WTF Quiz #300, June 5, 2024
QUESTION 1
The term "Power Five" has historically referred to the five most prominent athletic conferences in college football, conferences which have generally been guaranteed a berth in prominent postseason play, be it lucrative bowl games or championship playoff structures, but the upcoming 2024 season will see WHAT CONFERENCE be stripped of the benefits afforded to the other Power Five conferences due to member school realignments?
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Pac-12
QUESTION 2
Most of the loanwords in the English language that feature a cedilla are borrowed from French, however WHAT EDIBLE PORTUGUESE LOANWORD also features a cedilla, found attached to the letter "c" as most cedillas in Romance languages are? Use of the word in English increased significantly after the Gracie family of Brazil began a marketing campaign involving the word. Note: for technical reasons your response need not feature any diacritical marks for credit.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: AçaÃ
QUESTION 3
US trademark 73526578 features this description in its filing: "THE MARK CONSISTS OF A WAX-LIKE COATING COVERING THE CAP OF THE BOTTLE AND TRICKLING DOWN THE NECK OF THE BOTTLE IN A FREEFORM IRREGULAR PATTERN." This trademarked, first filed in 1985, is owned by WHAT KENTUCKY BRAND which was first introduced in 1958?
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Maker's Mark
QUESTION 4
In a 15-year span, the music acts Aerosmith, Gnarls Barkley, K-Ci and JoJo, Seal, and (ignoring parentheticals) Britney Spears all had Top 40 singles that share WHAT TITLE? While none of these songs hit #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100, the title coincidentally appears within the titles of six other songs that reached the top of the chart.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Crazy
QUESTION 5
Of the six states that comprise Australia, the largest of them measures at just over 2.5 million square kilometers (almost 1 million square miles), making it nearly 50% larger in area than Alaska; because of this, it is easily ranked last among Australian states in population density, as its population of around 2.9 million would each have over a square kilometer to themselves if distributed evenly. NAME THIS STATE.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Western Australia
QUESTION 6
Meaning more or less exactly what it looks like its title might mean, the famous bronze fountain sculpture titled Manneken Pis is stored in a museum in WHAT CITY, where a replica commissioned in the 1960s can be seen today in its original place? In the 1980s, a companion piece of sorts, titled Jeanneke Pis, was erected about half a kilometer (1,600 feet) northeast of the original sculpture's site, to promote tourism and gender equality.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Brussels
QUESTION 7
Foundational to the design and development of electronic digital computers, logic gates take a number of inputs (most commonly one or two) and yield an output based on Boolean logic. The seven basic types of logic gate are AND and NAND, OR and NOR, XOR and XNOR, and WHAT SEVENTH TYPE?
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: NOT
QUESTION 8
Despite Walt Disney Animation Studios' long-time perceived dominance of high-grossing animated feature films, their most lucrative animated film franchise at the worldwide box office, Frozen, only ranks fifth all-time, behind (in no particular order) the Pixar-produced Toy Story franchise, the Illumination-produced Despicable Me franchise, the Dreamworks-produced Shrek franchise, and WHAT OTHER FRANCHISE, produced by Blue Sky Studios?
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Ice Age
QUESTION 9
The K-Pg boundary, once known as the K-T boundary, is identifiable by its proportionality of iridium, an element which is found at a much higher concentration at the boundary than it generally is elsewhere; GIVE ANY ONE OF THE WORDS the abbreviations K, Pg, or T stand for in the name of this boundary.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Cretacious/Paleogene/Tertiary
QUESTION 10
Pope Clement XI created the official position of Promotor Fidei, or "promoter of the faith", in 1708 to aid in the process of beatification and canonization; all documents pertaining to this process must be submitted to the Promoter Fidei for examination. This role is more commonly known in the vernacular as WHAT, a name which lends itself to a common English expression?
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Devil's Advocate