Trivia last night was one of the most contentious contests to date. In the first round, a question was asked about a 4-sided shape with 2 parallel sides. A trapezoid, right? Wrong. A trapezium. A word that none of us had heard.
From Wikipedia: "A trapezoid (in North America) or trapezium (in Britain and elsewhere) is a quadrilateral, which is defined as a shape with four sides, which has a pair of parallel sides...The exactly opposite concept, a quadrilateral that has no parallel sides, is referred to as a trapezium in North America, and as a trapezoid in Britain and elsewhere."
Either way, the answer should have been trapezoid and we should have had a 10 in our first round. Then, at the end of the game, two teams were tied for first (we were not one of them) and the emcee asked "What is the largest American city?" One guy said, "New York". Incorrect according to the announcer. "Los Angeles" said the other. Correct. When conducting a search, by population, of our largest American cities, by population within city limits: NY=8.2 million. LA=3.8 million. Maybe he meant metro area? NY metro area=18.8 million . LA? 12.9. We are definitely starting to question where this game gets its facts.
Moving on...
The title of my post was a question - which animated character said it? D'oh.
The ones we missed, whether due to horrendous question reading by the emcee, or otherwise:
*Who composed the musical/story "Peter and the Wolf"?
*Yasser Arafat had a state funeral in which country?
*According to Islamic law, after having sex with a lamb, it is considered a mortal sin to do what? The answer is NOT smoke a cigarette
*From which plant does linseed oil come?
*What is the only capital mentioned in Genesis still in existence today?
Two questions we overthought when the simple, obvious answer was right:
*At the Siege of Yorktown, to which general did General Lord Cornwallis surrender?
*What is the term for the asexual reproduction of an organism resulting in a new multicellular organism genetically identical to another? Or something like that.
And, 'cause we're not total morons:
*What is the name for a triangle in which all sides or angles are different?
*What was the title of the tv show about a Canadian mountie who settles in Chicago?
*Who's first novel was The Time Machine?
*What is removed when an orchidectomy is performed?
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Still no word on our apartment front. Found the perfect place. Check. The owners want to rent it to us. Check.
Hurdles one and two down. However, we just can't bear the thought of eating our original security deposit if our current place doesn't re-rent. So, we now play the waiting game as our landlady tries to get new tenants and we cross everything we can (and I mean everything).
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Answers:
It was Homer Simpson and I totally agree with him
Sergei Prokofiev
Egypt (we put France, which is where he died)
Eat it
Flax
Damascus
George Washington (we put Horatio Gates cause Purple Peter wrote a paper on this Battle in, like, 9th grade and remembered that name)
cloning (not meiosis)
scalene
"Due South"
H.G. Wells
testicle (ouch)
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