January 18, 2022 Answers

It is Week #6 of YellowBelly A to Z Trivia.

You must: follow protocols (one answer per letter, spell out numbers, surnames unless otherwise stated).

You ought to: submit 26 answers to YellowBellyTrivia@gmail.com by 8:30pm on May 5th.

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You mustn't: hack our blog or burst our bubbles. 

Let's start off with some music! These are hosted on Soundcloud, and the two clips may play consecutively.
1. https://soundcloud.com/yellowbelly-trivia/common-bond-may-5 There are 6 song clips in this question. What is the one-word theme that is connoted by the artists or titles of these songs?
2. https://soundcloud.com/yellowbelly-trivia/common-bond-2-may-5 There are 4 clips in this question. What do these four songs (artists or titles) suggest?

3. Pictures of me might lead you to believe that I lived to a ripe old age, but I actually died relatively young (by today’s standards anyway). There is so much stuff named after me. I helped raise my wife’s kids, though I never fathered any. I rose to the highest rank ever, tripling my stars centuries after my death. (Surname)

4. You have a board from the game GO (a 19x19 board), and a bowl of black stones to use, and you want to create a symbol using the black stones. The bottom left corner is A1 and the top right is S19 (as is standard in GO).
- You start in the top left corner and place 12 stones down, from A19 down to A8.
- You go back to the top left and lay stones across until F19.
- You lay stones from B14 across to F14 and from F15 up to F18.
- Finally, you lay stones diagonally from D13 down to M4 and from D4 up to M13.
What you are left with is something we have all seen hundreds of times, but the symbol doesn’t make sense with the word we associate with it. That’s because this symbol is from Latin, meaning what?

5. Everyone above has something specific in common, except one. Who is the odd one out (surname, if applicable)? 

6. This is a relatively new role (late 90s), that has become a standard on competitive teams in a particular sport. This player wears a contrasting jersey and is a defensive specialist. It is a less commonly known term in another more popular sport too. Name the new role (not the sport).

7. This is a song that hit #1 on international billboard charts and then again when re-released almost 20 years later. It is also a nickname for both a villain, and the current #1 ranked athlete in a particular sport.

8. Here are four seemingly unrelated little trivia questions to figure out:
A. Song that poses: “Can I make it any more obvious?” and “Does your pretty face see what he’s worth?”. 
B. TV show, that ran for six seasons, about a college math prof and his FBI brother who solve crimes. 
C. Movie that has the famous line “John Doe has the upper hand.” 
D. Electronic music producer and DJ whose real surname = the real surname of one of the Travelling Wilburys. 
But they are related...something is going on here: how do they add up? Spell it out, and that is your answer.

9. What is the common connection among the pictures in the above collage?

10. These mammals (and we believe, no others) have a specific common bond. They are all...what?
Bear, cattle, dog, dolphin, fox, giraffe, goat, hare, horse, human, lion, lynx, sheep, wolf.

11. The answer to this question is a one-word product. Curiously, there is a person you would not think would be into fast food, despite his name and accolades...but rumour has it he ate 100 of these per day when in China a few years ago. Despite the brand's popularity in his region of the world, you actually can’t get these crunchy beauties any more in his country.

12. This is a multi-Grammy winning recording artist, and part of a multi-generational family of artists. You may not know his real first name because he has been going by this nickname for years. Some say the name was given to him by his famous father and means ‘little spliff’, but he attributes it to adopting the alias of a recording icon he likes. Give the nickname.

 13. I am a popular last name in China (and a former region), and also a minor unit of currency in another Eastern nation. And, I am a legal and useful word in Scrabble.

14. I am a volcanic archipelago tropical country divided into six provinces. The names of these 6 provinces derive from the initial letters of the islands that form them. I have three official languages that include English and French. I played host to a season of Survivor.

15. What popular TV show’s opening credits have these images occurred in?

16. These two professional athletes are not related, but they have this same last name. They played the same sport, but in two different professional leagues. Between them, they have been named an All-star 23 times. Both were named college player of the year, have 3 Olympic Gold medals between them, and you would find both on most all-time top 10 player lists. Give their last name.

17. Where in the world am I?

18. Together, these photos suggest what?

19. The name of this film is also the name of a song featured in the film. There is a scene featuring Batman’s new girlfriend that appears in the movie's trailer, yet inexplicably was deleted from the movie itself and has become popular on YouTube. Also, the film's main character loses a tooth, and someone dead in real life is very much alive in the film. Name the film.

20. What common pursuit did all of the people above share?

21. A famous one came from darkest Peru. Another got stuck in a hole. A third one liked the fancy ants. What is the word that describes the biological family they all belong to (it’s an anagram of something we have to do to our cars)?

22. This word is prominent as: a character from Game of Thrones, a word in the title of a Sherlock Holmes story, a word in a song title by Elvis, and a word in the name of the magazine where William Thacker pretends to work.

23. If you take the name of a country, and insert inside it the letter that is the symbol for the country's currency, you will get the first name of its former leader. Give the first name in question.

24. I am a city of culture. Here you can find 3 National Galleries, the National Museum and the National Library. I have been a seat of activity for a long time, dating back more than 10,000 years. I have a palace that shares a name with a town near St. John’s, have a great fringe, am a Twin City to more than a dozen other cities (including a major Canadian one), have a statue of a bear, and my most renowned sports team plays with heart.

25. Teal Bra. Oration. Avocations. Pie. Main Boat. Neat Hacksaws. When treated in a certain way, what do these 6 words or phrases describe?

26. There is a slang stylized “word” (Word A) that is made up of two letters and two numbers. That “word” is a variation of another new slang word (Word B), which appears in the Oxford English Dictionary. Word B has an alternate spelling (Word C), and Words A, B, and C are both synonyms and homonyms. Word C is a short form of yet another new slang word (Word D). Words A, B, C, and D gained popularity in this century, they all are slight variations of the same putdown, with Word A being the greatest insult (and you don’t want one on your Warcraft team). What is Word A?