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Trivia Time: October Edition

Violentvixen

Violentvixen

(She/Her)
Oh yeah, our third answer was 100% "well we need to put SOMETHING down" so no points for that one. For the second answer my husband did say "they make an ultra-sonic noise" so that was the intent of screech although I could have been more specific when I wrote our answer.
 
Rascally Badger

Rascally Badger

El Capitan de la outro espacio
(He/Him)
I really appreciate you doing this, but I have not been online enough the last few days to keep up. Hopefully I do better going forward.
 
Johnny Unusual

Johnny Unusual

(He/Him)
Cerberus
1. Which Greek hero brought Cerberus back from Hell?
Hercules/Heracles
2. Though Cerberus is generally presented as a canine, what other animal’s qualities is it sometimes presented with?
The answer I was looking for was snake but there are multiple paintings of Cerberus with leonine qualities, too so I'll throw lion in there.
3. Which two monsters spawned Cerberus?
Typhon and Echidna, pictured below.

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twitter-in-stream-wide-echidna.jpg

Team Rocket - 11
Violent Vixen - 9
Kirin - 8
Nich - 5
Issun - 3
Rascally Badger - 6


Yaara dropped out. Shame. I think it would be more fun if there were a few more teams, though I understand coordination might take more time than is wanted. But really, anyone can feel free to join in anytime if they want.

Day Seven

Invasion of the Astro-Monster

Questions about Justin Verlander

1. How many times has Justin been an MLB All-Star?
2. What is Justin Verlander’s royal sounding nickname?
3. Which supermodel is Verlander married to?
 
Mogri

Mogri

Round and round I go
(he)
Staff member
Moderator
Three for three this time! I don't so much as know who Justin is, though, so unless Daikaiju can pick up my slack yet again, the streak is dead.
 
Violentvixen

Violentvixen

(She/Her)
My husband is a baseball fan so I'm hoping he can help with this one this evening.

Otherwise my joke answer for 3 is going to be "the hot one".
 
Nich

Nich

stuck in baby prison
(he/him)
Aw shoot. I forgot about this thread for a few days and now I’ll never catch up.
 
Kirin

Kirin

Summon for hire
(he/him)
Mogri said:
Three for three this time! I don't so much as know who Justin is, though, so unless Daikaiju can pick up my slack yet again, the streak is dead.
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Same, I'm mostly up on my Cerberus (with one decent guess getting me the trio) but I've never heard of this guy. I suppose from context he probably plays for the Astros, huh. Welp, wild guesses ahoy.
 
Mogri

Mogri

Round and round I go
(he)
Staff member
Moderator
Rascally Badger said:
I really appreciate you doing this, but I have not been online enough the last few days to keep up. Hopefully I do better going forward.
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Nich said:
Aw shoot. I forgot about this thread for a few days and now I’ll never catch up.
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You should really join one of the more active players. You'll still be able to participate, and they'll (presumably) appreciate the help.
 
Issun

Issun

With the Popularity Contests migrating to a new subforum, I don't check Meatspace anymore, so I keep missing this. I'll try to remember to keep checking this thread. I don't even care if I'm behind, it's just fun to try and answer the questions.

Tomorrow. Because I don't know a whole lot about Verlander, and what I do know has nothing to do with these questions and a lot to do with the bitterness of a Mariners fan.
 
Johnny Unusual

Johnny Unusual

(He/Him)
1. How many times has Justin been an MLB All-Star?
8
2. What is Justin Verlander’s royal sounding nickname?
The Monarch
3. Which supermodel is Verlander married to?
Kate Upton

Team Rocket - 11
Violent Vixen - 10
Kirin - 8
Rascally Badger - 7
Nich - 5
Issun - 3

Day Eight

Ebirah, Horror of the Deep

Questions About Shrimp

1. What part of the shrimp is its heart located in?
2. What does the pistol shrimp fire at its enemies to incapacitate or even kill them?
3. Which actor first used the phrase “put another shrimp on the barbie” for a tourism ad?
 
Kirin

Kirin

Summon for hire
(he/him)
Torzelbaum said:
Did you know that Cerberus has a two-headed brother named Orthrus?
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The reason I know some of this Greek monster stuff off the top of my head is from looking up FF derivations... Orthrus being what was corrupted into Ultros. Which means his pal Chupon, corrupted from Typhon, is actually his dad!
 
Johnny Unusual

Johnny Unusual

(He/Him)
1. What part of the shrimp is its heart located in?
The Head
2. What does the pistol shrimp fire at its enemies to incapacitate or even kill them?
I was being simple when I said "sound" in my answer but people also say "pressure" and "Bubbles", which are also correct. The shrimp shoots bubbles that snap in a way that create a loud sound and the pressure is great enough to cause damage.
3. Which actor first used the phrase “put another shrimp on the barbie” for a tourism ad?
Everyone got this one.


Team Rocket - 14
Violent Vixen - 13
Kirin - 11
Rascally Badger - 8
Nich - 5
Issun - 3

Day Nine

Son of Godzilla

Questions about Sol

1. What is the most common element in the sun?
2. What kind of star is our sun? (there’s more than one answer but please choose a scientific one. "Bad-ass" will not be allowed)
3. The photosphere and the chromosphere are two of the three layers of our sun. What is the third?
 
Kirin

Kirin

Summon for hire
(he/him)
Johnny Unusual said:
I was being simple when I said "sound" in my answer but people also say "pressure" and "Bubbles", which are also correct. The shrimp shoots bubbles that snap in a way that create a loud sound and the pressure is great enough to cause damage.
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Well, the snap shut of its claw creates an extreme compression wave in the water, which also creates vapor pockets via cavitation - but sound *is* also a pressure wave, so yeah, all the same thing. Apparently it momentarily creates temperatures hotter than the surface of the sun. I don't know how shrimp ended up with some of the coolest gadgets in the entire animal kingdom (I"m almost surprised you didn't touch on the Mantis shrimp's completely insane eye setup as well) but here we are.
 
Johnny Unusual

Johnny Unusual

(He/Him)
1. What is the most common element in the sun?
2. What kind of star is our sun? (there’s more than one answer but please choose a scientific one. "Bad-ass" will not be allowed)
I had like, a list, then I deleted it. Most people got one of the right answers, which included G-type, main sequence, yellow dwarf, etc. It is not a red giant... yet.
3. The photosphere and the chromosphere are two of the three layers of our sun. What is the third?
The answer I was looking for was Corona but I should have been specific to the outer layers, as apparently, I missed inner parts (and something called The transition zone). Most people got what is an acceptable answer and sorry for a lack of specificity, I just found a spot that said "THREE LAYERS!" in doing the research that overlooked some subtlies of it all. Unfortunately, the sun does not have an ionosphere.


Team Rocket - 17
Violent Vixen - 15
Kirin - 14
Rascally Badger - 10
Nich - 5
Issun - 5

Here are the weekend questions. ALL MONSTERS EDITION!

Day Ten
Destroy All Monsters
Question about literary monster deaths

1. In the original novel, Dracula is not killed neither with a stake through the heart NOR via sunlight. How is he killed?
2. After which character’s death does Frankenstein’s Monster decide to commit suicide?
3. Which monster is destroyed with the assistance of the Ritual of Chüd?

Day Eleven
All Monsters Attack
Questions about movie monster murders

1. In 1982’s the Thing, what device Dr. Copper using on the Thing before devours his arms
2. In the first A Nightmare on Elm Street, what now famous (and problematic) actor did Freddy Krueger kill by turning him into a geyser of blood?
3. What two word exclamation does the character Frank Cotton say as he is torn apart by the Cenobites in Hellraiser?
 
Johnny Unusual

Johnny Unusual

(He/Him)
1. In the original novel, Dracula is not killed neither with a stake through the heart NOR via sunlight. How is he killed?
Stabbed with knives. A kukri knife to the neck and a bowie knife to the heart, though you don't have to be that specific. I read one take that says he was decapitated and the other that said throat stabbed so I would have accepted either.
2. After which character’s death does Frankenstein’s Monster decide to commit suicide?
His creator, Victor Frankenstein. Victor dies before Frankenstein the monster can enact his vengeance and with nothing more to live for, goes off to die in the frozen arctic.
3. Which monster is destroyed with the assistance of the Ritual of Chüd?
This is a tricky one: once again its Pennywise the Dancing Clown. The ritual didn't really show up in the TV mini-series and in the movie it failed but its a bit part of the book. I think it also involves a benevolent turtle god who is sort of Pennywise's opposite number.

Day Eleven
All Monsters Attack
Questions about movie monster murders

1. In 1982’s the Thing, what device Dr. Copper using on the Thing before devours his arms?
A defibrillator. Here's the classic scene. warning, as gory as I just described but its a great scene.
The scene is so great, not just for the visual effects but the directing and tension and the matter of fact way it happens that makes it so sudden and almost horrifically comedic
2. In the first A Nightmare on Elm Street, what now famous (and problematic) actor did Freddy Krueger kill by turning him into a geyser of blood?
Johnny Depp. As you might expect, its as bloody as it sounds but from an effects stand point is very impressive.
3. What two word exclamation does the character Frank Cotton say as he is torn apart by the Cenobites in Hellraiser?
"Jesus wept!" An expression I didn't hear before this movie. At first, I think there's was some cryptic meaning and didn't realize it was an expression that means "Holy crap!" Of course, using Jesus in the name makes it very loaded, of course.
Warning, all the stuff I described in the question.

Violent Vixen - 20
Team Rocket - 18
Kirin - 14
Rascally Badger - 15
Nich - 5
Issun - 5

Day Twelve

Godzilla Vs. The Smog Monster

Questions about Beijing
1. What is the world’s largest palace located in Beijing?
2. What is the literal translation of Beijing?
3. What language is based specifically on the Beijing dialect?
 
Violentvixen

Violentvixen

(She/Her)
Violentvixen said:
Oh no, neither of us like scary/horror movies. I think we're about to drop out of second place.
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I uh, forgot my husband had a cinema minor. So 3/3 on those, whoooo.

I knew Dracula and Frankenstein (and glad I stood my ground for Frankenstein as my husband was pretty strongly insistent it wasn't Victor). I guess I really should get around to reading a Stephen King book someday.
 
Kirin

Kirin

Summon for hire
(he/him)
Welp, I once again failed to log in over the weekend. Working with a 2/7 handicap at this game. ;) On the other hand, I wouldn't have gotten most of the horror questions anyway.
 
Johnny Unusual

Johnny Unusual

(He/Him)
Day Twelve

Godzilla Vs. The Smog Monster

Questions about Beijing
1. What is the world’s largest palace located in Beijing?
The Forbidden City
2. What is the literal translation of Beijing?
Northern Capital
3. What language is based specifically on the Beijing dialect?
Mandarin

Violent Vixen - 23
Team Rocket - 20
Rascally Badger - 17
Kirin - 17
Nich - 5
Issun - 5

Day Thirteen
Godzilla on Monster Island
Questions about living islands

1. Krakoa the Living Island is currently the headquarters for which superhero team?
2. What 70s kids show took place on “Living Island”?
3. What monster of Scandanavian folklore is often mistaken for an island, as popularized by Erik Pontoppidan?
 
Johnny Unusual

Johnny Unusual

(He/Him)
1. Krakoa the Living Island is currently the headquarters for which superhero team?
The X-Men
2. What 70s kids show took place on “Living Island”?
H.R. Pufnstuf
3. What monster of Scandanavian folklore is often mistaken for an island, as popularized by Erik Pontoppidan?
The Kraken

Violent Vixen - 25
Team Rocket - 22
Kirin - 19
Rascally Badger - 18
Nich - 5
Issun - 5

Day Fourteen

Godzilla Vs Megalon

Questions about tokusatsu shows

1. Which tokusatsu superhero had a giant robot named Leopardon?
2. What long running franchise was originally intended as an adaptation of the manga series Skull Man?
3. Generally, which color is given to the leader of a team in the Super Sentai and Power Rangers series?
 
Violentvixen

Violentvixen

(She/Her)
Oh man, Puffinstuff or however we spelled it was a wild guess, and Kraken was a "well, I know it's associated with this guy but haven't heard of it being an island". Whew.
 
Kirin

Kirin

Summon for hire
(he/him)
Heh, I didn't get Pufnstuf but I've definitely had a few wild guesses sneak through, like the name of Beijing... pretty sure it had one of the same characters as Tokyo, so it was probably a some-direction-or-other capital...

I know today's though! 😁
 
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