On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Nikhil Mehra <[email protected]>wrote:
> ** > Mau plateau, Kenya > Did you use web search in coming up with the answer? Which bring me to the reason I have moved away from quizzing circles. Web search, Wikipedia and Google book search have not only made it unnecessary to remember obscure trivia but also made the lives of quiz masters easier. Quiz masters can now ask questions (to the strain of Humpty Dumpty, no less) about little known cannons in Colchester without needing the ability to locate Essex on a map or knowing who fought whom in the English Civil War. Thaths > Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel > ------------------------------ > *From: * Thaths <[email protected]> > *Sender: * [email protected] > *Date: *Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:36:59 -0700 > *To: *<[email protected]> > *ReplyTo: * [email protected] > *Subject: *Re: [silk] quiz help > > Speaking of abstruse trivia.... > > 1. How are the Indian Railways and the San Francisco-Bay Area BART linked? > > 2. In 1903 the British government offered to home 5,000 square miles of > land to the World Zionist Organization to set up a homeland for the Jews. > The offer was declined in 1905. Where was this land that could have become > the new Israel? > > Thaths > > > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 5:20 AM, Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > I must thank this thread. You people just gifted me one of the quiz >> >> Tcchah, I meant, "one round of the quiz". >> >> > > > -- > Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? > Carl: Nuthin'. > Homer: D'oh! > Carl: Unless you're crooked. > Homer: Woo-hoo! > Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without Borders > -- Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? Carl: Nuthin'. Homer: D'oh! Carl: Unless you're crooked. Homer: Woo-hoo! Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without Borders
