TTH Quiz (virus pandemic mass death special)

[Jimmy Floyd]

Here are a few questions to keep you going. Some are easy, some are tough, some are just silly. If you like these I'll do some more another time.

1. Below is a list of ten footballers. What is the link?
Ronaldo
Gabriel Mendoza
Lisandro López
Elkin Soto
Maxi Rodríguez
Diego Maradona
Romario
Sergio Agüero
Hernán Crespo
Nery Pumpido
Neymar

2. What links these male celebrities, past and present?
Paul McCartney
Ben Affleck
Martin Scorsese
Tom Ellis
Richard Feynman
Oliver Reed
David Essex
Tony Adams
Ian Lavender
Sócrates

3. Which of these teams is the odd one out?
Australian cricket team (World Cup winners, 2015)
Boston Celtics (NBA champions, 1986)
Brazil (World Cup winners, 1962)
Green Bay Packers (Super Bowl XLV winners, 2010)
Leeds Rhinos (Super League winners, 2015)
Manchester United (FA Cup winners, 1990)
US Ryder Cup team (winners, 1991)
US Ryder Cup team (winners, 2016)

4. Fill in the blank:
Belle and Sebastian
New Order
Echo & the Bunnymen
????
UB40
Madness

5. I have created some crap collages in Paint. For each collage, can you suggest one more picture that will fit with the others?
A.
https://i.imgur.com/iNKWh0q.jpg

B.
https://i.imgur.com/jPrbdOL.jpg

C.
https://i.imgur.com/Z7AGSed.png

D.
https://i.imgur.com/W1axQ0t.png

E.
https://i.imgur.com/TIZqxr7.png

F.
https://i.imgur.com/UekuoTq.png

G.
https://i.imgur.com/84xppoa.png

H.
https://i.imgur.com/5J1N3No.jpg

[Lewis]

Basically calling GS out with this. Like it.

[SincereTheRebel]

1. All won Olympic gold medals?

[Ian]

I genuinely don't have a clue for any of these.

[Boydy]

I genuinely don't have a clue for any of these.

Same. :(

[Giggles]

The first few were so difficult that there was no point in reading on.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They're all cryptic and/or silly but I'd have thought at least some of the picture ones would be very gettable. Whatever, you've got months ahead of you, try harder.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Hints:

1 is very hard, almost pointlessly so, but I thought it was funny. It concerns the careers of those players, and the order in which I have written the list matters.
2 is staring you in the face.
3 is about the players in those teams.
4 is pretty easy, I may even have done the same question or something like it before.

5 they are all sets of things and I want you to provide a picture that might represent another from the same set.

[Manc]

1. Nicknames?

[SincereTheRebel]

2. White

[Boydy]

1. All south American.

[Jimmy Floyd]

You need to dig down some layers.

The order also matters for 2.

[Manc]

1. All top shaggers?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Nery Pumpido couldn't score in a brothel.

[Manc]

1. Injury prone teh fuck?

[Boydy]

1.
All played for south American clubs founded by Europeans?

[Jimmy Floyd]

1.
All played for south American clubs founded by Europeans?

No but you're starting to think along the right lines.

[Giggles]

No but you're starting to think along the right lines.

All played for European clubs founded by South American’s?

[Jimmy Floyd]

:D

If only.

[The Merse]

4. [spoiler]So, clearly it's Nottingham Forest, which could be Sleaford Mods I guess? [\spoiler]

[Giggles]

4. So, clearly it's Nottingham Forest, which could be Sleaford Mods I guess?

Clearly.

[Jimmy Floyd]

4. [spoiler]So, clearly it's Nottingham Forest, which could be Sleaford Mods I guess? [\spoiler]

Correct! Really slim pickings actually.

[Giggles]

Correct! Really slim pickings actually.

Now that it’s correct one of you can explain it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Each band/artist represents a British city in the order they first won the European Cup.

[Manc]

2. Alcoholics at one point or another.

[bruhnaldo]

The first few were so difficult that there was no point in reading on.

Fancy seeing you here with some riddles.

[Giggles]

Fancy seeing you here with some riddles.

Yes?

[Spikey M]

Fancy seeing you here with some riddles.

What goes up a chimney down but not down a chimney up?

[bruhnaldo]

You know i'm not smart enough to even follow the question let alone think about it critically.

[Baz]

Brolly innit

OR A MASSIVE ERECTION

[Spikey M]

Both are equally valid answers.

[John Arne]

As at 2021, 8 countries sourced 100% of the their power from renewable sources. Name them.

I'll give you number 8 as it's difficult.

[Spikey M]

Iceland?

[John Arne]

Iceland?

Correct!

https://gyazo.com/b1001776c6519cc248f4769704cba54b.jpeg

[Shindig]

I find it strange Norway's at 98% despite being a massive Petrostate.

[niko_cee]

Hydro heavy's going to be some rich mountain place isn't it, like Switzerland or somesuch?

What other geothermal places are there? New Zealand has a bit of that, no? Also they're quite green generally.

[John Arne]

I find it strange Norway's at 98% despite being a massive Petrostate.

Yeah, always strange. I guess you can sell oil for more exporting than domestically.

[John Arne]

Hydro heavy's going to be some rich mountain place isn't it, like Switzerland or somesuch?

Think more places with large rivers. One particularly managed to piss of all their neighbours by building multiple dams quite recently. And also, strangely, 2 relatively "poor" mountain places.

[niko_cee]

Although, yeah, no chance is that other goethermal one New Zealand if Iceland's population of 400k people uses/generates 20GWh. Everywhere other than the top one must be tiny places.

[Spikey M]

Think more places with large rivers. One particularly managed to piss of all their neighbours by building multiple dams quite recently. And also, strangely, 2 relatively "poor" mountain places.

Ethiopia then.

[Shindig]

Yeah, I've seen the list and it's very 'bottom of the FIFA rankings' in some parts.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Bhutan and Nepal? Definitely Bhutan.

[Yevrah]

Yeah, I've seen the list and it's very 'bottom of the FIFA rankings' in some parts.

Yeah, they'll all be fairly small population wise. It just isn't sustainable yet for anything bigger.

[Spikey M]

That lost really drives home what a waste of time solar power is.

[Yevrah]

That lost really drives home what a waste of time solar power is.

What I don't get is why you couldn't put the solar power plants in the desert. Is the transporting of it once you've harnessed it prohibitively expensive?

[hfswjyr]

Hydro heavy's going to be some rich mountain place isn't it, like Switzerland or somesuch?

What other geothermal places are there? New Zealand has a bit of that, no? Also they're quite green generally.

Quite topical here at the moment. We're shipping coal in from Indonesia to keep the lights on because it's a 'dry' hydro year. Industrial businesses are closing shop because wholesale electricity prices are through the roof. Industries that utilise gas in production are funnily also closing because it's more profitable to just sell the gas for generating electricity.

The green part is just a great advertising campaign.

So.... no, not New Zealand.

[niko_cee]

Transporting/storing electricity/energy is the main problem isn't it? Also, people want more electricity at night etc. Not sure that specific list is a fair way to attack solar though, more that solar can't be, or hasn't yet been, used in significant quantities by the tiny places that have reached 100% renewable usage.

[Spikey M]

What I don't get is why you couldn't put the solar power plants in the desert. Is the transporting of it once you've harnessed it prohibitively expensive?

Based purely off of a YouTube video I watched, yes, pretty much. Deserts are far from civilisation. You lose much of what you net "transporting" it and battery tech is nowhere near where we need it to be to transport it that way.

[SincereTheRebel]

Dr Congo is one. I think some of our algorithms are aligned.

[John Arne]

Here we go...

https://gyazo.com/f8f9176662635034cc15cb4205e9ccf3.jpeg

[John Arne]

For reference, here are the countries with less than 1% renewable...

https://gyazo.com/1e5410e1c04b90ffce699640132cd284.jpeg

The Saudi's with 0.1% Solar :face:

[Pepe]

What I don't get is why you couldn't put the solar power plants in the desert. Is the transporting of it once you've harnessed it prohibitively expensive?

Yes. Also solar produces the most when you need it the least and vice versa, so storage is essential.

[Yevrah]

Ok, tell me more about Ethopia. That must be giving them an edge on the continent. Investment opportunity?

[John Arne]

Ok, tell me more about Ethopia. That must be giving them an edge on the continent. Investment opportunity?


https://youtu.be/5-O8Da5oowo?si=3At1DV7PfhgsWm9r

[Pepe]

Ethiopia mainly burns wood, which is renewable but rarely what people think about when they hear the word renewable.

[Spikey M]

I think I would have got South Georgia before Albania.

[Yevrah]

Yeah, that isn't properly renewable energy. If you could grow a tree in a month it might be, but as it is excitement over.

In fact, how close are we to growing a tree in a month? Shouldn't we be looking at that rather than growing ears on mice?

[Spikey M]

I only got it because of the river and "pissing their neighbours off" clue.

[Shindig]

This thread has me googling, "How fast can we grow a tree?" and "Can we grow gigantic broccoli?" I'm disappointed by both answers.

[Pepe]

Algae is the 'quick growing tree' option. As with most things, just not economically viable to be worth it at this point.

[Spikey M]

If burning wood is sustainable because you can grow new trees, then burning coal and oil is sustainable for the same reason.

Climate crisis SOLVED. Nobel Prize now please.