quiz time 3
Of mixed difficulty. There is no overall theme. I've tried to group the questions by difficulty level, but it's hard to predict what other people may find hard. They may all just fall in the category of being easy if you know the answer, hard if you don't.
Use of search engines is not only allowed, but encouraged. Enjoy.
The done/Donne seems to me like quite the red herring. I never would have put those two together, even though I read a done/Donne pun earlier today!
Fun! Thanks for your efforts, sionnach. BTW, if you didn't see it, check apple for a little challenge...
Heming : Jefferson :: Butler : Thurmond
(think fathering of an unacknowledged child)
tango : chaos :: Kent : Lear
Tango and Chaos are the counterparts of Kent and Lear in Kurosawa's film adaptation of the King Lear story, "Ran".
done : more :: posh : Beckham
Had Entertainment Weekly been around during the time of the metaphysical poets, as a media star of the age, John Donne would surely have been featured in the gossip section. In particular, his marriage to Anne More would have made the "Milestones" column.
And if you had forgotten who Donne was married to, reminders are sprinkled throughout his poem:
"A Hymn to God the Father"
WILT Thou forgive that sin where I begun,
Which was my sin, though it were done before?
Wilt Thou forgive that sin through which I run,
And do run still, though still I do deplore?
When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done;
For I have more.
Wilt Thou forgive that sin which I have won
Others to sin, and made my sins their door?
Wilt Thou forgive that sin which I did shun
A year or two, but wallow'd in a score? 10
When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done;
For I have more.
......
Those metaphysical boys did like their elaborate puns.
yes, yes!
82 : bear :: 45 : farewell (Haydn symphonies)
quake : shake :: fox : lee (founders of the Quakers and Shakers, respectively)
Well done, oroboros and trivet!
Still outstanding -
Heming : Jefferson :: Butler : ?
Done : More :: Posh : ?
Tango : Chaos :: Kent : ?
The first of these should not be all that difficult. The second is admittedly quite obscure. The last one requires familiarity with film and literature (big hairy hint!)
Full answers will be provided tonight.
quake : shake :: fox : lee
45:farewell?
I don't know if my brain stops at the same stations as yours, sionnach.
very good, oroboros! Explanation below:
Mars = 4th planet from the sun = war
Venus = 2nd planet from the sun = love
20 is the atomic number for calcium, whose chemical symbol is Ca, which is also the two-letter state code for California.
49 is the atomic number for Indium, with chemical symbol In. The current governor of Indiana is Mitch Daniels.
49 : Daniels
love : 2
A. 82 : bear :: 45 : ?
B. Heming : Jefferson :: Butler : ?
C. war : 4 :: love : ?
D. tango : chaos :: Kent :: ?
E. quake : shake :: fox : ?
F. done : more :: posh : ?
G. 20 : Schwarzenegger :: 49 : ?
Hints:
Clue A is musical in origin.
Clue B is historico-political.
Clue C is astronomical.
Clue D is literary.
The answer to clue E requires some knowledge of American history.
Clue F involves a literary pun.
Some knowledge of chemistry would be useful to help solve clue G.
Wow! I saw "pecan" and "open" both contained pen and went from there. The bog mindles!
My next guess would have been "pecan: tiger :: open : cage". If I were in a room with a pecan I would want to open it. If I were in a room with a tiger I would want to cage it.
mollusque: Amazing! Right answer, though the explanation why is nowhere near as convoluted. The second word is obtained from the first word just by applying a 4-letter shift.
This one is really reaching, but...
pecan: tiger :: open : stir .
Take "pecan" or "tiger", prefix it with the letter of the alphabet immediately before its starting letter, then delete the two letters that come first in the alphabet from the result. Pecan -> opecan -> open ; tiger -> stiger -> stir.
pecan : tiger :: open : ?
82 : bear :: 45 : ?
Heming : Jefferson :: Butler : ?
war : 4 :: love : ?
tango : chaos :: Kent :: ?
quake : shake :: fox : ?
done : more :: posh : ?
20 : Schwarzenegger :: 49 : ?
mollusque: Your line of argument is exactly right. "lion" is the correct answer.
Hmmm. I was sure it was a venereal term: a "shrewdness of apes". But I see in An Exaltation of Larks that peacocks comes in ostentations, not proudnesses. So, if the noun of shrewd is shrewdness and the noun of proud is pride, then
shrewd: ape :: proud : lion.
Nope, not peacock.
proud: peacock
Yea, trivet! Fortitude, the other NY City library lion, is correct. as are Lear and omega. But why box?
Still remaining:
pecan ; tiger :: open : ?
82 : bear :: 45 : ?
heming : Jefferson :: Butler : ?
shrewd : ape :: proud : ?
war : 4 :: love : ?
and the four "hard" clues.
In case anyone is puzzled, Marengo was napoleon's horse.
Rumpleteazer: Fortitude!
um...
mad: Lear
omicron: omega
fox:box?
All good answers so far, except:
"hylobatidine" is close, but not quite correct.
'Dunsinane' is not correct.
'Edward' is not what I had in mind for 'Butler'.
mercenaries: gallowglasses
Napoleon: Marengo
Butler: Edward ??
Tennis : court :: jai alai : fronton
jai alai: fronton
traitorous insiders : fifth column
folk : hootenanny?
Rise/Fall Roman Empire : hylobatidine
divine : ichor?
mad : Dunsinane?
seek : Haydn
omicron : omega
Good grief! When I have more time, I'll see what I can come up with. :-)
Rumble in the Jungle! I got one. I have some guesses, but I'll save them until I've thought about them some more.
Easy -
jaundiced co-eds : sallow lasses :: Scots mercenaries : ?
blind : Gloucester :: mad : ?
tennis : court :: jai alai : ?
press : fourth estate :: traitorous insiders : ?
make a mess of : bungle/fumble :: Ali-Foreman : ?
small : large :: omicron : ?
humbug : Bach :: seek : ?
mortal : blood :: divine : ?
Moderate difficulty -
pecan : tiger :: open : ?
Mungojerrie : Rumpleteazer :: patience : ?
82 : bear :: 45 : ?
Heming : Jefferson :: Butler :: ?
jazz : jam session :: folk : ?
shrewd : ape :: proud : ?
war : 4 :: love : ?
Wellington : Copenhagen :: Napoleon : ?
Gulliver’s Travels : cypseline :: Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire : ?
Hard -
tango : chaos :: Kent :: ?
quake : shake :: fox : ?
done : more :: posh : ?
20 : Schwarzenegger :: 49 : ?