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Calvin

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Oct 13, 2015, 6:48:34 PM10/13/15
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1 What name is given to duck or other meat, cooked very slowly and stored in its own fat - it takes its name from the French for "to preserve"?
2 Which soprano, now a Dame, performed at the 1981 wedding of Prince Charles and Diana?
3 What one word title is shared by a 2008 movie starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart and a 1998 movie starring Gene Hackman, Paul Newman and Susan Sarandon?
4 Who was Buffy the vampire Slayer's mentor and school librarian?
5 One of Hitchcock's first true comedies, it suffered at the box office. Which 1955 film marked the film debut of Shirley MacLaine?
6 First used in competition in England in 1932, Stableford is an alternative scoring system used in which sport?
7 Which Austrian-born American consultant, educator and author (1905-2005) coined the term "knowledge worker" and is considered the founder of modern business management?
8 What specifically is the smallest wind instrument?
9 Vinegar is primarily composed of water and which acid?
10 Which Italian city was the birthplace of, among others, Mary d'Este (second wife of King James II of Britain), Enzo Ferrari and Luciano Pavarotti?

cheers,
calvin

Chris F.A. Johnson

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Oct 13, 2015, 8:20:03 PM10/13/15
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On 2015-10-13, Calvin wrote:
> 1 What name is given to duck or other meat, cooked very slowly and
> stored in its own fat - it takes its name from the French for "to
> preserve"?

Confit

> 2 Which soprano, now a Dame, performed at the 1981 wedding of Prince Charles and Diana?

Te Kanawa

> 3 What one word title is shared by a 2008 movie starring Robert
> Pattinson and Kristen Stewart and a 1998 movie starring Gene
> Hackman, Paul Newman and Susan Sarandon?

Twilight

> 4 Who was Buffy the vampire Slayer's mentor and school librarian?
> 5 One of Hitchcock's first true comedies, it suffered at the box office. Which 1955 film marked the film debut of Shirley MacLaine?

"The Trouble with Harry"

> 6 First used in competition in England in 1932, Stableford is an
> alternative scoring system used in which sport?

Golf

> 7 Which Austrian-born American consultant, educator and author (1905-2005) coined the term "knowledge worker" and is considered the founder of modern business management?
> 8 What specifically is the smallest wind instrument?

Piccolo

> 9 Vinegar is primarily composed of water and which acid?

Acetic

> 10 Which Italian city was the birthplace of, among others, Mary d'Este (second wife of King James II of Britain), Enzo Ferrari and Luciano Pavarotti?

Modena

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Chris F.A. Johnson

Mark Brader

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Oct 13, 2015, 8:47:09 PM10/13/15
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Calvin:
> 1 What name is given to duck or other meat, cooked very
> slowly and stored in its own fat - it takes its name from
> the French for "to preserve"?

Conserve?

> 2 Which soprano, now a Dame, performed at the 1981 wedding
> of Prince Charles and Diana?

Johnson. Well, her or Pope Pius XII. :-)

> 3 What one word title is shared by a 2008 movie starring
> Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart and a 1998 movie
> starring Gene Hackman, Paul Newman and Susan Sarandon?

Twilight?

> 4 Who was Buffy the vampire Slayer's mentor and school librarian?

Giles, and I hope that's a surname because it's all I have.

> 5 One of Hitchcock's first true comedies, it suffered at
> the box office. Which 1955 film marked the film debut of
> Shirley MacLaine?

"The Trouble with Harry". "One of his first"? He only made two
true comedies after the silent era, and this was the second one.
His other movies only have occasional comic elements.

(The first was "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", made about 1941, about a
couple who discover that their marriage wasn't legal. Definitely
not to be confused with the Brad Pitt / Angelina Jolie movie of
the same title!)

> 6 First used in competition in England in 1932, Stableford
> is an alternative scoring system used in which sport?

Tennis?

> 7 Which Austrian-born American consultant, educator and
> author (1905-2005) coined the term "knowledge worker" and
> is considered the founder of modern business management?

> 8 What specifically is the smallest wind instrument?

Piccolo.

> 9 Vinegar is primarily composed of water and which acid?

Acetic.

> 10 Which Italian city was the birthplace of, among others,
> Mary d'Este (second wife of King James II of Britain),
> Enzo Ferrari and Luciano Pavarotti?

Milan?
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Gareth Owen

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Oct 14, 2015, 2:03:49 AM10/14/15
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Calvin <334...@gmail.com> writes:

> 1 What name is given to duck or other meat, cooked very slowly and
> stored in its own fat - it takes its name from the French for "to
> preserve"?

Confit

> 2 Which soprano, now a Dame, performed at the 1981 wedding of Prince
> Charles and Diana?

Kiri te Kanawa

> 3 What one word title is shared by a 2008 movie starring Robert
> Pattinson and Kristen Stewart and a 1998 movie starring Gene Hackman,
> Paul Newman and Susan Sarandon?

Twilight

> 4 Who was Buffy the vampire Slayer's mentor and school librarian?

Giles

> 5 One of Hitchcock's first true comedies, it suffered at the box
> office. Which 1955 film marked the film debut of Shirley MacLaine?
> 6 First used in competition in England in 1932, Stableford is an
> alternative scoring system used in which sport?

Golf

> 7 Which Austrian-born American consultant, educator and author
> (1905-2005) coined the term "knowledge worker" and is considered the
> founder of modern business management?

Dale Carnegie??

> 8 What specifically is the smallest wind instrument?

piccolo

> 9 Vinegar is primarily composed of water and which acid?

Acetic

> 10 Which Italian city was the birthplace of, among others, Mary d'Este
> (second wife of King James II of Britain), Enzo Ferrari and Luciano
> Pavarotti?

(rolls dice) Turin

Erland Sommarskog

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Oct 14, 2015, 3:38:33 AM10/14/15
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Calvin (334...@gmail.com) writes:
> 1 What name is given to duck or other meat, cooked very slowly and
> stored in its own fat - it takes its name from the French for "to
> preserve"?

Rilette

> 2 Which soprano, now a Dame, performed at the 1981 wedding of Prince
> Charles and Diana?

Since you say "now", I assume that it wasn't Birgit Nilsson


> 8 What specifically is the smallest wind instrument?

Piccolo

> 9 Vinegar is primarily composed of water and which acid?

Aceatic

> 10 Which Italian city was the birthplace of, among others, Mary
> d'Este (second wife of King James II of Britain), Enzo Ferrari and
> Luciano Pavarotti?
>

Siena


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Björn Lundin

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Oct 14, 2015, 3:50:06 PM10/14/15
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On 2015-10-14 00:48, Calvin wrote:
> 1 What name is given to duck or other meat, cooked very slowly and stored in its own fat - it takes its name from the French for "to preserve"?
> 2 Which soprano, now a Dame, performed at the 1981 wedding of Prince Charles and Diana?
Montserrat Caballé ?

> 3 What one word title is shared by a 2008 movie starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart and a 1998 movie starring Gene Hackman, Paul Newman and Susan Sarandon?
Twilight
> 4 Who was Buffy the vampire Slayer's mentor and school librarian?
> 5 One of Hitchcock's first true comedies, it suffered at the box office. Which 1955 film marked the film debut of Shirley MacLaine?
> 6 First used in competition in England in 1932, Stableford is an alternative scoring system used in which sport?
Badminton?
> 7 Which Austrian-born American consultant, educator and author (1905-2005) coined the term "knowledge worker" and is considered the founder of modern business management?
> 8 What specifically is the smallest wind instrument?
piccolo fluite
> 9 Vinegar is primarily composed of water and which acid?
> 10 Which Italian city was the birthplace of, among others, Mary d'Este (second wife of King James II of Britain), Enzo Ferrari and Luciano Pavarotti?
Milan
>
> cheers,
> calvin
>


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Björn

Marc Dashevsky

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Oct 14, 2015, 8:17:18 PM10/14/15
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In article <6aee1deb-8952-4da5...@googlegroups.com>, 334...@gmail.com says...
>
> 1 What name is given to duck or other meat, cooked very slowly and stored in its own fat - it takes its name from the French for "to preserve"?
confit

> 2 Which soprano, now a Dame, performed at the 1981 wedding of Prince Charles and Diana?
> 3 What one word title is shared by a 2008 movie starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart and a 1998 movie starring Gene Hackman, Paul Newman and Susan Sarandon?
> 4 Who was Buffy the vampire Slayer's mentor and school librarian?
> 5 One of Hitchcock's first true comedies, it suffered at the box office. Which 1955 film marked the film debut of Shirley MacLaine?
Trouble With Harry

> 6 First used in competition in England in 1932, Stableford is an alternative scoring system used in which sport?
> 7 Which Austrian-born American consultant, educator and author (1905-2005) coined the term "knowledge worker" and is considered the founder of modern business management?
> 8 What specifically is the smallest wind instrument?
piccolo

> 9 Vinegar is primarily composed of water and which acid?
acetic

> 10 Which Italian city was the birthplace of, among others, Mary d'Este (second wife of King James II of Britain), Enzo Ferrari and Luciano Pavarotti?
Milan

> cheers,
> calvin



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Pete

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Oct 15, 2015, 6:29:13 PM10/15/15
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Calvin <334...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:6aee1deb-8952-4da5...@googlegroups.com:

> 1 What name is given to duck or other meat, cooked very slowly and
> stored in its own fat - it takes its name from the French for "to
> preserve"?
> 2 Which soprano, now a Dame, performed at the 1981
> wedding of Prince Charles and Diana?

Kiri Te Kanawa

> 3 What one word title is
> shared by a 2008 movie starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart
> and a 1998 movie starring Gene Hackman, Paul Newman and Susan
> Sarandon?

Twilight

> 4 Who was Buffy the vampire Slayer's mentor and school librarian?
> 5 One of Hitchcock's first true comedies, it suffered
> at the box office. Which 1955 film marked the film debut of Shirley
> MacLaine?
> 6 First used in competition in England in 1932,
> Stableford is an alternative scoring system used in which sport?

Golf

> 7 Which Austrian-born American consultant, educator and author
> (1905-2005) coined the term "knowledge worker" and is considered the
> founder of modern business management?

Deming

> 8 What specifically is the smallest wind instrument?

Piccolo

> 9 Vinegar is primarily composed of water and which acid?
> 10 Which Italian city was the birthplace of, among
> others, Mary d'Este (second wife of King James II of Britain), Enzo
> Ferrari and Luciano Pavarotti?

Turin

>
> cheers,
> calvin
>

Pete

Peter Smyth

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Oct 16, 2015, 6:38:58 PM10/16/15
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Calvin wrote:

> 1 What name is given to duck or other meat, cooked very slowly and
> stored in its own fat - it takes its name from the French for "to
> preserve"?
>
> 2 Which soprano, now a Dame, performed at the 1981 wedding of Prince
> Charles and Diana?
Kiri Te Kanawa
> 3 What one word title is shared by a 2008 movie starring Robert
> Pattinson and Kristen Stewart and a 1998 movie starring Gene Hackman,
> Paul Newman and Susan Sarandon?
Twilight
> 4 Who was Buffy the vampire Slayer's mentor and school librarian?
Giles
> 5 One of Hitchcock's first true comedies, it suffered at the box
> office. Which 1955 film marked the film debut of Shirley MacLaine?
>
> 6 First used in competition in England in 1932, Stableford is an
> alternative scoring system used in which sport?
Golf
> 7 Which Austrian-born American consultant, educator and author
> (1905-2005) coined the term "knowledge worker" and is considered the
> founder of modern business management?
>
> 8 What specifically is the smallest wind instrument?
Piccolo
> 9 Vinegar is primarily composed of water and which acid?
Acetic
> 10 Which Italian city was the birthplace of, among others, Mary
> d'Este (second wife of King James II of Britain), Enzo Ferrari and
> Luciano Pavarotti?
Modena

Peter Smyth

Calvin

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Oct 19, 2015, 11:25:35 PM10/19/15
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On Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at 8:48:34 AM UTC+10, Calvin wrote:

> 1 What name is given to duck or other meat, cooked very slowly and stored in its own fat - it takes its name from the French for "to preserve"?

Confit

> 2 Which soprano, now a Dame, performed at the 1981 wedding of Prince Charles and Diana?

Kiri Te Kanawa

> 3 What one word title is shared by a 2008 movie starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart and a 1998 movie starring Gene Hackman, Paul Newman and Susan Sarandon?

Twilight

> 4 Who was Buffy the vampire Slayer's mentor and school librarian?

Rupert Giles
I'll accept either name

> 5 One of Hitchcock's first true comedies, it suffered at the box office. Which 1955 film marked the film debut of Shirley MacLaine?

The Trouble With Harry

> 6 First used in competition in England in 1932, Stableford is an alternative scoring system used in which sport?

Golf

> 7 Which Austrian-born American consultant, educator and author (1905-2005) coined the term "knowledge worker" and is considered the founder of modern business management?

Peter Drucker
You need to know this guy.
http://www.druckerinstitute.com/peter-druckers-life-and-legacy/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Drucker

> 8 What specifically is the smallest wind instrument?

Piccolo

> 9 Vinegar is primarily composed of water and which acid?

Acetic

> 10 Which Italian city was the birthplace of, among others, Mary d'Este (second wife of King James II of Britain), Enzo Ferrari and Luciano Pavarotti?

Modena


Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 411
1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 8 49 Chris Johnson
1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 7 42 Gareth Owen
0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 7 47 Peter Smyth
0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 5 43 Mark Brader
0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 4 24 Pete Gayde
1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 4 26 Marc Dashevsky
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 15 Erland S
0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 17 Bjorn Lundin
- - - - - - - - - - --- ----------
3 4 5 3 4 4 0 8 6 2 39 49%

Well done Chris.

cheers,
calvin

Gareth Owen

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Oct 20, 2015, 1:20:39 AM10/20/15
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Calvin <334...@gmail.com> writes:

>> 3 What one word title is shared by a 2008 movie starring Robert
>> Pattinson and Kristen Stewart and a 1998 movie starring Gene
>> Hackman, Paul Newman and Susan Sarandon?
>
> Twilight
> Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 411
> 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 8 49 Chris Johnson
> 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 7 42 Gareth Owen

I got Q3. I'm not proud of it, but I got it.

gwo...@gmail.com

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Oct 20, 2015, 5:28:30 AM10/20/15
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But I whiffed on the Hitchcock one, so 7 is the correct total.

Calvin

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Oct 20, 2015, 10:01:33 PM10/20/15
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On Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 7:28:30 PM UTC+10, gwo...@gmail.com wrote:

> But I whiffed on the Hitchcock one, so 7 is the correct total.

Just as I planned :-)

cheers,
calvin


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