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Round 11 will be similar to the previous rounds: 22 questions will be posted, all at once. The first nine questions correctly answered are worth ten points each for the poster of the first correct answer. The next six questions answered are worth twenty points. The next five questions to be answered are worth thirty points, and the last two are worth forty and forty-one points respectively. (Note: it's the order in which questions are answered correctly that determines the number of points awarded for a question, not the numbering below!) In case of a tie, there will be a tie-breaker, to be answered only by those tied. Hopefully the questions are difficult (or mean, if you like :-) enough to let the contest last for a few days...

This round was prepared by: Dmn. Feel free to bribe him/her for hints.

If in doubt, the question-setter's decision is always right.

The Questions edit

These are the questions for round 11. If you have found the answer to one of them, use the "Answer this question" links below the questions. You have to specify where on Wikipedia you found the answer, and I would like to know too how you found that location.

There can be more than one individual to answer a question, as the first may be wrong. Remember to place your timestamp to ensure your place. The individual(s) with the most points will be contacted and asked to assist in the next task line-up.

The round will begin soon. Good Luck!

Note: please remember:

  • The way you found the answer is more important than the answer. Please provide the links to Wikipedia articles that helped you to find the answer.
  • Wikipedia (and sister project) pages in other languages than English are off-limits.

Question 1 (answered) edit

What a way to make a point!

Which resident of New York, after killing three people, was herself killed in 1903 in an inventive way. Over one hundred years later, she was given a memorial.

The video of the execution, whose director is famous, is linked to from an external link.

Answer

This was the second question to be answered correctly. 10 points to User:ALoan


Question 2 (answered) edit

Remove a letter

Start with a commune of France's second most northernly department
Remove a letter to get a magazine of dubious virtue
Remove another letter to get the name of shared by several organisations throughout history and fiction
A member of one of these organisations has a doppleganger
Which Iowan do you get if you add a letter to his doppleganger's name?

Answer

This was the third question to be answered correctly. 10 points to User:ScudLee


Question 3 (answered) edit

There should be ten, but I can't find the others

What have

  • the fourth third country to legalise Same-sex marriage
  • the period between Yash Johar's and Thomas Klestil's deaths
  • quicker ways to organise promotions or resolutions
  • a territory annexed in 111BC
  • a Russian who ended up in London via Istanbul
  • a day Tommy Allsup didn't die
  • the distributors of Playboy and The Six Million Dollar Man
  • where John Barry has played the drums since 1992

got in common?


Addendum: I've found the other two

  • something not commonly found in automobiles.
  • something that meant 'ox'

answer

This was the fifteenth question to be answered correctly. 20 points to User:ScudLee


Question 4 (answered) edit

It's all political, anyway

They surprised everyone in 44th.
In the 24th, they came fourth with the help of an Emperor.
They were rejected for the 41st.
An element helped them become runners up in the 30th and 32nd, but not nearly as well in 37th.
Only when they went to North Yorkshire, did they finally succeed.

If this winner was the 500th, what was the 1000th?

Hint (added 4th January) edit

The element mentioned in the fourth line is Wind.

Answer

Question 5 (answered) edit

A Bit Of Flesh
No hints here!
These five men are from four different countries.
They have all won something very special.
There have been 10 opportunities to have won such a prize since 1965.
9 out of these 10 times, one and precisely one of these five men have won such a prize. Which year is the exception?

In the interest of making Wikipedia complete and more international, suggest the name of a man who, if an image of him were uploaded to his wikipedia entry, would make it 10 out of 10 and would increase the number of distinct countries to five.

Answer

This was the eleventh question to be answered correctly. 20 points to User:Ferret-aaron

Question 6 (answered) edit

2006?

Where would you find two books of the bible, a man who died on Christmas Eve in The Subcontinent and a candidate in the 2006 US Presidential election?
Beneath them can be found the subject of De Niro's missionary film and a recreational activity.

Answer

This was the nineteenth question to be answered correctly. 30 points to User:BorgHunter


Question 7 (answered) edit

I saw 493 once

(Correct as of 03:04 GMT December 8 2005)

On a certain list, numbers 60, 183, 209 and 802 are particularly important.
For example, they can be found elsewhere with Everest's conqueror, two former prime Ministers and most recently the daughter of another prime minister.

Some might claim which other number belongs with the above four, despite the votes of 69% of a European country?

Answer


Question 8 (answered) edit

Which applies for Hungarians?

In most Commonwealth countries, the last time this occurred coincided with a train accident, killing over 370 people.
Before this, the previous occurrence coincided with the death of 94 year old former mayor of a US city. The last occurrence before this was in the 12th century.

In the US, the last time this occurred coincided with the death of a German composer. The last occurrence before this was in the 14th century.

When was the last time it happened simultaneously for both, and what happened 800 years later?

Answer

This was the fourth question to be answered correctly. 6 points to User:ALoan, 4 points to User:Jeandré


Question 9 (answered) edit

Please forgive my poor German pronunciation

What connects

  • Ka Faraq Gatri
  • four varieties of active beer from American named after a German founder and not his father-in-law
  • a North-American dish with an Italian variety
  • a subnational entity that borders Georgia
  • a winner of the Karl-Marx-Orden and the Stern der Völkerfreundschaft

with part of the UN? The list is in reverse chronological order.

Hint edit

The dish is Canadian. Why is the number five important when it comes to UN members?

Answer

Question 10 (answered) edit

With thanks to User:David 5000

One was formed following the largest occurrence of a certain phenomenon in the continental United States, while another can be found within an emirate ruled by a doctor.

Which controversial structure protects the third?

Answer

This was the eighteenth question to be answered correctly. 30 points to User:Zoicon5


Question 11 (answered) edit

That poor woman

These people have something in common. Give me their names and their appropriate additional word(s).

  • A man who portrayed Orson Welles in 1994
  • A goalkeeper who once scored a goal
  • An American who shares Mr. Alighieri's name
  • A comedian whose surname is a European capital
  • Electro
  • A woman who died in 194BC
  • The son of refugees from a Baltic state
  • Two baseball players
  • One of three Rubenesque musicians

Answer


This was the seventeenth question to be answered correctly. 30 points to User:ScudLee

Question 12 (answered) edit

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble

Find two articles each with two sets of round brackets (parentheses) in their titles. (Redirects and stubs will not do)

Answer

This was the first question to be answered correctly. 10 points to User:Ianblair23


Question 13 (answered) edit

I've only had, oh, fifty-two

If Rex Harrison had 365, The Countess of Wessex 639, and Aron Ralston 887, what about George Best (5 digits) and HM George III (4 digits)?

Answer

This was the sixteenth question to be answered correctly. 30 points to User:Ravn


Question 14 (answered) edit

Underground journey

Start at a subway station named Temple.
Travel five stations up the line.
Find a European who was born many years beforehand with a famous relative.
This relative utilised a device discovered 500 years previously, to make an everyday item better.
Ten years after a patent, an event made 100,000 homeless and a Frenchman was unjustly executed.
Find a structure which utilised the same device and located just over 60 metres from the start of this event.
Go underground from here. If you choose wrongly, you can only go 22. Go 23 instead.
Two possibilities remain, but you're not in the City of London. Where are you?

Answer

This was the fourteenth question to be answered correctly. 20 points to User:Ravn


Question 15 (answered) edit

Redirects are acceptable

Find a wikipedia page whose title consists solely of a 7 letter word, repeated three times.

Bonus points are available for the first to find an example longer than 7 letters, if such an example exists.

Answer


This was the eighth question to be answered correctly. 10 points to User:Ravn, plus another 5 bonus points

Question 16 (answered) edit

Repeated theme

Find a four letter word, such that Zzzz, Zzzz Zzzz, Zzzz Zzzz Zzzz and Zzzz Zzzz Zzzz Zzzz are also articles. Some are disambiguation pages, but none of them are redirects.

(Sadly Zzzz Zzzz Zzzz Zzzz Zzzz isn't an article - any artists on Wikipedia, please consider using this for a title in the future.)

Answer


This was the fifth question to be answered correctly. 10 points to User:Ravn, 5 bonus points to User:Jeandré

Question 17 (answered) edit

A Load Of Rubbish

After surviving VfD, which collection of work includes musings on a disappointing night out last Thursday, a simian alternative to Badminton and the death of an egg.

What is one of the authors late for?

Answer


This was the thirteenth question to be answered correctly. 20 points to User:Dmleach


Question 18 (answered) edit

"Bloody Wo**n"

Who was just killed here?

Answer


This was the ninth question to be answered correctly. 10 points to User:Ravn


Question 19 (answered) edit

Fjalls

Which mountain on an island of the Kingdom of Denmark has a height between 600m and 620m and a name which is an anagram of "GLARING RUG"?

Answer


This was the tenth question to be answered correctly. 20 points to User:ScudLee

Question 20 (answered) edit

Sixty-Seven is lovely in Winter

If the home Land of Herr von Brentano di Tremezzo is one hundred and eight, and the homeland of Jason and Peleus is twelve, as of January 2005, approximately how many people have fifty-two for a home?

Answer

This was the sixth question to be answered correctly. 10 points to User:ALoan


Question 21 (answered) edit

Ah, highschool memories

  • A town with postcode 7054
  • A discovery in Illinois in 1977
  • A item that can be transverse, that can also be used for wine
  • A feature shared by members of the family Odontaspididae and by Cornuta stejnegeri
  • The sole member of a genus of the apple subfamily

What completes the company?

Answer

This was the twelvth question to be answered correctly. 20 points to User:Egonspengler

Question 22 (answered) edit

Guillemets non inclus

Where can you find Grand chef punk, risotto anglais, Le testament du docteur Greenspan, La surenchère de la CGT, Quatre ex-ministres en correctionnelle, and Notre supplément culturel mensuel?

Which is the cheapest?

Answer


This was the seventh question to be answered correctly. 10 points to User:Ravn

Tally edit

Questions answered (sorted by time):

10 points:

  • Question 12, answered correctly by User:Ianblair23. 09:49 8 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Question 1, answered correctly by User:ALoan. 10:37 8 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Question 2, answered correctly by User:ScudLee. 11:41, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question 8, answered partially by User:ALoan. 11:43, 8 December 2005 (UTC), later neatened by User:Jeandré[reply]
  • Question 16, answered correctly by User:Ravn and by User:Jeandré. 12:12, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question 20, answered correctly by User:ALoan. 12:28, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question 22, answered correctly by User:Ravn. 14:26, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question 15, answered correctly by User:Ravn. 15:19, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question 18, answered correctly by User:Ravn. 15:39, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

20 points:

30 points:

  • Question 13, answered correctly by User:Ravn. 13:39, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question 11, answered correctly by User:ScudLee. 19:45, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question 10, answered correctly by User:Zoicon5. 17:06, 16 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question 6, answered correctly by User:BorgHunter. 07:18, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question 7, answered correctly by ALoan 01:01, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

40 points:

  • Question 9, answered correctly by Ravn 12:50, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

41 points:

  • Question 4, answered correctly by Dmleach 19:59, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Current Ranking edit

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