The NHL's Stanley Cup is not flat, but in fact, very tall

Your target this week:

1+ out of 7: Well done, you beat us and we'd have won with you on our team!

The attendees
1) The statistician
2) The doctor
3) The secret German
4) The metallurgist
5) The rich-person otherkin
6) The sports guy

The ones that got away

Question 3

1) What is the most spoken language in South America?
2) In 1993, which New York borough held a referendum on whether to secede from the city of New York?
3) Pictured is part of an Internet meme. In this context, what 3 words most typically follow 'here come dat boi!'?
4) In grams, how much does a bee hummingbird weigh? Your answer will be the number 2, followed by a number of zeros.
5) In May 1877, an 8.8 magnitude Earthquake occurred off the coast of which country? If you get the country you get 2 points. If you get one of its neighbours you get 1 point.
6) This question will require some explanation. On the night this was a '5 or 0' question: you either get 5 points or 0 points. Since you only need 1 point to help us win it'll be a 1 point question here. Name as many NHL players who have won the Hart Memorial Trophy in the 21st Century as you have members on your team. (So for most of you playing at home, this will probably be just 1.)

The answers

1) Portugese
2) Staten Island
3) O shit waddup
4) 2 grams
5) Peru (1 point answers: Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile)
6) Joe Sakic, Jose Theodore, Peter Forsberg, Martin St. Louis, Joe Thornton, Sidney Crosby, Alexander Ovechkin, Henrik Sedin, Corey Perry, Evgeni Malkin, Carey Price

The doctor's excuses

1) Gods, what a question. I'm sure there are accurate official numbers somewhere, but Wikipedia is all "Spanish and Portuguese are the most spoken languages in South America, with approximately 200 million speakers each" so I'm kind of like "that's as specific as I want it, really". Moral victory!
2) We discussed basically all the boroughs and decided that "Manhattan, being the richest" would probably have the most to gain by seceding. Totally wrong though, evidently. Staten Island apparently wanted something to do with a landfill site doing. Seems reasonable I guess?
3) If you haven't seen this meme yet, maybe don't google it? It's not a particularly good one and memetic contamination is a legit and growing concern in the modern world, IMO.
4) ffffffffffffffffuuu- we (obviously) considered 2 grams but thought that honestly that seemed kind of incredible for a bird, even a teeny tiny one. We went 20 grams. Let's just pretend we were talking about one specific, morbidly obese, bee hummingbird.
5) So, like, I was aware of Voltaire attacking the philosophy of optimism due to the Lisbon earthquake of 1755. Which is only a century and a bit wrong, time-wise. I also had basically no idea where the earthquake in question had been and forgot that Austria wasn't famous for its coastline. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing... not as dangerous as earthquakes, though, I suppose.
6) I think this was a week where we happened to have a hockey fanatic on the team (woo), but unfortunately it turned out that this question was super hard (boo), so we spaffed it. Ah well... that's just the way the hockey puck drops, I guess! (No that is not a real Canadian saying, I'm sorry I misled you.)

How did you do? Would you have beaten us and helped us win (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
1) Only 4 countries with populations of over 10 million have Portugese as their official language. 2 of them are Brazil and (spoilers) Portugal. For 1 point each, name the other 2. As a hint, the two countries both border Zambia, which is the only neighbour they have in common.
2) Staten Island derives its name from what language?
3) Speaking of inexplicably viral frogs, Crazy Frog evolved from a 1997 recording of a 17-year-old Swede trying to impersonate what?
4) Speaking of Swedes (and hummingbirds), Måns Zelmerlöw sang the lyrics 'Go sing it like a hummingbird / The greatest anthem ever heard' in the process of winning what competition in May 2015?
5) In Greek mythology, which god was thought to cause earthquakes?
6) To most fans North America's major hockey league is known as the National Hockey League, or simply NHL. In French-speaking regions (most notably Quebec), the league is abbreviated to the same three letters, but in a different order - what order?

The answers

1) Angola, Mozambique
2) Dutch (don't forget that New York was formerly New Amsterdam, fact fans!)
3) A two-stroke engine (anything along the lines of 'engine', 'motorbike', 'car', etc. is fine)
4) The Eurovision Song Contest
5) Poseidon
6) LNH (Ligue Nationale de Hockey)

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

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