Subject: 100 Nouns (3) - COMPLETE
Posted by: trident
Date: Apr 28 18
Round 3 of 100 Nouns has arrived!
Here's a reminder on 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. 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!
After some discussion with my fellow editors, we have established some more thorough rules to make the game run smoother. Please read them below:
1. Players may not have any remaining word pairs outstanding from the previous round if they want to claim any words this round. Word pairs from the previous round should be submitted to the queue before claiming any here.
2. In order to give everyone a fair shake at the word pairs, we are only allowing individual players to claim four word pairs per round. If many words have been sitting around unclaimed for a while (think 3-4 weeks), then we will open the round back up to everyone.
3. There will be no switching of words or word pairs of any kind. If you have decided to claim a word pair, please stick with it and submit it to the queue. If you absolutely cannot complete your word pair, it will be put back onto the word list and you may not complete any more word pairs for that round.
Happy single questioning!
List A (generic nouns)
airbag
almond
atmosphere
atom
buggy
cameo
canoe
card
cellar
chopsticks
concrete
cyst
doe
doll
engine
fencing
galleon
glockenspiel
hope
hut
kite
lumber
maracas
marsh
outfit
ornament
page
parade
pastor
piano
pilot
princess
quartz
reef
semicolon
settler
snowman
society
spear
stallion
sturgeon
sugar
surfboard
tractor
trellis
veldt
warlock
workshop
wrist
zipper
List B (specific nouns)
“A Boy Named Sue”
Aeschylus
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Ansel Adams
Appian Way
banded sugar ant
barefoot doctors
Battle of Borodino
Catherine de Medici
“Charlie Hebdo”
Chicxulub impactor
“Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”
chinoiserie
coral bleaching
cryptocurrency
Dido of Carthage
Edward the Confessor
Esperanto language
“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”
flamenco guitar
Fort Ticonderoga
Frances McDormand
HMS Bounty
Hu Zhengyan
Imagine Dragons
Joe Friday
Kamala Khan
Kalahari Desert
Kingdom of Sardinia
“Las Meninas”
“Lotus Sutra”
magnetic resonance imaging
Manchu people
Marrakesh, Morocco
motte-and-bailey
nickel-cadmium battery
oligodynamic effect
Parma ham
philosopher’s stone
pigeon photography
“Remembrance of Things Past”
Sasha Velour
scarlet macaw
short-beaked echidna
“The False Mirror”
Treponema pallidum
Tsarskoye Selo
Vijayanagara Empire
War of the Austrian Succession
whale oil
Posted by: trident
Date: Apr 28 18
Round 3 of 100 Nouns has arrived!
Here's a reminder on 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. 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!
After some discussion with my fellow editors, we have established some more thorough rules to make the game run smoother. Please read them below:
1. Players may not have any remaining word pairs outstanding from the previous round if they want to claim any words this round. Word pairs from the previous round should be submitted to the queue before claiming any here.
2. In order to give everyone a fair shake at the word pairs, we are only allowing individual players to claim four word pairs per round. If many words have been sitting around unclaimed for a while (think 3-4 weeks), then we will open the round back up to everyone.
3. There will be no switching of words or word pairs of any kind. If you have decided to claim a word pair, please stick with it and submit it to the queue. If you absolutely cannot complete your word pair, it will be put back onto the word list and you may not complete any more word pairs for that round.
Happy single questioning!
List A (generic nouns)
List B (specific nouns)
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gme24 
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Have submitted "kite" in the animals category and "Kalahari Desert" in Geography. Reply #21. Apr 29 18, 3:23 AM |
dcpddc478
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I will take concrete & banded sugar ant...please Reply #22. Apr 29 18, 6:19 AM |
spanishliz
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I'll try a watery theme: canoe and HMS Bounty please. Reply #23. Apr 29 18, 6:53 AM |
angikar
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'Wrist' has been submitted in Sci/Tech. 'Magnetic resonance imaging' has been submitted in People. I was confused whether it should go in Sci/Tech or People. People seemed a better category. Let's see. Reply #24. Apr 29 18, 6:54 AM |
LadyNym
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"Almond" has been submitted to Geography, and "Appian Way" to Sports. Good thing I did not submit either question yesterday, as today they have come in handy for the Daily Challenge :-)! I will pick another pair later today. Reply #25. Apr 29 18, 7:25 AM |
| dcpddc478
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I have sugar banded ant in animals and concrete in history Reply #26. Apr 29 18, 8:22 AM |
FatherSteve
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May I have snowman and Marrakesh as my first pair, please? Reply #27. Apr 29 18, 10:20 AM |
mlcmlc
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I'd like to try airbag and Lotus Sutra, please Reply #28. Apr 29 18, 10:46 AM |
| FatherSteve
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I have snowman ready to go up in History and Marrakesh ready to go up in Music but my queue has five questions in it so it will not yet accept these two. Following the rules as I understand them, I won't choose another pair of nouns until these two are actually up and in the queue. Reply #29. Apr 29 18, 11:29 AM |
| LadyNym
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May I have "sturgeon" and "Almaty, Kazakhstan", please? Reply #30. Apr 29 18, 11:57 AM |
| FatherSteve
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Huzzah! Snowman was just uploaded to History, but there were four other questions in my queue so I'll report when Marrakesh goes up, before selecting two more. Reply #31. Apr 29 18, 3:11 PM |
| FatherSteve
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Double huzzah! Marrakesh uploaded to Music. May I please have atmosphere and Parma ham as my second pair? Reply #32. Apr 29 18, 5:54 PM |
| spanishliz
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Have submitted 'canoe' to Humanities and 'HMS Bounty' to History. Reply #33. Apr 29 18, 8:26 PM |
kyleisalive
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'Card' is in Entertainment and 'Eternal Sunshine' is in Movies. I'll be taking 'settler' and 'Sasha Velour' next, having neglected to spot the latter in my impulsive first pick and feared it being snagged by someone else. Reply #34. Apr 30 18, 1:02 AM |
| angikar
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Time for my third pair. 'Reef' and 'Esperanto' for me. Reply #35. Apr 30 18, 6:37 AM |
| spanishliz
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For my third pair, may I please have 'glockenspiel' and 'Ansel Adams'? Reply #36. Apr 30 18, 7:58 AM |
| angikar
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'Reef' submitted in Sci/Tech. Reply #37. Apr 30 18, 1:31 PM |
| angikar
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'Esperanto' submitted in World. Reply #38. Apr 30 18, 1:55 PM |
| angikar
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Before March 2018, I had written only 50 questions. In two months, my tally has doubled. All thanks to Trident's inspiration. I have currently 99 questions accepted, with 5 in the queue. By the time I wake up tomorrow, my score may reach three figures. So here's my subject-wise division. 99 and counting. Animals - 3 Entertainment - 1 General - 1 Geography - 8 History - 8 Hobbies - 2 Humanities - 1 Literature - 6 Movies - 2 Music - 3 People - 5 Religion - 5 Sci/Tech - 39 Sports - 9 World - 6 Reply #39. Apr 30 18, 2:18 PM |
| FatherSteve
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Atmosphere just went up in the Television category. Reply #40. Apr 30 18, 6:06 PM |
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