TLC "Group" Quiz

Answer: Group dynamics

Group dynamics is a fascinating field. Sociologists, anthropologists, and psychologists utilize group dynamics to explain how and why groups form; understand relationships within the group; and investigate the group's collective behavior. Psychologist Kurt Lewin (d. 1947) played a pivotal part in shaping the methodology of group dynamics.

On a more personal note, Pagiedamon admitted that at the age of seven she formed a neighborhood girls' club. The chief aim of this group was to leave other little girls out. Thankfully, she's gotten a little nicer with age and no longer belongs to said group. Then again, she does belong to "The Lost Connection"... ;)

Answer: Corinthian

Generally, "Regency Era" denotes the time between 1811 and 1820, during which period King George III was declared unfit to reign, and power was handed down to his son George, the Prince of Wales. However, in architecture, fashion or literature, the term encompasses a longer period, approximately from 1795 to 1837.

In those years, Corinthians were rich gentlemen adept at all kinds of sport, but especially horse riding, coach driving and pugilism. Most of them were members of the exclusive "Four-Horse Club", and were habitual frequenters of Jackson's Saloon, the famous boxing academy founded by "Gentleman" John Jackson.
Corinthians were always superbly elegant and fashionable, although they also affected a studied nonchalance. To dress such athletic figures was the dream of every tailor and valet. With them, no expedient (such as the padding of jackets or stockings with sawdust) was necessary to simulate non-existent muscles!

The term Corinthian originally meant profligate, and was a reference to the city of Corinth, notorious in the ancient world for its debauched living.

Answer: Edward Bear

Edward Bear was a trio of Toronto-based musicians who had three charting efforts during their seven year stint as a group (1967-1974). Their biggest hit was the million selling number three recording, "Last Song" in 1973.

Ini Kamoze, a Jamaican born dancehall/reggae singer, topped the charts in 1994 with "Here Comes the Hotstepper". Although he continues to perform his eclectic style of music, he's been virtually dormant in terms of studio recording since his big hit.

Taco was born Taco Ockerse in Jakarta, Indonesia and initiated his recording career in Germany in the late 1970s. A true "one hit wonder", his "Puttin' on the Ritz", that old chestnut penned by Irving Berlin in the 1930s, surged to number four on the Hot 100 in 1984. He has remained active as a performer but hasn't sniffed the charts since.

Rockwell is actually Kennedy Gordon, the son of Motown founder Berry Gordon Jr. His big hit was the number three "Somebody's Watching Me" in 1984. A second release peaked at number 35 later that year, but subsequent recordings were duds and he left the music business shortly thereafter.

Answer: Halogens

Fluorine (F), which is one of the gaseous halogens (the other being chlorine (C)), is one of the few elements that can form a compound with the normally inert noble gases. Chlorine reacts with another very volatile element, sodium, to form common salt.

It is also used to sanitise water. Bromine (Br) and the metallic mercury (Hg) are the only two elements that are liquid at room temperature. Iodine (I) is used in medicine as a disinfectant, and as a staining agent.

Answer: an army of bees

Even though our apian friends may swarm together as an army, the correct collective noun should be, "a swarm of bees." However, we may say, "an army of caterpillars." Many collective nouns for animals are alliterative. For example, a gaggle of geese, a clutter of cats, a leap of leopards, etc. Some, but definitely not all of these collective nouns depict the characteristics of the animal described. Ferrets happen to be very active and seemingly busy.

Hence, the collective noun, "business," seems appropriate. We may also say, "a business of flies."

Answer: Rubik's Cube

The Rubik's Cube was invented by Hungarian sculptor and professor Ernö Rubik in 1974, and has been both frustrating and fascinating us ever since. It is often used as an example of a permutation puzzle, however, with the cube having 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different possible positions, it certainly is not an uncomplicated example. One popular method of solving the cube quickly (speedcubing) was developed by Jessica Fridrich in the early 1980s.

In the Fridrich Method, one first makes a cross on the bottom layer, followed by solving the first two layers of the cube, then orienting and permuting the last layer. Using this method the Rubik's Cube can be solved very quickly, though it does require first learning a large number of algorithms.

Answer: The Group of Seven

When they started painting, the group originally consisted of Lawren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Franklin Carmichael, F.H. Varley, Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. MacDonald, Franz (Frank) Johnston and Tom Thompson. However Tom Thompson died in 1917, in mysterious circumstances, so he was never officially part of The Group of Seven. Most of the men knew each other because they worked in the same trade, as commercial artists.
Franz Johnston left the group in 1926 and A.J. Casson became his replacement.
The group officially disbanded in 1931 and The Canadian Group of Painters was born.

Answer: The Lost Generation

It is the U.S. that lost the Lost Generation. The term refers to the state of disillusion which affected these writers (and many other post WWI American adults), which led to alienation from their homeland and to search new ways to reconcile their American identity with the post-war world. The name is attributed to Gertrude Stein.

Here's a useless bit of interesting info for you - our humble team's name is a lift-off from this very term.

Answer: Brazil 100 Reais

It is believed that the origin of the name "grouper" comes from the Portuguese name "Garoupa". Groupers are a family of fishes that have very strong mouths and gills, and thy feed on other marine animals whether by sucking them into their gaping maws or sifting through the sea-bed. Their gills are so powerful that they are able to use them to wedge the rest of their bodies into crevices and this prevents them from being dislodged.

Groupers are so large that a grouper at Fuzhou Sea World actually swallowed a white-tipped shark. Some species of grouper are consumed by humans.

Answer: They are positively correlated

The x-variable value increases as you move from left to right across the diagram, and the y-variable value increases as you move from bottom to top; so, if the trend line slopes upwards from left to right, the values of both variables are increasing--they are positively correlated.

A downward-sloping trend line (again reading the diagram from left to right) would indicate a negative correlation: the y-variable value is decreasing as the x-variable value increases. A bimodal relationship is evident if there are two separate and distinct groupings of observations, and there is said to be no relationship between the variables if there is no discernible pattern in the diagram.