# DON'T Stump the Guy with Average Knowledge, Part II **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 25, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-guy-with-average-knowledge-part-ii/424041 "2007-10-25T22:20:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-guy-with-average-knowledge-part-ii/424041/221 "2007-10-28T17:31:44Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] Difficulty: 3 Match the Elton John / Bernie Taupin song with the artist who covered it. In no particular order: Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting) The Bitch Is Back Sacrifice Your Song Crocodile Rock Rod Stewart Beach Boys Tina Turner Sinead O’Connor The Who [/QUOTE] Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting) = The Who The Bitch Is Back = Sinead O’Connor Sacrifice = Rod Stewart Your Song = Tina Turner Crocodile Rock = Beach Boys Oh, man… I’m sure I completely messed that up. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-guy-with-average-knowledge-part-ii/424041/222 "2007-10-28T17:44:50Z")
[QUOTE=cmyk] 1. $10 note. 2. Not so good with battle names! Sorry. 3. Bobby Orr = Baseball? Mary Lou Retton = Gymnastics Joe Montana = American Football Larry Bird = Basketball Arnold Palmer = Golf. (I could really go for some tea/lemonade right now). 4. Yellow skin from all the accumulating bilirubin. 5. Yes, Polio. 6. Guttenberg 7. It was more of an improvement than a novel invention? (WAG) 8. Y’know… at first, I thought that read Midiclorian. Thankfully, it didn’t, since that’s an area where I actually _employ_ ignorance. A mitochondrion is basically the engine of a cell. [/QUOTE] 9. Yup 10. D’oh! :smack: 11. Bobby Orr was a Hall of Fame Hockey player, the others are all correct. 12. Yes 13. er… This is a wash. Yes, a disease has been totally eradicated, but it’s smallpox, not polio. The bug that causes polio is still in the environment, which is why polio vaccines are still given to children. 14. Yes. 15. Chinese printers had been using clay moveable type prior to Gutenburg’s invention. 16. Yup. Okay, let me total that up.. I earned 6 points, so my total is now 9 in the hole. I’ll post a few more questions later this evening. ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-guy-with-average-knowledge-part-ii/424041/223 "2007-10-28T18:00:15Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] 1. Nope. Athena doesn’t really have a mother - she grew, full-grown, out of Zeus’ forehead. [/QUOTE] Not entirely true. Her mother was Metis (Cunning), who Zeus impregnated and then ate. Athena was then born from his head. I’ll give it a shot, keeping with the myth theme. 1 point - Who is the Greek goddess of love? 2 points - What’s the name of the hero who performed 12 labours? 2 points - What hero, the main character in the Iliad, had a famous heel? 3 points - What’s the name of the Trojan prince who carried off Helen from Greece? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-guy-with-average-knowledge-part-ii/424041/224 "2007-10-28T18:06:16Z")
[QUOTE=Helen’s Eidolon] Not entirely true. Her mother was Metis (Cunning), who Zeus impregnated and then ate. Athena was then born from his head. I’ll give it a shot, keeping with the myth theme. 1 point - Who is the Greek goddess of love? 2 points - What’s the name of the hero who performed 12 labours? 2 points - What hero, the main character in the Iliad, had a famous heel? 3 points - What’s the name of the Trojan prince who carried off Helen from Greece? [/QUOTE] Ahh, a new contender… 1. Venus? 2. Hercules? 3. Achilles? 4. Hector? ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-guy-with-average-knowledge-part-ii/424041/225 "2007-10-28T18:11:58Z")
Hm. Venus is the Roman name for Aphrodite. I guess technically I don’t get that one. Judges? Hercules and Achilles are correct; the answer to number 4 is Paris, but Hector is indeed a Trojan prince, so good job on that one anyway. I broke even - 0 points. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-guy-with-average-knowledge-part-ii/424041/226 "2007-10-28T18:15:57Z")
Y’know, I feared I was giving the Roman name. It’s painfully obvious now in hindsight! At least you broke even. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-guy-with-average-knowledge-part-ii/424041/227 "2007-10-28T19:09:07Z")
Stealing a page from **Liberal** ’s playbook: For one point each, match the quote with the Shakespeare play: Neither a borrower, nor a lender be. O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Hath not a Jew eyes? Cry ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war. Now is the winter of our discontent. The Merchant of Venice Hamlet Romeo and Juliet King Richard III Julius Caesar ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-guy-with-average-knowledge-part-ii/424041/228 "2007-10-28T19:41:56Z")
[QUOTE=cmyk] GASP. I can’t believe I got that right. When it comes to the smaller moons, my memory always starts slipping. Have I been getting all your match-ups right so far!? [/QUOTE] No, you blew one earlier, and now… Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting) = The Who The Bitch Is Back = Sinead O’Connor Sacrifice = Rod Stewart Your Song = Tina Turner Crocodile Rock = Beach Boys…two. ☹ Back down to **8**. (Tina Turner? C’mon, how much more obvious could _The Bitch Is Back_ be?) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-guy-with-average-knowledge-part-ii/424041/229 "2007-10-28T20:13:46Z")
All right, I’ll give it another shot. Conservative, this time. Theme: animals. 2 points: What animal has been associated with kingship from ancient Assyria to medieval England? 1 point: What are the two different kinds of elephants? 1 point: What kind of mammals are found exclusively in Australia, except for the possum? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-guy-with-average-knowledge-part-ii/424041/230 "2007-10-28T22:03:32Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] No, you blew one earlier, and now… Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting) = The Who The Bitch Is Back = Sinead O’Connor Sacrifice = Rod Stewart Your Song = Tina Turner Crocodile Rock = Beach Boys…two. ☹ Back down to **8**. (Tina Turner? C’mon, how much more obvious could _The Bitch Is Back_ be?) 😉 [/QUOTE] Ha! (well… One could argue Sinead too 😉 ) I’ll answer the new one in a bit… BRB ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-guy-with-average-knowledge-part-ii/424041/231 "2007-10-28T22:22:58Z")
Difficulty: 3 Match each word’s initial phoneme to its name. In no particular order: Thick Wear Ghost Church Man Velar Stop Bilabial Nasal Post-alveolar Affricate Dental Fricative Labio-velar Approximant ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-guy-with-average-knowledge-part-ii/424041/232 "2007-10-28T22:23:57Z")
[QUOTE=fachverwirrt] Stealing a page from **Liberal** ’s playbook: For one point each, match the quote with the Shakespeare play: [/QUOTE] Neither a borrower, nor a lender be. = The Merchant of Venice O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. = Romeo and Juliet Hath not a Jew eyes? = Hamlet Cry ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war. = Julius Caesar Now is the winter of our discontent. = King Richard III Pretty sure about 3 of them… taking my chances on the other two. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-guy-with-average-knowledge-part-ii/424041/233 "2007-10-28T22:25:31Z")
[QUOTE=Helen’s Eidolon] All right, I’ll give it another shot. Conservative, this time. Theme: animals. 2 points: What animal has been associated with kingship from ancient Assyria to medieval England? 1 point: What are the two different kinds of elephants? 1 point: What kind of mammals are found exclusively in Australia, except for the possum? [/QUOTE] 1. Lion? 2. African and Indian? 3. Marsupial? ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-guy-with-average-knowledge-part-ii/424041/234 "2007-10-28T22:28:54Z")
[QUOTE=cmyk] Neither a borrower, nor a lender be. = The Merchant of Venice O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. = Romeo and Juliet Hath not a Jew eyes? = Hamlet Cry ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war. = Julius Caesar Now is the winter of our discontent. = King Richard III Pretty sure about 3 of them… taking my chances on the other two. [/QUOTE] 1. Nope, switch with 3. 2. Yes. 3. See 1. 4. Yes. 5. Yes. Net 1. Total 7. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-guy-with-average-knowledge-part-ii/424041/235 "2007-10-28T22:34:27Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] Difficulty: 3 Match each word’s initial phoneme to its name. In no particular order: Thick Wear Ghost Church Man Velar Stop Bilabial Nasal Post-alveolar Affricate Dental Fricative Labio-velar Approximant [/QUOTE] Thick = Dental Fricative Wear = Labio-velar Approximant Ghost = Velar Stop Church = Post-alveolar Affricate Man = Bilabial Nasal Yikes. That was a tough one, but fun! I know labial means lips, and i think velar means like back of the throat. I know Fricative is a non-vocal sound, so from there I tried to deduce the rest… I hope it’s at least somewhere in the ballpark. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-guy-with-average-knowledge-part-ii/424041/236 "2007-10-28T22:36:08Z")
[QUOTE=fachverwirrt] 1. Nope, switch with 3. 2. Yes. 3. See 1. 4. Yes. 5. Yes. Net 1. Total 7. [/QUOTE] Gah, yep, I was struggling between Hamlet & Merchant. Ahh well. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-guy-with-average-knowledge-part-ii/424041/237 "2007-10-28T22:38:50Z")
[QUOTE=cmyk] Gah, yep, I was struggling between Hamlet & Merchant. Ahh well. [/QUOTE] It didn’t even occur to me that “neither a borrower, nor a lender be” would fit into the theme of Merchant of Venice. Oh well. ETA: And, hey, I got a point. Good enough for me. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-guy-with-average-knowledge-part-ii/424041/238 "2007-10-28T22:41:01Z")
[QUOTE=cmyk] Thick = Dental Fricative Wear = Labio-velar Approximant Ghost = Velar Stop Church = Post-alveolar Affricate Man = Bilabial Nasal Yikes. That was a tough one, but fun! I know labial means lips, and i think velar means like back of the throat. I know Fricative is a non-vocal sound, so from there I tried to deduce the rest… I hope it’s at least somewhere in the ballpark. [/QUOTE] Hurray! Back up to **11** again! Thank you for being smart. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-guy-with-average-knowledge-part-ii/424041/239 "2007-10-28T22:46:41Z")
Yay! Four points for me. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-guy-with-average-knowledge-part-ii/424041/240 "2007-10-28T23:11:09Z")
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