Tuesday Trivia XXII

[Ken Jennings]

It's been pointed out to me that question 6 this week isn't strictly correct--the answer I had in mind wasn't unique for a single model year.

Without being any more specific, I can say that, since the question is flawed, we'll accept both answers, even the one that wasn't discontinued last year.

[Cannon]

It's been pointed out to me that question 6 this week isn't strictly correct--the answer I had in mind wasn't unique for a single model year.

Without being any more specific, I can say that, since the question is flawed, we'll accept both answers, even the one that wasn't discontinued last year.

In an effort to avoid giving anything away.... I still think there is only one correct answer to the question, given the qualifiers in the question...even though one of the qualifiers may have been in error.

Or, I could also say, "I received an invitation from the board of education to perform an operation on a ......." and be making almost as much sense as what I wrote above.

[DLegler21]

It's been pointed out to me that question 6 this week isn't strictly correct--the answer I had in mind wasn't unique for a single model year.

Without being any more specific, I can say that, since the question is flawed, we'll accept both answers, even the one that wasn't discontinued last year.

In an effort to avoid giving anything away.... I still think there is only one correct answer to the question, given the qualifiers in the question...even though one of the qualifiers may have been in error.

Or, I could also say, "I received an invitation from the board of education to perform an operation on a ......." and be making almost as much sense as what I wrote above.

Problem is if one of the qualifiers is "only" then people will stop searching their minds for other answers - which is exactly what I did.

[Ken Jennings]

Problem is if one of the qualifiers is "only" then people will stop searching their minds for other answers - which is exactly what I did.

That's exactly my reasoning.

One answer is clearly better (for all but one year of its model life, the better answer WAS the only such car) but when it comes to a problematic question, I'd rather slightly piss off the people who see alternate answers counted as just as good as their "real" one, than dramatically piss off the person whose semi-correct answer is counted wrong. Sort of like the legal dictum about "better to acquit 10 guilty men than convict one innocent one," or whatever.

[cadams35]

It's been pointed out to me that question 6 this week isn't strictly correct--the answer I had in mind wasn't unique for a single model year.

Without being any more specific, I can say that, since the question is flawed, we'll accept both answers, even the one that wasn't discontinued last year.

How about just letting us all be "correct"? Hey, it's cheaper than buying Brainiac for 7000+ of us. Not that you don't have the money or anything.

[Don Monson]

Don't know why, but I never received this week's mailing (contest XXII)
Could someone please forward it to me.

Thanks

donmonson AT shaw.ca

[econgator]

Hmmmmm ....

I know the correct answer, but am wracking my brain to come up with the other one. Guess I shall wait til Tuesday.

[NeoAC]

Well I could only think of one that was still in production, so thats what I put.

[Lilly]

Don, I am emailing you a copy of Tuesday Trivia XXII. If you don't get it, please email the Tuesday Trivia address to request another copy.

[Not a 4.0]

I can only think of one other vehicle that half-way qualifies, but it is still in production and is not in the same class of vehicle as the question. I, too, shall have to wait for Tuesday.

BTW- Thanks for having fewer pop-culture questions this week. I actually knew 3 "off the top of my head", and my wife knew another. We are still pondering that elusive question 7, though. I think this will be a record for me, getting more than 2 correct in one week! As my handle says, "Not a 4.0", just a 3.67.

[macrae1234]

Perhaps the most obscure and least used moves in Chess is called En Passant. It can only occur when a player exercises his option to move his pawn two squares on its initial movement. When this happens, the opposing player has the option to take the moved pawn "en passant" as if it had only moved one square. This option, though, only stays open for one move.
The en passant move was developed after pawns were allowed to move more than one square on their initial move. This was done to make sure they retained some of the restrictions imposed by slow movement, while at the same time speeding up the game.

[cadams35]

Perhaps the most obscure and least used moves in Chess is called En Passant. It can only occur when a player exercises his option to move his pawn two squares on its initial movement. When this happens, the opposing player has the option to take the moved pawn "en passant" as if it had only moved one square. This option, though, only stays open for one move.
The en passant move was developed after pawns were allowed to move more than one square on their initial move. This was done to make sure they retained some of the restrictions imposed by slow movement, while at the same time speeding up the game.

Don't you have to have a piece two squares down the board from your opponents' line of pawns that is one row over from the pawn moved and could have captured the pawn, if it had moved one space instead of two?

[macrae1234]

Yes, the concept assumes you have to have a pawn that could have captured the pawn had it moved only one space.

[econgator]

When this happens, the opposing player has the option to take the moved pawn "en passant" ...

Not that anyone cares, but if it is the only legal move available, then the en passant capture is not optional.

[Budphrey]

Ahem.

Two : Bactrian :: One : Dromedary :: Zero : Humphrey??

I resemble that remark!

[porpoise spit]

Re: Question 7, I found out some interesting trivia about the Olympic Games that the US has hosted.

In the 1984 LA Games, some of the soccer matches were played at Harvard, the Naval Academy, and Stanford. In 1996, some of the soccer matches were held in Alabama.

Mind you, I'm not trying to contest the validity of the question, but it is interesting that Massachusetts, Maryland, and Alabama could be added with an asterisk.

Keep up the good work!

[Ken Jennings]

In the 1984 LA Games, some of the soccer matches were played at Harvard, the Naval Academy, and Stanford. In 1996, some of the soccer matches were held in Alabama.

Mind you, I'm not trying to contest the validity of the question, but it is interesting that Massachusetts, Maryland, and Alabama could be added with an asterisk.

Carson voice: did not know that.

That's pretty cool.

[IndySOG03]

Re: Question 7, I found out some interesting trivia about the Olympic Games that the US has hosted.

In the 1984 LA Games, some of the soccer matches were played at Harvard, the Naval Academy, and Stanford. In 1996, some of the soccer matches were held in Alabama.

Mind you, I'm not trying to contest the validity of the question, but it is interesting that Massachusetts, Maryland, and Alabama could be added with an asterisk.

Keep up the good work!

You can also add that some of the riversports events of the Atlanta games were held on the Ocoee River in Tennessee.

[cadams35]

Ahem.

Two : Bactrian :: One : Dromedary :: Zero : Humphrey??

I resemble that remark!

I knew the answer to the question (dromedary or Arabian) because I knew the following trivia fact:

Afghanistan, or some other Middle East country currently suing Borat, used to be called Bactria, and therefore the two humped camels from there were known as Bactrian, as opposed to the one humped camels from Saudi Arabia, known as (drumroll) Arabian camels.