The Teensies' General Knowledge Quiz – Season 13 – Reese Riverson

[PluMGMK]

Yep!

1 point: Matyuv

Question 2: What is a tracker mortgage?

[Matyuv]

Didn't know the term and had to google it, but surely there's a native speaker here that knows this? I figured it'd be something obscure (it's not), so I didn't even try to guess...

[PluMGMK]

"I don't know what a tracker mortgage is" is an IRL meme here in Ireland, but I figured that someone here would surely know.

[Hunchman801]

Is it a mortgage where the rate is based on some financial instrument (like a tracker)?

[PluMGMK]

Let's move on. The answer is simply that it's a mortgage where the interest rate tracks the Central Bank's interest rate, with a certain offset (e.g. 1%). I don't think that's quite the same thing as Humch said…

1 point: Matyuv

Question 2a: What do I mean when I speak of the "half-life" of a radioactive substance?

[Matyuv]

The time it takes for half of the substance to decay?

[PluMGMK]

Of course it is. You have to skip the next question…

2 points: Matyuv

Question 3: (Matyuv can't answer) What is the first name of the literary / television character Inspector Morse?

[PluMGMK]

Well, despite the hint I dropped, nobody's bitten.

Question 3a: (Matyuv can't answer) Which number, commonly attached to the word "catch", was also the name of a Eurovision entry in 2019?

[The Jonster]

I’ll guess the number 8?

[PluMGMK]

"Catch-8"? Nope...

[Steo]

22, though it's not as funny as 24 or 25.

[PluMGMK]

Yes indeed! Actually when that song was on Eurovision, I had no idea what the hell it was about, and I thought of singing it with interjections of "What the F is 22??", the same way as "Who the F is Alice??"

2 points: Matyuv
1 point: Steo

Question 4: What fictional pig was noteworthy for herding sheep?

[Matyuv]

Was it Babe? It's been a really long time since I watched that film. I remember there was a farm though...

[PluMGMK]

It was!

3 points: Matyuv
1 point: Steo

Question 5: Which mathematician famously wrote the defining formula for quaternion multiplication on Broome Bridge in Dublin, 176 years ago as of next week?

[Alltech]

William Rowan Hamilton.

[PluMGMK]

About damn time!

3 points: Matyuv
1 point: Steo, Alltech

Question 6: Which series of books by Enid Blyton featured four children and a dog solving mysteries?

[#Rubber mark#]

Scooby The Famous Five?

[PluMGMK]

Of course it was! And I believe Scooby-Doo was originally thought of as a parody of the Famous Five.

3 points: Matyuv
1 point: Steo, Alltech, #Rubber mark#

Question 7: Which singer / songwriter was the subject of the 2018 film Bohemian Rhapsody?

[Hunchman801]

I believe the late Freddie Mercury.

[PluMGMK]

Yes!

3 points: Matyuv
1 point: Steo, Alltech, #Rubber mark#, Hunchman801

Question 8: Which monosaccharide is the "F" in "HFCS" (where the "CS" is "Corn Syrup")?