Fifteen to One (Game 2, Round 3: !?!?)

[Blackberry]

Beethoven

?

[JasonWazza]

Bit Coin

[imaginality]

Wikipedia

[Nobody Special]

Hamlet

[RichardGHP]

Leonard Nimoy

[puzzledan]

Zeta

[doctorwho]

StrangerCoug: It's the one we're speaking now, English.
JDGA: Your memory isn't failing you, that's right!
Blackberry: It's Handel, I'm afraid.
JasonWazza, imaginality, Nobody Special, and RichardGHP are all correct.
puzzledan: It's Omega, but you're still going through.

As for the two unanswered questions,

Edgar Allan Poe

wrote The Purloined Letter, and Popopo eventually became

Kirby

.

Score update:

1. Ozgin

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2. Not_Mafia

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3. RichardGHP

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4. puzzledan

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5. Nobody Special

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6. Save the Dragons

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7. JDGA

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8. ForWhomTheJellyRolls

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9. StrangerCoug

10. Blackberry

11. Titus

12. D3f3nd3r

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13. Mitillos

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14. imaginality

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15. JasonWazza

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And so we've lost three of you in the first set this time around. Blackberry and Titus, feel free to try again next game. StrangerCoug, we'll gladly welcome you back in Game 4, should you choose to have another go.

While we're at it, well done to the seven of you who survived our opening salvo unscathed!

Round 2 tomorrow.

ADVANCE WARNING:

I will be V/LA from this Saturday to next Wednesday. This game will probably pause during that time.

[StrangerCoug]

Oh, well, good game.

[Ozgin]

Damnit, I was gonna guess either Poe or Jane Austin. I just didn't get here in time ;_;

[doctorwho]

Sorry folks, just got back from V/LA. Game will resume in a few hours.

[doctorwho]

Ozgin, by virtue of being at the first position, you face the first question in Round 2. Get it wrong and we'll move down the line to Not_Mafia, get it right and we can start nominating.

Luigi's Mansion was the second game in the Mario series of video games to feature Luigi as the main character. What was the name of the first game that starred Luigi?

[Ozgin]

Super Mario Bros. 2.

[doctorwho]

That game

featured

Luigi, but he had to share the spotlight with Mario, Princess Toadstool, and Toad. The first game where he didn't have to share it was named Mario is Missing.

Not_Mafia, a question on medical conditions:

By what name is Otitis externa better known?

[Not_Mafia]

Ummm, phone a friend

[doctorwho]

That would be swimmers' ear.

RichardGHP: In the field of technology, what does USB stand for?

[RichardGHP]

Universal Serial Bus, isn't it?

[doctorwho]

It is.

Who's your target?

[RichardGHP]

Let's go for imaginality.

[doctorwho]

imaginality: Flight 9525 was the number of a passenger flight that crashed in the French Alps this past week, killing everyone on board. What airline operated the flight?

[imaginality]

Germanwings.

Nominate JDGA.

[doctorwho]

Absolutely.

JDGA: The Great Movie Ride, the central attraction at the Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park, was originally intended as the centerpiece of a pavilion at what other Disney theme park?

[JDGA]

Disneyworld

? I don't remember if it's Disneyworld or Disneyland, and I suspect the wrong one will get me stuck in Japan. (that's assuming it's one of these in the first place)

[doctorwho]

You're in the right region, but it's the park we wanted, not the resort. It was Epcot.

imaginality, still your pick.

[imaginality]

Not_Mafia

[Not_Mafia]

Rude