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 Post subject: Re: Trivia chain
PostPosted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 1:41 pm 
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Name three six-letter words whose letters, all of them distinct, are in alphabetical order. No clues, as these are commonly-used English words.

I've found five: abhors, begins, chimps, chinos, chintz
(and some near-misses in adepts, deport, and deputy)

I hope you weren't expecting all 18 letters of the three words to be distinct :shock:

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 Post subject: Re: Trivia chain
PostPosted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:02 pm 
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pengwn wrote:
zog741 wrote:
Name three six-letter words whose letters, all of them distinct, are in alphabetical order. No clues, as these are commonly-used English words.

I've found five: abhors, begins, chimps, chinos, chintz
(and some near-misses in adepts, deport, and deputy)

I hope you weren't expecting all 18 letters of the three words to be distinct :shock:

Good enough, so you get the next question.

Two other words include "almost" and "biopsy"

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 Post subject: Re: Trivia chain
PostPosted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 6:35 pm 
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It wouldn't be the Olympics without somebody griping about venue conditions somewhere, such as the snowboarders about their halfpipe's issues from the spring-like temperatures. Now while Sochi is closer to the equator than the north pole, it's not the farthest south the Winter Olympics have been held

My question, simply: What is the most southerly Winter Olympics host city?

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 Post subject: Re: Trivia chain
PostPosted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 8:19 pm 
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pengwn wrote:
It wouldn't be the Olympics without somebody griping about venue conditions somewhere, such as the snowboarders about their halfpipe's issues from the spring-like temperatures. Now while Sochi is closer to the equator than the north pole, it's not the farthest south the Winter Olympics have been held

My question, simply: What is the most southerly Winter Olympics host city?

First guess here would be Squaw Valley as the most southerly site.

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 Post subject: Re: Trivia chain
PostPosted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 10:43 am 
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I maintain my guess of Squaw Valley being the southernmost Winter Olympic site in the past. Actually Pyeongchang is probably further south, but they won't host the Games until 2018. I don't know if either site can be considered "cities" so on that technicality the answer to pengwn's question could be Salt Lake City.

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 Post subject: Re: Trivia chain
PostPosted: Wed Feb 12, 2014 12:22 pm 
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zog741 wrote:
I maintain my guess of Squaw Valley being the southernmost Winter Olympic site in the past. Actually Pyeongchang is probably further south, but they won't host the Games until 2018. I don't know if either site can be considered "cities" so on that technicality the answer to pengwn's question could be Salt Lake City.

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Yes, Squaw Valley (39°11' N) was southernmost from 1960 until . . . well, that would give the answer away
Yes, Pyeongchang (37°22' N) is further south than Squaw Valley
No, Salt Lake City (40°45' N) could not be the correct answer . . .

. . . because there's one host site further south than all of the above, and it's most certainly a city

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 Post subject: Re: Trivia chain
PostPosted: Wed Feb 12, 2014 2:06 pm 
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Nagano, Japan.

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 Post subject: Re: Trivia chain
PostPosted: Wed Feb 12, 2014 7:07 pm 
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I am probably WAY off, but I'm putting a vote in for Turin Italy


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 Post subject: Re: Trivia chain
PostPosted: Wed Feb 12, 2014 8:25 pm 
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I think ICEMAN's guess of Nagano is probably right; I just thought it was much further north on the island of Honshu than it actually was.

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 Post subject: Re: Trivia chain
PostPosted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 11:20 am 
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THE ICEMAN wrote:
Nagano, Japan.

Ding ding ding ding ding ding!

Located at latitude 36°38' N, and with a population comparable to Minneapolis or Wichita (387,146 est. in 2011), Nagano became the most southerly Winter Olympics host in 1998

Leave it to THE ICEMAN to get the correct answer on a Winter Olympics question :roll: :)
Your turn on the slopes, sir!

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 Post subject: Re: Trivia chain
PostPosted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 7:09 pm 
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Alright kiddies...

What is this contraption?


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 Post subject: Re: Trivia chain
PostPosted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 10:56 pm 
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A corkscrew? :?:


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 Post subject: Re: Trivia chain
PostPosted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 11:27 pm 
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A corkscrew? :?:

I figured someone named Death Dealer might know this one but... Not a corkscrew.

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 Post subject: Re: Trivia chain
PostPosted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 4:29 am 
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I see the word, "WIEN" inscribed, so I'll assume it's an Austrian Army knife, similar to its Swiss cousin, but made specifically to open little cans of sausage.


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 Post subject: Re: Trivia chain
PostPosted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 8:50 am 
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Akbar71 wrote:
I see the word, "WIEN" inscribed, so I'll assume it's an Austrian Army knife, similar to its Swiss cousin, but made specifically to open little cans of sausage.

It is made to open something but not lil cans of sausage.

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 Post subject: Re: Trivia chain
PostPosted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 12:33 am 
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So far I have given two lil hints. It would seem another is needed...

While this a more 'modern' version of this contraption, the reason for it's use has been around for aboot 2000 years, give or take.

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 Post subject: Re: Trivia chain
PostPosted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 3:28 pm 
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A key for handcuffs/schackles?


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 Post subject: Re: Trivia chain
PostPosted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 9:03 pm 
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Death Dealer wrote:
A key for handcuffs/schackles?

Nope.

Here's another pic of a device used for the same purpose as the first item...

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Here is the first again...

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 Post subject: Re: Trivia chain
PostPosted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 11:24 am 
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The second one looks like a "bleeder" that I saw on Pawn Stars or Storage Wars, used for blodd letting.


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 Post subject: Re: Trivia chain
PostPosted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 12:07 pm 
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tiefly wrote:
The second one looks like a "bleeder" that I saw on Pawn Stars or Storage Wars, used for blodd letting.

We have a winner!!! They are indeed used for bloodletting.

I remember playing around with the first one as a kid. I think it was my grandfather's, I have no idea why he had one, he was a minister. :?:
He did smoke cigars so we always thought it was a cigar cutter. 8-)

Tiefly is next...

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 Post subject: Re: Trivia chain
PostPosted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 12:36 pm 
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This "species" of fish was created in West Virginia. It is an actual fish and can be caught through out the state in cold water lakes and streams.

Please name the fish, where it was created, and why.


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 Post subject: Re: Trivia chain
PostPosted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 5:37 pm 
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It has to be a BOTFSH. Created in a small bar in the hills for the purpose of finding the nearest still. :shock: 8-)

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 Post subject: Re: Trivia chain
PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 11:16 am 
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THE ICEMAN wrote:
It has to be a BOTFSH. Created in a small bar in the hills for the purpose of finding the nearest still. :shock: 8-)


Creative, but I hope the DNR wouild be smarter than that.

HINT: there is a true native species of the fish out west


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 Post subject: Re: Trivia chain
PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 3:16 pm 
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Tired of checking to see if there were any answers, so here they are:

Gold Trout, but really just a strain of rainbow trout (they created red & blue strains also), not to be confused with the state fish of California, the lilgolden trout.

Bred for West BY GOD Virginias's centennial in 1963 in Petersburg, Grant County.

Free to anyone that's awake to ask a question.


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 Post subject: Re: Trivia chain
PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 11:16 pm 
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tiefly wrote:
Free to anyone that's awake to ask a question.

Well, hell. Since no one else here seems interested... :roll:

As most here should be aware by now, I have lil if any love for that eternally damnable junior university. :lol: Most here are likely aware that the current "mascot" for that eternally damnable junior university is "Cardinal", referring to the color.

For a real softball question, what was the mascot of that eternally damnable junior university prior to "Cardinal"?

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