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withdrawn in 1662?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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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 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.

My text in this article is in the public domain.

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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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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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Somebody claiming to be Jeffrey Turner <jturner@localnet.com> wrote in
news:10arqtmn8ndonf5@corp.supernews.com:

>> 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.

--
Ted <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.
Marge Simpson, <http://www.snpp.com/episodes/7G01.html>

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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

My text in this article is in the public domain.

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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.
Marge Simpson, <http://www.snpp.com/episodes/7G01.html>

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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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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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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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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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Ted Schuerzinger (fedya@bestweb.spam) writes:
>> 16,19,12,27,13,9,31 - Rum*niya
>
> Not a myagkij znak, but the unpalatlized version of the i. (Not the Ü,
> but the Û.)

Ah, that makes more sense. That's how it is spelled in Roumanian too.
That is, the preferred spelling now is "România", but it used to be
"Romînia". There is no difference between them in pronouciation. Both
î and â stands for a high, central unrounded vowel, just like the "bI"
in Russian. (This letter is also missing from Bulgarian; I forgot that in
my previous posting.)

So why use an "a" for a sound which is more close to "i"? Well, originally
in Latin, there was an "a" in many of the Roumanian words that have "î",
and in attempt to strength the Latin identity, Ceaucescu introduced "â"
in 1965 and a few words, mainly names I believe, have been changed.


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

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Erland Sommarskog wrote:

> Glenn C. Rhoads (gcrhoads@yahoo.com) writes:
>>> 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?
>
> But Dan would object that there is no meteorogical data that
> goes back this far. :-)

After further research, I found that those valleys got light snow
flurries as recently as 142,963 years ago...

--
Dan Tilque

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Dan Tilque (dtilque@nwlink.com) writes:
> After further research, I found that those valleys got light snow
> flurries as recently as 142,963 years ago...

I can only congratulate you to your dry humour!


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

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gcrhoads@yahoo.com (Glenn C. Rhoads) wrote in message news:<3396efc6.0405211736.40a2e2e8@posting.google.com>...
> 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.
> >

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

I should know this... I did, once.

> > 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 memory

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

Gorgons



>
> > 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?

I suspect it was one that wasn't actually a country when it was
Communist (e.g. Serbia) but I won't google it.

> > 16. What first name was shared by Dr Doolittle, Tarzan and Rambo?
>
> John (I got it from the Tarzan clue.)

I got it from the Rambo clue.

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

Has to be farthing.

>
>
> > 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"?


> > 24. In which continent is the driest place on earth - having had no
> > rainfall for the past 400 years?
>
Anyone can google the answer to this question. Is this quiz
meant to be a test of googling skills? If not, and you know who you
are, Einar, lay off the googling.
>
>
>
> > --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?

I know the brother but not the sister. Drat. Drew Brat.

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"Teabag" <teabag420@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> gcrhoads@yahoo.com (Glenn C. Rhoads) wrote in message
news:<3396efc6.0405211736.40a2e2e8@posting.google.com>...
> > Gareth Owen <usenet@gwowen.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:<r5ifz9uywjb.fsf@gill.maths.keele.ac.uk>...
> >
> > > 18. What was the name of the old coin worth four pennies that was
> > > withdrawn in 1662?
>
> Has to be farthing.
>
A farthing is worth quarter of a penny and they weren't withdrawn until the
1950's I believe!!! But I don't know what the answer is - possibly a groat
but I think that was worth two pennies

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Paul Bennington wrote:
> "Paul Bennington" <paulbennington@TROUSERSblueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>>"Teabag" <teabag420@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>gcrhoads@yahoo.com (Glenn C. Rhoads) wrote:
>>>>Gareth Owen <usenet@gwowen.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>>>18. What was the name of the old coin worth four pennies that was
>>>>> withdrawn in 1662?
>>>
>>> Has to be farthing.
>>
>>A farthing is worth quarter of a penny and they weren't withdrawn until
>> the
>>1950's I believe!!! But I don't know what the answer is - possibly a groat
>>but I think that was worth two pennies
>
> According to http://www.24carat.co.uk/denominations.html a groat is 4d but
> was last used in 1888

What's 226 years? The quizmaster seems to have been off by
significantly longer than that with regard to the driest place on
earth. BTW, why is the abbreviation for penny, "d"? I've seen that
in nail sizes. Come to think of it, the cent sign used in the US is,
kind of, a d where the vertical line moved left and down.

--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:

> Paul Bennington wrote:
> > "Paul Bennington" <paulbennington@TROUSERSblueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> >>"Teabag" <teabag420@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>>gcrhoads@yahoo.com (Glenn C. Rhoads) wrote:
> >>>>Gareth Owen <usenet@gwowen.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >>>>>18. What was the name of the old coin worth four pennies that was
> >>>>> withdrawn in 1662?
>
> >>> Has to be farthing.
> >>
> >>A farthing is worth quarter of a penny and they weren't withdrawn until
> >> the
> >>1950's I believe!!! But I don't know what the answer is - possibly a groat
> >>but I think that was worth two pennies
> > According to http://www.24carat.co.uk/denominations.html a groat is
> > 4d but
> > was last used in 1888
>
> What's 226 years? The quizmaster seems to have been off by
> significantly longer than that with regard to the driest place on
> earth. BTW, why is the abbreviation for penny, "d"? I've seen that
> in nail sizes. Come to think of it, the cent sign used in the US is,
> kind of, a d where the vertical line moved left and down.


d = Denarius

LSD's nomenclature is quite a mix, it appears to be French, German, and Latin!


1662 is the date for The Book of Common Prayer, IIRC.



Phil

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In article
<Xns94F2B1C08F9898jUwe9053kODf78sfkj0@ID-121946.user.dfncis.de>,
Ted Schuerzinger <fedya@bestweb.spam> wrote:

> Somebody claiming to be "Paul Bennington"
> <paulbennington@TROUSERSblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in
> news:0l7sc.7080$8k2.1178@pathologist.blueyonder.net:
>
> > A farthing is worth quarter of a penny and they weren't withdrawn
> > until the 1950's I believe!!! But I don't know what the answer is -
> > possibly a groat but I think that was worth two pennies
>
> I thought it was about 1961, but I write my Usenet posts online and so
> can't Google the information right now....

I was in Britain in the mid 50s, and it was not around then, but I don't
know whether it had been formally withdrawn or was just not used any
more.

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Jeffrey Turner <jturner@localnet.com> writes:

> The quizmaster seems to have been off by significantly longer than that with
> regard to the driest place on earth.

Really? What was his intended answer?

> BTW, why is the abbreviation for penny, "d"?

From the Latin "denarius"
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Erland Sommarskog <sommar@algonet.se> wrote in message

>Sort of. But Serbia is still not a country.

Try telling that to the Republika Serbska. Report back to us.


>Or even part of a country
>that is a NATO member.

Never said it was part of NATO. Reading, Reading, Reading, Reading.


Erland Sommarskog <sommar@algonet.se> wrote in message news:<Xns94F2DC3B7C274Yazorman@127.0.0.1>...
> Teabag (teabag420@hotmail.com) writes:
> >> > 15. Seven former communist eastern European countries joined NATO this
> >> > week. Which one comes last when listed alphabetically?
> >
> > I suspect it was one that wasn't actually a country when it was
> > Communist (e.g. Serbia) but I won't google it.
>
> Sort of. But Serbia is still not a country. Or even part of a country
> that is a NATO member.
>
> >> > 24. In which continent is the driest place on earth - having had no
> >> > rainfall for the past 400 years?
> >>
> > Anyone can google the answer to this question. Is this quiz
> > meant to be a test of googling skills?
>
> Well, it says pub quiz, so I assume that in the original presentation
> of the quiz, the quizmaster would have noticed if someone start hammering
> his laptop. Besides, I have a feeling that pub quizzes might call for
> a response time that does not really permit googling. Maybe the Brits
> can give us more details on this?
>




> And, oh, as testified by other articles in this thread, this question
> is not trivial to Google to at all. Even the quizmaster seem to have
> had it wrong...

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God damn. You continue to educate me. I salute you.....IF you
composed your response without doing an internet search.

Actually, you may be wrong. I've met with ambassadors from both
"entities".



"The Dayton Peace Accord, signed in Paris in December 1995, provided
for the
existence within one state of two entities, namely the Federation of
Bosnia
and Herzegovina (involving Bosniacs and Croats, and retaining its
March
1994 constitution) AND the Serb Republic (Republika Srpska, proclaimed
in
March 1992), joined by a loose political structure, with a central
government, with a collective multi-ethnic presidency and a parliament
(Parliamentary Assembly) based in Sarajevo."


Erland Sommarskog <sommar@algonet.se> wrote in message news:<Xns94F4E15E1B377Yazorman@127.0.0.1>...
> Teabag (teabag420@hotmail.com) writes:
> > Erland Sommarskog <sommar@algonet.se> wrote in message
> >>Sort of. But Serbia is still not a country.
> >
> > Try telling that to the Republika Serbska. Report back to us.
>
> Republika Srpska is very well aware of that they are one of the two
> constituent parts of Bosnia-Hercegovina, and if anyone in a leading
> position there would even whisper about anything else, there is a
> High Commissioner that can remove them from office faster than they
> can say "independent".

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Somebody claiming to be "Jugoslav Dujic" <jdujic@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:2hjak8Fdn4pjU1@uni-berlin.de:

> He's right. Trust me :-). UN government tactics of "stick and carrot",
> with stress on the former, paid off, at least in this particular scope.

I don't know whether "paid off" would be the best term, although that's a
political assessment. :-)

I find it amazing how the international community seems to want to force
the Serbs in Bosnia *not* to be part of a country with Serbia proper, but
want to keep the Montenegrins in the same country as Serbia. And I don't
think they know what the hell they want to do with Kosovo.

--
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