The Ultimate QoD Challenge -- Week 2, Tuesday

[Pastor Fireball]

"The Fourth Element"

Once again, it's 1 point for telling me what comes fourth in the sequence and 1 point for telling me why they make a sequence.

Answers are due by Wednesday 4/16 at 4 PM EDT.

1. MELISSA D'ARABIAN / AARON MCCARGO, JR. / AMY FINLEY / _____
2. 1ST: CLERGY / 2ND: NOBILITY / 3RD: GENERAL PUBLIC / _____
3. GIVE YOU UP / LET YOU DOWN / RUN AROUND / _____
4. DOVER / HARRISBURG / TRENTON / _____
5. G = 7 / K = 11 / M = 13 / _____
6. RABBIT / DRAGON / SNAKE / _____
7. CULLEN / PALMER / MORGAN / _____
8. 2010: VIRGINIA / 2011: NEBRASKA / 2012: WISCONSIN / _____
9. JOHN / JAMES / GEORGE / _____
10. HOPE / BACK / JEDI / _____

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[ShamelessWeasel]

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3. Desert you - Things Rick Astley is never going to do if you believe his song lyrics.
6. Horse - Animals on the Chinese Zodiac
9. Richard - First name of the beatles

[Bob Juch]

Spoiler

1. ?? - Chefs
2. The press - French "estates"
3. ?? - rickroll lyrics
4. Atlanta - Capitals of states in the order they ratified the Constitution
5. Q = 17 - prime numbers
6. Horse - Chinese zodiac
7. Myerson - "I've Got a Secret" panel
8. ?? - must be sports
9. Richard - Beatles real first names
10. Menace - Star Wars films in order

[franktangredi]

Spoiler

2. 1ST: CLERGY / 2ND: NOBILITY / 3RD: GENERAL PUBLIC / _____

The Estates, or social classes of pre-Revolutionary France. There was no official Fourth Estate, but the press is often referred to as the Fourth Estate, so I'll go with THE PRESS.

3. GIVE YOU UP / LET YOU DOWN / RUN AROUND / _____

The things Rick Astley's is never gonna do, in lyric order. DESERT YOU

4. DOVER / HARRISBURG / TRENTON / _____

The capitals of the states in the order in which they ratified the Constitution. I'm not sure which was next, but I'll go with BOSTON.

6. RABBIT / DRAGON / SNAKE / _____

Probably the signs of the Chinese Zodiac, but I don't know the order. I'll guess HORSE.

7. CULLEN / PALMER / MORGAN / _____

The regular panelists on I've Got a Secret. MYERSON.

9. JOHN / JAMES / GEORGE / _____

The given first names of the Beatles. RICHARD

10. HOPE / BACK / JEDI / _____

These are the last words of the Star Wars movies in episode order, including the phony title they added to the real one. MENACE

[smilergrogan]

Spoiler

"The Fourth Element"

Once again, it's 1 point for telling me what comes fourth in the sequence and 1 point for telling me why they make a sequence.

Answers are due by Wednesday 4/16 at 4 PM EDT.

1. MELISSA D'ARABIAN / AARON MCCARGO, JR. / AMY FINLEY / _____
2. 1ST: CLERGY / 2ND: NOBILITY / 3RD: GENERAL PUBLIC / 4th: Press
Estates
3. GIVE YOU UP / LET YOU DOWN / RUN AROUND / ?
Lyrics following "Never gonna" in Howard Jones song?
4. DOVER / HARRISBURG / TRENTON /Hartford?
Capitals of states in order of ratifying Constitution
5. G = 7 / K = 11 / M = 13 /Q = 17
Letters of alphabet corresponding to primes
6. RABBIT / DRAGON / SNAKE / Rat?
Years of Chinese calendar
7. CULLEN / PALMER / MORGAN / _____
8. 2010: VIRGINIA / 2011: NEBRASKA / 2012: WISCONSIN / 2013: Stanford?
NCAA Women's volleyball champions?
9. JOHN / JAMES / GEORGE / William?
Most common first names of U.S. Presidents?
10. HOPE / BACK / JEDI / Menace
Star Wars episode subtitle last word in order of film release

[christie1111]

Spoiler

1. MELISSA D'ARABIAN / AARON MCCARGO, JR. / AMY FINLEY / __Guy Fieri__Next Food Network star_
2. 1ST: CLERGY / 2ND: NOBILITY / 3RD: GENERAL PUBLIC / _4t Press?__Estates__
3. GIVE YOU UP / LET YOU DOWN / RUN AROUND / __Desert you. Song lyrics Never gonna....___
4. DOVER / HARRISBURG / TRENTON / __Atlanta - state capitals in order of entering the union___

6. RABBIT / DRAGON / SNAKE / _Horse - Chinese zodiac symbols____

8. 2010: VIRGINIA / 2011: NEBRASKA / 2012: WISCONSIN / _____

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[themanintheseersuckersuit]

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1. MELISSA D'ARABIAN / AARON MCCARGO, JR. / AMY FINLEY / _____
2. 1ST: CLERGY / 2ND: NOBILITY / 3RD: GENERAL PUBLIC /The Press (fourth Estate)
3. GIVE YOU UP / LET YOU DOWN / RUN AROUND / make you cry
4. DOVER / HARRISBURG / TRENTON /Albany
5. G = 7 / K = 11 / M = 13 / n=14
6. RABBIT / DRAGON / SNAKE / Horse
7. CULLEN / PALMER / MORGAN /Carlisle
8. 2010: VIRGINIA / 2011: NEBRASKA / 2012: WISCONSIN / _____
9. JOHN / JAMES / GEORGE / _____
10. HOPE / BACK / JEDI / menace _

[MarleysGh0st]

Spoiler

2. 1ST: CLERGY / 2ND: NOBILITY / 3RD: GENERAL PUBLIC / 4TH: The Press (The Estates)
4. DOVER / HARRISBURG / TRENTON / Albany (State capitals on the east coast, moving north and east from Delaware)
6. RABBIT / DRAGON / SNAKE / Horse? (Chinese Zodiac)
10. HOPE / BACK / JEDI / Menace (Last word of Star Wars movie titles)

[plasticene]

Spoiler

1. MELISSA D'ARABIAN / AARON MCCARGO, JR. / AMY FINLEY / Guy Fieri (Food Network Star winners in reverse chronological order)
2. 1ST: CLERGY / 2ND: NOBILITY / 3RD: GENERAL PUBLIC / 4th: the Press (1st through 4th Estates)
3. GIVE YOU UP / LET YOU DOWN / RUN AROUND / hurt you (things I'm never gonna do)
4. DOVER / HARRISBURG / TRENTON / Hartford (State capitals by order of ratification of the Constitution)
5. G = 7 / K = 11 / M = 13 / Q = 17 (letters with prime alphabet positions)
6. RABBIT / DRAGON / SNAKE / horse (Chinese zodiac symbols)
7. CULLEN / PALMER / MORGAN / Francis (What's My Line panelists)
8. 2010: VIRGINIA / 2011: NEBRASKA / 2012: WISCONSIN / _____
9. JOHN / JAMES / GEORGE / William (U.S. Presidential first names by increasing sum of their sequence numbers)
10. HOPE / BACK / JEDI / Menace (last word of Star Wars episode titles, in order of release)

[plasticene]

Spoiler

9. JOHN / JAMES / GEORGE / William (U.S. Presidential first names by increasing sum of their sequence numbers)

Dang, I was drawing a blank on Garfield's first name! If it had been something other than stupid James, this answer would have been right!

Here are the top 7:
William: 103
James: 95
George: 85
John: 54
Grover & Franklin: 46
Barack: 44

I'll bet there's some way to manipulate these numbers to make my answer right. It works if you make it Jimmy rather than James Carter, but you'd also have to also keep William rather than Bill Clinton for it to work, and I don't know how to justify that.

[jarnon]

Spoiler

2. 4TH: PRESS (États généraux. 5th is Wikileaks; glad I saw that movie.)
3. DESERT YOU (Lyrics of “Never Gonna Give You Up”)
4. ATLANTA (Capitals of first 4 states)
5. Q = 17 (Prime numbers)
6. HORSE (Chinese zodiac)
10. MENACE (Last word of Star Wars movie titles, in order of original release)

[kroxquo]

Spoiler

1. MELISSA D'ARABIAN / AARON MCCARGO, JR. / AMY FINLEY / _____
2. 1ST: CLERGY / 2ND: NOBILITY / 3RD: GENERAL PUBLIC / The Press (4 Estates)
3. GIVE YOU UP / LET YOU DOWN / RUN AROUND / _____
4. DOVER / HARRISBURG / TRENTON / Atlanta (state capitals in order of ratification of constitution)
5. G = 7 / K = 11 / M = 13 / _____
6. RABBIT / DRAGON / SNAKE / _____
7. CULLEN / PALMER / MORGAN / _____
8. 2010: VIRGINIA / 2011: NEBRASKA / 2012: WISCONSIN / _____
9. JOHN / JAMES / GEORGE / _____
10. HOPE / BACK / JEDI /Menace (Last word of Star Wars Titles in the order they were released)

[Bob78164]

I'd do a lot better with choices.

1. MELISSA D'ARABIAN / AARON MCCARGO, JR. / AMY FINLEY / _____
2. 1ST: CLERGY / 2ND: NOBILITY / 3RD: GENERAL PUBLIC / _____ The Press, the four estates
3. GIVE YOU UP / LET YOU DOWN / RUN AROUND / _____ Things that the singer is "Never gonna" do.
4. DOVER / HARRISBURG / TRENTON / _____ Boston, Capitals of states in the order they ratified the Constitution
5. G = 7 / K = 11 / M = 13 / _____ Q = 17, prime numbers and corresponding letter
6. RABBIT / DRAGON / SNAKE / _____ Dog, Chinese years
7. CULLEN / PALMER / MORGAN / _____
8. 2010: VIRGINIA / 2011: NEBRASKA / 2012: WISCONSIN / _____
9. JOHN / JAMES / GEORGE / _____ First names of U.S. Vice Presidents
10. HOPE / BACK / JEDI / _____ Last word of Star Wars movie titles in order of release

--Bob

[Appa23]

Spoiler

1. MELISSA D'ARABIAN / AARON MCCARGO, JR. / AMY FINLEY / Guy Fieri (Next Food Network Star)
2. 1ST: CLERGY / 2ND: NOBILITY / 3RD: GENERAL PUBLIC / Press (French Estates)
3. GIVE YOU UP / LET YOU DOWN / RUN AROUND / Desert You (Rick Astley lyrics)
4. DOVER / HARRISBURG / TRENTON / Atlanta (Constitution Ratificaton state order - capitals)
5. G = 7 / K = 11 / M = 13 / Q = 17 (prime numbers and letter equivalents)
6. RABBIT / DRAGON / SNAKE / Horse (Chinese year of animals)
7. CULLEN / PALMER / MORGAN / Myerson (I've Got A secret panelists)
8. 2010: VIRGINIA / 2011: NEBRASKA / 2012: WISCONSIN / 2013 New York (Miss America)
9. JOHN / JAMES / GEORGE / Richard (Beatle real names)
10. HOPE / BACK / JEDI / Menace (Star War titles last word)

[Pastor Fireball]

1. MELISSA D'ARABIAN / AARON MCCARGO, JR. / AMY FINLEY / GUY FIERI

Sequence: Winners of Season 5, 4, 3, and 2 of "The Next Food Network Star". I didn't think anybody would know the names of the Season 1 winners (Dan Smith & Steve McDonagh), so I ended the sequence with the Season 2 winner, whom everybody knows.

2. 1ST: CLERGY / 2ND: NOBILITY / 3RD: GENERAL PUBLIC / 4TH: THE MEDIA

Sequence: Traditional estates of the realm.

3. GIVE YOU UP / LET YOU DOWN / RUN AROUND / DESERT YOU

Sequence: Things Rick Astley would never do in his #1 hit "Never Gonna Give You Up". "Hurt you" was a good guess, but it comes later in the chorus.

4. DOVER / HARRISBURG / TRENTON / ATLANTA

Sequence: Capitals of the first four states of the Union, in order of admission.

5. G = 7 / K = 11 / M = 13 / Q = 17

Sequence: Successive letters of the alphabet that represent prime numbers.

6. RABBIT / DRAGON / SNAKE / HORSE

A perennially popular subject for the WWTBAM question setters...

Sequence: Chinese calendar animals for the years 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014.

7. CULLEN / PALMER / MORGAN / MYERSON

Sequence: The classic panel of "I've Got a Secret", going from left to right. And Bess Myerson was a nice segue to the next question.

8. 2010: VIRGINIA / 2011: NEBRASKA / 2012: WISCONSIN / 2013: NEW YORK

Sequence: Home states of the four most recent Miss America pageant winners. I thought this question would be another site-wide stumper... until Appa came in at the last moment with the correct answer.

9. JOHN / JAMES / GEORGE / RICHARD

A question about British kings, perhaps? In a way, they are British royalty...

Sequence: John, Paul, George, and Ringo... using their birth names.

10. HOPE / BACK / JEDI / MENACE

Sequence: The final words in the titles of the first four "Star Wars" films released.

Pretty decent scores all around today. Some scores better than others. Appa jumps in on the festivities for the first time, and does it with a perfect score.

4/14 + 4/15 Scores (12 participants)
Bob Juch - 10 + 15 = 25
Appa23 - 0 + 20 = 20
franktangredi - 7 + 13 = 20
jarnon - 5 + 12 = 17
plasticene - 5 + 12 = 17
smilergrogan - 6 + 8 = 14
Bob78164 - 4 + 8 = 12
ShamelessWeasel - 5 + 6 = 11
christie1111 - 0 + 10 = 10
kroxquo - 4 + 6 = 10
MarleysGh0st - 3 + 6 = 9
themanintheseersuckersuit - 5 + 4 = 9