QoD Weekend 05-30-06/02 "Return of the QoN!"
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 2:46 pm
QoD Weekend 05/30-06/02 2008
This QoD will be open until 8:00 AM Central time on Monday morning, June 2, 2008.
“The Return of the QoN”
Some years ago, I was much more a part of the Night Shift than the Day Crew, philosophically speaking, anyway. And it always bugged me that people who couldn’t be on the Bored during the day missed out on some of the funnest parts of the QoD, like Speed bonuses and such. So one month, when the QoD was being run by someone who had made it a Google-free zone, I created a Merry Man named KaRl_FuN_rOvE (because I loathed Karl Rove and fun, after all, is his middle name) and hosted a Question of the Night. It was designed to be super hard for people to be able to solve without Google and, let’s face it, the ability to use Google efficiently and well is perhaps a touch more important than instantaneous recall of unassociated trivia.
For the June QoD, all weekend questions will be reminiscent of that QoN. The questions will be nigh undo-able without the help of some sort of online research tool. Feel Free to Google to your little heart’s content.
Obviously, this is not everyone’s cup of tea, so feel free not to play – it’s all in fun, anyway.
“Guitar Hero”
1. If you look at the backside of the headstock of a Gibson electric guitar and see the number 83948471, what city would it supposedly have been made in?
2. I said “supposedly” in the previous question, because that number is not a legitimate serial number for a Gibson guitar. Why not?
3. The image below is of a particular type of guitar. Name it.
4. The above image is actually a “signature edition” of one of the world’s finest players of the instrument, who has the sobriquet “Uncle” often attached to his name. Who is he?
5. Less well-known than fingerstyle, the method of playing acoustic steel-stringed guitar with a single plectrum, as opposed to multiple finger picks or even a thumbpick, is called what? (Some devotees of this style of acoustic guitar play were Doc Watson, Django Rheinhardt, and Scott Nygaard.)
10 points for each correct answer.
This QoD will be open until 8:00 AM Central time on Monday morning, June 2, 2008.
“The Return of the QoN”
Some years ago, I was much more a part of the Night Shift than the Day Crew, philosophically speaking, anyway. And it always bugged me that people who couldn’t be on the Bored during the day missed out on some of the funnest parts of the QoD, like Speed bonuses and such. So one month, when the QoD was being run by someone who had made it a Google-free zone, I created a Merry Man named KaRl_FuN_rOvE (because I loathed Karl Rove and fun, after all, is his middle name) and hosted a Question of the Night. It was designed to be super hard for people to be able to solve without Google and, let’s face it, the ability to use Google efficiently and well is perhaps a touch more important than instantaneous recall of unassociated trivia.
For the June QoD, all weekend questions will be reminiscent of that QoN. The questions will be nigh undo-able without the help of some sort of online research tool. Feel Free to Google to your little heart’s content.
Obviously, this is not everyone’s cup of tea, so feel free not to play – it’s all in fun, anyway.
“Guitar Hero”
1. If you look at the backside of the headstock of a Gibson electric guitar and see the number 83948471, what city would it supposedly have been made in?
2. I said “supposedly” in the previous question, because that number is not a legitimate serial number for a Gibson guitar. Why not?
3. The image below is of a particular type of guitar. Name it.
4. The above image is actually a “signature edition” of one of the world’s finest players of the instrument, who has the sobriquet “Uncle” often attached to his name. Who is he?
5. Less well-known than fingerstyle, the method of playing acoustic steel-stringed guitar with a single plectrum, as opposed to multiple finger picks or even a thumbpick, is called what? (Some devotees of this style of acoustic guitar play were Doc Watson, Django Rheinhardt, and Scott Nygaard.)
10 points for each correct answer.