WTF Quiz #350, January 15, 2025
QUESTION 1
Since 2000, "rosebud", "kaching", and "motherlode" have all been used as cheat codes in the Sims video game franchise; each of these codes gives the user additional money in the form of WHAT FITTINGLY-NAMED IN-GAME CURRENCY? Note: Spelling will count.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Simoleon(s)
QUESTION 2
One of the seven defining constants in the International System of units (SI), a dimensionless number roughly equal to 602 sextillion, 214 quintillion, 76 quadrillion, is named for WHICH ITALIAN SCIENTIST, who discovered the law stating that equal volumes of gases contain equal numbers of molecules under the same temperature conditions in 1811?
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: (Amedeo) Avogadro
QUESTION 3
The device on electric guitars most commonly referenced as a "whammy bar" is technically known as WHAT KIND OF "ARM", named for an Italian musical term meaning a sound produced by rapid repetition or variation in volume of a note? This alternate name is technically a misnomer from a music theory perspective, as such an arm can only provide changes in a note's pitch, an effect properly known as vibrato.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Tremolo
QUESTION 4
The albums My Own Prison (1997), Weathered (2001), and Full Circle (2009) were all released by WHICH POST-GRUNGE ROCK BAND, perhaps surprisingly bereft of apostles, Nicaeans, or Carl Weathers?
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Creed
QUESTION 5
In August 1831 an anti-slavery uprising in Southampton County, Virginia, lasted for four days and led to 55 deaths, with retaliatory deaths estimated to be as high as 120 Black men, women, and children. This uprising, seen as the deadliest of its type in U.S. history, was spearheaded by WHAT MAN, who was subsequently captured and executed in November of that year?
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Nat Turner
QUESTION 6
On January 7, 2025, WHAT WEEKLY EPISODIC TELEVISION PROGRAM aired live on Netflix for the first time, after having spent 26 total years on the USA Network and 5 years on TNN/Spike TV? The show first aired from New York City's Manhattan Center, with its first Netflix airing centered in Inglewood, California.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: (WWE Monday Night) Raw
QUESTION 7
Although it was also sometimes known as i.LINK and Lynx by other brands, Apple's name for the IEEE 1394 serial bus interface standard most prevalent in the 1990s and 2000s is the one by which it is best recognized. This standard, which ultimately failed to compete with USB, was known as WHAT RHYMING TRADEMARK?
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: FireWire
QUESTION 8
The first recorded instance of the name of WHAT NOW-ANNUAL TRADITION appears to come from a December 1879 issue of The Harvard Crimson, and later from an 1895 diary entry by Amherst student Dwight Morrow? The name of this tradition comes from a shortening of a word meaning a walking area or certain movements in dance.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Prom
QUESTION 9
Based on the Hebrew name YHWH, Jah is the name of the divine being central to WHAT BELIEF SYSTEM which originated in the 1930s?
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Rastafari(anism)
QUESTION 10
While he never uttered the oft-misquoted "you dirty rat", WHAT ACTOR did deliver lines similar to it, like "That dirty, double-crossin' rat" in "Blonde Crazy" and "Come out and take it, you dirty, yellow-bellied rat, or I'll give it to you through the door" in "Taxi!"? The actor's only Academy Award came in 1943 when, unlike the character he portrayed, he failed to give the audience thanks from his family.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: James Cagney