Wikipedia:Wikifun/Answers (Round 2)

Wikifun Tasks and Answers for Round 2

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?