The winner on Friday night got 6½ (the half-point from an answer to #7).
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I looked at the first question and decided I couldn’t be bothered.
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You and me both Fishy
My brain is NOT up to the quiz this week
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When I actually looked at them I saw three I knew and six I was reasonably sure about, but that first question made me feel that if it was going to be about crappy scifi films I couldn’t be bothered with it. And then That Bird posted the answers so there was no point.
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- Which is the only country to have designated a National Cat? [Guyana] [Japan] [Persia] [Turkey]
- The Hyatt Regency walkway collapse, in 1981, is one of the deadliest structural failures in US history, killing 114 people. In which city? [Kansas City] [Milwaukee] [Omaha] [Rapid City]
- Why was Frank Sinatra, at 70, offered the leading role in Die Hard?
- Among US commemorative coins, what denomination is a Half Union? [$10] [$25] [$50] [$100]
- What was the name of the Bohemian, then Czech, industrial conglomerate, involved in everything from guns and shipbuilding to machinery for breweries and sugar mills, that was finally broken up in 1999?
- Which US state has had as its official flower the carnation, the tulip, the zinnia, and now the peony? [Illinois] [Indiana] [Kentucky] [Ohio]
- Zara Rutherford has recently become the youngest woman to fly solo round the world. Who did it first? [Carmela Combe] [James Fitzmaurice] [Wiley Post] [Thea Rasche]
- When did the most recent death occur in Olympic/Paralympic competition? [1960] [1992] [2010] [2016]
- Who was in command for the Burnt Candlemas? [Edward I] [Edward II] [Edward III] [“Butcher” Cumberland]
- In/over what country did the world’s most deadly single-aircraft incident take place? [India] [Japan] [Spain] [USA]
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Got five, one of which I noticed when I was looking up something else last week some time. I am inclined to think of that as “cheating”: I hadn’t known it before and will probably have forgotten again in a month.
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Winner got 7.5, by the way.
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That strikes me as over-scrupulous, o Fish.
Four. Maybe.
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3
Ish
Carinthia.xx
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Meep
I am poorly educated
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1. Which is the only country to have designated a National Cat?
Turkey (The Turkish Angora)
2. The Hyatt Regency walkway collapse, in 1981, is one of the deadliest structural failures in US history, killing 114 people. In which city?
Kansas City
3. Why was Frank Sinatra, at 70, offered the leading role in Die Hard?
because the novel it was based on was a sequel to the novel that was the basis for a film he’d starred in in 1968
4. Among US commemorative coins, what denomination is a Half Union?
$50
5. What was the name of the Bohemian, then Czech, industrial conglomerate, involved in everything from guns and shipbuilding to machinery for breweries and sugar mills, that was finally broken up in 1999?
Škoda
6. Which US state has had as its official flower the carnation, the tulip, the zinnia, and now the peony?
Indiana (None of them native to the state. It also has an official state rifle.)
7. Zara Rutherford has recently become the youngest woman to fly solo round the world. Who did it first?
Wiley Post (in 1933, in a Lockheed Vega, after he’d done it with a navigator in 1931; he died two years later, with Will Rogers, when his aircraft’s engine failed on takeoff.)
8. When did the most recent death occur in Olympic/Paralympic competition?
2016 (Bahman Golbarnezhad, Iranian powerlifter and racing cyclist, had lost his left leg to a landmine; bike crash, head injury, cardiac arrest.)
9. Who was in command for the Burnt Candlemas?
Edward III (The sacking of Lothian in 1356, while Edward was waiting for fair weather and resupply, with the aim of pushing on to Perth.)
10. In/over what country did the world's most deadly single-aircraft incident take place?
Japan (JAL 123, 1985-08-12; lost its tail due to an improper bulkhead repair.)
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- The song “Neutron Dance” was a hit for the Pointer Sisters after it was featured in Beverly Hills Cop (1984). For what film was it originally written? [Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo] [Eddie and the Cruisers] [Footloose] [Streets of Fire]
- What is the third red-on-white symbol recognised and reserved by the International Red Cross and Crescent Societies? [Diamond] [Heart] [Rod of Asclepius (Caduceus)] [Star of David]
- which musical theatre production has had the most performances? [Cats] [The Lion King] [Les Misérables] [The Phantom of the Opera]
- what is the name given to the single most distant star observed to date? [Anarion] [Earendel] [Elenwe] [Luthien]
- How many (actually built) Soviet or Russian ships have carried the name Moskva? [3] [4] [5] [6]
- what is nosism? [an addiction to quack remedies] [a non-clinical desire for hospital treatment] [a religious appreciation of the nose] [the use of “we” referring to oneself]
- in filmmaking, what is a China Girl? [a background female character] [a caterer’s assistant or similar dogsbody] [a special handler for fragile props] [a test frame for colour calibration]
- Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, recently elected president of the Philippines, falsely claims to have a degree from Oxford. In what? [Chemistry] [Engineering and Economics] [Philosophy, Politics and Economics] [Travel and Tourism]
- When did the first commercial monorail open? [1820] [1878] [1901] [1956]
- Which of these is not a Falun Gong teaching? [Anti-evolution] [Anti-homosexuality] [Opposition to organ transplants] [Support for Donald Trump]
(And yes, I know the Rod of Asclepius is not the same thing as the Caduceus, but I didn’t want nitpickers. Nitpicking is my job.)
Winner of the Friday night virtual pub lot got 6.
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Tough.
Question 2, you have not named the actual third red cross/crescent symbol.
Question 5, did you mean naval vessels or civilian ones, or the entire class of ships (more than one, in fact) called Moskva?
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Reasonably confident of 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 10. [hysterical cackles off]
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1. The song "Neutron Dance" was a hit for the Pointer Sisters after it was featured in Beverly Hills Cop (1984). For what film was it originally written?
Streets of Fire
2. What is the third red-on-white symbol recognised and reserved by the International Red Cross and Crescent Societies?
Diamond (officially the Red Crystal)
3. which musical theatre production has had the most performances?
Les Misérables (Over 14,000 performances in London since 1985)
4. what is the name given to the single most distant star observed to date?
Earendel (more formally WHL0137-LS)
5. How many (actually built) Soviet or Russian ships have carried the name Moskva?
4 (A ship of the line from 1799, a destroyer leader 1932-1941, a helicopter carrier 1965-1996, and the former Slava 1976-2022. The Stalingrad-class battlecruiser laid down in 1952 was never launched.)
6. what is nosism?
the use of “we” referring to oneself
7. in filmmaking, what is a China Girl?
a test frame for colour calibration
8. Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, recently elected president of the Philippines, falsely claims to have a degree from Oxford. In what?
Philosophy, Politics and Economics
9. When did the first commercial monorail open?
1878
10. Which of these is not a Falun Gong teaching?
Opposition to organ transplants
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Confidence misplaced. 6/10.
Ta, Sparrer.
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7, but one you told me while working out the clues so it doesn’t count.
And I continuer to point out that for question 4 you need to say 9, because of the two ice-breakers, the passenger ship, the cargo ship and the tanker. If you meant military vessels you ought to have specified.
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All right, number 10 is quite morbid, but I was in that sort of mood.
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Hmm,
I got 6, but it should have been 7
Sigh
Carinthia.xx
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I am proud of my 4 right answers
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