DON'T Stump the Guy with Average Knowledge...

[cmyk]

@iwakura43

At -9 points.

What’s the difference between a cappuccino and a latte? (1 pt)

What is a hookah, and what consumable good is traditionally used with it? (2 pts)

In which Stanley Kubrick film did Peter Sellers play three roles? (3 pts)

What faulty part was the proximate cause of the space shuttle Challenger disaster? (3 pts)

Which scientist famously demonstrated this flaw and how? (2 pts)

Who was Emile Durkheim? (3 pts)

What is the economic relationship illustrated by the Laffer curve? (3 pts)

Is a (flat) sales tax a progressive tax, a regressive tax, or neither? (2 pts)

Who is the hero of James Clavell’s novel Tai Pan (alternatively, name the company featured throughout much of Clavell’s Asian Saga) (2 pts)

Who conducted the Boston Pops from 1980-1995? (2 pts)

Where are a majority of the world’s laptop computers manufactured? (1 pt)

1. Cappuccino = Steamed Milk. Latte = Straight Milk?

2. a Dance?! Not sure about the food.

3. Dr. Strange Love: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

4. An “O” Ring. And it sounds so trivial.

5. Feynman, but I forget how! I even read the book where he tells this tale! (“You Must Be Joking, Mr. Feynman” I believe). I seem to remember NASA petitioned him to have a look see, expecting him to clear their conscience, but it backfired, because he uncovered how unsafe these things really are. Or something to that effect.

6. Not a clue.

7. Nuthin’

8. I’m thinking neither.

9. So Sorry!

10. ugh.

11. Japan? (please don’t be Silicon Valley!)

[cmyk]

@fachverwirrt

1. Who directed the Lord of the Rings films? (2)

2. What is the Harrison Ford “trilogy of trilogies”, so named despite the fact that he does not appear in one of the films? (2)

3. What does MPAA stand for? (1)

4. What feature do all square roots of non-perfect-square integers share? (3)

5. (Big gamble follow-up) What is the mathematical definition of this feature? (2)

6. What is a quasar? (2)

7. What is a pulsar? (2)

8. A while ago, I mentioned “cosmogony”. What, exactly, is it? (2)

1. Peter Jackson

2. Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and the Jack Ryan Movies?

3. Motion Picture Association of America

4. They’re odd? (yikes!)

5. Paging Mr. Mathochist… Mr. Mathochist to the front desk…

6. A Quasar is an incredibly distant object. I think they are gigundously massive black holes that shoot out brilliant amounts of energy as they suck crap in or something.

7. A spinning star, or perhaps a spinning neutron star?

8. I believe it’s the study of the origin of the universe, as opposed to cosmology which is the study OF the universe.

[cmyk]

@5-4-Fighting

Sternvogel*cmyk, you might be smarter than you think!

No, I’m pretty sure I’m a stark, raving idiot!

And now I have this indelible thread to prove it! Yay for me!

EDIT: Be back later… going to see a movie…

[cmyk]

@iwakura43

What is a hookah, and what consumable good is traditionally used with it? (2 pts)

STOP THE PRESSES! I JUST REMEMBERED!!

A Hookah is a device for smoking tobacco (or maybe other types of leaves?!). It’s a tall urn like thing with many smoking tentacles.

shwew.

[fachverwirrt]

@cmyk

1. Peter Jackson

2. Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and the Jack Ryan Movies?

3. Motion Picture Association of America

4. They’re odd? (yikes!)

5. Paging Mr. Mathochist… Mr. Mathochist to the front desk…

6. A Quasar is an incredibly distant object. I think they are gigundously massive black holes that shoot out brilliant amounts of energy as they suck crap in or something.

7. A spinning star, or perhaps a spinning neutron star?

8. I believe it’s the study of the origin of the universe, as opposed to cosmology which is the study OF the universe.

1. Correct.
2. Correct (Alec Baldwin played Ryan in Hunt for Red October, but it was Ford in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger).
3. Correct.
4. No; they’re irrational.
5. Irrational numbers cannot be written as a ratio of two integers.
6. Basically. They are also believed to be the nuclei of very young galaxies.
7. Correct (the latter).
8. Correct.

How exciting! I’m at zero.

[descamisado]

1. Who is Simon Cowell? (1)

2. What is the capital of Puerto Rico? (3)

3. How long is Paris Hilton jail sentence now? (2)

4. Who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird? (1)

5. Between Jack and Jill, who fell down first? (1)

6. What state was Benjamin Franklin from? (2)

7. (a) What does the phrase “pass the dutchie” mean? (2) (b) On which side should it be passed? (1) © What’s the name of the group who sang it? (1)

8. What is Hillary Clinton’s middle name? (1)

9. What highway that went from “Chicago to L.A.” was the subject of a hit song by Nat King Cole? (3)

10. Why was Pamela Anderson booed in Cannes last Friday? (2)

11. (a) What year did Peter Jennings retire from the anchor desk at ABC? (3) (b) What year did he die of lung cancer? (1)

12. Which current living bird has the largest eggs? (1)

[cmyk]

@5-4-Fighting

1. Who is Simon Cowell? (1)

2. What is the capital of Puerto Rico? (3)

3. How long is Paris Hilton jail sentence now? (2)

4. Who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird? (1)

5. Between Jack and Jill, who fell down first? (1)

6. What state was Benjamin Franklin from? (2)

7. (a) What does the phrase “pass the dutchie” mean? (2) (b) On which side should it be passed? (1) (c) What’s the name of the group who sang it? (1)

8. What is Hillary Clinton’s middle name? (1)

9. What highway that went from “Chicago to L.A.” was the subject of a hit song by Nat King Cole? (3)

10. Why was Pamela Anderson booed in Cannes last Friday? (2)

11. (a) What year did Peter Jennings retire from the anchor desk at ABC? (3) (b) What year did he die of lung cancer? (1)

12. Which current living bird has the largest eggs? (1)

1. The smartest judge on American Idol.

2. Why, it’s the seat of Puerto Rican government, of course!

3. is it 45 days?

4. GAH! To my 9th grade english teacher: I’m so very sorry.

5. Jack. But we all know Jill is stoopider. Whatever tripped Jack up, you think Jill would be looking out for it. They both deserve to die… but Jill moreso.

6. PA?

7. Never hoid of it. But I’m guessing it’s a joint. therefore, pass it to the left.

8. Rottham? (sp?)

9. Route 66?

10. There are so many reasons to boo her, it makes my head spin, but I’m guessing it was something more circumstantial this time.

11. 2004; 2006?

12. Ostridge?
    Good ones 5-4!

[iwakura43]

@cmyk

1. Cappuccino = Steamed Milk. Latte = Straight Milk? Both have steamed milk, but a cappuccino has much more foam (roughly equal in volume to the milk) (-1)

2. a Dance?! Not sure about the food. Got this right below–a water pipe usually used to smoke hashish (tobacco) (+2)

3. Dr. Strange Love: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. (+3)

4. An “O” Ring. And it sounds so trivial. (+3)

5. Feynman, but I forget how! I even read the book where he tells this tale! (“You Must Be Joking, Mr. Feynman” I believe). I seem to remember NASA petitioned him to have a look see, expecting him to clear their conscience, but it backfired, because he uncovered how unsafe these things really are. Or something to that effect. He kept the O ring in his glass of ice water during a hearing and broke it apart with his hands (I’ll say +1)

6. Not a clue. Durkheim was the founder of modern sociology(-3)

7. Nuthin’ The Laffer curve illustrates the relationship between government revenue and tax rates and was the justification for Reagan’s “supply side economics” (-3)

8. I’m thinking neither. Sales tax is regressive because poorer people tend to spend a greater proportion of their money on consumption than rich people (-2)

9. So Sorry! Dirk Struan (obscure? dunno) (-2)

10. ugh. John Williams of Star Wars fame! (local knowledge perhaps) (-2)

11. Japan? (please don’t be Silicon Valley!) Taiwan (-1)

-5 brings me down to -14 :o

[cmyk]

@iwakura43

He kept the O ring in his glass of ice water during a hearing and broke it apart with his hands (I’ll say +1)

Ahhh. Gotta love Richard. When will they make a bio-pic about him?

[Puzzler]

@cmyk

1. DOH! I shoulda known. Venus’ incredibly dense atmosphere seals in freshness, flavor and heat!

Yes. More precisely, it’s the cloud layer causing the greenhouse effect.
So, that +1 for us, giving us +18.

@cmyk

BUMMER on Uranus and Mimas! Maybe YOU can see Uranus with the naked eye, but I’m not sure I could… what’s its magnitude? (nice score)

Checking to make sure……. yes. Here’s what wiki has to say:

The brightness of Uranus is between magnitude +5.5 and +6.0. Thus, under dark sky conditions it can be seen with the naked eye as a faint star. From Earth, it has a diameter of four arcseconds.

In addition, in the entry about magnitude, it has this to say:

<magnitude of>5.5 Maximum brightness of Uranus
<magnitude of>6 Faintest stars observable with naked eye

So I guess we get to keep the negative score…

Shall we dwell into other parts of science?

1. In a tubal pregnancy, where does the embryo implant itself? (2p)

2. If you want to see the Crab nebula, at which constellation should you point your telescope? (2p… need to keep it balanced!)

3. In a standard drug test, which seeds can cause false positive results for opium use? (1p)

4. Epiphytic and parasitic plants grow on which of the following? (1p)

5. What is the atomic number for Hydrogen? (1p)

6. What substances are produced by the endocrine glands? (2p)

7. John Glenn was the first man to eat in space. What did he eat? (3p)

8. Which word is defines ‘the ability of a liquid to resist flowing’? (2p)

9. Laska and Benjy were the first two animals sent to space by the U.S. in 1958. What were they? (2p)
   Basic Physics:

10. Who created this formula: p=mv ? (1p)

11. A coin is placed on a card on top of a beaker. If the card is pulled away quickly, the coin falls into the beaker. Which property of the coin makes this possible? (1p)

12. Is the correct SI unit for weight “kg” (or “kilograms”)? If not, what is the correct one? (1p)

13. A cyclist free-wheels from the top of a hill, gathers speed going down the hill, applies his brakes and eventually comes to rest at the bottom of the hill. Which energy conversions took place? (2p)

14. Can long-sightedness be corrected by a convex lens? (2p)

[Puzzler]

BTW:

@cmyk

NAACP = National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (that seems a little awkward now a-days… Colored People???);

If they changed it to “African-Americans”, they will become NAAAA. :eek:

[sturmhauke]

1. The movies Minority Report, Blade Runner, Total Recall, Paycheck, and A Scanner Darkly are all based on works by what author? (1 point)

2. Two of those movies are based on works with different titles. Which ones? (2 points)

3. What are the original titles? (3 points)

[fachverwirrt]

Literature:

1. What language was Lolita by Vladamir Nabokov originally written in? (2)
2. What was the narrator’s name? (3)
3. What was Lolita’s real name? (2 points for first name, 3 for full name)
   Geography:
4. What state does the Mississippi river start in? (2)
5. What state does it end in? (1)
6. For one point each, what other states does it touch?

[cmyk]

@Puzzler

Yes. More precisely, it’s the cloud layer causing the greenhouse effect.
So, that +1 for us, giving us +18.
Checking to make sure……. yes. Here’s what wiki has to say:

In addition, in the entry about magnitude, it has this to say: So I guess we get to keep the negative score…

Shall we dwell into other parts of science?

1. In a tubal pregnancy, where does the embryo implant itself? (2p)

2. If you want to see the Crab nebula, at which constellation should you point your telescope? (2p… need to keep it balanced!)

3. In a standard drug test, which seeds can cause false positive results for opium use? (1p)

4. Epiphytic and parasitic plants grow on which of the following? (1p)

5. What is the atomic number for Hydrogen? (1p)

6. What substances are produced by the endocrine glands? (2p)

7. John Glenn was the first man to eat in space. What did he eat? (3p)

8. Which word is defines ‘the ability of a liquid to resist flowing’? (2p)

9. Laska and Benjy were the first two animals sent to space by the U.S. in 1958. What were they? (2p)
   Basic Physics:

10. Who created this formula: p=mv ? (1p)

11. A coin is placed on a card on top of a beaker. If the card is pulled away quickly, the coin falls into the beaker. Which property of the coin makes this possible? (1p)

12. Is the correct SI unit for weight “kg” (or “kilograms”)? If not, what is the correct one? (1p)

13. A cyclist free-wheels from the top of a hill, gathers speed going down the hill, applies his brakes and eventually comes to rest at the bottom of the hill. Which energy conversions took place? (2p)

14. Can long-sightedness be corrected by a convex lens? (2p)

1. The Fallopian Tube?

2. Orion?

3. Poppy.

4. Trees?

5. 1

6. Horrmones?

7. This I don’t know… but I’ll guess peanutbutter?

8. Amorphous?

9. I REALLY want to say Chimps… but I’m gonna go with Dogs.

10. Newton?

11. Inertia?

12. Yes, kg. Although, is it weight or mass? Or does it really matter?

13. The forward velocity (or energy) of the bike was transformed to heat through friction. Therefore, the bike looses it’s velocity by converting it into heat, ergo bringing it to a stop. I believe this is the 1st law of thermodynamics.

14. HA! Ummm… Since I’m near sighted, and my glasses seem to be concave… But… I honestly have never seen a pair of convex glasses… but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t be corrected by such a lens… but maybe I just never noticed the shape of a longsighted — BOOOOOM. My cortex just liquified. Congratulations.

I’ll go with no. Mama.

[cmyk]

@Puzzler

BTW:

If they changed it to “African-Americans”, they will become NAAAA. :eek:

Just think if it were the American Assocication for Advancement of Awesome African Americans.

[cmyk]

@sturmhauke

1. The movies Minority Report, Blade Runner, Total Recall, Paycheck, and A Scanner Darkly are all based on works by what author? (1 point)

2. Two of those movies are based on works with different titles. Which ones? (2 points)

3. What are the original titles? (3 points)

1. Philip K. Dick

2. Blade Runner and I’m guessing Paycheck.

3. Blade Runner = Do Andriods Dream of Electric Sheep; Don’t know the other

[cmyk]

@fachverwirrt

Literature:

1. What language was Lolita by Vladamir Nabokov originally written in? (2)
2. What was the narrator’s name? (3)
3. What was Lolita’s real name? (2 points for first name, 3 for full name)
   Geography:
4. What state does the Mississippi river start in? (2)
5. What state does it end in? (1)
6. For one point each, what other states does it touch?

1. Russian?

2. Sorry.

3. damn. I gotta brush up on my reading.

4. Minnesota?

5. Louisiana

6. Missouri; Mississippi (duh); Kentucky; Arkansas; Wisconsin; (Illinois?!). S’all I got, and I’m not even sure if those are all correct!

It’s amazing how painful it is to rely completely on your own knowledge as you scrape every last neuron for usueful information. What’s freightening… there are things you always took for granted that you we’re positive you knew, but when cornered on it, realized you weren’t really sure at all! Our brains are weird.

[descamisado]

@cmyk

Just think if it were the American Assocication for Advancement of Awesome African Americans.

Thanks, dude. That song *was * about me, right?

[cmyk]

@5-4-Fighting

Thanks, dude. That song *was * about me, right?

Of course it was 5-4. You know you’re the awesomeness.

[fachverwirrt]

@cmyk

1. Russian?

2. Sorry.

3. damn. I gotta brush up on my reading.

4. Minnesota?

5. Louisiana

6. Missouri; Mississippi (duh); Kentucky; Arkansas; Wisconsin; (Illinois?!). S’all I got, and I’m not even sure if those are all correct!

It’s amazing how painful it is to rely completely on your own knowledge as you scrape every last neuron for usueful information. What’s freightening… there are things you always took for granted that you we’re positive you knew, but when cornered on it, realized you weren’t really sure at all! Our brains are weird.

1. English. He translated it into Russian sometime later and re-published it. Oddly, the English version was published in Paris, and the Russian version in New York.
2. Humbert Humbert
3. Dolores Haze
4. Correct
5. Correct.
6. All right, plus Tennessee and Iowa.

Score: 1