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, 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?
1) ahahahahahaha, what a cracker of a question. This is basically "do you remember this one specific episode of Friends?" and the answer is either a) "no, I am a normal person", or b) "yes, what do you think Rachel smells like?" 2) We'll totally cop to the fact that we were wrong, but this question *is* muddied by the fact that (I believe) PayPal was *owned* by eBay at the time :3 3) This is actually probably a fair-ish question, like... I wouldn't think a question about Twitter was dumb and this was the social media round (I think). I just don't like/am not good at taking photos so I've never used Insta (as the kids call it... don't check that, I didn't actually ask any kids). 4) The Statistician's father was actually part of the group of astronomy people who were all like "yeah, F Pluto tbh", so we should have probably known this. Questions where it's just like "what year was this" are pretty much the worst. It's either like, "this is something *ridiculously* famous like the moon landing (or like, the date the Illuminati lizard-people faked the moon landing, if you like) OR it's like, nobody knows and nobody cares. These are the only two options. Also I don't know when the moon landing was because I am rubbish, sorry. 5) Jupiter has rings. God dammit. I bloody knew that. (We had the others, obvs.) 6) We're not *great* on moons, but I thought the image looked like a moon covered in ice... and the only one I know that's like that is Europa... turns out that was completely wrong, but that was the thought process at least. 7) Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, there's really not much in it, I don't think this is a good question.... we put Mercury because like, maybe the sun baked it or something. We didn't have any strong feelings other than "it's probably not a gas planet", really. 8) Huh, apparently Blue Origin is the rocket project of Amazon, that's kinda crazy! Who are they gonna deliver parcels to up there? Unless... does this mean there are BEINGS!?! LIVING ON THE MOOOON!? ORDERING BIRTHDAY PRESENTS!?!?!!! ... the answer is "yes, probably, what else would they be doing?".
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
1) Douglas Adams 2) Vuvuzelas 3) Instant telegram 4) It orbits the Sun 5) (In decreasing order of size): Titan, Earth's moon, Triton 6) British Indian Ocean Territory 7) Hydrogen 8) Super marionette animation
How did you do on my alternative questions? Have another poll!
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