DON'T Stump the Guy with Average Knowledge, Part II

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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HA, nice fake-out with the infield fly rule thing. Now I don’t feel as stoopid.

I’ll be on and off today. But everyone feel free to keep firing away!

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oops wrong thread

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ok -

any3) Name 3 Tony Award Winning "Best Musical"s of this century (3 pts)

any4) match the animal with its group name (1pt)
Lions
Fish
Geese

School
Pride
Gaggle

I’ll check back later this evening

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Hmm, new territory…

  1. Chicago; Cats; Les Mis?

Lions = Pride
Fish = School
Geese = Gaggle

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Some physics:

  1. What are the four fundamental forces? (3pts)
  2. Which of these forces is the major stumbling block for a grand unified theory? (2pts)
  3. What, in the physics world, is “ether”? (2pts)
  4. What experiment disproved the existence of ether? (2pts)
  5. Describe the experiment. (3pts)
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  1. Electro-Magnetism; Gravity; Weak Nuclear; Strong Nuclear.

  2. Gravity.

  3. An archaic idea that light (ostensibly being a wave) would need something to wave in. So physicists predicted the “ether”, which supposedly imbibed all of space (as yet undetected). Then Einstein (et al) came along, and thankfully got rid of the notion with something far more facinating.

  4. Crap. Don’t remember the name, but it involved measuring c at perpendicular angles to see if earth’s movement through the ether had any effect on c.

  5. ooop… See above :smiley:

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  1. Yep.
  2. Indeed.
  3. Yessir.
  4. Michelson-Morley experiment.
  5. Yes.

+8, which gives me 6.

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Rock!

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I picked up on a couple of your stronger topics however I thought it would be boring if we asked all the same kind of questions. Also, I am not that well versed in one of them.

Let’s try cooking!

  1. This cooking term literally means “to jump”? 2 points

  2. Stir-fry is usually cooked in a special pan called a ___ ? 1 point

  3. A mirepoix is a mixture of 3 vegetables that are commonly used in stocks, soups, stews and sauces. Name the 3 vegetables. 1 point for each vegetable.

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question 4 is right - 1 pt
but question 3 is wrong because those are all from last century
Chicago 1976 (this been revived and is still running)
Cats 1983
Les Mis 1987 (the 2006 mounting is a revival) -3
Some of this century’s winners are:
The Producers
Hairspray
Avenue Q
Spamalot
Spring Awakenings
Net pointage for me: -2

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  1. Yes

  2. Yes, that’s the term used.

  3. Yes.

  4. Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to James Madison, on the occaision of the Shay’s Rebellion.

  5. They were written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay.

  6. Actually, the first one that I’m aware of was from 1872. Victoria Woodhull, running for President on the ticket of the Equal Rights Party. Her nominated Vice-President was Frederick Douglass, who was nominated without his knowledge or consent. And who did nothing to campaign for the post during the elections. But it was a run for the presidency.
    Egads, it looks like I’m winning my chance for my own thread here. :eek:

I’m now down to 15 points. But I’m not giving up!
Let’s see if I can find 15 one pointers…

  1. Alexander Hamilton is honored by having his likeness on some US currency. What denomenation is that? (one point)

  2. Name three battles of the Revolutionary War. (one point)

  3. Associate the sports figures listed below with their sport:
    Bobby Orr
    Mary Lou Retton
    Joe Montana
    Larry Bird
    Arnold Palmer (one point each)

  4. What is the distinctive symptom of the disease/condition jaundice? (one point)

  5. Has any disease ever been eradicated? If so, which disease is it? (two points)

  6. Which European is credited with being the first to use moveable type, and creating the printing industry? (one point)

  7. Why is it problematic to say that the person from question 6 “invented” moveable type printing? (one point)

  8. Define what a mitochondrian is. (one point)

That’s enough for now, I think.

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1 - Rectangle. I said 4 right angles and a quadrangle’s angles can be anything.
2 - correct! No formula that I know of. Just more numbers to remember.
3 - correct! I remember this one from 4th grade. I was always good at figuring, but “St. Ives” questions like this always threw me. I actually did try to add it all longhand. My thinking is that adults eventually learn how to shortcut, while it’s not something that occurs to kids.

So +4 points this round puts me 6 points ahead! Woohoo!

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I would have said yeah, when you go the lake with a rod and reel. :smiley:

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Gotcha ya. :wink:

  1. Mmm. Can’t even hazard a guess.

  2. wok?

  3. Ohh… I actually think I know this one. Carrots, Onions, and Celery.

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:smack: I must’ve been thinking within the last century.

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Woo-hoo! I’m an 8, baby! :slight_smile:

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Woo-hoo! I’m a frigging 11 now!

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Difficulty: 3

Match the Elton John / Bernie Taupin song with the artist who covered it. In no particular order:

Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)
The Bitch Is Back
Sacrifice
Your Song
Crocodile Rock

Rod Stewart
Beach Boys
Tina Turner
Sinead O’Connor
The Who

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  1. $10 note.

  2. Not so good with battle names! Sorry.

  3. Bobby Orr = Baseball?
    Mary Lou Retton = Gymnastics
    Joe Montana = American Football
    Larry Bird = Basketball
    Arnold Palmer = Golf. (I could really go for some tea/lemonade right now).

  4. Yellow skin from all the accumulating bilirubin.

  5. Yes, Polio.

  6. Guttenberg

  7. It was more of an improvement than a novel invention? (WAG)

  8. Y’know… at first, I thought that read Midiclorian. Thankfully, it didn’t, since that’s an area where I actually employ ignorance. A mitochondrion is basically the engine of a cell.

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GASP. I can’t believe I got that right. When it comes to the smaller moons, my memory always starts slipping. Have I been getting all your match-ups right so far!?