New Scaratings

15 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease rapidly from 4 to 20 seconds after posting of Question & 5 Choices, and with 3 Clues:

1. Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspe is important in Canadian history because he:__________________________.
[Choices: Was first Prime Minister, Helped American slaves, Wrote historical novels, Promoted fur trading, Mapped the Territories ]

2. The literary work "Piers Plowman" features which romantic and popular figure?____________________________
[Choices: Thomas a Becket, King Arthur, Robin Hood, Hercules, The Scarlet Pimpernel ]

3. Working alone, but at the same time as Darwin, he proposed a theory of evolution:______________________.
[Choices: Alfred Wallace, Isaac Halpern, Benjamin Franklin, William James, Francis Bacon ]

4. The Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 gave which country its independence?_________________________
[Choices: Russia, Spain, Switzerland, France, Italy ]

5. He holds court in Valhalla, and rides an eight-legged steed named Sleipnir:________________________.
[Choices: Troilus, Frigga, Nestor, Odin, Charybdis ]

6. What kind of animal is a quahog?_____________________
[Choices: Mammal, Mollusk, Marsupial, Bird, Fish ]

7. Petrissage is a technique used in this profession:___________________.
[Choices: Air traffic control, Shipbuilding, Massage, Chemistry, Fashion design ]

8. To see the famous Palace of the Doges, you would need to travel to this city:________________________.
[Choices: Quebec, Seville, Guadalahara, Venice, Oxford ]

9. The Battle of Lundy's Lane was a key conflict of the:____________________________.
[Choices: Spanish-American War, American Revolution, War of 1812, U.S. Civil War, Wars of the Roses ]

10. The body of the balalaika, a musical instrument of Russia, is shaped like a:___________________.
[Choices: Triangle, Circle, Figure eight, Rectangle, Crescent Moon ]

11. Kinesiology is the scientific study of:____________________.
[Choices: Avalanches, Body movement, Hardwood trees, Harmony, Aquatic dwelling ]

12. Rodolphe Boulanger and Leon Dupuis are the lovers of:_____________________.
[Choices: Madeleine Robin, Anna Karenina, Lady Chatterley, Madame Bovary, Jane Eyre ]

13. Wallaman, Angel and Della are all famous:_____________________.
[Choices: Double agents, Horses, Waterfalls, Mansions, Fictional detectives ]

14. Which fabric gets its name from the French word for another European country?______________________
[Choices: Denim, Felt, Twill, Suede, Batik ]

15. Lassa Fever is an acute virus disease endemic to:________________________.
[Choices: Southeast Asia, Middle East, Central America, Scandinavia, West Africa ]






Answers:

1. Historical novels [we at Buster's Bar, Ottawa ON had no advantage over American Players, as none of us (including our Francophone, Jean) had ever heard of Aubert de Gaspe, so we went with "Promoted fur trading" until the end of the second Clue. So no one on our team got more than 353 Points on this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe- ... t_de_Gaspe .]

2. Robin Hood [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Plowman ]

3. Alfred Wallace [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace ]

4. Switzerland [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Westphalia ]

5. Odin [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin ]

6. Mollusk [Andrew C (GRYFON) pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_clam ]

7. Massage [Andrew C got all 1000 Points on this one; the rest guessed this for around 725 Points by noting the "-ssage" ending of both words; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrissage ]

8. Venice [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge's_Palace ]

9. War of 1812 [this Question gave Canadian Players a huge advantage; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lundy's_Lane and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of ... on_Heights . In days of yore (when you and I were young, Maggie), English Canadian schoolkids learned the song "The Maple Leaf Forever", with the first line of the second stanza "At Queenston Heights and Lundy's Lane...." But by today's standards, it's a tad jingoistic and too English ("O Canada" was originally in French), and nowadays Canadian history lessons in school concentrate more on all the bad things done by white English settlers in populating the land... For a performance skipping the second stanza, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxOhk4Lk9aE , and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maple_Leaf_Forever (Alexander Muir, 1867). ]

10. Triangle [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balalaika ]

11. Body movement [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinesiology ]

12. Madame Bovary [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Bovary ]

13. Waterfalls [I (REACH) pre-called this from "Angel" (which is named after American aviator Jimmie Angel, the first to fly over the Falls); see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Falls , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallaman_Falls and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Della_Falls (our friends in British Columbia might have had an advantage in knowing this, which I had never heard of before). ]

14. Suede [Andrew C noted that Suede is not a fabric, but a type of leather; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suede ]

15. West Africa [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassa_virus ]

Like Buster's, the Mallcrawlers had never heard of Gaspe either, despite our literary curiosity. Unlike Buster's, we didn't recover.

Congratulations to REACH & Friends for their #1 finish in this quiz.

Gaspe was the only miss for me. I was looking for something to do with exploration, given the Quebec peninsula with the same name.

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Merkin

One of the oddities of this quiz (BB 7.9.19) is that the two most prominent MERKIN's, one in Florida and the other in Illinois, finished 3rd and 4th as individual players on this quiz, beating out REACH, who finished #5. The difference in site scores, between Teasers and Buster's, was very narrow. For whatever reason, it would appear that the conversation at Buster's was just a little more persuasive, a little more to the point.

Wouldn't it be great if you could bottle those moments of inspiration, and carry them forward?

Alas, they tend to sour if left in sunlight.