On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, sfs98ud99 wrote:
> --- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, "Blessman, Phil" <Phil.Blessman_at_C...>
> wrote:
> > Doesn't "kilo" mean "thousand" so their answer was really "one
> thousand
> > gram"? Anyway, "one kilogram" is the mass of one liter of water at 4
> deg
> > C (and only then, BTW) so I would hope that this answer was
> acceptable.
>
> Kilogram means "one thousand grams" in Greek rather than English -
> while College Bowl is considering holding their Region XVI tourney in
> Athens next year, Science Bowl has never done so.
True... BUT, where does it say in the rules that all answers must be given
completely in English to be correct, and any non-English parts of an
answer (no matter how intelligible) make the answer completely wrong?
William