ManvsMini Posted December 31, 2022 Author Share Posted December 31, 2022 Question 365: Category: Short and Simple What did the world's first SMS text message say? Bonus points: What does SMS stand for? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManvsMini Posted January 1 Author Share Posted January 1 For the last time, here is the answer post for the round's questions: Question 360: What does a flower worn behind a woman's right ear mean in Hawaii? Answer: Spoiler That she is single and/or possibly looking for a love interest. Wearing the flower behind the left ear signifies the opposite, being married or unavailable. 1 point for a correct answer. Question 361: Three of the top ten most performed ballets in the world by Tchaikovsky? Answer: Spoiler The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, and The Sleeping Beauty. 1 point for any correct ballet, 3 points for two correct, 5 points for all three correct. If you went for the bonus points, the #1 most performed ballet as of 2017 is The Nutcracker. If you got it correct, give yourself 5 points. Question 362: Skopje is the capital of which Eastern European country? Answer: Spoiler North Macedonia (formerly known as Macedonia until February 2019). 1 point for either answer. Answers for the bonus points are as follows for 2 points per correct answer (direction not needed): NW: Kosovo N: Serbia E: Bulgaria S: Greece W: Albania Question 363: What was New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford the first to uncover the structure of in the 1910's? Answer: Spoiler The structure of the atomic nucleus. Considered the father of nuclear physics, he theorized that atoms have their charge concentrated in a very small area (dubbed the nucleus), and experimented. 1 point for the correct answer: For your bonus points query, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced on the 13th of December that on the 5th of December it had achieved nuclear fusion ignition with a favorable energy return. ~2 megajoules of energy went in, and a bit over 3 megajoules came out. Recall that earlier this year, the UK-based Joint European Torus also achieved fusion; however, while it produced 59 megajoules of energy, it required just over 58 megajoules to ignite, and damaged the reactor. 3 bonus points if you got that. Question 364: Which planet has moons that are nearly all named after Shakespearean characters? Answer: Spoiler Uranus. The majority of moons are named for characters that appear in the works of William Shakespeare. Some names overlap with the bonus question poet. 1 point for the correct answer. And the poet whose work Umbriel is named for is Alexander Pope, with the name coming from The Rape of the Lock (title context: not the sexual crime, but from the old Latin rapere meaning "to snatch, to grab, or carry off"). 3 points for that bonus question. Question 365: What did the world's first SMS text message say? Answer: Spoiler Merry Christmas. It was sent by Neil Papworth on a PC to the phone of his colleague Richard Jarvis, on the 3rd of December in 1992. And 30 years later all people seemingly do is communicate via text. 1 point for a correct answer. And for your bonus question, give yourself 3 points if you knew that SMS stands for Short Message/Messaging Service. Ok, let's do the point math. Six questions this week, with regular answers worth up to 10 points, and then we had bonus points worth up to 24 points. That's a potential 34 total points up for grabs. Brings the total possible point value for this very long quiz to 401 points. Thank you for playing to those who did, it has been a pleasure to be your poor-man's Alex Trebek (RIP good sir). Tally up your scores and see where you stand. Regardless of the amount you get you are a winner for daring to test yourself and learn. Happy New Year/New Year's Eve! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aku-chan Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Got 10 points this week, turns out I'm surprisingly knowledgeable about ballet, and gives me a total of 191, so not quite 50%. Thanks for doing this, it's been a lot of fun! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasper_the_2nd Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 10 as well, for 192. Not 50% of the points, but averaged more than 1 point per day.... 🙂 This was a ton of fun, thanks for doing this! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Chaoswolf Posted January 1 Moderator Share Posted January 1 I missed last week; got 3 right to bring my total to 189.5, adding 17 to that for this week's high value questions makes my total for the year 206.5 points. Very cool, thank you, MvM! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranky Dog Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 A massive 17 points to conclude the year for a total of 211 points! Thank you @ManvsMini for the year long daily challenge. It was a very interesting and varied set of questions. ENCORE! 😄 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 On 12/19/2022 at 8:52 AM, Corsair said: Got 5 this week for 233. Edited, Thanks! @ttuckerman! Didn't post last week, but got 4, then picked up 13 this week, so finished with 250! Thank you so much for your effort on this! 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttuckerman Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 18 for 207 for 51.6% 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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