Pub Quiz #5

[mcgillianaire]

We did poorly tonight; 14 points compared to the winners who got 23 or something. We called ourselves "Proud to be Dutch because at least I'm still stoned". Last week we were "Proud to be American because at least I'm free". The week before that I couldn't take part because of my night shift and the team did very badly so they called themselves "

Comments

[kapitankraut]

They'd have to be willing to accept a few different ampersands, I'd think. I've never known there to be much consistency on how to draw one.

My Inner Middle Easternist wants to say the fourth question is a trick, but I know the answer they'd expect.

[mcgillianaire]

I'm surprised to read that about ampersands because I thought there was one generally accepted version. Even if there were different acceptable versions, in a pub quiz it's best not to overthink any question.

I was disappointed with the fourth question.

[kapitankraut]

What I call an ampersand* looks like a squished 3 with a line extending both up and down (the bits of the line look like the "stalks" on a dollar sign), if that makes sense. It looks nothing like "&", which is what the computer and most typefaces will call an ampersand, and which I've never been able to draw reliably.
Something tells me that "&" is really an ampersand, and mine is technically something else.

*Actually I call it nothing of the sort. I call it "and" if I call it anything.

[swimanubis]

The Balfour Declaration didn't create any state; it just vaguely supported the idea of some state existing at some time in the future.

[mcgillianaire]

This is true.

[mrputter]

The Greek god of dreams was easy, but I came up empty on his father and had to guess.

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Wikipedia informs me that I can't guess worth shit.

[mcgillianaire]

We didn't get either was good on knowing the God of dreams!

[swimanubis]

morpheus and hypnos isn't it?

[mcgillianaire]

Indeed! Well done. I reckon if you guys were on the team we'd win every week or at least come second. There's a prize for both places!

[pappubahry]

a) I think I've heard of an ankh.... I'm going to guess it's a half-raised dot, used in Latin as a space. &, ....

b) Morpheus, ?

c) ? I'd guess somewhere in the 1600's, and the first sustained flight was in the 1890's, about a decade before the Wright Brothers' better-publicised but no better flight.

d) Israel.

[mcgillianaire]

a) An ankh is the Egyptian hieroglyphic sign for life. Correcto, Correcto.

b) Correcto, Hypnos.

c) 1783 and 120 years. The quizmistress used the Wright Bros as the first sustained flight.

d) Correcto.