Showtunes!
(Name the Musical)
(Name the Musical)
"525,600 minutes"
Rent
The words of House Targaryen.
"Fire and Blood"
A large freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands, best known for claimed sightings of a famous cryptozoological creature.
Loch Ness
These creatures secrete saliva containing about 60 different proteins, some that serve as anticoagulants, and have been used throughout history to treat a wide variety of ailments.
Leeches
Uncommon Instrument Awareness day is celebrated on what date?
July 31st. Happy Uncommon Instrument Awareness Day!
True of False?
Identical twins have identical fingerprints.
False
"Pop, Six, Squish, Uh-uh, Cicero, Lipschitz"
Chicago
The name of the sword Ned Stark wields.
Ice
An important symbol of Scottish heraldry for over 500 years, this is the National Flower of Scotland.
Thistle
99% of the calcium in the human body is contained where?
Teeth
This ensemble, founded in 1998, consists of ten musicians, one cook, and one sound technician. As of 2019, they have created over 150 unusual instruments, and released 5 albums.
The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra
Some studies have found athletes that wear this color tend to win more often.
Red
"I dream of life without a monarchy
The unrest in France will lead to anarchy?
Anarchy how you say, how you, oh, anarchy?
When I fight, I make the other side panicky
With my, shot"
Hamilton
The name of Tyrion's first wife.
Tysha
Scotland has three indigenous languages. Name them all.
English, Scots, and Scottish Gaelic
Developed by Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz, this discredited procedure involved severing connections in the brain's prefrontal cortex as a form of neurosurgical treatment.
Lobotomy
This is the only instrument that uses a crank to turn a wheel to rub strings like the bow of a violin to make music, and was quite popular (along with the bagpipe) during the Renaissance.
Hurdy-gurdy
This country is frequently ranked as the happiest in the world.
Finland
"You better shape up
'Cause I need a man
And my heart is set on you
You better shape up
You better understand
To my heart I must be true
Nothin' left, nothin' left for me to do"
Grease
These two ancient Houses have feuded since the Age of Heroes.
House Bracken and House Blackwood
Once overhunted to near extinction, this creature was the first mammal to be successfully reintroduced in Scotland.
Eurasian beaver
This is the only muscle in your body that will never get tired.
Cardiac muscle - the heart <3
This musical instrument uses a series of glass bowls to produce musical tones by means of friction. It was invented in 1761 by Benjamin Franklin.
Glass armonica
This US President had a pet hyena named Bill, who lived at the White House for a time.
Theodore Roosevelt
"Every night I lie in bed
The brightest colors fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake
I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it's gonna take
Oh, a million dreams for the world we're gonna make"
The Greatest Showman
Who is Lady Stoneheart?
Catelyn Stark
How old was Mary, Queen of Scots when she was appointed queen?
6 days.
Known as polythelia, this genetic mutation causes what?
Third nipple
This electronic musical instrument is controlled without physical contact by the performer, and was used in the soundtrack for the TV series Loki.
Theremin
Where does Hawaiian pizza originate?
Ontario, Canada
"And there's no mountain too high
No river too wide
Sing out this song and I'll be there by your side
Storm clouds may gather
And stars may collide
But I love you
I love you
Until the end of time"
Moulin Rouge
Who said it?
“Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.”
Cersei Lannister
Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for his discovery of what?
Penicillin
This medical specialty uses radioactive tracers to assess bodily functions and to diagnose and treat disease.
Nuclear Medicine, or nucleology
The Trans-Siberian Orchestra used two of these singing Tesla coils during the 2019 "Christmas Eve and Other Stories" tour.
Zeusaphone
This animal is 30 times more likely than people to be struck by lighting.
Giraffe
"Softly, deftly music shall caress you
Hear it, feel it secretly possess you
Open up your mind, let your fantasies unwind
In this darkness which you know you can not fight
The darkness of the music of the night"
Phantom of the Opera
Name the 3 dragons of Aegon the Conqueror and his sisters.
Balerion, Vhagar and Meraxes
A thick Scottish soup made of smoked haddock, potatoes and onions.
Cullen skink
A neurological disorder that distorts perception. People with this syndrome may experience distortions in their visual perception of objects, such as appearing smaller or larger, or appearing to be closer or farther than they are. Some speculated that author Lewis Carroll had this.
Alice in Wonderland syndrome
This long wind instrument, developed by Aboriginal peoples of northern Australia, is played by vibrating the lips and using a special breathing technique. One study found practicing this instrument helped reduce snoring.
Didgeridoo
What is hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?
The fear of long words.
"So i jumped in my dreams and found an escape
Maybe i went to extremes of leather and lace
But the world seems brighter 6 inches off the ground
And the air seemed lighter
I was profound and i felt so proud
Just to live out loud"
Kinky Boots
Brynden Rivers, one of the Great Bastards of King Aegon IV Targaryen was known for a great number of things... who do we know him to be in 300 AC?
The small village of Fortingall is home to this ancient thing, thought to be the oldest in Britain at an estimated 5,000 years old.
Fortingall Yew Tree
A hemispherectomy is a rare surgical procedure that involves what?
Removing half of the brain.
This guitar with 42 strings arranged in four string sections, was created for Pat Metheny after he requested a guitar that had "as many strings as possible".
the Pikasso guitar
Name the two parts of the human body without blood vessels.
cornea and cartilage