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PUB QUIZ #042
Season: Wintersemester 2024/25
PUB QUIZ #042
Season: Wintersemester 2024/25
Section 1: Do you know Tübingen?
1. Which restaurant in Tübingen has a 3-meter white great shark on the roof?
□Aspendos
□xEl Pecardo
□Die Kelter
□Neckarmüller
2. What is the Elysium in Tübingen?
□A bookstore
□xA forest
□A university building
□A theater
3. When Count Eberhard im Bart returned from his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1468, what tree did he bring back and plant in Tübingen where it still supposedly stands today?
□A fig tree
□xA hawthorn tree
□A olive tree
□A palm tree
Section 2: Popcorn Science
1. The answer to life, the universe, and everything.. the answer to the ultimative question?
42
2. Which social media platform was originally limited to 140 characters per post?
□Blue Sky
□Instagram
□xTwitter
□Snapchat
3. What does 'www' stand for in a web browser?
World Wide Web
4. In which year was the first helicopter built?
□1907
□1923
□x1939
□1956
5. In the famous 1989 Tiananmen Square incident in China, where a protesting student stood in front of a row of tanks, what was the outcome?
□The student got shot by the army
□The student was arrested
□The student was run over by the tank
□xThe student was pulled away by bystanders
Section 3: Certified Mastermind!
1. Which popular Canadian TV series did Drake star in before his music career took off?
□Breaking Bad
□xDegrassi: The Next Generation
□The Wire
□The Tudors
2. Complete the lyrics of the probable song of the year:
Why you trollin' like a bitch? Ain't you tired?
Tryna strike _ _____ ___ ___ ________ _ _____ '
Tryna strike _ _____ ___ ___ ________ _ _____
'Tryna strike a chord and it's probably A minor' - Kendrick Lamar - Not like us
3. On February 19, Drake and PartyNextDoor released a new studio album titled?
□Loverboy Chronicles
□Midnight Waves
□xSome Sexy Songs 4 U
□Toronto Nights
4. The smash hit 'Not Like Us' by Kendrick Lamar is included on which album?
None. It's just a single.
Section 4: World travellers delight
1. What is the southernmost major city (over 100k inhabitants) in Germany?
□Munich
□Stuttgart
□xFreiburg
□Nuremberg
2. What was the original European name for Australia?
□New England
□New France
□xNew Holland
□New Spain
3. In the Caribbean, which two countries share an island?
□Antigua and Saint Martin
□xDominican Republic and Haiti
□Jamaica and the Bahamas
□Puerto Rico and Martinique
4. In 2022, municipal waste per inhabitant in the EU was 513 kg. Ten countries exceeded this average—name four.
Austria 803, Denmark 802, Luxembourg 721, Belgium 690, Cyprus 673, Malta 618, Germany 606, France 535, Finland 522
Section 5: Are You Smarter Than A 6th Grader?
1. The Mongolian Postal Service limits mailed items to 1 meter. Boris needed to send his 1.4-meter flute, which couldn't be disassembled. How did he manage to mail it?
He mailed it diagonally in a 1x1-meter box
2. All squares.. What is the ?
16
3. Moritz wants to reach the island 10 m from shore without getting wet. He has two 9.5 m planks. How can he cross?
A and F
4. Even very very simple ciphers can be very challenging!
xifo uif tvo tijoft, xf'mm tijof uphfuifs, upme zpv j'mm cf ifsf gpsfwfs, tbje j'mm bmxbzt cf zpvs gsjfoe
xifo uif tvo tijoft, xf'mm tijof uphfuifs, upme zpv j'mm cf ifsf gpsfwfs, tbje j'mm bmxbzt cf zpvs gsjfoe
When the sun shines, we'll shine together, Told you I'll be here forever, said I'll always be your friend
Bonus Challenge
Four towns (A, B, C, D) form a ten-mile square. To improve connectivity on a very tight budget, engineers proposed three road designs to save costs. Plan 1: 40 km, Plan 2: 30 km, Plan 3: 28.3 km Determine a better solution with an even shorter total road length?
27.3 km. Optimaly with 120 deg between A middle and B. It's called the 'Steiner tree problem'