Thursday 4 February 2016

The most-watched YouTube that isn't a song is a collection of nursery rhymes

Your targets this week:

1+ out of 8: Well done, you beat us!
3+ out of 8: We'd have won with you on our team!

The attendees
1) The statistician
2) The doctor

The ones that got away
Question 6!
1) In Friends, how many categories of towel does Monica have?
2) YouTube co-founders Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim met while working for what e-commerce company?
3) Easybird, rise, and toaster are (in a social media context) examples of what?
4) In what year was Pluto demoted to 'dwarf planet' status by the International Astronomical Union?
5) Name all the planets in the Solar System which have rings. (You need all of them for the point.)
6) This is a picture of a moon in the solar system. For 1 point, name the moon and the planet it orbits.
7) Which is the densest planet in the solar system?
8) Which company beat SpaceX to become the first to launch and land the same rocket twice?

The answers


The doctor's excuses


How did you do? Would you have beaten us (1 or more point)? Would you have helped us win (3 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!


Our alternative questions
1) Towel Day, celebrated on 25 May, is a tribute to which author?
2) In summer 2010, YouTube added a button which would add the sound of what to 'enhance' watching videos?
3) What two words is 'instagram' a portmanteau of?
4) The debate surrounding Pluto involved the creation of a formal definition of a 'planet'. This definition states that in the Solar System, a planet is a celestial body that has 'cleared the neighbourhood' around its orbit, has sufficient mass to assume a nearly round shape, and what other property?
5) Excluding moons of Jupiter, name any of the other 3 moons in the Solar System with a larger volume than Pluto.
6) .io is the Internet country code top-level domain for what British overseas territory?
7) It's a bit of a quizzing 'chestnut' that osmium is the densest element. What element is the least dense?
8) Talk of relaunching rockets inevitably makes me think of Thunderbirds, and since I already asked one portmanteau, here's another. Made famous by Thunderbirds, the 'Supermarionation' puppetry technique is a portmanteau of what three words?

The answers


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

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