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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Triviaballer 
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Tennis has been submitted to sports and Mariska Hargitay to television. Reply #41. Feb 09 19, 8:37 PM |
leith90
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I'll take feather and hydrothermal vent please. Reply #42. Feb 09 19, 10:02 PM |
trident
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Sorry leith, feather has already been taken. Reply #43. Feb 09 19, 10:37 PM |
| Triviaballer
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I'll claim parable and Turks and Caicos next. Reply #44. Feb 10 19, 12:10 AM |
| Triviaballer
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Parable has been submitted to general and Turks and Caicos to geography. Reply #45. Feb 10 19, 12:30 AM |
| leith90
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Feather is in Animals (surprise, surprise) and Hydrothermal vents in Sci-Tech. Reply #46. Feb 10 19, 1:52 AM |
angikar
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I am sure you wrote a fantastic question Leith, but that word was taken beforehand. Do claim another word in place of it. Reply #47. Feb 10 19, 2:19 AM |
| angikar
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Anyway, as we know, the more questions, the better! Reply #48. Feb 10 19, 2:19 AM |
| leith90
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Sorry, Zorba, I didn't see you'd taken feather. I shall take drum instead if it's still free. I won't have time to write it before tomorrow though. Reply #49. Feb 10 19, 3:13 AM |
| trident
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Looks like drum is free. No rush on the submission! Take all the time you need. Reply #50. Feb 10 19, 3:17 AM |
| leith90
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I'm glad you said that, because I'm packing tomorrow for more travels! Reply #51. Feb 10 19, 5:49 AM |
| angikar
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Trident, there are 50 pairs. Players FatherSteve, celvet, Triviaballer, Godwit, gracious1, LadyNym, shoehorn, leith90, gme24 and angikar mostly take 4 pairs each. 40 out. Then comes the editor trio. Kyle takes 2, SpanishLiz and Fifiona81 take some each. There are many other active players left. No wonder these lists get finished so fast. Reply #52. Feb 10 19, 7:07 AM |
| angikar
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Zorba_scank, apathy100, AcrylicInk, Lpez, et al all take some pairs each...100 words finished. Reply #53. Feb 10 19, 7:10 AM |
| Triviaballer
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I'd like to try filth and Kilwa Kisiwani. Reply #54. Feb 10 19, 12:45 PM |
| Triviaballer
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Filth and Kilwa Kisiwani were both submitted to general. Reply #55. Feb 10 19, 1:01 PM |
shuehorn
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For my second pair, can I have foil and Islamic Golden Age? Reply #56. Feb 10 19, 1:19 PM |
| shuehorn
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"Foil" was submitted to Humanities, and 'Islamic Golden Age" to History. Reply #57. Feb 10 19, 1:54 PM |
| celvet
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"Toad" has been submitted to animals and "soil salinity" has been submitted to history. Reply #58. Feb 10 19, 10:59 PM |
| celvet
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I'll try "syrup" and cxiao long bao (soup dumplings)" next. For the xiao long bao (soup dumplings), does the entire phrase have to be used in the order given or can I just use the components to ask my question (they would be close to the given order)? The problem is that "soup dumplings" is an alternative name and not the exact translation. Reply #59. Feb 10 19, 11:10 PM |
| celvet
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I'll try "syrup" and "xiao long bao (soup dumplings)" next. For the xiao long bao (soup dumplings), does the entire phrase have to be used in the order given or can I just use the components to ask my question (they would be close to the given order)? The problem is that "soup dumplings" is an alternative name and not the exact translation. Reply #60. Feb 10 19, 11:11 PM |
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