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. PE - 125 - 1 - 10/10 - 8
2. GT - 80 - 2 - 6/10
3. JW - 115 - 3 - 8/10 - 10
4. TR - 115 - 5 - 8/10 - 9
5. PD - 85 - 4 - 7/10
6. CA - 80 - 6 - 6/10
7. KL - 100 - 7 - 10/10

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

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

Looks like there were three hardest questions # 7, 9 & 10 this time. Next High Noon game is Friday Oct. 20th.

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

Karmaloupster ... 610
Jabberwock ..... 605
gtho4 .............. 595
PaulE ............. 550
chessart ........... 355
Barbs42 .......... 335
Partsdude ........ 315
Tangledrose ..... 210

STUMPERS

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

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

49. Who spoke the last words in J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy "Lord of the Rings", and what were they? Jabberwock - 10-11-2000 12:08 AM

52. In the film "Tell Your Children" (a.k.a "Reefer Madness"), who is the first person (minor character) the audience sees go insane from the use of marijuana?
Jabberwock - 10-11-2000 09:31 AM

53. When the pitcher stepped up to the mound in this baseball match it was without precedent. The pitcher was female. What are the names of the two MLB teams in this match, and who was this lady? gtho4 - 10-12-2000 05:04 AM

54. The House of Representatives in the US Congress is re-elected en masse every two years. No positions carry over from the previously elected - the Speaker is elected and all members are sworn in by the Speaker. However, before that can be done the Speaker himself must be sworn in. In accordance with tradition (as the constitution does not set out any procedure) who swears in the Speaker? gtho4 - 10-12-2000 09:07 AM

56. In the film "Reefer Madness", what is Blanche's fate? Jabberwock - 10-12-2000 11:15 PM

UNANSWERED 20 POINTERS


58. Test cricket - name a batsman whose score was more than two-thirds of the total runs scored, by his country, in an innings. gtho4 - 10-13-2000 01:38 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 5. Groovy Kind of Love
S 8. Last Night
S10. Maybe
S12. Night Train
S17. Soul Shake

Good Luck !

56. In the film "Reefer Madness", what is Blanche's fate?

Blanche committed suicide

Q58. Test cricket - name a batsman whose score was more than two-thirds of the total runs scored, by his country, in an innings. gtho4 - 10-13-2000 01:38 AM

Answer:

There have been two that I could find:

(a) Charles Banerman (165* / 245) 66.94% against England at Melbourne, 1876-77 (first ever Test match); and
(b) Michael Slater (123 / 184) 66.85% against England at Sydney, 1998-99.

Questions to follow very shortly..

Q59. The popular detective board game, "Scotland Yard" is a tactical detective chase, which is played on a distinct board resembling a map of a part of London, with numerically ordered transportation stops situated around the board. If you were playing the part of the criminal, "Mr X", your goal is to stay one step ahead of the detectives. If you were located at the site number directly outside, "The Old Scotland Yard", what is THE LOWEST location number, NUMERICALLY that you could reach by using two tickets of any mode of transport?

(Answer should be in the format: Location # ?)

Q60. If you play the musical record, "Walk This Way" by Run DMC and Aerosmith backwards, what message does the chorus contain when played backwards?

Answer to Stumper to come...

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Q62. The champion Australian horse Phar Lap lost his first start as a 4 year old (he ran 2nd in the Warwick Stakes on 30-Aug-1930), and and lost his last start as a 4 year old (he ran 2nd in the CM Lloyd Stakes on 07-Mar-1931), but won all his starts in between these two races. How many consecutive races did Phar Lap win?

new Q63 What position player (i.e., not a pitcher) lasted for 15 seasons in the Major Leagues, despite appearing in less than 30% of his team's games?

ans: Clerk of the House
(The Clerk is responsible for conducting the election, and by implication would then swear in the Speaker immediately following the election of the Speaker.)

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Phar Lap won 37 of the 51 races in which he started, including fourteen in a row in 1930-31.

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

EV Bushnell of Philadelphia, PA.

Sam Gamgee .. Well, I'm back

Q52. In the film "Tell Your Children" (a.k.a "Reefer Madness"), who is the first person (minor character) the audience sees go insane from the use of marijuana?

Answer: Ralph

Answer to Daily:

Q61. JFK assassination - the Warren Commission concluded that Lee H Oswald was the lone gunman (who fired a total of three shots fired from the Texas School Depository Building), and murdered the President. At the end of the 1970s the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that the assassination was a conspiracy as there two gunmen (on that day back in 1963) who between them fired a total of four shots, and that the other gunman fired a shot from the locality now known as the grassy knoll. Re the shot from the grassy knoll: what did the HSCA conclude - was it a hit or a miss? was it the first, second, third or last shot fired?

Answer: The HSCA concluded that the grassy knoll shot was the THIRD one fired and that it missed.

New Q's...

Q63. Liverpool FC, recently enjoyed a 4-0 win away from their home ground of Anfield, when they defeated Derby County at Pride Park. This victory was Liverpool's biggest away win for how many years?

Q64. What do the following have in common:

Eiffel Tower
Statue of Liberty
Arc De' Triomphe
Batmobile?

six years

Q66. I am a number. When you write down my square and then write down my cube, you will find that you have written down all ten numerals, from 1 to 9 inclusive plus zero. What number am I?

q to follow...

answer: 1729

One of the numbers Ramanujan made famous. As the story goes, Hardy commented to Ramanujan that he had come over in taxicab number 1729 and that the number had no particular significance that he (Hardy) knew of. Ramanujan replied that 1729 did indeed have a special property: it is the smallest number that can be expressed as the sum of two cubes in two different ways: 1729 = 12 cubed + 1cubed = 10cubed + 9cubed.

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ans: Little Kirk

1024

53. When the pitcher stepped up to the mound in this baseball match it was without precedent. The pitcher was female. What are the names of the two MLB teams in this match, and who was this lady? gtho4 - 10-12-2000 05:04 AM

Answer: The pitcher was Ila Borders and the two teams were Madison Black Wolf and Sioux Falls Canaries.

Answer to Daily:

S8 Last Night

Answer: Elton John

New Q's...

Q69. What artists were performing at the Desert Inn Casino, Las Vegas when Hunter S Thompson and his attorney are thrown out after claiming to know one of the artists, in the book, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"?

Q70. In Graeme Base's children's classic, "The Eleventh Hour", what is the name of the swan who attends the party?