Reverse quiz

Olinguito · 1311238. Wed Jan 23, 2019 1:35 pm

Nope. Keep trying.

GuyBarry · 1311239. Wed Jan 23, 2019 1:58 pm

Since we're on a new page I'll reprise the answers and questions so far (though it's not much):

1. Wales
2. H. E. Bates - Who wrote Fair Stands the Wind for France?
3. My Fair Lady - Which musical features the song The Rain in Spain?
4. St Augustine
5. Spider-Man
6. 1984
7. Emmanuel Adebayor
8. Secretary-General
9. Ralph Vaughan Williams

GuyBarry · 1311310. Thu Jan 24, 2019 10:13 am

5. Which comic-book character, as originally depicted, was once described as "Captain America with cobwebs"?

Olinguito · 1311387. Fri Jan 25, 2019 12:50 am

It's not that.

Hint: All the answers are already in the correct order (so there's no need to rearrange them).

GuyBarry · 1311429. Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:33 am

Well I think I've got the theme now - countries or landmasses through which the Prime Meridian passes, from north to south. However with number 1 there are so many possibilities that I can't see how it's possible to guess the correct one, and I'm not too sure about the phrasing of some of the others:

1. Which part of the United Kingdom borders England to the west?
2. Who wrote the novel Fair Stands the Wind for France?
3. Which musical features the song The Rain in Spain?
4. Hippo Regius, in modern-day Algeria, was the seat of which influential bishop of the early Christian church?
5. What was the nickname of Mamoudou Gassama, the migrant from Mali who rescued a small boy dangling from a balcony in Paris?
6. In what year was Upper Volta renamed to Burkina Faso?
7. Which former Premiership footballer is Togo's all-time top goalscorer?
8. Kofi Annan, a diplomat from Ghana, held which post in the United Nations from 1997 to 2006?
9. Who wrote the music for the 1947 film Scott of the Antarctic, which later inspired his orchestral work Sinfonia Antartica?

Olinguito · 1311435. Fri Jan 25, 2019 12:58 pm

Bingo! You got everything except the first one, in which you got the wrong keyword.

GuyBarry · 1311440. Fri Jan 25, 2019 1:08 pm

Well the Prime Meridian certainly passes through the United Kingdom, though I suppose the keyword could be "England" instead.

Again, with "Wales" as the answer there are so many possibilities that I think it's impossible to formulate a definitive question, unless you were thinking of something along these lines:

1. Which national football team was managed by Mike England during the 1980s?

Olinguito · 1311442. Fri Jan 25, 2019 1:56 pm

Bravo! That's the one! (Except that he was the Welsh manager, not player, in that decade.) You got everything, well done.

GuyBarry · 1311445. Fri Jan 25, 2019 2:01 pm

Oops, sorry - corrected it now.

I think I've got a theme for a new one, but it'll take me a little while to work out the clues.

GuyBarry · 1311493. Sat Jan 26, 2019 5:57 am

Here we go. This is the complete list of twelve, scrambled.

A. 12790
B. An accountant
C. The battle of Waterloo
D. Cliff Richard
E. Hollinger International
F. Jackie
G. The Northern Ireland peace process
H. An organochlorine insecticide in use until the 1990s
I. A stingray
J. The Third Reich
K. The trumpet
L. A type of auditory illusion

Olinguito · 1311551. Sat Jan 26, 2019 4:45 pm

L. What is the Doppler effect?

GuyBarry · 1311552. Sat Jan 26, 2019 4:50 pm

Nope. I think this is quite a hard one, so I'll give you an extra clue: the Police might be interested.

Olinguito · 1311859. Tue Jan 29, 2019 1:52 pm

F. In what film does Natalie Portman portray the wife of assassinated US President John F. Kennedy?

GuyBarry · 1311860. Tue Jan 29, 2019 1:55 pm

No, sorry - this is a musical reference rather than a cinematic one.

GuyBarry · 1312431. Sun Feb 03, 2019 7:53 am

I think this is an unusually tough one, so I'll start you off with the question for K:

What instrument is the jazz musician Louis Armstrong noted for playing?