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Photo by Allegra Boverman. Concord: At the New Hampshire Public Radio's Third Annual Trivia Smackdown at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord on Friday, April 3, 2015.
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2: cephalic tentacle.
3: ventral mid-line where opening to pouch containing feeding proboscis is located.
4: bilaminate anterior edge of foot; contains anterior pedal gland with mucus to lubricate travel.
5: yellow opening to pouch containing female's ventral pedal gland.
6: opening to pouch containing female's ventral pedal gland; foot folded up at right-angle in front of gland to position it on a leading edge for action.
7: ventral pedal gland protruded; about to shape egg capsule (8) deposited in hole bitten into compound ascidian prey, Diplosoma listerianum.
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Left and centre: Height (longest shell-dimension) 9.4mm. Menai Strait, Wales. March 2014.
Right: 5m depth, Zierikzee, Netherlands, March 2017, © S. Verheyen.
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HQ Trivia For Android Device: Everything You Require To Know
We like trivia video games. Whether they get on the television or at the table-top, quiz and trivia games have actually been a veteran fave for a great deal of individuals. HQ Trivia apps is the evolution of every little thing from those old black and also white shows from the past through to today's latest tech, all mashed together into one hell of a fun application.
Here's Laurie Williams quzzing us all with Boehm trivia questions.
What is the first quote by Barry at softwarequotes.com? ("Poor management can
increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. -Barry Boehm")
If you Google "Barry superman Boehm", how many hits will you get? (777)
If you Google Barry Boehm, how many hits will you get? (868,000)
If Barry had to read all the papers that cite his work, how long would it take?
(4880 hits in Google scholar, answer: it depends)
How many engineers does it take to determine all the parameters in the COCOMO
model? (it depends ;-)
What music was popular when did Barry publish his first paper? (1957, Bill
Haley is a popular guess ;-)
Is a negative risk a good thing or a bad thing? (it's an opportunity, but some
financal analysts use this term to refer to negative outcome -- as opposed
to "positive risk" that is considered an opportunity: a definition that that is
against the common definition of the terms)
When is the win-win strategy not a plausible negotiation strategy? (when you
are deadling with un-trustworthy people)
Barry has written his own lyrics for a popular folk song. What song is in
question and what programming language is mentioned in the song? ("Freight
train, freight train goin so fast", FORTRAN)
What is the first four words of Barry's newest book? (Balancing Agility and
Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed by Barry Boehm and Richard Turner: "Once
upon a time")
[Aside: this question gave Barry much pause for thought- he just couldn't recall which one of his many books were "latest".]
When Barry says he us using CRACK help him reach better teaching results, what
is he talking about and why hasn't he been arrested? (SE team course success
factors: Collaborative, Representative, Authorized, Knowledgeable)
If people in your team spend a lot of their annual time going to conferences in
exotic places, what parameter values of COCOMO are affected? (ACAP Analyst capabilities, PCAP Programmer capabilities, MODP Modern programming practices).
We’re in the season of festivals and fairs in and around Seattle, and there’s a good chance you could well bump into this guy if you frequent them. He basically serializes improv sci-fi adventures for kids using his props and a picture frame acting as the tv screen, usually accompanied with the intro of the Bonzo Dog (Doo Dah) Band’s one-hit wonder of 1968, “Urban Spaceman” (www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGVwreJNWlk - little known trivia fact: it was produced by Paul McCartney) that reached #5 in the UK charts.
The Bonzo Dog Band is probably best known for starting the career of Neil Innes, who wrote songs for Monty Python and co-created (in spite of what Eric Idle may say) the Beatles spoof of the Rutles, and is probably the world's most underrated living tunesmiths. But the other talent in the band was the unjustly ignored Vivian Stanshall, a comic genius of the first order. Together with the rest of the Bonzos, Stanshall and Innes created a band that was like no other.
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cookie trivia: The food, originated in Rome sometime around the 3rd century B.C., and it was called 'bis coctum' meaning twice baked.
The Roman 'bis coctum' was not sweet, it had no sugar added. 'Bis coctum' is the origin of the word 'biscuit,' which is a flakey quick bread in the U.S., but in England a biscuit is what in the U.S. would be called a cookie or cracker. - foodreference.com
Twins fans compete in the Twins Trivia Contest held on the plaza just outside of the Metrodome.
This photo was taken using a twenty foot pole.
It wont be long before Supportive Living Week is observed in Illinois. The annual, week long highlight of the Supportive Living Program by the AALC (Affordable Assisted Living Coalition) is held each spring with local, regional and state held events, culminating in the state's capital. One of the most anticipated event is the state wide contest held for all supportive living residents. In the past, there as been a talent show and spelling bee; this year it is a trivia contest.
Every year, each Supportive Living community holds the contest among their residents. The winning team/individual from each community goes on to compete in their regional contest. From there, the winner(s) take a two day trip to Springfield to compete in the championship where an overall winner is crowned.
The Pointe residents really feel like this is their year. Trivia is very popular among the residents and they have always held several "trivia hours" each week, with huge turnouts. Last year, the residents even challenged the staff to a trivia contest, a contest that the residents won!
Three teams were organized for The Pointe's in-house contest. After a close fought battle, a winning team was declared. The residents on the winning team who will be representing The Pointe at the regional contest are:
Margaret "Peg" M.
Bernice B.
Gloria "Glo" O.
We are all looking forward to the next round of competition and will be rooting our team on. Check our website and our Facebook page regularly for updates on this contest as well as all other happenings at The Pointe.