Twenty questions

A fiery mouse with a wheel of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty ‘Hi-Yo Linux!’ Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear — the Quiz Arranger rides again!

  1. Who is Barbara Millicent Roberts?
  2. Onto what are Australians reputed to throw shrimp?
  3. What not-so-dynamic TV duo was played by Michael McKean and David Lander?
  4. Who recorded a cover of The Guess Who’s American Woman in 1999?
  5. What country claims Ankara as its capital?
  6. What is turducken?
  7. Name the band who had a Cruel Summer in 1983.
  8. Who was Badder than old King Kong / And meaner than a junkyard dog?
  9. What role have Eugene T. Maleska and Wil Shortz both held at the New York Times?
  10. Why did counter-espionage service MI5 investigate the Daily Telegraph newspaper in 1944?
  11. Who preceded Alex Trebek as the host of Jeopardy!?
  12. What Canadian game show used a version of Quincy Jones’s Soul Bossa Nova as its theme music?
  13. Who wrote the play Picasso at the Lapin Agile?
  14. Who played completely mental character Ed Grimley on SCTV?
  15. What English word comes from a Slovak term meaning drudgery or labour?
  16. What is the full English title of Karel Čapek’s 1920 play R.U.R.?
  17. What was the only equation printed in Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time?
  18. What is the common name given to an object that is smaller than its Schwarzschild radius?
  19. Who played Rawhide on CBC Radio?
  20. What comedy team performed The Shakespearean Baseball Game and Rinse the Blood off My Toga?

The questions above are inspired by events and conversations from the last couple of days. That little tidbit will be of absolutely no use to anyone, just thought I’d share.

To sweeten the pot this time around, I’m going to award a billion points to the winner. That’s right, a billion points. Beat that, Regis!

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11 thoughts on “Twenty questions”

  1. 1) Someone who has never been in my kitchen
    2) The “Bar-B” (a BBQ)
    3)
    4) Lenny Kravitz (from an Austin Powers soundtrack)
    5) Turkey
    6) A 6 legged turkey – made famous by John Madden who prepares one for Thanksgiving each year
    7) The Bangles
    8) Leroy Brown
    9) Cartoonist?
    10) The codenames for the DDay invasion operation including the beach names all appeared in crossword clues/answers prior to the actual invasion (apparantly all coincidentally)
    11) Merv Griffin?
    12) Bumper Stumpers (I know that’s wrong)
    13) Henrik Ibsen (I also know this is wrong)
    14) Martin Short don’t you know
    15) Dirge
    16) ?
    17) 1+1=2
    18-20) ?

  3. 2) The barby
    4) Lenny Kravitz
    5) Turkey
    7) Bannanrama
    8) Bad bad leroy brown
    12) Definition
    14) Martin Short
    15) Robot
    16) R…. Universal Robots – don’t remember the whole thing
    17) E=mc^2
    18) black hole
    20) Wayne and Shuster

  4. 1. Barbie (and it pains me that I know that)
    2. The ‘Barbie’.
    3. Lenny and Squiggy
    4. Lenny Kravitz
    5. Turkey
    6. A chicken stuffed in a duck stuffed in a turkey.
    7. Bananarama
    8. Leroy Brown
    9. Crossword editor
    10. ??
    11. ??
    12. Definition
    13. Steve Martin
    14. Martin Short
    15. ??
    16. ??
    17. e=mc2
    18. That’s a trick question. Nothing associated with this nerdy question could ever be considered ‘common’ 😉 But I think it’s a black hole.
    19. The disc jockey.
    20. Wayne and Shuster

  5. Frightening how many of these I know!
    1. Barbie
    2. Barby
    3. Lenny and Squiggy
    4. Lenny Kravitz
    5. Turkey
    6. Cross between turkey, duck and chicken?
    7. Bananarama
    8. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
    9. Writing crossword puzzles?
    10.
    11. Art Fleming
    12. Definition
    13. Steve Martin
    14. Martin Short
    15. robot
    16.
    17.
    18.
    19. Max Ferguson
    20. Wayne and Schuster

    I would say that that isn’t a bad attempt eh?

  6. A lot of good answers this time out. Surprisingly, based on the responses, I think only one person recognized the fact that I had “paired” the answers (or, in a couple of instances, the questions): Barbie/barbie, Lenny/Lenny, and so on. No matter… and now, without further ado, the answers:

    1. Barbie (the Mattel doll)
    2. “the barbie”
    3. Lenny and Squiggy (on Laverne and Shirley)
    4. Lenny Kravitz
    5. Turkey
    6. A dish where a turkey is stuffed with a duck which has been stuffed with a chicken
    7. Bananarama
    8. Leroy Brown (in the Jim Croce song Bad Bad Leroy Brown)
    9. Crossword editor
    10. The newspaper had published crosswords containing a number of D-Day codewords, notably Omaha, Utah and Overlord
    11. Art Fleming
    12. Definition
    13. Steve Martin
    14. Martin Short
    15. robot
    16. Rossum’s Universal Robots
    17. E=mc2
    18. A black hole
    19. Max Ferguson
    20. Wayne & Shuster

    And the winner is… a tie! Croptop and AMJ each got 14 correct answers. But what to do about that billion points—judges?

    […conference…]

    Ladies and gentlemen, this is a first for network broadcast. Other quizzes might skimp and split the prize in half: instead, we’re giving away two billion points! And here they are:



    (I did mention they’re geometric points, right?)

  9. I was about to ask how you could mix up Bananarama with a band that had Belinda Carlisle in it… good thing that voice in my head started screaming “hey idiot, look it up!”

  11. wow – can’t believe i tied for this 🙂 I did pick up on some of the answer pairing but didn’t see that it went all the way through but now I do!

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