Subject: 100 Nouns (5) - COMPLETE
Posted by: trident
Date: Jul 15 18
This round was written by Angikar. Let's see if we can wrap our brains around these offerings!
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)
advocate
apricot
assessment
brick
butter
cargo
ceiling
centre
distance
drawing
ember
elephant
estuary
finger
frame
game
gentleman
hurdle
igloo
jelly
king
knickers
lion
lorry
mantle
mistake
nostalgia
orange
otter
pastel
pattern
police
porridge
ranking
rescue
ring
rucksack
saddle
singer
squid
string
talisman
telephone
tick
tweezer
ulcer
vertex
writer
yard
zenith
List B (specific nouns)
Angkor Wat
Audrey Hepburn
Battle of the Somme
Biot-Savart Law
Chelsea
Columbia University
Cretaceous Period
Derweze
Emily Dickinson
Exxon Mobil
Fernando Alonso
Frederic Forsyth
Galvanometer
Gammaxene
Garfield Sobers
'Hard Times'
Ho Chi Minh City
'How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb'
Hugh Jackman
hydrogen peroxide
IKEA
Ingrid Bergman
Inuktitut
John Rockefeller
Jimmy Fallon
Krishna
Lesotho
Magellanic Cloud
Medulla Oblangata
Muhammad bin Tughlaq
Oman
Orion
Otto Octopus
Pfizer
Punic Wars
River Po
Robert Brown
'Schindler's List'
Selenium
Sicilian Defence
'Speak Now'
Square Drive
'Swans Reflecting Elephants'
'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'
'The Man Who Knew Too Much'
'The Marriage of Figaro'
Tuaregs
Verizon
Wells and Fargo
Wyoming
Good luck!
Posted by: trident
Date: Jul 15 18
This round was written by Angikar. Let's see if we can wrap our brains around these offerings!
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)
Good luck!
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kyleisalive
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Re: “We gotta use the posts, not the list, since they aren't always crossed off instantly. “ I’ll preemptively take game and ‘How to Dismantle...’. I hope to do some cross-outs to update the lists soon but I have a plane to catch! You’re at my mercy for cross-outs and I’m on vacation. ;) Reply #21. Jul 15 18, 10:57 PM |
| kyleisalive
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Keith— make sure to take one from List A and one from List B. We should always run even. Reply #22. Jul 15 18, 11:42 PM |
leith90 
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Oops, yes, Sorry lyle. I got excited when I saw Hugh Jackman. Since I've already done a question on the medulla, I'll take the ulcer. Handing over Hugh will probably give me one, but it's all in the name of research. Reply #23. Jul 16 18, 12:27 AM |
apathy100
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Inuktitut was submitted to "world" while rescue was submitted to "television". Reply #24. Jul 16 18, 8:00 AM |
spanishliz
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May I have 'lorry' and 'Fernando Alonso' for my second pair, please? Reply #25. Jul 16 18, 11:18 AM |
gme24
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Ceiling and Garfield Sobers please. Reply #26. Jul 16 18, 2:06 PM |
LadyNym
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"River Po" was submitted in Geography and "squid" in Humanities (though in both questions there are references to other categories). For my second pair, may I have "butter" and "Chelsea", please? Reply #27. Jul 16 18, 2:08 PM |
Fifiona81
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I'll take otter and Audrey Hepburn Reply #28. Jul 16 18, 4:16 PM |
1nn1
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Butter and Oman please. Reply #29. Jul 16 18, 4:27 PM |
FatherSteve
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Fifiona81 wrote: "I'll take otter and Audrey Hepburn." The mental image created thereby cracked me up. Actor Tim Matheson played Otter in "National Lampoon's Animal House" (1978) and the juxtaposition of him (in that character) with Audrey Hepburn is just too funny. Thanks for a light moment on a too-hot day in the Pacific Northwest. Reply #30. Jul 16 18, 4:46 PM |
| leith90
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Ulcer and medulla oblongata are both queued in Sci-Tech. Reply #31. Jul 16 18, 9:44 PM |
| Fifiona81
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Ha! You're welcome, although I've never seen that film so can't appreciate the joke :) Reply #32. Jul 17 18, 1:01 AM |
| Fifiona81
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Otter has been submitted to animals and Audrey Hepburn to celebrities. Reply #33. Jul 17 18, 7:04 AM |
Joepetz
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I will take rucksack and Tuaregs. I submitted King to People and Angkor Wat to Religion Reply #34. Jul 17 18, 7:56 AM |
Godwit
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Brick and Gammaxene are in the building. Reply #35. Jul 17 18, 11:05 AM |
| Godwit
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TAKEN but not crossed out: Ulcer, lorry, ceiling, butter, otter, rucksack (butter again- I sent a note), igloo. List 2 Taken but Not Crossed Out: Medulla Oblangata, Fernando Alonso, Garfield Sobers, Chelsea, Audrey Hepburn, Oman, Tuaregs, Otto Octopus I took igloo and Otto Octopus, 3rd pair, thank you. Reply #36. Jul 17 18, 11:15 PM |
| 1nn1
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I see that "butter" was claimed before I did the same. I therefore need to choose another word which will be "orange" Reply #37. Jul 17 18, 11:33 PM |
| Godwit
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TAKEN but not crossed out: Ulcer, lorry, ceiling, butter, otter, rucksack, orange, igloo. List 2 TAKEN but Not Crossed Out: Medulla Oblangata, Fernando Alonso, Garfield Sobers, Chelsea, Audrey Hepburn, Oman, Tuaregs, Otto Octopus Reply #38. Jul 17 18, 11:55 PM |
| gme24
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Have submitted Ceiling in the Music category and Garfield Sobers in the people category. Reply #39. Jul 18 18, 4:51 AM |
| zorba_scank
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Both Krishna and lion have been submitted to Religion. I will take talisman and Muhammad bin Tughlaq for my second pair. Thanks for the summary, Godwit. Reply #40. Jul 18 18, 5:18 AM |
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