Look Smart Trivia: Constellations
5Today we look to the skies, and more specifically, to the pictures our puny human brains made up from the coincidental patterns of completely unrelated celestial bodies trillions of miles apart. Yes, I’m hustlin’ stars like Horkheimer, and if you’re the first to ID all five of these cosmic connect-the-dots, you’ll win a $5 Meh coupon - call it a constellation prize, haw haw! Insert signoff catchphrase here!
Yesterday, Look Smart legend @cinoclav was so money and he did know it. He nailed all five countries of origin in our Blurry Money quiz:
- Iceland
- Venezuela
- Israel
- Kenya
- Zimbabwe
- 8 comments, 16 replies
- Comment
I only know a couple of those by sight but the rocket ship is my favorite.
Ursa minor
Crux
Canis majoris
Leo
Ursa major
@llangley yeah, I’m probably missing something
@llangley yep, Leo was 3rd, then Canis majoris
@llangley Think the coolest part of Game of Thrones for #1. (I assume the long squiggly one is the constellation he is looking for.)
@llangley
Ursa minor
Crux
Leo
Canis majoris
Ursa major
@sammydog01 ummm, is it ok to say that I’ve never seen GOT? But thanks for the tip. Bowing to oh mighty @eonfifty.
Hydra
Crux
Leo
Canis Major
Ursa Major
@eonfifty #1 is one of the ones I knew and I’m pretty sure that’s not it.
Draco
Crux
Leo
Canis Major
Ursa Major
@eonfifty I think you got it.
@eonfifty nice job dammit!
@eonfifty @sammydog01 @llangley Nice work. Personally I would’ve gone with the Harry Potter reference instead of GoT for #1. Probably because I don’t watch GoT either. (At least yet - I’ll get to it one of these days.)
@cinoclav @eonfifty @llangley I get that you don’t watch GOT but you don’t even know it has dragons in it? Are you living under rocks?
@eonfifty @llangley @sammydog01 But Harry Potter has dragons AND a main character named Draco!
@cinoclav @eonfifty @llangley But Harry Potter hasn’t been on the front page of Yahoo News every day for a month.
@cinoclav @eonfifty @sammydog01 yeah, never read/saw any Harry Potter either. I knew there were dragons in GOT but my Latin sucks so i would have missed that one on Jeopardy
I used to be cool. Really I did!
@llangley You’re still cool, just in a different way.
Draco
Crux
Leo
Canis Major
Ursa Major
Double post to be official
@JasonToon Legend?
Snakey
Sticker on the back of every third car in the South
Duckduckgeuse
I believe you have my stapler
BigDog, appearing courtesy of Boston Dynamics
I’m sad that I’m late to the party.
@RiotDemon The party is still going on. Grab yourself a drink.
I know I’ve showed these off on the forum before, but since it’s space-related, I’ll show them off again.
Constellations: Left thumb: Orion (the hunter) Left pinky: Corvus (the crow) Right thumb: Aries (the ram) Right pinky: Delphinus (the dolphin) The other six nails are inspired by photos of galaxies, nebulas, and supernovas.