The Trivia/Pop Quiz/Questionaire! thread.

[Nikose Tyris]

HERE'S THE RULES.

Everything asked must be something that is 'common knowledge' or 'figured out with logic'. Thus, "In-jokes" between friends (Dewey!) and anything else that doesn't qualify (What color panties am I wearing?), you forfeit your turn.

I go first, person who I say got it right wins and asks next question, repeat ad nausem.

FIRST QUESTION.

A man was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His parents were born in Boston, Massachusetts. He lived all his life in Boston, but he was not a U.S. citizen. How come?

[FenrisWolf]

This was before the US was formed as a nation?

[Nikose Tyris]

This was before the US was formed as a nation?

Not quite the answer I was looking for but it's close enough to satisfy me.

"He was born while Boston was still a british Colony." okay take it away Fen.

[FenrisWolf]

What are the two main differences between Wynton Marsalis and Miles Davis's recording styles?

[42PETUNIAS]

The format? Namely, records and tapes, or something.

[FenrisWolf]

Nope. Both use(d) digital recording. By the way, I'm looking for a "Wynton did ____ whereas Miles did _____" type, the word two in my question makes it seem like there were two separate ones but it is really just their one different view on one aspect of the recording process.

[Mr.Bookworm]

I assume there's no ban on actually researching these things? If there is, discount this.

Wynton favored reproducing classic/old/what-have-you styles/songs, while Miles favored creating new things.

I'm sure I messed up some bit of terminology in there, but eh.

[Zilla]

HERE'S THE RULES.

Everything asked must be something that is 'common knowledge' or 'figured out with logic'. Thus, "In-jokes" between friends (Dewey!) and anything else that doesn't qualify (What color panties am I wearing?), you forfeit your turn.

Does this question even qualify? It seems pretty niche.

Oh! I know! One guy put Miles Davis on his credits page, while the other guy put Wynton Marsalis!

[FenrisWolf]

Oh! I know! One guy put Miles Davis on his credits page, while the other guy put Wynton Marsalis!

You're funny.

And rude.

And I'll accept Bookie's answer.

The answer I was looking for was that Wynton had a habit of digitally splicing together hundreds of takes to create a masterpiece that was played back exactly as the composer intended, whereas Miles preferred to go in one take, allowing all of his mistakes to be heard because that's the way he played and didn't want to give off a false impression.

[Mr.Bookworm]

What is the ultimate purpose of newspeak?

[POS Industries]

To control thought.

Does this question even qualify? It seems pretty niche.
And how the fuck would a question about the comparative works of two well-known and influential jazz musicians not qualify in a trivia game? Fo' realz, yo.

[Nikose Tyris]

What is the ultimate purpose of newspeak?

to spread disinformation to the ignorant masses.

[Mr.Bookworm]

I'd have to say no to both of those.

It's fairly specific.

[Smarty McBarrelpants]

To prevent thoughtcrime.

[Zilla]

To make it completely impossible to think in a way not sanctioned by the government. There would be no words to describe seditious thoughts.

[Mr.Bookworm]

To make it completely impossible to think in a way not sanctioned by the government. There would be no words to describe seditious thoughts.

Sorry I'm late, I've been out of town.

I'll accept this. The ultimate, final purpose of newspeak is to create a language where the only word is some variation on "yes", saying this to whatever the party tells you.

[Zilla]

What was Atari originally going to be called?

[Hawk]

Syzygy Engineering

[42PETUNIAS]

GT Interactive.

[Zilla]

Hawk gets it.

[Nikose Tyris]

It's been 5 days. It's up for grabs.

"On what day did trophies become a required feature for the PS3 platform."

Should be easy enough.

[Male Human Fighter]

all new games submitted for certification after January 1st 2009?

I cheated and looked it up :(

[Nikose Tyris]

Who cares! I expected someone to cheat and look it up! Congrats you get to do the next trivia question!

[Male Human Fighter]

Oh man guys!
I think it's time for a riddle.
The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it. What is it?

[Moogle0119]

A coffin/casket

[Male Human Fighter]

Moogle you are too powerful for my feeble riddle, congratulations! It's now your turn to post a question!

[Moogle0119]

Who was America's first volunteer fire chief?

[Male Human Fighter]

Jean Claude Van Damme in Sudden Death (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114576/). He may not have been the first, or a volunteer, but he was definitely the most hardcore. How many fire chiefs do you know that defuse multiple bombs and kill hockey mascots with dish washers?

[Moogle0119]

He was actually a fire marshall in the film, not a fire chief.

[Male Human Fighter]

Damn, foiled again.

[Smarty McBarrelpants]

Benjamin Franklin.

[Moogle0119]

BHS/SMB gets it and the follow up question!

[Smarty McBarrelpants]

Why is Titanium Dioxide favoured as a mineral template for the origin of life and Iron Oxide is not despite Iron Oxide's much greater abundance and similar properties?

[Male Human Fighter]

Titanium Dioxide has a way cooler name and isn't rusty and lame.

[Smarty McBarrelpants]

I'm considering accepting this. Cause Iron Oxide is totally lame.
But unfortunately not exactly what I was looking for.

[Nique]

Why is Titanium Dioxide favoured as a mineral template for the origin of life and Iron Oxide is not despite Iron Oxide's much greater abundance and similar properties?

I'm not much of a chemist, but doing some quick research; Does it have anything to do with Titanium Dioxide's wide range of uses? For instance, used in wastewater treatment, hydrolysis? It seems to have many applications which speaks to a certain flexibility in it's use in nature Iron Oxcide may not have?

[Smarty McBarrelpants]

I'm not much of a chemist, but doing some quick research; Does it have anything to do with Titanium Dioxide's wide range of uses? For instance, used in wastewater treatment, hydrolysis? It seems to have many applications which speaks to a certain flexibility in it's use in nature Iron Oxcide may not have?

Sort of but not entirely.

[42PETUNIAS]

It catalyses the transformation of formamide into complex organic compounds, including DNA bases at levels of UV light that won't break apart the compounds produced.

Not sure if this covers it or not, but the article I'm reading it from says the experiment was done at your university. Friends of yours involved?

[Zilla]

I was going to say, if it was iron oxide, we'd have a lot more examples of life springing from arguably "inorganic" matter than we are now experiencing.

[Smarty McBarrelpants]

It catalyses the transformation of formamide into complex organic compounds, including DNA bases at levels of UV light that won't break apart the compounds produced.

Not sure if this covers it or not, but the article I'm reading it from says the experiment was done at your university. Friends of yours involved?

Hahaha, you found where I got this question from. I am now involved in extending this research and those people are in my group.

This is correct but Iron Oxide should also perform this reaction. As a clue, the reason why we don't investigate Iron Oxide performing this reaction is the same reason it is not useful for practically all prebiotic reactions.

I was going to say, if it was iron oxide, we'd have a lot more examples of life springing from arguably "inorganic" matter than we are now experiencing.

Most of the current theories have life indeed springing from inorganic matter.

[Zilla]

Most of the current theories have life indeed springing from inorganic matter.

I'm aware of this, but due to iron-oxide's MUCH more common nature, we'd have a lot more evidence on our hands than we have now if that were the case.

[Male Human Fighter]

Does it have anything to do with Fe2O3's presence in dried blood?

Also, I both eagerly anticipate and rue the day "because it's lame" becomes a valid scientific argument.

"So, why are we spending all this grant money on space lasers and not curing world hunger?"
"Which is more lame, giant vegetables or massive orbital death cannons?"
"Man fuck world hunger."

Then again, we can hope scientists capable of developing giant orbital death rays have a higher intelligence score than a Male Human Fighter.

[Smarty McBarrelpants]

I'm aware of this, but due to iron-oxide's MUCH more common nature, we'd have a lot more evidence on our hands than we have now if that were the case.

Maybe but it would still b e highly unlikely.
Also it's not the reason we discount it.

Does it have anything to do with Fe2O3's presence in dried blood?
Nope.



Also, I both eagerly anticipate and rue the day "because it's lame" becomes a valid scientific argument.

"So, why are we spending all this grant money on space lasers and not curing world hunger?"
"Which is more lame, giant vegetables or massive orbital death cannons?"
"Man fuck world hunger."

Then again, we can hope scientists capable of developing giant orbital death rays have a higher intelligence score than a Male Human Fighter.

You'd be surprised at how many of us work on systems because they are cool but don't really have any purpose.

The classic example is cubane which has carbons on each corner of a cube. Teams spent years tried to synthesise it because it is awesome.

[42PETUNIAS]

That's a pretty sweet answer. So who gets it?

[Male Human Fighter]

Does it have something to do with atmospheric content? Is it because of the lack of O2 in the pre-biotic atmosphere? Is it because rust doesn't conduct electricity?

Is Titanium Dioxide the preferred template because the electrical activity created by the pre-biotic atmosphere would have had to be able to travel through the mineral template in order to catalyze the creation of amino acids? Cuz Titanium Dioxide is a semiconductor?


Man, I've learned more about chemistry trying to figure this shit out than I did in my entire high school career.

[Zilla]

Christ, MHF ought to get it for his tenacity above anything else. :P

[Smarty McBarrelpants]

Is Titanium Dioxide the preferred template because the electrical activity created by the pre-biotic atmosphere would have had to be able to travel through the mineral template in order to catalyze the creation of amino acids? Cuz Titanium Dioxide is a semiconductor?

.

This answer is on the right track.

[Smarty McBarrelpants]

This answer is on the right track.
Answer I was looking for:
Photocatalytic ability is the key for the origin and while iron and titanium oxides have similar photocatalytic properties iron oxide does not catalyse organic reactions (because of the high recombination rate at hte surface).
Someone found the Auckland paper which had the reference to this so I'm surprised no one got it.

Somebody should defineatly post a new question.

[Zilla]

How do you obtain the Magic Sword in the second quest of the first Legend of Zelda game?

[Moogle0119]

Have 9 or more heart containers total

[Smarty McBarrelpants]

With a gameshark

[Zilla]

Neither.

[The Wandering God]

In the cemetery under a tombstone?

The Wandering God

[Smarty McBarrelpants]

Psssh, a gameshark would get it for you, easy.

[Zilla]

Still not right.

[Nikose Tyris]

Have 12 heart containers total.

If you're looking for the specific way to get 12 so early, no I'm not posting that giant walk through and this will do.

[Zilla]

Still nope, though you're closer.

Edit: B-HS, there was no gameshark that worked for the NES. It was a Game Genie, and they didn't list a "Magic Sword" code in the code book.

[POS Industries]

Pick it up from the old man in the graveyard and have 12 heart containers.

[Zilla]

Nyet.

[42PETUNIAS]

In the second quest, the sword is in a rock formation shaped like an arrow, which is found east of spectacle rock. You need to have the power bracelet as well as twelve heart containers so that you can move the rock.

If this is the right answer, then all of you fail at google.

[Zilla]

So close that if nobody else gets it by the time I'm done watching Pulp Fiction, you get it, but there's one detail left that someone can steal it with.

Edit: I'm finally finished with the movie. That was an amazing movie, by the way.

So, 42 PETUNIAS gets it. The missing detail was which rock in the formation you have to push, the tip of the arrow.

To everyone else, the graveyard was the first quest. That location is replaced in the second quest with either a "It's a secret to everyone" or "pay me for the door repair charge," I can never remember which ones and which until I've hit them. Coincidentally, Level 6 is also moved to the graveyard, as is a "Take any one you want." If memory serves (I'm a little sketchy on this one), it's also where you can find the letter for the old woman to give you the medicine. If it's not there, it's in a cave located one screen to the left of the very upper-rightmost corner of the overworld (though I think that's first quest).

[Smarty McBarrelpants]

Still nope, though you're closer.

Edit: B-HS, there was no gameshark that worked for the NES. It was a Game Genie, and they didn't list a "Magic Sword" code in the code book.

Well I used to own one that did. It may be a localisation thing.
And there was totally a magic sword quote. Your question is discriminatory!

[Zilla]

Well I used to own one that did. It may be a localisation thing.
And there was totally a magic sword quote. Your question is discriminatory!

pics or it didn't happen.

[42PETUNIAS]

I can't think of any trivia, so whoever can write the longest paragraph or whatever without using the letter "e" wins. It needs to make sense, don't steal anything from anyone else, and don't add more to it after you post.

[FenrisWolf]

I can't think of any trivia, so whoever can write the longest paragraph or whatever without using the letter "e" wins. It needs to make sense, don't steal anything from anyone else, and don't add more to it after you post.

No.

Try harder.

[42PETUNIAS]

Damn.

Which Boston Legal episode featured clips from much earlier in Shatner's career, and what where they from?

[Smarty McBarrelpants]

I'll totally give this way for whoever reads this next.
The clips were from "The Defenders". I don't know what the episode was called and I'm way too lazy to look it up.

[Viridis]

"Son of the Defender"
Thanks, Smarty

[42PETUNIAS]

Viridis gets it.

[Viridis]

It is more tempting than it should be to try and get you guys to do my math homework.
Anyway, let's see...

"Who's this guy (http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/9041/someguyw.jpg) from Deadpool?"
Is this too hard to search for/too esoteric?

[Smarty McBarrelpants]

Question seems fine. I have no idea who it is so I guess Bushy McMoustachian.

[Melfice]

It's... Einstein who decided to grow a funky moustache?

NO NO WAIT!
Charles Xavier!
Yeah, I'm sticking with that!

[Male Human Fighter]

Is it Jesus? How about some kung fu master he gets whupped by then practices his violence on?

[Viridis]

Since no one seems to know it, gonna make this easier to Google (though it's the same guy).
"Who runs the Hellhouse in Deadpool?"

[Male Human Fighter]

Patch, an almost midget.

[Viridis]

Don't say it to his face, but yes.

Male Human Fighter's turn.

[Male Human Fighter]

Okay, in the 1998 tactical RPG Final Fantasy Tactics, what are the necessary pre-requisites for a character to gain access to the Ninja class, and what special abilities make these units so unbelievably cool? (Name the class' primary special move, support ability, and move ability.)

This one should be nice and easy.

[Nikose Tyris]

pre-requisites.
Ninja - Archer (Lv. 4), Geomancer (Lv. 2), Thief (Lv. 5).

Special:
Sunken State, or Abandon. I prefer Abandon. Or were you talking about Throw?

Support:
Two Swords.

Move:
Move in Water.

EDIT:
He didn't post but he PM'd me saying I had the right answer. So, next question!
What piece of computer hardware can be both internal and external, but many models lack a fan for the external version, causing premature death?
Woo PS1 games.

[Male Human Fighter]

Hard drive?!

[Nikose Tyris]

a winrar is you MHF.

[Male Human Fighter]

Vita Green Health Products Co. is native to what city and its surrounding area?

[Masked Jedi]

Philadelphia?

[42PETUNIAS]

Hong Kong?

[Male Human Fighter]

Hong Kong wins the game

[42PETUNIAS]

God damn, didn't expect that to be right, seemed too easy.

Hmm. Which historic American died of arsenic poisoning in the early 1800's?

[Smarty McBarrelpants]

Hmm not sure. Only famous cases that occur to me around then were King George 3 and Napoleon. King George 3 was defineatly not an American, Napoleon was an honorary citizen so let's go with Napoleon.

[42PETUNIAS]

Nope.

[Zilla]

Ben Franklin?

[42PETUNIAS]

Unless this is zombie Ben Franklin after he rose from the dead over ten years after his death, nope.

[Zilla]

Jefferson?

[42PETUNIAS]

Nope.

[Zilla]

Madison?

Honestly, I'm kinda just going through founding fathers that made it to the 19th century at this point.

[42PETUNIAS]

So, I guess I'm being really dumb in assuming that people would be looking pretty hard for this, which isn't the intent of the contest. My bad. Zilla wins, I guess, for persistence, answer was George Wythe.

[Zilla]

Which historic American died of arsenic poisoning in the early 1800's?

I've never heard of the guy...

What is the "par" time for E1M1 - Hangar in DOOM?

Edit: Way too easy since you guys are using Google and etc.

here's one I considered but would be entirely too hard:

How do you enter the Zuul building in Ghostbusters for NES?

Even the AVGN doesn't know this one.

So, happy medium. There was a second-person game for the SNES involving an icon of the 80's. What was that icon?

[Archbio]

Spot the 7-up mascot.

[Smarty McBarrelpants]

How do you enter the Zuul building in Ghostbusters for NES?



I only had the far superior C64 version but my according to my flatmate you need lots of money to enter the Zuul building, though he' not sure how much.
And you don't need it but it is pretty essential to have thing like the ghost repelling suit.

In the C64 version you had to get the PKE reading to rise and this rose by letting the ghosts that floated around the map reach the Zuul building and also created the appearance of the marshmallow man. YOu needed a certain amount of money to get in the Zuul building as well, I think you needed a profit ie more than what you started with. Also at maximum PKE you automatically went to the building if you had enough money, something I only did once.

[Zilla]

$12,500 is the amount you need, yeah.

Spot's not the answer; it's not second person.

[Moogle0119]

I can't remember the name of the game but wasn't it Pacman?

[Zilla]

Yup. Pac Man 2: The New Adventures. Good work.

[Moogle0119]

Wow, just remembered seeing a screen shot of that game from some old Nintendo Power magazine back in the day...

Anyway umm...let's pick something easy...


What's Peter Parker (Spider-man)'s middle name?

[R|Я]

Benjamin (they really weren't very subtle, now were they?)

[Zilla]

Would have had that one too :P

[Moogle0119]

russianreversal gets it

[R|Я]

Ok, also an easy one because I just don't feel like thinking up a good one right now:

In DnD, how many 3rd ed core classes were left out of the 4th ed Player's Handbook, and which one never made it into the new system at all?

[Nikose Tyris]

Left out:
Barbarian
bard
Druid
Monk
Sorcerer

Dunno on the last one [Cause fuck 4th edition] but from the way mages work now, I'd say Sorcerer got forever cut.

This has been stagnant way too long and if you don't respond I'm just going to hijack this thread with a new random question.


Edit: Taking it.

Name the colors of the 'chromatic dragons' from D&D.

[grthwllms]

Chromatic Dragons can be any simple color. Red, Blue, Green, White, and Black.

[Nikose Tyris]

He's named the 5, he wins the game. Go Grth.

[grthwllms]

Lee Harvey Oswald signed up for, and was accepted into a Branch of the United States military.

Which branch was it, and for bonus points what position did he train for?

[R|Я]

This has been stagnant way too long and if you don't respond I'm just going to hijack this thread with a new random question. The second answer was actually Monk, but that's totally cool. I didn't see a response for a couple weeks, so I assumed it had died.

Answer: USMC, and I believe he was trained as a radar operator, no?

[grthwllms]

The second answer was actually Monk, but that's totally cool. I didn't see a response for a couple weeks, so I assumed it had died.

Answer: USMC, and I believe he was trained as a radar operator, no?

You win, and your bonus prize, should you choose to accept it is NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTHIIIIIIING

[R|Я]

You win, and your bonus prize, should you choose to accept it is NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTHIIIIIIING Aww man! I was really getting excited at the NOOOOOO...

Alright, I'd like to take this win and throw it up for grabs (except to grth), as I can't think of any good ones right now.

[Rejected Again]

Ill take the free one and raise you a riddle:

If a daddy bull weighs 1,200 pounds and eats twelve bales of hay each day, and a baby bull, who weighs 300 pounds eats three bales of hay each day, how much hay then should a mommy bull eat if she weighs 800 pounds?

[FenrisWolf]

EDIT: Wait a goddamn second, bulls are male.

[Smarty McBarrelpants]

Could be two gay bulls

[Rejected Again]

Fenris got it on the edit

[FenrisWolf]

What key is the song "Switch in Time" off of the Count Basie Album "Straight Ahead" in?

[POS Industries]

E♭ minor.

[FenrisWolf]

E♭ minor.
Nope, but on the right track.

[Rejected Again]

G#?

[FenrisWolf]

Nope.

[Rejected Again]

Damnit Fenris your question killed the game.

[Cati]

B♭, I think?

Edit: No! The As are flat, darn it! E♭major.

[krogothwolf]

F minor?

[Zilla]

C.

haha.

[FenrisWolf]

F minor?

This is correct.

[krogothwolf]

What is the name of the commonly used scream sound effect used in many movies?

[Si Civa]

Wilhelm scream.

[krogothwolf]

Wilhelm scream.

Correct!

[Si Civa]

I stole the victory, fhahahaha.

But the first ex-beatle is in question now.
Also, I'm going to sleep now, so declaring the winner may take little bit longer.

[krogothwolf]

Stuart Sutcliffe

[Si Civa]

Goddammit these questions became too easy and now I don't have anybody else blame than me.
I think that it would have been easier to ask who was the first drummer of Beatles, as it turns out that Paul was that some time (or was it John, I can't remember).

So shine on your crazy diamond krogothwolf, shine on your crazy diamond.

[krogothwolf]

First NFL Runningback to rush for 2000 yards in one season?

[Rejected Again]

O.J. Simpson

[krogothwolf]

O.J. Simpson

Correct

[Rejected Again]

My knowledge of useless football facts comes in handy for once.

Here is a math problem for you to solve:

(x-a)(x-b)(x-c)(x-d)(x-e)(x-f)........(x-y)(x-z)=__________

What is the answer?

[42PETUNIAS]

Zero. (x-x) being a factor.

[Rejected Again]

Well shit 42 nailed that one fast. Have at it then.

[Nikose Tyris]

42 Murdered the game. Boo, 42.

"What is round on the edges but high in the middle?"

[42PETUNIAS]

A cone?

[Token]

Ohio.

[Nikose Tyris]

Token Wins.

[Token]

Excellent. Riddle Time!

Whoever made it doesn't say. Whoever took it didn't know. Who ever knew about it didn't want it.

[Rejected Again]

Counterfeit money.

[Token]

A winrar is you.

[Rejected Again]

What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

[Smarty McBarrelpants]

I thought this died ages ago.
A towel!

[Rejected Again]

You are full of win!