Nae's Big Quiz of Everything and Anything

[Nae'blis]

Hello GW people!

I thought that it was time for a quiz, and I was jonesin' for it!

This quiz will consist of whatever my brain comes up with! Topics will range from whatever to whatever!

Scoreboard (will be updated as the game goes on):

shortkut 7
Tubby23 5
VashTheStampede 3
TD 1
Name starting with an A 1
Cole 1

 

[Nae'blis]

First question:



Name that moustache!

 

[TD]

I do Movember and I feel like I should know this but it's close to a few.

I don't know.
Painter's Brush?

 

[VashTheStampede]

The Magnum P.I.

 

[VashTheStampede]

Alternatively: I name it Timothy

 

[shortkut]

Chevron style

 

[Nae'blis]

Chevron is the one I was looking for (henceforth known as Timothy)! But the pic is one of Tom Selleck in Magnum PI. so well spotted!

Next question:

Who was the singer of Iron Maiden before Bruce Dickinson?

 

[VashTheStampede]

Oh god I didn't know there was another one.

I know it's not right but I'm gonna say Dio because I love Dio.

 

[shortkut]

Google says “Paul Di’anno”

 

[VashTheStampede]

Well I'm sure I could look it up if I wanted

 

[shortkut]

Well I'm sure I could look it up if I wanted

But you didn’t, and that makes all the difference

 

[Fool's Requiem]

I assume it's not Bruce Dickinson...

 

[Tubby23]

Paul Andrews aka Paul Di'anno. Just to be technically correct the best kind of correct

 

[Nae'blis]

Point to Kutford von Googleheim!

Next question:

What is the name of the brightest star in the night sky?

 

[VashTheStampede]

Polaris?

 

[TD]

Sirius I think?

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Point to Kutford von Googleheim!

Next question:

What is the name of the brightest star in the night sky?

me

 

[shortkut]

me

The sun? The sky is the same sky day or night

 

[Nae'blis]

me

 

[Nae'blis]

I was looking for Sirius as the answer, but dangit kut makes a good point.. heck, you both get a point!

Next question:

What is the name of the tallest mountain in Europe?

 

[shortkut]

Mount Elbrus

 

[Tubby23]

Just in case we are going to say Elbrus is in Asia (it isn't) I'll go Mont Blanc

 

[Kat]

Man I suck at trivia. I don't know any of these.

 

[shortkut]

Just in case we are going to say Elbrus is in Asia (it isn't) I'll go Mont Blanc

I was waffling between those, because I wasn’t sure exactly where the division of continents is in Russia

 

[Tubby23]

I was waffling between those, because I wasn’t sure exactly where the division of continents is in Russia

That was the part I actually googled, I believe that Elbrus is south-west enough to be in Europe but not far enough south to be into the Asian part of the globe over there.

 

[shortkut]

That was the part I actually googled, I believe that Elbrus is south-west enough to be in Europe but not far enough south to be into the Asian part of the globe over there.

I know random useless shit

 

[Tubby23]

I know random useless shit

Tell me about it. I can remember shit like this but not what I had on the shopping list if I leave it at home. Infuriating.

 

[Nae'blis]

Tell me about it. I can remember shit like this but not what I had on the shopping list if I leave it at home. Infuriating.

Haha I'm just the same! A fountain of "worthless" knowledge!

As for the answer, I've always been taught in school that Elbrus is part of Europe so I'm going with that! Which means another point for the ol' kutster.


Who played the monster in the 1931 version of Frankenstein?

 

[VashTheStampede]

Boris Karloff?

 

[BigDaddy]

Colin Clive because who is the monster and who is the man?

 

[Nae'blis]

Colin Clive because who is the monster and who is the man?

The monster are the friends we made along the way?

Vash enters the scoreboard!


What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

 

[VashTheStampede]

Oh damnit I just watched Holy Grail with my daughter not that long ago...

I've got nothing

 

[shortkut]

I can’t finish the quote without google, but I remember enough ask what type of swallow, African or European?

 

[shortkut]

Fun fact: Google tells me it has actually been answered

Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow - Interesting Engineering

It's time we finally had an answer to this famous question. However, the answer is not as simple as you might initially believe. Here's why.

interestingengineering.com

 

[Nae'blis]

I can’t finish the quote without google, but I remember enough ask what type of swallow, African or European?

What? I don't know that! Aaaaaaaaaaah!! *gets cast into the Gorge of Eternal Peril*

 

[Nae'blis]

I'll leave it open for a while more and see if anyone gets it right.

 

[shortkut]

I'll leave it open for a while more and see if anyone gets it right.

I’m not playing your quote the movie game. I’m bringing cold, hard facts! (Copy pasting actual speeds, not the movie quote)

answering the main question here, the "airspeed velocity" of an unladen swallow (European) is something like 20.1 miles per hour (32.4 kph) or 29.5 feet per second (9 meters per second). However, some have been clocked at 46 mph (74 kph) in the past!

The mosque swallow is about 2.2 times larger, so, all things being equal, that would give us an airspeed velocity of about 40.2 miles per hour (64.7 kph) or 59 feet per second (18 meters per second).

Source:

Fun fact: Google tells me it has actually been answered

Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow - Interesting Engineering

It's time we finally had an answer to this famous question. However, the answer is not as simple as you might initially believe. Here's why.

interestingengineering.com

 

[Nae'blis]

Haha, that was what I waited for! I stumbled over that very same article a couple of weeks ago, so that was the answer I wanted! and I agree, facts for the win! So a point for you, good sir!

I'll post a new question in a couple of hours!

 

[shortkut]

Haha, that was what I waited for! I stumbled over that very same article a couple of weeks ago, so that was the answer I wanted! and I agree, facts for the win! So a point for you, good sir!

I'll post a new question in a couple of hours!

After I posted the link and you didn’t say anything, I thought you wanted the full quote. I was going to let someone who memorized it get the points and not Google it, so I thought this would be more entertaining

 

[Tubby23]

I'm awake I can finally put a point on the baord

 

[Nae'blis]

Apologies if the question was unclear! I'll try do do better. And apologies for not posting a new question until now, life got in the way.

What are Tolkiens names? Meaning what does the J.R.R. stand for?

 

[Tubby23]

John Ronald Reuel

 

[shortkut]

Just Righteous Ruler

 

[Nae'blis]

The thunder from Down Under gets a point!

What color is the fifth color group on a Monopoly board?

 

[Tubby23]

The thunder from Down Under gets a point!

What color is the fifth color group on a Monopoly board?

Red

 

[Nae'blis]

Correctamundo!

The guitarist of Queen, Brain May, has a PhD in which scientific field?

 

[Tubby23]

From memory it's either astrophysics or quantum mechanics.... I'll go astrophysics

 

[Smacktard]

Yeah I believe astrophysics as well

 

[VashTheStampede]

I'll go with Revisionist History

 

[Nae'blis]

Holy crap, totally forgot about this. Sorry!

But, astrophysics is correct! So another point for Tubby!

Which is the human body's largest organ? (Hurrhurr69LOLOLnice.)