Thursday 19 February 2015

The 'USS' in Star Trek was said to stand for both United Space Ship and United Star Ship

Your targets this week:

1+ out of 11: Well done, you beat us!
2+ out of 11: We'd have won with you on our team!

The attendees
1) The statistician
2) The doctor

The ones that got away
1) Until 1995, scientists thought the giant panda was genetically closer to what animal than bears?
2) Which of these is not a real species of bear? Cave, Cinnamon, Glacier, Mexican Grizzly, or Naked?
3) Louis Jourdan, who died on Valentine's Day, played which Bond villain in the movie Octopussy?
4) The Cricket World Cup began last weekend at the Hagley Oval, a ground in which country?
5) 7 years ago Toshiba announced they would no longer produce what storage format?
6) What was Geordi La Forge's rank in Star Trek: The Next Generation?
Each of the next three answers rhymes with 'bear' or 'bears'.
7) Which actress wore prosthetic breasts in the movie A Dirty Shame?
8) The USA has 492, China has 152, Canada has 32. What?
9) In the New Testament, what would find in Matthew, Chapter 9, Verses 9-13?
No more rhyming!
10) 2 point question: 'Old Orchard' (which is also a chain of pubs of Montreal) is cowboy slang for what?

The answers


Our excuses


How did you do? Would you have beaten us (1 or more points)? Would you have helped us win (2 or more points)? Let the world know with the poll below, then read on for my alternative questions (loosely) inspired by this week's Ones That Got Away!


My alternative questions
1) The name of which web browser is another name for the red panda?
2) As explained above, when the doctor and I were on Pointless, one round was on types of bear. But to within 10%, how many of the 100 people surveyed on that episode (when given 100 seconds to name as many types of bear as they could) named the giant panda? (Note that 'within 10%' means 'plus or minus 10% of the actual answer', not 'within 10 people'.)
3) According to oxforddictionaries.com what is the standard English plural of the word octopus?
4) Of the five teams to have won the Cricket World Cup which one does not represent a member of the United Nations?
5) Essential (boring) trivia: the HD in HD DVD stands for high definition (or density), but what does the V in DVD stand for? (The Ds stand for Digital and Disc.)
6) What links a five-time Wimbledon champion with an alien race from the Star Trek series?
7) A now-global boycott of which mulinational corporation began in the United States over 30 years ago in protest over their marketing of breast milk substitutes?
8) Who is North America's only black billionaire?
9) The penultimate UK number one single of 1999, Cliff Richard's The Millennium Prayer featured the Lord's Prayer sung to what tune?
10) The 'Old Fashioned' is often described as the world's first cocktail. Primarily comprised of whiskey, according to the International Bartenders Association there are three other ingredients. For one point each, name two of them.

The answers


How did you do on my alternative questions? Have another poll!

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