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 Fridayish.
1. What title character endures an abusive boarding school run by Wackford Squeers in a novel published in 1839?
2. What country is circled on this nighttime satellite image?
3. This Royal Decree, passed in 1598, granted limited religious tolerance to French Protestants and allowed France to prosper from the skills and energies of a disproportionately well-educated and entreprenurial population. When it was revoked by the Edict of Fontainebleau 87 years later, a wave of talent poured into England, the Low Countries, and North America, priming these places for the Industrial Revolution.
4. What African country has almost double the population of its closest rival, Ethiopia?
5. You can tell this person has been well-behaved because she has a _____________.
6. The narrator calls the title character light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Her name is the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. But what's the author's name?
7. It's the blue ice giant with Great Dark Spots. What is it?
8. He was associated with water, the sea, and horses, and his holiday was celebrated on July 23. Who is he?
9. Ghastly as it might be to imagine it, you have some of these inside your body even as we speak. What are they?!?
10. What country has eight of the world's ten highest mountains?
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The tie-breaker: Recommend some good movies that begin with this week's letter.
Put your answers in the comments, or Wackford Squeers will give you a whipping!
16 comments:
1. Nicholas Nickleby
2. No idea; Niger?
3. Nantes, Edict of
4. Nigeria, like I would know
5. nimbus (halo by any other name)
6. Nabokov (Lolita, Lolita, Lolita)
7. Neptune the Planet
8. Neptune the God
9. Nerve cell
10. Nepal...
Movies? Oh, dear. Nambi (about a real sissy deer); No (Country for Old Men)--yeah, a real upper; Nest in Show--about a bird that won at Westminster; Nolita--about a teenaged Dadaist; No Way Out--there are a couple of movies with this title, but good ones?; No, No, Nanette--perhaps the N-iest one; Naughty Marietta--now, that one IS good.
1. Nicholas Nickleby
2. North Korea
3. dunno
4. Nigeria
5. nimbus
6. Nabokov
7. Neptune (planet)
8. Neptune (god) and July 23 is my birthday!
9. neuron
10. Nepal
Tie breaker: No Country for Old Men; New York, New York; North by Northwest; Nights of Cabiria; Night of the Hunter
1. Nicholas Nickelby
2. North Korea
3. Edict of Nantes
4. Nigeria
5. Nimbus
6. Nabokov
7. Neptune
8. Neptune
9. Nerve
10. Nepal
No Country for Old Men; North by Northwest; Never on Sunday
1) Nicholas Nickleby? (Is that how it's spelled - it looks funny)
2) North Korea
3) "Now let's play nice, folks!"
4) Nigeria?
5) Nerf halo?
6) Vladimir Nabakov
7) Neptune
8) Neptune
9) Neurons
10) Nepal
The Neverending Story!
Naked Gun!
1. Nicholas Nickelby.
2. North Korea. Wow, look at all the lights on in Japan.
3. (Edict of ) Nantes.
4. Nigeria?
5. Nimbus.
6. Nnnnn ... not coming up with a name.
7. Neptune.
8. Neptune again.
9. Neurons.
10. Nepal.
6. Oh, wait, of course - Nabokov. LLT. Should have remembered my linguistics class sooner.
Noises Off!
Nine to Five
(Finding) Nemo
(A) Night at the Opera
Nosferatu (the 1922 original)
1 Nigel "Squeaky" Numbottom
2 North Korea
3 Edict of Nantes
4 Nigeria
5 nimbus
6 Nabokov
7 Neptune
8 Neptune
9 neurons
10 the Netherlands. Just kidding! Nepal
Uh, three tepid cheers for North by Northwest, Notting Hill and No Country for Old Men.
1. Oh man, does it start with "Girl number twenty! Your definition of a horse"? That seems about the right era. I remember being in a homeroom class while reading it, and that it was in the theatre, because it wasn't really my homeroom class. I had decided that I wanted to be in the same homeroom as my friend, so capriciously declared that my new last name was Aardvark, and they let me get away with it. Honour students can get away with anything. But what was the book? Nnnnn ... Northanger Abbey, Nancy Drew, Nathan, Nicholas, yes Nicholas Enderby .. no Nicholas ... damn .. Nicholas Nickelby? I think that's a real book. But I don't think I've read it. But I don't remember the name of the one I read, nor do I know if it was the right one. I'll stick with that. Quadruped, gramnivorous. Partial to hay. Do I actually remember anything, or do I just alternate between making things up and deriving from first principles?
2. North Korea - All that nuclear power and they can't run a light bulb?
3. Nantes Proclamation - Runners up: Nagna Carta, Norman Conquest
4. Nigeria - It's the only populous African N-country that comes to mind, but closest rival in what? Rivals in warfare are usually neighbours. Nigeria produces oil, maybe some kind of edible beans or grain, but I didn't think it competed in coffee production? What the heck would Ethiopia rival another country at? Maybe Shakespearean references. "Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear versus, well Nigeria, maybe Numibya has to turn up somewhere. Who has a Shakespeare concordance?
5. There's an N-word for that? What might it be? numb look? nhalo? nimbus? I wish I knew more Latin.
6. Nabokov - I had no idea about this one until I actually paid attention, and acted out the quote. Then I was sure. That's awesome.
7. Neptune - not really that giant, though. It must really be a moon I don't know. Or that I do know but that isn't coming to mind. Nefertiti, Nera, Nora, Nightrider, Nightmare, no, I'll stick with Neptune. It's giant compared to my car.
8. Neptune - I know this from a Rupert the Bear book.
9. Neurons - I was going to answer nemotodes, until I scrolled down and saw the picture. And now I'm second guessing myself and wanting to say it's an ordinary nerve cell. But I'll stick with neurons.
10. Nepal - I heard that private aviation is illegal there, just because they can't afford the SAR costs. I don't know if it's true.
The Net & North by Northwest - Apparently I like chase movies. I only just learned that that was a genre, but Terminator, Bourne Identity, Hunt for Red October, The Fugitive ... yeah, I like chase movies.
1. Nicholas Nickelby- very much a dickensian character
2. North Korea
3. Normandy Royal Decree (?!)
4. Nigeria
5. Nerdy hairstyle?
6. Vladimir Nabokov
7. Neptune
8. Neptune since it ain't Nero!
9. Thank goodness for that...Nerves
10. Nepal
Believe it or not...I've drawn a blank here. I even checked my Netflix recently watched list and came up nil!
1. Madeline
2. North Korea
3. this is why I don't take the quizes anymore
4. South Africa
5. a halo
6. Shakespeare
7. Neptune
8. Neptune
9. Neurons
10. Switzerland
man am I the only one who didn't pick up on the N theme? dang... *this* is why I don't do the wednesday quiz anymore.
Aviatrix, the book that starts with a classroom scene about horses is Hard Times, Dickens' attack on utilitarianism.
Thanks, Eaven. I googled it afterwards. Mr. Gradgrind. I always liek to show my work on the quizzes.
Rebel, I frequently do the whole quiz without noticing, then the bonus question tips me off and I have to go back and pick the answer I like best, then change all the others to match that letter.
1.Nicholas Nickeleby
2.North Korea
3.Nice decree
4.Nigeria
5.Nimbus
6.Nabokov
7.Neptune
8.Neptune/Poseidon
9.Neurons
10.Nepal (if you ignore underwater mountains).
Answers:
1. Nicholas Nickelby
2. North Korea
3. Edict of Nantes
4. Nigeria
5. Nimbus
6. Nabokov
7. Neptune
8. Neptune
9. Neurons; half marks for nerves.
10. Nepal
Reb, don't feel bad; we're still in the phase where somebody gets the memo every week. You'll find that they are a lot easier once you know the secret, I'll bet.
And the winner this week is THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, which hand delivered a written response to the Wednesday Quiz from New York City shortly before noon on Friday.
Thanks to everyone for continuing to humor my quizzing endeavors.
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