Here is a cash prize quiz! Although it is really just for fun, and I hope everyone will approach it as such, I am offering 50 dollars (or equivalent) to the first person who sends me all ten correct answers. (Please submit complete list of answers by email, not PM. Address in Profile, please put ‘SD Quiz’ as Subject).
I have obtained Moderator permission to do this. The Straight Dope Management have no connection with this Quiz or responsiblity for it. Complaints should be directed to me, not to them. My decision is final and binding in all matters pertaining to this Quiz and the cash prize is awarded entirely at my discretion. Cash prize can only be paid via PayPal.
Please do not post answers in this thread (not even in spoilers). You can collaborate, although I will only pay the money to one person (how you split it between you is your problem, not mine). This thread is for people to offer swaps of the answers they think they know for others they don’t. Or for general comments and chat without giving away any answers.
Where would you go to see CONI, OSIR and GAGE?
What links Jesus and 694?
‘DOWNFALL ATHLETE FELL HINT’ is an anagram of the title of which novel by a well-known 19th century author?
What have people called Young, Tin, Miles, Christian and Pepper all written?
Which well-known movie (in the IMDB Top 150) features a listed character whose name is also the title of another movie made seven years later?
A man and a woman looking out over separate balconies, two men climbing a ladder, one man looking through bars and a man sitting on a bench. Where can you see all of these together at the same time?
Here are three different anagrams: ‘AT AORTA WALL’, ‘A VARIANT ANON’ and ‘ARIA MAP ORB’. Where would you find the solutions to these three anagrams?
Which album cover features the price of roasted peanuts and chestnuts?
Where does sound come before silence, and improbability come before certainty?
When would IBM and SFX look like mirror images?
This quiz was inspired by this thread where we discussed the difficulty of devising quiz questions that can’t be solved with just a quick Google search.
Of all the questions, I think #6 is the one that more Dopers are likely to know the answer than any of the others.
Needscoffee - Obviously I don’t know if you have the right answer for #5 (and even if I knew what your answer was I wouldn’t confirm it either way). But if it is the right answer, well done. It’s not an easy question to discover the answer to.
Just for the record, I wanted to include a question based on movies because obviously movies are a very popular subject here on the Dope. However, I discovered that it’s very hard to devise questions based on imdb data that do not yield to a Google search. I was surprised at just how thorough Google can be! Anyway, #5 is the best I managed to come up with.
Well, I just checked to make sure the anwer I came up with was correct, but my two movies are 10 years apart. So I guess I don’t have the right answer. Yet.
I’m pretty sure there are several possible answers to Q5, as many listed characters are only given a first name, and there are LOTS of obscure films with one-name titles. Is the later film also a top-150 film?
(Interestingly I’ve found three matches for a film made NINE years later, one an exact match.)
I’m concentrating on #10 at the moment. Even with a clue from Isamu, I’m not getting far.
The one I have spent hours and hours on is #2. I have tried every permutation of Jesus I can manage. Apart from a lot of Jesus-linked YouTubes which happen to have 694 hits (yes, I’m still trying Google), I am getting nowhere.
Pity I have a thesis to write! Damn you,** ianzin**.
Well, then that should make the quiz easier, shouldn’t it?
I can’t say for sure that there is only one correct answer to this question (Q5). I will happily accept any submitted answer that I think is accurate and fair, even if it’s not the specific answer I had in mind.
Thanks to all of you for playing. There are fifty REAL dollars at stake, here, everyone!
Lynne-42: good luck offering the answer to Q6 for barter, but you may find it’s not a very valued currency! As I’ve already said, I suspect that Q6 is the easiest one of the lot for the Doper community.
Well done to Ishamu and KellyCriterion for getting the answer to Q10 (if indeed you have, which at the moment can’t be confirmed either way). It’s definitely one of the hardest questions.
I ‘beta tested’ this quiz among several friends before publishing it here on the Dope. These were very bright, puzzle-solving friends, and many of the other questions had to be revised or even replaced because they were solved far too easily. But Q10 was only solved by one person, and even he went down a lot of blind alleys before he got on the right track. However, the solution is very satisfying when you get there (or so I’ve been told).
