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Mark Brader
Nov 4, 2019, 12:48:44 AM11/4/19
to
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-09-23,
and should be interpreted accordingly.
On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
the correct answers in about 3 days.
All questions were written by members of the Red Smarties and are
used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have
been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information see
my 2019-10-16 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
* Game 2, Round 7 - Science - Science Puns
1. Q: Did you hear oxygen went on a date with potassium?
A: Yeah, it went OK.
Explain the pun.
2. There are two Marvel Comics characters who, if they decided to,
could make great "alloys". Name *both*.
3. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the *what*?.
Hint: The correct word describes a solid that sometimes forms
from a chemical reaction in a liquid solution. It falls out
of solution, and collects in the bottom of the vial.
4. A photon checks into a hotel and is asked if he needs any help
with his luggage. He says, "No, I'm traveling light." This joke
actually embodies two different physics puns. One is that a
photon is literally light that is traveling. Explain the other.
5. Organic chemistry is difficult. Those who study it have *blank*
of trouble. Fill in the blank. Hint: The correct answer
describes a type of organic compound with one carbon-carbon
triple bond.
6. Q: How did the English major define *blank* on his biology exam?
A: An itsy-bitsy book.
Fill in the blank. Hint: The answer he should have given is
that it's an instrument used to cut tissue into thin slices.
7. Considering what Gregor Mendel experimented on, what must he
have exclaimed when he founded genetics?
8. Q: What did the prudish biologist say?
A: The only *blank* I want to see is at the cellular level.
Fill in the blank. Hint: It refers as the indentation created
in a cell's surface when it is about to divide.
9. A *blank* walks into a bar and asks the bartender how much
a drink costs. The answer is "For you, no charge".
What subatomic particle fills in the blank?
10. Two chemists go into a bar. The first one says "I think I'll
have an H2O." The second one says "I think I'll have an H2O too"
-- and he died. Or perhaps dyed. Explain the pun.
* Game 2, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - The Oxford English Dictionary
1. Work began on the OED in 1857, and publication first began
in 1884 in unbound sections as work continued. The full first
edition of the dictionary was published in 1928 in 10 volumes.
Which edition of the OED is the most current completed edition?
2. W.C. Minor, an American army surgeon in the civil war, was one
of the largest contributors of quotations to the OED. His work
was detailed in a popular book, "The Surgeon of Crowthorne".
He did all of it while imprisoned as criminally insane.
What crime had he been charged with?
The Oxford Dictionaries group actually produces many other
dictionaries besides the OED. Also, each year they announce a
"word of the year", or sometimes separate words of the year for
the UK and the US. The remaining questions are about these words:
in each case name them. If they are only US or UK words of the
year, we will mention it explicitly.
3. The 2012 US word of the year is defined as "a standard format
for encoding images as compressed color bitmap graphics files
which enables them to be displayed, stored, and transmitted
between networks." The images are often animated.
4. The 2004 word was British slang, derogatory. It means "a young
person of a type characterized by brash and loutish behaviour
and the wearing of designer-style clothes (esp. sportswear);
usually with connotations of a low social status."
5. In 2005 the UK word was the name of a type of logic puzzle you
might find in a newspaper.
6. Despite its definition being "the series of radical political
and cultural upheavals occurring among students and young people
in the 1960s", this was chosen as word of the year in 2017.
7. This verb was the US word in 2009. You might use it when you
delete someone from your Facebook list.
8. The word for 2015 wasn't really a word at all.
9. The US word for 2010 also wasn't a word at all -- at least,
not until Sarah Palin made it up. In her defense she claimed,
"Shakespeare liked to coin new words too." The "New Oxford
American Dictionary" defines it as "suggesting a general sense of
'reject'".
10. The UK word for 2007 was a two-word phrase, defined as
"a measure of the carbon emissions of a particular individual,
organization, or community".
--
Mark Brader | "This is a moral that runs at large;
Toronto | Take it. -- You're welcome. -- No extra charge."
m...@vex.net | -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
My text in this article is in the public domain.
and should be interpreted accordingly.
On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
the correct answers in about 3 days.
All questions were written by members of the Red Smarties and are
used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have
been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information see
my 2019-10-16 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
* Game 2, Round 7 - Science - Science Puns
1. Q: Did you hear oxygen went on a date with potassium?
A: Yeah, it went OK.
Explain the pun.
2. There are two Marvel Comics characters who, if they decided to,
could make great "alloys". Name *both*.
3. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the *what*?.
Hint: The correct word describes a solid that sometimes forms
from a chemical reaction in a liquid solution. It falls out
of solution, and collects in the bottom of the vial.
4. A photon checks into a hotel and is asked if he needs any help
with his luggage. He says, "No, I'm traveling light." This joke
actually embodies two different physics puns. One is that a
photon is literally light that is traveling. Explain the other.
5. Organic chemistry is difficult. Those who study it have *blank*
of trouble. Fill in the blank. Hint: The correct answer
describes a type of organic compound with one carbon-carbon
triple bond.
6. Q: How did the English major define *blank* on his biology exam?
A: An itsy-bitsy book.
Fill in the blank. Hint: The answer he should have given is
that it's an instrument used to cut tissue into thin slices.
7. Considering what Gregor Mendel experimented on, what must he
have exclaimed when he founded genetics?
8. Q: What did the prudish biologist say?
A: The only *blank* I want to see is at the cellular level.
Fill in the blank. Hint: It refers as the indentation created
in a cell's surface when it is about to divide.
9. A *blank* walks into a bar and asks the bartender how much
a drink costs. The answer is "For you, no charge".
What subatomic particle fills in the blank?
10. Two chemists go into a bar. The first one says "I think I'll
have an H2O." The second one says "I think I'll have an H2O too"
-- and he died. Or perhaps dyed. Explain the pun.
* Game 2, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - The Oxford English Dictionary
1. Work began on the OED in 1857, and publication first began
in 1884 in unbound sections as work continued. The full first
edition of the dictionary was published in 1928 in 10 volumes.
Which edition of the OED is the most current completed edition?
2. W.C. Minor, an American army surgeon in the civil war, was one
of the largest contributors of quotations to the OED. His work
was detailed in a popular book, "The Surgeon of Crowthorne".
He did all of it while imprisoned as criminally insane.
What crime had he been charged with?
The Oxford Dictionaries group actually produces many other
dictionaries besides the OED. Also, each year they announce a
"word of the year", or sometimes separate words of the year for
the UK and the US. The remaining questions are about these words:
in each case name them. If they are only US or UK words of the
year, we will mention it explicitly.
3. The 2012 US word of the year is defined as "a standard format
for encoding images as compressed color bitmap graphics files
which enables them to be displayed, stored, and transmitted
between networks." The images are often animated.
4. The 2004 word was British slang, derogatory. It means "a young
person of a type characterized by brash and loutish behaviour
and the wearing of designer-style clothes (esp. sportswear);
usually with connotations of a low social status."
5. In 2005 the UK word was the name of a type of logic puzzle you
might find in a newspaper.
6. Despite its definition being "the series of radical political
and cultural upheavals occurring among students and young people
in the 1960s", this was chosen as word of the year in 2017.
7. This verb was the US word in 2009. You might use it when you
delete someone from your Facebook list.
8. The word for 2015 wasn't really a word at all.
9. The US word for 2010 also wasn't a word at all -- at least,
not until Sarah Palin made it up. In her defense she claimed,
"Shakespeare liked to coin new words too." The "New Oxford
American Dictionary" defines it as "suggesting a general sense of
'reject'".
10. The UK word for 2007 was a two-word phrase, defined as
"a measure of the carbon emissions of a particular individual,
organization, or community".
--
Mark Brader | "This is a moral that runs at large;
Toronto | Take it. -- You're welcome. -- No extra charge."
m...@vex.net | -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Erland Sommarskog
Nov 4, 2019, 12:59:40 AM11/4/19
to
Mark Brader (m...@vex.net) writes:
> * Game 2, Round 7 - Science - Science Puns
>
> 1. Q: Did you hear oxygen went on a date with potassium?
> A: Yeah, it went OK.
> Explain the pun.
O = Oxygen, K = Potaissum
> * Game 2, Round 7 - Science - Science Puns
>
> 1. Q: Did you hear oxygen went on a date with potassium?
> A: Yeah, it went OK.
> Explain the pun.
> 7. Considering what Gregor Mendel experimented on, what must he
> have exclaimed when he founded genetics?
> 9. A *blank* walks into a bar and asks the bartender how much
> a drink costs. The answer is "For you, no charge".
> What subatomic particle fills in the blank?
> 10. Two chemists go into a bar. The first one says "I think I'll
> have an H2O." The second one says "I think I'll have an H2O too"
> -- and he died. Or perhaps dyed. Explain the pun.
you blonder.
>
> * Game 2, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - The Oxford English Dictionary
> 3. The 2012 US word of the year is defined as "a standard format
> for encoding images as compressed color bitmap graphics files
> which enables them to be displayed, stored, and transmitted
> between networks." The images are often animated.
GIF
> for encoding images as compressed color bitmap graphics files
> which enables them to be displayed, stored, and transmitted
> between networks." The images are often animated.
> 4. The 2004 word was British slang, derogatory. It means "a young
> person of a type characterized by brash and loutish behaviour
> and the wearing of designer-style clothes (esp. sportswear);
> usually with connotations of a low social status."
> 5. In 2005 the UK word was the name of a type of logic puzzle you
> might find in a newspaper.
> 8. The word for 2015 wasn't really a word at all.
Dan Tilque
Nov 4, 2019, 4:59:22 AM11/4/19
to
On 11/3/19 9:48 PM, Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> * Game 2, Round 7 - Science - Science Puns
>
> 1. Q: Did you hear oxygen went on a date with potassium?
> A: Yeah, it went OK.
> Explain the pun.
element symbols: O = oxygen, K = potassium
>
>
> * Game 2, Round 7 - Science - Science Puns
>
> 1. Q: Did you hear oxygen went on a date with potassium?
> A: Yeah, it went OK.
> Explain the pun.
>
> 2. There are two Marvel Comics characters who, if they decided to,
> could make great "alloys". Name *both*.
>
> 3. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the *what*?.
> Hint: The correct word describes a solid that sometimes forms
> from a chemical reaction in a liquid solution. It falls out
> of solution, and collects in the bottom of the vial.
>
> 4. A photon checks into a hotel and is asked if he needs any help
> with his luggage. He says, "No, I'm traveling light." This joke
> actually embodies two different physics puns. One is that a
> photon is literally light that is traveling. Explain the other.
>
> 5. Organic chemistry is difficult. Those who study it have *blank*
> of trouble. Fill in the blank. Hint: The correct answer
> describes a type of organic compound with one carbon-carbon
> triple bond.
>
> 6. Q: How did the English major define *blank* on his biology exam?
> A: An itsy-bitsy book.
> Fill in the blank. Hint: The answer he should have given is
> that it's an instrument used to cut tissue into thin slices.
>
> 7. Considering what Gregor Mendel experimented on, what must he
> have exclaimed when he founded genetics?
>
> 8. Q: What did the prudish biologist say?
> A: The only *blank* I want to see is at the cellular level.
> Fill in the blank. Hint: It refers as the indentation created
> in a cell's surface when it is about to divide.
>
> 9. A *blank* walks into a bar and asks the bartender how much
> a drink costs. The answer is "For you, no charge".
> What subatomic particle fills in the blank?
>
> 10. Two chemists go into a bar. The first one says "I think I'll
> have an H2O." The second one says "I think I'll have an H2O too"
> -- and he died. Or perhaps dyed. Explain the pun.
>
>
> * Game 2, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - The Oxford English Dictionary
>
> 1. Work began on the OED in 1857, and publication first began
> in 1884 in unbound sections as work continued. The full first
> edition of the dictionary was published in 1928 in 10 volumes.
> Which edition of the OED is the most current completed edition?
>
> 2. W.C. Minor, an American army surgeon in the civil war, was one
> of the largest contributors of quotations to the OED. His work
> was detailed in a popular book, "The Surgeon of Crowthorne".
> He did all of it while imprisoned as criminally insane.
> What crime had he been charged with?
>
> The Oxford Dictionaries group actually produces many other
> dictionaries besides the OED. Also, each year they announce a
> "word of the year", or sometimes separate words of the year for
> the UK and the US. The remaining questions are about these words:
> in each case name them. If they are only US or UK words of the
> year, we will mention it explicitly.
>
> 3. The 2012 US word of the year is defined as "a standard format
> for encoding images as compressed color bitmap graphics files
> which enables them to be displayed, stored, and transmitted
> between networks." The images are often animated.
>
> 4. The 2004 word was British slang, derogatory. It means "a young
> person of a type characterized by brash and loutish behaviour
> and the wearing of designer-style clothes (esp. sportswear);
> usually with connotations of a low social status."
>
> 5. In 2005 the UK word was the name of a type of logic puzzle you
> might find in a newspaper.
>
> 6. Despite its definition being "the series of radical political
> and cultural upheavals occurring among students and young people
> in the 1960s", this was chosen as word of the year in 2017.
>
> 7. This verb was the US word in 2009. You might use it when you
> delete someone from your Facebook list.
>
> 8. The word for 2015 wasn't really a word at all.
>
> 9. The US word for 2010 also wasn't a word at all -- at least,
> not until Sarah Palin made it up. In her defense she claimed,
> "Shakespeare liked to coin new words too." The "New Oxford
> American Dictionary" defines it as "suggesting a general sense of
> 'reject'".
>
> 10. The UK word for 2007 was a two-word phrase, defined as
> "a measure of the carbon emissions of a particular individual,
> organization, or community".
--
Dan Tilque
Dan Blum
Nov 4, 2019, 9:48:30 AM11/4/19
to
Mark Brader <m...@vex.net> wrote:
> * Game 2, Round 7 - Science - Science Puns
> 1. Q: Did you hear oxygen went on a date with potassium?
> A: Yeah, it went OK.
> Explain the pun.
O and K are oxygen and potassium's respective atomic symbols.
> * Game 2, Round 7 - Science - Science Puns
> 1. Q: Did you hear oxygen went on a date with potassium?
> A: Yeah, it went OK.
> Explain the pun.
> 2. There are two Marvel Comics characters who, if they decided to,
> could make great "alloys". Name *both*.
Iron Man and Silver Surfer
> 3. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the *what*?.
> Hint: The correct word describes a solid that sometimes forms
> from a chemical reaction in a liquid solution. It falls out
> of solution, and collects in the bottom of the vial.
precipitate
> Hint: The correct word describes a solid that sometimes forms
> from a chemical reaction in a liquid solution. It falls out
> of solution, and collects in the bottom of the vial.
> 4. A photon checks into a hotel and is asked if he needs any help
> with his luggage. He says, "No, I'm traveling light." This joke
> actually embodies two different physics puns. One is that a
> photon is literally light that is traveling. Explain the other.
> 9. A *blank* walks into a bar and asks the bartender how much
> a drink costs. The answer is "For you, no charge".
> What subatomic particle fills in the blank?
> 10. Two chemists go into a bar. The first one says "I think I'll
> have an H2O." The second one says "I think I'll have an H2O too"
> -- and he died. Or perhaps dyed. Explain the pun.
> * Game 2, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - The Oxford English Dictionary
> 1. Work began on the OED in 1857, and publication first began
> in 1884 in unbound sections as work continued. The full first
> edition of the dictionary was published in 1928 in 10 volumes.
> Which edition of the OED is the most current completed edition?
> 2. W.C. Minor, an American army surgeon in the civil war, was one
> of the largest contributors of quotations to the OED. His work
> was detailed in a popular book, "The Surgeon of Crowthorne".
> He did all of it while imprisoned as criminally insane.
> What crime had he been charged with?
> 3. The 2012 US word of the year is defined as "a standard format
> for encoding images as compressed color bitmap graphics files
> which enables them to be displayed, stored, and transmitted
> between networks." The images are often animated.
> 4. The 2004 word was British slang, derogatory. It means "a young
> person of a type characterized by brash and loutish behaviour
> and the wearing of designer-style clothes (esp. sportswear);
> usually with connotations of a low social status."
> 5. In 2005 the UK word was the name of a type of logic puzzle you
> might find in a newspaper.
> 7. This verb was the US word in 2009. You might use it when you
> delete someone from your Facebook list.
> 10. The UK word for 2007 was a two-word phrase, defined as
> "a measure of the carbon emissions of a particular individual,
> organization, or community".
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Bruce Bowler
Nov 4, 2019, 3:06:47 PM11/4/19
to
On Sun, 03 Nov 2019 23:48:39 -0600, Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-09-23, and
> should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give both a
> right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty. Please post
> all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
> based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote the
> questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal the
> correct answers in about 3 days.
>
> All questions were written by members of the Red Smarties and are used
> here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have been retyped
> and/or edited by me. For further information see my 2019-10-16
> companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 2, Round 7 - Science - Science Puns
>
> 1. Q: Did you hear oxygen went on a date with potassium?
> A: Yeah, it went OK.
> Explain the pun.
O is Oxygen, K is potassium on the periodic table
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-09-23, and
> should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give both a
> right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty. Please post
> all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
> based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote the
> questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal the
> correct answers in about 3 days.
>
> All questions were written by members of the Red Smarties and are used
> here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have been retyped
> and/or edited by me. For further information see my 2019-10-16
> companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 2, Round 7 - Science - Science Puns
>
> 1. Q: Did you hear oxygen went on a date with potassium?
> A: Yeah, it went OK.
> Explain the pun.
> 2. There are two Marvel Comics characters who, if they decided to,
> could make great "alloys". Name *both*.
>
> 3. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the *what*?.
> Hint: The correct word describes a solid that sometimes forms from a
> chemical reaction in a liquid solution. It falls out of solution,
> and collects in the bottom of the vial.
> 4. A photon checks into a hotel and is asked if he needs any help
> with his luggage. He says, "No, I'm traveling light." This joke
> actually embodies two different physics puns. One is that a photon
> is literally light that is traveling. Explain the other.
>
> 5. Organic chemistry is difficult. Those who study it have *blank*
> of trouble. Fill in the blank. Hint: The correct answer describes a
> type of organic compound with one carbon-carbon triple bond.
> 6. Q: How did the English major define *blank* on his biology exam?
> A: An itsy-bitsy book.
> Fill in the blank. Hint: The answer he should have given is that
> it's an instrument used to cut tissue into thin slices.
> 7. Considering what Gregor Mendel experimented on, what must he
> have exclaimed when he founded genetics?
>
> 8. Q: What did the prudish biologist say?
> A: The only *blank* I want to see is at the cellular level.
> Fill in the blank. Hint: It refers as the indentation created in a
> cell's surface when it is about to divide.
> 9. A *blank* walks into a bar and asks the bartender how much
> a drink costs. The answer is "For you, no charge".
> What subatomic particle fills in the blank?
> 10. Two chemists go into a bar. The first one says "I think I'll
> have an H2O." The second one says "I think I'll have an H2O too"
> -- and he died. Or perhaps dyed. Explain the pun.
>
> * Game 2, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - The Oxford English Dictionary
>
> 1. Work began on the OED in 1857, and publication first began
> in 1884 in unbound sections as work continued. The full first
> edition of the dictionary was published in 1928 in 10 volumes. Which
> edition of the OED is the most current completed edition?
> 2. W.C. Minor, an American army surgeon in the civil war, was one
> of the largest contributors of quotations to the OED. His work was
> detailed in a popular book, "The Surgeon of Crowthorne".
> He did all of it while imprisoned as criminally insane.
> What crime had he been charged with?
>
> The Oxford Dictionaries group actually produces many other dictionaries
> besides the OED. Also, each year they announce a "word of the year", or
> sometimes separate words of the year for the UK and the US. The
> remaining questions are about these words: in each case name them. If
> they are only US or UK words of the year, we will mention it explicitly.
>
> 3. The 2012 US word of the year is defined as "a standard format
> for encoding images as compressed color bitmap graphics files which
> enables them to be displayed, stored, and transmitted between
> networks." The images are often animated.
> 4. The 2004 word was British slang, derogatory. It means "a young
> person of a type characterized by brash and loutish behaviour and the
> wearing of designer-style clothes (esp. sportswear); usually with
> connotations of a low social status."
>
> 5. In 2005 the UK word was the name of a type of logic puzzle you
> might find in a newspaper.
>
> 6. Despite its definition being "the series of radical political
> and cultural upheavals occurring among students and young people in
> the 1960s", this was chosen as word of the year in 2017.
> 7. This verb was the US word in 2009. You might use it when you
> delete someone from your Facebook list.
> 8. The word for 2015 wasn't really a word at all.
> 9. The US word for 2010 also wasn't a word at all -- at least,
> not until Sarah Palin made it up. In her defense she claimed,
> "Shakespeare liked to coin new words too." The "New Oxford American
> Dictionary" defines it as "suggesting a general sense of 'reject'".
> 10. The UK word for 2007 was a two-word phrase, defined as
> "a measure of the carbon emissions of a particular individual,
> organization, or community".
Pete Gayde
Nov 4, 2019, 9:05:44 PM11/4/19
to
m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:sZ6dnbcxd8IqJiLAnZ2dnUU7-
YnN...@giganews.com:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-09-23,
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
> both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
> Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
> based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
> the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
> the correct answers in about 3 days.
>
> All questions were written by members of the Red Smarties and are
> used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have
> been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information see
> my 2019-10-16 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 2, Round 7 - Science - Science Puns
>
> 1. Q: Did you hear oxygen went on a date with potassium?
> A: Yeah, it went OK.
> Explain the pun.
O and K are the chemical symbols for oxygen and potassium, respectively.
>
> 2. There are two Marvel Comics characters who, if they decided to,
> could make great "alloys". Name *both*.
>
> 3. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the *what*?.
> Hint: The correct word describes a solid that sometimes forms
> from a chemical reaction in a liquid solution. It falls out
> of solution, and collects in the bottom of the vial.
Precipitate
>
> 4. A photon checks into a hotel and is asked if he needs any help
> with his luggage. He says, "No, I'm traveling light." This joke
> actually embodies two different physics puns. One is that a
> photon is literally light that is traveling. Explain the other.
A photon has no mass
>
> 5. Organic chemistry is difficult. Those who study it have *blank*
> of trouble. Fill in the blank. Hint: The correct answer
> describes a type of organic compound with one carbon-carbon
> triple bond.
>
> 6. Q: How did the English major define *blank* on his biology exam?
> A: An itsy-bitsy book.
> Fill in the blank. Hint: The answer he should have given is
> that it's an instrument used to cut tissue into thin slices.
>
> 7. Considering what Gregor Mendel experimented on, what must he
> have exclaimed when he founded genetics?
>
> 8. Q: What did the prudish biologist say?
> A: The only *blank* I want to see is at the cellular level.
> Fill in the blank. Hint: It refers as the indentation created
> in a cell's surface when it is about to divide.
>
> 9. A *blank* walks into a bar and asks the bartender how much
> a drink costs. The answer is "For you, no charge".
> What subatomic particle fills in the blank?
>
> 10. Two chemists go into a bar. The first one says "I think I'll
> have an H2O." The second one says "I think I'll have an H2O too"
> -- and he died. Or perhaps dyed. Explain the pun.
H2O2 is hydrogen peroxide. It is poisonous and is used in dying hair
>
>
> * Game 2, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - The Oxford English Dictionary
>
> 1. Work began on the OED in 1857, and publication first began
> in 1884 in unbound sections as work continued. The full first
> edition of the dictionary was published in 1928 in 10 volumes.
> Which edition of the OED is the most current completed edition?
15; 16
>
> 2. W.C. Minor, an American army surgeon in the civil war, was one
> of the largest contributors of quotations to the OED. His work
> was detailed in a popular book, "The Surgeon of Crowthorne".
> He did all of it while imprisoned as criminally insane.
> What crime had he been charged with?
>
> The Oxford Dictionaries group actually produces many other
> dictionaries besides the OED. Also, each year they announce a
> "word of the year", or sometimes separate words of the year for
> the UK and the US. The remaining questions are about these words:
> in each case name them. If they are only US or UK words of the
> year, we will mention it explicitly.
>
> 3. The 2012 US word of the year is defined as "a standard format
> for encoding images as compressed color bitmap graphics files
> which enables them to be displayed, stored, and transmitted
> between networks." The images are often animated.
GIF
>
> 4. The 2004 word was British slang, derogatory. It means "a young
> person of a type characterized by brash and loutish behaviour
> and the wearing of designer-style clothes (esp. sportswear);
> usually with connotations of a low social status."
>
> 5. In 2005 the UK word was the name of a type of logic puzzle you
> might find in a newspaper.
Sudoku
>
> 6. Despite its definition being "the series of radical political
> and cultural upheavals occurring among students and young people
> in the 1960s", this was chosen as word of the year in 2017.
>
> 7. This verb was the US word in 2009. You might use it when you
> delete someone from your Facebook list.
Unfriend
>
> 8. The word for 2015 wasn't really a word at all.
>
> 9. The US word for 2010 also wasn't a word at all -- at least,
> not until Sarah Palin made it up. In her defense she claimed,
> "Shakespeare liked to coin new words too." The "New Oxford
> American Dictionary" defines it as "suggesting a general sense of
> 'reject'".
>
> 10. The UK word for 2007 was a two-word phrase, defined as
> "a measure of the carbon emissions of a particular individual,
> organization, or community".
>
Pete Gayde
YnN...@giganews.com:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-09-23,
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
> both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
> Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
> based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
> the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
> the correct answers in about 3 days.
>
> All questions were written by members of the Red Smarties and are
> used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have
> been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information see
> my 2019-10-16 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 2, Round 7 - Science - Science Puns
>
> 1. Q: Did you hear oxygen went on a date with potassium?
> A: Yeah, it went OK.
> Explain the pun.
>
> 2. There are two Marvel Comics characters who, if they decided to,
> could make great "alloys". Name *both*.
>
> 3. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the *what*?.
> Hint: The correct word describes a solid that sometimes forms
> from a chemical reaction in a liquid solution. It falls out
> of solution, and collects in the bottom of the vial.
>
> 4. A photon checks into a hotel and is asked if he needs any help
> with his luggage. He says, "No, I'm traveling light." This joke
> actually embodies two different physics puns. One is that a
> photon is literally light that is traveling. Explain the other.
>
> 5. Organic chemistry is difficult. Those who study it have *blank*
> of trouble. Fill in the blank. Hint: The correct answer
> describes a type of organic compound with one carbon-carbon
> triple bond.
>
> 6. Q: How did the English major define *blank* on his biology exam?
> A: An itsy-bitsy book.
> Fill in the blank. Hint: The answer he should have given is
> that it's an instrument used to cut tissue into thin slices.
>
> 7. Considering what Gregor Mendel experimented on, what must he
> have exclaimed when he founded genetics?
>
> 8. Q: What did the prudish biologist say?
> A: The only *blank* I want to see is at the cellular level.
> Fill in the blank. Hint: It refers as the indentation created
> in a cell's surface when it is about to divide.
>
> 9. A *blank* walks into a bar and asks the bartender how much
> a drink costs. The answer is "For you, no charge".
> What subatomic particle fills in the blank?
>
> 10. Two chemists go into a bar. The first one says "I think I'll
> have an H2O." The second one says "I think I'll have an H2O too"
> -- and he died. Or perhaps dyed. Explain the pun.
>
>
> * Game 2, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - The Oxford English Dictionary
>
> 1. Work began on the OED in 1857, and publication first began
> in 1884 in unbound sections as work continued. The full first
> edition of the dictionary was published in 1928 in 10 volumes.
> Which edition of the OED is the most current completed edition?
>
> 2. W.C. Minor, an American army surgeon in the civil war, was one
> of the largest contributors of quotations to the OED. His work
> was detailed in a popular book, "The Surgeon of Crowthorne".
> He did all of it while imprisoned as criminally insane.
> What crime had he been charged with?
>
> The Oxford Dictionaries group actually produces many other
> dictionaries besides the OED. Also, each year they announce a
> "word of the year", or sometimes separate words of the year for
> the UK and the US. The remaining questions are about these words:
> in each case name them. If they are only US or UK words of the
> year, we will mention it explicitly.
>
> 3. The 2012 US word of the year is defined as "a standard format
> for encoding images as compressed color bitmap graphics files
> which enables them to be displayed, stored, and transmitted
> between networks." The images are often animated.
>
> 4. The 2004 word was British slang, derogatory. It means "a young
> person of a type characterized by brash and loutish behaviour
> and the wearing of designer-style clothes (esp. sportswear);
> usually with connotations of a low social status."
>
> 5. In 2005 the UK word was the name of a type of logic puzzle you
> might find in a newspaper.
>
> 6. Despite its definition being "the series of radical political
> and cultural upheavals occurring among students and young people
> in the 1960s", this was chosen as word of the year in 2017.
>
> 7. This verb was the US word in 2009. You might use it when you
> delete someone from your Facebook list.
>
> 8. The word for 2015 wasn't really a word at all.
>
> 9. The US word for 2010 also wasn't a word at all -- at least,
> not until Sarah Palin made it up. In her defense she claimed,
> "Shakespeare liked to coin new words too." The "New Oxford
> American Dictionary" defines it as "suggesting a general sense of
> 'reject'".
>
> 10. The UK word for 2007 was a two-word phrase, defined as
> "a measure of the carbon emissions of a particular individual,
> organization, or community".
>
Calvin
Nov 5, 2019, 8:07:59 PM11/5/19
to
On Monday, November 4, 2019 at 3:48:44 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
> * Game 2, Round 7 - Science - Science Puns
>
> 1. Q: Did you hear oxygen went on a date with potassium?
> A: Yeah, it went OK.
> Explain the pun.
The chemical symbol for Oxygen is O, and for Potassium K.
> * Game 2, Round 7 - Science - Science Puns
>
> 1. Q: Did you hear oxygen went on a date with potassium?
> A: Yeah, it went OK.
> Explain the pun.
> 2. There are two Marvel Comics characters who, if they decided to,
> could make great "alloys". Name *both*.
>
> 3. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the *what*?.
> Hint: The correct word describes a solid that sometimes forms
> from a chemical reaction in a liquid solution. It falls out
> of solution, and collects in the bottom of the vial.
>
> 4. A photon checks into a hotel and is asked if he needs any help
> with his luggage. He says, "No, I'm traveling light." This joke
> actually embodies two different physics puns. One is that a
> photon is literally light that is traveling. Explain the other.
> 5. Organic chemistry is difficult. Those who study it have *blank*
> of trouble. Fill in the blank. Hint: The correct answer
> describes a type of organic compound with one carbon-carbon
> triple bond.
>
> 6. Q: How did the English major define *blank* on his biology exam?
> A: An itsy-bitsy book.
> Fill in the blank. Hint: The answer he should have given is
> that it's an instrument used to cut tissue into thin slices.
>
> 7. Considering what Gregor Mendel experimented on, what must he
> have exclaimed when he founded genetics?
>
> 8. Q: What did the prudish biologist say?
> A: The only *blank* I want to see is at the cellular level.
> Fill in the blank. Hint: It refers as the indentation created
> in a cell's surface when it is about to divide.
> 9. A *blank* walks into a bar and asks the bartender how much
> a drink costs. The answer is "For you, no charge".
> What subatomic particle fills in the blank?
> 10. Two chemists go into a bar. The first one says "I think I'll
> have an H2O." The second one says "I think I'll have an H2O too"
> -- and he died. Or perhaps dyed. Explain the pun.
> * Game 2, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - The Oxford English Dictionary
>
> 1. Work began on the OED in 1857, and publication first began
> in 1884 in unbound sections as work continued. The full first
> edition of the dictionary was published in 1928 in 10 volumes.
> Which edition of the OED is the most current completed edition?
> 2. W.C. Minor, an American army surgeon in the civil war, was one
> of the largest contributors of quotations to the OED. His work
> was detailed in a popular book, "The Surgeon of Crowthorne".
> He did all of it while imprisoned as criminally insane.
> What crime had he been charged with?
>
> The Oxford Dictionaries group actually produces many other
> dictionaries besides the OED. Also, each year they announce a
> "word of the year", or sometimes separate words of the year for
> the UK and the US. The remaining questions are about these words:
> in each case name them. If they are only US or UK words of the
> year, we will mention it explicitly.
>
> 3. The 2012 US word of the year is defined as "a standard format
> for encoding images as compressed color bitmap graphics files
> which enables them to be displayed, stored, and transmitted
> between networks." The images are often animated.
> 4. The 2004 word was British slang, derogatory. It means "a young
> person of a type characterized by brash and loutish behaviour
> and the wearing of designer-style clothes (esp. sportswear);
> usually with connotations of a low social status."
> 5. In 2005 the UK word was the name of a type of logic puzzle you
> might find in a newspaper.
> 6. Despite its definition being "the series of radical political
> and cultural upheavals occurring among students and young people
> in the 1960s", this was chosen as word of the year in 2017.
> 7. This verb was the US word in 2009. You might use it when you
> delete someone from your Facebook list.
> 8. The word for 2015 wasn't really a word at all.
> 9. The US word for 2010 also wasn't a word at all -- at least,
> not until Sarah Palin made it up. In her defense she claimed,
> "Shakespeare liked to coin new words too." The "New Oxford
> American Dictionary" defines it as "suggesting a general sense of
> 'reject'".
>
> 10. The UK word for 2007 was a two-word phrase, defined as
> "a measure of the carbon emissions of a particular individual,
> organization, or community".
cheers,
calvin
Mark Brader
Nov 6, 2019, 10:21:24 PM11/6/19
to
Mark Brader:
its original form. I have edited it quite a bit, in some cases to
clarify the questions, in others for convenience in written form.
> 1. Q: Did you hear oxygen went on a date with potassium?
> A: Yeah, it went OK.
> Explain the pun.
O is the symbol for oxygen, K for potassium. 4 for everyone --
Erland, Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Bruce, Pete, and Calvin.
> 2. There are two Marvel Comics characters who, if they decided to,
> could make great "alloys". Name *both*.
Iron Man, Silver Surfer. Titanium Man was also accepted on protest in
the original game, and I suspect there are others. 4 for Dan Tilque
and Dan Blum.
> 3. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the *what*?.
> Hint: The correct word describes a solid that sometimes forms
> from a chemical reaction in a liquid solution. It falls out
> of solution, and collects in the bottom of the vial.
Precipitate. 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Bruce, and Pete.
> 4. A photon checks into a hotel and is asked if he needs any help
> with his luggage. He says, "No, I'm traveling light." This joke
> actually embodies two different physics puns. One is that a
> photon is literally light that is traveling. Explain the other.
Photons have zero (rest) mass, so they're also "light" in weight.
4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, and Pete.
> 5. Organic chemistry is difficult. Those who study it have *blank*
> of trouble. Fill in the blank. Hint: The correct answer
> describes a type of organic compound with one carbon-carbon
> triple bond.
Alkynes. (Pun on "all kinds".) 4 for Bruce.
> 6. Q: How did the English major define *blank* on his biology exam?
> A: An itsy-bitsy book.
> Fill in the blank. Hint: The answer he should have given is
> that it's an instrument used to cut tissue into thin slices.
Microtome. 4 for Dan Tilque and Bruce.
> 7. Considering what Gregor Mendel experimented on, what must he
> have exclaimed when he founded genetics?
Whoop-pea! I decided "pea" was the important part and scored
"peas, brother" and "peas on Earth" as almost correct, 3 for Erland
and Dan Tilque.
> 8. Q: What did the prudish biologist say?
> A: The only *blank* I want to see is at the cellular level.
> Fill in the blank. Hint: It refers as the indentation created
> in a cell's surface when it is about to divide.
Cleavage. 4 for Dan Tilque, Bruce, and Calvin.
> 9. A *blank* walks into a bar and asks the bartender how much
> a drink costs. The answer is "For you, no charge".
> What subatomic particle fills in the blank?
Neutron (or neutrino, etc.). 4 for Erland, Dan Tilque, Dan Blum,
Bruce, and Calvin.
> 10. Two chemists go into a bar. The first one says "I think I'll
> have an H2O." The second one says "I think I'll have an H2O too"
> -- and he died. Or perhaps dyed. Explain the pun.
H2O2 is hydrogen peroxide, which is toxic and is used to whiten hair.
4 for everyone.
Somewhat along the lines of this round, on 2019-10-14 "Jeopardy!"
had a Final Jeopardy! question based on "chemical-symbol wordplay".
"FITTINGLY", they asked, "THE SYMBOLS FOR THE 4 ELEMENTS IN SODIUM
CITRATE, WHICH CAN MAKE CHEESE MELT EASIER, SPELL THIS 5-LETTER FOOD".
Two out of three players correctly named the food: (rot13) ANPUB.
> * Game 2, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - The Oxford English Dictionary
> 1. Work began on the OED in 1857, and publication first began
> in 1884 in unbound sections as work continued. The full first
> edition of the dictionary was published in 1928 in 10 volumes.
> Which edition of the OED is the most current completed edition?
Second. (Published in 1989.) 4 for Calvin.
> 2. W.C. Minor, an American army surgeon in the civil war, was one
> of the largest contributors of quotations to the OED. His work
> was detailed in a popular book, "The Surgeon of Crowthorne".
> He did all of it while imprisoned as criminally insane.
> What crime had he been charged with?
Murder. 4 for Dan Blum.
The book, by Simon Winchester, is known in North America as
"The Professor and the Madman".
> The Oxford Dictionaries group actually produces many other
> dictionaries besides the OED. Also, each year they announce a
> "word of the year", or sometimes separate words of the year for
> the UK and the US. The remaining questions are about these words:
> in each case name them. If they are only US or UK words of the
> year, we will mention it explicitly.
> 3. The 2012 US word of the year is defined as "a standard format
> for encoding images as compressed color bitmap graphics files
> which enables them to be displayed, stored, and transmitted
> between networks." The images are often animated.
GIF. 4 for everyone.
> 4. The 2004 word was British slang, derogatory. It means "a young
> person of a type characterized by brash and loutish behaviour
> and the wearing of designer-style clothes (esp. sportswear);
> usually with connotations of a low social status."
Chav. 4 for Dan Blum and Calvin.
> 5. In 2005 the UK word was the name of a type of logic puzzle you
> might find in a newspaper.
Sudoku. 4 for Erland, Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Pete, and Calvin.
> 6. Despite its definition being "the series of radical political
> and cultural upheavals occurring among students and young people
> in the 1960s", this was chosen as word of the year in 2017.
Youthquake.
> 7. This verb was the US word in 2009. You might use it when you
> delete someone from your Facebook list.
Unfriend. 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Bruce, Pete, and Calvin.
> 8. The word for 2015 wasn't really a word at all.
It was the emoji seen here: http://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/72x72/1f602.png
(representing tears of joy -- chosen because it was the most commonly
used emoji at that time). I'm accepting any reference to emoji or
emoticons as almost correct. 3 for Erland and Bruce.
> 9. The US word for 2010 also wasn't a word at all -- at least,
> not until Sarah Palin made it up. In her defense she claimed,
> "Shakespeare liked to coin new words too." The "New Oxford
> American Dictionary" defines it as "suggesting a general sense of
> 'reject'".
Refudiate. 4 for Bruce.
> 10. The UK word for 2007 was a two-word phrase, defined as
> "a measure of the carbon emissions of a particular individual,
> organization, or community".
Carbon footprint. 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Bruce, and Calvin.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 2 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
TOPICS-> His Can Ent Lit Sci Mis FOUR
Dan Tilque 36 24 0 32 35 16 127
Dan Blum 39 0 23 36 24 24 123
Bruce Bowler 24 4 -- -- 28 19 75
"Calvin" 19 0 14 12 16 24 73
Pete Gayde 28 0 -- -- 16 12 56
Erland Sommarskog 24 4 0 4 15 11 54
Joshua Kreitzer 40 0 -- -- -- -- 40
--
Mark Brader | Either the universe works in a predictable, analyzable
Toronto | way or it works spasmodically, with miracles, action at
m...@vex.net | a distance and wishful thinking as the three fundamental
| forces. People tend to take one view or the other.
| -- Frank D. Kirschner
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-09-23,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2019-10-16 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> * Game 2, Round 7 - Science - Science Puns
This round was a nice idea, I thought, but not too well written in
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> * Game 2, Round 7 - Science - Science Puns
its original form. I have edited it quite a bit, in some cases to
clarify the questions, in others for convenience in written form.
> 1. Q: Did you hear oxygen went on a date with potassium?
> A: Yeah, it went OK.
> Explain the pun.
Erland, Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Bruce, Pete, and Calvin.
> 2. There are two Marvel Comics characters who, if they decided to,
> could make great "alloys". Name *both*.
the original game, and I suspect there are others. 4 for Dan Tilque
and Dan Blum.
> 3. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the *what*?.
> Hint: The correct word describes a solid that sometimes forms
> from a chemical reaction in a liquid solution. It falls out
> of solution, and collects in the bottom of the vial.
> 4. A photon checks into a hotel and is asked if he needs any help
> with his luggage. He says, "No, I'm traveling light." This joke
> actually embodies two different physics puns. One is that a
> photon is literally light that is traveling. Explain the other.
4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, and Pete.
> 5. Organic chemistry is difficult. Those who study it have *blank*
> of trouble. Fill in the blank. Hint: The correct answer
> describes a type of organic compound with one carbon-carbon
> triple bond.
> 6. Q: How did the English major define *blank* on his biology exam?
> A: An itsy-bitsy book.
> Fill in the blank. Hint: The answer he should have given is
> that it's an instrument used to cut tissue into thin slices.
> 7. Considering what Gregor Mendel experimented on, what must he
> have exclaimed when he founded genetics?
"peas, brother" and "peas on Earth" as almost correct, 3 for Erland
and Dan Tilque.
> 8. Q: What did the prudish biologist say?
> A: The only *blank* I want to see is at the cellular level.
> Fill in the blank. Hint: It refers as the indentation created
> in a cell's surface when it is about to divide.
> 9. A *blank* walks into a bar and asks the bartender how much
> a drink costs. The answer is "For you, no charge".
> What subatomic particle fills in the blank?
Bruce, and Calvin.
> 10. Two chemists go into a bar. The first one says "I think I'll
> have an H2O." The second one says "I think I'll have an H2O too"
> -- and he died. Or perhaps dyed. Explain the pun.
4 for everyone.
Somewhat along the lines of this round, on 2019-10-14 "Jeopardy!"
had a Final Jeopardy! question based on "chemical-symbol wordplay".
"FITTINGLY", they asked, "THE SYMBOLS FOR THE 4 ELEMENTS IN SODIUM
CITRATE, WHICH CAN MAKE CHEESE MELT EASIER, SPELL THIS 5-LETTER FOOD".
Two out of three players correctly named the food: (rot13) ANPUB.
> * Game 2, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - The Oxford English Dictionary
> 1. Work began on the OED in 1857, and publication first began
> in 1884 in unbound sections as work continued. The full first
> edition of the dictionary was published in 1928 in 10 volumes.
> Which edition of the OED is the most current completed edition?
> 2. W.C. Minor, an American army surgeon in the civil war, was one
> of the largest contributors of quotations to the OED. His work
> was detailed in a popular book, "The Surgeon of Crowthorne".
> He did all of it while imprisoned as criminally insane.
> What crime had he been charged with?
The book, by Simon Winchester, is known in North America as
"The Professor and the Madman".
> The Oxford Dictionaries group actually produces many other
> dictionaries besides the OED. Also, each year they announce a
> "word of the year", or sometimes separate words of the year for
> the UK and the US. The remaining questions are about these words:
> in each case name them. If they are only US or UK words of the
> year, we will mention it explicitly.
> 3. The 2012 US word of the year is defined as "a standard format
> for encoding images as compressed color bitmap graphics files
> which enables them to be displayed, stored, and transmitted
> between networks." The images are often animated.
> 4. The 2004 word was British slang, derogatory. It means "a young
> person of a type characterized by brash and loutish behaviour
> and the wearing of designer-style clothes (esp. sportswear);
> usually with connotations of a low social status."
> 5. In 2005 the UK word was the name of a type of logic puzzle you
> might find in a newspaper.
> 6. Despite its definition being "the series of radical political
> and cultural upheavals occurring among students and young people
> in the 1960s", this was chosen as word of the year in 2017.
> 7. This verb was the US word in 2009. You might use it when you
> delete someone from your Facebook list.
> 8. The word for 2015 wasn't really a word at all.
(representing tears of joy -- chosen because it was the most commonly
used emoji at that time). I'm accepting any reference to emoji or
emoticons as almost correct. 3 for Erland and Bruce.
> 9. The US word for 2010 also wasn't a word at all -- at least,
> not until Sarah Palin made it up. In her defense she claimed,
> "Shakespeare liked to coin new words too." The "New Oxford
> American Dictionary" defines it as "suggesting a general sense of
> 'reject'".
> 10. The UK word for 2007 was a two-word phrase, defined as
> "a measure of the carbon emissions of a particular individual,
> organization, or community".
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 2 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
TOPICS-> His Can Ent Lit Sci Mis FOUR
Dan Tilque 36 24 0 32 35 16 127
Dan Blum 39 0 23 36 24 24 123
Bruce Bowler 24 4 -- -- 28 19 75
"Calvin" 19 0 14 12 16 24 73
Pete Gayde 28 0 -- -- 16 12 56
Erland Sommarskog 24 4 0 4 15 11 54
Joshua Kreitzer 40 0 -- -- -- -- 40
--
Mark Brader | Either the universe works in a predictable, analyzable
Toronto | way or it works spasmodically, with miracles, action at
m...@vex.net | a distance and wishful thinking as the three fundamental
| forces. People tend to take one view or the other.
| -- Frank D. Kirschner
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