YellowBelly Trivia WEEK #4 is on. the. go.
Format is pretty much the same as the last three weeks - we encourage collab through Zoom, Skype, Google Docs, fax, or phone. No face-touching. Though you don't NEED to, Googling, Bing-ing, and use of Almanacs is acceptable. Please submit your answers to YellowBellyTrivia@gmail.com by 8:30pm on April 21st.
1. This was developed commercially only in the last 60 years. This substance is used in the cosmetic, oil, and food industries...it is produced using sucrose but is not a sweetener. Instead, it is used to add viscosity: a product's thickness or "syrupiness".
2. In one decade, he (surname) played in all 40 major golf championships, and finished in the top 10 in 35 of them.
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| 3. Above is a collage of close up faces from movie posters. Take the first letter of each film (disregarding starting articles like A and The) and scramble these four first letters to make a well-known sci-fi character. |
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| 4. Above you will find 8 things that are all part of a set. They are overlapped in twos, making them hard to read. Once you figure out what they are, identify the one that has the LOWEST number (number of what? Base that on the 2011 survey). |
5. This musical instrument was adapted from a Portuguese instrument and popularized by a king (reigning at the time), who regularly incorporated it into royal gatherings. It has one more vowel than consonant in its name.
6. This country qualified for the men's World Cup of soccer only once. Each player was promised a car and a house, but upon losing, they were told they would not receive these bonuses. Rumour has it, they planned to not show up for their next match, were threatened by the leader, and attempted to steal the team bus and drive home, over 10,000km away.The country is famously known for hosting one of the most pivotal sporting events in history. Name the country, as it was known during the World Cup.
7. This recurring character on an award-winning show is divorced, and typically acts as a foil to his incompetent boss. His voice actor drew inspiration for this character’s voice from Sylvester Stallone. What is the character's first name?
8. A riddle: I took a road trip from California to Louisiana to Massachusetts to Rhode Island. What did I eat?
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| 9. If you know what this music is above, you deserve a _________. |
10. He built a private apartment in an extremely famous building named for him, and entertained Thomas Edison there. Give his surname.
11. There is a singer with an unusual first name. If you swap the positions of the two vowels in his first name, it becomes a country that is on the same continent as the answer to Question 6. Name this singer's ordinary surname.
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| 12. In an epic dodgeball set-up above featuring USA vs UK, the person on the bottom receives a well-placed groin shot delivered by whom (on the top)? Answer is surname. |
13. Gene Simmons, Sting, the magician Teller, Billy Crystal, J.K. Rowling, Art Garfunkel, and Pete Soucy have something specific in common. They have all been what?
14. Mexico has 1.63% of the world’s population, and 1.30% of the world’s land mass. The gap between the two is 1.63 - 1.30 = 0.33. Which country has the largest gap between its percentage of the world’s population and its percentage of the world’s land mass?
15. He is known for three of the most famous words in television, yet if we showed his face, most would not recognize him. He has been part of over 30 television shows and a mainstream film, and always gets mentioned on the show he has played a role on for almost 40 years. Not sure how old you are, but he is older than you.
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| 16. The four pictures above have a quirk that knits them together. Once you find that quirk, there is a famous actress that could also join this group. You need to use her first and last name here to fulfill the quirk. ALPHABET ANSWER IS HER FIRST NAME. |
17. If you take each word below and translate it into some different language, they are all types of what? Bridegrooms, butterflies, ears, feathers, knots, twins, ribbon, worms, reed, to cut, peppercorns, spindles, turnips.
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| 18 & 19. If this image weirds you out, well, that is what it was intended to do. This is album art from a mainstream band. It was considered so distasteful in one country that they had to change the art to feature only the kid on the right. 18. Name the band. 19. In what country was the alternate album art designed for? |
21. The following Shakespearean plays, and no others, feature what event (in one case, hinted by the title of the play)? The Comedy of Errors, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Pericles, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale.
TWO MUSIC TRACKS: They are on Soundcloud, and they may play automatically in succession.
22. https://soundcloud.com/yellowbelly-trivia/kermit How does Kermit the Frog link the songs heard in this clip? (consider the artists or the song titles)
23. https://soundcloud.com/yellowbelly-trivia/tv-show-2 Remove the words that repeat in the titles of these two songs, and some words remain. Arrange the words to form the name of a TV show...name the show.
24. This iconic TV character has had a whole lot of secondary references:
- a statue of him was erected in the city the show was set
- he is referenced in Pulp Fiction
- he was a public reference by a senior advisor to PM Boris Johnson during Brexit
- a whole episode of Family Guy centred around him
- one of his actions on the show resulted in a phrase for attempting to regain popularity
The answer is the way he is most commonly referred to.
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| 25. A well-known politician has a logo used for campaigns. Above are two small snippets from the logo (as they appear - nothing has been reversed, duplicated, or flipped). This politician also goes by an acronym. Name that acronym. |
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| 26. QUOTE BOXES: Drop the letters from each vertical column - but not necessarily in the order they appear - into the empty squares to spell out a verse from a famous two-word song, reading left to right, line by line. Words may continue from one line to the next, and black squares are ends of words. The first word of the song is part of a solution somewhere in the puzzle. The second word is a vehicle. What is the name of the song? |
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