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On Oct 13, 2012, at 4:22 AM, Thaths <tha...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Bonobashi <bonoba...@yahoo.co.in> wrote: > Not fair to Noddy. This is a chestnut, which, considering its vintage, may be > considered fresh maal once again. It dates back to the Anglo-Indian era in > quizzing, when one could ask the QM to hang on until one explained to a > skeptical bearer exactly what was going wrong with the gin-and-lime. > > ..."eheu, fugaces"....and all that. > > > Perhaps I should explain my reasoning. One does not find many contemporary > uses of the term "Mau plateau". The region these days is referred to as > Central Province (shortened to "Central"). Most references to "Mau plateau" > that I have across are online, and a majority of them are about Kenya being > considered as a potential home for the Jewish people. So when I find someone > using a dated phrasing I muttered to myself "o tempora, o moraes" and fired > off a reply. > > Now that you mention the Ango-Indian quizzing milieu, I am forced to mutter a > mea culpa and admit that, for a chappie of the sort you describe, "Mau > plateau" is as pucca as a chakar around the old regimental polo grounds. > > Thaths And I suppose it would only inflame passions to point out that it should be a chukkah, played for 7 1/2 minutes, on old regimental polo grounds, and other polo grounds alike. I write in my alter ego of 'Joe Shearer', of course. > > > > Sent from my iPad > > On Oct 12, 2012, at 11:46 PM, Thaths <tha...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Nikhil Mehra <nikhil.mehra...@gmail.com> >> 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 <tha...@gmail.com> >> Sender: silklist-bounces+nikhil.mehra773=gmail....@lists.hserus.net >> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:36:59 -0700 >> To: <silklist@lists.hserus.net> >> ReplyTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net >> 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 <mohande...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Deepa Mohan <mohande...@gmail.com> 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 > > > > -- > 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
