"Translations" by ShapiroA

Champion(s):

GoldfarbDavidJ
Everything is broken. Steps to reproduce: Do anything. Expected result: It should work.


Runner(s)-Up:

helene
I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.


Quiz Description

Devious little puzzles. Bwahahahaha

Full Results:

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1 GoldfarbDavidJ 471 98 15
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2 helene 416 94 15
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3 hypotactic 412 90 15
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4 KosmanJ 405 87 15
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5 KlionskyG 383 83 15
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6 NathanL 379 79 15
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7 KonkelT 372 75 15
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8 zerocrates 341 72 00
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9 Aniket 331 68 15
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10 hksock 327 64 15
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11 randalleng 297 61 15
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12 ecpekkle 293 57 15
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13 IvixorB 286 53 15
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14 SternK 281 50 15
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15 SokolM 245 44 15
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15 ElendilPickle 245 44 15
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17 olivetree 234 38 15
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18 DFisher 233 35 15
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19 LesterD 229 31 15
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20 LynchT 219 27 15
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21 MoskowitzJim 207 24 15
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22 LanceJ 196 20 00
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23 HortonR 180 16 00
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24 brm7189 178 12 15
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25 Stevo600 159 9 15
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26 KPope 152 5 15
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27 DouglasLovesVixey 107 1 15
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Questions:

Translate MIX from Roman to Western Arabic.

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1009

Translate crisps from British to American English twice.

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(French) fries

M + C2H6 = ?

(Give the chemical formula.)

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CH4

What is the Greek equivalent of the Latin entity which was also, in America (not Britain), the forerunner of Snickers Almond?

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Ares

What port city of 440,000 anchors a region known, via inverse porcine transformation, as the Beast?

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Oakland

Translate the 4th book of the Old Testament from Apple to Microsoft.

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Excel

Repeated machine translation of a famous line of poetry between English and Japanese produced these results: "_____ _____? The hands of the immortal and the symmetry of the night is burning bright frame dangerous?" Fill in the redacted athlete.

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Tiger Woods

A cryptic clue: "Ohne Kleider, danke!" translated (5)

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naked

In German its eponym means "pale man", but some might think of the Prince of Lies. What is it called west of the Rockies?

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Best Foods

Translate A-D-C to a border town (fixed do).

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Laredo

"Though yellow when raw, fifteen turns red eleven baked in a foot." This sentence makes sense in English when three words are translated to Spanish. Give the translations of those three words.

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quince, once, pie

For breakfast I ate a muffin, fisk, pain grillé, arroz, kiełbasa, Schokoladenkuchen, ghiaccio, kahve, and γιαούρτι. What's the English translation of the last one?

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(Greek) yogurt