New Scaratings

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

1. The Act of Settlement in 1701 ended the reign of the House of Stuart and began the reign of the:______________________.
[Choices: Windsors, Hanovers, Tudors, Plantagenets, Yorks ]

2. In Kafka's "The Penal Colony", prisoners are slowly executed by a machine that:______________________.
[Choices: Dips them in gold, Tickles them to death, Carves words into flesh, Bottles their soul, Sucks out their brains ]

3. Which city is *not* a national capital?_______________________
[Choices: Port-au-Prince, Port Louis, Port Moresby, Porto Alegre, Port of Spain ]

4. He was first mentioned in the letters of the Apostle Paul as the "Beloved Physician":__________________________.
[Choices: Joshua, John, Peter, Luke, David ]

5. Where in the world would you find the Firth of Clyde?_____________________
[Choices: Belarus, Australia, Scotland, Iceland, Norway ]

6. In statistics, the estimate of a function value outside the range of its known values is:_______________________.
[Choices: Stagflation, Horripilation, Exhibitionism, Extrapolation, Introspection ]

7. Where did the famed American volunteer force called the "Abraham Lincoln Brigade" fight?______________________
[Choices: Argentina, North Africa, Washington D.C., Georgia, Spain ]

8. Roman Catholicism is to Austria as __________________ is to Bangladesh.
[Choices: Islam, Confucianism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism ]

9. This African mammal divides its group into sentries, baby sitters and hunters:______________________.
[Choices: Pangolin, Aardvark, Meerkat, Bandicoot, Siamang gibbon ]

10. This element was discovered in 1896 by Eugene-Anatole Demarcay:_________________________.
[Choices: Europium, Scandium, Nickel, Silicon, Neptunium ]

11. Ascomycota, Zygomycota and Basidiomycota are all main groups of:_____________________.
[Choices: Fungi, Mosses, Monocots, Ferns, Algae ]

12. The Greek goddess of corn, her daughter was abducted by Hades:_____________________.
[Choices: Delia, Helena, Athena, Demeter, Gaia ]

13. In which game is each participant given 16 pieces to start with?_____________________
[Choices: Risk, Go, Chess, Dominoes, Billiards ]

14. Which Latin phrase refers to something unique?_____________________
[Choices: Pro tempore, Non compos mentis, Quid pro quo, Sui generis, Carpe diem ]

15. Chuquicamata, Chile, is home to one of the world's largest:_______________________.
[Choices: Man-made lakes, Volcanoes, Copper mines, Rain forests, Railroad bridges ]






Answers:

1. Hanover [I (REACH) pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Settlement_1701 ]

2. Carves words into flesh [we at Whispers, Ottawa ON all missed this one, except for CRAXER; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Penal_Colony ]

3. Porto Alegre [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porto_Alegre ]

4. Luke [I pre-called this one; see https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/luke ... physician/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_the_Evangelist ]

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

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

7. Spain [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Battalion ]

8. Islam [see the section "Demographics" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh ]

9. Meerkat [I pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meerkat ]

10. Europium [I guessed this one (but wasn't sure it wasn't Scandium); see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europium and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandium (discovered 1879) .]

11. Fungi [I pre-called this one, but in explaining "Mycota", my finger inadvertently hit "Mosses" so I lost all 1000 Points (D'oh!); see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascomycota , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygomycota and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basidiomycota ]

12. Demeter [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demeter . Phil (BSLXPN) questioned "Goddess of corn", but I mentioned that "corn"="grain", not "maize", in this context (see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Laws for the use of "corn"="grain"). The Roman equivalent goddess was Ceres, from whom we get "cereal" grains; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_(mythology) ]

13. Chess [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess ]

14. Sui generis [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui_generis ]

15. Copper mines [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuquicamata ]


At the start of this game we were short of tablets because the 10 "new" ones ordered by owner Paul were 2G, not 5G, and would not register. So this was a trial run, and we are hoping for all-new 5G tablets by next week. With coordination, we could have got all 15 Questions right, in retrospect.

Here's hoping that REACH's group is back in action, soon. The most valuable player in our community isn't necessarily the one with the highest score, but rather the one does the most to keep that community alive.