Subject: 100 Nouns (4) - COMPLETE
Posted by: trident
Date: May 27 18
For the next two rounds, we have two guest hosts! For 100 Nouns (4), our guest host is FatherSteve, who has so graciously provided us with these offerings. Best of luck to everyone!
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)
abcess
annatto
avocado
bathysphere
blazon
bucatini
buttonhole
caber
cadenza
calico
capillary
chasse
cog
cress
dental floss
dim sum
endpaper
ferrule
gargoyle
grimace
hernia
houndstooth
idyll
jonquil
kaleidoscope
lathe
lectern
leprechaun
macrophage
marrow
megalith
narcissism
oratorio
paracetamol
pumice
pyx
quiff
quince
quokka
shallot
sous-vide
Sousaphone
stagecoach
tarragon
tomatillo
tonic
tortoise
udder
valedictorian
yuzu
List B (specific nouns)
Abel Tasman
Akita
Antônio Carlos Jobim
Aotearoa
Belém , Brazil
bibimbap
Dick Deadeye
Dorothea Lange
Dr. Alan Grant
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Ehud the Deliverer
Foghorn Leghorn
Francisco Goya
haka
H. Muhammad Suharto
Horace Walpole
Iwa, son of Kukui
Jeju Island
Jeroboam
Johannes Kepler
Jutland
Kabuki
Kamchatka Peninsula
Louis Bleriot
Lydia Bennet
Mammy Yokum
moonchild
Margot Fonteyn
Marie Laveau
Moses ben Maimon
Mount Aconcagua
Nathaniel "Natty" Bumppo
Nicodemus
Okanogan
pallium
Pele's tears
Pernod Fils
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov
rougarou
scleroderma
Strait of Hormuz
Tomás de Torquemada
yaws
Yokohama, Japan
Zamboanga, Philippines
Zane Grey
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Zardoz
ZaSu Pitts
Posted by: trident
Date: May 27 18
For the next two rounds, we have two guest hosts! For 100 Nouns (4), our guest host is FatherSteve, who has so graciously provided us with these offerings. Best of luck to everyone!
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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And "oratorio" is finally in the queue (submitted in Humanities)! Reply #101. Jun 14 18, 1:09 PM |
celvet
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Aotearoa was accepted in geography and tonic was just accepted into humanities. Reply #102. Jun 15 18, 1:16 PM |
apathy100
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I'll take Okanagan and Sousaphone please! Reply #103. Jun 20 18, 8:35 PM |
rossian
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I'll tackle jonquil and Ehud the deliverer. Reply #104. Jun 21 18, 2:03 AM |
FatherSteve
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Tackling Ehud the Deliver could be very dangerous as he is armed. Reply #105. Jun 21 18, 4:22 PM |
angikar
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Hello everybody, I am back after a long time. I have to rewrite my question on 'Kepler's laws'. I still haven't written either 'cog' or 'Moses Maimonides'. Reply #106. Jun 22 18, 10:59 AM |
| angikar
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May I rewrite my question on Kepler? I think I have a better idea. Reply #107. Jun 22 18, 11:16 AM |
| FatherSteve
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I know I said I wouldn't "take" any of my own suggestions but, in order to move things along and to correct an error I made, let me take grimace and Zamboanga. I'll post grimace in General as soon as I have less than five questions in my queue. I stupidly posted Zamboanga in Geography on 29 April last, a month before my noun list was posted, and neglected to strike it from the list I sent to trident. Chalk it up to the ravages of old age on what's left of my originally-small brain. At least Zamboanga was played 312 times, answered correctly by 63% of the players and rated 0.3141, which is good. Whether one applies the 60-95% correctness requirement, posted on one page within the game, or the 55-95% requirement, posted on another page, this one passes. Reply #108. Jun 22 18, 12:13 PM |
masfon
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I'll take Nathaniel "Natty" Bumpoo and Lectern Reply #109. Jun 22 18, 6:11 PM |
kyleisalive
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Seven pairs remain. Reply #110. Jun 22 18, 10:23 PM |
spanishliz
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I've finally submitted bibimbap to Television, and stagecoach to Movies. Reply #111. Jun 23 18, 9:20 AM |
| spanishliz
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For my fourth (and final, for this set) pair, may I please have "udder" and "Dr Alan Grant"? Reply #112. Jun 23 18, 9:24 AM |
| FatherSteve
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Grimace posted to General; Zamboanga already posted. Those can be crossed off the available list and brings us down to six (or maybe five) pairs. Reply #113. Jun 23 18, 10:51 PM |
| celvet
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I have a couple of questions that might be appropriate here (or not -- don't hesitate to tell me if not). First: Is the "animals" category a popular category for questions? I ask because I have a question that has just been sitting in queue. I'm trying to be patient. . . Second: Is it possible to receive one of your questions on a mixed quiz (either from an individual question or from a quiz that has been written). I'm just wondering if I'll run into one of my questions -- probably with the result of answering it incorrectly. Reply #114. Jun 24 18, 6:09 AM |
| rossian
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Jonquil has gone to Hobbies and Ehud to Religion. Celvet - yes, you are quite likely to come across one of your own questions. The more you write, the more likely it becomes. I have got my own questions wrong more often than I care to remember - some I don't even remember writing. Reply #115. Jun 24 18, 9:42 AM |
| LadyNym
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Once, when playing the Mixed Game, I came across THREE of my own questions. Thankfully I answered all of them correctly :D! Though I generally recognize my questions, I would not put it past myself to give the wrong answer every now and then. Reply #116. Jun 24 18, 10:01 AM |
| angikar
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OK, 'Johannes Kepler' goes to Sci/Tech. I submitted a different question. On to 'cog' and 'Moses Maimonides'. I have to complete my commission quizzes as well! Damn real life. Reply #117. Jun 24 18, 3:11 PM |
| angikar
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'Cog' went to General. Maybe it will be moved to History, dunno. Reply #118. Jun 24 18, 3:22 PM |
| apathy100
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Okanagan went to Geography and Sousaphone went to People. Reply #119. Jun 25 18, 9:56 AM |
| angikar
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'Moses maimonides' goes to Religion. Backlog cleared here. Towards the Commission! Reply #120. Jun 26 18, 1:36 AM |
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