Bolivia produces more Brazil nuts than Brazil

Your target this week:

1+ out of 8: 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 astronomer

The ones that got away

N.B. This quiz began with five picture questions for which we were given ten minutes during which smartphones were permitted. As such for questions 1 and 2 only you should/can allow yourself around four minutes to try and use Google (or similar) to work out the answers. The only restriction is to limit yourself to what you could reasonably expect to do with the pictures on a physical piece of paper in a dark pub - in other words, things like copying the images into a reverse image search website is probably not in the spirit of The Ones That Got Away!

Questions 1 and 2

1) Googling allowed: what type of wave is this?
2) Googling allowed: what is the name of this object?
3) No more Googling! Identify the children's story (title only) from the quote: "And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world."
4) Identify the children's story (title only) from the quote: "He travelled all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. There were princesses enough, but it was difficult to find out whether they were real ones."
5) How many venues (stadia) are there for the 2014 FIFA World Cup?
6) To within 10%, what is the capacity of the largest-capacity stadium at the 2014 FIFA World Cup
7) Who is the president of the company Berkshire Hathaway?
8) To within 10%, what is the average lifespan of a red blood cell?
9) If I'm spending krona and visiting the Drottningholm Palace, which country am I in?
10) If I'm spending West African CFA francs and visiting Banco National Park, which country am I in?

The answers

1) Cyclops
2) A cake-breaker
3) The Jungle Book (by Rudyard Kipling)
4) The Princess and the Pea (by Hans Christian Andersen)
5) 12
6) 74,738 (so anywhere between 67,265 and 82,211 gets you the point - note that this is the FIFA figure specifically for the World Cup)
7) Warren Buffett
8) 120 days (so anywhere between 108 days and 132 days gets you the point)
9) Sweden
10) Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)

The excuses

1) This 'you can use your phones' round was a nice twist I'd not encountered before in quizzing (although I had heard of it from other people). Despite searching for 'types of waves' we couldn't find anything that looked 'quite right' so went with our backup of 'pipeline'.
2) We went on a wild goose chase looking up types of 'comb', and I'd be interested to know if anyone got it without prior knowledge of the implement.
3) While both the doctor and I had read this book, it was many, many years ago. The 'strong white teeth' nudged us towards Little Red Riding Hood but with very little optimism.
4) With the benefit of hindsight "it was difficult to find out whether they were real ones" seems like a bit of a giveaway. I always find quotes/song lyrics a bit tough given that, really, one needs to scribble them down to allow for a proper think.
5) Given my World Cup geekery this was a frustrating miss. I had even been reading the Wikipedia page on the bid a few days previously, and also knew that Euro 2000 had eight stadia, but my mildly educated guess of 14 proved a bit too high.
6) Similarly frustrating as while I knew it was the Maracanã I rather foolishly got caught up in my memory of it hosting the 1950 World Cup 'Final' which saw a record (estimated) attendance of 210,000. (If you're not familiar with it, that Wikipedia page is well worth a read.)
7) A good example of why you should always have a guess. We incorrectly assumed, having never heard of Berkshire Hathaway, that this was going to be some Canada-specific question to which we would have no chance at the answer. Instead we should at least have thought to put down the world's wealthiest man rather than Wayne Gretzky.
8) The doctor strikes again with a surprisingly confident guess of 33 days.
9) We wrote down Sweden, then crossed it out and put Denmark. Krona of course puts one in mind of Scandinavia, but beyond that we were a touch lost, rather embarrassingly given that Drottningholm is ostensibly the Buckingham Palace of Sweden. I like to think if we'd heard the spelling (-holm) we might have had more faith in our original answer, but that's perhaps clutching at straws.
10) We wrote down Côte d'Ivoire, then crossed it out and put Congo (and in doing so a very cheeky bit of hedging in case it was one of the Republic of the Congo or the Democratic Republic of the Congo). Obviously 'West African Franc' put us in mind of former French colonies somewhere in the West, and on retrospect I should have really realized that while DRC and Congo both have borders on their west coasts, it's a little bit of a stretch to consider them West African. As it is, given the eight countries which use the currency, it was the national park that was arguably the real key to this one.

How did you do? Would you have beaten us and helped us win (1 or more correct)? Let us know with the poll below and then check out my alternative questions inspired by this week's Ones That Got Away!


My alternative questions

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1) Which 1991 movie, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, takes its name from the term for a place where waves hit a piece of land jutting out from the coastline?
2) The Austrian cake Sachertorte traditionally (and according to Mary Berry, of course) largely consists of chocolate sponge cake, dark chocolate icing, and what type of jam?
3) Two lines from Kipling's If— are written on the wall of the players' entrance to Centre Court at Wimbledon. To which two 'impostors' do they make reference?
4) Name a year during which Hans Christian Andersen was alive.
5) Four countries with populations of over ten million recognize Portugese as their official language. Two of these are Brazil and (you guessed it) Portugal. Name one of the others.
6) Essential trivia time: Rio de Janeiro (home of the Maracanã) translates to what in English?
7) Although most of my readers will be more familiar with The Apprentice as a vehicle for Alan Sugar, the franchise began in the United States where which American business magnate acts as the 'boss'?
8) Sometimes known as 'the royal disease', which condition was passed on by Queen Victoria to various royals across Europe?
9) Essential (but actually kinda fun!) trivia time: which Swedish village (whose name means 'outer village') lends its name to four chemical elements derived from a quarry there?
10) Côte d'Ivoire, predictably, takes its name from its historical trade of ivory. Which country to its east was, analogously, once called the Gold Coast?

The answers

1) Point Break
2) Apricot
3) Triumph and Disaster ("If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster / And treat those two impostors just the same")
4) 1805-1875
5) Mozambique and Angola (the other countries with Portugal as an official language are Guinea-Bissau, East Timor, Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe)
6) January River
7) Donald Trump
8) Haemophilia
9) Ytterby (the elements are yttrium, erbium, terbium and ytterbium)
10) Ghana

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