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[cmyk]

@fachverwirrt

1. What is my name? (0)

2. What is my quest? (0)

3. What… is the capital of Assyria? (3)

4. What is “red shift”, and what is its significance in cosmogony? (3)

1. Sir Galahad!

2. To Seek the Holy Grail!

3. What? I don’t know tha-- AHHHHHHHHHH!

4. Red shift is a Doppler shift like effect that happens to the electromagnetic spectrum as galaxies (among other heavenly bodies) move away from us as the universe expands. This results in the spectrographic data taking a shift toward the red end. The significance of this is it gives us an idea as to how fast the universe is expanding, and points to the notion that everything is moving away from everything else, otherwise we’d see a more uniform ratio of Red Shifting (moving away) and Blue Shifting (moving toward). Or something.

[Knorf]

@cmyk

A&L:

1. Was she English?

Haha, he was Irish. -1

2. Man, I’m not doing so good in A&L now.

D’oh! -2

3. Crap, a follow up question. Sorry!

Yeah they’re risky. -2

4. This I know! The Satanic Verses?

+2
Yup! Great novel, by the way. Salman is his first name, my misspelling. Silly me!

5. Got nuthin.

Aaron Copland. -3

OOOF. Bad round this time for the Arts.

My bad! -6 total. Sadness!!

SCIENCE & GEOG:
6) Isaac Newton. I know there was another one, but can’t remember the name. Also, wasn’t Archimedes or someone from that era close to inventing “the calculus”?

I was looking for Gottfried Leibniz in addition to Newton. +1

7. This has got to be another one of those tricky “Great Circle” conundrums! So I’ll go with Seattle.

Right on! +2!

8. No idea! I’ll just guess a “Straight”? But I’m sure that’s a body of water term.

Isthmus. -1

9. Hops, Barley, and I want to say Wheat… But I’m gonna go with Yeast. wincing

Right you are! (Wheat can take the place of the barley.) +3

10. By the gravitational perturbations (or wiggle) in it’s parent star.

Yup, strong in Astronomy. +3

+7!!!

SPORTS (do we never learn? ) & ENT:

We keep hoping.

11. 4?

Right! +1

12. I couldn’t even hazard a guess.

Buffalo Bills, Minnesota Vikings, Denver Broncos. -3

13. Peter O’Toole?

Right! +2!

14. Huh. Jack Nicholson?

John Williams -3

15. Judy Dench?

Walt Disney -2
-5 total for S&E.

I’m not feeling so good about this one!

I did bad. Sorry!

-4 for this round. I’m at +2 overall. Gotta do better!!!

[cmyk]

I feel silly about mistaking the sex of James Joyce. But not really.
For some reason I must be dyslexic with that name! Isn’t he an author on Human Behavior?

[RickJay]

1. National Basketball Association?

Right.

2. Golf. I could go for a half lemonade and ice tea for some reason.

Right.

3. 9

Right again.

4. Defensive Linebacker, Quarterback, Nose Tackle

I’ll give you this one; it’s just “linebacker,” but he’s a defensive player, so the full point.

5. Every four years.

Kee-rect.

6. Red Wings, Avalanche

Six for six!

7. Poker.

Seven for seven

8. Baseball?

Fraid not. The world’s most popular spectator sport is soccer.

9. Racing

Motor racing, but yes, I assumed you meant him.

10. Mohammad Ali? (aka Cassius Clay)

Bingo! that’s 8 points.

MODERATE:

1. I wanna say McGuire?

Not even close; Mark McGwire’s not in the top five. The answer is Henry Aaron.

2. Ugh. I got nothing.

Gretzky played for the Edmonton Oilers, Los Angeles Kings, St. Louis Blues, and New York Rangers.

3. Nope.

Peyton Manning plays for the Indianapolis Colts.

4. Uh uh.

The Raptors hail from Toronto.

5. Couldn’t tell ya.

Mark Spitz won seven gold medals in swimming in 1972, the only person to ever do that.

HARD:

1. The only name that comes to mind is Jesse Owens. But that’s gotta be super old news by now.

Owens’s times would not win a major college meet today. The current record holder is actually two people, so you have tow shots here… Asafa Powell of Jamaica and Justin Gatlin of the USA have both run the dash in 9.77 seconds. The Olympic record remains 9.86, by Donovan Bailey of Canada.

2. I didn’t really know either… do I?

Afraid not. The baseball record holder for hitting doubles is Tris Speaker. This would be a hard question even for a lot of dedicated baseball fans.

3. Got me.

Becker defeated Kevin Curran.

4. What’s this “Super Bowl” everyone keeps talking about?

If you’re being serious, it’s the championship game of American football. The first losers were the Kansas City Chiefs, who lost 35-10 to the Green Bay Packers.

5. The only famous horse I know is Seabiscuit, and that’s only because the movie.

“Big Red” was Secretariat, born in 1970 and died in 1989. Secretariat was a genetic freak, really, an enormous horse with speed and endurance really quite unlike any horse before or since, capable of seemingly impossible feats of acceleration; unlike other horses, he got progressively faster as a race went along. When he won the Belmont Stakes (one of the Triple Crown races) in 1973, he was so far ahead of other other horses that the camera had difficulty keeping them all in the same frame.

[cmyk]

@RickJay

4. What’s this “Super Bowl” everyone keeps talking about?

If you’re being serious, it’s the championship game of American football. The first losers were the Kansas City Chiefs, who lost 35-10 to the Green Bay Packers.

Yeh… i was using sarcasm More like poking fun at my own egregious lack of knowledge of general sports. Since I follow absolutely nothing, I only know what i pick up indirectly. Other than the most famous, newsworthy names, they’re almost all alien to me, and even if I know them, it’s rare that I know any of their stats. I am a little better at general sports questions about game rules and such. But really… I’M CLUELESS.

[fachverwirrt]

@cmyk

1. Sir Galahad!

2. To Seek the Holy Grail!

3. What? I don’t know tha-- AHHHHHHHHHH!

4. Red shift is a Doppler shift like effect that happens to the electromagnetic spectrum as galaxies (among other heavenly bodies) move away from us as the universe expands. This results in the spectrographic data taking a shift toward the red end. The significance of this is it gives us an idea as to how fast the universe is expanding, and points to the notion that everything is moving away from everything else, otherwise we’d see a more uniform ratio of Red Shifting (moving away) and Blue Shifting (moving toward). Or something.

1. No, no, no. I’m fachverwirrt.
2. Right on!
3. Could go with Assur or Ninevah.
4. Exactly.

Broke even on that one. Still -8.

[cmyk]

@fachverwirrt

1. No, no, no. I’m fachverwirrt.
2. Right on!
3. Could go with Assur or Ninevah.
4. Exactly.

Broke even on that one. Still -8.

Ahhh! I see… I thought you were making all Monty Python references, and I answered in kind (1-3). Then I thought you were following up with a real question chaser.

[fachverwirrt]

@cmyk

Ahhh! I see… I thought you were making all Monty Python references, and I answered in kind (1-3). Then I thought you were following up with a real question chaser.

I was; then I decided to be a smart ass. I thought it might be fun to see if you really knew the answer to the Assyria question in the process.

In the meantime, name the members of Monty Python. (1 point each).
Which of these is no longer alive? (3)
Which of these is American? (3)

[Strinka]

1 - What year did humans first walk on the moon?

2 - What year did the French Revolution begin?

3 - What are the five rights protected in the first amendment? (Due to the multi-part nature of the question, I will award partial credit)

[cmyk]

@fachverwirrt

I was; then I decided to be a smart ass. I thought it might be fun to see if you really knew the answer to the Assyria question in the process.

In the meantime, name the members of Monty Python. (1 point each).
Which of these is no longer alive? (3)
Which of these is American? (3)

I wouldn’t have know Assyria. AHHHHHHH!

1. John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Eric Idle… s’all I got.

2. Don’t know! But I think the one’s I listed are all still alive and kickin.

3. Hmmm. Naturalized? Or for real? I’ll guess Gilliam. But I dunno!

[cmyk]

@Strinka

1 - What year did humans first walk on the moon?

2 - What year did the French Revolution begin?

3 - What are the five rights protected in the first amendment? (Due to the multi-part nature of the question, I will award partial credit)

1. That would be 1969.

2. WAG: 1784

3. Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, Freedom to Assemble; Freedom of Religion; GAH! The 5th eludes me (assuming I got the first four right).

[fachverwirrt]

@cmyk

I wouldn’t have know Assyria. AHHHHHHH!

1. John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Eric Idle… s’all I got.

2. Don’t know! But I think the one’s I listed are all still alive and kickin.

3. Hmmm. Naturalized? Or for real? I’ll guess Gilliam. But I dunno!

1. Right, right, right, right. Terry Jones and Graham Chapman are the others.
2. Graham Chapman (King Arthur, Brian) died in 1989.
3. Correct!

Up to -4.

[cmyk]

Alrighty… gonna hit the sack. Feel free to keep em coming. Makes my mornings extra special!

Night All… good questions from everyone yet again. I think some of this stuff is actually sticking… cya tomorrow!

[Least_Original_User_Name_Ever]

What are the first ten Amendments of the Constitution known as? (2)

Stephen Hawking lives in what country and works for what university? (2 points each)

[cmyk]

@Least Original User Name Ever

What are the first ten Amendments of the Constitution known as? (2)

Stephen Hawking lives in what country and works for what university? (2 points each)

All right… one more… then i need sleep!!!

1. The Bill of Rights?

2. England; Cambridge?

[cmyk]

@cmyk

All right… one more… then i need sleep!!!

1. The Bill of Rights?

2. England; Cambridge?

I leave you for the night with the obligitory and appropo YouTube clip.

Night’ everyone.

[Least_Original_User_Name_Ever]

I’m at +6! Woohoo!

[Strinka]

@cmyk

1. That would be 1969.

2. WAG: 1784

3. Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, Freedom to Assemble; Freedom of Religion; GAH! The 5th eludes me (assuming I got the first four right).

1. Correct +1

2. So close! 1789 -2

3. Those four are right. The fifth is the freedom to petition. For that, I’ll do +2 - 1

Leaving me back where I started at 0

[Quint]

Just testing the waters here…

It’s not easy being (blank). (1)

Name the hockey legend who wore number 9 for the Detroit Red Wings. (2)

You are taking a picture with an ISO of 400, an f-stop of 5.6, and a shutter speed of 1/125. At the last minute you switch to ISO 200 with a shutter speed of 1/125. What is your f-stop? (3)

[sturmhauke]

3 point questions:

1. What are Pantone colors?
2. What is halftone printing?
3. What is offset printing?
4. What is dot pitch?
5. How many picas to an inch?
6. What is a bleed?
7. What is kerning?