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Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 7, Day 2

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 5:30 pm
by DadofTwins
Adding "sheep puns" to "lawn mowers" and "trick questions about holes" to the official "SHC ideas never to do again" list.

On we go.

Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 7, Day 2

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 5:30 pm
by DadofTwins
HISTORIC FIRES

2: Cassius Dio reports that during the Great Fire of Rome this emperor was singing “The Sack of Ilium,” but Tacitus says he was in Antium.

4: This city's Great Fire of 1666 started in a bakery on Pudding Lane.

8: During the War of 1812, this city in upstate New York was invaded by British forces from Canada and burned.

6: In September of 1812, in the aftermath of the Battle of Borodino, residents of this city burned most of it to the ground to deny Napoleon use of the buildings.

10: In 2002, an explosion in an armory started a fire that destroyed half of this second-largest city in Africa.

JUICY FRUIT

3: The Quebec Bell variety of this fruit in the rose family is similar in taste and quality to the Delicious and the Northern Spy.

6: Enoch Bartlett of Massachusetts named a variety of this fruit after himself, not knowing it had already been named after an English nurseryman named Williams.

9: Nectarines have the recessive version of the gene that causes this feature in dominant-gene-carrying peaches.

12: Also called the date plum, the genus name of this tree that produces a red-orange fruit and whose wood is used to make billiard cues literally means “wheat of the gods.”

15: In Brazilian cuisine, a Romeo and Juliet is this 5-letter yellow or red tropical fruit related to the pomegranate covered by a piece of cheese.

Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 7, Day 2

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 5:31 pm
by DadofTwins
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 7, Day 2

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 5:43 pm
by StevenH
Spoiler
2: Nero
4: London
6: Buffalo?
8: St. Petersburg?
10: Lagos?

3: apple
6: pears
9: fuzz
12: clam
15: clam

Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 7, Day 2

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 5:53 pm
by Turd Ferguson
Spoiler
2: Nero
4: London
6:
8:
10:

3: Apple
6: Pear
9: Fuzz
12:
15:

Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 7, Day 2

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 5:56 pm
by Paucle
Spoiler
2: Nero
4: London
6:
8:
10: Lagos

JUICY FRUIT

3: Apple
6: Pear
9: fuzz
12: persimmons
15:
May be the first time I had absolutely no clue on a question involving the history of NYS. I'm embarrassed.

Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 7, Day 2

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:02 pm
by Vanya
Spoiler
HISTORIC FIRES

2: Nero
4: London
8: Buffalo
6: Moscow
10: Lagos

JUICY FRUIT

3: apple
6: pear
9: fuzz
12: clam
15: guava

Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 7, Day 2

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:04 pm
by JeanneJag
Spoiler
2. Nero
4. London
8. Moscow
6. Buffalo
10.

3. Apple
6. Pear
9. Fuzzy peel
12.
15. Guava

Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 7, Day 2

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:04 pm
by OrangeSAM
Spoiler
HISTORIC FIRES
2: Nero
4: London
6: Buffalo
8: Moscow
10: [clam][/clam]

JUICY FRUIT
3: Apple
6: Pear
9: Fuzz
12: Persimmon
15: [clam][/clam]

Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 7, Day 2

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:14 pm
by cheezguyty
Spoiler
2. Nero
4. London
6. Buffalo
8.
10. Lagos

3. apple
6. pear
9. fuzziness
12. ebony
15. guava

Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 7, Day 2

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:18 pm
by Case
Spoiler
2. Nero
4. London
6. Buffalo?? (WAG--could be Albany, I guess)
8. Clam
10. Clam (not that long ago, but I have no idea)

3. Apple
6. Pear
9. Fuzzy skin
12. Clam
15. Clam

Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 7, Day 2

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:19 pm
by JeanneJag
I listed my 6- and 8-point Historic Fires responses in the wrong order and misnumbered them, too. I think.
Spoiler
Buffalo for upstate New York. Moscow for Battle of Borodino.

Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 7, Day 2

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:20 pm
by GUJeopardyFan
Spoiler
2: Nero
4: London
8: Buffalo
6: Moscow
10:

3: Apple
6: Pear
9: Hair
12:
15:

Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 7, Day 2

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:24 pm
by alamble
Spoiler
2. Julius Caesar
4. London
6. Albany
8.
10.

3. apple
6. pear
9. fuzz
12.
15. mango

Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 7, Day 2

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:27 pm
by tagNV
Spoiler
HISTORIC FIRES
2. Nero
4. London {you'd think there'd be a nursery rhyme based on the fire given that...as with Ring Around a Rosie for the Plague}
8.
6.
10. CLAMasssoukro {Really embarrassed I can't recall a fire from < 10 yrs ago that destroyed half a city of millions. :oops: :( }

JUICY FRUIT
3. Apple
6. Pear
9. Fuzziness?
12.
15. Passion fruit? {Fitting, no?}
Fires and fruit...2 F's for me.

Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 7, Day 2

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:27 pm
by Suze
Spoiler
2: Nero
4: London
8: Buffalo
6: clam
10: Johannesburg?

3: apple
6: pear
9: fuzz
12: clam
15: mango?

Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 7, Day 2

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:30 pm
by NoName84
Spoiler
2: Nero
4: London
8: Buffalo
6: Moscow
10: Lagos

3: Apple
6: Pear
9: Fuzz
12:
15:

Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 7, Day 2

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:30 pm
by billiej
Spoiler
2: Nero
4: London
8: CLAM
6: CLAM
10: CLAM

3: apple
6: pear
9: fuzzy skin
12: CLAM
15: CLAM

Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 7, Day 2

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:31 pm
by SwanShadow
Spoiler
HISTORIC FIRES

2: Who is Nero?

4: What is London?

8: What is Buffalo?

6: What is CLAMville?

10: What is Lagos?

(For the record, am I the only one who looked at this category's title and initially thought it was "Historic Fries"?)



JUICY FRUIT

3: What is an apple?

6: What is a pear?

9: What is fuzz?

12: What is a persimmon?

15: What is a guava?

Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 7, Day 2

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:44 pm
by Andromus
Spoiler
2: Nero
4: London
8: Albany
6: CLAM
10: CLAM



3: Apple
6: Pear
9: Fuzziness
12: CLAM
15: CLAM