TNPG Question Thread

[takinover]

Q1. Put these words in order to arrange a famous landmark

1. Building
2. Empire
3. State
4. The

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4231

Q2. Put these animal researchers in order of birth, starting most recent

1. Jacque Cousteau
2. Charles Darwin
3. Jane Goodall
4. Jeff Corwin

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4312

Q3. Put these US Bays in geographical order, starting in the East

1. Green Bay
2. San Francisco Bay
3. Massachusetts Bay
4. Chesapeake Bay

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3412

Q4. Put these singers in order of the birth starting with most recent

1. Anita Baker
2. Tina Turner
3. Missy Elliot
4. I can't read my writing but is was another women singer who was the youngest. I think it might be Nelly Furtado.

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4312

Q5. Put the following fruits in order of caloric density starting by the most

they gave specific measurements and I didn't get to write them all down.

1. 1/2 cup canteloupe (I think they said 1/2 cup)
2. 1/2 cup watermelon (again I think they said 1/2)
3. something pineapple
4. something banana

I forgot what I guessed but it was wrong.

[MVLease]

Q1. Arrange these words to form the title of a movie
1. House
2. National
3. Animal
4. Lampoon's

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2-4-3-1. Piece o' cake.

Q2. Arrange these body parts of a dolphin in order, starting with the front
1. Fluke
2. Blowhole
3. Dorsal fin
4. Jaws

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4-2-3-1. Also easy. But did I enter 4-2-3-1? No, I did not!!! I entered 4-3-2-1. I knew it, but my fingers failed me.

I'm driving myself crazy. I know the phone game is my best -- if not only -- hope of ever getting into the hot seat. I'm just too MAWGish for the audition process (oh, if they come back to Boston and I'm able to give it a try, I will; but I'm not holding my breath). But I'm tripping all over myself here.

-Mike

[jurisdoctor07]

Because (1) I'm a newbie, (2) this is a high traffic thread, and (3) MV just used it in his post, I'll ask. I get the general idea of what a MAWG is (I assume white, male lawyer-type person), but what do the letters stand for?

And, for that matter, what is Nihil Obstat?

Thanks!

[takinover]

Q2:

Mystery Novels, early ------------------> recent

1. Murder On The Orient Express

2. Farewell My Lovely

3. The Pelican Brief

4. A Is For Alibi

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1,2,3,4 not right

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1,2,4,3 is right

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Murder 1934
Farewell 1940
Alibi 1982
Pelican 1998

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If you ever need to guess again, I don't think they ever use (or it has rarely been used) 1,2,3,4 as a right answer.

[takinover]

Because (1) I'm a newbie, (2) this is a high traffic thread, and (3) MV just used it in his post, I'll ask. I get the general idea of what a MAWG is (I assume white, male lawyer-type person), but what do the letters stand for?

And, for that matter, what is Nihil Obstat?

Thanks!

Middle
Aged
White
Guy

Nihil Obstat is the Bored's way of saying they knew the answer to something, usually a set of questions.

[MVLease]

Because (1) I'm a newbie, (2) this is a high traffic thread, and (3) MV just used it in his post, I'll ask. I get the general idea of what a MAWG is (I assume white, male lawyer-type person), but what do the letters stand for?

Middle-Aged White Guy. Nothing lawyer-type about me (I'm an underemployed software engineer working as a security guard), but I'm definitely a MAWG.

And, for that matter, what is Nihil Obstat?

Thanks!

Not familiar with the term, but Google turns up this.

-Mike

[Ritterskoop]

Because (1) I'm a newbie, (2) this is a high traffic thread, and (3) MV just used it in his post, I'll ask. I get the general idea of what a MAWG is (I assume white, male lawyer-type person), but what do the letters stand for?

And, for that matter, what is Nihil Obstat?

Thanks!

Very loosely, you can think of it as "no obstacles".

[jurisdoctor07]

Thanks for the clarification!

Here I was thinking I was a MAWG, but I'm not. I have a few more years until I qualify as "MA".

[Bob78164]

Question 1:

Place the following words in order to form the title of a John Le Carre novel.

1. War
2. Glass
3. Looking
4. The

Question 2:

Place the following members of the Kennedy family in the order of their birth, starting with the earliest.

1. John F. Kennedy
2. Robert F. Kennedy
3. Ted Kennedy
4. Rose Kennedy

Question 3:

Place the following inventions in the order in which they debuted, starting with the earliest.

1. Electric battery
2. Velcro
3. Loom
4. Compound microscope

Question 4:

Place the following flours in order by their gluten content, starting with the lowest.

1. Bread flour
2. Cake flour
3. All purpose flour
4. Pastry flour

Even though I've seen that question here, I missed it. Seven down, three to go. I can't complain that I haven't had my opportunities, starting with a gettable Question 5 on night one.

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1. 4321
2. 4123
3. 3412
4. Not 2431

Hmmmm. I've now gone back through the thread. The answer I gave should have been the correct answer. This looks like another Pacific Islands question where they simply have it wrong. They're probably expecting

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2413

. --Bob

[zachhoran1]

If you ever need to guess again, I don't think they ever use (or it has rarely been used) 1,2,3,4 as a right answer.

On one of the August 1999 episodes, ABCD was the correct order for a Fastest Finger question, I believe it was the one putting fractions in order of value.

[MarleysGh0st]

Put these Pacific islands in order, starting at Japan and going east:
1) Tahiti
2) The Philippines
3) Fiji
4) Papua New Guinea

Answers

4) Papua New Guinea
2) The Philippines
3) Fiji
1) Tahiti

He took an educated stab in the dark and he's signed up for a call on the 17th for an Aug. 3rd tape date!

This is the second time I've seen this question, and the answer they want is STILL wrong.

The Philippines are WEST of Papua-New Guinea, AND WEST of Japan. The real order is

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4. Papua-New Guinea
3. Fiji
1. Tahiti
2. Philippines

But that said, if anyone ever gets it in the next three nights, remember to get it wrong to get it right. And 'grats to Dad M!

Well, the problem is that "Japan" covers about 20 degrees of longitude, so that's a really crappy line of demarcation, given the countries to arrange in relation to that. Wikipedia says that the longitude of Iriomote, an island at the western end of Okinawa prefecture (part of Japan) is at 123° 48′ E, while they list the Philippine island of Mindanao at 125° 00′ E. Technically, then, some small corner of the Philippines is further east that an even smaller corner of Japan. Not that most folks would interpret it that way.

WWOQ!

[gsabc]

medicine cabinet items, beginning with earliest year of introduction

Maalox
Pepcid AC
Advil
Scope

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it's not 4321

Without actually researching, I would say

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1432. Could be wrong about the first two.

[earendel]

elwing played on Saturday and Sunday - again without me in the room.

Saturday's questions:
Q1. Put these words in order to form the name of a Woodward and Bernstein book:
1 - men
2 - all
3 - the
4 - president's

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No problem here, it's 2341

Q2 - Put these technological advancements in chronological order starting with the earliest.
1 - cotton gin
2 - ???
3 - tractor
4 - plow

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4123 - I can't decipher her writing for answer #2

Q3 - Put these songs in the order they were first released, starting with the earliest.
1 - Little Red Corvette
2 - ...black...
3 - Yellow Submarine
4 - Blue Suede Shoes

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2314 - Surprisingly elwing got this one right - she said it was more luck than skill. Again the #2 answer is indecipherable

Q4 - Put these movies in the order that they received the Academy Award for best animated feature.
1 - Ratatouille
2 - Finding Nemo
3 - WALL-E
4 - Shrek

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Her answer was 4213, which I would have thought correct, but Sad Fred disagreed. It's possible she punched in the numbers incorrectly.

Her Sunday didn't go as well.
Q1. Put these words in order to form the name of a U.S. landmark.
1 - tower
2 - devil's
3 - national
4 - monument

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2134 - We've been there. NB: elwing has never seen Close Encounters

Q2. Put these words in order to form the name of a 1997 Billboard Top 10 hit.
1 - thing
2 - that
3 - do
4 - what

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She punched in 2143, thinking she might have misheard and it was "That Thing You Do", but Sad Fred told her to try again. I saw the question in this thread - "what" should have been "wop", not that that would have helped elwing. I've never heard of the song, either

[hbomb1947]

Q3 - Put these songs in the order they were first released, starting with the earliest.
1 - Little Red Corvette
2 - ...black...
3 - Yellow Submarine
4 - Blue Suede Shoes

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2314 - Surprisingly elwing got this one right - she said it was more luck than skill. Again the #2 answer is indecipherable

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2314 can't possibly be right for those songs. "Little Red Corvette" (by Prince) is 1980s, while of course "Blue Suede Shoes" goes back to Elvis and "Yellow Submarine" is the Beatles. I'm guessing the "Black" song is "Back to Black," which was a recent Amy Winehouse song and has shown up on some other TNPG questions. That would make it 4312 Even if "Black" was something old enough to be first, there's no way a Prince song antedated an Elvis song.

[Im_Ace]

Like I said, I've got a mac at home and for some reason, it won't let me sign on. So here's this weekend's Q's. At least I SAW a Q5.

Q1.
The COBOL question

Q2. Put these times of the year, in the US in order, starting with January:
1. Celebration of Tet
2. Beginning of Summer
3. Beginning of Daylight Savings Time
4. End of Daylight Savings Time
1,3,2,4

Q3. The Steven King book order question.

Q4. The Journalists Question with George Will, Hearst, Wolfe and Cronkite

Q5. Put these composers in order of birth, from the earliest:
1. Mozart
2. Vivaldi
3. Elger
4. John Cage
2,1,3,4

I switched Mozart and Vivaldi. SHIT !!!!!

Q1. Put these in order from the smallest:
1. Earth
2. Nucleus
3. Sun
4. Universe
2,1,3,4

Q2. Put these movies in order, from the MOST RECENT:
1. Smokey and the Bandit
2. Me, Myself, Irene
3. Bonnie and Clyde
4. Thelma and Louise
2,4,1,3

Q3. Put these orators in order, from the earliest:
1. MLK Jr.
2. Daniel Webster
3. Abe Lincoln
4. Churchill
2,3,4,1

Q1. Stages of being a human order question.

Q2. Cartoons in order question

Q3. Greek letters in order:
1. Lamda
2. Epsilon
3. Phi
4. Kappa
2,4,1,3

Q4. Religious Leaders in order from the earliest:
1. William Penn
2. MLK Jr
3. Jessie Jackson
4. Eddy
1,4,2,3

I had never heard of Eddy before. And even though preachers, I wouldn't consider MLK and Jessie to be "religious" leaders.

Good luck to everyone else. This is really getting to get old, for me.

[gsabc]

Q4. Religious Leaders in order from the earliest:
1. William Penn
2. MLK Jr
3. Jessie Jackson
4. Eddy
1,4,2,3

I had never heard of Eddy before.

Must have been Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science Church (or Church of Jesus Christ, Scientist, if you prefer). Definitely second on the list.

[earendel]

Q3 - Put these songs in the order they were first released, starting with the earliest.
1 - Little Red Corvette
2 - ...black...
3 - Yellow Submarine
4 - Blue Suede Shoes

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2314 - Surprisingly elwing got this one right - she said it was more luck than skill. Again the #2 answer is indecipherable

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2314 can't possibly be right for those songs. "Little Red Corvette" (by Prince) is 1980s, while of course "Blue Suede Shoes" goes back to Elvis and "Yellow Submarine" is the Beatles. I'm guessing the "Black" song is "Back to Black," which was a recent Amy Winehouse song and has shown up on some other TNPG questions. That would make it 4312 Even if "Black" was something old enough to be first, there's no way a Prince song antedated an Elvis song.

Maybe elwing put down "most recent" rather than earliest. Her writing isn't the most readable. Whatever the requested order was, she got it right and moved on.

[Jeemie]

medicine cabinet items, beginning with earliest year of introduction

Maalox
Pepcid AC
Advil
Scope

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it's not 4321

Without actually researching, I would say

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1432. Could be wrong about the first two.

Nope, you're exactly right:

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Maalox- 1949
Scope- 1960s
Advil- 1980s
Pepcid AC- 1995

[hbomb1947]

Q3 - Put these songs in the order they were first released, starting with the earliest.
1 - Little Red Corvette
2 - ...black...
3 - Yellow Submarine
4 - Blue Suede Shoes

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2314 - Surprisingly elwing got this one right - she said it was more luck than skill. Again the #2 answer is indecipherable

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2314 can't possibly be right for those songs. "Little Red Corvette" (by Prince) is 1980s, while of course "Blue Suede Shoes" goes back to Elvis and "Yellow Submarine" is the Beatles. I'm guessing the "Black" song is "Back to Black," which was a recent Amy Winehouse song and has shown up on some other TNPG questions. That would make it 4312 Even if "Black" was something old enough to be first, there's no way a Prince song antedated an Elvis song.

Maybe elwing put down "most recent" rather than earliest. Her writing isn't the most readable. Whatever the requested order was, she got it right and moved on.

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If it was from most recent, the correct order would be 2134 (again, assuming that the "Black" song is ""Back to Black").

[themanwho]

Finally saw a Q5 last night. Unfortunately, I guessed wrong as to which came first, Master Card or Visa. (The other 2 were Diner's Club and Discover.)

For the record:

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Diner's Club --> Visa --> Master Card --> Discover

-M

[MarleysGh0st]

Finally saw a Q5 last night. Unfortunately, I guessed wrong as to which came first, Master Card or Visa. (The other 2 were Diner's Club and Discover.)

For the record:

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Diner's Club --> Visa --> Master Card --> Discover

-M

A little tricky, since Visa used to be called Bank Americard.

[hbomb1947]

Finally saw a Q5 last night. Unfortunately, I guessed wrong as to which came first, Master Card or Visa. (The other 2 were Diner's Club and Discover.)

For the record:

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Diner's Club --> Visa --> Master Card --> Discover

-M

A little tricky, since Visa used to be called Bank Americard.

And MasterCard used to be called MasterCharge.

[ghostjmf]

hbomb says:

while of course "Blue Suede Shoes" goes back to Elvis

Actually, it goes back even further, to Carl Perkins, but he released it about 2 weeks before Elvis covered it. Also a rockabilly, he's usually philosophical in interviews about "not having been Elvis".

[gsn309]

Finally saw a Q5 last night. Unfortunately, I guessed wrong as to which came first, Master Card or Visa. (The other 2 were Diner's Club and Discover.)

For the record:

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Diner's Club --> Visa --> Master Card --> Discover

-M

A little tricky, since Visa used to be called Bank Americard.

And MasterCard used to be called MasterCharge.

This is another wonky question.

Wiki says Visa was founded in 1970, 4 years after Master Card. But Visa was originally BankAmericard, which was founded a number of years before Master Card.
Hmmm...

[hbomb1947]

A little tricky, since Visa used to be called Bank Americard.

And MasterCard used to be called MasterCharge.

This is another wonky question.

Wiki says Visa was founded in 1970, 4 years after Master Card. But Visa was originally BankAmericard, which was founded a number of years before Master Card.
Hmmm...

My research indicates Visa succeeded Bank Americard in 1976, and MasterCard succeeded MasterCharge in 1979.

If you want to talk about predecessor entities:

BankAmericard was founded in 1958, and Bank of America spun it of to the control of an independent corporation in 1970. But the card itself goes back to 1958, not 1970.

The MasterCharge name first appeared in 1967.

So either way, BankAmericard/Visa came before MasterCharge / MasterCard. Granted the 1976-1979 thing is a little close.