Quiz #25
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Q 1 Who did Phil Collins use as his touring drummer?
A Chester Thompson
Chester Cortez Thompson, so as not confuse him with Santana keyboardist Chester D. Thompson, joined Genesis as touring drummer after Phil Collins took over the role of lead vocals from Peter Gabriel. He went on to work with Collins after he went solo. The other drummers in the list have played with a virtual who's who in rock/pop/jazz.
RNZ's Sam Wicks recently spoke with Phil.
And here is a video of Phil and Chester battling it out:
Q 2 How many letter 'E' tiles are there in an English language scrabble set?
A 12
The inventor of the game, Alfred Butts, spent a lot of time trying out different distributions of letters before settling on what we know today. There have been calls to change the value and distribution of some letters because of changes in the language over time.
Q 3 Which of the following are NOT involved in the music industry?
Rear Admiral Grace Brewster Murray Hopper gained a Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale, and is known for her work in software engineering. She has a battleship (USS Hopper) and a super computer (Cray XE6 "Hopper") named after her.
Grace Brumby is an opera singer whose was active between 1960 and 1997, and has sung both mezzo and soprano roles.
Most people will know Grace Slick from her vocals in the song We Built This City (on Rock and Roll).
With a string of hits in the 80s, Grace Jones has also worked in film and the arts.
Q 4 Who directed the Indiana Jones films?
A Steven Spielberg
It was just announced that there will be a fifth film in the franchise, to be released in 2019.
Q 5 When did the word 'dude' originate?
A 1800s
Late in the 19th century a dood was a young man who was overly concerned with keeping up with the latest fashions. The spelling later morphed to dude.
Dude, you must read this more detailed history of the word. Other-gendered readers may also wish to follow that link.
Q 6 Is O positive or O negative the universal donor?
A O negative
About 9 percent of the population have the O negative blood type that can be given to anyone. O positive is the most common blood type at 39 percent of the population. In an emergency people with AB positive blood can receive any blood type.
The least common type is AB negative - 1 percent of the population have it.
Q 7 Assuming an immediate trip to that altitude, how high can you go without an oxygen mask?
A 4500 metres (15,000 feet)
At 4500 metres the air pressure is 57 percent lower than at the surface, and most people will pass out at that altitude. Climbers can go higher if they take time to acclimate. Above 8000 metres it is impossible to survive long with additional oxygen.
An interesting side note is that once a certain altitude is reached no amount of extra oxygen will sustain life because the reduction in air pressure causes bodily fluids to boil. This altitude is known as the Armstrong Limit.
Q 8 Who named the seven colours in the spectrum of visible light?
A Sir Isacc Newton
Album cover for Pink Floyd's dark side of the moon Photo: Harvest / Capitol / Storm Thorgerson / George Hardie.
In 1672 Newton published the results of a series of experiments into light refraction. The term 'colour spectrum' was introduced by him, and he chose to divide the continuous range of colours into seven bands, based on the refraction of light through a prism. These are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
One of the most famous album covers of all time, Dark Side of the Moon, features just a prism on a black background refracting light into the seven colours.
Q 9 Is it 'here here' or 'hear hear'?
A Hear hear
Often used as an exclamation, hear hear is used to offer support for what someone is saying. It is often confused with the homophonic 'here here'. The verb hear had been used in the King James Bible to mean listen.
Q 10 In the original Point Break film, Patrick Swayze's character Bodhi predicts a 50 year storm will generate waves of a size never seen before at which famous surf beach?
A Bells Beach, Australia
To which the character Nathaniel (Bojesse Christopher) exclaims: "There's no way Bells is bigger that Waimea bro". Yep, no way. dude.
