WTF Quiz #125, January 11, 2023
QUESTION 1
WHAT ANIMAL is considered to have the most neurologically complex tooth in the animal kingdom? This specialized tooth, a form of canine (the tooth that is, not the animal), contains millions of sensory nerve endings and is useful for navigation, mating, and of course, feeding.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Narwhal
QUESTION 2
At a total length of around 3 blocks, Canusa Street, located in a settlement known as Beebe Plain, is a geographically distinctive road in that it is the only road in the world that can be considered part of WHAT, SPECIFICALLY? This geographical quirk makes mundane-sounding activities like visiting one's neighbors particularly difficult in the modern day.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Canada-US Border
QUESTION 3
Not counting the (contestable due to spelling differences) Siena, there are three schools in the NCAA's Division 1 athletics program whose names are also (commonly-recognizable) colors; NAME THOSE THREE SCHOOLS. Note, this is by the schools' common names, which omit words like "University", "College", etc., and is based on the SCHOOL's name, not the TEAM's name.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Auburn, Brown, Navy
QUESTION 4
A radio program titled "My Favorite Husband" directly spawned two different television series; one, which retained the name "My Favorite Husband", starred Joan Caulfield and Barry Nelson as Liz and George Cooper, those being character names also retained from the radio program. WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE OTHER SERIES?
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: I Love Lucy
QUESTION 5
Shaggy (since 2008), Chewbacca (since 1998), Twinkie (since 1979), King Kong (since 2009), and the Matrix (since 1999 and considered a descendent of one named for Taxi Driver) are all namesakes for WHAT?
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Legal Defense Strategies (or synonymous)
QUESTION 6
WHAT perfectly ordinary word is used in geometry to describe a line, ray, or similar construction that sits perpendicular to the object at the point it meets? In the case of a curve, such a line is perpendicular to the tangent line at that point of the curve.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Normal
QUESTION 7
Damar Hamlin suffered, and is recovering well from, a life-threatening injury that took place during an otherwise-mundane tackle in a January 2, 2023, NFL game broadcast nationally; while no official diagnosis of the nature of the traumatic event that led to his condition has been offered yet, many experts in sports medicine and cardiology believe that Hamlin's cardiac arrest was likely the result of a unique, rare disruption of the heart's rhythm through traumatic impact during a key point within his heartbeat. This condition, coming from the Latin for "disruption of the heart", is known by WHAT ALLITERATIVE TWO-WORD PHRASE?
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Commotio Cordis
QUESTION 8
A number from 1-4 paired with a letter from a-c make up the 12 different classifications for types of WHAT, according to the system developed in the 1990s by Andre Walker? Your smith would self-classify as a 2a in this system, though knowledge of the smith's appearance would be necessary for this clue to be effective.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Hair
QUESTION 9
Named for a British island, not for a city in the US that's either coastal or on the mouth of a coastal river, WHAT TYPE OF CEMENT is the most common type used today in the manufacture of concrete, along with mortar, stucco, and many types of grout?
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Portland Cement
QUESTION 10
Are you a boy? Or are you a girl? was first asked by an authority figure in 2000-2001, during the character customization screen for a video game in WHAT FRANCHISE? Despite the franchise's previous entries forcing a gender assignment onto the player character, future games have improved on the matter, allowing players instead to choose a "look" or a "style" for their in-game characters rather than an explicit binary choice, which allows for more flexibility in gender representation.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Pokemon