Mystery Theme 64 by ShapiroA

Champion(s):

RautY
The machines are winning


Runner(s)-Up:

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


Quiz Description

I'm up to something.

Full Results:

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1 RautY 550 95 15
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2 helene 350 85 15
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3 KonkelT 345 75 15
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4 DouglasLovesVixey 310 65 15
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5 RalliP 275 55 15
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6 SokolM 160 45 00
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7 LynchT 135 30 00
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7 AnthonyBianca 135 30 00
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9 KlionskyG 75 15 00
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10 DFisher 60 5 00
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Questions:

A character in the best-selling book written since 1950 (by global sales) has a last name which is archaic English for “bumblebee”. What is that character’s first name?

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ALBUS

By what mononymous stage name is this violinist best known?

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MIDORI

What four-letter name is shared by a Turkish denim apparel company and a Charlotte, NC–based rap artist? This name could also be an approximate homophone for the French translation of a Billy Joel song title.

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MAVI

What very common Chinese surname, cognate to the southern Vietnamese name Huỳnh, is also part of the Mandarin name for the second-longest river in China? Any common transliteration is acceptable, as is the character.

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HUANG (HWANG, WONG, 黃)

I’m a math teacher. What three-letter abbreviation has been obscured in this excerpt from one of my course handouts?

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TAN

“May the [BLANK] be with you!” What is the missing word in this iconic line first spoken in a 1987 movie?

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SCHWARTZ

Tallahassee, FL; Coeur d’Alene, ID; Frederick, MD; Juneau, AK; and Guymon, OK are the most populous cities in subregions of their respective states that share a particular name. What is (by far) the most populous city in the similarly named subregion of TX?

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AMARILLO

“Catch the mouse” and “the Walrus was Paul” are lyrics from songs that lend their titles to two movies. Though the second movie was billed as a sequel to the first, the movies had only one major character in common; what is that character’s last name?

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BLANC

The first king of a (then) newly constituted country, who ruled from 1861 to 1878, was referred to by supporters using what acronym? As it happens, this acronym was spelled and pronounced like the surname of one of those supporters, a prominent composer and nationalist.

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VERDI

What common name is shared by the marine gastropod Littorina littorea and by the vigorous, shade-loving groundcover plants of the genus Vinca?

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PERIWINKLE

What seven characters (one of which is nonalphabetic) have been redacted from this tweet (er, X post)? Just to disambiguate a little, all of the redacted characters are typically typed with the left hand.

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#FFFFFF

What is the hidden theme of this quiz?

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COLORS (IN VARIOUS LANGUAGES)