WTF Quiz #275, April 3, 2024
QUESTION 1
A 2019 point-and-click adventure video game called Elsinore tasks its players with attempting to prevent the tragic events of WHAT FAMOUS STAGE WORK from happening, through a time loop mechanic that allows players to retain information they learned from a previous effort to alter the events of the current loop?
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Hamlet
QUESTION 2
A small electronic buzzer or squeaker is included in copies of WHAT PARTY GAME, along with a one-minute timer, scorekeeping materials, and most importantly, a large stack of cards upon which a single word is printed at the top and 5 other words are printed in a list below in slightly smaller text? The game's box art features a colorful stylized drawing of a face, along with a hand obscuring the mouth region.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Taboo
QUESTION 3
WHAT BRAND, founded in 1989 by Gary Burrell and Min Kao, took advantage of a project that was released for civilian use in the 1980s by the US Department of Defense to provide the vital information that allowed for their line of products, targeting marine enthusiasts, military personnel, recreational runners, pilots, mountaineers, and hikers, before becoming popular through sales of a product aimed at motorists in the late 2000s?
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Garmin
QUESTION 4
Adopted by English speakers since John Glenn's use of the word in 1962 to refer to a problem that affects function, though now also meaning an exploitable feature of a game, WHAT YIDDISH WORD originally meant a slippery area, such as a skating rink? Note: either the original Yiddish spelling (transliterated to English) or the current English spelling are acceptable.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Glitsh/Glitch
QUESTION 5
WHAT PUNK ROCK ACT, widely seen as helping to popularize the "hardcore" punk subgenre, was founded by Greg Ginn in 1976, and at various times has featured vocalists Mike Vallely, Keith Morris, Henry Rollins, and Dez Cadena in its lineup? The name, which is intended to represent anarchy, has no official origin in a popular motel provider of sorts.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Black Flag
QUESTION 6
Some people may bemoan how you'll never need to use the quadratic formula in the real world, so let's prove them wrong! In the standard form of the quadratic formula, used to determine the roots of a quadratic equation in the form ax²+bx+c=0, WHAT EXPRESSION is found as the denominator? This expression is also used as shorthand by some to refer to a sentence that ends with "shall not be infringed".
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: 2a
QUESTION 7
Not counting multi-position players Desmond Howard, Johnny Rodgers, and Eric Crouch, PROVIDE THE FULL NAME OF EITHER PLAYER who has won a Heisman Trophy from the position of wide receiver. The first player won for the 1987 season while playing for Notre Dame before being drafted 6th overall by the Raiders and eventually joining the Pro Football Hall of Fame; the second player won for the 2020 season while playing for Alabama before being drafted 10th overall by the Eagles.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Tim Brown/DeVonta Smith
QUESTION 8
So my thanks to all of you and on to Chicago and let's win there were the final publicly-stated words of the presidential campaign of WHAT FIGURE BY FULL NAME, who minutes later is reported as having said privately "Everything's going to be OK"? He is the first, but not the only, figure by his name to run for the office of US President
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Robert F. Kennedy (Sr.)
QUESTION 9
WHAT IS THE SHARED SURNAME of the family that is introduced as "A Nice Little Family", per the title of the first serialized book of the 12 that constitute the work (along with an epilogue)? The term is presumably used as a bit of ironic foreshadowing, as the family, which primarily consists of an indifferent father and his three sons, is ultimately torn apart by the father's murder in the 8th book.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Karamazov
QUESTION 10
Indigenous names for the National Historic Landmark include "Tava" and "Heey-otoyoo'", while early Spanish explorers called it "El Capitán", but by WHAT NAME, in honor of a military explorer in the early 19th century, is this landmark best known? While the inclusion of an apostrophe is not cause to be marked incorrect, note that the proper name of the landmark does not contain one.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Pike's Peak