User:JackofOz/Ref Desk Questions
2004
Date | Topic | Desk |
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17 Aug 04 | Why "the" dictionary? (* see 19 Feb 09)
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Undiff |
15 Oct 04 | The American National Anthem before 1931
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Undiff |
2005
Date | Topic | Desk |
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12 Jan 05 | Why are roadways at night time always wet in the movies?
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Undiff |
16 Jan 05 | Dates of events on other worlds
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Undiff |
10 Jul 05 | Jesus H Christ
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Undiff |
15 Oct 05 | Movies that haunt me | Humanities |
Origin of "heads up" | Language | |
16 Oct 05 | What ever became of Graeme Faulkner ... | Humanities |
18 Oct 05 | Famous married couples born on the same day | Miscellaneous |
26 Oct 05 | George Abbott - oldest already-famous person in history (?)
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Miscellaneous |
29 Oct 05 | Tchaikovsky's favourite painting "Melancholy" / German chess movie | Humanities |
(* see 26 Mar 07) | ||
9 Nov 05 | Overseas vs. offshore | Language |
14 Nov 05 | Loopwords | Language |
16 Nov 05 | Killers' full names
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Miscellaneous |
19 Nov 05 | Birth order database | Humanities |
20 Nov 05 | Using Wikipedia as a source
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Miscellaneous |
22 Nov 05 | Eponym of Rue St Jacques, Paris
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Miscellaneous |
2 Dec 05 | Asian politician who disappeared in Sydney early 1960s (* see 12 May 08)
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Miscellaneous |
15 Dec 05 | Christmas Greetings
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Miscellaneous |
26 Dec 05 | Musical works by Genre by Key | Humanities |
2006
Date | Topic | Desk |
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2 Jan 06 | Argentina, Lebanon and Ukraine | Language |
3 Jan 06 | Jewish terminology | Humanities |
8 Jan 06 | Film credits on posters | Humanities |
22 Jan 06 | Tennis jargon
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Miscellaneous |
27 Jan 06 | The greatest furphy of all time | Language |
14 Feb 06 | Happy Valentines Day
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Miscellaneous |
First human on TV | Science | |
16 Feb 06 | Actors/actresses who were never nominated for an Oscar | Humanities |
17 Feb 06 | Ants | Science |
21 Feb 06 | Weekend newspapers
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Miscellaneous |
7 Mar 06 | Seven Different Films for the 7 Major Oscars | Humanities |
23 Mar 06 | Impact on Rotation | Science |
5 Apr 06 | Montreal Olympics | Humanities |
20 Apr 06 | Signing off on | Language |
8 May 06 | Mutually Exclusive National/Flag Colours
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Miscellaneous |
23 May 06 | Sentence Challenge | Language |
15 Jun 06 | Elizabeth Fretwell | Humanities |
28 Jun 06 | Isn't it | Language |
5 Jul 06 | There's no two ways about it | Language |
Names for numbers | Language | |
13 Jul 06 | Surnames based on body parts | Language |
14 Jul 06 | Past tenses | Language |
Free-for-all
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Miscellaneous | |
17 Jul 06 | Felipe, Phillipines and Filipinos | Language |
18 Jul 06 | Longest winning streak against a different opponent every time
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Miscellaneous |
21 Jul 06 | Author as a verb | Language |
24 Jul 06 | Urination Arrangements
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Miscellaneous |
1 Aug 06 | Bond, James Bond | Language |
4 Aug 06 | Initial Stress in Czech and Hungarian | Language |
9 Aug 06 | Asian verbosity | Language |
Unidentified Boston man
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Miscellaneous | |
16 Aug 06 | Ugly words | Language |
2 Oct 06 | Words with two x's | Language |
12 Oct 06 | Specacity | Language |
17 Oct 06 | The History of a Coin | Mathematics |
24 Oct 06 | La plus que lente | Language |
30 Oct 06 | Verbs of elimination | Language |
2 Nov 06 | Strange plurals | Language |
9 Nov 06 | The Autumn Leaves | Humanities |
30 Nov 06 | Environmental Effects of Tobacco | Science |
11 Dec 06 | J in 4th position | Language |
2007
2008
Date | Topic | Desk |
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7 Jan 08 | Arch (arch) and arch (ark) | Language |
9 Jan 08 | V-words associated with anger | Language |
12 Jan 08 | Meaning of "Jailed" | Humanities |
19 Jan 08 | Box office smash | Entertainment |
22 Jan 08 | Bang/dead to rights | Language |
1 Feb 08 | "The" before expressions including personal names | Language |
9 Feb 08 | Centre of gravity of a country and capital cities | Mathematics |
20 Feb 08 | Advertisements with self-comparisons | Miscellaneous |
22 Feb 08 | Curious, suspicious and trying (* see 27 May 11, 14 Aug 12, 7 Jul 23) | Language |
25 Feb 08 | Three nuns | Language |
6 Mar 08 | Authors "writing as" | Language |
11 Mar 08 | Margarine, Margaret and soft/hard g | Language |
12 Mar 08 | Asking the impossible | Language |
16 Mar 08 | Is Uruguay unique? | Language |
19 Mar 08 | Attribution of movie quotes | Language |
26 Mar 08 | Doing blood work | Language |
27 Mar 08 | Actors crossing themselves | Entertainment |
6 Apr 08 | "Can not" vs. "cannot" in the 1860s | Language |
7 Apr 08 | James Watt’s date of death | Humanities |
14 Apr 08 | "Mispronounced" eponyms | Language |
17 Apr 08 | Producers of TV shows | Entertainment |
30 Apr 08 | Not a problem | Language |
9 May 08 | Classifications of persons | Language |
12 May 08 | South-East Asian politician who went missing in Sydney in the 1960s (* see 2 Dec 05) | Miscellaneous |
20 May 08 | One Note, Themes and Variations | Entertainment |
9 Jun 08 | The core rules of English | Language |
14 Jun 08 | Mary Faulkner | Humanities |
19 Jun 08 | Velpeau's Law | Miscellaneous |
24 Jun 08 | Time was | Language |
27 Jun 08 | Wimbledon sexism | Entertainment |
30 Jun 08 | Members of a small group with the same birthday | Miscellaneous |
2 Jul 08 | Birthday coincidences | Mathematics |
7 Jul 08 | Translations of book titles | Language |
21 Jul 08 | James Barton | Entertainment |
23 Jul 08 | Genealogical relationships | Humanities |
26 Jul 08 | Police breaking down doors | Miscellaneous |
27 Jul 08 | Hyphenated homographs | Language |
12 Aug 08 | A-side and B-side of albums | Entertainment |
19 Aug 08 | Weighted Olympic ranking | Entertainment |
28 Aug 08 | Whoever vs. whomever | Language |
1 Sep 08 | The national anthem played at the cinema and at concerts | Entertainment |
9 Sep 08 | Reconstructed literary and musical works | Humanities |
14 Sep 08 | Plural of prima ballerina/assoluta | Language |
18 Sep 08 | How quickly does Google recognise new words? | Miscellaneous |
21 Sep 08 | What's this called | Language |
24 Sep 08 | Strips of the world | Miscellaneous |
26 Sep 08 | U.S. Constitutional over-punctuation | Language |
27 Sep 08 | Samuel L. Gompers' middle name | Humanities |
2 Oct 08 | Geographic jigsaw | Miscellaneous |
Titular character | Language | |
Logic problem: Working out Wendy's birthdate | Mathematics | |
5 Oct 08 | Plural of "man’s man" | Language |
8 Oct 08 | Sharks and sarcoidosis | Language |
27 Oct 08 | Adding extra letters to words | Language |
28 Oct 08 | That'll teach you to ... | Language |
6 Nov 08 | Ant and ent words (mainly adjectives) | Language |
Lunch horn | Language | |
12 Nov 08 | Full moon on birthdays | Science |
19 Nov 08 | TV adverts with mimed voices | Miscellaneous |
24 Nov 08 | Factory cash backs | Miscellaneous |
1 Dec 08 | Tousch | Humanities |
2 Dec 08 | Widow/widower | Language |
8 Dec 08 | Film music released before the film was released | Entertainment |
-ographer | Language | |
Give, seen, came and done as past tense variants | Language | |
13 Dec 08 | Living geniuses | Miscellaneous |
15 Dec 08 | Use of "the" at the delicatessen | Language |
19 Dec 08 | If I don't see you beforehand ... | Language |
30 Dec 08 | Waiting for the water to turn hot | Science |
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
Date | Topic | Desk |
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3 Jan 24 | "if ... then" stranding | Language |
29 Jan 24 | Tree hanging over a neighbour's fence | Humanities |
7 Feb 24 | Ctrl-Y timing issue | Computing |
9 Feb 24 | French senses in translation | Language |
24 Feb 24 | Say, speak, talk, tell | Language |
13 Mar 24 | Not to change the subject ... | Language |
14 Mar 24 | Have never vs. never have | Language |
16 Apr 24 | 1,000 random editors | Mathematics |
2 May 24 | Why is Tresckow pronounced like -cow and and not -coff | Language |
9 May 24 | Collatz Conjecture | Mathematics |
27 May 24 | Root vs. rowt | Language |
8 Jun 24 | Strange expressions | Language |