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Enforcer's GK QOD (18/6)
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| enforcer 2003-06-18, 4:38 am |
| Who created the word game Scrabble?
A. Charles Darrow
B. Sir Richard Swiveller
C. Stephen Crabb
D. Alfred Butts
Answer tomorrow | |
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| MistyRing 2003-06-18, 6:34 am |
| Swiveller, Butts and Crabb...
...there has to be a joke in there somewhere! | |
| thecomeons 2003-06-18, 7:42 am |
| buster crab. now that's a bloke i haven't seen on telly for a long time. | |
| bearing 2003-06-18, 9:28 am |
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Originally posted by thecomeons
buster crab. now that's a bloke i haven't seen on telly for a long time.
The diving spy? | |
| thecomeons 2003-06-18, 9:47 am |
| flash gordon and buck rogers serials. | |
| enforcer 2003-06-18, 9:54 am |
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Originally posted by thecomeons
flash gordon and buck rogers serials.
whereas bearing rogers aerials | |
| bearing 2003-06-18, 10:05 am |
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Originally posted by enforcer
whereas bearing rogers aerials
Ahhhhhhhhh My nemesis....
I hate 'Bearing Rogers Aerials' he's a robbing bastard, it's arrays at 50 yards when we see each other... | |
| jonhiker 2003-06-18, 10:33 am |
| D)
Scrabble was invented by American architect Alfred Mosher Butts during the Great Depression.He wanted to create an enjoyable word game. Butts came up with the tile distribution after studying the front page of The New York Times to calculate the frequency with which vowels and consonants appeared in the English language. He hand-drafted the board on blueprints and pasted them to folding checker boards. The tiles were created in a similar fashion and pasted on balsa wood and cut to the size of the squares on the board.
The game started out as Lexico, then the name was changed to Criss-Cross Words; it was trademarked in 1948 under the name of Scrabble.
Source:http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art7892.asp | |
| Tennman 2003-06-18, 2:37 pm |
| According to my research, Alfred Buts is the inventer, therefore the answer is D | |
| me? I dunno... 2003-06-18, 5:29 pm |
| I'm going to go out on a limb and pick Butts. | |
| jonhiker 2003-06-18, 6:03 pm |
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originally posted by me? i dunno:I'm going to go out on a limb and pick Butts.
be sure to use only one hand to pick and one to hang on. | |
| bearing 2003-06-19, 3:08 am |
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Originally posted by jonhiker
be sure to use only one hand to pick and one to hang on.
...and trim those fingernails... | |
| enforcer 2003-06-19, 1:50 pm |
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Originally posted by enforcer
Who created the word game Scrabble?
A. Charles Darrow
B. Sir Richard Swiveller
C. Stephen Crabb
D. Alfred Butts
Answer tomorrow
and the correct answer is of course D. Alfred Butts, well done one and all. | |
| jkhnwspec 2003-06-19, 3:41 pm |
| Thanks! enforcer |
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