Mystery Quiz #13: for the record(s)
Congrats to KimberlinM, MillerC37, and mujason for splitting the top prize in the thirteenth KW Mystery quiz. All of the answers were the names of record companies.
KW Mystery #14 is now open; click here to enter. It takes the Mystery idea in a totally different direction, and I’m really excited to see how it plays out. Get your responses in by Sunday evening.
Q1. The flags of Antigua & Barbuda, Kiribati, Macedonia, and Uruguay have what feature in common?
SUN (66%)
Uruguay is a good flag to know; it’s certainly the only of the four I would expect anyone to know (sorry, vexillologists).
Q2. What American university was founded in 1754 as King’s College?
COLUMBIA (86%)
There’s a plaque in downtown Manhattan, next to Trinity Church at the end of Wall Street marking its original site. For obvious reasons, the name was changed after the Revolutionary War. Columbia is the fifth-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.
Q3. Jennifer Garner and Élodie Yung have both portrayed what comic book character, a mercenary assassin of Greek descent?
ELEKTRA (85%)
Garner in the 2005 film; Yung in the Netflix series Daredevil. As some of you might recall from a recent LL Match Day, the mythological Electra was the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra (and was an assassin in her own right).
Q4. This man is best known for his skills in what competitive field?
CHESS (41%)
BWA:
ACTING DOUCHEY
FLASHING
LUMBERJACKING
This is Magnus Carlssen, current world champion and a model for G-STAR RAW.
Q5. As of January 1, 2016, California (743), Florida (396), and Texas (263) had the most people living where – a place that does not exist in 17 states?
DEATH ROW (48%)
MCW:
ISLANDS (7%)
BWA:
BROKEN
A tricky one; I realize now that some people might have thought the numbers in parentheses were area codes.
Q6. Its 66 songs range alphabetically from “ABC” and “You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me”. What is this jukebox musical, which features several flashbacks to 1950’s Detroit?
MOTOWN (86%)
Even though it first opened in 2013, it’s making a revival this summer on Broadway.
Q7. What word completes the phrases “Product Code”, “Serial Bus”, and “Plug and Play”?
UNIVERSAL (81%)
UPC (bar codes) and USB (computer connection) are the two best-known abbreviations of this bunch.
Q8. Washington, D.C., is divided into four quadrants. What building serves as the origin point?
CAPITOL (85%)
MCW:
WHITE HOUSE (7%)
Q9. What product name is censored here?
STAX (63%)
MCW:
PRINGLES (7%)
BWA:
MACHINE-PRESSED SALTED OLESTRA DISCS
TOWER
Ah, yes: the Lay’s knock-off of Pringles, which come in a plastic tube instead of a cardboard tube. God help me if I ever have to write a question about olestra’s most infamous side effect.
Q10. If you were to a breed a Jonathan with a Lady Williams, you’d get a different cultivar of what edible?
APPLE (85%)
I’ve seen the word cultivar used only for apples, for some reason.
Q11. The subtitles in this clip provide translations from what vernacular “language”?
JIVE (81%)
MCW:
EBONICS (15%)
This clip is from the film Airplane! – which, like Jeopardy!, has a pointless exclamation mark at the front. Thank you to whoever wrote “(OH STEWARDESS, I SPEAK) JIVE.”
Q12. What seven-letter word connects the answers to the first 11 questions?
RECORDS (72%)
MCW:
STUDIOS (7%)
The clue explicitly asked for a seven-letter word, so those of you who put “record companies” got dinged, fairly or not.