Cryptic Quizzes Here clues like those used in cryptic crosswords are used to solve the answers. I like this type as you can adjust the difficulty of the clues to suit the audience, some easy,some tricky and some stinkers should keep them occupied all night long. Here are some that I have used recently. The clues give answers that are all towns and cities within the UK The answers are all alcoholic beverages, as a clue in Q9 a person from Swansea is often referred to as a “JACK”. All names of popular films. All names of pop or rock bands.
The answers are all film titles that have won the “Oscar” for BEST FILM. These are all the names of shops in Port Talbot South Wales, but many of them are national outlets. This therefore may need some adaption for your quiz. These are all names of television programmes that have aired in the UK.
The clues give answers that are all name of stations on the London Underground.
— 'Could you ' '. Would you describe it here?' ' First you asked me if I could describe it, then you asked if I would describe it. But you never actually asked me to describe the trope to you. 'Alright, then.
Describe Mathematician's Answer here.' If you ask someone a question, and he gives you an entirely accurate answer that is of no practical use whatsoever, he has just given you a Mathematician's Answer.
A common form of this trope is to fully evaluate the logic of the question and give a logically correct answer. Such a response may prove confusing for someone who interpreted what they said colloquially. Examples include questions involving 'can you do favor.?' Being interpreted as a hypothetical 'are you capable of doing favor?'
Instead of its more common intent as a request to actually do it. Just such an example is commonly used (often humorously) by teachers of linguistics and philosophy of language to illustrate conversational maxims. Imagine A asks B 'Can you pass me the salt?' And B simply answers 'Yes' and does not pass them the salt. The reason this kind of exchange is uncommon is that there is always an implicit level of meaning beyond the literal meaning, which is determined by implicit conventions.
A supposedly knows that B is capable of passing the salt, and B knows that A knows this. Therefore, if B assumes that A is obeying a conversational maxim such as 'Do not ask a question to which you already know the answer', they will interpret the question as a request to do something, rather than as a request for information. This is also a favorite of English teachers and, frequently going through something similar to 'Can I come in?' 'I don't know, can you?'
'Uh, may I come in?' Another common form is when a character is asked 'Is it A or B?' They will respond 'Yes' as if it were a question of Boolean logic rather than clarifying which specific one is the case (though this can also occur if the responder does not know the answer, or considers both answers correct. This crops up a lot in, especially in the world of computers). This occurs because a question of the form 'Is the capital of Australia Melbourne or Canberra?' Is ambiguous between 'The capital of Australia is either Melbourne or Canberra. Which one is it?'
And 'Is the capital of Australia either Melbourne or Canberra?' A logician may misinterpret a question of the first kind as being one of the second, to the frustration of the person who asked the question.
A third variant is when a 'How?' Question (as in 'By what method?' ) is answered with an adverb or adverbial phrase, as if the question had been 'In what manner?' For example: 'How did you get past the guards?' 'With difficulty.' Can be used by characters for reasons ranging from to intentional obfuscation to being extremely — AI and other by their nature are very likely to fall into the last category.
Can overlap with when the question is seeking a description, and with, as these answers tend to be self-evident for anyone with a brain. Usually doubles as a, when the 'mathematician' is deliberately trying to confound the questioner. Compare, which is a vague 'answer' which does not answer the question at all. Mildly related to and.
And don't forget that the person giving the Mathematician's Answer is The trope name comes from a family of jokes about the supposed habit of mathematicians to make unhelpful answers. For example: a man in a hot-air balloon asked someone where he was. 'You're in a balloon,' he answered. The rider concluded that it was a mathematician that said that, because the answer was perfectly correct and completely useless. (The joke sometimes continues with the mathematician deducing the man in the balloon is a manager, because he has risen to his position with a lot of hot air, has no idea where he is or where he is going, and yet claims this is the fault of the innocent person standing below him.) is a subtrope that's its own. Contrast when the question isn't answered at all, and the meaning is quite clear. Often the answer is.
Related to: the person who was asked gives a logical answer that ruins the spirit of the question. Compare with. A commercial for Lyrica begins with a voiceover along the lines of: 'I was wondering why I had muscle pain, so I asked my doctor.
It turns out, connected to muscles are nerves which send pain messages to the brain.' . Also a moment. 'Nerves send pain messages to the brain?!!'
. This may be a rare example of an unintentional Mathematician's Answer. The idea could be to inform the audience that pain doesn't just exist in the pained part of the body, and that not all treatment of pain actually has to directly affect the pained part (something which may seem obvious to most people — especially if you know about phantom pain — but not to everyone). A beer commercial has a guy describe something as beautiful, refreshing, etc. As he grabs a beer near a woman. The woman asks him if he's describing the beer or her; his reply is, 'Yes.'
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. A commercial for Grey Poupon mustard has one Rolls-Royce pull up to another, and they both roll down their windows. One man asks, 'Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon?' The other replies, 'But of course!' — then signals his chauffeur to drive away. A Nike 'Find Your Greatness' spot goes something like this: 'Is it speed or endurance?
Does it happen in two hours or four or six? Is it finishing strong or barely finishing?
'It' is ostensibly greatness. A series of ads for AT&T feature a man talking to young children. Here's one of the exchanges. Chou: So who are we goin' after? Or Battousai?.: When a very young Uryuu asks his father why he hates being a Quincy, Ryuuken replies 'because there's no money in it', leaving Uryuu so shocked and troubled that he runs to his grandfather in tears, asking if Ryuuken's answer is a truth or lie. Souken points out that, because Ryuuken has a family to raise, it can be viewed as truthful.
In fact, Ryuuken is telling the truth from any angle - being Quincy never pays the bills regardless of whether or not there's a family to raise. However, Uryuu wants to know why Ryuuken hates being a Quincy, yet neither Ryuuken nor Souken actually answer that question. They both sidestep it completely. Jonah in is awful at math, so when he's basically asked 22 times 3 while the Logistics crew are at an airport, he answers 'A bunch.' Jolly Jumper: With disgust, just like everybody else.
In one Big Bang Comics story, the Quizmaster is trying to get the Knight Watchman to reveal his secret identity — by having him play 20 questions while hooked up to a lie detector, and killing his sidekick Kid Galahad if he lies! For his first question, he asks the Watchman whom he would be if he weren't wearing his costume. The Watchman replies 'I can truthfully say that I would still be myself!'
. The Watchman tries to give a similar answer to the question 'Who is Kid Galahad, in reality?'
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; he manages to avoid the answer the Quizmaster wanted, but is forced to give away some information: 'In all earnestness I'll have to tell you that he's really my nephew!' He had a similar smartass answer for the question 'What are your secret identities?' , but Kid Galahad escaped and took the Quizmaster out of commission before he could give it. Yakko: Well,. Rockit pro dj 5.0. In issue 3 of, when the title character appears at a speed-date dressed like their usual self, the woman sitting across from them asks if they're dressed for a con(vention).
Their response? 'There's always a con going on somewhere.' . Issue 5 has the Loki of a possible future answer this to a question regarding what happens to Midgard: 'T'was governed most perfectly. By my reckoning.' Later it turned out that they are ruling Earth in that timeline. They also happened to kill off every living being on the planet just to spite Thor.
Well, no incarnation of Loki was ever humble. This trope is pretty much Loki's most benign setting; at least he isn't in a mood (yet). In, when Gilbert is asked whether that is his first or last name, he replies 'Indubitably. I could not have put it better myself.' His full name is eventually revealed to be Fiddler's Green. In issue #1 of the comic adaptation of, Rick invents a device that guarantees them infinite amounts of money in the stock market.
Morty is unsure of whether or not it's legal, to which Rick responds with: 'I'm completely aware of how legal it is, Morty!' Anon 1: If they can figure out how to get into a city that sits twenty feet above the plain.
Anon 2: alright. How do you get in then? Anon 1: Through the front door. In Chapter 16 of fanfic 'Yet Hope Still Remains', Cornelius Fudge tries to make Harry reveal the whereabouts of Sirius Black and Remus Lupin. Harry answers 'Earth'. Later in the chapter, Harry gives a more specific answer: Europe.: Abundant in the story, and perhaps even more abundant out of it; the three authors, that they are, have a tendency to use this to answer fans' questions about what's going to happen.
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In the Heads of House discover Harry and his friends' secret hideout. Vanessa: How did you learn to do that? Benson: Do what? Vanessa: That, that. The talking thing?
Benson: Same way you did, I guess. Mama, dada, honey, you pick it up. In, Pinocchio has a very confusing one in order to not lie to Prince Charming about where Shrek is. Unfortunately, it gets so that his allies crack and tell the truth.
In, when the Secretary of Night asks for Mumfie's name, his answer is 'Yes!' The Secretary asks what he means, and he says that he has a name, and gives the correct response. During the scene in where Bud and Lewis try to make their way back to the garage, they stumble upon a dog wearing spectacles. C-3PO: Excuse me, sir. Might I inquire what's going on? Han Solo: Why not?. 'How did he die?'
'Your contact?.: 'I'm doin' a double shift, what's it look like?' . does this a lot, mostly with 'what is it?' .
'There's been a little problem in the cockpit.' 'The cockpit? 'It's a room at the front of the plane where the pilot sits. But that's not important right now.'
. 'This woman has to be gotten to a hospital.'
'The hospital? 'It's a big building with patients.
But that's not important right now.' . 'You got a letter from headquarters this morning.'
'What is it?' 'It's a big building where generals meet. But that's not important right now.'
. Asked for his name and position, Ted answers, 'Ted Stryker. I'm sitting down, facing forward, but that's not important right now.' .: 'Where do these stairs go?' 'They go up.'
. In, George asks the pregnant Mary, 'Is it a boy or a girl?' Mary just nods enthusiastically. In the starring, a reporter asks Inspector Clouseau if they (the police) know if the killer is a man or a woman. Clouseau's answer is: 'Well of course I know that! What else is there, a kitten?'
. Also, when he quotes someone about politics, Yvette asks him if he said it, meaning if he is the original author of the quote. Clouseau takes the question literally and, after bemusedly looking around for someone else, answers 'Yes.' .
In, Clouseau visits a town where he encounters this trope, twice. First he enters a taxi and says to the driver 'Follow that car!' The cabbie promptly starts chasing the car. A minute or two later, Clouseau asks a passer-by for directions. The Cat: My place, where do you think?.laughs. The short 'School's Out' features several test answers taken from H.M.
Walker's Vaudeville routine, many of which take this form. 'Donald Haines, where is Washington?' 'First in war, first in peace, and.'
. 'Douglas Greer, what was Abraham Lincoln's mother's name?' . 'Buddy O'Donald, on Paul Revere's night ride, what did he say as he stopped his horse in front of colonial homes?' 'He said, 'Whoa!'
'. 'Bobby Malon, what was Nero doing while Rome burned?' 'I don't know, but I think he should've been hauling water to the fire.'
. 'Jackie Cooper, who was?'