Odd One Out Quiz for Experts | Mixed

Answer: Professor of medieval literature

After his time in the Royal Navy, Sean had a number of different jobs including being an artist's model, a milkman, a lifeguard, and even a coffin polisher! He began bodybuilding and entered the Mr. Universe contest, where he came in third in the Junior Class. He took a job backstage at the King's Theatre in the early '50s, and thus began his interest in the performing arts.

One of his roles in the movies was as a professor of medieval literature, Indiana Jones's father Henry Jones, Sr. in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" (1989). After receiving the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006, Connery retired from making movies, although he continued to do the occasional voice-over in between rounds of golf!

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Answer: Balalaika

A balalaika is a Russian plucked string musical instrument which usually has a triangular body and three strings. It is used mostly for Russian folk music.

Most dance forms are theatrical and simply intended to be presented to an audience, though some may have a deeper social purpose.

Tanztheater means "dance theater" in German, and refers to dance performed in a dramatic situation, which often includes dialogue. It evolved from an earlier form, known as "expressive dance".

Aerial dance involves a theatrical production which is performed by dancers suspended in the air, using an apparatus of some kind (like a rope),usually attached to the ceiling.

Butoh is a type of Japanese dance theater, often featuring bizarre imagery, crazy sets, and controversial subjects. Dancers usually perform in white body paint, and move very slowly.

Question submitted by euphonious.

Answer: Budapest, Hungary

Earthquakes occur where the earth's constantly-moving tectonic plates meet, and then pressure (which is formed when two plates lock together) is released suddenly as one slips past the other. Many of the world's most populous cities are located on or near major fault lines. The three examples given here are Hayward fault (San Francisco), North Anatolian fault (Istanbul), and Median Tectonic Line (Tokyo). The latter is actually a network of faults. There is not a major fault line near Budapest.

Prior to 2015, there was little public awareness of the Cascadia subduction zone which has scientists worried. The North American tectonic plate and the Juan de Fuca plate appear to be wedged tightly. Some seismologists have warned that a major quake registering as much as 8.6 or higher on the Richter scale is possible. This could have devastating effects on major cities throughout the Pacific Northwest, among them Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington in the United States and Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada.

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Answer: Wolf Hall

"Wolf Hall" is the first book of a trilogy that features as its protagonist the historical figure of Thomas Cromwell, one of Henry VIII's chief advisers. The novel won the Booker Prize in 2009. "Wolf Hall" was adapted for PBS' Masterpiece Classic series in 2015. The other novels were all written by Mantel, but are not primarily historical in nature.

Question submitted by elmo7.

Answer: Ballpoint pen

As with many inventions, exactly who invented the ballpoint pen is debatable. It seems John J. Loud designed one but couldn't work out how to capitalize on his innovation. Loud did get a patent on it in 1888, but that eventually lapsed. The Hungarian László Bíró developed a ballpoint pen and got a patent in 1938. In many parts of the world, "biro" is used as a generic term to denote a range of writing implements. What is for certain is that the first ballpoint pen wasn't invented, or at least not patented, by a woman.

Stephanie Kwolek invented Kevlar, which is used for bullet proof vests, work-gloves, sports equipment, and fiber-optic cables.

Tabitha Babbitt witnessed an accident in a saw mill and invented a safer, circular saw.

Mary Anderson patented her windscreen wipers in 1903.

Question submitted by Waitakere.

Answer: Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever

"Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" were both written by Lennon/McCartney. This double A-side peaked at number two on the UK singles chart for The Beatles in 1967. "Penny Lane" was number one for one week and "Strawberry Fields Forever" peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 the same year.

In the UK, "Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever" was kept off the top spot by "Release Me" by Engelbert Humperdinck with his first hit under his new name. It brought to an end The Beatles' run of 11 consecutive number one hits on the UK singles chart. It began with "Please Please Me" on the 2 May 1963 and ended with "Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby" on the 18 August 1966 charts.

"Penny Lane" was named after a street in Allerton, a suburb of Liverpool, UK. "Strawberry Fields" was named after a Salvation Army children's home which was situated not far from John Lennon's home in Woolton, also a suburb of Liverpool.

Question submitted by shipyardbernie.

Answer: Once Upon a Time in America

"Once Upon a Time in America" is a crime film directed by Italian director Sergio Leone, and starring Robert De Niro. It's thought of as the final film in a Leone trilogy. The two preceding films in the trilogy are both westerns: "Once Upon a Time in the West" and "Once Upon a Time ... The Revolution" (aka "Duck, You Sucker! Or "A Fistful of Dynamite").

Leone is one of the leading names in the sub-genre of Spaghetti Westerns, and he was so strongly influenced by John Ford's legacy that parts of his films are touching homages to the master. Of course, Leone's Spaghetti Western films display a wide range of influences reaching way beyond John Ford, and even more importantly have a raison d'etre all of their own.

Question submitted by thula2.

Answer: Dan Brown

Dan Brown was born in 1964 in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA. Many of his books of deal with conspiracies involving historical and/or Christian themes. Brown's novels involve symbols, codes and cryptography. Robert Langdon is the main character in the books "The Da Vinci Code", "Angels and Demons", "The Lost Symbol", and "Inferno". Dan Brown is also the odd one out because he uses his name rather than initials!

C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) was from Belfast, Ireland. His seven-book series for children was "The Chronicles Of Narnia".

J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973) was born in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa. His best-known books are "The Hobbit", and the "The Lord Of The Rings" trilogy.

Both Lewis and Tolkien were lieutenants during WW1 and saw action in the trenches of the Somme Valley in France. In later life, they both taught at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities. They became friends as adults and Tolkien helped Lewis, who had become an atheist, rethink his beliefs and turn back to Christianity.

British author J. K. Rowling was a divorced single-mother living on public assistance when the first book of her "Harry Potter" series was published. She has stated that at times during her life she has suffered from severe depression and that the soul-sucking Dementor characters she wrote about in the series were based on feelings from those times.

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Answer: Josip Broz Tito (Yugoslavia)

Tito and the Yugoslav Partisans actively fought the Axis invaders against all the odds and eventually got serious support from the Allies, although it took a while since they had previously put their money on Tito's rival Draza Mihailović. Tito died while still in office as President of Yugoslavia in 1980. He was a somewhat controversial, but also much-loved, leader who has generated fierce debate long after his demise.

Ion Antonescu was Prime Minister of Romania during World War II. Not only was he a Nazi collaborator, but also a hard-core Nazi responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of innocent people.

Vidkun Quisling, who was Prime Minister of the Norwegian puppet-government during the Nazi occupation, was such a disgrace to his country his name has become synonymous with "traitor".

Subhas Chandra Bose was a leader of various parties whose main aim was India's independence from British rule. He made some rather unpleasant bed-fellows along the way. He was aboard a Japanese military aircraft which crashed in Japanese-occupied Taiwan in August 1945, and he died from his injuries soon afterwards.

Question submitted by thula2.

Answer: Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was born in a small village in 1891 in Sontsovka, Ukraine, then a part of the Russian Empire, and died in Moscow, Russia (USSR) in 1953. He learned to play piano from his mother, who encouraged him in his music. He entered the St Petersburg Conservatorium when he was 13 years old and studied there for the next ten years, winning the Anton Rubinstein Prize for piano for his work "The Piano Concerto No 1 in D flat Major".

Following World War I and the Russian Revolution, Prokofiev left Russia, traveled for a while and eventually reached San Francisco, giving concerts in Tokyo and Yokohama on the way. He gave concerts in Chicago and New York, where he wrote an opera "The Love for Three Oranges" which met with much success in the US and also the USSR. He settled in Paris in 1923, where he wrote several symphonies. He toured, giving concerts in the Soviet Union, Europe and the United States. He continued on writing symphonies, ballets and operas and of course the children's classic "Peter and the Wolf". He died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1953, aged 62. He was posthumously awarded the Lenin Prize for his Symphony No 7, which was the Soviet Union's highest honour.

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