Subject: 100 Nouns (8) - COMPLETE
Posted by: trident
Date: Jan 18 19
Welcome to 100 Nouns 8! We have some more random nouns for everyone to peruse (being a contronym, that means you can read either closely or leisurely depending on your mood). Here's a reminder of how it 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.
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)
almanac
asparagus
barley
battery
beard
blowhole
boxer
bungalow
carapace
carpet
castanets
coach
cork
dinosaur
duty
faith
giant
gumshoe
halibut
jute
kiln
lark
lentil
lumberjack
monsoon
oatmeal
orchid
poem
portfolio
pupa
refectory
retina
saloon
salt
scarecrow
scissors
shrine
stable
tambourine
tincture
titanium
totem
tremor
turban
urn
village
wallaby
whirlpool
zither
zoo
List B (specific nouns)
alluvial fan
Atropa belladonna
“Baby Shark”
blood of St. Januarius
Centers for Disease Control
demerara sugar
Dionne Warwick
dust devil
Edmonton, Alberta
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Green Arrow
Hamburg Sea Devils
Helgi Hundingsbane
HMS Resolution
Immanuel Kant
I. M. Pei
“Incense and Peppermints”
infinity cove
International Women’s Day
Johannes Brahms
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Kona coffee
Kristi Yamaguchi
Linear B
Lotus Position
“Madama Butterfly”
medulla oblongata
Nicolas Maduro
Orinoco River
Paris Commune
Piophila casei
Pope Benedict IX
quantum mechanics
Queen Maud Land
raindrop cake
Raoul Wallenberg
Republic of Zaire
Ryukyu Islands
“Saturn Devouring His Son”
Scottie Pippen
Sumatran rhinoceros
Sutter’s Mill
Teutonic Order
“The Bride of Frankenstein”
“The Good Place”
Thomas Pynchon
Tierra del Fuego
triple-double
Typhoid Mary
Upper Paleolithic
Posted by: trident
Date: Jan 18 19
Welcome to 100 Nouns 8! We have some more random nouns for everyone to peruse (being a contronym, that means you can read either closely or leisurely depending on your mood). Here's a reminder of how it 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.
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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"Republic of Zaire" just submitted to History. And done for this round! Need to give the Wiki Chain a try now :-). Reply #101. Feb 01 19, 2:53 PM |
kyleisalive
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Isn't the list usually only opened to all after a lengthy time of inactivity, or do the last words just go to a free-for-all regardless? Reply #102. Feb 01 19, 4:02 PM |
Fifiona81
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I think I've still got a fourth pair to claim so will take kiln & HMS Resolution. Reply #103. Feb 01 19, 4:44 PM |
zorba_scank
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For my first pair, I'll take urn and Paris Commune. Reply #104. Feb 01 19, 4:55 PM |
trident
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I only open up the round if this thread has been sitting idle for a few weeks. It's only been two weeks since we started it! Reply #105. Feb 01 19, 6:32 PM |
| kyleisalive
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That's what I figured. Thanks! Reply #106. Feb 01 19, 6:47 PM |
| zorba_scank
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Urn went to General and Paris Commune to History. For my next pair, I'll take portfolio and Sumatran rhinoceros. Reply #107. Feb 01 19, 6:52 PM |
gracious1
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"Battery" went to Sci/Tech and "Immanuel Kant" went to Humanities. FIN Reply #108. Feb 02 19, 12:58 AM |
Godwit
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tincture and infinity cove please. Reply #109. Feb 03 19, 12:15 AM |
angikar
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Tick tock, tick tock, three little boys. Reply #110. Feb 03 19, 1:26 AM |
Shadowmyst2004
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Pupa and Helgi Hundingsbane submitted. My second pair of this round. Reply #111. Feb 05 19, 5:36 PM |
| Shadowmyst2004
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Stable and quantum mechanics done. My third pair this round. Reply #112. Feb 05 19, 5:50 PM |
| Shadowmyst2004
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Tremor, submitted, Triple-Double written but waiting for me to have an opening to submit. My 4th and final pair. I believe that closes out this round. Reply #113. Feb 05 19, 5:56 PM |
| Shadowmyst2004
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Had a really old rejected question I'd forgotten about, so I posted triple-double in that old one and submitted. That pair is in as well. Reply #114. Feb 05 19, 6:08 PM |
FatherSteve
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The rapidity with which we tear through fifty pairs is a reflection of the excellence of the idea of challenging folks this way. Reply #115. Feb 05 19, 7:39 PM |
| kyleisalive
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It would be interesting to see what kind of list would form if ten different people submitted ten different words (five and five). Reply #116. Feb 05 19, 8:32 PM |
celvet
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Kyle -- What do you mean? Reply #117. Feb 05 19, 9:46 PM |
| celvet
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Sorry, I get it. Reply #118. Feb 05 19, 9:47 PM |
| Shadowmyst2004
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I’d be down to submit some words. Caveat being that whoever submits them can’t use their own words in the next set. Reply #119. Feb 05 19, 10:58 PM |
| angikar
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Thanks, Shadow! Reply #120. Feb 06 19, 12:08 AM |
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