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

[doctorwho]

JasonWazza: How many countries have a land border with Iraq?

[JasonWazza]

6

Richard again

[doctorwho]

RichardGHP: What word, the Italian for "little book", is given to the text of an opera or oratorio?

[doctorwho]

*buzz!*

That's a libretto.

(cue the end-of-the-round music)

That was pretty grueling towards the end there. We did get where we need to in the end, though, and it is as it has to be, 12 down and three to go. After this quick break, Nobody Special, Mitillos, and JasonWazza will be here for the final, so do please stay with us.

(and cue the fake commercials)

[Nobody Special]

*whew*

[JasonWazza]

yeah i'll admit i was getting worried by the end of that.

[RichardGHP]

Seriously. That had to be the easiest question in this whole game.

[doctorwho]

(and here we go...)

The three surviving contestants in today's Fifteen to One final are...

Nobody Special...

Mitillos...

and JasonWazza.

Welcome back. Players, a reminder that your lives left over from just a few minutes ago now form part of your final score for this round. Mitillos, that means 2 points off the bat for you. Nobody Special and JasonWazza, that's one point each.

Another reminder: 3 correct answers will open the game up; after that, it'll be Question or Nominate.

All that said, put your fingers on your buzzers and we'll make a start.

1/40: Music: How many notes are there in a pentatonic scale?

[Nobody Special]

Five.

[doctorwho]

*ding!*

Nobody Special: 11

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Mitillos: 2

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JasonWazza: 1

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2/40: Science: Complete this set of the bases of DNA: cytosine, guanine, thymine, ???

[Nobody Special]

Adenine


(I can only remember this by relating it to adenoids. Yeah.)

[doctorwho]

*ding!*

Nobody Special: 21

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Mitillos: 2

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JasonWazza: 1

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3/40: Religion: The Adi Granth is a sacred text of which religion, founded in India in the 15th century by Guru Nanak?

[Nobody Special]

As Meat Loaf said, two outta three ain't bad!

[JasonWazza]

I don't have a clue, Mit you can take this one

[Mitillos]

Sikhism. Thank you, QI.

[doctorwho]

*ding!*

Nobody Special: 21

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Mitillos: 12

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JasonWazza: 1

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4/40: Current affairs: Which former American vice presidential nominee proclaimed this week that United States immigrants should "speak American"?

[Mitillos]

Palin?

[doctorwho]

*ding!*

For the sake of keeping my sanity intact, I won't comment.


Nobody Special: 21

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Mitillos: 22

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JasonWazza: 1

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5/40: Technology: A Leyden jar was an early form of which electronic component, consisting of two conductor plates separated by a dielectric?

[Mitillos]

Capacitor.

[doctorwho]

*dingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingding!*

Nobody Special: 21

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Mitillos: 32

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JasonWazza: 1

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You've got the points, so now you get to pick: Question or nominate?

[Mitillos]

Question, please.

[doctorwho]

6/40: Mitillos: In the work by Voltaire, whose tutor Dr Pangloss maintains that "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds"?

[Mitillos]

Candide.

Question, please.

[doctorwho]

*ding!*

Nobody Special: 21

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Mitillos: 42

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JasonWazza: 1

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7/40: Mitillos: Which medical condition results from the presence of an extra copy of chromosome number 21?

[Mitillos]

Down syndrome, is it not?

If so, let's go for a question again.