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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 5:38 am
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There's New York in New York, San Marino in San Marino, Luxembourg in
Luxembourg, and Djibouti in Djibouti, but I wouldn't count Kansas City
in Kansas, Quebec City in Quebec, Mexico City in Mexico, or several
others that always have the "City" appended. And city states like
Singapore and Monaco can't really be inside themselves, can they?
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CATEGORY QUESTIONS:
[ Literature & Arts ]
What writer lived for five years in the 1890s in Brattleboro,
Vermont, playing snow golf with red golf balls?
[ History & Government ]
What city did the British and French evacuate in Operation Dynamo
beginning on May 27, 1940?
[ Entertainment & Food ]
What Barbra Streisand album was #1 for five weeks in the fall of 1964?
[ Sports & Games ]
In 1999, what Major League Baseball player did the Babe Ruth League
rename its Bambino division in honor of?
[ Geography & Nature ]
What flower is a symbol of sleep and the dead?
[ Math & Science ]
What is the main chemical element in the Earth's core besides iron?
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 5:38 am
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In article <rjen-A2383F.00384721122008.TakeThisOut@news.verizon.net>, rjen.TakeThisOut@rjen.com says...
> [ Literature & Arts ]
> What writer lived for five years in the 1890s in Brattleboro,
> Vermont, playing snow golf with red golf balls?
SOLZHENYTSIN (Did you mean the 1980s?)
> [ History & Government ]
> What city did the British and French evacuate in Operation Dynamo
> beginning on May 27, 1940?
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> [ Entertainment & Food ]
> What Barbra Streisand album was #1 for five weeks in the fall of 1964?
PEOPLE
> [ Sports & Games ]
> In 1999, what Major League Baseball player did the Babe Ruth League
> rename its Bambino division in honor of?
GEHRIG, Lou
> [ Geography & Nature ]
> What flower is a symbol of sleep and the dead?
POPPY
> [ Math & Science ]
> What is the main chemical element in the Earth's core besides iron?
NICKEL
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 5:38 am
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NIPPON. Robert Jen writes:
> There's New York in New York, San Marino in San Marino, Luxembourg in
> Luxembourg, and Djibouti in Djibouti, but I wouldn't count Kansas City
> in Kansas, Quebec City in Quebec, Mexico City in Mexico, or several
> others that always have the "City" appended.
"Quebec City" does not belong on that list; like New York, the trailing
"city" is not part of its actual name and is often not used when there
is no ambiguity, as when the state province is being named.
Trivia: What is the largest city in the world whose official name does
include the word "City" at the end as with Kansas City and Kansas City?
> What writer lived for five years in the 1890s in Brattleboro,
> Vermont, playing snow golf with red golf balls?
I don't know.
> What city did the British and French evacuate in Operation Dynamo
> beginning on May 27, 1940?
DUNKIRK and DUNKERQUE respectively. 5th letter down, then,
so I'll try TWAIN.
> What Barbra Streisand album was #1 for five weeks in the fall of 1964?
I have no idea.
> In 1999, what Major League Baseball player did the Babe Ruth League
> rename its Bambino division in honor of?
Got me.
> What flower is a symbol of sleep and the dead?
Who makes these things up?
> What is the main chemical element in the Earth's core besides iron?
NICKEL. Oh, it's a backward diagonal! Okay then, I'll go with
POPPY for the flower (thank you, John McCrae) and PEOPLE for the
album (I know it's a song title of hers, at least). Can't think
of a writer or a baseball player that now fits, so I'll make up
names and go with NORMAN and APPS.
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 8:54 am
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"Robert Jen" <rjen RemoveThis @rjen.com> wrote in message
news:rjen-A2383F.00384721122008@news.verizon.net...
> There's New York in New York, San Marino in San Marino, Luxembourg in
> Luxembourg, and Djibouti in Djibouti, but I wouldn't count Kansas City
> in Kansas, Quebec City in Quebec, Mexico City in Mexico, or several
> others that always have the "City" appended.
Some of those have the "City" appended for the same reason NYC does:
just to distinguish the city from the region. I believe Quebec is that
way.
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> CATEGORY QUESTIONS:
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> [ Literature & Arts ]
> What writer lived for five years in the 1890s in Brattleboro,
> Vermont, playing snow golf with red golf balls?
>
> [ History & Government ]
> What city did the British and French evacuate in Operation Dynamo
> beginning on May 27, 1940?
Dunkirk
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> [ Entertainment & Food ]
> What Barbra Streisand album was #1 for five weeks in the fall of 1964?
>
> [ Sports & Games ]
> In 1999, what Major League Baseball player did the Babe Ruth League
> rename its Bambino division in honor of?
>
> [ Geography & Nature ]
> What flower is a symbol of sleep and the dead?
lotus?
>
> [ Math & Science ]
> What is the main chemical element in the Earth's core besides iron?
nickel
Quilt is probably NIPPON, which fits the diagonal down to the left. So
the baseball player needs a P as third letter. The only one I can think
of that fits is Cal RIPKIN, so I'm going with that. The Streisand album
with 4th letter P is most likely PEOPLE, since that was the name of one
of her hits. The only author of that era with 6th letter N that comes to
me is KIPLING. He was British, but I'll go with him anyway (can't hurt
to guess).
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 9:24 am
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Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:
> Trivia: What is the largest city in the world whose official name does
> include the word "City" at the end as with Kansas City and Kansas City?
Ciudad de México?
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 10:18 am
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On Dec 20, 11:38 pm, Robert Jen <r....RemoveThis@rjen.com> wrote:
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> CATEGORY QUESTIONS:
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> [ Literature & Arts ]
> What writer lived for five years in the 1890s in Brattleboro,
> Vermont, playing snow golf with red golf balls?
KIPLING, Rudyard
> [ History & Government ]
> What city did the British and French evacuate in Operation Dynamo
> beginning on May 27, 1940?
DUNKIRK
> [ Entertainment & Food ]
> What Barbra Streisand album was #1 for five weeks in the fall of 1964?
PEOPLE
> [ Sports & Games ]
> In 1999, what Major League Baseball player did the Babe Ruth League
> rename its Bambino division in honor of?
RIPKEN, Cal
> [ Geography & Nature ]
> What flower is a symbol of sleep and the dead?
POSY (? -- unsure of spelling)
> [ Math & Science ]
> What is the main chemical element in the Earth's core besides iron?
NICKEL
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KIPLING
DUNKIRK
PEOPLE
RIPKEN
POSY
NICKEL
Starting with the N in KIPLING and proceeding diagonally down and to
the left, the quilt answer would be NIPPON, as in the Japanese name
for Japan.
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(Msg. 7) Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 1:13 pm
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Mark Brader:
> > Trivia: What is the largest city in the world whose official name does
> > include the word "City" at the end as with Kansas City and Kansas City?
Erland Sommarskog:
> Ciudad de México?
I don't see the word "City" in there.
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(Msg. 8) Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 2:39 pm
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> [ Literature & Arts ]
> What writer lived for five years in the 1890s in Brattleboro,
> Vermont, playing snow golf with red golf balls?
KIPLING (he was alive then, and the N fits if I've got the quilt
right)
> [ History & Government ]
> What city did the British and French evacuate in Operation Dynamo
> beginning on May 27, 1940?
DUNKIRK (the French spell it Dunkerque, but I'm hoping you don't)
> [ Entertainment & Food ]
> What Barbra Streisand album was #1 for five weeks in the fall of 1964?
PEOPLE (this was where I realized it couldn't be the column).
> [ Sports & Games ]
> In 1999, what Major League Baseball player did the Babe Ruth League
> rename its Bambino division in honor of?
RIPKEN? (I was thinking either a home run hitter or an old timer, but
I couldn't get the P to fit, so...)
> [ Geography & Nature ]
> What flower is a symbol of sleep and the dead?
POPPY (there are a lot of possible alternatives, like chrysanthemum,
lotus, carnation -- not a great question.)
> [ Math & Science ]
> What is the main chemical element in the Earth's core besides iron?
NICKEL (has to begin with N and be a common metal, so what else?)
Quilt = NIPPON (skew diagonal down). I'm not too happy with this,
since the Japanese word for Japan is Nihon, not Nippon, but anyway...
I was pretty sure of DUNKIRK, and only the I fits, so I keyed the rest
off of it. It was hard spotting the diagonal, but the column was
definitely wrong. |
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(Msg. 9) Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 2:42 pm
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Oops, sorry, I forgot to answer your other trivia question. I think
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(Msg. 10) Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 3:32 pm
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In article <Qun3l.266$BC4.145@nwrddc02.gnilink.net>,
"Dan Tilque" <dtilque.RemoveThis@verizon.net> wrote:
> "Robert Jen" <rjen.RemoveThis@rjen.com> wrote in message
> news:rjen-A2383F.00384721122008@news.verizon.net...
> > There's New York in New York, San Marino in San Marino, Luxembourg in
> > Luxembourg, and Djibouti in Djibouti, but I wouldn't count Kansas City
> > in Kansas, Quebec City in Quebec, Mexico City in Mexico, or several
> > others that always have the "City" appended.
>
> Some of those have the "City" appended for the same reason NYC does:
> just to distinguish the city from the region. I believe Quebec is that
> way.
I was going by Wikipedia and how I usually see them together. For
example, "New York, New York" is perfectly normal, while I've never seen
"Quebec, Quebec" or "Mexico, Mexico". I'm less sure of the others.
> > What writer lived for five years in the 1890s in Brattleboro,
> > Vermont, playing snow golf with red golf balls?
See below.
> > What city did the British and French evacuate in Operation Dynamo
> > beginning on May 27, 1940?
>
> Dunkirk
Correct.
> > What Barbra Streisand album was #1 for five weeks in the fall of 1964?
See below.
> > In 1999, what Major League Baseball player did the Babe Ruth League
> > rename its Bambino division in honor of?
See below.
> > What flower is a symbol of sleep and the dead?
>
> lotus?
Incorrect.
> > What is the main chemical element in the Earth's core besides iron?
>
> nickel
Correct.
> Quilt is probably NIPPON, which fits the diagonal down to the left. So
> the baseball player needs a P as third letter. The only one I can think
> of that fits is Cal RIPKIN, so I'm going with that. The Streisand album
> with 4th letter P is most likely PEOPLE, since that was the name of one
> of her hits. The only author of that era with 6th letter N that comes to
> me is KIPLING. He was British, but I'll go with him anyway (can't hurt
> to guess).
Correct, correct ("Ripken"), correct, and correct (well-deduced)!
Nine points.
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(Msg. 11) Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 3:32 pm
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Dan Tilque:
>> Some of those have the "City" appended for the same reason NYC does:
>> just to distinguish the city from the region. I believe Quebec is that
>> way.
Robert Jen:
> I was going by Wikipedia ...
There's your problem. WP uses "New York City" as the title for its
article about the city because this allows "New York" to be used for
the article about the state. And then since NYC *is* a common term
for the city, people writing other articles refer to "New York City"
because that's what its own article is titled, even in contexts where
it would have been more usual to say "New York" or "New York, NY".
I haven't looked at a lot of WP articles that mention Quebec City, but
I'm sure the same thing happens with them.
However, WP does have an article "Name of Quebec City" that goes into
the subject in detail.
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(Msg. 12) Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 3:41 pm
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In article <studnR-m9OVkcdDUnZ2dnUVZ_o_inZ2d.RemoveThis@vex.net>,
msb.RemoveThis@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote:
> NIPPON. Robert Jen writes:
Correct.
> > There's New York in New York, San Marino in San Marino, Luxembourg in
> > Luxembourg, and Djibouti in Djibouti, but I wouldn't count Kansas City
> > in Kansas, Quebec City in Quebec, Mexico City in Mexico, or several
> > others that always have the "City" appended.
>
> "Quebec City" does not belong on that list; like New York, the trailing
> "city" is not part of its actual name and is often not used when there
> is no ambiguity, as when the state province is being named.
I should have Googled further. I see "Quebec, Quebec" all over the
place now that I look.
> Trivia: What is the largest city in the world whose official name does
> include the word "City" at the end as with Kansas City and Kansas City?
Good question. My first guess would be Mexico City, but I don't think
you'd refer to a city I just mentioned.
> > What writer lived for five years in the 1890s in Brattleboro,
> > Vermont, playing snow golf with red golf balls?
>
> I don't know.
See below.
> > What city did the British and French evacuate in Operation Dynamo
> > beginning on May 27, 1940?
>
> DUNKIRK and DUNKERQUE respectively. 5th letter down, then,
> so I'll try TWAIN.
Correct and incorrect.
> > What Barbra Streisand album was #1 for five weeks in the fall of 1964?
>
> I have no idea.
See below.
> > In 1999, what Major League Baseball player did the Babe Ruth League
> > rename its Bambino division in honor of?
>
See below.
> > What flower is a symbol of sleep and the dead?
>
> Who makes these things up?
I don't know who made this one up, but I'm currently reading a very
famous book series with a reference to the former, so it's not as
obscure as many of the other flower connections.
> > What is the main chemical element in the Earth's core besides iron?
>
> NICKEL. Oh, it's a backward diagonal! Okay then, I'll go with
> POPPY for the flower (thank you, John McCrae) and PEOPLE for the
> album (I know it's a song title of hers, at least). Can't think
> of a writer or a baseball player that now fits, so I'll make up
> names and go with NORMAN and APPS.
Correct (I was wondering if you'd killed your score when you said
"5th letter down", by which of course you meant "3rd letter down", just
like Barbara last week), correct, correct, incorrect, and incorrect.
Eight points.
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(Msg. 13) Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 3:41 pm
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Mark Brader:
> > Trivia: What is the largest city in the world whose official name does
> > include the word "City" at the end as with Kansas City and Kansas City?
Robert Jen:
> Good question. My first guess would be Mexico City, but I don't think
> you'd refer to a city I just mentioned.
As Erland's response indicated, there is no word "City" there.
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(Msg. 14) Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 3:41 pm
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Robert Jen:
> Correct (I was wondering if you'd killed your score when you said
> "5th letter down", by which of course you meant "3rd letter down"...)
No, look again. Of course I meant 5th.
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(Msg. 15) Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 3:43 pm
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In article <MPG.23b7a4e86de3d32a98a018.DeleteThis@news.supernews.com>,
Marc Dashevsky <usenet.DeleteThis@MarcDashevsky.com> wrote:
> > What writer lived for five years in the 1890s in Brattleboro,
> > Vermont, playing snow golf with red golf balls?
> SOLZHENYTSIN (Did you mean the 1980s?)
Incorrect (for future reference, none of the category answers are longer
than ten letters because that's how much room I gave them in my Palm OS
games).
> > What Barbra Streisand album was #1 for five weeks in the fall of 1964?
> PEOPLE
Correct.
> > In 1999, what Major League Baseball player did the Babe Ruth League
> > rename its Bambino division in honor of?
> GEHRIG, Lou
Incorrect.
> > What flower is a symbol of sleep and the dead?
> POPPY
Correct.
> > What is the main chemical element in the Earth's core besides iron?
> NICKEL
Correct.
Three points.
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