March 2, 2021 YellowBelly Trivia

Hey what's up, Triviati? Welcome to the YellowBelly A to Z Trivia Quiz, Season Deux, Episode Trois. We have all the letters covered...each and every one. It is your responsibility to find words that start with each of them. No biggie.

Email as many of the answers as you can muster to YellowBellyTrivia@gmail.com by 8:30pm NST on March 2, 2021. Last week we had 7 perfect scores. Can we beat that? Doubts it.

Let's start off this week's quiz with two music questions hosted on Soundcloud - songs may play out of order. No, you're out of order! This whole quiz is out of order!

1. Based on something these six songs or artists have in common, name a TV character who also shares this characteristic (the actress won an Emmy for playing her). 

https://soundcloud.com/yellowbelly-trivia/tv-character-march-2-2021

2. All of the seven artists in this clip feature what?  

https://soundcloud.com/yellowbelly-trivia/artists-contain-what-march-2

3. Two different actors won Oscars for playing the same character, in different movies. What is the character’s first name?  

4. Two things are featured prominently in this photo - the person and the brand. What is interesting is that each of those has a one-word anagram that is related to what 8-letter topic?

5. In two different movies that are unrelated to each other, this actor’s character appears in a secret meeting named Elrond. Name the actor (surname).

6. The words ADEPT, ALMOST, BIOPSY, EMPTY, FIRST, FOXY and GLORY all share the same attribute. What is that two-word attribute?

7. This antagonist from a movie franchise appears in every film in the franchise. His nickname ends with the name of the franchise. His nickname is both a tool and a game. The actor’s first name is the same as a noted Newfoundlander’s surname. Give the character's nickname.

8. A write-in question. We were able to solve it, but it is difficult. The six pictures in this collage suggest what musical group?

9. This well-known band’s first album is called “________’s First Album”. (The blank contains the name of the band.) It was released in 1971. Name the band.

10. Due to a clerical error, this territorial flag contained an igloo for almost a century, even though it has probably never snowed there. Name the territory.

11. Which country is completely surrounded by Stans?

12. It has been theorized, but probably will never be able to be proven, that the unusual colour of the sky in Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream is not due to artistic license, but may have been REAL, caused by this specific thing (8 letters). (P.S.: not related to Aurora Borealis).

13. As if gender equity weren’t a significant enough issue, there is a huge gap in the professional sports mascot sector. In fact, of “The Big 4” sports leagues, of the teams that have mascots, there is only one who is clearly identifiable as being female. What is her name?

14. A write-in question: Famous + Infamous. None of us have played any major league baseball games (presumably). But one guy officially holds a dubious record for the fewest batters ever faced by an actual Major League pitcher. Officially: Zero. He was the starting pitcher in his first game ever, got injured in the warm up, and never played again (one game played; zero batters faced). His brother is a VERY famous player with the record for the most major league baseball games played as a teenager. Give their surname. 

15. Very interesting snippet of an actual map. This is the only geographical border of any significant size we can find that is circular. It is the upper border of where?

16. What word ties us all together?

17. What seven-letter word do these men have in common? 

18. The shirt was based on the design of a fictitious designer, who was actually the name of a staffer who became a writer/producer for a TV show. Name the designer.

19. What profession is implied by this picture? 

20. Fill in the blanks with the same word, to describe what's going on here: Doing the _________ in ___________. 

21. An award-winning humorist from California connected to Jack Kerouac, he coined many well-known slang terms during his lifetime. He wrote for over 50 years and received a special Pulitzer Prize. He had a regular column about people such as those above. The OED calls it an aptronym, but he coined what word to describe the above phenomenon? 22. We will give credit to the author of this cool question in the solutions, but if we give credit now it may make it too easy to solve. What to these movies have in common? Almost Famous, The Aviator, The Book of Eli, The Debt, The Hangover, Lolita, Marmaduke, Natural Born Killers, Risky Business, The Terminator.
23. There is a company that has been in the news a lot in the past few months, and it starts with two letters that you don’t see at the start of many words, except for the surname of a well-known actress. That company sells many products that are household names, one rhyming with a Canadian landmark. Another popular one is a palindrome. Name the palindromic product.

24. These 8 countries have something very specific in common. One country is missing. Which country?

25. Doctor Five has a special real-life connection to Doctor Ten. What is it?

26. From a remarkable athletic family you may never have heard of, three siblings all have won gold medals in one of the most difficult events: The World Cross Country Championships. All have been Olympic medalists. The youngest sibling holds world records. The middle sibling is the most prolific, and the eldest has no world records and is in the shadow of the other two. The eldest's first name is a mouthful: What is it?