The World Quiz League

Where in the world is this?

Tehran

In a standard family, if my eldest brothers name is Phillip, and I’m stronger than my brothers William and Zach (the twins), my name must begin with what letter? What would you officially call me?

Disflippant

What is this?

It is NOT a Porsche 962, look, the Porsche doesn't have those dramatic air-intakes feeding the mid mounted engine. Although the racing paint job is identical.

It's a Nissan R91CK. It was driven with mediocre success by Heinz-Harald Frentzen in 1992 in the All Japan Sportscar Championship, coming third in one race but was seen here in winning form at a Group C race at le Mans in 2004.

Each clue leads to 2 words. What's the connection between those words?

I. An idea may be beyond this, but it still holds water.
II . Drink - the thing that holds your balls.
III . Very good place for a fire.
IV . Bestow honour upon the darkness!

Arthur J Puty

I was also offered sac and sack for drink that holds your balls. Yes, on second thoughts I'll go for that too.

I found a treasure of red corundum and oyster-bounty guarded by a certain Mr Curry and a large snake with a speech impediment. Which island did I find it on?

Owl

What number comes next in this sequence:

2795, 1922, 1497, 1137, 1318, 1501, ?

Hint, the answer has only been knowable for approximately 10 years.
Another hint: the sequence has less than 25 terms

niobium

The answer is 1547. The nth term in the sequence is the total number of genes in human chromosome number n. You can verify this at www.genecards.org

Specifically for chromosome seven

You won't solve this question until you have a head ache. Find the connection:

amnesia
autumn
extraterrestrial
femur
furies
mal
ratcatcher
'shun
starters
transfusion

awaldock

Head = john, ache = hurt.

John Hurt's films include:

amnesia = Lapse Of Memory
autumn = Before Winter Comes
extraterrestrial = Alien
femur = From The Hip
furies = Three Dangerous Ladies
mal = Little Malcolm
ratcatcher = The Pied Piper
'shun = Short Order
starters = The Field
transfusion = New Blood

In my trusty old dictionary between a turncoat and a stock that can be drawn upon I find Brian's blessed enzyme (or so they claimed), banter, an indirect effect, a room where the Romans kept stuff, deliverance from a certain death, hardened in sin, greatly disliked, a thing needed, sticky stuff, and a stance claimed to be futile.

Can you see any ships?

I prefer repository, from the Latin repositorium

Rennin (or rennet) as the enzyme that turns milk into cheese, as in Monty python's Life of Brian, Blessed are the cheesemakers.

"What was that?----Gregory (Terence Bayler)
"I don't know. I was too busy talking to Bignose."----Cheeky (Eric Idle)
"I think it was 'Blessed are the cheesemakers.'"----crowd member
"Ah, what's so special about the cheesemakers?"----Mrs. Gregory (Carol Cleveland)
"Well, obviously, it's not meant to be taken literally. It refers to any manufacturers of dairy products."----Gregory

Of course I expected you to think of Brian Blessed, because I'm a sadist.

There's kitsch cats, cabin crew, a man-eating score, a couple of downpours, and a crumpet shortage. Why have you got to go?

Dadge

Because This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us

How might these protect you as you press home your attack?

All refer to defensive military technology.

WINDOW was foil strips cut to exactly one half of the wavelength of the German radar, which produced the maximum possible radar return from the smallest possible amount of material. Huge clouds of WINDOW were used for the night raids on Hamburg making the German radar useless.

Fox was the weakest one of the bunch. awaldock suggested The Fox Reconnaissance Vehicle detects the possible presence of liquid chemical warfare agents and thus protects the lives of soldiers on the battlefield. Which is reasonable.

I had in mind the Foxer noisemaker which was extremely effective in countering German acoustically targeted long range torpedoes either by luring them to a more attractive but expendable target or by convincing the U Boat captain of the futility of such an attack.

Fox Reconnaissance vehicle

Flares are widely used as active countermeasures against heat seeking missiles, especially by slow and low flying large aircraft which are very vulnerable to attack by cheap shoulder-launched ground to air missiles.

Splinter is a character from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Quiz Four

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Owl

7

niobium

5

awaldock

5

Arthur J Puty

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Mickhasalreadybeentaken

3

Dadge

3