Yesterday's Answer, Today's Question

Yesterday's Answer:


Dressage is the systematic and progressive training of riding horses to execute any of a wide range of maneuvers from the simplest to the most difficult and complex.

Today's Question:


What feature do the names of Bolivia, the Phillipines, and Rhodesia have in common?


(Sources: American Mensa, email transmission, August 6, 2012; http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/171419/dressage; http://www.theequinest.com/2008-olympic-eventing-pictures-dressage/)

Otto and Patricia Ladensack

Yesterday's Answer, Today's Question

Yesterday's Answer:




Most calibers of pistol ammunition are center fire.

Rim fired (left) and Center fired (Right) Ammunition

Today's Question:




What is the eight-lettered French term for the equine discipline, often exhibited in competitions, that is defined in the Encyclopaedia Brittanica as the "systematic and progressive training of horses to execute precisely any of a wide range of maneuvers."



Well I am stumped on this one.




(Sources: American Mensa, email transmission, August 5, 2012; http://hellinahandbasket.net/?p=8137; http://www.britannica.com/)

Otto and Patricia Ladensack

Yesterday's Answer, Today's Question

Yesterday's Answer:




In ordinal numbers, the Hundred Years War started in the 14th century.

Today's Question:




True or False, most calibers of pistol ammunition are center fire.




This one is true. The .22 and I believe the .25 are rimfired while the rest are fired by hitting the primer in the center of the round.




(Sources: American Mensa, email transmission, August 4, 2012; http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/battles-timeline-one-hundred-years-war.htm; http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/100years.htm)

Otto and Patricia Ladensack

Yesterday's Answer, Today's Question

Yesterday's Answer:




In ordinal numbers, the Hundred Years War started in the 14th century.

Today's Question:




True or False, most calibers of pistol ammunition are center fire.




This one is true. The .22 and I believe the .25 are rimfired while the rest are fired by hitting the primer in the center of the round.




(Sources: American Mensa, email transmission, August 4, 2012; http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/battles-timeline-one-hundred-years-war.htm; http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/100years.htm)

Otto and Patricia Ladensack

Yesterday's Answer, Today's Question

Yesterday's Answer:






Russia's highest military award, which translates as The Order of Victory, is a platinum and ruby star that is encrusted with diamonds.

Today's Question:




Give the century, in ordinal numbers, in which the Hundred Years War occurred.




Don't know this one.




(Sources: American Mensa, email transmission, August 3, 2012; http://www.russian-medals.net/chkord3.htm; http://ehistory.osu.edu/middleages/hundredyearswar/battles.cfm)

Otto and Patricia Ladensack

Yesterday's Answer, Today's Question

Yesterday's Answer:




Hebrew is the language from which we ultimately derive the words: Satan, cinnamon, seraph, bedlam and sapphire.










Today's Question: 




Name the country who's highest military award translates at The Order of Victory and is a diamond-encrusted, five-pointed platinum and ruby star.

(Sources: American Mensa, email transmission, August 2, 2012; http://www.etymonline.com/; http://www.ask.com/wiki/Red_star)

Otto and Patricia Ladensack

Yesterday's Answer, Today's Question

Yesterday's Answer:




The country known as Sverige by its locals, is the country called Sweden, in English.

Today's Question:




Name the language from whence we ultimately derive the words, "Satan," "cinnamon," "sapphire," "bedlam," and "seraph?"




I don't know this one. I know bedlam is from the name of an old mental institution in England. If I had to guess this one I'd go with German because English is Germanic in origin. This is a "stab in the dark," though.




(Sources: American Mensa, email transmission, August 1, 2012; http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Sverige; http://www.sweden.se/; http://bpstorybook.wordpress.com/category/sweden/)

Otto and Patricia Ladensack