![]() ![]() The last may also be referring to the occasionally makeup-heavy faces of movie and television "stars".Īstronomy and cosmology are recurring themes on XKCD. Astrology is the pseudo-scientific "study" of the influence of the stars and planets on our lives, including horoscopes, agronomy is scientific but instead studies agriculture, and cosmetology is the study of cosmetics and makeup (with a name close to cosmology, a branch of astronomy, and comet, an astronomical object). The actual answer is astronomy, which is not listed, though several answers are listed that sound similar to fields that study stars. ![]() What do you call the scientific field that studies the stars? Whether this is a coincidence or deliberate is unknown. In Questionable Content, this is also the way Faye pronounces Penelope's name in comic 725. (A) is the answer Juan from Club Dread (2004) would have given, and the way video game parody band "Random Encounters" pronounces their second cat's name. In English, the only correct way to pronounce this name is "pe-NELL-o-pee" /pəˈnɛləpi/, which is not listed. Neither Option A's "PEN-e-lohp" /ˈpɛːnəˌloʊp/ (possibly "PEEN-e-lohp" /ˈpiːnɪˌloʊp/) nor Option B's "pe-NELL-up" /pɪˈnɛləp/ are a typical pronunciation of this name (beyond mispronunciations). Alternatively, it may suggest that some xkcd readers are particularly introverted.īoth the options for this are wrong, making it the first of many quiz questions to be impossible to answer correctly. Option C may reference the significant decrease in human interaction and social contact during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reference to the first question of the Times quiz: "How would you address a group of two or more people?" (with options including "you all", "you guys", "y'all", etc.).
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