers
> until I post the results posting.
>
> Have fun!
>
>
>
> 1. In which country do you find the world's busiest air route in
> terms of number of flights per year?
>
> 2. Recently, the world's biggest bicycle garage was inaugurated
> in Utrecht, Netherlands. Within 1000, how many bicycles does
> it fit?
>
> 3. The FIBA World Cup in basketball finished recently. Which
> team emerged as the winner?
>
> 4. In 1904 Montenegro declared war on which country despite that
> they did not have any common border or even a common neighbour,
> neither by land nor by sea?
>
> 5. The Roman emperor Diocletian built an enormous palace around
> the turn of the 4th century AD. Today the remains of the
> palace forms the centre of which Mediterranean city?
>
> 6. Bayonne is a French city, located on the Biscayan coast, some
> 40 km north of the Spanish border. Most signs in Bayonne are
> in French only, but some are tri-lingual. Name any of the
> other two languages on the signs. (These are languages native
> to the area around Bayonne.)
>
> 7. The composer Arnold Schönberg is associated with which form
> compositional technique?
>
> 8. Jonny Cash and Ritchie Blackmore (ex-guitarist of Deep Purple)
> are both known by which four-word moniker?
>
> 9. Which world leader recently faced criticism for old pictures
> where this person appears with a "blackface"?
>
> 10. What sort of activity are you looking forward to if you are
> interacting with amadeus.net or amadeus.com?
>
> 11. The books of which author include characters such as Steve
> Carella and Meyer Meyer?
>
> 12. On http://www.sommarskog.se/temp/IMG_2198.jpg you can see some
> rocks that have been formed over a completely different material.
> What two-word name is usually given to a site where you find
> such rocks?
>
>
Pete Gayde
Joshua Kreitzer
Oct 2, 2019, 12:41:38 AM10/2/19
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> 1. In which country do you find the world's busiest air route in
> terms of number of flights per year?
South Korea
> terms of number of flights per year?
> 4. In 1904 Montenegro declared war on which country despite that
> they did not have any common border or even a common neighbour,
> neither by land nor by sea?
(note: to an American, such a declaration of war doesn't sound
particularly unusual)
> 5. The Roman emperor Diocletian built an enormous palace around
> the turn of the 4th century AD. Today the remains of the
> palace forms the centre of which Mediterranean city?
> 6. Bayonne is a French city, located on the Biscayan coast, some
> 40 km north of the Spanish border. Most signs in Bayonne are
> in French only, but some are tri-lingual. Name any of the
> other two languages on the signs. (These are languages native
> to the area around Bayonne.)
> 7. The composer Arnold Schönberg is associated with which form
> compositional technique?
> 9. Which world leader recently faced criticism for old pictures
> where this person appears with a "blackface"?
> 10. What sort of activity are you looking forward to if you are
> interacting with amadeus.net or amadeus.com?
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
Mark Brader
Oct 2, 2019, 2:42:52 AM10/2/19
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Erland Sommarskog:
> 2. Recently, the world's biggest bicycle garage was inaugurated
> in Utrecht, Netherlands. Within 1000, how many bicycles does
> it fit?
25,000.
> 4. In 1904 Montenegro declared war on which country despite that
> they did not have any common border or even a common neighbour,
> neither by land nor by sea?
Greece?
> 5. The Roman emperor Diocletian built an enormous palace around
> the turn of the 4th century AD. Today the remains of the
> palace forms the centre of which Mediterranean city?
Ravenna?
> 6. Bayonne is a French city, located on the Biscayan coast, some
> 40 km north of the Spanish border. Most signs in Bayonne are
> in French only, but some are tri-lingual. Name any of the
> other two languages on the signs. (These are languages native
> to the area around Bayonne.)
Basque.
> 7. The composer Arnold Schönberg is associated with which form
> compositional technique?
Atonal music?
> 8. Jonny Cash and Ritchie Blackmore (ex-guitarist of Deep Purple)
> are both known by which four-word moniker?
"The Man in Black".
> 9. Which world leader recently faced criticism for old pictures
> where this person appears with a "blackface"?
Justin Trudeau, sigh.
> 10. What sort of activity are you looking forward to if you are
> interacting with amadeus.net or amadeus.com?
Listening to music by Mozart?
> 12. On http://www.sommarskog.se/temp/IMG_2198.jpg you can see some
> rocks that have been formed over a completely different material.
> What two-word name is usually given to a site where you find
> such rocks?
Petrified forest.
--
Mark Brader | "It is, in fact, a very good rule to be especially suspicious
Toronto | of work that says what you want to hear..."
m...@vex.net | --Paul Krugman
My text in this article is in the public domain.
> 1. In which country do you find the world's busiest air route in
> terms of number of flights per year?
Japan.
> terms of number of flights per year?
> 2. Recently, the world's biggest bicycle garage was inaugurated
> in Utrecht, Netherlands. Within 1000, how many bicycles does
> it fit?
> 4. In 1904 Montenegro declared war on which country despite that
> they did not have any common border or even a common neighbour,
> neither by land nor by sea?
> 5. The Roman emperor Diocletian built an enormous palace around
> the turn of the 4th century AD. Today the remains of the
> palace forms the centre of which Mediterranean city?
> 6. Bayonne is a French city, located on the Biscayan coast, some
> 40 km north of the Spanish border. Most signs in Bayonne are
> in French only, but some are tri-lingual. Name any of the
> other two languages on the signs. (These are languages native
> to the area around Bayonne.)
> 7. The composer Arnold Schönberg is associated with which form
> compositional technique?
> 8. Jonny Cash and Ritchie Blackmore (ex-guitarist of Deep Purple)
> are both known by which four-word moniker?
> 9. Which world leader recently faced criticism for old pictures
> where this person appears with a "blackface"?
> 10. What sort of activity are you looking forward to if you are
> interacting with amadeus.net or amadeus.com?
> 12. On http://www.sommarskog.se/temp/IMG_2198.jpg you can see some
> rocks that have been formed over a completely different material.
> What two-word name is usually given to a site where you find
> such rocks?
--
Mark Brader | "It is, in fact, a very good rule to be especially suspicious
Toronto | of work that says what you want to hear..."
m...@vex.net | --Paul Krugman
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Joe
Oct 2, 2019, 12:21:20 PM10/2/19
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On 2019-10-01 21:54:18 +0000, Erland Sommarskog said:
> Here is a set of 12 questions. I believe this set to be a bit
> difficult, so don't shy even if you only know a few questions.
> Some questions certainly invite for educated or just wild guesses.
>
> For this quiz, I employ the same system as Mark Brader. That is,
> you can enter one or two answers. If you enter a single answer and
> it is correct, you get 4 points. If you enter two answers, your
> first answer is worth 3 points if correct, and the second is worth
> 2 points when correct. Like Mark, I may award partial points for
> answers that are almost correct.
>
> Post your answers to the newsgroup. You must use your own knowledge
> only, no googling, asking grandma etc.
>
> I plan to score this quiz on Sunday 6th. I will be accepting answers
> until I post the results posting.
>
> Have fun!
>
>
>
> 1. In which country do you find the world's busiest air route in
> terms of number of flights per year?
USA
> Here is a set of 12 questions. I believe this set to be a bit
> difficult, so don't shy even if you only know a few questions.
> Some questions certainly invite for educated or just wild guesses.
>
> For this quiz, I employ the same system as Mark Brader. That is,
> you can enter one or two answers. If you enter a single answer and
> it is correct, you get 4 points. If you enter two answers, your
> first answer is worth 3 points if correct, and the second is worth
> 2 points when correct. Like Mark, I may award partial points for
> answers that are almost correct.
>
> Post your answers to the newsgroup. You must use your own knowledge
> only, no googling, asking grandma etc.
>
> I plan to score this quiz on Sunday 6th. I will be accepting answers
> until I post the results posting.
>
> Have fun!
>
>
>
> 1. In which country do you find the world's busiest air route in
> terms of number of flights per year?
>
> 2. Recently, the world's biggest bicycle garage was inaugurated
> in Utrecht, Netherlands. Within 1000, how many bicycles does
> it fit?
>
> 3. The FIBA World Cup in basketball finished recently. Which
> team emerged as the winner?
>
> 4. In 1904 Montenegro declared war on which country despite that
> they did not have any common border or even a common neighbour,
> neither by land nor by sea?
>
> 5. The Roman emperor Diocletian built an enormous palace around
> the turn of the 4th century AD. Today the remains of the
> palace forms the centre of which Mediterranean city?
>
> 6. Bayonne is a French city, located on the Biscayan coast, some
> 40 km north of the Spanish border. Most signs in Bayonne are
> in French only, but some are tri-lingual. Name any of the
> other two languages on the signs. (These are languages native
> to the area around Bayonne.)
>
> 7. The composer Arnold Schönberg is associated with which form
> compositional technique?
>
> 8. Jonny Cash and Ritchie Blackmore (ex-guitarist of Deep Purple)
> are both known by which four-word moniker?
>
> 9. Which world leader recently faced criticism for old pictures
> where this person appears with a "blackface"?
>
> 10. What sort of activity are you looking forward to if you are
> interacting with amadeus.net or amadeus.com?
>
> 11. The books of which author include characters such as Steve
> Carella and Meyer Meyer?
>
> 12. On http://www.sommarskog.se/temp/IMG_2198.jpg you can see some
> rocks that have been formed over a completely different material.
> What two-word name is usually given to a site where you find
> such rocks?
>
--
“To err, as they say, is human. To forgive is divine. To err by
withholding your forgiveness until it’s too late is to become divinely
fucked up.”
― Jonathan Tropper, The Book of Joe
Dan Tilque
Oct 5, 2019, 4:31:33 PM10/5/19
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On 10/1/19 2:54 PM, Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> Here is a set of 12 questions. I believe this set to be a bit
> difficult, so don't shy even if you only know a few questions.
> Some questions certainly invite for educated or just wild guesses.
>
> For this quiz, I employ the same system as Mark Brader. That is,
> you can enter one or two answers. If you enter a single answer and
> it is correct, you get 4 points. If you enter two answers, your
> first answer is worth 3 points if correct, and the second is worth
> 2 points when correct. Like Mark, I may award partial points for
> answers that are almost correct.
>
> Post your answers to the newsgroup. You must use your own knowledge
> only, no googling, asking grandma etc.
>
> I plan to score this quiz on Sunday 6th. I will be accepting answers
> until I post the results posting.
>
> Have fun!
>
>
>
> 1. In which country do you find the world's busiest air route in
> terms of number of flights per year?
USA
> Here is a set of 12 questions. I believe this set to be a bit
> difficult, so don't shy even if you only know a few questions.
> Some questions certainly invite for educated or just wild guesses.
>
> For this quiz, I employ the same system as Mark Brader. That is,
> you can enter one or two answers. If you enter a single answer and
> it is correct, you get 4 points. If you enter two answers, your
> first answer is worth 3 points if correct, and the second is worth
> 2 points when correct. Like Mark, I may award partial points for
> answers that are almost correct.
>
> Post your answers to the newsgroup. You must use your own knowledge
> only, no googling, asking grandma etc.
>
> I plan to score this quiz on Sunday 6th. I will be accepting answers
> until I post the results posting.
>
> Have fun!
>
>
>
> 1. In which country do you find the world's busiest air route in
> terms of number of flights per year?
>
> 2. Recently, the world's biggest bicycle garage was inaugurated
> in Utrecht, Netherlands. Within 1000, how many bicycles does
> it fit?
>
> 3. The FIBA World Cup in basketball finished recently. Which
> team emerged as the winner?
>
> 4. In 1904 Montenegro declared war on which country despite that
> they did not have any common border or even a common neighbour,
> neither by land nor by sea?
>
> 5. The Roman emperor Diocletian built an enormous palace around
> the turn of the 4th century AD. Today the remains of the
> palace forms the centre of which Mediterranean city?
>
> 6. Bayonne is a French city, located on the Biscayan coast, some
> 40 km north of the Spanish border. Most signs in Bayonne are
> in French only, but some are tri-lingual. Name any of the
> other two languages on the signs. (These are languages native
> to the area around Bayonne.)
>
> 7. The composer Arnold Schönberg is associated with which form
> compositional technique?
>
> 8. Jonny Cash and Ritchie Blackmore (ex-guitarist of Deep Purple)
> are both known by which four-word moniker?
>
> 9. Which world leader recently faced criticism for old pictures
> where this person appears with a "blackface"?
>
> 10. What sort of activity are you looking forward to if you are
> interacting with amadeus.net or amadeus.com?
>
> 11. The books of which author include characters such as Steve
> Carella and Meyer Meyer?
>
> 12. On http://www.sommarskog.se/temp/IMG_2198.jpg you can see some
> rocks that have been formed over a completely different material.
> What two-word name is usually given to a site where you find
> such rocks?
>
>
Dan Tilque
Erland Sommarskog
Oct 6, 2019, 2:34:24 PM10/6/19
to
This quiz is over and Dan Blum is the winner with a very good score
of 28. Everyone else came in second on 16.
Here are the answers:
> 1. In which country do you find the world's busiest air route in
> terms of number of flights per year?
South Korea
The route is from Seoul's Gimpo airport to the island of Jeju,
some 70 km off the south coast, a very popular tourist destination
among Koreans.
The top 10 busiest air routes are all domestic; the busiest
international route is between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.
For a full list, see
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericrosen/2019/04/02/the-2019-list-of-busiest-
airline-routes-in-the-world/
(If you can accept to turn off your ad blocker, that is!)
Singleton for Joshua.
> 2. Recently, the world's biggest bicycle garage was inaugurated
> in Utrecht, Netherlands. Within 1000, how many bicycles does
> it fit?
12500, accepting 11500 to 13500.
Singleton for Dan T
> 3. The FIBA World Cup in basketball finished recently. Which
> team emerged as the winner?
Spain.
I believe the US usually wins this, but this year they lost against
France in the quarter finals. France in their turn lost the semi-final
against Argentina who in their turn lost against Spain. I see that
the US lost one more game, but finally recovered to finish 7th.
As noted in another thread I'm not very fond of basketball due to
overexposure during my school years, but it seemed like a good
current-events question.
> 4. In 1904 Montenegro declared war on which country despite that
> they did not have any common border or even a common neighbour,
> neither by land nor by sea?
Japan.
Montenegro in those days was a staunch ally of Russia, so when
Russia and Japan went to war, Montenegro joined in. I don't recall
if they actually sent any troops.
> 5. The Roman emperor Diocletian built an enormous palace around
> the turn of the 4th century AD. Today the remains of the
> palace forms the centre of which Mediterranean city?
Split, Croatia.
I've been there, and the place is a bit eerie.
Singleton for Dan B.
> 6. Bayonne is a French city, located on the Biscayan coast, some
> 40 km north of the Spanish border. Most signs in Bayonne are
> in French only, but some are tri-lingual. Name any of the
> other two languages on the signs. (These are languages native
> to the area around Bayonne.)
Basque and Gascon.
Almost everyone spotted Basque, which I am delighted to see. The
Basque lands consists of seven provinces, four in Spain and three
in France, and the Bayonne is the main city for one of the French
provinces.
On the other hand, I would have been surprised if anyone had entered
Gascon. I was surprised myself to see this language on the signs,
as I thought Gascony is further to the north. According to Wikipedia,
Gascon is by many considered to be a dialect of Occitan. I can't tell
whether the language on the signs in Bayonne is different from
Occitan - I have never seen any signs at all in Occitan elsewhere
in France - only heard it spoken.
> 7. The composer Arnold Schönberg is associated with which form
> compositional technique?
Twelve-tone technique.
Anything with twelve-tone was sufficient. "Atonal" was not.
> 8. Jonny Cash and Ritchie Blackmore (ex-guitarist of Deep Purple)
> are both known by which four-word moniker?
The Man in Black.
> 9. Which world leader recently faced criticism for old pictures
> where this person appears with a "blackface"?
Justin Trudeau, Canada.
The only question everyone knew.
>10. What sort of activity are you looking forward to if you are
> interacting with amadeus.net or amadeus.com?
A flight trip.
This may depend on where you live, and with which airlines you
fly with. But I find that when I book a flight ticket, I often
get the e-ticket from amadeus.com, and when I get the boarding
card in a text message there is a link amadeus.net.
According to Wikipedia, Amadeus is owned by Star Alliance, and
where I live, I often end up flying with a Star Alliance partner.
But I have mail from amadeus.com with tickets for Finnair and
Icelandair as well, and they are not in Star Alliance.
>11. The books of which author include characters such as Steve
> Carella and Meyer Meyer?
Ed McBain, pseudonym for Evan Hunter.
He wrote a number of police novels about the cases the policement
in the 878th Precinct novels faced. I read quite a few of these
in my youth, but it seems, no one else.
>12. On http://www.sommarskog.se/temp/IMG_2198.jpg you can see some
> rocks that have been formed over a completely different material.
> What two-word name is usually given to a site where you find
> such rocks?
Petrified Forest.
The picture I included is from Les Bosques Petrificados de Jaramillo
in the north of the Santa Cruz province in Argentina. Some petrified
forests were never real forests, as the wood was driftwood that got
covered in lava, but these trees were drowned in lava as they stood
when the vulcano (still visible) erupted many millions years ago.
It was an amazing place to visit, but it is not easy to reach. The
nearest city Caleta Olivia is at least 100 km away - and there is no
car rental in this town.
Below is the scoreboard. Thanks to everyone for playing!
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Total
--------------------------------------------
Dan B 0 0 0 4 4 4 4 4 4 0 0 4 28
Pete G 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 4 4 0 0 4 16
Joshua K 4 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 4 0 0 0 16
Mark B 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 4 4 0 0 4 16
Joe 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 4 4 0 0 4 16
Dan T 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 4 4 0 0 0 16
of 28. Everyone else came in second on 16.
Here are the answers:
> 1. In which country do you find the world's busiest air route in
> terms of number of flights per year?
The route is from Seoul's Gimpo airport to the island of Jeju,
some 70 km off the south coast, a very popular tourist destination
among Koreans.
The top 10 busiest air routes are all domestic; the busiest
international route is between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.
For a full list, see
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericrosen/2019/04/02/the-2019-list-of-busiest-
airline-routes-in-the-world/
(If you can accept to turn off your ad blocker, that is!)
Singleton for Joshua.
> 2. Recently, the world's biggest bicycle garage was inaugurated
> in Utrecht, Netherlands. Within 1000, how many bicycles does
> it fit?
Singleton for Dan T
> 3. The FIBA World Cup in basketball finished recently. Which
> team emerged as the winner?
I believe the US usually wins this, but this year they lost against
France in the quarter finals. France in their turn lost the semi-final
against Argentina who in their turn lost against Spain. I see that
the US lost one more game, but finally recovered to finish 7th.
As noted in another thread I'm not very fond of basketball due to
overexposure during my school years, but it seemed like a good
current-events question.
> 4. In 1904 Montenegro declared war on which country despite that
> they did not have any common border or even a common neighbour,
> neither by land nor by sea?
Montenegro in those days was a staunch ally of Russia, so when
Russia and Japan went to war, Montenegro joined in. I don't recall
if they actually sent any troops.
> 5. The Roman emperor Diocletian built an enormous palace around
> the turn of the 4th century AD. Today the remains of the
> palace forms the centre of which Mediterranean city?
I've been there, and the place is a bit eerie.
Singleton for Dan B.
> 6. Bayonne is a French city, located on the Biscayan coast, some
> 40 km north of the Spanish border. Most signs in Bayonne are
> in French only, but some are tri-lingual. Name any of the
> other two languages on the signs. (These are languages native
> to the area around Bayonne.)
Almost everyone spotted Basque, which I am delighted to see. The
Basque lands consists of seven provinces, four in Spain and three
in France, and the Bayonne is the main city for one of the French
provinces.
On the other hand, I would have been surprised if anyone had entered
Gascon. I was surprised myself to see this language on the signs,
as I thought Gascony is further to the north. According to Wikipedia,
Gascon is by many considered to be a dialect of Occitan. I can't tell
whether the language on the signs in Bayonne is different from
Occitan - I have never seen any signs at all in Occitan elsewhere
in France - only heard it spoken.
> 7. The composer Arnold Schönberg is associated with which form
> compositional technique?
Anything with twelve-tone was sufficient. "Atonal" was not.
> 8. Jonny Cash and Ritchie Blackmore (ex-guitarist of Deep Purple)
> are both known by which four-word moniker?
> 9. Which world leader recently faced criticism for old pictures
> where this person appears with a "blackface"?
The only question everyone knew.
>10. What sort of activity are you looking forward to if you are
> interacting with amadeus.net or amadeus.com?
This may depend on where you live, and with which airlines you
fly with. But I find that when I book a flight ticket, I often
get the e-ticket from amadeus.com, and when I get the boarding
card in a text message there is a link amadeus.net.
According to Wikipedia, Amadeus is owned by Star Alliance, and
where I live, I often end up flying with a Star Alliance partner.
But I have mail from amadeus.com with tickets for Finnair and
Icelandair as well, and they are not in Star Alliance.
>11. The books of which author include characters such as Steve
> Carella and Meyer Meyer?
He wrote a number of police novels about the cases the policement
in the 878th Precinct novels faced. I read quite a few of these
in my youth, but it seems, no one else.
>12. On http://www.sommarskog.se/temp/IMG_2198.jpg you can see some
> rocks that have been formed over a completely different material.
> What two-word name is usually given to a site where you find
> such rocks?
The picture I included is from Les Bosques Petrificados de Jaramillo
in the north of the Santa Cruz province in Argentina. Some petrified
forests were never real forests, as the wood was driftwood that got
covered in lava, but these trees were drowned in lava as they stood
when the vulcano (still visible) erupted many millions years ago.
It was an amazing place to visit, but it is not easy to reach. The
nearest city Caleta Olivia is at least 100 km away - and there is no
car rental in this town.
Below is the scoreboard. Thanks to everyone for playing!
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Total
--------------------------------------------
Dan B 0 0 0 4 4 4 4 4 4 0 0 4 28
Pete G 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 4 4 0 0 4 16
Joshua K 4 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 4 0 0 0 16
Mark B 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 4 4 0 0 4 16
Joe 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 4 4 0 0 4 16
Dan T 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 4 4 0 0 0 16
Pete Gayde
Oct 6, 2019, 5:39:00 PM10/6/19
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Erland Sommarskog <esq...@sommarskog.se> wrote in
news:XnsAAE0D1475...@127.0.0.1:
> This quiz is over and Dan Blum is the winner with a very good score
> of 28. Everyone else came in second on 16.
>
> Here are the answers:
>
>
>
>> 7. The composer Arnold Schönberg is associated with which form
>> compositional technique?
>
> Twelve-tone technique.
>
> Anything with twelve-tone was sufficient. "Atonal" was not.
>
>
Other names for Schoenberg's compositional technique include
>> compositional technique?
>
> Twelve-tone technique.
>
> Anything with twelve-tone was sufficient. "Atonal" was not.
>
>
"dodecaphonic" and "serial". I answered "serial".
Pete Gayde
Mark Brader
Oct 6, 2019, 6:08:28 PM10/6/19
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Erland Sommarskog:
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "You can fool too many of the people
m...@vex.net too much of the time." -- James Thurber
> Thanks to everyone for playing!
Thanks for the quiz.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "You can fool too many of the people
m...@vex.net too much of the time." -- James Thurber
Erland Sommarskog
Oct 7, 2019, 5:26:32 AM10/7/19
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Pete Gayde (pag...@wowway.com) writes:
>>> 7. The composer Arnold Schönberg is associated with which form
>>> compositional technique?
>>
>> Twelve-tone technique.
>>
>> Anything with twelve-tone was sufficient. "Atonal" was not.
>>
>
> Other names for Schoenberg's compositional technique include
> "dodecaphonic" and "serial". I answered "serial".
>
I will have to admit that I was familiar with that term. My reading on
>>> 7. The composer Arnold Schönberg is associated with which form
>>> compositional technique?
>>
>> Twelve-tone technique.
>>
>> Anything with twelve-tone was sufficient. "Atonal" was not.
>>
>
> Other names for Schoenberg's compositional technique include
> "dodecaphonic" and "serial". I answered "serial".
>
Wikipedia tells me that "serial" or "serialism" has wider meaning than
twelve-tone. On the other hand, Schönberg is said to have introduced
the idea, thus four points to Pete. Here is the correct scoreboard:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Total
--------------------------------------------
Dan B 0 0 0 4 4 4 4 4 4 0 0 4 28
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