Haschel's Weekly Trivia League! Week 9!

[brassherald]

I think a better video games idea would be "Video Games released in America within the time frame of May 1, 2017 to May 7, 2017"

[Haschel Cedricson]

You all still have three hours to finish. However, I was on a business trip in California all last week and Round 5 is not quite ready yet. I'll get it done as soon as I can, but I'm sure you can understand with a category like "Eurovision" I have a lot of audio to track down.

Thank you for your patience.

[brassherald]

You all still have three hours to finish. However, I was on a business trip in California all last week and Round 5 is not quite ready yet. I'll get it done as soon as I can, but I'm sure you can understand with a category like "Eurovision" I have a lot of audio to track down.

Thank you for your patience.

It's Eurovision, not Eurohearing!

[TanisNikana]

Then it's gonna be a video round! With the audio muted!

[Haschel Cedricson]

It's Answer Time! Also, wow I did not expect the sports question to be as hard as it apparently was.

Spoiler:

QUESTION 1) He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 2222, assigned to his most famous post in 2265, promoted to captain in 2285, invented transparent aluminum in 1986, retired in 2294, and was rescued from a Dyson sphere in 2369. Who was this engineer?

MONTGOMERY "SCOTTY" SCOTT

QUESTION 2) Monty Hall offered contestants a choice of three doors, one of which had a big prize behind it. One of the doors the contestant didn't choose would be revealed to have a bad prize behind it, and the contestant had the option to stay with their first choice or switch to the last remaining door. Although logic suggests it's a 50% chance either way, the "Monty Hall Problem" states that the contestant has a 66% chance of winning if they switch. That knowledge was useful to contestants on WHAT game show?

LET'S MAKE A DEAL

QUESTION 3) The city of Montgomery, Alabama recently unveiled a museum and memorial dedicated to the victims of what crime?

LYNCHING

QUESTION 4) British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery had a rivalry with American General George S. Patton. The two of them famously "raced" to conquer Axis territory, resulting in a win for Patton when Montgomery led his troops into Messina only to find the Americans were already there. On which island did this take place?

SICILY

QUESTION 5) Speaking of Field Marshal Montgomery, he managed to lend his nickname to a variation of a drink. A "Montgomery Cocktail" consists of 15 parts gin to 1 part vermouth. This is significantly larger than the 2:1 ratio used in the traditional preparation of what drink?

MARTINI

QUESTION 6) The Count of Monte Cristo is a classic tale of revenge and adventure. The Man in the Iron Mask is a story of a secret royal twin. The Three Musketeers tells of four swashbuckling heroes. Identify the author of all three of these stories.

ALEXANDRE DUMAS

QUESTION 7) And now for something completely different. Monty Python's Flying Circus was a British sketch comedy show, but the music played over the opening credits was written by an American. Name that composer AND the name of the piece:

JOHN PHILIP SOUSA, LIBERTY BELL MARCH

QUESTION 8) What is the FULL NAME of the owner of Springfield's nuclear power plant on The Simpsons?

CHARLES MONTGOMERY BURNS

I also accepted

CANARY M BURNS

because it is both technically correct and made me laugh so hard when I saw somebody answered it.

QUESTION 9) Mafiascum's very own Monty PrivateI mentions in his GTKAS thread that he is a big fan of djembes. What is a djembe?

A DRUM

QUESTION 10) Name the very FIRST video game in which the character pictured below first appeared. SPECIFIC TITLE OF GAME IS NEEDED.

SUPER MARIO WORLD

QUESTION 11) Montezuma II ruled the Aztec Empire at its largest size. He also ruled over the start of its rapid decline after being taken prisoner by what European explorer?

HERNAN CORTES

QUESTION 12) From 2010 to 2015 the head coach of the NBA team in New Orleans was Monty Williams. Identify BOTH names that the team went by under his tenure.

NEW ORLEANS HORNETS, NEW ORLEANS PELICANS

So who won?



Congrats to brassherald on his first gold trophy! Nexus and Xofelf add to their collections as well.

As promised, here's Eurovision!

Next week by popular demand, we will be doing Video Games!

[xofelf]

Yeeeeeeeees. If only I could have gone for the Full Monty.

[Shadoweh]

Awh I said Deal or no Deal. But i actually got a good score!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Cephrir]

...I'm not even going to bother embarrassing myself on this round.

[xofelf]

Look, this is a Haschel Trivia thing. Things are never just what they seem to appear to be. Especially if there's potential for puns or wordplay. It'll be better than you think

[Cheery Dog]

I don't see embarrassment by not knowing stuff.

Even though it's just not paying attention

[Shadoweh]

Finally my obsession with sax music will come in handy!

[TanisNikana]

I'm gonna not do this one at work.

[Pine]

That was a lot easier than anticipated. I was expecting this to be a throwaway week, with a few Euro scummers dominating. I'm pretty sure I got most of them, though.

[Cephrir]

Look, this is a Haschel Trivia thing. Things are never just what they seem to appear to be. Especially if there's potential for puns or wordplay. It'll be better than you think

I wrote that after looking at it

[N]

I also accepted CANARY M BURNS because it is both technically correct and made me laugh so hard when I saw somebody answered it.

my only correct answer this round

[mallowgeno]

...I'm not even going to bother embarrassing myself on this round.

Join me pls, I don't wanna be alooooneeeee

[brassherald]

I won? Wow, did not expect that.

[brassherald]

I embarassed myself this round. I stopped listening to the sound clips pretty early on.

[HeWhoSwims]

Oof. I decided to enter now that Eurovision was the theme but these were hard!

[StefanB]

I took one look and thought nope, you probably can't answer much of the questions.

[NotAJumbleOfNumbers]

i tried
on half the questions i just wrote some form of “i don’t know”
one of them had a dead giveaway though

[Haschel Cedricson]

Alright, let's do this! How did you all do at Eurovision?

Spoiler: Answers!

QUESTION 1) What are they doing?

KISSING THE BLARNEY STONE

QUESTION 2) What country is this woman originally from?

SLOVENIA

QUESTION 3) Where specifically is the right half of this image?

EAST BERLIN

QUESTION 4) What happened here?

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR MELTDOWN

QUESTION 5) What has been redacted from this image?

THE MONA LISA

QUESTION 6) What city is this?

COPENHAGEN

QUESTION 7) What event is this?

MONACO GRAND PRIX

QUESTION 8) What company made all of these?

NOKIA

QUESTION 9: What train station is this?

KING'S CROSS

QUESTION 10) What is the literal English translation of the name of this building?

HOLY WISDOM

QUESTION 11) What country is this museum in?

BELGIUM

QUESTION 12) Okay fine, one actual Eurovision question. Where is this epic sax guy from?

MOLDOVA

So who won?


Nexus was the only player to get all twelve correct, but Xof does a better job of choosing MONEY QUESTIONs and sneaks ahead for the gold. Meanwhile BROseidon picks up the bronze.

The category for Week 6 is Video Games!. Next week I hope you are all ready for a Disco Inferno.

[Pine]

I would have sworn that Hagia Sophia translated to Saint Sophia.

[xofelf]

Yeeees. I try to be really strategic in choosing money questions. I'm so happy! Sorry Nexus.

[Errantparabola]

I thought I had randomly guessed Copenhagen but now that I think about it I think I subconsciously remembered reading something about the Little Mermaid statue.