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1 US school hierarchy, starting at top

1. Principal
2. Asst. principal
3. Superintendant
4. Classroom teacher

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2 Countries N to S

1. Ireland
2. Italy
3. Greece
4. France

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3 Human body head to toe

1. Palate
2. Diaphragm
3. Calf
4. Brow

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4 Cards dealt per player, most to least

1. Let it Ride
2. Gin rummy
3. Blackjack
4. Uno

Sad Fred cut right in and I'm too tired to look it up. I'll edit tomorrow unless someone else beats me to it! :*)

It's Gin Rummy, Uno, Let It Ride, and Blackjack (10,7,3,and 2, respectively).

My oldest daughter, Lindsay, just qualified. She picked this Friday, the 17th for the call and an taping date of the 31st.

Her first Q was order the times of the day from earliest to latest starting at 12:01 AM
1) Noon
2) Day break
3) Sunset
4) Midnight

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2) She couldn't read her notes or remember the question

3) Order the inital for the exam to get into Business School
1) T
2) A
3) G
4) M

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4) Order the game shows from earliest to air to latest
1) Deal or No Deal
2) Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader
3) Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
4) Wheel Of Fortune
Do you really need a spoiler for this one?

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5) Place these items from the electo-magnetic spectrum based on their average frequency from the highest to the lowest
1) Visible Light
2) Radio Waves
3) Infra Red
4) X-Rays

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Its a good thing that our H.S. has one of the finest rated physics departments in the country and her dad (me) taught H.S. Physics as well.

Now my wife and 2 of my sons have one more shot at it tomorrow.

---Jay

Q1. Put these places in order according to its college football team starting in the west and going east, starting with the westernmost (this is what Fred said).

1. Colorado Buffaloes
2. UCLA Bruins
3. Iowa Hawkeyes
4. Georgia Bulldogs

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2134

Q2. Put these literary characters in the order they were introduced, starting with the earliest.

1. Hamlet
2. Holden Caulfield
3. Cujo
4. Huckleberry Finn

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Q3. Put these children from the TV show Family Ties in order of their births, starting with the oldest.

1. Andrew
2. Mallory
3. Alex
4. Jennifer

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Not a big Family Ties watcher. I went 4321 as I think one of the sisters is older and one is younger than Alex, but Jennifer is the next youngest child after Andrew. I am not really sure and Wikipedia is not giving me anything. Only thing I knew for sure is Andrew is the youngest. There is a question in this thread about the Keatons and how many kids they have, but not the same as this one.

editing to add

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I did not read Wikipedia carefully enough. It says the show states Alex was born in 1965, Mallory in 1967, Jennifer in 1972, and Andrew later.

Q1: HBO TV show

Sex and the City

Q2: Put these animals in order according to their average full grown weight, starting with the lightest.

1. Pigeon
2. Polar Bear
3. Puma
4. Porcupine

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1-4-3-2

Q3: Put the following dogs in chronological order of when they first appeared in literature, starting with the earliest.

1. Clifford
2. Lassie
3. Toto
4. Old Yeller

Well I should know better than to think too much when playing the game. Vacillated over Toto & Old Yeller, mainly think about when Old Yeller takes place yada yada yada and punch in 4-3-2-1…very stupid of me.

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3-4-2-1

What is there one more night of this torture, I mean fun?

I'll post my questions tomorrow, I'm so pissed off. I got to the second question, and it was one mentioned upthread about placing novels in geographical order (Sarah, Plain and Tall/Tess of D'urbervilles/Zorba the Greek/Anna Karenina), I enter the answer that I knew and had seen on this thread and...no happy Fred....no sad Fred....just silence. I watch the clock on my phone tick away, tick tick tick, waiting for something, ANYTHING, I check the speaker on my phone, everything is fine, until I hear that wretched sound that you hear when you accidentally leave your phone off the hook. I have no clue what happened, and I am so royally pissed off cuz I was FEELING it tonight.

(sigh) I'm honestly not optimistic about tomorrow.

This just isn't my summer.

Q1) Put in order

1. Treaty
2. The
3. Of
4. Ghent

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Q2) Emmy comedy actress winner - earliest

1. Felicity Huffman
2. Jennifer Aniston
3. Sarah Jessica Parker
4. America Ferrera

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Q3) Earliest Opened

1. Merchant Marines
2. Military Academy
3. Air Force Academy
4. Naval Academy

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Q4) Born earliest

1. Latoya Jackson
2. Tito Jackson
3. Michael Jackson
4. Janet Jackson

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Q5) Earliest

1. Rayon
2. Felt
3. Nylon
4. Microfiber

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I did 2314 and I'll guess it's 2134? But, I"m not sure.

MarkBarrett wrote:
Q5) Earliest

1. Rayon
2. Felt
3. Nylon
4. Microfiber

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I did 2314 and I'll guess it's 2134? But, I"m not sure.

Doing some cursory research around the 'net, I find:

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Felt (circa 6500 B.C.)
Rayon (1855 or 1884, depending on whom you ask) -- either way, much earlier than I would have thought
Nylon (1938)
microfiber (1970)

So: 2134.

Passed today on my second try. Got an easy set, where the biggest problem on the geos was properly orienting myself to start (nothing like knowing whether Dayton is east or west of Nashville). I dispensed with the envelope, cracked out the lined paper, and ignored Juan Ramon Jimenez.

Arrange these endangered species from West to East, starting in Hawaii:

Arizona something
California condor
Komodo dragon
English something

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Arrange these musical combos by # of members, biggest to smallest:

Jackson Five
BeeGees
Beatles
Sonny and Cher

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Historic events, from earliest to most recent:

English-Scottish Act of Union
Plymouth Company chartered
Henry Ford's assembly line
Napoleon I does something in Spain

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Film directors' places of birth, from West to East starting in the Atlantic:

Kurosawa
Hitchcock
Orson Welles
Polanski

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International Holidays, starting from January 1:

(US?) Thanksgiving
Tet
Boxing Day
Bastille Day

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Question 1:

Place the following words in order to form the title of a hit TV show.

1. Malcolm
2. The
3. In
4. Middle

Question 2:

Place the following colleges and universities in geographic order, starting in the north.

1. Kansas State University
2. Tuskegee University
3. Florida State University
4. University of Wisconsin

Question 3:

Place the following literary characters in the order they first appeared, starting with the earliest.

1. Lemuel Gulliver
2. Natty Bumppo
3. King Lear
4. Long John Silver

Question 4:

Place the following Las Vegas casinos in the order in which they were built, starting with the earliest.

1. Sahara
2. Mirage
3. Caesar's Palace
4. Stratosphere

Question 5: (What? I was expecting Sad Fred!)

Place the following queens in the order of their birth, starting with the earliest.

1. Marie Antoinette
2. Victoria
3. Elizabeth I
4. Nefertiti

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1. 1324
2. 4123
3. 3124
4. 1324
5. 4312

OTC Friday for an August 3 tape date.

In addition to being lucky to survive an educated guess on Question 4, I suspect I came close to timing out on Question 5. I had a lot of trouble reading my writing well enough to remember the order in which they gave Victoria and Elizabeth I, and once I'd deciphered that, I had to think a moment to place Marie and Victoria in the correct order. Still, I'm as delighted as everyone else to be OTC. I'd really have kicked myself if I hadn't made it because on Day 1 I really had a gettable Question 5. --Bob

So, I can do the FF really well while playing along with the old reruns, but doing it on the phone- writing it down/figuring the order, and getting it punched in on time- has just not been working for me. I can't even read most of what I'd written. I'm just adding some ridiculously simple ones that I'm sure I got right. The rest of mine haven't been worth adding, since I wouldn't be sure if I'd be giving correct/complete info, and most are already on this thread anyway. For those not swimming yet, here's a few more -- sorry if there are any duplications.

Hope to see at least a few more of us break through to OTC today! Good luck, us!!

Book Title:

1. Lights
2. Big
3. Bright
4. City

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Song Lyric:

1. Brave
2. The
3. Home
4. Of

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Song Title:

1. The
2. Gone
3. Thrill
4. Is

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Song Lyric:

1. Rain Rain
2. Come Again
3. Another Day
4. Go Away

1423 (I got this right, but he said I was wrong...)


Giant's Chant (or whatever they said):

1. Foe
2. Fie
3. Fee
4. Fum

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Sounds in order from quitest to loudest:

1. Blowing leaves
2. Vacuum cleaner
3. Rocket launch
4. Jackhammer

1243 (again, I entered this, but he said I was wrong...)

Song Title:

1. On
2. The
3. Home
4. Range

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Bed Sizes-smallest to largest:

1. Full
2. Crib
3. California King
4. Twin

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hbomb1947 wrote:

MarkBarrett wrote:
Q5) Earliest

1. Rayon
2. Felt
3. Nylon
4. Microfiber

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I did 2314 and I'll guess it's 2134? But, I"m not sure.

Doing some cursory research around the 'net, I find:

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Felt (circa 6500 B.C.)
Rayon (1855 or 1884, depending on whom you ask) -- either way, much earlier than I would have thought
Nylon (1938)
microfiber (1970)

So: 2134.

Rayon was earlier because it's made from cellulose instead of petroleum.

Bob Juch wrote:

hbomb1947 wrote:

MarkBarrett wrote:
Q5) Earliest

1. Rayon
2. Felt
3. Nylon
4. Microfiber

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I did 2314 and I'll guess it's 2134? But, I"m not sure.

Doing some cursory research around the 'net, I find:

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Felt (circa 6500 B.C.)
Rayon (1855 or 1884, depending on whom you ask) -- either way, much earlier than I would have thought
Nylon (1938)
microfiber (1970)

So: 2134.

Rayon was earlier because it's made from cellulose instead of petroleum.

Not sure I'd agree with that statement. Rayon is made from natural polymers, while nylon is made from synthetic ones, but I've not heard that nylon had to be made from petroleum. I'm not even familiar with a process in which nylon CAN be made from petroleum.

Second Chance wrote: Sounds in order from quitest to loudest:

1. Blowing leaves
2. Vacuum cleaner
3. Rocket launch
4. Jackhammer

1243 (again, I entered this, but he said I was wrong...)

If one is using a gas-powered leaf blower to blow leaves, that would be louder than a vacuum. Good luck tonight. You are definitely due for your Happy Fred stack.

megaaddict wrote:

Second Chance wrote: Sounds in order from quitest to loudest:

1. Blowing leaves
2. Vacuum cleaner
3. Rocket launch
4. Jackhammer

1243 (again, I entered this, but he said I was wrong...)

If one is using a gas-powered leaf blower to blow leaves, that would be louder than a vacuum. Good luck tonight. You are definitely due for your Happy Fred stack.

Ahhh....I didn't think of that. Perhaps that WAS the question "A leaf blower", not "Blowing leaves". Even an electric leaf blower is louder than a vacuum cleaner.

BackInTex wrote:

megaaddict wrote:

Second Chance wrote: Sounds in order from quitest to loudest:

1. Blowing leaves
2. Vacuum cleaner
3. Rocket launch
4. Jackhammer

1243 (again, I entered this, but he said I was wrong...)

If one is using a gas-powered leaf blower to blow leaves, that would be louder than a vacuum. Good luck tonight. You are definitely due for your Happy Fred stack.

Ahhh....I didn't think of that. Perhaps that WAS the question "A leaf blower", not "Blowing leaves". Even an electric leaf blower is louder than a vacuum cleaner.

Sheesh . . . like a city boy like me would know how loud a leaf-blower is . . .

I feel lucky to have avoided questions like that one . . .

Last night's stack:

Q1. Valley of the Dolls

Q2. Put these temps in order, coldest first
1. Normal human body temp
2. Boiling point of water
3. Absolute zero
4. Witch's tit....................................................... er, I mean, Average temp of Anchorage in January
3,4,1,2

Q3. VP's in order by when they served, earliest first
1. Ford
2. Agnew
3. Cheney
4. Mondale
2,1,4,3

Q4. Toys, by when the're introduced in US, earliest first:
1. Razor scooter
2. Tinker Toys
3. Slinky
4. Hula Hoop
2,3,4,1...........................I put hoop first

One more night to get it right !

BackInTex wrote:

megaaddict wrote:

Second Chance wrote: Sounds in order from quitest to loudest:

1. Blowing leaves
2. Vacuum cleaner
3. Rocket launch
4. Jackhammer

1243 (again, I entered this, but he said I was wrong...)

If one is using a gas-powered leaf blower to blow leaves, that would be louder than a vacuum. Good luck tonight. You are definitely due for your Happy Fred stack.

Ahhh....I didn't think of that. Perhaps that WAS the question "A leaf blower", not "Blowing leaves". Even an electric leaf blower is louder than a vacuumcleaner.

FWIW, I had this question the other night, and the choice was "Rustling leaves". My question, however, I think also called for loudest to softest. I punched in rocket/jack/vacuum/leaves and got it right.

BackInTex wrote:
megaaddict wrote:
Second Chance wrote:
Sounds in order from quitest to loudest:

1. Blowing leaves
2. Vacuum cleaner
3. Rocket launch
4. Jackhammer

1243 (again, I entered this, but he said I was wrong...)



If one is using a gas-powered leaf blower to blow leaves, that would be louder than a vacuum. Good luck tonight. You are definitely due for your Happy Fred stack.

Ahhh....I didn't think of that. Perhaps that WAS the question "A leaf blower", not "Blowing leaves". Even an electric leaf blower is louder than a vacuumcleaner.

FWIW, I had this question the other night, and the choice was "Rustling leaves". My question, however, I think also called for loudest to softest. I punched in rocket/jack/vacuum/leaves and got it right.

I had this question and got it right also--it definitely was "rustling leaves" and "loudest to softest."

I just answered five questions correctly for my 99-year-old Great Aunt Ruthie (and then hung up before selecting a tape date). They were:

Question 1:

Place the following words in order to form a phrase meaning to stay hopeful.

1. Your
2. Keep
3. Fingers
4. Crossed

Question 2:

Place the following events from the Watergate scandal in chronological order, starting with the earliest.

1. Mitchell resigns as Attorney General
2. Nixon resigns
3. Nixon re-elected
4. Watergate break-in

Question 3:

Place the following items in the order they were introduced, starting with the earliest.

1. Cracker Jack
2. Bubble gum
3. Microwave popcorn
4. Pez dispensers

Question 4:

Place the following cities in South America in geographic order, starting in the north.

1. Buenos Aires, Argentina
2. Caracas, Venezuela
3. La Paz, Bolivia
4. Quito, Ecuador

Question 5:

Place the following novels in order by their primary geographic setting, starting in the Atlantic and going east.

1. Quo Vadis
2. Catcher in the Rye
3. Shogun
4. A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch

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1. 2134
2. 4312
3. 1243
4. 2431
5. 1432

Aunt Ruthie is OTC for the twelfth of never. --Bob

1. Clifford
2. Lassie
3. Toto
4. Old Yeller

If it makes you feel any better, which it won't, by test-playing on thread Qs I screwed this up too; 1st of all, Wizard came out pre WWII but "didn't get enough audience" so so help me they rereleased it in the 50s. I went around for years thinking it was a 50s movie, even though a no-longer-very-young Judy Garland died a few years later. I couldn't put 2 + 2 together.

Next of all, I completely forgot the damn thing was an earlier book. All of this always completely screws me on Wiizard questions.

ghostjmf wrote:1. Clifford
2. Lassie
3. Toto
4. Old Yeller

If it makes you feel any better, which it won't, by test-playing on thread Qs I screwed this up too; 1st of all, Wizard came out pre WWII but "didn't get enough audience" so so help me they rereleased it in the 50s. I went around for years thinking it was a 50s movie, even though a no-longer-very-young Judy Garland died a few years later. I couldn't put 2 + 2 together.

Next of all, I completely forgot the damn thing was an earlier book. All of this always completely screws me on Wiizard questions.

If this means what I think it means, I'm sorry, Ghost. --Bob

hanzz wrote:

Estonut wrote:

hanzz wrote:Yes! I think that's it. I think I remember a first name that started with "C", because I remember thinking, "Huh, that name sounds an awful lot like my friend's name Courtney Pietzack." I know it wasn't Picasso because I distinctly remember Fred pronouncing the "a" on the second syllable as in "hat" and not as in "dawn".

I believe the 3 vowels in Pissarro are pronounced the same way as the same 3 in Picasso...

Yeah, fairly weak argument on my part I guess. Still, the American pronunciations of the two sound fairly distinct.

I had that question, and was trying to remember who the other artist was. It was Mary Cassatt. And while I would pronounce the second syllable in her last name like "Picasso," Fred did not.

Bob78164 wrote:

ghostjmf wrote:1. Clifford
2. Lassie
3. Toto
4. Old Yeller

If it makes you feel any better, which it won't, by test-playing on thread Qs I screwed this up too; 1st of all, Wizard came out pre WWII but "didn't get enough audience" so so help me they rereleased it in the 50s. I went around for years thinking it was a 50s movie, even though a no-longer-very-young Judy Garland died a few years later. I couldn't put 2 + 2 together.

Next of all, I completely forgot the damn thing was an earlier book. All of this always completely screws me on Wiizard questions.

If this means what I think it means, I'm sorry, Ghost. --Bob

What Bob#'s said. Keep in mind the show will be on in some form until 2012 ( I think that is when the contract runs out). There will be other opportunities if you choose to seize them (is it too late to send in a video? If not, this door is not completely closed yet). Don't lose faith in the dream.

Q1 Put these words in order to form the name of an organization relating to arthritis
(1) College (2) American (3) Of (4) Rheumatology

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2-1-3-4

Q2 Put these characters in order of their publication, starting with the earliest
(1) Dr. Zhivago (2) Dr. Doolittle (3) Dr. Faustus (4) Dr. Jekyl

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3-4-2-1

Q3 Put these chefs in order of their birth, starting with the earliest
(1) Julia Child (2) Wolfgang Puck (3) Rocco diSpirito (4) Emeril LaGasse

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1-2-4-3

Q4 Put these structures in order of when they were built, starting with the earliest
(1) Coliseum (2) Stonehenge (3) Eiffel Tower (4) Westminster Abbey

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2-1-4-3

Q5 Put these locations in the Americas in geographic order, starting in the north
(1) Tijuana (2) Sao Paolo (3) Buenos Aires (4) San Salvador

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1-4-2-3