QoD July 21, 2008

[andrewjackson]

QoD July 21, 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 Tuesday, July 22.

No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.

1. What U.S. states and Canadian provinces border Lake Ontario?

2. What name was shared by the first three Holy Roman Emperors?

3. What country is the largest producer of orange juice?

4. According to the IOC, how many Olympic Games have been held in the modern era? I’m looking for the total of Summer and Winter games actually contested prior to this year’s in Beijing.


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[MarleysGh0st]

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1. What U.S. states and Canadian provinces border Lake Ontario?

New York and Ontario.

2. What name was shared by the first three Holy Roman Emperors?

Charles

3. What country is the largest producer of orange juice?

USA

4. According to the IOC, how many Olympic Games have been held in the modern era? I’m looking for the total of Summer and Winter games actually contested prior to this year’s in Beijing.

23 Summer games and 19 Winter games = 42

[Hambone]

1. What U.S. states and Canadian provinces border Lake Ontario?

2. What name was shared by the first three Holy Roman Emperors?

3. What country is the largest producer of orange juice?

4. According to the IOC, how many Olympic Games have been held in the modern era? I’m looking for the total of Summer and Winter games actually contested prior to this year’s in Beijing.

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1. New York and Ontario
2. Charles?
3. U.S.A
4. 45

[juliea344]

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1. New York and Ontario

2. No idea

3. USA

4. Beats me

[SportsFan68]

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QoD July 21, 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 Tuesday, July 22.

No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.

1. What U.S. states and Canadian provinces border Lake Ontario?

I'll guess New York and Ontario.

2. What name was shared by the first three Holy Roman Emperors?

3. What country is the largest producer of orange juice?

I'll guess the U.S.

4. According to the IOC, how many Olympic Games have been held in the modern era? I’m looking for the total of Summer and Winter games actually contested prior to this year’s in Beijing.


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[tlynn78]

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1. New York and ONtario
2. I only know the first one, so by default I'm going to say Otto
3. US
4. nope

t. - I totally screwed up initially when I hit submit by accident, and had to go back to edit and finish answering and spoilerize, so feel free to ignore today's answers, Quizmeister.

[NellyLunatic1980]

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1. New York and Ontario
2. Octavius?
3. Spain?
4. I believe that there have been 25 Summer Games, but I have no idea how many Winter Games there have been. I'll guess 20 Winter Games for a grand total of 45 Olympics.

[mcd1400de]

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QoD July 21, 2008

1. What U.S. states and Canadian provinces border Lake Ontario?
New York, Ontario and Quebec

2. What name was shared by the first three Holy Roman Emperors?
Octavius

3. What country is the largest producer of orange juice?
The U.S.

4. According to the IOC, how many Olympic Games have been held in the modern era? I’m looking for the total of Summer and Winter games actually contested prior to this year’s in Beijing.
Yikes. I think 25 Summer & 21 Winter through '06, so... 46?


Crap... second-guessed myself and added Quebec when I shouldn't have. Crap.

[frogman042]

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1. What U.S. states and Canadian provinces border Lake Ontario?
US - Only NEW YORK; CANADA: ONTERIO and QUEBEC

2. What name was shared by the first three Holy Roman Emperors?
Charles - (or versions of it e.g. Charlemagne sp?)

3. What country is the largest producer of orange juice?
China?

4. According to the IOC, how many Olympic Games have been held in the modern era? I’m looking for the total of Summer and Winter games actually contested prior to this year’s in Beijing.
I think the first was in 1896 so that would be 25 summer ones - (3 cancled due to the 2 world wars, and I think that the winter ones started later, then they went to the off by 2 years so I'm going to guess: 47

---Jay (down to the fab four)

[gsabc]

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1. New York and Ontario
2. Otto
3. USA
4. 40?

[Rexer25]

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1. Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Ontario, Quebec
2. Octavius
3. Brazil
4. 48

[jarnon]

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1. New York, Ontario, Quebec
2.
3. Honduras
4.

[mrkelley23]

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1. 1. New York and uh, Ontario?
2. Octavian?
3. Brazil?
4. 55?

[Catfish]

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1. What U.S. states and Canadian provinces border Lake Ontario?

New York, Ontario

2. What name was shared by the first three Holy Roman Emperors?

Otto

3. What country is the largest producer of orange juice?

USA?

4. According to the IOC, how many Olympic Games have been held in the modern era? I’m looking for the total of Summer and Winter games actually contested prior to this year’s in Beijing.

36?

[jsuchard]

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1. Ontario, New York [I don't think there are any more]
2. Octavian (or is it Octavius? or is it either?)
3. Brazil
4. [Partial credit for being close?] 42

[wintergreen48]

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1. Ohio and Ontario? And a piece of Pennsylvania?

2. Otto

3. USA

4. 39?

[sunflower]

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I'm not sure why I'm even bothering today...

1. What U.S. states and Canadian provinces border Lake Ontario?
Blah...geography...I'm not even going to guess because I will just look foolish

2. What name was shared by the first three Holy Roman Emperors?
I can't even think of a reasonable guess - Alexander?

3. What country is the largest producer of orange juice?
I'm going to guess US although I know there are other countries listed on my Tropicana carton

4. According to the IOC, how many Olympic Games have been held in the modern era? I’m looking for the total of Summer and Winter games actually contested prior to this year’s in Beijing.
I think I knew this at one time but now I have no idea. 58?

[tanstaafl2]

QoD July 21, 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 Tuesday, July 22.

No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.

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1. What U.S. states and Canadian provinces border Lake Ontario?
Ontario and New York

2. What name was shared by the first three Holy Roman Emperors?
Good question. Don't have a good answer. Maybe Henry?

3. What country is the largest producer of orange juice?
Just read something about this. Hmm, actual juice or just the oranges??? Either the US or Brazil. I will guess Brazil.

4. According to the IOC, how many Olympic Games have been held in the modern era? I’m looking for the total of Summer and Winter games actually contested prior to this year’s in Beijing.
That is tough! Atlanta was 26 so Beijing is 29. Last Winter games was #20. But not sure if the games cancelled due to the world wars got a number or not. Counting back from Atlanta to 1900 suggests they did so only 25 of the 28 occurred. That leaves 45?

[tanstaafl2]

QoD July 21, 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 Tuesday, July 22.

No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.

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1. What U.S. states and Canadian provinces border Lake Ontario?
Ontario and New York

2. What name was shared by the first three Holy Roman Emperors?
Good question. Don't have a good answer. Maybe Henry?

3. What country is the largest producer of orange juice?
Just read something about this. Hmm, actual juice or just the oranges??? Either the US or Brazil. I will guess Brazil.

4. According to the IOC, how many Olympic Games have been held in the modern era? I’m looking for the total of Summer and Winter games actually contested prior to this year’s in Beijing.
That is tough! Atlanta was 26 so Beijing is 29. Last Winter games was #20. But not sure if the games cancelled due to the world wars got a number or not. Counting back from Atlanta to 1900 suggests they did so only 25 of the 28 occurred. That leaves 45?

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Dang! Forgot about the fact that 2 Winter games were cancelled as well during WWII. That would be 43.

[tanstaafl2]

QoD July 21, 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 Tuesday, July 22.

No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.

Spoiler

1. What U.S. states and Canadian provinces border Lake Ontario?
Ontario and New York

2. What name was shared by the first three Holy Roman Emperors?
Good question. Don't have a good answer. Maybe Henry?

3. What country is the largest producer of orange juice?
Just read something about this. Hmm, actual juice or just the oranges??? Either the US or Brazil. I will guess Brazil.

4. According to the IOC, how many Olympic Games have been held in the modern era? I’m looking for the total of Summer and Winter games actually contested prior to this year’s in Beijing.
That is tough! Atlanta was 26 so Beijing is 29. Last Winter games was #20. But not sure if the games cancelled due to the world wars got a number or not. Counting back from Atlanta to 1900 suggests they did so only 25 of the 28 occurred. That leaves 45?

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Dang! Forgot about the fact that 2 Winter games were cancelled as well during WWII. That would be 43.

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Hmm, seems Winter games had the number adjusted for cancelled games while the Summer games did not. Very odd. But perhaps I stumbled onto the correct answer after all but for the wrong reason.

[TheConfessor]

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1. What U.S. states and Canadian provinces border Lake Ontario?
New York, Ontario

2. What name was shared by the first three Holy Roman Emperors?
Octavius

3. What country is the largest producer of orange juice?
Brazil

4. According to the IOC, how many Olympic Games have been held in the modern era? I’m looking for the total of Summer and Winter games actually contested prior to this year’s in Beijing.
Let's see. I'll show my work for part credit.
1896
1900
1904
1908
1912
1920 1920
1924 1924
1928 1928
1936 1936
1948 1948
1952 1952
1956 1956
1960 1960
1964 1964
1968 1968
1972 1972
1976 1976
1980 1980
1984 1984
1988 1988
1992 1992
____ 1994
1996 ____
____ 1998
2000 ____
____ 2002
2004 ____
____ 2006

I probably screwed something up here, but I'll say the answer is:
44

[kroxquo]

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1. What U.S. states and Canadian provinces border Lake Ontario?

I think New York is the only state. Ontario and maybe Quebec on the Canadian side. I'll go with all 3

2. What name was shared by the first three Holy Roman Emperors?

O names, huh? Orville, Oscar, Orlando, ooh. How about Octavian?

3. What country is the largest producer of orange juice?

U.S. is way obvious so of course it's not right. Hmm. Spain?

4. According to the IOC, how many Olympic Games have been held in the modern era? I’m looking for the total of Summer and Winter games actually contested prior to this year’s in Beijing.

Summer - 1896 - 2004 except 1916, 1940 and 1944 - 25 in total
Winter - hmmm - 1928? - 2006 - 19 in total

44

[KillerTomato]

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1. What U.S. states and Canadian provinces border Lake Ontario?

Ontario and New York

2. What name was shared by the first three Holy Roman Emperors?

Orenthal

3. What country is the largest producer of orange juice?

The US. Probably wrong, but I got nuthin' else.

4. According to the IOC, how many Olympic Games have been held in the modern era? I’m looking for the total of Summer and Winter games actually contested prior to this year’s in Beijing.

OK, let's work this out. They started with the first in Athens in 1896. So the '92 Barcelona summer games were the 25th, which means the 2004 games in Athens were the 28th summer games. However, I believe 3 games were cancelled due to world wars (1916, 1940 and 1944), which means only 25 summer games were contested. The boycot years of 1980 and 1984 were held, regardless of the boycots.

Next, there's the winter side. I know they started in 1924 in Chamonix, and I distinctly remember that they called the Turin games in 2006 the 20th. They didn't switch the date to the off-year until the 1990s, so there were also some scheduled games for 1940 and 1944 for the winter games, which means that they were probably cancelled also. That means 18 were contested. So:

25 + 18 = 43

[LookingForHumorPoints]

QoD July 21, 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 Tuesday, July 22.

No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.

1. What U.S. states and Canadian provinces border Lake Ontario?

Alaska, Hawaii, Oaxaca, and Nunavut

2. What name was shared by the first three Holy Roman Emperors?

J.J.

3. What country is the largest producer of orange juice?

Mongolia

4. According to the IOC, how many Olympic Games have been held in the modern era? I’m looking for the total of Summer and Winter games actually contested prior to this year’s in Beijing.

7, I don't consider anything prior to Al Gore inventing the internet to be the modern era


LFHP

[Here's Fanny!]

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QoD July 21, 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 Tuesday, July 22.

No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.

1. What U.S. states and Canadian provinces border Lake Ontario?

New York, Michigan, Ontario

Ha, you must've not read the last QOD yet where I said we need more difficult Roman Empire questions and less difficult geography questions.


2. What name was shared by the first three Holy Roman Emperors?

Otto

I wonder if the bus driver in the Simpson's was named after them?


3. What country is the largest producer of orange juice?

Brazil

I'm pretty sure it's South America and the biggest country should have the most trees, right? Ha!


4. According to the IOC, how many Olympic Games have been held in the modern era? I’m looking for the total of Summer and Winter games actually contested prior to this year’s in Beijing.

51

This took two whole notebook pages to work out. The lengths one will go to for 2 points, and I'm still not sure it's right.