2014 WoV Spring Fling trivia challenge

Here are the questions and answers to this years's Spring Fling trivia challenge. How did you do? I hear AcesAndEights won with a score of 8.

1. What was the first online casino?
   
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   Gaming Club
   
   
2. What is the tallest mountain in Antarctica?
   
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   vinson massif
   
   
3. What is the atomic weight of a water molecule?
   
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   18
   
   
4. The king of which suit is the suicidal king?
   
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   Hearts
   
   
5. What heavy metal bands used umlauts in the bands name? A: (half point for each correct answer)
   
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   Blue Öyster Cult, Motörhead, Mötley Crüe, Queensrÿche and Spın̈al Tap
   
   
6. A statue of whom can you find on Waikiki Beach and Huntington Beach?
   
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   The "Duke"
   
   
7. HTTP stands for what?
   
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   Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
   
   
8. In which movie will you find the Lollipop Guild?
   
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   Wizard of Oz
   
   
9. What is the largest country by area in Africa?
   
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   Democratic Republic of the Congo
   
   
10. Which country has a non-rectangular flag?
    
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    Nepal
    
    
11. What two materials is US paper money made from?
    
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    Cotton and Linen
    
    
12. What is Amy's apartment number on the Big Bang Theory?
    
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    314
    
    
13. In the last six Super Bowls, how many have had a safety?
    
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    4
    
    
14. What were the names of the neighbors in I Love Lucy? Just the first names are good enough. Half point for each one.
    
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    Fred & Ethel Mertz
    
    
15. In what body of water did the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?
    
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    Lake Superior
    
    

I got 4 points.
3
1/2 point on 5
7
8
1/2 point on 14

Quote: Ibeatyouraces

We consider one other king as a "suicide king" as well.

The one with the axe wasn't suicidal.

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Quote: Ibeatyouraces

We've considered it as one for as long as I've been playing cards. Well over 30 years.

Really? I've never heard that before. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_king says that there is only one suicide king; the other one is just "the man with the axe".

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Quote: Ibeatyouraces

We've considered it as one for as long as I've been playing cards. Well over 30 years.

I'd lay good odds that the king of hearts is generally considered as the ONLY suicidal king. However, I have met people who thought (I would say incorrectly) that the one with the ax was also suicidal.

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Every one has their own preferences. Just like Euchre is a Midwest game with all sorts of made up rules.

I have nothing against modifying the rules of a game as long as it is mutually agreeable. For example, when I play Monopoly I always suggest we don't charge rent, because it slows down the game to pass around small change. However, it wouldn't argue it is a legitimate variant of the rules.

Likewise, I don't respect the king with an ax as a suicidal king, for purposes of general gambling lore, any more than the four of spades.

Quote: Ibeatyouraces

Every one has their own preferences. Just like Euchre is a Midwest game with all sorts of made up rules.

Euchre has so many made up rules that it's hardly the same game from place to place. But its (they're) a fun game (games). :-)

I think the real trick with suicide kings and one-eyed cards comes down to deck design. I have/had a deck somewhere where all 4 jacks are two eyed. I have at least one deck where the king of diamonds is two-eyed. And I have at least one deck where the axe is horizontal with its head on the king's right side (card left). Presumably, in that deck, the king of diamonds is more likely to be considered a suicide king than in a deck where the axe is at shoulder height or facing to the king's left (card right).

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when I play Monopoly I always suggest we don't charge rent

What is the point of buying properties, buildings, etc if you don't charge rent?

Quote: AxiomOfChoice

What is the point of buying properties, buildings, etc if you don't charge rent?

Exactly, how does anybody go bankrupt and lose then? Do you just play until all the properties are bought, see who has the largest net worth, and declare a winner?

Quote: AxiomOfChoice

What is the point of buying properties, buildings, etc if you don't charge rent?

You charge if there are houses or hotels. Just not undeveloped properties.

5.

I forgot square = rectangular.

And I wonder if the Wizard would have accepted for the SS Edmund Fitzgerald question?

I started off with 0 points on the first 3 questions, so I didn't think I was going to do very well, but I was lucky that a few were in my wheelhouse (HTTP because I am a software developer, the umlauts because I like heavy metal).

I am still a bit disappointed in myself that I missed the atomic weight of water question. It's been a while since I've done any chemistry, but I did correctly remember that oxygen has an atomic number of 8 and hydrogen of 1. I totally forgot about the neutrons though, and made an educated guess of 10 for the answer.

Wiz, I kind of want the picture of the dogs playing poker, but I'm guessing you don't want to hassle with shipping it to me. I will happily accept the cash option.

Quote: thecesspit

5.

I forgot square = rectangular.

And I wonder if the Wizard would have accepted

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Of the big lake they called 'Gitche Gumee'

for the SS Edmund Fitzgerald question?

1 point for correct answer, and bonus point for thinking outside of the box!
Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
Music and lyrics ©1976 by Gordon Lightfoot


The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
of the big lake they called "Gitche Gumee."
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
when the skies of November turn gloomy.
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty,
that good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
when the "Gales of November" came early.

The ship was the pride of the American side
coming back from some mill in Wisconsin.
As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most
with a crew and good captain well seasoned,
concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
when they left fully loaded for Cleveland.
And later that night when the ship's bell rang,
could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?

The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound
and a wave broke over the railing.
And ev'ry man knew, as the captain did too
'twas the witch of November come stealin'.
The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
when the Gales of November came slashin'.
When afternoon came it was freezin' rain
in the face of a hurricane west wind.

When suppertime came the old cook came on deck sayin'.

"Fellas, it's too rough t'feed ya."
At seven P.M. a main hatchway caved in; he said,

(*2010 lyric change: At 7 p.m., it grew dark, it was then he said,)

"Fellas, it's bin good t'know ya!"
The captain wired in he had water comin' in
and the good ship and crew was in peril.
And later that night when 'is lights went outta sight
came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Does any one know where the love of God goes
when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
if they'd put fifteen more miles behind 'er.
They might have split up or they might have capsized;
they may have broke deep and took water.
And all that remains is the faces and the names
of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
in the rooms of her ice-water mansion.
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams;
the islands and bays are for sportsmen.
And farther below Lake Ontario
takes in what Lake Erie can send her,
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
with the Gales of November remembered.

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed,
in the "Maritime Sailors' Cathedral."
The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times
for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
of the big lake they call "Gitche Gumee."
"Superior," they said, "never gives up her dead
when the gales of November come early!"

never mind, I posted before finishing the thread

Quote: RaleighCraps

Quote: thecesspit

5.

I forgot square = rectangular.

And I wonder if the Wizard would have accepted

Show Spoiler

Of the big lake they called 'Gitche Gumee'

for the SS Edmund Fitzgerald question?

1 point for correct answer, and bonus point for thinking outside of the box!
Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
Music and lyrics ©1976 by Gordon Lightfoot


The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
of the big lake they called "Gitche Gumee."
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
when the skies of November turn gloomy.
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty,
that good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
when the "Gales of November" came early.

The ship was the pride of the American side
coming back from some mill in Wisconsin.
As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most
with a crew and good captain well seasoned,
concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
when they left fully loaded for Cleveland.
And later that night when the ship's bell rang,
could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?

The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound
and a wave broke over the railing.
And ev'ry man knew, as the captain did too
'twas the witch of November come stealin'.
The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
when the Gales of November came slashin'.
When afternoon came it was freezin' rain
in the face of a hurricane west wind.

When suppertime came the old cook came on deck sayin'.

"Fellas, it's too rough t'feed ya."
At seven P.M. a main hatchway caved in; he said,

(*2010 lyric change: At 7 p.m., it grew dark, it was then he said,)

"Fellas, it's bin good t'know ya!"
The captain wired in he had water comin' in
and the good ship and crew was in peril.
And later that night when 'is lights went outta sight
came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Does any one know where the love of God goes
when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
if they'd put fifteen more miles behind 'er.
They might have split up or they might have capsized;
they may have broke deep and took water.
And all that remains is the faces and the names
of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
in the rooms of her ice-water mansion.
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams;
the islands and bays are for sportsmen.
And farther below Lake Ontario
takes in what Lake Erie can send her,
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
with the Gales of November remembered.

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed,
in the "Maritime Sailors' Cathedral."
The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times
for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
of the big lake they call "Gitche Gumee."
"Superior," they said, "never gives up her dead
when the gales of November come early!"

I think many of us had the song in our heads for the remainder of the night. Also, the question order was very good for me as I vastly prefer Gordon Lightfoot to the lollipop guild welcome from the Wizard of Oz and the latter song had entered my head earlier in the contest.