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Dan Tilque
Jul 13, 2016, 3:29:13 AM7/13/16
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Welcome to Rare Entries Contest DJT03.
As usual, reply only by email to dti...@frontier.com
Answer by Tuesday, July 19, 2016. This is only a week, which is much
shorter than usual for these contests. However, in the past contests, I
get a surge of replies early on and then a long period with no replies.
So I'm shortening it to skip that long period.
The reply email should only have a set of answers numbered 0 to 9. Do
not include any of the text from this post in your reply. (Note: it's
much easier to score the contest without intruding text, so please leave
it off.) Make sure the subject line of your reply contains the string
"DJT03".
The object is to find correct answers to the 10 items which have the
fewest other people giving the same answer. Wrong answers will be
penalized. Feel free to use any reference materials you wish to research
your answers.
Scoring: For each item, the score will be set to how many people gave a
particular answer. If someone gives an answer no one else gives, they
score 1; if one other person gives that answer, both score 2; etc. Total
score will be the ten individual scores multiplied together. Low score wins.
Wrong answers will get a score that's 3 plus the highest score for a
valid answer for that item.
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0. Name a spacecraft that has visited Jupiter, either flyby or orbit.
1. Name a country that is a member of NATO but is not in the EU.
2. Name a country that is in the EU but is not a member of NATO.
3. Name a country whose flag has more than 5 stars on it.
4. Name a chemical element that was named after a Solar System body.
5. Name a US state whose future territory the Lewis and Clark Expedition
travelled in between 14 May 1804 and 23 Sept 1806.
6. Name a professional sports league that currently has at least one
team in the US and at least one in Canada.
7. Name an international sports federation whose usual acronym is 4
letters beginning with FI--. The federation must be the highest level
organization for its sport. The sport must be athletic in nature, so
board games, card games, etc. are right out.
8. Give a two-part compound term which has an idiomatic meaning
different from the literal meaning of the words. The first part of the
term must be a color and the second must be an article of clothing,
headgear, or footwear. For example, if the question had asked for a fish
instead of clothing, then "red herring" would be a valid answer.
9. Give the name of a body of water whose English name is of the form
"Sea of Xxxx", where Xxxx can be a name of any length.
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Some may be thinking I'm repeating #9 from an earlier Rare Entries
contest. However, it's not exactly the same. The previous one asked for
a "cartographic feature" while this one wants a "body of water". So
there's a different set of valid answers.
OK, remember you only have a week to answer. I'll post a reminder a day
before the contest ends.
Have Fun!
--
Dan Tilque
As usual, reply only by email to dti...@frontier.com
Answer by Tuesday, July 19, 2016. This is only a week, which is much
shorter than usual for these contests. However, in the past contests, I
get a surge of replies early on and then a long period with no replies.
So I'm shortening it to skip that long period.
The reply email should only have a set of answers numbered 0 to 9. Do
not include any of the text from this post in your reply. (Note: it's
much easier to score the contest without intruding text, so please leave
it off.) Make sure the subject line of your reply contains the string
"DJT03".
The object is to find correct answers to the 10 items which have the
fewest other people giving the same answer. Wrong answers will be
penalized. Feel free to use any reference materials you wish to research
your answers.
Scoring: For each item, the score will be set to how many people gave a
particular answer. If someone gives an answer no one else gives, they
score 1; if one other person gives that answer, both score 2; etc. Total
score will be the ten individual scores multiplied together. Low score wins.
Wrong answers will get a score that's 3 plus the highest score for a
valid answer for that item.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0. Name a spacecraft that has visited Jupiter, either flyby or orbit.
1. Name a country that is a member of NATO but is not in the EU.
2. Name a country that is in the EU but is not a member of NATO.
3. Name a country whose flag has more than 5 stars on it.
4. Name a chemical element that was named after a Solar System body.
5. Name a US state whose future territory the Lewis and Clark Expedition
travelled in between 14 May 1804 and 23 Sept 1806.
6. Name a professional sports league that currently has at least one
team in the US and at least one in Canada.
7. Name an international sports federation whose usual acronym is 4
letters beginning with FI--. The federation must be the highest level
organization for its sport. The sport must be athletic in nature, so
board games, card games, etc. are right out.
8. Give a two-part compound term which has an idiomatic meaning
different from the literal meaning of the words. The first part of the
term must be a color and the second must be an article of clothing,
headgear, or footwear. For example, if the question had asked for a fish
instead of clothing, then "red herring" would be a valid answer.
9. Give the name of a body of water whose English name is of the form
"Sea of Xxxx", where Xxxx can be a name of any length.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Some may be thinking I'm repeating #9 from an earlier Rare Entries
contest. However, it's not exactly the same. The previous one asked for
a "cartographic feature" while this one wants a "body of water". So
there's a different set of valid answers.
OK, remember you only have a week to answer. I'll post a reminder a day
before the contest ends.
Have Fun!
--
Dan Tilque
Dan Tilque
Jul 17, 2016, 6:16:38 PM7/17/16
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This is a reminder for this contest. You have about 2 days to get your
entry in.
entry in.
Dan Tilque
Jul 18, 2016, 8:11:43 PM7/18/16
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This is the final reminder for this contest. You have one day left.
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