Theresa=7 letters
Seven=5 letters
Five=4 letters
Legomancer=10
Ten=3
Three=5
Five=4
Be=2
Two=3
Three=5
Five=4
A= 1
One=3
Three=5
Five=4
Antisesquipedalial - Opposed to the use of large words.
DINGDINGDING! We have a winner!
God, I miss the Games Magazine scavenger hunts.
And earlier in his career he was also an architect. He helped design a church near me when I lived in Oxford,
The Ossuary in Sedlec, Czechoslovakia is decorated with the bones of approximately 40,000 plague victims. The artist responsible for the macabre décor was Frantisek Rindt. One of the most striking pieces, a chandelier, contains every bone in the human body (with multiple copies thereof, of course).
In Lojban, I know how to create type-4 fu’ivla.
Umm…I also know that in space, fire is spherical.
The English and French plural ending “-s” is the same only by coincidence.
The Latin word “habere”, meaning “to have” is unrelated to English “have” or German “haben”; also a coincidence.
Object-Subject-Verb word order is very rare in natural human languages, but has been found among some peoples of the Amazon river basin.
The Khoisan languages of southwest Africa have a very bizarre phonology. They have clicks not found in any other region of Earth so far.
The Basque language spoken in northern Spain and southwestern France is a language isolate; it has not been shown to be related to any other language. Another such isolate is Ainu, spoken in northern Japan.
Oh, and I am familiar with about 95% of the IPA symbols.
I can name the capital of any country.
The Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal is actually further west than the Pacific entrance.
The Libyan flag used to be completely white, but it resembled the surrender flag so it is now completely green.
I can also tell you the only Australian territory that has no capital. Try to guess which one…
I know it’s a bit late, but on behalf of all Dons fans, I sincerely apologise for that one, G.
The December 1983 issue of Games featured a bunch of letters asking what the product in question was, including one that was originally sent to Gourmet magazine. The results to this contest were printed in the April 1984 issue. One of the grand prizes was a complete set of Games Magazine.
Other items in that contest’s “to be found” list included a sugar packet with a picture of a woodpecker on it, a subscription stamp for Games Magazine from the Publisher’s Clearinghouse (or similar) sweepstakes, a picture of Gene Shalit, a phonebook listing from a person who shared his name with the name of the street he lives on, a postage stamp with a picture of a stamp on it, a jigsaw puzzle piece with a copyright symbol on it, a cartoon featuring a picture of a scientist, and a TV listing indicating that two TV shows running against each other on different networks featured the same star. I’m still looking for one of those.
Myron
From memory.
The definition of Abecedarian
It is nice to excel at something…
a) If we assume the day to start at 6 AM (or what we call 6 AM in our current system of hours/minutes/seconds), the next 10-milliday period begins at 6:14:24; you hit 50 millidays at 7:12.
b) If your pre-PowerPC Macintosh freezes because of misbehavior of the frontmost application, and you have unsaved work in another program that you desperately need to save, you can often do so by pressing the programmer’s key (or Command-Powerkey on newer 68K Macs) and typing:
SMFA700A9F4 <hard return>
PCFA700 <hard return>
G <hard return>
c) The order of the satellites of Jupiter known by us in the middle 1970s, from innermost to outermost, was Amalthea, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Jupiter VI, VII, X, XII, XI, VIII, and IX; for Saturn, for which 10 were known, the order was Janus, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Phoebe.
Alice Kramden’s (The Honeymooners) maiden name was Alice Gibson.
I once could recite The Cremation of Sam McGee, The Iceworm Cocktail, and The Shooting of Dan McGrew from memory. And I can still come pretty close.
Ahh one more!
Radioactivity - is the spontaneous uncontrollable disintegration of the nucleus of an atom, with the emission of particles and rays.
The only question I missed on a really difficult physics final about 25 years ago! :mad:
o…k… what was he talking about then?
To be or not to be; that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And, by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep -
No more, and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache…
unless you understand him to mean that he ends the ‘sea of troubles’ by doing something about them. (and by opposing…)
which actually makes sense within the context of the play.
i’m still not convinced it can’t be suicide, though.
and how many runs did he get? 4
and what average did he finish with? 99.96
i’m cheating. almost every australian knows these facts.
the ACT (australian capital territory)?
i can’t see why it would need one. it’s just a place for keeping politicians.
Also, Abecedarian means ‘one learning the rudiments elements of something’
(no, i didn’t look that up)
On the original 1st edition Dungeon Masters Guide, page 95 contains a sample dungeon. This is the same dungeon used in the 3rd Edition dungeon masters sample dungeon.
I have memorized the American Girls in chronological order.
I know Arlo Guthrie’s phone number.
youcangetanythingyouwant,
TN*hippie
Every Christmas, I’m convinced I’m the only person that seems to know…
It’s four colley birds, not calling birds.
Any real, non-negative number, raised to the fourth power,
has 0,1,5, or 6 as the last digit.
And they are symbolic of the four apostles Matthew, Mark, Luke and John (the numbers for all of the other days are symbolic of various Catholic beliefs as well; indeed, the whole song is thought by some to be something of a 17th-century Catholic mnemonic device).
Oh…and it’s actually “colly” birds - no “e”. A “colly bird” is a blackbird. “Colley” is just a variant spelling of “collie”.