WTF Quiz #325, October 16, 2024
QUESTION 1
With over 40 million copies sold in the 47 years since its release, WHICH ALBUM holds the title of the highest-selling album worldwide whose title contains a word spelled differently in British and American English? The band's best-known lineup was largely British, which might explain the spelling choice.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Rumours
QUESTION 2
WHAT PROFESSIONAL SPORTS FRANCHISE, named after a World's Fair held two years earlier in its home city, began competitive play in 1969? While the team has since relocated and changed its name, the original franchise name is being sought here, including the correct geographic designation.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Montreal Expos
QUESTION 3
Author Lucy Maud Montgomery drew from her childhood on Prince Edward Island and a photograph of model and actress Evelyn Nesbit when authoring WHAT CLASSIC WORK OF LITERATURE about a pre-teen orphan?
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Anne Of Green Gables
QUESTION 4
Of the 14 chemical elements known to humans since antiquity, 12 are classified as metals or metalloids. The discovery of phosphorus in 1669 marked the first modern element. NAME EITHER OF THE TWO CLASSICAL NONMETALS.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Carbon/Sulfur
QUESTION 5
WHAT FICTIONAL GROUP, based out of Coney Island, belongs in the same category as the The Gramercy Riffs, The Rogues, The Orphans, The Turnbull ACs, and The Lizzies? The movie of the same name came out in 1979, long before the Offspring's first single could hit the soundtrack.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: The Warriors
QUESTION 6
At an elevation of around 1,420 feet (432 meters) below sea level, the lowest point on dry land on Earth is actually a set of points, all of which can be found in either of WHICH TWO SOVEREIGN COUNTRIES? These are currently getting lower year by year at the rate of around three feet (one meter) per year.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Israel, Jordan
QUESTION 7
The linguistic phenomenon "cryptophasia" refers to the otherwise-unintelligible idiosyncratic languages that naturally develop between pairs of individuals that all belong to WHAT CATEGORY OF PERSON? It is believed that approximately 50% of all individuals that fall under this category develop some element of cryptophasia in their lives.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Twins
QUESTION 8
While it also shares similarities with the table game "Bagatelle", the casual video game Peggle, first released in 2007, most closely resembles WHAT GAME, usually associated with gambling, first appearing in the 1920s? Its name comes from a diminutive form of a word mimicking the sound made during play.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Pachinko
QUESTION 9
Stemming from a Thai expression meaning "bouncy pig", NAME THE BABY that was born on July 10, 2024, to parents Tony and Jonah, who became an internet sensation in September 2024 thanks to image posts on Facebook. The viral newborn was parodied by Bowen Yang during a Weekend Update segment on Saturday Night Live on September 28 of this year.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Moo Deng
QUESTION 10
With special cases known by the terms quadrant (90 degrees), sextant (60 degrees) or octant (45 degrees), WHAT GEOMETRIC TERM describes any portion of a disk bounded by two radii and an arc? In three-dimensional geometry, this region is analogous to the intersection of a sufficiently large cone and a sphere, where the cone’s apex meets the sphere’s center.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Sector