Pub Quiz Slight Return [2004/3/30]

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My replacement has sent me a bunch of these quizzes
from the last couple of months.

I'll be posting them here every few days. Enjoy.

1. In which country would you find the Hang Seng Index?
2. In the nursery rhyme "Poly put the kettle on", who took the kettle
off?
3. Which four English counties border Wales?
4. Who once described Colonel Gadaffi as the "Mad Dog of the Middle
East"?
5. In American literature, who or what is referred to as a gumshoe?
6. The Watch Tower is a publication associated with which religion?
7. What type of animal is a devil's coach horse?
8. Who co-starred with Robert de Niro in the films Raging Bull,
Goodfellas and Casino?
9. Practically everyone has a mobile phone today, and each one
contains a SIM card. But what does the acronym SIM stand for?
10. Medusa, Stheno and Euryale were mythical figures with hideous
looks and snakes for hair. What were they collectively known as?
11. What is the state nickname of New York?
12. Which constellation is said to represent a hunter with his club
and shield raised?
13. Greek actress Thalia Prokopiou made the news this week. Why?
14. The 150th Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race was held on Sunday. Who won?
Bonus: Which of them has won it the most often?
15. Seven former communist eastern European countries joined NATO this
week. Which one comes last when listed alphabetically?
16. What first name was shared by Dr Doolittle, Tarzan and Rambo?
17. Which letter is represented by three dashes in Morse code?
18. What was the name of the old coin worth four pennies that was
withdrawn in 1662?
19. Which American president served for the greatest length of time
(or number of days)?
20. What are the three areas in the UK shipping forecast that begin
with the letter T?
21. What is common name for the genus of trees known as Quercus?
22. Who were the two stars of the TV comedy series "Not Only, But
Also"?
23. In which capital city would you find St Basil's Cathedral?
24. In which continent is the driest place on earth - having had no
rainfall for the past 400 years?
25. In boxing which weight is heavier - featherweight or bantamweight?

--Loser's Round on "Steven Speilberg"

26. Name one film for which Steven Spielberg has won the Oscar as Best
Director?
27. Which Spielberg film had the tagline: "It's about life. It's
about love. It's about us."?
28. Who are Spielberg's two main partners in the film company
DreamWorks?
29. Which Spielberg film featured cameo appearances from George Lucas,
Carrie Fisher, Glenn Close and Spielberg himself?
30. What were the character names of the brother and sister in ET?

 

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> My replacement has sent me a bunch of these quizzes
> from the last couple of months.
>
> I'll be posting them here every few days. Enjoy.
>
> 1. In which country would you find the Hang Seng Index?

Japan

> 2. In the nursery rhyme "Poly put the kettle on", who took the kettle
> off?
> 3. Which four English counties border Wales?
> 4. Who once described Colonel Gadaffi as the "Mad Dog of the Middle
> East"?
> 5. In American literature, who or what is referred to as a gumshoe?

Private Investigator

> 6. The Watch Tower is a publication associated with which religion?

Jehovah's Witnesses

> 7. What type of animal is a devil's coach horse?
> 8. Who co-starred with Robert de Niro in the films Raging Bull,
> Goodfellas and Casino?
> 9. Practically everyone has a mobile phone today, and each one
> contains a SIM card. But what does the acronym SIM stand for?

Single Inline (?) Memmory

> 10. Medusa, Stheno and Euryale were mythical figures with hideous
> looks and snakes for hair. What were they collectively known as?
> 11. What is the state nickname of New York?

The Empire State

> 12. Which constellation is said to represent a hunter with his club
> and shield raised?

Orion

> 13. Greek actress Thalia Prokopiou made the news this week. Why?
> 14. The 150th Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race was held on Sunday. Who won?
> Bonus: Which of them has won it the most often?
> 15. Seven former communist eastern European countries joined NATO this
> week. Which one comes last when listed alphabetically?
> 16. What first name was shared by Dr Doolittle, Tarzan and Rambo?
> 17. Which letter is represented by three dashes in Morse code?

O ...---...

> 18. What was the name of the old coin worth four pennies that was
> withdrawn in 1662?
> 19. Which American president served for the greatest length of time
> (or number of days)?

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

> 20. What are the three areas in the UK shipping forecast that begin
> with the letter T?
> 21. What is common name for the genus of trees known as Quercus?
> 22. Who were the two stars of the TV comedy series "Not Only, But
> Also"?
> 23. In which capital city would you find St Basil's Cathedral?
> 24. In which continent is the driest place on earth - having had no
> rainfall for the past 400 years?

South America (Atacama)?

> 25. In boxing which weight is heavier - featherweight or bantamweight?
>
> --Loser's Round on "Steven Speilberg"
>
> 26. Name one film for which Steven Spielberg has won the Oscar as Best
> Director?
> 27. Which Spielberg film had the tagline: "It's about life. It's
> about love. It's about us."?
> 28. Who are Spielberg's two main partners in the film company
> DreamWorks?
> 29. Which Spielberg film featured cameo appearances from George Lucas,
> Carrie Fisher, Glenn Close and Spielberg himself?
> 30. What were the character names of the brother and sister in ET?

--Jeff

--
Let me make the superstitions of a nation
and I care not who makes its laws or its
songs either. -- Mark Twain

The trouble with the world is that the
stupid are cocksure and the intelligent
are full of doubt. --Bertrand Russell

Those who do not learn from history are
doomed to repeat it. --George Santayana

Unthinking respect for authority is the
greatest enemy of truth. --Albert Einstein

Freedom's just another word for nothing
left to lose. --Kris Kristofferson

 

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On Fri, 21 May 2004 10:11:36 +0100, Gareth Owen put fingers to keyboard
and said:

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> My replacement has sent me a bunch of these quizzes
> from the last couple of months.
>
> I'll be posting them here every few days. Enjoy.
>
> 1. In which country would you find the Hang Seng Index?

Japan

> 2. In the nursery rhyme "Poly put the kettle on", who took the kettle
> off?
> 3. Which four English counties border Wales?
> 4. Who once described Colonel Gadaffi as the "Mad Dog of the Middle
> East"?
> 5. In American literature, who or what is referred to as a gumshoe?

Private investigator or "beat cop"

> 6. The Watch Tower is a publication associated with which religion?

Jehovah's witness

> 7. What type of animal is a devil's coach horse?
> 8. Who co-starred with Robert de Niro in the films Raging Bull,
> Goodfellas and Casino?
> 9. Practically everyone has a mobile phone today, and each one
> contains a SIM card. But what does the acronym SIM stand for?
> 10. Medusa, Stheno and Euryale were mythical figures with hideous
> looks and snakes for hair. What were they collectively known as?
> 11. What is the state nickname of New York?

Empire State

> 12. Which constellation is said to represent a hunter with his club
> and shield raised?

Orion

> 13. Greek actress Thalia Prokopiou made the news this week. Why?
> 14. The 150th Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race was held on Sunday. Who won?
> Bonus: Which of them has won it the most often?
> 15. Seven former communist eastern European countries joined NATO this
> week. Which one comes last when listed alphabetically?
> 16. What first name was shared by Dr Doolittle, Tarzan and Rambo?
> 17. Which letter is represented by three dashes in Morse code?

O

> 18. What was the name of the old coin worth four pennies that was
> withdrawn in 1662?
> 19. Which American president served for the greatest length of time
> (or number of days)?

FDR

> 20. What are the three areas in the UK shipping forecast that begin
> with the letter T?
> 21. What is common name for the genus of trees known as Quercus?

Oak

> 22. Who were the two stars of the TV comedy series "Not Only, But
> Also"?
> 23. In which capital city would you find St Basil's Cathedral?

Moscow

> 24. In which continent is the driest place on earth - having had no
> rainfall for the past 400 years?

Antarctica

> 25. In boxing which weight is heavier - featherweight or bantamweight?
>

Bantam

> --Loser's Round on "Steven Speilberg"
>
> 26. Name one film for which Steven Spielberg has won the Oscar as Best
> Director?

Schindlers List

> 27. Which Spielberg film had the tagline: "It's about life. It's
> about love. It's about us."?
> 28. Who are Spielberg's two main partners in the film company
> DreamWorks?

Katsenberg and Geffen

> 29. Which Spielberg film featured cameo appearances from George Lucas,
> Carrie Fisher, Glenn Close and Spielberg himself?

Blues Brothers

> 30. What were the character names of the brother and sister in ET?

Eliot and Gertie are the 2 main kids. I forget the oldest brothers name.

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Gareth Owen <usenet@gwowen.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message news:<r5ifz9uywjb.fsf@gill.maths.keele.ac.uk>...
> My replacement has sent me a bunch of these quizzes
> from the last couple of months.
>
> I'll be posting them here every few days. Enjoy.

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> 1. In which country would you find the Hang Seng Index?

China (Hong Kong)

> 2. In the nursery rhyme "Poly put the kettle on", who took the kettle
> off?

Sukey

> 3. Which four English counties border Wales?

Cheshire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Gloucestershire

> 4. Who once described Colonel Gadaffi as the "Mad Dog of the Middle
> East"?

Ronald Reagan

> 5. In American literature, who or what is referred to as a gumshoe?

Private detective

> 6. The Watch Tower is a publication associated with which religion?

Jehovah's Witnesses

> 7. What type of animal is a devil's coach horse?

Beetle

> 8. Who co-starred with Robert de Niro in the films Raging Bull,
> Goodfellas and Casino?
> 9. Practically everyone has a mobile phone today, and each one
> contains a SIM card. But what does the acronym SIM stand for?

Subscriber Identity Module

> 10. Medusa, Stheno and Euryale were mythical figures with hideous
> looks and snakes for hair. What were they collectively known as?

Gorgons

> 11. What is the state nickname of New York?

Empire State

> 12. Which constellation is said to represent a hunter with his club
> and shield raised?

Orion

> 13. Greek actress Thalia Prokopiou made the news this week. Why?

Lit the Olympic torch

> 14. The 150th Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race was held on Sunday. Who won?
> Bonus: Which of them has won it the most often?
> 15. Seven former communist eastern European countries joined NATO this
> week. Which one comes last when listed alphabetically?

Slovenia

> 16. What first name was shared by Dr Doolittle, Tarzan and Rambo?

John

> 17. Which letter is represented by three dashes in Morse code?

O

> 18. What was the name of the old coin worth four pennies that was
> withdrawn in 1662?

Groat

> 19. Which American president served for the greatest length of time
> (or number of days)?

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

> 20. What are the three areas in the UK shipping forecast that begin
> with the letter T?
> 21. What is common name for the genus of trees known as Quercus?

Oak

> 22. Who were the two stars of the TV comedy series "Not Only, But
> Also"?
> 23. In which capital city would you find St Basil's Cathedral?

Moscow

> 24. In which continent is the driest place on earth - having had no
> rainfall for the past 400 years?

South America (Atacama desert)

> 25. In boxing which weight is heavier - featherweight or bantamweight?

featherweight



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Gareth Owen (usenet@gwowen.freeserve.co.uk) writes:
> 15. Seven former communist eastern European countries joined NATO this
> week. Which one comes last when listed alphabetically?

Slovenia, if you use the English names. If you use the native
names, it's Slovakia.

> 24. In which continent is the driest place on earth - having had no
> rainfall for the past 400 years?

Two different bids this far. My vote goes for Antartica.




--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, sommar@algonet.se

 

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Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> Gareth Owen (usenet@gwowen.freeserve.co.uk) writes:
>
>>15. Seven former communist eastern European countries joined NATO this
>> week. Which one comes last when listed alphabetically?
>
> Slovenia, if you use the English names. If you use the native
> names, it's Slovakia.
>
>>24. In which continent is the driest place on earth - having had no
>> rainfall for the past 400 years?
>
> Two different bids this far. My vote goes for Antartica.

Considering, especially, the way the question is phrased, I'd agree.

--Jeff

--
Let me make the superstitions of a nation
and I care not who makes its laws or its
songs either. -- Mark Twain

The trouble with the world is that the
stupid are cocksure and the intelligent
are full of doubt. --Bertrand Russell

Those who do not learn from history are
doomed to repeat it. --George Santayana

Unthinking respect for authority is the
greatest enemy of truth. --Albert Einstein

Freedom's just another word for nothing
left to lose. --Kris Kristofferson

 

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Erland Sommarskog wrote:

>
>> 24. In which continent is the driest place on earth - having
>> had no rainfall for the past 400 years?
>
> Two different bids this far. My vote goes for Antartica.

Meteorological records in Antarctica don't go back that far.
Plus, snow counts as precipitation, which is what meteorologists
actually record instead of rainfall.

--
Dan Tilque

 

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Erland Sommarskog <sommar@algonet.se> wrote in message news:<Xns94F097F692FD8Yazorman@127.0.0.1>...
> Gareth Owen (usenet@gwowen.freeserve.co.uk) writes:
> > 15. Seven former communist eastern European countries joined NATO this
> > week. Which one comes last when listed alphabetically?
>
> Slovenia, if you use the English names. If you use the native
> names, it's Slovakia.

Are we looking for the last one of those seven, or the last one of
those that really were "former communist eastern European countries"?
With my interpretation (the latter of the above) I would have to go
with Romania.
But then again, I would do that even if I knew I was wrong just to
disagree with the Swedish answer

-- Jarmo

 

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Gareth Owen writes:
> My replacement has sent me a bunch of these quizzes
> from the last couple of months.

Yea!

> 1. In which country would you find the Hang Seng Index?

Well, that's in Taiwan. But there's some disagreement about what
country Taiwan is in.

> 15. Seven former communist eastern European countries joined NATO this
> week. Which one comes last when listed alphabetically?

Erland is a lot closer to this than I am, but in case he's wrong I'll
register a guess of Ukraine.

Say, does it make a difference which alphabet is used?

> 18. What was the name of the old coin worth four pennies that was
> withdrawn in 1662?

Groat.

> 25. In boxing which weight is heavier - featherweight or bantamweight?

Bantamweight has been tried, so I'll say featherweight just in case.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto The uucp stings you!--More--
msb@vex.net Your purse feels lighter.

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Mark Brader wrote:
> Gareth Owen writes:


>>My replacement has sent me a bunch of these quizzes
>>from the last couple of months.
>
> Yea!
>
>>1. In which country would you find the Hang Seng Index?
>
> Well, that's in Taiwan. But there's some disagreement about what
> country Taiwan is in.

I guess I'm not paying close enough attention to the rundown of
stock exchanges at the beginning of Marketplace.

>>15. Seven former communist eastern European countries joined NATO this
>> week. Which one comes last when listed alphabetically?
>
> Erland is a lot closer to this than I am, but in case he's wrong I'll
> register a guess of Ukraine.

I don't think Ukraine was ever a Communist country.

> Say, does it make a difference which alphabet is used?

It probably does, but I would expect the question applies to the Latin
alphabet, though I think the alphabetic order of the Morse Code
alphabet is the same.

--Jeff

--
Let me make the superstitions of a nation
and I care not who makes its laws or its
songs either. -- Mark Twain

The trouble with the world is that the
stupid are cocksure and the intelligent
are full of doubt. --Bertrand Russell

Those who do not learn from history are
doomed to repeat it. --George Santayana

Unthinking respect for authority is the
greatest enemy of truth. --Albert Einstein

Freedom's just another word for nothing
left to lose. --Kris Kristofferson

 

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On Fri, 21 May 2004 14:45:12 -0000, msb@shell.vex.net (Mark Brader)
wrote:

>
>> 25. In boxing which weight is heavier - featherweight or bantamweight?
>
>Bantamweight has been tried, so I'll say featherweight just in case.

A Bantam is a rooster, right? Surely the whole rooster must
weigh more than just one feather!

George

 

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Jeffrey Turner wrote:
> Mark Brader wrote:
>> Gareth Owen writes:
>
>
>>> 1. In which country would you find the Hang Seng Index?
>>
>> Well, that's in Taiwan. But there's some disagreement about what
>> country Taiwan is in.
>
> I guess I'm not paying close enough attention to the rundown of
> stock exchanges at the beginning of Marketplace.

"In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index is..."

--Jeff

--
Let me make the superstitions of a nation
and I care not who makes its laws or its
songs either. -- Mark Twain

The trouble with the world is that the
stupid are cocksure and the intelligent
are full of doubt. --Bertrand Russell

Those who do not learn from history are
doomed to repeat it. --George Santayana

Unthinking respect for authority is the
greatest enemy of truth. --Albert Einstein

Freedom's just another word for nothing
left to lose. --Kris Kristofferson

 

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Jeffrey Turner <jturner@localnet.com> writes:

> I don't think Ukraine was ever a Communist country.

Well, I'd say it qualified as one of the former Soviet Republics in the USSR
--
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Gareth Owen wrote:
> Jeffrey Turner <jturner@localnet.com> writes:
>
>
>>I don't think Ukraine was ever a Communist country.
>
> Well, I'd say it qualified as one of the former Soviet Republics in the USSR

What kind of _trivia_ adjudication is that?

--Jeff

--
Let me make the superstitions of a nation
and I care not who makes its laws or its
songs either. -- Mark Twain

The trouble with the world is that the
stupid are cocksure and the intelligent
are full of doubt. --Bertrand Russell

Those who do not learn from history are
doomed to repeat it. --George Santayana

Unthinking respect for authority is the
greatest enemy of truth. --Albert Einstein

Freedom's just another word for nothing
left to lose. --Kris Kristofferson

 

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Jeffrey Turner <jturner@localnet.com> writes:

> Gareth Owen wrote:
> > Jeffrey Turner <jturner@localnet.com> writes:
> >
> >>I don't think Ukraine was ever a Communist country.
> > Well, I'd say it qualified as one of the former Soviet Republics in the
> > USSR
>
> What kind of _trivia_ adjudication is that?

It capricious and arbitrary. What other kinds are there?
--
Gareth Owen
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Somebody claiming to be Jeffrey Turner <jturner@localnet.com> wrote in
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>> 1. In which country would you find the Hang Seng Index?
>
> Japan

People's Republic of China -- the Hang Seng Index is the Hong Kong stock
market.

--
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tie a perfect stranger, you must be doing *something* right.
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Gareth Owen:
>>> 1. In which country would you find the Hang Seng Index?

Mark Brader:
>> Well, that's in Taiwan....

Oops. I was close...

>>> 15. Seven former communist eastern European countries joined NATO this
>>> week. Which one comes last when listed alphabetically?

>> Erland is a lot closer to this than I am, but in case he's wrong I'll
>> register a guess of Ukraine.

Jeffrey Turner:
> I don't think Ukraine was ever a Communist country.

Well, the UN thought it was.

(Apparently when the UN was being set up, the Soviets argued that if
British Commonwealth members like Canada and Australia were being
admitted separately from the UK, then USSR "republics" like the
Ukrainian and Byelorussian SSRs could be admitted separately from
the USSR. Fortunately this principle was not extended to the other
13 republics, but it effectively gave the USSR three votes in the
General Assembly.)
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "It's the almost correct solutions that
msb@vex.net are the most dangerous..." -- Dave Eisen

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msb@shell.vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in message news:<10ashl6ftcqqd04@corp.supernews.com>...
> Gareth Owen:
> >>> 15. Seven former communist eastern European countries joined NATO this
> >>> week. Which one comes last when listed alphabetically?
>
> >> Erland is a lot closer to this than I am, but in case he's wrong I'll
> >> register a guess of Ukraine.
>
> Jeffrey Turner:
> > I don't think Ukraine was ever a Communist country.
>
> Well, the UN thought it was.
>
> (Apparently when the UN was being set up, the Soviets argued that if
> British Commonwealth members like Canada and Australia were being
> admitted separately from the UK, then USSR "republics" like the
> Ukrainian and Byelorussian SSRs could be admitted separately from
> the USSR. Fortunately this principle was not extended to the other
> 13 republics, but it effectively gave the USSR three votes in the
> General Assembly.)

Very interesting... but even more interesting is that who decided how
Ukraine and Belorus vote at the General Assembly. I can see there
having been issues in which the natives of these "republics" would
actually have different opinion that Kreml had. But did they ever
actually have the guts to vote against the Sovjet opinion? I remember
that there were times Finland was afraid to vote against it!

-- Jarmo

 

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Somebody claiming to be Gareth Owen <usenet@gwowen.freeserve.co.uk>
wrote in news:r5ibrkhzuvm.fsf@gill.maths.keele.ac.uk:

> Jeffrey Turner <jturner@localnet.com> writes:
>
>> I don't think Ukraine was ever a Communist country.
>
> Well, I'd say it qualified as one of the former Soviet Republics in
> the USSR

Ah, but when it was a Soviet Republic it wasn't a country (its seat in the
UN notwithstanding).

--
Ted Schuerzinger <fedya at bestweb dot net>
The way I see it, you raised three children who could knock out and hog-
tie a perfect stranger, you must be doing *something* right.
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Ted Schuerzinger wrote:

> Somebody claiming to be Gareth Owen
> <usenet@gwowen.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in
> news:r5ibrkhzuvm.fsf@gill.maths.keele.ac.uk:
>
>> Jeffrey Turner <jturner@localnet.com> writes:
>>
>>> I don't think Ukraine was ever a Communist country.
>>
>> Well, I'd say it qualified as one of the former Soviet
>> Republics in the USSR
>
> Ah, but when it was a Soviet Republic it wasn't a country (its
> seat in the UN notwithstanding).

The same logic would exclude both Slovakia and Slovenia as well
as Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, as they were not independent
countries when they were communist. (The only two new members
that were independent are Bulgaria and Romania.) However, the way
the question was worded did not require the countries to have
been 'independent' while they were communist.

--
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Somebody claiming to be Jeffrey Turner <jturner@localnet.com> wrote in
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>> Say, does it make a difference which alphabet is used?
>
> It probably does, but I would expect the question applies to the Latin
> alphabet, though I think the alphabetic order of the Morse Code
> alphabet is the same.

Bulgaria is the only one of the seven new members to use the Cyrillic
alphabet, in which (I believe) Estonia would be last alphabetically:

ÿ
ÿ
Ëèòâà
ÿ
ÿ
ÿ
ÿ

are the names of the countries in Russian; I don't remember the exact
equivalents in Bulgarian.

--
Ted <fedya at bestweb dot net>
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tie a perfect stranger, you must be doing *something* right.
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Gareth Owen <usenet@gwowen.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message news:<r5ifz9uywjb.fsf@gill.maths.keele.ac.uk>...
> My replacement has sent me a bunch of these quizzes
> from the last couple of months.
>
> I'll be posting them here every few days. Enjoy.
>
> 1. In which country would you find the Hang Seng Index?
> 2. In the nursery rhyme "Poly put the kettle on", who took the kettle
> off?
> 3. Which four English counties border Wales?
> 4. Who once described Colonel Gadaffi as the "Mad Dog of the Middle
> East"?

Ronald Reagan


> 5. In American literature, who or what is referred to as a gumshoe?

A Private Detective


> 6. The Watch Tower is a publication associated with which religion?

Jehovah's Witless.


> 7. What type of animal is a devil's coach horse?
> 8. Who co-starred with Robert de Niro in the films Raging Bull,
> Goodfellas and Casino?

I Never saw Casino but Joe Pesci was in the other two.


> 9. Practically everyone has a mobile phone today,

I guess I'm practically nobody then.


> and each one
> contains a SIM card. But what does the acronym SIM stand for?
> 10. Medusa, Stheno and Euryale were mythical figures with hideous
> looks and snakes for hair. What were they collectively known as?
> 11. What is the state nickname of New York?

The Empire State


> 12. Which constellation is said to represent a hunter with his club
> and shield raised?

Orion, the mighty hunter.


> 13. Greek actress Thalia Prokopiou made the news this week. Why?
> 14. The 150th Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race was held on Sunday. Who won?
> Bonus: Which of them has won it the most often?
> 15. Seven former communist eastern European countries joined NATO this
> week. Which one comes last when listed alphabetically?
> 16. What first name was shared by Dr Doolittle, Tarzan and Rambo?

John (I got it from the Tarzan clue.)


> 17. Which letter is represented by three dashes in Morse code?

O


> 18. What was the name of the old coin worth four pennies that was
> withdrawn in 1662?
> 19. Which American president served for the greatest length of time
> (or number of days)?

FDR - Franklin Delano Roosevelt


> 20. What are the three areas in the UK shipping forecast that begin
> with the letter T?
> 21. What is common name for the genus of trees known as Quercus?
> 22. Who were the two stars of the TV comedy series "Not Only, But
> Also"?
> 23. In which capital city would you find St Basil's Cathedral?

Moscow


> 24. In which continent is the driest place on earth - having had no
> rainfall for the past 400 years?

The "Dry Valleys" of Antarctica have not received any rainfall for
over 2 million years so what exactly is meant by "driest" place on
earth?



> 25. In boxing which weight is heavier - featherweight or bantamweight?

Featherweight is heavier than bantamweight.


> --Loser's Round on "Steven Speilberg"
>
> 26. Name one film for which Steven Spielberg has won the Oscar as Best
> Director?
> 27. Which Spielberg film had the tagline: "It's about life. It's
> about love. It's about us."?
> 28. Who are Spielberg's two main partners in the film company
> DreamWorks?
> 29. Which Spielberg film featured cameo appearances from George Lucas,
> Carrie Fisher, Glenn Close and Spielberg himself?
> 30. What were the character names of the brother and sister in ET?

 

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Dan Tilque (dtilque@nwlink.com) writes:
> Erland Sommarskog wrote:
>>
>>> 24. In which continent is the driest place on earth - having
>>> had no rainfall for the past 400 years?
>>
>> Two different bids this far. My vote goes for Antartica.
>
> Meteorological records in Antarctica don't go back that far.
> Plus, snow counts as precipitation, which is what meteorologists
> actually record instead of rainfall.

Actually, I was not thinking in tricks of snow and rain, but I simply
had a recollection of that there is some spot in Antartica which has
even less precipitation than Atacama. But it might just be imagination.
You have a point on the meteorological data.

Then again, according to http://www.h2o4u.org/facts.html it rained in
Atacama fairly recently...


--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, sommar@algonet.se

 

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Ted Schuerzinger (fedya@bestweb.spam) writes:
> Bulgaria is the only one of the seven new members to use the Cyrillic
> alphabet, in which (I believe) Estonia would be last alphabetically:
>
> Áîëãàðèÿ
> Ëàòâèÿ
> Ëèòâà
> Ðóìûíèÿ
> Ñëîâàêèÿ
> Ñëîâåíèÿ
> Ýñòîíèÿ
>
> are the names of the countries in Russian; I don't remember the exact
> equivalents in Bulgarian.

My reader does not do UTF-8, so I can read (or display) the names, but
I know enough Russian and Bulgaria to say that in Bulgarian, Estonia
does not come last. While the Russian and Bulgarian alphabets are
very similar, there are two differences: Bulgarian does not have the
hard E (which is what I suppose Russian uses for Estonia), because
the regular E is not soft in Bulgarian. The other difference is the
"b" with a hook on the back. It looks the same in the two alphabets,
but have completely different meaning. In Russian it is a hard sign,
in Bulgarian it is a vowel, pronouned as a schwa.

Provided that there no surprizes with country names coming from different
roots in Bulgarian, one of Slovenia and Slovakia should come last.

--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, sommar@algonet.se

 

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Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> Ted Schuerzinger (fedya@bestweb.spam) writes:
>
>>Bulgaria is the only one of the seven new members to use the Cyrillic
>>alphabet, in which (I believe) Estonia would be last alphabetically:
>>
>>Áîëãàðèÿ
>>Ëàòâèÿ
>>Ëèòâà
>>Ðóìûíèÿ
>>Ñëîâàêèÿ
>>Ñëîâåíèÿ
>>Ýñòîíèÿ
>>
>>are the names of the countries in Russian; I don't remember the exact
>>equivalents in Bulgarian.
>
> My reader does not do UTF-8, so I can read (or display) the names, but
> I know enough Russian and Bulgaria to say that in Bulgarian, Estonia
> does not come last. While the Russian and Bulgarian alphabets are
> very similar, there are two differences: Bulgarian does not have the
> hard E (which is what I suppose Russian uses for Estonia), because
> the regular E is not soft in Bulgarian. The other difference is the
> "b" with a hook on the back. It looks the same in the two alphabets,
> but have completely different meaning. In Russian it is a hard sign,
> in Bulgarian it is a vowel, pronouned as a schwa.
>
> Provided that there no surprizes with country names coming from different
> roots in Bulgarian, one of Slovenia and Slovakia should come last.

Looks to be Windows-1251 Cyrillic, not UTF-8. My dictionary's listing
of the "Russian" alphabet doesn't give the names of the letters. The
E in Estonia as spelled by Mr. Schuerzinger is the antepentultimate
letter in that alphabet, however. Twenty-nine out of thirty-one.

2,14,11,4,1,16,9,31 - Bolgariya
11,1,18,3,9,31 - Latviya
11,9,18,3,1 - Litva
16,19,12,27,13,9,31 - Rum*niya
17,11,14,3,1,10,9,31 - Slovakiya
17,11,14,3,6,13,9,31 - Sloveniya
29,17,18,14,13,9,31 - Estoniya

Where the * is a myaii znak ("soft sign") which indicates that the
preceding consonant is palatalized even when a front vowel does not
follow. The final ya is a single letter. [NB. the ii in myakii has
a tilde over them.]

--Jeff

PS. I read news with Netscape's browser which can change alphabets
in the menu.

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songs either. -- Mark Twain

The trouble with the world is that the
stupid are cocksure and the intelligent
are full of doubt. --Bertrand Russell

Those who do not learn from history are
doomed to repeat it. --George Santayana

Unthinking respect for authority is the
greatest enemy of truth. --Albert Einstein

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