THIS IS IT! aue Summer Doldrums Competition-Rules and Questions
Garry J. Vass
THE TOTALLY OFFICIAL AUE SUMMER DOLDRUMS COMPETITION
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The Rules.
1. How to enter: post a message to a.u.e. consisting of the
*complete* *original* message spliced with the correct
answers (see rule 2). Anyone may enter, and there's no limit to the
number of entries. "Get there fustest with the mostest!"
2. Correct answers: Your objective is to find the answers agreed by
our panel, taking into account what is known of their cultural
backgrounds, sexual preferences, etc. The skill lies in aligning your
thought processes with those of the panel, not in any sterile notion
of absolute correctness.
3. Winner: the winner will be decided by our panel
(see 'Panel'). The winner will receive a Totally
Official aue Tee Shirt.
4. Specious responses: Specious responses will probably get
you kill-filed. The same goes for obscenity. Depending
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think you are. But if you have a real 'knee-slapper'
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amount of time, one of the panel members may declare a winner
anyway. No appeals. The decision is final.
15. Refunds: Those seeking refunds are invited to try. Go
ahead, just try.
16. Scale: Other than the winner, a reasonable scale for a
single individual might be:
1 - 5 correct responses - challenged
6 - 10 correct responses - average
11 - 20 correct responses - competitive range
21 - 30 correct responses - serious contender
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40+ correct responses - world master
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unassailably correct answers!
18. Fun: This is a 'Summer Doldrums Competition'! Have
fun!
The winner joins the proud citizens around the globe who are
competent to wear a Totally Official aue Tee Shirt.
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The Questions.
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1. A WWII vet, living in the deep South, plays some poker with
his buddies, ransacks his houseguest's belongings, slaps his
wife around, and goes on to become a piece of literary heritage.
What was his name or who created him?
2. A little old lady. From where?
3. Through the eyes of a poet, the Duke of Ferrara tells us
about a painting ("Will't please you sit and look at her?").
What's the name of the poet?
4. Name two quarterbacks who retired as restaurateurs?
5. Two Wurtzburg graduates are hired to assassinate someone.
Their names?
6. Circle, Northern, and another?
7. Which word doesn't belong with the others: Arban,
Minggam, Tuman, Djaghoum, and Polka?
8. I want to be a tree! What country?
9. Apparently, '...the way the sunlight plays upon her hair...'
and '...the wind that wifts (wafts? lifts?) her perfume through
the air...' induce one to pick up something. What does
one pick up?
10. A beverage whose etymology ultimately leads
to the Latin, 'everlasting youth'?
11. 'From Soho down to Brighton, I must have played them all...'
Played what?
12. 'A Day in the Life of America' takes place every 20 minutes
where?
13. A Great Geat. Name the Geat.
14. What single word connects the two words 'saffron' and
'admiral'?
15. In 'Sleepy London Town' there's just no place for what?
16. They got there sooner than anybody else in what state?
17. A vessel that can 'decloak' must do what before it
'decloaks'?
18. A neighbourhood in Manhattan is named after a swamp,
another for a farm. Name these two neighbourhoods.
19. Name five Jedi Knights.
20. A high street tailor, a fruit manufacturer, and a famous General
are all intertwined as the possible source for what expression?
21. The English language owes a legacy to a town
called 'Peterborough'. What?
22. What is the traditional border between the 'Man of
Kent' and the 'Kentish Man'?
23. What is the traditional border between the letter 'W'
and the letter 'K'?
24. What famous novel did I. P. Freely write?
25. 'Auld Reekie' is a nickname for what?
26. A WWII machine gun, a cement truck, and a man's
suit have been offered as origins for what phrase?
27. A 'Subway Series' might conceivably happen in any year.
How?
28. The OE terms, 'wyrplas', 'bewitian', and 'impian'
provide early evidence of what sport?
29. The official name of the Orbital?
30. What is the chief characteristic of a Pommy's towel?
31. Someone whose name means 'exalted rank' recently married
someone whose name means 'greater in rank'. Her first name?
32. Nora, Nils, Anna, and Doctor Rank. Who created them?
33. What noise would a mammal named 'Figaro' make?
34. The principal duties of the 'Precentor' and the
'Armarius' were to look after whose needs?
35. 'The Opera ain't over till the fat lady sings'.
What sport?
36. What do donkey's ears measure?
37. A ram is the mascot for both a US university and a British
soccer team. Name both!
38. What was the street address of Kookie's work place?
39. The thorn disappeared, the rose remained. What replaced the
thorn?
40. A race to 'Dead Man's Curve'! It began when a Sting Ray waited
at a stop light. What was the make of the other car?
41. What is the youngest letter of the Modern English alphabet?
42. A family of Dukes drove a car with a stars and bars on it.
Who drove the jeep?
43. Listed in the Doomsday book as 'Wunemannedune', what is
the name of this town today?
44. The Romans had the shortest. The Anglos and the Saxons
brought longer ones. The Vikings brought even longer ones,
and the Normans brought the very longest. By the time the
Plantagenets came to power, they were short again. What?
45. Who is 'e' named for?
46. When Gomer enlisted, he left a brother tending the family
business back in Mayberry. What was the family business?
What is the equivalent term across the pond?
47. Who shot J. R.?
48. What is the word that means, 'the substitution of an epithet,
appellate, or the name of an office or dignity, for a
person's proper name'?
49. A modern day English word named after a 'little bottle', but
means something completely different from 'little bottle'. What
is that word?
50. Well, I'm not the world's most physical guy, but when she
squeezed me tight, she nearly broke my spine. Who walks like
a woman and talks like a man?
51. A Hindu word meaning 'foreigner' was adopted as an
affectionate term for England. What word?
52. The oldest surviving OE/AS recipe in the British Museum
explains how to prepare what?
53. A Germanic word meaning 'foreign' was adopted as the name of
a country. What country?
54. Sung, 'He is driving 'round the corner in a green and yellow
Ford...'. Who?
55. Radio 1, Radio 2, and so on up to Radio 'n'. What is 'n'?
56. How many words are mislept in the 'Rules' above
(LP convention)?
57. Who had to collect 1,000 logs?
58. Who killed Laura Palmer?
59. What town connects Edgar Allen Poe and H. L. Mencken?
60. Clerics may not equip what kind of weapon?
61. The phrase, 'Cobblers to the Queen', takes on a
more ribald meaning in the vicinity of a certain
church. What church?
62. What is the word that means 'use of one word class
functioning as another word class'?
63. The wedding march, 'Here Comes the Bride' was written
by?
64. This fellow was trained as a mercer (textile dealer),
gained commercial success on the continent, and served as
governor of a trading company. Later, he received patronage
from a French duchess to do something completely different.
What was his name?
65. Upon hearing of a 'Smokey in your back door', one should
check and possibly adjust what?
66. Where is Aquilany Castle?
67. Sargent and Constable. By rank, one meaning. By name,
something else entirely. What were their careers?
68. Who rode Buttermilk?
69. Where might one go to engage in a 'piss up'?
70. Consider the euphemisms: 'Jiminy Crickets', 'Gee
whillikers', and 'Jeepers'. Which is oldest?
71. 'All that glisters is not gold'. The source?
72. In 'Lord of the Flies', Golding uses the figurative
expression, 'The scar was a bath of heat'. What type of
expression is this?
73. Household item whose etymology ultimately leads to the
Old Teutonic, 'thorny shrub'?
74. According to an American poet, born Zimmerman, 'orders from
the DA (District Attorney)' about when to bust come in what
month?
75. The OE kenning, 'dryht-guma', best translates into what
Modern English word?
76. The main commodity of Arrakis?
77. How many degrees of separation?
78. Which one won Super Bowl I?
79. Everybody knows what a 'Fess' looks like. *We* need to know
what a 'Fess Cotised' looks like. *Exactly* please.
80. Many English towns whose name ends in '-by' testify to our
linguistic heritage from what people?
81. Of the two animals in the Old Testament that spoke to humans,
one was the serpent in the Book of Genesis. Please name the other.
82. What is Brooklyn's last name?
83. A deserted field, with lightning and thunder overhead...
Three witches make plans to see someone. Who? And
who could do Tuesday?
84. A Modern English metal is named after a hostile, mythical
monster that lived deep inside inside of copper and silver mines.
Name either the metal, or its monster namesake.
85. Hot spurs? Come again? Hot spurs? How very odd. Where
does one find 'hot spurs'?
86. The ritualistic cursing matches that were popular in 12th and
13th century England were known as what?
87. Gwynedd, Powys, Dyfed, and the fourth one please?
88. Beverage whose etymology ultimately leads to the Gaelic,
'water of life'?
89. 'Strumpet', 'Slut', 'Minx', and 'Lady'. Which word is
oldest?
90. What single word connects a 'gin-salt barroom queen', 'cleaned
a lot of plates' and 'long distance information'?
91. 'Astral', 'Arabian Nights', and 'Antiquities' are the answers.
Answers to what question?
92. Which region of England was probably the first to emerge
with the word, 'Church' as it is spelled and pronounced
in Modern English?
93. A ship captain coined a pen-name from the depth of the water.
What was this pen-name?
94. Which word doesn't belong with the others: Oferhyrnes,
Cynebot, Heriot, and Wapentakes?
95. Mr. Aschenbach became possessed with desire for a young boy,
Tadzio. Where?
96. Beverage whose etymology ultimately leads to the Arabic,
'have no appetite'?
97. A latter-day Ovid described an overnight transformation
into a cockroach, and inspired another Ovid to describe the
return journey. Both authors, if you please.
98. Van Morrison, 'Them', and 'The Shadows of Knight' all sang
about 'Gloria', (G-L-O-R-I-A), who came around 'just about
midnight'. How tall was Gloria, from her head to the ground?
99. A literary term from the Greek, 'cutting short'?
100. We destroyed it in order to save it. What?
101. It was somewhere in a fairy tale. She was going to be an
actress. What was 'I' going to do?
102. Household item whose etymology ultimately leads to the
Aryan, 'dug out place'?
103. A viciously shrewd double switch-back at Blackfriars,
followed by an (oh, so deadly) hunter's-heart fork at Monument,
combined with a (devastatingly cruel, coup de grace) angler's
cast at Temple might entitle one to claim victory at what?
104. Complete the following sequence: 8th, 7th, 6th, 5th,
and...
105. April! A month with sweet showers that pierce the
drought of March to the root! People long to do something
in April. What?
106. Viking, Forties, Dogger, Humber, and another?
107. How many ubhef are there in a qnl?
108. Ballywoodane, Cloghplilip, Dromagh, and another one please?
109. Too many teardrops for one heart to be crying. Cry! How
many tears?
110. What was lost that sent Beethoven into a rage?
111. What connects Dr Minor, Mr Bobbitt and the OED?
112. A partitive genitive would most likely be found in what
figure of speech?
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113. RP Feather-weight Extra Credit: Prince William's favourite
hat demonstrates unabashed favouritism to what?
114. London Scene Bantam-weight Extra Credit: One of the
following does not belong with the others. Please
select the one that does not belong: [1] The Pukes;
[2] Dripping Snot; [3] Tommy Turd and The Crap Stools;
[4] The Stomach Pumps; and [5] The Battersea Jazz Band.
115. RP Middle-weight Extra Credit: If YM and CLE are of the
order of 10^9 and 10^6 respectively why are non-ferrous
garlands impracticable?
116. RP Heavy-weight Extra Credit: Who nearly swallowed
the snitch at Quidditch?
117. RP Heavy-weight Killer: The OE word, 'weolucbasu',
would be best translated into Modern English as what?
118. RP Killer-Diller: 'Divina - Faventia - Clementia' is the
motto for what order?
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119. LP Feather-weight Extra Credit: Murray, Lou, Mary,
and Ted... Who did Ted marry?
120. LP Middle-weight stumper: In a title match, how long
would Hulk Hogan (or his opponent) be allowed out of the
ring before being disqualified?
121. LP Heavy-weight Extra Credit: A popular name for a
town. The states of Arkansas, Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky,
Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina,
Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont and Washington
all boast a town with this name. What is it?
122. LP Heavy-weight Killer: What was dimly seen through the
mists of the deep?
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123. UP Middle-weight Extra Credit: Do too many kippers make
you feel bloated, or is this a red herring?
124. UP Light-weight Extra Credit: Alice who?
125. UP Heavy-weight Extra Credit: Who wrote a letter with a
thumbnail dipped in tar?
126. UP Ultra-killer: Oz and Kubla Kahn Connection?
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Note: We knew that the good people of aue would find all of the
above child's play. This section is for *serious* contenders with
an axe to grind. Let's get down to business! Roll up your
sleeves and put your *stuff* on it!
127. aue WarmUp: What comes after the protasis, epitasis, and
the catastasis?
128. aue BallBreaker: The first three are the Hiddikel,
Pison, and Gihon. What is the fourth?
129. aue BackBreaker: The first five are Tymbria, Helias,
Chetas, Troien, and Antenorides. What is the sixth?
130. aue Humdinger: Melpomene's sister?
131. aue Hoopie Doopie: The first eight are Hector, Alexander,
Julius Caesar, Joshua, David, Judas Maccabeus, Arthur, and
Charlemagne. Who is the ninth?
132. aue Mind Boggler: The first six are the Palatine,
Capitoline, Aventine, Caeline, Esquiline, Viminal. What is
the seventh?
133. aue Hunker Dunker: The first six are arithmetic, geometry,
astronomy, music, grammar, and logic. What is the seventh?
134. aue Totally Official Millennium Class: The Cirencester
Square? No, but something very close. The first four are:
Sador, Alador, Danet, and Adera. Go for it! Name the fifth!
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Garry J. Vass
(Official Panel Member, aue Summer Doldrums Competition)
Skitt
Garry J. Vass <Ga...@gvass.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:OKTF0RAy...@gvass.demon.co.uk...
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The answer (and I'm phrasing it in the form of a question):
What is the lengthiest post I've ever had to snip?
(Although I saved it for future reference -- rainy day reading, you know.)
--
Skitt (on Florida's Space Coast) http://come.to/skitt/
... and that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped.
Robert Lieblich
there:
> 4. Name two quarterbacks who retired as restaurateurs?
Joe Theismann is one.
> 16. They got there sooner than anybody else in what state?
Oklahoma.
> 24. What famous novel did I. P. Freely write?
*The Yellow River* (aka Hwang Ho).
> 27. A 'Subway Series' might conceivably happen in any year.
> How?
Yanks play Mets. Also arguable is Oakland/San Francisco, linked by
BART, which is a subway for much of its length. Those two teams
actually played in the year of the recent big earthquake,
> 33. What noise would a mammal named 'Figaro' make?
Meow.
> 35. 'The Opera ain't over till the fat lady sings'.
> What sport?
Lots, now. Originally pro basketball.
> 37. A ram is the mascot for both a US university and a British
> soccer team. Name both!
Fordham is the university.
> 38. What was the street address of Kookie's work place?
77 Sunset Strip. Technically it was "Sunset Blvd."; "Sunset Strip" is a
nickname. There is a "Sunset Strip" (actual street name) in Broward
County, Fla.
> 47. Who shot J. R.?
Krisen Shepard (in the famous cliffhanger episode). Also Edgar Randolph
(separate incident). And there was a third incident in which it appears
the assailant was never discovered.
> 49. A modern day English word named after a 'little bottle', but
> means something completely different from 'little bottle'. What
> is that word?
Fiasco.
> 59. What town connects Edgar Allen Poe and H. L. Mencken?
It's a city. Baltimore.
> 63. The wedding march, 'Here Comes the Bride' was written by?
Richard Wagner. It's from *Lohengrin." I doubt he wrote the English
lyrics.
> 67. Sargent and Constable. By rank, one meaning. By name,
> something else entirely. What were their careers?
Painters.
> 68. Who rode Buttermilk?
Dale Evans.
> 71. 'All that glisters is not gold'. The source?
Merchant of Venice -- Act II, sc. vii
> 76. The main commodity of Arrakis?
The spice Melange. (*Dune* by Frank Herbert)
>
> 77. How many degrees of separation?
Six (but for you, today only, $4.98).
>
> 78. Which one won Super Bowl I?
Green Bay Packers.
> 93. A ship captain coined a pen-name from the depth of the water.
> What was this pen-name?
Mark Twain.
> 100. We destroyed it in order to save it. What?
Ben Tre, Vietnam.
> 105. April! A month with sweet showers that pierce the
> drought of March to the root! People long to do something
> in April. What?
Go on pilgrimage.
> 110. What was lost that sent Beethoven into a rage?
A penny (pfennig).
> 130. aue Humdinger: Melpomene's sister?
Kleio (Clio), history
Euterpe, flute playing
Thaleia (Thalia), comedy
Terpsichore, dance
Erato, love poems
Polymnia, sacred music
Ourania (Urania), astrology
Kalliope (Calliope), epic poetry
See: http://www.messagenet.com/myths/bios/muses.html
> 132. aue Mind Boggler: The first six are the Palatine,
> Capitoline, Aventine, Caeline, Esquiline, Viminal. What is
> the seventh?
Quirinal
Bob Lieblich
Robert Lieblich
<snip>
> >78. Which one won Super Bowl I?
> >
> NY Jets
That's a negatory, Jack. Packers won I and II, beating Kansas City and
Oakland. Jets beat Baltimore in III.
<snip>
Bob Lieblich
Richard Fontana
Pasadena
>
> 3. Through the eyes of a poet, the Duke of Ferrara tells us
> about a painting ("Will't please you sit and look at her?").
> What's the name of the poet?
>
> 4. Name two quarterbacks who retired as restaurateurs?
>
> 5. Two Wurtzburg graduates are hired to assassinate someone.
> Their names?
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
>
> 6. Circle, Northern, and another?
Piccadilly
>
> 7. Which word doesn't belong with the others: Arban,
> Minggam, Tuman, Djaghoum, and Polka?
>
> 8. I want to be a tree! What country?
The Forest of Fangorn
>
> 9. Apparently, '...the way the sunlight plays upon her hair...'
> and '...the wind that wifts (wafts? lifts?) her perfume through
> the air...' induce one to pick up something. What does
> one pick up?
>
> 10. A beverage whose etymology ultimately leads
> to the Latin, 'everlasting youth'?
>
> 11. 'From Soho down to Brighton, I must have played them all...'
> Played what?
The silver ball (=pinball)
>
> 12. 'A Day in the Life of America' takes place every 20 minutes
> where?
>
> 13. A Great Geat. Name the Geat.
>
> 14. What single word connects the two words 'saffron' and
> 'admiral'?
>
> 15. In 'Sleepy London Town' there's just no place for what?
>
> 16. They got there sooner than anybody else in what state?
Oklahoma
> 17. A vessel that can 'decloak' must do what before it
> 'decloaks'?
>
> 18. A neighbourhood in Manhattan is named after a swamp,
> another for a farm. Name these two neighbourhoods.
Gramercy Park is named after a swamp. Chelsea is named after a farm.
>
> 19. Name five Jedi Knights.
>
> 20. A high street tailor, a fruit manufacturer, and a famous General
> are all intertwined as the possible source for what expression?
>
> 21. The English language owes a legacy to a town
> called 'Peterborough'. What?
>
> 22. What is the traditional border between the 'Man of
> Kent' and the 'Kentish Man'?
>
> 23. What is the traditional border between the letter 'W'
> and the letter 'K'?
>
> 24. What famous novel did I. P. Freely write?
>
> 25. 'Auld Reekie' is a nickname for what?
Edinburgh
>
> 26. A WWII machine gun, a cement truck, and a man's
> suit have been offered as origins for what phrase?
>
> 27. A 'Subway Series' might conceivably happen in any year.
> How?
The New York Mets could play the New York Yankees in the World Series, in
which case fans could go from one stadium to the other by subway.
>
> 28. The OE terms, 'wyrplas', 'bewitian', and 'impian'
> provide early evidence of what sport?
>
> 29. The official name of the Orbital?
>
> 30. What is the chief characteristic of a Pommy's towel?
>
> 31. Someone whose name means 'exalted rank' recently married
> someone whose name means 'greater in rank'. Her first name?
>
> 32. Nora, Nils, Anna, and Doctor Rank. Who created them?
Ibsen
>
> 33. What noise would a mammal named 'Figaro' make?
A squeak
>
> 34. The principal duties of the 'Precentor' and the
> 'Armarius' were to look after whose needs?
>
> 35. 'The Opera ain't over till the fat lady sings'.
> What sport?
>
> 36. What do donkey's ears measure?
Time
> 37. A ram is the mascot for both a US university and a British
> soccer team. Name both!
>
> 38. What was the street address of Kookie's work place?
>
> 39. The thorn disappeared, the rose remained. What replaced the
> thorn?
The letter combination 'th'
> 40. A race to 'Dead Man's Curve'! It began when a Sting Ray waited
> at a stop light. What was the make of the other car?
>
> 41. What is the youngest letter of the Modern English alphabet?
"W"
>
> 42. A family of Dukes drove a car with a stars and bars on it.
> Who drove the jeep?
Uncle Jesse (Denver Pyle)
>
> 43. Listed in the Doomsday book as 'Wunemannedune', what is
> the name of this town today?
>
> 44. The Romans had the shortest. The Anglos and the Saxons
> brought longer ones. The Vikings brought even longer ones,
> and the Normans brought the very longest. By the time the
> Plantagenets came to power, they were short again. What?
>
> 45. Who is 'e' named for?
>
> 46. When Gomer enlisted, he left a brother tending the family
> business back in Mayberry. What was the family business?
> What is the equivalent term across the pond?
>
> 47. Who shot J. R.?
>
> 48. What is the word that means, 'the substitution of an epithet,
> appellate, or the name of an office or dignity, for a
> person's proper name'?
>
> 49. A modern day English word named after a 'little bottle', but
> means something completely different from 'little bottle'. What
> is that word?
>
> 50. Well, I'm not the world's most physical guy, but when she
> squeezed me tight, she nearly broke my spine. Who walks like
> a woman and talks like a man?
Lola.
> 51. A Hindu word meaning 'foreigner' was adopted as an
> affectionate term for England. What word?
>
> 52. The oldest surviving OE/AS recipe in the British Museum
> explains how to prepare what?
Mead.
> 53. A Germanic word meaning 'foreign' was adopted as the name of
> a country. What country?
Wales.
> 54. Sung, 'He is driving 'round the corner in a green and yellow
> Ford...'. Who?
>
> 55. Radio 1, Radio 2, and so on up to Radio 'n'. What is 'n'?
>
> 56. How many words are mislept in the 'Rules' above
> (LP convention)?
>
> 57. Who had to collect 1,000 logs?
Paul Bunyan
> 58. Who killed Laura Palmer?
Her father, Mr. Palmer.
>
> 59. What town connects Edgar Allen Poe and H. L. Mencken?
New York
> 60. Clerics may not equip what kind of weapon?
>
> 61. The phrase, 'Cobblers to the Queen', takes on a
> more ribald meaning in the vicinity of a certain
> church. What church?
>
> 62. What is the word that means 'use of one word class
> functioning as another word class'?
>
> 63. The wedding march, 'Here Comes the Bride' was written
> by?
>
> 64. This fellow was trained as a mercer (textile dealer),
> gained commercial success on the continent, and served as
> governor of a trading company. Later, he received patronage
> from a French duchess to do something completely different.
> What was his name?
>
> 65. Upon hearing of a 'Smokey in your back door', one should
> check and possibly adjust what?
>
> 66. Where is Aquilany Castle?
>
> 67. Sargent and Constable. By rank, one meaning. By name,
> something else entirely. What were their careers?
Painters
>
> 68. Who rode Buttermilk?
>
> 69. Where might one go to engage in a 'piss up'?
>
> 70. Consider the euphemisms: 'Jiminy Crickets', 'Gee
> whillikers', and 'Jeepers'. Which is oldest?
Gee whillikers
>
> 71. 'All that glisters is not gold'. The source?
>
> 72. In 'Lord of the Flies', Golding uses the figurative
> expression, 'The scar was a bath of heat'. What type of
> expression is this?
>
> 73. Household item whose etymology ultimately leads to the
> Old Teutonic, 'thorny shrub'?
>
> 74. According to an American poet, born Zimmerman, 'orders from
> the DA (District Attorney)' about when to bust come in what
> month?
>
> 75. The OE kenning, 'dryht-guma', best translates into what
> Modern English word?
Teetotaler.
>
> 76. The main commodity of Arrakis?
Spice.
>
> 77. How many degrees of separation?
Six.
>
> 78. Which one won Super Bowl I?
>
> 79. Everybody knows what a 'Fess' looks like. *We* need to know
> what a 'Fess Cotised' looks like. *Exactly* please.
>
> 80. Many English towns whose name ends in '-by' testify to our
> linguistic heritage from what people?
The Danes.
> 81. Of the two animals in the Old Testament that spoke to humans,
> one was the serpent in the Book of Genesis. Please name the other.
>
> 82. What is Brooklyn's last name?
Dodgers.
>
> 83. A deserted field, with lightning and thunder overhead...
> Three witches make plans to see someone. Who? And
> who could do Tuesday?
>
> 84. A Modern English metal is named after a hostile, mythical
> monster that lived deep inside inside of copper and silver mines.
> Name either the metal, or its monster namesake.
>
> 85. Hot spurs? Come again? Hot spurs? How very odd. Where
> does one find 'hot spurs'?
>
> 86. The ritualistic cursing matches that were popular in 12th and
> 13th century England were known as what?
>
> 87. Gwynedd, Powys, Dyfed, and the fourth one please?
>
> 88. Beverage whose etymology ultimately leads to the Gaelic,
> 'water of life'?
Whiskey.
>
> 89. 'Strumpet', 'Slut', 'Minx', and 'Lady'. Which word is
> oldest?
Lady
>
> 90. What single word connects a 'gin-salt barroom queen', 'cleaned
> a lot of plates' and 'long distance information'?
>
> 91. 'Astral', 'Arabian Nights', and 'Antiquities' are the answers.
> Answers to what question?
What are three words that begin with the letter 'a'?
>
> 92. Which region of England was probably the first to emerge
> with the word, 'Church' as it is spelled and pronounced
> in Modern English?
The Midlands
>
> 93. A ship captain coined a pen-name from the depth of the water.
> What was this pen-name?
>
> 94. Which word doesn't belong with the others: Oferhyrnes,
> Cynebot, Heriot, and Wapentakes?
>
> 95. Mr. Aschenbach became possessed with desire for a young boy,
> Tadzio. Where?
Venice.
>
> 96. Beverage whose etymology ultimately leads to the Arabic,
> 'have no appetite'?
>
> 97. A latter-day Ovid described an overnight transformation
> into a cockroach, and inspired another Ovid to describe the
> return journey. Both authors, if you please.
>
> 98. Van Morrison, 'Them', and 'The Shadows of Knight' all sang
> about 'Gloria', (G-L-O-R-I-A), who came around 'just about
> midnight'. How tall was Gloria, from her head to the ground?
>
> 99. A literary term from the Greek, 'cutting short'?
>
> 100. We destroyed it in order to save it. What?
>
> 101. It was somewhere in a fairy tale. She was going to be an
> actress. What was 'I' going to do?
>
> 102. Household item whose etymology ultimately leads to the
> Aryan, 'dug out place'?
>
> 103. A viciously shrewd double switch-back at Blackfriars,
> followed by an (oh, so deadly) hunter's-heart fork at Monument,
> combined with a (devastatingly cruel, coup de grace) angler's
> cast at Temple might entitle one to claim victory at what?
>
> 104. Complete the following sequence: 8th, 7th, 6th, 5th,
> and...
4th
>
> 105. April! A month with sweet showers that pierce the
> drought of March to the root! People long to do something
> in April. What?
To go on pilgrimages.
>
> 106. Viking, Forties, Dogger, Humber, and another?
>
> 107. How many ubhef are there in a qnl?
>
> 108. Ballywoodane, Cloghplilip, Dromagh, and another one please?
>
> 109. Too many teardrops for one heart to be crying. Cry! How
> many tears?
96
>
> 110. What was lost that sent Beethoven into a rage?
Hearing
Georgette Franklin.
>
> 120. LP Middle-weight stumper: In a title match, how long
> would Hulk Hogan (or his opponent) be allowed out of the
> ring before being disqualified?
>
> 121. LP Heavy-weight Extra Credit: A popular name for a
> town. The states of Arkansas, Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky,
> Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina,
> Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont and Washington
> all boast a town with this name. What is it?
Midway.
>
> 122. LP Heavy-weight Killer: What was dimly seen through the
> mists of the deep?
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> you feel bloated, or is this a red herring?
>
> 124. UP Light-weight Extra Credit: Alice who?
>
> 125. UP Heavy-weight Extra Credit: Who wrote a letter with a
> thumbnail dipped in tar?
>
> 126. UP Ultra-killer: Oz and Kubla Kahn Connection?
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> above child's play. This section is for *serious* contenders with
> an axe to grind. Let's get down to business! Roll up your
> sleeves and put your *stuff* on it!
>
> 127. aue WarmUp: What comes after the protasis, epitasis, and
> the catastasis?
>
> 128. aue BallBreaker: The first three are the Hiddikel,
> Pison, and Gihon. What is the fourth?
The Euphrates.
>
> 129. aue BackBreaker: The first five are Tymbria, Helias,
> Chetas, Troien, and Antenorides. What is the sixth?
Dardan.
>
> 130. aue Humdinger: Melpomene's sister?
Thalia.
>
> 131. aue Hoopie Doopie: The first eight are Hector, Alexander,
> Julius Caesar, Joshua, David, Judas Maccabeus, Arthur, and
> Charlemagne. Who is the ninth?
Napoleon Bonaparte
>
> 132. aue Mind Boggler: The first six are the Palatine,
> Capitoline, Aventine, Caeline, Esquiline, Viminal. What is
> the seventh?
Quirinal
>
> 133. aue Hunker Dunker: The first six are arithmetic, geometry,
> astronomy, music, grammar, and logic. What is the seventh?
Rhetoric.
Jack Gavin
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>1. A WWII vet, living in the deep South, plays some poker with
>his buddies, ransacks his houseguest's belongings, slaps his
>wife around, and goes on to become a piece of literary heritage.
>What was his name or who created him?
>
>2. A little old lady. From where?
Pasedena (California)
>
>3. Through the eyes of a poet, the Duke of Ferrara tells us
>about a painting ("Will't please you sit and look at her?").
>What's the name of the poet?
>
>4. Name two quarterbacks who retired as restaurateurs?
>
>5. Two Wurtzburg graduates are hired to assassinate someone.
>Their names?
>
>6. Circle, Northern, and another?
>
>7. Which word doesn't belong with the others: Arban,
>Minggam, Tuman, Djaghoum, and Polka?
>
>8. I want to be a tree! What country?
>
>9. Apparently, '...the way the sunlight plays upon her hair...'
>and '...the wind that wifts (wafts? lifts?) her perfume through
>the air...' induce one to pick up something. What does
>one pick up?
>
>10. A beverage whose etymology ultimately leads
>to the Latin, 'everlasting youth'?
>
>11. 'From Soho down to Brighton, I must have played them all...'
>Played what?
Pinball
>
>12. 'A Day in the Life of America' takes place every 20 minutes
>where?
>
>13. A Great Geat. Name the Geat.
>
>14. What single word connects the two words 'saffron' and
>'admiral'?
>
>15. In 'Sleepy London Town' there's just no place for what?
>
>16. They got there sooner than anybody else in what state?
Oklahoma
>
>17. A vessel that can 'decloak' must do what before it
>'decloaks'?
Raise shields
>
>18. A neighbourhood in Manhattan is named after a swamp,
>another for a farm. Name these two neighbourhoods.
>
>19. Name five Jedi Knights.
Anakin Skywalker, Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, Qui-Gon Jinn
>
>20. A high street tailor, a fruit manufacturer, and a famous General
>are all intertwined as the possible source for what expression?
>
>21. The English language owes a legacy to a town
>called 'Peterborough'. What?
>
>22. What is the traditional border between the 'Man of
>Kent' and the 'Kentish Man'?
>
>23. What is the traditional border between the letter 'W'
>and the letter 'K'?
>
>24. What famous novel did I. P. Freely write?
Yellow River (I thought it was I. P. Daily)
>
>25. 'Auld Reekie' is a nickname for what?
>
>26. A WWII machine gun, a cement truck, and a man's
>suit have been offered as origins for what phrase?
>
>27. A 'Subway Series' might conceivably happen in any year.
>How?
Chicage White Sox & Cubs, NY Yankees & Mets
>
>28. The OE terms, 'wyrplas', 'bewitian', and 'impian'
>provide early evidence of what sport?
>
>29. The official name of the Orbital?
>
>30. What is the chief characteristic of a Pommy's towel?
>
>31. Someone whose name means 'exalted rank' recently married
>someone whose name means 'greater in rank'. Her first name?
>
>32. Nora, Nils, Anna, and Doctor Rank. Who created them?
>
>33. What noise would a mammal named 'Figaro' make?
>
>34. The principal duties of the 'Precentor' and the
>'Armarius' were to look after whose needs?
>
>35. 'The Opera ain't over till the fat lady sings'.
>What sport?
Baseball.
>
>36. What do donkey's ears measure?
>
>37. A ram is the mascot for both a US university and a British
>soccer team. Name both!
Fordham Univ (US)
>
>38. What was the street address of Kookie's work place?
>
>39. The thorn disappeared, the rose remained. What replaced the
>thorn?
th
>
>40. A race to 'Dead Man's Curve'! It began when a Sting Ray waited
>at a stop light. What was the make of the other car?
>
>41. What is the youngest letter of the Modern English alphabet?
>
>42. A family of Dukes drove a car with a stars and bars on it.
>Who drove the jeep?
Daisy Duke
>
>43. Listed in the Doomsday book as 'Wunemannedune', what is
>the name of this town today?
[Shouldn't that be "Domesday book"?]
>
>44. The Romans had the shortest. The Anglos and the Saxons
>brought longer ones. The Vikings brought even longer ones,
>and the Normans brought the very longest. By the time the
>Plantagenets came to power, they were short again. What?
>
>45. Who is 'e' named for?
>
>46. When Gomer enlisted, he left a brother tending the family
>business back in Mayberry. What was the family business?
>What is the equivalent term across the pond?
>
>47. Who shot J. R.?
>
>48. What is the word that means, 'the substitution of an epithet,
>appellate, or the name of an office or dignity, for a
>person's proper name'?
appositive
>
>49. A modern day English word named after a 'little bottle', but
>means something completely different from 'little bottle'. What
>is that word?
>
>50. Well, I'm not the world's most physical guy, but when she
>squeezed me tight, she nearly broke my spine. Who walks like
>a woman and talks like a man?
Lo-lo-lo-la Lola
>
>51. A Hindu word meaning 'foreigner' was adopted as an
>affectionate term for England. What word?
>
>52. The oldest surviving OE/AS recipe in the British Museum
>explains how to prepare what?
>
>53. A Germanic word meaning 'foreign' was adopted as the name of
>a country. What country?
>
>54. Sung, 'He is driving 'round the corner in a green and yellow
>Ford...'. Who?
>
>55. Radio 1, Radio 2, and so on up to Radio 'n'. What is 'n'?
>
>56. How many words are mislept in the 'Rules' above
>(LP convention)?
>
>57. Who had to collect 1,000 logs?
>
>58. Who killed Laura Palmer?
>
Pop, while inhabited by Bob.
>59. What town connects Edgar Allen Poe and H. L. Mencken?
>
>60. Clerics may not equip what kind of weapon?
>
>61. The phrase, 'Cobblers to the Queen', takes on a
>more ribald meaning in the vicinity of a certain
>church. What church?
>
>62. What is the word that means 'use of one word class
>functioning as another word class'?
>
>63. The wedding march, 'Here Comes the Bride' was written
>by?
>
>64. This fellow was trained as a mercer (textile dealer),
>gained commercial success on the continent, and served as
>governor of a trading company. Later, he received patronage
>from a French duchess to do something completely different.
>What was his name?
>
>65. Upon hearing of a 'Smokey in your back door', one should
>check and possibly adjust what?
Your rear-view mirror in your car, while driving speedily.
>
>66. Where is Aquilany Castle?
>
>67. Sargent and Constable. By rank, one meaning. By name,
>something else entirely. What were their careers?
>
>68. Who rode Buttermilk?
>
>69. Where might one go to engage in a 'piss up'?
>
>70. Consider the euphemisms: 'Jiminy Crickets', 'Gee
>whillikers', and 'Jeepers'. Which is oldest?
>
>71. 'All that glisters is not gold'. The source?
>
>72. In 'Lord of the Flies', Golding uses the figurative
>expression, 'The scar was a bath of heat'. What type of
>expression is this?
I never metaphor I didn't like.
>
>73. Household item whose etymology ultimately leads to the
>Old Teutonic, 'thorny shrub'?
>
>74. According to an American poet, born Zimmerman, 'orders from
>the DA (District Attorney)' about when to bust come in what
>month?
Robert Zimmerman, aka Bob Dylan. Month _________.
>
>75. The OE kenning, 'dryht-guma', best translates into what
>Modern English word?
>
>76. The main commodity of Arrakis?
>
>77. How many degrees of separation?
>
six
>78. Which one won Super Bowl I?
>
NY Jets
>79. Everybody knows what a 'Fess' looks like. *We* need to know
>what a 'Fess Cotised' looks like. *Exactly* please.
>
>80. Many English towns whose name ends in '-by' testify to our
>linguistic heritage from what people?
>
>81. Of the two animals in the Old Testament that spoke to humans,
>one was the serpent in the Book of Genesis. Please name the other.
>
>82. What is Brooklyn's last name?
>
>83. A deserted field, with lightning and thunder overhead...
>Three witches make plans to see someone. Who? And
>who could do Tuesday?
The three witches of Eastwick (Cher, Susan Sarandon, Sara Jessica Parker),
to see Satan (Jack Nicholson)
>
>84. A Modern English metal is named after a hostile, mythical
>monster that lived deep inside inside of copper and silver mines.
>Name either the metal, or its monster namesake.
>
>85. Hot spurs? Come again? Hot spurs? How very odd. Where
>does one find 'hot spurs'?
>
>86. The ritualistic cursing matches that were popular in 12th and
>13th century England were known as what?
>
>87. Gwynedd, Powys, Dyfed, and the fourth one please?
>
>88. Beverage whose etymology ultimately leads to the Gaelic,
>'water of life'?
whiskey
>
>89. 'Strumpet', 'Slut', 'Minx', and 'Lady'. Which word is
>oldest?
>
>90. What single word connects a 'gin-salt barroom queen', 'cleaned
>a lot of plates' and 'long distance information'?
>
>91. 'Astral', 'Arabian Nights', and 'Antiquities' are the answers.
>Answers to what question?
>
>92. Which region of England was probably the first to emerge
>with the word, 'Church' as it is spelled and pronounced
>in Modern English?
>
>93. A ship captain coined a pen-name from the depth of the water.
>What was this pen-name?
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), but was he a captain?
>
>94. Which word doesn't belong with the others: Oferhyrnes,
>Cynebot, Heriot, and Wapentakes?
>
>95. Mr. Aschenbach became possessed with desire for a young boy,
>Tadzio. Where?
>
>96. Beverage whose etymology ultimately leads to the Arabic,
>'have no appetite'?
>
>97. A latter-day Ovid described an overnight transformation
>into a cockroach, and inspired another Ovid to describe the
>return journey. Both authors, if you please.
>
>98. Van Morrison, 'Them', and 'The Shadows of Knight' all sang
>about 'Gloria', (G-L-O-R-I-A), who came around 'just about
>midnight'. How tall was Gloria, from her head to the ground?
>
>99. A literary term from the Greek, 'cutting short'?
>
>100. We destroyed it in order to save it. What?
Vietnam village... Mi Lai?
>
>101. It was somewhere in a fairy tale. She was going to be an
>actress. What was 'I' going to do?
Learn to fly (Harry Chapin, "Taxi")
>
>102. Household item whose etymology ultimately leads to the
>Aryan, 'dug out place'?
>
>103. A viciously shrewd double switch-back at Blackfriars,
>followed by an (oh, so deadly) hunter's-heart fork at Monument,
>combined with a (devastatingly cruel, coup de grace) angler's
>cast at Temple might entitle one to claim victory at what?
>
>104. Complete the following sequence: 8th, 7th, 6th, 5th,
>and...
>
>105. April! A month with sweet showers that pierce the
>drought of March to the root! People long to do something
>in April. What?
Go to Paris.
>
>106. Viking, Forties, Dogger, Humber, and another?
>
>107. How many ubhef are there in a qnl?
>
>108. Ballywoodane, Cloghplilip, Dromagh, and another one please?
>
>109. Too many teardrops for one heart to be crying. Cry! How
>many tears?
10,000, I think
Georgette
Philosophy? (I'm thinking Liberal Arts)
Jack Gavin
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>Jack Gavin wrote:
>
><snip>
>
>> >78. Which one won Super Bowl I?
>> >
>> NY Jets
>
>Oakland. Jets beat Baltimore in III.
>
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> The whole nine yards.
That's it. I deleted the rest of the valiant efforts, some of them
seemingly quite remarkable, just to get to bed before Y2K happens, whatever
that means.
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> A few that I'm fairly sure of, for the use of any trusting souls out
> there:
>
>
>
> > 16. They got there sooner than anybody else in what state?
>
>
> > 24. What famous novel did I. P. Freely write?
>
>
> > How?
>
> BART, which is a subway for much of its length. Those two teams
> actually played in the year of the recent big earthquake,
>
>
>
> > 35. 'The Opera ain't over till the fat lady sings'.
> > What sport?
>
>
> > soccer team. Name both!
>
>
> > 38. What was the street address of Kookie's work place?
>
> nickname. There is a "Sunset Strip" (actual street name) in Broward
> County, Fla.
>
>
> (separate incident). And there was a third incident in which it appears
> the assailant was never discovered.
>
> > means something completely different from 'little bottle'. What
> > is that word?
>
>
> > 59. What town connects Edgar Allen Poe and H. L. Mencken?
>
>
>
> lyrics.
>
> > something else entirely. What were their careers?
>
>
> > 68. Who rode Buttermilk?
>
> Dale Evans.
>
>
>
>
> >
>
> >
>
>
> > 93. A ship captain coined a pen-name from the depth of the water.
> > What was this pen-name?
>
>
> > 100. We destroyed it in order to save it. What?
>
>
> > 105. April! A month with sweet showers that pierce the
> > drought of March to the root! People long to do something
> > in April. What?
>
>
> > 110. What was lost that sent Beethoven into a rage?
>
>
> > 130. aue Humdinger: Melpomene's sister?
>
> Euterpe, flute playing
> Thaleia (Thalia), comedy
> Terpsichore, dance
> Erato, love poems
> Polymnia, sacred music
> Ourania (Urania), astrology
> Kalliope (Calliope), epic poetry
>
> See: http://www.messagenet.com/myths/bios/muses.html
>
> > Capitoline, Aventine, Caeline, Esquiline, Viminal. What is
> > the seventh?
>
>
> Bob Lieblich
Unbelievable! Bob, you and your family have won a vacation, all expenses,
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you and your family, here on the Space Coast of Florida, a stone's throw
from the marvels of Disney World, Sea World and Universal Studios, as well
as a personally guided tour of places where alligators relieve some of the
concerns of world population growth.
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> On 15 Jul 1999, Garry J. Vass wrote:
>
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[I don't propose to show my full hand as yet, given a close reading of
the rules. Here, however are *some* of the answers of which I am
positive, and some thinking on some others = MB]
> 1. A WWII vet, living in the deep South, plays some poker with
> his buddies, ransacks his houseguest's belongings, slaps his
> wife around, and goes on to become a piece of literary heritage.
> What was his name or who created him?
>
> 2. A little old lady. From where?
>
> 3. Through the eyes of a poet, the Duke of Ferrara tells us
> about a painting ("Will't please you sit and look at her?").
> What's the name of the poet?
>
> 4. Name two quarterbacks who retired as restaurateurs?
>
> 5. Two Wurtzburg graduates are hired to assassinate someone.
> Their names?
>
> 6. Circle, Northern, and another?
District.
>
> 7. Which word doesn't belong with the others: Arban,
> Minggam, Tuman, Djaghoum, and Polka?
>
> 8. I want to be a tree! What country?
[Sounds sort of Buddhist to me}
>
> 9. Apparently, '...the way the sunlight plays upon her hair...'
> and '...the wind that wifts (wafts? lifts?) her perfume through
> the air...' induce one to pick up something. What does
> one pick up?
Good Vibrations (Beach Boys 1822-95)
>
> 10. A beverage whose etymology ultimately leads
> to the Latin, 'everlasting youth'?
>
> 11. 'From Soho down to Brighton, I must have played them all...'
> Played what?
>
> 12. 'A Day in the Life of America' takes place every 20 minutes
> where?
>
> 13. A Great Geat. Name the Geat.
>
> 14. What single word connects the two words 'saffron' and
> 'admiral'?
[Could be Butterfly - there's a Red Admiral, isn't there a Saffron
Wossname?]
>
> 15. In 'Sleepy London Town' there's just no place for what?
>
> 16. They got there sooner than anybody else in what state?
>
> 17. A vessel that can 'decloak' must do what before it
> 'decloaks'?
>
> 18. A neighbourhood in Manhattan is named after a swamp,
> another for a farm. Name these two neighbourhoods.
>
> 19. Name five Jedi Knights.
>
> 20. A high street tailor, a fruit manufacturer, and a famous
General
> are all intertwined as the possible source for what expression?
>
> 21. The English language owes a legacy to a town
> called 'Peterborough'. What?
[They can't be serious. Peterborough's soccer team are known as "The
Posh." Maybe *that*s the derivation...}
>
> 22. What is the traditional border between the 'Man of
> Kent' and the 'Kentish Man'?
A river [The Medway, I think]
>
> 23. What is the traditional border between the letter 'W'
> and the letter 'K'?
>
> 24. What famous novel did I. P. Freely write?
>
> 25. 'Auld Reekie' is a nickname for what?
The Scottish capital, Edinburgh.
>
> 26. A WWII machine gun, a cement truck, and a man's
> suit have been offered as origins for what phrase?
>
> 27. A 'Subway Series' might conceivably happen in any year.
> How?
>
> 28. The OE terms, 'wyrplas', 'bewitian', and 'impian'
> provide early evidence of what sport?
>
> 29. The official name of the Orbital?
[At least one city I have visited has had an encircling road called
"The Orbital." Its official name would presumably be the A123, or
summat]
>
> 30. What is the chief characteristic of a Pommy's towel?
[I don't suppose it would be the Aussie pronunciation "taaiaal", would
it?"
>
> 31. Someone whose name means 'exalted rank' recently married
> someone whose name means 'greater in rank'. Her first name?
[Could this be David (Beckham) and Victoria (Wossname)(aka "Posh"
Spice) - if so, I think I begin to see a thread here...]
>
> 32. Nora, Nils, Anna, and Doctor Rank. Who created them?
>
> 33. What noise would a mammal named 'Figaro' make?
>
> 34. The principal duties of the 'Precentor' and the
> 'Armarius' were to look after whose needs?
>
> 35. 'The Opera ain't over till the fat lady sings'.
> What sport?
>
> 36. What do donkey's ears measure?
>
> 37. A ram is the mascot for both a US university and a British
> soccer team. Name both!
The soccer team is Derby County.
> 38. What was the street address of Kookie's work place?
>
> 39. The thorn disappeared, the rose remained. What replaced the
> thorn?
>
> 40. A race to 'Dead Man's Curve'! It began when a Sting Ray waited
> at a stop light. What was the make of the other car?
>
> 41. What is the youngest letter of the Modern English alphabet?
>
> 42. A family of Dukes drove a car with a stars and bars on it.
> Who drove the jeep?
>
> 43. Listed in the Doomsday book as 'Wunemannedune', what is
> the name of this town today?
[Dunno, but as Jack said, shouldn't that be Domesday?]
> 44. The Romans had the shortest. The Anglos and the Saxons
> brought longer ones. The Vikings brought even longer ones,
> and the Normans brought the very longest. By the time the
> Plantagenets came to power, they were short again. What?
[My first thought was swords - but this is aue, after all. Could it be
vowels?]
> 45. Who is 'e' named for?
>
> 46. When Gomer enlisted, he left a brother tending the family
> business back in Mayberry. What was the family business?
> What is the equivalent term across the pond?
>
> 47. Who shot J. R.?
>
> 48. What is the word that means, 'the substitution of an epithet,
> appellate, or the name of an office or dignity, for a
> person's proper name'?
>
> 49. A modern day English word named after a 'little bottle', but
> means something completely different from 'little bottle'. What
> is that word?
>
> 50. Well, I'm not the world's most physical guy, but when she
> squeezed me tight, she nearly broke my spine. Who walks like
> a woman and talks like a man?
>
> 51. A Hindu word meaning 'foreigner' was adopted as an
> affectionate term for England. What word?
[Could this be "Blighty?"]
> 52. The oldest surviving OE/AS recipe in the British Museum
> explains how to prepare what?
>
> 53. A Germanic word meaning 'foreign' was adopted as the name of
> a country. What country?
>
> 54. Sung, 'He is driving 'round the corner in a green and yellow
> Ford...'. Who?
>
> 55. Radio 1, Radio 2, and so on up to Radio 'n'. What is 'n'?
Five.
>
> 56. How many words are mislept in the 'Rules' above
> (LP convention)?
There may be several misspelt words, but the word "mislept" does not
occur at all. The answer is therefore zero.
> 57. Who had to collect 1,000 logs?
>
> 58. Who killed Laura Palmer?
>
> 59. What town connects Edgar Allen Poe and H. L. Mencken?
>
> 60. Clerics may not equip what kind of weapon?
>
> 61. The phrase, 'Cobblers to the Queen', takes on a
> more ribald meaning in the vicinity of a certain
> church. What church?
>
> 62. What is the word that means 'use of one word class
> functioning as another word class'?
>
> 63. The wedding march, 'Here Comes the Bride' was written
> by?
>
> 64. This fellow was trained as a mercer (textile dealer),
> gained commercial success on the continent, and served as
> governor of a trading company. Later, he received patronage
> from a French duchess to do something completely different.
> What was his name?
>
> 65. Upon hearing of a 'Smokey in your back door', one should
> check and possibly adjust what?
>
> 66. Where is Aquilany Castle?
>
> 67. Sargent and Constable. By rank, one meaning. By name,
> something else entirely. What were their careers?
[Others have said "painters," but "careers" is plainly plural, and
wasn't Sir Malcolm Sargent a composer/conducter?]
> 68. Who rode Buttermilk?
>
> 69. Where might one go to engage in a 'piss up'?
I generally go to my local.
> 70. Consider the euphemisms: 'Jiminy Crickets', 'Gee
> whillikers', and 'Jeepers'. Which is oldest?
>
> 71. 'All that glisters is not gold'. The source?
[Someone said Shksps MOV, but I seem to remember hearing differently.
Dunne? Marlowe? Milton? Dunno]
> 72. In 'Lord of the Flies', Golding uses the figurative
> expression, 'The scar was a bath of heat'. What type of
> expression is this?
Looks like a heinous mixed metaphor to me.
> 73. Household item whose etymology ultimately leads to the
> Old Teutonic, 'thorny shrub'?
>
> 74. According to an American poet, born Zimmerman, 'orders from
> the DA (District Attorney)' about when to bust come in what
> month?
"Must bust in early May,
Orders from the DA..."
At least, that's how it sounded to me, but Dylan never published his
lyrics in those days, so he may have been singing[sic] "before May."
God, what's the name of the err, song?
"...the pump don't work 'cos the vandals took the handle."
> 75. The OE kenning, 'dryht-guma', best translates into what
> Modern English word?
>
> 76. The main commodity of Arrakis?
>
> 77. How many degrees of separation?
>
> 78. Which one won Super Bowl I?
>
> 79. Everybody knows what a 'Fess' looks like. *We* need to know
> what a 'Fess Cotised' looks like. *Exactly* please.
>
> 80. Many English towns whose name ends in '-by' testify to our
> linguistic heritage from what people?
>
> 81. Of the two animals in the Old Testament that spoke to humans,
> one was the serpent in the Book of Genesis. Please name the other.
>
> 82. What is Brooklyn's last name?
You people are obsessed with anything to to with "posh," aren't you?
Brooklyn (daughter of David and Posh) presumably suffers under the
surname "Beckham."
> 83. A deserted field, with lightning and thunder overhead...
> Three witches make plans to see someone. Who? And
> who could do Tuesday?
This is Terry Pratchett, in "Wyrd Sisters," one of an improbably long
sequence of side-splittingly satirical novels. I think it was Nanny
Ogg who responded to "When shall we three meet again..." with "Well, I
can do Tuesday..."
> 84. A Modern English metal is named after a hostile, mythical
> monster that lived deep inside inside of copper and silver mines.
> Name either the metal, or its monster namesake.
>
> 85. Hot spurs? Come again? Hot spurs? How very odd. Where
> does one find 'hot spurs'?
>
> 86. The ritualistic cursing matches that were popular in 12th and
> 13th century England were known as what?
>
> 87. Gwynedd, Powys, Dyfed, and the fourth one please?
>
> 88. Beverage whose etymology ultimately leads to the Gaelic,
> 'water of life'?
>
> 89. 'Strumpet', 'Slut', 'Minx', and 'Lady'. Which word is
> oldest?
>
> 90. What single word connects a 'gin-salt barroom queen', 'cleaned
> a lot of plates' and 'long distance information'?
["Long distance information..." makes me think of Chuck Berry's
"Memphis." The other two sound like song lyrics, though I can't place
them. If they are from other songs containing "Memphis" in their
titles (I'm sure there are lots) then we may be on to something...]
> 91. 'Astral', 'Arabian Nights', and 'Antiquities' are the answers.
> Answers to what question?
>
> 92. Which region of England was probably the first to emerge
> with the word, 'Church' as it is spelled and pronounced
> in Modern English?
>
> 93. A ship captain coined a pen-name from the depth of the water.
> What was this pen-name?
>
> 94. Which word doesn't belong with the others: Oferhyrnes,
> Cynebot, Heriot, and Wapentakes?
>
> 95. Mr. Aschenbach became possessed with desire for a young boy,
> Tadzio. Where?
>
> 96. Beverage whose etymology ultimately leads to the Arabic,
> 'have no appetite'?
[Don't know what it's called, but I think I've drunk lots of it]
> 97. A latter-day Ovid described an overnight transformation
> into a cockroach, and inspired another Ovid to describe the
> return journey. Both authors, if you please.
>
> 98. Van Morrison, 'Them', and 'The Shadows of Knight' all sang
> about 'Gloria', (G-L-O-R-I-A), who came around 'just about
> midnight'. How tall was Gloria, from her head to the ground?
>
> 99. A literary term from the Greek, 'cutting short'?
>
> 100. We destroyed it in order to save it. What?
>
> 101. It was somewhere in a fairy tale. She was going to be an
> actress. What was 'I' going to do?
>
> 102. Household item whose etymology ultimately leads to the
> Aryan, 'dug out place'?
>
> 103. A viciously shrewd double switch-back at Blackfriars,
> followed by an (oh, so deadly) hunter's-heart fork at Monument,
> combined with a (devastatingly cruel, coup de grace) angler's
> cast at Temple might entitle one to claim victory at what?
[I waver between two guesses. I think all those places are on the
Thames, so it could be the annual Oxford-Cambridge boat race. But I've
never heard all those funny terms before, so maybe it's Mornington
Crescent?]
> 104. Complete the following sequence: 8th, 7th, 6th, 5th,
> and...
>
> 105. April! A month with sweet showers that pierce the
> drought of March to the root! People long to do something
> in April. What?
>
> 106. Viking, Forties, Dogger, Humber, and another?
[North sea oil fields? Is the other one Brent?]
> 107. How many ubhef are there in a qnl?
>
> 108. Ballywoodane, Cloghplilip, Dromagh, and another one please?
>
> 109. Too many teardrops for one heart to be crying. Cry! How
> many tears?
>
> 110. What was lost that sent Beethoven into a rage?
>
[Does that mean that we RPers can't answer them? Not that I can,
anyway]
> 119. LP Feather-weight Extra Credit: Murray, Lou, Mary,
> and Ted... Who did Ted marry?
>
> 120. LP Middle-weight stumper: In a title match, how long
> would Hulk Hogan (or his opponent) be allowed out of the
> ring before being disqualified?
>
> 121. LP Heavy-weight Extra Credit: A popular name for a
> town. The states of Arkansas, Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky,
> Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina,
> Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont and Washington
> all boast a town with this name. What is it?
[I can tell you (even from over here) that most US states have a town
called either "Columbus" or "Columbia." However, there also appears to
be a surfeit of "Salem"s]
> 122. LP Heavy-weight Killer: What was dimly seen through the
> mists of the deep?
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> 123. UP Middle-weight Extra Credit: Do too many kippers make
> you feel bloated, or is this a red herring?
>
> 124. UP Light-weight Extra Credit: Alice who?
[Isn't that patronisingly easy? Or am I missing something?]
> 125. UP Heavy-weight Extra Credit: Who wrote a letter with a
> thumbnail dipped in tar?
>
> 126. UP Ultra-killer: Oz and Kubla Kahn Connection?
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> Note: We knew that the good people of aue would find all of the
> above child's play. This section is for *serious* contenders with
> an axe to grind. Let's get down to business! Roll up your
> sleeves and put your *stuff* on it!
>
> 127. aue WarmUp: What comes after the protasis, epitasis, and
> the catastasis?
[At a guess, the hypostasis]
> 128. aue BallBreaker: The first three are the Hiddikel,
> Pison, and Gihon. What is the fourth?
>
> 129. aue BackBreaker: The first five are Tymbria, Helias,
> Chetas, Troien, and Antenorides. What is the sixth?
>
> 130. aue Humdinger: Melpomene's sister?
>
> 131. aue Hoopie Doopie: The first eight are Hector, Alexander,
> Julius Caesar, Joshua, David, Judas Maccabeus, Arthur, and
> Charlemagne. Who is the ninth?
>
> 132. aue Mind Boggler: The first six are the Palatine,
> Capitoline, Aventine, Caeline, Esquiline, Viminal. What is
> the seventh?
>
> 133. aue Hunker Dunker: The first six are arithmetic, geometry,
> astronomy, music, grammar, and logic. What is the seventh?
>
Lea V. Usin
>> 3. Through the eyes of a poet, the Duke of Ferrara tells us
>> about a painting ("Will't please you sit and look at her?").
>> What's the name of the poet?
>> 73. Household item whose etymology ultimately leads to the
>> Old Teutonic, 'thorny shrub'?
broom
>> 99. A literary term from the Greek, 'cutting short'?
stichomythia
--
Lea V. Usin
ac...@ncf.ca
aue competition
> The Questions.
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> 1. A WWII vet, living in the deep South, plays some poker with
> his buddies, ransacks his houseguest's belongings, slaps his
> wife around, and goes on to become a piece of literary heritage.
> What was his name or who created him?
>
> 2. A little old lady. From where?
>
> 3. Through the eyes of a poet, the Duke of Ferrara tells us
> about a painting ("Will't please you sit and look at her?").
> What's the name of the poet?
>
> 4. Name two quarterbacks who retired as restaurateurs?
>
> 5. Two Wurtzburg graduates are hired to assassinate someone.
> Their names?
>
> 6. Circle, Northern, and another?
>
> 7. Which word doesn't belong with the others: Arban,
> Minggam, Tuman, Djaghoum, and Polka?
>
> 8. I want to be a tree! What country?
>
> 9. Apparently, '...the way the sunlight plays upon her hair...'
> and '...the wind that wifts (wafts? lifts?) her perfume through
> the air...' induce one to pick up something. What does
> one pick up?
>
> 10. A beverage whose etymology ultimately leads
> to the Latin, 'everlasting youth'?
>
> 11. 'From Soho down to Brighton, I must have played them all...'
> Played what?
>
The silver ball. Pinball. Starting to swagger with confidence!
> 12. 'A Day in the Life of America' takes place every 20 minutes
> where?
>
> 13. A Great Geat. Name the Geat.
>
> 14. What single word connects the two words 'saffron' and
> 'admiral'?
>
> 15. In 'Sleepy London Town' there's just no place for what?
>
> 16. They got there sooner than anybody else in what state?
>
> 17. A vessel that can 'decloak' must do what before it
> 'decloaks'?
>
> 18. A neighbourhood in Manhattan is named after a swamp,
> another for a farm. Name these two neighbourhoods.
>
> 19. Name five Jedi Knights.
>
Yoda, Luke, Obi Wan, Anaken, Leiea.
> 20. A high street tailor, a fruit manufacturer, and a famous General
> are all intertwined as the possible source for what expression?
>
> 21. The English language owes a legacy to a town
> called 'Peterborough'. What?
>
> 22. What is the traditional border between the 'Man of
> Kent' and the 'Kentish Man'?
>
> 23. What is the traditional border between the letter 'W'
> and the letter 'K'?
>
> 24. What famous novel did I. P. Freely write?
>
> 25. 'Auld Reekie' is a nickname for what?
>
> 26. A WWII machine gun, a cement truck, and a man's
> suit have been offered as origins for what phrase?
>
> 27. A 'Subway Series' might conceivably happen in any year.
> How?
>
> 28. The OE terms, 'wyrplas', 'bewitian', and 'impian'
> provide early evidence of what sport?
>
> 29. The official name of the Orbital?
>
The North Circular Road.
> 30. What is the chief characteristic of a Pommy's towel?
>
> 31. Someone whose name means 'exalted rank' recently married
> someone whose name means 'greater in rank'. Her first name?
>
> 32. Nora, Nils, Anna, and Doctor Rank. Who created them?
>
> 33. What noise would a mammal named 'Figaro' make?
>
> 34. The principal duties of the 'Precentor' and the
> 'Armarius' were to look after whose needs?
>
> 35. 'The Opera ain't over till the fat lady sings'.
> What sport?
>
> 36. What do donkey's ears measure?
>
A long time.
> 37. A ram is the mascot for both a US university and a British
> soccer team. Name both!
>
Chelsea. half credit.
Lola
> 51. A Hindu word meaning 'foreigner' was adopted as an
> affectionate term for England. What word?
>
Old Blighty. Closing the gap here.
> 52. The oldest surviving OE/AS recipe in the British Museum
> explains how to prepare what?
>
> 53. A Germanic word meaning 'foreign' was adopted as the name of
> a country. What country?
>
> 54. Sung, 'He is driving 'round the corner in a green and yellow
> Ford...'. Who?
>
> 55. Radio 1, Radio 2, and so on up to Radio 'n'. What is 'n'?
>
Radio 5
Presumably one's local.
> 70. Consider the euphemisms: 'Jiminy Crickets', 'Gee
> whillikers', and 'Jeepers'. Which is oldest?
>
> 71. 'All that glisters is not gold'. The source?
>
> 72. In 'Lord of the Flies', Golding uses the figurative
> expression, 'The scar was a bath of heat'. What type of
> expression is this?
>
> 73. Household item whose etymology ultimately leads to the
> Old Teutonic, 'thorny shrub'?
>
> 74. According to an American poet, born Zimmerman, 'orders from
> the DA (District Attorney)' about when to bust come in what
> month?
>
> 75. The OE kenning, 'dryht-guma', best translates into what
> Modern English word?
>
> 76. The main commodity of Arrakis?
>
> 77. How many degrees of separation?
>
> 78. Which one won Super Bowl I?
>
> 79. Everybody knows what a 'Fess' looks like. *We* need to know
> what a 'Fess Cotised' looks like. *Exactly* please.
>
> 80. Many English towns whose name ends in '-by' testify to our
> linguistic heritage from what people?
>
> 81. Of the two animals in the Old Testament that spoke to humans,
> one was the serpent in the Book of Genesis. Please name the other.
>
> 82. What is Brooklyn's last name?
>
Adams.
> 83. A deserted field, with lightning and thunder overhead...
> Three witches make plans to see someone. Who? And
> who could do Tuesday?
>
> 84. A Modern English metal is named after a hostile, mythical
> monster that lived deep inside inside of copper and silver mines.
> Name either the metal, or its monster namesake.
>
> 85. Hot spurs? Come again? Hot spurs? How very odd. Where
> does one find 'hot spurs'?
>
Tottenham. Definitely Tottenham.
Mornington crescent.
> 104. Complete the following sequence: 8th, 7th, 6th, 5th,
> and...
>
> 105. April! A month with sweet showers that pierce the
> drought of March to the root! People long to do something
> in April. What?
>
> 106. Viking, Forties, Dogger, Humber, and another?
>
> 107. How many ubhef are there in a qnl?
>
> 108. Ballywoodane, Cloghplilip, Dromagh, and another one please?
>
> 109. Too many teardrops for one heart to be crying. Cry! How
> many tears?
>
> 110. What was lost that sent Beethoven into a rage?
>
> 111. What connects Dr Minor, Mr Bobbitt and the OED?
>
> 112. A partitive genitive would most likely be found in what
> figure of speech?
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> 113. RP Feather-weight Extra Credit: Prince William's favourite
> hat demonstrates unabashed favouritism to what?
>
Aston villa.
> 114. London Scene Bantam-weight Extra Credit: One of the
> following does not belong with the others. Please
> select the one that does not belong: [1] The Pukes;
> [2] Dripping Snot; [3] Tommy Turd and The Crap Stools;
> [4] The Stomach Pumps; and [5] The Battersea Jazz Band.
>
Must check Time out
Cooper.
> 125. UP Heavy-weight Extra Credit: Who wrote a letter with a
> thumbnail dipped in tar?
>
> 126. UP Ultra-killer: Oz and Kubla Kahn Connection?
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> Note: We knew that the good people of aue would find all of the
> above child's play. This section is for *serious* contenders with
> an axe to grind. Let's get down to business! Roll up your
> sleeves and put your *stuff* on it!
>
> 127. aue WarmUp: What comes after the protasis, epitasis, and
> the catastasis?
>
the constipation.
> 128. aue BallBreaker: The first three are the Hiddikel,
> Pison, and Gihon. What is the fourth?
>
> 129. aue BackBreaker: The first five are Tymbria, Helias,
> Chetas, Troien, and Antenorides. What is the sixth?
>
> 130. aue Humdinger: Melpomene's sister?
>
> 131. aue Hoopie Doopie: The first eight are Hector, Alexander,
> Julius Caesar, Joshua, David, Judas Maccabeus, Arthur, and
> Charlemagne. Who is the ninth?
>
> 132. aue Mind Boggler: The first six are the Palatine,
> Capitoline, Aventine, Caeline, Esquiline, Viminal. What is
> the seventh?
>
> 133. aue Hunker Dunker: The first six are arithmetic, geometry,
> astronomy, music, grammar, and logic. What is the seventh?
>
> 134. aue Totally Official Millennium Class: The Cirencester
> Square? No, but something very close. The first four are:
> Sador, Alador, Danet, and Adera. Go for it! Name the fifth!
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Certainly the first and I count competitive range.
Lars Eighner
the lovely and talented "Mark Barratt" <ma...@farcanal.freeserve.co.uk>
broadcast on alt.usage.english:
|
|Richard Fontana <re...@columbia.edu> wrote in message
|news:Pine.GSO.4.10.99071...@ciao.cc.columbia.edu...
|> On 15 Jul 1999, Garry J. Vass wrote:
|>
|> > -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
|> > THE TOTALLY OFFICIAL AUE SUMMER DOLDRUMS COMPETITION
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|> > The Rules. <snipped>
|
|[I don't propose to show my full hand as yet, given a close reading of
|the rules. Here, however are *some* of the answers of which I am
|positive, and some thinking on some others = MB]
|
|> 1. A WWII vet, living in the deep South, plays some poker with
|> his buddies, ransacks his houseguest's belongings, slaps his
|> wife around, and goes on to become a piece of literary heritage.
|> What was his name or who created him?
|>
|> 2. A little old lady. From where?
Pasadena.
|> 3. Through the eyes of a poet, the Duke of Ferrara tells us
|> about a painting ("Will't please you sit and look at her?").
|> What's the name of the poet?
Robert Browning.
|> 4. Name two quarterbacks who retired as restaurateurs?
|>
|> 5. Two Wurtzburg graduates are hired to assassinate someone.
|> Their names?
|>
|> 6. Circle, Northern, and another?
|
|District.
|
|>
|> 7. Which word doesn't belong with the others: Arban,
|> Minggam, Tuman, Djaghoum, and Polka?
|>
|> 8. I want to be a tree! What country?
|
|[Sounds sort of Buddhist to me}
|>
|> 9. Apparently, '...the way the sunlight plays upon her hair...'
|> and '...the wind that wifts (wafts? lifts?) her perfume through
|> the air...' induce one to pick up something. What does
|> one pick up?
|
|Good Vibrations (Beach Boys 1822-95)
|>
|> 10. A beverage whose etymology ultimately leads
|> to the Latin, 'everlasting youth'?
|>
|> 11. 'From Soho down to Brighton, I must have played them all...'
|> Played what?
Pinball.
|> 12. 'A Day in the Life of America' takes place every 20 minutes
|> where?
|>
|> 13. A Great Geat. Name the Geat.
Beowulf.
|> 14. What single word connects the two words 'saffron' and
|> 'admiral'?
|
|[Could be Butterfly - there's a Red Admiral, isn't there a Saffron
|Wossname?]
I think that is right.
|>
|> 15. In 'Sleepy London Town' there's just no place for what?
|>
|> 16. They got there sooner than anybody else in what state?
Oklahoma.
|> 17. A vessel that can 'decloak' must do what before it
|> 'decloaks'?
I don't know, but it must decloak in order to fire its
weapons.
|> 18. A neighbourhood in Manhattan is named after a swamp,
|> another for a farm. Name these two neighbourhoods.
|>
|> 19. Name five Jedi Knights.
|>
|> 20. A high street tailor, a fruit manufacturer, and a famous
|General
|> are all intertwined as the possible source for what expression?
|>
|> 21. The English language owes a legacy to a town
|> called 'Peterborough'. What?
|
|[They can't be serious. Peterborough's soccer team are known as "The
|Posh." Maybe *that*s the derivation...}
|
|>
|> 22. What is the traditional border between the 'Man of
|> Kent' and the 'Kentish Man'?
|
|A river [The Medway, I think]
|>
|> 23. What is the traditional border between the letter 'W'
|> and the letter 'K'?
|>
|> 24. What famous novel did I. P. Freely write?
|>
|> 25. 'Auld Reekie' is a nickname for what?
|
|The Scottish capital, Edinburgh.
|>
|> 26. A WWII machine gun, a cement truck, and a man's
|> suit have been offered as origins for what phrase?
the whole nine yards
|> 27. A 'Subway Series' might conceivably happen in any year.
|> How?
|>
|> 28. The OE terms, 'wyrplas', 'bewitian', and 'impian'
|> provide early evidence of what sport?
|>
|> 29. The official name of the Orbital?
|
|[At least one city I have visited has had an encircling road called
|"The Orbital." Its official name would presumably be the A123, or
|summat]
|>
|> 30. What is the chief characteristic of a Pommy's towel?
|
|[I don't suppose it would be the Aussie pronunciation "taaiaal", would
|it?"
|>
|> 31. Someone whose name means 'exalted rank' recently married
|> someone whose name means 'greater in rank'. Her first name?
|
|[Could this be David (Beckham) and Victoria (Wossname)(aka "Posh"
|Spice) - if so, I think I begin to see a thread here...]
|
|>
|> 32. Nora, Nils, Anna, and Doctor Rank. Who created them?
|>
|> 33. What noise would a mammal named 'Figaro' make?
|>
|> 34. The principal duties of the 'Precentor' and the
|> 'Armarius' were to look after whose needs?
|>
|> 35. 'The Opera ain't over till the fat lady sings'.
|> What sport?
|>
|> 36. What do donkey's ears measure?
Time.
|> 37. A ram is the mascot for both a US university and a British
|> soccer team. Name both!
|
|The soccer team is Derby County.
|
|> 38. What was the street address of Kookie's work place?
77 Sunset Strip.
Lola, L O L A, Lola.
|> 51. A Hindu word meaning 'foreigner' was adopted as an
|> affectionate term for England. What word?
|
|[Could this be "Blighty?"]
|
|> 52. The oldest surviving OE/AS recipe in the British Museum
|> explains how to prepare what?
Mead.
|> 53. A Germanic word meaning 'foreign' was adopted as the name of
|> a country. What country?
|> 54. Sung, 'He is driving 'round the corner in a green and yellow
|> Ford...'. Who?
|>
|> 55. Radio 1, Radio 2, and so on up to Radio 'n'. What is 'n'?
|
|Five.
|
|>
|> 56. How many words are mislept in the 'Rules' above
|> (LP convention)?
|
|There may be several misspelt words, but the word "mislept" does not
|occur at all. The answer is therefore zero.
|
|> 57. Who had to collect 1,000 logs?
|>
|> 58. Who killed Laura Palmer?
|>
|> 59. What town connects Edgar Allen Poe and H. L. Mencken?
|>
|> 60. Clerics may not equip what kind of weapon?
Edged.
|> 61. The phrase, 'Cobblers to the Queen', takes on a
|> more ribald meaning in the vicinity of a certain
|> church. What church?
|>
|> 62. What is the word that means 'use of one word class
|> functioning as another word class'?
|>
|> 63. The wedding march, 'Here Comes the Bride' was written
|> by?
|>
|> 64. This fellow was trained as a mercer (textile dealer),
|> gained commercial success on the continent, and served as
|> governor of a trading company. Later, he received patronage
|> from a French duchess to do something completely different.
|> What was his name?
|>
|> 65. Upon hearing of a 'Smokey in your back door', one should
|> check and possibly adjust what?
Speed.
|> 66. Where is Aquilany Castle?
|>
|> 67. Sargent and Constable. By rank, one meaning. By name,
|> something else entirely. What were their careers?
|
|[Others have said "painters," but "careers" is plainly plural, and
|wasn't Sir Malcolm Sargent a composer/conducter?]
|
|> 68. Who rode Buttermilk?
Dale Evans.
|> 69. Where might one go to engage in a 'piss up'?
|I generally go to my local.
|
|> 70. Consider the euphemisms: 'Jiminy Crickets', 'Gee
|> whillikers', and 'Jeepers'. Which is oldest?
|>
|> 71. 'All that glisters is not gold'. The source?
|
|[Someone said Shksps MOV, but I seem to remember hearing differently.
|Dunne? Marlowe? Milton? Dunno]
|
|> 72. In 'Lord of the Flies', Golding uses the figurative
|> expression, 'The scar was a bath of heat'. What type of
|> expression is this?
|
|Looks like a heinous mixed metaphor to me.
|
|> 73. Household item whose etymology ultimately leads to the
|> Old Teutonic, 'thorny shrub'?
Broon.
Henry IIII.
|> 86. The ritualistic cursing matches that were popular in 12th and
|> 13th century England were known as what?
The Dozens. (Har, har, har.)
|> 87. Gwynedd, Powys, Dyfed, and the fourth one please?
|>
|> 88. Beverage whose etymology ultimately leads to the Gaelic,
|> 'water of life'?
|>
|> 89. 'Strumpet', 'Slut', 'Minx', and 'Lady'. Which word is
|> oldest?
|>
|> 90. What single word connects a 'gin-salt barroom queen', 'cleaned
|> a lot of plates' and 'long distance information'?
|
|["Long distance information..." makes me think of Chuck Berry's
|"Memphis." The other two sound like song lyrics, though I can't place
|them. If they are from other songs containing "Memphis" in their
|titles (I'm sure there are lots) then we may be on to something...]
|
|> 91. 'Astral', 'Arabian Nights', and 'Antiquities' are the answers.
|> Answers to what question?
|>
|> 92. Which region of England was probably the first to emerge
|> with the word, 'Church' as it is spelled and pronounced
|> in Modern English?
|>
|> 93. A ship captain coined a pen-name from the depth of the water.
|> What was this pen-name?
Mark Twain. Riverboats are not ships. He was never a captain.
|> 94. Which word doesn't belong with the others: Oferhyrnes,
|> Cynebot, Heriot, and Wapentakes?
|>
|> 95. Mr. Aschenbach became possessed with desire for a young boy,
|> Tadzio. Where?
Venice.
|> 96. Beverage whose etymology ultimately leads to the Arabic,
|> 'have no appetite'?
|
|[Don't know what it's called, but I think I've drunk lots of it]
|
|> 97. A latter-day Ovid described an overnight transformation
|> into a cockroach, and inspired another Ovid to describe the
|> return journey. Both authors, if you please.
|>
|> 98. Van Morrison, 'Them', and 'The Shadows of Knight' all sang
|> about 'Gloria', (G-L-O-R-I-A), who came around 'just about
|> midnight'. How tall was Gloria, from her head to the ground?
|>
|> 99. A literary term from the Greek, 'cutting short'?
apocope.
|>
|> 100. We destroyed it in order to save it. What?
I've little hope of spelling this: Mai Li.
|> 101. It was somewhere in a fairy tale. She was going to be an
|> actress. What was 'I' going to do?
|>
|> 102. Household item whose etymology ultimately leads to the
|> Aryan, 'dug out place'?
|>
|> 103. A viciously shrewd double switch-back at Blackfriars,
|> followed by an (oh, so deadly) hunter's-heart fork at Monument,
|> combined with a (devastatingly cruel, coup de grace) angler's
|> cast at Temple might entitle one to claim victory at what?
|
|[I waver between two guesses. I think all those places are on the
|Thames, so it could be the annual Oxford-Cambridge boat race. But I've
|never heard all those funny terms before, so maybe it's Mornington
|Crescent?]
|
|> 104. Complete the following sequence: 8th, 7th, 6th, 5th,
|> and...
4th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st.
I must be missing something here.
|> 105. April! A month with sweet showers that pierce the
|> drought of March to the root! People long to do something
|> in April. What?
Go on Pilgrimages.
|> 106. Viking, Forties, Dogger, Humber, and another?
|
|[North sea oil fields? Is the other one Brent?]
|
|> 107. How many ubhef are there in a qnl?
|>
|> 108. Ballywoodane, Cloghplilip, Dromagh, and another one please?
|>
|> 109. Too many teardrops for one heart to be crying. Cry! How
|> many tears?
99
|> 110. What was lost that sent Beethoven into a rage?
|>
|> 111. What connects Dr Minor, Mr Bobbitt and the OED?
|>
|> 112. A partitive genitive would most likely be found in what
|> figure of speech?
synecdoche.
Betty White. But I forget the name of her character.
|> 120. LP Middle-weight stumper: In a title match, how long
|> would Hulk Hogan (or his opponent) be allowed out of the
|> ring before being disqualified?
|>
|> 121. LP Heavy-weight Extra Credit: A popular name for a
|> town. The states of Arkansas, Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky,
|> Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina,
|> Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont and Washington
|> all boast a town with this name. What is it?
|
|[I can tell you (even from over here) that most US states have a town
|called either "Columbus" or "Columbia." However, there also appears to
|be a surfeit of "Salem"s]
|
|> 122. LP Heavy-weight Killer: What was dimly seen through the
|> mists of the deep?
`Tis the Star-Spangled Banner, Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
The following stanza is usually (since 1941) suppressed to
spare the feelings of the other party to the disagreement:
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and country, shall leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul foot steps pollution
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.
And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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|> 123. UP Middle-weight Extra Credit: Do too many kippers make
|> you feel bloated, or is this a red herring?
|>
|> 124. UP Light-weight Extra Credit: Alice who?
|
|[Isn't that patronisingly easy? Or am I missing something?]
|
|> 125. UP Heavy-weight Extra Credit: Who wrote a letter with a
|> thumbnail dipped in tar?
|>
|> 126. UP Ultra-killer: Oz and Kubla Kahn Connection?
Poppies.
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|> Note: We knew that the good people of aue would find all of the
|> above child's play. This section is for *serious* contenders with
|> an axe to grind. Let's get down to business! Roll up your
|> sleeves and put your *stuff* on it!
|>
|> 127. aue WarmUp: What comes after the protasis, epitasis, and
|> the catastasis?
|
|[At a guess, the hypostasis]
|
|> 128. aue BallBreaker: The first three are the Hiddikel,
|> Pison, and Gihon. What is the fourth?
|>
|> 129. aue BackBreaker: The first five are Tymbria, Helias,
|> Chetas, Troien, and Antenorides. What is the sixth?
|>
|> 130. aue Humdinger: Melpomene's sister?
Calliope.
|> 131. aue Hoopie Doopie: The first eight are Hector, Alexander,
|> Julius Caesar, Joshua, David, Judas Maccabeus, Arthur, and
|> Charlemagne. Who is the ninth?
|>
|> 132. aue Mind Boggler: The first six are the Palatine,
|> Capitoline, Aventine, Caeline, Esquiline, Viminal. What is
|> the seventh?
Quirinal.
|> 133. aue Hunker Dunker: The first six are arithmetic, geometry,
|> astronomy, music, grammar, and logic. What is the seventh?
|>
|> 134. aue Totally Official Millennium Class: The Cirencester
|> Square? No, but something very close. The first four are:
|> Sador, Alador, Danet, and Adera. Go for it! Name the fifth!
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|> The End!
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|>
|> Garry J. Vass
|> (Official Panel Member, aue Summer Doldrums Competition)
|
|
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* Where would we be without rhetorical questions?
K. Edgcombe
In article <OKTF0RAy...@gvass.demon.co.uk>,
Garry J. Vass <Ga...@orkin.org> wrote:
>
>2. A little old lady. From where?
Miss Marple, but I can't remember where she came from.
>
>3. Through the eyes of a poet, the Duke of Ferrara tells us
>about a painting ("Will't please you sit and look at her?").
>What's the name of the poet?
Ben Jonson
>
>6. Circle, Northern, and another?
>
Bakerloo
>7. Which word doesn't belong with the others: Arban,
>Minggam, Tuman, Djaghoum, and Polka?
>
Polka: I never learnt the others.
>8. I want to be a tree! What country?
>
Iceland, probably
>11. 'From Soho down to Brighton, I must have played them all...'
>Played what?
Theatres?
>14. What single word connects the two words 'saffron' and
>'admiral'?
>
Walden
>21. The English language owes a legacy to a town
>called 'Peterborough'. What?
>
Soak?
>22. What is the traditional border between the 'Man of
>Kent' and the 'Kentish Man'?
>
The Medway
>25. 'Auld Reekie' is a nickname for what?
>
Well, there's a Marchioness of that name in "Can you Forgive Her?".
>
>29. The official name of the Orbital?
M25
>33. What noise would a mammal named 'Figaro' make?
>
Shaver noises?
>34. The principal duties of the 'Precentor' and the
>'Armarius' were to look after whose needs?
>
Pass, but the verb "to precent" in commoner use than you might think, would be
handy for Scrabble.
>
>36. What do donkey's ears measure?
>
Well, what did Midas use them for?
>
>53. A Germanic word meaning 'foreign' was adopted as the name of
>a country. What country?
Wales
>
>55. Radio 1, Radio 2, and so on up to Radio 'n'. What is 'n'?
>
5, or Caroline, depending on your age.
>
>63. The wedding march, 'Here Comes the Bride' was written
>by?
Wagner? (I'd rather have Widor, myself)
>
>67. Sargent and Constable. By rank, one meaning. By name,
>something else entirely. What were their careers?
>
Painters
>
(accidentally deleted the qn about a pissup; the answer is a pub.
>70. Consider the euphemisms: 'Jiminy Crickets', 'Gee
>whillikers', and 'Jeepers'. Which is oldest?
Never heard the first with an "s" on the end. Without the "s", I'd guess the
first.
>73. Household item whose etymology ultimately leads to the
>Old Teutonic, 'thorny shrub'?
Broom
>
>74. According to an American poet, born Zimmerman, 'orders from
>the DA (District Attorney)' about when to bust come in what
>month?
>
June
>
>80. Many English towns whose name ends in '-by' testify to our
>linguistic heritage from what people?
>
Vikings
>81. Of the two animals in the Old Testament that spoke to humans,
>one was the serpent in the Book of Genesis. Please name the other.
>
Balaam's ass.
>85. Hot spurs? Come again? Hot spurs? How very odd. Where
>does one find 'hot spurs'?
>
Henry IV, Part 1
>
>88. Beverage whose etymology ultimately leads to the Gaelic,
>'water of life'?
>
Whisky?
>
>95. Mr. Aschenbach became possessed with desire for a young boy,
>Tadzio. Where?
>
Venice
>
>103. A viciously shrewd double switch-back at Blackfriars,
>followed by an (oh, so deadly) hunter's-heart fork at Monument,
>combined with a (devastatingly cruel, coup de grace) angler's
>cast at Temple might entitle one to claim victory at what?
>
Mornington Crescent
>
>105. April! A month with sweet showers that pierce the
>drought of March to the root! People long to do something
>in April. What?
>
Go on pilgrimage
>106. Viking, Forties, Dogger, Humber, and another?
>
North Uzeira
>
>110. What was lost that sent Beethoven into a rage?
>
His hearing?
>124. UP Light-weight Extra Credit: Alice who?
Liddell, or Springs.
>
>133. aue Hunker Dunker: The first six are arithmetic, geometry,
>astronomy, music, grammar, and logic. What is the seventh?
>
Rhetoric
I refused to do anything I might be tempted to look up, to read anyone else's
answers, or to spend more than 2 seconds on a question. i think we should
score this like Boggle; any answer which has been given by more than one person
doesn't score anything for any of them.
Katy
Colin Rosenthal
Lars Eighner <eig...@io.com> wrote:
>|> 17. A vessel that can 'decloak' must do what before it
>|> 'decloaks'?
>
>I don't know, but it must decloak in order to fire its
>weapons.
Cloak, I guess.
>|> 30. What is the chief characteristic of a Pommy's towel?
>|
>|[I don't suppose it would be the Aussie pronunciation "taaiaal", would
>|it?"
Given Australian stereotypes of the British, I would guess the
answer is "dry".
>|> 47. Who shot J. R.?
Kristin the Poison Dwarf.
>|> 63. The wedding march, 'Here Comes the Bride' was written
>|> by?
Dick Cartman
>|> 73. Household item whose etymology ultimately leads to the
>|> Old Teutonic, 'thorny shrub'?
>
>Broon.
Daphne?
>|> 81. Of the two animals in the Old Testament that spoke to humans,
>|> one was the serpent in the Book of Genesis. Please name the other.
Balaam's Ass.
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>|> you feel bloated, or is this a red herring?
Arbroath
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Simon R. Hughes
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> 10. Format: Splice your answers with the original posting. If
> you don't know an answer, either guess or leave it blank. Let
> your neighbours help.
The original posting was 515 lines. Answers promise to be in the
region of at least 1000 lines.
> 11. Email: Do *NOT* email your responses. The competition is
> judged by a panel who reads the newsgroup. Submit your responses
> to the thread, splicing your answers with the original
> questions. Repeat -> NO EMAIL!
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Bob Lipton
> > 1. A WWII vet, living in the deep South, plays some poker with
> > his buddies, ransacks his houseguest's belongings, slaps his
> > wife around, and goes on to become a piece of literary heritage.
> > What was his name or who created him?
> >
Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.
> > 2. A little old lady. From where?
Pasadena
> >
> > 3. Through the eyes of a poet, the Duke of Ferrara tells us
> > about a painting ("Will't please you sit and look at her?").
> > What's the name of the poet?
Robert Browning
> >
> > 4. Name two quarterbacks who retired as restaurateurs?
Joe Namath and Theissen
> > 6. Circle, Northern, and another?
P&O
> > 11. 'From Soho down to Brighton, I must have played them all...'
> > Played what?
> >
That deaf dumb and blind kid sure plays a a mean pinball.
> > 13. A Great Geat. Name the Geat.
Beowulf
> >
> > 14. What single word connects the two words 'saffron' and
> > 'admiral'?
Arabic
> > 16. They got there sooner than anybody else in what state?
> >
Oklahomans
> > 17. A vessel that can 'decloak' must do what before it
> > 'decloaks'?
> >
Stop moving
> > 18. A neighbourhood in Manhattan is named after a swamp,
> > another for a farm. Name these two neighbourhoods.
Gramercy Park and Chelsea
> >
> > 19. Name five Jedi Knights.
> >
Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke, Yoda, Mace WIndu, Anakin Skywalker
>
> > 24. What famous novel did I. P. Freely write?
The Yellow River
> >
> > 25. 'Auld Reekie' is a nickname for what?
Edinburgh
> >
> > 26. A WWII machine gun, a cement truck, and a man's
> > suit have been offered as origins for what
The Whole Nine Yards
> >
> > 27. A 'Subway Series' might conceivably happen in any year.
> > How?
The Yankees vs. the Mets
>
> > 30. What is the chief characteristic of a Pommy's towel?
He knows where it is.
> > 33. What noise would a mammal named 'Figaro' make?
Miau.
> >
> > 35. 'The Opera ain't over till the fat lady sings'.
> > What sport?
> >
Baseball
> > 36. What do donkey's ears measure?
Length, usually of time.
>
> > 38. What was the street address of Kookie's work place?
77 Sunset Boulevard.
> > 41. What is the youngest letter of the Modern English alphabet?
w
>
> > 46. When Gomer enlisted, he left a brother tending the family
> > business back in Mayberry. What was the family business?
> > What is the equivalent term across the pond?
A gas station. Filling station
> > 49. A modern day English word named after a 'little bottle', but
> > means something completely different from 'little bottle'. What
> > is that word?
> >
Fiasco
> > 51. A Hindu word meaning 'foreigner' was adopted as an
> > affectionate term for England. What word?
> >
Blighty
>
> > 52. The oldest surviving OE/AS recipe in the British Museum
> > explains how to prepare what?
> >
> > 53. A Germanic word meaning 'foreign' was adopted as the name of
> > a country. What country?
Wales
>
> > 59. What town connects Edgar Allen Poe and H. L. Mencken?
Baltimore
> >
> > 60. Clerics may not equip what kind of weapon?
Edged ones
> >
> > 65. Upon hearing of a 'Smokey in your back door', one should
> > check and possibly adjust what?
Your car's speed
> > 67. Sargent and Constable. By rank, one meaning. By name,
> > something else entirely. What were their careers?
> >
Painters
> > 68. Who rode Buttermilk?
> >
Dale
> >
> > 71. 'All that glisters is not gold'. The source
The Merchant of Venice
> >
> > 72. In 'Lord of the Flies', Golding uses the figurative
> > expression, 'The scar was a bath of heat'. What type of
> > expression is this?
Metaphor
> >
> > 73. Household item whose etymology ultimately leads to the
> > Old Teutonic, 'thorny shrub'?
Broom.
>
> >
> > 76. The main commodity of Arrakis?
> >
Melange
> > 77. How many degrees of separation?
> >
Six
> > 78. Which one won Super Bowl I?
Vikings
> >
> >
> > 81. Of the two animals in the Old Testament that spoke to humans,
> > one was the serpent in the Book of Genesis. Please name the other.
> >
Balaam's Ass
>
> > 84. A Modern English metal is named after a hostile, mythical
> > monster that lived deep inside inside of copper and silver mines.
> > Name either the metal, or its monster namesake.
Nickel
> >
> > 85. Hot spurs? Come again? Hot spurs? How very odd. Where
> > does one find 'hot spurs'?
Henry IV Part 1.
> > 88. Beverage whose etymology ultimately leads to the Gaelic,
> > 'water of life'?
Whisky. And whiskey.
> >
> > 89. 'Strumpet', 'Slut', 'Minx', and 'Lady'. Which word is
> > oldest?
Lady.
>
> >
> > 93. A ship captain coined a pen-name from the depth of the water.
> > What was this pen-name?
> >
Mark Twain
> > 105. April! A month with sweet showers that pierce the
> > drought of March to the root! People long to do something
> > in April. What?
Go on pilgrimage.
> >
> > 106. Viking, Forties, Dogger, Humber, and another?
Duquesne
> > 110. What was lost that sent Beethoven into a rage?
A penny.
>
> > -*-*-* Extra Credit and Tie Breakers for LeftPondia (optional)
> > -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
> > 119. LP Feather-weight Extra Credit: Murray, Lou, Mary,
> > and Ted... Who did Ted marry?
Georgina
> >
> >
> > 121. LP Heavy-weight Extra Credit: A popular name for a
> > town. The states of Arkansas, Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky,
> > Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina,
> > Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont and Washington
Springfield
> > all boast a town with this name. What is it?
> >
>
> > 132. aue Mind Boggler: The first six are the Palatine,
> > Capitoline, Aventine, Caeline, Esquiline, Viminal. What is
> > the seventh?
> >
Quirinal
> > 133. aue Hunker Dunker: The first six are arithmetic, geometry,
> > astronomy, music, grammar, and logic. What is the seventh?
RHetoric
Bob
khan
>
> -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
> THE TOTALLY OFFICIAL AUE SUMMER DOLDRUMS COMPETITION
> -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
1. A WWII vet, living in the deep South, plays some poker with
his buddies, ransacks his houseguest's belongings, slaps his
wife around, and goes on to become a piece of literary heritage.
What was his name or who created him?
Stanley Kowalski
2. A little old lady. From where?
She's the little old lady from Pasadena
3. Through the eyes of a poet, the Duke of Ferrara tells us
about a painting ("Will't please you sit and look at her?").
What's the name of the poet?
Robert Browning - "My Last Duchess"
4. Name two quarterbacks who retired as restaurateurs?
Joe Theisman & ???
5. Two Wurtzburg graduates are hired to assassinate someone.
Their names?
Rosencranz and Guildenstern.
7. Which word doesn't belong with the others: Arban,
Minggam, Tuman, Djaghoum, and Polka?
8. I want to be a tree! What country?
9. Apparently, '...the way the sunlight plays upon her hair...'
and '...the wind that wifts (wafts? lifts?) her perfume through
the air...' induce one to pick up something. What does
one pick up?
good vibrations - The Beach Boys
10. A beverage whose etymology ultimately leads
to the Latin, 'everlasting youth'?
11. 'From Soho down to Brighton, I must have played them all...'
Played what?
pinball machines, from The Who's rock opera "Tommy"
12. 'A Day in the Life of America' takes place every 20 minutes
where?
13. A Great Geat. Name the Geat.
Beowulf
14. What single word connects the two words 'saffron' and
'admiral'?
15. In 'Sleepy London Town' there's just no place for what?
16. They got there sooner than anybody else in what state?
Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain
17. A vessel that can 'decloak' must do what before it
'decloaks'?
it must lower its shields first
18. A neighbourhood in Manhattan is named after a swamp,
another for a farm. Name these two neighbourhoods.
Gramercy Park & Chelsea
19. Name five Jedi Knights.
Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn, Anakin Skywalker,
Luke Skywalker
20. A high street tailor, a fruit manufacturer, and a famous General
are all intertwined as the possible source for what expression?
21. The English language owes a legacy to a town
called 'Peterborough'. What?
22. What is the traditional border between the 'Man of
Kent' and the 'Kentish Man'?
23. What is the traditional border between the letter 'W'
and the letter 'K'?
24. What famous novel did I. P. Freely write?
The Yellow River
25. 'Auld Reekie' is a nickname for what?
Edinburgh
26. A WWII machine gun, a cement truck, and a man's
suit have been offered as origins for what phrase?
the whole none yards
27. A 'Subway Series' might conceivably happen in any year.
How?
By having two sports teams in New York playing in the same championship.
Originally it referred to baseball when the Mets would win the National
League pennant and the Yankees the American League pennant, but I notice
that it has been extended to ice hockey by the US sports media.
28. The OE terms, 'wyrplas', 'bewitian', and 'impian'
provide early evidence of what sport?
29. The official name of the Orbital?
the North Circular Road.
30. What is the chief characteristic of a Pommy's towel?
31. Someone whose name means 'exalted rank' recently married
someone whose name means 'greater in rank'. Her first name?
Victoria
32. Nora, Nils, Anna, and Doctor Rank. Who created them?
33. What noise would a mammal named 'Figaro' make?
depending on mood: mew, meow, purrrr, yeowl, fssstt!
34. The principal duties of the 'Precentor' and the
'Armarius' were to look after whose needs?
the bishop
35. 'The Opera ain't over till the fat lady sings'.
What sport?
baseball
36. What do donkey's ears measure?
time
37. A ram is the mascot for both a US university and a British
soccer team. Name both!
Fordham & Chelsea
38. What was the street address of Kookie's work place?
77 Sunset Strip
39. The thorn disappeared, the rose remained. What replaced the
thorn?
"th"
40. A race to 'Dead Man's Curve'! It began when a Sting Ray waited
at a stop light. What was the make of the other car?
the make was "Jaguar" the model was "XKE"
41. What is the youngest letter of the Modern English alphabet?
42. A family of Dukes drove a car with a stars and bars on it.
Who drove the jeep?
43. Listed in the Doomsday book as 'Wunemannedune', what is
the name of this town today?
44. The Romans had the shortest. The Anglos and the Saxons
brought longer ones. The Vikings brought even longer ones,
and the Normans brought the very longest. By the time the
Plantagenets came to power, they were short again. What?
45. Who is 'e' named for?
46. When Gomer enlisted, he left a brother tending the family
business back in Mayberry. What was the family business?
What is the equivalent term across the pond?
47. Who shot J. R.?
Kristin
48. What is the word that means, 'the substitution of an epithet,
appellate, or the name of an office or dignity, for a
person's proper name'?
49. A modern day English word named after a 'little bottle', but
means something completely different from 'little bottle'. What
is that word?
fiasco
50. Well, I'm not the world's most physical guy, but when she
squeezed me tight, she nearly broke my spine. Who walks like
a woman and talks like a man?
Lola
51. A Hindu word meaning 'foreigner' was adopted as an
affectionate term for England. What word?
bilayati -- Blighty
52. The oldest surviving OE/AS recipe in the British Museum
explains how to prepare what?
mead
53. A Germanic word meaning 'foreign' was adopted as the name of
a country. What country?
Wales
54. Sung, 'He is driving 'round the corner in a green and yellow
Ford...'. Who?
55. Radio 1, Radio 2, and so on up to Radio 'n'. What is 'n'?
56. How many words are mislept in the 'Rules' above
(LP convention)?
57. Who had to collect 1,000 logs?
58. Who killed Laura Palmer?
her loving father
59. What town connects Edgar Allen Poe and H. L. Mencken?
Baltimore
60. Clerics may not equip what kind of weapon?
an edged weapon
61. The phrase, 'Cobblers to the Queen', takes on a
more ribald meaning in the vicinity of a certain
church. What church?
62. What is the word that means 'use of one word class
functioning as another word class'?
63. The wedding march, 'Here Comes the Bride' was written
by?
Richard Wagner
64. This fellow was trained as a mercer (textile dealer),
gained commercial success on the continent, and served as
governor of a trading company. Later, he received patronage
from a French duchess to do something completely different.
What was his name?
65. Upon hearing of a 'Smokey in your back door', one should
check and possibly adjust what?
one's speed
66. Where is Aquilany Castle?
67. Sargent and Constable. By rank, one meaning. By name,
something else entirely. What were their careers?
painters
68. Who rode Buttermilk?
Dale Evans
69. Where might one go to engage in a 'piss up'?
the local disreputable pub
70. Consider the euphemisms: 'Jiminy Crickets', 'Gee
whillikers', and 'Jeepers'. Which is oldest?
the second
71. 'All that glisters is not gold'. The source?
the Prince of Morocco speaking in Act II, Scene VII of Shakespeare's
Merchant of Venice
72. In 'Lord of the Flies', Golding uses the figurative
expression, 'The scar was a bath of heat'. What type of
expression is this?
metaphor
73. Household item whose etymology ultimately leads to the
Old Teutonic, 'thorny shrub'?
broom
74. According to an American poet, born Zimmerman, 'orders from
the DA (District Attorney)' about when to bust come in what
month?
May
75. The OE kenning, 'dryht-guma', best translates into what
Modern English word?
76. The main commodity of Arrakis?
spice, or melange from Frank Herbert's Dune
77. How many degrees of separation?
six
78. Which one won Super Bowl I?
Green Bay Packers over Kansas City, 35-10
79. Everybody knows what a 'Fess' looks like. *We* need to know
what a 'Fess Cotised' looks like. *Exactly* please.
A fess cotised is a fess between two barrulets, the width of which may
not exceed one fourth the width of the fess
80. Many English towns whose name ends in '-by' testify to our
linguistic heritage from what people?
the Danes
81. Of the two animals in the Old Testament that spoke to humans,
one was the serpent in the Book of Genesis. Please name the other.
82. What is Brooklyn's last name?
83. A deserted field, with lightning and thunder overhead...
Three witches make plans to see someone. Who? And
who could do Tuesday?
Satan; Nanny Ogg
84. A Modern English metal is named after a hostile, mythical
monster that lived deep inside inside of copper and silver mines.
Name either the metal, or its monster namesake.
nickel - Nickel was a mischievious dwarf, not a monster
85. Hot spurs? Come again? Hot spurs? How very odd. Where
does one find 'hot spurs'?
86. The ritualistic cursing matches that were popular in 12th and
13th century England were known as what?
87. Gwynedd, Powys, Dyfed, and the fourth one please?
88. Beverage whose etymology ultimately leads to the Gaelic,
'water of life'?
whisky
89. 'Strumpet', 'Slut', 'Minx', and 'Lady'. Which word is
oldest?
90. What single word connects a 'gin-salt barroom queen', 'cleaned
a lot of plates' and 'long distance information'?
Memphis
"long distance information get me memphis Tennessee"
"cleaned a lotta plates in Memphis, pumped a lotta pain..."
91. 'Astral', 'Arabian Nights', and 'Antiquities' are the answers.
Answers to what question?
92. Which region of England was probably the first to emerge
with the word, 'Church' as it is spelled and pronounced
in Modern English?
93. A ship captain coined a pen-name from the depth of the water.
What was this pen-name?
Mark Twain - pilot, not captain & riverboat, not ship
94. Which word doesn't belong with the others: Oferhyrnes,
Cynebot, Heriot, and Wapentakes?
95. Mr. Aschenbach became possessed with desire for a young boy,
Tadzio. Where?
Venice
96. Beverage whose etymology ultimately leads to the Arabic,
'have no appetite'?
97. A latter-day Ovid described an overnight transformation
into a cockroach, and inspired another Ovid to describe the
return journey. Both authors, if you please.
Franz Kafka & ?????
98. Van Morrison, 'Them', and 'The Shadows of Knight' all sang
about 'Gloria', (G-L-O-R-I-A), who came around 'just about
midnight'. How tall was Gloria, from her head to the ground?
"Well, she comes around
Five feet four
From her head to the ground"
99. A literary term from the Greek, 'cutting short'?
100. We destroyed it in order to save it. What?
Ben Tre, Vietnam
101. It was somewhere in a fairy tale. She was going to be an
actress. What was 'I' going to do?
learn to fly (Harry Chapin's "Taxi")
102. Household item whose etymology ultimately leads to the
Aryan, 'dug out place'?
103. A viciously shrewd double switch-back at Blackfriars,
followed by an (oh, so deadly) hunter's-heart fork at Monument,
combined with a (devastatingly cruel, coup de grace) angler's
cast at Temple might entitle one to claim victory at what?
104. Complete the following sequence: 8th, 7th, 6th, 5th,
and...
105. April! A month with sweet showers that pierce the
drought of March to the root! People long to do something
in April. What?
set forth on pilgrimage to Holy places
106. Viking, Forties, Dogger, Humber, and another?
107. How many ubhef are there in a qnl?
108. Ballywoodane, Cloghplilip, Dromagh, and another one please?
109. Too many teardrops for one heart to be crying. Cry! How
many tears?
96
110. What was lost that sent Beethoven into a rage?
his hearing
Colin Rosenthal
khan <kh...@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
>23. What is the traditional border between the letter 'W'
>and the letter 'K'?
The Mississippi/Missouri, I guess.
>67. Sargent and Constable. By rank, one meaning. By name,
>something else entirely. What were their careers?
>
> painters
Where are Sargent and Constable one rank?
>75. The OE kenning, 'dryht-guma', best translates into what
>Modern English word?
A stab in the dark - diarrhea.
Donna Richoux
> |> 5. Two Wurtzburg graduates are hired to assassinate someone.
> |> Their names?
Someone said Rosencrantz & Guildenstern but it can't be. They weren't
hired to assassinate Hamlet, they were asked to glean what afflicted
him, then later to escort him to England (where he would be executed).
The Shakespeare Search turns up no mention of Wurtzburg no matter how I
spell it.
> |> 8. I want to be a tree! What country?
Brazil(wood)? Norway (spruce)? How does "Lichtenstein" translate?
> |> 10. A beverage whose etymology ultimately leads
> |> to the Latin, 'everlasting youth'?
How about "nectar" -- comes from Green "overcoming death." Pretty close,
huh?
Second guess is "gin" from "juniper" but I can't get much beyond that.
> |> 14. What single word connects the two words 'saffron' and
> |> 'admiral'?
Yellow -- saffron yellow, yellow admiral
> |>
> |> 15. In 'Sleepy London Town' there's just no place for what?
For a street fighting man. (Rolling Stones)
> |> 20. A high street tailor, a fruit manufacturer, and a famous
> |General
> |> are all intertwined as the possible source for what expression?
The full monte/monty/montey. (But they are unlikely sources.)
> |> 35. 'The Opera ain't over till the fat lady sings'.
> |> What sport?
Baseball, mostly.
> |> 96. Beverage whose etymology ultimately leads to the Arabic,
> |> 'have no appetite'?
Coffee? It comes from Arabic, anyway.
> |> 126. UP Ultra-killer: Oz and Kubla Kahn Connection?
>
Is there a pleasure dome in Australia? Caverns measureless to man? A
sacred river?
Best --- Donna Richoux
Laura F Spira
>
> I refused to do anything I might be tempted to look up, to read anyone else's
> answers, or to spend more than 2 seconds on a question. i think we should
> score this like Boggle; any answer which has been given by more than one person
> doesn't score anything for any of them.
>
Why wasn't Katy on the panel, Garry? This is a really good idea. Katy,
do you play the big version, 5x5? What a lot we have in common.
--
Laura
(emulate St. George for e-mail)
Donna Richoux
> > |> 14. What single word connects the two words 'saffron' and
> > |> 'admiral'?
>
> Yellow -- saffron yellow, yellow admiral
Scratch that. My insect books show no "yellow admiral."
Best --- Donna Richoux
K. Edgcombe
Daffodils, too. (to the rest of the world; no, I am not setting up as an
a1a-clone; Laura and I share a hidden past.)
No, I haven't seen the 5x5 version, but I'll look out for it.
As for the panel, nobody asked me. And it's not as if any of the people
on this wonderful panel could possibly have been self-appointed, is it now?
I shall sulk. Officially. *Then* you'll all be sorry.
Katy
Jack Gavin
khan <kh...@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
>
> 27. A 'Subway Series' might conceivably happen in any year.
> How?
>
> By having two sports teams in New York playing in the same
championship.
> Originally it referred to baseball when the Mets would win the
National
> League pennant and the Yankees the American League pennant, but I
notice
> that it has been extended to ice hockey by the US sports media.
>
Before the Mets even existed, it was used of the Brooklyn Dodgers vs.
the (Bronx) NY Yankees.
--
Jack Gavin
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Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
David McMurray
[...]
> > 37. A ram is the mascot for both a US university and a British
> > soccer team. Name both!
>
> Fordham is the university.
Not to mention Colorado State, Rhode Island, and Virginia Commonwealth.
(They all use "Rams" in reference to their sports teams, at least. I'm
not certain that they can each trot out a real live ram, although I'm
pretty sure that CSU can.)
And we've had Derby County and Chelsea for the soccer team.
I shall have to revise my understanding of the word "both".
[...]
--
David
Laura F Spira
>
>
> As for the panel, nobody asked me. And it's not as if any of the people
> on this wonderful panel could possibly have been self-appointed, is it now?
>
> I shall sulk. Officially. *Then* you'll all be sorry.
I hope it's a power sulk, a wonderful expression that I found hereabouts
a while ago.
It does occur to me that people might have questions about the panel
appointment process and I am happy to have this opportunity to blow the
gaff. Garry appointed us all. At least one of those appointed chose to
leave home temporarily in order to escape the awesome responsibility
(Brian is boating on the Barrow, I believe). Some of us have remained
entangled in Garry's clutches, pawns in his game, awed by the breadth of
his imagination and the depth of his knowledge of trivia, but trapped
like rabbits in headlights. Some of us are confused about our duties,
baffled by the questions and even more so by the answers. Some of us are
quibbling, others dribbling. I doubt whether our lives will ever be the
same again.
Noah Claypole
Lars Eighner <eig...@io.com> wrote in message
news:96sj3AwZ...@io.com...
Becks, which means something else anyway. Noble and Major. two exalted
ranks got married. If this is a British question, Emma is the answer full
stop. Major is the ex-PM's son, and Emma Noble wears the see-through
dresses on the telly. Can somebody help me with #43?
The church on Cheapside. A commoner from the City is rogering the Queen.
Garry J. Vass
>K. Edgcombe wrote:
>
>>
>> I refused to do anything I might be tempted to look up, to read anyone else's
>> answers, or to spend more than 2 seconds on a question. i think we should
>> score this like Boggle; any answer which has been given by more than one
>person
>> doesn't score anything for any of them.
>>
>
>Why wasn't Katy on the panel, Garry?
Dunno, now that you ask. I guess we needed her to be an entrant. Don't
forget, she *is* singing in Westminster Abbey later this month.
Another thing worth noting: there have been some *astonishing*
pyrotechnic displays of aue reach thus far (not *even* 24 hours into it)
that resemble Katy's style: no piggybacking on other's answers; and
bang, bang, bang.
People easily reaching into the 'serious contender' ranks off the top of
their heads. BAM! Just like that.
Mind boggling.
Perch?
Frances Kemmish
> > > soccer team. Name both!
> >
>
> Not to mention Colorado State, Rhode Island, and Virginia Commonwealth.
>
> (They all use "Rams" in reference to their sports teams, at least. I'm
> not certain that they can each trot out a real live ram, although I'm
> pretty sure that CSU can.)
>
> And we've had Derby County and Chelsea for the soccer team.
>
> I shall have to revise my understanding of the word "both".
>
I haven't entered a contest since I won 1s 9d in the Great Colgate
Shareout, and I don't intend to enter this one, either, but I do find it
necessary to point out that Derby County is the soccer team known as the
Rams; if that nickname applies to Chelsea, too, it must be a recent
introduction.
As for hot spurs, or hotspurs, you could find them in a soccer team in
Tottenham; you could find Harry Hotspur in "Henry IV", and you might
have found some copies of "The Hotspur" among my brother's childhood
comics.
Fran
Perchprism
>From: Laura F Spira <la...@DRAGONspira.u-net.com>
>Date: Fri, 16 July 1999 02:01 PM EDT
>Message-id: <378F738A...@DRAGONspira.u-net.com>
I wasn't appointed. I was dragooned, shanghaied I say. The Vass deference
undermined my resistance, until I came to believe that I knew what he was
talking about. Too late now. The curtain's been raised and the harsh glare of
global scrutiny is upon me. What a feeling of raw power! Haha! Defy me at your
peril: I am of The Panel!
Sorry about that. War wound kicking up again. I hope we can all play nice and
be friendly. It's only a T-shirt, after all.
Perchprism
M.J.Powell
<tr...@euronet.nl> writes
>Donna Richoux <tr...@euronet.nl> wrote:
>
>
>> > |> 14. What single word connects the two words 'saffron' and
>> > |> 'admiral'?
>>
>
>Scratch that. My insect books show no "yellow admiral."
>
>Best --- Donna Richoux
What about Nelson? Born in Norwich, I think, and they (used to) grow
saffron around there. Hence Saffron Walden.
--
Mike The life that I have
Is all that I have
And the life that I have
Is yours.
Perchprism
>From: "Garry J. Vass" <Ga...@gvass.demon.co.uk>
>Date: Fri, 16 July 1999 02:32 PM EDT
>Message-id: <q7WcosAk...@gvass.demon.co.uk>
Hmmm? Oh. Yes, boggling and goggling am I. There are heavyweights yet to be
heard from, too. I can't tell you how happy I am that it's gone longer than a
couple of hours. Why do I feel like John Madden all of a sudden?
JNugent
[inter alia]
>> |> 82. What is Brooklyn's last name?
>> |You people are obsessed with anything to to with "posh," aren't you?
>> |Brooklyn (daughter of David and Posh) presumably suffers under the
>> |surname "Beckham."
[without prejudice, M'Lud]
And I'd always thought it would be "Borough Council"...
Jimbo
Official AUE Summer Doldrums Contest Panel Member
JNugent
>>>21. The English language owes a legacy to a town
>>>called 'Peterborough'. What?
>>Socage? Maybe where the description 'Englisc' was first used?
>No, no, stupid!
>The Peterborough Chronicle, one of the few vernacular descriptions of
>contemporary events in Anglo-Saxon Britain, up to 1154 AD.
Indeed. And carried on in the Daily Telegraph right up into our times.
Donna Richoux
>
> >43. Listed in the Doomsday book as 'Wunemannedune', what is
> >the name of this town today?
Confirmed! Via the Oxford Dictionary of English Placenames. I tried
skimming through the W's but those old names are woggleboggling.
Best --- Donna Richoux
Donna Richoux
> > |> 31. Someone whose name means 'exalted rank' recently married
> > |> someone whose name means 'greater in rank'. Her first name?
> > |
> Emma! It just came to me. Emma Noble married John Major last month. Not
> Becks, which means something else anyway. Noble and Major. two exalted
> ranks got married. If this is a British question, Emma is the answer full
> stop. Major is the ex-PM's son, and Emma Noble wears the see-through
> dresses on the telly.
Super, Noah! I hadn't heard of this at all, I guess the son of a former
Prime Minister isn't world-wide news.
> Can somebody help me with #43?
See my other note responding to John Holmes.
Best --- Donna Richoux
Robert Lieblich
> 8. I want to be a tree! What country?
Not sure, but Lebanon ought to be a good answer. Check out their flag.
> 32. Nora, Nils, Anna, and Doctor Rank. Who created them?
Ibsen (*A Doll's House*).
Bob Lieblich
Gwen Lenker
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>1. A WWII vet, living in the deep South, plays some poker with
>his buddies, ransacks his houseguest's belongings, slaps his
>wife around, and goes on to become a piece of literary heritage.
>What was his name or who created him?
Stanley Kowalski
>2. A little old lady. From where?
Pasadena
>3. Through the eyes of a poet, the Duke of Ferrara tells us
>about a painting ("Will't please you sit and look at her?").
>What's the name of the poet?
Robert Browning
>4. Name two quarterbacks who retired as restaurateurs?
Joe Namath, Joe Montana
>5. Two Wurtzburg graduates are hired to assassinate someone.
>Their names?
John Lord Kilpont and James Stewart of Ardvoirlich
>6. Circle, Northern, and another?
District
>7. Which word doesn't belong with the others: Arban,
>Minggam, Tuman, Djaghoum, and Polka?
Tuman
>8. I want to be a tree! What country?
Middle Earth
>9. Apparently, '...the way the sunlight plays upon her hair...'
>and '...the wind that wifts (wafts? lifts?) her perfume through
>the air...' induce one to pick up something. What does
>one pick up?
Good Vibrations
>10. A beverage whose etymology ultimately leads
>to the Latin, 'everlasting youth'?
gin
>11. 'From Soho down to Brighton, I must have played them all...'
>Played what?
Siver balls: pinball machines
>12. 'A Day in the Life of America' takes place every 20 minutes
>where?
>
>13. A Great Geat. Name the Geat.
Beowulf
>14. What single word connects the two words 'saffron' and
>'admiral'?
yellow
>15. In 'Sleepy London Town' there's just no place for what?
A street fighting man
>16. They got there sooner than anybody else in what state?
Oklahoma
>17. A vessel that can 'decloak' must do what before it
>'decloaks'?
Cloak (shields cannot be raised while cloaked, but that's irrelevant)
>18. A neighbourhood in Manhattan is named after a swamp,
>another for a farm. Name these two neighbourhoods.
Gramercy Park is the swamp. Chelsea is the farm.
>19. Name five Jedi Knights.
Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, Darth Vader,
Luke Skywalker, Darth Maul
>20. A high street tailor, a fruit manufacturer, and a famous General
>are all intertwined as the possible source for what expression?
The full Monty (the phrase is mentioned in the FAQ, but these possible
sources are not)
>21. The English language owes a legacy to a town
>called 'Peterborough'. What?
The Peterborough Chronicle
>22. What is the traditional border between the 'Man of
>Kent' and the 'Kentish Man'?
The Medway River
>23. What is the traditional border between the letter 'W'
>and the letter 'K'?
The Mississippi River
>24. What famous novel did I. P. Freely write?
The Yellow River
>25. 'Auld Reekie' is a nickname for what?
Edinburgh
>26. A WWII machine gun, a cement truck, and a man's
>suit have been offered as origins for what phrase?
FAQ (the whole nine yards)
>27. A 'Subway Series' might conceivably happen in any year.
>How?
The Mets win the National League pennant, the Yankees the American
League pennant.
>28. The OE terms, 'wyrplas', 'bewitian', and 'impian'
>provide early evidence of what sport?
Birding
>29. The official name of the Orbital?
The North Circular Road
>30. What is the chief characteristic of a Pommy's towel?
Dryness
>31. Someone whose name means 'exalted rank' recently married
>someone whose name means 'greater in rank'. Her first name?
Emma
>32. Nora, Nils, Anna, and Doctor Rank. Who created them?
Henrik Ibsen
>33. What noise would a mammal named 'Figaro' make?
"Meow!" or "Reow!"
>34. The principal duties of the 'Precentor' and the
>'Armarius' were to look after whose needs?
The choir
>35. 'The Opera ain't over till the fat lady sings'.
>What sport?
Basketball
>36. What do donkey's ears measure?
Time: years
>37. A ram is the mascot for both a US university and a British
>soccer team. Name both!
Fordham University and Derby County
>38. What was the street address of Kookie's work place?
77 Sunset Strip
>39. The thorn disappeared, the rose remained. What replaced the
>thorn?
"th"
>40. A race to 'Dead Man's Curve'! It began when a Sting Ray waited
>at a stop light. What was the make of the other car?
Jaguar
>41. What is the youngest letter of the Modern English alphabet?
W
>42. A family of Dukes drove a car with a stars and bars on it.
>Who drove the jeep?
Uncle Jesse
>43. Listed in the Doomsday book as 'Wunemannedune', what is
>the name of this town today?
Wimbledon
>44. The Romans had the shortest. The Anglos and the Saxons
>brought longer ones. The Vikings brought even longer ones,
>and the Normans brought the very longest. By the time the
>Plantagenets came to power, they were short again. What?
Bows
>45. Who is 'e' named for?
E for Peron
>46. When Gomer enlisted, he left a brother tending the family
>business back in Mayberry. What was the family business?
>What is the equivalent term across the pond?
A gas station. Filling station
>47. Who shot J. R.?
Kristin Shepard, Edgar Randolph, and somebody else
>48. What is the word that means, 'the substitution of an epithet,
>appellate, or the name of an office or dignity, for a
>person's proper name'?
Antonomasia
>49. A modern day English word named after a 'little bottle', but
>means something completely different from 'little bottle'. What
>is that word?
Fiasco
>50. Well, I'm not the world's most physical guy, but when she
>squeezed me tight, she nearly broke my spine. Who walks like
>a woman and talks like a man?
L-O-L-A, Lola
>51. A Hindu word meaning 'foreigner' was adopted as an
>affectionate term for England. What word?
Bilayati (adopted as: Blighty)
>52. The oldest surviving OE/AS recipe in the British Museum
>explains how to prepare what?
Medu (mead)
>53. A Germanic word meaning 'foreign' was adopted as the name of
>a country. What country?
Wales
>54. Sung, 'He is driving 'round the corner in a green and yellow
>Ford...'. Who?
The Lord
>55. Radio 1, Radio 2, and so on up to Radio 'n'. What is 'n'?
5
>56. How many words are mislept in the 'Rules' above
>(LP convention)?
None. Not even fustest.
>57. Who had to collect 1,000 logs?
Paul Bunyan
>58. Who killed Laura Palmer?
Bob, in Mr. Palmer's body
>59. What town connects Edgar Allen Poe and H. L. Mencken?
Baltimore, Maryland
>60. Clerics may not equip what kind of weapon?
Edged
>61. The phrase, 'Cobblers to the Queen', takes on a
>more ribald meaning in the vicinity of a certain
>church. What church?
St. Mary leBon
>62. What is the word that means 'use of one word class
>functioning as another word class'?
Enallage
>63. The wedding march, 'Here Comes the Bride' was written
>by?
Richard Wagner
>64. This fellow was trained as a mercer (textile dealer),
>gained commercial success on the continent, and served as
>governor of a trading company. Later, he received patronage
>from a French duchess to do something completely different.
>What was his name?
John Dee
>65. Upon hearing of a 'Smokey in your back door', one should
>check and possibly adjust what?
One's speed
>66. Where is Aquilany Castle?
In a mountain valley in Chey Sar, southeast of Mordor
>67. Sargent and Constable. By rank, one meaning. By name,
>something else entirely. What were their careers?
Painters
>68. Who rode Buttermilk?
Dale Evans
>69. Where might one go to engage in a 'piss up'?
A pub
>70. Consider the euphemisms: 'Jiminy Crickets', 'Gee
>whillikers', and 'Jeepers'. Which is oldest?
Gee whillikers
>71. 'All that glisters is not gold'. The source?
The Merchant of Venice
>72. In 'Lord of the Flies', Golding uses the figurative
>expression, 'The scar was a bath of heat'. What type of
>expression is this?
Figurative language (more specific than "metaphor")
>73. Household item whose etymology ultimately leads to the
>Old Teutonic, 'thorny shrub'?
broom
>74. According to an American poet, born Zimmerman, 'orders from
>the DA (District Attorney)' about when to bust come in what
>month?
May
>75. The OE kenning, 'dryht-guma', best translates into what
>Modern English word?
retainer
>76. The main commodity of Arrakis?
Spice (specifically Melange)
>77. How many degrees of separation?
Six
>78. Which one won Super Bowl I?
Green Bay Packers
>79. Everybody knows what a 'Fess' looks like. *We* need to know
>what a 'Fess Cotised' looks like. *Exactly* please.
A horizontal bar across the center of a shield, with a narrow stripe
of the same hue above and below it.
>80. Many English towns whose name ends in '-by' testify to our
>linguistic heritage from what people?
The Danes
>81. Of the two animals in the Old Testament that spoke to humans,
>one was the serpent in the Book of Genesis. Please name the other.
Balaam's ass
>82. What is Brooklyn's last name?
Adams
>83. A deserted field, with lightning and thunder overhead...
>Three witches make plans to see someone. Who? And
>who could do Tuesday?
Satan, Nanny Ogg
>84. A Modern English metal is named after a hostile, mythical
>monster that lived deep inside inside of copper and silver mines.
>Name either the metal, or its monster namesake.
Cobalt
>85. Hot spurs? Come again? Hot spurs? How very odd. Where
>does one find 'hot spurs'?
I Henry IV
>86. The ritualistic cursing matches that were popular in 12th and
>13th century England were known as what?
slanging matches
>87. Gwynedd, Powys, Dyfed, and the fourth one please?
Clwyd
>88. Beverage whose etymology ultimately leads to the Gaelic,
>'water of life'?
whiskey
>89. 'Strumpet', 'Slut', 'Minx', and 'Lady'. Which word is
>oldest?
Lady
>90. What single word connects a 'gin-salt barroom queen', 'cleaned
>a lot of plates' and 'long distance information'?
Memphis
>91. 'Astral', 'Arabian Nights', and 'Antiquities' are the answers.
>Answers to what question?
What are some Magic: The Gathering expansion sets?
>92. Which region of England was probably the first to emerge
>with the word, 'Church' as it is spelled and pronounced
>in Modern English?
The Midlands
>93. A ship captain coined a pen-name from the depth of the water.
>What was this pen-name?
Mark Twain
>94. Which word doesn't belong with the others: Oferhyrnes,
>Cynebot, Heriot, and Wapentakes?
Wapentakes
>95. Mr. Aschenbach became possessed with desire for a young boy,
>Tadzio. Where?
Venice
>96. Beverage whose etymology ultimately leads to the Arabic,
>'have no appetite'?
coffee
>97. A latter-day Ovid described an overnight transformation
>into a cockroach, and inspired another Ovid to describe the
>return journey. Both authors, if you please.
Franz Kafka and
>98. Van Morrison, 'Them', and 'The Shadows of Knight' all sang
>about 'Gloria', (G-L-O-R-I-A), who came around 'just about
>midnight'. How tall was Gloria, from her head to the ground?
She 'bout five feet four.
>99. A literary term from the Greek, 'cutting short'?
Apocope
>100. We destroyed it in order to save it. What?
Ben Tre, Vietnam
>101. It was somewhere in a fairy tale. She was going to be an
>actress. What was 'I' going to do?
Learn to fly
>102. Household item whose etymology ultimately leads to the
>Aryan, 'dug out place'?
>103. A viciously shrewd double switch-back at Blackfriars,
>followed by an (oh, so deadly) hunter's-heart fork at Monument,
>combined with a (devastatingly cruel, coup de grace) angler's
>cast at Temple might entitle one to claim victory at what?
Mornington Crescent
>104. Complete the following sequence: 8th, 7th, 6th, 5th,
>and...
4th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st, 0th
>105. April! A month with sweet showers that pierce the
>drought of March to the root! People long to do something
>in April. What?
Go on pilgrimages
>106. Viking, Forties, Dogger, Humber, and another?
Tyne
>107. How many ubhef are there in a qnl?
Gjragl-sbhe
>108. Ballywoodane, Cloghplilip, Dromagh, and another one please?
Tiraha
>109. Too many teardrops for one heart to be crying. Cry! How
>many tears?
96
>110. What was lost that sent Beethoven into a rage?
a pfennig
>111. What connects Dr Minor, Mr Bobbitt and the OED?
>112. A partitive genitive would most likely be found in what
>figure of speech?
synecdoche
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>113. RP Feather-weight Extra Credit: Prince William's favourite
>hat demonstrates unabashed favouritism to what?
Aston Villa
>114. London Scene Bantam-weight Extra Credit: One of the
>following does not belong with the others. Please
>select the one that does not belong: [1] The Pukes;
>[2] Dripping Snot; [3] Tommy Turd and The Crap Stools;
>[4] The Stomach Pumps; and [5] The Battersea Jazz Band.
>
>115. RP Middle-weight Extra Credit: If YM and CLE are of the
>order of 10^9 and 10^6 respectively why are non-ferrous
>garlands impracticable?
>
>116. RP Heavy-weight Extra Credit: Who nearly swallowed
>the snitch at Quidditch?
>
>117. RP Heavy-weight Killer: The OE word, 'weolucbasu',
>would be best translated into Modern English as what?
>
>118. RP Killer-Diller: 'Divina - Faventia - Clementia' is the
>motto for what order?
The Order of Saint Benedict
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>119. LP Feather-weight Extra Credit: Murray, Lou, Mary,
>and Ted... Who did Ted marry?
Georgette Franklin
>120. LP Middle-weight stumper: In a title match, how long
>would Hulk Hogan (or his opponent) be allowed out of the
>ring before being disqualified?
Ten seconds
>121. LP Heavy-weight Extra Credit: A popular name for a
>town. The states of Arkansas, Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky,
>Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina,
>Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont and Washington
>all boast a town with this name. What is it?
Columbus
>122. LP Heavy-weight Killer: What was dimly seen through the
>mists of the deep?
The Star-Spangled Banner
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>123. UP Middle-weight Extra Credit: Do too many kippers make
>you feel bloated, or is this a red herring?
Arbroath
>124. UP Light-weight Extra Credit: Alice who?
Todd
>125. UP Heavy-weight Extra Credit: Who wrote a letter with a
>thumbnail dipped in tar?
A.B. "Banjo" Paterson
>126. UP Ultra-killer: Oz and Kubla Kahn Connection?
Xanadu
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>Note: We knew that the good people of aue would find all of the
>above child's play. This section is for *serious* contenders with
>an axe to grind. Let's get down to business! Roll up your
>sleeves and put your *stuff* on it!
>
>127. aue WarmUp: What comes after the protasis, epitasis, and
>the catastasis?
catastrophe
>128. aue BallBreaker: The first three are the Hiddikel,
>Pison, and Gihon. What is the fourth?
Phrath
>129. aue BackBreaker: The first five are Tymbria, Helias,
>Chetas, Troien, and Antenorides. What is the sixth?
Dardan
>130. aue Humdinger: Melpomene's sister?
Heliconius cydno
>131. aue Hoopie Doopie: The first eight are Hector, Alexander,
>Julius Caesar, Joshua, David, Judas Maccabeus, Arthur, and
>Charlemagne. Who is the ninth?
Godfrey de Bouillon
>132. aue Mind Boggler: The first six are the Palatine,
>Capitoline, Aventine, Caeline, Esquiline, Viminal. What is
>the seventh?
Quirinal
>133. aue Hunker Dunker: The first six are arithmetic, geometry,
>astronomy, music, grammar, and logic. What is the seventh?
rhetoric
>134. aue Totally Official Millennium Class: The Cirencester
>Square? No, but something very close. The first four are:
>Sador, Alador, Danet, and Adera. Go for it! Name the fifth!
Rodas
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>
>Garry J. Vass
Gwen Lenker
wrote:
>Noah Claypole <no...@globalnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> > |> 31. Someone whose name means 'exalted rank' recently married
>> > |> someone whose name means 'greater in rank'. Her first name?
>> > |
>> Emma! It just came to me. Emma Noble married John Major last month. Not
>> Becks, which means something else anyway. Noble and Major. two exalted
>> ranks got married. If this is a British question, Emma is the answer full
>> stop. Major is the ex-PM's son, and Emma Noble wears the see-through
>> dresses on the telly.
>
>Super, Noah! I hadn't heard of this at all, I guess the son of a former
>Prime Minister isn't world-wide news.
>
>> Can somebody help me with #43?
>
>See my other note responding to John Holmes.
Excuse me, but why are the Panelists announcing the correct answers
already? Is the contest over? Did I miss getting my entry in on
time?
Lars Eighner
the lovely and talented eig...@io.com (Lars Eighner)
broadcast on alt.usage.english:
||> 109. Too many teardrops for one heart to be crying. Cry! How
||> many tears?
|
|99
This was close, but wrong.
||> 119. LP Feather-weight Extra Credit: Murray, Lou, Mary,
||> and Ted... Who did Ted marry?
|
|Betty White. But I forget the name of her character.
This is wrong. Betty White had a part, but did not marry Ted.
The correct answer has been posted.
||> 126. UP Ultra-killer: Oz and Kubla Kahn Connection?
|
|Poppies.
I don't know if this is right, but there is a logic to it.
The original post still has not shown up on my server and it
would seem it never will.
--
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(512) 474-1920 (FAX answers 6th ring) http://www.io.com/%7Eeighner/
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* Viagra? Hell, a 747 can keep you up for 14 hours.
Garry J. Vass
<gale...@jump.com> writes
>
>>134. aue Totally Official Millennium Class: The Cirencester
>>Square? No, but something very close. The first four are:
>>Sador, Alador, Danet, and Adera. Go for it! Name the fifth!
>Rodas
Jesus H. Christ!
Garry J. Vass
(One *Totally* Gobsmacked Panel Member)
Gwen Lenker
wrote:
>Gwen Lenker <gale...@jump.com> wrote:
>
>> Excuse me, but why are the Panelists announcing the correct answers
>> already? Is the contest over? Did I miss getting my entry in on
>> time?
>
>Moi? A Panelist? By no means. I'm a kneejerk "Question Authority" type.
>
>We're all playing this our own way. I like the collective-effort method.
But somebody before you was a Panelist, right? Darn, I should have
switched back to my other account before trying to play this game. I
don't think I have enough of the posts to get a clear idea of what's
going on.
Gwen Lenker
<Ga...@gvass.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <378f9be6...@News.CIS.DFN.DE>, Gwen Lenker
><gale...@jump.com> writes
>>
>>>134. aue Totally Official Millennium Class: The Cirencester
>>>Square? No, but something very close. The first four are:
>>>Sador, Alador, Danet, and Adera. Go for it! Name the fifth!
>>Rodas
>
>Jesus H. Christ!
>
>Garry J. Vass
>(One *Totally* Gobsmacked Panel Member)
I nailed it, huh?
Robert Lieblich
>
> Garry J. Vass wrote in message ...
> .
> >19. Name five Jedi Knights.
>
> episode VII in 2021.
>
> >105. April! A month with sweet showers that pierce the
> >drought of March to the root! People long to do something
> >in April. What?
>
Are there any special awards for answers that are superior to the
"correct" ones?
Bob Lieblich
Pan
Gwen Lenker <gale...@jump.com> wrote in message
news:378fbd18...@News.CIS.DFN.DE...
> On 16 Jul 1999 18:07:12 -0500, "Garry J. Vass"
> <Ga...@gvass.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >In article <378f9be6...@News.CIS.DFN.DE>, Gwen Lenker
> ><gale...@jump.com> writes
> >>
> >>>Square? No, but something very close. The first four are:
> >>>Sador, Alador, Danet, and Adera. Go for it! Name the fifth!
> >>Rodas
> >
> >
> >Garry J. Vass
> >(One *Totally* Gobsmacked Panel Member)
>
> I nailed it, huh?
>
<*GROAN*>
I think I read that pun first from an Ethiopian 6th C.
inscription.
Pan
John Holmes
>2. A little old lady. From where?
>
>9. Apparently, '...the way the sunlight plays upon her hair...'
>and '...the wind that wifts (wafts? lifts?) her perfume through
>the air...' induce one to pick up something. What does
>one pick up?
Good vibrations.
>
>11. 'From Soho down to Brighton, I must have played them all...'
>Played what?
Pinball machines.
>14. What single word connects the two words 'saffron' and
>'admiral'?
Yellow. Saffron yellow and Yellow Admiral (a butterfly).
>20. A high street tailor, a fruit manufacturer, and a famous General
>are all intertwined as the possible source for what expression?
The full monty.
>21. The English language owes a legacy to a town
>called 'Peterborough'. What?
Socage? Maybe where the description 'Englisc' was first used?
>22. What is the traditional border between the 'Man of
>Kent' and the 'Kentish Man'?
The River Medway.
>
>23. What is the traditional border between the letter 'W'
>and the letter 'K'?
Approximately the Mississippi River, but there are many individual
exceptions.
>
>24. What famous novel did I. P. Freely write?
Yellow River
>
>25. 'Auld Reekie' is a nickname for what?
Edinburgh
>
>26. A WWII machine gun, a cement truck, and a man's
>suit have been offered as origins for what phrase?
The whole nine yards.
>
>29. The official name of the Orbital?
Sarich (an engine design).
>30. What is the chief characteristic of a Pommy's towel?
Dryness.
>
>35. 'The Opera ain't over till the fat lady sings'.
>What sport?
Baseball.
>
>36. What do donkey's ears measure?
Eeyornes (non-rhotically).
>
>39. The thorn disappeared, the rose remained. What replaced the
>thorn?
(Does this mean the letter? Then what is the rose?)
>41. What is the youngest letter of the Modern English alphabet?
W.
>43. Listed in the Doomsday book as 'Wunemannedune', what is
>the name of this town today?
Wimbledon?
>
>44. The Romans had the shortest. The Anglos and the Saxons
>brought longer ones. The Vikings brought even longer ones,
>and the Normans brought the very longest. By the time the
>Plantagenets came to power, they were short again. What?
Bows. (did Fabian have anything to do with tihs?)
>
>45. Who is 'e' named for?
'E for Adam'.
>
>49. A modern day English word named after a 'little bottle', but
>means something completely different from 'little bottle'. What
>is that word?
Fiasco.
>
>50. Well, I'm not the world's most physical guy, but when she
>squeezed me tight, she nearly broke my spine. Who walks like
>a woman and talks like a man?
>
>51. A Hindu word meaning 'foreigner' was adopted as an
>affectionate term for England. What word?
Bilayati.
>
>52. The oldest surviving OE/AS recipe in the British Museum
>explains how to prepare what?
'Medu'
>63. The wedding march, 'Here Comes the Bride' was written
>by?
Music: Wagner, Lyrics: Anon.
>65. Upon hearing of a 'Smokey in your back door', one should
>check and possibly adjust what?
Your speed.
>67. Sargent and Constable. By rank, one meaning. By name,
>something else entirely. What were their careers?
Music and painting, respectively.
>71. 'All that glisters is not gold'. The source?
Latin proverb, ultimately?
>73. Household item whose etymology ultimately leads to the
>Old Teutonic, 'thorny shrub'?
Broom
>77. How many degrees of separation?
Six.
>79. Everybody knows what a 'Fess' looks like. *We* need to know
>what a 'Fess Cotised' looks like. *Exactly* please.
Do you want a .GIF? A horizontal band across the centre of an escutcheon,
having a small bend one quarter the width of a bend proper.
>88. Beverage whose etymology ultimately leads to the Gaelic,
>'water of life'?
Whisk(e)y.
>95. Mr. Aschenbach became possessed with desire for a young boy,
>Tadzio. Where?
Venice.
>
>96. Beverage whose etymology ultimately leads to the Arabic,
>'have no appetite'?
Coffee?
>100. We destroyed it in order to save it. What?
An awful lot of things, unfortunately. But I think it's what Lt Calley
said about the village of My Lai.
>103. A viciously shrewd double switch-back at Blackfriars,
>followed by an (oh, so deadly) hunter's-heart fork at Monument,
>combined with a (devastatingly cruel, coup de grace) angler's
>cast at Temple might entitle one to claim victory at what?
Mornington Crescent.
>104. Complete the following sequence: 8th, 7th, 6th, 5th,
>and...
4th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st. Is there a 0th of anything apart from laws of
thermodynamics?
>105. April! A month with sweet showers that pierce the
>drought of March to the root! People long to do something
>in April. What?
Thanne longen folk to gon on pilgrimage.
>107. How many ubhef are there in a qnl?
Gjragl-sbhe.
>
>-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
>-*-*-* Extra Credit and Tie Breakers UnderPondia (optional)
>-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
>123. UP Middle-weight Extra Credit: Do too many kippers make
>you feel bloated, or is this a red herring?
Yes, definitely.
>
>124. UP Light-weight Extra Credit: Alice who?
Todd.
>
>125. UP Heavy-weight Extra Credit: Who wrote a letter with a
>thumbnail dipped in tar?
Clancy (of the Overflow).
>131. aue Hoopie Doopie: The first eight are Hector, Alexander,
>Julius Caesar, Joshua, David, Judas Maccabeus, Arthur, and
>Charlemagne. Who is the ninth?
Wrong. Who is on first.
(That one had to be in the competition somewhere, didn't it?)
>
>132. aue Mind Boggler: The first six are the Palatine,
>Capitoline, Aventine, Caeline, Esquiline, Viminal. What is
>the seventh?
Quirinal.
>
>133. aue Hunker Dunker: The first six are arithmetic, geometry,
>astronomy, music, grammar, and logic. What is the seventh?
Rhetoric?
Regards,
John.
John Holmes
John Holmes wrote in message <7mnqf6$spa$1...@perki.connect.com.au>...
>>21. The English language owes a legacy to a town
>>called 'Peterborough'. What?
>Socage? Maybe where the description 'Englisc' was first used?
No, no, stupid!
The Peterborough Chronicle, one of the few vernacular descriptions of
contemporary events in Anglo-Saxon Britain, up to 1154 AD.
Also:
>126. UP Ultra-killer: Oz and Kubla Kahn Connection?
Maybe an extremely tenuous one:
In 'Xanadu' was Olivia Newton-John? (In the film musical, that is.)
Regards,
John.
Donna Richoux
> Excuse me, but why are the Panelists announcing the correct answers
> already? Is the contest over? Did I miss getting my entry in on
> time?
Moi? A Panelist? By no means. I'm a kneejerk "Question Authority" type.
We're all playing this our own way. I like the collective-effort method.
See ya --- Donna
Donna Richoux
> But somebody before you was a Panelist, right? Darn, I should have
> switched back to my other account before trying to play this game. I
> don't think I have enough of the posts to get a clear idea of what's
> going on.
Nobody on this major branch of the thread admits to being a Panel
member, except for JNugent, and that post has no follow-ups.
You're supposed to be discombobulated, you know.
Best --- Donna.
Gwen Lenker
wrote:
>Nobody on this major branch of the thread admits to being a Panel
>member, except for JNugent, and that post has no follow-ups.
>
>You're supposed to be discombobulated, you know.
Oh, well, that part's working.
Gwen Lenker
wrote:
>>116. RP Heavy-weight Extra Credit: Who nearly swallowed
>>the snitch at Quidditch?
Harry Potter
Peter Moylan
>I refused to do anything I might be tempted to look up, to read anyone else's
>answers, or to spend more than 2 seconds on a question. i think we should
>score this like Boggle; any answer which has been given by more than one person
>doesn't score anything for any of them.
Tempting, but unworkable given the rule that people must post their
answers publicly. (Besides, I really hate that Boggle rule whenever
someone duplicates a word of which I was particularly proud.)
One of the design criteria for this competition was that it shouldn't
be over within an hour. (And that goal has certainly been achieved.)
That implies, if you think about it, that nobody should get many
correct answers on the first attempt; the necessity for multiple
attempts is built in to the structure of the thing.
--
Peter Moylan pe...@ee.newcastle.edu.au
(One of the judges. Private e-mail on this subject will not be accepted,
with the possible exception of bribe offers. Do not void where prohibited.)
iwasaki
Garry J. Vass wrote in message ...
.
>19. Name five Jedi Knights.
Luke Skywalker's five children --their names will be known in the
episode VII in 2021.
>105. April! A month with sweet showers that pierce the
>drought of March to the root! People long to do something
>in April. What?
Mixing Memory and desire.
Nobuko Iwasaki
Aaron J. Dinkin
I really want this to be Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, but the text of
_Hamlet_ says they are schoolmates of Hamlet's and that Hamlet attended
Wittenberg. Can anyone reconcile this, or am I on the wrong track?
> 23. What is the traditional border between the letter 'W' and the letter 'K'?
The Mississippi River. (It refers to the first call letter of US radio
stations: W in the east, K in the west.
> 50. Well, I'm not the world's most physical guy, but when she squeezed me
> tight, she nearly broke my spine. Who walks like a woman and talks like a
> man?
Lola.
> 54. Sung, 'He is driving 'round the corner in a green and yellow Ford...'.
> Who?
Is the question who sung it or who is driving?
> 60. Clerics may not equip what kind of weapon?
I can't decide between edged weapons and non-blunt weapons. Spears, for
instance, are allowed by the former and forbidden by the latter. Anyone
willing to help?
> 81. Of the two animals in the Old Testament that spoke to humans, one was the
> serpent in the Book of Genesis. Please name the other.
Balaam's ass.
> 116. RP Heavy-weight Extra Credit: Who nearly swallowed the snitch at
> Quidditch?
Harry Potter, of course.
-Aaron J. Dinkin
Dr. Whom
Jitze Couperus
perch...@aol.com (Perchprism) wrote:
>
> I wasn't appointed. I was dragooned, shanghaied I say. The Vass deference
> undermined my resistance, until I came to believe that I knew what he was
> talking about. Too late now. The curtain's been raised and the harsh glare of
> global scrutiny is upon me. What a feeling of raw power! Haha! Defy me at your
> peril: I am of The Panel!
>
Also - be it hereby known that certain parties (unidentified herein)
did bellow loudly about the limited Leftpondian representation at an early
stage of the organization. The cry was heard, and a boarding party
was dispatched to perform said dragooning and shanghaiing.
It is therefore respectfully requested that members of hoi polloi
not berate members of the panel. The latter are only doing their job under
difficult conditions.
It should also be noted that I have (for many years) wanted a job where
I might be offered a bribe. But I am the only panel member so inclined.
Feel free to send all consulting fees and/or "commissions" my way.
Jitze
John Holmes
Garry J. Vass wrote in message ...
I haven't seen an answer to this one yet, so I'll take a punt:
>117. RP Heavy-weight Killer: The OE word, 'weolucbasu',
>would be best translated into Modern English as what?
I think it might be something like 'woolly-beast', hence the modern
translation might be 'sheep'(singular). Can someone with a reference check
it?
We couldn't have an aue competition without sheep in it somewhere.
Regards,
John.
John Holmes
Frances Kemmish wrote in message <378F7ED5...@iconn.net>...
>As for hot spurs, or hotspurs, you could find them in a soccer team in
>Tottenham; you could find Harry Hotspur in "Henry IV", and you might
>have found some copies of "The Hotspur" among my brother's childhood
>comics.
What about metallic things on a birds legs in cock-fighting, to augment
its natural spurs. Would they be 'hot' spurs?
Regards,
John.
Mark Barratt
Frances Kemmish <arc...@iconn.net> wrote in message
news:378F7ED5...@iconn.net...
>{...] Derby County is the soccer team known as the
> Rams; if that nickname applies to Chelsea, too, it must be a recent
> introduction.
I am also puzzled as to why so many respondents have said Chelsea.
Chelsea's official nickname is "The Blues," although "The pensioners"
still has some currency. Perhaps there's an ram-based emblem at
Stamford Bridge (their "stadium").
I am amused, however, that everybody seems to think that Hotspur (Sir
Henry Percy, 1366-1403) was an invention of Shakespeare.
> As for hot spurs, or hotspurs, you could find them in a soccer team
in
> Tottenham; you could find Harry Hotspur in "Henry IV", and you might
> have found some copies of "The Hotspur" among my brother's childhood
> comics.
The question plainly says "hot spurs" anyway, so the best fit is
Tottenham Hotspur (also known as "Spurs."
Mark Barratt
Donna Richoux
[Quotes question]
> >117. RP Heavy-weight Killer: The OE word, 'weolucbasu',
> >would be best translated into Modern English as what?
>
> I think it might be something like 'woolly-beast', hence the modern
> translation might be 'sheep'(singular). Can someone with a reference check
> it?
>
> We couldn't have an aue competition without sheep in it somewhere.
A noble effort, but it appears to mean "purple." "The Student's
Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon" (not a book I need every day) has
weoloc-baso, whelk-purple. I know we talked about violets recently, is
that the joke?
While I've got this book out, weren't there more on Old English?
> 75. The OE kenning, 'dryht-guma', best translates into what
> Modern English word?
retainer, warrior, man
> 28. The OE terms, 'wyrplas', 'bewitian', and 'impian'
> provide early evidence of what sport?
No 'wyrplas' but 'wyrp' is blow, stroke, shot.
'Bewitian' is to watch, observe; to perform a journey
'Impian' graft; be engaged in, associated with.
What? You Got Me.
Best -- Donna Richoux
Frances Kemmish
>
> Frances Kemmish <arc...@iconn.net> wrote in message
> news:378F7ED5...@iconn.net...
>
>
> Henry Percy, 1366-1403) was an invention of Shakespeare.
>
I believe that I said that you might find him in Henry IV. I didn't say
that I thought Shakespeare invented him. Did you think that I thought
Shakespeare invented Henry IV, too?
Fran
Frances Kemmish
> >Tottenham; you could find Harry Hotspur in "Henry IV", and you might
> >have found some copies of "The Hotspur" among my brother's childhood
> >comics.
>
> its natural spurs. Would they be 'hot' spurs?
>
They would in this weather.
Fran, in Connecticut, where it's forecast to be 95 degrees Fahrenheit
today.
Noah Claypole
Robert Lieblich <lieb...@erols.com> wrote in message
news:378FA9...@erols.com...
> A couple more I haven't seen yet:
>
>
>
>
>
Noah Claypole
khan <kh...@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote in message news:378F39...@nbnet.nb.ca...
> Garry J. Vass wrote:
> >
> > -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
> > THE TOTALLY OFFICIAL AUE SUMMER DOLDRUMS COMPETITION
> > -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
> 1. A WWII vet, living in the deep South, plays some poker with
> his buddies, ransacks his houseguest's belongings, slaps his
> wife around, and goes on to become a piece of literary heritage.
> What was his name or who created him?
>
> Stanley Kowalski
>
>
>
> 3. Through the eyes of a poet, the Duke of Ferrara tells us
> about a painting ("Will't please you sit and look at her?").
> What's the name of the poet?
>
>
> 4. Name two quarterbacks who retired as restaurateurs?
>
>
> 5. Two Wurtzburg graduates are hired to assassinate someone.
> Their names?
>
>
> 7. Which word doesn't belong with the others: Arban,
> Minggam, Tuman, Djaghoum, and Polka?
>
>
> and '...the wind that wifts (wafts? lifts?) her perfume through
> the air...' induce one to pick up something. What does
> one pick up?
>
>
> 10. A beverage whose etymology ultimately leads
> to the Latin, 'everlasting youth'?
>
> 11. 'From Soho down to Brighton, I must have played them all...'
> Played what?
>
>
> 12. 'A Day in the Life of America' takes place every 20 minutes
> where?
>
> 13. A Great Geat. Name the Geat.
>
> Beowulf
>
> 'admiral'?
>
>
>
>
> 17. A vessel that can 'decloak' must do what before it
> 'decloaks'?
>
>
>
> 18. A neighbourhood in Manhattan is named after a swamp,
> another for a farm. Name these two neighbourhoods.
>
>
> 19. Name five Jedi Knights.
>
> Luke Skywalker
>
> 20. A high street tailor, a fruit manufacturer, and a famous General
> are all intertwined as the possible source for what expression?
>
> called 'Peterborough'. What?
>
> Kent' and the 'Kentish Man'?
>
> and the letter 'K'?
>
>
>
> 25. 'Auld Reekie' is a nickname for what?
>
> Edinburgh
>
> 26. A WWII machine gun, a cement truck, and a man's
> suit have been offered as origins for what phrase?
>
>
> 27. A 'Subway Series' might conceivably happen in any year.
> How?
>
> Originally it referred to baseball when the Mets would win the National
> League pennant and the Yankees the American League pennant, but I notice
> that it has been extended to ice hockey by the US sports media.
>
> 28. The OE terms, 'wyrplas', 'bewitian', and 'impian'
> provide early evidence of what sport?
>
>
>
> 30. What is the chief characteristic of a Pommy's towel?
>
> someone whose name means 'greater in rank'. Her first name?
>
>
> 32. Nora, Nils, Anna, and Doctor Rank. Who created them?
>
>
>
> 34. The principal duties of the 'Precentor' and the
> 'Armarius' were to look after whose needs?
>
>
> 35. 'The Opera ain't over till the fat lady sings'.
> What sport?
>
>
> 36. What do donkey's ears measure?
>
>
> 37. A ram is the mascot for both a US university and a British
> soccer team. Name both!
>
>
> 38. What was the street address of Kookie's work place?
>
> 77 Sunset Strip
>
> thorn?
>
>
> 40. A race to 'Dead Man's Curve'! It began when a Sting Ray waited
> at a stop light. What was the make of the other car?
>
>
> 41. What is the youngest letter of the Modern English alphabet?
>
> Who drove the jeep?
>
> the name of this town today?
>
> brought longer ones. The Vikings brought even longer ones,
> and the Normans brought the very longest. By the time the
> Plantagenets came to power, they were short again. What?
>
>
> business back in Mayberry. What was the family business?
> What is the equivalent term across the pond?
>
>
> Kristin
>
> appellate, or the name of an office or dignity, for a
> person's proper name'?
>
> means something completely different from 'little bottle'. What
> is that word?
>
>
> 50. Well, I'm not the world's most physical guy, but when she
> squeezed me tight, she nearly broke my spine. Who walks like
> a woman and talks like a man?
>
> Lola
>
> affectionate term for England. What word?
>
>
> 52. The oldest surviving OE/AS recipe in the British Museum
> explains how to prepare what?
>
Tern. I just called and talked to a guy. It is a Tern. A type of sea
gull.
>
> 53. A Germanic word meaning 'foreign' was adopted as the name of
> a country. What country?
>
> Wales
>
> Ford...'. Who?
>
>
> (LP convention)?
>
>
>
>
> 59. What town connects Edgar Allen Poe and H. L. Mencken?
>
> Baltimore
>
>
>
> 61. The phrase, 'Cobblers to the Queen', takes on a
> more ribald meaning in the vicinity of a certain
> church. What church?
>
> functioning as another word class'?
>
> by?
>
>
> 64. This fellow was trained as a mercer (textile dealer),
> gained commercial success on the continent, and served as
> governor of a trading company. Later, he received patronage
> from a French duchess to do something completely different.
> What was his name?
>
> check and possibly adjust what?
>
>
> 66. Where is Aquilany Castle?
>
> something else entirely. What were their careers?
>
>
> 68. Who rode Buttermilk?
>
> Dale Evans
>
> 69. Where might one go to engage in a 'piss up'?
>
>
> 70. Consider the euphemisms: 'Jiminy Crickets', 'Gee
> whillikers', and 'Jeepers'. Which is oldest?
>
>
> 71. 'All that glisters is not gold'. The source?
>
> Merchant of Venice
>
> 72. In 'Lord of the Flies', Golding uses the figurative
> expression is this?
>
> metaphor
>
> 73. Household item whose etymology ultimately leads to the
> Old Teutonic, 'thorny shrub'?
>
>
> 74. According to an American poet, born Zimmerman, 'orders from
> the DA (District Attorney)' about when to bust come in what
> month?
>
> May
>
> Modern English word?
>
>
>
> 77. How many degrees of separation?
>
>
> 78. Which one won Super Bowl I?
>
>
> 79. Everybody knows what a 'Fess' looks like. *We* need to know
> what a 'Fess Cotised' looks like. *Exactly* please.
>
> not exceed one fourth the width of the fess
>
> 80. Many English towns whose name ends in '-by' testify to our
> linguistic heritage from what people?
>
>
> 81. Of the two animals in the Old Testament that spoke to humans,
> one was the serpent in the Book of Genesis. Please name the other.
>
>
> Three witches make plans to see someone. Who? And
> who could do Tuesday?
>
>
> 84. A Modern English metal is named after a hostile, mythical
> monster that lived deep inside inside of copper and silver mines.
> Name either the metal, or its monster namesake.
>
>
> 85. Hot spurs? Come again? Hot spurs? How very odd. Where
> does one find 'hot spurs'?
>
> 13th century England were known as what?
>
>
> 'water of life'?
>
>
> 89. 'Strumpet', 'Slut', 'Minx', and 'Lady'. Which word is
> oldest?
>
> a lot of plates' and 'long distance information'?
>
> Memphis
> "cleaned a lotta plates in Memphis, pumped a lotta pain..."
>
> 91. 'Astral', 'Arabian Nights', and 'Antiquities' are the answers.
> Answers to what question?
>
> with the word, 'Church' as it is spelled and pronounced
> in Modern English?
>
> What was this pen-name?
>
>
> 94. Which word doesn't belong with the others: Oferhyrnes,
> Cynebot, Heriot, and Wapentakes?
>
> Tadzio. Where?
>
> Venice
>
> 'have no appetite'?
>
> into a cockroach, and inspired another Ovid to describe the
> return journey. Both authors, if you please.
>
>
> 98. Van Morrison, 'Them', and 'The Shadows of Knight' all sang
> about 'Gloria', (G-L-O-R-I-A), who came around 'just about
> midnight'. How tall was Gloria, from her head to the ground?
>
> Five feet four
> From her head to the ground"
>
> 99. A literary term from the Greek, 'cutting short'?
>
>
>
> 101. It was somewhere in a fairy tale. She was going to be an
> actress. What was 'I' going to do?
>
>
> 102. Household item whose etymology ultimately leads to the
> Aryan, 'dug out place'?
>
> followed by an (oh, so deadly) hunter's-heart fork at Monument,
> combined with a (devastatingly cruel, coup de grace) angler's
> cast at Temple might entitle one to claim victory at what?
>
> and...
>
> drought of March to the root! People long to do something
> in April. What?
>
>
> 106. Viking, Forties, Dogger, Humber, and another?
>
>
>
> many tears?
>
>
> 110. What was lost that sent Beethoven into a rage?
>
Lee Rudolph
>> 130. aue Humdinger: Melpomene's sister?
>
> Kleio (Clio), history
> Euterpe, flute playing
> Thaleia (Thalia), comedy
> Terpsichore, dance
> Erato, love poems
> Polymnia, sacred music
> Ourania (Urania), astrology
> Kalliope (Calliope), epic poetry
(Bloom explains to those near him his schemes for social
regeneration. All agree with him. The keeper of the Kildare
Street Museum appears, dragging a lorry on which are the shaking
statues of several naked goddesses, Venus Callipyge, Venus
Pandemos, Venus Metempsychosis, and plaster figures, also naked,
representing the new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor,
Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Speech, Plural Voting,
Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments,
Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People).
aue Bonus: "Either he goes to MIT and can't read, or to Harvard and
can't count." What solecism likely went unremarked by the speaker?
Lee Rudolph
Robert Lieblich
>
> Robert Lieblich <lieb...@erols.com> wrote in message
> news:378FA9...@erols.com...
> > A couple more I haven't seen yet:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> As long as the house is glass.
Do I detect thrown stones?
Bob Lieblich
Garry J. Vass
<lieb...@erols.com> writes
Garry J. Vass
Lee Rudolph
>In our last episode <96sj3AwZ...@io.com>,
>the lovely and talented eig...@io.com (Lars Eighner)
>broadcast on alt.usage.english:
>
>||> 109. Too many teardrops for one heart to be crying. Cry! How
>||> many tears?
>|
>|99
>
>This was close, but wrong.
I have heard, with my own two ears, in Spain, a recorded and
broadcast Spanish rendition of a song whose English burden
"Hey, 98.6, it's good to have you back again" was faithfully
rendered as (in relevant part) "Noventa ocho seis". Which
would be closer, but still wrong.
Lee Rudolph, wondering what part of SI those Spaniards don't
understand
David McMurray
> Frances Kemmish <arc...@iconn.net> wrote in message
> news:378F7ED5...@iconn.net...
>
> >{...] Derby County is the soccer team known as the
> > Rams; if that nickname applies to Chelsea, too, it must be a recent
> > introduction.
>
> I am also puzzled as to why so many respondents have said Chelsea.
> Chelsea's official nickname is "The Blues," although "The pensioners"
> still has some currency. Perhaps there's an ram-based emblem at
> Stamford Bridge (their "stadium").
Frances was responding to me. I did not claim that "Rams" applied to
Chelsea; I merely noted that someone else had claimed it.
As the rules encourage the theft of answers from others, it is difficult
to know how many answers have been arrived at independently. As far as I
can tell, your "so many respondents" number two at most.
What I am puzzled by is the fact that respondents appear to be unanimous
in naming Fordham University as the American half of the "Rams"
answer[1], given that there are at least four universities to choose
from.
[1] Actually, the question asks about "a ram" as a mascot rather than
"Rams" as a nickname.
[...]
--
David
Jack Gavin
Pan wrote in message <93218646...@news.remarQ.com>...
--
Jack Gavin
Gwen Lenker
<no...@globalnet.co.uk> wrote:
>> 52. The oldest surviving OE/AS recipe in the British Museum
>> explains how to prepare what?
>>
>> mead
>Tern. I just called and talked to a guy. It is a Tern. A type of sea
>gull.
Called him, hm? Someone who was RIGHT THERE? Oh, well, in that case,
I'm changing my #52 answer to "tern".
Panel members please note.
Jack Gavin
<1dv2pjn.bbh...@133-g2.kingston.net>...
>
>What I am puzzled by is the fact that respondents appear to be unanimous
>in naming Fordham University as the American half of the "Rams"
>answer[1], given that there are at least four universities to choose
>from.
>
>[1] Actually, the question asks about "a ram" as a mascot rather than
>"Rams" as a nickname.
>
My father graduated Fordham Law School, so I used to see those alumni
mailings about the house.
Whether they tether a live ram, I don't know.
--
Jack Gavin
Gwen Lenker
<ma...@farcanal.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>The question plainly says "hot spurs" anyway, so the best fit is
>Tottenham Hotspur (also known as "Spurs."
As are a number of other sports teams on various sides of various
ponds. Don't worry, though. Our challenge was to try to think like
the members of the Panel, not necessarily to supply the most
authentically accurate answer. If enough Panel members (strategically
placed at different locations around the globe) automatically think
"Tottenham" when they see the phrase "hot spurs," you've got that one
sewn up.
Gwen Lenker
McMurray) wrote:
>As the rules encourage the theft of answers from others, it is difficult
>to know how many answers have been arrived at independently. As far as I
>can tell, your "so many respondents" number two at most.
Actually, it is *impossible* to know how many answers have been
arrived at independendly. There are a few stolen answers that appear
to have been the result of idiosyncratic thought processes -- those
ought to be fairly easy for someone who knows the real score to spot
-- but there are many more duplicated answers that could easily have
been arrived at independently.
>What I am puzzled by is the fact that respondents appear to be unanimous
>in naming Fordham University as the American half of the "Rams"
>answer[1], given that there are at least four universities to choose
>from.
>
>[1] Actually, the question asks about "a ram" as a mascot rather than
>"Rams" as a nickname.
In that case, I'm changing my Stupid Sports Question #37 answer to
"Colorado State University." Panel members please note.
Red Valerian
>On 15 Jul 1999 18:11:05 -0500, "Garry J. Vass"
><Ga...@gvass.demon.co.uk> wrote:>
Here are a few alternative possibilities that will probably net me not
a single point. Well - maybe *one* point - total. If I'm lucky. And
only if the panel are feeling kind.
>5. Two Wurtzburg graduates are hired to assassinate someone.
>Their names?
Responding to Gwen Lenke's interesting post, I went out on the net
and searched under the names she put forward. According to my
admittedly rather desultory research, John Lord Kilpont of Monteith
was murdered by James Stewart of Ardvoirlich and the tragic tale was
used by Sir Walter Scott in "A Legend of Montrose." Wurtsburg is
mentioned in there somewhere, but I can't see that the young men
concerned were hired to murder anybody.
I did find two murderous inhabitants of Wurtsburg, however.
Wurzburg and Bamburg were ruled by two exceptionally brutal cousins,
Prince-Bishop Philipp Adolf von Ehrenberg (who ruled between 1623 -
31), who burned 900 witches and the "Hexenbishof" (witch bishop)
Gottfried Johann Georg II Fuchs von Dornheim (who ruled between 1623 -
1633) who burned a minimum of 600 witches.
I know that's probably not the answer either, but I wanted to reveal
the unconscionable actions of these men, having just read about them
myself. You can find out more here:
http://witchcraft.simplenet.com/bamburg.html
>
>8. I want to be a tree! What country?
I found the phrase being used in the following prayer: "Lord, help me
to walk in your ways and be faithful to read your word daily. I WANT
TO BE A TREE planted by your river of life."
So Palestine, perhaps?
>
>11. 'From Soho down to Brighton, I must have played them all...'
>Played what?
>
A mean pinball
>39. The thorn disappeared, the rose remained. What replaced the
>thorn?
Nothing, if I'm right. The Garden in Milton's Paradise Lost contained
roses with no thorns :
Grasing the tender herb, were interpos'd,
Or palmie hilloc, or the flourie lap
Of som irriguous Valley spread her store,
Flours of all hue, and without Thorn the Rose....
This is an alternative to the 'thorn was replaced by th answer,' which
is probably the correct one - but has nada to do with roses that I can
see.
>44. The Romans had the shortest. The Anglos and the Saxons
>brought longer ones. The Vikings brought even longer ones,
>and the Normans brought the very longest. By the time the
>Plantagenets came to power, they were short again. What?
Just guessing, but what about vowels?
>
>46. When Gomer enlisted, he left a brother tending the family
>business back in Mayberry. What was the family business?
>What is the equivalent term across the pond?
His brother was a "gas pump jockey" (hey, I'm quoting from some web
site) so I guess the english equivalent is a petrol station attendant.
>48. What is the word that means, 'the substitution of an epithet,
>appellate, or the name of an office or dignity, for a
>person's proper name'?
Synecdoche, perhaps? Where a part is used to represent the whole. As
in 'The Crown speaks' or 'The White House today announced...." etc.
Or are those transferred epithets?
>
>59. What town connects Edgar Allen Poe and H. L. Mencken?
Baltimore, Maryland
>
>63. The wedding march, 'Here Comes the Bride' was written
>by?
It's the Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream by Felix
Mendelssohn
>
>64. This fellow was trained as a mercer (textile dealer),
>gained commercial success on the continent, and served as
>governor of a trading company. Later, he received patronage
>from a French duchess to do something completely different.
>What was his name?
I'm guessing Geoffrey Chaucer as much (but not all) of his biography
fits the bill.
In 1374 he was appointed comptroller of the Customs and Subsidy of
Wools, Skins and Tanned Hides of the port of London, so that's sort of
being a mercer.
He was in the king's service abroad on royal missions to Genoa, Pisa,
Florence and Flanders at various dates from 1372 - 1377
He first appeared as a poet with the Book of the Duchess - written for
John of Gaunt's wife Blanche.
Close but no cigar?
>
>66. Where is Aquilany Castle?
It can be found somewhere in Tolkein's Lord of the Rings - according
to all the search engines I typed it into. I can't find a copy online
to verify this, however.
>69. Where might one go to engage in a 'piss up'?
Proverbially, in a Brewery.
>
>72. In 'Lord of the Flies', Golding uses the figurative
>expression, 'The scar was a bath of heat'. What type of
>expression is this?
metaphor
>75. The OE kenning, 'dryht-guma', best translates into what
>Modern English word?
Retainer/Warrior (This is no guess folks. I actually managed to find
this one in my handy and well-thumbed Guide to Old English.)
>
>79. Everybody knows what a 'Fess' looks like. *We* need to know
>what a 'Fess Cotised' looks like. *Exactly* please.
>
A shield bisected by three horizontal stripes, the middle one of which
is much broader than the other two. It can be seen at the following
website:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/4574/heraldry5.html
>94. Which word doesn't belong with the others: Oferhyrnes,
>Cynebot, Heriot, and Wapentakes?
Wapentakes - the Danelaw equivalent of an Anglo-Saxon Hundred in most
other counties - in Yorkshire a sub-division into futher
administrative areas. The word derived from an assembly or meeting
place, usually at a cross-roads or near a river, where literally one's
presence or a vote was taken by a show of weapons.
I think Wapentakes is the odd one out, because:
Heriot is a tribute paid to a lord
Cynebot - well - 'cyne' is king and 'bot' is compensation according to
my Anglo Saxon grammar - so I assume this is also a tribute paid to
the crown
Oferhyrnes - Can't find this one in my Sweet's, but I'm guessing that
the word is an early variant of 'offerings' as in Chaucer we find the
word Offrynge: offering of alms at the alter. If so this would also
involve paying tribute - hence Wapentakes, as I said, would be the odd
one out.
Of course Oferhyrnes could also translate as 'over-hearings' so I
don't know which is the odd one out, if that's the case.
>
>117. RP Heavy-weight Killer: The OE word, 'weolucbasu',
>would be best translated into Modern English as what?
Where are you finding these? I've got all sorts of Anglo-saxon primers
at home and there's nothing like this word in any of them.
The closest I can find is:
weoloc - which means whelk
Or
weoloc-read which is scarlet/purple
And the closest thing to basu is: b-a-thorn-u, which is bath.
So - I guess I'll go for that well known modern English expression, a
bath in whelks. (Hmmm - perhaps not.)
>
>118. RP Killer-Diller: 'Divina - Faventia - Clementia' is the
>motto for what order?
This translates as: "By favour of Divine Clemency" and is apparently
the Insignia of the Niadh Nask - whatever they may be.
Red
Gwen Lenker
wrote:
>Here are a few alternative possibilities that will probably net me not
>a single point. Well - maybe *one* point - total. If I'm lucky. And
>only if the panel are feeling kind.
Ahem. *Some* of your so-called "alternative possibilities" were the
same answers as my own. I'll overlook that, though.
>>69. Where might one go to engage in a 'piss up'?
>
>Proverbially, in a Brewery.
In that case, I'm changing my #69 answer to "in a Brewery." Panel
members please note.
Red Valerian
wrote:
>
>Ahem. *Some* of your so-called "alternative possibilities" were the
>same answers as my own. I'll overlook that, though.
>
had already come up with the same answer.
Red
David McMurray
> On Sat, 17 Jul 1999 10:25:00 -0400, ik0...@kingston.net (David
> McMurray) wrote:
>
> >As the rules encourage the theft of answers from others, it is difficult
> >to know how many answers have been arrived at independently. As far as I
> >can tell, your "so many respondents" number two at most.
>
> Actually, it is *impossible* to know how many answers have been
> arrived at independendly. There are a few stolen answers that appear
> to have been the result of idiosyncratic thought processes -- those
> ought to be fairly easy for someone who knows the real score to spot
> -- but there are many more duplicated answers that could easily have
> been arrived at independently.
Not quite impossible. If an answer to a particular question (which is
what I was talking about) has appeared in only one post, it seems safe
to assume that it has not been stolen from another competitor. Unless
GBH or worse has occurred.
> >What I am puzzled by is the fact that respondents appear to be unanimous
> >in naming Fordham University as the American half of the "Rams"
> >answer[1], given that there are at least four universities to choose
> >from.
> >
> >[1] Actually, the question asks about "a ram" as a mascot rather than
> >"Rams" as a nickname.
>
> In that case, I'm changing my Stupid Sports Question #37 answer to
> "Colorado State University." Panel members please note.
Hey! That was mine! (Not that I care, mind you.)
Obaue: Is there such a thing as an Intelligent Sports Question?
--
David
Frances Kemmish
>
>
> >44. The Romans had the shortest. The Anglos and the Saxons
> >brought longer ones. The Vikings brought even longer ones,
> >and the Normans brought the very longest. By the time the
> >Plantagenets came to power, they were short again. What?
>
> Just guessing, but what about vowels?
> >
More likely a sword.
> >
> >69. Where might one go to engage in a 'piss up'?
>
> Proverbially, in a Brewery.
> >
>
It might be disorganised, though.
Fran
Reinhold (Rey) Aman
> On Sat, 17 Jul 1999 13:41:29 +0100, "Noah Claypole"
> <no...@globalnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >> explains how to prepare what?
> >>
> >> mead
> > Tern. I just called and talked to a guy. It is a Tern.
> > A type of seagull.
> Called him, hm? Someone who was RIGHT THERE? Oh, well, in that case,
> I'm changing my #52 answer to "tern".
Doesn't your switching make you a terncoat? And, speaking of terns, are
you familiar with this hoary advice: "Never leave a tern unstoned"?
Just wondering.
--
Reinhold (Rey) Aman
Editor & Publisher, MALEDICTA
Santa Rosa, CA 95402, USA
http://www.sonic.net/maledicta/
Reinhold (Rey) Aman
> >5. Two Wurtzburg graduates are hired to assassinate someone.
> >Their names?
> Responding to Gwen Lenke's interesting post, I went out on the net
> and searched under the names she put forward. According to my
> admittedly rather desultory research, John Lord Kilpont of Monteith
> was murdered by James Stewart of Ardvoirlich and the tragic tale was
> used by Sir Walter Scott in "A Legend of Montrose." Wurtsburg is
> mentioned in there somewhere, but I can't see that the young men
> concerned were hired to murder anybody.
>
> I did find two murderous inhabitants of Wurtsburg, however.
>
> Wurzburg and Bamburg were ruled by two exceptionally brutal cousins,
Wurtzburg, Wurtsburg, Wurzburg: Seeing _Würzburg_ misspelled once
doesn't bother me. Seeing _Würzburg_ misspelled twice doesn't bother
me. But seeing _Würzburg_ misspelled thrice does bother me.
It's _Würzburg_. And _Bamberg_.
Fabian
Aaron J. Dinkin <din...@fas.harvard.edu> wrote in message
news:dinkin-ya0231800...@news.nii.net...
> > 60. Clerics may not equip what kind of weapon?
>
> I can't decide between edged weapons and non-blunt weapons. Spears,
for
> instance, are allowed by the former and forbidden by the latter.
Anyone
> willing to help?
This caused me to double check the answer.
Rest assured... the Shadow knows.
--
---
Fabian is essentially a panel member of that quaint competition running
like the clappers in AUE .
Aaron J. Dinkin
Rudolph) wrote:
> aue Bonus: "Either he goes to MIT and can't read, or to Harvard and
> can't count." What solecism likely went unremarked by the speaker?
"12 items or less".
-Aaron J. Dinkin
Dr. Whom
Garry J. Vass
<perch...@aol.com> writes
>Laura wrote:
>>From: Laura F Spira <la...@DRAGONspira.u-net.com>
>>Date: Fri, 16 July 1999 02:01 PM EDT
>>Message-id: <378F738A...@DRAGONspira.u-net.com>
>>
>>K. Edgcombe wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> As for the panel, nobody asked me. And it's not as if any of the people
>>> on this wonderful panel could possibly have been self-appointed, is it now?
>>>
>>> I shall sulk. Officially. *Then* you'll all be sorry.
>>
>>I hope it's a power sulk, a wonderful expression that I found hereabouts
>>a while ago.
>>
>>It does occur to me that people might have questions about the panel
>>appointment process and I am happy to have this opportunity to blow the
>>gaff. Garry appointed us all. At least one of those appointed chose to
>>leave home temporarily in order to escape the awesome responsibility
>>(Brian is boating on the Barrow, I believe). Some of us have remained
>>entangled in Garry's clutches, pawns in his game, awed by the breadth of
>>his imagination and the depth of his knowledge of trivia, but trapped
>>like rabbits in headlights. Some of us are confused about our duties,
>>baffled by the questions and even more so by the answers. Some of us are
>>quibbling, others dribbling. I doubt whether our lives will ever be the
>>same again.
>
>I wasn't appointed. I was dragooned, shanghaied I say. The Vass deference
>undermined my resistance, until I came to believe that I knew what he was
>talking about. Too late now.
And me? It was the fumes from the Italian restaurant downstairs.
Truly Donovan
<lieb...@erols.com> wrote:
>> 38. What was the street address of Kookie's work place?
>
>77 Sunset Strip. Technically it was "Sunset Blvd."; "Sunset Strip" is a
>nickname. There is a "Sunset Strip" (actual street name) in Broward
>County, Fla.
Technically, schmecknically. Sunset Boulevard is a very long street,
running from the Pacific Coast to God only knows where, nobody you
knew ever actually there. A comparatively small segment of it is known
as "The Strip," and that is where, as they said in my day, "the Action
Is." And it may be all torn up these days to build a subway so that LA
can put a team in Santa Monica and have a subway series. But I haven't
been there in quite a while.
--
Truly Donovan
tr...@lunemere.com
Skitt
Ah, you mean the shorter phrase for "Twelve items or a lesser amount of
them".
--
Skitt (on Florida's Space Coast) http://come.to/skitt/
... and that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped.
Frances Kemmish
>
> >
> >38. What was the street address of Kookie's work place?
>
> 77 Sunset Strip.
>
>
Didn't he park cars at a restaurant next door to 77 Sunset? And didn't
he have a friend called J.R. ?
Fran
Aaron J. Dinkin
Got it! It's "gjragl-sbhe".
Gwen Lenker
<am...@sonic.net> wrote:
>Gwen Lenker wrote:
>
>> Called him, hm? Someone who was RIGHT THERE? Oh, well, in that case,
>> I'm changing my #52 answer to "tern".
>
>Doesn't your switching make you a terncoat? And, speaking of terns, are
>you familiar with this hoary advice: "Never leave a tern unstoned"?
>
>Just wondering.
I thought I remembered that pun as the punchline of a comic poem --
the kind of thing Richard Armour might have written -- but a Web
search to test my memory turned up something more interesting, an
attribution to Ogden Nash himself by way of Martin Gardner.
"Gardner then quotes a "splendid spoonerism" by Ogden Nash: ...I am a
conscientious man, when I throw rocks at sea birds I leave no tern
unstoned, I am a meticulous man and when I portray baboons I leave no
stern untoned."
http://www.magicdragon.com/UltimateSF/sfpo-14pt0.html
Richard Fontana
> >> 28. The OE terms, 'wyrplas', 'bewitian', and 'impian'
> >> provide early evidence of what sport?
> >
> >No 'wyrplas' but 'wyrp' is blow, stroke, shot.
> >'Bewitian' is to watch, observe; to perform a journey
> >'Impian' graft; be engaged in, associated with.
> >
> >What? You Got Me.
>
> Possibly something like jousting or fencing?
How about jai-alai?
RF
Richard Fontana
> On Sat, 17 Jul 1999 09:25:24 -0700, nj...@spamfree.cornell.edu (Mimi
> Kahn) wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 16 Jul 1999 21:52:58 GMT, gale...@jump.com (Gwen Lenker)
> >wrote:
> >
> >>>8. I want to be a tree! What country?
> >>Middle Earth
> >
> >There was also that series of novels by Orson Scott Card, starting
> >with "Ender's Game," in which the locals *were* trees at one stage in
> >their development...but I don't remember the name of the planet or
> >country they were on/in.
>
> The trees were the adult stage, I think. I vaguely remember the
> "little mothers" and the likeable adolescent character who disappeared
> overnight when a new tree appeared -- it's all rather fuzzy, and I no
> longer have the books. But thanks for the reminder.
>
> Apparently, there's also a popular(?) song titled "I Want to Be a
> Tree," but I haven't been able to find the lyrics.
There's also the Daphne myth.
RF
Aaron J. Dinkin
(Red Valerian) wrote:
> >11. 'From Soho down to Brighton, I must have played them all...'
> >Played what?
> >
> A mean pinball
Not quite, I think. That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure played "a mean
pinball", but ever since _I_ was a young boy, I played "the silver balls".
Richard Fontana
> In article <3791b277....@news.dial.pipex.com>, hg...@dial.pipex.com
> (Red Valerian) wrote:
>
> > >11. 'From Soho down to Brighton, I must have played them all...'
> > >Played what?
> > >
> > A mean pinball
>
> Not quite, I think. That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure played "a mean
> pinball", but ever since _I_ was a young boy, I played "the silver balls".
I always thought it was singular, "the silver ball". No?
RF
Robert Lieblich
>
> On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 21:46:37 -0400, Robert Lieblich
> >nickname. There is a "Sunset Strip" (actual street name) in Broward
> >County, Fla.
>
> Technically, schmecknically. Sunset Boulevard is a very long street,
> running from the Pacific Coast to God only knows where, nobody you
> knew ever actually there. A comparatively small segment of it is known
> as "The Strip," and that is where, as they said in my day, "the Action
> Is." And it may be all torn up these days to build a subway so that LA
> can put a team in Santa Monica and have a subway series. But I haven't
> been there in quite a while.
If you asked the Postal Service in LA how to address mail to Kookie's
place of business, the response would be 77 Sunset Blvd. Which, BTW is
actually downtown about a block from Union Station; the east end of
Sunset Blvd. is right in front of Union Station. The addresses on the
Strip are in the four thousands or so. So much for verisimilitude.
Nevertheless, there is no such actual street name in Los Angeles as
"Sunset Strip." There is such an actual street name in Broward County.
In short, there is no street address "77 Sunset Strip." That was my
(feeble) point. I'm sure the P.S. got mail addressed to 77 Sunset Strip
back when the show was running. I wonder if they just delivered it to
the studio where the show was filmed.
Bob Lieblich
Noah Claypole
>
>
> -Aaron J. Dinkin
> Dr. Whom
Would you kindly take a moment and elaborate?
Gwen Lenker
John Holmes
Garry J. Vass wrote in message ...
This one was giving me a harengus headache until I consulted my Macquarie
Perched above the computer, and then things finally fell into plaice...
>123. UP Middle-weight Extra Credit: Do too many kippers make
>you feel bloated, or is this a red herring?
Without wishing to offend any kippers by explaining, I'd have to say they
are only a gutful if they are carping.
I've never encountered this 'kipper' in the wild -- perhaps it is an
obsolete usage, or maybe Sinny-speak.
Regards,
John.
John Holmes
Donna Richoux wrote in message
<1dv33kh.17c...@p115.hlm.euronet.nl>...
>John Holmes <hol...@smart.net.au> wrote:
>
>[Quotes question]
>> >117. RP Heavy-weight Killer: The OE word, 'weolucbasu',
>> >would be best translated into Modern English as what?
>>
>> translation might be 'sheep'(singular). Can someone with a reference
check
>> it?
>>
>> We couldn't have an aue competition without sheep in it somewhere.
>
>A noble effort, but it appears to mean "purple."
Damn! Well, there was the question about the rams, so I suppose the
competition is still 'Totally Official".
> "The Student's
>Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon" (not a book I need every day) has
>weoloc-baso, whelk-purple. I know we talked about violets recently, is
>that the joke?
The purple dye used for Roman togas came from a species of *Murex* ( not
exactly a whelk on modern terms, but probably close enough for OE), from
which we have the word 'murexide' for purpurate of ammonia. So, would you
translate 'weolucbasu' as the name of the substance, or the colour? If the
latter, then I guess 'royal purple'.
>
>While I've got this book out, weren't there more on Old English?
>
>> 75. The OE kenning, 'dryht-guma', best translates into what
>> Modern English word?
>
>retainer, warrior, man
>
>> 28. The OE terms, 'wyrplas', 'bewitian', and 'impian'
>> provide early evidence of what sport?
>
>No 'wyrplas' but 'wyrp' is blow, stroke, shot.
>'Bewitian' is to watch, observe; to perform a journey
>'Impian' graft; be engaged in, associated with.
>
>What? You Got Me.
Possibly something like jousting or fencing?
Regards,
John.
R J Valentine
] Aaron J. Dinkin <din...@fas.harvard.edu> wrote in message
I hope not. He's pbeerpg.
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R. J. Valentine <mailto:r...@clark.net>
Robert Lieblich
<snip>
> I thought I remembered that pun as the punchline of a comic poem --
> the kind of thing Richard Armour might have written -- but a Web
> search to test my memory turned up something more interesting, an
> attribution to Ogden Nash himself by way of Martin Gardner.
>
> "Gardner then quotes a "splendid spoonerism" by Ogden Nash: ...I am a
> conscientious man, when I throw rocks at sea birds I leave no tern
> unstoned, I am a meticulous man and when I portray baboons I leave no
> stern untoned."
Surely we haven't forgotten the great violinist who helped save Carnegie
Hall. In his heyday (poor man is now in his seventies and does not play
with the brio of yore) he left no tone unSterned.
Bob Lieblich