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Calvin
Sep 14, 2016, 6:23:17 PM9/14/16
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1 Who directed the Oscar-wining 1987 film "Full Metal Jacket"?
2 Which author wrote "The Picture of Dorian Grey" in 1891?
3 Which one-hit wonder released the 1982 single "Come On, Eileen"?
4 Who was the producer of the TV series "Starsky & Hutch" and "Beverly Hills 91210"?
5 Which British author and women's rights campaigner (180-1958) was the first female academic appointed to the University of Manchester and founded the first birth control clinic in Britain in 1920?
6 Nadsat was a slang language in which dystopian 1962 novel, later made into a film starring Malcolm McDowell?
7 The two official languages of Finland are Finnish and which other language?
8 The centre of the country's high-tech industries, which city is nicknamed "India's Silicon Valley"?
9 Who became president of Indonesia in October 2014?
10 Invented independently by German Ewald Georg von Kleist and Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek in the mid-18th century, which device was the first capacitor, "storing" static electricity between electrodes inside and outside a glass jar?
cheers,
calvin
Mark Brader
Sep 14, 2016, 10:01:46 PM9/14/16
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"Calvin":
I'll go with Kubrick.
> 2 Which author wrote "The Picture of Dorian Grey" in 1891?
Wilde.
> 3 Which one-hit wonder released the 1982 single "Come On, Eileen"?
Dexy's Midnight Runners?
> 4 Who was the producer of the TV series "Starsky & Hutch" and
> "Beverly Hills 91210"?
Spelling.
> 5 Which British author and women's rights campaigner (180-1958)
> was the first female academic appointed to the University of
> Manchester and founded the first birth control clinic in Britain
> in 1920?
My goodness, she *did* live a long time! :-) I'll have to say
Sanger, even though I think she might not even have been British.
> 6 Nadsat was a slang language in which dystopian 1962 novel, later
> made into a film starring Malcolm McDowell?
"A Clockwork Orange".
> 7 The two official languages of Finland are Finnish and which
> other language?
Swedish.
> 8 The centre of the country's high-tech industries, which city is
> nicknamed "India's Silicon Valley"?
Bangalore.
> 9 Who became president of Indonesia in October 2014?
Johnson.
> 10 Invented independently by German Ewald Georg von Kleist and
> Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek in the mid-18th century,
> which device was the first capacitor, "storing" static electricity
> between electrodes inside and outside a glass jar?
Leyden jar.
Weird timing. Earlier this evening my wife and I watched the
opening minutes of an early episode of "Murdoch Mysteries",
a period detective show made in Canada, to confirm that she'd
seen the episode. In the scene, which actually has nothing to do
with the main story, Murdoch's boss tells the story of finding an
electrocuted man in a locked room where no electricity was supplied,
and it turns out that he accidentally electrocuted himself with a
Leyden jar. Then Murdoch has to explain what a Leyden jar is...
--
Mark Brader "Without nuclear weapons we will be nothing
Toronto more than a rich, powerful Canada...."
m...@vex.net -- A Walk in the Woods, by Lee Blessing
My text in this article is in the public domain.
> 1 Who directed the Oscar-wining 1987 film "Full Metal Jacket"?
Hmm. It's either Stone or Kubrick. I think Stone did "Platoon", so
I'll go with Kubrick.
> 2 Which author wrote "The Picture of Dorian Grey" in 1891?
> 3 Which one-hit wonder released the 1982 single "Come On, Eileen"?
> 4 Who was the producer of the TV series "Starsky & Hutch" and
> "Beverly Hills 91210"?
> 5 Which British author and women's rights campaigner (180-1958)
> was the first female academic appointed to the University of
> Manchester and founded the first birth control clinic in Britain
> in 1920?
Sanger, even though I think she might not even have been British.
> 6 Nadsat was a slang language in which dystopian 1962 novel, later
> made into a film starring Malcolm McDowell?
> 7 The two official languages of Finland are Finnish and which
> other language?
> 8 The centre of the country's high-tech industries, which city is
> nicknamed "India's Silicon Valley"?
> 9 Who became president of Indonesia in October 2014?
> 10 Invented independently by German Ewald Georg von Kleist and
> Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek in the mid-18th century,
> which device was the first capacitor, "storing" static electricity
> between electrodes inside and outside a glass jar?
Weird timing. Earlier this evening my wife and I watched the
opening minutes of an early episode of "Murdoch Mysteries",
a period detective show made in Canada, to confirm that she'd
seen the episode. In the scene, which actually has nothing to do
with the main story, Murdoch's boss tells the story of finding an
electrocuted man in a locked room where no electricity was supplied,
and it turns out that he accidentally electrocuted himself with a
Leyden jar. Then Murdoch has to explain what a Leyden jar is...
--
Mark Brader "Without nuclear weapons we will be nothing
Toronto more than a rich, powerful Canada...."
m...@vex.net -- A Walk in the Woods, by Lee Blessing
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Erland Sommarskog
Sep 15, 2016, 3:25:05 AM9/15/16
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Calvin (334...@gmail.com) writes:
> 3 Which one-hit wonder released the 1982 single "Come On, Eileen"?
Dexy & the Midnight Runners
> 3 Which one-hit wonder released the 1982 single "Come On, Eileen"?
> 6 Nadsat was a slang language in which dystopian 1962 novel, later
> made into a film starring Malcolm McDowell?
> 7 The two official languages of Finland are Finnish and which other
> language?
> 8 The centre of the country's high-tech industries, which city is
> nicknamed "India's Silicon Valley"?
> 9 Who became president of Indonesia in October 2014?
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se
Dan Tilque
Sep 15, 2016, 5:40:20 AM9/15/16
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Calvin wrote:
> 1 Who directed the Oscar-wining 1987 film "Full Metal Jacket"?
> 2 Which author wrote "The Picture of Dorian Grey" in 1891?
Oscar Wilde
> 1 Who directed the Oscar-wining 1987 film "Full Metal Jacket"?
> 2 Which author wrote "The Picture of Dorian Grey" in 1891?
> 3 Which one-hit wonder released the 1982 single "Come On, Eileen"?
> 4 Who was the producer of the TV series "Starsky & Hutch" and "Beverly Hills 91210"?
> 5 Which British author and women's rights campaigner (180-1958) was the first female academic appointed to the University of Manchester and founded the first birth control clinic in Britain in 1920?
> 6 Nadsat was a slang language in which dystopian 1962 novel, later made into a film starring Malcolm McDowell?
> 7 The two official languages of Finland are Finnish and which other language?
> 8 The centre of the country's high-tech industries, which city is nicknamed "India's Silicon Valley"?
> 9 Who became president of Indonesia in October 2014?
> 10 Invented independently by German Ewald Georg von Kleist and Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek in the mid-18th century, which device was the first capacitor, "storing" static electricity between electrodes inside and outside a glass jar?
(useful for reanimating the dead)
--
Dan Tilque
Marc Dashevsky
Sep 15, 2016, 11:27:41 AM9/15/16
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In article <94c52159-44d1-4b91...@googlegroups.com>, 334...@gmail.com says...
> 2 Which author wrote "The Picture of Dorian Grey" in 1891?
Oscar Wilde
> 3 Which one-hit wonder released the 1982 single "Come On, Eileen"?
Dexy's Midnight Runners
> 4 Who was the producer of the TV series "Starsky & Hutch" and "Beverly Hills 91210"?
Aaron Spelling
> 5 Which British author and women's rights campaigner (180-1958) was the first female academic appointed to the University of Manchester and founded the first birth control clinic in Britain in 1920?
> 6 Nadsat was a slang language in which dystopian 1962 novel, later made into a film starring Malcolm McDowell?
A Clockwork Orange
> 7 The two official languages of Finland are Finnish and which other language?
Swedish
> 8 The centre of the country's high-tech industries, which city is nicknamed "India's Silicon Valley"?
Bangalore
> 9 Who became president of Indonesia in October 2014?
> 10 Invented independently by German Ewald Georg von Kleist and Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek in the mid-18th century, which device was the first capacitor, "storing" static electricity between electrodes inside and outside a glass jar?
Leyden jar
> cheers,
> calvin
--
Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address.
>
> 1 Who directed the Oscar-wining 1987 film "Full Metal Jacket"?
Oliver Stone
> 1 Who directed the Oscar-wining 1987 film "Full Metal Jacket"?
> 2 Which author wrote "The Picture of Dorian Grey" in 1891?
> 3 Which one-hit wonder released the 1982 single "Come On, Eileen"?
> 4 Who was the producer of the TV series "Starsky & Hutch" and "Beverly Hills 91210"?
> 5 Which British author and women's rights campaigner (180-1958) was the first female academic appointed to the University of Manchester and founded the first birth control clinic in Britain in 1920?
> 6 Nadsat was a slang language in which dystopian 1962 novel, later made into a film starring Malcolm McDowell?
> 7 The two official languages of Finland are Finnish and which other language?
> 8 The centre of the country's high-tech industries, which city is nicknamed "India's Silicon Valley"?
> 9 Who became president of Indonesia in October 2014?
> 10 Invented independently by German Ewald Georg von Kleist and Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek in the mid-18th century, which device was the first capacitor, "storing" static electricity between electrodes inside and outside a glass jar?
> cheers,
> calvin
--
Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address.
Gareth Owen
Sep 15, 2016, 2:33:31 PM9/15/16
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Kubrick
> 2 Which author wrote "The Picture of Dorian Grey" in 1891?
Wilde
> 3 Which one-hit wonder released the 1982 single "Come On, Eileen"?
Dexy's Midnight Runners - and they had at least two more hits in the UK:
"Geno" and a cover of Van Morrison's "Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven
When You Smile)".
ObTrivia: What was notable about their famous TV perfomance of the latter?
> 4 Who was the producer of the TV series "Starsky & Hutch" and "Beverly
> Hills 91210"?
Aaron Spelling
> 5 Which British author and women's rights campaigner (180-1958) was
> the first female academic appointed to the University of Manchester
> and founded the first birth control clinic in Britain in 1920?
Marie Stopes?
> 6 Nadsat was a slang language in which dystopian 1962 novel, later
> made into a film starring Malcolm McDowell?
A Clockwork Orange
> 7 The two official languages of Finland are Finnish and which other
> language?
Lapp?
> 8 The centre of the country's high-tech industries, which city is
> nicknamed "India's Silicon Valley"?
Mumbai?
> 9 Who became president of Indonesia in October 2014?
No idea
> 10 Invented independently by German Ewald Georg von Kleist and Dutch
> scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek in the mid-18th century, which
> device was the first capacitor, "storing" static electricity between
> electrodes inside and outside a glass jar?
Voltaic Jar?
> 2 Which author wrote "The Picture of Dorian Grey" in 1891?
> 3 Which one-hit wonder released the 1982 single "Come On, Eileen"?
"Geno" and a cover of Van Morrison's "Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven
When You Smile)".
ObTrivia: What was notable about their famous TV perfomance of the latter?
> 4 Who was the producer of the TV series "Starsky & Hutch" and "Beverly
> Hills 91210"?
> 5 Which British author and women's rights campaigner (180-1958) was
> the first female academic appointed to the University of Manchester
> and founded the first birth control clinic in Britain in 1920?
> 6 Nadsat was a slang language in which dystopian 1962 novel, later
> made into a film starring Malcolm McDowell?
> 7 The two official languages of Finland are Finnish and which other
> language?
> 8 The centre of the country's high-tech industries, which city is
> nicknamed "India's Silicon Valley"?
> 9 Who became president of Indonesia in October 2014?
> 10 Invented independently by German Ewald Georg von Kleist and Dutch
> scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek in the mid-18th century, which
> device was the first capacitor, "storing" static electricity between
> electrodes inside and outside a glass jar?
Peter Smyth
Sep 15, 2016, 3:32:30 PM9/15/16
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Calvin wrote:
> 1 Who directed the Oscar-wining 1987 film "Full Metal Jacket"?
>
> 2 Which author wrote "The Picture of Dorian Grey" in 1891?
Oscar Wilde
> 1 Who directed the Oscar-wining 1987 film "Full Metal Jacket"?
>
> 2 Which author wrote "The Picture of Dorian Grey" in 1891?
> 3 Which one-hit wonder released the 1982 single "Come On, Eileen"?
Dexy's Midnight Runners (one-hit wonder is a bit harsh)
> 4 Who was the producer of the TV series "Starsky & Hutch" and
> "Beverly Hills 91210"?
Aaron Spelling
> "Beverly Hills 91210"?
> 5 Which British author and women's rights campaigner (180-1958) was
> the first female academic appointed to the University of Manchester
> and founded the first birth control clinic in Britain in 1920?
Marie Stopes
> the first female academic appointed to the University of Manchester
> and founded the first birth control clinic in Britain in 1920?
> 6 Nadsat was a slang language in which dystopian 1962 novel, later
> made into a film starring Malcolm McDowell?
A Clockwork Orange
> made into a film starring Malcolm McDowell?
> 7 The two official languages of Finland are Finnish and which other
> language?
Russian
> language?
> 8 The centre of the country's high-tech industries, which city is
> nicknamed "India's Silicon Valley"?
Bangalore
> nicknamed "India's Silicon Valley"?
> 9 Who became president of Indonesia in October 2014?
>
> 10 Invented independently by German Ewald Georg von Kleist and Dutch
> scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek in the mid-18th century, which
> device was the first capacitor, "storing" static electricity between
> electrodes inside and outside a glass jar?
Peter Smyth
>
> 10 Invented independently by German Ewald Georg von Kleist and Dutch
> scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek in the mid-18th century, which
> device was the first capacitor, "storing" static electricity between
> electrodes inside and outside a glass jar?
Peter Smyth
Sep 15, 2016, 4:10:58 PM9/15/16
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Gareth Owen wrote:
> > 3 Which one-hit wonder released the 1982 single "Come On, Eileen"?
>
> Dexy's Midnight Runners - and they had at least two more hits in the
> UK: "Geno" and a cover of Van Morrison's "Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In
> Heaven When You Smile)".
>
> ObTrivia: What was notable about their famous TV perfomance of the
> latter?
They performed in front of a picture of darts player Jocky Wilson
> > 3 Which one-hit wonder released the 1982 single "Come On, Eileen"?
>
> Dexy's Midnight Runners - and they had at least two more hits in the
> UK: "Geno" and a cover of Van Morrison's "Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In
> Heaven When You Smile)".
>
> ObTrivia: What was notable about their famous TV perfomance of the
> latter?
rather than singer Jackie Wilson, which was either a mistake or a
deliberate joke depending on where you read the story.
Peter Smyth
Gareth Owen
Sep 15, 2016, 4:15:57 PM9/15/16
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/mar/27/jocky-wilson-other-rock-myths
Chris F.A. Johnson
Sep 15, 2016, 9:08:03 PM9/15/16
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On 2016-09-14, Calvin wrote:
>
> 1 Who directed the Oscar-wining 1987 film "Full Metal Jacket"?
Stanley Kubrick
>
> 1 Who directed the Oscar-wining 1987 film "Full Metal Jacket"?
> 2 Which author wrote "The Picture of Dorian Grey" in 1891?
> 3 Which one-hit wonder released the 1982 single "Come On, Eileen"?
> 4 Who was the producer of the TV series "Starsky & Hutch" and "Beverly Hills 91210"?
> 5 Which British author and women's rights campaigner (180-1958) was the first female academic appointed to the University of Manchester and founded the first birth control clinic in Britain in 1920?
> 6 Nadsat was a slang language in which dystopian 1962 novel, later made into a film starring Malcolm McDowell?
> 7 The two official languages of Finland are Finnish and which other language?
> 8 The centre of the country's high-tech industries, which city is nicknamed "India's Silicon Valley"?
> 9 Who became president of Indonesia in October 2014?
> 10 Invented independently by German Ewald Georg von Kleist and Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek in the mid-18th century, which device was the first capacitor, "storing" static electricity between electrodes inside and outside a glass jar?
--
Chris F.A. Johnson
Pete
Sep 16, 2016, 3:28:22 PM9/16/16
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Calvin <334...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:94c52159-44d1-4b91...@googlegroups.com:
>
> 1 Who directed the Oscar-wining 1987 film "Full Metal Jacket"?
Kubrick
> 2 Which author wrote "The Picture of Dorian Grey" in 1891?
> 3 Which one-hit wonder released the 1982 single "Come On, Eileen"?
> 4 Who was the producer of the TV series "Starsky & Hutch" and
> "Beverly Hills 91210"?
Spelling
> 5 Which British author and women's rights
> campaigner (180-1958) was the first female academic appointed to the
> University of Manchester and founded the first birth control clinic in
> Britain in 1920?
> 6 Nadsat was a slang language in which dystopian
> 1962 novel, later made into a film starring Malcolm McDowell?
A Clockwork Orange
> 7 The two official languages of Finland are Finnish and which other
> language?
Russian
> 8 The centre of the country's high-tech industries,
> which city is nicknamed "India's Silicon Valley"?
Bangalore
> 9 Who became president of Indonesia in October 2014?
> 10 Invented independently
> by German Ewald Georg von Kleist and Dutch scientist Pieter van
> Musschenbroek in the mid-18th century, which device was the first
> capacitor, "storing" static electricity between electrodes inside and
> outside a glass jar?
>
> cheers,
> calvin
>
Pete Gayde
news:94c52159-44d1-4b91...@googlegroups.com:
>
> 1 Who directed the Oscar-wining 1987 film "Full Metal Jacket"?
> 2 Which author wrote "The Picture of Dorian Grey" in 1891?
> 3 Which one-hit wonder released the 1982 single "Come On, Eileen"?
> 4 Who was the producer of the TV series "Starsky & Hutch" and
> "Beverly Hills 91210"?
> 5 Which British author and women's rights
> campaigner (180-1958) was the first female academic appointed to the
> University of Manchester and founded the first birth control clinic in
> Britain in 1920?
> 6 Nadsat was a slang language in which dystopian
> 1962 novel, later made into a film starring Malcolm McDowell?
> 7 The two official languages of Finland are Finnish and which other
> language?
> 8 The centre of the country's high-tech industries,
> which city is nicknamed "India's Silicon Valley"?
> 9 Who became president of Indonesia in October 2014?
> 10 Invented independently
> by German Ewald Georg von Kleist and Dutch scientist Pieter van
> Musschenbroek in the mid-18th century, which device was the first
> capacitor, "storing" static electricity between electrodes inside and
> outside a glass jar?
>
> cheers,
> calvin
>
Calvin
Sep 19, 2016, 10:45:43 PM9/19/16
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On Thursday, September 15, 2016 at 8:23:17 AM UTC+10, Calvin wrote:
> 1 Who directed the Oscar-wining 1987 film "Full Metal Jacket"?
Stanley Kubrick
> 1 Who directed the Oscar-wining 1987 film "Full Metal Jacket"?
> 2 Which author wrote "The Picture of Dorian Grey" in 1891?
> 3 Which one-hit wonder released the 1982 single "Come On, Eileen"?
> 4 Who was the producer of the TV series "Starsky & Hutch" and "Beverly Hills 91210"?
> 5 Which British author and women's rights campaigner (180-1958) was the first female academic appointed to the University of Manchester and founded the first birth control clinic in Britain in 1920?
> 6 Nadsat was a slang language in which dystopian 1962 novel, later made into a film starring Malcolm McDowell?
> 7 The two official languages of Finland are Finnish and which other language?
> 8 The centre of the country's high-tech industries, which city is nicknamed "India's Silicon Valley"?
> 9 Who became president of Indonesia in October 2014?
No-one got this.
> 10 Invented independently by German Ewald Georg von Kleist and Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek in the mid-18th century, which device was the first capacitor, "storing" static electricity between electrodes inside and outside a glass jar?
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 457
1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 8 46 Mark Brader
1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 7 41 Chris Johnson
0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 7 42 Marc Dashevsky
1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 6 32 Gareth Owen
0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 6 35 Peter Smyth
0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 6 37 Dan Tilque
0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 4 25 Erland S
1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 4 26 Pete Gayde
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4 6 5 7 2 8 5 7 0 4 48 60%
Congratulations Mark.
cheers,
calvin
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