Alpaca Farm (beta)

There and Back Again Again: Now With Harder Trivia! by Tortoise

Champion(s):

Kloefkorn

Runner(s)-Up:

PlotkinD

Quiz Description

My first attempt at a "fully palindromic" quiz skewed easy; I was approaching it more from the "puzzle" side than the "trivia" side. This time I'm aiming for harder questions; we shall see if I succeed at this endeavor. Again, the correct responses will form a single palindromic string. Some questions may allow for multiple phrasings or spellings, but only spellings that fit the global palindrome will be accepted.

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Questions:

Question 1

What is the chemical symbol for the substance most strongly associated with the following astrological symbol?

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Hg

Question 2

What word can mean an obstacle, or an application of spices to meat?

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Rub

Question 3

What fearsome “word” is the character in the attached picture about to utter?

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Ni

Question 4

What English author’s novels include Memoirs of a Cavalier, Captain Singleton, and Colonel Jack? (Surname only, please)

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Defoe

Question 5

What comic strip, which ran from 1981 to 2007, was set in the town of Bypass, NC?

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Kudzu

Question 6

What comes next in the following sequence: Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, ____?

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Yosemite

Question 7

What is the nickname of the character at the far right of the attached image?

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Verbal

Question 8

The attached image is a slightly redacted version of the poster for what 1960 film?

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La Dolce Vita

Question 9

What layer of the human eye contains cells known as “rods” and “cones”?

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Retina

Question 10

What title sitcom character made guest appearances on ALF, Baywatch, and The New Gidget?

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Gilligan

Question 11

What adjective describes computer procedures written with constructs like the ‘for’ loop, that perform a set of instructions for a specified number of repetitions?

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Iterative

Question 12

What term for a lump of earth is often used by Peridot to describe the Crystal Gems in Steven Universe? Though Peridot often uses the plural form, the singular is required here for the palindrome.

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Clod

Question 13

What two-word Italian phrase can be used to describe passages demarcated by musical symbols like the ones shown in the attached image?

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alla breve

Question 14

The attached image shows a cropped view of the cover from a recent issue of what periodical?

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Time

Question 15

What is the name (transcribed into English, and ignoring any letters designating the specific version) of the spacecraft shown docked with the International Space Station in the attached image?

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Soyuz

Question 16

What title has been created for members of the British royal family on four occasions, most recently for Philip Mountbatten upon his marriage to Princess Elizabeth in 1947?

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Duke of Edinburgh