New Scaratings

15 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease rapidly from 4 to 20 seconds after appearance of Choices, and with 3 Clues:

1. This soft bluish metal has an atomic number of 48:_____________________.
[Choices: Antimony, Boron, Cadmium, Tin, Beryllium ]

2. Who published an autobiographical novel under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas"?___________________
[Choices: Sylvia Plath, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Anais Nin, George Sand ]

3. Instagram is owned by:_____________________.
[Choices: Bill Gates, CBS, Donald Trump, Facebook, Netflix ]

4. Anatomist Paul Broca has a region of the human ____________ named after him.
[Choices: Foot, Stomach, Lungs, Pancreas, Brain ]

5. In Mexican cuisine, Mole Poblano is a:_________________.
[Choices: Sauce, Soup, Grain, Bread, Beverage ]

6. Both John Marshall Harlan and his grandson and namesake were:____________________.
[Choices: Governors of New York, U.S. Vice-Presidents, Four-star generals, U.N. Ambassadors, Supreme Court Justices ]

7. Fireflies or lightning bugs are winged:_______________________.
[Choices: Beetles, Moths, Locusts, Dragonflies, Mosquitoes ]

8. Jo Nesbo of _________________ writes crime novels featuring Harry Hole, a police inspector.
[Choices: Germany, Serbia, Turkey, Norway, The Netherlands ]

9. What country led all others with 39 medals at the 2018 Winter Olympics?_________________
[Choices: Canada, United States, Algeria, Sweden, Norway ]

10. From which country was Adolf Eichmann taken in 1960 in order to be put on trial in Israel?________________
[Choices: Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Malaysia, South Africa ]

11. In architecture, this term refers to the top portion of a column:_________________.
[Choices: Capital, Basilica, Frieze, Catacomb, Doric ]

12. In what decade was the Treaty of Waitangi signed?___________________
[Choices: 1730's, 1880's, 1820's, 1840's, 1790's ]

13. Which music producer and songwriter is associated with the "Wall of Sound" concept?________________
[Choices: Jerry Wexler, Phil Spector, Quincy Jones, Brian Eno, Berry Gordy ]

14. Basketball legend George Gervin was nicknamed:__________________.
[Choices: Jellybean, The Iceman, The Big Dipper, Birdman, The Patriot ]

15. Who wrote the short story "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" about a shy girl becoming a sexy flapper?_________________
[Choices: Carson MacCullers, Damon Runyan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, Ernest Hemingway ]




Answers:

1. Cadmium [I forget who at Buster's Bar, Ottawa ON called this first, but I (REACH) confirmed this; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmium ]

2. Sylvia Plath [We needed 3 Clues on this one, losing over 810 Points each; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Jar ]

3. Facebook [We guessed right on this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram ]

4. Brain [I pre-called this, from the title of Carl Sagan's "Broca's Brain"; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broca's_area and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broca's_Brain ]

5. Sauce [Sue (SWIFT) pre-called this one, confirmed by Richard (ACE); see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_sauce ]

6. Supreme Court Justices [I pre-called this one, guessing that the two later Supreme Court Justices were named after the great John Marshall. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Marshall , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Marshall_Harlan and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mars ... (born_1899) . These biographies do not confirm my guess, but see the section "Early life" at https://www.biography.com/people/john-m ... an-9328814 .]

7. Beetles [Andrew C (GRYFON) pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly . The post-Answer factoid on the screen "meaning it [cold light] has no ultraviolet properties" is wrong. A hot/warm solid or liquid object emits electromagnetic radiation with a continuous spectrum; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation . A glowing red or orange stove element emits mostly infrared (IR) radiation, and a little visible (red or orange) radiation, but little blue and virtually zero ultraviolet (UV) radiation, but it is still hot/warm light, not "cold light".
"Cold light" is so-named because the light emitted is not thermal radiation (i.e. not a black body spectrum or Planck radiation), but produced by chemical reactions of oxygen with some biological molecule which emits visible light during transitions from an upper energy quantized electronic state to a lower energy ground electronic state. The emission spectrum does not fit a Planck black-body emission curve, but forms a band of frequencies limited at both upper and lower energies. Hence the "cold light" spectrum is missing both ultraviolet (UV) and the infrared (IR) frequencies; the wikipedia article was right on this point when it says "Fireflies produce a 'cold light' with no infrared or ultraviolet frequencies".]

8. Norway [Dave (YELDOR, TULADI) called this, but the rest of us were slow to hear and respond; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Nesbo ]

9. Norway [see the section "Medal table" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Winter_Olympics ]

10. Argentina [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann ]

11. Capital [Andrew C pre-called this one; see the section "Nomenclature" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column , or deduce this from Latin "caput"="head" .]

12. 1840's [We went with a call for 1820's for New Zealand, missing over 760 Points each; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Waitangi ]

13. Phil Spector [I pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_Sound ]

14. The Iceman [I had a brain freeze and didn't remember this fast enough to avoid us all losing over 600 Points, except for YELDOR when Dave split his two votes; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gervin (played in the NBA from 1972-1990). On typing this, I realized that I might have overlooked the answer because Canadian curlers are used to "The Iceman" being Al Hackner of Northern Ontario, who won the Canadian and World Championships in 1982 and 1985; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Hackner . For his clutch "Al Hackner double" in 1985, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASH8dWdlEIo . ]

15. F. Scott Fitzgerald [We all guessed this from "Flappers"; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernice_Bobs_Her_Hair .]