London has been selected as host city* three times (not necessarily held, due to war), the others have been selected twice
Tokyo 1940 1964
London 1908 1944 1948
Berlin 1916 1936
Helsinki 1940 1952
* either originally or as replacement

85. What do these three people have in common?
Alexander Pope
Engelbert Dollfuss
Olga Korbut
Jabberwock 20-Sep-2000 11:41pm

they are less than 5ft in height

Q96. What is the missing letter in this sequence?
A, A, C, B, ____ , M, S, I, Y

S 7. I don't wanna cry

Answer: Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers

Will update later this morning.

5 players submitted answers, 5 players received the 50 point bonus and 4 received an extra 25 point bonus.

Here are the scores in the order of rotation (submitted answers). It shows the name - score - 50 point bonus question # - number correct - 25 bonus question # :

1. PD - 120 - 1 - 9/10 - 6
2. TR - 115 - 3 - 8/10 - 7
3. JW - 115 - 4 - 8/10 - 9
4. GT - 110 - 2 - 7/10 - 10
5. PE - 90 - 4 - 8/10

Below are the answers and how many players got them right:

1. C - 5
2. D - 3
3. C - 4
4. C - 3
5. D - 5
6. D - 4
7. B - 4
8. B - 2
9. D - 5
10. A - 5

Looks like the hardest question was # 8 this time. Rhubarb isn't a fruit because it doesn't have seeds. It is a member of the buckwheat family. Next High Noon game is Friday Sep. 29nd and it will start off next month's Shootout game.

Partsdude - 91 (See SI)
Jabberwock - 93
gtho4 - 80, 85
karmaloupster - 61, 92, S7

Points Pending:

gtho4 - 88

Dead Stumpers:

PaulE - 60
karmaloupster - 67, 68

Karmaloupster need your answers for questions 88 & 89!

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

gtho4 .............. 775
Karmaloupster ... 725
Jabberwock ..... 690
PaulE ............. 590
chessart ........... 445
Partsdude ........ 430
Tangledrose ..... 425
billsgyrl ........... 150
ren32 .............. 100
SeanB ............. 80
Sypher ............ 45

STUMPERS

75. The race to hold the Summer Olmypic Games has become a much more prestigious event then any that involve sport. Collectively, the resources required to even be considered as a host are enormous and beyond the means of most Cities worldwide. Not all the Cities that have been chosen as Olympic Games hosts have been required to bid for that honour, however in recent times a complex and thorough tendering process has been required to sift through the Olympic hopefuls. Up to the start of the Sydney Olympics, exactly how many different cities had made or been involved in a bid directly or jointly to hold a Summer Olympics, either past present or future (note well if a bidding process was not undertaken then the city chosen as host does not count as a bidding city for this count)?
karmaloupster - 09-18-2000 08:52 PM

77. On what date, and at which football ground, did Manchester United score their first ever goal in European competition? Who was the scorer of this goal?
gyho4 - 09-19-2000 09:28 AM

78. In the Opening Ceremony at Sydney a few days back, the orchestra were playing as Cathy Freeman lit the cauldron and as it made its way up to the top of the stadium. There was an organ playing but there was no organ in the orchestra pit, it was a tape. Who is the organ-player on that tape, and where is the organ he was playing located?
gyho4 - 09-19-2000 09:28 AM

79. It seems some cities are lucky and others not when it comes to hosting the Summer Olympics. Sydney or "Sidaneee" as it became known Olympically, were granted the Games on only their second attempt. This cannot be said for most of the Cities that have entered this bidding process. Up to the start of the Games of the XXVIIth Olympiad, what city has the unwanted record of being involved in the most bids for the Olympics without holding them or being selected to hold them, and how many times have they returned home without the games? For additional points, what other Olympic related first does this City have a claim to?
karmaloupster - 09-19-2000 11:16 AM

87. Olympic rowing - Until the tradition was broken, no Olympic eights had ever been won by a crew that had lost its opening race. Which country (they won gold) was the first to break this tradition? gtho4 - 09-21-2000 09:32 AM

88. In the classic cartoon "The Flinstones", we know that Fred worked at the Quarry, and in the later episodes, Barney, his loyal friend and neighbour joined him at Slate Rock and Gravel Company. What three occupations was Barney employed as before he worked at the Quarry?
karmaloupster - 09-21-2000 04:16 PM (Points Pending)

89. What is the common link between these 4 films...
The Big Lebowski
Mission Impossible
Boogie Nights
Witness?
karmaloupster - 09-21-2000 04:16 PM

90. What is the common link between these people?
-Humphrey Bogart
-James Cagney
-Rock Hudson
-Oscar Wilde
Jabberwock - 09-21-2000 11:59 PM

UNANSWERED 20 POINTERS


94. What is the common link of these three people:
Al Capp
Sid Vicious
Brandon Lee?
karmaloupster - 09-22-2000 04:49 PM

95. What do these cities have in common:
Austin, Texas
Staten Island, New York
Los Angelas, California
Little Rock, Arkansas...?
karmaloupster - 09-22-2000 04:49 PM

96. What is the missing letter in this sequence?
A, A, C, B, ____ , M, S, I, Y
gtho4 - 09-25-2000 01:03 AM

97. What is the missing letter in this sequence?
F, W, T, H, ___ , V, W, B, R
gtho4 - 09-25-2000 07:09 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:

S10. Rockin' to the rythm of the blues

Good Luck !

daily2
97. What is the missing letter in this sequence?
F, W, T, H, ___ , V, W, B, R
gtho4 - 09-25-2000 07:09 AM
S

stumper1
87. Olympic rowing - Until the tradition was broken, no Olympic eights had ever been won by a crew that had lost its opening race. Which country (they won gold) was the first to break this tradition? gtho4 - 09-21-2000 09:32 AM
France

stumper2
94. What is the common link of these three people:
Al Capp
Sid Vicious
Brandon Lee?
karmaloupster - 09-22-2000 04:49 PM

They all died while performing their art.

Q87. Olympic rowing - Until the tradition was broken, no Olympic eights had ever been won by a crew that had lost its opening race. Which country (they won gold) was the first to break this tradition? gtho4 - 09-21-2000 09:32 AM

Answer: Great Britian. (Won Gold at Sydney 2000 Olympics in Men's 8's after losing first heat to Australia)

Q's to come...

swag Sarah Bernhardt

Q98. In what event was the first gold medal awarded at the 1896 Olympics games? Who received it?

Q77. On what date, and at which football ground, did Manchester United score their first ever goal in European competition? Who was the scorer of this goal?
Answer: The first European competitive game that Man U played was on the 12th of September 1956. It was the First Leg of their tie against RSC Anderlecht, played Heysel Stadium, Brussells Belguim.
The first scorer was Dennis Viollet in their 2-0 over the home side.

Q98. In what event was the first gold medal awarded at the 1896 Olympics games? Who received it?

Answer: The Triple Jump and the Gold was won by Brendan Connolly of the USA.

New Q's to follow..

Q99. One of the trademarks of the Television record-breaker, The Simpsons is that it employs a different starting sequence each episode. What is the title of the Simpson's Episode that includes in it's starting sequence, the classic "Monty Python Foot", used often by that comedy team's writers, squashing the Simpson's when they are sitting on their lounge, the last shot in the starting sequence?

138th Episode Spectacular

S10. Rockin' to the rythm of the blues

Answer: The Judds

New Q....#100

Q100. What sport, usually associated with another country, has recently enjoyed a surge of popularity in Russia, especially in the upper eschelons of Russian society and what is responsible for influencing this popularity boom?

wag they were expelled from school

Q102. NYSE Dow Jones Industrial Average aka DJI Index - the DJI peaked at 381.17 on 03-Sep-1929 and bottomed at 198.69 on 30-Nov-1929, a fall of 48%, but worse was to come from the crash of October 1929. The DJI recovered to reach 290.19 on 07-Apr-1930, which is a rise of 46% from the November trough (but still only three-quarters of its peak), and finally bottomed at only 41.22 on 08-Jul-1932 in the depths of the Great Depression. This is a drop (aka a wipeout) of 89% from its peak less than 3 years earlier! The DJI did not get back into the 290s for another 20 odd years when, coincidentally, it closed at 290.19 - what was the date?

[This message has been edited by gtho4 (edited 09-27-2000).]

77. On what date, and at which football ground, did Manchester United score their first ever goal in European competition? Who was the scorer of this goal?
gyho4 - 09-19-2000 09:28 AM

The very first goal in European competition was scored by Dennis Viollet. The date was 12 September 1956, the venue Astrid Park in Brussels. Viollet scored the first goal of a 2-0 win over Anderlecht, in the preliminary round, first leg match.

Daily

Q102. NYSE Dow Jones Industrial Average aka DJI Index - the DJI peaked at 381.17 on 03-Sep-1929 and bottomed at 198.69 on 30-Nov-1929, a fall of 48%, but worse was to come from the crash of October 1929. The DJI recovered to reach 290.19 on 07-Apr-1930, which is a rise of 46% from the November trough (but still only three-quarters of its peak), and finally bottomed at only 41.22 on 08-Jul-1932 in the depths of the Great Depression. This is a drop (aka a wipeout) of 89% from its peak less than 3 years earlier! The DJI did not get back into the 290s for another 20 odd years when, coincidentally, it closed at 290.19 - what was the date?

The DJI reached 290.19 again on 3rd Feb 1953 although it did actually reach 290.03 on the previous day, thereby topping 290 one day earlier than the 290.19.

Q103. Who was the first Canandian woman in space?

Q104. Leeds Uniteds 6-0 victory over Besiktas equalled the record for the highest score in a Champions League game. Who set the oringinal record?

[This message has been edited by PaulE (edited 09-27-2000).]

Buenos Aires, 5 bids 1936 1940 1956 1960 1968
swag for additional points .. all of the other 12 founding nations of the IOC have have had a city in their country host the Games except for Argentina and/or their 1936 bid was the first from a city in the southern hemisphere

Q105. On what day and from whom did Microsoft Corporation Inc buy the predecessor to what is now simply called DOS? How much did Microsoft pay to the vendor on that day?

Q101. English Soccer - when WW2 broke out in 1939 the English League programme was abandoned. Which team was top of Division 1 (played 3 won 3 goals 5-2), and which team was bottom of Division 1 (played 3 won 0 drew 1 goals 0-2), when the season was abandoned?

Answer: The team leading the 1939/40 Division I, when the competition was abandoned, on 9 points was Blackpool . The botom side, on 1 point and unsuprisingly, Leeds United FC.

New Q's to follow..

Q103. Who was the first Canandian woman in space?

Answer: Dr. Roberta Bondar

Q104. Leeds Uniteds 6-0 victory over Besiktas equalled the record for the highest score in a Champions League game. Who set the oringinal record?

Answer: Olympique Marseille,who beat CSKA Moscow by
6-0 in the 1992-93 European Champions League.

New Q's to follow..

Q106. What is the common Olympic link betweeen these cities :

Mexico City, Mexico
Amesterdam, The Netheralnds
Paris, France
London, UK?

Q107. What is the common link between the following :

The Caine Mutiny
A Star is Born
The Grapes of Wrath
Guess who's Coming to Dinner?

Q108. The processes involved with deciding which teams qualify for annual European Cups spots in both the Champion's League and UEFA Cup are complex and frequently changed. In the Qualifying conditions for the 1998/99 Champions Cup (as it was then called)under what circumstances could a country have 3 teams qualified?

Q109. "Fair Play" award's are another way that countries have been able to grab spots in the European Cups, with three countries awarded an additional place each in the UEFA Cup Competition. In the UEFA Cup Competitions held between the 1995-96 and 1998/99 (ie 4 cups contested), which two countries won the most additional spots? For further points, which country had another spot awarded to them, only to see it revoked and why?

Q96. What is the missing letter in this sequence?
A, A, C, B, ____ , M, S, I, Y
gtho4 - 09-25-2000 01:03 AM

Answer: S (as in Shepard)

Series of initials of last names first 9 men to walk on the Moon (Armstrong, Aldrin, Conrad, Bean, Shepard, Mitchell, Scott, Irwin, Young)