Miss Melville made her debut as a Quiz Master with a Library themed quiz:

1 “Ok, sure. We’ve all got our little preconceived notions about who librarians are and what they do. Many people think of librarians as diminutive civil servants, scuttling about “Sssh-ing” people and stamping things. Well, think again buster.” The site where this quote originates from has become very popular with librarians, as has the image of a woman snarling and saying “look it up.” Who is the artist who created the image?|Terry Moore

2 What is the name of the character in the image?|6. Katina (Katchoo) Choovanski (also Katchoo or Katina Choovanski or Katina)

3 The player with B$user number 22686 has a name that has a special meaning to librarians. What does it stand for?|Marc – MAchine-Readable Cataloging

4 If I were looking for the book “Eats, Shoots & Leaves” at the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library, what is the call number (number on the spine of the book) I would use to find it?|428.2 TRUSS

5 What is the call number for the same book at any of Harvard’s libraries?|PE1450 .T75 2006x (also 2004x or 2003x)

6 In 1995 a movie was released about a woman who discovers that she is meant to be a librarian. What is the title?|Party Girl

7 In that same film, the title character decides to organize her roommate’s record collection. What is the system she uses called?|Dewey Decimal Classification System

8 What is the 4th law of library science?|Save the time of the user

9 Bunny Watson is a librarian in a film. What is the B$ industry number for the type of library she worked in?|6313

10 “The OPAC is not the sun. The OPAC is at best a distant planet, every year moving farther from the orbit of its solar system.” What does OPAC stand for?|Online Public Access Catalog

11 Librarians are more prevalent in popular culture than you might think. Name the two TV characters who made the cover of American Libraries’ September 1999 issue.|Rupert Giles and Buffy Summers

12 ¿Cuál es el nombre completo de la persona que creó el Sistema de Clasificación de Dewey?|Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey

13 Medical libraries usually use medical subject headings for their materials. If you were looking for books dealing with brain cancer as a subject, what is the proper medical subject heading?|brain neoplasms

14 Librarians in the United States and Canada generally need to have an ALA-accredited Masters degree. What state has the most available programs and how many programs are there?|New York and 7

15 I am a medical librarian who does a certain type of library work. I work with the public and I help people find what they need. What B$ industry does a blog about this aspect of my job fit into?| 6317

16 For this question, you will need to go to this post. http://blogsharesablog.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/a-fate-worse-than-death/?preview=true This still comes from a film. This character became a librarian, the implication being this fate is worse than that the one that befell Gloria Grahame's character (she became a prostitute). What is the name of the movie and what is the name of the actress playing the character in this photograph?|It's a Wonderful Life, Donna Reed

17 Fill in the blanks. Even though I (MM) hate math, especially algebra, thanks to two guys named George _____ and John ___, I use it daily in my job when searching databases|Boole and Venn

18 This hotel was sued by the owners of the Dewey Decimal Classification system (they settled the suit). If you wanted to stay in the room for B$industry number 1416, what would your room number be?|900.003
19 Who is in charge of Mallville Public library?|Mel

20 Dewey who also works at Mallville is a specific kind of librarian. If he had a blog about his job, what is the likely B$ industry we vote it into?|6316

21 When the ceiling of the Library of Congress' Jefferson Building was being renovated--a ceiling that had decorations in the most precious metal of the late 19th century, something unexpected allowed for a savings of money. What was it?|they thought the ceiling was covered with silver leaf, but it was aluminium

22 Who was the head of the Bodleian Library at Oxford in 1969?|R. Shackleton

23 In what album did the song "Addy Will Know" (a song about a librarian) appear?|Crawl Inside Your Head

Quiz winners: a tie between Ixx and JTSage

Patricia's raffle winners : All that participated :)

Yeah Rantz hosted an Australiana quiz and I got zip lol , in BlogShares think that I live in another country Ha Ha

1 Postally coding, subtract Rapid Creek from Caulfield North, make me a Blog$hares industry and I am what?|Brasov

2 Enegawala, Atitjer, Naantyatjarra, Wiloora, Alekerene, Yirrkalla and Julaimawu: some of me have aditional letters, some of me are missinng letters. Anagram the missing and extras and name an Australian city.|Geelong

3 I'm an Aussie beer known for my green can. What beer am I?|Victoria Bitter

4 I am a children's game found on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Website. My introduction looks like this: http://tinyurl.com/5q4jaz - what is my url (full, not tiny) where you can play me?.|http://www.abc.net.au/rollercoaster/dash/arena/games/billycart.htm

5 I am not physically connected to the island which administers me and I am, at times, covered with four seals. My bottom contains both a bishop and a clerk. What is my name? |Macquarie Island

6 Driving South(ish) on Rathdowne street, turn right on Victoria Street then left when you get to Russell. Drive until you get to the t-intersection and turn left. Stop at the lights. What is on your right?|Flinder's street Station

7 Identify four Australian BlogShares players by player ID (eg if billythekid were an Aussie, one of your answers would be 55024) |21655, 53480, 56297, 33038

8 What is the name of the Australian interstate cricket competition for 2008-9?|Sheffield Shield

9 When visiting this http://tinyurl.com/6qyzgf hospital, what suburb are you in?|Tiwi

10 I'm north of Sydney, a grape-growing region and famous for wine. Name me.|Hunter Valley

11 In the past few months, this snake was recently found coming out of a toilet in a Darwin apartment block. What is my common name (and I don't mean "Fred")? http://tinyurl.com/5skfpl|Black-headed python.

12 An Australian now ex-cricket player was (in)famous for his sexualising of SMS getting him intro trouble. What is his name and what number did he wear on his jersey in one day cricket?|Shane Warne - 23

13 Until 1990, I was known as the Victorian Football League, primarily because I was started in the state of Victoria. What am I called now and what are the three colours of my logo?|Australian Football Leage: red, white and blue

14 Which organisation produced a t-shirt with the slogan "The Pope Touched Me Down Under"|No To Pope Coalition

15 What is the venue for the state-based netball team for which Catherine Cox is the captains?|Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre

16 Boys catch, carry and transmit me and I give them diferent illnesses than I give girls. The Australian government is protecting girls against me, since 2007, but - lucky for me - not boys. What am I? |Human papillomavirus

17 Australian Prisoners-of-War helped to build the Thai-Burma Railway in what two years?|1942-43

18 A Darwin Stubbie contains how much beer (metric only, thanks)?|2 Litres

19 What is the Australian Prime Minister's wife's name?|Therese Rein

20 I am the major Australian telephony provider, partially government owned. What was my name before I changed to my current name?|Telecom Australia

21 My governor and premier are female and my parliament is unicameral - what sort of benders are my citizens (even though the cockroaches may call them imported toads) known as? |Banana

22 My mascot is a polar bear - in Australia of all places - you can find him as an artefactin Blog$hares. What alcoholic beverage am I?|Bundaberg Rum

23 Who tosses the coins in two-up?|Spinner

Winner: Ixx
Quizmaster: Rantz
Raffles: Miss Melville, JTSage, billythekid (gifted to Tkey)

Click here to read about Erica

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tahoejimbo420's Ex-Bartender and member  of The Bar

Yeah Billy hosted his second pub quiz with the theme of "tenuous links" lol, last Saturday 13 of July. The questions and answers are below:

1 The Village People had a hit song called Macho Man, but who was the female manager of WWF wrestler Macho Man Randy Savage?|Miss Elizabeth

2 The reigning UK monarch, Queen Elizabeth II lives in London, but who has been performing as the new front-man of the rock band "Queen"?|Paul Rodgers

3 Paul Rodgers was in a band called Free in the 60's, who had a hit with 'All Right Now' but who was set free from prison in 1990 to go on and win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993?|Nelson Mandela

4  Willie Nelson, the country musician, has never won the Nobel Peace Prize but what age is he now?|75

5 The chemical element Rhenium takes 75 as it's atomic number, but which BS user has the ID number 7575?|Killermart Martin

6 A Martin is a breed of bird, but what are the two main ingredients in the classic Martini?|Gin Dry Vermouth Gin

7 Gin is made with juniper berries giving it it's flavour, Chuck Berry is a famous musician, but what does movie hard man Chuck Norris's niece drink down in a youtube video?|Fish

8 Fish fingers are made from fish, fish don't actually have fingers, but how fast are your clicking fingers? Using my BS ID as your key go on a treasure hunt and answer the easy question at the end, start off at http://blogshares.the-kid.org/?p=83 | The Bar

9 This is the IRC channel of The Bar Corporation, but what's the URL of the heavy industry view of the IRC industry in Blogshares?|http://blogshares.com/industries.php?weight=heavy&ind=6498

10 The URL of a famous search engine is http://google.com but a googol has ___ zeros?|100

11 If you covered 100 miles in 24 hours racewalking you're called a Centurion, in Britain you could join ___ ___________ __ __________ club?|The Brotherhood of Centurions

12 The TV series 'Brotherhood' is about two brothers one a gangster, one a politician, but which band is in this picture http://blogshares.the-kid.org/quizimg2.jpg ?|Brotherhood of Man

13 If you are a man you have two chromosomes, x and y, x and y are also used in maths to denote axes on a graph but what's the title of the 11th graph on the Blogshares 'graph blast' page?|Global Karma Change

14 In BS you get Karma by voting for blogs but what music act produced the classic 'Karma Chameleon'?|Culture Club

15 You can dance at a club, you can use a club on a baby seal, jelly babies taste great, but how many jelly beans are in this jar- http://blogshares.the-kid.org/bsquiz3.jpg (it's over 1000 but less than 1200)?|1187

16 The year 1187 was a long time ago, an event that happened a long time ago was Henry VIII's last marriage, on this day in 1543, to Catherine Parr, but where was the venue?|Hampton Court Palace

17 I don't live in a palace, I live in a cottage, cottage cheese is sold in pots because it's soft, what kind of cream is used in a Soft Love cocktail?|Whipping

18 Whipping can involve a rope, you can tie knots in ropes, but in know typing what is the term for a loop between the ends of a rope (such as the loops used in a 'shoelaces' bow knot)?|bight

19 Bight is pronounced in the same way as bite. In English language this is called a homonym. English is the mandated international language of aviation but how many members does the BlogShares Airlines corporation have?|34

20 The American pianist(another homonym, but let's skip it) Van Cliburn Jr was born on this day in 1934. Almost all pianos these days have 88 keys, but what number do you get when you subtract the number of black keys from the number of white?|16

21 Drink recipe number 16 on the drinksmixer.com site it the Creamsicle Margarita, strangely there's no drink23, but in what type of glass should drink92 be served?|Old Fashioned

22 Fashion the David Bowie song, was a track on his album "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)". I recently went on a camping trip to Loch Ness, home of Nessie, the Loch Ness monster, but which famous monster is in this image(you might not see it straight away) http://blogshares.the-kid.org/quizimage4.jpg ?|Cookie

23 If you eat too many cookies you'll die, fact. In a famous Monty Python clip Mr Creosote finally bursts after a wafer thin mint. Creosote is used to protect wooden fences etc from the elements. Fencing is an oltmpic sport involving swords, but what colour is Darth Vader's futuristic lightsaber?|Red

First correct answers: Ixx(8),Rantz(5),MissMelville(4),JonMarquis(3),Tkey(1),JTSage(1) and Peach(1)

Winner of the pub quiz: Ixx

Winner of the 2300 chips: Tkey

Winner of The Bartender's "Cash, a lot of it" contest: Moon Dial

Thanks BTK for a well researched pub quiz!

The Bartender

One night in Ireland, two men were sitting in a pub, drinking some Guinness, when one turns to the other and says 'You see that man over there? He looks just like me! I think I'm gonna go over there and talk to him.'

So, he goes over to the man and taps him on the shoulder. 'Excuse me sir,' he starts, 'but I noticed you look just like me!'

The second man turns around and says 'Yeah, I noticed the same thing, where you from?'

'I'm from Dublin', second man stunned says, 'Me too! What street do you live on?', 'McCarthy street', second man replies, 'Me too! What number is it?', the first man announces, '162', second man shocked says, 'Me too! What are your parents names?', first man replies, 'Connor and Shannon', second man awestruck says, 'Mine too! This is unbelievable!'

So, they buy some more Guinness and they're talking some more when the bartenders change shifts. The new bartender comes in and goes up to the other bartender and asks 'What's new today?'

'Oh, the Murphy twins are drunk again.' lol

Yeah, The Bar  is the Corporation  where no guns are allowed inside lol. A place where members of the main B$ corporations can unwind with a smile the seriousness and competitiveness of the B$ game. Activities such as "Happy Hours" offering rare ideas and pub quiz are becoming regular and we are always having one off funky ones. 

The main Corporations very likely will become more competitive because the new way of calculating the interest paid by them which will be put in place soon . However, always remember that The Bar Corporation is strictly fun , so let's rock!

The Bartender

Superman had a bad day and wants to have some drinks to unwind it but because he has a reputation to keep clean, he goes to a Bar located in Cuba. After a few drinks he decides to go back to Metropolis so he goes to the highest building in The Havana and for his surprise at the first try he can not take off. He thinks that he had too many drinks and he is now weak until he realizes hundreds of Cubans hanging on his cape and screaming: " Go Superman Go , take us out of Cuba" lol

My first - and only, thus far - article on Blog$hares for the Bar Corporation was about voting your way to the top. This one is as well.

More specifically, it's to provide you with an example of approximately how many chips you can make by taking a Twitter and voting its incomings and outgoings.

The blog that I was looking and - and know, I don't recall which one that was - had a total of 60 links, both in and out.

I started with the incomings and voted my way through each of them, as well as adding any blogs that I might find linked through the "Web" portion of the blog. I haven't yet started adding the additional Twitters - that can be a mission for another day.

I then moved onto the outgoings where I, again, voted my way through each of them, as well as adding any blogs that I might find linked through the "Web" portion of the blog.

I also, of course, reported any dead twitters that I found (ie those with no new posts in the past six months) whilst going through both the incomings and outgoins.

All up, this took about an hour and a a half, including the breaks to chat with Mr Kid in IRC, upload videos of Cracker Night, catch a few drops et cetera.

And... the good bit: added 7 new blogs, reported 10 and made 150 votes, which will work out to at approximately 2000 chippies in 1.5 hours. Not bad for an evening of laughter.

Twenty-threes member of The Bar Corporation and leader in B$ Karma

Yeah it was Rantz second quiz and our third in total (23). It turned out to be a showdown between Miss Melville and JT Sage this time. The 23 questions and answers are below:

1 Don't get caught up by the way I look, oright? "How do you do I, _ _ _ _ _ _"?|see you met my faithful handyman

 2 What ingredients make up a drink for Billy (BTK) when he's line-dancing and wearing his hat?|butterscotch schnapps, Bailey's Irish cream

3 Cancer drug from the 1960s that didn't work, first treatment for HIV/AIDS and still in use for same - three character name of this drug is___?|AZT

4 On the 23rd just past, what time did I get on the bus to leave work?|4:28PM or 16:28 

5 Do you log this corporation's antics? If so, you'd know that I have six koi-ish fish: name them.|Betty, Fred, Bigalocka, TinyWhite, Modalok and Mahoc

6 According to the kanun rule, a (female) virgin is worth the same as a man. What is this "worth"?|12 oxen

7 On the 25th of July this year, I get a holiday (there will be a raffle from this holiday). How much does it cost an aged pensioner to join the organisation that holds this event?|10.00

8 At what bar was Tahoejimbo420 was rewarded 1T B$ for drinking in during 2008?|the Warfield

9 What drink did our drunken bartender serve to you lot the day before I returned to "the game" after my last "break"?|Atomic Papa

10 In March of 2007, a now banned player won 2,300 chippies for guessing how many what were in a jar?|bread clips

11 How many one night stands did the XXX have in 2004?|None

12 Hungry? Need nutrition? You won't get any of that from this 'cereal':" http://tinyurl.com/6gmsmu. What is it called?|Kaboom!

13 23 skidoo! What I have just instructed you to do?|Go away - scram - shoo - get out

14 Take your mind back to question 10 - how many bread clips are now in that same jar? One 'guess' per person at a time - no two guesses from the same player in a row. http://tinyurl.com/444p6h (it's now full - no more to ever be added)|529

15 I'm a member of an Aussie organisation that has a "journal of fact and opinion": name its associate editor.| Karen Stollznow

16 Tkey, twenty-threes and Peach had a sixty-nine. What date did I blog this?|20 Jun 2008

17 Write an email to which address to get published in "The Australian" newspaper ! letters@theaustralian.com.au

 18 How fast are you at following tiny links? Show us all by using the number of the corp hosting this quiz to open the door and give me the (eventual) answer (19 chars): http://tinyurl.com/57btx8|"fill in the blank"

19 Mr Adams is buying ideas in this industry for 1K a pop - how many ideas do I have in that industry?|115,529

20 After Brad does Frank (or is it the other way around?), Brad croons a woeful lament not in the final cut. Name that song. You get no notes.| Once in a while

21 What's the name of the beautiful darling pictured with the Sarcophilus Harrisii that recently made its way to the UK?|Megan (the Sarcophilus Harrisii is the technical name for the Tassie devil and I missed that one lol)

22 Give me the one-word description of the type of bar Randy McFab was in on 16 June 2005.|Rough

23 There is a special cocktail for people like hildy, peach and an Evil one that has 5 ingredients, including an Absolut one. Name the non-alcoholic incredient.|Coke (Princess Cocktail)

Miss Melville won the 1T cash and Beth won the 2300 chips

Attendants: Miss Melville, JT Sage, Jon Marquis (for a little while only), Patricia, Tkey , Beth and myself

Quizmaster: Rantz

The Bartender

Do you find yourself sitting in front of the computer, hitting refresh over and over, wondering why you never get those ideas that you have reindexed for? Or worse still, do you not know how to make the ideas you need drop?

1. You must reindex a blog to make ideas drop. 

2. The blog *must* have incoming links in order for the ideas to drop. 

3. The industry you want to drop *must* be in the top 5 industries on that blog.

So maybe you knew all that and you’re still having trouble getting them. Maybe your connection isn’t too fast or maybe you’re just not as fast as those snipers out there (*cough*). Make it a habit to check out the bonds needed page http://blogshares.com/needbonds.php or take advantage of the players market making sure to advertise your bids in the trading floor of the forums http://blogshares.com/yabbse/index.php?board=4.0

MissMelville
Member of The Bar and B$ Index Manager

Megan with the Tassie Devil toy that her father (Tkey) won in our first free in-Corp raffle. The devil found a very cute owner in the UK!

Carlos R at The Queens Head Cafe Bar, Hobart, Australia (2008)

Tkey at Gravity Bar in Dublin, Ireland (2007)