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mrkelley23
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by mrkelley23 » Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:35 pm
$1,000,000
Which term may be correctly associated with publishing jargon, beetle genera, or an ancient city?
A. Colophon
B. Galatea
C. Pergamon
D. Muranum
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silvercamaro
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by silvercamaro » Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:39 pm
mrkelley23 wrote:$1,000,000
Which term may be correctly associated with publishing jargon, beetle genera, or an ancient city?
A. Colophon
B. Galatea
C. Pergamon
D. Muranum
Colophon
Yes, I know I haven't gone thorought the lower questions yet.
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christie1111
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by christie1111 » Tue Feb 05, 2008 2:09 pm
mrkelley23 wrote:$1,000,000
Which term may be correctly associated with publishing jargon, beetle genera, or an ancient city?
A. Colophon
B. Galatea
C. Pergamon
D. Muranum
pergamon, but I was leaning to Galatea.
I would be PAF for sure if I could.
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mrkelley23
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by mrkelley23 » Tue Feb 05, 2008 2:21 pm
mrkelley23 wrote:$1,000,000
Which term may be correctly associated with publishing jargon, beetle genera, or an ancient city?
A. Colophon
B. Galatea
C. Pergamon
D. Muranum
A. Colophon. The same word is the genus of the Stag Beetle, the name of an ancient city in Asia Minor, and the endpage (or section) of a book. In medieval times (and later), the colophon was where you could find the printing date, as well as the printer's mark.
Thanks for playing, everyone!
SC, why bother with the little piddly questions when you can go straight to the million, anyway, huh?
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. -- Richard Feynman
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silvercamaro
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by silvercamaro » Tue Feb 05, 2008 2:38 pm
mrkelley23 wrote:
SC, why bother with the little piddly questions when you can go straight to the million, anyway, huh?
I leave the computer on while I'm doing other things, and I wander back here periodically. When I saw this question, I was sure I knew it. Even so, I realized it was dorky to answer without having done the earlier questions first. I promise to go back and do the earlier questions to find out how far I would have gotten before running into whichever lower value question would have prevented me from seeing this one.
