New Book Contest Coming...

[Seagoon]

Hi Guys,

Thought I should run another book trivia contest while the O'Club is still up and running. This time I'll be giving away a new copy of book I just got finished reading last night The Privileged Planet which is a fascinating (at least to me) scientific examination of the factors that indicate just  how rare in the universe the planet Earth and all its phonomena really is.

While The Privileged Planet has been condemned by some as merely a apologia for intelligent design, I have difficulty believing anyone who would dismiss it that way has actually read the book. The book relies heavily on the work of NASA affiliated Astrophysicists,  Astrobiologists, and Astronomers, and includes the research and conclusions of many self-professed atheists and materialists including Robert Jastrow.

It's also a good laymens level introduction to the science of Astrobiology and the discoveries of men like Copernicus, Hubble, and Einstein.

Trivia questions to follow...

- SEAGOON

[Sandman]

Thanks, Seagoon. You've made the BBS seem like a commercial.

[spitfiremkv]

he's giving it away. what's commercial in that?
waiting for your questions seagoon!!!

[Sandman]

Something like this... "You might have a brand new car in your breakfast cereal... news at eleven."

[Seagoon]

My apologies to Sandman for commercializing the BBS, if it helps try to think of my initial post as an irritating late night public service announcement placed by the Ad Council involving a Native American or underage smoking or driving while intoxicated or...

<SCENE: Seagoon exits a canoe to wade through a sea of computer printout garbage, turns to an old fella in rustic fishing garb> "Grandpa, why are British people more likely to drive drunk and litter?" "Seagoon," he answers wisely, "You are a bigot, because you think of them as 'British', and not as our friends the Eurotards. Now are you gonna fish or what? Nilsen needs his boat back, boy" ]

- SEAGOON

[Sandman]

Perfect.

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Sandman
Something like this... "You might have a brand new car in your breakfast cereal... news at eleven."

Really?? what brand?

[Seagoon]

First person to get all of these right, or mostly right, WINS THE BOOK!

WHERE ARE THE FOLLOWING LOCATED? (CITY & COUNTRY)

1)

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4)

WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?

5)

6)

7)

Which Movie Are these Quotes From?

8) "Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a
slave."

9) "Be Happy in Your Work!"

10) "A fella, a quick fella, might have a weapon under there, I'd have to pin his head to the panel."

11) "Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli"

12) "Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?"

POTPOURRI

13) Which University did Seagoon and a recently graduated member of the Royal Family both attend?

14) What does the AA in the 82nd Airborne Patch stand for?

15) Which unit did Seargeant York belong to?

16) What do the three lightning bolts in the US Special Forces patch stand for?

17) Which Italian harbor was the scene of the greatest victory of the "Stringbags" in WW2?

18) Which Battleship sank the HMS Hood?

19) Whom did Iago betray?

WHO SAID THE FOLLOWING?

20) "We ought to obey God rather than men."

21) "Kismet Hardy"

22) "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."

23) "They came on in the same old way, and we sent them back in the same old way"

24) "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

25) "The die is cast."

26) "Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. "

FINALLY...

27) State the Cosmological Argument in 5 points or less.

[NUKE]

just a quickie.

London Bridge, in Havasu, Arizona

By the way Seagoon, very clever posting pictures this time instead of questions.....makes it hard to google  

p.s. You should change the file name of the pics so people can't go to the link and find the answers.

[Seagoon]

Originally posted by NUKE
p.s. You should change the file name of the pics so people can't go to the link and find the answers.

Now Nuke, who would do that, that would be cheating!

- SEAGOON

PS: Yeah, next time its all images uploaded to my own server and abstract questions... Godspeed all.

[SOB]

All that, just for a crappy book?  This game show sucks!

[Sandman]

1) Agra, India
2) Beijing, China
3) Lake Havasu City, Arizona, USA
4) Edinburgh, Scotland
5) John Calvin
6) General J.E.B. Stuart
7) Abdel Nasser, Gamal
8) Blade Runner
9) The Bridge on the River Kwai
10) Road Warrior
11) The Godfather
12) Becket
13) University of London
14) All-Americans
15) U.S. Army, Company G, 328th Infantry, 82d Division.
16) The three methods of fighting: hand-to-hand, weaponry, and aerial combat.
17) Taranto
18) Bismarck
19) Othello
20) Peter, and the Apostles
21) Horatio Nelson
22) General John Sedgwick
23) Wellington
24) Lord Acton
25) Julius Ceasar
26) Winston Churchill
27) An argument for the existance of God from an atheist... I lose.

Edit: I'll quote Samuel Clarke:

1.     Every being that exists is either contingent or necessary.
2.     Not every being can be contingent.
3.     Therefore, there exists a necessary being on which the contingent beings depend.
4.     A necessary being, on which all contingent things depend, is what we mean by “God”.
5.     Therefore, God exists.  

[Leslie]

Clarke's logic stops at his first point.  Contingent means an outcome that may depend on whether something happens or not.

So how could a being exist in the first place  to be contingent or necessary as used in the first sentence?  If beings are contingent, then it follows that something happened to cause the being to exist.  So necessary is not the opposite, but part of contingent.



Les

[JB73]

Sandman - Master of teh g00g3l !11

[AWMac]

1) Agra, India
2) Beijing, China
3) Lake Havasu City, Arizona, USA
4) Edinburgh, Scotland
5) John Calvin
6) General J.E.B. Stuart
7) Abdel Nasser, Gamal
8) Blade Runner
9) The Bridge on the River Kwai
10) Road Warrior
11) The Godfather
12) Becket
13) University of London
14) All-American
15) U.S. Army, Company G, 328th Infantry, 82d Division.
16) The three methods of fighting: hand-to-hand, weaponry, and aerial combat.
17) Taranto
18) Bismarck
19) Othello
20) Peter, and the Apostles
21) Horatio Nelson
22) General John Sedgwick
23) Wellington
24) Lord Acton
25) Julius Ceasar
26) Winston Churchill
27) An argument for the existance of God from an atheist... I lose.

Edit: I'll quote Samuel Clarke:

1. Every being that exists is either contingent or necessary.
2. Not every being can be contingent.
3. Therefore, there exists a necessary being on which the contingent beings depend.
4. A necessary being, on which all contingent things depend, is what we mean by “God”.
5. Therefore, God exists.



14) All American  *singular, not plural*