Not only are these quizzes very occasional. They are also highly irregular,
so how you get a second one in a short time.

This time is just twelve unassorted questions. There is a distinct
element of current events, but as you will find, not all questions
fit into that mould.

As always, post your answers to the newsgroup and use only your knowledge.

I plan to score the quiz and post answers on Wednesday 10th. Answers
are accepted until I post the results.

HAVE FUN!


1. Armando Duplantis recently became World Champion in pole vault, and
also set a new world record. Despite having grown up in Lafayette, USA,
he competes for Sweden, thanks to his mother being Swedish. His elder
brother Antoine recently is active in a different sport and recently
agreed to play for the Swedish national team in. Which sport is it?

2. Which artist wrote and recorded the a cappella song "Mercedes Benz"?

3. Himars has been in the news recently. What is it?

4. Neom is one of these gargantuan projects that just makes you breathless.
This planned city is intended to cover an area of 26 500 m². One of the
features is "The Line" planned to be 500 m high, 200 m wide and 170
km long. In which country is this madness taking place?

5. At what sort of facility are you at, if you find yourself in a vehicle
from Cobus Industries?

6. While certainly disputable, "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu is
often considered to be the world's first what?

7. Which European country dates its inception to 895 A.D.?

8. The world of golf has experienced an upheaval lately due to the
appearance of the money-rich LIV tour, competing with the traditional
PGA tour. What does LIV stand for?

9. Tang ping was a fad(?) that arose in 2021. Explain it or just tell
what "tang ping" means.

10. In which country did I buy this T-shirt?
https://www.sommarskog.se/temp/tshirt.jpg

11. Explain why C# is a Db language!

12. A recently published research study suggests that if you are not able
to stand one leg for 10 seconds you run a 84 % higher risk to do what?
Be reasonably specific.

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Almost all just randpm guesses here.

Erland Sommarskog:

1. Armando Duplantis recently became World Champion in pole vault, and
also set a new world record. Despite having grown up in Lafayette, USA,
he competes for Sweden, thanks to his mother being Swedish. His elder
brother Antoine recently is active in a different sport and recently
agreed to play for the Swedish national team in. Which sport is it?

Basketball.

4. Neom is one of these gargantuan projects that just makes you breathless.
This planned city is intended to cover an area of 26 500 m². One of the
features is "The Line" planned to be 500 m high, 200 m wide and 170
km long. In which country is this madness taking place?

North Korea.

5. At what sort of facility are you at, if you find yourself in a vehicle
from Cobus Industries?

Airport.

6. While certainly disputable, "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu is
often considered to be the world's first what?

Epic poem.

7. Which European country dates its inception to 895 A.D.?

Monaco.

8. The world of golf has experienced an upheaval lately due to the
appearance of the money-rich LIV tour, competing with the traditional
PGA tour. What does LIV stand for?

54.

10. In which country did I buy this T-shirt?
https://www.sommarskog.se/temp/tshirt.jpg

Sweden.

11. Explain why C# is a Db language!

C-sharp and D-flat are the same musical note.

12. A recently published research study suggests that if you are not able
to stand one leg for 10 seconds you run a 84 % higher risk to do what?
Be reasonably specific.

Suffer a stroke.
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Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> wrote:

2. Which artist wrote and recorded the a cappella song "Mercedes Benz"?

Janis Joplin

4. Neom is one of these gargantuan projects that just makes you breathless.
This planned city is intended to cover an area of 26 500 m?. One of the
features is "The Line" planned to be 500 m high, 200 m wide and 170
km long. In which country is this madness taking place?

Brazil

5. At what sort of facility are you at, if you find yourself in a vehicle
from Cobus Industries?

golf course

6. While certainly disputable, "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu is
often considered to be the world's first what?

novel

7. Which European country dates its inception to 895 A.D.?

Iceland

8. The world of golf has experienced an upheaval lately due to the
appearance of the money-rich LIV tour, competing with the traditional
PGA tour. What does LIV stand for?

54

10. In which country did I buy this T-shirt?
https://www.sommarskog.se/temp/tshirt.jpg

Canada

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Dan Blum tool@panix.com
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On 8/5/22 11:34, Erland Sommarskog wrote:

Not only are these quizzes very occasional. They are also highly irregular, so how you get a second one in a short time.

This time is just twelve unassorted questions. There is a distinct
element of current events, but as you will find, not all questions
fit into that mould.

As always, post your answers to the newsgroup and use only your knowledge.

I plan to score the quiz and post answers on Wednesday 10th. Answers
are accepted until I post the results.

HAVE FUN!

1. Armando Duplantis recently became World Champion in pole vault, and
also set a new world record. Despite having grown up in Lafayette, USA,
he competes for Sweden, thanks to his mother being Swedish. His elder
brother Antoine recently is active in a different sport and recently
agreed to play for the Swedish national team in. Which sport is it?

2. Which artist wrote and recorded the a cappella song "Mercedes Benz"?

Joni Mitchell

3. Himars has been in the news recently. What is it?

4. Neom is one of these gargantuan projects that just makes you breathless.
This planned city is intended to cover an area of 26 500 m². One of the
features is "The Line" planned to be 500 m high, 200 m wide and 170
km long. In which country is this madness taking place?

5. At what sort of facility are you at, if you find yourself in a vehicle
from Cobus Industries?

6. While certainly disputable, "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu is
often considered to be the world's first what?

novel

7. Which European country dates its inception to 895 A.D.?

Iceland

8. The world of golf has experienced an upheaval lately due to the
appearance of the money-rich LIV tour, competing with the traditional
PGA tour. What does LIV stand for?

9. Tang ping was a fad(?) that arose in 2021. Explain it or just tell
what "tang ping" means.

10. In which country did I buy this T-shirt?
https://www.sommarskog.se/temp/tshirt.jpg

11. Explain why C# is a Db language!

12. A recently published research study suggests that if you are not able
to stand one leg for 10 seconds you run a 84 % higher risk to do what?
Be reasonably specific.

fall while descending stairs

(Of course, I had to see how well I could do this. I couldn't do it on carpetted floor, but could on a harder surface. Probably would do better
with regular shoes, rather than sandals. Strangely, I was better at it
with my left foot even though I'm right footed.)

--
Dan Tilque

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On Friday, August 5, 2022 at 2:34:45 PM UTC-4, Erland Sommarskog wrote:

Not only are these quizzes very occasional. They are also highly irregular, so how you get a second one in a short time.

This time is just twelve unassorted questions. There is a distinct
element of current events, but as you will find, not all questions
fit into that mould.

As always, post your answers to the newsgroup and use only your knowledge.

I plan to score the quiz and post answers on Wednesday 10th. Answers
are accepted until I post the results.

HAVE FUN!

1. Armando Duplantis recently became World Champion in pole vault, and
also set a new world record. Despite having grown up in Lafayette, USA,
he competes for Sweden, thanks to his mother being Swedish. His elder brother Antoine recently is active in a different sport and recently
agreed to play for the Swedish national team in. Which sport is it?

baseball?

2. Which artist wrote and recorded the a cappella song "Mercedes Benz"?

janis joplin

3. Himars has been in the news recently. What is it?

mobile artillary/rockets, used in ukraine a lot recently

4. Neom is one of these gargantuan projects that just makes you breathless. This planned city is intended to cover an area of 26 500 m². One of the features is "The Line" planned to be 500 m high, 200 m wide and 170
km long. In which country is this madness taking place?

saudi arabia

5. At what sort of facility are you at, if you find yourself in a vehicle from Cobus Industries?

airport bus

6. While certainly disputable, "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu is often considered to be the world's first what?

novel

7. Which European country dates its inception to 895 A.D.?

france?

8. The world of golf has experienced an upheaval lately due to the appearance of the money-rich LIV tour, competing with the traditional
PGA tour. What does LIV stand for?

54

9. Tang ping was a fad(?) that arose in 2021. Explain it or just tell
what "tang ping" means.

eschewing overwork in japanese culture

10. In which country did I buy this T-shirt? https://www.sommarskog.se/temp/tshirt.jpg

poland. unless you were brave and crossed the border into ukraine

11. Explain why C# is a Db language!

because in music c sharp is the same as b flat. har dee har har.

12. A recently published research study suggests that if you are not able
to stand one leg for 10 seconds you run a 84 % higher risk to do what?
Be reasonably specific.

higher risk of death in the next decade

swp

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Erland Sommarskog wrote:

Not only are these quizzes very occasional. They are also highly irregular, so how you get a second one in a short time.

This time is just twelve unassorted questions. There is a distinct
element of current events, but as you will find, not all questions
fit into that mould.

As always, post your answers to the newsgroup and use only your knowledge.

I plan to score the quiz and post answers on Wednesday 10th. Answers
are accepted until I post the results.

HAVE FUN!

1. Armando Duplantis recently became World Champion in pole vault, and
also set a new world record. Despite having grown up in Lafayette, USA,
he competes for Sweden, thanks to his mother being Swedish. His elder
brother Antoine recently is active in a different sport and recently
agreed to play for the Swedish national team in. Which sport is it?

Soccer

2. Which artist wrote and recorded the a cappella song "Mercedes Benz"?

3. Himars has been in the news recently. What is it?

Weapons system given to Ukraine

4. Neom is one of these gargantuan projects that just makes you breathless.
This planned city is intended to cover an area of 26 500 m². One of the
features is "The Line" planned to be 500 m high, 200 m wide and 170
km long. In which country is this madness taking place?

United Arab Emirates

5. At what sort of facility are you at, if you find yourself in a vehicle
from Cobus Industries?

Airplane

6. While certainly disputable, "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu is
often considered to be the world's first what?

7. Which European country dates its inception to 895 A.D.?

Switzerland

8. The world of golf has experienced an upheaval lately due to the
appearance of the money-rich LIV tour, competing with the traditional
PGA tour. What does LIV stand for?

"54", the number of holes played in 3 rounds of golf

9. Tang ping was a fad(?) that arose in 2021. Explain it or just tell
what "tang ping" means.

10. In which country did I buy this T-shirt?
https://www.sommarskog.se/temp/tshirt.jpg

Malta

11. Explain why C# is a Db language!

The C# programming language has APIs for accessing databases, including SQL

12. A recently published research study suggests that if you are not able
to stand one leg for 10 seconds you run a 84 % higher risk to do what?
Be reasonably specific.

Be injured in a fall



Pete Gayde

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This quiz is over. It proved to be quite difficult with no less than three stumpers. Well, for one man it was not difficult: Stephen spotted 9,
way ahead of the rest. Well done, sir!

Here is the scoreboard:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Total
Stephen P 1 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 - - 1 1 9
Mark B - - - - 1 - - 1 - - 1 - 3
Dan B - 1 - - - 1 - 1 - - - - 3
Pete G - - 1 - - - - 1 - - - - 2
Dan T - - - - - 1 - - - - - - 1

1. Armando Duplantis recently became World Champion in pole vault, and
also set a new world record. Despite having grown up in Lafayette, USA,
he competes for Sweden, thanks to his mother being Swedish. His elder
brother Antoine recently is active in a different sport and recently
agreed to play for the Swedish national team in. Which sport is it?

Baseball.

Apparently he has played for New York Mets.

The notice about Antonio may be the only press the Swedish national
baseball team get this year.

2. Which artist wrote and recorded the a cappella song "Mercedes Benz"?

Janis Joplin. I learnt from Wikipedia that was the last song she recorded.

3. Himars has been in the news recently. What is it?

It's an artillery system with a range of 80 km. The US have been very
kind ship quite a few of them to Ukraine.

4. Neom is one of these gargantuan projects that just makes you
breathless.
This planned city is intended to cover an area of 26 500 m². One of
the features is "The Line" planned to be 500 m high, 200 m wide and
170 km long. In which country is this madness taking place?

Saudi Arabia

5. At what sort of facility are you at, if you find yourself in a vehicle
from Cobus Industries?

An airport. Cobus specialises in those buses that take you between the
gate and the aircraft.

I somewhat grudgingly accepted "airport bus", since I would not think of
that as a "facility". On the other hand, while an airplane is involved,
that answer has to count as wrong, since you are no longer in the airplane
when you are in the bus.

(Don't you just hate when the park the plane far away from the gate and
you have to ride this this bus? I do.)

6. While certainly disputable, "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu is
often considered to be the world's first what?

Novel. The answer "epic poem" gave me some troubles. I can't find any sign
of that the story is written as a poem, but if Mark can give some source
to support the answer, or if other entrants think this is a correct answer,
I will score it as such.

7. Which European country dates its inception to 895 A.D.?

Hungary.

Árpád came with his people from further east and settled on the Pannonian plain. (And, yes, Hungary has not existed uninterrupted since then.)

8. The world of golf has experienced an upheaval lately due to the
appearance of the money-rich LIV tour, competing with the traditional
PGA tour. What does LIV stand for?

54. They play 54 holes in a competition rather than 72 on the PGA tour.

9. Tang ping was a fad(?) that arose in 2021. Explain it or just tell
what "tang ping" means.

"Lying flat". It's a lifestyle and a social protested that started in
China, mainly among young people, against the rat race and the 996
(work 9 to 9, 6 days a week) ideal.

10. In which country did I buy this T-shirt?
https://www.sommarskog.se/temp/tshirt.jpg

Ukraine.

The figure on the T-shirt is their coat of arms.

Had Stephen checked out the results posting to my quiz the other week,
he would know that I have indeed been to Ukraine. As a matter of fact
between 2014 and 2019 I think made in total seven trips to this country.
Since then first a pandemic and then a war has prevented further visits.
But I hope that I will be able to return one day.

11. Explain why C# is a Db language!

C# (C sharp) and Db (D flat) is the same note in the tempered 12-note
scale.

(When I've tried this joke on people here in Sweden, no one has gotten it.)

12. A recently published research study suggests that if you are not able
to stand one leg for 10 seconds you run a 84 % higher risk to do what?
Be reasonably specific.

Dying within ten years.

The exact number of years was not required; I would have approved something like "five years" as well. But only "dying", since that risk never changes.

Presumably, it is your balance problems as such that increases the death
risk; rather this simple test gives a good indication of your overall
health.

In the test, you are supposed to have the free foot behind the standing
foot, and your arms along the body.

If I recall correctly, the study was published in British Medical Journal.

Like Dan T, I found that I did it better standing on my left foot.

Thanks to everyone for playing!

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Erland Sommarskog:

6. While certainly disputable, "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu is
often considered to be the world's first what?

Novel. The answer "epic poem" gave me some troubles. I can't find any sign
of that the story is written as a poem, but if Mark can give some source...

No, I was just guessing.

8. The world of golf has experienced an upheaval lately due to the
appearance of the money-rich LIV tour, competing with the traditional
PGA tour. What does LIV stand for?

54.

Oh! I thought I was joking! So that balances out.
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Mark Brader | "...there are lots of things that I don't remember,
Toronto | but if you ask for an example, I can't remember any." msb@vex.net | --Michael Wares

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Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> wrote:

6. While certainly disputable, "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu is
often considered to be the world's first what?

Novel. The answer "epic poem" gave me some troubles. I can't find any sign
of that the story is written as a poem, but if Mark can give some source
to support the answer, or if other entrants think this is a correct answer,
I will score it as such.

It is definitely not a poem.

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Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:

8. The world of golf has experienced an upheaval lately due to the
appearance of the money-rich LIV tour, competing with the traditional
PGA tour. What does LIV stand for?

54.

Oh! I thought I was joking! So that balances out.

I think I forgot to mention it, but in case someone does not get it:
it's the Roman numerals for 54.

This was something I only learnt recently myself. In fact, several of
the questions where things I've picked up in the news paper just the week
or two before I posted the quiz.

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