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.