LIGHT
Monday Quiz - A love Letter. Week 2.
My loving partner has chosen the topic today… and it’s LIGHT.
I asked her for a theme, and she was looking at a lamp. It’s the little things.
Calling her out, she said “no... I was looking at you! Because you’re the light of my life”!
Quick thinking hun, I’ll allow it.
So let’s turn down the lights, cosy on in, and explore the wide world of LIGHT.
You can play it here on WikiQuiz - and compare some scores! Or you can try and get nominated for the “Funniest Answer of the Week” award!
Or, scroll down and play it here!
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FUNNIEST ANSWER OF THE WEEK!
This one comes from Murali of the UAE with an excellent submission from Tuesdays Colour Round:
Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, which Marvel superhero played by the sadly late Chadwick Boseman rules Wakanda? The name also matches the 1960s influential, revolutionary Black Power and militant organization founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966 in Oakland, California and a melanistic variant of the a large cat.
A: PINK PANTHER.
Excellent. If you want your wit featured - answer with jokes to the questions on Wikiquiz! I review them all!
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MONDAY QUIZ - THEME: LIGHT
Constructed on the island of Pharos in the third century BC to guide mariners using a massive fire and bronze mirrors, which architectural marvel functioned as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? It was commissioned by Ptolemy Soter, and was built by Sostratus of Cnidus (who sneakily carved his name in the base). Try not to think of Virginia Woolf or Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson!
Relying on a highly specialized chemical reaction where the enzyme luciferase oxidizes a pigment substrate to emit cold light with nearly one hundred percent energy efficiency, which winged beetle family uses distinct abdominal flash patterns of bioluminescence to locate mates? I'm looking for a big that Owl City might be fond of - and names a TV show whose animated remake is coming out hopefully soon!
Stealing primordial fire from the sun's chariot to grant humanity warmth, light, and technology, which defiant Titan was sentenced by Zeus to eternal torment on the Caucasus Mountains? His name translates from ancient Greek as "forethought", and his myth inspired Mary Shelley’s subtitle for her 1818 gothic masterpiece Frankenstein.
In 1869, Paul Verlaine published the poem "_____ __ ____" (French for "moonlight") in his collection Fêtes galantes. Verlaine’s poetry was heavily influenced by the 18th-century paintings of French artist Jean-Antoine Watteau. Watteau’s works often featured idyllic, pastoral settings populated by Commedia dell'arte characters - ike Pierrot and Harlequin - who wore fanciful disguises and masquerade costumes. Debussy was captivated by this Symbolist movement. Rather than directly "painting" the poem into notes, Debussy aimed to capture the ethereal, melancholic mood of Verlaine's moonlight by releasing which classical piece of the same name? Play it here, which used to be melancholic to me... but now only brings horror as the leitmotif for the videogame The Evil Within.
By masterfully routing natural light through concrete channels to evoke spiritual transcendence in masterpieces like the Church of the Light, which word both describes the minimalist structures of Japanese architect Tadao Ando - and a mid-nineteenth-century American landscape painting movement? The movement had artists like Fitz Henry Lane used invisible brushwork and panoramic views to capture the pristine, glowing atmosphere of the wilderness. I'm looking for an 8-letter word: _____ISM
Commemorating the miraculous victory of the Maccabees over the Seleucid Empire where a single day's supply of consecrated oil burned continuously for eight days, which Jewish winter holiday is universally known as the Festival of Lights? Celebrants progressively kindle the nine-branched menorah while consuming traditional fried foods like latkes and jelly donuts.
Demonstrating that light behaves simultaneously as both a discrete localized particle and a continuous propagating wave, which historic 1801 physics experiment diagrammed here utilized coherent illumination passing through two narrow slits? The profound quantum mechanical implications completely dismantled Sir Isaac Newton's long-held corpuscular theory, establishing the foundational principles of physical wave optics.
Holding the world's very first private film screening in 1925 for a gathering of physics professors, which aptly named pioneering brothers patented the cinematograph to project moving images using light? The surname also names the beloved, charismatic candelabra character who sings the iconic musical showstopper "Be Our Guest" in Disney's animated masterpiece Beauty and the Beast.
Topping the global charts in 2020 after blending a driving synth-pop bassline with a retro 1980s aesthetic, which smash hit track by Canadian artist The Weeknd set an all-time record for weeks spent on the Billboard Hot 100? It headlined the Super Bowl LV Halftime Show 2021 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.
Swearing a sacred cosmic oath to police the galaxy using a ring that projects hard-light constructs fuelled entirely by the user's willpower, which iconic DC Comics superhero mantle was created in 1940? Their main cosmic weakness is hilariously the colour yellow.
Literary hint if you don't know comic books - think the object of Jay Gatsby's desire across the river between East and West Egg.
Time for the answers! I hope you enjoyed!
ANSWERS:
Constructed on the island of Pharos in the third century BC to guide mariners using a massive fire and bronze mirrors, which architectural marvel functioned as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? It was commissioned by Ptolemy Soter, and was built by Sostratus of Cnidus (who sneakily carved his name in the base). Try not to think of Virginia Woolf or Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson!
THE LIGHTHOUSE OF ALEXANDRIARelying on a highly specialized chemical reaction where the enzyme luciferase oxidizes a pigment substrate to emit cold light with nearly one hundred percent energy efficiency, which winged beetle family uses distinct abdominal flash patterns of bioluminescence to locate mates? I’m looking for a big that Owl City might be fond of - and names a TV show whose animated remake is coming out hopefully soon!
FIREFLY / FIREFLIES / LAMPYRIDAEStealing primordial fire from the sun’s chariot to grant humanity warmth, light, and technology, which defiant Titan was sentenced by Zeus to eternal torment on the Caucasus Mountains? His name translates from ancient Greek as “forethought”, and his myth inspired Mary Shelley’s subtitle for her 1818 gothic masterpiece Frankenstein.
PROMETHEUSIn 1869, Paul Verlaine published the poem “_____ __ ____” (French for “moonlight”) in his collection Fêtes galantes. Verlaine’s poetry was heavily influenced by the 18th-century paintings of French artist Jean-Antoine Watteau. Watteau’s works often featured idyllic, pastoral settings populated by Commedia dell’arte characters - ike Pierrot and Harlequin - who wore fanciful disguises and masquerade costumes. Debussy was captivated by this Symbolist movement. Rather than directly “painting” the poem into notes, Debussy aimed to capture the ethereal, melancholic mood of Verlaine’s moonlight by releasing which classical piece of the same name? Play it here, which used to be melancholic to me... but now only brings horror as the leitmotif for the videogame The Evil Within.
CLAIRE DE LUNEBy masterfully routing natural light through concrete channels to evoke spiritual transcendence in masterpieces like the Church of the Light, which word both describes the minimalist structures of Japanese architect Tadao Ando - and a mid-nineteenth-century American landscape painting movement? The movement had artists like Fitz Henry Lane used invisible brushwork and panoramic views to capture the pristine, glowing atmosphere of the wilderness. I’m looking for an 8-letter word: _____ISM
LUMINISMCommemorating the miraculous victory of the Maccabees over the Seleucid Empire where a single day’s supply of consecrated oil burned continuously for eight days, which Jewish winter holiday is universally known as the Festival of Lights? Celebrants progressively kindle the nine-branched menorah while consuming traditional fried foods like latkes and jelly donuts.
HANNUKAH / CHANUKAHDemonstrating that light behaves simultaneously as both a discrete localized particle and a continuous propagating wave, which historic 1801 physics experiment diagrammed here utilized coherent illumination passing through two narrow slits? The profound quantum mechanical implications completely dismantled Sir Isaac Newton’s long-held corpuscular theory, establishing the foundational principles of physical wave optics.
DOUBLE SLIT EXPERIMENTHolding the world’s very first private film screening in 1925 for a gathering of physics professors, which aptly named pioneering brothers patented the cinematograph to project moving images using light? The surname also names the beloved, charismatic candelabra character who sings the iconic musical showstopper “Be Our Guest” in Disney’s animated masterpiece Beauty and the Beast.
LUMIERETopping the global charts in 2020 after blending a driving synth-pop bassline with a retro 1980s aesthetic, which smash hit track by Canadian artist The Weeknd set an all-time record for weeks spent on the Billboard Hot 100? It headlined the Super Bowl LV Halftime Show 2021 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.
BLINDING LIGHTSSwearing a sacred cosmic oath to police the galaxy using a ring that projects hard-light constructs fuelled entirely by the user’s willpower, which iconic DC Comics superhero mantle was created in 1940? Their main cosmic weakness is hilariously the colour yellow.
Literary hint if you don’t know comic books - think the object of Jay Gatsby’s desire across the river between East and West Egg.
GREEN LANTERN.
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