movies, ironically enough
music
history
literature
trivia
100
Who broke his toe while filming 'The Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers' by kicking a helmet too hard?
Hint: his birthday is also on the 20th of October.
Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn).
100
Who sung "So long & thanks for all the fish"?
The Divine Comedy.
100
Who was this wall built by, Ancient Greeks or Romans?
Romans. You can tell by the bricks—Greeks used large stones.
100
Who wrote the Decameron?
Giovanni Boccaccio.
100
They are islamic prophets (name 3).
Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad, for example.
200
The set of this film used asbestos as fake snow.
'The Wizard of Oz'.
200
What instrument is the oldest one known to us? It is 60,000 years old.
A bone flute.
200
What were the names of the following Ancient Greek gods? You are allowed to get one wrong.
The goddess of wisdom, master of war;
the goddess of spring;
the goddess of marriage;
the god of thieves&magic weed apparently;
the god of wine;
the goddess of victory.
Athena;
Persephone;
Hera;
Hermes;
Dionysus;
Nike.
200
What gothic novella about vampires predates "Dracula" by 25 years?
"Carmilla" by J. S. Le Fanu.
200
Name at least two factors that influence the speed of a chemical reaction.
Temperature, concentration, pressure (in gas), mixing.
300
"Dinsdale!"/"AAAAAAAAAAAAA–"
300
Which band has created the longest album name ever?The full name:
The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or from Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won.
Chumbawamba.
300
Whose teacher's teacher's teacher was Socrates?
Alexander the Great.
300
Who are Hanna&I nicknamed after in our mutual friend group?
Kaz Brekker and Jesper Fahey.
300
(3x+4):(x+1)=x+2
Find the value of x. You are allowed to use a calculator—which I will provide—and a paper and pen.
x1=√2
x2=-√2