Our Regular Sunday Struggle

We actually have a relatively decent story to tell this week (I even got a bonus point for bringing my own pen), but we knew that the top spot was unattainable after Round 1 - the News Round. I'll leave the question as to whether most of these questions are actually news up to you. I haven't got a lot of time to detail these questions today so this post will be brief. I may have to generally scale down some of these blog posts in future, but today I don't really think you're missing much.

Venue: The Duck & Scholar                                                            Team: Me + 2 others
Score: 48/61

Best Team Name 

 

There was only one contender this week - 'You're a Quizzard, Harry'.

 

 

Questions

1) Snowboarder Rich Millington broke a Guinness World Record this week, but what was it? 

a) He completed the most 360s in a minute

b) He reached the fastest ever speed on a snowboard

c) He boarded the furthest distance in 24 hours

 

2) Which Apprentice candidate has called himself 'a mix between Gandhi and the Wolf of Wall Street'?

 

3) Which TV presenter posted a photo of their naked bottom on Twitter this week?

 

4) In football news, Sunderland lost an away game to Southampton 8-0 this week. How many hours did the round trip to Southampton and back take them?

5) This week researchers found that which animals are able to detect rain storms from as far away as 150 miles?

6) The average human being can see about 1 million different colours, but scientists at Newcastle University have found a woman who can see how many more colours than this?
a) 55 million
b) 99 million
c) 111 million

 

7) What is the full name of the daughter of Peter Andre and Katie Price?
a) Princess Tiamii Diamond Faith Andre
b) Princess Tiamii Crystal Esther Andre
c) Princess Tiamii Pearl Sophie Andre

8) What is the first name of Fearne Cotton's son?

 

9) Which F*R*I*E*N*D*S star named their child Coco?

10) Which celebrity couple attempted to trademark their child's name?

11) Into which sea does the Volga river flow?

12) What is the time difference (in hours) between Spain and Poland?

13) Which product carried the slogan 'The Totally Tropical Taste'?

 

Answers

 

1) c) He boarded the furthest distance in 24 hours

2) Scott (McCullogh)

3) Amanda Holden

4) 11 hours

5) Elephants (specifically African elephants)

6) b) 99 million colours

7) b) Princess Tiamii Crystal Esther Andre

8) Rex

9) Courteney Cox

10) Jay-Z and Beyoncé Knowles

11) Caspian Sea

12) 0

13) Lilt

 

Post Match Analysis

 

1) None of us had heard of this, so we just went for what we thought was the most likely (a).

Fact File: Millington completed 308 runs of an indoor slope at the Chill Factore in Trafford, Greater Manchester. It took him 24 hours to cover 25 kilometres and he accepted the challenge on behalf of Disability Snowsports UK. He said he will celebrate by 'having a bath and drinking a beer'.

 

2) I had seen the episode, but it takes me forever these days to learn the names of the various candidates, especially now that there are 20. Knowing I was wrong, I put down 'Stephen'.

Fact File: The Apprentice is a reality TV show where various businesspeople compete to earn the favour of a wealthy magnate. The UK version features Alan Sugar (who created the electronics and computer firm Amstrad in 1968) in this role and the candidates seek his investment and part ownership of their new idea for a company. The UK version is now in its 10th series and the theme tune is 'Dance of the Knights' by Sergei Prokofiev.

 

3) I am sure that you now understand the quality of news that we were dealing with here. Having no idea, we went for Caroline Flack, given that she is currently dancing on Strictly. Holden posted the photo as a reference to an interview with Lady Gaga.

Fact File: Holden was born in Portsmouth in 1971. She has notably acted in Wild at Heart and Cutting It, but is probably best known for being a member of the judging panel on Britain's Got Talent. She was married to Les Dennis for 8 years, but they split in 2003 and she is now married to Chris Hughes.    

 

4) I'm not sure if anyone actually knows for sure that all Sunderland fans took 11 hours on their trip, but this was the figure widely quoted by the media and not paid any attention to by us. The team's performance was regarded as so poor that Sunderland fans have been offered refunds for the cost of their tickets.

Fact File: This match marks Southampton's biggest Premier League win and only the sixth time in the League's history that a side have lost by 8 goals or more and it is reportedly Sunderland's biggest loss for 42 years. The match took place in St Mary's Stadium.

 

5) We were split between elephant and giraffe (probably due to the height advantage). This is probably one of the more interesting news questions this week.
Fact File: This research was conducted in Namibia. Elephants are the largest animals found on land, can live to around 70 years of  and can weigh up to 7000 kg. They are usually split into 2 groups - the African and Asian/Indian elephants, but scientists are divided as to whether there are more. The Asian elephant is regarded as an endangered species. An elephant's tusks are its incisors. A male is known as a 'bull', a female is a 'cow' and the collective term is a 'herd'.

6) Again, if you don't know (and I suspect most people wouldn't have had a clue) then really you're into silly colours.
Fact File: Dr Gabriele Jordan announced this discovery this week, having been searching for this possibility for 20 years. The majority of people are born with three 'cones' in their eyes, which guide the amount of colour hues we can see - people with only two functioning cones in their eyes may see many fewer hues. The woman in question was not the only 'tetrachromat' being researched, but she was the only participant to exhibit signs of 'super colour vision'.
    

 

7) Well, there you go. I have no desire to glorify celebrities purely because of their choice of baby names, and anyway I'm watching the clock.

 

8) Not a bad choice in this case actually I think.

 

9) It's definitely better than Coco Kudrow.

 

10) Yes, you did read that question correctly. 'Beyon-Z' were the answer to a previous question, so unused to the double bluffing on this quiz, we had a stab at David and Victoria Beckham with their daughter Harper Seven.
Fact File: The couple were hoping to use the name at some point in the future to market their own line of baby products. However, they lost the case to a Boston based wedding planning company which had started in 2009. This still does not mean, however, that the power couple cannot use the name (unless they start a wedding planning business), so perhaps we'll see plenty of Blue Ivy baby merchandise in the end after all (retch).

11) Made the classic mistake of Black Sea. Still, at least this was one of those questions that I was quite happy to learn the answer to. The Caspian Sea is a sea but is also technically a lake (the world's largest).
Fact File: The Volga derives its name from the Russian for 'moisture' and is the longest river in Europe. It is formed by the Kama and Oka rivers and the most famous settlement is probably Volgograd, but it runs through many other major cities, such as Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan and Samara. It is regarded by many as Russia's national river.

12) We were surprised by this one, but nevertheless it is true. I imagine Europeans generally often don't realise how small Europe actually is compared to the rest of the world.
Fact File: You can check the time differences between various cities here at the World Clock website. Spain and Poland are both in the UTC+1 time zone, with the UK, home of Greenwich Mean Time, at 1 hour behind both. Spain extends further west than the UK, but represents the westernmost limit of the time zone, and Poland largely represents the eastern extent. The time zone covers the majority of Europe. UTC stands for Coordinated Universal Time (in French).
Bonus Fact: China has only one time zone based on the position of Beijing - UTC+8.

13) I knew I had heard this slogan before, but probably not since the 1990s. I think we went with Kia Ora, so we weren't so far away.
Fact File: Lilt is a soft drink that has been sold by the Coca-Cola Company since 1975. Despite being marketed as though it is from the Caribbean, it is not widely available outside the UK and Ireland.


So there we go. As always, don't forget to comment or tweet me (@MPRTaylor) if you think I've got anything wrong or if you could have helped us out here Until next time, everyone!