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From: pwf2@hpmwtd.sr.hp.com (Joe Ballantyne)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Name that Artist: NAMED!
Date: 15 Aug 92 04:01:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: hpmwetg.13100002
Organization: HP Santa Rosa Site (NMD MTA MWTD)

And the answer is,.....

Roberta Flack sang the song "Killing Me Softly" back in the early '70's.
Who was the artist that she sang about?

Ready?

It was Don McClain ( yes, of the "American Pie","Vincent" fame)

She saw him in a coffee house in the Sixties, and his music was very
special to her.
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From: jordan@cs.tulane.edu (Misti Jordan)
Subject: Re: TV show!
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 13:00:22 GMT
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In article <1992Aug19.195106.1@vax1.umkc.edu> ttasset@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
>Does anyone out there in trivia land remember the name of the tv show that had
>a bigot and his son was called "Meathead" or something like that?  No I know
>can think of it.
>
>       -Tom-

All In The Family (Starring Carol O'Connor, I think his name was, as
the bigot and Sonny Bono --again, I think-- as Meathead, his son-in-law
who was married to his daughter who --once again, I think-- now does
commercials for underprivileged kids in South America. You know the
ones... the blonde with the annoying voice says "For the price of
just one cup of coffee a day, you can feed a child... ")

Meow...
Misti
-- 
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    "I want to be good... but being bad is so rewarding!" -- Morgana Duck
From: barryg@hplsla.hp.com (Barry Gunn)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Checmical formula for caffeine
Date: 17 Aug 92 14:59:10 GMT
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA

>
>Hello there!!
>
>I think the subject says it all.  Please email the answer to me.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Adrienne
>----------
I don't know the answer, but it's mentioned in the movie "HOT PURSUIT"
From: dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: The geographic search
Date: 21 Aug 92 07:27:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: techbook.1992Aug21.072705.2058
Organization: Pseudopolis Yard

matthew@base.cs.ucla.edu (Matthew Merzbacher) writes:
>>In these questions, I'm referring to the common English name.
>
>>1. What countries have names that begin with the word "The"?  
>
>Lots of 'em.  "The United States of America" springs to mind.  The way
>I discern is by considering the following test:
>  "In X, they wear their pants on their heads"
>Plug in the name of the country for X.  If it needs a "The", then that's 
>part of the name.  Try it.  It works.  Start with "Germany" (no "the") 
>and "Phillipines" (needs "the").

I guess I didn't explain the question very well.  What I want are
country names where an initial word "The" is considered an integral
part of the name.  For the US, the UK and some others, the "the" is
there because English syntax requires it.

Let's try it another way.  Look up the official (translated) names of
the countries (you can find them in most almanacs).  Many of these
names have names for the form Republic of X or Commonwealth of X or
<Something> of X.  (X is generally the common English name.)  A few
have the form Republic of *the* X or Commonwealth of *the* X.  These
latter are the ones that I want.  The Philippines qualifies; the US does
not.  Someone else said Solomon Is.  That does not qualify as its name
is just Solomon Islands.  No "The".

By the way, there are seven countries that qualify this way.

>
>>2. What cities and towns have names that begin with "The"?
>
>Even more than #1.  "The Hague" is my favorite, but there's "The Dales", 
>too.

You've named two (and misspelled one).  I dare you to triple that
number.  In fact, even doubling it is not real trivial.  Go ahead and
use reference works.

Personally, I know of 5, although two of them rather small.

>
>>3. What other geographic entity's names begin with "The".  The criterion
>>for this is that the word "The" should appear on most maps.
>
>Now you've opened the barn door.  "The Black Forest", "The Atlantic Ocean".
>OK, so neither of those meet your criterion, but you'd be hard pressed to
>find a native speaker of English who didn't put that there "the" up front.

My criterion is there for a purpose -- English speakers put the "the"
there to satisfy the rules of syntax.  Mapmakers usually only put the
"The" there when it's considered an integral part of the name.

However, I failed to take into account the multitudinous ways that
the English name things.  There's a number of fairly obscure places in
England that are named "The <something>".  My list, when I posed this
was fairly short and only had a couple of the larger such.  

>
>How about "The Moon"?  or "The Sun"?  or even "The Milky Way"?

Since when do any of those things come under the term "geography"?

---
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From: mannj@acf9.nyu.edu (Jordan Mann)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: The geographic search
Date: 20 Aug 92 16:28:09 GMT
Organization: New York University

dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque) writes:

>[I've seen the first of these questions on the net before, but not the
>rest.]

>In these questions, I'm referring to the common English name.  If the
>official name has a phrase like "the republic of" or "the city of",
>that phrase should be ignored.

>1. What countries have names that begin with the word "The"?  

Someone already mentioned the US and the Phillipines.  For that matter,
lots of countries (and other places) comprised of several islands often
have names that begin with "the", such as the Bahamas, the Solomon Islands,
and the Netherlands Antilles.  (I'm not sure if the last two are countries.)
Also, the Dominican Republic.

>[...]

>3. What other geographic entity's names begin with "The".  The criterion
>for this is that the word "The" should appear on most maps.

The ambiguity of the term "geographic entity" has already been pointed out.
But how about the Bronx?  I'm not sure what it says on the maps, but
everyone calls it *the* Bronx.

>If you want, you can list those that formerly had a "The" but current
>usage does not include it.

Then how about the Ukraine, now officially just "Ukraine".

>Dan Tilque    --     dant@techbook.com
--

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From: rnlee@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Profess'nal Agitator)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: The geographic search
Date: 21 Aug 92 17:17:08 GMT
Organization: MAWL - Mudd Alums Without Lives

In article <1992Aug20.115322.9283@techbook.com> dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque,,,,) writes:
>1. What countries have names that begin with the word "The"?  

Well, there's The Sudan and there used to be The Ukraine.  The Vatican
is questionable and The Congo may be obsolete.  What about Jordan?
Isn't it named after the river (Hashemite Kingdom of the Jordan)?  I
think The Bahamas and The Philippines are two island groups that
actually qualify.  And I think there may be a country in the Himalayas
(The Bhutan?).

>2. What cities and towns have names that begin with "The"?  I'm not

The Hague, The Vatican again, The Dalles, Oregon.

>3. What other geographic entity's names begin with "The".  The criterion
>for this is that the word "The" should appear on most maps.

The Outback?  The Lake of the Woods?  The Dardanelles?

Agitator
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From: mcsnewton@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: **THE ANSWERS to Rai aNd TuN's LyRiCs QuIz I**
Date: 17 Aug 92 09:57:35 -0600
Distribution: world
Organization: Memphis State University


				**ThE AnSwErS!!**

                       **RAI AND TUN'S LYRIC TRIVIA QUIZ**
 
      
 
> 1. "And I've been waiting for this moment for all my life..."
		_In the Air Tonight_ Phil Collins
 
> 2. "Time on my hands could be time spent with you."
		_I Guess That's Why They Call it the Blues_ Elton John
 
> 3. "Young Hearts beat free tonight, time is on your side.."
		_Young Turks_  Rod Stewart
 
> 4. "Never seen so many men ask you if you wanted to dance, If you were looking 
> for a little romance."
		_Lady in Red_  Chris deBurgh
 
> 5. "My heart's like an open book for the whole to read." 
		_Home Sweet Home_  Motley Crue
 
> 6. "Take you to my castle far away."
		_Glory of Love_  Peter Cetera
 
> 7. "I thought that I heard you laughing. I thought that I heard you sing."
		_Losing My Religion_  R.E.M.
 
> 8. "But it was Saturday night I guess that makes alright and she said baby have
> you got enough gas."
		_Little Red Corvette_  Prince

> 9. "Time, Time, Time see what's become of me as I look at the possibilities.."
> (Remake Artist)
		_Hazy Shade of Winter_  The Bangles
 
> 10. "...and why do they always say, Don't look back"
		_This Used to be My Playground_  Madonna 

		**SeE Ya On 8/21/92 FoR ThE AnSwErS To**
                    ***RaI aNd TuN's LyRiCs QuIz***
                              ****II****
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From: crosmun@crosmun.rtp.dg.com (William Crosmun)
Subject: Re: paradox
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 22:02:24 GMT
Organization: Data General Corporation, RTP, NC.

In article <1992Aug6.120017.16391@fwi.uva.nl> dam@fwi.uva.nl (Joris van Dam) writes:
>
>Given a volume c, which is partioned in two equalsized volumes a and b.
>
>It is given that there is a dollar note somewhere in this (large) volume c.
>
>Notation : P(d=c) : the probaility of the dollarnote being in volume c.
>
>We start with : 
>	P(d=c) = 1.0
>since there is a dollarnote for sure.
>As a and b are equalsized, we can derive
>	P(d=a) = P(d=b) = 0.5 * P(d=c) = 0.5
>From 
>	P(d=a) = 0.5, P(d=b) = 0.5
>and the fact that a and b make up c, follows that 
>	P(d=c) = 1 - P(d!=c) = 1 - ( P(d!=a) * P(d!=b) ) = 0.75;
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That the error is here has already been pointed out, however, I'm not
convinced by the reasoning, hence my 2 cents worth.  Since the probability
that "d is not in c" is the probability that "d is not in a or in b", and  
Not (a or b) = Not(a) + Not(b), this line should read

 	P(d=c) = 1 - P(d!=c) = 1 - ( P(d!=a) + P(d!=b) ) = 1 - 0 = 1;

>	       (since P(d!=a) = 1 - P(d=a))
>from this, we get
>	P(d=a) = P(d=b) = 0.5 * P(d=c) = 0.375
>-->
>	P(d=c) = 1 - P(d!=c) = 1 - ( P(d!=a) * P(d!=b) ) = .609375
>
>-->
>	P(d=a) = P(d=b) = 0.5 * P(d=c) =  .3046875
>-->
>	P(d=c) = .51654052734
>-->
>..........
>-->     P(d=c) = 0
>
>Could this sudden insight in the volatility of the American current be the
>cause of its steady depreciation ?
>If not, where is the error in this ?
>
>Joris
>


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From: mcsnewton@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: **RaI aNd TuN's TrIvIa QuIz**
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:52:40 -0600
Distribution: world
Organization: Memphis State University

			***RaiI aNd TuN'S tRiViA qUiZ***

1. What is the name of Garfield's (in the Comic Strip) teddy bear?

2. In the movie _16 Candles_ what was Molly Ringwald's (SAM) ultimate 16th
birthday present.

3. On the _Fresh Prince of Bel Aire_ what is Will Smith's most prized (lucky)
possesion?

4. In _Weird Science_ what did they forget to do that made the second girl
not appear.

5. Who played the Scarecrow in the movie _The Wiz_?
 
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: snyder@henry.ece.cmu.edu (John Snyder)
Subject: Re: TV show!
Organization: Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 06:46:41 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.163049.25162@news.nd.edu> wlamonac@haydn.helios.nd.edu (william lamonaca) writes:
>In article <1992Aug20.130022.3270@cs.tulane.edu> jordan@cs.tulane.edu (Misti Jordan) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug19.195106.1@vax1.umkc.edu> ttasset@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
>>>Does anyone out there in trivia land remember the name of the tv show that had
>>>a bigot and his son was called "Meathead" or something like that?  No I know
>>>can think of it.
>>>
>>>       -Tom-
>>
>>All In The Family (Starring Carol O'Connor, I think his name was, as
>>the bigot and Sonny Bono --again, I think-- as Meathead, his son-in-law
>               ^^^^^ ^^^^!!!!!!!
>>who was married to his daughter who --once again, I think-- now does
>>commercials for underprivileged kids in South America. You know the
>>ones... the blonde with the annoying voice says "For the price of
>>just one cup of coffee a day, you can feed a child... ")
>>
>
>Sonny Bono!!!????  Come on! Everyone knows that Freddy Prinz was "meathead".
                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
Hunh?!?  How quickly we forget.  Freddy Prinz was the star of the series
"Chico and the Man" (along with "the man" played by Jack Albertson, I
believe).  Rob Reiner played the "meathead".

>The reason that Meathead and Gloria weren't on the last few seasons of the
>show, as we all know, was because of Freddy's tragic suicide.

This isn't right either.  See above.

>BTW, does anyone know tha name of the show that "All in the Family" spun off
>from.  I think it starred Redd Foxx as the owner of a chain of laundromats and
>Shirley Hemphill as his wife Florida.  I especially like this show because it
>gave Gary Coleman his start.

This is not right either.  The show that you are thinking of was 
"the Jeffersons".  They were Archie Bunker's neighbors in "All in
the Family", then spun-off into their own show (not vice-versa).
The male lead in "the Jeffersons" was Sherman Hemsley (spelling?).
The show that was on during some of the same years which starred
Redd Foxx was "Sanford and Son", where he was a junkman and scrap
dealer.  (The son Lamont was played by Demond Wilson).  I think
that the show that gave Gary Coleman his start was "Diff'rent
Strokes", although he might have been on "Good Times" (starring
Jimmy "J.J." Walker).

John
snyder@henry.ece.cmu.edu


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From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
Subject: Re: ANSWERS TO my favorite final jeopardy questions
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 20:05:10 GMT

[The quoted article had an invalid Distribution; I have deleted that.]

> > 3.  the only state which ends with 3 consonants: MassachuseTTS, not 
> > KentuCKY which I think is considered a commonwealth
> 
> As noted elsewhere Mass. is a commonwealth.

Yes, but it is also a state.  There are 50 states in the US, 4 of which
happen to call themselves commonwealths.  The constitution of the US
makes no mention of commonwealths, only states.

> However the Y at the end of Kentucky is acting as a vowel.  The vowels are
> a,e,i,o,u and sometimes y.  This is one of those times.

Exactly.
-- 
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This article is in the public domain.
From: jtchern@ocf.berkeley.edu (Joseph Hernandez)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: my favorite final jeopardy questions part II
Date: 20 Aug 92 16:02:52 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility

Were we supposed to mail this to you or can we post our replies?

Oh well.
^L










































In article <1507@rwja.umdnj.edu> you write:
>1.  this 10-letter word appears in the U.S. nickel
What is Monticello?

>2.  the 2 U.S. presidents assassinated in Washington, D.C.
Who are Abraham Lincoln and <I forgot>?

>3.  the U.S. president with the longest middle name
Who is John FItzgerald Kennedy?

>4.  the U.S. state with the most number of national parks
What is Alaska??????

>5.  the only U.S. state with one syllable
Where is Maine?

>6.  the only U.S. state with a postal code consisting of 2 vowels
What is Iowa?

>7.  the only country that is found part in Asia and part in Africa
What is Egypt?



Joe
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From: dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: The geographic search: Answers
Date: 23 Aug 92 07:37:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: techbook.1992Aug23.073724.3733
Reply-To: dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque,,,,)
Organization: Pseudopolis Yard


Here are the answers to my quiz.  I've already explained how I determined
which countries qualify in a different post.

1. Countries

The Bahamas
The Comoros
The Congo
The Gambia
The Netherlands
The Philippines
The Sudan

   historical

The Lebanon 
The Ukraine

   
2. Cities

The Dalles, Oregon
The Hague, The Netherlands
The Pas, Manitoba  (a small town in the NW of the province)
The Village, Oklahoma  (a suburb of Oklahoma City)
The Rock, New South Wales  (a few kilomters south of Wagga Wagga)


3. Other

The Bronx
The Everglades
The Minch  --  the strait between Scotland and the Outer Hebrides
The Wash  --  a fairly large bay, due north of London

   historical

The Labrador

Notes:

I'm not going to give a summary of who did how well, mostly because I
don't have the time (more on that later).  No one got more than three
of the countries and two of the cities and towns.

One or two people suggested The Vatican City for either or both of the
first two categories.  It's official name (translated) is Vatican
City-State (no "The").  And while it's a country, it's not really a
city at all.  At the Vatican when they talk of the city (like in the
phrase "The city and the world"), they mean Rome.

The last category I deliberately made somewhat vague.  Naturally, I got
flamed for it.  I should know better.  At any rate, do not consider my
answers canonical here.  Different mapmakers have different conventions
and what may have a "The" on it in one atlas may not in another.

Now about why I don't have time:  I found out yesterday that this site
is going away tomorrow.  I now have to download any files that I want
and so don't have time to be scoring answers.  I'm not sure what my new
address will be, so you'll have to post any responses to this article.

---
Dan Tilque
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: maus@fid.morgan.com (Malcolm Austin)
Subject: LaserQuiz Round One Results
Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co., New York, NY
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 14:30:52 GMT


Here are the standings after Round One of the LaserQuiz.  

I want to thank everyone who participated in Round One, and remind all that
you need not have participated in Round One to make an entry (even a winning
entry) for Round Two.

Also, a reminder for all Round One participants.  Your entry will auto-
matically be carried over into Round Two (scoring an identical number of
points), but you are free to modify or add to your entry.

       R 1
       Pts Participant
       --- -----------
*Gold*  31 roxannen@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us -- Roxanne Nicholson
Silver  30 jbrock@ls5.morgan.com -- The Unified (Pan Eurasian) Team
Bronze  23 ront@npg-sd.sandiegoca.ncr.com -- Ron Tooker / Dave Ewing
        20 bob@antares.intel.com -- Bob Paauwe
        20 LE01167@portal.lasc.lockheed.com -- Ron Nadel
        18 BAHN@main.mndly.umn.edu -- "Bahn"
        17 tedk@ctt.bellcore.com -- Ted Ko
        16 james.kewageshig@canrem.com -- James Kewageshig
        16 bobc@styx.sandiego.ncr.com -- Bob Crawford
        13 jamesbs@mundil.cs.mu.oz.au -- JJ Glamma
        12 marcus@wdl1.wdl.loral.com -- Marcus Louie & Friends
        12 alex@ns1.morgan.com -- Alex Koh
         8 mmaxwell@ucsd.edu -- Matt Maxwell
         8 msb@sq.com -- Mark Brader
         5 rocher@husc.harvard.edu -- Jean-Marc Rocher
         5 olivia@leland.stanford.edu -- Olivia Williamson
         5 cochran@dg-rtp.dg.com -- Dave Cochran
         5 dagibbs@quantum.qnx.com -- David Gibbs
         5 trudel@cs.rutgers.edu -- "Trudel"
         5 wgcho@gorai.kaist.ac.kr -- Wongyu Cho
         4 dejesus@archimedes.nwc.navy.mil -- Francisco X DeJesus
         4 philip@research.canon.oz.au -- Philip Craig
       3.5 eck@panix.com -- Mark Eckenwiler
         0 heard@franklin.cc.utas.edu.au -- George Heard (Laurie 8)
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From: awpaeth@watpix.uwaterloo.ca (Alan Wm Paeth)
Subject: Reworked TV show theme song lyrics.
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 00:34:01 GMT

<palomb.714341054@beagle>palomb@boulder.Colorado.EDU(Anthony Palombella) sings:
>
>Boy, the way Glen Miller played...
>...Gee, our old La Salle ran great

The "La Salle" was a recurring bit of trivia (you know "Ask Mr. TV" and he'll
see that your in the Rotogravue [this is tunes, right?]). Ever notice that the
vocals were retracked many years in so the "Laa Saale" was more clear?

Soo...what other TV shows ever did this? Can YOU add to this list?

1) [a classic] "a movie star...and the rest...are here on Gilligan's Isle!"
   changes to  "      ...the professor and Mary Ann... "

2) Star Trek (instrumental) adds a singer (Nichelle Nichols maybe? singing in
   unison with the lead carried by the strings). And of course "DeForest Kelly"
   added to the flying credits in its last year (three).

3) Bonanza. I'm too young to remember, but I'm told the original track had
   words like: "if anyone wants to mess with my brooo-THER..dum da da dum da...
   well, first, they gotta mess with ME! Bo-nan-za!"

Of course, arrangement wise, I Dream of Jeanne's opening track took on much
more swing after a few seasons (and the opening riff added a fast drum roll).
It was also unusual in that the closing credits used a different tune -- muted
trumpets in waltz time.

And the one I WISH they'd retracked as a child (it kept me up late thinking):

 "Let's ride...with the family down the street...through the...courtesy of
 fweb-o-feep".


    /Alan Paeth

PS - Years later I learned it was "Fred's two feet". *Sigh*.
     Now I can sleep in peace.