WTF Quiz #25, April 11, 2022
QUESTION 1
The current longest-running series on the Cartoon Network block of programming known as "Adult Swim" is WHAT SERIES that premiered in 2005 and has aired, to date, over 210 episodes? The content of the series is primarily produced using everyday objects like clay, popsicle sticks, and a significant number of toys and action figures.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Robot Chicken
QUESTION 2
In the website-driving language called HTML, the "H" stands for hyper- (with the "T" representing the 2nd half of the word hypertext); in HTML itself, the letter "h", as seen in tags like "", "", and so forth, up to "", stands for WHAT WORD denoting its intended usage?
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Heading
QUESTION 3
I'm going to keep her name out of this question, but Will Smith's wife referred to a relationship she had with August Alsina in a famous conversation on her Facebook Watch show "Red Table Talk" in 2020 as "a different kind of"... WHAT WORD familiar to those who study quantum mechanics? Her husband pushed her to clarify, which she did by saying "It was a relationship, absolutely."
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Entanglement
QUESTION 4
The 2022 MLB season features a rule change from the 2021 season, which featured the reversion of the same rule change that was originally put into place in 2020 (due to Covid), that is itself an extension of a rule change first (partially) implemented in 1973 and amended to accommodate a scheduling change in 1997. WHAT TWO-WORD PHRASE is most frequently used to refer to the rule in question?
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Designated Hitter
QUESTION 5
Vernon Howell was the birth name of a messianic church leader, head of a branch of an offshoot of the Seventh-Day Adventists, who perished on April 19, 1993 and is remembered today by WHAT ASSUMED FIRST AND LAST NAME? The figure's adopted name comes from a pair of Biblical kings, with the surname being a variant of the traditional English spelling.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: David Koresh
QUESTION 6
Characterized by its wide base, tapering sides, and short vertical neck, the type of container often used in laboratory settings for titration and boiling, but not for volumetric measurements, was first designed by, and named for, WHAT GERMAN CHEMIST?
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: (Emil) Erlenmeyer
QUESTION 7
"JFK8" is the internal designation of a building found on WHAT ISLAND that made headlines in April 2022? The news story centered around the efforts of leader Christian Smalls to accomplish a notable first that directly affected a little over 8,000 people, at least 2,654 of which support the feat.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Staten Island
QUESTION 8
Frequent allusions to the Greek demigod Adonis are among the methods used to paint a mental picture of WHAT LITERARY CHARACTER, also described as having marble-like skin, perfect and angular features, and messy and bronze-colored hair, being "devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful"? The narrator also mentions the character's eyes changing color between black and ocher, which reflects their hunger status at any given moment.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Edward Cullen
QUESTION 9
Douglas is the fitting (considering name demographics) capital city of WHAT BRITISH CROWN DEPENDENCY located in the Irish Sea, the second-largest island (by area) found in those waters? Its economy is bolstered by its status as a tax haven, offshore banking destination, and home for online gambling.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Isle Of Man
QUESTION 10
"There must be some kinda way out of here, said the [REDACTED] to the [REDACTED]" according to the opening line of Bob Dylan's "All Along The Watchtower", famously covered by Jimi Hendrix; that opening line inspired the title of a mid-2000s song by Australian music act Wolfmother heard in "The Hangover", "Jackass Number Two", and a number of video game soundtracks. Name BOTH REDACTED WORDS in that lyric.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Joker, Thief