Week 5 - Thursday Quiz - 'E' Series

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Here are 10 quick questions! All answers begin with the letter E. This is a THURSDAY Quiz - Spiciness level is 4/5.

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THE THURSDAY QUIZ - WEEK 5 - E SERIES

1. In Greek mythology, what is the name of the Oread who resided on Mount Cithaeron and fell in love with Narcissus? After Zeus' affair with her, Hera became suspicious and came from Mount Olympus in an attempt to catch Zeus with the nymph. The Oread in question, by trying to protect Zeus (as he had ordered her to do), endured Hera's wrath, and Hera made her only able to speak the last words spoken to her.

   

2. Cryptocurrencies are often advertised as the "Wild West" of finance, filled with outlaws lootin', scoundrels rebootin’, and rootin-tootin-high energy polootin'. But in this harsh and barren scape, there are two semi-stable respites that seem to stand above the rest. The first, by a mile, is Bitcoin. But which cryptocurrency ranks second?

   

3. A Beethoven classic has scored the movies Rosemary's Baby (1968), Patch Adams (1998), All the King's Men (2006), and was played on a harp in the climax of Django Unchained (2012)? Who is this Beethoven classic supposedly named for - if we are to interpret his posthumous and notoriously sloppy handwriting?
   
   She was born in Vienna, Austria on 1 January 1792 (3 weeks after the passing of Mozart). She was a friend and student of Beethoven's to whom he supposedly proposed in 1810, though she turned him down. On her death, the original manuscript of the song was found in her effects. It was taken to a music publisher, who immediately recognised the notation as being in Beethoven's hand and decided to publish it posthumously. Perhaps apocryphally, he wrote the beginning of the song simply, then when she turned down his proposal, he wrote the latter so complex she would never be able to play it.

   

4. More famous for a slew of top hits - the lesser known 'Journey of the Sorcerer' was performed by which band, and used in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to attempt to encompass the broadness of space and our mortal futility? Their front man, Glenn Frey, might have been a fan of space (or good at golf) - as the bands name is the unpluralized lunar module that took astronauts to the moon - as well as the nebula that the image pictured is contained in (known as the Pillars of Creation).

   

5. Pictured is a strong proposal for the international flag for what body? It was designed by Oskar Pernefeldt in 2015 as a symbol for space exploration and unity.

   

6. The 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics and the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics each had a competitor that captured the hearts of the globe for their determined, but terrible performance. The former was a British ski-jumper whose determination, working-class background (a plasterer), iconic glasses, and joyful, plucky spirit dominated the media. The latter is from Equatorial Guinea who became famous for his incredibly slow but determined 100m freestyle swim, finishing in nearly two minutes after only learning to swim months prior and training in a hotel pool. Name both of their monikers, both alliterative E's.

   

7. What was the name of the immigration processing station in New York Harbour that operated from 1892-1954. Nearly 12 million immigrants were processed there and it's believed that almost two fifths of all Americans are descended from people who went through there. Currently there's a museum of immigration on the island. Notable people who have gone through the station include Ayn Rand, Bela Lugosi (Dracula himself), Maria Von Trapp (who I did not know was a real person), Lucky Luciano, Isaac Asimov, and Cary Grant.

   

8. What are the kittens doing in the name of the pictured card game - where players attempt to be the last player standing - originating from a record-breaking Kickstarter project by Matthew Inman, Elan Lee, and Shane Small.

   

9. His eponymous stairwell has made the rounds in much fiction - which Dutch artist's works featured mathematical objects and operations including impossible objects, explorations of infinity, reflection, symmetry, perspective, truncated and stellated polyhedra, hyperbolic geometry, and tessellations. He was mentioned in the A Series as being inspired by the Moorish architecture of Alhambra in Spain.

   

10. The Mohs scale ranks the hardness of materials - specifically its resistance to permanent surface changes, like indentation, scratching, or abrasion. The softest material, a 1 on the scale, is talc. The hardest material, a 10 on the scale, is diamond. Which naturally made material in the human body is the hardest - placing right in the middle at 5. Unsurprisingly, we are squishy beings.

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1. In Greek mythology, what is the name of the Oread who resided on Mount Cithaeron and fell in love with Narcissus? After Zeus’ affair with her, Hera became suspicious and came from Mount Olympus in an attempt to catch Zeus with the nymph. The Oread in question, by trying to protect Zeus (as he had ordered her to do), endured Hera’s wrath, and Hera made her only able to speak the last words spoken to her.

   ECHO Echo echo ech….
   

2. Cryptocurrencies are often advertised as the “Wild West” of finance, filled with outlaws lootin’, scoundrels rebootin’, and rootin-tootin-high energy polootin’. But in this harsh and barren scape, there are two semi-stable respites that seem to stand above the rest. The first, by a mile, is Bitcoin. But which cryptocurrency ranks second?
   The mystically sounding ETHEREUM. By the way, that symbol of Ethereum is very similar to the flag of Antarctica!
   

3. A Beethoven classic has scored the movies Rosemary’s Baby (1968), Patch Adams (1998), All the King’s Men (2006), and was played on a harp in the climax of Django Unchained (2012)? Who is this Beethoven classic supposedly named for - if we are to interpret his posthumous and notoriously sloppy handwriting?
   
   She was born in Vienna, Austria on 1 January 1792 (3 weeks after the passing of Mozart). She was a friend and student of Beethoven’s to whom he supposedly proposed in 1810, though she turned him down. On her death, the original manuscript of the song was found in her effects. It was taken to a music publisher, who immediately recognised the notation as being in Beethoven’s hand and decided to publish it posthumously. Perhaps apocryphally, he wrote the beginning of the song simply, then when she turned down his proposal, he wrote the latter so complex she would never be able to play it.
   Well… it’s Für Elise… so it’s ELISE. This is disputed though - as it could be written for another, Elisabeth Röckel, but more likely to be named after the other Elise Malfatii… who - shock twist - was actually a THERESE!
   

4. More famous for a slew of top hits - the lesser known ‘Journey of the Sorcerer’ was performed by which band, and used in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy to attempt to encompass the broadness of space and our mortal futility? Their front man, Glenn Frey, might have been a fan of space (or good at golf) - as the bands name is the unpluralized nebula that these five fingers pictured hail from, and the lunar module that took astronauts to the moon.
   EAGLES. Notably not THE Eagles. Same as Beegees. Isn’t space just gorgeous?
   

5. Pictured is a strong proposal for the international flag for what body? It was designed by Oskar Pernefeldt in 2015 as a symbol for space exploration and unity.
   EARTH. Seems pretty unifying, no? I’d be happy with that flag - though I reckon it’d be cool to have a sick guitar playing dinosaur on it.
   

6. The 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics and the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics each had a competitor that captured the hearts of the globe for their determined, but terrible performance. The former was a British ski-jumper whose determination, working-class background (a plasterer), iconic glasses, and joyful, plucky spirit dominated the media. The latter is from Equatorial Guinea who became famous for his incredibly slow but determined 100m freestyle swim, finishing in nearly two minutes after only learning to swim months prior and training in a hotel pool. Name both of their monikers, both alliterative E’s.
   EDDIE THE EAGLE and ERIC THE EEL. I went back and rewatched them, and boy they have charisma! Personally, I get desensitised to how fast / strong Olympians actually are. We need like a somewhat decent sportsperson alongside the athletes just to get a grasp of the scale.
   

7. What was the name of the immigration processing station in New York Harbour that operated from 1892-1954. Nearly 12 million immigrants were processed there and it’s believed that almost two fifths of all Americans are descended from people who went through there. Currently there’s a museum of immigration on the island. Notable people who have gone through the station include Ayn Rand, Bela Lugosi (Dracula himself), Maria Von Trapp (who I did not know was a real person), Lucky Luciano, Isaac Asimov, and Cary Grant.
   ELLIS Island.
   

8. What are the kittens doing in the name of the pictured card game - where players attempt to be the last player standing - originating from a record-breaking Kickstarter project by Matthew Inman, Elan Lee, and Shane Small.
   EXPLODING Kittens is the card game. It’s really fun, and surprisingly strategic!
   

9. His eponymous stairwell has made the rounds in much fiction - which Dutch artist’s works featured mathematical objects and operations including impossible objects, explorations of infinity, reflection, symmetry, perspective, truncated and stellated polyhedra, hyperbolic geometry, and tessellations. He was mentioned in the A Series as being inspired by the Moorish architecture of Alhambra in Spain.
   M.C. ESCHER. His images are almost all entrancing to me.
   

10. The Mohs scale ranks the hardness of materials - specifically its resistance to permanent surface changes, like indentation, scratching, or abrasion. The softest material, a 1 on the scale, is talc. The hardest material, a 10 on the scale, is diamond. Which naturally made material in the human body is the hardest - placing right in the middle at 5. Unsurprisingly, we are squishy beings.
    Tooth ENAMEL. Bone is juuuust lower.
    

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