Considering the Hitchhiker Guide To The Galaxy (HHGTTG)
1.1: How many books are in the trilogy? (1)
1.2 Name them! (+2 for full answer, 0 for significant partial)
1.3 What is the author’s name? (1)
1.4 What is his middle name? (2)
Some trick questions, for 1 point each. Most (if not all) are well-known, so please note those you know, and those will not be counted. To be fair, you should answer quickly (not thinking too long on each question).
2.1 Do they have a 4th of July in England?
2.2 Some months have 31 days. How many have 28?
2.3 You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. In what position do you finish?
2.4 Is it legal for a man in California to marry his widow’s sister? Why?
2.5 Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10. What is the answer?
2.6 If there are three apples and you take away two, how many do you have?
2.7 A clerk in the butcher shop is 5’ 10" tall. What does he weight?
2.8 What was the President’s name in 1960?
Science and Technology *seems to be one of your fortes)
3.1 Which planet is considered Earth’s ‘sister’ planet? (1)
3.2 Which constellation has the star Sirius in it? (2)
3.3 Rigel and Betelgeuse are stars of what constellation? (2)
3.4 Triton is a moon of which planet? (1)
3.5 Which of these is not a layer of the Sun: Convective zone, Chromosphere, Mantle, Photosphere? (2)
3.6 What is the hottest planet in the solar system? (1)
3.7 What is the farthest planet that can be seen without a telescope? (2)
3.8 When did the spacecraft Ulysses reach Jupiter? (1)
3.9 Which of the four great Galilean moons around Jupiter is the closest to the planet? (3)
3.10 Which moon of Saturn was almost shattered by the object that produced the Herschel Crater on its surface? (4 – I’m feeling lucky)
Green. Its not easy having a hand always shoved up your muppet ass either.
Steve Yzerman? (gulp I get this wrong, and my fellow detroiters will have me flogged).
Well, with a slower film speed, you need to open your aperture up more to let in more light, so the lower the f-stop number, the wider it’s open. The bummer is, I can’t remember off the top of my head what the next lowest f-stop is! something in the 3s? If I’m right on the principle… maybe give yourself half-credit?
(good questions! Even tho that sports one was a gamble!)
Pantone colors are predetermined spot ink colors developed as a standard color system for designers and printers alike by the Pantone Company. And the Pantone books are pretty.
This is the method of printing an ink in lighter tones by introducing a halftone pattern (that is, it’s broken up into barely visible dots). The resolution of the screen is determined by it’s line screen gauge (that is, 150 lpi = 150 dots in an inch). You can make the the ink appear lighter or darker (but never darker than the ink printed at 100%) but adjusting the size of the individual dots. This is all controlled by computers now-a-days tho.
It’s the method of printing multiple colors usually in one run on a multicolor press, that uses multiple plates or blankets to transfer the ink to the medium of choice. Typically sheet-fed paper… but the beauty of offset is the ability to print on a wide variety of surfaces and stock. You also get much higher quality relative to other types of printing such as High speed Web.
Y’know… my prepress days were long ago, but is this the same thing as dot gain? If so, it’s when the dots in a halftone screen grow (or reduce) depending on how thick the ink is being laid. This effects the overall richness of the printed piece, and if poorly maintained can cause a lot of finely detailed shadows to fill in.
Industry standard says to run your inks and images that are supposed to meet the trim beyond said trim by at least 1/8th of an inch.
Kerning is adjusting the letterspace between individual letters.
Traditional = Pay taxes on the backend. Roth = Pay taxes on the front end?
Some lameass mortgage lender? I have a feeling I’m missing something here.
Yup, definitely missing something. I’ll just guess Rock Financial?
Gawd. I dunno… Prudential? Umm… yeh.
CARS:
5 Series?
I feel silly as I’ve done a lot of print work for BMW, and I have no idea.
1991?
Harley Davidson
GAH!
MISC:
3 under par???
Because us Michiganders can only make so much and it is a gold nectar that should be rationed so carefully as to not squander its supply or cheapen it’s value.
HHGTTG:
1.1) I think it’s 5.
1.2) HHTTG, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Shit.
1.3) Douglas Adams
1.4) Ill guess Richard… but this might be some DA related joke I’m not in on!
2.1) Of course, but it’s not a holiday.
2.2) All of em.
2.3) Second to last? Hmm. I can’t see the logic here to figure out the conundrum!
2.4) No Idea.
2.5) Yeh… I see… you think you you’re cutting 30 in half down to 15, but what you really need to do is divide it by .5 (not 2)… and the result is 60. Adding 10 gives you 70… Clever!
2.6) You have 2… those are the ones you took.
2.7) I’m guessing this is a play on words, but I don’t know it.
2.8) George W. Bush.
That was fun!
SCIENCE & TECH:
3.1) Mars.
3.2) Canus Major?
3.3) Orion
3.4) Neptune? Hmm. I think.
3.5) Mantle
3.6) Mercury
3.7) Saturn
3.8) Damn… don’t know that one.
3.9) Io? but i’m not SURE. I’m guessing cuz it’s the most geologically active, so that got to be do to tidal forces via proximity to Jupiter.
3.10) Titan? (gulp… I hope you gambled right!!!)
yep
2)Blast! I did take a bit of a gamble. Yzerman was 19, number 9 was Gordie Howe. I can see there being some confusion to a non sporting type when the two legends of hockey from their town have such similar numbers. :smack:
correct answer is f4. You were on the right track and you did show your work, so I’ll give myself half points.
Total .5
Looks like strurmhauke should run away with this thing… I coulda had a guess at one of those questions but otherwise that was all Greek to me.
those Lama looking things whose name escapes me that Han slices open (in his only time ever using a lightsaber) to keep Luke warm in ESB?
Yup. Definitely got #3 wrong.
GAH!
Squid?
Between you and me? I think Lucas ran out of toilet paper in 1997 and the only thing he had lying around were his prequel outlines. From then on, the dominoes started falling.
Life, the Universe, and Everything; So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish; Mostly Harmless (-2)
True (+1)
Noël. Hence the common abbreviation by his fans: DNA (-2)
Sub-total: -2 (not a major DNA fan. Check)
Yup. (+1)
Yessss. (+1)
Nah. You overtook the second, so now you are the second. Common mistake: Now you are first. (-1)
It’s illegal. Dead man cannot marry anyone (his widow should have been a clue). (-1)
Right! (+1)
Indeed. (+1)
He works at the butcher shop, so he weights…meat. (-1)
Yesseri-bob. (+1)
Sub-total: (5-3)*1 = +2 (compensated for the DNA one)
Actually, it’s Venus: Venus is very similar to Earth in size and mass. (-1)
Canis Major. (+2)
Yes. (+2)
You are correct. (+1)
Yes. The mantle is a part of the Earth, not the Sun. (+2)
A common mistake. Actually it’s Venus. (-1)
[/COLOR]Followup: Why is it so? (1 point)[/color]
Uranus. (-2)
(-1)
True. (+3)
Sob No… (-4)
It’s Mimas. Mimas is the smallest of Saturn’s moons and is heavily cratered due to frequent impacts throughout history. The Herschel Crater, which is named after the astronomer William Herschel, is all that remains of the object that almost shattered the small moon and makes it look like <grasp yourself…> the Death Star from Star Wars Gasp!.
Sub-total: +1
Total this round: +1 (pfeww)
Dangit! I was so sure you’d know… maybe you call them something else? {sigh}
Blueline proofs, “blues” for short. Blues are the last proofs of your pages before they go to press, so called because back in the day they were made directly from the negatives on photo-sensitive paper that turns blue, for one last check before the actual printing plates are made. Just like blueprints. Well, I guess they are blue-prints. I should say “were,” since I haven’t seen any in about five years now; what with everyone going all digital and having color printers and whatnot, they’re obsolete. And what you do with them is try very hard not to see anything on them that you should have edited already, because it’s bloody expensive to fix at that stage. They smell like an unholy union between nail-polish remover and the formaldehyde your least-favorite science teacher used on specimens. (Technically blues paper used off-gasses acetaldehyde and benzaldehyde, supposedly at levels too low to poison you, but it’s nasty.)
-3 for me. ← lookit, the sad little smilie is BLUE!
Phew! +1. I had +4 before, so this makes… *the math! it burns! *+2.
And 5-4-Fighting, I’m not picking you for my team.
nevertheless
