New Scaratings

Warm-up Round (10 Questions, 500 Points each, 14 seconds to answer after posting of Question & 5 Choices; No Clues):

1. In 1947, this former colony gained its independence from the United Kingdom:_____________________.
[Choices: Iceland, Cuba, Australia, India, Guyana ]

2. Which word refers to a mixture of things?_______________________
[Choices: Mansuetude, Millinery, Melange, Muleta, Modulus ]

3. It is the most abundant element in the universe and also one of the simplest:___________________.
[Choices: Helium, Uranium, Hydrogen, Neon, Carbon ]

4. Combinations of cards that a player lays down in Rummy games are called:__________________.
[Choices: Shows, Reneges, Parties, Antes, Melds ]

5. What kind of dogs were Togo and Balto, known for the 1925 diphtheria serum run in Alaska?_________________________
[Choices: Golden retrievers, Beagles, Siberian huskies, German shepherds, Cocker spaniels ]

6. Sunless planets re called ________________ planets, among other things.
[Choices: Rogue, Lowlife, Charlatan, Scoundrel, Hooligan ]

7. The southernmost part of the Appalachian Mountains is in:______________________.
[Choices: New York, Arkansas, Colorado, South Dakota, Alabama ]

8. The Zika virus is most closely related to the _____________________ virus.
[Choices: Helicobacter pylori, West Nile, Salmonella, Liljolia, Rickettsia ]

9. Which future music great was scheduled to be on the plane that crashed and killed Buddy Holly?_________________________
[Choices: Little Richard, Conway Twitty, Perry Como, Waylon Jennings, John Lennon ]

10. The world's busiest train station is located in:_____________________.
[Choices: Canada, Japan, Peru, Israel, Sweden ]




Countdown Round (12 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease rapidly from 4 to 16 seconds, and with 3 Clues):

11. In the Bible, the first four disciples are ______________________ named Peter, John, Andrew and James.
[Choices: Moneychangers, Tax collectors, Soldiers, Fishermen, Spies ]

12. Peter Max's art is associated with this phenomenon and decade:__________________________.
[Choices: Punk 90's, Psychedelic 60's, Neo-Expressionist 40's, Neorealist 50's, Photo-realist 80's ]

13. Tabernanthe iboga is a controversial:__________________________.
[Choices: Plant, Synthetic drug, Bird, Insect, Rock ]

14. "Stancliffe's Hotel" is a short novel written in the late 1830's by:______________________________.
[Choices: Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Bronte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anthony Trollope, James Michener ]

15. The War of Jenkins' Ear, though fought in the Americas, was a conflict between:________________________________.
[Choices: France and Prussia, Italy and Germany, Russia and Portugal, Spain and Great Britain, Switzerland and Greece ]

16. What would one most likely find in a remuda?_______________________
[Choices: Tulips, Horses, Chairs, Fish, Citrus fruits ]

17. The world's largest terrestrial slug is named after the:_________________________.
[Choices: Coconut, Cantaloupe, Banana, Plum, Blackberry ]

18. Charlotte Blackwood is a character in this 1986 movie:_________________________.
[Choices: Crocodile Dundee, Sleeping with the Enemy, Top Gun, The Big Chill, Steel Magnolias ]

19. Who did the United States buy the Virgin Islands from in 1917?_____________________
[Choices: Portugal, Denmark, Germany, England, Cuba ]

20. "Terrene" is a word that is closest in meaning to:_____________________.
[Choices: Stubborn, Poached, Finicky, Petrified, Mundane ]

21. Dane Hucklebridge's "No Beast so Fierce" is the story of a ___________________ which killed 436 people.
[Choices: Tiger, Hippopotamus, Jaguar, Rhinocerous, Whale ]

22. Mount Roraima is a massive table mountain located on this continent:_______________________.
[Choices: Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe ]




Category Round (6 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease from 4 to 20 seconds, and with 3 Clues; Category chosen by majority vote at each Site):

23.(a) NAME THAT ANIMAL v Canadian coins: Rhomboid, Glass, Glacial and Jewel are all types of:_____________________.
[Choices: Squid, Dragonflies, Wolverines, Barracudas, Marmots ]

24.(a) WORLD NEWS v Literary characters: War drums have been beating ever since ____________________ shot down a U.S. drone last month.
[Choices: North Korea, Jamaica, Belarus, Mexico, Iran ]

25.(a) Social media v GOLF LESSON: If Tiger Woods closes his stance, he's probably trying to ________________ the ball.
[Choices: Draw, Top, Fade, Slice, Shank ]

26.(a) Literary characters v NAME THAT ANIMAL: Which of these creatures is a monitor lizard?________________________
[Choices: Dotterel, Goanna, Pika, Junco, Chamois ]

27.(a) Golf lesson v WORLD NEWS: Vladimir Putin recently announced he was banning __________________ Airlines from flying to Russia.
[Choices: Turkish, Moldovan, Georgian, Swedish, Chinese ]

28.(a) CANADIAN COINS v Social media: The Canadian dime is made of about 92 percent:____________________.
[Choices: Steel, Iron, Copper, Brass, Lead ]




Lightning Round (7 Questions: 400, 600, 800, 1000, 1200, 1500, 2000 Points, but time to read & answer decreases from 15, 12, 10, 8, 7, 5 to 4 seconds):

29. Joko Widodo was re-elected this year as President of:_______________________.
[Choices: Indonesia, Morocco, Bolivia, Greece, Kazakhstan ]

30. Exactly how many strings are there on a standard ukulele?________________
[Choices: Three, Four, Five, Seven, Nine ]

31. What is the title of the latest "Men in Black" movie?_____________________
[Choices: Galactic, International, Universal, Continental, Underground ]

32. Which vegetable belongs to what is informally called the Nightshade Family?_______________________
[Choices: Celery, Cucumber, Asparagus, Turnip, Potato ]

33. "This is prophetic" is a song from this opera that premiered in 1987:_______________________________.
[Choices: Carter in Cuba, Nixon in China, Kennedy in Germany, Reagan in Japan, Eisenhower in France ]

34. In which statistic did Detroit's Andre Drummond lead the NBA this past season?_________________________
[Choices: Steals, Free throw percentage, Personal fouls, Assists, Rebounds ]

35. The month of June is divided between the zodiac signs of Cancer and:________________________.
[Choices: Ares, Taurus, Capricorn, Gemini, Virgo ]




Dreaded Pyramid Round (5 Questions: 12000, 7000, 4000, 2000, 1000 Points for 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Right out of 5; Time from post of Question & 5 Choices = 16 seconds; No Clues):

36. In A.D. 452, a coalition of Romans and Visigoths battled against the forces of:___________________________.
[Choices: Arminius, Julius Caesar, Hannibal, Constantine the Great, Attila the Hun ]

37. Which Shakespearean play is mainly set in the city of Padua, Italy?____________________________
[Choices: Troilus and Cressida, Titus Andronicus, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet ]

38. Of these foods, which is highest in potassium?_____________________
[Choices: Apples, Beet greens, Watermelon, Grapes, Cranberries ]

39. Which body of water forms part of the border between Scotland and England?______________________
[Choices: River Clyde, River Avon, Solway Firth, English Channel, Galway Bay ]

40. One of the 12 Labors of Hercules was to get the:__________________________.
[Choices: Silver grapes, Stone of Themis, Cattle of Geryon, Cretan lion, Belt of Diomedes ]




Final Jeopardy Question on FRENCH WRITERS (50% Bonus if Right Immediately; Points decrease rapidly from 4 to 20 seconds, and with 3 Clues; 50% Deduction if Final Choice is Wrong):

41. Born in 1804, this French writer was a direct descendant of a King of Poland:______________________.
[Choices: Honore de Balzac, Alfred de Musset, George Sand, Gustave Flaubert, Jean-Paul Sartre ]






Answers:

1. India [see the section "Modern India" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India ]

2. Melange [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melange ]

3. Hydrogen [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance ... l_elements ]

4. Melds [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rummy ]

5. Siberian husky [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balto , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Togo_(dog) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925_serum_run_to_Nome ]

6. Rogue [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_planet ]

7. Alabama [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Mountains ]

8. West Nile [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zika_virus ]

9. Waylon Jennings [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waylon_Jennings . Not to be confused with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wailin'_Jennys ]

10. Japan [see https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/7-o ... world.html (the numbering in this list doesn't make sense to me) ]




11. Fishermen [see the section "Biblical narratives, Calling by Jesus" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostles ]

12. Psychedelic 60's [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Max ]

13. Plant [It's a hallucinogenic plant, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabernanthe_iboga . Because of the word "controversial" in the Question, we at Buster's Bar, Ottawa ON went with the Choice "Synthetic drug", but I suppose a psychoactive plant produces a "natural", as opposed to a "synthetic", drug. In hindsight, "Tabernanthe iboga" is a 2-word Linnaean name for a living thing, e.g. a plant, and would not normally be considered the name of a synthetic drug. D'oh!!! ]

14. Charlotte Bronte [see list of Juvenile works at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bronte and https://brontebabeblog.wordpress.com/20 ... el-review/ ]

15. Spain and Britain [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Jenkins'_Ear ]

16. Horses [We missed this one (we're not fluent in Spanish); see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remuda ]

17. Banana [We went with this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_slug . However, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limax_cinereoniger which claims that this is the world's largest slug, which nowhere resembles the Banana slug in colour ]

18. Top Gun [Including Myfanwy (SPRAJO), our team of six picked sexist Choices, overlooking "Charlie" played by Kelly McGillis; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gun ]

19. Denmark [Myfanwy pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_St ... in_Islands ]

20. Mundane [a bad pre-call confused with "tureen" doomed us, although I noticed that "terrene" probably is derived from "terra" which should have alerted me to "mundane" if I had bothered to read all the Choices; see https://www.dictionary.com/browse/terrene and https://www.dictionary.com/browse/mundane ]

21. Tiger [see https://www.harpercollins.com/978006267 ... so-fierce/ ]

22. South America [we mostly guessed wrong, "Africa" or "Antarctica"; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Roraima ]




23.(a) Squid [we lost most of the Points on this one, needing 3 Clues; see https://www.whatsthatfish.com/fish/diam ... -mass/2157 (Squids are Mollusks, not Fish which are Chordates); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranchiidae for the Glass Squid; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychroteuthis_glacialis , and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histioteuthis_reversa ]

24.(a) Iran [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Iran ... ican_drone ]

25.(a) Draw [we lost most of the Points on this one; see https://www.liveabout.com/what-is-a-draw-1560829 ]

26.(a) Goanna [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goanna ]

27.(a) Georgian [see https://simpleflying.com/russia-georgia-flight-ban/ ]

28.(a) Steel [we pre-called "nickel", but then called "steel" (which is plated with nickel on the outside) when "Nickel" did not appear as one of the 5 Choices; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dime_(Canadian_coin) . In the days 55 years ago when Canadian coins were worth something, the dime was a mainly-silver alloy with a relatively low melting point which I used to demonstrate by melting with a natural gas/oxygen torch, whereas a dime made of nickel would get a lot hotter before melting/burning with sparks. ]




29. Indonesia [Jean (LESTER) called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joko_Widodo ]

30. Four [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukulele ]

31. International [Patrick (MRRED) pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_in_Bl ... ernational ]

32. Potato [Jean (LESTER) called this first; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato ]

33. Nixon in China [Jean called this first; see the section "Synopsis, Act 2" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_in_China ]

34. Rebounds [I (REACH) guessed this, but others not; see https://www.landofbasketball.com/year_b ... tot_rs.htm and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Drummond ]

35. Gemini [see https://www.bzodiac.com/month/june-zodiac-sign/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac for the zodiac in the heavens (Cancer lies between Gemini and Leo, and Leo was not one of the Choices listed). ]




36. Attila the Hun [Dave (YELDOR, TULADI) pre-called this one; see the section "Conflict with the Huns" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcian ]

37. The Taming of the Shrew [Chris (CEEZED, KAYZED) pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Taming_of_the_Shrew ]

38. Beet greens [most of us went with a pre-call for "Watermelon"; see https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/fo ... m#section4 which states that a 1/8 watermelon portion of 572 g contains 640 mg potassium; yes, watermelon is mainly water, so its density of potassium is low, but then we normally eat a large portion at a time. The same article (in section 3) states that one cup (156 g) of frozen spinach contains 540 mg potassium, which is less than the watermelon portion. OTOH, https://www.myfooddata.com/articles/hig ... tables.php states that #1 Beet greens contain 909 mg potassium per 100 g portion, or 1309 mg potassium per cup cooked beet greens (which might mean that cooked beet greens contain 2.4 times as much potassium as the same volume or mass of spinach - but why? - and is this measurement partly experimental error? Why do we eat spinach (good with soy sauce), but not beet greens??? ). For the history of the measurement of iron content in spinach consumed by Popeye the Sailor Man, see https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/food- ... on-spinach by Dr. Joe Schwarcz of McGill University in Montreal. ]

39. Solway Firth [we were missing Richard (ACE) and Sue (SWIFT) who might have called this for us; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solway_Firth ]

40. Cattle of Geryon [I called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geryon ]




41. George Sand [Chris guessed this from the start, but most of us had to wait for Clues; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sand ]

The first Category Round question (Canadian Coins) asked which animal was on the back of the Canadian nickel; answer was “beaver”.

— RWM

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"...It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED...."

That game sucked!!!

RAY J.

Looks like you were doing OK until George Sand. We got it for 3-4K a board.

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Merkin

As a golfer I was curious that you selected Golf Lesson as a category but didn't know how to hit a draw.

Anybody have the other question? I was unable to play.

Thanks for the recap.

Most of our team was booted before the first Pyramid question, and although most of them got back in, they didn’t receive credit.

The first social media question asked for the co-founder of Twitter (Jack Dorsey).

The second asked which social media company Facebook acquired in 2012 (Instagram).

We did choose the second Literary Characters question, but I don’t remember what it was. Hopefully, ANON will chime in.

To BO re Category "Golf" chosen at Buster's Bar, Ottawa ON: we non-golfers chose "Golf" because we feared the other Category "Social media" even more (we're mostly old farts). Once GLORY DAZE starts asking mostly Rap Music Questions instead of 1950s-1980s Music, I'm gonna quit that game.

Second literary question was basically 'Who created Alex Delaware?" ANS: Kellerman

We went with the first golf question and got an easy 1000 on draw but voted for world affairs (and only got 600 ish) on the second as I always hit draws.

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Merkin

24(b). LITERARY CHARACTERS: Which character from '1001 Nights' was plagued by the Old Man of the Sea? From a mostly legit drop-down box, SINBAD.

Since these quizzes are no doubt written days in advance, it was surely a coincidence that George Sand's birthday (July 1, 1804) was noted on Wikipedia's home page only the day before. Had anyone at Teaser's or Time Out West taken note, these houses would have prospered far better.

27. golf lesson. when using this club it is important to know how much "bounce" it has? sand wedge

According to report, Gene Sarazen expressed guilt for having invented a weapon which made sand traps too easy.

PG Wodehouse would have it that one of his characters should be tossed out a window, just to see how high he would bounce.

Much love to IDGIT. The Golf option got one vote (out of a possible 28) at BWW-MOA.

Too busy studying Canadian coins.

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Merkin