HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: damatt01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu (David A. Mattingly)
Subject: NWDave's Nonsense Lyrics: Answers and Scores
Organization: University of Louisville
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 23:17:58 GMT


                       NWDave's Nonsense Lyrics Quiz

First, the answers:

 1 (1) huck lok mocca cheeka anananananana               Banana Love by the Bobs
*2 (8) heidi heidi heidi ho                   Minnie the Moocher by Cab Calloway
*3 (5) ooga chaka ooga ooga                    Hooked on a Feeling by Blue Suede
 4     ba baba baba ba baba                          Planet Earth by Duran Duran
 5     uh uh uh oh uh uh uh oh                 Dancin' with Myself by Billy Idol
 6     tamo konta pompa mamamame                  I Can Hear You Now by Iam Siam
 7 (1) diddle iddle it                              Freeze Frame by J Giels Band
 8 (5) sha la la la la la la la la la la-di-da   Brown-Eyes Girl by Van Morrison
 9 (1) deupty dog dog a ding dang depa depa            Don't Let's Start by tmbg
10 (3) uh how how how how                                    La Grange by ZZ Top

    *Out of alphabetical order, 'coz I thought Neil Diamond did Hooked.

Then, the scores: 
        3 Laurie 8         2 ?
        3 Mike Procopio    2 ?
        3 Cochran          1 ?
        3 Mario            1 James J Smith 
        3 Rick             1 Heather
        3 ?                1 neilski

Sorry for the ?s, but my mailer stripped the headers from everyone's mail,
and only those with .sigs got credit.



         Dave Mattingly               "Can you snog the dentriface?"
damatt01@ulkyvx.ct.louisville.edu     "I was an innocent, now I'm magnificent."
         (502) 584-6707               "Here's lookin' at you, sideways."
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: betsey@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth Fike)
Subject: Re: ***RaI aNd TuN'S LyRiCs QuIz II***
Reply-To: betsey@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth Fike)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 22:03:30 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.163822.3032@memstvx1.memst.edu> mcsnewton@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:
>			**RaI aNd TuN's LyRiCs QuIz II**
>
>PoSt AnSwErS!!!!
>2. "Are you somewhere feeling lonely or is someone loving you?"
	"Hello", Lionel Ritchie
>4. "Not everybody does it, but everybody should."
	"I Want Your Sex (part 3)", George Michael
>8. "...made up my mind, I ain't wastin' no more time."
	"Here I Go Again", Whitesnake
>13. "Bodies in the sand. Tropical drink sitting in your hand."
	"Kokomo", the Beach Boys
>14. "Father wears his Sunday best. Mother sighs she needs a rest. The kids are
>	playing up downstairs."
	"Our House", the Talking Heads?
>15. "If you change your mind, I'm the first in line."
	"Take a Chance on Me", ABBA


*******************************************************************************
Betsey Fike <betsey@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
CC '94/SEAS '94, Computer Science/Electrical Engineering
Columbia University Marching Band, the Cleverest Band In The World (tm)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: belville@athena.mit.edu (Sharon Belville)
Subject: Re: The geographic search
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 22:34:12 GMT

Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: The geographic search
Summary: 
Expires: 
Followup-To: 
Distribution: 
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords: 

In article <1992Aug21.072705.2058@techbook.com> dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque) writes:
>>>1. What countries have names that begin with the word "The"?  
>Let's try it another way.  Look up the official (translated) names of
>the countries (you can find them in most almanacs).  Many of these
>names have names for the form Republic of X or Commonwealth of X or
[...]
>By the way, there are seven countries that qualify this way.

The Gambia, (The Commonwealth of) The Bahamas, St. Vincent and the Grenadines,
Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros, People's Republic of the Congo,
Kingdom of the Netherlands, Republic of the Philippines.

>>>3. What other geographic entity's names begin with "The".  The criterion
>>>for this is that the word "The" should appear on most maps.

The Everglades
--
Sharon Belville
From: samc@coos.dartmouth.edu (Scott McElfresh)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: ANSWERS TO my favorite final jeopardy questions
Date: 19 Aug 92 14:03:46 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

In article <Bt7JpB.32E.1@cs.cmu.edu> clamen+@CS.CMU.EDU writes:
>In article <1506@rwja.umdnj.edu> bawagan@rwja.umdnj.edu (Hinayana Bawagan) writes:
>
>   3.  the only state which ends with 3 consonants: MassachuseTTS, not 
>   KentuCKY which I think is considered a commonwealth
>
>Alas.  Both Massachusetts and Kentucky are Commonwealths.

Right!  The reason Kentucky would not count is that the 'y' happens
to be a vowel in such situation.

-Scott
From: wlamonac@haydn.helios.nd.edu (william lamonaca)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: TV show!
Date: 20 Aug 92 16:30:49 GMT
Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame

In article <1992Aug20.130022.3270@cs.tulane.edu> jordan@cs.tulane.edu (Misti Jordan) writes:
>In article <1992Aug19.195106.1@vax1.umkc.edu> ttasset@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
>>Does anyone out there in trivia land remember the name of the tv show that had
>>a bigot and his son was called "Meathead" or something like that?  No I know
>>can think of it.
>>
>>       -Tom-
>
>All In The Family (Starring Carol O'Connor, I think his name was, as
>the bigot and Sonny Bono --again, I think-- as Meathead, his son-in-law
               ^^^^^ ^^^^!!!!!!!
>who was married to his daughter who --once again, I think-- now does
>commercials for underprivileged kids in South America. You know the
>ones... the blonde with the annoying voice says "For the price of
>just one cup of coffee a day, you can feed a child... ")
>

Sonny Bono!!!????  Come on! Everyone knows that Freddy Prinz was "meathead".
The reason that Meathead and Gloria weren't on the last few seasons of the
show, as we all know, was because of Freddy's tragic suicide.

BTW, does anyone know tha name of the show that "All in the Family" spun off
from.  I think it starred Redd Foxx as the owner of a chain of laundromats and
Shirley Hemphill as his wife Florida.  I especially like this show because it
gave Gary Coleman his start.
From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Quizzes you can post do
Date: 15 Aug 92 22:45:26 GMT
Organization: Enea Data AB

There seems to have occurred some discussion whether quizzes
you can post to are a good thing or not. Lisa Koh has been
defending herself with that people seems to like it.

Well, those who post may like it. I for one find it quite
uninteresting, and think that the answers clutters up the
newsgroup. It is somewhat acceptable in rec.games.trivia
which exists for this purpose, but it is a pain in the
neck in rec.music.misc.

Anyway, there is another aspect which I think is more important,
particularly since there seems to be more quizzes that you
can post to around. And that is the real quizzes, those you
mail your answers to. People who join the group now, may
think that posting the answers is the normal thing. And may
only need one single answer posted to a quiz to ruin it.

If Lisa don't want to take the time to collect answers and 
compile results, I suggest that she just post the quiz,
let people take a stab with it for themselvs a week or so,
and then post the answers.
-- 
Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
Life is wonderful when the wonderlife is full
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: damatt01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu (David A. Mattingly)
Subject: Nonsense Lyric Quiz
Organization: University of Louisville
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 13:04:11 GMT


Here's some nonsense lyrics. Most of them are from fairly popular songs.
They're in alphabetical order by artist.

Mail answers to damatt01@ulkyvx.ct.louisville.edu, please. Deadline is
Monday the 21st. I'll post the answers Tuesday.


 1. huck lok mocca cheeka anananananana 

 2. heidi heidi heidi ho 

 3. ooga chaka ooga ooga 

 4. ba baba baba ba baba 

 5. uh uh uh oh uh uh uh oh 

 6. tamo konta pompa mamamame 

 7. diddle iddle it 

 8. sha la la la la la la la la la la-di-da 

 9. deupty dog dog a ding dang depa depa 

10. uh how how how how 


        Dave Mattingly               "Can you snog the dentriface?" 
damatt01@ulkyvx.ct.louisville.edu    "I was an innocent, now I'm magnificent."
        (502) 584-6707               "Here's lookin' at you, sideways!"
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: TV show!
From: ttasset@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 01:51:06 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

Does anyone out there in trivia land remember the name of the tv show that had
a bigot and his son was called "Meathead" or something like that?  No I know
can think of it.

	-Tom-
From: ed@wente.llnl.gov (Ed Suranyi)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Mary Tyler Moore theme lyrics: Both versions
Date: 22 Aug 92 18:41:38 GMT
Organization: UC Davis Dept of Applied Science at LLNL

In article <92234.150112ERSHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> ERSHC@CUNYVM.BITNET (Eric Schweitzer) writes:
>As a side question, does anyone know who wrote and recorded this (these)
>songs? I have heard Flo and Eddie (aka the Turtles) claim it was
>theirs  but I also know they claim some real untruths.

The credits at the end of the MTM show say that the song was written
and sung by Sonny Curtis (I think.)

Ed
ed@wente.llnl.gov

Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia,rec.arts.movies
From: hammond@css.itd.umich.edu (Steve Hammond)
Subject: Movie Quote Quiz 16
Followup-To: alt.dev.null
Organization: University of Michigan ITD Consulting and Support Services
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:38:16 GMT


Rules:
   All quotes are in alphabetical order by movie title.
   One point will be awarded for each correct title.
   One point will be awarded for identifying each speaking character in
       the dialogue.
   One point will be awarded for identifying the actors/actress.
   Half point Extra for any humorous answer.
   A _____ in a quote designates that a characters name was there.
   Minus a half point for each incorrect Character stated.
   Mail, do *not* post, the answers to hammond@css.itd.umich.edu.
*** Minus 10 points for returning the quotes to me ***
   Entries will be accepted through August 23rd.

   please dont return the quotes or rules to me, I have seen them enough.


 1 Mongo only pawn in game of life

 2 Being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and 
   would blow your head clean off... you've got to ask yourself one question:
   Do I feel lucky?

 3 Gentleman, you can't fight in here.  This is the War Room!

 4 I shall serve no fries before their time.

 5 Life moves pretty fast.  If you don't stop and look around, you're 
   gonna miss something.

 6 He Slimed me!

 7 Sanctuary!  Sanctuary!

 8 Havent you ever seen a man so broken that he had to spin?

 9 What if my balls dont itch?
   All balls itch.

10 Hey, what if she hates me? What if she laughs at me? What if she 
   pulls a knife?

11 Supreme executive power must come from a mandate of the masses not
   some farcical aquatic ceremony.

12 Over?!  Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

13 We come from the planet of the toes in search of fruit!

14 Is this story going to have a lot of kissing in it?

15 A boy's best friend is his mother.

16 Wouldn't you feel a little more relaxed in your favorite K-mart clothes?
   Tell him, _____.
   K-mart sucks.
		
17 I cant believe this, I've got a trig midterm tomorrow, and I'm being 
   chased by Guido: the killer pimp.

18 Fraulein, is it to be at every meal or merely at dinner time that 
   you intend leading us all through this rare and wonderful world of 
   indigestion?

19 Everybody remember where we parked.

20 Women, a mistake?  Or did he do it to us on purpose?

-- 
Steve Hammond                                               hammond@umich.edu
   Lord, bless this thy Holy Hand Grenade so that we may blow thine 
   enemies to tiny bits.
From: jstiver@beethoven.helios.nd.edu (Jim Stiver)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: TV show!
Date: 21 Aug 92 15:28:12 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Notre Dame

snyder@henry.ece.cmu.edu (John Snyder) writes:
>wlamonac@haydn.helios.nd.edu (william lamonaca) writes:
>>jordan@cs.tulane.edu (Misti Jordan) writes:
>>>All In The Family (Starring Carol O'Connor, I think his name was, as
>>>the bigot and Sonny Bono --again, I think-- as Meathead, his son-in-law
>>               ^^^^^ ^^^^!!!!!!!
>>>who was married to his daughter who --once again, I think-- now does
>>>commercials for underprivileged kids in South America. You know the
>>>ones... the blonde with the annoying voice says "For the price of
>>>just one cup of coffee a day, you can feed a child... ")
>>>
>>
>>Sonny Bono!!!????  Come on! Everyone knows that Freddy Prinz was "meathead".
>                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Hunh?!?  How quickly we forget.  Freddy Prinz was the star of the series
>"Chico and the Man" (along with "the man" played by Jack Albertson, I
>believe).  Rob Reiner played the "meathead".

No, Jack Albertson played Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband in "Green Acres".  I think
Meathead was played by the star of "Born on the 4th of July".  They look
kind of the same anyway.

>>BTW, does anyone know tha name of the show that "All in the Family" spun off
>>from.  I think it starred Redd Foxx as the owner of a chain of laundromats and
>>Shirley Hemphill as his wife Florida.  I especially like this show because it
>>gave Gary Coleman his start.
>
>This is not right either.  The show that you are thinking of was 
>"the Jeffersons".  They were Archie Bunker's neighbors in "All in
>the Family", then spun-off into their own show (not vice-versa).
>The male lead in "the Jeffersons" was Sherman Hemsley (spelling?).
>The show that was on during some of the same years which starred
>Redd Foxx was "Sanford and Son", where he was a junkman and scrap
>dealer.  (The son Lamont was played by Demond Wilson).  I think
>that the show that gave Gary Coleman his start was "Diff'rent
>Strokes", although he might have been on "Good Times" (starring
>Jimmy "J.J." Walker).

Gary Coleman played Latoya Jackson's brother in the "Monkees" a pop-
ular spinoff from M*A*S*H.  I think Rob Reiner directed it...

STOP IT!!!  STOP IT!!!  THIS THREAD HAS BECOME TOO SILLY

Ahh, a paraphrase from the British comedy series "Are You Being Served?"

Jim
From: gotimer@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Gene Gotimer)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: ***RaI aNd TuN's LyRiCs QuIz***
Date: 13 Aug 92 13:05:35 GMT
Organization: Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center
X-Organization: (formerly David Taylor Research Center)

>
>                      **RAI AND TUN'S LYRIC TRIVIA QUIZ**
>1. "And I've been waiting for this moment for all my life..."

Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight
>
>3. "Young Hearts beat free tonight, time is on your side.."

Young Turks - Rod Stewart
>
>7. "I thought that I heard you laughing. I thought that I heard you sing."

Losing My Religion - REM
>
>9. "Time, Time, Time see what's become of me as I look at the possibilities.."
>(Remake Artist)

Hazy Shade of Winter - Bangles (orig. Simon and Garfunkel)


-- 
****************************************************************
**     Gene Gotimer              gotimer@oasys.dt.navy.mil    **
****************************************************************
From: bawagan@rwja.umdnj.edu (Hinayana Bawagan)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: my favorite final jeopardy questions part II
Date: 20 Aug 92 16:00:54 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway NJ

bawagan@rwja.umdnj.edu (Hinayana Bawagan) writes:

>One minute or less for each question and no outside help.  Play as if you are
>an actual Jeopardy contestant.

>1.  this 10-letter word appears in the U.S. nickel
>2.  the 2 U.S. presidents assassinated in Washington, D.C.
>3.  the U.S. president with the longest middle name
>4.  the U.S. state with the most number of national parks
>5.  the only U.S. state with one syllable
>6.  the only U.S. state with a postal code consisting of 2 vowels
>7.  the only country that is found part in Asia and part in Africa

1.  Monticello
2.  Lincoln and Garfield
3.  John Fitzgerald Kennedy  (George Herbert Walker Bush is a good guess
but I don't think that's what the Jeopardy organizers meant)
4.  Alaska
5.  Maine (this should be easy because this was featured at the 
Teen Tournament)
6.  Iowa (IA) - (when this was featured on the show, one contestant from 
Iowa did not get it; isn't that embarrassing?)
7.  Egypt

By the way guys, I had one participant who was an actual contestant from
the show.  Thanks for playing the game.
From: rone@girtab.usc.edu (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: WEEKLY QUIZ #14 --ANSWERS
Date: 15 Aug 1992 21:54:15 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: girtab.usc.edu

In article <6565@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> hamel@primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel) writes:
>                              (KLEENIX [tm] - 44, no penalty for
>                              forgetting the trademark, but you should
>                              be ashamed nonetheless)

You should be even more ashamed for misspelling Kleenex (tm). :-)

5150
tsk tsk, i see a lawsuit in your future, Ray
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: wainwl@aix.rpi.edu (Lou P. Wainwright)
Subject: Re: Name that artist!
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 07:48:57 GMT

In article <13100001@hpmwetg.sr.hp.com> pwf2@hpmwtd.sr.hp.com (Joe Ballantyne) writes:
>Roberta Flack sang the song "Killing Me Softly" back in the early '70's.
>Who was the artist that she sang about?
>
>I'll post the answer in a few days, good luck!

Don McLane (sp?) - He of "American Pie" fame.

Lou
wainwl@rpi.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: jcohen@sco.COM (Jon Cohen)
Subject: The Jesse Quiz
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 19:13:07 GMT
Followup-To: e-mail
Keywords: jesse quiz



THE JESSE QUIZ

E-mail to check your answers, or see posted answers on 8/14.

Identify:

1) 1936 Olympics Star

2) Right-wing Carolina Senator

3) Shot dead by Robert Ford

4) Youngbloods Leader

5) WWWF Announcer/Heel

6) NY Yankees outfielder

7) The Maytag Repairman

8) Operation P.U.S.H. Leader

9) Hometown of King David's Father, Jesse

10) Singer who wished that he had Jesse's girl
_____________________________________________


Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: bunny@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (Laura Kozma)
Subject: Re: WEEKLY QUIZ #14 --ANSWERS
Organization: AT&T, Piscataway, NJ
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 22:15:02 GMT

In article <6565@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> hamel@primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel) writes:
>
> 
>#3)  What group hit #1 with two albums in their career -- the first
>in 1964 with the first live album to ever hit #1, and the 2nd in
>1974 with a compilation of hits titled "Endless Summer"?
>                              (BEACH BOYS - 45)

Actually, Judy Garland hit #1 with a live album before the Beach
Boys, with her "Live at Carnegie Hall" album.
-- 
Laura Kozma
AT&T, 30 Knightsbridge Rd                
Piscataway, NJ   att!attmail!leppright   
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: jordan@cs.tulane.edu (Misti Jordan)
Subject: Re: TV show!
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 18:31:35 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-6512]: sparta

>In article <1992Aug20.130022.3270@cs.tulane.edu> jordan@cs.tulane.edu (Misti Jordan) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug19.195106.1@vax1.umkc.edu> ttasset@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
>>>Does anyone out there in trivia land remember the name of the tv show that had
>>>a bigot and his son was called "Meathead" or something like that?  No I know
>>>can think of it.
>>>
>>>       -Tom-
>>
>>All In The Family (Starring Carol O'Connor, I think his name was, as
>>the bigot and Sonny Bono --again, I think-- as Meathead, his son-in-law
>               ^^^^^ ^^^^!!!!!!!
>>who was married to his daughter who --once again, I think-- now does
>>commercials for underprivileged kids in South America. You know the
>>ones... the blonde with the annoying voice says "For the price of
>>just one cup of coffee a day, you can feed a child... ")
>>

Sorry, I goofed. It was not Sonny Bono, it was Rob Reiner. Please forgive
me for my stupidity all of you gorgeous people who never never never
make mistakes out there in Net-land... :):):)
-- 
			   ||  "Some of it's magic...Some of it's tragic...
Misti D. Jordan            ||   but I had a good life all the way..."
jordan@cs.tulane.edu       ||                   -- Jimmy Buffett
    "I want to be good... but being bad is so rewarding!" -- Morgana Duck
From: dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: The geographic search
Date: 20 Aug 92 11:53:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: techbook.1992Aug20.115322.9283
Reply-To: dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque,,,,)
Organization: Pseudopolis Yard

[I've seen the first of these questions on the net before, but not the
rest.]

In these questions, I'm referring to the common English name.  If the
official name has a phrase like "the republic of" or "the city of",
that phrase should be ignored.

1. What countries have names that begin with the word "The"?  

2. What cities and towns have names that begin with "The"?  I'm not
interested in obscure villages.  They should have a couple thousand
people, at least.  Also, foreign words that mean "the" are not allowed
(Los Angeles and Le Mans are right out).  However, if the foreign word
is usually translated, then it's acceptable.

3. What other geographic entity's names begin with "The".  The criterion
for this is that the word "The" should appear on most maps.

If you want, you can list those that formerly had a "The" but current
usage does not include it.


---
Dan Tilque    --     dant@techbook.com
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Subject: Re: NWDave's Nonsense Lyrics: Answers and Scores
Organization: Enea Data AB
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:49:14 GMT

David A. Mattingly (damatt01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu) writes:
>*2 (8) heidi heidi heidi ho               Minnie the Moocher by Cab Calloway
>*3 (5) ooga chaka ooga ooga               Hooked on a Feeling by Blue Suede
>
>    *Out of alphabetical order, 'coz I thought Neil Diamond did Hooked.

Actually, as you may recall from the first Summer lyrics quiz where
there ooka-chaka also appeared, it was Jonathan King was the first
to add the ooka-chaka to "Hooked on a Feeling", although it was Bjrn
Skifs och Blblus who got the big hit with this version. For the 
international release they used the name Blue Swede.

Neil Diamond? Well, several people have covered this song since
B.J. Thomas or who ever it was first recorded it in the early
sixties, so why not Neil Diamond? However, that was probably
without the ooka-chaka.
-- 
Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
Life is wonderful when the wonderlife is full
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