The totally random trivia quiz - Page 16

chrissy · #**451** (**permalink**) 12-August-2008, 09:54 PM

It has been over a month now, please pose a question.

hhEb09'1 · #**452** (**permalink**) 16-August-2008, 05:39 PM

Sorry for the long delay, chrissy, thanks for the PM.

What does grep stand for? I'll accept two different answers, you can search for both.

chrissy · #**453** (**permalink**) 16-August-2008, 07:59 PM

grep is a command line text search utility originally written for Unix.

g/re/p stands for : global regular expression print.

your welcome hhEb09'1

hhEb09'1 · #**454** (**permalink**) 17-August-2008, 12:01 AM

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Originally Posted by chrissy

g/re/p stands for : global regular expression print.

y/e/p, you're up!

chrissy · #**455** (**permalink**) 17-August-2008, 12:32 AM

Thanks, now I have to ponder a question.

Joe Boy · #**456** (**permalink**) 17-August-2008, 10:40 PM

Let me set forth a question: What word in the English language has the most definitions??

Andrew Barton · #**457** (**permalink**) 19-August-2008, 02:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Joe Boy

Let me set forth a question: What word in the English language has the most definitions??

Depends which dictionary you use but in Chambers I believe that would be pink, with eight definitions given. It omits a ninth - Pink as a shortened form of Pinkerton, a private detective.

Andrew

Joe Boy · #**458** (**permalink**) 19-August-2008, 02:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Andrew Barton

Depends which dictionary you use but in Chambers I believe that would be pink, with eight definitions given. It omits a ninth - Pink as a shortened form of Pinkerton, a private detective.

Andrew

I may have asked wrong. The most uses would be more appropriate. The word is "set". It has more uses than any other word I believe. If you look in the dictionary you will see the many uses. I think I posted my question out of order too. Didn't read the directions first. Sorry about that fellow posters--joe

hhEb09'1 · #**459** (**permalink**) 19-August-2008, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Joe Boy

I may have asked wrong. The most uses would be more appropriate. The word is "set". It has more uses than any other word I believe. If you look in the dictionary you will see the many uses.

Hard to quantify. dictionary.com lists 100 from the Random House dictionary, but some have subdivisions with subtle variations, and then it also lists more where the word is a part of an idiom. I always suspected "lot" would have a lot (I thought, surely 49), but it seems to pull up short at 23.

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I think I posted my question out of order too. Didn't read the directions first. Sorry about that fellow posters--joe

Just a small diversion.

Since you've asked and answered it, chrissy can still go ahead with her question.

chrissy · #**460** (**permalink**) 21-August-2008, 08:55 PM

Thanks hhEb09'1. Too keen there Joe Boy...

This house was the first of its kind in the world to have this done.
3 answers required thanks.

1) Name the house, 2) what it was that it had first and 3) who was the man who invented /lived there?

Eroica · #**461** (**permalink**) 21-August-2008, 10:54 PM

(1) Monticello
(2) Dumbwaiter
(3) Thomas Jefferson?

chrissy · #**462** (**permalink**) 21-August-2008, 11:03 PM

No sorry Eroica that is incorrect.

I'm hoping this one is totally google and wiki proof.

NOOOOOO! I have reached multiple binary, must change to hexidecimal, more posts there than being a noobi again, 65792 posts in hexi.

Arneb · #**463** (**permalink**) 24-August-2008, 08:07 PM

Cragside, near Newcastle, England
First electrically lit house
Norman Shaw

chrissy · #**464** (**permalink**) 24-August-2008, 08:16 PM

that is the correct answer Arneb

here is more info on Cragside

your go.

Arneb · #**465** (**permalink**) 25-August-2008, 06:21 PM

Funny, because I did learn it from Google.

The search phrase was "was the first house" (in inverted commas), and an obscure page on Victorian lighting turned up the possibility.

This is a question in honour of Maksutov: By which nickname did Gustav Mahler call his wife, and where do we (somewhat prominently, for people who are into these kind of things) read this name in Mahler's works?

Eroica · #**466** (**permalink**) 25-August-2008, 08:56 PM

Almschi (on the score of his Sixth symphony - or is it his unfinished Tenth?)

chrissy · #**467** (**permalink**) 25-August-2008, 09:02 PM

he was 20 years older than her.

Mak told me that. and he gave me this link forMahler

chrissy · #**468** (**permalink**) 25-August-2008, 09:10 PM

and her name was Alma Maria Mahler-Werfel (born Schindler) for those who didn't know.

Arneb · #**469** (**permalink**) 25-August-2008, 11:14 PM

And of course, the cigar goes to Eroica.

The name is in the score of the Tenth Symphonie, at the moment where the single drum stroke brings the music to a total halt.

Eroica · #**470** (**permalink**) 26-August-2008, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Arneb

The name is in the score of the Tenth Symphonie, at the moment where the single drum stroke brings the music to a total halt.

I think he names the second subject of the Sixth Symphony "Alma"...

This question might be very easy for some, but a short time ago it would have stumped me:

You know those large, dark, angular stones that are used to construct railway embankments - they are usually visible on the ground between the sleepers? What are they called?