MS.net trivia league (Game 3 up! Huzzah)

[Quilford]

Hi!

Every few days, I'll post a set of ten trivia questions from various fields and of various difficulties, and you can PM me with your answers to them! As soon as I get to them I'll mark your answers and give you a point for each one you get right. There'll be a leaderboard! After a while, maybe we can do a thing where the current leader gets to take the reins and the points reset? Or something of that sort.

Obviously, don't use anything other than your brain's store of knowledge to answer the questions. Treat this as if this were a game show: it's your own display of skill!

You don't need to /in, just PM me with your answers to the questions. Don't post them in thread, not even if you're unsure. PM me with any query you have.

Game 3

Q1)

Name any country with all of the colours red, green and blue in its flag.

Q2)

Which poet wrote:

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

Q3)

What is horology the study of?

Q4)

Name the breed of dog depicted here.

Q5)

In which century was the Magna Carta signed?

Q6)

Which recently finished webcomic did Emily Horne and Joey Comeau co-author?

Q7)

Which 2013 game is considered to be the most awarded game of all time?

Q8)

Maya Lin, an American designer and architect, is best known for designing which structure at age 21?

Q9)

Which character did actress Alyson Hannigan portray on

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

?

Q10)

The first Scummies ceremony held on mafiascum.net gave awards for games taking place in which year?

Send your answers via PM!

[Quilford]

Leaderboard

Mitillos - 22

(8, 6, 8)

xofelf - 22

(5, 9, 8)

ChaosOmega - 15

(5, 7, 3)

SleepyKrew - 15

(5, 7, 3)

Drench - 13

(4, 9)

Cephrir - 13

(3, 6, 4)

Save The Dragons - 13

(1, 9, 3)

ForWhomTheJellyRolls - 10

(1, 6, 3)

Axxle - 10

(4, 3, 3)

D3f3nd3r - 9

(2, 5, 2)

DeathRowKitty - 8

(3, 5)

JDGA - 8

(1, 5, 2)

PrivateI - 6

(-, 6)

Fromage - 6

(-, 5, 1)

McMenno - 4

(-, 4)

xRECKONERx - 3

(-, -, 3)

[SleepyKrew]

I'm ready to be embarrassed

[Axxle]

Ready to embarrass Skrew.

[Quilford]

Well I don't have no PMs from either of you two yet!

[Axxle]

I had to get ready before I sent it!

[Quilford]

Fair nuff

[SleepyKrew]

Leaderboard

SleepyKrew - 5
Drench - 4
Axxle - 4

lmao

[Axxle]

Nerd.

[Quilford]

More entrants pls!

[D3f3nd3r]

I submitted!

[Quilford]

Yay!

[JDGA]

Oh yay D3f got 2 I can submit without feeling pathetic anymore yaaaay

[Quilford]

If you had shown me these questions before I did all the research to compose them, I would have probably only gotten three right. Four at a push. So etc

[SleepyKrew]

bump
cmon people

[xofelf]

The Queen of Trivia is here to defend her title as such. Bring it bitches <3

[Mitillos]

Sent.

[Cephrir]

I'm ready to be embarrassed

[Quilford]

Whoa! I was not expecting so many trivia answers all at once! Hold on

[Quilford]

There we go guys, thanks for submitting! I'll put up the next set-o'questions today or tomorrow, should be good!

[Quilford]

Game 1 answers

Q1)

The last widely accepted sighting of this flightless, terrestrial bird, hunted to extinction by humans, was in 1662. Which island was it endemic to?
The bird is the dodo. It was endemic to the island of

Mauritius

.

Q2)

What 1865 novel, written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodson under a pseudonym, includes the riddle 'Why is a raven like a writing desk'?
The novel is

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

(also accepted:

Alice in Wonderland

), written by Dodson under the pen name Lewis Carroll.

Q3)

What is the name of the famous and influential Greek philosopher and scientist who first developed the study of logic in Europe?

Aristotle

Q4)

This American mathematician died in a car crash on May 23, 2015, with his wife. Which mental illness was he diagnosed with at 30 years of age?
The mathematician is John Nash; he was diagnosed with

paranoid schizophrenia

.

Q5)

Name any one of the three films for which Australian actor Russell Crowe earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
The three films are

The

Insider

(1999),

Gladiator

(2000) and

A Beautiful Mind

(2001).

Q6)

In which decade in the 1900s did the superhero Superman make his comic book debut?
He debuted in

Action Comics #1

in 1938, so

the 30s

is the decade.

Q7)

What was the name of the aircraft responsible for dropping the atomic bomb Fat Man over Nagasaki in August 1945?
Fat Man was dropped by the aircraft named

Bockscar

. The

Enola Gay

dropped Little Boy over Hiroshima but only flew weather recon for the Nagasaki bombing.

Q8)

Name any two of the political groups, excluding the Labour Party, currently in Opposition in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
Correct answers included two of the

Scottish National Party

, the

Liberal Democrats

, the

Democratic Unionist Party

,

Sinn Féin

,

Plaid Cymru

, the

Social Democratic and Labour Party

, the

Ulster Unionist Party

,

UKIP

, the

Greens

, and independent politician

Sylvia Hermon

.

Q9)

In linguistics, what is the term used to describe the language which arises from the need to communicate between two communities?
The term is

pidgin

language.

Q10)

Which term relating to parallel universes, doubtless familiar to anyone reading this trivia question, was invented by Douglas Adams in his 1992 novel

Mostly Harmless

?

The Whole Sort of General Mish Mash

Alrighty, Game 2 coming up!

[Quilford]

Game 2

Q1)

Name any two Vice Presidents of the United States who later became Presidents.

Q2)

In golf, what is the term used to mean a score of two under par on a hole?

Q3)

Which nation has as its territory the islands on which Komodo dragons reside?

Q4)

In which event did Caitlyn Jenner win the gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics?

Q5)

According to Nielsen SoundScan, which artist put out 2014's best selling album?

Q6)

In the

Harry Potter

universe, which Hogwarts house is associated with the colour blue?

Q7)

In which decade in the 1900s did the Korean War take place?

Q8)

Who scored the film

Inception

, directed by Christopher Nolan?

Q9)

For how many seasons did the television show

Breaking Bad

run?

Q10)

In which nation was the party game Mafia created in 1986?

[Quilford]

Bonus picture!


A Komodo dragon, as referred to in Question 3

[Quilford]

Results coming in, yayuh

[Save The Dragons]

oh my god I'm actually going to get points this time