QoD July 2, 2008

[andrewjackson]

QoD July 2, 2008

2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon CDT on Thursday, July 3.

No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.

1. What country is also known as Druk Yul, the Land of the Thunder Dragon? (I edited this question at 10:16 am CDT to correct the spelling of Druk Yul. Answers before that point are automatically correct)

2. Which color “roses” won the Battle of Bosworth Field?

3. What is the “B” element with the highest atomic number?

4. An athlete in what sport wins the Hobey Baker Memorial Award each year?


You still have a couple of hours to answer the July 1 questions.

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[gsabc]

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1. guessing MONGOLIA
2. RED
3. BERKELIUM
4. COLLEGE HOCKEY

[Catfish]

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1. What country is also known as Druk Yuk, the Land of the Thunder Dragon?

Mongolia?

2. Which color “roses” won the Battle of Bosworth Field?

White?

3. What is the “B” element with the highest atomic number?

Beryllium?

4. An athlete in what sport wins the Hobey Baker Memorial Award each year?

Catamaran sailing?

[ulysses5019]

QoD July 2, 2008

2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon CDT on Thursday, July 3.

No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.

1. What country is also known as Druk Yuk, the Land of the Thunder Dragon?

2. Which color “roses” won the Battle of Bosworth Field?

3. What is the “B” element with the highest atomic number?

4. An athlete in what sport wins the Hobey Baker Memorial Award each year?


You still have a couple of hours to answer the July 1 questions.

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I'm not playing but I was looking up stuff I didn't know....

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I think it is Druk Yul and not Druk Yuk.

[sunflower]

QoD July 2, 2008

2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon CDT on Thursday, July 3.

No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.

1. What country is also known as Druk Yuk, the Land of the Thunder Dragon?

2. Which color “roses” won the Battle of Bosworth Field?

3. What is the “B” element with the highest atomic number?

4. An athlete in what sport wins the Hobey Baker Memorial Award each year?


You still have a couple of hours to answer the July 1 questions.

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Okay well since I knew the first one I actually had to go for this. I was reading some travel article with pictures from some festival or cultural celebration just last week, related to # 1. course, the rest are random guesses...

1. Bhutan (Butan? Bhuton? - not sure of spelling)
2. Red?
3. Barium? (the only B I could think of, I'm sure it's wrong)
4. Hockey? (I'm pretty sure it's not football, not baseball, not soccer, but another sport that guys play...random but semi-educated guess)

[andrewjackson]

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I think it is Druk Yul and not Druk Yuk.

Thank you. Question 1 has been edited for spelling.

[tlynn78]

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1. Bhutan
2. York lost, so, red?
3. berkelium
4. nope

t.

[MarleysGh0st]

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1. What country is also known as Druk Yul, the Land of the Thunder Dragon? (I edited this question at 10:16 am CDT to correct the spelling of Druk Yul. Answers before that point are automatically correct)

Bhutan?

2. Which color “roses” won the Battle of Bosworth Field?

The House of Lancaster, which was the White Rose?

3. What is the “B” element with the highest atomic number?

Bohrium?

4. An athlete in what sport wins the Hobey Baker Memorial Award each year?

Basketball?

[NellyLunatic1980]

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1. since it has one on its flag, I'll say Bhutan
2. red
3. bohrium
4. hockey

[Rexer25]

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1. Mongolia
2. White
3. Baryllium
4. Hockey

Note: edited to spoilerize. If that DQs me, that OK by me.

[mrkelley23]

QoD July 2, 2008

2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon CDT on Thursday, July 3.

No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.

1. What country is also known as Druk Yul, the Land of the Thunder Dragon? (I edited this question at 10:16 am CDT to correct the spelling of Druk Yul. Answers before that point are automatically correct) Bahrain

2. Which color “roses” won the Battle of Bosworth Field?red

3. What is the “B” element with the highest atomic number?This is gonna sound nitpicky, but I wanna make sure. If you mean "highest" as in largest, my guess is Berkelium. If you mean "highest" as in relative position on the Periodic Table, my guess is Boron.

4. An athlete in what sport wins the Hobey Baker Memorial Award each year?Ice Hockey


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[TheConfessor]

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QoD July 2, 2008

2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon CDT on Thursday, July 3.

No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.

1. What country is also known as Druk Yul, the Land of the Thunder Dragon? (I edited this question at 10:16 am CDT to correct the spelling of Druk Yul. Answers before that point are automatically correct)
Laos?

2. Which color “roses” won the Battle of Bosworth Field?
White?

3. What is the “B” element with the highest atomic number?
Barium (also what incompetent doctors often do to their patients)

4. An athlete in what sport wins the Hobey Baker Memorial Award each year?
Hockey?


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[tanstaafl2]

QoD July 2, 2008

2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon CDT on Thursday, July 3.

No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.

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1. What country is also known as Druk Yul, the Land of the Thunder Dragon? (I edited this question at 10:16 am CDT to correct the spelling of Druk Yul. Answers before that point are automatically correct)
The Dragon Kingdom of Bhutan

2. Which color “roses” won the Battle of Bosworth Field?
A bit of a SWAG but I believe the House of Lancaster was red

3. What is the “B” element with the highest atomic number?
Bismuth? I know it is high but not sure if there is a "B" amongst some of the later named elements.

4. An athlete in what sport wins the Hobey Baker Memorial Award each year?
Yachting? Hobey just kind of sounds like a yacht club kind of name!

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[jarnon]

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1. Thailand
2. white
3. beryllium
4. hockey

After checking Wikipedia, I see that I got just one right, and only because I went to the same college as Hobey (many years later).

[DadofTwins]

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1. Laos?
2. White, I think.
3. Lowest is Boron, but I think the highest is Berkleyium or some such.
4. This I know. College hockey.

[Here's Fanny!]

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QoD July 2, 2008

2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon CDT on Thursday, July 3.

No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.

1. What country is also known as Druk Yul, the Land of the Thunder Dragon? (I edited this question at 10:16 am CDT to correct the spelling of Druk Yul. Answers before that point are automatically correct)

Cambodia

2. Which color “roses” won the Battle of Bosworth Field?

Red

3. What is the “B” element with the highest atomic number?

Boron

4. An athlete in what sport wins the Hobey Baker Memorial Award each year?

College hockey

[JBillyGirl]

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1. What country is also known as Druk Yul, the Land of the Thunder Dragon? (I edited this question at 10:16 am CDT to correct the spelling of Druk Yul. Answers before that point are automatically correct) -- WAG Nepal?

2. Which color “roses” won the Battle of Bosworth Field? -- white for the House of Lancaster (I hope)

3. What is the “B” element with the highest atomic number? -- barium? (at least I know it's not beryllium!)

4. An athlete in what sport wins the Hobey Baker Memorial Award each year? -- ice hockey, IIRC (I think he may have gone to Princeton, because the name is familiar)

[wintergreen48]

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1. Mongolia

2. Red, curse them

3. Bohrium

4. Surfing

[jsuchard]

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1. Indonesia?
2. Red
3. Barium
4. Surfing?

[AnnieCamaro]

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[quote="andrewjackson"]QoD July 2, 2008

2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon CDT on Thursday, July 3.

No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.

1. What country is also known as Druk Yul, the Land of the Thunder Dragon? (I edited this question at 10:16 am CDT to correct the spelling of Druk Yul. Answers before that point are automatically correct)
Nepal

2. Which color “roses” won the Battle of Bosworth Field?
White

3. What is the “B” element with the highest atomic number?
Berklium
4. An athlete in what sport wins the Hobey Baker Memorial Award each year?

I accidentally hit submit before I put in my last answer. I have edited this only to add the spoiler.

[LookingForHumorPoints]

QoD July 2, 2008

2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon CDT on Thursday, July 3.

No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.

1. What country is also known as Druk Yul, the Land of the Thunder Dragon? (I edited this question at 10:16 am CDT to correct the spelling of Druk Yul. Answers before that point are automatically correct)

Canada

2. Which color “roses” won the Battle of Bosworth Field?

Sooner Red.... anything less would be uncivilized

3. What is the “B” element with the highest atomic number?

Buttheadium

4. An athlete in what sport wins the Hobey Baker Memorial Award each year?

Extreme Quilting


LFHP

[kroxquo]

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1. What country is also known as Druk Yul, the Land of the Thunder Dragon? (I edited this question at 10:16 am CDT to correct the spelling of Druk Yul. Answers before that point are automatically correct)

Bhutan

2. Which color “roses” won the Battle of Bosworth Field?

Red

3. What is the “B” element with the highest atomic number?

Beryllium

4. An athlete in what sport wins the Hobey Baker Memorial Award each year?

Hockey

[andrewjackson]

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QoD July 2, 2008

1. What country is also known as Druk Yul, the Land of the Thunder Dragon?

Bhutan

2. Which color “roses” won the Battle of Bosworth Field?

The Red roses of Tudor defeated the White roses of York.

3. What is the “B” element with the highest atomic number?

Bohrium #107 (other Bs: Berkelium #97, Bismuth #83, Barium #56, Boron #5, Beryllium #4)

4. An athlete in what sport wins the Hobey Baker Memorial Award each year?

College hockey

POINTS

Nelly - 10, once again only one perfect score!
gsabc - 6
sunflower - 6
kroxquo - 6
tlynn - 4
Marley - 4
mrk - 4
tanstaafl - 4
Fanny - 4
wintergreen - 4
catfish - 2
Rexer - 2
Confessor - 2
jarnon - 2
DadofTwins - 2
JBG - 2
jsuchard - 2
AnnieCamaro - 2
LFHP - 2


Overall standings will be the July QoD Standings thread. Once I create that.

[andrewjackson]

3. What is the “B” element with the highest atomic number?This is gonna sound nitpicky, but I wanna make sure. If you mean "highest" as in largest, my guess is Berkelium. If you mean "highest" as in relative position on the Periodic Table, my guess is Boron.

I was trying to avoid this situation by saying "highest number". If I had meant location on the table I would hope I would have found some other way to say it.

Possibly.

[mrkelley23]

What's funny/sad to me is that I knew of the existence of Bohrium, but my last update on it was while the Germans, the Russians, and iuPAC were still fighting over what the name should be. The Germans wanted nielsbohrium, and I thought that name had stuck. Thanks for forcing me to update my internal periodic table.