Friday, December 15, 2023

Fwd: LL99 Match Day 22 -- Confirmation



Player: BrowningM

4/6 let down by pop culture as usual 

1. The Gutenberg discontinuity and the Mohorovičić discontinuity are significant in geology as the inner and outer boundaries, respectively, of what?
Correct Answer: (EARTH'S) MANTLE
Your Answer: mantle
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Nearly went for outer /inner core 
2. In statistics, the t-distribution is used to estimate population parameters in samples that have an unknown variance or are small in size. The distribution's name is often preceded by what word, a pseudonym used by Guinness Brewery chemist William Sealy Gosset in a 1908 paper that describes the distribution?
Correct Answer: STUDENT/STUDENT'S
Your Answer: student
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

This will play hard i expect but its in my area 
3. What is the world's most populous Muslim-majority country? It has roughly the same population as Egypt, Iran, and the entire Arabian Peninsula combined.
Correct Answer: INDONESIA
Your Answer: indonesia
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Gave too many points 

4. According to a 1924 statement by the poet André Breton, the aim of what artistic and literary movement (associated with Brauner, Dalí, Ernst, Kahlo, Magritte, Miró, et al.) was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality"?
Correct Answer: SURREALISM
Your Answer: surrealism
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Was worried this was too obvious 
5. "Slowly" is the English translation of the title of what pop song, a version of which landed at the #2 spot on Billboard magazine's 2017 Year-End Hot 100 chart (behind Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You")?
Correct Answer: DESPACITO
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Nope 
6. In an endless runner video game popular on Android and iOS devices since its release in 2012 (and reportedly the most-downloaded mobile game of the 2010s), the playable character, per the game's title, surfs through what environment?
Correct Answer: SUBWAY
Your Answer: suburb
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1


I'm hopeless at gaming and modern pop music 

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