Ransack

The weekly ezine for a scrambling of eggheads

Volume 1, Issue 1 .......................................September 24, 2003 ....................................... Page 1
Welcome to the inaugeral issue of Ransack: The ezine for a Scrambling of Eggheads. Each issue features quizzes and contests to help stimulate in our readers curiousity and the 'desire to know.' Mrs. Gale and Mrs. Peel were polymaths, so should you be!

Ransack is based out of St. Paul, Minnesota, but we accept members frm all over the world. The more international members the better.

Ransack holds four contests a year - each contest consists of 13 weeks of quizzes. Email your answers to Ransack. We will keep track of all scores and the top three finishers at the end of each 13th week will receive a prize. It costs nothing to participate in these contests!

Players: Choose your code name when you send us your first entry. We'll publish players' codenames and scores in each subsequent issue of Ransack, so you can keep track of your progress and the progress of both friendly and enemy agents.

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Features to be added to this ezine in the near future:

The Avengers
Role Playing Game
Articles on practically every topic under the sun

Contest #1: Win:

1. The Quotable Episodes Quiz

Name each episode (from the Emma Peel era). You receive an extra point if you identify who is being quoted, and another point for the name of the character to whom the quote is addressed. Answer as many as you can - it is not neccesary to answer them all. Email your answers to Ransack. The deadline for answers to this Quiz (and each subsequent quiz) is two weeks - so, answers must be received by Otober 8, 2003.


Steed is doomed unless your answers are on target.

1. "My dear....chum."
2. "I admire your tailor, old man."
3. "I've seen my first ghost."
4. "Watch out for diabolical masterminds."
5. "It will have to be milk."
6. "Keller!"
7. "He wasn't content."
8. "Lovely. Lovely style."
9. "I'll make coffee."
10. "I've killed him again!"
11. "A repair! Bernard!"
12. "Shop."
13. "I can think of some names to call you, too."
14. "Men did that to her. Business men."
15. "No. I don't bargain."
16. "Your nerves mostly jangle like wires in the wind."
17. "It was meant for you. Meant for you."
18. "I dislike the idea of working in a hotel."
19. "One can do so much with dungeons."
20. "I've been grievously wounded."
21. "Wake up! You've been drugged."
22. "Welcome, to nightmare alley."
23. "Oh, they've taken my fur coat."
24. "We haven't got a clue!"
25. "Get rid of it!"
"Don't worry. I will."
26. "Wouldn't feel quite right tucking into old Tay Ling."
27. "A door open....here!"
28. "...and the eyes are kind."
"It hasn't got any eyes."
29. "Did you vote for him?"
30. "What are you knitting?"
BONUS
31.		 "Ee-urp!"

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Special bonus SCIENCE quiz

Below is a list of 10 years which feature in the history of the telescope. For five - count 'em, FIVE, points each, identify the significant telescope event for each year.

1609 - 1611 - 1781 - 1789 - 1919 - 1948 - 1961 - 1980 - 1990 - 1992

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