An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #49: Pub Quiz Camouflage
For this pub quiz, I urge you to listen closely. The final word hidden within this pub quiz describes, jokingly, what pub quiz participants are.
Answer on!
- What is the name given to any convex polyhedron with six faces, all of which are quadrilaterals (though not necessarily rectangles)?
- What is the third-largest island of Japan?
- Who is the Japanese figure skater who, aside from being famous for having broken many world records, holds (as of September 18, 2020) the world standing of 1?
- Four of Jupiter's moons were discovered by astronomer Galileo Galilei. Out of those four, what is the name of the smallest one?
- Which male deity, along with his goddess partner, was believed to have created Japan?
- Who is the founder of the American aerospace manufacturing company SpaceX?
- What is the most spoken constructed language?
- What term is used to describe a programming language that is designed to go beyond the norms of programming language design yet is not intended to be for practical use?
- Which American animated cartoon series had a final episode entitled Things Change?
- Which British band created the hit song Everybody Wants to Rule the World?
- Which part of the human eye, made of smooth muscle, determines how much light is received by the retina?
- The official music video for Jumpsuit, a single taken from Trench, the fifth album of American band Twenty One Pilots, was filmed in which country?
- Which American band is known for their creative music videos, one of which featured many optical illusions and was made to promote the band's single The Writing's on the Wall?
- Who voices the main character of the Cars film series, Lightning McQueen?
- In the popular game Minecraft, what creature serves as the final boss?
- What is the other name for a 9-sided polygon, aside from "nonagon"?
- Which song by British-Irish band One Direction has a number as its title?
- The diamond is the birthstone of which month?
- In the song Innuendo by British band Queen, what was Freddie Mercury's next instruction to the listener after telling them to "Surrender your ego"?
- What is the general name for animals under the order Coleoptera?
- Castilian military leader Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar is best known by what name?
- What was the new (and more well-known) name of the British musician who was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight?
- The Milwaukee Bucks basketball team is part of which conference of the National Basketball Association?
- Which country is geographically part of both Africa and Asia?
