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It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom also came out in 1984. Only one of the top three billed actors has won an Oscar - which is it? For a bonus question, which of the others has made a guest appearance on stage singing backing vocals with Bruce Springsteen?
To my #polyglot, #multilingual, #trilingual, #bilingual peepodons, or even #monolingual folks who are nonetheless curious about #languages.
I’ve started an alt account over at polyglot.city where I plan to geek out on #LanguageLearning. I’ll record my upcoming journey learning #Taiwanese, and share #trivia about names, words, and phrases in different tongues.
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #294: The Sedlec Ossuary.
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Between 1966 and 1991, 160 was the telephone number for Dial-a-Disc in the UK. You could dial that number to listen to chart hits over the phone.
On the 160th day of the year, 10 facts about the number 160:
OMG! Our #DrupalCon #trivia team actually won something! We bet it all in the end and came up smelling like roses. Bonkers.
#DrupalCon #trivia is TOUGH. My team has an awesome name, though: Drupal Concores. Drupal and animal pun related, baby.
It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! It's June 8th when I'm writing this which was a big day for cinema back in 1984 when two massive blockbusters were released. One of them was Ghostbusters, what was the other?
Some very interesting what-could-have-beens in #Hollywood.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-09-17-9203240960-story.html #film #trivia
Weekly Wednesday #Trivia coming up soon! Follow along in this thread and respond with your answers (be sure to CW so others can play along!), I'll let you know if you're right or wrong!
Are you on summer break? Keep these around and you might accidentally learn a few things while enjoying your vacation.
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It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! Earlier today I was talking with a friend about BASE jumping - the extreme sport where people jump from bridges, skyscrapers etc. and hope to deploy a parachute quickly enough to avoid hitting the ground with a hell of a thump. As you might guess from the use of uppercase letters, BASE is an acronym. What does it stand for?
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An extra question for the real #trivia enthusiasts - the first part of the publication in question contains a dedication in a very unusual format. What's strange about it?
An early #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion for you today. Although he didn't invent the Woozle, the fertile imagination of the writer Lewis Carroll spewed up a vast amount of other fantastical creatures in poetry and prose. His works weren't universally appreciated at the time of writing though - can you tell me which of the following publications was reviewed by Vanity Fair as being "not worthy [of] the name of nonsense"?
Can You Explain Left And Right To An Alien? | QI - YouTube
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It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! The Woozle effect occurs when a source is widely cited for a claim it does not adequately support, giving said claim undeserved credibility. The name comes from a chapter of a very famous children's book first printed in 1926. Which book?
The answer to yesterday's #Sunday #ThemeTunePopQuiz ...
The songs were -
Strawberry Letter 23 by #ShuggieOtis
Harvest by #NeilYoung
Barley & Grape Rag by #RoryGallagher
Blue Monday by #NewOrder
Strawberry, Harvest, Barley and Blue are all words that can be used before the word 'moon' to describe various types of full moon.
Everyone who answered got it right.
Thanks to everyone who boosted and played along. I hope you liked the music.
There'll be another #popquiz at the weekend.
#Ladies, are you ready for the #BLACKPINK #Lyric #Trivia Time?
Test your #Kpop knowledge!
Reply with your answers and boost for your friends to see if they can get them right too!
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The answer to yesterday's #ThemeTunePopQuiz
Bonny: Prefab Sprout
Bonny a macaque monkey on first multi day monkey flight, Biosatellite 3 1969
Gagarin: PSB
Yuri Gagarin the first human to journey into outer space, Vostok 1 1961
Green Eggs & Ham: Princess Nokia
Ham a Chimp the first hominid launched into space on suborbital Mercury-Redstone 2 1961
The correct answer was.
Neighborhood 2 Laika - Arcade Fire
Laika, a stray dog, the first animal to orbit the Earth, Sputnik 2, 1957
Congrats to all the #ladies who guessed right in our #BLACKPINK #Lyric #Trivia #Time!
Stay tuned and follow us for more trivia and music #content.
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One last call for Starkville #trivia!
You too can stump me & @dougglanville@twitter.com with baseball trivia *live* on our show (as so many have)
Tweet at us with a fun question. Then add hashtag #starkvilleqs
This week's suggestion: 1st baseman trivia in honor of Lou Gehrig
Danish pastries are called "wienerbrød" (Viennese bread) in Denmark. In Vienna, the pastries are called "Kopenhagener Plunder" (Copenhagen pastry).
The popular story behind this centers on an 1850 Danish bakers' strike where some Austrian bakers were brought in. The Austrian Plundergebäck pastry became popular, and after the strike ended, Danish bakers modified it to Danish tastes.
It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! Yesterday's question involved the famous London children's hospital Great Ormond Street which first opened in 1852. Many years ago GOSH was gifted the copyright to (and hence the royalties arising from) a famous children's character, and still benefits from it today - which character is it?
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It's the weekly call for Starkville #trivia!
You too can stump me & @dougglanville@twitter.com with baseball trivia *live* on our show (as so many have)
So tweet at us with a great question! Just add hashtag #starkvilleqs
This week's suggestion: 1st baseman trivia in honor of Lou Gehrig
#HumbleBrag - the wife and I redeemed our #Trivia team by beating the table for 7 that barely beat my daughter and I last week...
When any 2-3 person combo of our 3 person crew has triviad in the lst 3 months or so, we have finished first more than second, and walked away with a #gift card over 80%
The 🔥 streak we are on is illegal in 27 states, so for once we are lucky to live in a fast-and-loose state like #Tennessee 😆
And out team name last night - Trent Crimm, The Independent
It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! It's just about still 2nd June in the UK where it's the 70th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Her coronation was the first to be televised and was watched live by around 27 million people in the UK. Approximately many of those watched it in colour (rather than black and white)?
It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! Moving on from Christina Ricci to her co star in Mermaids, Winona Ryder. There are 3 facts about Winona and her family in the poll and one thing I made up - which is it?
It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! It's Wednesday today which brings to mind the hit Netflix show of the same name. Jenna Ortega plays Wednesday Addams in that, but the same role was played by Christina Ricci in the films from the early 90s. The Addams Family was the second film that Christina appeared in - what was the first? (clue: Winona Ryder played her sister).
It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! It's #Tuesday today (at least, it is where I am while I'm writing this, time is weird). In English Tuesday is named for Tiw (AKA Týr), who is a Norse god. What is Tiw the god of?
It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! Latvia beat the USA 4-3 to win the country's first ever bronze medal at the ice hockey World Championships on Sunday (well done Latvia!). This was such an achievement that they had an impromptu national holiday today to celebrate - I must say I'm liking Latvia's style. Now, as it happens Latvian is one of only two modern countries to speak a Baltic language - which is the other?
It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time. If you've not come across the term before, a creepypasta is a horror-related legend which has been born on and shared around the Internet - the name is a combination of creepy and copypasta (any block of text that gets copied and pasted from web forum to web forum). Many creepypastas feature mysterious monsters of one form or another. The #poll features 3 monsters born of creepypastas and one which developed out of a real life incident - which one is it?
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It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! Yesterday's question was about the Cliffs of Moher in the west of Ireland. No visit to that part of the world is complete without an informal music session in a pub, where a bunch of people get together to play instruments and sing traditional songs. You'll probably see a fiddle being played, and also one or two less widely known Irish instruments. There are 4 instruments in the #poll below, 3 from Ireland and 1 from somewhere else - which one?
(technical note: a couple of these instruments should be spelt using a fada (a slanted accent above a character similar-looking to the French acute), but as that's a dead giveaway that it's Irish I've missed them out)
It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! Following on from yesterday, the Tina Turner song Private Dancer was written by Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits. He also wrote the score for the classic film The Princess Bride which has a scene where a number of characters scale the 'Cliffs of Insanity', featuring the spectacular real life Cliffs of Moher in the establishing shot. In which Irish county can you visit the Cliffs of Moher?
BTW, if you like the #quiz do please give it a boost so more people can discover it - it is #Friday after all!
It's a long weekend here in the UK.
So I'm starting early. Brew a cuppa or enjoy a G&T as here's another #ThemeTune #PopQuiz for your listening entertainment.
There is a theme that connects 3 of these #songs with one odd one out. The link is band members' names. Can you guess the odd one from the options?
Feel free to provide your reasoning in a CW reply.
Please boost so more can play along. And as ever I hope you enjoy the music.
Two wrong answers for me this week (the HECS/HELP & the Modi visit questions). Can you do better? #Quiz #NewsQuiz #trivia #WeeklyQuiz #quizzes #News #Australia
Weekly news quiz: Two Tinas, a rock star's guitar and a Disney remake - ABC Australia News https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-26/friday-news-quiz-tina-arena-tina-turner-and-disney-movie/102393458
It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! One of Tina Turner's most famous songs is "What's Love Got To Do With It" from the 1984 album "Private Dancer". For various reasons the album was put together in a bit of a hurry and like the rest of the songs "What's Love Got To Do With It" wasn't originally written for Tina Turner. Who was the song originally offered to (though they didn't record it)?
It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! Yesterday's question got me wondering about why there are quite so many Red Lion pubs in England. In short, no one is entirely sure, but one possible reason is that the lion is taken from the crest of John of Gaunt. Born in 1340, he was the son of King Edward III and his son was King Henry IV. Every English monarch from Henry IV onwards is a descendant of John (assuming there was no funny business along the way) so historically speaking he's A Big Thing. John wasn't born in England though, he was from Gaunt - in which modern day country can you find the town previously known as Gaunt?
It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! I was researching British pubs earlier today and discovered this excellent list https://www.getthedata.com/open-pubs With a bit of jiggery-pokery you can use this to build a list of all the words used in pub names in the UK. So, here's your question: which colour is referred to most frequently in British pub names?
As it's #InternationalTeaDay today here's a repeat of a very early #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion for you to ponder over over your morning #cuppa. The English drink a lot of tea, but when did tea first become widely available in England?
It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! Along with Hugh Laurie, Olivia Wilde was also one of the stars of the TV show House. She doesn't do so much acting now as she's moved on to being in the director's chair. What was the title of her recent film starring Florence Pugh, Harry Styles and Chris Pine - it garnered a lot of press attention due to alleged feuds between Wilde and Pugh, and Styles and Pine.
The Way It Was
paduasoy posted "English Historical Fiction Authors," a group blog that has been going since 2011, where researchers and novelists post about British history. "There are posts about wool and war, Schools of Gardening for Ladies, beds and bugs, aspirin, theatrical censorship, magazines, tours of Ruthin and Snowdon, slipcoat cheese and posset, subversive fairy tales, and The Learned Pig," and more fascinating linked selections. Lovely.
https://www.metafilter.com/199324/for-the-pig-was-proud-of-his-dress
#blog #BritishHistory #details #England #facts #GreatBritain #history #information #lore #past #trivia
Two equations are broken into parts. Put the parts of the equations together correctly and calculate the results.
Comment and follow.
More #brainpuzzles for your #braintraining:
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It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! Over the years lots of people have played the character Sherlock Holmes on TV and in films. Three of the actors in the #poll have played Sherlock and one hasn't - which one?
A LOTR-themed Quiz has just been posted on our website!
Ready for a challenge?
https://youknowwhatblog.com/quizzes/the-lord-of-the-rings-quiz/
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It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! Narrowly missing out on a spot in yesterday's food named after places question was meringue which is (possibly) named after the town of Meiringen. As well as having meringues, Meiringen is known for being the closest town to the Reichenbach falls, where Sherlock Holmes met his demise at the hands of Moriarty in the book The Final Problem. Well, until Arthur Conan Doyle resurrected him 10 years later due to popular demand. Here's the question: which country is the home of the Reichenbach falls?
Weekly Wednesday #Trivia coming up soon!
Follow along in thread for questions and respond with your answers (please CW so others can play along!), I'll let you know if you're right (or not).
It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! Yesterday's question about Paddington's Aunt Lucy brought to mind marmalade sandwiches. The best marmalade is made of Seville oranges, named after the city of Seville in Spain. Lots of other foods are named after places too, including three of the options in the #poll below. Which one is the odd one out?
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I know this is a joke, but it IS scientifically possible. We've used light to send/receive information for hundreds of years before two lanterns in The Old North Church were used to tell Paul Revere that The British were coming (by sea).
#Trivia: The "Lighter" was invented 100 years before the match.
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Lover of #art, #music, #poetry, #philosophy & #cinema.
Call me #Marxist, #Christian, perhaps #Buddhist, #GenX, #INFJ, sadly #monolingual, and privileged. Also #married, #father, & mediocre #friend. Trying to be better.
Also amateur #screenwriter, #trivia collector & holder of 4 #college degrees.
Former #Photographer, #Professor, #TelevisionDirector, #SawmillWorker, & #ConstructionWorker.
Still learning who I am. 😂
In high school I was on a trivia team. They called it Hi-Q. Was the name supposed to be funny? Hard to say! We did well winning a big District trophy yearly. This created a strange situation.. Once as I was sent to the office for refereeing a paper football game the principal refused to punish me in any way so I "wouldn't miss the next Hi-Q match." It was like the nerd version of all those jocks in 80s teen movies! #90s #trivia #nerd
Since it's Friday, we're sharing a weirdly specific and absolutely fascinating list: Nine actors who've held their breath underwater for a ridiculously long time (no one comes anywhere close to the record of 24 minutes, 37 seconds, which is held by professional breath-hold diver Budimir Šobat).
https://www.moviemaker.com/actors-who-can-hold-their-breath-a-long-time/
#Introduction Born on #TurtleIsland on land stolen from the #Kalapuya tribe. #PNW "native," #SettlerColonialist, lover of #art, #music, #poetry, & #cinema. Call me #Socialist, #Christian, #privileged, perhaps #Buddhist, lover of #books, #married, #parent, #friend, #laborer, #manager, & #gourmand. Also, an amateur #screenwriter, #trivia collector & holder of 4 #college degrees. Used to be a #photographer, #professor, #TelevisionDirector, & #FactoryWorker. Wondering what I'll be when I grow up. 😂
Counterintuitive tidbit for you: cast iron has more carbon than carbon steel and carbon steel has more iron than cast iron.
Ooh, I've very nearly reached my first ever fundraising goal on Ko-fi (https://ko-fi.com/puzzletrail)! The aim is to reach €120 which should pay for hosting the Puzzle Trail website for a year.
The website (https://puzzletrail.games/) is home to all my #puzzle and #trivia #quiz activities, including the word game #chainagram and the puzzle trails themselves which are kind of a free outdoor escape room. Do check it out if you haven't already.
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A group of #zebras is called a dazzle.
A dazzle of zebras.
#TermsOfVenery #AnimalGroupNames #animals #wildlife #nature #english #AnimalGroupingNouns #trivia #fun #words #mammals #zebra
Time for today's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion! It's #Oscars day and the multiverse madness film that doesn't feature Dr Strange 'Everything, Everywhere, All At Once' is nominated for an impressive 11 awards*. But even if it doesn't win any of those it will still be the most award winning film of all time having already swept the board at numerous ceremonies around the world.
Here's your question - before EEAAO what was the most award winning film of all time?
* If it doesn't take home at least one of Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress I'll be amazed.
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You're looking through your web content tree after an exploit for encoded web shells left behind by an attacker. These web shells installed as long lines of encoded commands. Locate all files in a directory that have any lines that are longer than 256 characters.
I made the original @what_capital 7 years ago as part of a tutorial, about time I brought it over to the #fediverse. Anyone interested in giving it a try?
#bots #CreativeBots #flags #CountryFlags #quiz #trivia #game
A group of #puppies is called a piddle.
A piddle of puppies.
#TermsOfVenery #AnimalGroupNames #animals #wildlife #nature #english #AnimalGroupingNouns #trivia #fun #words #mammals #puppy #DogsOfMastodon
A group of #jaguars can be called a prowl.
A prowl of jaguars.
#TermsOfVenery #AnimalGroupNames #animals #wildlife #nature #english #AnimalGroupingNouns #trivia #fun #words #mammals #cats #jaguar #Caturday
A group of #capybaras is just called a herd.
A herd of capybaras.
#TermsOfVenery #AnimalGroupNames #animals #wildlife #nature #english #AnimalGroupingNouns #trivia #fun #words #mammals #capybara
Write a Linux command line to find all executables that are group or world writable or which are installed in group or world-writable directories.