Adam Turoff on Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:44:41 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: YAPC Quizo


On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 10:36:05AM -0400, Robert Spier wrote:
> [bofh, foad]

Well, these two fail the spier-google scale.  :-)

The idea was to find a list that would generate a lot of false positives.  
Obviously these two fail the test.

Unfortunately, it also invalidates anything about Das Blinkenlichten.

> 	Picard, Riker, ____ 
> #perl think's its Data.  This is hard question because it _changed_
> from time to time.

If I asked for the "triumvirate" typically in command of the
NCC-1701D, you'd have known that would be Troi, but google wouldn't
have helped.  And the first two prompts shouldn't have been necessary.

On that note:
	How many levels are on the promenade on Deep Space Nine?

This one thoroughly confuses ask jeeves.

With prompting, #perl shouldn't be necessary.  So now when there
are anti-google questions in play, #perl provides the human intuition 
necessary.  Why is it so easy to cheat?  :-)

> 	____, War, Death, ____    Famine, Earthquakes?
> this one I don't have a clue about.

Four horsemen of the apocolypse: Pestilence, War, Death, Famine.

Lots of false hits on this one.  Lots of ways to ask.  :-)

> 	_____, Leon, Pris, Roy	- Zhora
> http://www.google.com/search?q=Leon+Pris+Roy&safe=off

Shame on you for looking.  :-)

Now, what's the correct order for the four replicants?

Z.

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