Wow. Another great turnout another amazing night. Hats off to all the teams that came down and managed to answer a few questions last night. We had a new venue, Troche Kultury, some new faces, all new questions, a new DJ to round off the evening but a repeat winner. Congratulations once again to the Irrelephants. We'll be looking for feedback about the new venue and soliciting some input from everyone to see what you'd like to see in future events. Until then, here's the answers to last nights festivities!
Round 1 – Numbers, Words and Letters
1. We'll start off with an easy one. What year when written in Roman numerals uniquely contains one of each numeral written in descending order? Please provide the year that corresponds to one of each of the Roman numerals written in descending order.
MDCLXVI = 1666
2. Write a recognisable and understandable word in the English language having one of each vowel in alphabetic (AEIOU) or reverse alphabetical order (UOIEA).
Facetious, abstemious, arterious, annelidous, anemious, abstentious, acheilous, acherious, acleistous, affectious, aerious, arsenious, bacterious, caesious, caespitosum, caespitosus, fracedinous, gareisoun, gravedinous, majestious, materious, parecious, placentious, tragedious, and vaceious Subcontinental, Unoriental, Uncomplimentary and Unnoticeably.
3. What modern system are I referring to when I say the words – moon, sun, Saturn, Thor, Tiw, Woden and Frig?
The days of the week.
4. What was special about May 4th, 2006, at exactly two minutes and three seconds after one o'clock in the morning. As a hint, this special moment occurred on this day in Europe but on a different day in the US and Canada where it happened on April 5th, 2006 at the same time.
01:02:03 04.05.06
5. What common word has five consecutive vowels. Once again, this would only make sense in the UK while someone in America would use a different word.
Queuing
6. If you were to count the frequency of each of the letters appearing in all of words listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, which 5 letters would score highest. What would an analysis of the letter count of words occurring in the OED tell you are the five most common letters?
E A R I O
7. Ok, the flipside to the previous question. What five letter appear least frequently in the Oxford English dictionary words?
Q J Z X V
8. What is the lowest whole number when spelled out has its letters in alphabetic order?
Forty
Round 2 - Name That Tune
1. Lykke Li - I Follow Rivers
2. Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know
3. Amy Winehouse - Our Day Will Come
4. Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again
5. Lana Del Ray - Video Games
6. Drake feat. Rihanna - Take Care
Round 3 - Movie Trivia – I'll give you a few clues, you name the movie. Could be people involved in the making, symbols, names, places or characters
1. The Overlook Hotel, redrum and an axe
The Shining
2. Detroit, ED-209, OCP (Omni Consumer Products), Peter Weller
Robocop
3. Joel and Ethan, the dude, White Russians
The Big Lebowski
4. an ear, a gas mask and a robin
Blue Velvet
5. Viper, Cougar, Maverick, Goose and Iceman
Top Gun
6. McRoyal, adrenaline and a gold watch
Pulp Fiction
7. A bullwhip, a fedora and staff of Ra (You need to be specific for the full point)
Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. Reece's Pieces, a BMX bike, a phone
ET
9. a Delorean, hoverboard and a clock tower
Back to the Future
10. Beethoven, Moloko plus, Ludovico Technique and droogs
Clockwork Orange
Round 4 - Bite Me
1. What TV cartoon features a character whose catchline is „bite my shiny metal ass”.
And for a bonus point point, what is the name of the character?
Futurama – Bender
2. Whose ear did Mike Tyson famously bite a chunk off of during a fight on June 28, 1997 during what has become known as the bite fight?
Evander Holyfield
3. The most famous biter of all time is of course Dracula. This is a two point question. To get a point tell me who was the author of the original Dracula book. For a second point point, tell me the name of the town where Draculas castle is said to be or the name of the most famous and original Dracula actor?
Bram Stoker – Bran/Bela Lugosi
4. The opening theme song to what fictional TV show within a TV cartoon features the line „They fight, they bite. They bite and fight and bite. Fight, fight, bite, bite, bite”
The Itchy and Scratchy Show (from the Simpsons)
5. The bite from what creature is responsible for nearly a million deaths per year?
Mosquito
6. In case you missed it, Liverpool striker Luis Suarez was suspended last year for biting Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanvic in Premiership play last year. Even more surprisingly, it wasn't the first time he had done in during game play but the previous incident happened while he played for a different team in a different league. Who was Luis Suarez playing for in 2010 when he bit a (PSV Eidhoven) player?
Ajax
7. When we bite the bullet, we accept something difficult and try to live with it, put the bit on someone when we try to get money from them and try to do more than we are able when we bite off more than we can chew. Tell me though, what does it mean to bite the big one or bite the dust?
To die
8. What unit of measurement denotes half a byte in computer terminology?
a) a bit b) a microbyte c) a nibble or d) a zebibyte
