January 18, 2022 Answers

It's WEEK #2 of YellowBelly A to Z Trivia Quiz. 

Each answer begins with a different letter of the alphabet. 

Email your answers to YellowBellyTrivia@gmail.com by 8:30pm NST on April 7, 2020

1. Follow instructions above - pick the most appropriate answer.

2. He won an Oscar for his role in a remake. There were 44 years in between his first and most recent Golden Globe wins. His net worth is about half of one of his kids'. He may have owned a Chrysler LeBaron. 

3. What links all of these together: Peanut, Mustard, Count, Penguin, Lang? 

4. A U.S. nickel is primarily made out of copper. A penny (aka: a copper) is primarily made out of what?

5. The FIRST NAME of a National figure whose surname can be described by this collage of pictures.

6. Russia is the world’s largest country by area. Its largest city by population is Moscow, which is also its capital. What’s the next largest country, by area, for which its largest city, by population, is also its capital?   

7. What geothermal Icelandic site has the same name as a 1980 movie?

8. This actor's character was a regular on a Star Trek TV series. But in terms of the films, he appeared in only one - in a non-speaking cameo - and did some voice work in another.

9. He was working as a handyman when he learned he'd qualified for the Olympics. He was his country's record holder in his events, yet finished dead last at Olympics. He later became a world record holder for a stunt involving six buses.

10. She is a lawyer, former politician, lecturer, and writer, with 11 honorary degrees. She has held four of the highest positions in her country, and changed her first name at age 12.

11. Name of the video game that has in its title the year that the film (above) was set in. 

12. This is a one-word song recorded by an iconic Canadian band. A different song of the same name was released 3 years later (as part of film soundtrack, of the same name) by a Grammy winning singer working with a Hall of Fame English Rock Band. It is also a place name.

13. & 14. Solve the six rows across, and the two green columns down
will reveal 6-letter words that have been in the news recently. Name them.

15. We are looking for the surname of the creator of a TV series. The name of the TV series can be made by combining the name of a film starring Tom Hanks and a song performed by Fleetwood Mac. 

16. What links these: Frank - Carrie - Blair - Colton? 

17. This company's building is a Registered Heritage Structure as a fine example of a mercantile building reconstructed after the fire of 1846. It survived the Great St. John's Fire of 1892, and is considered the cornerstone of the Water Street National Historic District. 

18. Surname of the man pictured in a stylized (i.e. un-Googlable) collage above, a former leader 
who was killed on the way home from the cinema with his wife, back in the 80s.

19. This 10-letter word, which originated from the Hindi language, first described a carriage that brought the god Vishnu through the streets, and crushed anything in its path. Today it just means a huge and irresistible force. 

20. The variety of tools pictured above originate from Scotland. What are they called? 

21. The expression Goddamn Inside is exactly where we should all be at. It is also an anagram of a St. John's company. Name that company. 

22. What English word retains its pronunciation when you remove its last 4 letters?

23. A CRYPTOLIST is a substitution code. Each letter in the CATEGORY and the 7 list members needs to be substituted for a different letter to create a meaningful list. There's a hint in the list. Question: what does WOMANLIEST represent? 

24. There is a dessert that many Newfoundlanders aged 50+ refer to differently than everyone else in the world does (probably in confusion with a brand name). If you add an S after its fourth letter, it sounds like an ironically named road in St. John’s. Name the dessert.

25. This is a fictional book of magic (or is it?) originally written about by the father of modern horror, and is later a central part of a franchise of the very narrow film genre: dark fantasy comedy horror.

26. There is a 2000's kids' show animal cartoon character, whose name and species both start with the same letter, and was voiced by a famous child actor from the 1980s. The character’s best friend is a penguin, voiced by an actor best known as an awkward, weird 1970s sit-com character… the first 4 letters of that character would be the first 4 letters of a 5-letter animal species resembling the first species mentioned above. Name the cartoon character.