A quiz for WordPress’s 21st birthday on the 27th of May 2024. This quiz was intended to be the subject of an in-person WordPress Portsmouth Meetup on Wed 22nd May 2024. But a) there was no interest and b) I had to cancel the meeting for personal reasons.
To find the answers to each question hover over the blank cells.
General knowledge
| Question | Answer | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Which element is atomic number 21 | Scandium | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandium |
| What sort of ball game is Twenty-One? | Street basketball | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-one_(basketball) |
| What do you call a shape with 21 sides | icosikaihenagon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_polygons |
| What was the name of a coin worth 21 shillings | Guinea | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_(coin) |
| According to an American doctor ( Duncan MacDougall ) what weighs 21 grams | Soul | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_grams_experiment |
| Which country’s flag features 21 rays | Kurdistan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Kurdistan |
On this day – 27th May
| Year | Clue | Who/what is it? | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1911 | Born: American horror actor. The Abominable Dr Phibes, Thriller | Vincent Price | |
| 1922 | Born: English actor. Count Dracula in Hammer Horror films | Christopher Lee | |
| 1975 | Born: Naked celebrity chef | Jamie Oliver | |
| 1977 | Sex Pistols release… | God Save the Queen | |
| 1930 | Which of these was granted a patent: Jukebox, Pyrex Glass, Masking Tape. | Masking Tape ( 3M ) |
2003 film titles
| Big Fish | Finding Nemo | Johhny English | Kill Bill Volume 1 | Lost in Translation |
| Love Actually | Pirates of the Caribbean – The curse of the black pearl | School of Rock | Seabiscuit | The Lord of the Rings – The return of the King |
21 is
| Question | Answer | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 21 degrees Celsius in Fahrenheit is: 68.0, 69.8, 71.6 | 69.8 | |
| The A21 goes from London to: Hastings, Margate, Dover | Hastings | |
| 21 North 21 East. Where are you? Chad, Libya, Sudan | Chad | |
| The square root of 21 is plus/minus: 4.383, 4.483, 4.583 | 4.583 | |
| 21 in braille is: ⠼⠃⠁⠀⠀ ⠭⠭⠊⠀ ⠞⠺⠑⠝⠞⠽⠤⠕⠝⠑ | ⠼⠃⠁ | https://symbl.cc/en/tools/braille/ 21, XXI, twenty-one |
21 years ago – during 2003
Guess the month. 12 different answers.
| Event | Month |
|---|---|
| Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates on reentry | February |
| Saddam Hussein is captured | December |
| Dewey the world’s first cloned Deer is born | May |
| Tesla Inc. – the American electric car company – is founded | July |
| MySpace is launched | August |
| Greta Thunberg is born | January |
| Concorde’s last flight | November |
| Human Genome project is completed | April |
| WordPress 0.71-gold released | June |
| Nokia 7600 announced | September |
| Iraq war begins | March |
| Concorde’s last commercial flight | October |
Highest grossing stars in 2003
| Ian McKellen | Antonio Banderas | Will Smith |
| Ben Affleck | Keanu Reeves | Michelle Rodriguez |
| Nicole Kidman | Eddie Murphy | Tom Cruise |
WordPress core, plugins and themes
For some clues for the following questions watch my video where I demo WordPress v0.71-gold updated to run on PHP 8.
| Question | Answer | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Which of these Twenty something themes wasn’t created as a bundled theme? 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020 | 2018 | https://herbmiller.me/wordpress-core-bundled-themes-version/ |
| Which plugin is not in the 20 most downloaded from wordpress.org: Essential Addons for Elementor, Classic Editor, Gutenberg, Site Kit by Google | Gutenberg, currently 38th. Was 35th last year. | https://top-10-wp-plugins.com/top-nnn-latest-extract/ |
| Match the tickets to the number: #20, #200, #2000, #20000 – Permalink page grammar correction – wp-comments.php should use fieldset instead of p – We have alot of tickets – Templates area does’t work if wp install dir is changed | : #2000 #200 #20000 #20 | |
| Which of these was not one of the first plugins in WordPress 0.71? Akismet, Hello Dolly, Kubrick, WordPress Importer | All of them | |
| What was the maximum size of a File Upload in WordPress 0.71 96KB, 230KB, 1MB | 96KB | 230KB was the size of the vs .zip file! |
Which of these functions was not in WP 0.71? antispambot(), capital_P_dangit(), wpautop() | capital_P_dangit | v3.0.0 |
| Missing vowels (and hyphens) – name the plugin from the slug | Answer | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| wrdprsss lmntr jtpck wrdfnc cntctfrm7 ksmt wcmmrc wpfrmslt gglnlytcsfrwrdrprss rllysmplssl llnnspck llnnwpmgrtn | wordpress-seo elementor jetpack wordfence contact-form-7 akismet woocommerce wp-forms-lite google-analytics-for-wordpress really-simple-ssl all-in-one-seo-pack all-in-one-wp-migration | https://top-10-wp-plugins.com/top-nnn-latest-extract/ AI is a useless pile of shit. Given the prompt “strip the vowels from each item in the list” it got half of these wrong! |
Fun with CSS?
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