Good evening! So, round 4 is over. To make a long story short, this time, more people then ever (...well..some people more) took part.
You'll find their names in the comment section of the previous post.
The correct answer was:
The world is ours. (!?...marks at the end as you like)
Simple, eh?
Apparently, the question for the site was difficult for some, but I accept every answer that included a sceptic view of things. The correct answer, which I had in mind, was www.skepdic.com, a very cool site! The answer to question number three was entropy. And the best overall performance was shown by Sami.
Anyway, I had a request for doing a quiz about music...and I think I'll do it...and furthermore, I had also the correct answers by ICQ by an old friend of mine, who goes by the name of Enigma, but he doesn't take part in the competition. I thought I'd just mention him here in case he continues reading this blog.
So....Congratulations to all participants!! I hope you had some fun! Let's move over to the point awarding sequence.
Markus: +5 for participation, +3 for some correct answers
Antoine: +5 for participation, +2 for some correct answers, but with less explanation and reading fun
Sami: +10 for the exact (nearly:-) ) answer and exhaustive explanation.
Jade: +5 for some correct letters and suggesting a musique-quiz
Stephan: +9 for the exact answer (nearly:-) ) but less explanation.
Giancarlo: +0 for ...what the heck is that? This is so weird, I decided to take it in. It's no one that I would recognize, anyway.
Let's see who has how many points:
Sami: 30 Pts.
Stephan: 26 Pts.
Jade: 12 Pts.
Markus: 8 Pts.
Antoine: 7 Pts.
thePumba: 1 Pts.
Manu: 1 Pts.
Christine: 1 Pts.
A very special ~+9 Pts. award goes out to Mr. Snakes.
Please note: I'm not very good at calculating stuff, so if you see a mistake, just go ahead and tell me. Right now, everyone still has the chance to win! Even people who are starting now to take part. With that in mind, I think that all of you merited a break and a bit of motivation.
In case you were wondering what the prizes you are working so hard for are, here you go:
1. A DVD! The DVD will be selected by me according to whom has won the quiz.
2. A CD! The CD will be selected as well by me according to whom has won the tournament.
Prizes 3 to 5 are the equivalent of a Mokkacino or another beverage which comes out from our 'coffee'-machine.
Okay! Ready for Round 5?
here it is, only one question, simple to answer, no more hints will be given away:
Explain the hat of the pope.
*hehe...you didn't expect that, right?*
(I'm pretty sure that I might burn in one of the nine hells for asking that, and thinking that the answer is funny.)
Ah yes...I was working very hard on a very huge project for a very long time, so I excuse myself for not updating this blog. Today I went to the biodome, and I took some pictures too...which I will upload soon:-)
Have Fun! (and be wild.)
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Interesting question... Explain the hat of the pope. Ok, first the obvious answer:
The hat that the pope wears is called a mitre. It is a kind of ceremonial hat worn by clergymen in the roman catholic church, the anglican communion and the eastern and oriental orthodoxies. It originates from a cap worn by officials at the imperial Byzantine court and is in the catholic church (in theory) always supposed to be white.
This seems too easy though, anyone can look this up on wikipedia in about two minutes. Knowing matrixdancer, I suspect there is a more sneaky part to this question...
I suspect that the question is really about the alleged connection between christianity and mithraism, especially if you consider the comment about matrixdancer burning in one of the nine hells... Mithraism was a mystery religion predominant in the Roman world, probably originally derived from a Persian myth. The pope's hat, the mitre, is supposedly named after the pagan religion, and the vatican is said to be built on top of the holy hill of Mithra. Whether or not christianity is a ripoff of mithraism, if it's the other way around, or whether or not there actually is any similarity between the two at all is a heavily debated subject. According to some sources, mithraism was founded to be a rival to the increasingly popular christianity and imitated a lot of the traits of christianity; mithra is said to have been born on december 25th just like jesus, both have a concept of a heaven and hell, etc. However, many of these similarities are nonexistent or inaccurate and theorized by outdated sources based on less-than-scientific research. It also seems highly unlikely that mithraism could have inspired much of anything in christianity, as it is believed to have been founded somewhere around the first century BC, by which time christianity had been around for quite some time already. The mithra vs. jesus-discussion about similarities like the "coincidence" about the date of 25th of december often fails to take into consideration that this particular date, being the winter solstice, is an event that was celebrated in pagan religions long before either one of christianity or mithraism existed. Christianity did take over the date, along with a bunch of other pagan symbols, festivals and sanctuaries, and adapted the legends to fit, but this didn't really happen until around the 4th century BC and later.
I've been trying to start answering that question, but somehow never found the time to do so in enough detail.
Here's the first part that I wrote:
There are, of course, several papal hats, some of them not in use anymore. Their use often depends on the personal style of the pope, the occasion, and the
Here's the short list of the most common papal hats:
- The Papal Tiara, also known as the 'Triple Tiara' ('Triregnum' in Latin) is a three-tiered jewelled papal crown and a symbol of the Roman Catholic papacy (as present in the coat of arms of the Holy See and the Vatican State).
Pope Paul VI abandoned the use of his own tiara after the Second Vatican Council and it hasn't been used since.
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_Tiara
- the Mitre (Mitra)
- the Zucchetto (Scull Cap)
- the 'Camauro', a usually red and/or white cap similar to the one worn by Santa Claus.
It is often worn together with the mozzetta, a shoulder cape.
The papal camauro fell into disuse after the death of Pope John XXIII in 1963, but it was revived in December 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI, when he was widely compared to Santa by the media.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camauro)
- capello Romano (some call it a saturno)
The simple answer about the origin of the Mitra would be that it comes from the Babylonian Fish God Dagon. More about this in the attached links.
For some good rants about the Mitra look here:
http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1865.cfm
http://glaube.org/jumper.htm?/wein/bab8.htm
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/2bab029.htm
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