Yoni in Israel

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Tuesday, January 17, 2006

"And the answers are..."

1. Moabite woman gets her own talk show: THE ORPAH WINFREY SHOW
2. Synagogue platform used in gymnastics competition: BALANCE BIMA
3. Midrashic quality of the Plague of Hail, as titled by a James Taylor song: FIRE IN RAIN
4. Heaven-sent bird of a certain tribe in the desert, perhaps as a vice president: DAN QUAIL
5. Rapid rate of construction of Jewish festive temporary buildings, as uttered by P.T. Barnum: "THERE'S A SUKKAH BORN/BUILT EVERY MINUTE!"
6. The person who holds the baby at a circumsicion penned a "Where the Wild Things Are": MAURICE SANDAK
7. Murderer of Saul's descendant is executed in an unusual way, then David names a dessert after him: BA'ANA SPLIT
8. The rules of the circumcisor, which also relates pressure and volume: MOHEL'S LAW
9. Daily offering of stacte, onyche, galbanum, and frankincense, as one would logically think: COMMON INCENSE
10. The proper way to act in the Tabernacle, as pronounced by a lisping Hartford beauty queen: MISHKAN ETIQUETTE
11. Objects of Michal's criticism (including her husband, David), made into a film starring Harrisson Ford: PARADERS OF THE LOST ARK
12. Territorial lowlands of a certain tribe, poetically described as:

"a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens, where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumling through the powdery air": VALLEY OF ASHER'S

13. Lumber of a certain tribe, starring in the 1965 film "The Great Race": NAFTALI WOOD
14. Joshua leads the people into the promised land, taking a path that influences the creation of a NBC TV show about Boston coroners: CROSSING JORDAN [RIVER]
15. Wearing one's sidelocks facing front, as a title of a film starring Haley Joel Osment: PAYOS FORWARD
16. Pharaoh's labor plans for enslaving the Jews also served as a fraudulent money-making ploy: PYRAMID SCHEMING
17. What the Jewish people became after the death of Malachi, joining groups such as PBS and the Better Business Bureau: NON-PROPHET ORGANIZATION
18. Devorah's aide (and a Jewish military leader) stars in an animated show with his pal Zorak: THE BARAK SHOW
19. Airborne Jewish fringes that cause African trypanosomiases and feed on the blood on vertebrates: TZITZIT FLIES
20. Get something back to a Beit Midrash lectern, as stamped by the post office: RETURN TO SHTENDER

Total Points: 100

And, in a total shocker, the same four people answered the riddles. How about that. So for the four of you, who will move up in the standings???
(And yes, the three question marks are all necessary, raising the drama exponentially!!!)
(And yes, the three exclamation points are all necessary, for the same reasons.)
(And yes, three consecutive periods would only be an ellipsis, and not add any emphasis. So there.)

SCORESHEET:
B. Bain: FFFFF/FFF4-/FFFFF/--3FF TOTAL 74
S. Blitzstein: FFFFF/FoF--/30FFF/--33F TOTAL 54
D. Bain: FFFFF/F4FF0/0-0FF/-5FFF TOTAL 63
B. Epstein: F0FFF/FFF--/0FFFF/FFFFF TOTAL 71

How to read the scoresheet:
The twenty numbers/letters correspond to your answers.
F- full creditx
- question omitted
0- no credit received
any number- amount of partial credit
slash ( / ) separates between every five responses

3 Comments:

Blogger Benjamin E. said...

Well, according to what I found, the high beam is one sort of balance beam, so humph.

2:14 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

not to pout *pouting* but wouldn't someone with a lisp pronounce it "mithkan ettiquette"? maybe not...

11:17 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

i think the official scoreboard needs to be updated-- IM BACK IN FIRST!

10:21 PM  

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