Calvin's Quiz #156
Calvin
1 In which north African country was fashion designer Yves St Laurent born?
2 What name is given to a district under the supervision of a bishop?
3 A Scouser hails from which English city?
4 What is the official language of Bulgaria?
5 Avalon was a hit 1982 album for which British band?
6 Who played Felix Ungar in Billy Wilder's 1968 film version of 'The Odd
Couple'?
7 What does the meteorological acronym SOI stand for?
8 What is The Big Australian?
9 Maximus Decimus Meridius was the main character of which 2000 film?
10 The Mock Turtle appears in which children's book?
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cheers,
calvin
Marc Dashevsky
> 1 In which north African country was fashion designer Yves St Laurent born?
> 2 What name is given to a district under the supervision of a bishop?
bishopric
> 3 A Scouser hails from which English city?
All I know is the Monkees did a song titled "Randy Scouse Git."
> 4 What is the official language of Bulgaria?
Bulgarian
(On a par with, "From what common animal do we get pigskin?")
> 5 Avalon was a hit 1982 album for which British band?
> 6 Who played Felix Ungar in Billy Wilder's 1968 film version of 'The Odd Couple'?
Walter Matthau
> 7 What does the meteorological acronym SOI stand for?
Sleet Or Ice; Silly Old Isobar
> 8 What is The Big Australian?
Should this be discussed in mixed company?
> 9 Maximus Decimus Meridius was the main character of which 2000 film?
Gladiator
> 10 The Mock Turtle appears in which children's book?
Alice In Wonderland
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Mark Brader
> 1 In which north African country was fashion designer Yves St Laurent born?
Algeria.
> 2 What name is given to a district under the supervision of a bishop?
See!
> 3 A Scouser hails from which English city?
Liverpool.
> 4 What is the official language of Bulgaria?
Bulgarian, I hpoe.
> 5 Avalon was a hit 1982 album for which British band?
> 6 Who played Felix Ungar in Billy Wilder's 1968 film version of 'The Odd
> Couple'?
(Unger.) Jack Lemmon.
> 7 What does the meteorological acronym SOI stand for?
Never heard of it, and I do know something about meteorology.
Um, snow or ice?
> 8 What is The Big Australian?
A roller coaster?
> 9 Maximus Decimus Meridius was the main character of which 2000 film?
Gladiator.
> 10 The Mock Turtle appears in which children's book?
"Alice in Wonderland". By which I mean a combined edition (as is
commonly seen nowadays) containing "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
and "Through the Looking Glass" in one volume, so I don't have to
guess or remember which story he was actually in.
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John Masters
> 1 In which north African country was fashion designer Yves St Laurent born?
Algeria
> 2 What name is given to a district under the supervision of a bishop?
See
> 3 A Scouser hails from which English city?
Liverpool
> 4 What is the official language of Bulgaria?
Bulgari
> 5 Avalon was a hit 1982 album for which British band?
Roxy Music
> 6 Who played Felix Ungar in Billy Wilder's 1968 film version of 'The
> Odd Couple'?
Jack Lemmon
> 7 What does the meteorological acronym SOI stand for?
> 8 What is The Big Australian?
A wave?
> 9 Maximus Decimus Meridius was the main character of which 2000 film?
Gladiator
> 10 The Mock Turtle appears in which children's book?
Alice in Wonderland
Dan Tilque
>
>
> 1 In which north African country was fashion designer Yves St Laurent
> born?
Algeria
> 2 What name is given to a district under the supervision of a bishop?
bishopric
> 3 A Scouser hails from which English city?
Liverpool
> 4 What is the official language of Bulgaria?
Bulgarian
> 5 Avalon was a hit 1982 album for which British band?
> 6 Who played Felix Ungar in Billy Wilder's 1968 film version of 'The
> Odd Couple'?
> 7 What does the meteorological acronym SOI stand for?
> 8 What is The Big Australian?
> 9 Maximus Decimus Meridius was the main character of which 2000 film?
Gladiator
> 10 The Mock Turtle appears in which children's book?
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
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Dan Tilque
Keeping Pluto dead has taken a lot of work.
-- Mike Brown "How I killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming"
Peter Smyth
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>
>1 In which north African country was fashion designer Yves St Laurent born?
>2 What name is given to a district under the supervision of a bishop?
>3 A Scouser hails from which English city?
>4 What is the official language of Bulgaria?
>5 Avalon was a hit 1982 album for which British band?
>6 Who played Felix Ungar in Billy Wilder's 1968 film version of 'The Odd
>Couple'?
>7 What does the meteorological acronym SOI stand for?
>8 What is The Big Australian?
>9 Maximus Decimus Meridius was the main character of which 2000 film?
>10 The Mock Turtle appears in which children's book?
Peter Smyth
Erland Sommarskog
> 1 In which north African country was fashion designer Yves St
> Laurent born?
Morrocco
> 3 A Scouser hails from which English city?
Stoke-on-Trent
> 4 What is the official language of Bulgaria?
As far as they have an official language, I would expcet it to be Bulgarian
> 5 Avalon was a hit 1982 album for which British band?
Roxy Music
> 8 What is The Big Australian?
Calvin (and obviously not Klein this time!)
> 10 The Mock Turtle appears in which children's book?
Alice in Wonderland
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Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se
David
> born?
Tunisia?
> 2 What name is given to a district under the supervision of a bishop?
A diocese
> 3 A Scouser hails from which English city?
Liverpool
> 4 What is the official language of Bulgaria?
Bulgarian
> 5 Avalon was a hit 1982 album for which British band?
Roxy Music
> 7 What does the meteorological acronym SOI stand for?
Southern Oscillation index
> 8 What is The Big Australian?
The Great Barrier Reef?
> 9 Maximus Decimus Meridius was the main character of which 2000 film?
Gladiator
> 10 The Mock Turtle appears in which children's book?
Alice in Wonderland
Joachim Parsch
Calvin schrieb:
>
> 1 In which north African country was fashion designer Yves St Laurent born?
Algeria.
> 2 What name is given to a district under the supervision of a bishop?
Diocese.
> 3 A Scouser hails from which English city?
Liverpool.
> 4 What is the official language of Bulgaria?
Bulgarian.
> 5 Avalon was a hit 1982 album for which British band?
Roxy Music.
> 6 Who played Felix Ungar in Billy Wilder's 1968 film version of 'The Odd
> Couple'?
Jack Lemmon.
> 7 What does the meteorological acronym SOI stand for?
> 8 What is The Big Australian?
Ayers Rock? (no idea, really)
> 9 Maximus Decimus Meridius was the main character of which 2000 film?
Gladiator.
> 10 The Mock Turtle appears in which children's book?
The Wind in the Willows?
Joachim
Rob Parker
> born?
Morocco (?)
> 2 What name is given to a district under the supervision of a bishop?
See
> 3 A Scouser hails from which English city?
Liverpool
> 4 What is the official language of Bulgaria?
Bulgarian
> 5 Avalon was a hit 1982 album for which British band?
Roxy Music
> 6 Who played Felix Ungar in Billy Wilder's 1968 film version of 'The Odd
> Couple'?
Jack Lemmon
> 7 What does the meteorological acronym SOI stand for?
Southern Oscillation Index
> 8 What is The Big Australian?
BHP
> 9 Maximus Decimus Meridius was the main character of which 2000 film?
Gladiator
> 10 The Mock Turtle appears in which children's book?
Alice In Wonderland
Rob
Jeffrey Turner
>
>
> 1 In which north African country was fashion designer Yves St Laurent born?
> 2 What name is given to a district under the supervision of a bishop?
> 3 A Scouser hails from which English city?
> 4 What is the official language of Bulgaria?
> 5 Avalon was a hit 1982 album for which British band?
> 6 Who played Felix Ungar in Billy Wilder's 1968 film version of 'The Odd
> Couple'?
> 7 What does the meteorological acronym SOI stand for?
> 8 What is The Big Australian?
> 9 Maximus Decimus Meridius was the main character of which 2000 film?
> 10 The Mock Turtle appears in which children's book?
--Jeff
Pete
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>
>
> 1 In which north African country was fashion designer Yves St
> Laurent born?
Algeria
> 2 What name is given to a district under the
> supervision of a bishop?
Diocese
> 3 A Scouser hails from which English city?
Liverpool
> 4 What is the official language of Bulgaria?
> 5 Avalon was a hit 1982 album for which British band?
> 6 Who played Felix Ungar in Billy Wilder's 1968 film version of
> 'The Odd Couple'?
Jack Lemmon
> 7 What does the meteorological acronym SOI stand for?
> 8 What is The Big Australian?
> 9 Maximus Decimus Meridius was the main character of which 2000
> film?
Gladiator
> 10 The Mock Turtle appears in which children's book?
Alice in Wonderland
>
Pete
Calvin
> 1 In which north African country was fashion designer Yves St Laurent
> born?
Algeria
7/11
> 2 What name is given to a district under the supervision of a bishop?
Diocese
3/11
Bishopric and See and sometimes incorrectly used
> 3 A Scouser hails from which English city?
Liverpool
8/11
> 4 What is the official language of Bulgaria?
Bulgarian
10/11
A couple of teams at the local club suspected a trick question so their
answers included Latin and Russian.
> 5 Avalon was a hit 1982 album for which British band?
Roxy Music
6/11
> 6 Who played Felix Unger in Billy Wilder's 1968 film version of 'The Odd
> Couple'?
Jack Lemmon
4/11
> 7 What does the meteorological acronym SOI stand for?
Southern Oscillation Index
2/11
Well done David, and Rob I suppose :-)
> 8 What is The Big Australian?
BHP [Billiton], the world's largest mining company by some measures
1/11
> 9 Maximus Decimus Meridius was the main character of which 2000 film?
Gladiator
9/11
> 10 The Mock Turtle appears in which children's book?
Alice ['s Adventures] in Wonderland
10/11
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL Quiz 156
- - - - - - - - - - --- ----------
1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 Dan Tilque
0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 7 David
0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 Erland S
1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 Jeffrey Turner
1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 7 Joachim Parsch
1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 7 John Masters
1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 Marc Dashevsky
1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 6 Mark Brader
1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 Pete Gayde
0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 6 Peter Smyth
0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 Rob Parker
- - - - - - - - - - --- ----------
7 3 8 10 6 4 2 1 9 10 60 TOTAL
55%
Rob capitalises on the Aussie bias to take a tough one.
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cheers,
calvin
Mark Brader
> > 2 What name is given to a district under the supervision of a bishop?
>
> Diocese
> 3/11
> Bishopric and See and sometimes incorrectly used
See is correct. See: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/see[2]
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Dan Tilque
> "Calvin":
>>> 2 What name is given to a district under the supervision of a bishop?
>> Diocese
>> 3/11
>> Bishopric and See and sometimes incorrectly used
>
> See is correct. See: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/see[2]
So is "bishopric", since the first definition (and hence the oldest[1])
is "diocese".
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bishopric
[1] M-W orders their definitions chronologically. Not all dictionaries
do this.
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Dan Tilque
Rob Parker
"Calvin" <cal...@phlegm.com> wrote in message
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> Diocese
> 3/11
> Bishopric and See and sometimes incorrectly used
According to several on-line dictionaries, and my hard-copy Macquarie (our
Oz dictionary, for non-Ozers), all three terms are synonymous.
Rob
Jeffrey Turner
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/bishopric?view=uk
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/bishopric
The Concise OED and American Heritage dictionaries both agree.
--Jeff
Calvin
>> 2 What name is given to a district under the supervision of a bishop?
>
> Diocese
> 3/11
> Bishopric and See and sometimes incorrectly used
I'm not convinced they are precisely the same thing but there's no point
in splitting hairs.
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL Quiz 156
- - - - - - - - - - --- ----------
1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 6 Dan Tilque
0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 7 David
0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 4 Erland S
1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 Jeffrey Turner
1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 7 Joachim Parsch
1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 8 John Masters
1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 Marc Dashevsky
1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 7 Mark Brader
1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 Pete Gayde
0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 6 Peter Smyth
0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 Rob Parker
- - - - - - - - - - --- ----------
7 11 8 10 6 4 2 1 9 10 68 TOTAL
62%
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cheers,
calvin
Stan Brown
Fowler distinguishes them in MEU2. The territory is the diocese, the
office is the bishopric, and the chair (literal or metaphorical) is
the see.
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http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...
Mark Brader
> I'm not convinced they are precisely the same thing but there's no point
> in splitting hairs.
Thankew!
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