Zippy Zooms XIII Trivia Quiz

Answer: New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia

The location was named after Francis MacCabe, a surveyor, who had completed a significant amount of work mapping out the territory within New South Wales. Most of his work was centred on the Murray-Darling River Basin.

Whilst it is acknowledged that this is the point where the three states meet, the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales tends to disagree (slightly). By their calculations the borders of South Australia and Victoria meet mid-stream in the Murray River and that the precise location of the MacCabe Corner is approximately 100 metres away inside New South Wales.

This question was created by Phoenix Rising's pollucci19 who reckons that the above stance is typical of the New South Welsh and that they will also claim that Sydney, not Canberra, is the capital of Australia.

Answer: One quintillionth (1x10^-18) of a second

French-Swedish physicist Anne L'Huillier, Hungarian-Austrian physicist Ferenc Krausz, and French experimental physicist Pierre Agostinis were awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics "for [their] experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter".

In the field of attosecond science, also known as attophysics, the generation of attosecond photon pulses enables experiments of light-matter interaction to be studied at higher time resolution.

The prefix "atto" is derived from the Danish word "atten", which means eighteen.

This question was scientifically written by Phoenix Rising's Matthew_07.

Answer: The Knights Templar

Dan Jones wrote the "New York Times" bestseller "The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England" in 2012 and it became a bestseller in the US the following year. He followed this with "The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors" and "Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter".

In 2017, he took a departure from English history and wrote "The Templars, The Rise and the Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors", a very well received history of the order from their founding in 1119 Jerusalem to their spectacular fall in 1307 in France. This book was also a "New York Times" bestseller.

Phoenix Rising member and Dan Jones fan tazman6619 humbly submits this question for your consideration.

Answer: London

Ray Davies wanted to write a tribute to London in 1967. He wanted to call it "Liverpool" a street (in London) initially, but Davies was London born and bred and knew London well. In a 2022 interview with online magazine "Louder", Davies explained, "Waterloo was a pivotal place in my life." He continues, "and I saw several Waterloo sunsets. I was in St Thomas' Hospital there when I was really ill as a child, and I looked out on the Thames. Later I used to go past the station when I went to art college on the train. And I met my first girlfriend, who became my first wife, along the Embankment at Waterloo." At the time it was written, in the Swingin' 60s, it was erroneously believed the Terry and Julie mentioned in the song were actors Terence Stamp and Julie Christie, prominent London celebrities at the time but Davies explained, "I think the characters have to do with the aspirations of my elder sisters, who grew up during the Second World War and missed out on the 60s. I was thinking of the world I wanted them to have."

It was kept out of the number one spot on the UK Singles Chart by Sandie Shaw's Eurovision Winner "Puppet On A String" (ABBA won seven years later with "Waterloo").

Question contributed by 1nn1 who is still amazed how the bass line is so simple on such a melodic track.

Answer: World War I

There were 628 crosses awarded in the Great War, aka World War I, 111 in Crimea, 78 in the Boer War and 181 in WWII. The medal is awarded for "most conspicuous bravery, or some daring or preeminent act of valour or self-sacrifice, or extreme devotion to duty in the presence of the enemy." and depicts a lion and a crown, with the legend 'For Valour'.

It was instituted by Queen Victoria (hence the name) during the Crimean War of 1854-56. and the medals were made from the melted-down metal of a captured Russian cannon.

Three of the major Commonwealth countries - Canada, Australia, and New Zealand -now issue their own version of the medal but retain the same name for it.

Phoenix Rising member ozzz2002 dedicates this question to all the heroes that have won this most prestigious of awards. Thank you!

Answer: Phoenix Rising

Charge for service = fee
Cuts = nicks
Fee + nicks = Phoenix
Climb = rise
croon = sing
Rise+ sing = rising

The name of our team comes from the quote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "The phoenix Hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise." Cervantes is most famous for writing "Don Quixote" about a knight-errant Alonso Quijano as Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza. It is considered by many scholars to be a founding work of Western literature.

This question was cryptically added to the quiz by Phoenix Rising member tazman6619.

Answer: Transparent

'Sukeruton' is used to indicate transparency or translucency, in particular for devices such as watches with gears visible through the face exposing their inner workings. The Japanese word for skeleton in the English context is 'Gaikotsu'.

The bare bones of this question were included for transparency by Phoenix Rising Team member 1nn1.

Answer: The Adventure of the Empty House

Citing a need to diversify his writing, Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) elected to kill Sherlock Holmes off in "The Final Problem," falling down the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland while battling his nemesis, Professor Moriarty. Conan Doyle managed just eight years between stories, after much public pressure convinced him to return the character to life.

The first story written after 'The Great Hiatus' was actually "The Hound of the Baskervilles," published serially in 1901-02, but the novel was set before Holmes' death. It was in the 1903 story "The Adventure of the Empty House" that the narrator (Dr. Watson) encounters Holmes while visiting the apparently impossible murder scene of Ronald Adair. Conan Doyle continued to write Sherlock Holmes stories until 1927.

The 'consulting detective' on this question was none other than Phoenix Rising's reedy, who always enjoys taking a hiatus when he can.

Answer: A dragon attack

During the opening scene of "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" your character wakes up on a cart with a bunch of rebels caught by the Imperials. It seems you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. The cart pulls up to the town of Helgen where you and the other prisoners are to be executed. However, when it is your turn to have your head chopped off, a dragon attacks the town throwing everything into chaos allowing you to escape and begin your adventure.

"Skyrim" was first released in 2011 by Bethesda Softworks and quickly became popular. The game provides an open world with a nearly endless supply of challenging quests. The character has 18 different skills to develop and specialize. There is a main quest line, however, that can be followed at the player's own pace. Due to the open-world variety, many players enjoy replaying the game multiple times.

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Answer: Winx

Now retired, Winx won 37 races from her 43 career starts. She began her illustrious career by winning her first three races then, by her standards, she suffered a slump, winning only once in her next seven starts. Then, in May 2015, the run (pun not intended) began... she would not lose again, winning 33 consecutive races up until her retirement in April 2019.

Her startling run included wins in 25 Group events which became a (then) new world benchmark. In 2015, she was ranked as the second-best horse in the world. This ranking improved to number one in 2016, a position she would hold in 2017 and then co-hold in 2018. In 2017, she would be inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame. This made her only the third horse to achieve this feat while still racing.

This question was written by Phoenix Rising's pollucci19 who often thinks he's haylarious and is not afraid to make a foal of himself.