The new weekly game of knowledge, intuition, inductive reasoning, and willingness to risk public embarrassment in a friendly and moderately supportive environment!!
Answers come out on Friday, unless I'm busy. And it looks like it's going to be a busy Friday.
1. The first one got started in the year 222, the second one was around from 1088 to 1099, and the most recent one -- the eighth -- died in 1644. Who are we talking about here?
2. What country is this? (Extra dork points: what's the unusual color scheme of its flag?)
3. King David, the beloved hero of the Old Testament, got his loyal and conscientious soldier's wife pregnant, and to avoid a scandal arranged to have the soldier killed. What was the hapless soldier's name?
4. It begins with the word "Stately" and ends with the word "yes," and has around a thousand pages in between.
5. Its other two members are Larry Mullen and Adam Clayton.
6. If you saw this flag flying over the Donetsk post office, what country would you be in?
7. What movie includes this line of dialog:
Keaton always said, "I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him." Well I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze.8. What's this?
9. His best-known character is Rabbit Angstrom.
10. Sir Thomas More thought it would be the ideal kind of place.
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The tie-breaker: If YOU had been writing today's quiz, what are a few more answers (or questions) you would have included?
The Wednesday Quiz's truth is marching on! Answers in the comments, yo.
1. Union of some sort?
ReplyDelete2. Uganda
3. Uriah, but I thought he just sent him into the heat of battle so he could have the wife to himself (naughty! since he already had plenty of wives and concubines.) Are you sure there was hanky-panky ahead of time?
4. Unknown
5. Upwardly-mobile or undefeated sports guy
6. Uzbekistan?
7. Damn, can't remember the title, but Kevin Spacey is now in my head thanks to you
8. Useless
9. Updike (hate the Rabbit books)
10. Utopia
I would include Urticaria. Because I know that one. Also Pope Urban, the word Urbanization, and Ugli fruit. The movie UP.
1. dunno
ReplyDelete2. Uganda
3. Uriah
4. Ulysses
5. U2
6. Ukraine
7. dunno
8. uranium?
9. John Updike
10. Utopia
1. Pope somebody or other. Ursl?
ReplyDelete2. Uganda
3. Umm...
4. Ulysses
5. U2
6. Ukraine
7. ?
8. Uranium? Unilpentium?
9. Updike
10. Utopia
YOU are much too clever these days.
ReplyDelete1. Urban, Pope (I assume)
2. Uganda
3. Uriah
4. Ulysses, by Joyce
5. U2
6. Uzbekhistan
7. Ummmm....
8. Uranium
9. Updike
10. Utopia
1. Urban papacy
ReplyDelete2. Uganda (um ... umber?)
3. Uriah
4. Ulysses
5. U2
6. Ukraine
7. Untouchables
8. Uranium
9. Uncle Uffie
10. Utopia
I would have resisted the temptation to ask what Ripley was wearing when she finally defeated the alien in the first movie.
misclicked. Above was Aviatrix.
ReplyDelete1. Well, maybe a Pope. Urban? Urbane?
ReplyDelete2. Uganda. I wouldn't know the color scheme, because we're, like, only on the M's.
3 Mr. Bathsheba. Uriah?
4 Ulysses
5 U2.
6 Ukraine
7 The Usual Suspects
9 Uranium
10 And what a character he is! John Updike
9 Under a bridge. Just kidding! Utopia
Spare answers:
Ukelele
Utrecht, Treaty of
Captain Underpants
Ubbydubby Talk
Ullulate
Utrillo
Ur
Ungulates
1. Unknown
ReplyDelete2. Uganda - Green, Yellow and Blue
3. Unknown
4. Unknown
5. U2
6. Uzbekistan
7. Unknown
8. Uranium
9. Unknown
10. Utopia
Oh! Oh! Mrs. 5000! I vote for ungulates. Ungulates are awesome.
ReplyDelete1. (Pope) Urban(s)
ReplyDelete2. Uganda (and no idea)
3. Uriah the Hittite
4. Ulysses
5. U2?
6. Uruguay (can't think of any other U countries besides the UAE and US)
7. The Usual Suspects... the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
8. Uranium
9. Robert Updike
10. Utopia
Tie-Breaker: ukelele, Uruk-hai (the hybrid orcs that Saruman creates in Lord of the Rings), ululate (I don't know what the question would be - I just think it's a cool word).
Oops - apparently I changed Mr. Updike's first name. And I definitely thought of Ukraine last night and promptly forgot about it.
ReplyDelete1. King Louies of France?
ReplyDelete2. Zaire? Std African Tri-Color.
3. Joe (no clue, I'm a pagan).
4. Atlas Shrugged (no clue).
5. U2.
6. Georgia (no clue).
7. The Usual Suspects (one of my favorites).
8. Spirograph wheel.
9. John Updike
10. Utopia
Apparently I haven't caught on to the whole letter of the week theme. But I'm that way.
ReplyDeleteWell, looks as though it's not too late for me to step in.
ReplyDelete1. Sounds so mysterious. I'm curious to find out what it is.
2. Uganda
3. Uriah
4. Ummmm. Sounds like the kind of thing I'm not expected to read, so I guess it's okay.
5. Gosh
6. Ukraine
7. The names sound familiar, but they don't ring bells.
8. Uranium!
9. John Updike
10. Utopia -- which looks curiously unlike more modern utopias. The word stuck around longer than the vision, evidently.
Answers!
ReplyDelete1. Those would be the Pope Urbans.
2. Uganda (with its relatively distinctive red/gold/black scheme)
3. Uriah
4. Ulysses
5. U2
6. Ukraine
7. the Usual Suspects. I thought this was the gimme, and that Uriah would be the stumper, which shows what I know.
8. Uranium, abstract model of.
9. John Updike
10. Utopia
Elaine: What's Urticaria? Also, Pope Urban is a good idea.... : )
ReplyDeleteco: Hey, a new... oh.
Mrs.: Utrecht, Treaty of is especially nice. Congratulations on your perfect run, by the way. What? Oh, of COURSE I noticed!
Avia: We're very partial to ungulates ourselves.
PB: Ooh, I do like Uruk-hai....
Critical Bill: I don't know why I even send OUT memos.
Oh, I didn't.
eavenmoore: I'm curious why you are exempted from books that start with "Stately" and end with "yes"...?
Also, it's possible that Larry Mullen rings bells in some of the more overblown arrangements.
A stylin' 8 points for co. And everyone had a marvelous time.