Subject: 100 Nouns (22) - COMPLETE
Posted by: trident
Date: Feb 18 23
Hello all, here is our new 100 Nouns list. This selection was completed with the assistance of author tiye. There is a theme this time around, which is Greek/Roman mythology. Of course, your single questions don't have to be directly related to mythology if you'd like to take them in a different direction. Best of luck!
A reminder of how the rules work:
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):
alligator
amazon
anvil
arrow
bells
belt
blanket
bow
cape
chalice
chariot
dream
feather
fire
flood
gold
hair
harp
horse
labyrinth
laurel
lava
liver
mirror
moon
mountain
nacre
narcissus
ocean
owl
rainbow
sacrifice
sandal
scarab
seashell
serpent
shield
shrine
siren
sun
swan
thread
thunderbolt
totem
tower
trident
veil
waterfall
wings
wolf
List B (specific nouns):
Aeschylus
Agamemnon
Amphiaraeus
Argonauts
Atalanta
“Bacchus and Ariadne”
“The Birth of Venus”
Cerberus
Charybdis
Crete
Danaides
Daedalus
Elysian Fields
“The Fall of Icarus”
Garden of the Hesperides
golden bough
Hephaestus
Hippodameia
Hippolyta's belt
Hyperion
Lernaean Hydra
Medusa
metope
Minoan civilization
Mnemosyne
Mount Olympus
“Oedipus Rex”
“Odyssey”
Oropos
Pandora’s box
Pasiphae
Pegasus
Peloponnese
Persephone
Phaeton
Polyphemus
Pompeii
Poseidon
“Prometheus Bound”
Pygmalion
Pythia
River Styx
Stymphalian birds
Tartarus
Temple of Apollo
Telemachus
Themiscyra
“The Triumph of Galatea”
The Twelve Labors
Trojan War
Good luck!
Posted by: trident
Date: Feb 18 23
Hello all, here is our new 100 Nouns list. This selection was completed with the assistance of author tiye. There is a theme this time around, which is Greek/Roman mythology. Of course, your single questions don't have to be directly related to mythology if you'd like to take them in a different direction. Best of luck!
A reminder of how the rules work:
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):
Good luck!
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kyleisalive
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That depends on what you wrote the question about. Reply #21. Feb 21 23, 12:57 PM |
VBookWorm
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Well, about the beautiful women who would seduce sailors is what I plan to write about. Reply #22. Feb 21 23, 12:58 PM |
FatherSteve 
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"... the powers of crossing off ..." Like Atropos among the Fates. Or Thanatos, perhaps. Or the Grim Reaper. Or that really scary guy in Ingmar Bergman's motion picture "The Seventh Seal" (1957). Reply #23. Feb 21 23, 1:02 PM |
| kyleisalive
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It really depends on how you frame the question. Talking about myth and legends it would probably go into Humanities, but talking about their portrayal in a TV show, for instance, would put it into TV (or maybe even Entertainment). With these questions, there's no insistence that the nouns you take need to be their implied and literal meanings. Reasonably, someone could take 'sirens' and write a question about ambulance sirens and have it placed in World (under Transport). It just depends on the approach. Without context there's not a way for us to know. Reply #24. Feb 21 23, 1:03 PM |
Lpez
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"sacrifice" went to Music and "Telemachus" went to Humanities. Reply #25. Feb 21 23, 9:05 PM |
Ilona_Ritter
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I submitted Pygmalion to Humanities and mirror to music. Reply #26. Feb 22 23, 1:52 AM |
| Ilona_Ritter
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I would like to claim anvil and Daedalus. Reply #27. Feb 22 23, 1:55 AM |
rossian
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Trident went to World and Poseidon to Literature. I'll give others a chance before taking any more. That's four more than I usually write anyway. Reply #28. Feb 22 23, 4:58 AM |
LadyNym
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Belt and Amphiaraus both went to Humanities. For my third pair, I'll take "totem" and "Atalanta". Reply #29. Feb 22 23, 8:27 AM |
| VBookWorm
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Sirens and Pandora's Box both went to Humanities. Reply #30. Feb 22 23, 6:19 PM |
| VBookWorm
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Rossian, thanks for your consideration. As a gift, I am giving you my next pair because I am not particularly fond of writing single questions. I would rather put my effort into writing quizzes. So, cheerio! Reply #31. Feb 22 23, 6:21 PM |
| FatherSteve
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I have uploaded my second pair: alligator to Hobbies and "Hephaestus" to Literature. Reply #32. Feb 22 23, 8:52 PM |
| FatherSteve
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For my third pair, may I please have "dream" and "Mnemosyne"? Reply #33. Feb 22 23, 9:11 PM |
| Ilona_Ritter
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I submitted anvil to movies and Daedalus to science. Reply #34. Feb 23 23, 5:59 AM |
| FatherSteve
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I have uploaded "dream" to Hobbies and "Mnemosyne" to Humanities. Reply #35. Feb 23 23, 5:48 PM |
| LadyNym
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Totem went to World, and Atalanta to Humanities. Time for a fourth pair now - which will be "swan" and "Tartarus". Reply #36. Feb 26 23, 1:13 PM |
tiye
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Feather went to Sci/Tech and Phaeton to Humanities. I'll wait a bit to claim my third pair. Reply #37. Feb 28 23, 5:53 AM |
| FatherSteve
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May I finally please have "wolf" and “Prometheus Bound”? Reply #38. Feb 28 23, 12:51 PM |
| LadyNym
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Swan went to Religion and Tartarus to Humanities. Now time for a break! Reply #39. Feb 28 23, 6:08 PM |
| FatherSteve
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I have uploaded both "wolf" and "Prometheus Bound" to Literature. This is my last of four pairs. I will await the time when all of the remaining pairs have been chosen or, in the alternative, that failing, when I will imitate that fellow who follows the parade with a wheeled bin and a shovel, cleaning up what is left. Reply #40. Feb 28 23, 9:58 PM |
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