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From: cjf@cs.uq.oz.au (Colin Fidge)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia,rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Jeannie's sister's name
Keywords: Don't forget to vote!
Date: 1 Sep 92 23:44:10 GMT
Reply-To: cjf@cs.uq.oz.au
Followup-To: rec.games.trivia


Although all genies are called "Jeannie", our Jeannie must have had another
name once.  In one of the early episodes we first meet Jeannie's parents
(her mum was _not_ played by Eden in this case) and it is mentioned in
passing that the Blue Djinn turned her into a genie when he locked her in
her bottle.  Thus she was once human!
   (In fact this throwaway line screws up continuity throughout the rest of
the series - for instance, it is frequently apparent later on that Jeannie
had been using her powers for some time before her 2,000 year exile.)
   And speaking of "I Dream" trivia, does anyone have an explanation for
the following observation?  In the crucial first episode (which, among
other things, reveals why Jeannie can speak English and why she is _not_
compelled to obey Tony Nelson) we see Tony rescue Jeannie from the island.
However in doing so he leaves the _top_ of her bottle behind!  Later on, in
his house, we see him get the stopper from a crystal decanter and use that
to keep her in.  This _clear_, _glass_ stopper is used throughout the first
season (the black & white epsiodes) yet, when we change to colour the old
stopper mysteriously returns!
From: kenneth@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Play Jeopardy with Yen 8/25/92
Date: 28 Aug 92 08:19:15 GMT
Distribution: rec

In article <1992Aug27.064825.10623@sq.sq.com>, msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:
>> > > 8.  The only planet smaller than the earth's moon
>> > Pluto
>> This may or may not be correct.  We still aren't certain of Pluto's volume
>> OR mass.  However, it is quite POSSIBLE that Pluto is smaller than the Earth,
>> but not 100% known for certain.
> 
> No, it is certain now.  Astronomer James Christy had the good luck to
> discover Pluto's satellite Charon only about 10 years before the Earth
> passed through the plane of Charon's orbit around Pluto.  By timing
> and measuring Charon's orbit, a good value for the total mass of the
> two bodies was obtained; by carefully monitoring each successive
> occultation as Charon went in front and back of Pluto, not only could
> the diameters of both bodies be accurately measured, but crude maps were
> produced.  (See the August 1992 Scientific American, page 24.)
> 
> From the Astronomy and Astrophysics Encyclopedia:
> 
> 			Diameter (km)	(mi)		Density (g/cm^3)
> 
> 	Moon		3474		2159		3.34
> 
> 	Pluto		2284 +-18	1419 +-11   \
>                                                      >	2.065 +-.047
> 	Charon		1192 +-34	 741 +-21   /
> 
> (+- means plus or minus; these figures aren't known to the last digit.)
> 
> So Pluto's diameter is about 65% of the Moon's, and Pluto and Charon
> *combined* have only about 20% of the Moon's mass.

How lovely that we are SO certain of these things.  In fact, we are not.
Until we send a satellite careening through the Pluto-Charon system to
find out their relative masses and distances for certain, there is NO way 
to know much about their relationships.  
I remain a bit skeptical on the findings of the Astronomy and Astrophysics
Encyclopedia.  I must insist that _until we send out a probe and find out
for certain the physical characteristics of the Pluto-Charon system_,
we must be content to know what we know today about that planet.
What you have quoted from the scientific magazines may very well be true.
However, I think that it would be a mistake to accept this as fact.
It might very well be true, but, as now, it is conjecture.

Ken
From: mcsweinberg@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: A PROPOSAL
Date: 28 Aug 92 22:13:32 GMT
Organization: Memphis State University

WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT????

> 
> Second, a new group, such as rec.games.trivia.postable, will *not*
> alleviate my objections, at least -- I can't speak for anyone else.

Why the Hell not? If it's not in rec.games.trivia why should you object
to it!!!!!
I just think you want something to complain about and that really is a waste of
bandwidth in this group!
> 
> Third, I would like to know what rationale you have for creating this group,
> and what response you have to the (already expressed) specific complaints
> that have been lodged against "post answers" quizzes.

The rationale is that many people are enjoying the quizzes you can post to.

Can't you just give it up or doe  it just chap your butt when some people
are enjoying the group.

Rai.
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Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet)
Subject: Re: ANSWERS TO my favorite final jeopardy questions
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories,  Columbus, Ohio
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 17:50:56 GMT

In article <mblum.714499466@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> mblum@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Cerebus) writes:
>ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet) writes:
>>So, I'd have to give you a zero on this question for a totally wrong
>>explanation.  Which rhymes with plantation.  Which is part of the
>>name of what state?
>
>Rhode Island, which has the longest official name.  I believe the full
>name is "The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation."

Yup.

Actually, Plantations. plural. The name Providence Plantations
was an earlier name. Rhode Island came later.
-- 
Art Kamlet  a_s_kamlet@att.com  AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: tabn3@isuvax.iastate.edu (Griffy)
Subject: Re: A PROPOSAL
Reply-To: tabn3@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 11:39:53 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.234907.2129@eos.arc.nasa.gov>, shrum@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Rick Shrum) writes:
>OBTrivia:
>
>What was the name of the "food processor" Lucy was selling on
>_I_Love_Lucy_?

   Veg-o-matic, I believe.

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From: rsk@aspen.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: A PROPOSAL
Date: 28 Aug 92 21:56:32 GMT
Organization: Cardiothoracic Imaging Research Center

In article <1992Aug28.161332.3142@memstvx1.memst.edu> mcsweinberg@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:
>WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT????

I want a lot of things, but that's hardly relevant.  Is it necessary to
respond to measured argument with silly all-caps questions?

>> Second, a new group, such as rec.games.trivia.postable, will *not*
>> alleviate my objections, at least -- I can't speak for anyone else.
>
>Why the Hell not? If it's not in rec.games.trivia why should you object
>to it!!!!!

Because my objections are not based on where the postings occur, but on
the nature of the postings themselves.  Sending those same sorts of postings
to a different newsgroup will not fix the problem.  See article ID
<86343@netnews.upenn.edu>, if you haven't already, for details.

>I just think you want something to complain about and that really is a waste of
>bandwidth in this group!

Your assumption is incorrect.

>> Third, I would like to know what rationale you have for creating this group,
>> and what response you have to the (already expressed) specific complaints
>> that have been lodged against "post answers" quizzes.
>
>The rationale is that many people are enjoying the quizzes you can post to.

First of all, that's a conjecture on your part; and secondly, it ignores
the netiquette issues involved.  I note as well that you have not made any
attempt to respond to the "specific complaints" mentioned above.

>Can't you just give it up or doe  it just chap your butt when some people
>are enjoying the group.

It's unlikely that I will "just give it up".  As the person proposing
a new group, you bear the responsibility for justifying its existence by
explaining the reasoning process that suggests its creation, and by
rebutting objections it.  If you are unable or unwilling to do so,
you should abandon the process.
From: bawagan@rwja.umdnj.edu (Hinayana Bawagan)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Play Jeopardy with Yen 8/25/92
Date: 25 Aug 92 22:08:12 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway NJ

Revision on Play Jeopardy with Yen 8/24/92
1.  Under the Statue of Liberty's feet is a BROKEN one of these

I hope there is no ambiguity this time.  Enjoy and learn!


1.  This secretary of state's original first name was Heinz
2.  This national bank which opened in NY in 1877 was named after Lincoln's 
    secretary of treasury
3.  The only apostle of Jesus to die a natural death
4.  Arrange the following names according to teacher-student relationship
    Plato, Alexander the Great, Socrates, Aristotle
5.  The only bird with binocular vision
6.  This person appeared in all of Alfred Hitchcock's 40 movies
7.  The states admitted to the Union in the 20th century were Alaska,
    Hawaii and these three states
8.  The only planet smaller than the earth's moon
9.  The flag of this country is the reverse of the flag of the Red Cross
10. The year in which the top two positions of the US were occupied
    by officials not elected to these posts
From: kenneth@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Play Jeopardy with Yen 8/25/92
Date: 26 Aug 92 07:22:30 GMT
Distribution: rec

>>8.  The only planet smaller than the earth's moon
> Pluto

This may or may not be correct.  We still aren't certain of Pluto's volume
OR mass.  However, it is quite POSSIBLE that Pluto is smaller than the Earth,
but not 100% known for certain.
 
>>10. The year in which the top two positions of the US were occupied
>>    by officials not elected to these posts

I'm not certain, but it sounds like about 1974 or 1975, when Ford was
President after having been appointed VP after the resignation of Spiro Agnew
for taking free groceries.  Ford then appointed his VP (was it Nelson
Rockefeller?) after becoming president.         I think.  :)

Ken
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia,rec.arts.movies
From: fred@iapetus.earth.nwu.edu (Fred Marton)
Subject: Re: Play Jeopardy with Yen 8/26/92
Organization: Geological Sciences Department, Northwestern University
Distribution: rec
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:23:32 GMT

In article <1532@rwja.umdnj.edu> you write:
>bawagan@rwja.umdnj.edu (Hinayana Bawagan) writes:
>
>>2.  the chemical element with the highest boiling point
>     mercury (that's why it's use in thermometers)

No, it ain't.  It's *liquid* at room temperature and pressure.  That's
why it's used in thermometers.  You can also use bromine (the other
element that's liquid at room T & P (it boils at 58.8 deg C, Hg at
356.6 deg C).  Elements that are soild at room T & P have higher
boiling points.  Iron, for instance, *melts* at 1535 deg C.

fred

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Xref: sparky rec.games.trivia:3093 rec.arts.movies:26886
From: trudel@athos.rutgers.edu (Jonathan)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia,rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Movie Quote Quiz 16 Answers and Results
Date: 4 Sep 92 21:17:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: athos.Sep.4.17.17.49.1992.13084
Followup-To: rec.games.trivia
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

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?
From: rsk@aspen.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: A PROPOSAL
Date: 30 Aug 92 13:00:50 GMT
Organization: Cardiothoracic Imaging Research Center

In article <1992Aug29.095324.15285@enea.se> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>My main problem with the postable quizzes is that newcomers may
>get the impression that posting the answers is the way to go.
>One person posting the answers to a real quiz, may destroy the
>satisfaction for many.

An excellent point.  Over the past few years, there have been several
instances where carefully-prepared quizzes were ruined because one of
the respondents followed up via a news article, rather than via mail.
One way to avoid this problem is to establish a convention that answers
to quizzes should *never* be posted by the respondents.

>>I think it should be up to the person originating the quiz to decide
>>whether the responses should be thru e mail or posted. *some* people
>>don't have a lot of time to read/tally/respond to each e mail individually.
>
>Well if you don't have that time, you hardly have the time to compile
>a good quiz, have you?
>
>But if that is your situation, just post the quiz and say you do
>not intend to score any results, but that you will post the answers
>within a week.

Another excellent point.  If the point is to pose a quiz and then to
allow people to self-score, then there is no need for each individual
to post their answers - they can simply score themselves when the
answers are posted by the originator of the quiz.

Two other points I'd like to make:

1. Scoring a quiz does not require responding to each mail message
individually; I've certainly never done this for the quizzes I've posted.
All it requires is checking each received mail message against the
correct answers.  In my experience, this takes about half an hour
if done manually; other folks use software tools to generate very
complete respondent-answer tables.

2. Due to the nature of the propagation delays encountered on the net,
it is often the case that posted answers to a quiz will arrive at a site
before the quiz itself.  This makes it difficult for respondents who
are attempting to answer the quiz without reading anyone else's answers.

Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia,alt.folklore.computers
From: danny@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Danny Faught)
Subject: Re: WANTED: Computer Trivia
Organization: University of North Texas, Denton
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 17:51:34 GMT

Slightly related question:

How should one pronounce "Knuth"?
-- 
Danny Faught    danny@ponder.csci.unt.edu
Save this sig - I'll be famous someday
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: gisle@ifi.uio.no (Gisle Hannemyr)
Subject: Re: Not worth my Time.
Organization: gisle@ifi.uio.no
	<1992Aug31.133959.3157@memstvx1.memst.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 08:41:53 GMT
Originator: gisle@gyda.ifi.uio.no

In article <1992Aug31.133959.3157@memstvx1.memst.edu> mcsweinberg@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:
> Look I answered many people via e-mail addressing their concerns  but I
> have been told that even the formation of a new group would not make you
> people happy.

I am one of those who have both posted and e-mailed you on this subject,
urging you to stop posting the "quizzes you can post to" in rec.games.trivia.

I can see no justifaction for the inflammatory tone in your posting
titled "Not worth my Time" in the response to your call for a new
newsgroup for your quizzes.

In fact, the _only_ response I have seen to your proposal on forming your _own_
newsgroup for these quizzes is one pointing you to correct usenet
procedure for doing so (this was helpful advice), and with a personal
note that the poster would not endorse such a motion (this was also
quite helpful, given your need for supporters for your new group.)

Viz, to get your group, you may among other things satisfy the
requirement that:

 "3) AFTER the waiting period, and if there were no serious objections
     that might invalidate the vote, and if 100 more valid YES/create
     votes are received than NO/don't create AND at least 2/3 of the
     total number of valid votes received are in favor of creation,
     a newgroup control message may be sent out.  If the 100 vote
     margin or 2/3 percentage is not met, the group should not be
     created."  (Quoted from "GUIDELINES FOR USENET GROUP CREATION")

Therefore, before you go through the considerable effort involved in
getting a new newsgroup created -- and it takes considerable more
effort than collecting the answers and scoring a few quizzes -- you
should try to find out how many potential supporters your proposal
have.  (that's why the Usenet GUIDELINES mandates a formal "call for
discussion").  If you suspect that your supporters may be fewer than
that required -- you may save yourself considerable work by abandoning
the idea.






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From: matthew@base.cs.ucla.edu (Matthew Merzbacher)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Play Jeopardy w/ Yen 9/3
Date: 3 Sep 92 23:17:51 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department

Followup du jour...

>7.  Paris, Rome, Vienna, Dublin
>7.  What are capitals that stand on rivers?
>    Paris on the Seine; Rome on the Tiber; Vienna on the Danube
>    Dublin on Liffey  

And London (Thames), Washington (Potomac), Prague (Danube), Budapest (Danube),
...

Perhaps a better list would have been cities/capitals on the Danube.

>12.  centaur, minotaur, satyr
>12. What are mythical creatures that are half man and half animal?
>    centaur (legs and body of horse), minotaur (bull's head)
>    satyr (legs and body of goat)

Along with merman/mermaid, and, I'm sure, some others.
--

Matthew Merzbacher	ARPA:	matthew@CS.UCLA.EDU
Moo - Moo Moo  		UUCP:	...!{uunet|rutgers|ucbvax}!cs.ucla.edu!matthew
               		This time, *with* the oys
From: rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Play Jeopardy with Yen 8/26/92
Date: 31 Aug 92 21:17:58 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston Mass., USA

In article <1532@rwja.umdnj.edu> bawagan@rwja.umdnj.edu
 (Hinayana Bawagan) writes:
>>2.  the chemical element with the highest boiling point
>     mercury (that's why it's use in thermometers)

Hmm.  And to think I always thought it was because it was a metal
with a low *melting* point such that it is a liquid at room
temperature.
-- 
David Rind
rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: rajesh@unlv.edu (Rajesh Viswanathan)
Subject: Re: Play Jeopardy with Yen 8/26/92
Organization: UNLV
Distribution: rec
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 17:19:56 GMT

In article <1526@rwja.umdnj.edu> bawagan@rwja.umdnj.edu (Hinayana Bawagan) writes:
>1.  the two signatures that appear in the US dollar
The Secratary of the Treasury and the Treasurer
>2.  th chemical element with the highest boiling point
>3.  the last blood type to be discovered
O
>4.  before Mt. Everest was discovered, this was the highest mountain
K2
>5.  in a life insurance policy, this provision provides for twice
>    the payment in case of accidental death
>6.  Lincoln was assassinated 5 days after this historic event
>7.  when Martin Luther King was shot, he was talking with this person
Jesse Jackson
>8.   Verona, Italy has commissioned someone to answer letters addressed
>    to this 13-year old girl (fictional character)
Juliet
>9.  the most popular song in the world
HAppy Birthday
>10. the first US president to visit China
Nixon


-- 
Rajesh
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:::Johnson: That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your:::
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From: bawagan@rwja.umdnj.edu (Hinayana Bawagan)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Play Jeopardy w/ Yen 8/27
Date: 27 Aug 92 15:50:18 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway NJ

1.  The American war that lasted precisely 8 years
2.  Celebrated on Dec 15
3.  The US pres that granted amnesty to draft dodgers of Vietnam
4.  This California valley was named after an element
5.  The greatest buy of 1626
6.  "Music City, USA"
7.  The proper name for a watch pocket
8.  This agency regulates radio and television broadcasts
9.  The state that celebrates its own independence day
10. The 1st state to adopt a woman's suffrage law
From: rsk@aspen.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: A PROPOSAL
Date: 28 Aug 92 18:26:42 GMT
Organization: Cardiothoracic Imaging Research Center

In article <1992Aug28.124613.3139@memstvx1.memst.edu> mcsweinberg@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:
>I am hereby proposing that a group entitled REC.GAMES.TRIVIA.POSTABLE be
>formed. This will eleviate the complaints that certain persons have about
>"Post Answers" quizes. Please "Post" comments concerning this proposal.

First of all, there is a quite formal method for newsgroup proposals;
you will find it in news.announce.newusers.  If you are serious about
creating a newsgroup, then you should read it and follow the procedure
that it describes.

Second, a new group, such as rec.games.trivia.postable, will *not*
alleviate my objections, at least -- I can't speak for anyone else.

Third, I would like to know what rationale you have for creating this group,
and what response you have to the (already expressed) specific complaints
that have been lodged against "post answers" quizzes.
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia,rec.arts.tv
From: shrum@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Rick Shrum)
Subject: Re: Reworked TV show theme song lyrics.
Organization: NASA Ames Res. Ctr, Calif.
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 16:52:58 GMT

In article <1992Aug24.193550.14331@eos.arc.nasa.gov> shrum@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Rick Shrum) writes:
>
>
>Here's a theme song I musta heard a few hundred times but *still* can't
>understand: It's the closing theme to the old WKRP. It sounds like Elton
>John's "Saturday Night's (Alright for Fighting) and I think the 1st 2
>lines go: 
>Went to the bartender
>bartender I said..
>?
>?
>?
>Any Help?
>
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