while playing in the Pacific Coast League, before going to the Yankees, shortstop Tony Lazzeri(Salt Lake City Bees) hit 60 home runs in 1925, two years before Babe Ruth

Q57. [/i]Q55[/i] The current Australian Olympic soccer team are hopeful of progressing though to the final, and playing for the gold medal. Which country did oz face in the first international ever played by an oz Olympic soccer team, and how many goals had they conceded by the time they walked into the dressing rooms at the break?

Q58. Q56 Following on from Q57, who was captain of the oz Olympic team in that first international match?

.. one beancounter renumbering questions after running out of fingers

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37. During the process of moulding glass bottles or jars the glass is preformed before being trasferred to the mould for final blowing. What is the name given to this preform ?
PaulE - 09-08-2000 03:37 AM

Answer: Parison

New Q...#59 (GTHO4..I think #59 is right, 55 and 56 have already gone and therefore your two should be #'s 57 and 58?)

Q59 What do the following films have in common..

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Elizabeth
Hot Shot

..?

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Q57. [/i]Q55[/i] The current Australian Olympic soccer team are hopeful of progressing though to the final, and playing for the gold medal. Which country did oz face in the first international ever played by an oz Olympic soccer team, and how many goals had they conceded by the time they walked into the dressing rooms at the break?

Answer... The first Olympic opposition that Australia faced was Japan in a game they won 2-0, making the number of goals conceded at the break zero.

Ok, let's stick with this first Olympic team and their historic achievements...

New Q...#60..

Q60. Although they won their first game, Australia failed to make the medal round and left empty handed. This disappointing result could not be blamed on lack of preparation. In the lead up to the Games, they played numerous "friendlies" against domestic State teams and Olympic Games teams from other participating countries. They also played in a unscheduled practice match against a team that was made up of players who were not full time soccer players, but who were in Melbourne due to work committments of another occupation. What was their occupation and where were they from?

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they were British sailors from HMS Newcastle and lost 1-7

Q57. [/i]Q55[/i] The current Australian Olympic soccer team are hopeful of progressing though to the final, and playing for the gold medal. Which country did oz face in the first international ever played by an oz Olympic soccer team, and how many goals had they conceded by the time they walked into the dressing rooms at the break?

Answer...The first international ever played by an oz Olympic soccer team, (as opposed to the first olympic international..doh)..was against Russia in the lead up to the olympics. By halftime Australia had conceded a mere 7 goals, eventually losing 15-1.

New Q...#61...

Q61.. Amongst the 1956 Melbourne Olympic rowing ranks, there was
a competitor who could claim a link with royalty. Who was this athlete and what is the royal connection?

these films starred (amongst other persons) Vinnie Jones, Eric Cantona and Pele, respectively ..soccer players who have acted in a film

answer: Ken Kesey

Beatnik

Q63. Soccer - Who scored Manchester Uniteds' 200th goal in the European Cup/Champions League ?

In the USA the splitting of legislative powers between Congress and the States is carried out by specifying which legislative powers were assigned to Congress, with the residue thereof remaining with the States. The Australian Constitution similarly specified the legislative powers of the Federal Parliament (again, the residue thereof remained with the States).

What are the section numbers in the two consitutions which set out the respective legislative powers of each federal government? (in the US consitution it is Article number and Section Number)

Q65. How many States had to ratify the document, the Constitution of the United States of America, such that the Articles of Confederation ceased to exist and the United States under its present Constitution was established?

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Correct Answers:

Jabberwock - 32, 51
gtho4 - 55, 46, 59
karmaloupster - 37
chessart - S5

Wrong Answers:

chessart - 54
Jabberwock - S7

Pending Points:

karmaloupster - 56
PaulE - 61

Here are the scores (including scores so far today), and the questions unanswered.

Sagebrush ......... 600
gtho4 .............. 455
Karmaloupster ... 425
Jabberwock ..... 380
PaulE ............. 375
chessart ........... 305
Tangledrose ..... 215
Partsdude ........ 180
billsgyrl ........... 150
ren32 .............. 100
SeanB ............. 80
Sypher ............ 45

STUMPERS

22. Greenpeace have recently boarded a dredger in the South China Sea in order to prevent in dredging potentially dangerous chemicals in the mud. What is to be be built at the site where the dredger was operating? PaulE - 09-06-2000 12:35 PM

23. Which company has won the tender to build packages five, six and seven of the Kowloon Station /development? PaulE - 09-06-2000 12:35 PM

26. Who toured Australia in 1992 as support for The Violent Femmes?
karmaloupster - 09-07-2000 12:08 AM

30. What is the significance or common link between these years: 1914 1939 1963 1978
karmaloupster - 09-07-2000 09:28 AM

34. One of the champion racehorses in Q34 is a common link between the Kentucky Derby and the Melbourne Cup. Which horse, and how? gtho4 - 09-08-2000 12:01 AM

35. Who is the understanding wife who once said, "Look, my husband loved people, and half the people in the world are women. So of course, I know that he's gonna be falling in love with a lot of women."? chessart - 09-08-2000 02:03 AM

36. In Mongolia in 1995, how many females were enrolled in secondary school per 100 males? PaulE - 09-08-2000 03:37 AM

41. What current first class cricketer has scored a Test half century for his country but has not got a test average? karmaloupster - 09-11-2000 12:45 AM

49. Who was the first soccer player to represent a European club side from an Australian team? What year and what European club did he play for?
karmaloupster - 09-12-2000 03:02 AM

52. The present site of Vancouver International Airport is Sea Island (previously Lulu Island). What as the destination of the first (scheduled) international passenger flight from Sea Island?
gtho4 - 09-12-2000 09:56 AM

53. In the movie "Good Will Hunting", what book does the Matt Damon character tell the Robin Williams character he is reading? chessart - 09-12-2000 10:24 AM

54. Who, when asked why the writings of Jack Keroauc had been an influence on their career, said that it was the first poetry that had spoken his language?
karmaloupster - 09-12-2000 01:11 PM

56. The current Australian Olympic soccer team are hopeful of progressing though to the final, and playing for the gold medal. Which country did oz face in the first international ever played by an oz Olympic soccer team, and how many goals had they conceded by the time they walked into the dressing rooms at the break? gtho4 - 09-13-2000 02:12 AM

57. Following on from Q56, who was captain of the oz Olympic team in that first international match? gtho4 - 09-13-2000 02:12 AM

58. What do the following films have in common..
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Elizabeth
Hot Shot
karmaloupster - 09-13-2000 04:52 AM

UNANSWERED 20 POINTERS

60. Amongst the 1956 Melbourne Olympic rowing ranks, there was
a competitor who could claim a link with royalty. Who was this athlete and what is the royal connection? karmaloupster - 09-14-2000 01:08 AM

61. The term "beat" used by Jack Kerouac, as in "the beat generation", was derived from what word? chessart - 09-14-2000 10:32 AM

62. Soccer - Who scored Manchester Uniteds' 200th goal in the European Cup/Champions League ? PaulE - 09-14-2000 10:36 AM

63. The Commonwealth of Australia is a federation of States, but with a monarch as Head Of State - the Head Of Government being the majority leader in the House of Representatives. The Union, the United States of America, is also a federation of States but the Head of Government and the Head of State are not separated but reside in the one individual, who is elected by the people via an electoral college. Nonetheless, our founding fathers borrowed ideas and concepts from the USA's constitution when drafting ours. One of these is how legislative powers were split up between the States on the one hand, and the federal governmenton the other.
In the USA the splitting of legislative powers between Congress and the States is carried out by specifying which legislative powers were assigned to Congress, with the residue thereof remaining with the States. The Australian Constitution similarly specified the legislative powers of the Federal Parliament (again, the residue thereof remained with the States).
What are the section numbers in the two consitutions which set out the respective legislative powers of each federal government? (in the US consitution it is Article number and Section Number) gtho4 - 09-14-2000 10:53 AM

65. How many States had to ratify the document, the Constitution of the United States of America, such that the Articles of Confederation ceased to exist and the United States under its present Constitution was established? gtho4 - 09-14-2000 10:53 AM

SAGEBRUSH QUESTIONS

To help those under 50 points of second place leader, these people will score double for these and it won't count against their daily limit. Although it won't count as your daily, you can answer only one of these bonus questions per day. This offer is good until they get within range or The Blowout / Catch-up Round (last 5 week days of the month/game).

All others may answer, but for 20 points and it will count as your daily.

Name the artist for these songs:

S 7. I don't wanna cry
S10. Rockin' to the rythm of the blues

Good Luck !

An off-shore oil rig.

answer: 9 States

Q58. Q56 Following on from Q57, who was captain of the oz Olympic team in that first international match?

Answer: Bob Bignell

New q..#67..

Q67 One of the most fashionable Coffee houses in Paris is the Cafe Cois, which is said to be "the place to be seen". The cafe itself is extravagently designed which is no surprise given the architect who designed it. Apart from this cafe whose office had this architect also designed?

Andy Cole

61. The term "beat" used by Jack Kerouac, as in "the beat generation", was derived from what word? chessart - 09-14-2000 10:32 AM

Answer..Now, this is going to be a tricky one so hang on..I am going to list 2 words that the term "beat" as in Beat Generation, has origins to and the reason is that there are 2 ways of using and interperting the way that this phrase can amd was used. Both explanations are by people who were involved in this word even becoming part of popular culture...firstly, (1) BEATIFIC..Jack Kerouac, writer, poet and player at the vanguard of the Beat Culture had been quoted as saying that he had used the word beat to signify a "scret holiness"..as seen in the following excert from page http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/Topics/BeatEtymology.html

".... But the term 'beat' has a second meaning: 'beatific' or sacred and holy. Kerouac, a devout Catholic, explained many times that by describing his generation as beat he was trying to capture the secret holiness of the downtrodden. In fact, this is probably the most central theme in Kerouac's work (think of the saintly hobos and lonely truck drivers of 'On The Road' and 'The Dharma Bums'). ..."

(2) However, without doubt the most popular explanation about the origins of the word Beat is that it was a word first used by another 'Beat'identity, a Times Square hustler and drug addict called "Hubert Huncke", who Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs all wrote about in later years (he is the character "Hassell" in Keroaucs, 'On the Road'). Herbert used to use the word to describe people who had been defeated by life, they were poor, or downtrodden...the homeless, the junkies etc. The word 'Beat' really came from the word "beat" , meaning being defeated as in "Our team was defeated 5-0, we were beat bad"..but with a spin on the meaning of it. Further info on this explanation can be found at http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/Topics/BeatEtymology.html

sorry about the long diatribe but I thought it better to cover all bases...there is certainly more evidence that the term has it's roots in the way that Huncke used it, that version is also contained in 'On the Road', the book that the media anointed as the 'Bible of the Beats', however there is also evidence, although from fewer sources (ie Jack himself) that it originated from the word "Beatific" meaning secret holiness..and I would not be one to query Keroauc's interpretations, but it may be that it came to mean that to him, however originally it had been coined to mean, "beaten by life, downtrodden, without hope".

New Q...#68..

Q68. At the closing ceremony of the 1956 Olympics, the last song played was a specially worded version of the Aussie folk song, "Waltzing Matilda". This song was sung in the stadium by a crowd of over 100,000 people, who had been given the replacement lyrics so that they could join in. Not only had the lyrics been changed but the order of the song was altered, so that the refrain actually opened the song and was the first line sung by the crowd. What lyric opened this special tune, that is, what was the lyric, that replaced "Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda"...?

answer: for Australia, it is Chapter 1, Part V, sections 51-60;
for US, Article I, section 8

It is sometimes said that by putting the legislative branch provisions first, the U.S. founding fathers showed their intention that the legislative branch is the most important of the 3, with the executive being 2nd, and the judicial a weak 3rd. The judiciary and executive both probably have far more power today than ever envisioned by the founding fathers.

Ernie Shore
Harvey Haddix
Pedro Martinez

Q52. The present site of Vancouver International Airport is Sea Island (previously Lulu Island). What as the destination of the first (scheduled) international passenger flight from Sea Island?
gtho4 - 09-12-2000 09:56 AM

Answer: The USA

New Q....#70..

Q70. How many Events were there in how many different sports at the Melbourne Olympics (ie answer X events in Y sports)?