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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LadyNym 
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Almaty, Kazakhstan submitted to Geography, and sturgeon to Animals. I'll pick a new pair (my third) tomorrow morning. Reply #41. Apr 30 18, 6:15 PM |
FatherSteve
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I just uploaded Parma ham to Hobbies. Now may I please have, as my third pair, reef and the Chicxulub impactor? Reply #42. Apr 30 18, 8:56 PM |
| FatherSteve
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Very sorry! Angikar already took "reef." My error. May I have "semicolon" instead? Reply #43. Apr 30 18, 8:59 PM |
kyleisalive
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Sasha Velour submitted to TV. Will get to my other soon enough. Reply #44. May 01 18, 1:04 AM |
angikar
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Reached a century. :-) Reply #45. May 01 18, 3:00 AM |
trident
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Congrats! It feels so good to hit that milestone. Reply #46. May 01 18, 3:49 AM |
| LadyNym
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May I have :"spear" and "Kingdom of Sardinia", please? Reply #47. May 01 18, 5:02 AM |
gme24
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Aeschylus and tractor for me please. Reply #48. May 01 18, 5:31 AM |
| gme24
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Have submitted "tractor" in the Sports category and "Aeschylus" in History. Reply #49. May 01 18, 6:10 AM |
Joepetz
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I submitted veldt to Geography and Austrian Succession to History. Reply #50. May 01 18, 7:18 AM |
| Joepetz
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I'll take galleon and Catherine de Medici. Reply #51. May 01 18, 7:19 AM |
Fifiona81
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I've submitted cameo to TV and Edward the Confessor to World. Reply #52. May 01 18, 9:22 AM |
spanishliz
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Glockenspiel has been submitted to Music. I expect Ansel Adams will go to People, but has not yet done so. Reply #53. May 01 18, 4:58 PM |
| FatherSteve
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The one about the Chicxulub impactor just went up in Science/Technology; the one about the semi-colon is done but I bumped up against the "no more than five questions in the queue at one time" rule again so I will upload the semi-colon once there is room. I'll hold off claiming my last pair until the last half of this pair goes up. Reply #54. May 01 18, 5:53 PM |
| FatherSteve
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Wow! That was quick! I just uploaded semi-colon in Humanities. Now may I please have, for my fourth and last pair: cellar and philosopher’s stone. Reply #55. May 01 18, 6:48 PM |
| angikar
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I am claiming 'marsh' and 'Imagine Dragons'. Reply #56. May 01 18, 10:59 PM |
| angikar
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'Marsh' has been submitted in Sci/Tech. 'Imagine Dragons' will be submitted soon, in Music. Reply #57. May 01 18, 11:25 PM |
| kyleisalive
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'Settler' sent to Hobbies. That's me for this one. Reply #58. May 02 18, 12:37 AM |
| angikar
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'Imagine Dragons' submitted in Music. Alas, I can't claim any more word pairs for now. Have to wait for the day when only three-four pairs are left, and Trident opens up the round to all. Reply #59. May 02 18, 3:30 AM |
| FatherSteve
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Here are my last two for this round: cellar uploaded to Literature and philosopher's stone uploaded to Humanities. Did anyone get the sense that this list was just a touch more challenging than the first two? Or was it just my usual and customary obtuseness kicking in? Reply #60. May 02 18, 1:52 PM |
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