Post by Sabre52 on Sept 9, 2007 11:56:22 GMT -5
Howdy folks, We have a winner! Susan Nmrocks. yee haa!
OK, time for another contest. Let me introduce Mr. Snideley, the dragon with an attitude. Mr. Snideley is a "Slinker Dragon". Mr. Slinker is a famous local artist and fellow rockhound here in the Ojai area and is a fellow dragon fancier. I collected his pieces before they became too expensive for my budget. Anyway, the object of this contest is to steal Mr. Snideley's horde of about 30 small slabs and slabbettes of various California poppy jasper types. All the winner has to do is tumble them or shape them into cabs and he or she will have a whole suite of poppy jaspers. Mr. Snidely is not part of the prize and stays with me so he can accumulate another treasure. *S* Here's a pic of him and his treasure:
Now the game; Mr. Snidely, being a dragon of intellectual bent, has decided upon a game of "rockhound quartz gem jeopardy" to choose the winner. The game will contain thirty some odd groupings with a common denominator(s) to be answered in the form of a question. The proper answer will be the thing or things the materials, locations, type names, ways they form, etc have in common and should be answered in question form. I know, sounds hard but it's really not that bad and all the answers have been here on site or can be easily researched via the web. In a few cases the answer will involve you finding more than one thing the items or places have in common. Contest will run till Sept 20th or until the first person gets all the answers right. Please PM me with the answers unless you want everyone else knowing what you've guessed. Depending on how it's going, I may throw in a clue or two and if no one has answered all the questions by the 20th, person who posts first with the most correct wins. Thanks for playing....Mel
Here are a couple of examples:
1. Mahogany, snowflake, sheen, midnight lace, peanut.
answer: What are types of obsidian?
2. Woodward Ranch, Richardson's Ranch, Baker Ranch, Stillwell Ranch.
Answer: What are famous rockhounding sites or fee digs?
3. Fortification, banded, lace, polka dot, plume.
Answer: What are types of patterns found in agate?
OK now here are the real thing:
1. Chinese Writing, Missouri, Blue, Cactus, Noriega, Manhattan Mine.
Answer: What are types of lace agate?
2. Wah Luke, Cripple Creek, Deschuttes, Chicken Track, Wildhorse.
Answer: What are types of picture jasper?
3. Mtorolite, Tete Rose, Malawi, Aouli, Botswana.
Answer: What are types of African agate?
4. Stony Creek ( Black Butte), Stone Canyon, Trinidad, Lavic Siding, Hornitos.
Answer: What are famous california jaspers?
5. Misty Mountain, Bruneau, Willow Creek, Imperial, Blue Mountain.
Answer:What are porcelain jaspers? (tough question)
6. Botswana, Lakers, Malawi, Casas Grandes, Brazilian.
Answer: What are banded or fortification agates from volcanic gas pocket nodules or amygdaloidal agates from volcanics.
7. Fairburn, TeePee Canyon, Dryhead, Kentucky, Union Road.
Answer: What are sedimentary fortification agates or chertaceous agates from sedimentary sources.
8. Bodie Jasper, Puddingstone, Pebble Jasper.''
Answer: What are conglomerate jasper types?
9. Lucky Strike, Mexican Red Hot, Priday, Hauser, Tamborine Mountain, Baker Ranch
Answer: What are types of thunder eggs?
10. Packsaddle, Mt. Brockman, Marra Mamba.
Answer: What are Australian Tiger eye types or locations in this case.?
11. Stone Canyon, Tabu Tabu, Sierra, Trinidad, Forest Fire.
Answer: What are types of brecciated jasper?
12. Maury Mountain, Cady Mountains, Matra Mountains, Horse Canyon, Indian green.
Answer: What are famous types of moss Agate?
13. Mocha Stone, Blackskin, Green Tree, Green Moss, green Zebra.
Answer: What are agate types from India?
14. Coyamito, Moctazuma, Apache,Laguna, Casas Grandes. Parcelas.
Answer: What are fortification agates from Northern Mexico or Chihuahua, Mexico?
15. Paisley, Carey, Graveyard Point, Wingate, Nyssa Airport.
Answer: What are types of plume agate?
16. Amethyst Sage, Parral, Medicine Bow, Montana.
Answer: What are types of dendritic agate?
17. Dryhead, Laguna, TeePee Canyon, Fairburn, Moctazuma
Answer: What are fortification agate types?
18. Los Choyas, Ochos, Keokuk, Trancas, Hauser, Dugway.
Answer:What are types of geode?
19. Mary Ellen, Indian Script, Turritella, Rice Agate, Stromatolite Jasper.
Answer: What are fossil quartz gems? (agate types or jasper types-OK)
20. Lambina, Spencer, Virgin Valley, Coober Pedy, Honduras Matrix.
Answer: What are types of precious or fire opal? This question gave everyone trouble cause everyone kept leaving out precious or fire and trying to make them all locations when Honduras Matrix is an obvious type . This should have been a good clue to the nature of the set!
21. Kinradite, Hornitos, Guadalupe, Medfordite, Morgan Hill.
Answer: What are varieties of poppy jasper or orbicular jasper?
22. Dulcote, Cheviot, Esterel, Horni Halze, Nowy Kociel.
Answer: What are famous European agate collecting areas?
23. Eden Valley, Arizona Rainbow, Badger Pocket, Virgin Valley, Hubbard basin, Marsten.
Answer: What are types of petrified wood? Again, the set clue was Arizona rainbow which is a type not a location but everyone wanted to make the set locations Arrg!
24. Bishop Ranch Bouquet, Balmorea Blue, Pom Pom, Canadian River Plume, Rio Grande.
Answer: What are types of Texas Agate?
25. Bloody Basin, Burro Creek, Mulligan Peak, Chimney Beds, Cave Creek.
Answer: What are famous Arizona agate collecting areas?
26. Snakeskin Jasper, Noreena Jasper, Rainforest Jasper, Printstone, Tigeriron.
What are Austrailan quartz gems? ( jaspers etc)
27. Nipomo, Owlhead Mountains, Cady Mountains, Sheep Bridge, Colonia Enriques.
Answer: What are famous locations for collecting sagenitic agate? Note:In this instance place names and type names are the same, so both are acceptable.
28. Jelly Bean, Dent Creek, Haystack Butte, Hart Mountain, Marsten.
What are types of Oregon Jasper or Pacific Northwest jasper. And come on guys, no freaking way is jellybean a place!
29. Horse Mountain, Summerville, Graves Mountain, Bay of Fundy, Iron ranges.
Answer: Toughest question in the contest and some folks got it right off. What are agate locations in Eastern North America? I personally liked this question as there are really so few eastern sites and it's so hard to obtain specimens from them.
30. Bubblegum, Prairie, Fairburn, Black,Tee Pee Canyon, Fairhills.
Answer:What are agates from South Dakota?
31. Stefoinite, Lysite, Turritella, Medicine Bow, Youngite
Answer: What are Wyoming quartz gems (agates)?
32. Superior, Balmorea Blue, Lahontanite.
Answer: what are agates or quartz gems associated with a lake? Tricky one as Lake Lahontan is an ancient lake which actually is mostly only a bed now. Others are lake Superior and Lake Balmorea in Texas.
All right lets all have a drink now and thanks for all the valliant efforts put forth. NMrocks: PM me your addy and I'll label your stuff ans send it off.
Good luck all....Mel
OK, time for another contest. Let me introduce Mr. Snideley, the dragon with an attitude. Mr. Snideley is a "Slinker Dragon". Mr. Slinker is a famous local artist and fellow rockhound here in the Ojai area and is a fellow dragon fancier. I collected his pieces before they became too expensive for my budget. Anyway, the object of this contest is to steal Mr. Snideley's horde of about 30 small slabs and slabbettes of various California poppy jasper types. All the winner has to do is tumble them or shape them into cabs and he or she will have a whole suite of poppy jaspers. Mr. Snidely is not part of the prize and stays with me so he can accumulate another treasure. *S* Here's a pic of him and his treasure:
Now the game; Mr. Snidely, being a dragon of intellectual bent, has decided upon a game of "rockhound quartz gem jeopardy" to choose the winner. The game will contain thirty some odd groupings with a common denominator(s) to be answered in the form of a question. The proper answer will be the thing or things the materials, locations, type names, ways they form, etc have in common and should be answered in question form. I know, sounds hard but it's really not that bad and all the answers have been here on site or can be easily researched via the web. In a few cases the answer will involve you finding more than one thing the items or places have in common. Contest will run till Sept 20th or until the first person gets all the answers right. Please PM me with the answers unless you want everyone else knowing what you've guessed. Depending on how it's going, I may throw in a clue or two and if no one has answered all the questions by the 20th, person who posts first with the most correct wins. Thanks for playing....Mel
Here are a couple of examples:
1. Mahogany, snowflake, sheen, midnight lace, peanut.
answer: What are types of obsidian?
2. Woodward Ranch, Richardson's Ranch, Baker Ranch, Stillwell Ranch.
Answer: What are famous rockhounding sites or fee digs?
3. Fortification, banded, lace, polka dot, plume.
Answer: What are types of patterns found in agate?
OK now here are the real thing:
1. Chinese Writing, Missouri, Blue, Cactus, Noriega, Manhattan Mine.
Answer: What are types of lace agate?
2. Wah Luke, Cripple Creek, Deschuttes, Chicken Track, Wildhorse.
Answer: What are types of picture jasper?
3. Mtorolite, Tete Rose, Malawi, Aouli, Botswana.
Answer: What are types of African agate?
4. Stony Creek ( Black Butte), Stone Canyon, Trinidad, Lavic Siding, Hornitos.
Answer: What are famous california jaspers?
5. Misty Mountain, Bruneau, Willow Creek, Imperial, Blue Mountain.
Answer:What are porcelain jaspers? (tough question)
6. Botswana, Lakers, Malawi, Casas Grandes, Brazilian.
Answer: What are banded or fortification agates from volcanic gas pocket nodules or amygdaloidal agates from volcanics.
7. Fairburn, TeePee Canyon, Dryhead, Kentucky, Union Road.
Answer: What are sedimentary fortification agates or chertaceous agates from sedimentary sources.
8. Bodie Jasper, Puddingstone, Pebble Jasper.''
Answer: What are conglomerate jasper types?
9. Lucky Strike, Mexican Red Hot, Priday, Hauser, Tamborine Mountain, Baker Ranch
Answer: What are types of thunder eggs?
10. Packsaddle, Mt. Brockman, Marra Mamba.
Answer: What are Australian Tiger eye types or locations in this case.?
11. Stone Canyon, Tabu Tabu, Sierra, Trinidad, Forest Fire.
Answer: What are types of brecciated jasper?
12. Maury Mountain, Cady Mountains, Matra Mountains, Horse Canyon, Indian green.
Answer: What are famous types of moss Agate?
13. Mocha Stone, Blackskin, Green Tree, Green Moss, green Zebra.
Answer: What are agate types from India?
14. Coyamito, Moctazuma, Apache,Laguna, Casas Grandes. Parcelas.
Answer: What are fortification agates from Northern Mexico or Chihuahua, Mexico?
15. Paisley, Carey, Graveyard Point, Wingate, Nyssa Airport.
Answer: What are types of plume agate?
16. Amethyst Sage, Parral, Medicine Bow, Montana.
Answer: What are types of dendritic agate?
17. Dryhead, Laguna, TeePee Canyon, Fairburn, Moctazuma
Answer: What are fortification agate types?
18. Los Choyas, Ochos, Keokuk, Trancas, Hauser, Dugway.
Answer:What are types of geode?
19. Mary Ellen, Indian Script, Turritella, Rice Agate, Stromatolite Jasper.
Answer: What are fossil quartz gems? (agate types or jasper types-OK)
20. Lambina, Spencer, Virgin Valley, Coober Pedy, Honduras Matrix.
Answer: What are types of precious or fire opal? This question gave everyone trouble cause everyone kept leaving out precious or fire and trying to make them all locations when Honduras Matrix is an obvious type . This should have been a good clue to the nature of the set!
21. Kinradite, Hornitos, Guadalupe, Medfordite, Morgan Hill.
Answer: What are varieties of poppy jasper or orbicular jasper?
22. Dulcote, Cheviot, Esterel, Horni Halze, Nowy Kociel.
Answer: What are famous European agate collecting areas?
23. Eden Valley, Arizona Rainbow, Badger Pocket, Virgin Valley, Hubbard basin, Marsten.
Answer: What are types of petrified wood? Again, the set clue was Arizona rainbow which is a type not a location but everyone wanted to make the set locations Arrg!
24. Bishop Ranch Bouquet, Balmorea Blue, Pom Pom, Canadian River Plume, Rio Grande.
Answer: What are types of Texas Agate?
25. Bloody Basin, Burro Creek, Mulligan Peak, Chimney Beds, Cave Creek.
Answer: What are famous Arizona agate collecting areas?
26. Snakeskin Jasper, Noreena Jasper, Rainforest Jasper, Printstone, Tigeriron.
What are Austrailan quartz gems? ( jaspers etc)
27. Nipomo, Owlhead Mountains, Cady Mountains, Sheep Bridge, Colonia Enriques.
Answer: What are famous locations for collecting sagenitic agate? Note:In this instance place names and type names are the same, so both are acceptable.
28. Jelly Bean, Dent Creek, Haystack Butte, Hart Mountain, Marsten.
What are types of Oregon Jasper or Pacific Northwest jasper. And come on guys, no freaking way is jellybean a place!
29. Horse Mountain, Summerville, Graves Mountain, Bay of Fundy, Iron ranges.
Answer: Toughest question in the contest and some folks got it right off. What are agate locations in Eastern North America? I personally liked this question as there are really so few eastern sites and it's so hard to obtain specimens from them.
30. Bubblegum, Prairie, Fairburn, Black,Tee Pee Canyon, Fairhills.
Answer:What are agates from South Dakota?
31. Stefoinite, Lysite, Turritella, Medicine Bow, Youngite
Answer: What are Wyoming quartz gems (agates)?
32. Superior, Balmorea Blue, Lahontanite.
Answer: what are agates or quartz gems associated with a lake? Tricky one as Lake Lahontan is an ancient lake which actually is mostly only a bed now. Others are lake Superior and Lake Balmorea in Texas.
All right lets all have a drink now and thanks for all the valliant efforts put forth. NMrocks: PM me your addy and I'll label your stuff ans send it off.
Good luck all....Mel
Lol... I'm already enjoying searching out the answers, treasure hunts rule!
Thanks so much for the contest - I'm on to you though! As one of my favourite characters would say - It's a cunning plan! 
- Thanks for the test Mel, it sure is some brain taxing stuff! ;D
