DON'T STUMP the OTHER guy with average knowledge

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Quana - Comanche
John Ross - Cherokee
Geronimo - Apache
Sitting Bull - Dakota Sioux
Hiawatha - Mohawk

I’ve given my best shot, here, but I expect I’ll have some wrong.
ETA: I’ll be back in about an hour and a half. Keep the questions coming!

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Oh, okay, then I think mine should have been much higher than 3. I’m amending it to 7.

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Nope, you have them all correct. Well done. :slight_smile:

That puts me at 7.

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In fairness, I’ll post-score mine to one point each.

One point up; two points down.

July 20, 1969 - Apollo 11 landed on the moon
June 22, 1941 - Germany invaded the Soviet Union
April 14, 1865 - John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln

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Difficulty: 5

Match the President with his (or its) legacy. In no particular order.

Richard Nixon
Indian Hater Jackson
Jimmy Carter
Franklin Roosevelt
Lyndon Johnson

Protests, riots, conscription, and a War on Poverty
Stagflation (a combination of deep recession and runaway inflation)
The reckless and murderous relocation of peaceful innocent people
Resignation from office
Creation of a Nanny State based on Keynesian philosophy

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Questions 1-4, correct.

Question 5: It was Miranda. The full line was, for the curious, is:

So let’s see, that’s +7 and -4, so
23

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One of your strengths seems to be US history - I can’t take advantage of that! I’m going to do a conservative round of ancient history.

1 point: What famous Roman was assassinated on the Ides of March, 44 BCE?
2 ponts: What famous Macedonian died of an illness in Babylon, 323 BCE?
2 points: One Roman political body shares its name with an American political body. What is it?
2 points: What two cities in Greece were the most prominent powers in the 5th century BCE, and fought the Pelopponesian war between them?

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Richard Nixon - Resignation from office
Indian Hater Jackson - The reckless and murderous relocation of peaceful innocent people
Jimmy Carter - Stagflation (a combination of deep recession and runaway inflation)
Franklin Roosevelt - Creation of a Nanny State based on Keynesian philosophy
Lyndon Johnson - Protests, riots, conscription, and a War on Poverty

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I hope this will bring your score back up.

  1. Julius Caesar

  2. Well, there are only two Macedonians I can think of from that approximate timeframe. It’s Either Phillip or Alexander. I believe it was Phillip who died of illness, where Alexander died of injuries (At Issus, I believe). But I’m afraid I have no great confidence on this answer.

  3. The Senate

  4. Sparta and Athens.

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Which powerful Shogun took control after the “warring states” period of Japanese history? (3 points)

Who secretly recorded their private phone conversations with Monica Lewinsky, and gave the tapes to prosecuter Kenneth Starr in exchange for immunity? (3 points)

In chess, describe the only situation in which a piece can capture without landing on the same square of the captured piece, and give the correct term for this move. (5 points)

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  1. I believe that this is Tokugawa. Of course part of that is that he’s the only Shogun I could name.

  2. Linda Tripp. And I’m sorry I can remember it.

  3. When a pawn is using its two space first movement from the initial line, if it passes an opposing pawn that could have taken it the next turn, had it moved forward only one space, that pawn could take the pawn in movement, and end up in the space between the space the captured pawn left, and the space the captured pawn moved to. The move is known by the French term: en passant, meaning “in passing.”

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1, 3 and 4 are right. Philip was assassinated in Macedonia, it was Alexander who died in Babylon. He did fight a huge battle at Issus, though, and was wounded there, so you’ve again impressed me with your wrong answer.

Slowly rising to -7.

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I think your strong suits to be US History (or history in general), and Literature. Other people seem to have that covered, so lemme hit you with some more science…

(2pt) How many chromosomes do humans have?

(2pt) What year did we abandon the Apollo missions?

(4pt) Approximately, how many miles is a light-year?

(4pt) How many miles away is the Moon from the Earth?

(6pt) Explain the cause of the Aurora Borealis.

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  1. I believe it’s 23 chromosome pairs.

  2. I’m not sure, I think it was 1973, but I could be off by a year either way. Come to think of it: do you consider Apollo-Soyuz to be part of the Apollo missions? I tend to think of Apollo as specifically the moon shots. If Apollo-Soyuz counts for your thinking that was 1975, I believe.

  3. 186,000 miles per second * 3600 seconds per hour *24 hours per day * 365.25 days per year gives me: 5869713600000 miles per year. Call it 5.87 * 10[sup]12[/sup] mpy.

  4. Oversimplifying grandly: because of the nature of the magentic belts around the Earth, charged particles from the sun (the solar wind) are directed to the (magnetic) poles. When the charged particles hit the atmosphere they interact with the matter there, releasing light. The Aurora Borealis are specifically those aurora that are associated with the north pole.

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Bah, I missed this one.

I think the Moon is about 350,000 miles from the Earth. (Mind you, I’m backing that in from remembering that the Apollo missions had a two-and-a-half second lag on the radio to and from Mission Control. And I just realized I can’t remember whether that’s one-way lag, or total lag both ways.)

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All correct! I started with 3 points, and you just gave me 11 more. I have 14 now, but I’m sure I was probably too generous with the point values. Let me try to think of some harder ones.

What is the name of the alien monster that killed Superman in the comic series? (3 points)

What are the names of the three sizes of coffee you can order at Starbucks? (2 points)

What are the names of the three “Green” properties in the Monopoly game, surpassed in value only by Boardwalk and Park Place? (3 points)

What is the name of the lizard (dragon!) voiced by Eddie Murphey in Disney’s Mulan? (3 points)

What sport is John Madden most closely associated with? (2 points)

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That should be more than 3 points! I’ve seen Mulan about five times (shush) and I can’t even remember.

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  1. Bingo.

  2. I’m sorry, I should’ve been more specific. I was only talking about the moon shots. In that case, you were so close… it was December of 1972. They had 3 more missions planned (up through Apollo 20) but scrapped them due to budget and the impending Shuttle campaign. You were right about Soyuz tho. :wink:

  3. Bullseye.

  4. Good enough for me!

brings me up to:
cmyk = +23

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Nice logic, but it’s ~250,000 miles distant. I believe that delay, was in fact a round trip estimate.

Knocks me down to:
cmyk = +19

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  1. It was called Doomsday. If it had a name of its own, I’ve never heard about it.

  2. Venti, Grande, and Longi?

  3. Pacific Avenue, North Carolina Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue?

  4. Family Spirit That Always Messes Everything Up? (As opposed to The Great Stone Dragon who was supposed to go with Mulan.) I’m already annoyed I can’t remember this. :wink:

  5. Football. (Electronic version mostly.)