February 23, 2021 YB Trivia

The YellowBelly A to Z Trivia Quiz is back, for Season 2, Episode 2. So, you mean we didn't get cancelled? We'll keep this going as long as there's two ingredients: interest and lockdown.

Each answer begins with a different letter of the alphabet. So, once W is gone, she's gone. Email your answers to YellowBellyTrivia@gmail.com by 8:30pm NDT on February 23, 2021. Even if you are 3 seconds late, your answers will be discarded without prejudice.

Let's start off this week's quiz with two music questions hosted on Soundcloud - songs may play out of order, so don't get confused.

1. What 9-letter word do all of these songs or artists have in common? 
https://soundcloud.com/yellowbelly-trivia/common-bond-1-feb-23-2021

2. Each song or artist contains an 8-letter what?
https://soundcloud.com/yellowbelly-trivia/common-bond-2-feb-23-2021

3. Looking for the name of a country:

- None of its letters repeat.
- The country and its capital have the same number of letters.
- The capital city’s letters do not repeat.
- The country and the capital do not share any letters.
- It is not located in South America.
Name the country. 

4. Please read instructions carefully: There are only 7 of something in the world, and one of those 7 could not be used in this question. Of those 6 remaining, one is not represented. Which one?

Children's Literature Section...gather round, kids!

5. An important object in a famous children’s story made its way into the world of web design, to describe the way to get back to the main page of a site or app. Name the object (plural) in the story. 

6. Speaking of children’s stories, there is another similar example, where in this case, a title character of a story makes their way into the world of astronomy as a two-word term to describe a planet's distance from its star that is similar to that of the Earth. Name the two-word term. 

7. OK, OK, one more kid lit question. There is a film whose first three words are the same as the first three words of a famous children’s story, but the fourth word is different. There is a character in the film played by someone whose first name begins with a word in Question 6 above. The character she plays starts with 2 consecutive letters of the alphabet (like Gh or Pq), but we can’t think of a single word in English that starts with those two letters. Name the character. 

8. He became A SENIOR earlier this month. His popularity was huge 20+ years ago and then he sort of faded into obscurity, but he’s back!...with a movie that’s being released in a couple of weeks. If you erase the rightmost few pixels of the final letter of his first name, you will get something you should not eat. What is his first name?

9. This is such a cool piece of trivial trivia: the film referenced in Question 8 above is a sequel. In the first film, an actress and actor play a royal couple, and the same two people play a completely different royal couple in an unrelated film. Name the actress.

10. Six of the people above have something in common. Who is the odd one out (surname)?

11. On the 100th anniversary of the first European ascent of THIS PEAK, certificates were given posthumously to guides. One of the recipients resembled one of the original guides so much that the committee determined that he was in fact one of the original guides and that would make him 118 years old. Name the peak (exclude the word Mt., Mountain, or Mount).

12. This was the name of a popular television show that ran for 8 seasons (the name of the show often has 2 extra letters added at the end). It’s a first name, a last name, and the “middle” name of a famous three-named person. In addition, it’s the name of more than 20 towns in the US - the largest of which is pronounced a bit differently than it is spelled. It was also a comic strip, a band, and a fictitious reptile. What's the name?

13. This country consists of a continental land mass and many islands, and is most likely named after a European city. There is evidence of civilization dating back 15 centuries. The country has high crime and corruption rates. It has 5 cities with more than 1,000,000 people, and their populations are very similar to Canada’s 5 biggest cities. There is one official language, and more than 30 indigenous languages spoken in different parts of the country. Name the country.

14. This is a mythological place, a nickname for an incredibly wealthy couple’s estate, a Caribbean resort park, a film, television series, a video game, and a song title by several different artists (with one version reaching #1 in several different countries). Name the place/song/park/etc.

15. 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 quote from a well-known person, reading left to right, line by line. Words may continue from one line to the next, and black squares are ends of words. Who said it (surname)?

16. Who is missing?

17. This freaky composite suggests what word?

18. A particular chemical compound's chemical formula consists of two elements from the periodic table. Spell the first element out completely, follow it with the chemical symbol for the second element, then add on a word that is an outdated technology, and you will get a brand name, whose active ingredient is the chemical compound. Name the one-word brand.

19. There is a movie that is a complete rip-off of E.T., sans the great story, high-end director or actors, but with gratuitous product placement (dance scene!) by a company much more famous than Reese’s. The movie is regularly endorsed by an actor who had absolutely nothing to do with the film. Name the actor (surname).

20. There's only five of ye at once allowed in the Needs out in Logy Bay (ostensibly to load up on Pandemic booze). You turn to the cashier, give her a wink, and say: “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.” The other four dudes start a scrap about who got there first. She looks at you knowingly and whispers, “The five boxing wizards jump quickly.” This is not simply an idiotic romantic story...you and the attendant fell in love by communicating in what?

21. Without telling you the categories of the three circles, can you identify what should be replacing the ? in the Venn Diagram?

22. What homophone is represented here (obviously, spelling is not a factor)?

23. Name the Canadian UNESCO World Heritage Site that surprisingly has nothing to do with road running or any kind of exercise.

24. Chemical elements have one-letter or two-letter symbols. But if you see a periodic table from the early 1990s, there are some temporary three-letter symbols, as a result of a hissy fit between the Americans and the Soviets. One element was eventually named for a New Zealander, but was temporarily named for the Latin for its atomic number. What was its short-lived three-letter symbol?

25. A character from Movie A also appears in Movie B. This is not uncommon, so here are a few more clues: 

(a) The character is played by the same actor in both films

(b) The character’s first name is in the title of Movie A 

(c) The actor is uncredited in Movie B 

(d) Movie A is a drama; Movie B is a comedy western

(e) Movie A and Movie B have nothing to do with each other 

(f) Movie A won Oscars; Movie B was nominated for Razzies 

The character’s surname is sort of an alias. What is his surname?

 

26. These seven Canadians have something a little more specific in common. What is it (6 letters)?