Answers in five minutes - Thursday's round is closed!

Here are the answers.

1. Any of Santa’s Reindeers
For ten points:
Dasher,
For five points:
Prancer (3), Blizten (3), Vixen (2), Comet (2),



2.A playing piece in Monopoly
For ten points:
Horse, Cannon, Canoe, Dog,
For five points:
Boot (5), Hat (2),
(I didn't state which version of Monopoly we were to choose a token from, so one player chose Canadian version which include moose, beaver, canoe, sled, hockey player, ski plane and winter boot tokens as playing pieces.)



3.A Marx Brother
For ten points:
Chico,
For five points:
Groucho (3), Harpo (3) Zeppo (2), Gummo (2),



4.One of the Von Trapp children in “The Sound of Music” – the character names.
For ten points:

For five points:
Liesl (3), Kurt (5), Brigitta (2),
No idea why these three children were most popular, as there was seven to choose from!



5.A birthstone
For ten points:
Lapis Lazuli (December), Garnet (January), Peridot (August), Alexandrite (June), Citrine (November)
For five points:
Emerald (May)(2), Ruby (July)(2), Amethyst(February)(2),



11 people played and the scores are:

Beaker411 - 40

Beeblebrox - 35
ElfTwinkle - 35

Engadine - 30
Helen295 - 30
Ozzz2002-30
SpanishLiz - 30
LeoDaVinci = 30
Gatsby - 25
Julia103 - 25
ChrisSchu - 20

Well done everybody!

At the risk of adding to the confusion (I don't think I've seen a Saturday round yet), here are Sunday's questions before I go to bed:

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ROUND 29

1 A Medal of Honor (highest US military award) recipient who was born outside what is now the U.S.A.

2 A gold medallist in Athens from Canada (CAN), Spain (ESP) or the UK (GBR) in an individual event

3 A county in the Canadian province of Ontario

4 A place that H.V. Morton was 'In Search of...' or 'A Traveller/Stranger in ...' (Looking for those words in the book's title)

5 A Big Band with which Billie Holiday sang vocals

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Have fun!

And here's Saturday's questions. Deadline'll be fairly late on Monday.


Name:
1. A nation whose land is crossed by the Tropic of Capricorn
2. One of the Titans from Greek Mythology
3. A female astronaut (or cosmonaut, or taikonaut, or...)
4. A U2 album (not counting "Best of" and similar anthologies)
5. A country which has won multiple medals at the Athens Olympics without winning a gold medal. (If this list changes tomorrow I will count both countries on the list now and countries which are on the list at Olympics' end).

Round 27 (Friday's round) is now closed.

Nine people have played round 27. Here are the results.

1. One of the cantons Switzerland consists of.


10 points for:
Aargau, Luzern, Jura, Ticino, Zürich, Glarus and Schaffhausen
5 points for:
Zug (2)


2. A US airline company.

10 points for:
United, Delta, US Airways, SkyWest, Airtran, Cape Air, JetBlue and American Airlines

I meant to ask for a company with international flights, but forgot to mention it, so I guess that left too many airlines to chose from.

3. German license plates start with the abbreviation of a city/region. Name an abbraviation starting with I or J.


10 points for:
IN (Ingolstadt)

5 points for:
IK (Ilm-Kreis)(2), IGB (St. Ingbert)(2), J (Jena) (3)

I had to disallow IBR as it's not used on German license plates.


4. A member of Enid Blyton's Famous Five.


10 points for:
Anne

5 points for:
Dick (2), Julian (2), Timmy (2), George (2)


5. An Australian national television network.


10 points for:
Network 10, ABC and Seven Network

5 points for:
SBS (4) and Channel Nine (2)


SCORES

The winner of this round is JaneMarple, with 40 points!

LeoDaVinci, Helen295, Engadine, ElfTwinkle, Spanishliz Ozzz2002, Gatsby722 35
Beaker411 30

Round 29 is now closed. Answers and results just as soon as I type them up!

ROUND 29 RESULTS

Nine people played.

1 A Medal of Honor (highest US military award) recipient who was born outside what is now the U.S.A.

Worth 10 points:
James Allen, W.H. Belpitt, George F. Brady, Louis Cukela, John Laverty, St.Clair A. Mulholland, John U.D. Page

Worth 5 points:
Albert Beyer (2)

There were many others to choose from.



2 A gold medallist in Athens from Canada (CAN), Spain (ESP) or the UK (GBR) in an individual event

Worth 10 points:
Gervasio Deferr, Leslie Law, Lori-Ann Muenzer, Adam van Koeverden, Bradley Wiggins

Worth 5 points:
Kyle Shewfelt (3)

Not allowed: Ivan Rana, who finished 23rd in the Triathlon.



3 A county in the Canadian province of Ontario

Ten points for everyone here!
Bruce, Haldimand, Haliburton, Lanark, Lennox & Addington, Peterborough, Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry (one county!), Thunder Bay and Waterloo

(I accepted districts in Northern Ontario too.)




4 A place that H.V. Morton was 'In Search of...' or 'A Traveller/Stranger in ...' (Looking for those words in the book's title)

(Just going to list the places)
Worth 10 points:
England, Holy Land, Ireland, Scotland, Southern Italy

Worth 5 points:
Spain (2), Wales (2)




5 A Big Band with which Billie Holiday sang vocals

(Just listing the leader’s name)
Worth 10 points:
Benny Goodman

Worth 5 points:
Artie Shaw (5), Count Basie (2), Tommy Dorsey*

*Only gave 5 for Dorsey, as his was not one of five bands that I found her to be associated with. I could find nothing to say she did NOT sing with him either, so did not disallow entirely. (I’m open to correction, of course.)

Those not mentioned were Paul Whiteman and Benny Carter.


Two people have tied for first place:

kevinatilusa 45
LeoDaVinci 45

ElfTwinkle 40
Gatsby722 40
Julia103 40
Ozzz2002 40
Helen295 35
JaneMarple 35
Lothruin 35

Congrats to Kevin and Leo, and thanks all for playing!

Trivia Rounds - August 31st:

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"In the world surrounding you,
at work at play or on the run.
First comes one, then comes two,
numbers are fun for everyone!"
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Name a...:
1) ...one Roman numeral.
2) ...A fiction book with a two digit number in its title, either spelled out or numeric (volume number or edition number etc. are not accepted)
3) ...proven irrational number.
4) ...contemporary Canadian coin.
5) ... an hour (on a digital 12 hour clock) where the sum of all the hour's digits equals 3.

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Good luck to everybody!



edited for punctuation

Round 28 is now closed. Results will be up in a while.

ROUND 28 RESULTS

1. A Country on the Tropic of Capricorn
10: Australia, Botswana, Brazil, Chile, Mozambique
5: Argentina (2)
Disqualified: Gibraltar, Sudan

Paraguay, South Africa, and Madagascar would also have scored

2. A Titan from Greek Myth
10: Atlas, Coeus, Cronos, Metis, Mnemosyme, Phoebe, Promethius, Rhea (nicely spread out!)
Disqualified: Gaia

Sources differ slightly on the list of Titans, but the ones I could find said that Gaia was the mother of the Titans and not a Titan herself.

3. A Woman in Space
10: Kalpana Chalwa, Rhea Seddon, Helen Sharman, Janice Voss
5: Sally Ride (3), Valentina Tereshkova (2)

4. A U2 Album
10: Human Rights Day, The Joshua Tree, Under a Blood Red Sky, the Unforgettable Fire, Zooropa
5: Boy (2), Rattle and Hum (2)

5: A Country Winning multiple medals w/o a Gold in Athens
10: Colombia, Estonia, Finland, North Korea, Venezuela
5: Latvia (2), Slovenia (2)
Colombia is down to 1 medal now due to a drug disqualification, but had 2 when the round opened. North Korea leads this bunch with 5 medals, still far short of the 12 (!) Brazil got in 2000 without winning gold (6 silver, 6 bronze).

Results:
50: Lothruin
45: ElfTwinkle, Helen295, Julia103
35: LeodaVinci, Ozzz2002, SpanishLiz
30: JaneMarple
25: Gatsby722

Congrats to Lothruin and thanks to all who played!

Sorry for being late about this, but I couldn't access Funtrivia.

Monday's game is now closed.

Results to be posted shortly.

RESULTS FOR MONDAY's GAME - 10 Participants

1. The Highest Mountain of any of the seven continents

10 points: Mt Kosciuscko (2,228m, Australia) - Mt McKinley (6,194m, N. America)
5 points: Mt Elbrus (5,633m, Europe) - Mt Aconcagua (6,960m, S America) - Kilimanjaro (5,895m, Africa)

Not Mentioned: Vinson Massif (4,897m, Antarctica) - Mt Everest (8,850m, Asia)

2. A Burough of New York

10 points: The Bronx
5 points: Manhattan (3) - Brooklyn (3) - Queens (3)
Not Mentioned: Staten Island

3. A 'Suit' from a regular deck of playing cards

10 points: None
5 points: Diamonds (3) - Hearts (2) - Clubs (2) - Spades (3)

4. A perfect number less than 9,000

10 points: None
5 points: 8,128 (2) - 6 (3) - 28 (2) - 496 (2)
Disallowed - 3, as it is not a perfect number

5. A type of bagpipe

10 points: Kitchen pipes, a practice set of pipes played in Canada
5 points: Great Highland Bagpipe/Piob Mhor (scotland) (2) - Uileann/Irish pipes (3) - Gaita/Spanish pipes (2) - Northumbrian smallpipes (2)


SCORES

ElfTwinkle - 30 pts
ChrisSchu - 30 pts
Engadine - 30 pts

LeoDaVinci - 25 pts
JaneMarple - 25 pts
beaker411 - 25 pts
ozzz2002 - 25 pts
Julia103 - 25 pts
helen295 - 25 pts
SpanishLiz - 25 pts

Thanks for playing everyone.

Round XXXI has been closed... sorry for the delay, my ISP was experiencing difficulties. Results in 5 minutes...

ROUND XXXI RESULTS
10 people played


1. One Roman numeral
10 points: V with a line over it, C, L, X
5 points: M (2), I (2), V (2)
Not mentioned: D

2. A fiction book with a two digit number in its title, either spelled out or numeric (volume number or edition number etc. are not accepted)
10 points: 51 Tales, Mila-18, Eleven, Summer of '42, Fifteen, Ten Little Indians.
5 points: Catch-22 (4)

With so many titles to choose from, I won't mention the ones that were not mentioned.

3. A proven irrational number
10 points: sqrt 67, e, phi (the golden ratio 1.618), pi
5 points: sqrt 5 (2), sqrt 2 (3)
Not accepted: 2
Notable unmentioned include: Apery's constant, Gelfond's constant, sqrt 3, Thue constant, i, Champernowne constant, Erdos-Borwein constant and Liouville's constant.

4. A contemporary Canadian coin
10 points: dime, $5 Gold Maple Leaf
5 points: Twoonie $2 (3), quarter (2), Loonie $1 (2)
Not accepted: 50 cent Golden Tulip, as it was only last minted in 2002, and not contemporary in 2004.
Not mentioned: Penny, nickel, Lucky Loonie, 50 cent Maple Leaf, 50 cent buffalo, or any other of the Gold Maple Leaf Series.

5: An hour (on a digital 12 hour clock) where the sum of all the hour's digits equals 3
10 points: 11:10, 3:00, 1:20, 2:01, 1:11
5 points: 12:00 (2), 11:01 (2)
Not accepted: 00:12, as on a 12 hour clock, the hour of midnight is 12:00
Not mentioned: 1:02, 10:20, 10:02, 10:11, 2:10

The Results:
40: kevinatilusa
35: ElfTwinkle, Julia103, Engadine, gatsby722, beaker411, santana2002, Ozzz2002
30: JaneMarple
25: spanishliz

Congrats to kevinatilusa and thanks to all who played!

FINAL RESULTS FOR AUGUST

6 Points---ElfTwinkle

5 Points---
helen295
ozzz2002

4 points---
kevinatilusa
romeomikegolf
spanishliz

3 points: Julia103, Eraserhead, JaneMarple, beaker411, lothruin

2 points: LeoDaVinci, Gatsby722

Essentially everyone else who regularly played won a point but I won't won't list them all as there are many.

Kudos to ElfTwinkle and I think it was a very enjoyable month for us all!