Fifteen Minutes Is All It Took Quiz

Answer: Garlic and olive oil

Aioli is an emulsion of garlic and olive oil, as its name suggests - the Latin word for garlic was allium, and the word for oil was oleum. Egg is often added to make it easier to produce the emulsion, but is not part of the traditional recipe. Regional variants also include mustard and tomato. Aioli can be served with fish or lamb, steamed or grilled vegetables, or however your fancy dictates. Traditionalists grind the garlic in a mortar and pestle, drizzling in the oil slowly to ensure a smooth mixture. If you're in a rush, a food processor produces an acceptable sauce.

Answer: Voodoo Chile

"Voodoo Chile" (did the voodoo dolls help you make this choice?) was recorded in the morning of 2 May 1968, following an all-night jam session. The final version, 14 minutes and 59 seconds long, was the longest studio recording Hendrix made. Other musicians on the track included Steve Winwood (from Traffic), Mick Mitchell (from the Jimi Hendrix Experience) and Jack Casady (from Jefferson Airplane).

The song "Voodo Child (Slight Return)" is also on the "Electric Ladyland" double album.

Answer: Hearts

Hearts is a trick game, which means that each player puts a card on the table, with the winner of each round taking the played cards. There are a number such games, many of which evolved from the game of Whist, including Bridge and Spades. In most of these games, it is desirable to win tricks.

In Hearts, the aim is to avoid ending up with any hearts or the Queen of Spades, unless you can manage to get all 14 of these cards, which is called 'shooting the moon'. At the end of each hand, a heart counts as one point, and the Queen of Spades as 13 points. If you shoot the moon, either you get to subtract 26 points from your score, or the other players all have 26 points added to their scores, depending on local practice.

The game ends when one player reaches 100 points, and loses.

The winner is the player with the lowest final total.

Answer: Man versus Horse Marathon

All right, so it actually took 2 hours, 5 minutes and 19 seconds to complete the course (which is not quite as long as a proper marathon, 26 miles 385 yards). The horses start 15 minutes after the foot racers, to minimize the obvious issues of having lots of people and horses all milling around the starting line together! The event has been held annually since 1980, with cyclists participating since 1985. The first human to win was cyclist Tim Gould in 1989; Huw Lob in 2004 was the first runner to win. Horses rule!

In Victoria, Australia, humans race the steam engine Puffing Billy on a 13 km route through the mountains from Belgrave to Emerald Lake Park. It is common for hundreds of runners to beat the train.

Answer: The Black Cat

The narrator of "The Black Cat" claims to be an animal lover, but after he drunkenly gouges out the eye of Pluto, his wife's large black cat, things go from bad to worse, and he eventually hangs the cat from a tree in the garden. Adopting another black cat, identical to Pluto except for a white patch on its chest, he experiences increased feelings of being tormented by the animal, and eventually tries to kill it. Prevented by his wife from doing this, he loses the plot and kills her instead. He accidentally includes the cat when he hides his wife's body inside the wall cavity, and the cat's wail eventually gives away the place of concealment. It was all the cat's fault!

Both "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" deal with the issue of guilt driving a murderer mad. "The Raven" is a poem in which a raven drives a man grieving for a lost love deeper into despair. "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a murder mystery set in Paris - the orangutan did it.

Answer: The Pet Shop

"The Pet Shop", also known as "The Dead Parrot" is a sketch originally shown on "Monty Python's Flying Circus" in 1969, and included in the 1972 movie "And Now For Something Completely Different". There are several versions of this popular sketch, of varying lengths and detail. The one I watched to prepare this question ran for 6 minutes, so I had 3 minutes to catch my breath before watching it again a second time within fifteen minutes.

In "The Pet Shop", John Cleese plays the character of Mr. Praline, who has been sold a dead parrot, a fact that the shop's owner stoutly denies. Cleese gets more and more worked up, but the details of the conversation vary between the many recorded live performances of the sketch. The ending also varies over time, including one version in which Mr. Praline is placated by the offer of a talking slug.

"The Cheese Shop" sketch has some of the same dynamics as "The Pet Shop", with Cleese trying to buy some cheese in a cheese shop that turns out to be devoid of cheese; when Palin finally admits that fact, Cleese shoots him and comments on the senseless waste of life. "The Fish License" features Cleese, again as Mr Praline, trying to buy a pet license for his pet halibut from Palin. In "The Argument Clinic", Palin is the customer, who has paid for an argument and spends the time arguing with Cleese over the nature of an argument.

Answer: It will be too big around, but the length will be fine.

Since the pattern is being worked from the brim to the peak, the distance around it is determined by the horizontal measurement, which is the number of stitches in 10 cm. Since I have fewer stitches horizontally than is called for, when I cast on the stated number of stitches they will occupy more space than was intended, and the cap will be bigger around. The cap's shaping is affected by the vertical measurement, the number of rows, and that measurement is fine. This means that the length I get when I decrease stitches at the recommended rate will be the expected one.

It is unusual for one dimension to match but not the other. Usually they will both be slightly too large or slightly too small, and the knitter simply adjusts the size of needles they are using until they produce a swatch that does match the pattern's expectation. In the case I have described, it is probably going to be necessary to adjust the actual pattern, since using smaller needles to adjust the horizontal measurement will make the vertical one smaller as well.

Answer: Movies in Fifteen Minutes

Cleolinda Jones (a pseudonym) first posted the script for a parody of "Van Helsing" called "Van Helsing in Fifteen Minutes" in 2004. It was so popular that she wrote another, then another, and so on. "Twilight in Fifteen Minutes" went online in 2008.

There is also a printed collection of scripts called "Movies in Fifteen Minutes: Hollywood Blockbusters For People Who Can't Be Bothered". All scripts take significantly less time to read than it would take to watch the original movie, unless you get distracted by the links, and start looking up the cultural references.

Answer: Blitz chess

In casual chess play, time is not a factor, unless the players agree to a time limit per move to avoid boredom. There are a number of terms for chess games involving restricted time for play. The standard tournament allows several hours for each player. Rapid chess usually allows each player 15-30 minutes in which to complete their moves, or they lose due to running out of time. Even faster than that is blitz chess, with each player allowed somewhere between three and fifteen minutes for their plays. Bullet chess games allow under three minutes for each player. Now that's some fast play! The two players in the picture do not seem to have been worrying about the play clock.

Answer: Peanut butter

Since limericks must follow the rhyme scheme AABBA, only peanut butter can fit into the space in this one. All right, I must admit that it didn't take anything like fifteen minutes to write, maybe three. But then I had to find a picture!

Most limericks are known for their nonsensical content or (commonly) ribald nature. What makes a limerick a limerick is its 5-line rhyme scheme, and its use of predominantly amphibrachic or anapestic metre. An amphribach, the more commonly used, is a rhythmical unit which has two short (or unstressed) syllables with a long (or stressed) syllable in the middle. The typical opening line starts "There once was a ...) - the first three words set up the amphribach metre for the poem.