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From: semele@clintsalt (Semele Halkedis)
Subject: Re: Religious trivia
Reply-To: semele@clintsalt (Semele Halkedis)
Organization: Bellcore
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 13:59:40 GMT

In article <BvBF23.6Fw@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, kkroeger@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Keith Kroeger) writes:
|> 
|> Does anybody know how old Jesus was when He was crucified?

33

|> 
|> Also, How many loaves of bread and how many fish did He use to feed
|> the multitudes?

No clue, sorry.

|> Thanks,

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From: kappa@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Glenn Capuano)
Subject: Re: Largest cities by area (was re: largest cities on each continent?)
Organization: Monash University General Access Unix
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 00:33:57 GMT

Daniel Blum (blum@news.ils.nwu.edu) wrote:
> 
> LA is not all that large, actually.  I don't remember the figures, but
> in the US, Jacksonville and Juneau, at least, beat it by quite a bit
> (Juneau is the largest US city by area, since they annexed Douglas (?)
> Island).

	Excuse my ignorance, I know where Jacksonville is, but I've never
heard of Juneau!

Regards,
	Glenn
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: kkroeger@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Keith Kroeger)
Subject: Religious trivia
Organization: Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 01:06:02 GMT


Does anybody know how old Jesus was when He was crucified?

Also, How many loaves of bread and how many fish did He use to feed
the multitudes?

Thanks,
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: blum@news.ils.nwu.edu (Daniel Blum)
Subject: Re: Largest cities by area
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 20:40:15 GMT

Re: Virginia Beach - cities in Virginia don't have counties: the two
are completely separate (which is not to say that VB didn't annex part
of some county or other).
						Dan Blum
						16-year VA residen
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: kappa@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Glenn Capuano)
Subject: Re: Largest cities by area (was re: largest cities on each continent?)
Organization: Monash University General Access Unix
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 01:45:06 GMT

Daniel Blum (blum@news.ils.nwu.edu) wrote:
> I was talking about the area of cities proper, not including suburbs.
> As for US cities - Jacksonville is indeed larger than LA, but Juneau
> is larger still (granted, much of it is fairly empty, but that empty
> land is legally part of the city).  I prefer not to discuss suburbs,
> etc., since they're impossible to define consistently.

	Fair enough, how do you define the city then? Are you just talking
about the municipal area controlled by the city? 

Regards,
	Glenn

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From: a3@rivm.nl (Adri Verhoef)
Subject: Rock and Roll Contest Answers/Results
Organization: Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieuhygiene,Bilthoven,NL
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 13:15:56 GMT

Thanks to Marcus Louie (marcus@wdl1.wdl.loral.com) for sending me the
Rock and Roll Contest Answers/Results, which we did never see out here.
I'm reposting them for those who missed them, too.

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Article: 6768 of rec.games.trivia
From: dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque)
Subject: Yet another trivia quiz
Reply-To: dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque,,,,)
Organization: Pseudopolis Yard
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 02:42:38 GMT

Here's some questions that I've collected over time.  I hope you're
challenged by them.  Answers are after the page feed.

1.  What city is almost coextensive with an isthmus?
2.  What North American magazine was the first publisher of a picture of
    a bare-breasted woman?  In what year?
3.  What ship went "from Tedium to Apathy and back, with an occasional 
    side trip to Ennui"?
4.  In _Through the Looking-Glass_ by Lewis Carroll, who are Haigha and
    Hatta?  Who are they really?
5.  Who won the 1967 Oscar for Best Actor for his performance in "In the
    Heat of the Night"?
6.  What country first issued decimal currency?
7.  What were English pennies originally made of?
8.  What country first put a 5-pointed star on its flag?
9.  What is the only firth outside Scotland?
10. What's the largest city in the US with an apostrophe in its name?

Extra credit for those who've read Wild Cards I:

11. What were Jetboy's last words?
12. What ship rescued Jetboy off the island he was stranded on at the end
    of the war?


Answers follow.


1. Auckland, NZ
2. National Geographic in 1895
3. The Reluctant in _Mr. Roberts_
4. The Anglo-Saxon messengers who were actually the March Hare and the
   Mad Hatter.
5. Rod Steiger
6. The United States
7. Silver
8. The United States
9. Firth of Thames in the North Island, New Zealand
10. Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

Extra credit:

11. "I can't die yet, I haven't seen _The Jolson Story_."
12. The Reluctant

---
Dan Tilque    --     dant@techbook.com
From: avdavid@teal.csn.org (David Ewing)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Answers and Results to Katie Mark and Petes 2nd Quiz
Keywords: answers
Date: 6 Oct 92 22:32:31 GMT
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.

M.Byrne@massey.ac.nz (M.D Byrne) writes:


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


>26)	I am a child, I'll last a while.  You can't conceive what?
>	Of the pleasure in my smile / Neil Young / I am a child
>	6/7/7

Did Neil Young ever record this on his own?  This was originally
a Buffalo Springfield tune (written and sung by NY), of course.

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david@avalanche.com     Boulder, Colorado
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From: colburn@Oswego.EDU (Bret Colburn)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Music Quiz Address?
Date: 29 Sep 92 13:25:25 GMT
Reply-To: colburn@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Bret Colburn)
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY

In article <1992Sep29.010609.14354@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> ckp2n@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Chris Powell) writes:
>I somehow managed to lose the address for a music lyrics quiz
>poster.  I have a ton of answers here, and no place to send them
>to.  Does anyone have the address?  It was 26 lines of lyrics,
>with a bonus question about a New Zealand band, if that helps.
>

The address I have is M.Byrne@massey.ac.nz
My mail to this address bounced back though so if there is another address I'd
like it too.  I definitely want the answers when they come out!

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From: a3@rivm.nl (Adri Verhoef)
Subject: RESULTS/  1960s Music Quiz
Organization: Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieuhygiene,Bilthoven,NL
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 13:12:34 GMT

A few quizzes have been posted of which we never saw any results posted;
but thanks to some well-willing fellow net-readers, I am reposting the
results for those who are still missing the results.

First, thanks to Marcus Louie (marcus@wdl1.wdl.loral.com) for sending me
the 1960's Music Quiz answers.


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From: jordan@cs.tulane.edu (Grizabella)
Subject: Re: Religious trivia
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-18642]: sparta
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 03:21:12 GMT


In article <BvCwwG.EGM@cs.dal.ca>, lazarus@ug.cs.dal.ca (Chuck Turner) writes:
> In article <BvBF23.6Fw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> kkroeger@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Keith Kroeger) writes:
> >
> >Does anybody know how old Jesus was when He was crucified?
> >
>
> 33
>
> >Also, How many loaves of bread and how many fish did He use to feed
> >the multitudes?
> >
>
> Matthew 14:10:16-21
>
> Jesus replied, "There is no need for them to go; give them something to eat
> yourselves."
> But they answered, "All we have with us is five loaves and two fish."
> "Bring them here to me," he said.
> He gave orders that the people were to sit down on the grass; then he took
> the five loaces and the two fish, raised his eyes to heaven and said the
> blessing.  And breaking the loaves he handed them to his disciples who gave
> them to the crowds.
> They all ate as much as they wanted, and they collected the scraps remaining,
> twelve baskets full.
> Those who ate numbered about five thousand men, to say nothing of the women
> and children.

Just as a side note, one chapter later, Jesus feeds 4 thousand with seven
loaves and fishes.

>
> >Thanks,
>
> No problem.

Again, no problem.

--
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Misti D. Jordan          ||           Life's a bitch... now so am I."
jordan@cs.tulane.edu     ||                         -- CatWoman
   "To love another person is to see the face of God..." -- Les Miserables
From: colburn@oswego.Oswego.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Answers to Katie, Mark, and Pete's Second quiz
Date: 3 Oct 92 22:50:19 GMT
Reply-To: colburn@oswego.Oswego.edu ()
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY
Originator: colburn@cloy.oswego.edu

Have the answers to Katie, Mark, and Pete's Second quiz been posted yet?  If
they have, can someone either repost them or send them to me?

					Thanks

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From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Subject: Re: Largest cities by area (was re: largest cities on each continent?)
Organization: Enea Data AB
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 10:09:33 GMT

Daniel Blum (blum@news.ils.nwu.edu) writes:
>>	Since everyone has thrashed out what are the largest cities by
>>population, does anyone have a list ranking cities by metropolitan area?
>>I've been told that Melbourne and Sydney are among the largest in area,
>>but I haven't been able to find figures for the rest of the world. I know
>>Melbourne has an area of about 6000 sq.km. I believe LA is also near the
>>top here. Anyone got exact figures?
>
>LA is not all that large, actually.  I don't remember the figures, but
>in the US, Jacksonville and Juneau, at least, beat it by quite a bit
>(Juneau is the largest US city by area, since they annexed Douglas (?)
>Island).

Again, we are in very muddy waters. The world's biggest city used to
be Swedish Kiruna until 1971. What happened in 1971? Well, Sweden got
rid of city priviledges all together, so all you have these days is
communes. Thus, the city of Kiruna became the commune of Kiruna but
the size it's the same.

I don't know the exact size, but the distance from Kiruna town to
the village of Karesuando is over 150 km. Needless to say, the
most of this "city" is wasteland, and the entire population does
not exceed 50.000.

What was asked for here, was indeed not "city", but metropolitan
area, but we first have to agree on a definition of what is a
"metropolitan area", and then hope find statistics which agrees
with this definition. Fat chance.
-- 
Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
There are many sorts of Macedonians: Greek, Bulgarian, Roumanian, Macedonian...
From: U15289@uicvm.uic.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: 1960's music quiz
Date: 2 Oct 92 21:02:48 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago

The music quiz recently reposted by Adri Verhoef stated, in pertinent part:

>WINDY/ THE ASSOCIATION/ 42
>[I think everyone has this tune in their head somewhere, even if they don't
>know what it is.  I gave half credit for "Wendy" to a few people.]

It's been said that this song was actually written in honor of a friend of
the songwriter, named Wendy.  The few people should have gotten full credit :-)
.

                                                Mitch Pravatiner
                                                U15289@uicvm.uic.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: ckp2n@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Chris Powell)
Subject: Music Quiz Address?
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 01:06:09 GMT

I somehow managed to lose the address for a music lyrics quiz
poster.  I have a ton of answers here, and no place to send them
to.  Does anyone have the address?  It was 26 lines of lyrics,
with a bonus question about a New Zealand band, if that helps.

Thanks!

Chris

Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: kenneth@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: What is the largest city on each continent?
Organization: Auburn University, AL
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 10:40:12 GMT


In particular, in population...
I'm particularly wondering about Africa, but other cities on other continents
are welcome!
Here's what I think, for better or worse:

N. America: Mexico City...#2 choice, NYC
S. America: no clue...perhaps Rio?
Europe: perhaps London? #2 choice Paris, #3 choice Moscow?
Asia: Beijing? #2 choice Shanghai, #3 choice Tokyo
Africa: Cairo, #2 choice Lagos
Australia not sure...Sydney or Melbourne..
Antarctica...WHO CARES? ;)

Thanks,

Ken

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From: belville@athena.mit.edu (Sharon Belville)
Subject: Re: What is the largest city on each continent?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 14:57:03 GMT

25 most populated world cities:

Asia:	Tokyo (mind you, it's not on the continent of Asia...)
N.Amer:	Mexico City
S.Amer:	Sao Paulo, Brazil
Asia:	Seoul, South Korea
	New York
	Osaka
	Bombay
	Calcutta
	Buenos Aires
	Rio
Europe:	Moscow
	LA
	Manila
Africa:	Cairo
	Jakarta
	London
	Teheran
	Paris
	Delhi
	Karachi
	Lagos
	Essen, Germany
	Shanghai
	Lima
	Chicago
	
And Sydney is the most populous city in Australia.
--
Sharon Belville
From: rsk@aspen.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: What is the largest city on each continent?
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:22:16 GMT
Organization: Cardiothoracic Imaging Research Center

In article <1992Sep29.054012.1@ducvax.auburn.edu> kenneth@ducvax.auburn.edu writes:
>In particular, in population...

This is a perfect example of a question that should never be posted to
Usenet.  A quick trip to the reference shelf of any library and
a look in any recent almanac or encyclopedia would quickly yield
the answer without the necessity of bothering everyone who reads
this group.  Even easier (for those with appropriate connectivity,
knowledge, and software) would be a query to the "gopher" or "wais"
services, both of which could provide the answer quickly without
the need to even leave one's chair.

Please, folks, do your own basic research before resorting to posting;
and if you must post, make sure to redirect followups to yourself via email.
Quoting from "Rules for posting to Usenet":

	Before posting a question to the net (especially one that you think
	will be easy for experts to answer), consider carefully whether
	posting is the most appropriate way to get the answer.  There are many
	ways to find answers without using up network resources and forcing
	thousands of people to read your question (and several helpful
	volunteers to spend time responding). 

and

	Be considerate with your use of network resources.  Your individual
	usage may not seem like much compared to the net as a whole, but in
	aggregate, small savings in disk or CPU add up to a great deal.  For
	instance, messages offering thanks, jibes, or congratulations will
	only need to be seen by the interested parties -- send these by mail
	rather than posting them. The same goes for simple questions, and
	especially for any form of "me too" posting.

---Rsk
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From: kappa@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Glenn Capuano)
Subject: Re: What is the largest city on each continent?
Organization: Monash University General Access Unix
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 07:06:26 GMT

Erland Sommarskog (sommar@enea.se) wrote:
> Daniel Blum (blum@news.ils.nwu.edu) writes:
> >Are you sure that this isn't a list of the top 25 metropolitan areas,
> >rather than cities per se?  Last time I looked, London and Paris had
> >much higher pops than LA,
> 
> I doubt. Folks from UK can probably give us the exact number of
> people living in City of London, but I'd doubt that it beats L.A.
> At least it is a hardly number which places it on any top lists
> over large cities.

	I believe Greater London has a population of over 7 million, which
would probably put it in the top 25.

Regards,
	Glenn Capuano

Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: a3@rivm.nl (Adri Verhoef)
Subject: RESULTS What's The Theme Lyric Quiz
Organization: Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieuhygiene,Bilthoven,NL
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 13:22:42 GMT

Thanks to MaryLynn Orzechowski (i001460@disc.dla.mil), I am posting the results
- that some of us never saw - of the 

                       What's The Theme Lyric Quiz
                                   by
                          MaryLynn Orzechowski


1)  No promises, no demands

    PAT BENETAR/LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD

2)  But I never wave bye, bye

    DAVID BOWIE/MODERN LOVE

3)  How long must I wait

    PHIL COLLINS/YOU CAN'T HURRY LOVE

4)  It's bringing me to my knees

    DEF LEPPARD/LOVE BITES

5)  In my life there's been heartache and pain

    FOREIGNER/I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS

6)  Brenda Lee is coming on strong

    GOLDEN EARRING/RADAR LOVE

7)  That's the day I knew you were my pet

    HONEY DRIPPERS/SEA OF LOVE

8)  Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah

    JOURNEY/LOVIN' TOUCHIN' SQUEEZIN

9)  The cup is raised

    LED ZEPPELIN/ALL OF MY LOVE

10) And when the cupboard's bare

    PAUL MCCARTNEY AND WINGS/MY LOVE

11) Hey hit the highway

    JOHN COUGAR MELLENCAMP/I NEED A LOVER

12) You treat me like I was your ocean

    STEVE MILLER/JUNGLE LOVE

13) Your the queen of all you survey

    STING/LOVE IS THE SEVENTH WAVE

14) I was a sailor I was lost at sea

    U2 w/B.B. KING/WHEN LOVE COMES TO TOWN

15) Waiting for someone to come into focus

    VAN HALEN/WHEN ITS LOVE


MaryLynn Orzechowski
Defense Industrial Supply Center 
Philadelphia, PA  i001460@dla.mil
=~aa=================================================================

No scores, I guess... [Adri]
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From: arch@gandalf.pei.com (Arch Mott)
Subject: Re: 1960s tv commercial?
Organization: Protocol Engines Incorporated
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 18:29:18 GMT

hamel@uakari.primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel) writes:


>	Does anyone remember a commercial from the late 1960s,
>probably from the President's Council on Physical Fitness, that
>showed what was left of man in the future -- just a head -- because
>of the lack of exercise.  The head was cared for by robotic
>assistants.  But the robots stopped coming, and the head starting
>saying "Hello?  Q-15?  Is anybody there?"  
>	Now the question -- Does anybody remember the real name
>of the robot (I made up the Q-15, but it was something similar)?

  Hmmm. I remember this one too. And like you, it made quite an impression on
  me. (So why do I not get enough exercise??). Anyway, I believe the robot's
  name was Z-12. "Z-12? Z-12? I'm ready to go. I have things to do!"

  Cheers,
  -Arch.
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Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: greg@gallifrey.ucs.uoknor.edu (Greg Trotter)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Greg 18 Lyrics Quiz
Keywords: lyrics music song trivia quiz greg 18
Date: 5 Oct 92 14:32:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: constell.1992Oct5.143200.28578
Followup-To: poster
Organization: A Planet Of His Own
Originator: news@kittyhawk.ecn.uoknor.edu

Well, here is Greg's first (monthly? annual? last?) lyrics quiz. Please
mail all responses. I am looking for title and artist. If more than
one artist performed the song, you may name any artist or group who
managed to get the song on the charts.

Responses are due October 15th, and results will be posted by 10/22.

**********

1. "All the downtown ladies call him 'treetop lover'; all the men just
call him 'sir'"

2. "I'm still your lover boy; I still feel the same way."

3. "I hope that cigarette's gonna make you cough."

4. "I'd rather jump naked on a huge pile of thumbtacks."

5. "He was in a bind, he was way behind, and he was willin' to make a deal."

6. "Snot running down his nose..."

7. "I've never been to heaven, but I've been to Oklahoma"

8. "Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis"

9. "So long ago, I made a decision to be footloose and fancy free."

10. "Oh, by the way -- Which one's Pink?"

11. "He should know, he's been there enough."

12. "Many more of them live next door."

13. "If they brought beer wouldn't that be great!"

14. "Boldly going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse."

15. "There a secret I've been hiding under my skin."

16. "Some people say that there's a woman to blame."

17. "We ain't here to cause no trouble; we're just here to do the..."

18. "Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh avenue."
-- 
Greg Trotter
Norman, Oklahoma
Internet: greg@gallifrey.ucs.uoknor.edu
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