Season 1 - Week 3 Flashcards
Which shade of standard blue (h = 240°) gets its name from the dark blue (contrasted with white) worn by members of a branch of the British Royal armed forces since 1748 and subsequently adopted by other similar branches around the
world?
Navy blue
In algebraic geometry, a lemniscate is any of several shapes that have the same general figure. Some examples are lemniscate of Booth and the lemniscate of Bernoulli. The word comes from the Latin ‘lēmniscātus’ meaning ‘decorated
with ribbons’. In modern mysticism the figure has become associated with the ouroboros, the ancient image of a snake eating its own tail. What is the common name of the lemniscate symbol today?
∞ Infinity symbol
In 1982, WHICH FOOTBALL CLUB won the only UEFA Champions League title in their history, beating Bayern in the final? The club is one half of the two involved in the fierce ‘Second City Derby’, the other being Birmingham City FC. In
the Premier League era, Gabriel Agbonlagor is their all-time leading goal scorer while Billy Walker holds that record across eras and tournaments.
Aston Villa
WHICH newspaper is the largest and oldest English-language newspaper in Pakistan and the country’s newspaper of record? It was founded by Mohammad Ali Jinnah in Delhi in 1941, as a mouthpiece for the Muslim League before moving its headquarters to Karachi after the partition. It is well known for championing human rights such as its opposition to the death penalty.
Dawn
Roman poet Ovid’s work, Metamorphoses, has inspired many mythological paintings and sculptures across Europe. Diago Velasquez’s painting ‘The Spinners’ is one such work that
borrows from the epic. The painting showcases the fable of WHICH MYTHOLOGICAL CHARACTER who dared to challenge the goddess Athena to a weaving contest? Upon winning the contest she is turned into an animal, whose modern taxonomic class name is derived from the same character.
Arachne
[Was turned into a spider, of course]
This moustache style, brought to popularity by Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler, is one where men shave the edges off and keep only a third of an inch at the center of their upper lip and just below the nose. WHAT IS THE NAME given to such a style, deriving from a daily use object?
Toothbrush Mustache
The oceanic pole of inaccessibility is the place in the ocean that lies farthest from land. It lies in the South Pacific Ocean, at least 2700km away from the nearest lands. It is popularly referred to as Point [BLANK], the blank being Latin for “no
one” and also a reference to a character from a literary work by Jules Verne. What is the name of the point?
Point Nemo
Scooby’s Laff-A-Lympics was a cartoon show that pitted characters from various Hannah-Barbera shows against each other in an Olympic style event. In the show a key member of the villainous Really Rottens team was a character named Dread Baron, chosen due to copyright issues on another antagonist character, later revealed to be his twin brother. WHO WAS THIS ALLITERATIVELY NAMED TWIN BROTHER, first
appearing in the show ‘Wacky Races’ before joining Muttley in the show ‘[BLANK] and Muttley in Their Flying Machines’?
Dick Dastardly
[Prompt on Dick or Dastardly, need full name]
Which Australian athletic wear brand, focused exclusively on swim wear and related equipment, was born from the Australian Army’s need for socks during the First World War? The brand, which has the boomerang as its logo, has become synonymous with men’s bathing suits, even though it accounts for only 2% of the company’s revenue.
Speedo
R’lyeh is a fictional lost city that was first documented in a short story published in February 1928, by WHICH AUTHOR? His given location for the island places it surprisingly close to Point Nemo, even though the story was published 66 years before the identification of the point.
H.P. Lovecraft
WHICH regional political party of India was founded in 1997 in Odisha by Naveen Patnaik, the current Chief Minister of the state? The party has been in consistent opposition to the Congress (INC) throughout its history and was an alliance member of the NDA between 1998 and 2009. [ACRONYM ACCEPTABLE]
Biju Janata Dal
[BJD is acceptable, no prompt if half part is right etc.]
WHICH ROMANTIC COMEDY PLAY by Shakespeare is the only one that bore a subtitle, specifically “What You Will”? Some scholars suggest he was mocking the subtitle craze of the era by giving a completely useless subtitle that added absolutely no extra information. Or perhaps the play is such an audacious mix of settings, plots and passions that the dramatist has to give his own baffled shrug in the subtitle,
especially as it has nothing to do with the Christmas season.
Twelfth Night
WHICH regional political party of India was one of several parties that emerged when the Janata Dal fragmented into several regional parties? Founded in 1992 by Mulayam Singh Yadav, Janeshwar Mishra ,and Beni Prasad Verma, it has seen most of its success in Uttar Pradesh. The current leader of this party is Mulayam’s son, Akhilesh Yadav. [FULL NAME REQUIRED/ NOT ACRONYM]
Samajwadi Party
In 1991, WHICH FOOTBALL CLUB won the only UEFA Champions League title in their history, winning on penalty shoot outs after a stalemate? The most popular club in Eastern Europe, their rivalry with another club from the same city - Partizan - is one of the country’s biggest spectacles, nicknamed the “Eternal Derby”. Playing their home games at the “Marakana”, Bora Kostic is the club’s leading goal-scorer.
Red Star Belgrade
[Also accept Crvena zvezda; Full name required]
By WHAT NAME do we know the medical test undertaken for cervical screening, i.e. to detect potentially precancerous and cancerous processes in the cervix? This two-worded term has one part referring to the Greek scientist who developed it (although the diminutive form of his name is used) and the other part referring to the act by which cell samples are spread across the microscopic glass slide for examination.
Pap Smear
[Pap = Papanicolaou, Smear = the cells are
smeared across the glass]
One of the most recent heroes to come out as queer in the DC Universe is also one of the most well-known to be part of the LGBTQ+ community. After years of speculation and headcanon from fans and numerous relationship difficulties in comics, WHO CAME OUT as queer in August’s Batman: Urban Legends #6, agreeing to go on a romantic date with his male friend Bernard?
Tim Drake
[Prompt on Robin. Accept ‘third Robin’.]
WHICH AMERICAN DAILY NEWSPAPER has won 69 Pulitzer Prizes, the second-most of any publication? Currently under a Jeff Bezos-owned holding company, it now runs a print edition only for specific cities along the US East Coast. The best-known episode in its history involved two of its reporters leading the American press’s investigation into the Watergate scandal, resulting in the resignation of President Nixon.
Washington Post
[Prompt on The Post]
Smithsonian Magazine, a journal published by the eponymous institution, released a list of ‘28 Places To See Before You Die’ in 2008. One such place, placed under the category “A Matter Of Timing”, is a water body that forms a natural border between Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, and reportedly caused Eleanor Roosevelt to exclaim “Poor Niagara!” Comprising of 200 small water bodies, WHAT IS THIS PLACE, that swells up in the monsoon to become one of the world’s widest such body?
Iguazu Falls
No one is entirely sure of the origin of this term, but it dates back to at least the early 1700s. Etymologist Ernest Weekley has suggested it comes from the French word embabuiner, meaning ‘to make a baboon of’. What synonym for ‘to dupe someone’ is this?
Bamboozle
In geometry, a torus is a surface of revolution generated by revolving a circle in three-dimensional space about an axis that is coplanar with the circle. WHICH FOOD ITEM usually assumes the shape of a torus, also lending its name to the colloquial term for this shape?
Donuts
[Also accept bagels]
Which shade of blue, defined on the RGB colour wheel as having hue codes between 195 and 225 degrees, ultimately takes its name from the intense blue mineral lapis lazuli? ‘Lapis’ is simply the Latin word for stone, and ‘lazuli’ underwent multiple transformations across Latin, Arabic and Persian to give us the name of this shade in multiple European languages.
Azure
The area around Point Nemo is also known as a [BLANK] cemetary, because hundreds of them are decommissioned and then deposited there, to lessen the risk of encountering inhabited locations. It also helps that the area is beyond the legal jurisdiction of any countries. What are these things that have been disposed of here for over 50 years?
Spacecraft
[Accept ‘satellite’, or anything similar]
Another painting inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses is one of Pieter Bruegel The Elder’s iconic works titled ‘Landscape with the fall of [BLANK]’. Unlike what the title suggests, the mythological character isn’t the central figure in the painting, but instead a shepherd and a ploughman. WHO IS THIS CHARACTER, whose drowning legs are the only visible element in the painting, who fell from the sky after his beeswax-wings gave away?
Icarus
A word that today means ‘to close an eye briefly’, used to mean ‘to shut both eyes firmly’ until the 1500s. So when highwaymen placed a cover over the eyes of a victim before robbing them, they gave rise to what composite word and verb that is a synonym for ‘to dupe someone’?
Hoodwink
In Scooby’s Laff-A-Lympics, WHICH CHARACTER did as many as five cameos as a member of the good-people team of Scooby Doobies? The protagonist of a Hanna-Barbera show involving his family, this character was a bowling expert with a gambling problem and had a catch phrase borrowed from a Brylcreem commercial which said “A little dab will do, ya!”
Fred Flintstone
[Prompt on Flintstone or Fred, need full name]
This moustache style is a full moustache with ends that extend down in parallel straight lines beyond the upper lip and reach down to the jawline. It was popularised by bikers in the USA and also by Hulk Hogan. WHAT IS THE NAME given to this style, deriving from the name of an object that looks like an inverted U, which also lends its name to a type of crab?
Horseshoe Mustache
