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From: heard@franklin.cc.utas.edu.au (George Heard (Laurie 8))
Subject: WEEKLY QUIZ 18
Summary: I am posting this for Ray Hamel, by the way.
Keywords: Quiz Weekly 18 (note this is an anagram of the subject)
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 08:19:07 GMT


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NOTE: I am posting this for Ray Hamel <hamel@primate.wisc.edu>
because his internet thingy is down. Any answers mailed to me
will be taken by Laurie 8 as his own if they are any good. I
need a lot to catch up to New Wave Dave :-).

Laurie 8
=============================================================


     Welcome to the weekly trivia quiz.  I post the quizzes on
Friday mornings, and the answers will be due by the following
Thursday.  There are 5 questions in each quiz; each question is
worth one point.  For each quiz,  I will post the weekly scores
(and answers, of course) as well as an accumulative score, for a
total of 25 quizzes. 
     Send your answers to hamel@primate.wisc.edu.  Please do not
POST to the list.  Thank you. 
 
 
WEEKLY QUIZ #18  (Answers due by September 10.)
 
#1)  What former child actor was arrested on April 6, 1991 for
burglarizing a drugstore, and again the next day for shoplifting?
 
#2)  While Stacy Keach was in prison in London for cocaine
smuggling in 1984, who filled in for him supplying the voiceover
narrator for his "Mike Hammer" tv series?
 
#3)  What rock legend signed with Specialty Records in 1955 in a
deal that gave him 1/2 cent for every record sold, and gave the
same company the publishing rights to his song "Tutti Frutti" for
$50?
 
#4)  While Johnny Cash is known as "The Man In Black", what
hopelessly neurotic stand-up comic always appears in public wearing
black?
 
#5)  What Oxford University mathematician derived his pen name by
reversing his first and middle names, translating them into Latin,
and then retranslating them into English?  
 
Ray Hamel
University of Wisconsin
From: nrp@csug3.cs.reading.ac.uk ("Thieving lieutenants" Neilski)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: THE RATHER SILLY SONG TYPE TRIVIA QUIZ
Date: 10 Sep 92 08:42:41 GMT
Reply-To: nrp@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk
Organization: University of Reading


THE RATHER SILLY SONG TYPE TRIVIA QUIZ

Oh no, it's another lyrics quiz!  All the songs are a bit silly.  A ____ means
the title or artist is mentioned at that point.  Sorry about the rather
British flavour to it but it'll make a change ... :-)

Mail answers in the form title / artist please!
Anyone found posting answers will be hung, drawn and quartered.

Answers must be received here by 12 noon GMT, Friday September 18.  Answers
will be posted that afternoon.

Scoring: a point for the title and a point for the artist(s).
Bonus points at the end (because I couldn't think of many questions!)
There's a possible total of 50 points.

 1)  Now I went down to London town
     And I had some fun on the underground
     The ladies turned their heads around

 2)  Mrs Betty Tench was playing the trombone
     When she heard the knock at the door.
     "I wonder who that is at eleven o'clock in the morning," she thought.

 3)  Fashion magazines say wear 'em
     And you rush to obey like the women in a harem

 4)  Hello hello hello hello hello.
     My name's Michael.
     And I like a girl because erm ...
     I like a girl because erm ... erm ...
     Tell me, O'Seamus.  Why do I like a girl?

 5)  So just why, why are we here
     And just what, what, what, what
     Do we fear?

 6)  Now you've heard it once
     Your brain will spring a leak
     And though you hate this song
     You'll be humming it for weeks

 7)  What happens now, ____?
     The instrumental break.
     Great, ____, which instruments do you want us to break?

 8)  Ah there's a bus just going down the road
     Turning left at the traffic lights
     I think, ah yes, it's a number ____.

 9)  Ye canna change the script Jim
     Och see you Jimmy
     It's worse than that it's physics Jim

10)  Make the Taj Mahal out of mushy peas
     Or microwave a pussycat for your tea

BONUS QUESTIONS:

(2 points)  What's the ordering?  (Bonus point if you can prove I got it wrong!)
(3 points)  Which title will most people get right?
(3 points)  Which title will most people get wrong?
(3 points)  Which artist/group will most people get right?
(3 points)  Which artist/group will most people get wrong?
(3 points)  What's the connection between 7 and 10?
(6 points)  What's the missing link between 7 and 10?  (3 points for title,
            3 for artist(s))
(3 points)  What's the connection between 1 and 3?
(3 points)  What song (not in this quiz) logically follows 1 and 3?

-- neilski

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From: dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Play Jeopardy with Yen 8/26/92
Date: 5 Sep 92 11:02:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: techbook.1992Sep5.110242.23334
Distribution: rec
Organization: Pseudopolis Yard

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)

Sorry.  Mercury does not have a high boiling point.  It boils at 356.9 C,
a rather low one for metals.  The reasons it's used in thermometers is
that it doesn't wet glass and it has a fairly uniform volume expansion
throughout it's liquid range.

The answer is, I believe, tungsten which boils at 5927 C.  At least,
tungsten has the highest melting point (3410 C) which is why it's used
in light filaments.

---
Dan Tilque    --     dant@techbook.com
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From: hogan@csl.sri.com (Emmett Hogan)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: WANTED: Computer Trivia
Date: 4 Sep 92 09:15:15
Organization: Computer Science Lab, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA.
NNTP-Posting-Host: cujo.csl.sri.com
In-reply-to: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu's message of 4 Sep 92 06:42:41 GMT

>>>>> On 4 Sep 92 06:42:41 GMT, Anthony J Stieber said:

In article <HOGAN.92Sep2200139@cujo.csl.sri.com> hogan@csl.sri.com (Emmett Hogan) writes:

Me>	- Why the call a 3.5" disk a floppy, when it really isn't
Me>	  floppy at all !

Anthony> Ahem, 3.5" flexible media disks *are* floppies, move aside the metal
Anthony> (sometimes plastic) shutter and look inside.  They merely happen
Anthony> to have a more rigid jacket.  It's even worse when someone refers
Anthony> to this babies as a "hard disk" aiiiiii!

Gee Wiz, forget one little smiley and everyone thinks you are serious !! :-)

I know that the 3.5" floppies are really floppy inside, this was meant
to show that I was interested in silly trivia too. :-)

Thanks for the trivia I have received so far...keep it comming !

-Emmett


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Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: kaufman@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ken Kaufman)
Subject: Re: tribond?
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 14:36:24 GMT

>In your turn, you roll a special die to determine what category you'll be
>trying to answer.  I think the categories are Entertainment, Science,
>History/Geography, Sports and Leisure, and miscellaneous.  Each "question"
>consists of three words or phrases, all of which share some common link (hence
>the game's name).  Your task is to determine that link.  Sometimes, the clues
>are all members of the same group-- for example, CHIEF, MAX, and 99 would all
>be characters on Get Smart.  Sometimes the pairings involve puns: GERMAN,
>FIRST MAN ON THE MOON, and JESUS CHRIST are all Shepherds (spelled in various
>ways).

I hope the latter is not an actual example; it would be too difficult.  Now
if they changed the second element to either FIFTH MAN ON THE MOON or
FIRST AMERICAN IN SPACE, that might be another story.

==Ken
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Teddybears picnic
From: Eric Schweitzer <ERSHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Monday, 14 Sep 1992 12:22:21 EDT
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

Previous poster mucked this up a bit.


words: Jimmy Kennedy,   music: John Bratten

If you go down to the woods today
you're sure of a big supprise
if you go down in the woods today
You'd better go in disguise
for every bear that ever there was
Will gather there for certain because
Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.

Every teddy bear who's ever been good
is sure of a treat today.
There's lots of marvelous things to eat
and wonderful games to play.
Beneath the trees where nobody sees
They'll hide and seek as long as they please
'Cause that's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.

If you go down in the woods today
you'd better not go alone
It's lovely down in the woods today
but safer to stay at home
For every bear that ever there was
will gather there for certain because
today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.

(interlude)
Picnic time for teddy bears
The little teddy bears are having a lovely time today
Watch them, catch them unawares
And see them picnic on their holiday
See them gaily gad about
They love to play and shout, they never have any care
At six o'clock their Mummies and Daddies will take them home to bed
Because the're tired little teddy bears.
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque)
Subject: Re: Okay, you people seem like the type to ask . . .
Organization: Pseudopolis Yard
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 08:52:53 GMT

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

The purpose is to distinguish that Washington from the other
Washingtons, such as the state and any of about a dozen modestly-sized
towns in verious other states.

However, the District itself is not part of any state.  The land was
given to the federal government by Maryland and it's administered by
the federal government.  There's also a city government and a movement
to make the District into a state or at least give it voting power in
Congress.  At one time, the District also included what is now
Arlington County in Virginia.  At some point, they decided that they
wouldn't need that land and gave it back.

---
Dan Tilque    --     dant@techbook.com
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From: jlowrey@skat.usc.edu (John 'Fritz' Lowrey)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: WANTED: Computer Trivia
Date: 4 Sep 1992 19:23:53 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: skat.usc.edu

In article <1992Sep4.064241.7208@uwm.edu> anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:
> [ ... ]
>A better question might be: if 3.5" is a microdisk, and a 5.25" is a
>minidisk (or diskette),  what's a disk?  Answer: an 8" disk.  These
>monsters are still used by a few companies, like IBM, Wang, and antique
>collectors (I have four 8 inch Wangs).     
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	I now have a MAJOR inferiority complex!! |-)

> [ ... ]
><-:(= Anthony Stieber	anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu   uwm!uwmcsd4!anthony




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Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: dagibbs@quantum.on.ca (David Gibbs)
Subject: Re: Play Jeopardy w/ Yen 9/3
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 19:52:43 GMT
Organization: Quantum Software Systems
Distribution: na

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

The question is a little bit imprecise, but the answer may be correct.
First thing is to decide what method of measurement -- is it talking
composition by mass, or composition by number of atoms.  If by mass,
then Oxygen easily wins out over hydrogen in water since the one oxygen
atom far outweighs the two hydrogen atoms together.  The other consideration
is that the atmosphere (for your 79% Nitrogen) is an (almost) inconsequential
fraction of the earth, definitely as far as mass is concerned, and also
for volume, so the composition of the atmosphere will have only minor
effects on the overall composition of the earth.  For that matter, even
the oceans are only a thin layer on the earth, and there composition is
also a fairly minor consideration.

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. 

-David Gibbs
(dagibbs@quantum.on.ca)
From: cg008@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bill Quigley)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: NTN Showdown Players
Date: 10 Sep 92 20:13:27 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


     I'm looking to get in touch with anyone on here that plays the NTN 
Showdown game on Tuesday night, especialy in Chicago.  I'd like to find out
how you feel about the game and, if you live in Chicago, you want to join 
our group on Tuesdays.  We Play at the Alumni Club on Divison Street in the
Rush Street area of Chicago.  Anyone interested or if you live in Chicago and
want to learn about Showdown just drop a line to me thru e-mail and we can
get together.
-- 
Bill Quigley
cg008
Just having fun and wasting time
From: cortese@skid.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese)
Subject: Okay, you people seem like the type to ask . . .
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 11 Sep 92 06:36:09 GMT

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


Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar
From: kilroy@mik.uky.edu (Paul S. Kilroy)
Subject: Re: 2 bombs per 3 cycles
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 01:30:03 GMT

In <67653@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt7804b@prism.gatech.EDU (Wayne Edward Sheppard) writes:

|I saw a posting about a method of bombing the core that was
|able to place two bombs for every three cycles executed. I
|don't understand how this can be done.  Could someone please
|show me how this could be done.  I am also interested in other
|bombing routines.
|Thanks in advance

I'm not too sure.. but I think they were talking about this..

mov <a, b

which will not actually bomb two locations.. but alter one
and bomb another..


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From: u2119737@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au
Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar
Subject: FAQ Request
Date: 12 Sep 92 18:25:18 +1000
Organization: University of New South Wales


Is there a FAQ list for this newsgroup?

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Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar
Subject: Corewar Genetic Algorithms Processor
From: KENT@dirac.physics.jmu.edu (Kent Peterson)
Date: 14 Sep 92 20:24:05 -0500
Distribution: world
Organization: JMU Physics Dept.
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24


Does anyone know anything about the Core War Genetic Algorithms Processor from
Amran?  I recently read some articles glorifying genetic algorithms, such as
the one in Scientific American,  but I don't know how well these might work
with Redcode.  If anybody has tried this program, could you tell me just what
it does?
Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar
From: wms@ssd.intel.com (William Shubert)
Subject: KotH scoring
Organization: Supercomputer Systems Division, Intel Corp.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 22:28:09 GMT

OK, just before I went on vacation somebody posted a letter about a "bug"
in KotH scoring, claiming that the "%w/%l/%t" part of two program's scores
predicted program A would have a higher score, but in reality program B
had a higher score.  This CAN happen, and it is because of rounding.  When
computing scores, KotH keeps track of EVERY fight, but when displaying both
the "%w/%l/%t" and "score" fields it rounds to the nearest number.  So this
could happen:

   --------ACTUAL-------     ---REPORTED-BY-KOTH---
     %W/  %L/  %T  Score       %W/ %L/ %T  Score
A  30.4/29.6/40.0  131.2       30/ 30/ 40    131  (Looks like it should be 130)
B  29.6/29.4/41.0  129.8       30/ 29/ 41    130  (Looks like it should be 131)

So as you can see, it is possible for it to LOOK like program "B" should be
doing better by the %W/%L/%T but for program "A" to have the actual higher
score.

KotH always uses the ACTUAL score, not the "reported" score, for computing the
ranking of the programs.
				-Bill (wms@iwarp.intel.com)
Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar
From: davemc@dsd.es.com (Dave McAllister)
Subject: C Robots
Keywords: robots
Reply-To: Dave McAllister <davemc@dsd.es.com>
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 22:23:12 GMT

I spoke with the author of the original C Robots game yesterday and he
told me that there is an X Windows version of the game in existence,
written by someone else. I don't know where to get a copy of it, and
I couldn't find it with archie, so if someone has it, could you
contact me by mail, or if it's ftpable, point me to it.

Also, I'm wondering where to find any existing robots. Does anyone
have a collection of them? The author has about 20, but there must be
more than that. Any help is appreciated.

I now have about 50 robots, but I'm told there's more than that. If
people could help me make a collection, I'd make the collection
available to interested parties.

-- 
                                -- Dave McAllister (801) 582-5847 x4721
From: sbeitzel@wet.UUCP (Stephen Beitzel)
Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar
Subject: Re: 2 bombs per 3 cycles
Date: 7 Sep 92 05:03:40 GMT
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco

In <67653@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt7804b@prism.gatech.EDU (Wayne Edward Sheppard) writes:
>
>I saw a posting about a method of bombing the core that was
>able to place two bombs for every three cycles executed. I
>don't understand how this can be done.  Could someone please
>show me how this could be done.

Well, you could just unroll the bomb loop like this:

	top	mov bomb, <target
	...	mov bomb, <target
	...
	last	jmp top

The effect here is that for N=last-top, you will get N-1 bombs per N
instructions.  There are better ways of doing it though.  F'rinstance:

	top	spl 0
		mov bomb, <target
		mov bomb, <target
	...
	{rest of the program here}

This gives you not only a good bombs/instructions ratio, but gives you a
certain resistance to spl 0 bombs, as the spl 0 in the first line maxes out
your process queue pretty quickly.
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From: tarsa@elijah.mv.com (Greg Tarsa)
Newsgroups: rec.games.rogue
Subject: Re: looking for ancient
Date: 15 Sep 92 17:40:40 GMT
Reply-To: tarsa@elijah.mv.com (Greg Tarsa)
Distribution: rec
Organization: Contract Software Services, Inc.


VT100 output would be fine.

Could you give me a call, or call me (508)264-5174?  You are the first real lead
I have had on this. 

Thanks,
Greg
tarsa@deceat.enet.dec.com
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From: tarsa@deceat.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: rec.games.rogue,comp.sys.vms,comp.sys.dec
Subject: looking for ancient VMS ROGUE
Date: 8 Sep 92 17:12:14 GMT
Reply-To: tarsa@deceat.enet.dec.com
Followup-To: tarsa@deceat.enet.dec.com
Distribution: na
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


I have an experiment I wish to run, comparing the C RTL version of
curses with a version of curses that runs under VMS, but does not use
curses.  A few weeks ago I made a request for a VMS based curses and got
one pointer, but that version turns out to rely on SMG for its screen
manipulations.  Now I want to try another tack.

I remember back about 10 years ago seeing a version of ROGUE for VMS
that had its own CURSES and I believe that I could use this version to
do what I need to do.

Anyone have such a beast, perhaps stored away on some tape somewhere?

If you can help me either locate a non-SMG VMS curses, or a version of
ROGUE containing such, please let me know.

Thanks,
Greg Tarsa
(508)264-5174
tarsa@deceat.enet.dec.com
From: "herb chong" <herb.chong@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.games.rogue
Subject: looking for ancient
Date: 14 Sep 92 19:49:02 EST
Reply-To: "herb chong" <herb.chong@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

T >I remember back about 10 years ago seeing a version of ROGUE for VMS
T >that had its own CURSES and I believe that I could use this version to
T >do what I need to do.

i might have what you're looking for. i have a curses subset that writes 
directly to the screen. it is hardcoded to write to a VT100. right now, 
it's only on a PC floppy disk. i'm not sure the software is copyright or 
not. i have been cleaning up my archives over the years and i may have 
thrown away the system-specific interface layer which had #ifdefs for VMS. 
i rewrote it completey to be more portable once, and then i enhanced it so 
that it was almost a complete subset of System 3 curses. then i rewrote it 
again to yank all the portability code.

Herb...

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Newsgroups: rec.games.pbm
From: wrl@pmafire.inel.gov (William Lechner)
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 17:22:50 GMT
Organization: WINCO
Subject: Looking for Stephen Legate
Summary: 
Followup-To: 
Distribution: usa
Organization: WINCO
Keywords: 

Sorry for the waste of bandwidth but this is the last resort.

Stephen if you are out there e-mail me.  The Bombardiers are near the
end of their WEMFL existence if I don't hear from you soon.

Bill
wrl@pmafire.inel.gov

Newsgroups: rec.games.pbm
From: puryear@gsrc.enet.dec.com (Scott Puryear)
Subject: Quest
Summary:  Where to play Quest?
Keywords: Quest Help Where 
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 22:07:35 GMT

OK.  Quest looks like it could be fun.

Where do I write to?  How do I find out how to play?

Send me the Address!


...Scott P     8-]

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