DON'T Stump the Guy with Average Knowledge, Part II

[cmyk]

@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

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.

[OtakuLoki]

@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.

1. Yup

2. D’oh! :smack:

3. Bobby Orr was a Hall of Fame Hockey player, the others are all correct.

4. Yes

5. 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.

6. Yes.

7. Chinese printers had been using clay moveable type prior to Gutenburg’s invention.

8. 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.

[Helen_s_Eidolon]

@OtakuLoki

1. Nope. Athena doesn’t really have a mother - she grew, full-grown, out of Zeus’ forehead.

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?

[cmyk]

@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?

Ahh, a new contender…

1. Venus?

2. Hercules?

3. Achilles?

4. Hector?

[Helen_s_Eidolon]

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.

[cmyk]

Y’know, I feared I was giving the Roman name. It’s painfully obvious now in hindsight! At least you broke even.

[fachverwirrt]

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

[Liberal]

@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!?

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?)

[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?

[cmyk]

@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?)

Ha! (well… One could argue Sinead too )

I’ll answer the new one in a bit… BRB

[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

[cmyk]

@fachverwirrt

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. = 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.

[cmyk]

@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?

1. Lion?

2. African and Indian?

3. Marsupial?

[fachverwirrt]

@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.

1. Nope, switch with 3.
2. Yes.
3. See 1.
4. Yes.
5. Yes.

Net 1. Total 7.

[cmyk]

@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

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.

[cmyk]

@fachverwirrt

1. Nope, switch with 3.
2. Yes.
3. See 1.
4. Yes.
5. Yes.

Net 1. Total 7.

Gah, yep, I was struggling between Hamlet & Merchant. Ahh well.

[fachverwirrt]

@cmyk

Gah, yep, I was struggling between Hamlet & Merchant. Ahh well.

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.

[Liberal]

@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.

Hurray! Back up to 11 again! Thank you for being smart.

[Helen_s_Eidolon]

Yay! Four points for me.

[Liberal]

Difficulty: 3

Match the host with the Sunday talking head show. In no particular order:

Tim Russert
Chris Wallace
George Stephanopoulos
Bob Schieffer
Wolf Blitzer

Face The Nation
This Week
Meet The Press
Late Edition
Fox News Sunday