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David Brown
Oct 6, 2011, 7:09:10 AM10/6/11
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Welcome to my first (and probably only) attempt at setting the rotating
quiz.
Each question is worth 1 point but please be as specific as possible.
As this may well be quite a high scoring round I have added a tie breaker at
the end.
Answers will be given on Tuesday and the highest score gets to set the next
round of questions.
Good luck
_________
1. The Pompidou Centre in Paris is known locally as what due to its
location?
2. What is an Oud?
3. What is special about minus 40 degrees?
4. Which is the highest mountain in England?
5. What is Ras El Hanout?
6. What are the bones of fingers and toes called?
7. What is baccanalia?
8. Who famously died on Mont Ventoux?
9. From where/what does Pashana Bedhi come from?
10. Which famous novel is told through the eyes of a sixteen year girl who
thinks she’s a eunuch?
11. What are the three ingredients to gunpowder?
12. What disease is Sydenham’s chorea more commonly known?
13. Which band had the pseudonym ‘The Dukes of Stratosphear’?
Tie Breaker
What is pi in decimal notation to as many significant figures as you know?
--
David :)
Only 1 in 10 people understand the binary system - the other half don't.
quiz.
Each question is worth 1 point but please be as specific as possible.
As this may well be quite a high scoring round I have added a tie breaker at
the end.
Answers will be given on Tuesday and the highest score gets to set the next
round of questions.
Good luck
_________
1. The Pompidou Centre in Paris is known locally as what due to its
location?
2. What is an Oud?
3. What is special about minus 40 degrees?
4. Which is the highest mountain in England?
5. What is Ras El Hanout?
6. What are the bones of fingers and toes called?
7. What is baccanalia?
8. Who famously died on Mont Ventoux?
9. From where/what does Pashana Bedhi come from?
10. Which famous novel is told through the eyes of a sixteen year girl who
thinks she’s a eunuch?
11. What are the three ingredients to gunpowder?
12. What disease is Sydenham’s chorea more commonly known?
13. Which band had the pseudonym ‘The Dukes of Stratosphear’?
Tie Breaker
What is pi in decimal notation to as many significant figures as you know?
--
David :)
Only 1 in 10 people understand the binary system - the other half don't.
Joachim Parsch
Oct 6, 2011, 7:39:24 AM10/6/11
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David Brown schrieb:
>
> Welcome to my first (and probably only) attempt at setting the rotating
> quiz.
> Each question is worth 1 point but please be as specific as possible.
> As this may well be quite a high scoring round I have added a tie breaker at
> the end.
> Answers will be given on Tuesday and the highest score gets to set the next
> round of questions.
>
> Good luck
> _________
>
> 1. The Pompidou Centre in Paris is known locally as what due to its
> location?
>
> 2. What is an Oud?
The most vicious creature imaginable: the mother-in-law of a ghoul.
> Welcome to my first (and probably only) attempt at setting the rotating
> quiz.
> Each question is worth 1 point but please be as specific as possible.
> As this may well be quite a high scoring round I have added a tie breaker at
> the end.
> Answers will be given on Tuesday and the highest score gets to set the next
> round of questions.
>
> Good luck
> _________
>
> 1. The Pompidou Centre in Paris is known locally as what due to its
> location?
>
> 2. What is an Oud?
> 3. What is special about minus 40 degrees?
> 4. Which is the highest mountain in England?
> 5. What is Ras El Hanout?
>
> 6. What are the bones of fingers and toes called?
>
> 7. What is baccanalia?
> 8. Who famously died on Mont Ventoux?
> 9. From where/what does Pashana Bedhi come from?
>
> 10. Which famous novel is told through the eyes of a sixteen year girl who
> thinks she's a eunuch?
>
> 11. What are the three ingredients to gunpowder?
> 12. What disease is Sydenham's chorea more commonly known?
>
Pink Floyd?
> Tie Breaker
> What is pi in decimal notation to as many significant figures as you know?
Joachim
Mark Brader
Oct 6, 2011, 10:19:05 AM10/6/11
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David Brown:
> 3. What is special about minus 40 degrees?
It's the Fahrenheit/Celsius crossover point.
> 4. Which is the highest mountain in England?
There aren't any. :-)
> 6. What are the bones of fingers and toes called?
Phalanges.
> 7. What is baccanalia?
A misspelling of "bacchanalia", originally a Roman festival and
now a term for drunken revelry.
> 8. Who famously died on Mont Ventoux?
Nobody. :-) I'll try Mallory.
> 11. What are the three ingredients to gunpowder?
Charcoal, sulfur, saltpeter.
> 12. What disease is Sydenham's chorea more commonly known?
St. Vitus's dance?
> Tie Breaker
(Interesting idea.)
> What is pi in decimal notation to as many significant figures as you know?
3.14159265358979.
--
Mark Brader | "...not one accident in a hundred deserves the name.
Toronto | [This occurrence] was simply the legitimate result
m...@vex.net | of carelessness." -- Washington Roebling
My text in this article is in the public domain.
> 1. The Pompidou Centre in Paris is known locally as what due to its
> location?
Beaubourg.
> location?
> 3. What is special about minus 40 degrees?
> 4. Which is the highest mountain in England?
> 6. What are the bones of fingers and toes called?
> 7. What is baccanalia?
A misspelling of "bacchanalia", originally a Roman festival and
now a term for drunken revelry.
> 8. Who famously died on Mont Ventoux?
> 11. What are the three ingredients to gunpowder?
> 12. What disease is Sydenham's chorea more commonly known?
> Tie Breaker
(Interesting idea.)
> What is pi in decimal notation to as many significant figures as you know?
--
Mark Brader | "...not one accident in a hundred deserves the name.
Toronto | [This occurrence] was simply the legitimate result
m...@vex.net | of carelessness." -- Washington Roebling
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Peter Smyth
Oct 6, 2011, 2:06:12 PM10/6/11
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"David Brown" wrote in message news:j6k28m$f59$1...@dont-email.me...
>1. The Pompidou Centre in Paris is known locally as what due to its
>location?
>
>2. What is an Oud?
>
>3. What is special about minus 40 degrees?
it is the same in Celsius and Fahrenheit
Peter Smyth
>1. The Pompidou Centre in Paris is known locally as what due to its
>location?
>
>2. What is an Oud?
>
>3. What is special about minus 40 degrees?
>4. Which is the highest mountain in England?
Scafell Pike
>5. What is Ras El Hanout?
>
>6. What are the bones of fingers and toes called?
metatarsals
>
>6. What are the bones of fingers and toes called?
>7. What is baccanalia?
>
>8. Who famously died on Mont Ventoux?
Tommy Simpson
>
>8. Who famously died on Mont Ventoux?
>9. From where/what does Pashana Bedhi come from?
>
>10. Which famous novel is told through the eyes of a sixteen year girl who
>thinks she’s a eunuch?
>
>11. What are the three ingredients to gunpowder?
>
>12. What disease is Sydenham’s chorea more commonly known?
>
>13. Which band had the pseudonym ‘The Dukes of Stratosphear’?
>
>
>Tie Breaker
>What is pi in decimal notation to as many significant figures as you know?
3.141592
>
>10. Which famous novel is told through the eyes of a sixteen year girl who
>thinks she’s a eunuch?
>
>11. What are the three ingredients to gunpowder?
>
>12. What disease is Sydenham’s chorea more commonly known?
>
>13. Which band had the pseudonym ‘The Dukes of Stratosphear’?
>
>
>Tie Breaker
>What is pi in decimal notation to as many significant figures as you know?
Peter Smyth
Erland Sommarskog
Oct 6, 2011, 5:34:20 PM10/6/11
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David Brown (askfo...@gmail.com) writes:
> 1. The Pompidou Centre in Paris is known locally as what due to its
> location?
Les Miserables
> 1. The Pompidou Centre in Paris is known locally as what due to its
> location?
> 10. Which famous novel is told through the eyes of a sixteen year girl who
Lolita
> 11. What are the three ingredients to gunpowder?
> 13. Which band had the pseudonym ?The Dukes of Stratosphear??
XTC
> Tie Breaker
> What is pi in decimal notation to as many significant figures as you know?
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se
Rob Parker
Oct 6, 2011, 5:54:47 PM10/6/11
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> 1. The Pompidou Centre in Paris is known locally as what due to its
> location?
>
> 2. What is an Oud?
A race in the Doctor Who series, with multiple mini-trunk noses
> location?
>
> 2. What is an Oud?
> 3. What is special about minus 40 degrees?
> 4. Which is the highest mountain in England?
> 5. What is Ras El Hanout?
> 6. What are the bones of fingers and toes called?
> 7. What is baccanalia?
orgiastic overindulgence
> 8. Who famously died on Mont Ventoux?
>
> 9. From where/what does Pashana Bedhi come from?
>
> 10. Which famous novel is told through the eyes of a sixteen year girl who
> thinks she’s a eunuch?
> 11. What are the three ingredients to gunpowder?
> 12. What disease is Sydenham’s chorea more commonly known?
>
> 13. Which band had the pseudonym ‘The Dukes of Stratosphear’?
>
>
> Tie Breaker
> What is pi in decimal notation to as many significant figures as you know?
Rob
Calvin
Oct 6, 2011, 7:10:43 PM10/6/11
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On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:09:10 +1000, David Brown <askfo...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Welcome to my first (and probably only) attempt at setting the rotating
> quiz.
> Each question is worth 1 point but please be as specific as possible.
> As this may well be quite a high scoring round I have added a tie
> breaker at the end.
> Answers will be given on Tuesday and the highest score gets to set the
> next round of questions.
>
> Good luck
> _________
>
> 1. The Pompidou Centre in Paris is known locally as what due to its
> location?
>
> 2. What is an Oud?
>
> 3. What is special about minus 40 degrees?
That is where the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales intersect
> 4. Which is the highest mountain in England?
>
> 5. What is Ras El Hanout?
>
> 6. What are the bones of fingers and toes called?
Metacarpals and Metatarsals
> 7. What is baccanalia?
>
> 8. Who famously died on Mont Ventoux?
>
> 9. From where/what does Pashana Bedhi come from?
>
> 10. Which famous novel is told through the eyes of a sixteen year girl
> who thinks she’s a eunuch?
Dunno.
It's almost always a good idea to give a year when asking questions about
novels, movies, etc.
> 11. What are the three ingredients to gunpowder?
Charcoal, nitrate and saltpeter
> 12. What disease is Sydenham’s chorea more commonly known?
Scarlett Fever?
> 13. Which band had the pseudonym ‘The Dukes of Stratosphear’?
>
>
> Tie Breaker
> What is pi in decimal notation to as many significant figures as you
> know?
3.141592654
Nice tie breaker :-)
--
cheers,
calvin
wrote:
> Welcome to my first (and probably only) attempt at setting the rotating
> quiz.
> Each question is worth 1 point but please be as specific as possible.
> As this may well be quite a high scoring round I have added a tie
> breaker at the end.
> Answers will be given on Tuesday and the highest score gets to set the
> next round of questions.
>
> Good luck
> _________
>
> 1. The Pompidou Centre in Paris is known locally as what due to its
> location?
>
> 2. What is an Oud?
>
> 3. What is special about minus 40 degrees?
> 4. Which is the highest mountain in England?
>
> 5. What is Ras El Hanout?
>
> 6. What are the bones of fingers and toes called?
> 7. What is baccanalia?
>
> 8. Who famously died on Mont Ventoux?
>
> 9. From where/what does Pashana Bedhi come from?
>
> 10. Which famous novel is told through the eyes of a sixteen year girl
> who thinks she’s a eunuch?
It's almost always a good idea to give a year when asking questions about
novels, movies, etc.
> 11. What are the three ingredients to gunpowder?
> 12. What disease is Sydenham’s chorea more commonly known?
> 13. Which band had the pseudonym ‘The Dukes of Stratosphear’?
>
>
> Tie Breaker
> What is pi in decimal notation to as many significant figures as you
> know?
Nice tie breaker :-)
--
cheers,
calvin
swp
Oct 6, 2011, 8:22:53 PM10/6/11
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On Thursday, October 6, 2011 7:09:10 AM UTC-4, David Brown wrote:
> 1. The Pompidou Centre in Paris is known locally as what due to its
> location?
beaubourg
> 1. The Pompidou Centre in Paris is known locally as what due to its
> location?
> 2. What is an Oud?
> 3. What is special about minus 40 degrees?
> 4. Which is the highest mountain in England?
> 5. What is Ras El Hanout?
> 6. What are the bones of fingers and toes called?
phalanges
> 7. What is baccanalia?
this gives new meaning to the phrase 'get the h out of here' -- its named after a roman god and refers to general drunken revelry
> 7. What is baccanalia?
> 8. Who famously died on Mont Ventoux?
> 9. From where/what does Pashana Bedhi come from?
> 10. Which famous novel is told through the eyes of a sixteen year girl who
> thinks she’s a eunuch?
> 11. What are the three ingredients to gunpowder?
> 12. What disease is Sydenham’s chorea more commonly known?
> 13. Which band had the pseudonym ‘The Dukes of Stratosphear’?
> Tie Breaker
> What is pi in decimal notation to as many significant figures as you know?
swp
Marc Dashevsky
Oct 6, 2011, 10:25:54 PM10/6/11
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In article <j6k28m$f59$1...@dont-email.me>, askfo...@gmail.com says...
> 3. What is special about minus 40 degrees?
-40C == -40F
> 4. Which is the highest mountain in England?
>
> 5. What is Ras El Hanout?
>
> 6. What are the bones of fingers and toes called?
> 8. Who famously died on Mont Ventoux?
>
> 9. From where/what does Pashana Bedhi come from?
>
> 10. Which famous novel is told through the eyes of a sixteen year girl who
> thinks she's a eunuch?
>
> 11. What are the three ingredients to gunpowder?
carbon, sulfur, potassium nitrate
> 12. What disease is Sydenham's chorea more commonly known?
>
> 13. Which band had the pseudonym "The Dukes of Stratosphear"?
>
> Tie Breaker
> What is pi in decimal notation to as many significant figures as you know?
3.14159
--
Go to http://MarcDashevsky.com to send me e-mail.
> 1. The Pompidou Centre in Paris is known locally as what due to its location?
>
> 2. What is an Oud?
A stringed instrument from the middle east.
>
> 2. What is an Oud?
> 3. What is special about minus 40 degrees?
> 4. Which is the highest mountain in England?
>
> 5. What is Ras El Hanout?
>
> 6. What are the bones of fingers and toes called?
phalanges
> 7. What is baccanalia?
festivals in honor of Bacchus
> 7. What is baccanalia?
> 8. Who famously died on Mont Ventoux?
>
> 9. From where/what does Pashana Bedhi come from?
>
> 10. Which famous novel is told through the eyes of a sixteen year girl who
> thinks she's a eunuch?
>
> 11. What are the three ingredients to gunpowder?
> 12. What disease is Sydenham's chorea more commonly known?
>
> 13. Which band had the pseudonym "The Dukes of Stratosphear"?
>
> Tie Breaker
> What is pi in decimal notation to as many significant figures as you know?
--
Go to http://MarcDashevsky.com to send me e-mail.
Jeffrey Turner
Oct 7, 2011, 11:10:11 AM10/7/11
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On 10/6/2011 7:09 AM, David Brown wrote:
>
> 1. The Pompidou Centre in Paris is known locally as what due to its
> location?
>
> 2. What is an Oud?
>
> 3. What is special about minus 40 degrees?
Celsius or Fahrenheit? Oh, right, doesn't matter.
>
> 1. The Pompidou Centre in Paris is known locally as what due to its
> location?
>
> 2. What is an Oud?
>
> 3. What is special about minus 40 degrees?
> 4. Which is the highest mountain in England?
> 5. What is Ras El Hanout?
>
> 6. What are the bones of fingers and toes called?
> 7. What is baccanalia?
a drunken party
> 8. Who famously died on Mont Ventoux?
>
> 9. From where/what does Pashana Bedhi come from?
>
> 10. Which famous novel is told through the eyes of a sixteen year girl
> who thinks she’s a eunuch?
>
> 11. What are the three ingredients to gunpowder?
>
> 12. What disease is Sydenham’s chorea more commonly known?
>
> 13. Which band had the pseudonym ‘The Dukes of Stratosphear’?
>
>
> Tie Breaker
> What is pi in decimal notation to as many significant figures as you know?
--Jeff
Mark Brader
Oct 7, 2011, 11:53:12 AM10/7/11
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David Brown:
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "If we gave people a choice, there would be chaos."
m...@vex.net | -- Dick McDonald
> > 11. What are the three ingredients to gunpowder?
Erland Sommarskog:
> Kalium nitrate, carbon and sulphur
FYI, "kalium" is the name for potassium in Swedish as well in Latin.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "If we gave people a choice, there would be chaos."
m...@vex.net | -- Dick McDonald
Erland Sommarskog
Oct 7, 2011, 4:43:46 PM10/7/11
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Mark Brader (m...@vex.net) writes:
> Erland Sommarskog:
>> Kalium nitrate, carbon and sulphur
>
> FYI, "kalium" is the name for potassium in Swedish as well in Latin.
Thanks Mark!
> Erland Sommarskog:
>> Kalium nitrate, carbon and sulphur
>
> FYI, "kalium" is the name for potassium in Swedish as well in Latin.
It's a little deceivable with those elements where the initial letter
agrees with the symbol in Swedish, but not in English.
You had this question in a quiz some time back, and I was surprised that
there were only 12 elements where the English name did not start with
the first letter in the symbol. Then I realised that there are a couple
where the Swedish name is different, and does not agree with the symbol
and the name is completely different from English: H (väte), O (syre), N
(kväve), Si (kisel), Hg (kvicksilver), Pb (bly). There are also a couple
where the deviation is mainly a spelling issue: Cl (klor), I (jod), Ca
(Kalcium), Cr (Krom), P (Fosfor), C (kol), Cu (koppar).
But then are also the cases where the Swedish name agrees with the
symbol and English has a different name: Na (Natrium), K (Kalium),
W (Wolfram). The latter is particularly ironic, as the English name
is a Swedish word.
Mark Brader
Oct 7, 2011, 5:13:26 PM10/7/11
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Erland Sommarskog:
Okay, I recognize the hydrogen and oxygen words as cognates to "water"
and "sour", and also to the first part of the German name for each
element. These correspond to the meanings in Greek of the first part of
our names.
"Bly" is cognate to German "blei" (while French "plomb" is cognate to
the Latin "plumbum" that gives us the symbol). And mercury is cognate to
English "quicksilver", a traditional alternative name for the stuff --
just as, if Wikipedia is correct, in Swedish "potassium" was once an
alternative name for potassium (now "kalium").
"Kisel" looks like a rearrangement of the first part of "silicon", but is
it, or is that just a coincidence? The English word comes ultimately from
the Latin "silex", meaning flint.
And then there's the word for nitrogen, about whose meaning which I have
no clue. The French word is "azote", meaning "no life" (i.e. it'll
suffocate you), while the German one starts with "stick", and I don't
know why.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "When you say 'non-trivial', can you
m...@vex.net quantify that for me?" --Kate Hamilton
> You had this question in a quiz some time back, and I was surprised that
> there were only 12 elements where the English name did not start with
> the first letter in the symbol. Then I realised that there are a couple
> where the Swedish name is different, and does not agree with the symbol
> and the name is completely different from English: H (väte), O (syre), N
> (kväve), Si (kisel), Hg (kvicksilver), Pb (bly)...
> there were only 12 elements where the English name did not start with
> the first letter in the symbol. Then I realised that there are a couple
> where the Swedish name is different, and does not agree with the symbol
> and the name is completely different from English: H (väte), O (syre), N
Okay, I recognize the hydrogen and oxygen words as cognates to "water"
and "sour", and also to the first part of the German name for each
element. These correspond to the meanings in Greek of the first part of
our names.
"Bly" is cognate to German "blei" (while French "plomb" is cognate to
the Latin "plumbum" that gives us the symbol). And mercury is cognate to
English "quicksilver", a traditional alternative name for the stuff --
just as, if Wikipedia is correct, in Swedish "potassium" was once an
alternative name for potassium (now "kalium").
"Kisel" looks like a rearrangement of the first part of "silicon", but is
it, or is that just a coincidence? The English word comes ultimately from
the Latin "silex", meaning flint.
And then there's the word for nitrogen, about whose meaning which I have
no clue. The French word is "azote", meaning "no life" (i.e. it'll
suffocate you), while the German one starts with "stick", and I don't
know why.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "When you say 'non-trivial', can you
m...@vex.net quantify that for me?" --Kate Hamilton
Erland Sommarskog
Oct 7, 2011, 5:51:37 PM10/7/11
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Mark Brader (m...@vex.net) writes:
> Okay, I recognize the hydrogen and oxygen words as cognates to "water"
> and "sour", and also to the first part of the German name for each
> element. These correspond to the meanings in Greek of the first part of
> our names.
Yes, "väte" is akin to "väta" - to make wet.
> Okay, I recognize the hydrogen and oxygen words as cognates to "water"
> and "sour", and also to the first part of the German name for each
> element. These correspond to the meanings in Greek of the first part of
> our names.
The really funny word for oxygen is the Danish "ilt" - I have no idea
where it comes from.
> "Kisel" looks like a rearrangement of the first part of "silicon", but is
> it, or is that just a coincidence? The English word comes ultimately from
> the Latin "silex", meaning flint.
simply the name of the mineral that is used. According to the entry
in dictionary of the Swedish Academy a cognate in Old English is "cisel".
(Maybe that was the spelling then, but I would expect a pronounciation
like "chisel".)
> And then there's the word for nitrogen, about whose meaning which I have
> no clue. The French word is "azote", meaning "no life" (i.e. it'll
> suffocate you), while the German one starts with "stick", and I don't
> know why.
Mark Brader
Oct 7, 2011, 6:26:25 PM10/7/11
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Mark Brader:
a word that is "now chiefly dialectical, or retained in place-names".
It means small pebbles and in early usage a siliceous stone or pebble.
It apparently passed out of general use in the 17th century. It's a
Germanic word, so it's not surprising it has a cognate in Swedish;
it's unrelated to our word "chisel", which, like "silicon", is
ultimately from Latin. So the quasi-resemblance to "silicon" is
indeed apparently a coincidence.
>> And then there's the word for nitrogen, about whose meaning which I have
>> no clue. The French word is "azote", meaning "no life" (i.e. it'll
>> suffocate you), while the German one starts with "stick", and I don't
>> know why.
>
> The verb "kväva" in Swedish indeed means "to suffocate (someone)".
That makes me think of English "quaff", which means drink, and "quash",
which means to annul, destroy, etc.; but the OED offers no etymology
for "quaff", and all the forms in the etymology of "quash" would have
an S or similar sound after the vowel. So, more coincidences, I guess.
--
Mark Brader | "... there is no such word as 'impossible' in
Toronto | my dictionary. In fact, everything between
m...@vex.net | 'herring' and 'marmalade' appears to be missing."
| -- Dirk Gently (Douglas Adams)
>> "Kisel" looks like a rearrangement of the first part of "silicon", but is
>> it, or is that just a coincidence? The English word comes ultimately from
>> the Latin "silex", meaning flint.
Erland Sommarskog:
>> it, or is that just a coincidence? The English word comes ultimately from
>> the Latin "silex", meaning flint.
> It seems that "kisel" is older than the discovery of the element. It's
> simply the name of the mineral that is used. According to the entry
> in dictionary of the Swedish Academy a cognate in Old English is "cisel".
> (Maybe that was the spelling then, but I would expect a pronounciation
> like "chisel".)
The OED (Oxford English Dictionary) Online has this as "chesil" or "chisel",
> simply the name of the mineral that is used. According to the entry
> in dictionary of the Swedish Academy a cognate in Old English is "cisel".
> (Maybe that was the spelling then, but I would expect a pronounciation
> like "chisel".)
a word that is "now chiefly dialectical, or retained in place-names".
It means small pebbles and in early usage a siliceous stone or pebble.
It apparently passed out of general use in the 17th century. It's a
Germanic word, so it's not surprising it has a cognate in Swedish;
it's unrelated to our word "chisel", which, like "silicon", is
ultimately from Latin. So the quasi-resemblance to "silicon" is
indeed apparently a coincidence.
>> And then there's the word for nitrogen, about whose meaning which I have
>> no clue. The French word is "azote", meaning "no life" (i.e. it'll
>> suffocate you), while the German one starts with "stick", and I don't
>> know why.
>
> The verb "kväva" in Swedish indeed means "to suffocate (someone)".
which means to annul, destroy, etc.; but the OED offers no etymology
for "quaff", and all the forms in the etymology of "quash" would have
an S or similar sound after the vowel. So, more coincidences, I guess.
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Pete
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"David Brown" <askfo...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:j6k28m$f59$1...@dont-email.me:
news:j6k28m$f59$1...@dont-email.me:
> Welcome to my first (and probably only) attempt at setting the
> rotating quiz.
> Each question is worth 1 point but please be as specific as possible.
> As this may well be quite a high scoring round I have added a tie
> breaker at the end.
> Answers will be given on Tuesday and the highest score gets to set the
> next round of questions.
>
> Good luck
> _________
>
> 1. The Pompidou Centre in Paris is known locally as what due to its
> location?
>
> 2. What is an Oud?
A stringed musical instrument
>
> 3. What is special about minus 40 degrees?
>
> 4. Which is the highest mountain in England?
>
> 5. What is Ras El Hanout?
>
> 6. What are the bones of fingers and toes called?
Phalanges
>
> 7. What is baccanalia?
>
> 8. Who famously died on Mont Ventoux?
Moriarty
>
> 9. From where/what does Pashana Bedhi come from?
>
> 10. Which famous novel is told through the eyes of a sixteen year girl
> who thinks she’s a eunuch?
>
> 11. What are the three ingredients to gunpowder?
>
> 12. What disease is Sydenham’s chorea more commonly known?
>
> 13. Which band had the pseudonym ‘The Dukes of Stratosphear’?
>
>
> Tie Breaker
> What is pi in decimal notation to as many significant figures as you
> know?
3.141592652
>
> --
> David :)
>
> Only 1 in 10 people understand the binary system - the other half
> don't.
>
>
Pete
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