Round 3185 results

[Mike Shefler]

A four way tie for first place but the rolling scores put Paul Keating in the dealer's seat. The rest of you can breathe a sigh of relief.

1.  a method of aiming guns in sailing ships by marking the deck (after

Capt. Josiah Brannock, RN).                                                   

  Submitter: Emallach                 Votes: 13 & 14      0 + 0 =   0

  Voted for by:                                                          

2.  an organelle of certain prokaryotes.

  Submitter: Abell                     Vote: N/V          0 + 0 =   0

  Voted for by:                                                          

3.  [Scottish Law] a procedure allowing a defence advocate to introduce,

in certain specified circumstances, evidence which has not previously         

been notified to the Procurator Fiscal.                                       

  Submitter: Lodge                    Votes: 12 & 14      0 + 0 =   0

  Voted for by:                                                          

4.  a valve used to control the flow of oxygen in a Bessemer converter;

invented by Jamie (later Sir James) Brannock (1822-1891).                     

  Submitter: Amallach                 Votes: 8 & 9        0 + 0 =   0

  Voted for by:                                                          

5.  a device used to estimate stellar distances.

  Submitter: Kornelis                 Votes: 9 & 12       0 + 1 =   1

  Voted for by: Madnick

6.  a measuring instrument invented by Charles F. Brannock for measuring

a person's shoe size.                                                         

  Submitter: Wikipedia                 Vote: N/A                   D2

  Voted for by: Embler; Mcgill

7.  used to measure the food value of breads cooked by frying.

  Submitter: Barrs                     Vote: DQ           DQ + 0 =   0

  Voted for by:                                                          

8.  a coop or enclosure of wickerwork or spars placed in tide-ways and

openings in weirs, as a trap for salmon and other fish.                       

  Submitter: Naylor                   Votes: 10 & 11      0 + 3 =   3

  Voted for by: Amallach; Embler; Keating

9.  in 19th century water-powered manufacturing, a mechanism that

transmitted force from the water wheel into drive belts in the                

factory .                                                                     

  Submitter: Fein                      Vote: N/V          0 + 2 =   2

  Voted for by: Amallach; Kornelis

10.  a sewing gauge used to measure hemlines, tucks, and pleats as well as

the spaces required for buttons and buttonholes.                              

  Submitter: Madnick                  Votes: 5 & 13       0 + 3 =   3

  Voted for by: Naylor; Keating; Mcgill

11.  a mechanical bread maker.

  Submitter: Embler                   Votes: *6* & 8      2 + 1 =   3

  Voted for by: Naylor

12.  in logic, a form of false reasoning, also known as the fallacy of the

undistributed middle.                                                         

  Submitter: Bourne                   Votes: 13 & 14      0 + 2 =   2

  Voted for by: Lodge; Kornelis

13.  a graduated ruler that estimates geographical location from the

position of the sun and the time of day, needing no more than an              

estimate of latitude.                                                         

  Submitter: Keating                  Votes: 8 & 10       0 + 3 =   3

  Voted for by: Emallach; Madnick; Bourne

14.  a hypothetical object theorized to be a potential mode of time

travel—although results have shown that a Brannock device could only          

allow time travel if its length were infinite or with the existence           

of negative energy.                                                           

  Submitter: Widdis                    Vote: DQ           DQ + 3 =   3

  Voted for by: Emallach; Lodge; Bourne

     No def: Dixon                     Vote: DQ           DQ + 0 =   0

     No def: Mcgill                   Votes: *6* & 10     2 + 0 =   2

[Judy Madnick]

I'll take my 3 votes and run!

 

Judy

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