The Summer Quiz 2014 Round 4
By old Pete
June 27 2014
Pete says..."Space, Science Fiction and even alternative history and all that stuff – actual and fictional - is the theme for this round..."
THE SUMMER QUIZ 2014 - ROUND 4
1. Who am I? - my first was both 6 and 1; my second latterly preferred to playing with his ”little fishes“ to ruling; my last is moderated but established.
2. Countdown - 12. Harrison- 11. Eugene -10. Charles - 9. John - 8. James - 7. David - 6. Edgar - 5. Alan - 4. Alan - 3. Pete. What names are 2 and 1?
3. Which is the odd one out – Callisto; Gannymede; Dione; Europa; Io
4. The novels - “The Man in the High Castle”- “Fatherland“ - and “Dominion“ - all assume something similar what is it?
5. What is the link between a Dutch actor and electric sheep?
6. Craters. The following craters are on different worlds but have something in common what is it? Moon: Clerke, Hypatia, Mitchell; Mercury: Cunningham; Venus: Ferrier, Lind; Mars: Sklodowska
7. What single word connects Ravel and an alternative technologically retarded dystopia?
8. Who am I? -As well as the field and discoveries for which I am best known today I was in my time quite an accomplished musician and composer (oboe, harpsichord and organ as well as writing some 24 symphonies) my sister worked with me as my assistant and uniquely for the age we lived in her own work and contribution was recognised as such.
9. Where am I? - I am closer to the sun than the Earth but it is always colder than on Earth.
10.Why would the eponymous heroine of a children’s tale bode well for Xeno-biological phenomena?
The Summer Quiz 2014 Round 4
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Date: 27/06/2014 13:28
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Re: The Summer Quiz 2014 Round 4
Posted by: Clegthorpe (IP Logged)
Date: 27/06/2014 13:32
2: Buzz and Neil
The Apollo Moon walkers, in the reverse order that they set foot on the Moon. Gene Cernan was the last man to step off the Moon.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2014:06:27:14:23:12 by Clegthorpe.
The Apollo Moon walkers, in the reverse order that they set foot on the Moon. Gene Cernan was the last man to step off the Moon.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2014:06:27:14:23:12 by Clegthorpe.
Re: The Summer Quiz 2014 Round 4
Posted by: Clegthorpe (IP Logged)
Date: 27/06/2014 13:37
4: That Germany won WWII
Re: The Summer Quiz 2014 Round 4
Posted by: Clegthorpe (IP Logged)
Date: 27/06/2014 13:42
6: Sklodowska was Marie Curie's maiden surname, as Mrs Clegthorpe reminds me at every possible opportunity. Are they all named after female scientists?
Re: The Summer Quiz 2014 Round 4
Posted by: Paul Flatt (IP Logged)
Date: 27/06/2014 13:47
5
Rutger Hauer appeared in the film Bladerunner by Ridley Scott. It was based (like all Hollywood screenplays - not much) on the Philip K Dick novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?".
"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it."
-- Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161-180 A.D.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2014:06:27:13:58:50 by Paul Flatt.
Rutger Hauer appeared in the film Bladerunner by Ridley Scott. It was based (like all Hollywood screenplays - not much) on the Philip K Dick novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?".
"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it."
-- Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161-180 A.D.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2014:06:27:13:58:50 by Paul Flatt.
Re: The Summer Quiz 2014 Round 4
Posted by: Paul Flatt (IP Logged)
Date: 27/06/2014 13:54
1
James Tiberius Kirk
edited as requested
James 6 of Scotland = James 1 of England
Tiberius - setting a bad example to Nero
The Church of Scotland has a Moderator, is called The Kirk and like the Church of England is 'Established' as the go-to prayer-related enterprise for people who are better than us
"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it."
-- Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161-180 A.D.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2014:06:27:14:23:45 by Paul Flatt.
James Tiberius Kirk
edited as requested
James 6 of Scotland = James 1 of England
Tiberius - setting a bad example to Nero
The Church of Scotland has a Moderator, is called The Kirk and like the Church of England is 'Established' as the go-to prayer-related enterprise for people who are better than us
"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it."
-- Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161-180 A.D.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2014:06:27:14:23:45 by Paul Flatt.
Re: The Summer Quiz 2014 Round 4
Posted by: Paul Flatt (IP Logged)
Date: 27/06/2014 13:56
3
Dione - a moon of Saturn
The rest are moons of Jupiter
"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it."
-- Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161-180 A.D.
Dione - a moon of Saturn
The rest are moons of Jupiter
"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it."
-- Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161-180 A.D.
Re: The Summer Quiz 2014 Round 4
Posted by: OldPete (IP Logged)
Date: 27/06/2014 14:12
Clegthorpe - Craters - not quite -but on the right track
Also others have got things right but it would help if they could set out the reasoning behind their answers eg Q1.
Q4 - er yes but not just Germany ref The Man in the High Castle
Also others have got things right but it would help if they could set out the reasoning behind their answers eg Q1.
Q4 - er yes but not just Germany ref The Man in the High Castle
Re: The Summer Quiz 2014 Round 4
Posted by: Paul Flatt (IP Logged)
Date: 27/06/2014 14:14
6This answer was Wikipedia assisted
The are all named after Women!
- Agnes Clerke
- Marie Mitchell
- Imogen Cunningham
- Kathleen Ferrier
- Jenny Lind
- Marie Sklodowski (Curie)
- Ms Hypatia
"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it."
-- Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161-180 A.D.
The are all named after Women!
- Agnes Clerke
- Marie Mitchell
- Imogen Cunningham
- Kathleen Ferrier
- Jenny Lind
- Marie Sklodowski (Curie)
- Ms Hypatia
"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it."
-- Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161-180 A.D.
Re: The Summer Quiz 2014 Round 4
Posted by: saintian (IP Logged)
Date: 27/06/2014 14:15
8. Astronomer William Herschel, discoverer of Uranus and two of its moons, Titania and Oberon (there's enough material there for a scene in a Carry On film). He worked with his sister Caroline.
Re: The Summer Quiz 2014 Round 4
Posted by: Clegthorpe (IP Logged)
Date: 27/06/2014 14:25
Quote:OldPete
Q4 - er yes but not just Germany ref The Man in the High Castle
That's the one I haven't read, so I would have to resort to Google to answer it. Somebody else will know.
Re: The Summer Quiz 2014 Round 4
Posted by: Jon in Wherever (IP Logged)
Date: 27/06/2014 15:50
9. You are on the night side of Mercury.
Re: The Summer Quiz 2014 Round 4
Posted by: Jon in Wherever (IP Logged)
Date: 27/06/2014 15:55
Ooh, is 10 the Goldilocks zone? Not too hot, not too cold, but just right, and a planet could potentially have liquid water, and therefore be capable of sustaining life...
Re: The Summer Quiz 2014 Round 4
Posted by: smurfomatic (IP Logged)
Date: 27/06/2014 18:06
9 could be any of the "space" between the Earth and the Sun, it'll be pretty close to absolute zero if there's no direct radiation.
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Re: The Summer Quiz 2014 Round 4
Posted by: Clegthorpe (IP Logged)
Date: 27/06/2014 18:10
Quote:smurfomatic
9 could be any of the "space" between the Earth and the Sun, it'll be pretty close to absolute zero if there's no direct radiation.
But unless you are in the shadow of one of the inner planets or the Moon there will always be direct radiation...
I think JiA has it.
Re: The Summer Quiz 2014 Round 4
Posted by: OldPete (IP Logged)
Date: 27/06/2014 20:23
All of you are more or less there - some more than others - Thanks for the reasoning behind Q1 Paul - your Tiberius might fit - mine refers to his paedophilic predelictions. Cf I Claudius.
Yes the craters are all female the Venusian ones are named after female singers _ Kathleen Ferrier and Jenny Lind.
Well done St Ian on Herschel.
John in Alaska has it right - the dark side of Mercury which does not rotate -bloody freezing- and he has also got 10 -The Goldilocks zone.
Clegthorpe - Man in the High Castle - requires a Japanese Victory too - as in the book California is Japanese occupied-the rest of the US is German.Strictly speaking " Dominion " and conquest of Europe -supposes German domination as Britain came to terms with Germany in 1940.
So between you that's more or less it . -Only Q7 continues to baffle the great minds of COSDC . Too easy by half. Must think up some real teasers for next week
Yes the craters are all female the Venusian ones are named after female singers _ Kathleen Ferrier and Jenny Lind.
Well done St Ian on Herschel.
John in Alaska has it right - the dark side of Mercury which does not rotate -bloody freezing- and he has also got 10 -The Goldilocks zone.
Clegthorpe - Man in the High Castle - requires a Japanese Victory too - as in the book California is Japanese occupied-the rest of the US is German.Strictly speaking " Dominion " and conquest of Europe -supposes German domination as Britain came to terms with Germany in 1940.
So between you that's more or less it . -Only Q7 continues to baffle the great minds of COSDC . Too easy by half. Must think up some real teasers for next week
Re: The Summer Quiz 2014 Round 4
Posted by: Matthew (IP Logged)
Date: 28/06/2014 14:47
OK, I've cheated a little for question 7 and gone to Ravel's Wikipedia page. But as soon as I saw 'Pavane' mentioned I knew it had to be the answer, having read Keith Roberts' book a few years back wherein Protestantism never took off in England after the assassination of Elizabeth I!
Re: The Summer Quiz 2014 Round 4
Posted by: OldPete (IP Logged)
Date: 28/06/2014 21:29
Mathew -you scamp - Ravel did of course write stuff other than that bloody Bolero " Un Pavane pour un enfant defunct " is the one. and as you rightly point out that word Pavane is the title of Keith Roberts counter factual novel pub 1968
As a result of the assassination of Elizabeth 1st no reformation - catholic Church dominance holds back science and technology - so no telephones - but semaphore towers instead - no internal combustion engine -so all transport is driven by steam .
Mind you people probably talked to each other down the pub rather than playing with their little things all the time.
As a result of the assassination of Elizabeth 1st no reformation - catholic Church dominance holds back science and technology - so no telephones - but semaphore towers instead - no internal combustion engine -so all transport is driven by steam .
Mind you people probably talked to each other down the pub rather than playing with their little things all the time.
Re: The Summer Quiz 2014 Round 4
Posted by: Clegthorpe (IP Logged)
Date: 28/06/2014 22:43
Quote:OldPete
- the dark side of Mercury which does not rotate
Point of pedantry on this one OP.
I presume when you say that Mercury doesn't rotate you actually mean it is tidal locked to the Sun, as the Moon is to Earth. This is not correct, although it was once thought to be so.
A Mercurian Day lasts for two Mercurian years, so it does not have a permanent night side and at some point the whole surface faces the Sun. Thus, if you sat on the night side, you would find it, as you say, a little chilly but within a Mercurian day you would be, quite literally, toast.
Re: The Summer Quiz 2014 Round 4
Posted by: OldPete (IP Logged)
Date: 29/06/2014 09:25
Clegthorpe - thanks for that - my knowledge of astronomy is somewhat out of date - fixed firmly in the era of Dan Dare and the Eagle comic !!
in that wonderful comic strip Mercury and Venus were inhabited.
in that wonderful comic strip Mercury and Venus were inhabited.
Re: The Summer Quiz 2014 Round 4
Posted by: Clegthorpe (IP Logged)
Date: 29/06/2014 10:01
It was all true, OP, and the invasion was quietly successful.
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