Answers to my 20 questions meme

1. What is the icon in this post?
2. Where is Iriomote?
3. What event is being described here?
"Can Manchester United score? They always score.
SHERINGHAM!!!
Name on the trophy!...
...Beckham...into Sheringham...AND SOLSKJAER HAS WON IT!!!
Manchester United have reached the promised land!"
4. How heavy is Vila?
5. Which famous artist said this?
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea."
6. Which sumo wrestler holds the record for most career wins in the top (makuuchi) division?
7. How many Oscars have been won by the various actresses who played Queen Amidala's handmaids in Star Wars Episode 1?
8. If you stand at the Citadel of Xajorkith, and look north, what do you see?
9. Alyx Vance appears in which computer game?
10. What sporting event is being described here?
"It's a pile of shit, this race, it's a whole pile of shit ... You're working like an animal, you don't have the time to piss and you wet your pants ... You're riding in mud like this and you're slipping and ... it's a pile of shit, you must clean yourself otherwise you will go mad ... "
"Will you ever ride it again?"
"Sure, it's the most beautiful race in the world!"
11. Who shot JR? (the first time)
12. Dulinor's attack on Research Station Omicron caused the accidental release of what?
13. Who is the officer in charge of Sun Hill CID?
14. The AIU regulates which industry?
15. What rank did Thrawn hold in the Imperial Fleet, as denoted by his white uniform?
16. What is written on the barrel of Bullet-Tooth Tony's gun in 'Snatch'?
17. What is the name of the Free Trader sending a distress signal on the cover of the original Traveller boxed set?
18. What relation is Galadriel to Elrond?
19. What is the price that Hile Troy pays to gain the forestal's help to win the battle at Garroting Deep?
20. (This is the tricky question). I want you to give me the name of the commentator:
"The ball, flipped forward, is loose. A wild scramble. Two seconds on the clock. Casper grabbing the ball. It is ruled a fumble. Casper has recovered in the end zone. The Oakland Raiders have scored on the most zany, unbelievable, absolutely impossible dream of a play. Madden is on the field. He wants to know if it's real. They said yes, get your big butt out of here. He does! There's nothing real in the world anymore. The Raiders have won the football game."



1. The dashboard of a Honda S2000.
2. It's a remote Japanese island (closer to Taiwan than mainland Japan). Home to the Iriomote Cat, either a species or sub-species of Asian Leopard Cat and critically endangered. In the native language it is called the 'yamamayaa' or 'mountain cat'. Yamamayaa is the name of one of two bengal cats.
3. It's Manchester United scoring two goals in injury time to win the 1999 Champions League.
4. As Orac (and Lois) pointed out, "Vila weighs 73kg".
5. Eric Cantona, a true artist (of the football field at any rate).
6. Chiyonofuji
7. One. Sofia Coppola won the best screenplay Oscar for 'Lost in Translation' and played one of the handmaidens.
8. The Plains of Corelay. This is from the Spectrum game 'Lords of Midnight'.
9. Half-Life 2.
10. Not the Tour de France, but another cycling race: Paris-Roubaix, 'the hell of the north'.
11. Kristin Shepherd
12. Virus (in Traveller)
13. Detective Chief Inspector Jack Meadows
14. Auditing
15. Grand Admiral
16. "Desert Eagle. .50"
17. Beowulf
18. Mother-in-law and several other more distant relationships.
19. He himself has to become a forestal (in 'The Illearth War', the second Thomas Covenant book).
20. A less tricky question to anyone from Northern California. The commentator was the late, great Bill "Holy Toledo" King.


Now, who's next?