Subject: 100 Nouns (1) - COMPLETE
Posted by: trident
Date: Mar 23 18
Hi all. Now that we have new badges for single questions, it is time for us to start a game for them to help inspire us here in the Lounge. Writing single questions is much faster than quiz writing, so we need lots of prompts...100 perhaps? This is how the game works. I will give two lists, each with 50 items. The first list will contain generic nouns that might be pretty easy to work into a question in many different ways. These would be words like clock, strawberry, or heart. The second list has much more specific words that are likely going to have to be directly about that topic (unless you can find an inventive way to make them about something else). This list would include things like Mount Kilimanjaro, Ulysses S. Grant, and barometric pressure. Some of the entries on this second list will be something you might need to research a little!
Authors must choose a word from each list, one generic and one specific, and write one question about each. Once you claim a word from a list, it is no longer available for other players to claim it. All nouns eventually have to be claimed before the series can end, so you better choose the one you want early! Once you have written your two questions and submitted them to the queue, you are free to choose two more. It might be good manners not to keep choosing too many in a row too quickly, allowing others a chance at the list. Submitting and claiming words will mostly be on the honor system. You must submit the two questions to the queue before claiming any more. I will occasionally be checking the queue to make sure authors are actually submitting questions with their chosen nouns. Happy single questioning!
Last note: After writing and submitting the questions to the queue, we would appreciate it if players could then post in the thread which category each of their questions went to. This is will allow us to verify submissions much quicker!
List A (generic nouns)
abacus
appendix
bayou
blunder
brain
candle
carpenter
casino
chandelier
clam
clerk
coffin
consonant
copper
dagger
encouragement
enemy
goblin
guitarist
hanger
honey
hunter
hypnotism
ice
jasmine
jester
juice
ladybug
monitor
needle
nitrogen
octopus
palette
parsnip
pew
rail
record
renovation
rent
river
rosary
rose
rubber
snowflake
soil
umbrella
vein
wallet
whisker
yarn
List B (specific nouns)
Aleutian Islands
anastrophe
anthracite
baba ghanoush
bid whist
Bootes void
catalytic converter
chiaroscuro
chicken biryani
"The Count of Monte Cristo"
Dave Brubeck
diacritical mark
diminishing returns
Dungeness crab
East India Company
Edvard Munch
"Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"
"Escape to Margaritaville"
French Third Republic
Gainsborough hat
Goliath birdeater
"Hagar the Horrible"
Himeji Castle
"His Girl Friday"
Huey Teocalli
"I Believe I Can Fly"
Isaac Asimov
Lagos, Nigeria
Lake Baikal
Lordagsgodis
Maracana Stadium
mass driver
Michel Foucault
Niels Bohr
pituitary gland
pyroclastic flow
"Quantum Leap"
"Ramayana"
Richard Dean Anderson
Ryan Coogler
Saint Anthony of Padua
"Smoke on the Water"
sodium hypochlorite
steganography
Suleiman the Magnificent
Times New Roman
triple Lutz
Venus Williams
West Lothian
Yi Sun-sin
Posted by: trident
Date: Mar 23 18
Hi all. Now that we have new badges for single questions, it is time for us to start a game for them to help inspire us here in the Lounge. Writing single questions is much faster than quiz writing, so we need lots of prompts...100 perhaps? This is how the game works. I will give two lists, each with 50 items. The first list will contain generic nouns that might be pretty easy to work into a question in many different ways. These would be words like clock, strawberry, or heart. The second list has much more specific words that are likely going to have to be directly about that topic (unless you can find an inventive way to make them about something else). This list would include things like Mount Kilimanjaro, Ulysses S. Grant, and barometric pressure. Some of the entries on this second list will be something you might need to research a little!
Authors must choose a word from each list, one generic and one specific, and write one question about each. Once you claim a word from a list, it is no longer available for other players to claim it. All nouns eventually have to be claimed before the series can end, so you better choose the one you want early! Once you have written your two questions and submitted them to the queue, you are free to choose two more. It might be good manners not to keep choosing too many in a row too quickly, allowing others a chance at the list. Submitting and claiming words will mostly be on the honor system. You must submit the two questions to the queue before claiming any more. I will occasionally be checking the queue to make sure authors are actually submitting questions with their chosen nouns. Happy single questioning!
Last note: After writing and submitting the questions to the queue, we would appreciate it if players could then post in the thread which category each of their questions went to. This is will allow us to verify submissions much quicker!
List A (generic nouns)
List B (specific nouns)
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kyleisalive
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Not a glitch; just a result of manual HTML tagging. Reply #141. Mar 28 18, 10:47 AM |
| kyleisalive
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Six pairs to go! What pair will be the last remaining? What will happen when we reach the end of the list? ALL THIS AND MORE. Reply #142. Mar 28 18, 1:40 PM |
angikar 
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I think there will be a problem with the last few pairs..Players might want to write for one word but not the other... Reply #143. Mar 28 18, 2:31 PM |
| kyleisalive
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I don't really see it as a problem; part of these games is to push people out of their comfort zones. If there were other words they wanted to claim, it's first-come-first-serve. Reply #144. Mar 28 18, 2:33 PM |
tiye
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Renovation submitted to Humanities. Reply #145. Mar 28 18, 3:36 PM |
Fifiona81
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I'll take palette and goliath birdeater Reply #146. Mar 28 18, 3:44 PM |
trident
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I have submitted anthracite to Sci/Tech and juice to Hobbies. I am going take wallet and anastrophe to keep narrowing down these options. Almost to the finish line, folks! Reply #147. Mar 28 18, 5:49 PM |
apathy100
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I will claim bid whist and hypnotism please! Reply #148. Mar 28 18, 6:35 PM |
| apathy100
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Bid whist and hypnotism have now been submitted. Reply #149. Mar 28 18, 6:56 PM |
FatherSteve
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I have submitted "yarn" in Humanities and "His Girl Friday" in "Movies." Reply #150. Mar 28 18, 6:59 PM |
| FatherSteve
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Let me amend that last post for accuracy's sake. I submitted the one about "yarn" and attempted to submit the one about "His Girl Friday" but the filter on the single-questions submission site would not allow more than five questions to be pending editor review at once. It was y'all who urged me to get off my ??lemu (Hawaiian; you can look it up) and write some single questions. Might it not be friendlier to suspend the five-question rule during this period of intense compositional furor? Reply #151. Mar 28 18, 7:15 PM |
| kyleisalive
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Unfortunately, any suspension would be done by Terry alone-- it's hardwired into the single question submission process. Even editors are bound by the rule. That said, I can't imagine this being a one-off thing. Reply #152. Mar 28 18, 7:30 PM |
| trident
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I really appreciate your efforts to help out, FatherSteve! I am glad you came over here to the Lounge and wrote questions. "His Girl Friday" is yours. You do not need to have it submitted to the queue to claim it, though to claim new words you must have your previous words submitted to the queue. Reply #153. Mar 28 18, 7:55 PM |
| angikar
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Two left Reply #154. Mar 28 18, 10:17 PM |
spanishliz
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Mine are finally written and submitted: hanger to Humanities and triple lutz to Sports. Reply #155. Mar 28 18, 10:48 PM |
| Fifiona81
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Palette has been submitted to hobbies and Goliath birdeater to animals. Reply #156. Mar 29 18, 5:11 AM |
pinkbunny98
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"Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" accepted in Music, "Ice" just submitted to Hobbies Reply #157. Mar 29 18, 5:34 AM |
| angikar
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To fasten things up, I am claiming encouragement and catalytic converter. Encouragement will be submitted in Sports, and catalytic converter will be submitted in General. Reply #158. Mar 29 18, 10:20 AM |
| angikar
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Catalytic converter submitted in General. Reply #159. Mar 29 18, 10:34 AM |
| angikar
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Encouragement submitted to Sports. Reply #160. Mar 29 18, 11:11 AM |
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