On Dec 2, 5:57 pm, 1Z  wrote:
> On Dec 1, 8:20 pm, "Wim Jay"  wrote:
>
> > She was not in Rome, you stupid Islamic Kunt. If she had been in Rome and
> > had agreed to the children calling the Teddy Bear "the Pope" no one would
> > have prosecuted her. If she had been in England and had agreed to the
> > children calling the Teddy Bear "Jesus" no one would have complained. Even
> > if she had been in Israel and called the Teddy Bear G-d there would have
> > been no court case though some nutters like you might have complained.
>
> All those religions have persecuted peopel for what they said, but it
> didn't involve
> teddy bears so it is OK. It's Good Denial of Free Speech unless it
> involves teddy bears.

I hear that a Jihad has been ordered on all Teddy Bears called Simon(I
don't know why).

Gonad

The mangelwurzel is a nickname for a scarecrow.


Blzet was a French composer.


Socrates, the great Greek philosopher, never wrote anything down.


The Arctic is one of the seven continents of the world.


All toadstools are mushrooms but not all mushrooms are toadstools.


The swastika was traditionally a symbol of good luck.


The chancellor of the Exchequer is the first lord of the Treasury.


Antarctica contains 70% of the world's fresh water.


Scorpions are eight-legged arachnids, like spiders.


King John signed the Magna Carta.


The legendary female warriors called Amazons lived in the Amazon basin.


The word "dinosaur" is derived from the Greek for "terrible lizard".


RIchard the Lionheart spent all but six months of his ten-year reign in
England.


Contestants in the Olympic Games of ancient Greece competed naked.


The American CIA is the equivalent organization of Britain's CID.


Titus and Philemon are two books of the New Testament.


Big Ben is the clock in the tower of the Houses of Parliament.


In computing, a kilobyte is 1,000 bytes.


The dogfish is actually a small shark.


The dingo, Australia's wild dog, cannot bark.


Tomatoes and potatoes grow on plants belonging to the same family as
deadly nightshade.


Jazz musician William Basie was better known as Duke.


Nicotine, in its pure form, is one of the most powerful poisons known.


Antarctica has less annual precipitation than the Sahara desert.


The Duke of Edinburgh's grandfather was King George I of Greece.


Prince is the real first name of "The artist formerly known as Prince",
the US pop star.


Anchorage is the capital of Alaska.


All century years such as 1700, 1800 and 1900 are leap years because
they divide by four.


Caligula, the Roman emperor, gave a consulship to his horse, Incitatus.


All four feet of a beaver are webbed.


An emu cannot fly.


A dowager is the widow of a peer or a baronet.


Julie Andrews was the original Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady.


Fleas are bloodsuckers.


Wyoming is on the Canadian border of the USA.


Two is a prime number.


"Quaker" is another name for a Mormon.


Pythagoras shouted "Eureka!" when he thought of his theorem.


Silly mid-on is a fielding position in cricket.


Spartacus was a great Roman general.


The Roman emperor Hadrian was born in Italy.


In the Netherlands, all governments since 1945 have been coalitions.


The French eat an average of 5 kilos of snails per head per year.


The hands and feet contain almost half the bones in the human body.


There are three goals at each end in Australian Rules football.


A mudskipper fish often climbs out of the water, and skips away when
alarmed.


British MPs have always received a salary.


P G Wodehouse collaborated with Kern and Gershwin to write Broadway
musicals.


Giant worms over 3 metres long live at the bottom of the sea beside
hydrothermal vents called smokers.


Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Grant are the four presidents' heads
sculpted into Mount Rushmore.


In Greek mythology, a Hydra had nine heads.


Blzet's opera Carmen was a hit when it was first performed.


Jean Muir was a fashion designer.


"Cosifan tutte" means "thus do all women".


The name of the world's first nuclear-powered submarine is Nautilus.


President Lincoln was a Republican.


Raphael painted the Birth of Venus.


Dashiel Hammett created the detective Philip Marlowe.


Winston Churchill and his father were both chancellor of the Exchequer.


Canaries are found in the wild in the Canary Islands.


Kinshasa used to be called Leopoldville.


The flag of Morocco shows a green star on a red background.


Henry Ford said "History can teach us all we need to know".


President Kennedy proposed the Four Noble Truths.


Manuel II succeeded Carlos I on the throne of Spain in 1908.


Baseball player Mickey Mantle batted both leftand right-handed.


Rudyard Kipling was born in India.


Haydn wrote more than 100 symphonies.


A chinook is a kind of reindeer.


U2 released their album The Unforgiveable Fire in 1984.


Memphis was the name of an early capital of Egypt.


The laws of the United Kingdom are based on a written constitution kept
at the Houses of Parliament.


William the Conqueror was the illegitimate son of Robert the Devil, Duke
of Normandy.


Isaac Newton, the mathematician and physicist, was a Whig MP.


The South Orkneys is the name of a group of islands off the north coast
of Scotland.


The numbat is a marsupial and rears its young in a pouch.


Stephenson's locomotive Rocket pulled the first public steam train from
Stockton to Darlington in 1825.


An "inferno" is a unit of heat equal to 1 billion K (about 1 billion
°C).


Squirrels, beavers, chipmunks and porcupines are all rodents.


The group of long-established US universities known as the Ivy League is
so named because each one had the emblem of an ivy leaf.


The basic unit of currency in Egypt, Lebanon and Syria is the dinar.


The Russian parliament building in Moscow is called the White House.


Mike Clayton is a netcop.


The engine which powered the Sinclair C5 was a washing-machine motor.


Chinook, Sirocco, Harmattan and Mistral are all names of helicopters.


Tartans were banned after the Jacobite rebellion of 1745 until 1782.


The Jackal-headed god Anubis guided the souls of the dead in ancient
Egypt.


Roman soldiers were paid part of their salary in salt.


Only female wasps sting.


Kenneth MacAlpin united the kingdoms of Scotiand in the 9th century.


Tokyo has a Disney theme park.


Picasso said "Art is a truth that lets us recognize a lie".


IQ are the initials of the ratio between a person's mental age and
actual age, multiplied by 100.


Zoetrope was the Greek goddess of flowers.


Sinn Fein means "soldiers of destiny".


A hellebore is a poisonous plant.


Utah is nicknamed "the Waterfall State".


A manometer measures the pressure of liquids.


Tex Avery unsuccessfully fought Joe Louis for the World Heavyweight
Boxing championship.


Codeine suppresses a cough.


US Presidents William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison were
grandfather and grandson.

"Kendra Rice" <^Zxy0@Jd7heDx.xR4> wrote in message 
news:7qb6l3tenee652chbs1qp6gpqbne1ct60h@4ax.com...
<snip - quiz drivel>

This forum is for garbage posts.
False.

On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 17:03:03 -0600, "VanguardLH"
<VanguardLH@mail.invalid> wrote:

>"Kendra Rice" <^Zxy0@Jd7heDx.xR4> wrote in message 
>news:7qb6l3tenee652chbs1qp6gpqbne1ct60h@4ax.com...
><snip - quiz drivel>
>
>This forum is for garbage posts.
>False. 

Only fuckwits call USENET newsgroups 'forums'?
True.

On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:19:47 +0000, Kendra Rice wrote:

> The mangelwurzel is a nickname for a scarecrow.
> 
 Nope, a swede (vegetable). Wurzel Gummidge is a well-known fictional 
Scarecrow. 

> 
> Blzet was a French composer.
> 
> 
> Socrates, the great Greek philosopher, never wrote anything down.
> 
> 
> The Arctic is one of the seven continents of the world.
> 
> 
> All toadstools are mushrooms but not all mushrooms are toadstools.
> 
> 
> The swastika was traditionally a symbol of good luck.
> 
> 
> The chancellor of the Exchequer is the first lord of the Treasury.
> 
> 
> Antarctica contains 70% of the world's fresh water.
> 
> 
> Scorpions are eight-legged arachnids, like spiders.
> 
> 
> King John signed the Magna Carta.
> 
> 
> The legendary female warriors called Amazons lived in the Amazon basin.
> 
> 
> The word "dinosaur" is derived from the Greek for "terrible lizard".
> 
> 
> RIchard the Lionheart spent all but six months of his ten-year reign in
> England.
> 

Other way around. He only spent six months of his reain in England. He 
spent the rest on the crusades or in France.

> 
> Contestants in the Olympic Games of ancient Greece competed naked.
> 
> 
> The American CIA is the equivalent organization of Britain's CID.
> 

Nope. The CID is the plain clothes detective section of the police. 
Criminal Investigation Department. MI6 is more of a CIA equivalent.

> 
> Titus and Philemon are two books of the New Testament.
> 
> 
> Big Ben is the clock in the tower of the Houses of Parliament.
> 

Big Ben is the bell that strikes the hours in Westminster Clock Tower.

> 
> In computing, a kilobyte is 1,000 bytes.
> 
> 
> The dogfish is actually a small shark.
> 
> 
> The dingo, Australia's wild dog, cannot bark.
> 
> 
> Tomatoes and potatoes grow on plants belonging to the same family as
> deadly nightshade.
> 
> 
> Jazz musician William Basie was better known as Duke.
> 

Nope, he was known as 'Count' Basie.

> 
> Nicotine, in its pure form, is one of the most powerful poisons known.
> 
> 
> Antarctica has less annual precipitation than the Sahara desert.
> 
> 
> The Duke of Edinburgh's grandfather was King George I of Greece.
> 
> 
> Prince is the real first name of "The artist formerly known as Prince",
> the US pop star.
> 
> 
> Anchorage is the capital of Alaska.
> 
> 
> All century years such as 1700, 1800 and 1900 are leap years because
> they divide by four.
>

Nope. Century years are only leap years if the year can also be divided 
by 400. So the last leap year at the turn of a century was 2000 AD. The 
next will not be until 2400 AD.
 
> 
> Caligula, the Roman emperor, gave a consulship to his horse, Incitatus.
> 
> 
> All four feet of a beaver are webbed.
> 
> 
> An emu cannot fly.
>

But just watch it run :-)
 
> 
> A dowager is the widow of a peer or a baronet.
> 
> 
> Julie Andrews was the original Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady.
> 
> 
> Fleas are bloodsuckers.
> 
> 
> Wyoming is on the Canadian border of the USA.
> 
> 
> Two is a prime number.
> 
> 
> "Quaker" is another name for a Mormon.
>

Nope. The 'Quakers' are also known as the Society of Friends. No 
connection with Mormons at all.
 
> 
> Pythagoras shouted "Eureka!" when he thought of his theorem.
>

Nope. It was Archimedes.
 
> 
> Silly mid-on is a fielding position in cricket.
> 
> 
> Spartacus was a great Roman general.
> 
> 
> The Roman emperor Hadrian was born in Italy.
> 
> 
> In the Netherlands, all governments since 1945 have been coalitions.
> 
> 
> The French eat an average of 5 kilos of snails per head per year.
> 
> 
> The hands and feet contain almost half the bones in the human body.
> 
> 
> There are three goals at each end in Australian Rules football.
> 
> 
> A mudskipper fish often climbs out of the water, and skips away when
> alarmed.
> 
> 
> British MPs have always received a salary.
> 

I have doubts about that.

> 
> P G Wodehouse collaborated with Kern and Gershwin to write Broadway
> musicals.
> 
> 
> Giant worms over 3 metres long live at the bottom of the sea beside
> hydrothermal vents called smokers.
> 
> 
> Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Grant are the four presidents' heads
> sculpted into Mount Rushmore.
> 

Try again. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and 
Abraham Lincoln

> 
> In Greek mythology, a Hydra had nine heads.
> 
> 
> Blzet's opera Carmen was a hit when it was first performed.
> 
> 
> Jean Muir was a fashion designer.
> 
> 
> "Cosifan tutte" means "thus do all women".
> 

It means 'something for everyone' or thus do they all'. No mention of 
women.

> 
> The name of the world's first nuclear-powered submarine is Nautilus.
> 
> 
> President Lincoln was a Republican.
> 
> 
> Raphael painted the Birth of Venus.
> 

Sandro Botticelli.

> 
> Dashiel Hammett created the detective Philip Marlowe.
> 
> 
> Winston Churchill and his father were both chancellor of the Exchequer.
>

Hmmmmm I'll have to check that.
 
> 
> Canaries are found in the wild in the Canary Islands.
> 

The name came from the Latin 'Insulae Canarii' meaning islands of dogs, 
referring to the packs of wild dogs the Romans encountered when they 
first landed there. Although canary birds are indigenous there as well as 
the Azores and Madeira.

> 
> Kinshasa used to be called Leopoldville.
> 
> 
> The flag of Morocco shows a green star on a red background.
> 
> 
> Henry Ford said "History can teach us all we need to know".
> 

No, he said "History is bunk" (among other things).

> 
> President Kennedy proposed the Four Noble Truths.
> 

Nope. That was Buddha. Not even close LOL.

> 
> Manuel II succeeded Carlos I on the throne of Spain in 1908.
> 
> 
> Baseball player Mickey Mantle batted both leftand right-handed.
> 
> 
> Rudyard Kipling was born in India.
> 
> 
> Haydn wrote more than 100 symphonies.
> 
> 
> A chinook is a kind of reindeer.
> 

Maybe a wind also.

> 
> U2 released their album The Unforgiveable Fire in 1984.
> 
> 
> Memphis was the name of an early capital of Egypt.
> 
> 
> The laws of the United Kingdom are based on a written constitution kept
> at the Houses of Parliament.
> 

The UK has never had a written constitution.

> 
> William the Conqueror was the illegitimate son of Robert the Devil, Duke
> of Normandy.
>

Nope, that was Robert the Magnificent.
 
> 
> Isaac Newton, the mathematician and physicist, was a Whig MP.
> 
> 
> The South Orkneys is the name of a group of islands off the north coast
> of Scotland.
> 

The South Orkney Islands are a group of islands in the Southern Ocean

> 
> The numbat is a marsupial and rears its young in a pouch.
> 

Also known as the walpurti.

> 
> Stephenson's locomotive Rocket pulled the first public steam train from
> Stockton to Darlington in 1825.
>

It may have been Liverpool to Rainhill but I didn't check.
 
> 
> An "inferno" is a unit of heat equal to 1 billion K (about 1 billion
> °C).
>

Nope.
 
> 
> Squirrels, beavers, chipmunks and porcupines are all rodents.
> 
> 
> The group of long-established US universities known as the Ivy League is
> so named because each one had the emblem of an ivy leaf.
> 
> 
> The basic unit of currency in Egypt, Lebanon and Syria is the dinar.
> 
> 
> The Russian parliament building in Moscow is called the White House.
> 
> 
> Mike Clayton is a netcop.
> 
> 
> The engine which powered the Sinclair C5 was a washing-machine motor.
> 
> 
> Chinook, Sirocco, Harmattan and Mistral are all names of helicopters.
>

Chinook is. The rest aren't.
 
> 
> Tartans were banned after the Jacobite rebellion of 1745 until 1782.
> 
> 
> The Jackal-headed god Anubis guided the souls of the dead in ancient
> Egypt.
> 
> 
> Roman soldiers were paid part of their salary in salt.
> 

That's why their salt ration was called 'salarium', the word from which 
we get 'salary'.

> 
> Only female wasps sting.
> 
> 
> Kenneth MacAlpin united the kingdoms of Scotiand in the 9th century.
> 
> 
> Tokyo has a Disney theme park.
> 
> 
> Picasso said "Art is a truth that lets us recognize a lie".
> 
> 
> IQ are the initials of the ratio between a person's mental age and
> actual age, multiplied by 100.
>

Called 'Intelligence Quotient'.
 
> 
> Zoetrope was the Greek goddess of flowers.
>

Nope that was Chloris.
 
> 
> Sinn Fein means "soldiers of destiny".
> 
> 
> A hellebore is a poisonous plant.
> 
> 
> Utah is nicknamed "the Waterfall State".
> 
> 
> A manometer measures the pressure of liquids.
> 
> 
> Tex Avery unsuccessfully fought Joe Louis for the World Heavyweight
> Boxing championship.
> 
> 
> Codeine suppresses a cough.
> 
> 
> US Presidents William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison were
> grandfather and grandson.

I've only corrected those statements that stood out as obviously false. I 
dare say if anyone does some googling they'll find other inexactitudes.

"Aardvark"  wrote in message 
news:p1I4j.1373$1j1.819@newsfe7-gui.ntli.net...
> On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:19:47 +0000, Kendra Rice wrote:
>
>> The mangelwurzel is a nickname for a scarecrow.
>>
> Nope, a swede (vegetable). Wurzel Gummidge is a well-known fictional
> Scarecrow.
>
I think you'll find that the mangelwurzel is a member of the beet family, 
while the swede (and turnip) belong to the Brassica family.
-- 
Hungerdunger
To reply by email, remove the MARX from my address

<snip>
>
> Picasso said "Art is a truth that lets us recognize a lie".
>
>


No, he said just the opposite.

Art is the lie that tells the truth.

<Flush da Turd> wrote in message 
news:6cg6l3ha9p7ns5c1tdt319aqmb466g3ak0@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 17:03:03 -0600, "VanguardLH"
> <VanguardLH@mail.invalid> wrote:
>
>>"Kendra Rice" <^Zxy0@Jd7heDx.xR4> wrote in message
>>news:7qb6l3tenee652chbs1qp6gpqbne1ct60h@4ax.com...
>><snip - quiz drivel>
>>
>>This forum is for garbage posts.
>>False.
>
> Only fuckwits call USENET newsgroups 'forums'?
> True.
>


Differentiate "forum" from Usenet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
"Usenet resembles bulletin board systems (BBS) ..."
"... precursor to the various web forums ..."

Protocol doesn't dictate the differentiation between Usenet groups and 
forums, especially when so many "forums" running on non-NNTP hosts 
have gateways to Usenet.

"[Usenet] newsgroup" is a specific instance of the more generic forum. 
A forum is a designated space for public expression.  Well, that 
encompasses Usenet.

After you get older and more practiced, you'll realize that words can 
have both specific and general contexts.  Eventually you be taking 
some writing courses in college to get the practice.  In the meantime, 
if you are unaware of the various definitions, contexts, or concepts 
embodied by a word, you can go look them up.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=forum

Notice the entry for "Free On-line Dictionary of Computing" to provide 
a specific context, that of Usenet newsgroups, whereas the 
overwhelming definition is of a concept, not of a particular 
implementation.

Kendra Rice <^Zxy0@Jd7heDx.xR4> wrote in
news:7qb6l3tenee652chbs1qp6gpqbne1ct60h@4ax.com: 

<SNIP>

Was all this just to say that Mike Clayton is a netcop?
You really need to get a life...

On the remote chance you were actually trying to entertain us, 
these quizzes are great for voice or even text chat rooms and 
such but not sure about whether they're much fun on the 
Usenet...

"Aardvark"  wrote in message 
news:p1I4j.1373$1j1.819@newsfe7-gui.ntli.net...
> On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:19:47 +0000, Kendra Rice wrote:
> .
>>
>>
>> The Arctic is one of the seven continents of the world.
>>
No, antarctica is..

.
>>
>> The chancellor of the Exchequer is the first lord of the Treasury.
>>
No, the Prime Minister is.
.

On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:24:27 +0000, thanatoid wrote:

> Kendra Rice <^Zxy0@Jd7heDx.xR4> wrote in
> news:7qb6l3tenee652chbs1qp6gpqbne1ct60h@4ax.com:
> 
> <SNIP>
> 
> Was all this just to say that Mike Clayton is a netcop? You really need
> to get a life...
> 
> On the remote chance you were actually trying to entertain us, these
> quizzes are great for voice or even text chat rooms and such but not
> sure about whether they're much fun on the Usenet...

I love shit like this anytime, anyplace, anywhere.

I'm a kind of 'Martini' trivia fan :-)

The way I see it, I've got a head full of useless shit that no one 
neither needs nor wants to know, so it very rarely gets an airing until 
something like this comes along. People love to have me in their team 
when it comes to pub quizzes. :-)

All the trivia crap rolled into one giant message just to see your name 
on the list. Amazing.

Aardvark  wrote in
news:ZXS4j.2415$jy3.1490@newsfe7-win.ntli.net: 

> On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:24:27 +0000, thanatoid wrote:
> 
>> Kendra Rice <^Zxy0@Jd7heDx.xR4> wrote in
>> news:7qb6l3tenee652chbs1qp6gpqbne1ct60h@4ax.com:
>> 
>> <SNIP>
>> 
>> Was all this just to say that Mike Clayton is a netcop?
>> You really need to get a life...
>> 
>> On the remote chance you were actually trying to entertain
>> us, these quizzes are great for voice or even text chat
>> rooms and such but not sure about whether they're much fun
>> on the Usenet... 
> 
> I love shit like this anytime, anyplace, anywhere.
> 
> I'm a kind of 'Martini' trivia fan :-)
> 
> The way I see it, I've got a head full of useless shit that
> no one neither needs nor wants to know, so it very rarely
> gets an airing until something like this comes along.
> People love to have me in their team when it comes to pub
> quizzes. :-) 
> 

I must say some of your answers WERE quite impressive. And it 
WAS kind of fun to read all in all.