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SHOWDOWN Game Q&A for Tue. January 7, 2020
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Author:  REACH [ Wed Jan 08, 2020 7:22 am ]
Post subject:  SHOWDOWN Game Q&A for Tue. January 7, 2020
Warm-up Round (10 Questions, 500 Points each, 14 seconds to answer after posting of Question & 5 Choices; No Clues):

1. Something that is tiresome or boring would best be described as:______________________.
[Choices: Complicated, Brief, Stressed, Placid, Tedious ]

2. The Beaufort Sea is a marginal sea of the:________________________.
[Choices: North Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean, South China Sea, Indian Ocean ]

3. Which people were led by priests called Druids?________________________
[Choices: Native Americans, Pygmies, Ancient Greeks, Incas, Celts ]

4. Filbert trees are especially useful for the _____________________ they produce.
[Choices: Leaves, Fruit, Nuts, Flowers, Pollywogs ]

5. Who did TIME magazine name as its 2019 Person of the Year?________________________
[Choices: Donald Trump, Greta Thunberg, Esther Duflo, Kanye West, The Squad ]

6. Which of the New Seven Wonders of the World is located in Jordan?______________________
[Choices: Petra, Great Wall, The Colosseum, Machu Picchu, Chichen Itza ]

7. Soylent is a recently developed:____________________________.
[Choices: Self-driving vehicle, Cloth substitute, Cleanser, Language, Meal replacement ]

8. The Pilgrims on the Mayflower set sail from _____________________ in September 1620.
[Choices: Swansea, Normandy, Liverpool, Dublin, Plymouth ]

9. Another word for "bruise" is:________________________.
[Choices: Betrayal, Question, Tumor, Contusion, Dungeon ]

10. Which holiday favorite is a poem?__________________________
[Choices: A Visit from St. Nicolas, The Fir-tree, Cricket on the Hearth, Little Women, The Chimes ]




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

11. This year marks the 21st anniversary of NASA's Chandra _______________________ Observatory.
[Choices: Comet, Meteor, Eclipse, X-Ray, Asteroid ]

12. Which ingredient is in a Hinoki martini?_________________________
[Choices: Awamori, Sake, Sapporo beer, Plum wine, Tequila ]

13. Which classic novel is by J.P. Donleavy?____________________________
[Choices: Slaughterhouse Five, The Group, Catch-22, Naked Lunch, The Ginger Man ]

14. All true crabs have exactly _____________ legs.
[Choices: Six, Ten, Twelve, Four, Eight ]

15. Uniper is a German company that is classified in the ____________________ sector.
[Choices: Energy, Pharmaceutical, Hotel, Insurance, Accounting ]

16. Which of these is a type of pottery?_________________________
[Choices: Gunmetal, Soubrette, Majolica, Emboite, Triffid ]

17. John Bel Edwards was reelected last year as Governor of this Southern state:__________________________.
[Choices: Louisiana, Georgia, Vermont, Idaho, Tennessee ]

18. The study of economic history is known as:__________________________.
[Choices: Cybernetics, Dendometrics, Jurisprudence, Semiotics, Cliometrics ]

19. What sporting event did Simon Pagenaud win in 2019?_______________________
[Choices: Indianapolis 500, Iditarod sled dog race, Wimbledon, Tour de France, The Masters ]

20. The religious texts of Zoroastrianism are called the:_______________________.
[Choices: Rigveda, Congeries, Sutras, Triads, Avesta ]

21. Blackeyed peas, pork and rice are ingredients of this New Years' dish in the American South:________________________.
[Choices: Hoppin' John, Jumpin' Joe, Runnin' Fred, Skippin' Luke, Singin' Hal ]

22. Which popular item was introduced in 1982?________________________
[Choices: Domino's Pizza, Pac-Man arcade game, Diet Coke, Toyota Camry, Rubik's Cube ]




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) A trip to Tennessee v WRITERS: What science fiction writer created the Uplift Universe?__________________________
[Choices: Isaac Asimov, Dan Simmons, Frederik Pohl, Clive Cussler, David Brin ]

24.(a) HARRY POTTER v Ancient Rome: What kind of broom did Harry Potter first use to play Quidditch?___________________________.
[Choices: Broom of Erised, Comet Two Sixty, Milky-Way Flyer, Super-Sweeper, Nimbus Two-Thousand ]

25.(a) FOOD INGREDIENTS v Classical composers: Kugel is a pudding or casserole made from potatoes or:______________________.
[Choices: Green beans, Asparagus, Beets, Squash, Egg noodles ]

26.(a) ANCIENT ROME v A trip to Tennessee: In ancient Rome, a Fabula crepidata was a type of:________________________.
[Choices: Hand to hand combat, Scroll, Warship, Legal document, Drama ]

27.(a) Classical composers v HARRY POTTER: In Harry Potter, what House at Hogwarts did the wizards who went bad usually come from?_________________________
[Choices: Slytherin, Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, Huffflepuff, Quidditch ]

28.(a) Writers v FOOD INGREDIENTS: Bavarian cream is an ingredient in which dessert?__________________________
[Choices: Devil's food cake, Fruitcake, Charlotte russe, Panettone, Baked Alaska ]




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. From 1945 to 1999, the Schilling was the national currency of:___________________________.
[Choices: Austria, Norway, Indonesia, Haiti, Chile ]

30. Who was the first ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii?_____________________________
[Choices: Matatumua Maimoana, Kamehameha, Duke Kahanamoku, Daniel Inouye, Liliuokalani ]

31. People born in late ____________________ are born under the sign of Pisces.
[Choices: April, February, October, June, August ]

32. He was appointed in 2019 as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom:_____________________________.
[Choices: Boris Johnson, Noel Gallagher, Gareth Ainsworth, Simon Armitage, Daniel Woodrell ]

33. The Eastern White Pine is the official state tree of:________________________.
[Choices: Colorado, Maine, New York, Vermont, Kansas ]

34. In which film does Billy Bob Thornton play the President of the United States?_________________________
[Choices: What Women Want, Love Actually, Mars Attacks!, The Intern, It's Complicated ]

35. At 24,580 feet, Noshaq is the highest point in:________________________.
[Choices: Indonesia, Belarus, Afghanistan, Uganda, Mongolia ]




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 & Choices = 16 seconds; No Clues):

36. Which country listed was never colonized by a European country?___________________________
[Choices: Chad, Ghana, India, Cambodia, Thailand ]

37. Which word is closest in meaning to "obscure"?________________________
[Choices: Pileous, Nubilous, Fissile, Cladded, Rotiform ]

38. "Water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink" is a poetic line by:_______________________.
[Choices: Oscar Wilde, Samuel Coleridge, Leland Stanford, John Keats, H.P. Lovecraft ]

39. In historical geology, the Cambrian Explosion was marked by the appearance of:_______________________________.
[Choices: Solar eruptions, Language, Plants, Major animal phyla, Rocks ]

40. Which famous person was named after the city they were born in?____________________________
[Choices: Paris Hilton, Nikola Tesla, Florence Nightengale, Stephen F. Austin, Orlando Bloom ]




Final Jeopardy Question on WORLD RIVERS (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. The Dniester and Dneiper Rivers both flow into this body of water:___________________________.
[Choices: English Channel, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, Atlantic Ocean, North Sea ]






Answers:

1. Tedious [Andrew C (GRYFON) was the first at Whispers Pub, Ottawa ON to call this; see https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tedious ]

2. Arctic Ocean [I (REACH) pre-called this first; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_Sea ]

3. Celts [Myfanwy (SPRAJO) pre-called "Welsh" first (she's Welsh), then pre-called "Celts"; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druid ]

4. Nuts [Myfanwy pre-called this first; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazelnut ]

5. Greta Thunberg [Chorus of pre-calls; see https://time.com/person-of-the-year-201 ... -thunberg/ ]

6. Petra [Dai (YELDOR) or Andrew C pre-called this first; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New7Wonders_of_the_World ]

7. Meal replacement [I called this one first, despite disbelief that someone would use "Soylent"=Soy+lentil in a commercial product; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_(meal_replacement) ]

8. Plymouth [Chorus of calls, although there was a hiccup between departure and arrival spots; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrims_(Plymouth_Colony) . The Pilgrims left Southampton in August, and then Dartmouth and Plymouth in September 1620. ]

9. Contusion [Patrick (MRRED) pre-called this one, I think; see https://www.dictionary.com/browse/contusion ]

10. A Visit from St. Nicolas [2 pre-calls for "'Twas the Night before Christmas", and then a chorus; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Visit_from_St._Nicholas ]




11. X-Ray [I called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_X-ray_Observatory . It is named after Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar who explained the stability of a white dwarf star by the Pauli Exclusion Principle: the nuclear fuel has run out, but further collapse is prevented because only 2 electrons can occupy the same small region of space, and their spins must be paired, so repulsion of the electrons maintains an Earth-sized star with the mass of the Sun. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subrahman ... ndrasekhar and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_dwarf ]

12. Sake [I called this as a guess; see https://punchdrink.com/recipes/hinoki-martini/ ]

13. The Ginger Man [I called this by eliminating the other Choices; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ginger_Man ]

14. Ten [A wrong pre-call for "Eight" doomed us all; as soon as I saw the Answer, the Order "Decapoda" flashed in my mind. D'oh!!! I knew that lobsters and crabs have ten arms, including the claws ("Craws" if you remember the first episode of "Get Smart"). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapoda . Humans, apes and monkeys belong to the Order Primates, and cats, dogs, raccoons, bears and seals belong to the Order Carnivora; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivora .]

15. Energy [we mostly missed this one; Phil (BSLXPN) and I guessed "pharmaceuticals", perhaps because I was thinking of Unilever and its chemicals. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniper ]

16. Majolica [Dai and Andrew called this one first; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiolica ]

17. Louisiana [Phil (BSLXPN) pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bel_Edwards ]

18. Cliometrics [Andrew called this one, deducing this from Clio, the Muse of History; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliometrics ]

19. Indianapolis 500 [we all missed this one, since we have no interest in watching cars all turning in the same direction; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Pagenaud . The answer does remind me of John Mitchell, Nixon's Attorney General: when asked what he thought of the Indianapolis 500, he replied "They're all guilty!" (This was at the time of the Chicago 7) ]

20. Avesta [Dai called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avesta ]

21. Hoppin' John [Dai called this as a guess; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoppin'_John ]

22. Diet Coke [we mostly missed this one, going with Pac-Man; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_Coke ]




23.(a) David Brin [Dai pre-called this as a guess; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uplift_Universe ]

24.(a) Nimbus Two-Thousand [Phil pre-called "Something 2000"; see https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Nimbus_2000 ]

25.(a) Egg noodles [Richard (ACE) said "Kugel"="ball" in German, as a pre-call; Phil pre-called "some starch"; when the Choices appeared, Dave (BLADOR, usually YELDOR) called this one. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugel . I mentioned to Richard that when I took Grade 10 German, someone asked the teacher what a ball-point pen was called in German, and the answer was "Kugelschreiber". In those days, ball-point pens were not allowed by most teachers; we had to use fountain pens, and many of our desks still had ink wells in the upper right corner. We also had to walk 10 miles to school, through 2 feet of snow, going uphill in both directions. ]

26.(a) Drama [we missed this one, going with "legal document"; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabula_crepidata . According to https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fabula , "fabula"="folktale", so maybe we ought to have guessed "fable" to guess a dramatic story.]

27.(a) Slytherin [Chorus of calls; see https://pottermore.fandom.com/wiki/Slytherin ]

28.(a) Charlotte Russe [Myfanwy and Sue (SWIFT) called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_(cake) ]




29. Austria [I pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilling ]

30. Kamehameha [Jean (LESTER) called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Kamehameha ]

31. February [Dai pre-called this one; see https://astrostyle.com/pisces-dates/ ]

32. Simon Armitage [we guessed wrong on this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Armitage ]

33. Maine [Phil pre-called this as a guess, but others pre-called Vermont, and when the Choices appeared, both were there, along with New York that tempted some of us; See https://statesymbolsusa.org/symbol-offi ... white-pine ]

34. Love Actually [Myfanwy pre-called this one; see the section "Cast" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Actually ]

35. Afghanistan [Myfanwy guessed this one, but most of us guessed wrong; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noshaq ]




36. Thailand [Dai pre-called this, and I agreed; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand ]

37. Nubilous [we eliminated the other Choices; see https://www.dictionary.com/browse/nubilous ]

38. Samuel Coleridge [Dai pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rime_ ... nt_Mariner ]

39. Major animal phyla [I called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian_explosion . A phylum is a major division of a Kingdom; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylum . Lobsters and true crabs (not the horseshoe crab) belong to the Order Decapoda (see Q14) which belongs to the Class Malacostraca (it was Class Crustacea when I was in school) which belongs to the Phylum Arthropoda . See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthropod , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malacostraca , and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapoda .]

40. Florence Nightingale [We missed this one, going with Paris Hilton, partly because "Nightingale" was misspelled as "Nightengale" in the Question. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale .]




41. Black Sea [Andrew and Dai immediately pre-called this, so we all got full Bonus Points. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dniester and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnieper . Note the spelling of each name, containing "ie", pronounced "long E" in German; "ei" is pronounced "long I", as in "eye", "Einstein", etc.]
Author:  GONE D [ Wed Jan 08, 2020 1:22 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: SHOWDOWN Game Q&A for Tue. January 7, 2020
27.(B): CLASSICAL COMPOSERS: England's Queen Anne was a patron of which composer? GEORGE F HANDEL. If memory serves, the other options were all anachronistic.

REACH wrote:
40. Florence Nightingale [We missed this one, going with Paris Hilton, partly because "Nightingale" was misspelled as "Nightengale" in the Question.]


Dulono's, I've been informed, made a similar mistake. A misspelled answer is not necessarily a red herring. This isn't the first time it's happened, and it surely won't be the last.

REACH, it's good to have you back!
Author:  REACH [ Wed Jan 08, 2020 2:16 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: SHOWDOWN Game Q&A for Tue. January 7, 2020
To GONE D, thanks for the kind words.

Misspellings are distractions, taking up time and brain space that would otherwise have gone to eliminating wrong answers. So I hope the Quizmaster is reading this, although I wouldn't want his/her job (mistakes are part of life, and must be accepted as part of the game, but we can all vent without hating the Quizmaster or Buzztime).
Author:  Merkin [ Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:28 am ]
Post subject:  Re: SHOWDOWN Game Q&A for Tue. January 7, 2020
25. Classical Composers: Beethoven wrote how many symphonies?
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