Thematic Keys Trivia

1. If "key" is spelled a bit differently, it means "a small, low-elevation, sandy island formed on the surface of a coral reef". What is the alternative spelling that is pronounced the same as "key"?

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Answer: Cay

A cay forms when currents around reefs pick up loose sediment and transports it to areas where there is interference with the current. The sediment is then deposited and slowly builds up over time until it forms an island, or cay, that is made of the small remains of ocean plants and animals like coral and molluscs. If birds begin landing on the cay, their guano will help to form soil, and vegetation may grow on the cay.

From Quiz "Pass, Queen Elizabeth's Keys... All is Well!"

Answer: The Papacy

The pair of keys which appear on the flag and the Coats of Arms of the Vatican City State represent the keys to the kingdom of heaven. The golden coloured key represents the power of heaven and the silver key represents that power extending to the faithful on earth. The binding cord represents the link between the two and the significance of the key handles being at the base of the field demonstrate the power held by the Pope himself. On his election, each new Pope receives a unique pair of keys that have been especially made for him; on his death these keys are entombed with his mortal remains and a new pair are struck for his successor.

From Quiz The Day I Lost My Keys

Answer: Aviation

Key Publishing distributes a vast range of magazines that cover all aspects of aviation, from flying planes to buying planes and building planes. They are a well-known company in Europe, across America and around the world. "Airfix Model World", "Aviation News", "PC Pilot" and "Airports of the World" are only a few of their publications.

From Quiz The Key To It All

Answer: Something used to connect a rotating piece to a shaft.

The key in mechanical engineering consists of a key way and a keyseat, or a slot and pocket for the key. It is used to prevent relative rotation between the parts. Mechanical engineers create these keyed joints when they use washers, pulleys, and gears.

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Answer: Tower of London

The Ceremony of the Keys is the locking up of the Tower of London at night. It happens at exactly 9.53pm and has happened at that time, following exactly the same format, every night for at least the last 700 years. The Chief Yeoman Warder and the Tower of London Guard together secure the main gates. There was one night during World War II when the ceremony was delayed by an air raid. There is a letter in the Tower archives from the Officer of the Guard apologising to the King for the lateness of the ceremony that night. The King replied that the "officer was not to be punished as the delay was due to enemy action".

From Quiz The Day I Lost My Keys

Answer: Key and Generator

A keygen is a programme that is generated by a computer to activate computer software. It is used to open software without having to pay for the programme. Using keygens (cracks) is illegal.

From Quiz "Pass, Queen Elizabeth's Keys... All is Well!"

Answer: Long case clock

The long case clock will be more familiar to many as the Grandfather or Grandmother clock. Far better time keepers than the earlier lantern clocks which they were evolved from, the first long case clock designs, which appeared during the 1670s, were very basic and built for function with little or no consideration given to aesthetics. They were very slender in design, made of oak or pine and were occasionally ebonised creating a hardwearing and functional black polished finish. During the 1740s more exotic timbers became available resulting in mahogany becoming almost exclusively the material of choice with cabinet makers by 1760. By the end of the 19th century the long case clock had evolved into the form still recognisable today; modern examples using far more accurate and reliable mechanisms needing little attention or maintenance on the part of the owner.

From Quiz A Bunch of Keys

Answer: Three times a week

Big Ben is wound three times a week. An automatic winding mechanism deals with the striking and chiming trains. A manual winding handle is attached to the train that keeps the clock going, and this is then wound manually. At the same time everything is oiled to keep it in good working order. If the time needs adjusting at all, then old pennies are added to or removed from the pendulum to regulate the clock. The man in charge of making sure the clock keeps time, keeps going and is in good working order is known as The Keeper of the Clock.

From Quiz The Day I Lost My Keys

Answer: Stephen King

Steven King is a well-known horror story teller. He was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947. "Duma Key" is about Edgar Freemantle how he mends after a major accident at work where his truck is crushed by a crane. It is a psychological horror novel at its best.

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Answer: Oklahoma

At the 2010 census, Keys, Oklahoma, was an unincorporated community that had 565 residents. Keys covers an area of 5.53 square miles. Even though it has a relatively small population, Keys recently built a high school for the teenagers in the community.

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Answer: Bluebeard

As with many folk tales whose origins have been lost in the mists of time, the tale of Bluebeard has been revisited many times and has been interpreted differently on each occasion; musical works based on the tale include 'Bluebeard's Castle' which is an early twentieth century opera by the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók and 'Barbe-Bleue' a nineteenth century version by Jacques Offenbach. Perrault's version of the tale was published in Paris, France in 1697, one of a collection of folk tales in his 'Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passé' and is the best known surviving literary version of the fable. 'Bluebeard' tells the story of a violent aristocrat and his curious but disobedient wife and her relatives. I won't go into any further detail for fear of ruining the tale for any that may not be familiar with the story and who might wish to read it in the future.

From Quiz The Day I Lost My Keys

Answer: Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics (Marvel Worldwide, Inc.) started in 1939. In 2009, Marvel Comics was purchased by The Walt Disney Company. Some of the best known characters that have come from Marvel Comics include Spiderman, the X-Men, The Green Goblin and The Hulk, to name a few. Key (real name - Lachlan Patterson) is a human mutant whose first appearance was in Cable Vol 2 79.

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Answer: Francis Scott Key

Francis Scott Key was a lawyer and amateur poet who lived in Maryland in the early part of the 19th century. During the War of 1812, he saw the attack on Fort McHenry by the British in 1814, and was inspired to write a poem the next day when he saw that the US flag was still flying. His poem, which he called "Defense of Fort M'Henry" was set to the music of a popular song of the time and slowly began to be used as the unofficial anthem for the US. It became the official anthem of the United States by Congressional resolution in 1931.

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Answer: French

The names of notes on a staff depend on which clef or key is at the start of the music staff. In the past composers and musicians have used many different clefs but today this is usually limited to just two main clefs; the 'G' style clef and the 'F' style clef. The 'G' style clef is referred to as the Treble Clef. This clef establishes the pitch of the note 'G' above middle 'C', the curl in the clef enveloping the second line on the stave denoting the note's position on this line. The 'F' style clef is usually referred to as the Bass Clef, the dots above and below the fourth line of the stave establishing the line on which 'F' is positioned. Clefs specifically aimed at percussion instruments which resemble the two lines often seen on a recording device's pause button, show different percussion instruments on different lines of the stave.

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Answer: Nora Roberts

The "Key Trilogy" is a blend of romantic and fantasy fiction. Three women are invited to undertake a quest. They must find three keys to unlock the prisons of three sisters. They have been imprisoned by a spell case by an evil god. The people asking them to undertake this quest are not of our world, they come from the world of the imprisoned sisters. Each of the women will have one month, from new moon to the moon going dark, to find their key. Failure by one means the whole quest will fail and the women will loose a year of their lives. In the course of the quest they must fight evil, but they also find love. Nora Roberts is a prolific author. Many of her romances have a fantasy element to them. She also writes the futuristic "In Death" series of thrillers as J.D. Robb.

From Quiz The Day I Lost My Keys

Answer: Dichotomous key

A dichotomous key uses a method of elimination to specify an unknown organism, or it's process by using questions with "yes" or "no" answers. At each stage the questions posed should be of a contradictory nature.

From Quiz A Bunch of Keys

Answer: The Keys of the Kingdom

An orphan who enters the priesthood after the death of his childhood sweetheart, Gregory Peck plays Father Francis Chisholm. He is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish. He finds disinterest, outright hostility, disease and famine. Things become a little easier after he cares for the son of a local Mandarin, who gives him land and money to build a church, schoolhouse and dispensary. Over the course of many years work he builds a congregation and becomes accepted by the local population. He returns to his native Scotland in his old age. He no longer fits the church in the United Kingdom, and his Bishop sends a Monseigneur to tell him to retire. The Monseigneur finds his diaries and sits reading them through the night. The story is told through the medium of the diaries. The film is based on the 1941 book of the same name by A.J. Cronin.

From Quiz The Key To It All

Answer: Murphy Brown

In this episode, Jerry takes his spare keys back from Kramer who then heads to California to follow his dreams of acting. Jerry gives the spare keys to Elaine. Jerry and George enter Elaine's apartment using the spare keys that she gave to George to retrieve Jerry's keys. They find that she has written an episode of Murphy Brown while they are there. Later, while watching an episode of Murphy Brown, they spot Kramer working as Murphy's secretary on the show.

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Answer: The Bahamas

An island is defined as any land mass completely surrounded by water. Islands are formed through two types of geological activity, either volcanic action such as in the cases of Hawaii, Iceland and the Philippines, or they are formed when a part of continental plate moves around above the Earth's mantle. Keys or Cayes are sandy, low islands that are formed above coral reefs usually by wave and ocean current action depositing sediments in the calmer waters that cover such reefs. The Exuma Keys, a chain of some three hundred and sixty-five islands, form one of the districts of the Bahamas; the largest of which is unimaginatively named Great Exuma. Founded in 1793, the capital of Exuma district is the city of Georgetown.

From Quiz The Day I Lost My Keys

Answer: Key West

In 1983 the city of Key West built a vividly painted copy of a buoy and labeled it "Southernmost Point Continental U.S.A." Land owned by the navy west of the buoy is the real southernmost point and it is not accessible to civilians.

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Answer: Female sports officials

The commentary pairing of journalist Richard Keys and former professional footballer Andy Gray had been a successful one but the pair found themselves in hot water in January 2011 after a series of unguarded sexist remarks which led to Keys' resignation and Gray's dismissal. Richard Keys was first suspended after a Sunday newspaper had published a transcript of a recording of a conversation in which they had criticised match official Sian Massey during a game between premiership clubs Liverpool and Wolverhampton Wanderers; the pair mistakenly believed that their microphones were switched off. Unfortunately, they were recorded commenting that Massey, a qualified Football Association referee, was unlikely to know the off-side rule, and cast doubt over her ability to officiate over top-level matches just because she was a woman. Andy Gray had been Sky Sports' pundit for twenty years before finding himself accused of behaviour described by sources at Sky Sports as "unacceptable and offensive". Within days, Sky Sports presenter Andy Burton was also suspended after describing Massey as 'a bit of a looker' and further questioning her abilities with another male member of the Sky Sports production team.

From Quiz A Bunch of Keys

Answer: Skeleton key

Skeleton keys are rarely found these days as locks have become too complex for them to open. Locks used to have things called wards inside them, and the key to open them was cut to the same shape as the wards. A key with the wrong shape wards would not fit and turn.

From Quiz The Day I Lost My Keys

Answer: Isle of Man

The Isle of Man is a self-governing dependent territory of the United Kingdom. It has its own legislative and taxation system.

From Quiz The Key To It All

Answer: To carry the seed away.

The "samara" or "key" is grown on a variety of trees. Their main purpose is to take the seeds from the parent tree a distance away for more efficient propagation using wind as a source to move the seed. These keys are often referred to as a helicopter or whirlybird seeds, or, in the north of England, a spinning jenny. Trees that produce keys include maples, elms, hoptrees and bushwillows.

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Answer: Mack Sennett

The Keystone Cops were a police force who appeared regularly in silent film comedies produced by Mack Sennett for his Keystone Film Company between 1914 and the early 1920s. Dressed in ill-fitting, unkempt uniforms, the incompetent officers first appeared in the film 'At It Again' which was released in 1912 but they only became popular figures after the release of their next film 'Bangville Police', a short feature from 1913 which was the first film in which the Cops played a central role. In 1914 the Keystone Cops began to fulfill a more supporting role for some of the bigger names in comedy at that time such as Charlie Chaplin and, former Keystone Cop himself, the actor Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle. Although many studio records have been lost, those playing the roles of the Cops are generally considered to have been Slim Summerville, Bobby Dunn, Charles Avery, Hank Mann, Edgar Kennedy, George Jeske and Mack Sennett himself, performing under the pseudonym Mack Riley.

From Quiz A Bunch of Keys

Answer: Arch

The keystone is the piece that sits at the top of the arch and locks it all into place. It makes it self supporting. Because of the importance of this particular piece, many are larger than the surrounding brick or stone work, and often have a coat of arms or some other decoration carved or embossed onto them. As well as stone and brick arches, they can also be found in arched ceilings, again making the whole arch self supporting. They are usually wedge shaped, tapering at the bottom. Renaissance architecture, which relies heavily on shape and symmetry, made extensive use of the keystone technique.

From Quiz The Day I Lost My Keys

Answer: Sarah's Key

"Sarah's Key" is a novel by French writer Tatiana de Rosnay. It was her tenth book, but it was the first book she had written in English. "Sarah's Key" is a story about France in 1942 and how the holocaust in Europe affected the survivors, and how it still affects their children's children. It was made into a movie in 2010 and it starred Kristin Scott Thomas as Julia Jarmond, a modern day journalist investigating the past.

From Quiz "Pass, Queen Elizabeth's Keys... All is Well!"

Answer: Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London

At different periods in the past, the Ceremony of the Keys was rarely witnessed by anyone outside of the military personnel taking part or the staff employed at the tower and their families. In more recent decades spectators given the privilege of watching this ancient ceremony would be selected, by the warders, from those visiting the tower; today visitors simply buy a ticket, although these are in short supply and applications are often grossly over-subscribed. Having taken place every single night since 1340 and possibly for hundreds of years prior to this date, the Ceremony of the Keys begins at exactly seven minutes to ten starting from the Byward Tower, the tower through which the majority of visitors to the palace pass through. The ceremony itself takes place at the gate underneath the Bloody Tower with the spectators assembling across the road with their backs to the equally infamous Traitor's Gate. Here is a brief explanation of the proceedings as the Keys and their escort approach the Bloody Tower: Sentry: "Halt! Who comes there?" Chief Yeoman Warder: "The Keys!" Sentry: "Whose Keys?" Chief Yeoman Warder: "Queen Elizabeth's Keys!" The Chief Yeoman Warder and the Escort to the Keys advance and halt a few paces from the sentry. Sentry: "Pass Queen Elizabeth's Keys and all is well!" The sentry presents his arms as the Chief Yeoman Warder, the Keys and escort pass through gate and halt at the base of the steps that lead from the Bloody Tower to the Inner Ward. The Commander of the Guard then calls the guard to attention, and order that the guard present their arms. The Chief Yeoman Warder will then take two steps forward, remove his Tudor bonnet and cheer "God preserve Queen Elizabeth!" To which the guard respond "Amen!" The Last Post is then played by duty bugler or piper. The Chief Yeoman Warder falls out and returns the Keys to the Queen's House before retiring for the night whilst the guard are dismissed and return to the Wellington Block to continue with their duties.

From Quiz A Bunch of Keys

Answer: Mack Sennett

The Keystone Cops first appeared in 1912 in a silent movie called "Hoffmeyer's Legacy". They quickly shifted from their own films to appearing in films with Charlie Chaplin, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and other stars of the day. No major silent film was complete without a chase sequence featuring these policemen falling over each other, driving off a cliff, and always failing to catch their man. They appeared in movies well into the 1920s, but by the time talking films arrived their popularity had passed. There was no set line up of actors for the Cops, or indeed set number. In their first film there were seven of them, but there could be ten or twelve, it depended on how many silent actors were free to be pressed into service.

From Quiz The Day I Lost My Keys

Answer: New Zealand

John Phillip Key was the 38th Prime Minister of New Zealand. He's a member of the National Party, and he became Prime Minister on 19th November 2008.

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