Cool Zooms, Part IX Trivia Quiz

Answer: Face

The zygomatic bones, also called malar bones, or as most commonly known, 'cheek bones', are part of the facial bone structure. These bones are found on the side of the cheek and then also form the lower part of the eye socket on the side of the head. The zygomatic bones meet the maxilla (upper jawbone also forming the sides of the nose), the temporal bone (side of the head), the sphenoid bone (above the temporal bone) and the frontal bone (front part of the skull above the eyes). The word 'zygoma' is derived from the Greek for 'yoke' as the bone joins the facial bones with the main skull.

Question provided by PR member Mikemaster99 who painfully remembers fracturing his right zygomatic arch when a mistimed shot while batting in cricket left a significant depression in that cheek requiring immediate surgery.

Answer: The Netherlands

Not all blue and white tin-glazed earthenware is Delftware. The real article is hand painted and glazed in a process that has been around for centuries. Each piece is marked by the maker, with the location and year of its production. It achieved popularity in the UK after Queen Mary went to Holland to marry her cousin, William III. Mary commissioned the creation of many Delftware "tulip" vases, a unique design that quickly gained in popularity.

Modern Delftware is produced in large pieces (busts, enormous vases and dinner sets), and also in smaller Dutch-themed knick-knacks for tourists. It was originally only produced in Delft, but is now made under licence in several locations.

This questions was hand-crafted by Phoenix Rising member VegemiteKid.

Answer: Noddy

Enid Blyton published a series of children's books built around Noddy and his friend Big Ears between 1949 and 1963. However, despite the characters pushing sales of her books to four million copies a year across the globe, the stories have had a rocky road to success. After the levelling of charges about racism, Gilbert the Golliwog was removed from the tales and replaced by Martha Monkey. The austere schoolmistress, Miss Rap, who had a habit of spanking kids who were naughty with her slipper, was dismissed and replaced by Miss Prim. Noddy no longer shares a bed with his friend Big Ears and has had to change some of his language; he no longer "comes over all queer" when he becomes ill and he and Big Ears no longer have a "gay time in the woods".

The other three characters listed above are all from the "Famous Five" series by the same author. Julian is a boy, Timmy a dog and George is short for Georgina, a girl

This question was authored by Phoenix Rising's resident bear in the woods pollucci19... I said "bear", not "bare" in the woods!

Answer: Sherlock Holmes

The title role in the film "Mr Holmes" (2015) was played by Sir Ian McKellen who appeared as Magneto in several "X-Men" films.
Robert Downey Jr., who played Holmes in the movies "Sherlock Holmes" (2009) and "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" (2011), played "Iron Man" in several movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Doctor Strange, another Marvel character, was played by Benedict Cumberbatch who also played Holmes in the UK TV series "Sherlock" (2010-17).

Phoenix Rising team member lg549 managed to insert this question in the quiz without the great detective noticing.

Answer: Roller coaster

One of the first patents for a roller coaster can be traced back to 1885 and LaMarcus Thompson. As a ride, the coaster transports customers in a series of cars, linked together to form a train. There are some that will use a single car and the best example of this is the "Wild Mouse". The customers are restrained (oh, and they need to be) as they are then flung in the cars through a series of steep slopes and extremely tight corners and, quite possibly, turned upside down.

It is possible for a carousel to also have cars, but these are not common. The question did ask for (and highlighted) "traditional". The traditional carousel has wooden horses for seats, which move up and down as they go round, to simulate the action of riding a horse.

This question was created for Phoenix Rising by a totally spun out pollucci19.

Answer: KFC

In 2016, they (KFC) released "Finger Lickin' Good Edible Nail Polish" from their outlets in Hong Kong as a trial. Customers were encouraged to lick their fingernails to get the taste of chicken. It was even available in two flavours and colours - "Original" (a brown-grey colour) and "Hot and Spicy" (bright red)".
The product also came with a disclaimer, advising that normal nail polish should NOT be licked, as it can be quite toxic.

This question was submitted by Phoenix Rising member, ozzz2002, who likes chicken, but not as a fashion accessory.

Answer: The Blue Lagoon

The Blue Lagoon is a geothermal spa situated on a lava field near Grindavik in southwestern Iceland not far from the Keflavik International Airport. It is one of the country's most popular tourist attractions. Its warm milky blue waters are rich in silica, salts, and algae. Guests rinse off in showers before heading down into the lagoon to soak, apply silica mud masks, and enjoy drinks from the swim-up bar.

The movie of the same name was roundly panned by critics, although it enjoyed some success at the box office. Billed as a romantic survival drama, Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins starred as children marooned on a tropical island coming of age and finding love unfettered by society. For her part, Shields won Worst Actress at the inaugural Golden Raspberry Awards, a ceremony notable for recognizing the very worst in the film industry.

Phoenix Rising member JCSon spent two glorious hours in the Blue Lagoon after completing Spartan's 24 hour Ultra World Championship in December 2018, despite being pelted by driving rain.

Answer: Pelican

Drake's voyage received the approval of Queen Elizabeth I for the purposes of exploration and commerce. Unofficially, royal imprimatur gave him permission as a privateer to cripple Spanish shipping and led to the first of many Anglo-Spanish Wars. Drake was already well-known to the Spanish as a pirate, nicknamed "El Draque" (The Dragon). Legend has King Philip II offering 20,000 ducats (£6 million/US$8 million in modern currency) for his apprehension!

Drake renamed Pelican, the flagship of his fleet of five vessels, Golden Hind(e) mid-voyage to honor his patron and principal sponsor, Sir Christopher Hatton, whose family crest was a golden 'hind' (a female red deer). Drake's voyage was the first voyage by sea around the world by English ships. In 1581 Queen Elizabeth awarded Sir Francis Drake a knighthood at Deptford aboard Golden Hind.

Question submitted by Phoenix Rising's Humanist who believes that Drake concluded on his voyage that the Pelican't but the Golden Hind can.

Answer: A Spanish sherry

Fino is the driest and palest of the traditional varieties of Spanish sherry. Manzanilla is a variety of fino sherry with a slightly salty flavour, believed to have developed from it being manufactured near the Guadalquivir river sea estuary. As it is exclusively made around the port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda, in the province of Cádiz, it is produced under the Spanish Denominación de Origen Protegida (DOP) of Manzanilla-Sanlúcar de Barrameda DOP.

This question was barrel-rolled into this quiz by Phoenix Rising team member 1nn1.

Answer: K

CYMK is a colour model used in printing. The acronym is Cyan, Yellow, Magenta and Key (black, sometimes written "blacK"). This is known as a subtractive model: white light - red = cyan; white light - green = magenta; white light - blue = yellow. Mixing cyan, yellow and magenta inks gives a grey colour, so black is included for better results and to reduce printing costs.

Potassium is element number 19 in the Periodic Table of Elements where it sits in Group 1, the Alkali Metals. Elemental potassium is a soft, shiny metal usually stored in mineral oil because of its highly reactive nature with oxygen or water. The English and French name of potassium comes from potash, an early method of extracting it from a pot of ash from burnt vegetation. In Germanic countries, the element is called "Kalium" from "kali" meaning "alkali" and the chemical symbol "K" was derived from this.

In baseball, a batter is usually out if they collect three strikes from the pitcher. Strikes are given when the batter swings and misses the ball, hits it foul or fails to swing at a delivery in the strike zone. Henry Chadwick (1824-1908) was a newspaper journalist and baseball statistician who devised the scoring system still used today. Chadwick had designated "S" for "sacrifice" so chose "K" as the last letter in "struck" to represent a strikeout. Statistics are recorded for both pitchers and batters. A "K" is a swinging strikeout, but if the batter makes no effort on the third strike and is called out by the umpire, the letter will be written backwards.

Rising Phoenix's psnz struck a homer with this question, having taught chemistry and digital technologies and being an avid fan of many sports, including baseball.

Answer: Robert Burns

Robert "Rabbie" Burns is Scotland's National Bard and the author of many of the country's best known poems and songs. The title of John Steinbeck's 1937 novella comes from "the best laid schemes o' mice an' men", a line in the penultimate stanza of Robert Burns' 1785 poem 'To A Mouse'. Its two main characters, George Milton and Lennie Small, face a string of problems and challenges while working as farm hands during the great depression. The title is an apt one as the next line of Burns' poem - "gang aft agley" (or, in English, "often go awry") - tells us everything we need to know about the fate of George and Lennie's plans.

J. D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" takes its name from the main protagonist Holden Caulfield's misinterpretation of lines from a 1782 poem by Burns called "Comin' Thro' the Rye". The poem is also often set to music using the melody of another traditional Scottish song called "Common' Frae the Town".

Phoenix Rising's Fifiona81 wrote this wee question but failed miserably at recitin' onie ay th' poetry in a Scottish accent.

Answer: Lex Luthor

Lex Luthor, arch villain of Superman, first appeared in "Action Comics" number 23 (April 1940) and was depicted as a red-haired diabolical genius. Since then his guise has transformed to his modern image of a bald, evil but very successful businessman.

In "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman", which screened on television from September 1993 and starred Dean Cain in the lead role, also featured John Shea as Lex Luthor. In season one, episode 16: "Foundling", Superman is learning about his father from an orb which is then stolen and sold to Luthor. When Superman tries to retrieve the orb, we get a glimpse into Luthor's private gallery which contains the Venus de Milo's arms, as well as a full body portrait of the "Mona Lisa", Beethoven's "10th Symphony", Gainsborough's "Yellow Boy" and a self-portrait of Vincent Van Gogh.

This question was retrieved from the gallery and put on display here by leith90 who, after months of social distancing and isolation, is made of marshmallow, not steel.

Answer: In the Navy

The lyrics of Village People's "In the Navy" were essentially an advertisement for the benefits to be gained from joining the US Navy, mentioning inducements such as being able to travel the world, learn scientific skills, and play sports and music, in addition to serving and protecting the country. The song was the first to be released from the band's fourth studio album "Go West" and reached number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1979 and number two on the UK singles chart.

The colour "navy blue" originated from the very dark blue uniforms first worn by British Royal Navy officers in the 18th century.

Having thoroughly researched the Village People's back catalogue in order to write this question, Fifiona81 is now attempting to remove the lyrics to "Y.M.C.A" from her head.

Answer: Contact lenses

Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick (1852-1937) was a German medical doctor and ophthalmologist. He developed the first successful contact lens, having tested it on rabbits, himself and a group of volunteers. Fick's lenses were blown in glass and of different sizes using casts from rabbits' eyes and human cadavers.

Only one of Fick's six patients fitted with a contact lens benefited and he abandoned his research, writing in 1902: "Unfortunately I have found no cases exactly suited for the application of such a contact glass, but the improved visual acuity in proper cases of irregular corneal astigmatism has been surprising."

Hearing aids in the form of ear trumpets date to the 17th Century. A truss is a medical appliance used to support a herniated area and a variety were available for purchase in American Civil War era catalogues. Bandages have been used since ancient times, with the elastic variety appearing as the ACE (All Cotton Elastic) bandage in 1914.

Short-sighted Rising Phoenix team member psnz was pleased to help this question into the quiz but was left wondering how many different medical appliances he would need in the future.

Answer: The Girl in the Spider's Web

"Millennium" was originally conceived by Swedish journalist and writer Stieg Larsson as a series of crime novels having ten installments. He met an untimely death in 2004, and the first three novels in the series were published posthumously: "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (2005), "The Girl Who Played with Fire" (2006), and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" (2007).

In 2013, Lagercrantz was commissioned to continue the series. His first contribution, "The Girl in the Spider's Web" was published in 2015. By the time he completed the next two novels, "The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye" (2017) and "The Girl Who Lived Twice" (2019), the series had sold over 100 million copies worldwide.

Phoenix Rising's JCSon was "The Guy Who Wrote This Question".

Answer: Richard Burton

Richard Burton died in August 1984, soon after the end of the filming of Michael Radford's interpretation of George Orwell's novel, "1984" (released in October, 1984). Throughout the movie, Burton's portrayal of O'Brien (first name not revealed) becomes increasingly weary and disenchanted, reflecting O'Brien's ghostly and enigmatic roles in the Brotherhood and the Party.

Nominated for an Academy Award seven times, Burton never won an Oscar, though he did receive other industry awards. During his life he amassed a huge body of work both on stage and on the silver and small screens. He also released numerous vocal recordings.

This question was smuggled out of a weird dystopian place called 'The Naughty Corner' by Phoenix Rising member VegemiteKid.

Answer: Pole vault

Bubka was a remarkable athlete who dominated the discipline of pole vaulting for over a decade. He would break thirty-five world records along the way and he became the first man to break through the elusive six metre barrier. It took twenty-one years for his world indoor mark of 6.15 metres (set in 1993) to be eclipsed. Truly a man ahead of his time. He would win six consecutive World Championship events and yet, despite this dominance, he was only able to win one Olympic gold medal. This came at the 1988 games in Seoul.

This question was created by Phoenix Rising's pollucci19 who is convinced that the event should be renamed to the poll vault.

Answer: Weißwurstäquator

Weißwurstäquator (or "white sausage border") is named for the Weißwurst sausage of Bavaria: a favorite specialty in the south of Germany but rarely seen in the north. This boundary has no precise definition, but has been variously defined as tracking the linguistic Speyer line which roughly follows the Main River; the 49th parallel between the Main and the Danube Rivers; or the Danube River itself. The concept - and the jokes - are as old as the rivalry between Prussia and Bavaria, the dominant players before German Unification in 1871.

Weißwurstäquator and similar terms are just another way of poking gentle fun at your fellow countrymen, a pastime common to the people of every nation of any appreciable size on earth. Cultural differences between the north and south of Germany actually run much deeper than the more recent Cold War division between east and west. They touch every aspect of daily life: religion, politics, lifestyle, language and, of course, cuisine!

Placed on your menu du jour by Phoenix Rising's Humanist, another wannabe Charlie Tuna.

Answer: The Name of the Rose

"The Name of the Rose" was Umberto Eco's debut novel and what a way to start a writing career. Not only did it go on to become one of the best selling works of fiction of all time it also earned the author the prestigious Strega Prize in 1981 and Prix Medicis Étranger in 1982. If those dates confuse with the year in the question, the book was first released in 1980 in Italian and then re-released in 1983 in English. It was the English version that sent sales skyrocketing. The story centres on a Franciscan monk, friar William of Baskerville and his Benedictine assistant Adso of Melk, who have travelled to a monastery in Northern Italy to attend a forum debate on certain theological matters. No sooner do they arrive when they are called upon to solve a series of murders in the abbey.

This question was solemnly prepared by Phoenix Rising's pollucci19 who assures his teammates that he certainly is no monk.

Answer: Mexico

The national flag of Mexico has is a vertical tricolour of red, white and green. which are the colours of the national army. In the centre of the middle white band is the coat of arms which depicts the legend of an eagle sitting on a cactus while eating a snake that signalled to the Aztecs where to found their city, Tenochtitlan (which in time became Mexico City).

Uganda's flag depicts a crane, Dominica's a parrot, and the Papua New Guinea flag contains a bird of paradise. Other countries with eagles on their flags include: Albania, American Samoa, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, United States Virgin Islands and Zambia.

This question was flown in by Phoenix Rising Team Member 1nn1.