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Calvin
Feb 13, 2019, 12:50:52 AM2/13/19
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1 Which English county team has won the county cricket championships most often?
2 What is the more common term for the medical condition hypotension?
3 Adele in 2015 and Lionel Ritchie in 1984 had hits with unrelated songs that shared which one-word title?
4 What name is given to art of trimming shrubs and trees into clearly defined shapes?
5 What British city is nicknamed 'Auld Reekie'?
6 Ruud Gullit represented which country in football (soccer)?
7 On 28 September 2018, a shallow earthquake struck Minahassa Peninsula, part of which Indonesian island?
8 Which politician co-authored the 2004 book ‘Judo: History, Theory, Practice’?
9 Which American rapper recorded the 2013 album “Magna Carta Holy Grail”?
10 What was the name of Yuri Gagarin's space capsule in which he orbited the Earth in 1961?
cheers,
calvin
Erland Sommarskog
Feb 13, 2019, 4:24:08 AM2/13/19
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Calvin (334...@gmail.com) writes:
> 1 Which English county team has won the county cricket championships
> most often?
Kent
> 1 Which English county team has won the county cricket championships
> most often?
> 6 Ruud Gullit represented which country in football (soccer)?
> 7 On 28 September 2018, a shallow earthquake struck Minahassa
> Peninsula, part of which Indonesian island?
> 10 What was the name of Yuri Gagarin's space capsule in which he
> orbited the Earth in 1961?
Dan Blum
Feb 13, 2019, 10:00:23 AM2/13/19
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Calvin <334...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1 Which English county team has won the county cricket championships most often?
Lancashire
> 1 Which English county team has won the county cricket championships most often?
> 2 What is the more common term for the medical condition hypotension?
> 4 What name is given to art of trimming shrubs and trees into clearly defined shapes?
> 5 What British city is nicknamed 'Auld Reekie'?
> 6 Ruud Gullit represented which country in football (soccer)?
> 7 On 28 September 2018, a shallow earthquake struck Minahassa Peninsula, part of which Indonesian island?
> 10 What was the name of Yuri Gagarin's space capsule in which he orbited the Earth in 1961?
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"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Pete Gayde
Feb 13, 2019, 12:45:25 PM2/13/19
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Calvin <334...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:472d3df5-d530-4022...@googlegroups.com:
>
> 1 Which English county team has won the county cricket
> championships most often?
Berkshire
> 2 What is the more common term for the
> medical condition hypotension?
> 3 Adele in 2015 and Lionel Ritchie
> in 1984 had hits with unrelated songs that shared which one-word
> title?
> 4 What name is given to art of trimming shrubs and trees
> into clearly defined shapes?
Topiary
> 5 What British city is nicknamed 'Auld Reekie'?
Birmingham
> 6 Ruud Gullit represented which country in football
> (soccer)?
Netherlands
> 7 On 28 September 2018, a shallow earthquake struck
> Minahassa Peninsula, part of which Indonesian island?
Java
> 8 Which
> politician co-authored the 2004 book ‘Judo: History, Theory,
> Practice’?
Abe
> 9 Which American rapper recorded the 2013 album
> “Magna Carta Holy Grail”?
Kanye West
> 10 What was the name of Yuri
> Gagarin's space capsule in which he orbited the Earth in 1961?
>
>
> cheers,
> calvin
>
Pete Gayde
news:472d3df5-d530-4022...@googlegroups.com:
>
> 1 Which English county team has won the county cricket
> championships most often?
> 2 What is the more common term for the
> medical condition hypotension?
> 3 Adele in 2015 and Lionel Ritchie
> in 1984 had hits with unrelated songs that shared which one-word
> title?
> 4 What name is given to art of trimming shrubs and trees
> into clearly defined shapes?
> 5 What British city is nicknamed 'Auld Reekie'?
> 6 Ruud Gullit represented which country in football
> (soccer)?
> 7 On 28 September 2018, a shallow earthquake struck
> Minahassa Peninsula, part of which Indonesian island?
> 8 Which
> politician co-authored the 2004 book ‘Judo: History, Theory,
> Practice’?
> 9 Which American rapper recorded the 2013 album
> “Magna Carta Holy Grail”?
> 10 What was the name of Yuri
> Gagarin's space capsule in which he orbited the Earth in 1961?
>
>
> cheers,
> calvin
>
Mark Brader
Feb 13, 2019, 3:48:51 PM2/13/19
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Calvin:
> 2 What is the more common term for the medical condition hypotension?
Low blood pressure.
> 3 Adele in 2015 and Lionel Ritchie in 1984 had hits with unrelated
> songs that shared which one-word title?
"Hello"?
> 4 What name is given to art of trimming shrubs and trees into
> clearly defined shapes?
Topiary.
> 5 What British city is nicknamed 'Auld Reekie'?
Edinburgh.
> 6 Ruud Gullit represented which country in football (soccer)?
Sweden?
> 7 On 28 September 2018, a shallow earthquake struck Minahassa
> Peninsula, part of which Indonesian island?
Java?
> 8 Which politician co-authored the 2004 book 'Judo: History,
> Theory, Practice'?
> 9 Which American rapper recorded the 2013 album "Magna Carta
> Holy Grail"?
> 10 What was the name of Yuri Gagarin's space capsule in which he
> orbited the Earth in 1961?
Vostok I.
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Mark Brader, Toronto | "I can be gullible about these kinds of things.
m...@vex.net | Or so people tell me, and I believe them."
> 1 Which English county team has won the county cricket
> championships most often?
Devon. (Well, it's a county.)
> championships most often?
> 2 What is the more common term for the medical condition hypotension?
> 3 Adele in 2015 and Lionel Ritchie in 1984 had hits with unrelated
> songs that shared which one-word title?
> 4 What name is given to art of trimming shrubs and trees into
> clearly defined shapes?
> 5 What British city is nicknamed 'Auld Reekie'?
> 6 Ruud Gullit represented which country in football (soccer)?
> 7 On 28 September 2018, a shallow earthquake struck Minahassa
> Peninsula, part of which Indonesian island?
> 8 Which politician co-authored the 2004 book 'Judo: History,
> Theory, Practice'?
> 9 Which American rapper recorded the 2013 album "Magna Carta
> Holy Grail"?
> 10 What was the name of Yuri Gagarin's space capsule in which he
> orbited the Earth in 1961?
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Mark Brader, Toronto | "I can be gullible about these kinds of things.
m...@vex.net | Or so people tell me, and I believe them."
Calvin
Feb 19, 2019, 11:50:13 PM2/19/19
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On Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 3:50:52 PM UTC+10, Calvin wrote:
> 1 Which English county team has won the county cricket championships most often?
Yorkshire
> 1 Which English county team has won the county cricket championships most often?
> 2 What is the more common term for the medical condition hypotension?
> 3 Adele in 2015 and Lionel Ritchie in 1984 had hits with unrelated songs that shared which one-word title?
Singleton for Mark
> 4 What name is given to art of trimming shrubs and trees into clearly defined shapes?
> 5 What British city is nicknamed 'Auld Reekie'?
Singleton for Mark
> 6 Ruud Gullit represented which country in football (soccer)?
> 7 On 28 September 2018, a shallow earthquake struck Minahassa Peninsula, part of which Indonesian island?
> 8 Which politician co-authored the 2004 book ‘Judo: History, Theory, Practice’?
No-one got this
> 9 Which American rapper recorded the 2013 album “Magna Carta Holy Grail”?
Or this
> 10 What was the name of Yuri Gagarin's space capsule in which he orbited the Earth in 1961?
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 555
0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 5 10 Mark Brader
0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 5 13 Dan Blum
0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 3 8 Erland S
0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 6 Pete Gayde
- - - - - - - - - - --- ----------
0 2 1 3 1 3 2 0 0 3 15 38%
Well that was a brutal set which no doubt explains the low participation rate. Congratulations Mark.
I've run out of questions so you will have to wait until my next real life event takes place in late March. I will then recycle them here.
cheers,
calvin
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