Task 1: - Road to nowhere
Where is the Miles Glacier Bridge
(panoramic view) located, who built it, and by which famous earthquake was it damaged?
The correct answer was given by
Lupo:
- It's located 50 miles away from
Cordova, Alaska, was built by a large number of construction workers (the money came from
J. P. Morgan and the
Guggenheim family; the architect is not given in our article) and was damaged in the
Good Friday Earthquake
Task 2: - Take the blue pill..
What do these
matrices represent and where can they be found on Wikipedia? (As of 27 Oct 2004)
File:Wikifun-matrix1.png and
File:Wikifun-matrix2.png
The correct answer was given by
Lupo:
- they're
here, but only if viewed as a logged-in user with his preference for stub display set to 300 characters! They represent all possible two-letter combinations as Wikilinks (blue=article, violet=stub, red=nonexisting). The first one is for upper-case/lower-case combinations, the second one for upper-case/upper-case combinations. Aa or AA is in the top-left corner, Zz or ZZ in the bottom-right corner.
Task 3: - Roger Rabbit for president!
Which country received its name because of the abundance of
hares found by the first settlers?
The correct answer was given by
Lupo:
- That would be
Spain, according to our
List of country name etymologies, found through
Etymology.
Task 4: - Philatelarchaeology
Where can you find this stamp on Wikipedia and what is the title? Which event is commemorated by the stamp and where did it take place?
The correct answer was given by
Lupo:
- It's the 2 cent "Trans-Miss" from the
Trans-Mississippi Issue, issued to mark the
1898
Trans-Mississippi Exposition held in
Omaha, Nebraska. (Found through
Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_the_United_States, which came up as the fifth hit in a Wikipedia search (not Google or Yahoo) for "(stamp 2c)".) The title is "Farming in the West".
Task 5: - Taste this, imposter!
Which famous sauce (allegedly) received its name during a battle? Who led it? When and where did it take place?
The correct answer was given by
Lupo:
- After much searching, I'm still not 100% sure, but I'll venture a guess: your question refers to
Mayonnaise. Our article says that it may have been named after the
Battle of Arques in
France (on
September 21,
1589) between
Henri IV and
Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne in honor of the latter, "because he took the time to finish his meal of chicken with cold sauce before being defeated in battle by
Henri IV".
Task 6: - Back in time..
Which monarch came to power 3910 3298 days before the battle mentioned above?
Note: Sorry for the mistake. I counted one year twice. I do hope this will be correct now.
The correct answer was given by
Lupo:
- I propose
Carlo Emmanuele I of the
House of Savoy. His father
Emmanuele Filiberto died on
August 30,
1580, and Carlo Emmanuele then became duke of Savoy, either the same day or on the next day. 3298 days before
September 21,
1589 brings me to
August 31,
1580.
Task 7: - Wikifun goes olympic
Where can the following emblem be found on Wikipedia? What does it stand for?
File:Wikifun-illustration.png
The correct answer was given by
Lupo:
- That's the mission insignia of the
Gemini VII
NASA manned spaceflight in
1965. It can be found at
Image:Ge07Patch orig.jpg.
Task 8: - O wicked game! O wikifun!
Which poem contains the following lines? Where can it be found?
O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede
Of marble men and maidens overwrought
In march, one year after this poem has been written, the author wrote a letter. To whom? Where can this information be found?
The correct answer was given by
Lupo:
- As searches on Wikipedia for excepts from the excerpt came up empty, I eventually tried
Ode, where "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by
John Keats is mentioned up-front. Now Greece could fit (I had immediately thought "Attic" referred probably to
Attica), but how to verify it? I tried
John Keats first, and discovered that we have an article
Ode on a Grecian Urn. But then I had to go to
WikiSource to verify that it indeed contains the lines you showed.
- he wrote that letter in March
1820 to
Fanny Brawne (which I had suspected all along, but had been unable to confirm it, even after checking the
what links here on that non-existing article). The quote is, BTW, "You are always new. The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest."
Task 9: - Linguist Xing
In which language is the inscription on the following road sign? On which page in Wikipedia can it be found?
File:Wikifun-sign1.jpg
The correct answer was given by
Lupo:
- Finally I thought of searching for "géill", but the two articles that came up were actually misleading because they were on
Scottish Gaelic... Only including images in the search turned up
Image:Geill sli.jpg, used at
Gaeltacht. And when I then realized that it was not a roundabout, it all fit.
Task 10: - Bud! - Weis! - Er..
What is the answer to the following question?
The correct answer was:
But I must admit that I forgot where I found the translation that
=100000 (External:
[1]
[2]
[3]). Therefore, I award
Lupo also the last of the ten points for his answer
which is correct when counting frogs which I find very amusing.