Trivia and Misc.
FOR EVERY ONE WEEK THAT A PLAYER WITH GREATER THAN 100 POINTS DOESN’T TRY A QUESTION, HE/SHE WILL GET A DEDUCTION OF -2 PTS. (I guess Roy’s score will just stop at 99, while Samuel’s will continue to decline until…)
Word Puzzles and Trivia:
3. What word starts with a word that means “endlessly enormous” but actually means “endlessly minuscule”? (3 points)
28. Unscramble AABEILOORT.
33. Unscramble this to form a common phrase: AAAAAACDDEEEEHKLNOOPPPRSTTWYY. (5 points)
61. What do Mexicans of mixed Spanish and Indian descent call themselves?
86. Unscramble ACEEHIDPR.
87. Unscramble AEEIPSSUV
90. Make 24 out of 108, 2008, 1002, 2, and 9.
91. Make 24 out of 174, 5, 27, 2, and 1.
92. In Scrabble, your rack spells EPLTSUR and there is an extra P on the board three spots away from a triple. What do you play, and how many points do you get?
94. This president was the first to die in office and stayed in office for less than 2 months. Who was he? Who was his relative, who was also president after him? (1 point each)
96. Name the presidents who died in office. (0.5 points each)
101. Which president was associated with the Teapot Dome Scandal?
102. Who succeeded Mao Zedong?
103. Which famous volume did Herodotus write?
104. Who is currently the president of South Africa?
105. Lusaka is the capital of what country?
106. Name the acts that Parliament passed against the colonies.
107. Who wrote “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”?
108. Unscramble EEILNORVW.
109. This president’s middle name was also the last name of a famous Iraqi dictator. Who is the president?
110. Who was president when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor?
111. What is the capital of Sri Lanka?
112. Which country’s capital is New Delhi?
113. Find these words on my website (This idea from Samuel): tycoons, apartheid, cholera, humanitarian, username, background, nauseous, derogatory (2 pts each)
NEW! The Trivia at Lunch program involves me asking a few people trivia questions. As of 4/22/09, Samuel, Roy, Andrew K, and I had the first trivia at lunch. At this game, I wrote down a few questions and asked players to answer them. Roy won the event with 18 points, Samuel was a close 17, and Andrew scored his first two points on my blog by answering this question: Unscramble UAINPTO. Do it for one point!
T. A. L. 1 Winner: Roy Li.
T. A. L. 2 Winner: Roy Li.
And now for the misc:
SCRABBLE matches! After my 300-120-192 victory over Roy and Ms. Paisie, I lost a few games to both of them. Throughout this period of time Roy bingoed–GREASES–and won a few games. Then, on 4/28/09, came my bingo FAILURE, which earned 71 points (though I must credit Ms. Paisie with helping me to put it somewhere), pushing me to a 233-175 (Ms. Paisie)-105 (Roy) win. I also had SHOELACE but nowhere to put it–I guess rotten luck avoided me! But I can never forget the birthday match on Roy’s birthday, when Roy and I each bingoed (ARRIVED for Roy and GRUELING for me). Roy won the game.
And on 5/12/09, !?!?! 3 bingoes at Scrabble Club. Roy’s bingo–ROOMIER, and my bingo–MEATIER/ERR. (Roy challenged both words; he lost both challenges.) And Christine bingoed, but I’m not sure what it was… Anyways, Roy won by 100 points, 212-112-109 (someone else playing us).
Any other exciting games that took place?
NEWS: The winners for this year’s NATIONAL Scrabble match are from Apex and go to Salem Elementary School. Of course, Roy and I would never beat them–their score was in the 300s!
——————SCOREBOARD—————-
1. Samuel-124 2. Roy-103 3. Andrew K.-2 4. Ethan-1.5 5. Ms. Paisie-1
QUARTER 3 WINNER: SAMUEL CHAO WITH 14.5 POINTS (and it looks like he’ll win Q4 unless Roy…)
Yeah, Roy did get the lead with his palindromes.
*Note: Anybody who is not one of the following: Roy, Samuel C, or Ms. Paisie will get one additional point.
Entries (RSS)
March 6th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Teriyakis?
March 7th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
wow, are YOUR dreams boring! streakyii, hmm.. rakeysiti. tarkiyesi. yesiratik. kiseriaty. gotta go with Samuel’s!
March 7th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Correct, both of you!
March 8th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
dump the fifth cup into the second cup
March 8th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
ARGHH, you got that one! Hey, it was in Ms. Schuster’s PAC class! I was going to ask somebody else to answer it, like Samuel, but you got that one. Oh well, I’ll credit you.
March 13th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
What’s the question?
March 13th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Who’s a knight and who’s a knave
March 16th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Candidtruthfulalien is the knave and Crypticquixoticalienfibber is a knight
March 17th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Yeah, correct.
March 24th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Method 1.
12×8x1=96
96/4=24
Method 2.
12+4+8=24
24/1=24
March 24th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
You guys are smart. I have absolutely no clue what you’re talking about
March 24th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
OH i got one! Without looking at Sam’s!
Method 1: 12×1+8+4
and I couldn’t find the other one.
March 24th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
What’s up with the Teriyaki thing?
March 24th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Double credit!
March 26th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
1. Unconsciousness (I think you forgot a “u”)
2. Do you have to use all the letters on your rack? I would play unusual.
March 26th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Oh yeah,I did.
Correct for both.
March 27th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Mite, item, emit, and time for number 4
March 28th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Ugh! Yes again.
April 1st, 2009 at 6:54 pm
pulchritude
April 1st, 2009 at 6:57 pm
7. 576×1/24×1=24
2010-2009=1
24×1=24
April 1st, 2009 at 7:02 pm
three for pronoun
April 1st, 2009 at 7:03 pm
6. three: here, there, her, and he
April 1st, 2009 at 7:30 pm
such a word does not exist
(anagram one)
April 1st, 2009 at 7:32 pm
5. TYPO
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Roy.
19 correct
21 incorrect, but 0.5 points for error diagnosis
23 error diagnosis (I spelled that word wrong) should be prestidigitation-1 point
TOTAL: 2.5
Samuel
20 correct
21 incorrect, but 0.5 points for error diagnosis
24 error diagnosis (I spelled that word wrong) should be prestidigitation-1 point
TOTAL: 2.5
April 3rd, 2009 at 3:42 pm
8. Phrase: Draw, o coward
9. John? John Adams, John Quincy Adams, JFK, John Tyler
10. George? George Washington, George Bush (both)
April 5th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
8 correct
9 and 10 wrong
April 6th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
9. James? James Garfield, James Madison, James Monroe, James Buchanan, Jimmy Carter
10. John
April 6th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
11. error…actually I don’t know
15. qin, qat, qatar, qindar, qintar
April 6th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
9 and 10 correct!
11 correct
15 + 5
Wow, you almost doubled your score!
April 6th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
I take that back.
Qatar is not a common noun. It is proper.
April 9th, 2009 at 8:50 am
18. Trident
April 9th, 2009 at 8:52 am
16. C
April 9th, 2009 at 8:53 am
14. reincarnation
April 9th, 2009 at 9:32 am
All correct
April 15th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
20. no, b/c shadows are TINY during noon
April 15th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
16. well it’s st. petersburg b/c it’s transiberia which means across siberia.
April 15th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
FAQIR — Muslim or Hindu monk
FAQIRS — plural of FAQIR
QABALA — body of mystical teachings
QADI — Islamic judge
QADIS — plural of QADI
QAID — a Muslim tribal chief or senior official
QAIDS — plural of QAID
QANAT — gently sloping underground tunnel for irrigation
QANATS — plural of QANAT
QAT — leaf of the shrub Catha edulis
QATS — plural of QAT
QI — a circulating life energy in Chinese philosophy
QINDAR — Albanian currency
QINDARKA
QINDARS
QINTAR
QINTARS
QOPH
QOPHS
QWERTY
QWERTY
SHEQEL
SHEQELIM
TRANQ
TRANQS
April 15th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
12. caveat emptor
13. mea culpa
17. congratulations
21. desalination
22. empirical
23. liable/alible
24. susurrus? blind guess
AND NO! I didn’t cheat…I will explain how I got each answer if you really want to know
April 15th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
GODDD, Roy, you didn’t have to do so many. I wasn’t expecting you to gain 24 points off that question! And +1 for 20, so 25.5 total! For 16, you get 0.5. Stalingrad was a Russian city’s name. (Hint: setting)
Oh my god, Samuel, +8, and for no. 23 there’s still another. 24 correct. Do you use dictionary.com? Because that’s where I got a lot of the words.
April 15th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
There’s more! Oi…umm…ilable?
labile, belali, labeil, I don’t know
Latin words from Mrs. Paisie…remember those?
no, I don’t use dictionary.com…I’m too good for it…just kidding
April 15th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
8.
RACECAR
DEED
LEVEL
PIP
ROTOR
CIVIC
POP
MADAM
EYE
NUN
RADAR
TOOT
MOM
DAD
MADAM, I’M ADAM
RACE FAST SAFE CAR
I
A
ROTOR
SOLOS
SAGAS
April 15th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
labile is correct
oh, Roy, plurals won’t count, so I guess 16.5
April 16th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
and, qindar and qintar have already been said
pets step
dog god
stressed desserts
step on no pets
a dog, a panic in a pagoda
never even
no lemon, no melon
April 16th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Roy, +19 (but -5 for cheating–I’m being lenient)
Samuel, +9
April 16th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
20. etiolate-weaken
21. junipers-evergreen trees or shrubs of the genus Juniperus
April 18th, 2009 at 9:15 am
23. paragraph
24. alliteration
April 19th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
25. headers, sheared, hearsed
26. liabilities
April 19th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
sorry….27. liabilities
29. Sudan
30. Harare
32. syzygy
35. friction
37. Robert E. Lee
38. Preamble
41. Indian Ocean
42. lieutenant governor
44. Gershwin
45. forty
46. Judicial
47. jamboree
50. Fidel Castro
51. Hawaii
52. Americo Vespucci
53. Guyana…it’s in South America
April 19th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
25 +3
27 correct
29 correct
30 correct
32 correct (how?)
35 correct
37 incorrect
38 correct
39 correct
42 correct
44 first name? +0.5 anyways
45 correct
46 incorrect
47 correct
50 correct
51 correct
52 spelled wrong, +0.5
53 correct
SAMUEL: +17 total
April 19th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
19. 3(5+5+-2)
26. Washington D.C.
28.error
31.Ephemeral
36. Friction Drag Tension
37. Jefferson Davis I think
40. London
43. Oskar Schindler
46. Judicial
48. Nuclear Physicist
49. TUBA
54. Haiti
55. Kingdom
April 19th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
19 correct
26 correct
28 wrong
31 correct
36 acceptable
37 correct
40 correct
43 correct
46 WRONG that’s what Samuel said
48 correct
49 correct
54 correct
55 correct
April 19th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Therefore, Roy has +10
April 19th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
57. aqueduct
April 19th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
57 correct
I was just updating the page
April 19th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
56. lutein
57. aqueduct
60. Charles Lindbergh
65. juggernaut
66. 3/5
67. Robert Stalin
68. James Buchanan
69. aparteid
70. Mt. Everest in Nepal
71. Gerald Ford
72. Howard Taft
74. muscles of the heart
75. 88
76. 800 or 900…i dont know
77. K
78. sink down; rise up
79. white
80. China
81. temperature
82. tyrannasaurus rex? mammoth? elephant? now i’m just guessing
April 19th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
56 wrong! think simpler
57 already answered
60 correct
65 correct
66 wrong
67 wrong
68 correct
69 spelled wrong–spelling is an important thing that you need to learn when managing a blog. +0.5
70 wrong
71 correct…hmm…how did you know?
72 William Howard Taft, acceptable
74 correct
75 correct
76 none but the number is equally far from both guesses
77 correct
78 correct for both, plus 2
79 wrong…you’re not cheating
80 correct
81 correct…cheating?
82 wrong for all
April 19th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
So you have 10.5 points from that…
I guess that’s more your level.
April 19th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
how is one of mine acceptable?? those are forces. you can’t say that any are more important than others. if you wikipedia force, i bet they are on there
56. vitamin AAAAAA =)
58. Clara BartoN
59. 9/11/2001… wtc and pentagon and penn. field crashes
61. moreno
62. ohio or virginia depends where you decide to put William Henry Harrison in (older life ohio, younger life virginia)
63. Tokyo
64. CA, AZ, NM (new mexico i think), TX
66. 2/3
67. Mikhail Gorbachev.
70. mount Olympus if you mean whole solar system
Chimborazo if you mean only the earth b/c of equatorial bulge (it’s farthest from center of earth)
73. 50 miles
76. 850
79. idk.. i’ll guess black for the heck of it
82 blue whale
April 20th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
56. Vitamin A (not vitamin AAAAAA)
81. I’M NOT CHEATING, IN CASE YOU REMEMBER, MY LANGUAGE ARTS WEBSITE PROJECT WAS ON ALLIGATORS…bad choice of question…
April 21st, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Roy
56 correct
58 correct
59 correct
61 wrong
62 virginia is correct
63 correct
64 correct
66 correct
67 correct
70 incorrect…my website didn’t say so
73 how did you know?
76 correct
79 correct
82 correct
ROY: +12
Samuel
56 correct
81 fine…
SAMUEL: +1
April 21st, 2009 at 3:19 pm
31. ephemeral
61. latino
70. K2
April 21st, 2009 at 3:34 pm
31 correct
61 incorrect
70 also wrong
April 21st, 2009 at 4:53 pm
umm Chimborazo IS the farthest from the center of the earth
Mauna Kea could also be one
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Whatever, Mauna Kea is correct, +1
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:58 pm
83. quiddity
84. flare, feral, flear, rafel, lefar?? i don’t know
85. mediocre
88. epilepsy
93. pessimist; optimist
100. invidious
April 22nd, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Ahh! Comment invasion! Roy came in 7 minutes ago.
83. correct
84. Trivia at lunch! +2
85. correct
88 correct
93 correct, +4
100 correct
April 22nd, 2009 at 5:03 pm
92. purplest
94. William Henry Harrison; John Tyler?
95. Confederate and Union; Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant
96. William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, JFK, Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley
99. sinister minister
April 22nd, 2009 at 5:58 pm
92 correct; +1 (score?)
94 +1; they must have the same last name. Maybe I didn’t word clearly; not directly after him, so +0.5
95 oh wow, it’s back in 1781, not 1865. I purposely changed the questions.
96 +5/2
99 correct
SAMUEL: 5.5
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:32 pm
28, 86, 87. ERRORS!!
89. yellow fellow
95. um….Cornwallis? that’s the only other battle I know in Yorktown
97. According to the theory of pangaea, the continents were all one big continent and they split apart over time. The bottom half of when the continents first split was named Gondwanaland.
98. I SAW IT AT THE LIBRARY!! DANIEL DAFO…or something like that…dufoe? defo?
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:45 pm
95. Washington for America
Cornwallis for Britain
Rochambeau for LA FRANCE
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Samuel:
28, 86, 87 all wrong
89 correct
95 correct, +1
97 correct
98 defoe is correct, +0.5
3.5
Roy:
95 +3
3
May 4th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
that’s kind of cruel Justin, forcing people to do your page when they don’t want to
I’m going to file a complaint
May 4th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
You’re going to file a complaint to whom?
But I told you, you’re safe. While you go down, Roy will also go down. And by the way, if you answer 5 questions at a time you’re safe for 5 weeks. If you answer 5 questions at a time and they’re all correct, you’re safe for 10 weeks. And what you did on your page…