The Ultimate QoD Challenge -- Week 6, Tuesday

[Pastor Fireball]

"The Fourth Element"

As you might recall, all of the Tuesday questions present items in a sequence. All you have to do is tell me what comes next in the sequence and why those items make a sequence. 2 points for correctly filling in the blank and 2 points for telling me the category.

Answers are due by Wednesday 5/21 at 4 PM EDT.

1. MONICA / ERICA / RITA / _____
2. NORWAY = BEDROOM SET / SWEDEN = LIVING ROOM SET / FINLAND = DINING ROOM SET / _____
3. 1996: WILKENS / 2000: TOMJANOVICH / 2004: BROWN / _____
4. METHANE / ETHANE / PROPANE / _____
5. SHERI / DONTAE / ADRIANNA / _____
6. #4: A CLUSTER IN SCORPIUS / #3: A CLUSTER IN CANES VENATICI / #2: A CLUSTER IN AQUARIUS / _____
7. MARICOPA / HARRIS / COOK / _____
8. REFUDIATE / SQUEEZED MIDDLE / GIF / _____
9. 1,000: ABRAHAM LINCOLN / 10,000: GROVER CLEVELAND / 100,000: ULYSSES GRANT / _____
10. FLAX = 40 / HAY = 50 / OATS = 60 / _____

Side note: I threw out one of the questions from this stack and replaced it with the one that you see in #9. It was another one of those color-related sequences that are not popular here. The sequence would have been "129 (in brown text) / 134 (in blue text) / 140 (in pink text) / _____". The correct answer would have been "

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147 (in black text)

" because this was

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the scores and colors for the final four balls pocketed in a perfect game of snooker

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[smilergrogan]

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1. MONICA / ERICA / RITA / _____
2. NORWAY = BEDROOM SET / SWEDEN = LIVING ROOM SET / FINLAND = DINING ROOM SET / DENMARK = KITCHEN SET?
Ikea products from least to most expensive?
3. 1996: WILKENS / 2000: TOMJANOVICH / 2004: BROWN / 2008: KRYSZEWSKI?
USA Olympic mens basketball coaches
4. METHANE / ETHANE / PROPANE / BUTANE
Four smallest straight chain alkanes
5. SHERI / DONTAE / ADRIANNA / _____
6. #4: A CLUSTER IN SCORPIUS / #3: A CLUSTER IN CANES VENATICI / #2: A CLUSTER IN AQUARIUS / The Pleiades?
7. MARICOPA / HARRIS / COOK / LOS ANGELES?
Largest counties in U.S. by population?
8. REFUDIATE / SQUEEZED MIDDLE / GIF / _____
9. 1,000: ABRAHAM LINCOLN / 10,000: GROVER CLEVELAND / 100,000: ULYSSES GRANT / _____
10. FLAX = 40 / HAY = 50 / OATS = 60 / _____

[ShamelessWeasel]

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1. Tina - Ladies name in chorus of Mambo no 5 by Lou Bega
3. 2008:Coach K (ain't gonna try to spell it) - Head coaches of USA basketball team at the olympics.
4. Butane - Carbon Hydrogen gases ordered by increase in number of carbon atoms
6. #1 Crab Nebula - Messier Objects
7. Los Angeles - Most populous county in US from 4 to 1
10. Rye = 70 - Commodities values in the card game Pit in increase value

[jarnon]

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1. TINA (Mambo No. 5)
4. BUTANE (hydrocarbons)

[franktangredi]

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1. MONICA / ERICA / RITA / _____

TINA -- girls mentioned in the refrain of Mambo No. 5


10. FLAX = 40 / HAY = 50 / OATS = 60 / _____

This is the order value of the commodities in the card game Pit, but I'm not sure what's next. BARLEY = 70?

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

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1. MONICA / ERICA / RITA / _____
2. NORWAY = BEDROOM SET / SWEDEN = LIVING ROOM SET / FINLAND = DINING ROOM SET / _____ Most popular IKEA furniture by country
3. 1996: WILKENS / 2000: TOMJANOVICH / 2004: BROWN / _____ USA Olympic Basketball Centers
4. METHANE / ETHANE / PROPANE / _____ Hexane Hydrocarbon Ring molecules smaller to larger
5. SHERI / DONTAE / ADRIANNA / _____
6. #4: A CLUSTER IN SCORPIUS / #3: A CLUSTER IN CANES VENATICI / #2: A CLUSTER IN AQUARIUS / _____ Largest star clusters
7. MARICOPA / HARRIS / COOK / _____ Most populous counties larger to smaller
8. REFUDIATE / SQUEEZED MIDDLE / GIF / _____ New Words
9. 1,000: ABRAHAM LINCOLN / 10,000: GROVER CLEVELAND / 100,000: ULYSSES GRANT / _____
10. FLAX = 40 / HAY = 50 / OATS = 60 / _____

[Bob Juch]

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1. Tina --- women in "Mambo Number 5" in order.
2. Danish = Carpets --- IKEA furniture name origins
3. ?
4. Butane --- Hydrocarbons in order by number of carbon atoms (1-4)
5. ?
6. #1: The Crab Nebula in Taurus --- Meissier objects
7. Los Angeles --- The most populus counties in the US from 4th-1st
8. ?
9. ?
10. ?

[Bob78164]

I suspect a mistake in one of the questions.

1. MONICA / ERICA / RITA / _____
2. NORWAY = BEDROOM SET / SWEDEN = LIVING ROOM SET / FINLAND = DINING ROOM SET / _____
3. 1996: WILKENS / 2000: TOMJANOVICH / 2004: BROWN / _____
4. METHANE / ETHANE / PROPANE / _____ Simple organic gases. Methane has 1 carbon atom (CH4), ethane has 2(CH3CH3), propane has 3 (CH3CH2CH3). Butane.
5. SHERI / DONTAE / ADRIANNA / _____ Women on "Real Housewives" series.
6. #4: A CLUSTER IN SCORPIUS / #3: A CLUSTER IN CANES VENATICI / #2: A CLUSTER IN AQUARIUS / _____ These are the Messier catalog numbers. I think M-1 is the Crab Nebula.
7. MARICOPA / HARRIS / COOK / _____ These are counties (Phoenix, Houston, Chicago) but I can't figure out the organizing property. I'll guess Kings (Brooklyn).
8. REFUDIATE / SQUEEZED MIDDLE / GIF / _____
9. 1,000: ABRAHAM LINCOLN / 10,000: GROVER CLEVELAND / 100,000: ULYSSES GRANT / _____ Are the second and third reversed? If so, then next is 1,000,000: James Madison (the value in dollars of 200 copies of the U.S. currency on which this president appears).
10. FLAX = 40 / HAY = 50 / OATS = 60 / _____

--Bob

[kroxquo]

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1. MONICA / ERICA / RITA / Don't know the next name, but it's the girls from Lou Bega's Mambo #5
2. NORWAY = BEDROOM SET / SWEDEN = LIVING ROOM SET / FINLAND = DINING ROOM SET /
3. 1996: WILKENS / 2000: TOMJANOVICH / 2004: BROWN / 2008: Krzyzewski? Olympic basketball coaches?
4. METHANE / ETHANE / PROPANE / _____
5. SHERI / DONTAE / ADRIANNA / _____
6. #4: A CLUSTER IN SCORPIUS / #3: A CLUSTER IN CANES VENATICI / #2: A CLUSTER IN AQUARIUS / _____
7. MARICOPA / HARRIS / COOK / Manhattan? Most populous counties in America?
8. REFUDIATE / SQUEEZED MIDDLE / GIF / _____
9. 1,000: ABRAHAM LINCOLN / 10,000: GROVER CLEVELAND / 100,000: ULYSSES GRANT / _____
10. FLAX = 40 / HAY = 50 / OATS = 60 / _____

[christie1111]

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1) Tina = Mambo #5
4)Butane = Straight chain hydrocarbons with increasing C atoms

[Pastor Fireball]

1. MONICA / ERICA / RITA / TINA

Order of the girls mentioned in the chorus of Lou Bega's "Mambo No. 5".

2. NORWAY = BEDROOM SET / SWEDEN = LIVING ROOM SET / FINLAND = DINING ROOM SET / DENMARK = CARPET

Most of you recognized that this was referring to IKEA kindling--I mean, products. It was simply the Scandinavian naming scheme for IKEA products.

3. 1996: WILKENS / 2000: TOMJANOVICH / 2004: BROWN / 2008: KRZYZEWSKI

Successive coaches of the U.S. men's Olympic basketball team.

4. METHANE / ETHANE / PROPANE / BUTANE

Alkanes, getting progressively more complex.

5. SHERI / DONTAE / ADRIANNA / DON

I guess I was the only one here who watched this reality/competition series.

Order of the first four "deaths" in the first season of ABC's "Whodunnit".

6. #4: A CLUSTER IN SCORPIUS / #3: A CLUSTER IN CANES VENATICI / #2: A CLUSTER IN AQUARIUS / #1: CRAB NEBULA/TAURUS

The first four Messier objects.

7. MARICOPA / HARRIS / COOK / LOS ANGELES

The four most populous U.S. counties in increasing order of population.

8. REFUDIATE / SQUEEZED MIDDLE / GIF / SELFIE

Oxford Dictionaries' "Word of the Year" in the U.S. from 2010-13.

9. 1,000: ABRAHAM LINCOLN / 10,000: GROVER CLEVELAND / 100,000: ULYSSES GRANT / 1,000,000: THEODORE ROOSEVELT

It wasn't U.S. currencies. It was U.S. treasury bonds.

Portraits on U.S. treasury bonds, with the denominations increasing tenfold.

10. FLAX = 40 / HAY = 50 / OATS = 60 / RYE = 70

Points for the four lowest commodities in the classic card game Pit.

Weasel wins this round, but Bob J holds the weekly lead.

5/19 + 5/20 Scores (9 participants)
Bob Juch - 14 + 20 = 34
ShamelessWeasel - 2 + 24 = 26
smilergrogan - 8 + 14 = 22
franktangredi - 6 + 6 = 12
jarnon - 4 + 8 = 12
Bob78164 - 0 + 10 = 10
kroxquo - 2 + 8 = 10
themanintheseersuckersuit - 4 + 6 = 10
christie1111 - 0 + 8 = 8