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Subject: 100 Nouns (11) - COMPLETE

Posted by: trident
Date: May 14 19

A new set of nouns is ready for all of you! There's no rhyme or reason to this list, just a set of random nouns for you to sink your teeth into. Good luck! Here's 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):

amber
anagram
ballot
bassoon
beret

bobber
brooch
capsule
carp
catamaran

cheese
clover
detective
dolphin
echo

embryo
farm
forest
grease
gypsum

headache
iceberg
logo
magnet
mandible

manor
matrix
moat
molasses
necklace

newspaper
philosopher
pinecone
platinum
poleaxe

polyp
puffin
pulley
ransom
robot

sausage
scorpion
sculpture
sediment
sonnet

tabernacle
valley
volcano
well
windshield

List B (specific nouns):

“Abbott and Costello Go to Mars”
Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station
Archaeopteryx
“Ars Poetica”
baklava

Castile soap
“The Castle of Otranto”
The Chemical Brothers
Cynthia Ann Parker (Naduah)
“Das Kapital”

death's-head hawkmoth
Doctors Without Borders
“Dream On” (song)
Dublin, Ireland
Dutch backgammon

“Eats, Shoots & Leaves” (book)
Fata Morgana
Francisco Franco
“The Garden of Earthly Delights”
Great A'Tuin

Gregorian Calendar
Hypatia
“In the Heat of the Night”
“It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”
Kodiak bear

Krakow, Poland
Kublai Khan
Le Chat Noir
Lionel Messi
Lord Privy Seal

Macon blade
Marc Chagall
Mariana Trench
Maximum Security (horse)
Miguel de Cervantes

Pantanal, Brazil
Partition of India
Perth, Australia
radioactive waste
Rabbinic Judaism

Republic of Venice
Saint Augustine of Hippo
scurvy
Shania Twain
spontaneous fission

taekwondo
Tokugawa clan
Treme, New Orleans
William Carlos Williams
World Snooker Championship

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LadyNym star


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Yeah! 100 Nouns is back :D! For my first pair, can I have "sausage" and "Pantanal, Brazil", please?

Reply #1. May 14 19, 7:32 AM
gme24 star


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Cheese and baklava for me.
Makes one rather hungry!

Reply #2. May 14 19, 11:10 AM
Fifiona81


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I'll take puffin and the World Snooker Championship please.

Reply #3. May 14 19, 11:20 AM
gme24 star


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Have submitted cheese in Hobbies and baklava in General.

Reply #4. May 14 19, 11:40 AM
tiye star


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I will take amber and Marc Chagall

Reply #5. May 14 19, 1:40 PM
celvet
I’d like “carp” and “Ars Poetica” please.

Reply #6. May 14 19, 1:47 PM
zorba_scank star
I’ll take detective and Krakow.

Reply #7. May 14 19, 2:29 PM
FatherSteve star


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Oh, poop! tiye took amber!

In that case, may I please have “It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” and molasses?

Very thoughtful list, trident.


Reply #8. May 14 19, 6:21 PM
Godwit star


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Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station and beret, please

Reply #9. May 14 19, 10:38 PM
Godwit star


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Ya gotta be up pretty early in the morning to get ahead of that tiye

Reply #10. May 14 19, 10:39 PM
tiffanyram star


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I’d like to have ‘scorpion’ and ‘Miguel de Cervantes’, please.

Reply #11. May 14 19, 10:45 PM
Shadowmyst2004 star


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Newspaper and Shania Twain please.

Reply #12. May 15 19, 12:37 AM
FatherSteve star


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First Pair: "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" uploaded to Television and molasses uploaded to History.

And thanks to the busy editors who cleared out my queue so quickly and thoroughly.



Reply #13. May 15 19, 8:40 PM
kyleisalive


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I'm taking matrix and 'Eats, Shoots, Leaves'.

Reply #14. May 16 19, 2:34 AM
pitegny star


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If I may join the game, would love sculpture and Fata Morgana.

Reply #15. May 16 19, 3:01 AM
trident


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All are certainly free (and encouraged) to join the game!

Reply #16. May 16 19, 3:21 AM
malik24 star


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I'd like platinum and Hypatia please.

Out of interest, are actual anagram questions allowed in the single question queue, or would you need to use that term more creatively?

Reply #17. May 16 19, 3:26 AM
trident


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Use it more creatively. Brain Teasers are not accepted as single questions, but using an anagram to spice up a question in the History category, say, might work.

Reply #18. May 16 19, 3:32 AM
kyleisalive


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I would also be very cautious. Brain Teaser-type questions can be a bit polarizing, and in the New Question game it might not reach the ideal audience.

Reply #19. May 16 19, 3:36 AM
angikar
I would like to take 'philosopher' and 'Dublin, Ireland'.

Reply #20. May 16 19, 10:26 AM


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