Cool Zooms, Part XXXIV Trivia Quiz

Answer: 26

There are a lot of slang terms used in the game of darts and this one, 'bed and breakfast', is arguably the most famous. It is arrived by hitting a single dart in the 20, the 5 and the 1 beds. Most players will seek to hit the twenty or, specifically, the triple twenty, as it has the potential to provide a higher score-line than any other number on the board. Both the five and the one flank the twenty so it is not uncommon for players to miss their target and nail these two lesser numbers. The origin of the phrase is debatable though the most common explanation for it appears to be that, at the turn of the twentieth century, the cost of a bed and breakfast was two shillings and six pence (or 2 and 6).

Incidentally, if a player nails his three individual darts into the triple five, triple twenty and triple one (for a score of 78), this is known as a 'champagne breakfast'. It has nothing to do with the cost of a champagne breakfast. As for the link with boxing... it's a tenuous one, December 26 is Boxing Day.

This question was pegged out by Phoenix Rising's pollucci19, who's more likely to end up with a 'bag of nails' (three darts in the single ones) than a 'bed and breakfast'.

Answer: Knuckle

The English word 'knuckle' is derived from the Middle High German 'knöchel' (meaning "little bone"). In German, 'knöchel' is commonly used to refer to the ankles, and a more specific word like 'fingerknöchel' is typically used to refer to the knuckles in your fingers. The English word 'ankle' is probably derived from the Germanic 'ankula' and/or a Scandinavian precursor.

Bare-knuckle boxing involves combat without boxing gloves or other hand padding.

Phoenix Rising member JCSon cracked his knuckles before writing this question.

Answer: Clay

The French Open is the only Grand Slam tournament played on clay. The surface is actually a loose mineral aggregate consisting of crushed brick, stone or shale and rolled to a flat surface. Due to the looseness of the clay, when the ball impacts the surface it loses a lot of speed and bounces higher than on grass or synthetic hard surfaces. Play on clay court centres around baseline play rather than a serve and volley approach. The clay also allows the player to slide on the court as opposed to other surfaces which have more grip.

Muhammad Ali, nicknamed 'the Greatest' was arguably one of the best and most influential boxers of all time. Born as Cassius Marcellus Clay jr , he changed his name in 1964 after converting to Islam.

Leith90 saw this question floating around and lobbed it into the quiz.

Answer: Fly

All four are true flies of the order Diptera, in which there are an estimated one million species. Houseflies (Musca domestica) are the most common fly species found in houses all over the world. Horseflies are flies in the family Tabanidae. In the UK and Australia, they're commonly known as March flies and in other parts of the world variously as deer-flies, buffalo-flies, elephant-flies, or moose-flies. There are over 1,200 known species of blowfly (Calliphoridae family). Blowflies commonly deposit their infectious larvae in open wounds, urine- or feces-soaked fur, and sometimes even unbroken skin causing a parasitic infestation known as myiasis. Animals or meats so infected are sometimes said to be fly blown. 'Sandfly' does not refer to a specific family or species of fly, but rather is a colloquial term for any species of fly found in particularly sandy areas.

In professional boxing, flyweight is one of eight traditional weight classes, including fighters weighing between 49kg (108 lb) and 51 kg (112 lb).

This question flown in by Phoenix Rising's JCSon.

Answer: First cousin, once removed

'The Beverly Hillbillies' is a sitcom that aired on the CBS network from 1962 to 1971 and it showcases the adventures of a poor Ozark family striking it rich when oil is discovered on their property and their sudden relocation to the posh area of Beverly Hills. Max Baer Jr. portrays Jethro Bodine, the son of Jed Clampett's (Buddy Edson) cousin Pearl, however, he addressed him as Uncle Jed. Jethro's initial task was to simply drive his uncle and family to their new abode but decided to stay on. Jethro is a bit dim-witted, though the family brag about his "sixth grade education", and many of the gags surrounding him revolve around (a) his appetite (he's nicknamed the "six foot stomach") and (b) his pursuit of women. The latter has him pursuing a variety of career opportunities because they present their own pathways to girls. On one occasion Jethro is torn between the decision to be a brain surgeon or pursue a career as a fry cook.

Jethro Bodine was Max Baer's most significant acting role, however, it also typecast him and, when the show was cancelled in 1971, he found it difficult to further his acting career. He put his energies into writing and producing films. He wrote and produced the drama 'Macon County Line' in 1974. Made on a budget of $110,000 it would gross in excess of $25 million at the box office.

His namesake (and father), Maximillian (Max) Baer was an American boxer who became the World Heavyweight champion in 1934.

Phoenix Rising's pollucci19 threw his hat in the ring to write this question.

Answer: Chicago

Chicago was awarded the 1904 Olympic games but the time frame clashed with the 1904 World Fair to be held in nearby St Louis. The organisers at St Louis feared both events would suffer from competing with each other so they lobbied the Olympic committee which subsequently awarded the Games to St Louis. Only 62 of the 651 athletes who attended came from countries outside North America and only between 13 to 15 nations were in attendance in total.
The Olympic three-medal format of gold, silver, and bronze for first, second, and third places, was implemented for the first time in these Olympics. Boxing was introduced as a sport for the first time at these Olympics.

This question was run in by Phoenix Rising team member 1nn1 who was out of breath by the time he finished it.

Answer: Cauliflower

The edible part of a cauliflower is sometimes called a "curd" because it resembles cheese curds. Although cauliflowers are most commonly white in colour, there are varieties that are green, orange or even purple.

Cauliflower ears are not an uncommon deformity in people who repeatedly suffer blunt trauma to their ears, such as boxers. It happens when the outer ear is injured, causing blood to pool and separate the cartilage from its connective tissue, the perichondrium, which supplies the cartilage with nutrients. The cartilage dies off and fibrous tissue forms over the area, giving rise to the cauliflower appearance that names the deformity.

This question was traumatically formed by Phoenix Rising team member purelyqing.

Answer: HMS Hood

The Hood was the pride of the Royal Navy, and was the largest warship in the world. However, the Germans had the Bismarck, a battleship whose very existence had the Admiralty extremely concerned. The Hood and the HMS Prince of Wales, together with an escort of six small destroyers, engaged the Bismarck, southwest of Iceland, in the Denmark Strait. The British ships fired first, damaging the German ship, but the Bismarck returned fire from about 15 kms distant, and hit the Hood's ammunition store, causing a huge explosion. The ship sank within minutes, and only three seamen survived.
The Bismarck did not last much longer- three days later, on May 17, 1941, she was sunk by a harassing attack by several ships and planes, about 300 kms to the northwest of Spain.

The Hood was a cruiser, which is also a weight division in boxing, just lighter than a heavyweight.

This question was punched out by ozzz2002, a member of the Phoenix Rising boxing troupe.

Answer: Bridge Over Troubled Water

Released in 1970, this was the duo's most successful and critically acclaimed album. It would sell in excess of 25 million copies, top the charts in more than ten countries, find itself on numerous listings as one of the best ever albums and earn the pair two Grammy Awards. Despite all this, the pair went their separate ways soon after. Paul Simon would focus, intently, on his musical career, whilst Art Garfunkel took the opportunity to pursue an acting career. He would make his debut in the 1970 film version of 'Catch-22' and follow that up with 'Carnal Knowledge' (1971), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Supporting Actor.

The album, 'Bridge Over Troubled Water', was laden with hits such as the title track and those listed in the question above. The one that we have omitted to mention was "The Boxer", which also links this album to our boxing connection in this quiz.

This question arose from Phoenix Rising's pollucci19 who fancies himself as a chef and is rather partial to parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.

Answer: Oil on canvas

Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh created 'The Starry Night' in June 1889 during his stay at an asylum in Saint-Remy-de-Provence that followed the infamous incident in which he hacked off his own ear. The picture is one of many sketches, drawings and paintings that he produced based on the view from his bedroom window at the asylum, but is the only one depicted at night. The main features of the painting are the stylised moon and stars of the night sky, a cypress tree to the left of the foreground and the shadowy image of a village. The last of these was not actually visible from his window, so the painting is not an accurate interpretation of the real view.

'The Starry Night' is an oil on canvas work. Van Gogh had access to two rooms at the asylum, so he was able to set one up as an artist's studio and continue his prolific output of paintings despite his incarceration. 'The Starry Night' is just one of the nearly 150 paintings that he produced during his stay there; others include well-known works such as 'Irises', 'Cypresses' and various versions of 'Wheat Field with Cypresses'.

There are of course other uses for canvas - in boxing, you would be fighting rather than painting on it and definitely trying to avoid having to pick yourself up off it.

This question was drawn up by Phoenix Rising's Fifiona81 while looking out at a distinctly un-starry night sky.

Answer: Romeo and Juliet

An oxymoron is a rhetorical device involving a contradiction in terms. In its most common form, the oxymoron is a two-word (adjective-noun) phrase, for example: "deafening silence".

In Act 1, Scene 1 of "Romeo and Juliet", William Shakespeare incorporates some thirteen oxymorons in Romeo's speech:
"O brawling love! O loving hate!
O anything of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness, serious vanity!
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
This love feel I, that feel no love in this."

To ensure a "fair fight" or to protect smaller pugilists, boxing utilises a series of divisions or weight classes. The original eight classes in increasing order of weight are: Flyweight, Bantamweight, Featherweight, Lightweight, Welterweight, Middleweight, Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight. Is "Light Heavyweight" also an oxymoron?

In 1813, Pierce Egan (a British sportswriter) labelled Boxing the "Sweet Science" because participants must be scientific in strategizing how to win before they can do so. In this strictly regulated sport, a small crowd can gather at a boxing ring for some awfully good entertainment, watching amateur expert fighters with real potential display their passive aggressive tendencies in defensive attacks or offensive defence.

This question was gently bashed into shape by psnz from Phoenix Rising whose favorite oxymoron remains "military intelligence".

Answer: Saved by the Bell

Aimed at teens and younger children, "Saved by the Bell" played on NBC between 1989 and 1993. It was developed from Disney's "Good Morning, Miss Bliss" and followed a group of friends and their school principal. While predominantly light-hearted, the show sometimes touched on more serious social issues.

Two spin-off series followed: "Saved by the Bell: The College Years" (1993-1994) and "Saved by the Bell: The New Class" (1993-2000). The television movies "Saved by the Bell: Hawaiian Style" (1992) and "Saved by the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas" (1994) also resulted from the original sitcom. "Bayside! The Musical!" (2013) was an unauthorised parody of "Saved by the Bell".

"Saved by the Bell" is an expression applying to someone who is rescued from an undesired situation by an intervention at the very last moment. Examples might include a class beginning a school exam when the fire alarm goes off; or the bell ending a boxing round just as one of the participants is being counted out.

Phoenix Rising's psnz had a lengthy teaching career with numerous bells although precious few resulted in salvation.

Answer: Second hand

On the modern clock face (or dial) you will find the numbers one to twelve equally spaced around its circumference to indicate the number of hours in half a day. Most clocks will also show sixty dots or dashes around the edge to indicate the number of minutes within each of those hours. To read the time, one must interpret where the hands are pointing on the dial.

The hour hand is the one that is usually the thickest and shortest of these, the minute hand being thinner and longer. The time is announced by describing where the minute hand is in relation to the hour hand. For example, it is nineteen minutes past twelve. Not all analogue clock faces will display a seconds hand but those that do will show this as the longest and thinnest hand on the dial.

In boxing, the fighter will have a cornerman as a coach or an assistant. These cornermen are known as seconds.

This handy question was brought to you by Phoenix Rising's pollucci19 who hopes it didn't give you a hard time.

Answer: Marquess

In decreasing order, the ranks of the United Kingdom peerage system are:
Duke / Duchess
Marquess / Marchioness
Earl / Countess
Baron / Baroness (in Scotland Lord / Lady of Parliament)

A marquess (UK spelling) or marquis (French spelling) means "ruler of a border area" in Old French from the 13th-14th centuries. As far back as Roman times, distinctions were made between those who oversaw frontier territories (called marches) and those who governed interior ones. No doubt the situation reflected the probabilities of being involved in military activity.

In the United Kingdom, a marquess or marchioness receives the prefix "The Most Honourable". There are few marquessates (34) in the British peerage, something explained by Queen Victoria who noted that it was not an English title and it tended to be used for someone whom the monarch did not wish to become a duke.

The Marquess of Queensbury is a Scottish title, held since 1682 by the Douglas family. The 9th Marquess is well known for two reasons: boxing and his interactions with Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde. The commonly accepted rules of boxing were drafted in London in 1865, endorsed by John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensbury. Modern boxing is based on this code. The Marquess of Queensbury Rules applied to both professional and amateur fights and were the first to require participants to wear boxing gloves.

Douglas's son Lord Alfred formed an intimate relationship with Wilde. When Queensbury accused him of homosexuality, Wilde sued him for libel in 1895 but overwhelming evidence forced him to drop the case and the Irishman was left bankrupt.

Phoenix Rising's psnz delivered a one-two combo, pummelling this question into submission.

Answer: Sugar Bowl

The NCAA organise the college football competition in the US. The college teams across the country are divided into conferences based mostly but not always on geography. At the end of the season there is a series of playoff games between leading teams in each conference. The most prestigious of these, the New Year's Six include The Sugar Bowl played at the New Orleans Superdome on New Year's Day. (The other five Bowl games are Rose, Cotton, Peach, Orange and Fiesta.)
Curiously the professional names of two acclaimed boxers include "sugar": Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Leonard.

This question was beaten into shape by Phoenix Rising team member 1nn1.

Answer: Reach

Reaching means sailing across the wind, ie, the wind is not coming from directly behind you, or from the front, (it is impossible to sail straight into the wind).
Tacking is sailing in a zig-zag fashion into the wind. To reeve a rope is to thread it through a hole, or into a block and tackle.
In sailing, sinking is NOT a good thing. It means that you are getting closer to the bottom of the ocean than you should be!
In boxing, your reach is basically the length of your arms, measured from fingertip to fingertip.

This question was anchored into position by ozzz2002, a member of the Phoenix Rising team.

Answer: Rose

The Wars of the Roses were fought in England between 1455 and 1485. They were fought for the English throne between the houses of Lancaster and York. Both houses claimed the throne through descent from the sons of Edward III. The Lancastrians had occupied the throne from 1399 but, after the ascent to the throne of Henry VI in 1422, at the age of nine months, the kingdom was managed by the king's council. Henry VI had periods of mental instability, making him effectively unfit to rule. This led to power being in the hands of nobles and the rise of disorder. Henry was replaced in 1461 by Edward IV, the son of Richard of York, but returned to the throne again in 1470, only to be deposed again in 1471 by Edward.

Edward IV was succeeded by his son Edward V but Richard, the brother of Edward IV wanted the throne for himself and succeeded in having Edward V and his brother declared illegitimate and seized the throne for himself as Richard III. The boys became known as "The Princes in the Tower" after Richard had them locked in the Tower of London, supposedly for their own safety. When the boys disappeared, Richard was accused of murdering them and was no longer in favour with the people. This led to Henry Tudor, a Lancastrian, staking a claim to the throne. Richard and Henry Tudor met on the battlefield at Bosworth, resulting in Richard's death and Henry being crowned as Henry VII. The wars were finally ended after 30 years and a new royal dynasty began - the Tudors.
The wars were named many years afterward from the badges of the warring houses: the white rose of York and the red rose of Lancaster.

Lionel Rose MBE was an Australian bantamweight boxer. He turned professional in 1964 at the age of 16 and won the world bantamweight title in 1968, becoming the first Indigenous Australian to win a world title. In the same year he became the first Indigenous Australian to be named Australian of the Year.

Phoenix Rising member lg549 (from the white rose county) battled to condense the information about these wars into this interesting information.

Answer: Hay

Also called 'swathers' in the USA, the windrower is a harvester that can be either self-propelled or tractor-drawn. It cuts hay (or small grain crops) and lays the stalks in windrows. This allows the hay to dry in situ before harvesting. The windrower has a cutter bar attached to the rear of a tractor, and a reel that sweeps the grain onto a platform from where it is moved to one side by a canvas conveyor, creating the windrow.

It differs from a combine harvester which executes four separate harvesting operations; reaping, threshing, gathering, and winnowing. Pliny, in the first century A.D., is the first to mention such a two-phase harvesting machine but the actual development occurred much later, in the 18th century. Windrowers are more effective in places where high moisture content and uneven ripening make the use of combines impractical. In fact, in some places the use of the windrower in a two-step process results in less grain loss due to the drying of the crop to a moisture content suitable for threshing.

This question was neatly packaged for use in the quiz by Phoenix Rising member VegemiteKid.

Answer: Orthodox Cross

The Orthodox Cross or Russian Orthodox Cross has been in use since the 16 Century; it should not be confused with the Russian Cross which does not have the smaller topmost crossbar. It also has similarities to the Byzantine Cross where the lower crossbeam is slanted upwards left to right.

The upper crossbeam is representative of the inscription INRI. The central crossbeam is where Jesus would have been fixed to the cross, the lower slanted crossbeam is placed to show the footrest designed to extend the torture of crucifixion.
One theory as to why it is slanted is to represent the footrest pointing upwards on Christ's right towards Heaven and His left, downwards towards Hell.

In boxing one hand is usually more dominant causing a need to adjust the stance for optimum effectiveness. If the left hand is dominant you would effect a southpaw stance, if your right hand is your power hand, an orthodox stance is preferable.

smpdit was unaware of the myriad cross designs before researching this question and will now pay closer attention when visiting churches.

Answer: Knockout

The ELO system is used in games such as chess and Scrabble, and ranks players on their performance against each other. Players progress further by beating higher ranked players- the higher the difference between players' ratings, the more points gained (or lost).

A round robin is where everyone plays everyone else, and the winner is simply the person (or team) with the most wins. Tied scores are separated by cumulative points. For example- Team A and Team B both have 6 wins and 2 losses, however, A has scored 24 points and had 12 scored against them, while B has scored 18 points with 15 against. Depending on the conditions of play, the for/against could be scored as ratio (24/12=2 v 18/15=1.2), or a difference (24-21=12 v 18-15=3).

King of the Hill is a modified round robin, where everyone plays everybody, then the top rated players play against each other to decide the winner.

All the major tennis tournaments use the knockout system, where a large field, usually 128 players, are drawn into 64 games, with the loser being eliminated. The progression of winners continues as the field is thinned out- 128 becomes 64, becomes 32, etc, with the final two playing for the title.

A knockout in boxing is usually rather final, with the loser being unconscious or medically unable to continue.

This question pounded into shape by ozzz2002, a member of Phoenix Rising team.