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Calvin

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Feb 13, 2019, 12:50:52 AM2/13/19
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1 Which English county team has won the county cricket championships most often?
2 What is the more common term for the medical condition hypotension?
3 Adele in 2015 and Lionel Ritchie in 1984 had hits with unrelated songs that shared which one-word title?
4 What name is given to art of trimming shrubs and trees into clearly defined shapes?
5 What British city is nicknamed 'Auld Reekie'?
6 Ruud Gullit represented which country in football (soccer)?
7 On 28 September 2018, a shallow earthquake struck Minahassa Peninsula, part of which Indonesian island?
8 Which politician co-authored the 2004 book ‘Judo:  History, Theory, Practice’?
9 Which American rapper recorded the 2013 album “Magna Carta Holy Grail”?
10 What was the name of Yuri Gagarin's space capsule in which he orbited the Earth in 1961?


cheers,
calvin

Erland Sommarskog

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Feb 13, 2019, 4:24:08 AM2/13/19
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Calvin (334...@gmail.com) writes:
> 1 Which English county team has won the county cricket championships
> most often?

Kent

> 6 Ruud Gullit represented which country in football (soccer)?

Netherlands

> 7 On 28 September 2018, a shallow earthquake struck Minahassa
> Peninsula, part of which Indonesian island?

Sulawesi

> 10 What was the name of Yuri Gagarin's space capsule in which he
> orbited the Earth in 1961?

Vostok


Dan Blum

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Feb 13, 2019, 10:00:23 AM2/13/19
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Calvin <334...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 1 Which English county team has won the county cricket championships most often?

Lancashire

> 2 What is the more common term for the medical condition hypotension?

low blood pressure

> 4 What name is given to art of trimming shrubs and trees into clearly defined shapes?

topiary

> 5 What British city is nicknamed 'Auld Reekie'?

Birmingham

> 6 Ruud Gullit represented which country in football (soccer)?

Netherlands

> 7 On 28 September 2018, a shallow earthquake struck Minahassa Peninsula, part of which Indonesian island?

Sulawesi

> 10 What was the name of Yuri Gagarin's space capsule in which he orbited the Earth in 1961?


Vostok

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Pete Gayde

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Feb 13, 2019, 12:45:25 PM2/13/19
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Calvin <334...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:472d3df5-d530-4022...@googlegroups.com:

>
> 1 Which English county team has won the county cricket
> championships most often?

Berkshire

> 2 What is the more common term for the
> medical condition hypotension?
> 3 Adele in 2015 and Lionel Ritchie
> in 1984 had hits with unrelated songs that shared which one-word
> title?
> 4 What name is given to art of trimming shrubs and trees
> into clearly defined shapes?

Topiary

> 5 What British city is nicknamed 'Auld Reekie'?

Birmingham

> 6 Ruud Gullit represented which country in football
> (soccer)?

Netherlands

> 7 On 28 September 2018, a shallow earthquake struck
> Minahassa Peninsula, part of which Indonesian island?

Java

> 8 Which
> politician co-authored the 2004 book ‘Judo:  History, Theory,
> Practice’?

Abe

> 9 Which American rapper recorded the 2013 album
> “Magna Carta Holy Grail”?

Kanye West

> 10 What was the name of Yuri
> Gagarin's space capsule in which he orbited the Earth in 1961?
>
>
> cheers,
> calvin
>

Pete Gayde

Mark Brader

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Feb 13, 2019, 3:48:51 PM2/13/19
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Calvin:
> 1 Which English county team has won the county cricket
> championships most often?

Devon. (Well, it's a county.)

> 2 What is the more common term for the medical condition hypotension?

Low blood pressure.

> 3 Adele in 2015 and Lionel Ritchie in 1984 had hits with unrelated
> songs that shared which one-word title?

"Hello"?

> 4 What name is given to art of trimming shrubs and trees into
> clearly defined shapes?

Topiary.

> 5 What British city is nicknamed 'Auld Reekie'?

Edinburgh.

> 6 Ruud Gullit represented which country in football (soccer)?

Sweden?

> 7 On 28 September 2018, a shallow earthquake struck Minahassa
> Peninsula, part of which Indonesian island?

Java?

> 8 Which politician co-authored the 2004 book 'Judo: History,
> Theory, Practice'?
> 9 Which American rapper recorded the 2013 album "Magna Carta
> Holy Grail"?
> 10 What was the name of Yuri Gagarin's space capsule in which he
> orbited the Earth in 1961?

Vostok I.
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Calvin

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Feb 19, 2019, 11:50:13 PM2/19/19
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On Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 3:50:52 PM UTC+10, Calvin wrote:

> 1 Which English county team has won the county cricket championships most often?

Yorkshire

> 2 What is the more common term for the medical condition hypotension?

Low blood pressure

> 3 Adele in 2015 and Lionel Ritchie in 1984 had hits with unrelated songs that shared which one-word title?

Hello
Singleton for Mark

> 4 What name is given to art of trimming shrubs and trees into clearly defined shapes?

Topiary

> 5 What British city is nicknamed 'Auld Reekie'?

Edinburgh
Singleton for Mark

> 6 Ruud Gullit represented which country in football (soccer)?

Netherlands

> 7 On 28 September 2018, a shallow earthquake struck Minahassa Peninsula, part of which Indonesian island?

Sulawesi [aka Celebes]

> 8 Which politician co-authored the 2004 book ‘Judo:  History, Theory, Practice’?

Vladimir Putin
No-one got this

> 9 Which American rapper recorded the 2013 album “Magna Carta Holy Grail”?

Jay Z / Shawn Carter
Or this

> 10 What was the name of Yuri Gagarin's space capsule in which he orbited the Earth in 1961?

Vostok [1]


Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 555
0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 5 10 Mark Brader
0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 5 13 Dan Blum
0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 3 8 Erland S
0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 6 Pete Gayde
- - - - - - - - - - --- ----------
0 2 1 3 1 3 2 0 0 3 15 38%


Well that was a brutal set which no doubt explains the low participation rate. Congratulations Mark.

I've run out of questions so you will have to wait until my next real life event takes place in late March. I will then recycle them here.

cheers,
calvin

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