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There are only two UK categories -boltonswede wrote:UK Harder ??????
More like "Mission Impossible UK Version"
Aint u got a "UK- Not So Frigging 'Ard" section or what?
If so, it'll be yer last chance tomorrow, Malcolm..........
Easy to Intermediate
and Intermediate to Hard.
The easy category are ridculously easy e.g. Who is the UK's Prime Minister or What is the capital of England. So this other set of questions are out I'm afraid.
I'll change it back to the mixed bag later.
here's another boring question - itr's reputeds to be the longest question in the world (though how anyone can claim that I don't know!)
September 14, 2005
The World's Longest Question
At yesterday's morning confirmation hearing for Judge Roberts, Sen. Kennedy arguably asked the World's Longest Question of Chief Justice nominee John Roberts.
(I think the answer was "a fish")
September 14, 2005
The World's Longest Question
At yesterday's morning confirmation hearing for Judge Roberts, Sen. Kennedy arguably asked the World's Longest Question of Chief Justice nominee John Roberts.
KENNEDY: Let me, if I could, go to the Civil Rights Restoration Act. In 1981, you support an effort by the Department of Education to reverse 17 years of civil right protections at colleges and universities that receive federal funds. Under the new regulations, the definition of federal assistance to colleges and universities would be narrow to exclude certain types of student loans and grants so that fewer institutions would be covered by the civil rights laws. As a result, more colleges and universities would legally be able to discriminate against people of color, women and the disabled. Your efforts to narrow the protection of the civil rights laws did not stop there, however. In 1984, in Grove City v. Bell, the Supreme Court decided, contrary to the Department of Education regulation that you supported, that student loans and grants did indeed constitute federal assistance to colleges for purposes of triggering civil rights protections. But, in a surprising twist, the court concluded that the nondiscrimination laws were intended to apply only to the specific program receiving the funds and not to the institution as a whole. Under that reasoning, a university that received federal aid in the form of tuition could not discriminate in admissions but was free to discriminate in athletics, housing, faculty hiring and any other programs that did not receive the direct funds. If the admissions office didn't discriminate, they got the funds through the admission office, they could discriminate in any other place of the university. A strong bipartisan majority in both the House and the Senate decided to pass another law, the Civil Rights Restoration Act, to make it clear that they intended to prohibit discrimination in all programs and activities of a university that received federal assistance. You vehemently opposed the Civil Rights Restoration Act. Even after the Grove City court found otherwise, you still believed that there was, quote -- and this is your quote -- a good deal of intuitive appeal to the argument that federal loans and grants to students should not be viewed as federal financial assistance to the university. You realize, of course, that these loans and grants to the students were paid to the university as tuition. Then, even though you acknowledged that the program-specific aspect of the Supreme Court decision was going to be overturned by the congressional legislation, you continued to believe that it would be, quote, too onerous for colleges to comply with nondiscrimination laws across the entire university unless it was, quote, on the basis of something more solid than federal aid to students. Judge Roberts, if your position prevailed, it would have been legal in many cases to discriminate in athletics for girls, women. It would have been legal to discriminate in the hiring of teachers. It would have been legal not to provide services or accommodations to the disabled. Do you still believe today that it is too onerous for the government to require universities that accept tuition payments from students who rely on federal grants and loans not to discriminate in any of their programs or activities?
(I think the answer was "a fish")
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Hey, lets have a bit of respect for Malc.
He's gone out of his way to set us up a quiz. What ever he does won't be to everyone's liking. But its only a game!
Not much point in playing if you know all the answer's all the time - just becomes a test of who can press the buttons fastest then!
ffs - just play and have fun.
Perhaps a suggestion might be (if its not too much trouble to Malc) that he changes the category every week - instead of month - so people might be bad on one category one week but ok on another category the next - and visa-versa for other people - that way no one as an advantage over anyone else?
He's gone out of his way to set us up a quiz. What ever he does won't be to everyone's liking. But its only a game!
Not much point in playing if you know all the answer's all the time - just becomes a test of who can press the buttons fastest then!
ffs - just play and have fun.
Perhaps a suggestion might be (if its not too much trouble to Malc) that he changes the category every week - instead of month - so people might be bad on one category one week but ok on another category the next - and visa-versa for other people - that way no one as an advantage over anyone else?
Fair enough.keveh wrote:Pft, I don't know the answers to most of the questions anyway.
Questions can be boring because of the subject they are on, not because I don't know the answers.
Questions on the anatomy of an ant will be boring compared to questions on football.
I guessed two, got them right, and got a decent score.
Its got to be better than the race to push buttons fastest.
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