Here are the promised hints to the Round 1 questions. All guesses sent in from this point forward will receive half credit. Note: if you've already guessed and would like to change one or more answer in light of a clue, you will still receive full credit for any unchanged guesses made before the clues were posted.
Final deadline is 12:01 AM Friday morning.
1. It was non-sexual.
2. The writer attended Berkeley, but didn't graduate. He also wrote about the Russo-Japanese War (among many other subjects). He died on his ranch.
3. This happened about nine years after the technology part was first invented, and three years after it was more broadly demonstrated to the world.
4. Most of us are probably more familiar with an animated parody than the original.
5. Carl was from a third, neighboring country.
6. Interestingly, it was founded the year after Henry Ford created the Ford Motor Company.
7.The initials of the organization's full name were IWW.
8. Harlequins and circus folk were among his frequent subjects at this time, but the name applied reflects something other than subject matter.
9. Although the language generally used to describe the agrerement referred to something apparently race-specific, what was really being addressed had to do with something that was hardly confined to one ethnicity.
10. The modern version of Harris's organization claims to be "the largest private-sector contributor to the global polio eradication campaign" although this is hardly its only function.
Posted by BT at December 09, 2004 11:14 AMCrap crap crap, he's still alive and he must have a degree.
I guess I shouldn't tip people, but #2 can't be Baxter Black, cowboy poet and former large animal veterinarian.
(Plus I never heard him do anything on the Russo-Japanese War.)
Hey anyone, did Picasso have a "snarky" period? I won't tell BT you told me.
Posted by: Scott on December 9, 2004 01:10 PMAwesome. Based on BT's clues, I may have got 1/10. Woo hoo! In your face, other Quiztakers!
Posted by: Garthmeister J. on December 9, 2004 02:06 PMIn my haste to try and add to my impressive total (possibly reducing my score to 0/10) I don't think my latest email had "quiz" in the subject. BT, if another email doesn't appear from me soonish, could you tell me?
Posted by: Garthmeister J. on December 9, 2004 02:18 PMSpeaking of others, you might want to look to Gavin, in the comment corrall one down, for trash-talking pointers.
Posted by: Scott on December 9, 2004 02:34 PMWill somebody please kill Baxter Black on a ranch? Or somewhere else? Please?
Posted by: terry on December 9, 2004 03:26 PMI meant to say "speaking of learning from others". I'm on painkillers. Prescription. My own prescription, if you can believe it.
I apparently do a dead-on Baxter Black impression, according to my wife, anyhow. But I can't do it if I'm trying to do BB. It's sort of my generic cranky oldster voice. I suppose I could practice it, but as party ice-breakers go, it strikes me as piss-poor.
Speaking of piss-poor, BT, are you going to publish our actual responses, or just our tallies?
Posted by: Scott on December 9, 2004 03:31 PMScott - are painkillers required in the performance of your Baxter Black impersonation? Just a thought, as it could be why mine always falls flat.
Posted by: Garthmeister J. on December 9, 2004 03:38 PM"My own prescription, if you can believe it."
you shouldn't self-prescribe, Dr. Scott.
What I actually thought I'd do is post people's scores and tell them which they got correct, and then let everyone entertain themselves on Friday by guessing about the others for, you know, fun.
But some of you DO know where I live...
Posted by: BT on December 9, 2004 04:40 PMIf there happens to be a question (or ten) that haven't been nailed, I say: free for all on Friday!
Posted by: Garthmeister J. on December 9, 2004 05:18 PMCurses for being late to the party. Most of these hints leave me reasonably confident of my guesses... I coulda been a contender! Oh well, half points is better than nil points.
Posted by: Rory on December 9, 2004 05:23 PMCorrect Rory - and some of us who were early to the party may still end up with nil.
I am hoping for a nil all draw.
Posted by: Garthmeister J. on December 9, 2004 07:34 PMhow many sharpshooters are there playing, Bill?
And can I clarify--12:01 AM is tonight (i.e., in roughly 5 hours), correct? And yes I am in the USA now, so I should know better. All this talk of Friday fun got me to thinkin'.
Posted by: art on December 9, 2004 08:08 PMoops--I'm in CENTRAL time (so I've got 4 hours left, right?)
Posted by: art on December 9, 2004 08:09 PMAh, crap. I thin I missed the deadline. I guess I was doing actual work yesterday.
Posted by: teenidol on December 10, 2004 10:28 AMComments are screwed up on the scoring post, so I'll use this one to ask, "Were these funky scores based on lots of people getting partial credit on second-round submissions? And was it 80 points per correct answer, or 100?"
Posted by: Gavin on December 10, 2004 10:40 AM