Enigmatic Theme #8 by KonkelT

Champion(s):

RautY
The machines are winning


Runner(s)-Up:

WeikleB
I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More, I cannot say.


Quiz Description

Each answer consists of TWO WORDS. Both are required to receive credit, including if the answer is a person's name.

Full Results:

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Questions:

Augustus Island and Booby Island are part of what chain of islands off the coast of Western Australia? (The chain was named in 1801 after the ruler of France at the time.)

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Bonaparte Archipelago

What song (about a place with "those fishing boats with their sails afloat") was a hit for Roy Orbison in 1963 and later became Linda Ronstadt's signature song?

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Blue Bayou

What 1950 film starring Ray Milland and the "gorge-ous" Hedy Lamarr shares its name with the English name (Spanish: Barrancas del Cobre) of a location in the Sierra Madre Occidental in the Mexican state of Chihuahua?

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Copper Canyon

Win Ben Stein's Money aired on what television channel from 1997 to 2003?

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Comedy Central

What function, named after the winner of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics (shared with Erwin Schrodinger) and a Greek letter, is used to model the density of an idealized point mass or point charge as a function equal to zero everywhere except for zero?

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Dirac delta

What Wikipedia entry (to which "Wild West" redirects) begins thus: "The [TWO-WORD ANSWER] comprises the geography, history, folklore, and cultural expression of life in the forward wave of [FIRST WORD] expansion that began with English colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last mainland territories as states in 1912. A [SECOND WORD] is a zone of contact at the edge of a line of settlement."?

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American frontier

Known as M31, what collection of stars, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter is the closest such system to the Milky Way?

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Andromeda Galaxy

What is the name of the theatre and entertainment district in London's West End that is home, most notably, to the Royal Opera House?

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Covent Garden

What term, most associated with black holes, refers to a region in spacetime beyond which events cannot affect an outside observer? It is also the name of a 1997 film starting Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neill.

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Event horizon

What trophy is awarded annually to the NHL's best first-year player? The most recent winner is Matthew Barzal of the New York Islanders.

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Calder Memorial

What 1985 novel (yet to be adapted to film) by Cormac McCarthy, subtitled "The Evening Redness in the West", is widely considered to be the author's masterpiece?

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Blood Meridian

What supernova remnant in the constellation Taurus (not Cancer as one might think) is designated M1?

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Crab Nebula

What airline, founded in 1946, is the flag carrier of Hong Kong, which is the location of its head office and main hub? It has a loyalty program called the Marco Polo Club.

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Cathay Pacific

What landform between Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean gets its name from the three states located on it?

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Delmarva Peninsula

What actress, who played April Ludgate on NBC's Parks and Recreation, currently plays the role of Lenny Busker on the FX series Legion?

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Aubrey Plaza

Complete this quote from Superman III: "You gotta get that fire out in the East wing, otherwise you're gonna have a cloud of acid all over the [TWO-WORD ANSWER]!" (The missing phrase is another term for the U.S. Atlantic Coast.)

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Eastern seaboard

What Puerto Rican outfielder/DH hit 306 home runs in 20 MLB seasons spent with nine different teams? In 1992, he was traded from Texas to Oakland in exchange for Jose Canseco.

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Ruben Sierra

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Dallas skyline

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Earth Summit

The lowest point of elevation in North America is located in Badwater Basin in what desert area?

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Death Valley