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SoxTalk Useless Trivia

Expires 14 June 2005 at 8:00PM

 

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Question 09

Category: Biology

Point Value: 58

 

You are working in a biology lab. The lead biologist asks you to get a karyotype of one of the rats. What do you give the biologist?

 

Be as specific as you can.

 

A profile of the chromosomes.

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Here are the answers to #8.

 

Part I:

Full Credit (40): Spacewar (1961)

Half Credit (20): Pong (1973)

 

Part II:

Full Credit (30): Pong (1973)

Half Credit (15): Space Invaders (1978)

Half Credit (15): Pac-Man (1980)

 

That said, here are the player results... sorry about the slight delay.

CONTESTANT           A   B  TOTAL RECORD RANK TIME
FlaSoxxJim           20  15  173   3- 1    2    :23
Kalapse*             40  30  233   4- 2    1    :31
chimpy2121           20   0  159   2- 2    3   2:02
ScottPodRulez22      20   0   45   0- 2   13   3:51
knightni             20  15  139   2- 1    5   8:40
gettysburg32         20  15   35   0- 2   15  14:02
SleepyWhiteSox       20  15  154   3- 2    4  14:04
EvilJester99         20  30   95   1- 2    9  14:36
chi-guy2             20   0   35   1- 1   15  15:33
SoxFan1              40  30  114   2- 1    7  15:55

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QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Jun 14, 2005 -> 11:52 AM)
I'm looking for Kalapse to collapse pretty soon here.  The pressure is, no doubt, unbearable.  :D

I took AP Bio, last year. So I know this one, the collapse will have to wait til tomorrow.

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QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Jun 14, 2005 -> 11:01 PM)
You'd better believe it.  :P

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Anybody else want a piece of this...?!

you're now 7 points behind Kalapse.

 

I can't put it any better than FlaSoxxJim:

"You would give the biologist a rundown of the chromosomal characteristics of the rat's diploid (2N) cells – not just the chromosome number, but a physical depiction of their relative sizes and possibly an indication of which pair reprtesents the sex chromasomes – often it's a mount of the actual chromosomes themselves or some other physical depiction of the chromosome set."

 

Here's a rundown of the scores...

CONTESTANT          SCORE TOTAL RECORD RANK TIME
FlaSoxxJim            53   226   4- 0    2  15:48
Heads22               53    68   1- 2   11   1:53
knightni              53   192   3- 1    3   2:12
rangercal*            53    53   1- 0   14   1:32
ScottPodRulez22       53    98   2- 2    9   3:20
chimpy2121             0   159   2- 2    4    :05

 

late: SleepyWhiteSox

 

and, no, there's no penalty for guessing (besides the fact that you can't answer the question again)

 

The newcomer, rangercal was the first to answer... he gets the next category.

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"Where is the next question"

- Sorry, I forgot to hit submit. I was working in another tab.

 

SoxTalk Useless Trivia

Expires 16 June 2005 at 3:00PM

 

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Question 10

Category: Half and Half

Point Value: 55

 

This is the first of 10 true/false questions. Answer correctly and get the points... try as few or as many as you want. Each question is worth 4 points, and you get 15 bonus points for getting them all. Good luck.

  1. About one-sixth of the earth's surface is permanently covered with ice. F
  2. French was the official language of England for over 600 years. T
  3. Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in 753 BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence. T
  4. When the Apollo 12 astronauts landed on the moon, the impact caused the moon's surface to create a new crater thirteen feet across. F

    Nope, no new craters that we know of.

  5. The 'Happy Birthday' song is actually copyrighted. So legally and technically, if you somehow profit from the song you are entitled to pay royalities to the Time-Warner Corporation. T
  6. The average dog requires more food in proportion to its size than a human baby or a cat. F
  7. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. T
  8. The energy in an average one day hurricane could power the United States for a year. T

    It could also power it for two more after that.

  9. Although it is still featured on the state flag, no grizzly has been seen in California since 1924. T

    They were hunted to extinction

  10. A Holstein cow's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots. T
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The first true/false trivia question is now over, and here are the results.

It was scored as a win if you got over 6 of them right.

 

 

 

 

 
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SoxFan1
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F T T F T F T T T T

Yet again, Kalapse was the winner, being the only one to get them all right.

 

 

He is, like the Sox are, unstoppable!

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QUOTE(techgeekxp @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 06:11 PM)
Yet again, Kalapse was the winner, being the only one to get them all right.

 

 

He is, like the Sox are, unstoppable!

Dont worry i started playing late. I will dethrone him before this is over!

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SoxTalk Useless Trivia

Expires 17 June 2005 at 6:30PM

 

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Question 11

Category: Fear

Point Value: 28+18, total 46

  1. If you are anthropophobic, what would you be terrified of?
  2. What would a triskadekaphobe fear?

     

    think of the latin roots.

  1. People
  2. The number 13
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SoxTalk Useless Trivia

Expires 18 June 2005 at 6:00PM

 

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Question 12

Category: Music

Point Value: 42

 

This group, according to the RIAA, has the most platinum albums of all time, with 39.

 

Expires 18 June 2005 at 6:00PM

 

edit: Q11 results posted.

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Here are the Q11 results.

 

CONTESTANT          A  B  SCORE TOTAL RECORD RANK TIME
FlaSoxxJim          28 18   46   300   6- 0    2    :22
Kalapse             28 18   46   334   6- 2    1   2:20
knightni*           28 18   46   282   4- 2    3    :03
SoxFan1             28 18   46   196   4- 1    4   4:50
TheDybber (New)     28 18   46    46   1- 0   17  18:08
Credepopsup         28  0   28   160   3- 1    7    :54
Heads22              0 18   18    86   1- 3   11    :07
ScottPodRulez22      0 18   18   144   3- 3    8    :08
farmteam             0  0    0    20   0- 4   20   2:56

 

The correct answers:

  1. anthropophobia: Fear of People

    roots: anthro: people / phobia: fear

  2. triskadekaphobia: Fear of the number 13

    roots: tri: 3 / deka: 10 / phobia: fear

As ScottPod puts it, it's what the cubs will have after they face the Yankees.

 

FlaSoxxJim remains UNDEFEATED.

Welcome to TheDybber

 

NEW: Scale Scores

Introduced because of the disparity in number of questions answered, the scale score gives a view of who has the highest average score of the ones they answered.

The current scale-score running order: 1 FlaSoxxJim / 2 knightni / 3 Kalapse

For up-to-the-minute scale scores, check post #1 in this thread.

 

Post what you think of the new scale score system here.

 

knightni gets the next question.

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And the answer is The Beatles. The Stones are just behind by 3, so they get 26 points.

FlaSoxx, deserting your favorite band doesn't help :)

 

CONTESTANT          SCORE TOTAL RECORD RANK TIME
Credepopsup           42   202   3- 1    4  14:23
Kalapse*              42   376   7- 2    1   6:04
FlaSoxxJim            26   326   6- 1    2  14:58
knightni              26   308   4- 3    3  13:43
ScottPodRulez22       26   170   3- 4    6   1:33

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