User:JimCollaborator/Wikifun Round 5

Question 1

All your base are belong to us

What is the most unusual known numbering system and which ancient civilization used it?

From numeral system, a base 60 system was used by the Sumerians in Mesopotamia. Path: Number to numeral system

Question 2

Meow.

This particular user created a mathematical featured picture that resembles like a religious icon. Who is the user and what is the featured picture, and what is the picture a special rendering of?

User:Evercat Image:Buddhabrot-deep.jpg Special Rendering of Madelbrot set

Path: Featured Pictures to #Mathematics to Buddhabrot picture to Buddhabrot page.

Question 3

I meant to use this redirect...

Out of all the Wikipedia shortcuts, which two shortcuts are confused the most?

RfA - Req for Adminship and RfAr - Req for Arbitration

Path: Shortcuts to Wikipedia:WP to its talk page to RfA page

Question 4

"The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life." -- Arthur Miller

What theatre was closely associated with Celtic revival in its early years?

Abbey Theater

Celtic Revival to What Links Here to Abbey Theater

Question 5

"Jellicle Cats come out tonight; Jellicle Cats come one, come all..."

What fictional cat character survived the Votes for deletion process?

• • • ???***

Question 6

"If you wish upon a star..."

What feature article's subject was observed by another feature article's subject in 1610?

Europa Discovered in 1610 by both Galileo Galilee and Simon Marius (both FA)

Searched for "featured article" and 1610

Question 7

One picture means a thousand words...

What high resolution featured picture has the words Ville Candidate on it?

Question 8

"For every power in the universe, there is one greater." -- Albert Sweener

On February 18, 2005, this eye surgeon from Germany found what power? And why was it important?

Question 9

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein

Alva's list of jokes.

Question 10

"Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble. Fire burn and Caldron bubble." -- MacBeth, Shakespeare

This bubble refers to something that helps cleans and orders things by "bubbling" things to the top.

Question 11

Where did my Wikipedia go?

On February 21, 2005, all Wikimedia Foundation servers went down due to tripped circuit breakers inside the colocation facility. What major power related event occurred two years prior to this event?

Question 12

When asked to name the chief qualification a politician should have. "It's the ability to foretell what will happen tomorrow, next month, and next year --- and to explain afterward why it didn't happen." --Sir Winston Churchill

This logical, pragmatic and clear-sighted individual served for his country three times and is the fourth in total time in office.

Question 13

My little town

This small town has population under 10,000 and a density of 77.59 persons per kilometers squared as of 2004.

This question was left unsolved. The answer for this question is: Naie, Hokkaido. No points awarded to anyone.

Question 14

Fun with numbers

• Take the largest prime number that is less than 20 whos digits add up to 8. 17
• Then multiply by that number (the result in 1) by 100. 1700
• Find a dead poet/playwright and take the year that person was born and subtract it by the previous number (result in 2).
• Take that number (result in 3) and find the end of the Saros number of the solar eclipse series and multiply it by the result in 3.
• Add all the digits from the resulting number.
• What is the atomic element cooresponding to the final number?

Question 15

Clever searching

• This paper reached (this number) of circulation in a certain year.

• On November 20, the Wikipedia reached this milestone with (this number) articles.

• There are over (this number) of a ___________ people living in Mexico.

• Restricting ourselves to the last (this number) years, the ice core record shows that the a) _______________ in b)___________ are periodic, with the same periodicity as various orbital variations.

Name all the articles, the number that is common to all the articles, and fill in all the blanks.

Question 16

To be bold and improve articles where no article has gone before!

This article passed through COTW but sadly remained primarily a list of links.

Question 17

Picture time! Say Cheese!

What picture is this from?

Question 18

Who, what, where?!?!? I spy with my eye...

DeLucas prescribes them, Carl or John would give them to you. All I can see is that these men all relate to each other much like a pharmacist is to a physician.

Question 19

Last one to the door is a rotten egg!

15 sections, previous COTW nomination, currently a FA, deals with the United States and another country. What article am I talking about?

Question 20

Hippy, hoppy, an article hunting we go...

Name all articles

• This city shares the same name as a famous character who chases a white rabbit. (2 articles: Name the city, name the story)

Alice, Alice in Wonderland Alice, North Dakota Alice, Texas

• This movie made a reference to the said above character (1 article)

Matrix

• The actor who stars in the same movie also starred in a movie about a runaway bus (2 articles: Name the actor, name the movie)

Keanu Reeves Speed

• That movie used what freeway in California? (1 article: Name the freeway)

Interstate 105

• The freeway's nickname has what type of value? (0 articles, just give the value)

Century Freeway, 100

• What famous place is celebrating half of the above value's birthday? (Hint: The characters from the story from part 1 also are here at this place)

50th Anniversary of Disneyland.