Another huge thanks to everyone who participated in week 3 of the trivia contest by submitting answers, upvoting, commenting, resteeming, or following me. This week’s contest had 5 users answer questions correctly, and 27 upvotes. This was the first week where all four questions were answered correctly. Be sure to check out week 4 of the contest!
https://steemit.com/contest/@misko/weekly-trivia-contest-4-40-sbd-minimum-prize-pool
Here are the questions and answers from Week #3:
Question 1
- On the back cover of a rock album, you see blueprints of the odd weapon-type contraption pictured below, displayed on the brick wall of what appears to be a workshop. What is the name of the album in which you see these blueprints on the back cover.
Answer 1
- The Grand Wazoo by Frank Zappa and The Mother of Invention
Question 2
- The picture of the famous athlete below was taken from a print advertisement from a 1980 issue of a popular sports magazine. In this print ad, this spokesperson claims that he calls the product that he’s advertising by a nickname. What is the nickname that he gives this product?
Answer 2
- Reggievision (From 1980 Sports Illustrated)
Question 3
- It’s time to test your classic Sci-Fi movie knowledge. Near the beginning of this movie, a group of friends are seen playing a Tabletop RPG, and being pestered by one of the players’ little brother, who really wants to join the game. The group decides to let the little brother play as long as he orders pizza and waits for the pizza delivery guy. What is the name of this movie?
Answer 3
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Question 4
- I was inspired by some recent crypto quizzes to try something a little different with this question. This will help you figure out the cipher and the key to get you started down the path to the final answer. Just remember, Winter is Coming!
- A fish from the Tetraodontidae family + The King in the North’s mother.
- 42d3aa5139ec748814eec7e44fd21f5127cc662aa2c50190a91887b53c2a2bc076bc196abcf91146e544725db7035bbd853b1279c8e583c166b983eda4d174963e9fc78d6edf9e2415cebb3062b6f7c2
Answer 4
- A fish from the Tetraodontidae family is a hint that the hexidecimal string is text encrypted with a Blowfish cipher
- The King in the North is John Snow, and his mother is Lyanna Stark. The key for the Blowfish cipher is Lyanna.
- Decrypting the cipher then gives you the text:
- To decrypt this letter salad, identify this Boston ballad.
- itsssl.com r6l8Q
- “Letter salad” is a clue to use a Caesar Cipher to decode the message.
- “Boston ballad” is the song Amanda by Boston
- itsssl.com/r6l8Q is a password protected URL that leads you to a Google Doc with the next clue encoded with a Caesar Cipher.
- Once you figure out the password to get to the Google Doc is "Amanda", you see the text:
- Aol mpuhs huzdly av aopz xblzapvu pz zvun upulallu vu aol qbrlive. sG0XMtgs1rd”
- Get lucky with that shift!
- The illegible text is encoded with a Caesar Cipher
- “Get lucky with that shift!” is a clue that the shift amount for the cipher is “lucky number” 7
- Once you decode the Caesar Cipher text, you get the final clue:
- The final answer to this question is song nineteen on the jukebox. lZ0QFmzl1kw
- The final answer to this question is song nineteen on the jukebox. lZ0QFmzl1kw
- lZ0QFmzl1kw is a YouTube video ID. You can simply search Google for the ID and the YouTube video is the first link. It’s the music video for Song for Another Time by Old Dominion.
- The final answer is song 19 seen on the Jukebox, which is “Great Balls of Fire” by Jerry Lee Lewis
Payouts!
Congrats to all of this week's winners! Here are the questions that each winner answered correctly and their payouts.
@cryptokas
Answered Question #1 Correctly for 2.50 SBD
Answered Question #2 Correctly for 2.50 SBD
Answered Question #3 Correctly for 3.33 SBD
Answered Question #4 Correctly for 10.00 SBD
@jsock
Answered Question #1 Correctly for 2.50 SBD
@popa
Answered Question #1 Correctly for 2.50 SBD
Answered Question #2 Correctly for 2.50 SBD
@chucko
Answered Question #2 Correctly for 2.50 SBD
Answered Question #3 Correctly for 3.33 SBD
@doughtaker
Answered Question #1 Correctly for 2.50 SBD
Answered Question #2 Correctly for 2.50 SBD
Answered Question #3 Correctly for 3.33 SBD
Congrats to @cryptokas for being the first person to answer all 4 questions correctly in a week, and taking home this week’s MVP and a payout of 18.33 SBD!
I will be sending the payouts right after submitting this post. Please let me know if you didn't receive your payout for some reason.
Wow the solution to the last puzzle seems fun
Thanks! If people seem to enjoy those types of questions, I'll try to mix them in every so often.
Finding an online Blowfish decrypter that would work properly: almost 6 days.
Plowing through the rest of question 4 up to the final clue: about 15 minutes.
Getting tripped up by a 0 and a 1:
pricetimeless. :POh no! I hope you still enjoyed the challenge, though. Good luck with this week's contest, @doughtaker!
its amazing
thank you for the payout! it was fun :-)