AQL SEASON 9 - Check your standings..
..and a few quiz questions
Dear AQL Participant,
Barring the Grand Finals and semis for Premier and Championship, AQL season 9 has concluded. Thank you all for an incredible season! Your enthusiasm, participation, and great sportsmanship made every game a joy. Whether you triumphed or just had fun trying, you made this league something special. We’re grateful for your participation and can’t wait to see you next season. Until then—stay curious and keep quizzing!
SEASON 9 STANDINGS HERE -
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Some questions from AQL week 8 (For full sets, head to the archives https://aqlquiz.com/archive-login)
1. Which peptide hormone, produced in the pancreas by the islets of Langerhans, stimulates the release of glucose into the blood? Insulin decreases blood sugar levels.
2. What thick, sweet, and salty Chinese condiment is made from fermented soybeans, sugar, vinegar, garlic, and spices? It has a dark colour and rich, umami flavour. Often used in stir-fries, marinades, and as a dipping sauce, it's especially popular with dishes like Peking duck, spring rolls, and barbecue.
3. The Ataturk dam is built across which important river of West Asia, that emerges in southeastern Turkey and empties into the Persian Gulf? This river is linked to one of the earliest civilisations known to humankind.
4. Tattersalls, founded in 1766 by Richard Tattersall, specialises in auctioning what ? It sells about 10,000 of these each year and is Europe's leader in this field.
5. Originally called Neue Haas Grotesk, which sans serif font was developed in Switzerland in 1957 by typeface designers Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann? It was renamed to the name we know it by in 1960.
"6. Sometime in the 1930s, racetrack combination tickets naming a horse to win, place, or show, giving a bettor three chances to win, began to be called what kind of bets?
Since then, the three-word term (one word if one uses hyphens) has been widely used outside the racetrack to mean 'comprehensive, general, all-inclusive.' "
"7. The very first example of this process likely goes back to Ancient Rome; a fifth century B.C. recipe called pan dulcis is very similar to the preparation as we know it today. If its 'pain perdu' or 'lost bread' to the French, what do we call it?"
8. Madonna and Elton John have had a long-running feud with both of them being critical of each other at best and dismissive at worst. The feud started when Elton John pooh-poohed which song of Madonna, a song Elton felt Lulu, Shirley Bassey, or even himself would have been better suited for?
9. In 2013, which NBA legend appeared in a commercial for the insurance company Geico, where he was seen blocking objects like a ball tossed into a trash can or laundry going into a basket, while taunting the victims with the phrase 'not in my house' along with his signature finger wag?
10. Creatures belonging to this zoological order have two pairs of wings: hardened forewings (elytra) that protect the delicate hindwings, which are membranous and used for flight. The elytra open during flight, allowing the hindwings to unfold and function. Which order has a name meaning 'sheath-winged', from a Greek word for the kind of protective case you would use for a sword?
11. Affiliated with al-Qaeda, which group is known for deadly terrorist attacks across East Africa, particularly in Somalia and Kenya? The group aims to establish a strict form of Sharia law and has carried out bombings, assassinations, and mass shootings, including the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi and the 2015 Garissa University massacre.
12. In 1956, Columbia Pictures had committed to releasing eight comedies featuring this actor. However, only four were completed before the actor's untimely death. To fulfil the contract, producer Jules White crafted four additional shorts, combining existing footage with new scenes using a body double. Fans later dubbed the stand-in actor Joe Palma the "Fake [BLANK]," a term that director Sam Raimi adopted to describe any stand-in replacing an actor. Give us the name of the actor. (or the Blank)
13. After this leader passed away in 2004, his body was exhumed eight years later and examined by teams of Russian, French, and Swiss scientists. This followed suspicions that he might have been killed with polonium-210, which was used to kill Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in 2006. The results were inconclusive, as the Swiss team found traces of polonium, while the other two teams found none. Which leader?
14. Plato's 'Timaeus and Critias' describes this as a powerful nation undone by hubris. Once thought plausible, the tale lost credibility as plate tectonics, accepted in the 1960s, demonstrated its impossibility. Though debunked scientifically, which compelling allegory on the perils of hubris and imperial overreach, persists in popular culture?
15. What is the period between a Pope's death and the next Pope's election called? It means "empty seat" in Latin.
ANSWERS
1. GLUCAGON
2. HOISIN sauce
3. EUPHRATES
4. Racing HORSES or THOROUGHBREDS
5. HELVETICA
6. ACROSS-THE-BOARD
7. FRENCH TOAST
8. DIE ANOTHER DAY soundtrack from the James Bond series
9. Dikembe MUTOMBO
10. COLEOPTERA, which is the order of Beetles
11. AL-SHABAB, which means 'The Youth' in Arabic.
12. Fake SHEMP or Shemp HOWARD of 'The Three Stooges) (Accept either answer)
13. Yasser ARAFAT
14. ATLANTIS
15. SEDE VACANTE