COBRA(s)! by Egantx7

Champion(s):

LuskT
Giggity.


Runner(s)-Up:

KonkelT
Kai gwa!


Quiz Description

Cobras are things worthy of questions, of which here are 12 of them.

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10 Dromeda 942 50 125
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11 TheLuggage 926 44 00
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14 jamietoon 785 28 00
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19 DouglasLovesVixey 125 2 00
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Questions:

In order to be a true cobra, a species must be a member of this genus, which except for swapping a "j" for a "g", is a word that commonly is used to identify serpents in south central and southeast Asia.

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Naja

When Cobra got sick of Cobra Commander's incompetence, they had Dr. Mindbender create a genetically engineered emperor to take his place named Serpentor. Serpentor's DNA was taken from a number of great historic military leaders, but obtaining DNA from one of their target's was thwarted by a member of G.I. Joe, and that Joe's DNA was used in its place. Name either the Chinese general whose DNA Cobra never got, a general who (if he ever existed) led and wrote toward the end of the Warring States Period, or the man born Robert Remus who foiled Cobra and was associated with a maneuver called the Cobra Clutch.

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Sun Tzu (Sun Zi, Sun Wu, or Changqing) OR Sgt. Slaughter

While the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 dealt with a number of labor issues, Title X of the law is the most notable part of the law, and deals specifically with which unemployment benefit.

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health insurance

2017 saw the return to production of the Colt Cobra, a handgun that was originally produced between 1950 and 1981. The 0.38 caliber version of the Cobra was used by which man, the criminal partially at the center of a Robert H. Jackson Pulitzer Prize winning photograph. That photo was taken looking over this man's left shoulder while his victim is in the center of the photo, with Detective Jim Leavelle on the left.

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Jack Ruby

All of the snakes identified as cobras are in the family Elapidae. While representatives of this family can be found on all continents, only two species are found in the United States, both of which are known by the same common name. Identify this shy, but otherwise dangerous snake, the eastern variety of which is sometimes called the "American cobra", and which is the subject of a Southern children's rhyme used to teach kids the difference between the dangerous snake and a harmless mimic.

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coral snake (red touches black, friend of Jack, red touches yellow, you're a dead fellow!)

New York Jets fans may well know this woman by the analogy: John Lennon : Yoko Ono :: Mark Gastineau : BLANK. This Dane made her feature film debut as the title character in Red Sonja but might be better known for her work with one of her four husbands - Sylvester Stallone. Identify this actress who played Ivan Drago's wife in Rocky IV, and the target of neo-fascists who must be protected by the title character (played by Stallone) in the 1986 cult classic Cobra.

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Brigitte Nielsen

Identify the character who spoke these words, or the business he operates:

We do not train to be merciful here. Mercy is for the weak. Here, in the streets, in competition: A man confronts you, he is the enemy. An enemy deserves no mercy.

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John Kreese (Cobra-Kai dojo)

The AC Cobra was originally produced in 1962 by Britain's AC Cars, but shortly thereafter an American auto engineer in Los Angeles got permission to produce AC Cobras in the United States with imported bodies and frames and a Ford V-8 engine. Give the name of this engineer who lent his name to the American version of the Cobra.

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(Carroll) Shelby

In 1975, Chuck Jones of Bugs Bunny fame directed an animated film version of the Rudyard Kipling classic Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. This man voiced Nag, the horribly misunderstood cobra who is simply trying to kill a British family which has invaded his and his mate's territory. Identify this legendary actor, director, and Oscar-winning writer whose last film, before dying in 1985, was voicing Unicron in the animated Transformers film. Identify this immortal whose best known film was likely in 1941.

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Orson Welles

The first man to capture one of these cousins of cobras died the next day from a bite (in 1950). One species of this snake was thought missing for 80 years until rediscovered in the 1970s. That species of this snake holds the distinction of having the venom with the highest LD-50 of any snake in the world (even higher than any sea snake). Identify the more common name for the genus Oxyuranus, consisting of 4 deadly species all found in (shock!) Australia, which have a name which is similar to a Cantonese term for a business owner, particularly a foreign owner of a business around Hong Kong.

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Taipan

Ironically, the king cobra is NOT a true cobra because it is in the genus Ophiophagus. What is the (rough) translation (in English) of "ophiophagus".

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Serpent (snake) eater

Which near Hall-of-Famer, 7-time All-Star, 3-time Gold Glove winner, and 3-time Silver Slugger winner was the 1977 and 1978 NL batting champion and 1978 NL MVP?

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Dave "the Cobra" Parker