Last Hussar's Quiz Night

[Last Hussar]

   Lasts Answers

1   'These Are the Days of Our Lives' was the last video, though the song 'Mother Love' was released after Freddie's death.

2   "This wall paper goes, or I do" were reportedly Oscar Wilde's last words.

3   A View to a Kill was the last Roger Moore 007.

4   2nd January 1971, was the last tobacco advertising on American television

5   The final Discworld novel is The Shepherd's Crown, published in August 2015, five months after Terry's death.

6   The last Olympic winners of Rugby Union are the United States, in 1924. Rugby 7s – with just 7 players has been an event since 2016, but that isn't Union.

7   "The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place" is the last story written about Sherlock Holmes. (The "retired colourman" is last in order of new collections but published 3 months earlier)

8   Though the film is only loosely based on real events, Idi Amin really did once declare himself to be 'The Last King of Scotland'.

9   Songs of Experience is the last album by U2.

10   A Last is the thing shoes are repaired on.
The word "last" comes from the Old English meaning footprint.

[Last Hussar]

And now a (delayed) new round;

   Exactly what it says on the tin.

1   How does Rio Grande translate into English?

2   In the third century BCE, the Chinese invented a sword that was purpose-built to do a certain job in battle against cavalry. They called it the zhanmadao, what does this translate as?

3   The name of which dog comes from the two welsh words meaning "short" and "leg".

4   Which beer was formulated so that it would survive the journey to part of the British Empire?

5   What does Wikipedia define as a sauce made of apples?

6   Meaning "small islands" in Greek, what is made up of several small islands scattered across the northern reaches of Oceania?

7   In 2000 Harry Markopolos wrote a report to the SEC entitled "The World's Largest Hedge Fund Is a Fraud". Who was it about?

8   A large arid area, covered in rock fragments, is the second largest of its kind in Australia. What is it called?

9   How is the gorge in Arizona that is 277 miles long, up to 18 miles wide, and up to a mile deep, known?

10   What film was supposed to be called "Pacific Air Flight 121", about reptiles, but changed to its working title at the suggestion of Samuel L Jackson.

[Raider4]

Lasts Answers

5/10 - better than I thought. Running total is 36/50.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

8-10

[Leon]

2/10 on that Last one, but 5/10 (maybe 6/10) on this new round.

[Gwydion]

Hmm- six - possibly.

Fascinated to hear the answer to number 3.

[Leon]

Fascinated to hear the answer to number 3.

Me too, my mind keeps jumping to dachshund but that's clearly German.   My eldest is at Uni in Bangor so I'll see if he knows.

[Ithoriel]

Since apple sauce is technically a puree I'd go with apple butter for 5.

No idea about 8. I'd assumed we were talking about deserts but I worked with a guy who had done a stint in Australia as a geologist in the second largest desert in Australia which is The Great Sandy Desert so not particularly noted for rocks.

So, I'm sure about 8 of the answers and might have a ninth.

[Gwydion]

Me too, my mind keeps jumping to dachshund but that's clearly German.   My eldest is at Uni in Bangor so I'll see if he knows.

Well there's the obvious short legged Welsh dog, but Mr Hussar is seldom obvious and it would be wrong, and again he's seldom wrong, so - which dog sounds like Coes byr? or Byr coes? I am deficient in dog breed knowledge!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Me too, my mind keeps jumping to dachshund but that's clearly German.   My eldest is at Uni in Bangor so I'll see if he knows.

Guessing - but Corgi may well be it, admittedly there is a vowel in it though

[Ithoriel]

Guessing - but Corgi may well be it, admittedly there is a vowel in it though

No doubt it will be down to those wicked English speakers adding unneeded vowels.

[Last Hussar]

Well there's the obvious short legged Welsh dog, but Mr Hussar is seldom obvious

 

For 8, I would point out I used the phrase 'rock FRAGMENTS' not rocks.

[Leon]

Guessing - but Corgi may well be it, admittedly there is a vowel in it though

I hadn't considered Corgi, that's probably more likely than my sausage dog!

[Gwydion]

You should strike Corgi.

Ci is indeed 'a dog' in Welsh and the 'c' could mutate to 'gi' if it were a singular feminine noun - but it is masculine so it should stay as 'Ci' unless there are two of them - even masculine nouns with the right consonants mutate after 'dau', the Welsh for two, hence the kid's song 'Dau Gi bach' (two little dogs - yes I know ci is the singular and there are two of them so it looks like it should be 'cŵn' which is the plural-dogs, but Welsh nouns remain singular after numbers - I have no idea why, they just do, okay?).
 
So it should be Corci if it were the Welsh 'Dwarf dog' (Cor or Chor is 'Dwarf'). But really the adjective usually follows the noun in Welsh so it should be be a 'CiCor' if as is often claimed it is the Welsh for 'short/dwarf dog'.

Corgi doesn't in any configuration I can think of  mean 'short leg'.

PS - 'W' and 'Y' are vowels as anyone knows! - and LL, DD, FF, RH, PH, TH, CH, NG, are each single letters!

[Ithoriel]

 

For 8, I would point out I used the phrase 'rock FRAGMENTS' not rocks.

In that case I reckon I might have 10 .... or not

[fsn]

You should strike Corgi.

Ci is indeed 'a dog' in Welsh and the 'c' could mutate to 'gi' if it were a singular feminine noun - but it is masculine so it should stay as 'Ci' unless there are two of them - even masculine nouns with the right consonants mutate after 'dau', the Welsh for two, hence the kid's song 'Dau Gi bach' (two little dogs - yes I know ci is the singular and there are two of them so it looks like it should be 'cŵn' which is the plural-dogs, but Welsh nouns remain singular after numbers - I have no idea why, they just do, okay?).
 
So it should be Corci if it were the Welsh 'Dwarf dog' (Cor or Chor is 'Dwarf'). But really the adjective usually follows the noun in Welsh so it should be be a 'CiCor' if as is often claimed it is the Welsh for 'short/dwarf dog'.

Corgi doesn't in any configuration I can think of  mean 'short leg'.

PS - 'W' and 'Y' are vowels as anyone knows! - and LL, DD, FF, RH, PH, TH, CH, NG, are each single letters!

... and that is why I didn't do very well in Welsh class.

[fsn]

 

For 8, I would point out I used the phrase 'rock FRAGMENTS' not rocks.

Ah! So it's Sydney, not Melbourne.

[Raider4]

5 What does Wikipedia define as a sauce made of apples?

Eh? Seeing as Wikipedia is "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit." it could be anything at all at any given time, and something completely different 5 seconds later.

If I edit that entry to say "a sauce made of apples is a small relative of the gerbil, native to Easter Island" and then put that as my answer, then I am technically correct (at least until someone notices the vandalism and reverts or rejects that edit).

I once viewed the entry for Henry II (of England), and someone had replaced the normal medieval image with something similar to the one below.



Using Wikipedia as your source is a really, really, bad idea.

[Gwydion]

... and that is why I didn't do very well in Welsh class.

Mae'n ddrwg gen i. Fy nghydymdeimlad i chi. Dydw i ddim yn athro da iawn yn anffodus

See? It's simple really!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Nice to see authentic utter gibberish.