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richbob
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District Game 1:

Question 1: Who is Mike Hurley?

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Apparently someone on the British iteration of "The Price Is Right."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Price_ ... ng_Games_3

But why are you posting this? Is this an actual part of the first District question?

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Isn't this the name of the person who runs Questions Galore? At least I seem to remember hearing that name discussed here before.

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Yep--that's him.

http://www.moaca.org/vendors/ (Go down to Questions Galore)

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Well done Matt!

No, it is not really the first question in districts.

It was my idea of a "fun question" with tomorrow's questions less than 24 hours away.

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richbob wrote:Well done Matt!
Question 2: Math Computation

If the legs of a right triangle are 2 and 4, what is the length of the hypotenuse?

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Question 3: Simplify radical 20.

Question 4: The city of Gdansk is located in this country along the Baltic Sea. If 2/3 of its citizens are members of the Solidarity Labor Union, how many of the people in Latvia have children playing soccer?

Question 5: Benjamin Franklin was the seventeenth of nineteen children. What were the names of all of his brothers and sisters?

Question 6: Plus or minus five, how many stars are in the galaxy known as Andromeda?

Question 7: Identify the high school that Sirhan Sirhan graduated from.

Question 8: What is Sirhan Sirhan's middle name?

Question 9: What was the name of Sirhan Sirhan's identical twin?

Question 10: Sirhan Sirhan shot and killed Bobby Kennedy in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. If rooms in that hotel cost 65 dollars each, how many people were staying there if the motel was full?


Sorry, I can't release any more questions from the district competition. I don't want to influence the battle between NKC and Liberty any more than I already have.

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richbob wrote:Question 4: The city of Gdansk is located in this country along the Baltic Sea. If 2/3 of its citizens are members of the Solidarity Labor Union, how many of the people in Latvia have children playing soccer?
Correction: Express your answer as a decimal. Make sure you multiply by pi and e.

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Question 11: Who am I? i am a truck driver form Toledo. I once went to a Grateful Dead concert when is was 16. Ever since i have collected stamps. When i turned 21, i went to Tijuana where i ...welll you know. Name this monarch of mid sixteenth century England? ANSWER: Mary Stuart AND DO NOT ACCEPT ANY OTHER ANSWER ESPECIALLY IF IT INCLUDES SCOTS OR PI AND SUBSEQUENTLY BANISH THE PLAYER TO HELL. 666.

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