-1. Which grade follows a yellow belt in judo? 
-2. In an elimination sports tournament a team is eliminated after a loss. Allowing for first round byes for teams not counting as games, how many games would be played in a single elimination tournament with 113 teams?
-3. There are two sets of three consecutive letters of the alphabet that are single-letter symbols for chemical elements. One set is NOP, what is the other set?
-4. How were false starters in the ancient Olympic games punished?
-5. Of what is a drumlin composed?
-6. Which company designed the "Betamax" video cassette format?
-7. In what country is the Waterloo battlefield now part of? 
-8. The Metamorphosis was written in German by which Prague-born author of novels and short stories?
-9. What is the Mexican sauce made of a mixture of chillies, nuts, seeds, and spices (and sometimes chocolate) called?
-10. What is the more common name for a ship type called bireme?
-11. What is the old city of Tenochtitlan now called ?
-12. How many triangles in this picture?

9. mole

6. Sony

Nice start, mxm and jb!

12. I see 4 ?

8. Franz Kafka

2. Is it 112?

1. I think it is brown

10. I think a Bireme was a warship of ancient times. Sometimes referred to as a Galley ??

12. 13 ?

Bernie

Ooh, 13 sounds pretty good, or at least 12.

Marian, flotsam, Mad - excellent! (If there are n players then n-1 matches must be played to eliminate the rest)

Lex, oldbroad , Bernie -afraid not

12. 24 triangles

12. 25

michele takes it!

That' s way easier UW

5. It's clay compacted by glaciers and formed into mounds or small hills.

3. B (Boron), C (Carbon), F (Flourine)

7. Belgum

soot, Lady K - spot-on! At school, they taught us about a "terminal morraine" - sounds like the same sort of thing

michel - afraid not ("three consecutive letters of the alphabet")

3. U V W

1. orange

Both good!
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11. What is the old city of Tenochtitlan now called ? Mexico City

Yes, fog!

4. They were whipped.

The different geological formations left by the glaciers are fascinating -- especially when considering the "time" it took to create them.

Agrred, soot !

Thanks, Koala. I was rather hoping you would use "flogged", opening up a line like "One 100-metre sprinter for sale cheap. Only 200 races on the clock, just a little too fast with his reactions"

Terminal moraine sounds like something you wouldn't want to catch.


John McPhee wrote about glaciers and other geological events in some of his books. I always liked his writing because he took potentially dry subjects and gave them life.