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Quiz: Triangulation

Round 3 at the Old Pequliar on October 7, 2008

Triangulation is the product of an unholy union between Wikipedia’s disambiguation pages, seldom-used dictionary definitions, Urban Dictionary, and whatever words catch my fancy. I’ll give you three definitions, you tell me the word or phrase that fits them all.

Example: A Canadian music award, a Roman goddess, and Roger Ebert’s favorite film of 2007: Juno

1) An SUV, a bar on Capitol Hill, and an East Coast WNBA team
2) The opposite of double, an indefinite pronoun, and the force that threatens Fantasia
3) A honeycomb holder, a story that contains stories within itself, and 1/24th of a second of a movie
4) The average value of a force multiplied by the time during which it acts, a jazz record label, and when a man you never met before suddenly gives you flowers
5) A Unix command, an octothorp, and a kind of brown
6) Police Woman, a warm-up exercise, and a Gwyneth Paltrow character
7) A British lad mag, a really good poker hand, and a WWII quote
8) Two out of three games of bridge, a gumshoe, and a french letter
9) Clarissa’s last name on Clarissa Explains It All, Lady’s owner in Lady and the Tramp, and a Julie Christie film
10) Chutzpah, the website that described itself as “literate smut,” and what the Cowardly Lion sings for

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Quiz: Triangulation

Round 3 at the Old Pequliar on Sept. 2, 2008
Average score: 8.18/10 (11 teams)

I’ll give you three definitions, you tell me what word fits all of them.

Example: an after dinner cocktail, one of the few kosher insects, and a synonym for padawan? Grasshopper.

1) one way to fly, a leather merchant, and Ernie Pantusso
2) part of a skateboard, something you make in PowerPoint, and something you hit
3) a popular cut for diamonds, a character on Battle of the Planets, and Grace
4) a defense, a low-carb diet, and somewhere an athlete can be
5) a book of the bible, a unit of currency, and conman lingo
6) Julian Lennon’s nursery school classmate, a five-cent psychologist, and an Australopithecus afarensis
7) a muscle spasm, BDSM, and Ray Davies
8) the moon, Poland from 1948 to 1990, and a Toshiba notebook
9) part of a violin, part of a song, and a card game
10) a hip-hop sound, the devil, and cash money

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