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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Shadowmyst2004 
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Hamburg Sea Devils and coach have been submitted. Reply #41. Jan 22 19, 3:43 PM |
Godwit
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Lumberjack and Edmonton, Alberta, kindly. Reply #42. Jan 22 19, 10:49 PM |
angikar
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Kyle, just informing you, I think you forgot to cross out 'poem' and 'atropa belladonna', which ladynym used. Reply #43. Jan 22 19, 11:53 PM |
Joepetz
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I will take Cork and Raoul Wallenberg Reply #44. Jan 23 19, 8:11 AM |
| Joepetz
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Cork has been submitted to Geography and Raoul Wallenberg to People. Reply #45. Jan 23 19, 8:22 AM |
LadyNym
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"Poem" submitted in Literature, and "Atropa belladonna" in Humanities. Thanks, Angikar, for reminding Kyle to cross these two out :-)! For my third pair, I'll gladly take "monsoon" and "Orinoco River", please! Reply #46. Jan 23 19, 1:19 PM |
| Godwit
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Kyle gets busy sometimes and so we can help each other stay current, using the thread, until he can get to cross outs. Reply #47. Jan 23 19, 6:01 PM |
celvet
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"Lark" has been submitted to animals and "alluvial fan" has been submitted to science/tech Reply #48. Jan 23 19, 9:24 PM |
| celvet
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I think that I will now try "halibut" and "upper paleolithic". Reply #49. Jan 23 19, 9:30 PM |
leith90
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'Turban' has been submitted to Literature and 'Green Arrow' to Entertainment. Reply #50. Jan 24 19, 12:03 AM |
Fifiona81
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I'll take a second pair - zither and Dionne Warwick Reply #51. Jan 24 19, 5:30 AM |
| LadyNym
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"Monsoon" submitted to Humanities, and "Orinoco River" to Animals. Tried to be creative here :-)! For my fourth and final pair, I'll take "shrine" and "Republic of Zaire", please! I really enjoy this challenge. Reply #52. Jan 24 19, 9:11 AM |
| Fifiona81
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Zither and Dionne Warwick are both in music Reply #53. Jan 24 19, 9:23 AM |
| Godwit
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Lumberjack is in music (that was fun!) Reply #54. Jan 24 19, 5:55 PM |
| Godwit
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Edmonton, Alberta is in Geography. Reply #55. Jan 24 19, 6:43 PM |
Nealzineatser
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Nealzineatser here. Grabbing "Maelstrom" and "Johannes Brahms". Reply #56. Jan 24 19, 10:57 PM |
| Nealzineatser
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Ah, make that "whirlpool" ! :-) Reply #57. Jan 24 19, 11:02 PM |
trident
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Quick recap of topics that need crossing out: halibut, shrine, zither Dionne Warwick, Republic of Zaire, Upper Paleolithic Reply #58. Jan 25 19, 1:46 AM |
| Fifiona81
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I'll take jute and Piophila casei next. Reply #59. Jan 25 19, 6:58 AM |
| Fifiona81
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and I've submitted them to general (jute) and animals (Piophila casei). Reply #60. Jan 25 19, 8:37 AM |
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