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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trident
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Whatever you need to do to make the question work is just fine as long as the question is somehow related to that idea. Reply #61. Feb 10 19, 11:58 PM |
angikar
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'Rheumatic fever' went to Sci/Tech. Hope rossian feels the explanation to be simple enough, I did try to follow her instructions. On to 'bladder'! Reply #62. Feb 11 19, 1:58 AM |
| angikar
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Well, 'bladder' joins the Sci/Tech queue. And I guess that's a goodbye from 100 Rounds 9 for me. Reply #63. Feb 11 19, 2:14 AM |
shuehorn 
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May I have "rectangle" and "Carl Bernstein" for my third set... Reply #64. Feb 11 19, 8:26 AM |
| shuehorn
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"Rectangle" went into Sci/Tech, and "Carl Bernstein" into History. Reply #65. Feb 11 19, 8:43 AM |
| angikar
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This is a good place to ask. In the Quizzes section, there is data for number of quizzes written or category. Totalling this gives the total number of quizzes. Is there an equivalent for single questions? In the page where we submit single questions, a dynamic number depicting number of questions written ever. By any chance is that the number of questions written ever? The number does seem very high. If really that many questions are written in the past year, kudos to FunTrivia. Anyway, is there a category wise statistics for number of single questions written till date overall? And total number? Reply #66. Feb 11 19, 9:53 AM |
kyleisalive
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The category-by-category breakdown doesn't exist. The total single question number is just shy of 100,000 at current time. Reply #67. Feb 11 19, 10:10 AM |
| angikar
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Kyle, but it shows that 119,095 questions have been accepted over the last year. :-3 Reply #68. Feb 11 19, 10:39 AM |
| kyleisalive
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That number is incorrect then. Reply #69. Feb 11 19, 10:41 AM |
| angikar
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I was skeptical of that number in the first place. ;-) Anyway, I myself keep a dynamic statistics of my single questions in various categories Reply #70. Feb 11 19, 10:50 AM |
| angikar
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Something is weird, as that number just decreased to 119093. Reply #71. Feb 11 19, 11:26 AM |
LadyNym
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"Boar" submitted to Humanities, and "deep-sea gigantism" to Animals. For my third pair, may I have "chowder" and "Rafflesia arnoldii", please? Reply #72. Feb 11 19, 2:10 PM |
| kyleisalive
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Re: "Something is weird, as that number just decreased to 119093." Nothing is weird; questions come offline for many reasons. Reply #73. Feb 11 19, 2:34 PM |
leith90
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Drum, which I took to replace feather is queued. Now I'm going cruising! Reply #74. Feb 11 19, 3:13 PM |
| celvet
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Both "syrup" and "xiao long bao (soup dumplings)" have been submitted to hobbies. Reply #75. Feb 11 19, 8:30 PM |
pollucci19
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I will take on "ink" and "Bridges of Madison County" Reply #76. Feb 11 19, 8:50 PM |
| pollucci19
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Both submitted Reply #77. Feb 11 19, 9:08 PM |
| celvet
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Can individual questions be "fill in the blank" questions? I ask because the new version of "Fill in the Blank" (the game) is rather "lame" right now. A 100 nouns that consisted of only "fill in the blank" questions might slow us down a little bit (editors breath a sigh of relief) and also help to get some more interesting questions into "Fill in the Blank". Reply #78. Feb 11 19, 9:08 PM |
| celvet
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@pollucci Wow! That was fast! Reply #79. Feb 11 19, 9:10 PM |
Triviaballer
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I'll claim eclipse (Science) and clean and jerk (Sports) for my final set this round. Reply #80. Feb 11 19, 10:48 PM |
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