Silliness Quiz - Page 806

Fat Abe · 07-04-2013, 04:26 PM

Getting closer, in the following sense. McGee's creator shares the same last name as the pseudonym of the author of my private eye. And, my author's real name is Kenneth Millar.

Fbone · 07-08-2013, 05:37 PM

May I restart the quiz? It seems Abe has stumped us.

Which two States (in the USA) have postal abbreviations that are also atomic symbols for elements in the Periodic Table and border each other both on the map and in the Periodic Table?

poohbear_nc · 07-08-2013, 06:05 PM

AL and MO?

issybird · 07-08-2013, 06:23 PM

Heh. Now that someone else has posed a question and I won't have to, I'll admit to knowing the answer to Fat Abe's question without hints: it's the underappreciated Lew Archer by Ross MacDonald. He really should be remembered with Spade and Marlowe.

Paul Newman played Archer in the movies, but they renamed him Harper, hoping the "H" would remind people of Hud.

poohbear_nc · 07-08-2013, 07:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by issybird

Heh. Now that someone else has posed a question and I won't have to, I'll admit to knowing the answer to Fat Abe's question without hints: it's the underappreciated Lew Archer by Ross MacDonald. He really should be remembered with Spade and Marlowe.

Paul Newman played Archer in the movies, but they renamed him Harper, hoping the "H" would remind people of Hud.

Chicken!

issybird · 07-08-2013, 07:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Chicken!

I'm honored!

Quiz questions are like crack and sometimes I do.

Does that count as a zeugma?

poohbear_nc · 07-08-2013, 08:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by issybird

I'm honored!

Quiz questions are like crack and sometimes I do.

Does that count as a zeugma?

Indubitably!

Hamlet53 · 07-08-2013, 09:49 PM

AL and GA, Alabama and Georgia and Aluminum and Gallium

Stitchawl · 07-08-2013, 10:39 PM

Or and Ch (Oreo and Chocolate)
Two of the more important elements.

Stitchawl

Fbone · 07-09-2013, 02:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hamlet53

AL and GA, Alabama and Georgia and Aluminum and Gallium

Well done!

Fat Abe · 07-09-2013, 04:33 AM

Let's give Issybird a point or two for answering my question correctly.

Hamlet53 · 07-10-2013, 10:39 AM

I thought the question I answered was a fill in awaiting a quiz from Issybird. Anyway here is a multi-part quiz continuing with the periodic chart of chemical elements.

Element with highest melting point?
Element with lowest melting point?
Element with highest boiling point?
Element with lowest boiling point?

The four elements that are liquid in normal temperature range?

What element of atomic number less than Uranium has no stable isotope and has never been found to occur naturally on Earth

HomeInMyShoes · 07-10-2013, 11:42 AM

Highest melting point: Tantalum?
Lowest melting point: Hydrogen?
Highest boiling point: Tantalum?
Lowest boiling point: Hydrogen?
Ones that are liquid would include Mercury and Bromine.

I though Technetium had no stable isotopes found naturally occuring. I could be wrong on that though.

poohbear_nc · 07-10-2013, 06:00 PM

Highest boiling point = tungsten?

poohbear_nc · 07-10-2013, 06:02 PM

Liquid = gallium

07-04-2013, 04:26 PM	#12076
Fat Abe Man Who Stares at Books Posts: 1,816 Karma: 10606722 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: 50th State, USA. Also, PA, NY, CA, and elsewhere. Device: All of the Above	Getting closer, in the following sense. McGee's creator shares the same last name as the pseudonym of the author of my private eye. And, my author's real name is Kenneth Millar. Last edited by Fat Abe; 07-05-2013 at 08:57 PM.

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07-08-2013, 05:37 PM	#12077
Fbone Is that a sandwich? Posts: 8,189 Karma: 100500000 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: Nook Glowlight Plus	May I restart the quiz? It seems Abe has stumped us. Which two States (in the USA) have postal abbreviations that are also atomic symbols for elements in the Periodic Table and border each other both on the map and in the Periodic Table?

07-08-2013, 06:05 PM	#12078
poohbear_nc Now what? Posts: 58,777 Karma: 135181808 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	AL and MO?

07-08-2013, 06:23 PM	#12079
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 20,193 Karma: 222235366 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: H2O, Aura One, PW5	Heh. Now that someone else has posed a question and I won't have to, I'll admit to knowing the answer to Fat Abe's question without hints: it's the underappreciated Lew Archer by Ross MacDonald. He really should be remembered with Spade and Marlowe. Paul Newman played Archer in the movies, but they renamed him Harper, hoping the "H" would remind people of Hud.

07-08-2013, 09:49 PM	#12083
Hamlet53 Nameless Being	AL and GA, Alabama and Georgia and Aluminum and Gallium

07-08-2013, 10:39 PM	#12084
Stitchawl Opsimath Posts: 12,344 Karma: 187123287 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand Device: Sony PRS-650, iPhone 5, Kobo Glo, Sony PRS-350, iPad, Samsung Galaxy	Or and Ch (Oreo and Chocolate) Two of the more important elements. Stitchawl

07-09-2013, 04:33 AM	#12086
Fat Abe Man Who Stares at Books Posts: 1,816 Karma: 10606722 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: 50th State, USA. Also, PA, NY, CA, and elsewhere. Device: All of the Above	Let's give Issybird a point or two for answering my question correctly.

07-10-2013, 10:39 AM	#12087
Hamlet53 Nameless Being	I thought the question I answered was a fill in awaiting a quiz from Issybird. Anyway here is a multi-part quiz continuing with the periodic chart of chemical elements. Element with highest melting point? Element with lowest melting point? Element with highest boiling point? Element with lowest boiling point? The four elements that are liquid in normal temperature range? What element of atomic number less than Uranium has no stable isotope and has never been found to occur naturally on Earth

07-10-2013, 11:42 AM	#12088
HomeInMyShoes Grand Sorcerer Posts: 19,226 Karma: 67780237 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: none	Highest melting point: Tantalum? Lowest melting point: Hydrogen? Highest boiling point: Tantalum? Lowest boiling point: Hydrogen? Ones that are liquid would include Mercury and Bromine. I though Technetium had no stable isotopes found naturally occuring. I could be wrong on that though.

07-10-2013, 06:00 PM	#12089
poohbear_nc Now what? Posts: 58,777 Karma: 135181808 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	Highest boiling point = tungsten?

07-10-2013, 06:02 PM	#12090
poohbear_nc Now what? Posts: 58,777 Karma: 135181808 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	Liquid = gallium