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    Zitat

    Originally posted by Bernhard
    Und Du hast recht mit Deiner letzten Anmerkung, vor allem da davon auch kaum etwas übersetzt sein dürfte...


    Zwei oder drei Gedichte sind auf niederlandisch ubersetzt worden, und im Verniaan publiziert. Aber das erwahne ich einfach unter dem Titel 'Poesies'.

    Ich habe jetzt alle Theaterstucke in meine Liste aufgenommen. Die Interviews, Gedichte und Speeches sind zu viele, das Ubersicht wurde sehr unubersichtlich werden wenn ich sie alle reinsteckte.

    Zitat

    Originally posted by Bernhard
    Ich habe den Eindruck, Garmt hat seine Seite so aufgemacht, daß nur Werke, die auch übersetzt worden sind, enthalten sind. Es handelt sich also nicht um eine vollständige Bibliographie, sondern nur um die Werke, die es in Übersetzung gibt.
    Garmt, stimmt das so??


    Stimmt. Vielleicht fuge ich noch mal alle Theaterstucke, einzelne Gedichte und andere Texte zu, aber die Liste ist vor allem ein Ubersicht von Ubersetzungen!


    Garmt.

    Zitat

    Originally posted by Poldi
    Bei Garmt habe ich Monna Lisa leider nicht gefunden?!?


    Weil ich keine Ubersetzungen dieses Theaterstucks kenne!

    Zitat

    Originally posted by Clavelina
    Aber um die Qualität der Übersetzung einigermaßen beurteilen zu können, würde man noch das Original brauchen, Poldi.


    Das Original auf franzosisch findet man hier


    Garmt.

    ... declared innocent.


    Edouard Cadol claimed to be the co-author of the play "Le tour du monde en
    80 jours". In fact, Verne and Cadol had collaborated for a short time on a
    draft of a play, but without any success. Yet Cadol earned a significant
    portion of the rights to the play. It didn't take a lawsuit to settle this
    matter, so the answer must be regarded as incorrect.


    Eugène Turpin recognized himself in the character Thomas Roch, and sued
    Verne for using his personality in his novel. Verne was acquitted, but his
    correspondance with his brother Paul suggests that he did indeed base Roch
    on Turpin.


    Best regards,
    Garmt.

    Dear friends,


    Here are the results of the third Jules Verne Rare Entries Contest. You can also see the results at http://www.phys.uu.nl/~gdevries/rare/


    I will not start a new contest during summer, as many people may be on
    holidays; I'll also have to come up with good new questions. The rare
    entries contest may be back in September.


    RANK SCORE ENTRANT Q0 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9


    1. 288 Ariel Perez 1 1 2 2 1 3 3 1 2 4
    2. 360 David Vasek 1 1 4 2 3 1 3 1 1 5
    3. 480 Christophe Caron 3 1 1 1 4 4 1 1 2 5
    4. 864 Alain Braut 3 1 1 2 1 3 3 2 2 4
    5. 1296 Bernhard Krauth 3 1 2 2 3 1 3 3 1 4
    6. 2304 Stefan Marniok 3 1 1 4 3 4 2 1 2 4
    7. 3840 David McCallister 1 1 4 4 4 4 1 3 1 5
    8. 8640 Art Evans 3 1 1 WR 1 1 3 3 WR WR
    9. 15360 Marko Obradovic 1 2 4 4 4 3 2 2 2 5
    10. 46080 Marc Reymann 3 2 4 4 4 4 3 1 2 5


    These are the answers given by the top 3 entrants:


    Ariel Perez David Vasek Christophe Caron
    0 Harry William John
    1 Beaurépaire Schuler Roux
    2 Palle Huld Nellie Bly Bertrand Piccard
    3 Sword Electric 2 L'Epouvante
    4 Saint-Michel I Saint-Michel III Great Eastern
    5 Ostrich Orang-outang Dog
    6 Le chemin de France Le Chancellor Une ville flottante
    7 Krzysztof Czubaszek Egon Cierny Jean-Christophe Jeauffre
    8 Gil Braltar César Cascabel Gil Braltar
    9 Léon Delmas Eugène Turpin Eugène Turpin


    Answers given


    Here are the answers given to each question, ranked from most to least
    popular, i.e. worst to best, for each question:


    | 0. Give a first name shared by at least five characters from five different
    | Voyages Extraordinaires.


    3 John (Bunsby, Mangles, Hatteras, Branican, Murray, Cort, Proth,
    Davis)
    3 Nicolas (Palander, "le Pesce", Pigassof, Starkos, Sagamore,
    Deck)
    1 Harry (Grant, Drake, Blount, Ford, Markel, Gibson, Rhodes,
    Killer)
    1 James (Weldon, Starr, Hilton, Wall, Burbank)
    1 Jean (Cornbutte, Passepartout, Keller, Morgaz, Cascabel,
    Morénas)
    1 William (Batulcar, Emery, Falsten, Bidulph, Kolderup, Guy)


    Nicolas is also the pseudonym used by Michel Strogoff: Nicolas Korpanoff.
    It is debatable if fake names would count, but since there is already a
    real Nicolas in this novel (Pigassof), it doesn't matter.


    There are more Harry's, Johns and Jeans to be found in the Voyages
    Extraordinaires; the names above are just a random selection.


    | 1. Name an artist who provided at least one illustration that was included in
    | an illustrated Hetzel edition of a Voyage Extraordinaire.


    2 Jules Férat (e.g. Michel Strogoff)
    1 Alfred Quesnay de Beaurépaire (Le pays des fourrures)
    1 Edouard Riou (e.g. Cinq semaines en ballon)
    1 Emile Bayard (Autour de la Lune, Un drame dans les airs)
    1 F. de Myrbach (Hier et demain)
    1 George Roux (e.g. Sans dessus dessous)
    1 Lorenz Frölich (Une fantaisie du docteur Ox)
    1 Léon Benett (e.g. Le tour du monde en 80 jours)
    1 Théophile Schuler (Maître Zacharius)


    Plenty of choice for this question; two unlucky entrants both picked
    Férat. All the other illustrators, including the most famous ones (Riou,
    Roux en Benett) were picked only once.


    An interesting article on the illustrators of the Voyages Extraordinaires
    (by Art Evans, one of this contest's entrants) can be found at:
    http://jv.gilead.org.il/evans/illustr/


    | 2. Name a person who, inspired by Jules Verne's Le Tour du Monde en 80 Jours,
    | made a trip around the world in 80 days or less, and published an account
    | of the journey, saying that Jules Verne's novel was the inspiration for it.


    4 Nellie Bly (1890)
    2 Palle Huld (1928)
    1 Bertrand Piccard (1999)
    1 Claude Mossé (1977?)
    1 Jean Cocteau (1936)
    1 Michael Palin (1988)


    Nellie Bly and Palle Huld made the trip around the world with the purpose
    of beating Fogg's record. Bly needed 72 days, Palle only 44. Cocteau,
    Mossé and Palin took their time: they used the full 80 days.


    Piccard's journey was a bit different: he circumnavigated the globe in a
    balloon. He did say that this trip was inspired by Jules Verne, and he
    published a book called "Le Tour du Monde en 20 Jours", so I accept this
    answer.


    | 3. Give the name of a submarine that is mentioned in a work by Jules Verne.


    4 Nautilus (Vingt mille lieues sous les mers)
    2 Electric (Mathias Sandorf) [= Electric 2]
    2 Sword (Face au drapeau)
    1 L'Epouvante (Maître du Monde)
    WRONG:
    1 Tug (not the name of the submarine)


    The tug used by Ker Karraje in "Face au drapeau" is unnamed, it is just
    referred to as "the tug". Since the question asks for "the name of a
    submarine", I can't accept "Tug" as an answer.


    In the novel "Mathias Sandorf", Verne says that all of Antékirtt's
    submarines have the same name, Electric, and that they also have a number.
    Since the question asked for a name, I treat "Electric" and "Electric 2"
    as equivalent answers.


    | 4. Give the name of a ship that Jules Verne travelled on.


    4 Great Eastern (From Liverpool to New York, 1867)
    3 Saint-Michel III (Verne's last and largest ship)
    1 Hamburg (From Bordeaux to Liverpool, 1859)
    1 Saint-John (From New York to Albany, 1867)
    1 Saint-Michel I (Verne's first ship)


    The Saint-Michel was Verne's first ship, on which he made frequent trips
    along the coast. It was succeeded by the Saint-Michel II and finally the
    Saint-Michel III. On this last yacht, he made several long cruises, to the
    Mediterranean, the North Sea and the British Isles.


    In 1867, Jules Verne and his brother Paul travelled to the United States
    on board of the Great Eastern. They took the steamer Saint-John to reach
    Albany, from where they visited the Niagara Falls. Verne wrote about this
    trip in his novel "Une ville flottante" (with an added fictional plot).


    The Hamburg is the ship that took Jacques and Jonathan from Bordeaux to
    Liverpool in "Voyage à reculons". We know that this story is an accurate
    description of the trip that Verne made with his friend Aristide Hignard
    in 1859. While this is not an irrefutable proof that Hamburg was the
    ship's real name, I give the entrant the benefit of doubt. Interestingly,
    the ship's captain in "Voyage à Reculons" was called Speedy. Verne used
    this name in "Le tour du monde en 80 jours" for the captain of a ship with
    destination Bordeaux, that is taken to Liverpool instead.



    | 5. Name an animal species of which at least one individual
    representative, in
    | a Voyage Extraordinaire, has a proper name. That is, if a duck called
    | Donald would appear in a Voyage Extraordinaire, than "duck" would be a
    | correct answer.


    4 Dog (e.g. Top, L'Ile mystérieuse)
    3 Ostrich (Dada, L'Etoile du Sud)
    1 Elephant (Kiouni, Le tour du monde en 80 jours)
    1 Horse (e.g. Thaouka, Les enfants du capitaine Grant)
    1 Orang-outang (Jup in "L'Ile mystérieuse")


    Other animals with proper names are goats, parrots and monkeys. And of
    course, there are all the different incarnation of the rat family in "La
    Famille Raton".


    | 6. Name a Voyage Extraordinaire that is *completely* written from a
    | first-person perspective, i.e. the narrator is one of the characters in the
    | story.


    3 Le Chancellor (J.-R. Kazallon)
    3 Le chemin de France (Natalis Delpierre)
    2 Voyage au centre de la Terre (Axel)
    1 Le sphinx des glaces [= An Antarctic Mystery]
    1 Une ville flottante (?)


    The name of the narrator in Une Ville flottante is not known. This gives
    the novel an especially autobiographical feeling.


    | 7. Name someone who is currently the president of a Jules Verne Society, Jules
    | Verne Club, or similar association.


    3 Jean-Michel Margot (North American Jules Verne Society)
    2 Gerard Voogt (Dutch Jules Verne Society)
    1 Dieter Michaelis (Jules Verne Club Berlin)
    1 Egon Cierny (Klub Julese Vernea, Prague)
    1 Jean-Christophe Jeauffre (Jules Verne Aventures)
    1 Krzysztof Czubaszek (Polish Jules Verne Society)
    1 Mme Pia Daix (Centre International Jules Verne, Amiens)


    | 8. Name a character from a work by Jules Verne whose full name is also the
    | full title of the work he/she appears in (subtitles may be ignored for this
    | question).


    2 Gil Braltar
    2 Hector Servadac
    2 Martin Paz
    1 César Cascabel
    1 Don Galaor
    1 Mathias Sandorf
    WRONG:
    1 Jean-Marie Cabidoulin (Not the full title)


    The full title of the story that Cabidoulin appears in, is Les Histoires
    de Jean-Marie Cabidoulin.


    | 9. Name someone who was Jules Verne's opponent in a court of law.


    5 Eugène Turpin (felt insulted by the character Thomas Roch)
    4 Léon Delmas (accused Verne of plagiarism) [= René de Pont-Jest]
    WRONG:
    1 Edouard Cadol (there was no court of law)


    Léon Delmas, who used the pseudonym René de Pont-Jest, accused Verne of
    plagiarising his short story "La tête de Mimer". The accusation, based on
    the use of the Sun's shadow in "Voyage au centre de la Terre" (Delmas had
    used the Moon's shadow in his short story) was really far-fetched, and
    Verne was

    Liebe Freunde,


    Der Deadline zum Rare Entries Contest no 3 ist passiert. Es gab nur 3 Teilnehmer, nicht wirklich genug fur eine interessante Runde. Weil ich bevor nachsten Montag uberhaupt keine Zeit habe um die Resultaten zu posten, werde ich bis Montag 12:00 Antworten acceptieren.


    Hoffentlich werde ich noch einige empfangen!


    Herzliche Grusse,
    Garmt.


    0. Give a first name shared by at least five characters from five
    different Voyages Extraordinaires.


    1. Name an artist who provided at least one illustration that was included
    in an illustrated Hetzel edition of a Voyage Extraordinaire.


    2. Name a person who, inspired by Jules Verne's Le Tour du Monde en 80
    Jours, made a trip around the world in 80 days or less, and published an
    account of the journey, saying that Jules Verne's novel was the
    inspiration for it.


    3. Give the name of a submarine that is mentioned in a work by Jules
    Verne.


    4. Give the name of a ship that Jules Verne travelled on.


    5. Name an animal species of which at least one individual representative,
    in a Voyage Extraordinaire, has a proper name. That is, if a duck called
    Donald would appear in a Voyage Extraordinaire, than "duck" would be a
    correct answer.


    6. Name a Voyage Extraordinaire that is *completely* written from a
    first-person perspective, i.e. the narrator is one of the characters in
    the story.


    7. Name someone who is currently the president of a Jules Verne Society,
    Jules Verne Club, or similar association.


    8. Name a character from a work by Jules Verne whose full name is also the
    full title of the work he/she appears in (subtitles may be ignored for
    this question).


    9. Name someone who was Jules Verne's opponent in a court of law.

    Zitat

    Originally posted by Poldi
    in Deutschland müssen wir allerdings noch bis Dezember warten!


    Wir haben den Film schon im August! :D


    Ich weiss aber nicht, ob mir das so vielen Freude macht. Ich werde mir wahrscheinlich nur argern... X(

    Zitat

    Original von lobo
    Traut sich keiner an meine Fragen zu Jules Verne im XQUIZ


    Wo finde ich diese?

    Dear friends,


    This is a reminder of the 3rd Rare Entries Contest. You have a couple of days left to send me your answers!


    I'll repeat the questions:


    0. Give a first name shared by at least five characters from five different Voyages Extraordinaires.


    1. Name an artist who provided at least one illustration that was included in an illustrated Hetzel edition of a Voyage Extraordinaire.


    2. Name a person who, inspired by Jules Verne's Le Tour du Monde en 80 Jours, made a trip around the world in 80 days or less, and published an account of the journey, saying that Jules Verne's novel was the inspiration for it.


    3. Give the name of a submarine that is mentioned in a work by Jules Verne.


    4. Give the name of a ship that Jules Verne travelled on.


    5. Name an animal species of which at least one individual representative, in a Voyage Extraordinaire, has a proper name. That is, if a duck called Donald would appear in a Voyage Extraordinaire, than "duck" would be a correct answer.


    6. Name a Voyage Extraordinaire that is *completely* written from a first-person perspective, i.e. the narrator is one of the characters in the story.


    7. Name someone who is currently the president of a Jules Verne Society, Jules Verne Club, or similar association.


    8. Name a character from a work by Jules Verne whose full name is also the full title of the work he/she appears in (subtitles may be ignored for this question).


    9. Name someone who was Jules Verne's opponent in a court of law.


    Best regards,
    Garmt.

    Nachste Woche fangt im WDR die neue Serie "Fabeltiere" an. Ich habe keine Ahnung ob das fur uns Vernianer noch interessant sein wird, aber verpasst mal nicht diese Sendung:


    Mittwoch, 28. Juli 2004, 14:30 - 14:55
    Fabeltiere
    4. Das Ungeheuer der Meere


    Das Meer ist ungewöhnlich still. Eine Hand voll Fischer rudert in ihrem kleinen Boot auf die Küste zu. Plötzlich schießen riesige Fangarme aus dem Wasser. Sie schlingen sich um den Hals eines Mannes... Tief beeindruckt lauschen die Kinder im alten Hafen von Victoria der Erzählung eines weißhaarigen Seebären. Ob die Geschichte über den angriffslustigen Tintenfisch wahr ist? Einer, der sich beruflich mit den legendären Kopffüßern beschäftigt, ist der Biologe Jim Cosgrove. Sein Tauchgebiet ist die Nordwestküste Amerikas und Kanadas - Heimat des pazifischen Riesenkrakens. Ein Haufen ausgeschiedener Krabbenschalen zeigt Jim, wo sich der Krake versteckt hält. Im Gegensatz zu den Horrorgeschichten um die menschenfressenden Seeungeheuer ist der Riesenkrake sehr scheu und muss mit einer Chemikalie unter seinem Felsen hergelockt werden. Schwimmt der Krake in freiem Wasser, soll er gefangen werden. Und dazu braucht selbst Experte Cosgrove einen Helfer, denn: Er hat schließlich nur zwei Arme, der Krake dagegen acht ...

    Zitat

    Original von Poldi
    Welches ist eure Lieblingsgeschichte von Jules Verne? Ihr habt 2 Stimmen!


    Was ist das denn fur schreckliche Frage? X(


    Ich habe Strogoff und Grant gewahlt, finde aber 80 Tagen, 20.000 Meilen und 5 Wochen nicht slechter als diese zwei. Und hatte ich nicht auch 3 Russen, Fam. ohne Namen, und viele andere erwahnen mussen?


    Bah, Poldi, diese Umfrage ist nicht nett. Nachstes Mal gerne die Frage "Welcher ist eure Lieblingsschriftsteller?" ;)


    Garmt.

    Zitat

    Original von Clavelina
    Du lieber Himmel, das geht ja wie am Schnürchen bei Dir :D


    Ja, ich mochte diese 3. Runde noch vor dem Sommer vollenden, denn im Juli und August sind viele auf den Ferien.

    Dear friends,


    I am pleased to announce the third Jules Verne Rare Entries Contest. I hope there will be even more particpants than last time, everybody who did not participate before is cordially invited to join in this contest. You can have a look at the past contests to get an idea of what it's all about:
    http://www.phys.uu.nl/~gdevries/rare/


    The purpose of this game is as follows: for each of the questions, your
    objective is to give an answer that (1) is correct, and (2) will be
    duplicated by as FEW other people as possible. More details can be found
    in the rules.


    In order to participate in the contest, send your answers to me by email
    (g.devries@phys.uu.nl) before the deadline. It is of course essential that
    nobody sees the answers given by other entrants before the deadline, so
    please do NOT send your answers to any mailing list I used to distribute
    the questions! Make sure you don't use the 'reply-to' address; use the
    'from' address instead.


    Make sure you have read the rules before submitting your answers!


    You can find the questions and the rules at
    http://www.phys.uu.nl/~gdevries/rare/


    Deadline: 1 July, 12:00 CET



    The questions


    0. Give a first name shared by at least five characters from five different Voyages Extraordinaires.


    1. Name an artist who provided at least one illustration that was included in an illustrated Hetzel edition of a Voyage Extraordinaire.


    2. Name a person who, inspired by Jules Verne's Le Tour du Monde en 80 Jours, made a trip around the world in 80 days or less, and published an account of the journey, saying that Jules Verne's novel was the inspiration for it.


    3. Give the name of a submarine that is mentioned in a work by Jules Verne.


    4. Give the name of a ship that Jules Verne travelled on.


    5. Name an animal species of which at least one individual representative, in a Voyage Extraordinaire, has a proper name. That is, if a duck called Donald would appear in a Voyage Extraordinaire, than "duck" would be a correct answer.


    6. Name a Voyage Extraordinaire that is *completely* written from a first-person perspective, i.e. the narrator is one of the characters in the story.


    7. Name someone who is currently the president of a Jules Verne Society, Jules Verne Club, or similar association.


    8. Name a character from a work by Jules Verne whose full name is also the full title of the work he/she appears in (subtitles may be ignored for this question).


    9. Name someone who was Jules Verne's opponent in a court of law.



    The rules


    * 1. The Game


    For each of the questions above, your objective is to give
    an answer that (1) is correct, and (2) will be duplicated by as FEW
    other people as possible. Feel free to use any reference material
    you like to RESEARCH your answers; but when you have found enough
    possible answers for your liking, you are expected to choose on your
    own which one to submit, WITHOUT mechanical or computer assistance:
    this is meant to be a game of wits.


    * 2. Scoring


    The scores on the different questions are MULTIPLIED to produce a
    final score for each entrant. Low score wins; a perfect score is 1.


    If your answer to a question is correct, then your score is the number
    of people who gave that answer, or an answer I consider equivalent.


    A wrong answer, or a skipped question, gets a high score as a penalty.
    This is the median of:
    - the number of entrants
    - the square root of that number, rounded up to an integer
    - double the largest number of entrants giving the same answer (right or
    wrong) as each other on the question


    * 2.1 More Specific Variants


    On some questions it's possible that one entrant will give an answer
    that is a more specific variant of an answer given by someone else.
    In that case the more specific variant will usually be scored as if
    the two answers are different, but the other, less specific variant
    will be scored as if they are the same.


    * 2.2 Scoring Example


    Say I ask for a type of flying vehicle described in a Voyage
    Extraordinaire.
    There are 27 entrants: 19 say "balloon", 2 say "hot air balloon", 4 say
    "helicopter", 1 says "Victoria", and 1 says "flying saucer".


    The 4 people who answered "helicopter" get 4 points each. Since "hot air
    balloon"
    is a more specific variant of "balloon", those who said "balloon" get 21
    points
    each, and those who said "hot air balloon" get 2 points each. "Victoria"
    is not a
    type of flying vehicle, but the name of one individual balloon, and Jules
    Verne never
    described a "flying saucer", so these answers are both wrong. The persons
    who gave
    them both get the penalty score, which is the median of:
    - number of entrants = 27
    - sqrt(27) = 5.196+, rounded up = 6
    - double the most popular answer's count = 21 x 2 = 42
    or in this case, 27.


    * 3. Entries


    Entries must be emailed to me personally by email: g.devries@phys.uu.nl.
    Do NOT send your answers to the mailing list I used to distribute the
    questions!


    In general there is no penalty for errors of spelling, capitalization,
    English usage, or other such matters of form. Sometimes a specific
    question may imply stricter rules, though. And if you give an answer
    that properly refers to a different thing related to the one you
    intended, I will normally take it as written.


    Once you intentionally submit an answer, no changes will be allowed,
    unless I decide there was a problem with the question. Similarly,
    alternate answers within an entry will not be accepted. Only the
    first answer that you intentionally submit counts.


    * 3.1 Translations


    Because entrants may have read some works only in translation, I will
    be lenient with regard to foreign spellings of toponyms and proper
    names. As far as characters are concerned, slightly different versions
    of their names (e.g. Peter instead of Pierre) are acceptable, but
    names that are completely different (e.g. Harding instead of Smith)
    are wrong.


    Works by Jules Verne should be referred to by giving their French title.


    * 3.2 Clarifications


    Questions are not intended to be hard to understand, but I may fail
    in this intent. (For one thing, in many cases clarity could only be
    provided by an example which would suggest one or another specific
    answer, and I mustn't do that.)


    In order to be fair to all entrants, I must insist that requests for
    clarification must be emailed to me, NOT POSTED in any mailing list.
    But if you do ask for clarification, I'll probably say that the
    question is clear enough as posted. If I do decide to clarify or
    change a question, all entrants will be informed.


    * 3.3 Supporting Information


    It is your option whether or not to provide supporting information
    to justify your answers. If you don't, I'll email you to ask for
    it if I need to.


    If you provide any explanatory remarks along with your answers, you
    are responsible for making it sufficiently clear that they are not
    part of the answers. The particular format doesn't matter as long
    as you're clear.


    In the scoring example above, "balloon in Cinq semaines en ballon" would
    be
    wrong, just like "Victoria" would be wrong; "balloon (e.g. in Cinq
    semaines
    en ballon)" would be taken as a correct answer with an explanation.



    * 4. Meaning of commonly occurring terms


    These are general rules that apply unless a question specifically
    states otherwise.


    * 4.1 Voyage Extraordinaire


    A "Voyage Extraordinaire" is any of the novels published under this title,
    including the posthumous ones (re)written by Michel Verne, or any of the
    short stories published in a volume of the Voyages Extraordinaires under
    the name of Jules Verne.


    * 4.2 Work by Jules Verne


    A "work by Jules Verne" is any published text written by Jules Verne,
    and intended for a general audience. This includes poems (even though
    Verne never meant some of them to be read by others), and excludes
    private correspondence as well as interviews given by Verne.


    * 4.3 Character


    When I say "character" I mean a fictitious character.


    * 4.4 Movie


    A "movie" can be any movie, whether shown in theatres or on television,
    or issued directly on video. This excludes tv series, mini series and
    the like. Whether something is a movie or a series is determined by its
    listing in the Internet Movie DataBase (www.imdb.com).


    * 4.5 Country


    "Country" means a nation that was/is independent at the time relevant
    for the question. Dependencies are not independent countries. Whether
    or not a place is considered an independent country is determined by
    how it is listed in reference sources.


    * 4.6 Web Pages


    If I ask for material on the WWW, what you cite must already have
    existed before the contest was first posted.


    * 5. Judging


    As moderator, I will be the sole judge of what answers are correct,
    and whether two answers with similar meaning are considered the same,
    different, or more/less specific variants. I will do my best to be
    fair on all such issues, but sometimes it is necessary to be arbitrary.


    I may rescore the contest if I agree that I made a serious error and
    it affects the high finishers.



    * 6. Results


    Results will normally be posted within a few days of the contest
    closing. They may be delayed if I'm unexpectedly busy or for
    technical reasons.


    Best regards,
    Garmt.