INTPx/INTPf Trivia Contest 2019

[Utisz]

The Arab who has a salad: Abu al-ʿAlaʾ al-Maʿarri - One of the first vegans

I'll give 10 points for that.

The answer I'm looking for is not along those lines though.

Anti EP by Autechre

Correct! 40 points

[Penguinhunter]

Xzibit can't believe how much he got paid to be in a movie called Gridiron Gang

[Penguinhunter]

I think Hephaestus's "Salad in" guess deserves points too.

[Utisz]

I think Hephaestus's "Salad in" guess deserves points too.

True! It might even be better than your answer. :P

At the start I wanted to avoid giving bonuses to avoid bias to one forum or the other, but I guess I've relaxed a bit as we've gone along.

[Utisz]

Xzibit can't believe how much he got paid to be in a movie called Gridiron Gang

Not the one.

[Utisz]

An-Nasir Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub, aka Saladin.

10 points

Someone on the other forum guessed this as well, but after you.

[stigmatica]

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I've no idea what language this is, but maybe it's low hanging fruit so I'll give it a stab:

Spoiler: hidden guess

The use of ' in can't and speak'a.

Spoiler: Guess 2

Alternatively, the can't is OK cuz it's not a function.. but speak'a is part of a function name and fubarred.

[Utisz]

Regarding ⰍⰂ, the Arab salad one, CatGoddess on INTPf gave a good answer to this (but not the one I'm looking for): Qaboos bin Said al Said. Salad in Arabic translates to "Sulta", which has the double meaning of power/rule/influence. There is only one Sultan left in the Arabic world, and it's Said, who rules Oman. I also awarded 10 points but now I'm looking for the exact answer on that question.

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I've no idea what language this is, but maybe it's low hanging fruit so I'll give it a stab:

Spoiler: hidden guess

The use of ' in can't and speak'a.

Spoiler: Guess 2

Alternatively, the can't is OK cuz it's not a function.. but speak'a is part of a function name and fubarred.

Not the answer.

[C.J.Woolf]

I think Hephaestus's "Salad in" guess deserves points too.

But Saladin was not an Arab but a Kurd. </pedantry>

[Utisz]

But Saladin was not an Arab but a Kurd. </pedantry>