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pimple
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If it is not too late I would like to join and pick ickljen if she's free and Lake Baikal, Russia.
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pimple
Ship's Irruption
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OOooooops! Try again.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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quote:
Originally posted by Angel Wrestler:
BTW: anyone want to partner with me since I'm a complete newcomer to the game and don't know what I'm doing? What do partners do, anyhow (get your mind out of the gutter; I mean for this game)?
Actually, that's something we did in one of the previous KOQ's! It was fun to have a partner in a different time zone who could keep an eye open for possible answers to quiz questions. (Thanks Welsh Dragon!) ![[Biased]](wink.gif) We were able to watch each other's backs!
I may be wrong, but I don't think that's what QM has in mind with this particular quest. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Surfing Madness
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Originally posted by pimple:
If it is not too late I would like to join and pick ickljen if she's free and Lake Baikal, Russia.
I don't think it's too late, but i'm sure someone who knows these things will be along soon, also i think you need to pick a film and describe it in ten words.
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The Great Gumby
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And make sure it's a film no one else has already picked.
I think that's all, except that flags_fiend has already picked icklejen, so you'll probably need to choose someone else.
[ 17. September 2008, 13:34: Message edited by: The Great Gumby ]
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Angel Wrestler
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
quote:
Originally posted by Angel Wrestler:
BTW: anyone want to partner with me since I'm a complete newcomer to the game and don't know what I'm doing? What do partners do, anyhow (get your mind out of the gutter; I mean for this game)?
Actually, that's something we did in one of the previous KOQ's! It was fun to have a partner in a different time zone who could keep an eye open for possible answers to quiz questions. (Thanks Welsh Dragon!) We were able to watch each other's backs!
I may be wrong, but I don't think that's what QM has in mind with this particular quest.
Ohhhh. Thanks. I thought it was for the duration of the game.
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Imaginary Friend
Real to you
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Originally posted by The Great Gumby:
Dave, I think you should be OK bearing in mind the nature of the quiz... I'd just hate to see you eliminated on a technicality.
I thought that was part of the nature of the quiz ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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the pilgrim
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Just a question: Is the Quizmaster the master of the quiz, or is the quiz the master of the Quizmaster?
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Quizmaster
Quick quipper
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quote:
Originally posted by the pilgrim:
Just a question: Is the Quizmaster the master of the quiz, or is the quiz the master of the Quizmaster?
THE LATTER!
![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
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Quizmaster
Quick quipper
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Originally posted by pimple:
If it is not too late I would like to join and pick ickljen if she's free and Lake Baikal, Russia.
Dear Pimple,
One of the dangers of joining late is that you may have missed something.
Both of your choices have been taken so you need to post again (after checking) to gain entry to the Quiz.
Yours Since Early,
Quizmaster.
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Quizmaster
Quick quipper
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I choose Benxi Lake which claims to be the smallest lake in the world.
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Quizmaster
Quick quipper
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Knocked out for Failing to Post:
AndyS83
Paddy O'Furniture
PanamaJack
Wet Kipper
Through to the next round:
Angel Wrestler
Caty.
Chicklegirl
Chorister
Comet
CuppaT
Davelarge
Doublethink
East Price Road
Ephemera
Flags_Fiend
Fletcher Christian
Genevieve
Golden Key
Gwai
Hart
Icklejen
Jedijudy
Marvin the Martian
Mertseger
Nutmeg
PataLeBon
Patdys
Pimple
Quizmaster
Rugasaw
Rugmaker
Sha_Sha
Sharkshooter
Surfing Madness
The Great Gumby
The Pilgrim
The Rogue
In the case of Pimple this is subject to completing a valid entry.
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Quizmaster
Quick quipper
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ROUND TWO : RIVERS
You have to choose a river and if possible post a link to that river.
The person who chooses the longest river will be eliminated.
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Mertseger
Faerie Bard
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I'll leave plenty of room for other brinkspeople and not take the Nile. Instead, I'll go with the one that runs through my wife's old town. I choose The Pearl. At 2200km, it's #53 on the list of longest rivers for this planet.
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flags_fiend
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I choose the river Severn which is 220 miles long, and has the excitement of the Severn bore! I chose it mainly because it is a river I have seem at many different points along its course. It is also the longest river in the UK.
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Geneviève
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I shall live dangerously, following the examples of the sideways thinkers club.
I choose the [formerly] very cute River Phoenix
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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
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I pick the hypothetical river connecting Lake Vostok to another subterrean antarctic lake. What's not to love about an oligotrophic extreme environment that is supersaturated with oxygen ?
The length of the hypothetical river is open to speculation, but its length of existence is probably half to a whole million years ...
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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A list of the 163 longest rivers in the world is available here - it may be an idea to avoid the first fifty or so unless you're going for brinkmanship points!
My pick is the River Arrow, as it flows through my late grandmother's garden . It's about 20 miles long, give or take a couple.
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PataLeBon
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I pick Clear Creek off of the San Jacinto watershed.
Trust me, it's not a creek, at least not when it has a flood surge from a hurricane.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jacinto_River
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Patdys
Iron Wannabe
RooK-Annoyer
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I choose the River Styx, which runs around Hades 9 times. Interestingly*, it can be found on the map, here. My place of employment is just to the left of the elm tree on the map for any who are interested.
*I'm assuming you are all geeks.
Now, as to length.
Several different religions consign all non believer to Hell/Hades. Therefore, all are in error of at least one of these and so all people are consigned to Hades. The circumference of Hades must be large enough to contain all people throughout all time. I suspect this is quite a large number; 106 billion roughly. Assuming 1 metre of space for each then the area of Hades must be a minimum of 95% of 106,456,367,669 = 101133549285 square metres. (excludes the 5% still living)
Radius of Hades assuming a circular shape would be 179 km and circumference therefore 1127 km.
The Styx circles nine times so must be a minimum of 10146 km long.
Aren't you glad you read all this? ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
[ 18. September 2008, 00:35: Message edited by: Patdys ]
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Imaginary Friend
Real to you
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I'm going to pick the world's longest subterranean river. Although it doesn't seem to have a name, it is 153km long, up to 72 metres deep, and 'discovered'* by a Scotsman, who was presumably looking for the fifty pence piece that he'd dropped in it.
* I say discovered, but it was originally thought to be two separate rivers so the discovery is the fact that it's actually one river.
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chicklegirl
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Joan Rivers, while only 5' 2", has been around quite a long time...
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rugasaw
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I choose the Muddy Boggy River. Those who live near the river claim that Boggy* is French for either creek or river. So that would make the river the Muddy River River.
An interesting fact(to me anyway). I have personally caught several of the over 100 species of fish that inhabit the Muddy Buggy River watershed including the Flat Head catfish (best tasting) and yellow bullhead (worst tasting), I have also caught other catfish, gar, sunfish, perch, bass and the American Eel which apparently migrate from the Gulf of Mexico. The one thing I caught that I wish I hadn't was a cotton mouth snake. And you ask how did I catch these fish? No I do not care if you really did not ask I am going to bore you anyway so just shut up. I used trot lines, poles, throw nets, seines, nets, and in one case my hands. I note I have not caught a beaver in that watershed.
Oh yes Big Foot** has supposedly been sighted in the watershed.
*I am not sure boggy is a French word but the people in southeastern Oklahoma have never let the truth stand in the way of a good story.
**I know the person who pulled the hoax and I am not entirely sure he is not related to Big Foot.
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Liberty
ship's football fanatic
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The River by Garth Brooks which is 4 minutes and 43 seconds long
Because "There's bound to be rough waters
And I know I'll take some falls
But with the good Lord as my captain
I can make it through them all..."
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pimple
Ship's Irruption
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No time to catch up 'm afraid. Hope to catch you next time round. Have fun!
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Golden Key
Shipmate
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I choose the River Lo, the size of which is 15 in any direction.
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East Price Road
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I'm staying in my local area for this one:
the River Calder, which is 45 miles long.
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ephemera
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I choose the Vedder River in British Columbia. It is 80 km (50 mi) long and filled with salmon. Did I mention it was in British Columbia?
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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The River Tamar, whilst at only 50 miles in length isn't a biggie, has great importance in that it divides Devon from Cornwall for almost its entire length. As anyone who knows the traditional rivalry between those two counties will understand, this is hugely significant. I need to know that if the barbaric hordes are going to try invading and pillaging me in the middle of the night that they are at least going to get very, very wet and cold doing so!
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Rugmaker
Shipmate
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I choose the River Cafe in London which has been open for 21 years but is currently closed following a fire. I suspect I will be the only entrant to nominate a river which has burnt down.
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sharkshooter
Not your average shark
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I pick the Mississippi River. Not that one, the one in Ontario that is 105 miles long.
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Nutmeg
Ship's spice girl
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My river choice is River 94.9 fm, and my link to a map is the Brisbane media map web page.
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
How do you measure the length of my river? The music has been flowing since late 2001, according to the media map.
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Nutmeg
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PATYDS I must be a geek because I read all those statistics and calculations and I wondered if you were having a slow day at the office.
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rugasaw
Shipmate
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So Nutmeg, is your river measured in size of the building or how far the air waves reach or how far you can connect to them online?
Also you are not a true Geek. I knew that Patdys took time out of his busy schedule because of how interesting it is to figure the length of the river Hades.
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Liberty
ship's football fanatic
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Nutmeg and I are measuring our rivers in time - which is also a length. QM never specified what length we had to measure in - so they're valid entries all the same
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Geneviève
Mother-Hatting Cat Lover
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Rugasaw, are you trying to bring down Nutmeg's self-confidence? That is not a nice way to play (said in the tone of voice of a mother of a 4 yr old) ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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sharkshooter
Not your average shark
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quote:
Originally posted by Nutmeg:
How do you measure the length of my river? ...
Wave-length? Distance between nodes?
Where did I leave my tape-measure?
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Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer. [Psalm 19:14]
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the pilgrim
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I choose Moon River . I don't know for sure how LONG it is, but everyone knows that it's WIDER than a mile!
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rugasaw
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Originally posted by Geneviève:
Rugasaw, are you trying to bring down Nutmeg's self-confidence? That is not a nice way to play (said in the tone of voice of a mother of a 4 yr old)
I am sorry if I sounded that way. I was trying to give her a chance to play safe (size of building) or go for brinksmanship (anywhere you can connect to the internet. I did not realize she was measuring by time. Now if we all did this whose river is the longest? That could be a good argument. Has the river Styx been around for eternity or is a human construct from Greek culture? Does anybody know how to tell how old a river(traditional sense) is? Their is a reason the great all knowing QM uses these tasks early when somebody is likely not to post.
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fletcher christian
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Took a little patience, but I finally discovered that the River Shimna is 10 miles in length
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Angel Wrestler
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I choose the Crymea River
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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I was going to pick the River Ouse, since I enjoyed it so on the Great Adventure the beginning of July. But, since Caty. chose a tributary of that lovely river, I shall pick one a bit closer to home: the Caloosahatchee.
Now on this link, you will see it listed as Caloosahatchee River, which is all wrong, sort of like Rugasaw's Muddy Boggy, as "hatchee" is the Caloosa word for "river". It is not the Caloosa River River. And, boy, do we ever get on the cases of folks who make that mistake!
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Geneviève
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I was joking, Rugasaw, but obviously laid it on too thick. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
And who knows how the great quizmaster will vote on various entries? As a newbie to this, I don't...figure it is in fun.
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sharkshooter
Not your average shark
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quote:
Originally posted by Geneviève:
... And who knows how the great quizmaster will vote on various entries?...
That's easy ... he is hoping to figure out what to announce for the next round before the final competitor posts, thus relieving himself* of the obligation of determining whether 4 minutes 53 seconds is longer than 10,000 kms.
*Not that way.
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