Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - September 11th
THIS WEEK'S QUIZ
1. What flower symbolizes the throne of the emperor of Japan? chrysanthemum
2. What's the "predator" in the Nashville Predators' NHL logo? It's some kind of bulked up feline, isn't it?
3. What comes with two fontanelles? Colin Meloy sings "soft as fontanelle" about The Crane Wife but that does not give me much of a clue.
4. In an unprecedented feat, the top 17 cable broadcasts of 2006 were all episodes of what program? WWF is regularly the top rated cable show. That's my guess. Oops. I was just reminded on a bulletin board that there were 17 Monday Night Football games on cable last year.
5. What country borders both of the world's only two nations with square flags? grr. Vexilollogy. Where is Darrel? He knows all the flag questions.
6. Who famously wrote the slogan "This machine kills fascists" on his guitar? I know this one well. Woody Guthrie.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these famous people? Billy Joel, Les Moonves, Demi Moore, Brigitte Nielsen, Kelly Ripa, Dennis Rodman, Salman Rushdie, and Seal. Let's brainstorm. They all married people more than 10 years younger than them. Or perhaps something about them on the Simpsons. Hmm. What else?
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. The Wonder Years. Many guesses of That '70s Show, but its chronology was MUCH weirder than that.
2. In what city did Charles Lindbergh take his first piloting job, flying the mail? St. Louis--hence, "The Spirit of." correct
3. Where would you find a Zeiss projector? It's the whonking, many-eyed contraption in the middle of a planetarium. I was close with the guess of an IMAX theater. But still wrong.
4. In what 1945 novel does the "Battle of the Windmill" represent the Battle of Stalingrad? Animal Farm. correct
5. What Asian nation was actually named for a region of Africa? Papua New Guinea Is this an Asian nation? Or an Oceanic one?
6. What organization was founded in 1939 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania? Little League Baseball, which still holds its World Series there. correct
7. Name one of the recent Oscar-winning films that shares the unusual distinction shared by these movies: Batman Returns, Billy Madison, Fight Club, Five Corners, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Mary Poppins, A Prairie Home Companion, and Toy Story 2. Either Happy Feet or March of the Penguins, because all these movies prominently feature penguins (or at least, in the Garrison Keillor case, a joke about penguins).
So I got three out of 7. That's been about my average.
