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dubdobdeeyes yes this is LATE i have been BUSY: welcome to the LJ wing of a quiz** sat by by some lucky schoolkids*** somewhere and etc blah blah: 18 themed sets of 10 questions each -- new one each day!!
*= latin for: "real actual knowledge is knowin how to google stuff"
**as published every year in the guardian just before xmas
***all the boys of king williams school on the isle of man sit it sight unseen then take the paper home during holidays and look stuff up to increase their score and retake it -- the guy who sets it says he checks nothing is INSTANTLY googleable
1: During 1909:
i: what hidden addiction was revealed in Munich?
ii: what was founded at the southern tip of Kinneret?
iii: who filed a patent for a hermetically sealed burial casket?
iv: which youngsters received numbered anklets by the Aberdeenshire seaside?
v: who, contrary to generally accepted opinion, may have reached where after Cook?
vi: whose gallinaceous offering was held up by the censors and emerged posthumously?
vii: who was rewarded for lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception?
viii: which Portuguese island colonies lost their Quaker customers?
ix: whose unscheduled dip in La Manche cost him a grand?
x: which negative logarithm came from Carlsberg?
the rules as evolved so far:
a: nice full answers (and anecdotes!) if poss
b: plz to say if googled or no, and always leave reasonable time for non-googlers to get their guesses in
c: obviously you can look ahead at future questions if you want (ie elsewhere on internet)
d: plz to not bring in confirming or dissenting answers from other fora until next set is up and running
*= latin for: "real actual knowledge is knowin how to google stuff"
**as published every year in the guardian just before xmas
***all the boys of king williams school on the isle of man sit it sight unseen then take the paper home during holidays and look stuff up to increase their score and retake it -- the guy who sets it says he checks nothing is INSTANTLY googleable
1: During 1909:
i: what hidden addiction was revealed in Munich?
ii: what was founded at the southern tip of Kinneret?
iii: who filed a patent for a hermetically sealed burial casket?
iv: which youngsters received numbered anklets by the Aberdeenshire seaside?
v: who, contrary to generally accepted opinion, may have reached where after Cook?
vi: whose gallinaceous offering was held up by the censors and emerged posthumously?
vii: who was rewarded for lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception?
viii: which Portuguese island colonies lost their Quaker customers?
ix: whose unscheduled dip in La Manche cost him a grand?
x: which negative logarithm came from Carlsberg?
the rules as evolved so far:
a: nice full answers (and anecdotes!) if poss
b: plz to say if googled or no, and always leave reasonable time for non-googlers to get their guesses in
c: obviously you can look ahead at future questions if you want (ie elsewhere on internet)
d: plz to not bring in confirming or dissenting answers from other fora until next set is up and running
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Date: 2010-01-08 10:27 am (UTC)also despite txting mark saying "this is so easy this year" what i meant was "i know about 5 answers out of the whole thing"
viii "quaker customers" could be chocolate makers rowntree/cadbury etc portuguaneuse island colonies = azores, macao (i think macao is an island?), that place where the dodo lived, madagascar? zanzibar?
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Date: 2010-01-08 10:29 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-01-08 11:00 am (UTC)unless it's more simple, eg madagascan cocoa was replaced by rowntrees setting up their own plantation somewhere else...