Wikipedia:Wikifun/Round 13/Answers/Question 9

quick q

Just a q, are the typos intentional? of bicycle, Scottish? -sars 21:29, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

No. Eugène van der Pijll 21:31, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

OED Volumes

• Joe Kennedy - member of the Oakland Athletics (A's) - "A"
• an orange proton - according to the article the BBC Micro was a proton computer with some of the keys colored orange.
• son of Noé - known as "Cham"
• an airer - "Creel"
• Dvandva - I don't see what this corresponds to in the list of clues - - you go straight from "airer" to "panama". I'll assume that this was a mistake, as everything else falls into place.
• Follow - no article
• a hat
• a dyad
• a bicycle manufacturer
• a surname from the Scottish Borders
• A Half Canton - Obwalden (Ob) : "Within the Swiss Confederation Obwalden is a half canton. This gives Obwalden all the rights and duties of full cantons, with the exception that the canton can only send one deputy to the Council of States."
• 1 dPa s - ten poise is equal to one pascal-second, so one poise = 1 dPa s
• a structure in Seville
• a section of The Globe and Mail - known as "ROB"
• Serine - abbreviated "Ser"
• a black pigment
• SU
• Thru - this redirects to Wiktionary, which I consider as being a nonexistent article
• Unemancipated - no article
• a propagating disturbance - "A wave is a disturbance that propagates through space."

So my answer is 1) follow 2) thru 3) unemancipated.

The items in the list correspond to what the 20 volumes of the OED2 started with (see Oxford English Dictionary). "The 20 volumes started with A, B.B.C., Cham, Creel, Dvandva, Follow, Hat, Interval, Look, Moul, Ow, Poise, Quemadero, Rob, Ser, Soot, Su, Thru, Unemancipated, and Wave."

Zoicon5 16:22, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

I misspelled "Dvandva", so I had that one as missing article; and I completely overlooked "Unemancipated", so my answers were dvandra, follow, and thru. Thanks for the correction! Eugène van der Pijll 17:04, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

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