Congratulations go to gtho4, last month's winner!

Let's see if we can get more players interested in this new year.

Here are the total scores for the month of December, 2000:

gtho4 .............. 250
Davjack .......... 130
PaulE ............. 120
Barbs42 .......... 110
chessart ........... 90
Partsdude ........ 60
Karmaloupster ... 40

STUMPERS

22. The first States to declare Christmas Day a public holiday were Louisiana and Arkansas, in 1831. On what day, and by which President, was December 25th declared a public holiday throughout the entire United States? gtho4 - 12-21-2000 05:15 AM

23. Living in Australia to dial an international telephone number we need to first dial 0011- country code- area code- telephone No, If I where in New Zealand what Numbers would I dial to instead of 0011? Davjack - 12-22-2000 04:51 PM

24. From the conductors point of view in an orchestra, what instument is to the right of the Snare Drum ? Davjack - 12-22-2000 04:51 PM

UNANSWERED 20 POINTERS

None

SAGEBRUSH QUESTIONS

To help those under 70 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:

S11. Good Luck Charm
S12. Heaven On Earth
S13. Jose Guerrvo
S15. Let There Be Drums
S16. Machines
S18. One Voice

Good Luck !

Elvis Presley

Q1. When the Gregorian calendar was adopted in England and its colonies (and a few other places) it resulted in the omission of a few days from September 1752. How many days ( +/- 1 ) were there in the year 1752, in those places?

There were -11 days in September 1752. In September 1752 the Julian calendar was replaced with the Gregorian calendar in Great Britain and its American colonies. The Julian calendar was 11 days behind the Gregorian calendar, so 14 September got to follow 2 September on the day of the change. The result was that between 3 and 13 September, absolutely nothing happened!

The Platters

Q2. Sticking with the calendar in Great Britain and the American Colonies (well, it is a new millenium): what was the date on the day after 24-Mar-1751?

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stumper:
24. From the conductors point of view in an orchestra, what instument is to the right of the Snare Drum ? Davjack - 12-22-2000 04:51 PM
the Glockenspiel

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Q3. When the bishop Dionysius Exiguus was preparing his tables for celebrating Easter using a 95 year cycle his work covered the years 248 to 343 anno Diocletian. When he had finished he gave his work the title anni Domini nostri Jesu Christi ____ to ____ and thus was the first ever to use the AD numbering systems for years (now also called CE). What are the two years in the title?

532 to 550

stumper:
23. Living in Australia to dial an international telephone number we need to first dial 0011- country code- area code- telephone No, If I where in New Zealand what Numbers would I dial to instead of 0011? Davjack - 12-22-2000 04:51 PM
001

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Shelley West

Q5. In the lead up to the Julian calendar being replaced by the Gregorian calendar in 1582 the architect of the calculations at that time, Aloysius Lilius, concluded that a correction of 10 days needed to be made. His suggestion of how to correct the drift in the equinox was "more radical" than the final solution: simply remove 10 days from the calendar. What was his suggestion?

Correct Answers:

gtho4 - S11, S12, 23,
Eyeball - 1, 2

Wrong Answers:

gtho4 - S13
Barbs42 - 1, 3
Jabberwock - S15, 24, S18, 23

Dead Stumpers:

gtho4 - 22
Davjack - 24

Remember that you should ask another question to keep the game going. Even if your answers may have been wrong.

Here are the total scores so far:

gtho4 .............. 60
Eyeball............. 30
Davjack .......... 10
Jabberwock..... 0
Barbs42 .......... 0
PaulE ............. 0
chessart ........... 0
Partsdude ........ 0
Karmaloupster ... 0

STUMPERS

3. When the bishop Dionysius Exiguus was preparing his tables for celebrating Easter using a 95 year cycle his work covered the years 248 to 343 anno Diocletian. When he had finished he gave his work the title anni Domini nostri Jesu Christi ____ to ____ and thus was the first ever to use the AD numbering systems for years (now also called CE). What are the two years in the title? gtho4 - 01-11-2001 06:57 PM

4. How many "plain" squares are there on a Scrabble board? (By plain, I mean not a Double Word Score, Triple Letter etc..) Jabberwock - 01-11-2001 09:03 PM

5. In the lead up to the Julian calendar being replaced by the Gregorian calendar in 1582 the architect of the calculations at that time, Aloysius Lilius, concluded that a correction of 10 days needed to be made. His suggestion of how to correct the drift in the equinox was "more radical" than the final solution: simply remove 10 days from the calendar. What was his suggestion? gtho4 - 01-12-2001 10:19 AM

UNANSWERED 20 POINTERS

None

SAGEBRUSH QUESTIONS

To help those under 70 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:

S13. Jose Guerrvo
S15. Let There Be Drums
S16. Machines
S18. One Voice

Good Luck !

6. What unique fact do the songs "Unchained Melody" and "Lover's Concerto" have in common?

7. On the movie marquee poster for "Gone With the Wind" there are four names listed in bold letters as the stars. What are the other two names besides Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh?

Good luck!

Leslie Howard & Olivia De Haviland

Question to follow.

Scrabble Tiles that are not Premium - 165 Tiles !!(I hope)

Q.8 - How many 2 letter words are valid in a game of Scrabble ?

On the original Star Trek series, it is well known that Capt. Kirk's middle initial is T for Tiberius. But, on one of the first episodes there was something that showed a different middle initial for him. What was the initial and which episode was it?

Jose Cuervo- Shelly West

Q10

Who was the only batter to draw as many as three balls off of Don Larsen during his 1956 World Series perfect game?

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quote:

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UPDATE: 7/21/99 - Although the OSPD3 lists 97, Dan Brinkley, Director of Columbus Ohio Scrabble Club #494 has informed me that "DA" is no longer acceptable in tournament play, (being regarded as foreign), bringing the number down to an easy-to-remember 96
~http://www.trussel.com/2words.htm

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newQ11. Within one-tenth of a gram, how much does a Canadian one-dollar coin weigh?

532-627