From: mlsa@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (MICHAEL LAUREN SHERMAN)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Zed's Trivia Contest, Part Two
Date: 23 Nov 92 09:05:09 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1992Nov23.031205.18838@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, J.Theodore.Schuerzing
er@dartmouth.edu (J. Theodore Schuerzinger) writes:
>Guess what?  It's time for part two of Zed's trivia contest!  A few
>rules clarifications:
>
>1) Reference books are allowed.  If I didn't want reference books used,
>I'd come up with easier questions.  There are, of course, times where
>they may not help though!  (See question 1 for an example.  You can
>rent the movie, but you still might not get the answer.  There IS an
>answer of course!)
>
>2) You can email some of the answers at one point and email the rest to
>me later, as long as you do it from the same address (to avoid
>confusion).
>
>Again, there are 20 points possible.  Email the answers directly to me,
>not to r.g.t.  I'll post the answers to part one and the scores
>sometime tomorrow.  Answers for this part are due at 12:01 am EST,
>Wednesday, December 2.
>
>1. (2 points) In the movie "The Manchurian Candidate", how many people
>are feared dead in the hurricane?
>
>2. (3 points) Given the first line of a famous poem, most of you could
>probably name either the poem, or even the poet who wrote it.  But can
>you give the second lines of each of three poems given a first line?
>One point each.
>a. "Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame"
>b. "So much depends upon"
>c. "I like eels"
>
>3. (1-1/2 points) Many famous people have changed names at some point
>in their lives.  For one-half point each, by what names are these three
>people better known?
>a. Nathan Birnbaum
>b. Annie Mae Bullock
>c. Leslie Lynch King, Jr.
>
>4. (1 point) Who was the last person to receive exactly one electoral
>vote for President?
>
>5. (1 point) This man battled Hodgkin's disease twice before coming
>back to win olympic gold in wrestling at the 1984 Olympics in Los
>Angeles.  Name him.
>
>6. (1 point) It originally comes from an old Norse word meaning "to
>gush".  The word came to English through the Icelandic, however,
>because it describes something common in Iceland.  What?
>
>7. (2 points) Two towns, one in Washington and one in Minnesota, share
>an interesting distinction in that the only roads connecting them with
>the rest of America go through Canada.  For one point apiece, name
>these two towns.
You seem to have forgotten the considerable number of towns in Alaska which
are indeed part of the United States, are connected via Highways to the rest
of america and which do indeed go thorough Canada.


>
>8. (1 point) One of the world's best female bridge players ever, she
>had a column in the Manchester Guardian Weekly until her death in 1992.
> Name her.
>
>9. (1-1/2 points) In Germany, license plates start with one letter if
>the car is registered in a large city, eg. M for Munich, B for Berlin,
>K for Koeln, etc., while smaller areas like Passau get two letters (in
>this case PA).  Where was a German vehicle registered, however, if its
>license plate starts with the single letter X?
>
>10. (1 points) Ninety-five percent of this country's citizens are of
>the Alemannic ethnic group.  What country?
>
>11. (2 points) There is an area of the eye that is the most receptive
>to color vision, because it has the highest concentration of structures
>that detect color (as opposed to those that only detect
>black-and-white).  For one point each, what are these structures that
>detect color called, and what is the name of the region that is most
>receptive to color vision?
>
>12. (1 point) We all know that Winston Churchill coined the phrase
>"Iron Curtain".  But in what city was he speaking when he gave the
>speech that first used this phrase?
>
>13. (1 point) Who was the first man to run for a third term as
>President of the United States?
>
>14. (1 point) In a 1991 survey, American men said the average length of
>an erect penis was 10 inches?  How many inches did American WOMEN say
>the average length was?
>
>--Ted Schuerzinger
>email: .zed@Dartmouth.EDU
>"I should have realized it would be bad vodka when all the label said
>was 'Russian Vodka'."
>
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