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From: panda@syrinx.umd.edu (Lisa Nyman)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: False Charts (Re: False dictionary/encyclopedia entries)
Keywords: dictionary encyclopedia
Date: 15 Sep 92 02:11:40 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Maryland at College Park

In article <BuKsAL.K8H@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca> awpaeth@watpix.uwaterloo.ca (Alan Wm Paeth) writes:
>In article <1992Sep10.175642.24292@nosc.mil> jpmott@sunspot.nosc.mil (Jon Mott) writes:
>I've heard of a similar practice among cartographers dating back at least a
>half a millenium: to the Portuguese' exploration of the New World. I recently
>heard that the AAA makes a common practice of this on their street maps but
>introduces fictitious bends in roads (and not fictictous roads or names) so
>that they can "trace" plagarism without disturbing integrity -- in particular
>the connectivity -- of their street maps.
>

The book "How to Lie with Maps" has a good example of a person adding
the fictitious towns "Beatosu" and "Goblue"   (Beat OSU Go Blue) to
a regional map.  I beleive the person was a Michigan fan.

-- 
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From: awpaeth@watpix.uwaterloo.ca (Alan Wm Paeth)
Subject: False Charts (Re: False dictionary/encyclopedia entries)
Keywords: dictionary encyclopedia 
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:56:43 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.175642.24292@nosc.mil> jpmott@sunspot.nosc.mil (Jon Mott) writes:
>Apparently it is "common" practice for publishers of dictionaries
>and encyclopedias to make up some false entries for inclusion in
>their reference works, the idea is to be able to catch plagiarizers.

I've heard of a similar practice among cartographers dating back at least a
half a millenium: to the Portuguese' exploration of the New World. I recently
heard that the AAA makes a common practice of this on their street maps but
introduces fictitious bends in roads (and not fictictous roads or names) so
that they can "trace" plagarism without disturbing integrity -- in particular
the connectivity -- of their street maps.

I've never actually come across either a bogus dictionary entry or perturbed
line on a chart -- if there are common examples I'd like to hear about them.

   /Alan Paeth
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From: M.Byrne@massey.ac.nz (M.D Byrne)
Subject: KMP Lyric quiz ----- DO NOT POST ANSWERS
Summary: quiz
Keywords: quiz
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 21:52:08 GMT


		Katie, Mark, and Pete's Second quiz
	 	***********************************

(Can anybody remember our first???)
	
Rules: 

1) 	DO NOT POST YOUR ANSWERS 
		Email them to us at 
			M.Byrne@massey.ac.nz

2)	For each question give the Artist Name, Song Name and answer the 
	question that is asked by the incomplete lyric. 
	1 mark for each part, plus 2 marks for the bonus question
	gives a maximum of 80 marks. 
	Give these answers in the form
			Answer/Artist/Song

3) 	Send us your answers before 12 noon (NZST) 30th September 1992.

4)	The songs are alphabetical by most wellknown artist (we hope!)
	Any confusions should be sorted out by the order.

5)	I hope you are not thinking of posting the answers!!!!!

6)	Good Luck!

***************************************************************************

1) 	She was a fast machine, she kept her motor clean, she was what?

2)	Ukraine girls really knock me out, they leave the west behind.
	What sort of girls make me sing and shout?

3)	What doesn't she mention in certain company?

4)	We know Major Tom's a what?

5)	One day it's fine the next it's what?

6)	You know the day destroys the night, night does what?

7)	I got a freaky old lady name of Cocaine Katie who does what?

8)	What did the joker say to the thief?

9)	He sat me down and talked to me,
	Hew looked me straight in the eye, He said what?

10)	Now this is the world we live in, these are the what we're given?

11)	My honey my baby don't put my love on no shelf, she said what?

12)	Hey Joe, where you gonna run to now?

13)	There's a black cat lying in the shadow of a gatepost and the
	black cat keeps telling me what?

14)	If you see me walking down the street and I start to cry
	what should you do?

15)	Seems to me you've lived your life like what?

16)	Hey hey mama, said the way you move gonna make you what?

17)	It's been how many hours and how many days since you took your love 
	away?

18)	I met my love by the gas works wall.  Where did I dream a dream?

19)	Stain glass windows keep the cold outside while who lie inside?

20)	Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner, sometimes I feel like
	my only friend is what?

21)	Hey babe, take a walk where?

22)	Before we think about direction wonder why, what do we do in the
	place where we live?

23)	I don't know why sometimes I get frightened.  You can see my eyes
	you can tell what?

24)	If you walk away, walk away, walk away, walk away what will I do?

25)	I met a girl and what was her name?

26)	I am a child, I'll last a while.  You can't conceive what?

Bonus)	What internationally successful group did a member of the New Zealand
	band in this quiz form?
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From: rszczerb@larson.helios.nd.edu (Robert Szczerba)
Subject: Re: ASCII Pictures
Organization: OUC, University of Notre Dame
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 23:14:12 GMT


Hi there,

I'm looking for any and all ASCII pictures that people can send me.
I know there's a lot of them out there, but I don't know where to look.
Please E-Mail them to me directly at:

		rszczerb@bach.helios.nd.edu

		Thanks,


			Rob


Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia,rec.arts.sf.movies
From: cadesjar@descartes.uwaterloo.ca (Curtis Desjardins)
Subject: Verne and Wells movie info needed
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 19:57:07 GMT


Does anyone know what movies have been made from the novels and
short stories of Jules Verne and H.G.Wells? So far I've narrowed
it down to the following:

Verne---
	Journey to the Centre of the Earth
	20000 Leagues Under the Sea
	Around the World in 80 Days
	Voyage to the moon

Wells---
	The Time Machine
	Empire of the Ants
	Invisible Man
	The Island of Dr.Moreau
	War of the Worlds
	The First Men in the Moon
	The Food of the Gods
	The Man Who Could Work Miracles
	Things to Come
	The Door in the Wall
	Valley of the Spiders (I think; anyone know for sure?)

Can anyone think of any other films besides those mentioned above?
I'd appreciate any help I can get.

adTHANXvance.


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From: art@world.std.com (Al Thompson)
Subject: Re: re:Play Jeopardy w/ Yen 9/3
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 18:52:01 GMT

In article <Bu9KIx.6H6@ireq.hydro.qc.ca> bouchard@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Marco Bouchard ETUDIANT sept-dec 92) writes:

   > 5.  oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron, carbon


   The question given was :

   > 5.  What are the five most abundant elements in earth (in order)?

   First, water is H20, two hydrogena atoms for one oxygen. Second, in the air 
   that we breathe, 79 % is composed of nitrogen and 20% of oxygen.For those
   reasons, I believe that the question is incorrect..

Water is a compound it is not an element.

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From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
Subject: Re: Play Jeopardy w/ Yen 9/3
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 07:02:48 GMT

> > > 5.  oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron, carbon
> > The question given was :
> > > 5.  What are the five most abundant elements in earth (in order)?
> > First, water is H20, two hydrogena atoms for one oxygen. Second, in the air 
> > that we breathe, 79 % is composed of nitrogen and 20% of oxygen...

As noted, this is irrelevant; the atmosphere and oceans form only a small
part of the mass of the Earth.

> That still doesn't mean his answer is correct, I think it correctly answers
> the most abundant elements in the crust of the earth, but not neccessarily
> the earth itself. 

But this objection is correct, and in addition, the 5th element in the
original list appears to be wrong.

Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia, 6th edition, tabulates the
"Occurrence of Elements in Earth's Crust" as follows:

	oxygen		46%
	silicon		28%
	aluminum	 8%
	iron		 4.5%
	calcium		 3.5%		(not carbon)
	magnesium	 2.5%
	sodium		 2.5%
	potassium	 2.5%
	titanium	 0.4%
	hydrogen	 0.2%
	carbon		 0.2%

and the list continues with phosphorus, sulfur, nickel, copper, lead, zinc,
tin, and silver, the last being 0.000001%; and then it says "all others"
less then 0.48%.  This seems to imply that some less-abundant elements'
fractional occurrence has not been as well estimated as others.

The mantle, making up the largest part of the Earth's mass, apparently
is also rocky and therefore probably has many of the same predominant
elements as just mentioned.

The Earth's *core*, however, is believed to be "predominantly iron";
it contains just about 1/3 of the mass of the planet.  Therefore in a
tabulation of the most common elements in the planet as a whole, iron
should rank no lower than third.

Of course, nobody has actually taken any samples of the core or mantle,
and not all of the crust has been examined either.  So these estimates
should probably be taken with a grain of sodium chloride.
-- 
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SoftQuad Inc., Toronto		 this world *to rise above*."
utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com				-- The African Queen

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From: ptaylor@airfarce.Canada.Sun.COM (Peter Taylor - Sun Toronto )
Subject: Teddybears picnic
Reply-To: ptaylor@airfarce.Canada.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 13:05:41 GMT

Would anyone who knows the words to the song "The Teddybears Picnic" please 
post them? ("If you go down to the woods today you're in for a big surprise...")
Precision isn't necessary.....it's for my two year old daughter.

					Thanks, PKT


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From: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy)
Subject: Re: re:Play Jeopardy w/ Yen 9/3
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 12:15:16 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: A Suffusion of Yellow

In article <ART.92Sep8135201@world.std.com>, art@world.std.com (Al Thompson) writes:
|> In article <Bu9KIx.6H6@ireq.hydro.qc.ca> bouchard@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Marco Bouchard ETUDIANT sept-dec 92) writes:
|> 
|>    > 5.  oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron, carbon
|> 
|> 
|>    The question given was :
|> 
|>    > 5.  What are the five most abundant elements in earth (in order)?
|> 
|>    First, water is H20, two hydrogena atoms for one oxygen. Second, in the air 
|>    that we breathe, 79 % is composed of nitrogen and 20% of oxygen.For those
|>    reasons, I believe that the question is incorrect..
|> 
|> Water is a compound it is not an element.

I believe you missed the point.  The poster is conjecturing that since there
are twice as many hydrogen atoms as oxygen atoms in water, and since only
1/5 of our atmosphere is oxygen, that oxygen is *not* among the 5 most
abundant elements on earth.

I really have no idea, so I neither agree nor disagree with the original
conjecture, just trying to clarify it.  There are an *awful* lot of oxides,
bases, alcohols and other compounds that contain oxygen, so I suspect that
it's pretty high on the list, even if it doesn't make the top 5.

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From: morris@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Mike Morris)
Subject: Re: WANTED: Computer Trivia
Organization: College Park Software, Altadena, CA
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 16:28:38 GMT

>Some more questions:
Q: What was the first clone?
A: The IMSAI 8080 (IMS Associates cloned the Altair 8800 - both S-100
systems.

Q: How many tracks were there on the 8" floppy?
A: 77 tracks (single sided), 26 sectors, 128 bytes/sector (241k total!)
   Later configurations put as much as 1.4mb on the same media (double
   sided).

Q: What was the first commonly used EPROM?
A: The 1702 - 256 bytes.
   (I used one as the boot loader on my IMSAI - it ran the paper tape
   reader until I got the floppy controller running)

-- 
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PO Box 1130            | 
Arcadia, CA. 91077     | All opinions must be my own since nobody pays
818-447-7052 evenings  | me enough to be their mouthpiece...
From: jonog@g2syd.genasys.com.au (Jonathan Gowland)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: The geographic search
Date: 7 Sep 92 04:15:22 GMT
Organization: Genasys II, Sydney, Australia

In article <1992Sep5.102301.13390@techbook.com> dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque) writes:
>>
>>The Entrance, Austl.
>
>I found this in one atlas (Hammond World Atlas, 1988) but it was
>somewhat inconsistent about it.  In one place, it was called
>Terrigal-The Entrance, in another, The Entrance-Terrigal and on the map
>there were two dots, one for Terrigal and one for The Entrance.  The
>population figure (37891) was for the combined cities.  The Times Atlas
>doesn't have either place.  I have no idea if this is a valid answer or
>not.
>
>If anyone wants to look it up, The Entrance is in New South Wales on the
>coast somewhere north of Sydney.
>

No need to look it up - The Entrance is 10 - 15 minutes drive north of
Terrigal.  A colleague who lives inland from The Entrance laughed at
the idea that they could be considered part of the the same entity.
(BTW, they are both holiday resort towns.)

Jonathan Gowland  |  Genasys II Pty Ltd
                  |  13th Level, 33 Berry St, North Sydney, NSW, Australia
                  |  Internet: jonog@g2syd.genasys.com.au
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From: ptaylor@airfarce.Canada.Sun.COM (Peter Taylor - Sun Toronto )
Subject: Re: bluto or brutus
Reply-To: ptaylor@airfarce.Canada.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:37:15 GMT


tcthorn@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu (Tim Thornbrough) writes:
> In the cartoon "Popeye", is the large bad guy with the beard named Brutus or
> Bluto?  Many that I have asked are positive it is Brutus, while a few of us
> are positive that his name is Bluto.  
> 		- Tim

Both are correct.......earlier Popeye cartoons called him Bluto, 
which was changed (I have no idea why) to Brutus for the later ones
that I grew up watching.

					Cheers! PKT

___________________________________________________________________________
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right hemisphere, 		||	let's get the bacon delivered!
leftoverture,			||			mpfc
Markham, ON, Canada		||-----------------------------------------
				||           (so much for Pathos!)

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From: tcthorn@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu (Tim Thornbrough)
Subject: bluto or brutus
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 18:47:42 GMT

In the cartoon "Popeye", is the large bad guy with the beard named Brutus or
Bluto?  Many that I have asked are positive it is Brutus, while a few of us
are positive that his name is Bluto.  
		- Tim
--
{------> Tim Thornbrough                              }
{-----------> tcthorn@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu          }
From: lattanzi@coos.dartmouth.edu (Stephen C. Lattanzi)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Okay, you people seem like the type to ask . . .
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:43:40 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

cortese@skid.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese) writes:

>My SO and I were thinking about this one, and not having an encyclopedia
>or anything similar handy (and the library was closed) we were unable to
>answer the question.

>What is the purpose of the D. C. on the end of Washington, D. C.?  I
>*KNOW* it means "District of Columbia," but what the hell *IS* the
>District of Columbia?  My SO suggested a county in Maryland, which I
>doubt but I can't come up with anything else.

>Any ideers?

>Regards,
>Janis Cortese
 
The District of Columbia is a District--the only one in the country, I
think.  It is not in any state.  As I understand it, the founders of the
USA thought it would be an unfair advantage for the capital to be in one
state or another.  There is a movement that supports making D.C. a state,
but it's not a state (or in one) at present.
 
- Steve Lattanzi (lattanzi@coos.dartmouth.edu)
From: kenneth@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Sequioas and shrooms
Date: 9 Sep 92 09:19:22 GMT
Distribution: rec

In article <47115@shamash.cdc.com>, dternes@duke.cdc.com (David Ternes) writes:
> In article <1543@rwja.umdnj.edu> bawagan@rwja.umdnj.edu (Hinayana Bawagan) writes:
>>
>>2.  What is California?  (the sequioas)
>>
> I've seen twice here recently that sequioas are the largest living things.
> I was just wondering how those large underground mushrooms (in New England?)
> compare.  They were in the news within the last year and were described as
> covering large areas (acres) of which only a little of the growth was above
> ground.  

Most trees that I know of have a very large and intricate root system that
spreads out more out _under_ the ground rather down _through_ the ground
(ie. ever had a driveway near a tree that the tree's roots were plowing
up as it grew?).  I'm not sure, but I think the term is "deliquescent."
I remember it from 9th-grade biology (12 years ago), so I could be wrong
about it.  Given the height of the trees, I'd imagine that the root system
would have to be quite large to support and feed them.  As for the shrooms,
I have no idea.

Ken
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From: tom@sparky.imd.sterling.com (Tom Theel)
Subject: Re: Movie Quote Quiz 16 Answers and Results
Organization: Sterling Software
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 17:29:23 GMT
X-Md4-Signature: cdb220f264676b150742728dc3dc650f

In article <Sep.4.17.17.49.1992.13084@athos.rutgers.edu> trudel@athos.rutgers.edu (Jonathan) writes:
>hammond@css.itd.umich.edu (Steve Hammond) writes:
>
>>Well, it looks like The quizzes must end for a while.  I am moving to
>>Phoenix to get away from this lousy Michigan weather.
>
>>Thanx its been fun.
>
>NO, thank you!  I've enjoyed playing...we've got some lovely parting
>gifts for you...
>
>> 7 Sanctuary!  Sanctuary!
>>Hunchback of Notre Dame, The / Quasimodo (Charles Laughton)
>
>I know that this is there the real quote comes from, but wasn't there
>a movie where Billy Crystal played a guy who finally had it out with
>his father, played by Alan King?  I remember Billy getting off a plane
>and acting that scene as a goof.  What's that movie called?

Memories of Me

-- 
The Great OZ has spoke.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

Tom Theel                    UUCP:     uunet!sparky!tom
Sterling Software IMD        INTERNET: tom@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM
From: shimoff@umbc4.umbc.edu (Eliot Shimoff)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Teddybears picnic
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:40:17 GMT
Organization: Univ. of MD, Baltimore County

In article <1992Sep14.130541.12517@newscan.canada.sun.com> ptaylor@airfarce.Canada.Sun.COM writes:
>Would anyone who knows the words to the song "The Teddybears Picnic" please 
>post them? ("If you go down to the woods today you're in for a big surprise...")
>Precision isn't necessary.....it's for my two year old daughter.
>
>					Thanks, PKT

If you go out the the woods today
You'd better not go alone
It's lovely out in the woods today
But safer to stay at home

Cause every bear that ever was there
Will gather there, that's certain because
Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic

Picnic time for teddy bears
The litte teddy bears are having a real good time today
Watch them, catch them unawares
The little teddy bears are having a real good time!

At six o'clock their mommies and daddies
will send them off to bed
Because they're tired little teddy bears.


-- 
Eliot Shimoff                  |    n   n   n
   shimoff@umbc3.umbc.edu      |   X + Y = Z .  Easy to prove no solutions
Ashamnu, bagadnu, gazalnu ...  |   for n greater than 2.  Darn.  Can't fit
Better luck next year!         |   it into this little .sig file.  Oh well.
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: kalang@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (kenneth.lang)
Subject: Help settle an argument
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 18:54:15 GMT
Keywords: Who invented the flat-bottomed paper bag ?

Q: Who credited with the invention of the flat-bottomed paper bag ?

A1: According to "The Book Of Lists 2" - 1980, Margaret Knight developed the
heavy machinery to develop and manufacture the modern day paper bag, in 1869.

A2: My friends, claiming to have contacted a library, say that it was Charles
Stilwell. Luther Childs developed a machine to make them.

Who, if either of us, is correct ?

Thanx in advance.



-- 
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
**    Ken Lang                                              AT&T          *
*"The dust blows forward and the dust blows back on the toads of the      *
* short forest and every newt in Idaho."- A sampling of Don Van Vliet & FZ*
From: bouchard@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Marco Bouchard ETUDIANT sept-dec 92)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: re:Play Jeopardy w/ Yen 9/3
Date: 8 Sep 92 14:35:21 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Quebec, Varennes, Canada

In last quiz, ...

> 5.  oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron, carbon


The question given was :

> 5.  What are the five most abundant elements in earth (in order)?

First, water is H20, two hydrogena atoms for one oxygen. Second, in the air 
that we breathe, 79 % is composed of nitrogen and 20% of oxygen.For those
reasons, I believe that the question is incorrect..

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