Subject: 100 Nouns (9) - COMPLETE
Posted by: trident
Date: Feb 06 19
We zipped through the last round quickly! Let's try to make some quality questions out the following offerings. Thanks to all who continue to play. The Author's Lounge wouldn't be quite the same without you all! As always, here is a reminder of 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.
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)
archer
asphalt
bamboo
basin
bladder
boar
boudoir
cadet
cannon
chapel
chowder
cobalt
dragonfly
drum
eclipse
fang
feather
fiddle
filth
foil
hammer
horror
hyena
ink
kielbasa
lung
mansion
mousse
opera
painting
parable
pirate
plunger
popsicle
prison
rectangle
shell
silk
softball
suit
syrup
teacher
tennis
toad
trombone
voice
vault
wharf
wheel
witch
List B (specific nouns)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
“Arsenic and Old Lace”
Aswan Dam
Battle of Appomattox Court House
“The Bluest Eye”
“The Bridges of Madison County”
Carl Bernstein
Catskill Mountains
Chiang Mai, Thailand
clean and jerk
“Crazy Rich Asians”
deep-sea gigantism
Donald Sutherland
emperor scorpion
eucalyptus tree
Euclidean geometry
Eye of the Sahara
Flannery O'Connor
Foggy Mountain Boys
Galicia, Spain
Gustavus Adolphus
hydrothermal vent
hyperinflation
irrational rhythm
Islamic Golden Age
Jennifer Rubin
John the Baptist
Kilwa Kisiwani
Laverne Cox
Margaret Cavendish
Mariska Hargitay
“The Master and Margarita”
Métis people
Minsk, Belarus
Mohammad Mosaddegh
Nazca lines
“Nicomachean Ethics”
Old Course at St Andrews
panna cotta
Phoenician alphabet
psychedelic rock
Rafflesia arnoldii
rheumatic fever
Saint Lawrence River
“The Shape of Water”
soil salinity
State of the Union Address
Turks and Caicos Islands
xiao long bao (soup dumplings)
Yukon, Canada
Posted by: trident
Date: Feb 06 19
We zipped through the last round quickly! Let's try to make some quality questions out the following offerings. Thanks to all who continue to play. The Author's Lounge wouldn't be quite the same without you all! As always, here is a reminder of 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.
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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angikar
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New set! I claim 'lung' and 'hyperinflation'. Reply #1. Feb 06 19, 7:48 AM |
Joepetz 
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I will take prison and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Reply #2. Feb 06 19, 8:22 AM |
| angikar
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'Prison' and 'Occasio-Cortez'! What a combination xD Reply #3. Feb 06 19, 8:43 AM |
| angikar
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So, 'lung' went to Sci/Tech and 'hyperinflation' went to History. Reply #4. Feb 06 19, 10:24 AM |
| angikar
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I claim 'painting' and 'Chiang mai'. Reply #5. Feb 06 19, 10:46 AM |
| celvet
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I'd like dragonfly and "eye of the Sahara" Reply #6. Feb 06 19, 8:43 PM |
kyleisalive
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I'll take horror and Yukon, Canada. Reply #7. Feb 06 19, 8:47 PM |
gracious1
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I'll take 'trombone' and "Arsenic and Old Lace" Reply #8. Feb 06 19, 10:27 PM |
| kyleisalive
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Queued 'horror' in Entertainment and 'Yukon, Canada' in Geography. Taking 'hammer' and 'Old Course at St Andrews'. Reply #9. Feb 07 19, 1:25 AM |
| angikar
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'Painting' went to People. Reply #10. Feb 07 19, 1:36 AM |
| kyleisalive
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'Hammer' to Movies and 'Old Course' to Sports. That's it for me. Reply #11. Feb 07 19, 1:50 AM |
| angikar
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'Chiang Mai' went to World. Reply #12. Feb 07 19, 2:06 AM |
LadyNym
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Ready to claim my first pair :-)! "Silk" and "Galicia, Spain", please. Reply #13. Feb 07 19, 6:02 AM |
FatherSteve
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May I have as my first pair "popsicle" and "Foggy Mountain Boys"? Reply #14. Feb 07 19, 2:55 PM |
| angikar
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Kyle, just saying, you forgot to cross out your second pair. Reply #15. Feb 08 19, 5:45 AM |
| angikar
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I took 'cobalt' and submitted it in Sci/Tech. Reply #16. Feb 08 19, 8:50 AM |
| angikar
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I took 'emperor scorpion' and submitted a question related to that topic under Animals. Reply #17. Feb 08 19, 9:04 AM |
| kyleisalive
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Please be very cautious when picking words one at a time instead of as pairs. Obviously it's impossible to know if there's anything down the line stopping someone from submitting one and not being able to claim the other, but I think it's fair to avoid setting a precedent that could cause problems and uneven groups if anything were to happen. Reply #18. Feb 08 19, 9:52 AM |
| angikar
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Oh sure! I did claim the two words at the same time, it's just that I accidentally posted after I submitted, as I was being sure whether my planned question is original. From now on, let us make sure that everyone claims two words at a time. Don't make the same mistake I did. Reply #19. Feb 08 19, 10:52 AM |
gme24
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Witch and eucalyptus tree please. Reply #20. Feb 08 19, 12:06 PM |
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