Each week, quiz obsessives and Only Connect champions
Jamie Karran (@NoDrNo) and Michael Wallace (@statacake) take on the pub quizzes of the world.
Find out every Friday if you could have helped with the questions they got wrong.
Thursday 21 April 2016
Seth Rogen worked on Da Ali G Show
Your targets this week:
We won this week, but could you have done even better?
The attendees 1) The statistician 2) The doctor 3) The meteorologist 4) The metallurgist 5) The rich-person otherkin
The ones that got away 1) What is the collective name for hip hop artists Slim Jimmi and Swae Lee? 2) Which of these was not a real 19th Century US political party: a) Anti-Masonic Party; b) Anti-Nebraska Party; c) Free Soil Party; d) Greenback Party; e) No More Railroads Party 3) Which Hanna-Barbera character's distinctive voice was inspired by Art Carney's character on The Honeymooners? 4) What was the first PG-13 rated animated feature, released in 1982? Hint: the title contains the name of a popular pet animal. (N.B. PG-13 indicates some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.) (Hint: it's not Fritz the Cat, which was an answer to a related question we got correct.) 5) What upcoming animated film will feature Seth Rogen, James Franko and Jonah Hill playing talking food? 6) Lady Amalthea is a main character in what fantasy novel (later adapted to film and TV)?
The answers
1) Rae Sremmurd 2) No More Railroads Party 3) Yogi Bear 4) Plague Dogs 5) Sausage Party 6) The Last Unicorn
The doctor's excuses
1) I'd not heard of this group but now I've listened to one of their tracks they seem to be "trap" (genre-wise)... which is not really a style I'm at all familiar with yet (via my very slow self-education in "rap music as a whole"). So that's useful for later, I guess? We had basically no idea and put (effectively) gibberish. 2) Oh good! A multiple choice question, my favourite! We were torn between No More Railroads (which to The Statistician's ears sounded "too modern") and Free Soil. Free Soil was something to do with slavery and... *yawn* *stretch* uhhhh, wow, I'm so tired... sorry I'm just going to have a little sleep until this excuse is over. A celebratory sleep. To celebrate how engaging and fun I find multiple choice questions. 3) We initially had the right answer, but it was overruled by parties who thought The Flintstones seemed like something that accorded better with "The Honeymooners" given that it's (presumably) about a married couple... whereas Yogi Bear is... idk, prolly secretly about gay culture? 4) Plague dogs (no spoilers, not seen it yet) is apparently based on another book by Richard Adams (of Watership Down fame), featuring a bunch of cute animals having just the *worst* possible time of it. Seems like the dude had "a thing" about sad cute animals, I guess. 5) Haha wat. I've not even heard of this movie, it sounds terrible. We went with the equally terrible sounding "Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 3" since I'd seen some of number 2 over someone's shoulder on an aeroplane, with the sound off, and thought it seemed a reasonable shout. 6) I'VE HEARD OF THIS! A couple of my friends in primary school were basically a bit obsessed with it... there's a wizard called Kendrick and a princess called Eilowny and the bad guy is like... maybe an evil cloud? Something like that. I'm not going to look it up myself, for tax reasons. Feel free to investigate further on your own time, if that sounds like a scene you're into.
How did you do? Would you have beaten us (1 or more point)? 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
Question 6
1) As I'm sure we all know, Rae Sremmurd comes from the duo's home label - EarDrummers - spelled backwards (a process known as backslang). What 3-letter word, British slang for a loutish, uncultured person, was derived in a similar manner? 2) The last time the US Presidency changed from one President to another without changing party was when Republican George H W Bush took over from Republican Ronald Reagan. Who took over the last time this happened for the Democrats? 3) Baseball star Yogi Berra was renowned for his 'Yogi-isms': often (seemingly unintentional) witticisms. Examples include "When you come to a fork in the road, take it" and "I really didn't say everything I said", but what French phrase completes this other classic: "It's _____ all over again"? 4) The Motion Picture Association of America's highest film rating is 'NC-17' - what did the letters 'NC' originally stand for in this rating? 5) Talking food reminded me of the BBC children's show The Herbs which, I have now learned, was written by Michael Bond (of Paddington Bear fame). While Parsley the Lion is arguably the most famous character, the wise owl character was given what rather appropriate herb name? 6) The My Little Pony franchise features three main 'types' of pony. Unicorn Ponies (who wield magic) and Earth Ponies (who are just a bit boring) are two, but what mythical creature's name is used for the third (pictured)?
The answers
1) Yob 2) Lyndon B Johnson (following the assassination of JFK) 3) Déjà vu 4) No Children 5) Sage 6) Pegasus
How did you do on my alternative questions? Have another poll!
I think you were a bit unlucky on the Honeymooners question. The Flinstones was indeed based on that show, and Fred Flintstone was basically the Jackie Gleason character.
Having never actually watched and episode of the Honeymooners, i'd always assumed that Barney Rubble was the Art Carney character, so I was very surprised to find it was Yogi Bear (who i'd always thought was based on the baseball player Yogi Berra)
And as for earth ponies being boring, I offer up the character of Pinkie Pie - you cannot be both that annoying and also be boring at the same time (I have 2 daughters so am very familiar with the show.)
Oh, interesting - thanks for the Flintstones info :) And yes, I was being a bit unfair on earth ponies (I am fairly familiar with the show, albeit without the excuse of having daughters); I just always felt it a bit unfair that one group get flight and the other *magic*!
I think you were a bit unlucky on the Honeymooners question. The Flinstones was indeed based on that show, and Fred Flintstone was basically the Jackie Gleason character.
ReplyDeleteHaving never actually watched and episode of the Honeymooners, i'd always assumed that Barney Rubble was the Art Carney character, so I was very surprised to find it was Yogi Bear (who i'd always thought was based on the baseball player Yogi Berra)
And as for earth ponies being boring, I offer up the character of Pinkie Pie - you cannot be both that annoying and also be boring at the same time (I have 2 daughters so am very familiar with the show.)
Oh, interesting - thanks for the Flintstones info :) And yes, I was being a bit unfair on earth ponies (I am fairly familiar with the show, albeit without the excuse of having daughters); I just always felt it a bit unfair that one group get flight and the other *magic*!
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