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These questions were suggested by "Test Your Horse Sense"
by Dr. George W. Crane (from "The Army Fun Book", 1943).

1. Stealing is a praiseworthy trait in what sport?

2. If eggs are not gathered each day from a hen's nest, approximately
how many eggs would she lay before she stopped and became a
"setting hen"?

3. What worker normally employs a clevis?

4. If you dined on roast capon, what would your meat course be?

5. Quisling should make you think of what early American?

6. Which Jewish king indulged his own selfish vainity at the expense
of the lives of his valiant soldiers?

7. The word "arson" belongs to which profession?

8. If your arms were akimbo, where would your hands most likely be
placed?

9. Electric refrigerators should be defrosted once per __________?

10. A housewife usually employs a colander in her _________?

11. The "wailing wall" is nowadays associated with which sport?

12. The word "lei" should make one think of what place?

13. Which of the following causes the worst digestive disturbance in
farm animals? Soybeans, Corn, Oats, Hay.

14. Which of the following crops usually produces the most bushels
per acre? Soybeans, Wheat, Rye, Corn.

15. The word "margin" should make you think of what street?

16. Who said "By their fruits ye shall know them"?

17. What nursery rhyme character stole a pig?
Sang for something to eat?
Was scared by a hairy-legged creature?
Fell asleep on the job?
Rivaled winged Pegasus?

18. What American sport is handicapped by the draft laws of another
country?

19. What state borders on only one other in this country?

20. What animal organ, besides flesh, is rated first in preventing
cancer?
 
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> 1. Stealing is a praiseworthy trait in what sport?
A couple, at least ... baseball, basketball,

> 2. If eggs are not gathered each day from a hen's nest, approximately
> how many eggs would she lay before she stopped and became a
> "setting hen"?
I think it's one ...

> 3. What worker normally employs a clevis?
A farmer plowing a field or pulling a wagon

> 4. If you dined on roast capon, what would your meat course be?
Well, capon, of course ... 🙂

> 9. Electric refrigerators should be defrosted once per __________?
If it's operating correctly, never? Did they mean freezers?

> 10. A housewife usually employs a colander in her _________?
Kitchen or kitchen sink.

> 12. The word "lei" should make one think of what place?
Hawaii

> 13. Which of the following causes the worst digestive disturbance in
> farm animals? Soybeans, Corn, Oats, Hay.
I believe it's Oats.

> 15. The word "margin" should make you think of what street?
Wall Street

> 17. What nursery rhyme character stole a pig?
Tom tom the piper's son

> Sang for something to eat?
Tommy Tucker

> Was scared by a hairy-legged creature?
Little Miss Muffet

> 19. What state borders on only one other in this country?
Assuming 'this country' is USA ... Maine
 
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Jim Ward writes:
> These questions were suggested by "Test Your Horse Sense"
> by Dr. George W. Crane (from "The Army Fun Book", 1943).

Picking up a couple that I haven't seen answered:

> 7. The word "arson" belongs to which profession?

Arsonist. But I suppose they aren't counting that as a profession
and want is firefi... er, fireman. Or perhaps police.

> 9. Electric refrigerators should be defrosted once per __________?

1943 might have been different from say 1973, but I'm guessing they
want "month". And yes, they obviously mean the freezer compartment
(which therefore must have existed then); there isn't going to be
frost anywhere else.

> 18. What American sport is handicapped by the draft laws of another
> country?

Hockey. Until around 1990 practically all hockey players in the NHL
were Canadian, even though a majority of the teams have been US-based
since the 1930s. For a synopsis of the draft in Canada during WW2, see
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=J1SEC621581
--
Mark Brader | "The occasional accidents had been much overemphasized,
Toronto | and later investigations ... revealed that nearly 90%
msb@vex.net | ... could have been prevented." --Wiley Post, 1931

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> 18. What American sport is handicapped by the draft laws of another
> country?

I was thinking Hockey too, ala Mark's answer, but, 'American sport' ...
where did Hockey originate?
 
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> > 18. What American sport is handicapped by the draft laws of another
> > country?
>
> Hockey. Until around 1990 practically all hockey players in the NHL
> were Canadian, even though a majority of the teams have been US-based
> since the 1930s. For a synopsis of the draft in Canada during WW2, see
>
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=J1SEC621581

According to this article, conscription was approved in principle in 1942
but not used until 1944. So how did the draft law affect hockey before 1943?

Andrew
 
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Somebody claiming to be Jim Ward <tomcatpolka@NyOaShPoAoM.com> wrote in
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> 10. A housewife usually employs a colander in her _________?

Don't use a colander; use a tennis racquet like Jack Lemmon did in "The
Apartment".

> 12. The word "lei" should make one think of what place?

Romania, of course. The lei is the Romanian currency.

> 18. What American sport is handicapped by the draft laws of another
> country?

I was going to guess horse racing, with the handicapping rules having
originated in another country. 🙂

--
Ted <fedya at bestweb dot net>
TV Announcer: It's 11:00. Do you know where your children are?
Homer: I told you last night, *no*!
<http://www.snpp.com/episodes/4F06.html>
 
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> > > 18. What American sport is handicapped by the draft laws of another
> > > country?
> >
> > Hockey. Until around 1990 practically all hockey players in the NHL
> > were Canadian, even though a majority of the teams have been US-based
> > since the 1930s. For a synopsis of the draft in Canada during WW2, see
> > http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=J1SEC621581

> According to this article, conscription was approved in principle in 1942
> but not used until 1944. ...

Read it again. That was full conscription, where draftees could be sent
off to combat, but there was a limited form starting in 1940.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "What Europe needs is a fresh, unused mind."
msb@vex.net | -- Foreign Correspondent

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Jim Ward posts:
>> 18. What American sport is handicapped by the draft laws of another
>> country?

Bob writes:
> I was thinking Hockey too, ala Mark's answer, but, 'American sport' ...

Meaning "sport played in America", of course. This is sort of like the
way Canadians learn that Alexander Graham Bell was Canadian, meaning in
this case that he sometimes lived in Canada.

> where did Hockey originate?

Depends on what you mean by hockey. The full-fledged game of ice hockey
arose in 19th century Canada, but there are ancestors elsewhere.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "No flames were used in the creation of
msb@vex.net | this message." -- Ray Depew

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"Mark Brader" wrote:
> 1943 might have been different from say 1973, but I'm guessing they
> want "month". And yes, they obviously mean the freezer compartment
> (which therefore must have existed then); there isn't going to be
> frost anywhere else.

Around 1943, both the freezer compartment and the main section would gather
frost, and require defrosting.

Bill Smythe
 
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"Jim Ward" wrote:
> 11. The "wailing wall" is nowadays associated with which sport?

Long-distance running (the "wall")?

Bill Smythe
 
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I wrote:
> Long-distance running (the "wall")?

Or maybe swimming, as you might wail when you reach the wall and find out
you finished in 2nd place by 0.001 seconds?

Bill Smythe
 
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* dogstarZeroZeroZero@microprizes.com
> "Jim Ward" <tomcatpolka@NyOaShPoAoM.com> wrote in message
> news:vl3ov0hq5it8jm3gbv3nb4mogbv5cnubae@4ax.com...
> > These questions were suggested by "Test Your Horse Sense"
> > by Dr. George W. Crane (from "The Army Fun Book", 1943).
> >
> > 1. Stealing is a praiseworthy trait in what sport?
>
> "Stealing" sounds like "steeling". Horseshoes are made from "steel". The
> game of horseshoes requires pitching. Baseball also requires pitching. My
> guess is baseball.

Bridge.

--
Jon Haugsand
Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:jonhaug@ifi.uio.no
http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 85 24 92
 
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Jim Ward (tomcatpolka@NyOaShPoAoM.com) writes:
> 1. Stealing is a praiseworthy trait in what sport?

Certainly in bridge. If you call it a sport, that is.

> 2. If eggs are not gathered each day from a hen's nest, approximately
> how many eggs would she lay before she stopped and became a
> "setting hen"?

One.

> 9. Electric refrigerators should be defrosted once per __________?

In this day and age you expect refrigerators to be self-defrosted!

> 12. The word "lei" should make one think of what place?

My first association goes to Roumania, since this the name of the
currency there. (Or more precisely the plural form of it. But you
rarely pay a single leu for anything, so lei it is.)

My next went to Italy, since "lei" is the word for "she" and spelled
with a capital "L" it is also the polite form of address.

> 14. Which of the following crops usually produces the most bushels
> per acre? Soybeans, Wheat, Rye, Corn.

Soybeans.

> 15. The word "margin" should make you think of what street?

Street and street... The road along the coast from Lisbon to Caiscais
is known as "O Marginal" - "The margin". A road plagued with a high
frequency of accidents. I stayed at a hotel near Caiscais for a week
which was on the Margin, and there were two or three incidents during
that week outside the hotel only. Inland there is a road with motorway
standard, which should be a lot safer. However, that is a toll road,
so most traffic sticks the Margin. (Well, it was in 1991 I was at that
hotel, so things may have changed.)


> 19. What state borders on only one other in this country?

"This country"? And this country is Sweden? Argentina? Germany or
what? Well, let's see, in Sweden Norrbottens län qualifies, but I can't
think of no other. Argentina? Oh no, there are four federal entities that
borders only one other. And the number is the same in Germany, although in
the German case there of these are cities, leaving Saarland as the only
proper state.



--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
 
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Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:
> 1943 might have been different from say 1973, but I'm guessing they
> want "month". And yes, they obviously mean the freezer compartment
> (which therefore must have existed then); there isn't going to be
> frost anywhere else.

Don't say that! I had to defrost my old refrigator, that I had bought
in 1993, once. And there was no freezer compartment in that one. By the
end of a summer of high humidity there was an ice layer on the back of
the refrigerator, 3-5 mm thick. Usually such an ice layer goes away on
its, and maybe this one had too eventually. But it is not likely to be
good for the comsumption of energy, and neiter for the ability of keeping
a low temperature.


--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
 
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Marc Dashevsky (usenet@MarcDashevsky.com) writes:
> In article <vl3ov0hq5it8jm3gbv3nb4mogbv5cnubae@4ax.com>,
tomcatpolka@NyOaShPoAoM.com
> says...
>> These questions were suggested by "Test Your Horse Sense"
>> by Dr. George W. Crane (from "The Army Fun Book", 1943).
>>
>> 1. Stealing is a praiseworthy trait in what sport?
>
> basketball. Also soccer?

You can "steal the ball" in about any team sport with a ball: handball,
basketball, football, ice hockey ("steal the puck"), but it's not a
formal term in all of these. Maybe in basketball, but certainly not any
of the other three I mentioned.


--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
 
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Dogstar (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in message
<5kZKd.1620$cl1.935@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net>:

>> 4. If you dined on roast capon, what would your meat course be?
>
> "Capon" sounds like "cape on". Zorro rode with a black "cape on". His
> horse (Toronado) had a black crest. Roosters also have crests. My guess
> is rooster.

Your line of reasoning would be even more appropriate if Toronado (or
perhaps Zorro himself) were a gelding.
--
Paul Townsend
Pair them off into threes

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Mark Brader:
> > 1943 might have been different from say 1973, but I'm guessing they
> > want "month". And yes, they obviously mean the freezer compartment
> > (which therefore must have existed then); there isn't going to be
> > frost anywhere else.

Bill Smythe:
> Around 1943, both the freezer compartment and the main section would gather
> frost, and require defrosting.

Huh! I stand corrected.

I guess they hadn't yet invented the idea of cooling the main section
indirectly from the freezer.
--
Mark Brader | I rise to speak ... well, actually, I don't rise,
Toronto | nor do I speak, but I lounge to type in his defense.
msb@vex.net | -- Bob Lipton

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"Mark Brader" <msb@vex.net> wrote in message
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> Jim Ward writes:
> > These questions were suggested by "Test Your Horse Sense"
> > by Dr. George W. Crane (from "The Army Fun Book", 1943).
>
> Picking up a couple that I haven't seen answered:
>
> > 7. The word "arson" belongs to which profession?
>
> Arsonist. But I suppose they aren't counting that as a profession
> and want is firefi... er, fireman. Or perhaps police.
>
> > 9. Electric refrigerators should be defrosted once per __________?
>
> 1943 might have been different from say 1973, but I'm guessing they
> want "month". And yes, they obviously mean the freezer compartment
> (which therefore must have existed then); there isn't going to be
> frost anywhere else.

You haven't seen my fridge.

Danny
 
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Bob (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in message
<AwVKd.14010$Vj3.10644@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com>:

>> Was scared by a hairy-legged creature?
> Little Miss Muffet
As a hairy-legged creature myself I feel obliged to lodge an objection to
the stereotype. Certainly *I* don't frighten little girls :)
--
Paul Townsend
Pair them off into threes

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Somebody claiming to be msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in
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> Depends on what you mean by hockey.

Real hockey is of course played on ice. That thing that the rest of the
Commonwealth minus Canada calls "hockey" is actually field hockey. 🙂

--
Ted <fedya at bestweb dot net>
TV Announcer: It's 11:00. Do you know where your children are?
Homer: I told you last night, *no*!
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Bill Smythe (chichess@beforeRCNafter.com) writes:
> I wrote:
>> Long-distance running (the "wall")?
>
> Or maybe swimming, as you might wail when you reach the wall and find out
> you finished in 2nd place by 0.001 seconds?

That was in 1972, not in 1943. Or in 2005.


--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
 
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In article <VPSdnba1SfIemGDcRVn-ig@rcn.net>,
"Bill Smythe" <chichess@beforeRCNafter.com> wrote:

> I wrote:
> > Long-distance running (the "wall")?
>
> Or maybe swimming, as you might wail when you reach the wall and find out
> you finished in 2nd place by 0.001 seconds?
>


Swimming only measures to 0.01 seconds, and ties are not infrequent.
I've heard the claim that if they did to 0.001 seconds--which they could
certainly do--then differences in the length of the pool from lane to
lane could be a factor. That seems silly to me.

--Harold Buck


"I used to rock and roll all night,
and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
-Homer J. Simpson
 
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Harold Buck <no_one_knows@comcast.net> writes:

> In article <VPSdnba1SfIemGDcRVn-ig@rcn.net>,
> "Bill Smythe" <chichess@beforeRCNafter.com> wrote:
>
> > I wrote:
> > > Long-distance running (the "wall")?
> >
> > Or maybe swimming, as you might wail when you reach the wall and find out
> > you finished in 2nd place by 0.001 seconds?
> >
>
>
> Swimming only measures to 0.01 seconds, and ties are not infrequent.
> I've heard the claim that if they did to 0.001 seconds--which they could
> certainly do--then differences in the length of the pool from lane to
> lane could be a factor. That seems silly to me.

Assuming, to 1sf, that a 100m race takes 40s, and thus the average
speed is 2.5m/s, then a resolution of 0.01s corresponds to 2.5cm
and one of 0.001s corresponds to 2.5mm. The latter is verging on
the low side when it comes to tolerance for building pools, but I
don't know if the sensor pads that are installed therein are placed
with more accurate calibration.

Phil
--
If a religion' is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable
statements, then Godel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it
is the only religion that can prove itself to be one. -- John Barrow
 
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Harold Buck (no_one_knows@comcast.net) writes:
> Swimming only measures to 0.01 seconds, and ties are not infrequent.
> I've heard the claim that if they did to 0.001 seconds--which they could
> certainly do--then differences in the length of the pool from lane to
> lane could be a factor. That seems silly to me.

Not only can they do - they have done it. Gunnar Larsson won the gold
ahead Tim McKee (McGee?) on some distance in the Olympics in Munich 1972.
The difference was 0.002 seconds. Of course, I found the verdict very
attractive at the time - another Swedish gold - but I don't really
deplore that they abolished that high accuracy.


--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se
 
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"Harold Buck" <no_one_knows@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:no_one_knows-648FA0.08455831012005@comcast.dca.giganews.com...
> In article <VPSdnba1SfIemGDcRVn-ig@rcn.net>,
> "Bill Smythe" <chichess@beforeRCNafter.com> wrote:
>
>> I wrote:
>> > Long-distance running (the "wall")?
>>
>> Or maybe swimming, as you might wail when you reach the wall and find out
>> you finished in 2nd place by 0.001 seconds?
>>
>
>
> Swimming only measures to 0.01 seconds, and ties are not infrequent.
> I've heard the claim that if they did to 0.001 seconds--which they could
> certainly do--then differences in the length of the pool from lane to
> lane could be a factor. That seems silly to me.

Swimming did in fact measure to thousandths of a second in the past. The
1972 Olympic 400m Individual Medley was won by Gunnar Larsson (SWE) in
4:31.981 from Tim McKee (USA) in 4:31.983. This works out at a victory
margin of 0.3mm or just 0.04mm per length. As a result of this they decided
that in future any swimmers tied to the nearest hundredth would be awarded a
dead heat.

Peter Smyth
 
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