Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia, September 18
THIS WEEK'S QUIZ
1. What is divided into 114 chapters called "suras"? sounds Arabic or Indian. Maybe a sacred text. Maybe not. guesses - The Koran, the Bhagavad Gita, 1000 and One Arabian Knights, the Dead Sea Scrolls
2. What band is named for a British government form for claiming unemployment benefits? UB-40
3. What movie's tagline was "Five criminals. One lineup. No coincidences"? sure sounds like The Usual Suspects
4. What kind of misfortune destroyed at least three of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? let's start with the seven wonders. Hanging Gardens. Colossus of Rhodes. Lighthouse at Alexandria. Pyramids. Statue of Zeus. And the rest of them. at least three probably destroyed by earthquake
5. Whose famous 1999 shirt removal is remembered by the title of her book It's Not About the Bra? Brandi Chastain. I guess you could say that she took off her shirt, but I think of it more as a jersey
6. What were the "Inverted Jenny" and the "Penny Black"? errors in minting US coins?
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these famous people? Marc Bolan, Ray Bradbury, Jimmy Breslin, Albert Einstein, Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Imperioli, Quincy Jones, and Vladimir Nabokov.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What flower symbolizes the throne of the emperor of Japan? The chrysanthemum, which is why Ruth Benedict called her famous study of Japanese society The Chrysanthemum and the Sword. correct
2. What's the "predator" in the Nashville Predators' NHL logo? It's a saber-tooth tiger/smilodon/some Flintstones thing or other. I was close but not quite
3. What comes with two fontanelles? A baby's skull--those are the two diamond-shaped soft spots where the bone hasn't hardened yet this is what Colin Meloy was singing about when he said the Crane Wife was soft as fontonelle? Ew.
4. In an unprecedented feat, the top 17 cable broadcasts of 2006 were all episodes of what program? Cue the Journey: lots of guesses for The Sopranos here. The correct answer was actually Monday Night Football, in its first year after moving to ESPN.
5. What country borders both of the world's only two nations with square flags? Italy borders both Switzerland and San Marino.
6. Who famously wrote the slogan "This machine kills fascists" on his guitar? Woody Guthrie. I believe the Woodster actually did smash his guitar over the head of the occasional fascist, much like mid-'80s WWF star The Honky Tonk Man. correct
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. As 41 of you knew, all have been married at some point to reality TV hosts (to wit: Katie Lee Joel, Julie Chen, Ashton Kutcher, Sylvester Stallone, Mark Consuelos, Carmen Electra, Padma Lakshmi, and Heidi Klum). I guess I don't watch enough reality tv to recognize the hosts
1. What is divided into 114 chapters called "suras"? sounds Arabic or Indian. Maybe a sacred text. Maybe not. guesses - The Koran, the Bhagavad Gita, 1000 and One Arabian Knights, the Dead Sea Scrolls
2. What band is named for a British government form for claiming unemployment benefits? UB-40
3. What movie's tagline was "Five criminals. One lineup. No coincidences"? sure sounds like The Usual Suspects
4. What kind of misfortune destroyed at least three of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? let's start with the seven wonders. Hanging Gardens. Colossus of Rhodes. Lighthouse at Alexandria. Pyramids. Statue of Zeus. And the rest of them. at least three probably destroyed by earthquake
5. Whose famous 1999 shirt removal is remembered by the title of her book It's Not About the Bra? Brandi Chastain. I guess you could say that she took off her shirt, but I think of it more as a jersey
6. What were the "Inverted Jenny" and the "Penny Black"? errors in minting US coins?
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these famous people? Marc Bolan, Ray Bradbury, Jimmy Breslin, Albert Einstein, Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Imperioli, Quincy Jones, and Vladimir Nabokov.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What flower symbolizes the throne of the emperor of Japan? The chrysanthemum, which is why Ruth Benedict called her famous study of Japanese society The Chrysanthemum and the Sword. correct
2. What's the "predator" in the Nashville Predators' NHL logo? It's a saber-tooth tiger/smilodon/some Flintstones thing or other. I was close but not quite
3. What comes with two fontanelles? A baby's skull--those are the two diamond-shaped soft spots where the bone hasn't hardened yet this is what Colin Meloy was singing about when he said the Crane Wife was soft as fontonelle? Ew.
4. In an unprecedented feat, the top 17 cable broadcasts of 2006 were all episodes of what program? Cue the Journey: lots of guesses for The Sopranos here. The correct answer was actually Monday Night Football, in its first year after moving to ESPN.
5. What country borders both of the world's only two nations with square flags? Italy borders both Switzerland and San Marino.
6. Who famously wrote the slogan "This machine kills fascists" on his guitar? Woody Guthrie. I believe the Woodster actually did smash his guitar over the head of the occasional fascist, much like mid-'80s WWF star The Honky Tonk Man. correct
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. As 41 of you knew, all have been married at some point to reality TV hosts (to wit: Katie Lee Joel, Julie Chen, Ashton Kutcher, Sylvester Stallone, Mark Consuelos, Carmen Electra, Padma Lakshmi, and Heidi Klum). I guess I don't watch enough reality tv to recognize the hosts
