Q36. When the 3rd Test (cricket) between England and Australia was abandoned in 1975 it was because protestors had dug up part of the pitch during the night. What were the protestors campaigning for? PaulE - 10-09-2000 11:39 AM

Answer: The pitch destroyers were campaigning for the release of George Davis, a small-time criminal who had recently been convicted and imprisoned.

Answer to Stumper...

Q28. Between which two teams was the highest scoring senior mens International Soccer match and what was the score? PaulE - 10-06-2000 08:50 AM

Answer: 11-3 between Honduras und St. Vincent and the Grenadines

New Q's...

Q37. "Bob's your uncle" is a phrase which is widely by people in the english speaking world. It is basically used to to emphasize how easily and simply a result is attained, for example, "Invite England for an Ashes Cricket series, and Bob's your uncle, cricketing joy for all Australian cricket lovers".

This phrase originates from an actual event in history which involves a person called Bob, his uncle and an easily attained result. Who were the original nephew and his Uncle Bob and exactly what resulting outcome was attained?

Q38. In the film, "Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country" there is a scene where members of the Enterprise are having dinner with the Klingons. The meal that night was squid - dyed blue. When the scene was being produced, it seemed that none of the actors were keen on the strangely coloured main course and refused to eat it. In desperation, the director offered to pay $20 a bite. How much and to which actor/actors did the director have to fork out?

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if you exclude the first wicket taker in Test history, A Hill, as he would be the only wicket-taker not the greatest wicket-taker .. the bowler is the Englishman J Southerton who held the all-time record of 3 wickets solely, and then jointly with A Shaw, until the next innings of the same match when the Australian bowler W Midwinter took his 4th wicket of that innings and his 4th all-time test wicket

kl, this is how I read the sequence ... the first Test match was between Australia and England at the MCG from 15 to 19-Mar-1877, and we batted first. The English bowler A Hill took the first test wicket when he bowled out N Thomson, the second wicket was taken by A Shaw (when T Horan was caught by A Hill), and the third wicket was taken by J Southerton (when he bowled B Cooper). J Southerton took two more wickets to finish the innings with a total of 3 wickets, and A Shaw bowled out the two tail-enders to also finish the innings with 3 wickets. England then batted and W Midwinter took 5 wickets in that innings. In Australia's second innings A Shaw took 5 more wickets to give him an all-time total of 8 wickets.

37. "Bob's your uncle" is a phrase which is widely by people in the english speaking world. It is basically used to to emphasize how easily and simply a result is attained, for example, "Invite England for an Ashes Cricket series, and Bob's your uncle, cricketing joy for all Australian cricket lovers". This phrase originates from an actual event in history which involves a person called Bob, his uncle and an easily attained result. Who were the original nephew and his Uncle Bob and exactly what resulting outcome was attained?

acts of nepotism by Prime Minister Lord Salisbury (family name Robert Cecil)appointed his rather less than popular nephew Arthur Balfour (later himself to be PM from 1902-11) to a succession of posts. The first in 1887 was Chief Secretary for Ireland, a post for which Balfour was considered unsuitable. The consensus among the irreverent in Britain seems to have been that to have Bob as your uncle guaranteed success, hence the expression and the common meaning it preserves of something that is easy to achieve .. all will be well .. all will be taken care of .. but the most popular seems to be simple as that yep, playing England at cricket lol

Q40. How many Senators, each, do the States of Tasmania and Queensland have?

Q39. The federation the Commonwealth of Australia came into being on 01-Jan-1901, and the Federal Parliament comprising the House of Representatives and the Senate sits in Canberra, the national capital of oz. The first Parliament House (which is now some sort of museum, I think, as we've since moved into a second) was built in 1927. Where did Parliament sit for the previous 26 years?

Answer: The Exhibition Building in Melbourne.

New Q's to follow...

Q38. What film contains the following characters?
The Ghoul Man, The Ghoul Woman, Police Inspector Clay, Criswell, Jeff and Paula Trent?

Plan 9 from Outer Space

S12. Night Train by Jimmy Forrest

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answer: 12 each

Q42. Name the air stewardess who fell 33,000 feet from a DC-9-32 after it was blown up over Czechoslovakia and survived.

Name the air stewardess who fell 33,000 feet from a DC-9-32 after it was blown up over Czechoslovakia and survived.

Vesna Vulovic

Q43 What was the name of the relative that took the 5 Marx Brothers under his wing and guided them on their way to stardom? And what was his show business act's name?

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7 players submitted answers, 7 players received the 50 point bonus and 3 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. BB - 125 - 1 - 10/10 - 8
2. JW - 120 - 2 - 9/10 - 9
3. CA - 115 - 3 - 9/10 - 10
4. TR - 95 - 4 - 9/10
5. GT - 95 - 6 - 9/10
6. KL - 100 - 5 - 10/10
7. PE - 95 - 7 - 9/10

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

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

Looks like the hardest question was # 5 this time. Next High Noon game is Friday Oct. 13th.

Barbs42 - 32, 42
Jabberwock - S20
gtho4 - 13, 39
karmaloupster - 36, 41
PaulE - 38
Partsdude - S13

Wrong Answers:

chessart - S4, 35, 13
karmaloupster - 28

Points Pending:

Partsdude - 44

As you will notice, question numbers got off the mark at Q38. Check out the Q numbers below.

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

Karmaloupster ... 470
gtho4 .............. 415
Jabberwock ..... 370
PaulE ............. 355
Barbs42 .......... 275
chessart ........... 245
Partsdude ........ 210
Tangledrose ..... 95

STUMPERS

1. What is the common Olympic link between these sports? For additional points what is the odd sport out and why?
Swimming
Rowing
Athletics
Water Polo
Volleyball
karmaloupster - 10-02-2000 12:08 PM

5. How much did the tickets to the first woodstock cost? Jabberwock - 10-02-2000 11:25 PM

7. Whose novel had the working title "The Beat Generation" and under what title was it finally published? (author and novel needed) karmaloupster - 10-03-2000 03:25 AM

10. All meals for the Apollo 11 mission were pre-packed meal by meal and day by day. What was packed for Neil Armstrong as his first meal on Day 4 of the mission?
gtho4 - 10-04-2000 07:08 AM

12. Who has performed duets with REM, Sonic Youth, Ministry, John Cale, Laurie Anderson, Tom Waits and Kurt Cobain? karmaloupster - 10-04-2000 09:06 AM

17. What is the common link between these people?
-Walt Whitman
-Louis Pasteur
-Winston Churchill
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
gtho4 - 10-04-2000 11:59 PM

18. There are now 9 countries who play Test Cricket, and up to and including the 750th Test Match played there have been 2 ties. How many of the other 748 matches ended in draws?
gtho4 - 10-05-2000 06:25 AM

23. What do the following countries have in common?
United States
Iran
Nigeria
Pakistan
Saudi Arabia
chessart - 10-05-2000 11:40 AM

26. What is the missing letter in this sequence? M, T, I, ___ , C, S, W
gtho4 - 10-06-2000 05:58 AM

28. Between which two teams was the highest scoring senior mens International Soccer match and what was the score? PaulE - 10-06-2000 08:50 AM

29. At the end of the movie, in the last scene of the film "Jesus Christ Superstar", who is last to get on the bus? (Name of the character in the film) karmaloupster - 10-06-2000 12:26 PM

31. Which Major League player has the most post-season at-bats without an RBI?
chessart - 10-06-2000 11:39 PM

35. Who was issued with the first ever patent relating to ice skates? PaulE - 10-09-2000 11:39 AM

UNANSWERED 20 POINTERS


37. What film contains the following characters? Ivan, José, Elsa, Pedro, "preacher", Hilton and "detective". Jabberwock - 10-09-2000 11:52 PM

40. In the film, "Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country" there is a scene where members of the Enterprise are having dinner with the Klingons. The meal that night was squid - dyed blue. When the scene was being produced, it seemed that none of the actors were keen on the strangely coloured main course and refused to eat it. In desperation, the director offered to pay $20 a bite. How much and to which actor/actors did the director have to fork out?
karmaloupster - 10-10-2000 12:01 AM

43. Which US Senator introduced a bill in 1874 to introduce a 20-cent coin?
PaulE - 10-10-2000 11:18 AM

44. Name the air stewardess who fell 33,000 feet from a DC-9-32 after it was blown up over Czechoslovakia and survived. PaulE - 10-10-2000 11:18 AM (Points Pending)

45. What was the name of the relative that took the 5 Marx Brothers under his wing and guided them on their way to stardom? Partsdude - 10-10-2000 11:34 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 3. Big Big World
S 4. Down in the Boondocks
S 5. Groovy Kind of Love
S 6. How's the World Treating You
S 7. Indian Giver
S 8. Last Night
S10. Maybe
S12. Night Train
S17. Soul Shake
S18. Time Won't Let Me

Good Luck !

Q23. What do the following countries have in common?
United States
Iran
Nigeria
Pakistan
Saudi Arabia

Answer: The Common Link that ties these 4 countries together, unfortunately for the people involved, is that these countries all allow the execution of juveniles. Along with Yemen, they are the only ones who choose to contravene the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which prohibits capital punishment crimes committed by those under the age of 18.

New Q's....

Q46. What "title" did Csar Nicholas II create in 1914 and to whom did he award it?

Q47. If I was to send the following message to somebody as it appears (ie no other words or symbols attached to it)..

" O-O-O "

and the receiver of this communique not only understood it, but replied with the following message as it appears (again, no other words or symbols attached to it)....

" O-O "

what is being communicated here and exactly what does each message mean?

" O-O-O "

and the receiver of this communique not only understood it, but replied with the following message as it appears (again, no other words or symbols attached to it)....

" O-O "

what is being communicated here and exactly what does each message mean?

answer: You are playing a correspondence chess game. The first message says your moving is castling on the Queen-side, and your opponent replied by castling on the King-side.

Phil Collins

-Only the Enterprise's intrepid captain, William Shatner, actually took the bait, swallowing four bite-fulls.
The director gave him $80.

in 1914 a major chess tournament was held in Saint Petersburg, Russia and at its conclusion Csar Nicholas II created the title grand master of chess and awarded it to the five finalists Emanuel Lasker, Alexander Alekhine, Jose Capablanca, Siegbert Tarrasch, and Frank Marshall and by 1998 about 450 chess players, including 6 women, have been recognized worldwide with the title Grandmaster, the current name of this title as adopted by FIDE

the two highest scoring senior international soccer matches are:-
Libya v Oman 21-0 in the Arab Cup 1966
Tahiti v Cook Islands 30-0 in the South Pacific Games of 1971
some sources state that the match in 1971 did not involve full international sides and so may not be the highest score recognised by FIFA for internationals between its member countries

Answer "Tell Your Children"