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04 Dec 02 - 04:54 PM (#840768) Subject: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: GUEST,Ed There have been several quiz threads recently, so I hope that you'll be happy helping with mine. The quiz has the following format: Question: 4 H_ of the A_ Answser: Four horsemen of the apocolypse Question: 4 S_ in a D_ of C_ Answer: Four suits in a deck of cards You get the idea. The one that we can't get, is: 13 L_ in a S_ It's in the category of 'English' if that helps Thanks a lot, Ed |
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04 Dec 02 - 04:59 PM (#840772) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: GUEST,Ed And before anyone says anything, I do know how to spell apocalypse. I'm very crap at typing (and proof-reading) though... |
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04 Dec 02 - 05:10 PM (#840781) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: Sorcha Oh god, I did this one not too long ago........I'll think. |
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04 Dec 02 - 05:12 PM (#840783) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: vectis lines in a sonnett perhaps? |
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04 Dec 02 - 05:13 PM (#840785) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: GUEST How about 13 lines in a sonnet...whatever a sonnet is? |
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04 Dec 02 - 05:16 PM (#840786) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: Sorcha Umm, I think sonnets have 14 lines........ |
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04 Dec 02 - 05:46 PM (#840801) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: Noreen Yes, sonnets have 14 lines. Thinking... |
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04 Dec 02 - 06:30 PM (#840827) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: Gareth Damn it - I'll be awake all night working on this !!! Mean while Ed, in retailiation :_ Do you sleep with your whiskers over or under the sheets ???? Gareth |
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04 Dec 02 - 07:02 PM (#840863) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: Amos Wewll I was gonna say MUDCAT CDs in a SET!! but the number's wrong. Larks in a school? Links in a section (surveyor's chain)?? Lipos in a suction? Hell, I dunno -- but if you get your whole set of Mudcat CDs, I can assure you you will stop fretting about Ls in an S!! :>) A |
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04 Dec 02 - 07:08 PM (#840867) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: Sorcha Nope, it's an "exaltation of larks" |
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04 Dec 02 - 07:13 PM (#840870) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: greg stephens Cant help feeling the 13 is wrong. It must be a sonnet. (Get the PLUM CD if you cant afford a whole set). |
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05 Dec 02 - 04:41 AM (#841172) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: Nigel Parsons 13 letters in a semi-alphabet ? Nah! 13 Lunar months in a Solar year ? No that would be 13 LM in a SY (but it could be worth trying if nothing better comes along) Nigel |
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05 Dec 02 - 05:20 AM (#841194) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: Nigel Parsons 13 Lines on a Squirrel ? see here 13 is also a reminder of the original 13 states, or the 13 stripes (lines) on the American flag Nigel |
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05 Dec 02 - 05:29 AM (#841195) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: Dave Bryant I've seen the same set of quiz questions before - and I know that was one that I had problems with - I'll rack my brains for the answer. |
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05 Dec 02 - 05:42 AM (#841202) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: Nigel Parsons The Awynturs off Arthur is written in Stanzas of 13 Lines (13 lines in a Stanza). Awntyrs is composed in one of the most demanding and richly echoic verse forms in the English language. Each stanza contains thirteen lines, rhymed ababababcdddc. The first nine verses are alliterative long lines, structurally bound by four stresses in addition to the end rhyme. The last four verses of each stanza form a "wheel"; each line contains two (sometimes three) stresses, while the first three rhyme on the same sound, and the last (often the shortest) line rhymes with the long ninth line. The density of alliteration in Awntyrs is higher than that of any other Middle English poem, with almost half its long lines containing four alliterating stresses. Moreover, more than half the stanzas begin with a couplet bound by identical alliteration (and six stanzas extend this identical alliteration through the first three couplets). In addition to this bonding within the stanza through repeated sound patterns, each stanza is linked to the preceding and following stanza through verbal concatenation: the first line of every stanza incorporates a word or phrase from the last line of the previous stanza. (In some stanzas the ninth line additionally repeats a phrase from earlier in the stanza, further linking these words with the last line of the wheel.) Finally, the last lines of Awntyrs repeat the first line, linking these two stanzas and thereby imposing a circular, iterative structure on the entire poem. Found Here |
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05 Dec 02 - 06:23 AM (#841214) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar I'll induce thread creep rather than start another OT thread for this one. Any suggestions for an answer to the following enigma? It's a number, but has me stumped, since I never heard the nursery rhyme/prayer in question, and Google hasn't given me any usable leads. An enumeration, this, Found in doggerel, not so deep, 'Bout Apostles, of the twelve, Blessing that 'pon which I sleep. |
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05 Dec 02 - 06:35 AM (#841216) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: IanC Matthew, Mark, Luke and John Bless the bed that I lie on ... :-) |
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05 Dec 02 - 07:06 AM (#841224) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: Mary in Kentucky In England do you call "grades" "levels"? We have 13 grades from kindergarten to high school. It's a stretch...13 levels in a school. |
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05 Dec 02 - 07:13 AM (#841227) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar Thanks Ian. I'm sure I'm not the only one who is cheating ...er, making full use of the resources of the internet. |
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05 Dec 02 - 09:46 AM (#841351) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: Amos You really want to make full use of the BESTresources on the 'net, PM Dick Greenhaus with an order for the whole SET of MUDCAT CDs!~!! A |
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05 Dec 02 - 09:51 AM (#841359) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: TIA I though Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John went to bed with their britches on (albeit rather tight ones for John). |
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05 Dec 02 - 05:53 PM (#841818) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: Snuffy That was Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John |
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05 Dec 02 - 10:51 PM (#842012) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: GUEST,leeneia 13 linemen in a scrum? Sounds English to me. |
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06 Dec 02 - 12:25 AM (#842037) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: Amos Leagues in a stadt? Lions in a stall? Lumps in a sheet? Leaks in a sieve? Letters in a semi-alphabet? Lymphnodes in a scrotum? Awwww -- I give up!!! A |
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06 Dec 02 - 12:42 AM (#842044) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: DonMeixner 13 licks in a sucker? |
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06 Dec 02 - 12:51 AM (#842047) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: katlaughing 13 Lords in a Stampede?*bg* |
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06 Dec 02 - 12:59 AM (#842053) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: DonMeixner 13 lanatunks to a smole |
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06 Dec 02 - 01:26 AM (#842067) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: alison 13 lovers in a season........ I hope someone knows the real answer ....... this is beginning to annoy me..... hahaha slaine alison |
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06 Dec 02 - 04:17 AM (#842118) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: GUEST,Ed Thanks everyone, I'll certainly post the answer when I get it. I'm beginning to suspect Greg is right though, that it's a misprint and should be '14 Lines in a Sonnet' Ed |
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06 Dec 02 - 04:18 AM (#842119) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: okthen 13 Lemmings in a suicide |
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06 Dec 02 - 08:57 AM (#842252) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: Snuffy Maybe the L should be a C - 13 Cards in a suit |
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06 Dec 02 - 09:03 AM (#842255) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: Declan I've seen a number of these types of Quizzes. One I've seen was 13 L in a BD and 14 L in a S 14 is lines in a sonnet. 13 is Loaves in a baker's dozen. Maybe someone got them mixed up because they were next to each other and both started with L ? |
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06 Dec 02 - 01:55 PM (#842480) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: Amos Got it!! There are thirteen colored lines on the back of a certain kind of squirrel! See this description. Thirteen lines in a squirrel!! Why didn't I think of that??? LOL! There are thirteen lines in a Rondel, also. A |
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06 Dec 02 - 02:32 PM (#842512) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: jeffp 13 Letters in a Sesquipedal! |
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07 Dec 02 - 12:13 AM (#842836) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: Blackcatter But only 11 letters IN 13 Sesquipedal... |
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07 Dec 02 - 12:57 AM (#842850) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: alison 13 letters in seismologists!!! slainte alison |
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07 Dec 02 - 09:55 AM (#842996) Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question From: Nigel Parsons Amos: I mentioned the squirrel on 5 dec at 5.20 Nigel |