From: skadaver@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (SK)
Subject: "MIXED BAG"...A Trivia Quiz...VII...Answers & Scores
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 04:13:06 GMT





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                            ANSWERS...MIXED BAG...VII
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1.Name the most honoured individual in Oscar history.
1A.Walt Disney,with 32 Academy Awards!		{8/20}
  [Answers received included (ARI) : Hitchcock,Chaplin,Spencer Tracy,
   Liz Taylor,Alec Guiness,....]

2.The announcement of this invention received little public notice - one of the
  most restrained send-offs in recent memory,according to Fortune magazine.The
  'New York Times' write-up of it was limited to a half-dozen lines on the last
  page in the Radio Program section.What was this revolutionary invention which
  fetched the Nobel Prize for the inventors?
2A.The Transistor!John Bardeen,William Shockley and Walter Brattain received the
  Nobel Prize in Physics (1956) for their work.		{10/20}
  [ ARI : Compact Disc,Post-it notes,Television,....]

3."Was your first sexual experience heterosexual or homosexual?" David Frost 
  inquired.This person replied,"I was too polite to ask."! Who?
3A.Gore Vidal.		{2/20}
  [ Sundar & Mark Taranto got this right.
    ARI : Madonna,Boy George,Magic Johnson,David Bowie,Elton John,
    Andy Warhol,Dr.Ruth Westheimer,....]

4.Published in 1852,it was the first American novel to sell over one million
  copies.The book so aroused anti-slavery sentiment that in the middle of the 
  Civil war,President Lincoln,supposedly said of the author;"So this is the 
  little woman who made this big war!" Name the author and her magnum-opus.
4A."Uncle Tom's Cabin" (or,"Life among the lowly") by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
	{19/20}
   [The only wrong answer read:"To kill a mocking bird" by Harper Lee.]
 
5.Here is a quote which offers insight into an issue that is on everybody's 
  lips these days - taxation:
  "A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support 
  of Paul."!
  To whom would you attribute this quote?
5A.George Bernard Shaw.		{1/20}
   [Sharon Belville posted the only correct answer.
    ARI : Milton Friedman,Ben Franklin,Jesus Christ(?),John Maynard 
          Keynes,Mark Twain,Will Rodgers,Bill Clinton,Thomas Jefferson,...]




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                  SCORES...MIXED BAG...VIII
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mtaranto@shearson.com (Mark Taranto)				:4
sunder@bach.crhc.uiuc.edu (Srinivas Sunder)			:3
Sharon Belville <belville@Athena.MIT.EDU>			:3
mdc3@pyuxd.cc.bellcore.com (Mike Connelly)			:3
beb@pt.com (Bruce Buck)						:3
ramesh@alydar.crd.ge.com (Rajaram  Ramesh)			:3
Woody <snyder@henry.ece.cmu.edu>				:2
Joseph Hernandez <jtchern@ocf.berkeley.edu>			:2
Bill Wendling <wcw27974@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>			:2
givatram@leland.stanford.edu (Matthew Howard Getz)		:2
s-revuluri@uchicago.edu(Sendhil Revuluri)			:2
sudhama@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (C. Sudhama)				:2
ilanc@microsoft.com						:2
jblake@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Jim Blake)			:2
David A. Mattingly <damatt01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu>	:1
gt1293c@prism.gatech.edu (W. Scott Radeker, IV)			:1
mmalervy@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Michael J. Malervy)			:1
"John D. Mraz" <jdm42241@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>			:1
mvsmb2@mvgpl.att.com (Susan M Berube)				:1
George Lance Heard <heard@franklin.cc.utas.edu.au>		:0
     

   Sanjay Kadaveru.