ANSWERS TO ROUND 30 - 11 people played.

1) A famous woman with the first name Diana/Dianne/Diane (or another variation of this name)

Worth 10 points
Diana Prince (Wonderwoman), Diana Dors, Diana Beaver (NLP consultant and author), Diane Warren (songwriter), Princess Diana, Dianna Wiest, Dian Fossey

Worth 5 points
Diana Ross (2), Diane Keaton (2)

2) A member of the United Nations that is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean

Worth 10 points
Tonga, New Zealand, Solomon Islands,Nauru, Phillipines, Japan, Samoa

Worth 5 points
Fiji (4)

3) Something a person would wear on their feet

Worth 10 points
Sandals, Boots, Veruca Socks, Wellingtons, Corn Plaster, Shoes, Toenail Polish, Socks, Skates

Worth 5 points
Flip Flops/Thongs (2)

Flip Flops are known as thongs in Australia.

4) A book of the old Testament that doesn't contain the letter 'a'

Worth 10 points
Exodus, Deuteronomy, I Kings, Second Kings, Esther, Ezekiel, Ruth

Worth 5 points
Genesis (2), Numbers (2)

5) A breed of domestic dog that starts with the letter 'L

Worth 10 points
Lhaso Apso

Worth 5 points
Lowchen (3), Lakeland Terrier (2), Labrador Retriever (5)

Disallowed - Dandie Dinmont Terrier ehich doesn't start with L


SCORES

45 points - gatsby722

40 points - ozzz2002, Mugaboo, bracklaman, SRSTrekker, Cinnam)n, Elfwinkle
35 points - Julia103, ceci1980, BbSean, littlewoman2

I don't think the Round 29 Answers & Results have been posted yet.

Round 29 Closed...

Results on Monday unfortunately, unless I find myself ahead of schedule for some obscure reason...

Thx for the patience!

Round XXIX - March 29th, 2005...

The Results!

9 people played this round...

Question I: Name a leader of a modern-day country that was assassinated...
For 10 points: John F. Kennedy (USA), Ranasingha Premadasa (Sri Lanka), Indira Gandhi (India),

James A. Garfield (USA), Anwar Sadat (Egypt), Abraham Lincoln (USA)
For 5 points: Yitzhak Rabin (Israel) (2)
Not accepted: Solomon Kumaratunga - Solomon Bandaranaike was the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka and

he married Vijaya Kumaratunga, together they had a child Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga.

Solomon was assassinated (so was Vijaya), and Chandrika later became Prime Minister herself.

Question II: Name a form of Capital Punishment that is used nowadays (and tell me

where)...
For 10 points: nobody, surprisingly...
For 5 points: Firing Squad (3), Lethal Injection (2), Amputation/Beheading/Decapitation (2),

Hanging (2)
Not mentioned: In most countries, students are subject in certain lectures to death by boredom,.

If not, they die from lack of sleep or alcohol poisoning. Seriously though, nobody mentioned the

electric chair or the gas chamber.

Question III: Name one of the things people believe can happen to your soul when we pass

away...
For 10 points: Nothing!, Goes to hell, Reincarnation, Hamistaken (Zoroastrianism), becomes a

ghost.
For 5 points: goes to heaven (3),
Not accepted: Becomes a kami - In Shintoism, a 'kami' is a soul or rather spirit... everything

has a spirit, rocks, paper, trees, humans etc. When you die, your kami leaves the body, and is

released...

Question IV: Name a person who died in Niagara Falls...
For 10 points: James Honeycutt, Cap. Matthew Webb, Jessie Sharp
For 5 points: Robert Overacker (3), George Stakakis (2)
Not accepted: One person did not respond...

Question V: Name an active terrorist organization (they cause a lot of death)...
For 10 points: Hezballah, Al-Quaida, Tupac Qatar, Revolutioary People's Struggle, ASALA
For 5 points: IRA and their subcells (CIRA, PIRA) (4)
Not mentioned: Many terrorist organization mar the world's politics day after day, killing thousands of innocent civilians. They are extremists, and do not reflect the views of the vast majority of the population of a country. Most of the people in the world want peace, help us achieve this peace by reaching out to your fellow man, and accepting that not everybody's beliefs will be exactly similar to your own. Dialogue and tolerance are the key points.

The Results:
Our winners: ozzz2002 and ElfTwinkle with 40! points...
The rest:
35 points: gatsby722, cinnamOn and littlewoman2
30 points: BbSean, mugaboo, and SRSTrekker
25 points: bracklaman

Thanks to all for playing.
Congratulations to ozzz2002 and ElfTwinkle.
Have a great week!

Here are the results for March!
Mugaboo = 10
Elftwinkle = 9
LittleWoman = 9
Cinnamom= 8
Gatsby = 8
Ozz = 7
Bracklaman = 3
Exit = 3
Santana = 3
Ceci = 2
BbSean = 2
Julia = 1
Trident = 1