Round 22 is closed.Answers and scores will be up within two hours


I cannot imagine a life without Vegemite.

Round 22 answers - 11 people played

Question 1 - Merry Xmas in another language

Worth 10 points - all answers were worth 10 points

God Jul! (Norwegian}
Schéi Chrëschtdeeg (Luxembourgeois)
Nollaig Shona Duit (Irish)
Kurisumasu Omedeto (Japan)
Wesołych Świąt (Polish)
Maligayang Pasko (The Philippines)
Selamat Hari Natal (Indonesian)
Froehe Weinachten (German)
Shub Naya Baras (Hindi)
Buon Natale (Italian)
Nedeleg Laouen na bloavezh mat(Breton)

Among the many, many possible answers not given is

toDwI'ma' qoS yItIvqu' - can someone identify that language?

A type of dwelling

Worth 10 points
Igloo, cave, stilt house, nursing home, penthouse, nest, condo, farmhouse, bungalow

Worth 5 points
Yurt/ger (2)

Yurt and ger are the same thing. Ger is the Mongolian word for this sort of dwelling, yurta is the Russian word.

Question 3 - An odd number less than 200, that is part of the Fibonacci series

Worth 10 points
1, 3, 5

Worth 5 points
21 (4), 89 (2)

I had to mark two answers, 34 and 144 wrong. They were part of the Fibonacci series but were not odd.

Question 4 - Name a celebrity who appeared on the cover of LIFE magazine in 1953

Worth 10 points
Richard Nixon, Nicole Maurey, Desi Arnez jr, Sigrid Soelter, Harry Truman, Roy Campanella, Jane Russell

Worth 5 points
Marlon Brando (4)

Question 5 - A stitch used in Boondoggle/Scoubidou-making

Worth 10 points
3-Strand Braid, Triangle, King Cobra, Circle, Superbrick, Butterfly, Spiral Braid

Worth 5 points
Tornado (2), Fluted Columns (2)

Like Santana2002 I love the word Boondoggle. I am tempted to take up the craft just so I can tell people that I Boondoggle.

Question 6 - Give a 2-letter word beginning with A

Worth 10 points
Ar

Worth 5 points
At (4), Ag (2), Aw (2), Ab (2)

SCORES

55 points - Polaris101

50 points - Cinnam0n, Mugapoo, littlewoman2
45 points - ozzz2002, JaneMarple, Gatsby722, Santana2002,ElfTwinkle
40 points - Ren33, Gemini19

Well I am about as naughty as they come. I totally forgot to post the answers for

Round 19 - 15 players

1. Name part of a refrigerator.

10 Points: expansion valve, water filter adapter, door, freezer, cooling fan, door gasket, thermostat, handle, condenser coils, egg tray,door hinges
5 Points: the crisper (2), lightbulb (2)

Not mentioned: Meat tray, dairy compartment, bottle compartment and lots of others

2. Name a famous Ronald (or Ron/Ronnie)

10 Points: Ronnie Corbett, Ron Glass (actor), John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (at a pinch), Ron Kenoly (gospel singer), Ronald Biggs, Ron Barassi (Australian Football League player/coach/legend), Ronnie Milsap, Ron Jaworski (sport legend and analyst), Ron Howard, Ron Ely, Ron Lancaster (Canadian Football League quarterback/legend)
5 Points: Ronald McDonald (2), Ronnie Kray (2)

3. Name a famous rat.
10 Points: Nick the Rat (Chicken Run), Roland, Ratty (The Wind in The Willows), Ratbert, Ben, Red Rat - Jamaican Reggae artist (howzat for lateral thinking?), Gary the Rat (TV series character), Lester the Rat (Beakman's World)
5 Points: Templeton (Charlottes Web) (3), Splinter (2), Rizzo (Muppets) (2)


4. Name a Russian Republic.
10 Points: Bashkortostan, Tyva, Dagestan, Komi, Chechnya, Mordovia, Alania, Altai, Karelia, Mary El, Kabardino-Balkaria
5 Points: Kalmykia (3)

Not allowed: Abakan (this is a city of Khakasia)

Not mentioned: Adygeya, Bashkiria, Buryatia, Chuvash, Ingushetia, Karachaevo-Cherkessia, Khakasia, Sakha, Tatarstan, Udmurtia

5. Name a country that ends in R.
10 Points: Gibraltar, Myanmar is the country name recognised by the UN (formerly Burma)
5 Points: Niger (3), Qatar (4), Madagascar (2) East Timor (4)
Not mentioned: El Salvador, Ecuador

Scores
45 Points: Bally, Mugaboo, Engadine, Leo, Cinnam0n
40 Points: ren, littlewoman, ozzz, Polaris, Elftwinkle
35 Points: Flynn, Gats, Santana
30 Points: Kuu
25 Points: Gemini

Congrats to the winners and thanks to everyone who played. I promise that I will get the answers up more promptly next time.

Trivia Rounds - June: Round 20/June 20th RESULTS: 8 players participated


QUESTION 1

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Name of a movie released BEFORE 2005/this year starring actor Martin Short (Note: movies released in 2005 or later, movies made for TV, and movies that Martin Short was either uncredited or just provided the voice for a character will NOT be accepted)

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10 points: Innerspace, The Three Amigos, Father Of The Bride, A Simple Wish

5 points: Pure Luck (2), Captain Ron (2)

Not Mentioned: There were lots more to chose from --- This site gives a list (Note: this list includes the responses which I specified would not be accepted as well)


QUESTION 2

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Name of a book written by William Deverell

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10 points: Mind Games, The Laughing Falcon, Kill All the Lawyers, Slander, A Life on Trial, The Dance of Shiva

5 points: Platinum Blues (2)

Not Mentioned: Trial of Passion, Street Legal - the Betrayal, Mindfield, Mecca, High Crimes, Needles


QUESTION 3

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Title of a song on the album, Colour Moving and Still (released in 1999) by Chantal Kreviazuk

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10 points: Blue, Until We Die, Soul Searching, Eve, Little Things

5 points: Before You (3)

Not mentioned: Dear Life, Souls, M, Far Away


QUESTION 4

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The CFL (Canadian Football League) 2005 regular season starts on Wed. --- give me the name of one of the teams that makes up the CFL

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10 points: British Columbia Lions, Calgary Stampeders, Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Montreal Alouettes, Ottawa Renegades, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Toronto Argonauts, Winnipeg Blue Bombers

5 points: Everybody got 10 points

Not Mentioned: Montreal Alouettes


QUESTION 5

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Time never stops --- give me the name of a place in Canada that has a Sundial roadside attraction (There are at least 5)

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10 points:Pinawa, Manitoba (Pinawa Heritage Sundial); Sangudo, Alberta (Sundial-Elevator); Lloydminster, Saskatchewan (World's Largest Sundial)

5 points: Grand Prairie, Alberta (2); Sudbury, Ontario (3)

Not Mentioned: All 5 places that I'm aware of were mentionned --- there may be others as well.




Results

ozzz2002: 50 points
santana2002: 50 points

ren33: 45 points

gatsby722: 40 points
gemini19: 40 points
Polaris101: 30 points

cinnam0n: 35 points

Mugaboo: 30 points



Congratulations to ozzz and santana who each collect a point for this round.


Thanks for playing everyone!

Here are Sunday's questions. My theme this time is white.

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ROUND 26

Please name:

1 A song from the movie 'White Christmas'
2 An ingredient, including embellishments, of a White Russian cocktail
3 An occupation for which its practitioners normally wear white clothing or uniforms
4 A creature with the word white somewhere in its name
5 A recipient of the Victoria Cross with the surname White

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I'll close this sometime on Tuesday.

I will close my round in about 12 hours, if anyone else wants to have a try...

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toDwI'ma' qoS yItIvqu' - can someone identify that language

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If memory is right (from when I originally posted the question), I think that one was Klingon

"Beam me up Scotty!"

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"Beam me up Scotty!"

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And the followup line.. "Very funny, Scotty, now beam up my clothes!"

Just to say, that I won't be around this week to start off the July quiz. I shall post the host list when I return

Round 24 is now closed. Late entries welcome, as I won't have the results up until much later.

Round 23 Results

Eleven players chanced their arm this round

Q1- Name one of the 'trilogy' of war memoirs written by Spike Milligan.

10 Points- "Hitler: My Part In His Downfall"

5 Points- "'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?' " (3), "Monty: His Part In My Victory" (3), "Mussolini: His Part In My Downfall" (2), "Where Have All The Bullets Gone?" (2)

The only one not mentioned was the final book- "Goodbye, Soldier"


Q2- Name one of the first 10 squares after 'GO', in the English version of Monopoly.

10 Points- Old Kent Road

5 Points- Pentonville Road (2), Chance (2), Whitechapel Road (2), The Angel Islington (2), Income Tax (2).

Others were Community Chest, King's Cross Station, Euston Road and Just Visiting/In Jail.

Q3- Name an American state that touches one of the Great Lakes.

10 Points- Indiana, New York.

5 Points- Pennsylvania (3), Ohio (4), Michigan (2)

The other three possible answers were Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin

Q4- Tell me one of the epochs of the Caenozoic Era.

10 points- Eocene

5 Points- Paleocene (2), Oligocene (3), Miocene (3), Pliocene (2)

Missing are Pleistocene, and the epoch we are currently in- the Holocene

Q5- Give me a 4-letter Scrabble word that starts with E and contains at least 3 vowels.

10 Points- Euge, Eave

5 Points- Etui (2), Emeu (3), Eaux (2), Ease (2).

There are not many of these words- only 14 in total. Others were Eaus, Eide, Eine, Eoan, Epee, Euoi, Euro and Evoe.

Scores

On 35 points and joint winners- BlinkyBill and Gatsby

30 points- Flynn, Mugaboo, LeoDaVinci
25 points- ElfTwinkle, Gemini, Cinnam0n, Polaris, Santana and Ren.

Cheers, and thanks for playing...

ROUND 24 RESULTS

10 players had a go at this round.


Question 1: Tell me something you have eaten that you would not, voluntarily, eat ever again.

Answers worth 10 points: All answers! Wichetty grubs, escargot, sand, asparagus, porridge, Japanese thousand year old egg, cabbage, lamb, chicken feet, lima beans... {as good ol' Fox Mulder once said, "I bet the air in my mouth tastes better than that." }

Not mentioned: After all that bickering, no one chose vegemite.


Question 2: Tell me the name of the last song you couldn't get out of your head.

Answers worth 10 points: All answers! "Tom, Tom, Turn Around", "The Locomotion", "Happy Talk", "It's a Small World After All", "Lady in Red", "Billy, Don't Be a Hero", "Live Like You Were Dying", "You Gotta Pick a Pocket or Two", "Wenn Dein Herz Dir Nicht Sagt", "Phantom of the Opera"


Question 3: Name one of the "Original 6" NHL hockey teams.

Answers worth 10 points: Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers, Boston Bruins

Answers worth 5 points: Toronto Maple Leafs[2], Detroit Red Wings[2], Montreal Canadiens[3]

Not mentioned: All 6 teams were mentioned.


Question 4: Give me an episode title of the 1994 Claire Danes show, "My So-Called Life".

Answers worth 10 points: "So-Called Angels", "Why Jordan Can't Read", "Resolution", "Pilot", "Halloween", "On the Wagon"

Answers worth 5 points: "Life of Brian"[2], "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities"[2]

Not mentioned: "Dancing in the Dark", "Guns and Gossip", "Father Figures", "The Zit", "The Substitute", "Strangers in the House", "Other People's Mothers", "Self Esteem", "Pressure", "Betrayal", and "Weekend".


Question 5: QANTAS is an Australian airline you may (or may not) have heard of. QANTAS is actually an acronym of six words. Give me one of the words that makes up that acronym.

Answers worth 10 points: Aerial

Answers worth 5 points: Queensland[3], And[2], Northern[2], Territory[2]

Not mentioned: Service


Scores for this round:

Littlewoman2= 45
Polaris= 45
Santana2002= 45

Gatsby722= 40
LeoDaVinci= 40
Mugaboo= 40
Ren33= 40

CinnamOn= 35
ElfTwinkle= 35
Ozzz2002= 35


High fives all around for our 3 winners this round, Littlewoman2, Polaris, and Santana2002, and thanks for playing, guys.

ROUND 27 - MONDAY

Please name me:

1) A Popular song whose title is at least three words long and of which the initial letters of each word of the title are in alphabetical order (eg, April In Paris)

2) Boules de Pétanque, that classic French pastime, is a deceptively difficult sport. However with dedication and practice you can become a skilled player. There are various techniques and styles of throwing your boule in order to win the game. Name me one of the accepted methods.

3) A word beginning with X (and it's meaning) the definition of which is something connected to dryness

4) A place in Ireland known by an English derivation of it's Irish name and the actual meaning of the name. (eg, Glendalough is a place in County Wicklow whose literal translation of the name means "Glenn of the two lakes")

5) (The goofy one) One of the first things you do when you wake in the morning

Pointers available if anyone is struggling on some of these

Round "25"

Please give:


1. A country sharing a land border with Argentina
2.A composer whose music was used as part of the soundtrack to the original "Fantasia" movie.
3. A U.S. University which is part of the Ivy League
4. One of the 10 most populous cities in the Canada as of the 2001 census (going by the population of the city itself, not that of the metropolitan area)
5. Give a "positive integer" less than 1,000 whose digits add up to exactly 3 ("integer" here means no decimals allowed, so 13 and 34 are integers but 5.3 and 0.1 are not).

If you have any questions (particularly about #3 or #5), let me know and I can try and clarify things.

Apologies for the lateness of this round!

I'm going to leave Round 26 open until tomorrow (I forgot what day it was...again ). Late entries are welcome.

I'm going to put up Round 30 early again. I'm starting to like these extra days.

1. Pick a word that rhymes with "Mister"
2. Name one of the five Theatres in The Sydney Opera House
3. Select a fiction book awarded the "Golden Dagger" from 1994 until now
4. A choice for a coffee drink on a standard "Starbucks"
menu (if you offer a regional one just send a link - I'll accept it.)
5. Name one of the Top 6 Most Expensive Music Videos ever to be made. Yikes! A lot of money is spent on these things!

Have fun again! I'll help out if you need it. See ya Saturday.

Apologies, but due to the headache I've had all day, Round 26 results won't be up until tomorrow. Feel free to send a late entry.

Round 27 closing today - any last-minute entries accepted until then.

Round 26 is now closed. Results should be up soon.

ROUND 26 RESULTS

Eleven people played this round.


1 A song from the movie 'White Christmas'

Worth 10 points:
‘Love You Didn’t Do Right By Me’; ‘Mandy’; ‘We’ll Follow the Old Man’; ‘What Can You Do with a General?’; ‘White Christmas’

Worth 5 points:
‘Blue Skies’; ‘Count Your Blessings’; ‘Snow’ (2 each)

Those not mentioned included ‘Sisters’ and ‘Gee! I Wish I Was Back in the Army’.


2 An ingredient, including embellishments, of a White Russian cocktail

Worth 10 points:
Ice cubes; vanilla; vodka; white crème de cacao

Worth 5 points:
Kahlua (4); milk/cream (3)


3 An occupation for which its practitioners normally wear white clothing or uniforms

Worth 10 points:
Karate instructor; Landing Signal Officer on US aircraft carrier; lawn bowler; pharmacist; Royal Naval officer; soldier on winter maneuvers; X-ray technician

Worth 5 points:
(Master) chef (2); tennis player (2)

Others I’d thought of were doctor, nurse, house painter, and dentist.


4 A creature with the word white somewhere in its name

Worth 10 points:
Bobwhite quail; Northern white rhino; white antelope; white-handed gibbon; white-lipped tree frog; white-tailed spider

Worth 5 points:
White-tailed deer (3); West Highland White terrier (2)


5 A recipient of the Victoria Cross with the surname White

Worth 10 points:
Albert White (Sergeant, South Wales Borderers, France, 1917 – died a month later); Archie White (T/Captain, The Yorkshire Regt, France, 1916); Jack White (Private, The King’s Own (R Lancaster) Regt, Mesopotamia, 1917); William White (T/2nd Lieut, Machine Gun Corps, France, 1918)

Worth 5 points:
George Stuart White (Major, 92nd Regt, Afghanistan, 1879)(4); Geoffrey Saxton White (Lieut-Commander, RN, HM Submarine E-14, Dardanelles, 1918 – posthumous)(3)

All six possible VCs were mentioned.

With a perfect 50 points, our winner is Polaris101

45 points: Mugaboo
40 points: gatsby722
35 points: cinnam0n, ElfTwinkle, gemini19, littlewoman2, ozzz2002, ren33
30 points: Ballykissangel, Santana2002

Thanks everyone for playing, and congratulations to Polaris!

Round 25 is on its last legs. Results will be up soon, but feel free to send last minute entries until they're up.

Round 25 Results

9 people participated this time around.

1. A Country Bordering Argentina
10: Bolivia
5: Brazil (2), Chile (4), Uruguay (2)
Bolivia was unmentioned.

Brazil's a pretty safe bet for nearly any South American borders question (it borders 10 out of the other 12 nations, with Chile and Ecuador left out in the cold).

2: A Composer featured in the original 'Fantasia'

10: Ludwig van Beethoven (Symphony #6), Franz Schubert (Ave Maria), Igor Stravinsky (The Rite of Spring)
5: Modest Mussorgsky (Night on Bald Mountain, 2 people)
Not accepted: Edward Elgar, George Gershwin, and Camille Saint Saens all had their music used for 'Fantasia 2000', but not 'Fantasia'.
Not mentioned: J.S. Bach/Leopold Stokowski (Stokowski's orchestration of Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor"), Paul Dukas ("The Sorcerer's Apprentice), Amilcare Ponchirelli ("Dance of the Hours", a.k.a. the "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" song), Pyotr Tchaikovsky ("Nutcracker Suite")

Stravinsky originally didn't want his music used for the film, but he didn't hold the copyright for it so Stokowski threatened to do it with or without his permission. Afterwards, Stravinsky described Stokowski's simplification of his score as "execrable" and the movie's depiction of the dinosaurs as "an unresisting imbecility".

3. An Ivy League University
10: Brown, Columbia
5: Dartmouth (2), Penn (3), Princeton (2)
Unmentioned: Cornell, Harvard, Yale

Cornell is the newest of these universities with an age of a "mere" 140 years.

4. One of the 10 largest cities in Canada
10: Mississagua (7th), Quebec (9th), Toronto (1st)
5: Calgary (3rd, 2 people), Vancouver (8th, 4 people)
Unmentioned (in order): Montreal, Ottawa, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Hamilton

Vancouver is suprisingly low this list. For comparison, the 10th ranked city (Hamilton) would come in 32nd in the United States, fitting between Long Beach and Tucson.

5: A number less than 1000 with digits adding to 3
10: 21, 30, 102, 120, 300
5: 111, 201 (2 each)
unmentioned: 3, 12, 210

Final Scores
35: Elftwinkle, gatsby722, gemini19, Polaris101
30: cinnam0n, ren33, Santana2002
25: Mugaboo, Ozzz2002

Thanks to everybody who participated, and congrats to our winners!

I am sorry there was no Tuesday round...wasn't around to post it. But am sure one round less won't matter!

Round 30 (Thursday) is closed now. Just have to type up the stuff...

Round 30

1. Pick a word that rhymes with "Mister"

Nicely creative here (one most notably). Funny that everybody like blisters and twisters and not a soul picked 'sister' .

For 10 points:
registor/register, vista (I liked that answer; while it isn't a literal rhyme but would easily fit into a song rhythm), balister (crossbowman), lister (in this case a plow).

For 5 points:
blister(4), twister(2).

2. Name one of the five Theatres in The Sydney Opera House

For 10 points:
The Concert Hall, The Opera Theatre.

For 5 points:
The Drama Theatre(4), The Playhouse(2), The Studio Theatre(2).


3. Select a fiction book awarded the "Golden Dagger" from 1994 until now

These are fictional crime novels presented by the CWA (Crime Writer's Association) in Europe.

For 10 points:
'Black and Blue' by Ian Rankin, 'Sidetracked' by Henning Mankell, 'The Scold's Bridle' by Minette Walters, 'Motherless Brooklyn' by Jonathan Lethum, 'Sunset Limited' by James Lee Burke (listed as a Gold Dagger Winner, not Golden, but apparently they're the same).

For 5 points:
'Popcorn' by Ben Elton(3), 'Mermaids Singing' by Val McDermid(2).

4. A choice for a coffee drink on a standard Starbucks menu

Believe it or not I've only been to the nearest of these places once. Loved the smell of it but was in a rush and didn't absorb the menu so good. All the answers looked fine as far as I could research. Some were similiar so I glopped them together. If I glopped wrong, as always, alert me and I'll adjust it.

For 10 points:
Arabian Mocha Sanani, Caffe Verona (not exactly drinks but coffee beans there that can be turned into one with a grind or two ), Caramel Mocha Frappucino Blended Coffee, Espresso Iced Caffe.

For 5 points:
Caffe Americano(2), Espresso Caramel Macchioto (not iced but I put the caramel macchiotos as the same)(2), Vanilla Latte(2).

5. Name one of the Top 6 Most Expensive Music Videos ever to be made. Yikes! A lot of money is spent on these things!

I'm going to say it again: I personally think it's outrageous to spend 70 mil on a several minute chunk of video tape. In looking this up did you notice what they spend it on? $15,000 for hairstyling for a week's shoot? Sorry, but I can get a nice clip job for 25 bucks down the street once a month. ! Absurd.

For 10 points:
'What's It Gonna Be?' by Busta Rhymes featuring Janet Jackson (#4 @ $2.4 mil+), 'Heartbreaker' by that ghastly Mariah Carey (#3 @ 2.5 mil+).

For 5 points:
'Scream' by Michael Jackson and featuring his sister Janet (#1 @ 7 mil+ *Gatsby chokes*)(4), 'Larger Than Life' by The Backstreet Boys (#5 @ 2.1 mil+)(4).

Sorry about the editorializing there, folks .

Winners List Time!

Blinkybill - 40 points! Great job!
cinnamOn, Flynn, gemini19, Mugaboo, Santana2002 - 35 deserved points!
Elf Twinkle, ozzz2002, Polaris101, ren33 - 30 big points!


Thanks all 10 of you for playing and I enjoyed reading it through. A special tip of my hat to Blinkybill who earned the last point awarded on the June Monthly Board!

Edited to fix an answer and the scoreboard...