Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia March 4
THIS WEEK'S QUIZ
1. Complete this analogy: strawberries and cream : Wimbledon :: mint juleps and burgoo :: ______. Kentucky Derby
2. What rock act is a duo made up two men, one named Russell, the other surnamed Russell?
3. Name the nutrient *and* the disease that both take their name from the Latin word "scorbutus." ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and scurvy
4. The American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout event is held annually one week before what holiday? Thanksgiving
5. What future head of state, in office from 1945 to 1969, was a baker at Boston's Parker House Hotel in 1913? I don't know the answer, but I think the dates correspond to the term of Charles DeGaulle as one of France's leaders.
6. What 1678 work's full title includes the clause "From This World to That Which Is to Come"? The timing and the title fit "Paradise Lost" by John Milton.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these U.S. locations? Amarillo, TX; Chimney Rock, NE; Greenwich, CT; Moscow, ID; Pensacola, FL; Sitka, AK; Wheeling, WV. I think this has something to do with panhandles. Maybe each is the largest city/town in the panhandle of its state. But Chimney Rock is a national monument in the Nebraska panhandle, not a town.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What legendary label-mate wrote Mary Wells's "My Guy" and the Temptations' "My Girl"? Smokey Robinson wrote both songs, but gave them away to fellow Motown artists. Well, the Miracles probably wouldn't have recorded "My Guy" anyway... ah, yes. The other Motown lead male besides Barry Gordy.
2. What nickname is shared by South Dakota, Florida, and Australia's Queensland? All three like to think of themselves as the "Sunshine State." South Dakota?! who knew?
3. What pastime is technically termed "rhinotillexis"? Rhinotillexis is what you should call nose-picking, should you ever want to write a dissertation on the subject. ("Rhinotillexis in the Comedy of Gilda Radner," etc. etc.) I would not describe nose picking as a pastime
4. What star of a TV megahit is also a department chair at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City? Tim Gunn of Project Runway, their fashion design chair. One correction: Gunn left Parsons for Liz Claiborne in 2007. Project Runway is a megahit? By what standard? Don't you have to be on a broadcast network to be a megahit?
5. What are "all alike," according to the famous first sentence of Anna Karenina? "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." I think I got this one reversed.
6. What movie classic almost produced a sequel called Brazzaville, set exactly 3,000 miles to the southeast? Casablanca ends with Rick and Louis pondering a getaway to Brazzaville.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these people? Tony Danza, Berry Gordy Jr., Sammy Hagar, Ed "Too Tall" Jones, Nelson Mandela, Harry Reid, Roy Scheider, and George Wallace. All were former boxers. Wouldn't you like to see Mandela and Tony Danza go head to head? Or, even better, Mandela and George Wallace? (It was Wallace the segregationist, by the way, not the stand-up comedian.) Yea!! I got a Q7 correct. Very uncommon for me.
1. Complete this analogy: strawberries and cream : Wimbledon :: mint juleps and burgoo :: ______. Kentucky Derby
2. What rock act is a duo made up two men, one named Russell, the other surnamed Russell?
3. Name the nutrient *and* the disease that both take their name from the Latin word "scorbutus." ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and scurvy
4. The American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout event is held annually one week before what holiday? Thanksgiving
5. What future head of state, in office from 1945 to 1969, was a baker at Boston's Parker House Hotel in 1913? I don't know the answer, but I think the dates correspond to the term of Charles DeGaulle as one of France's leaders.
6. What 1678 work's full title includes the clause "From This World to That Which Is to Come"? The timing and the title fit "Paradise Lost" by John Milton.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these U.S. locations? Amarillo, TX; Chimney Rock, NE; Greenwich, CT; Moscow, ID; Pensacola, FL; Sitka, AK; Wheeling, WV. I think this has something to do with panhandles. Maybe each is the largest city/town in the panhandle of its state. But Chimney Rock is a national monument in the Nebraska panhandle, not a town.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What legendary label-mate wrote Mary Wells's "My Guy" and the Temptations' "My Girl"? Smokey Robinson wrote both songs, but gave them away to fellow Motown artists. Well, the Miracles probably wouldn't have recorded "My Guy" anyway... ah, yes. The other Motown lead male besides Barry Gordy.
2. What nickname is shared by South Dakota, Florida, and Australia's Queensland? All three like to think of themselves as the "Sunshine State." South Dakota?! who knew?
3. What pastime is technically termed "rhinotillexis"? Rhinotillexis is what you should call nose-picking, should you ever want to write a dissertation on the subject. ("Rhinotillexis in the Comedy of Gilda Radner," etc. etc.) I would not describe nose picking as a pastime
4. What star of a TV megahit is also a department chair at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City? Tim Gunn of Project Runway, their fashion design chair. One correction: Gunn left Parsons for Liz Claiborne in 2007. Project Runway is a megahit? By what standard? Don't you have to be on a broadcast network to be a megahit?
5. What are "all alike," according to the famous first sentence of Anna Karenina? "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." I think I got this one reversed.
6. What movie classic almost produced a sequel called Brazzaville, set exactly 3,000 miles to the southeast? Casablanca ends with Rick and Louis pondering a getaway to Brazzaville.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these people? Tony Danza, Berry Gordy Jr., Sammy Hagar, Ed "Too Tall" Jones, Nelson Mandela, Harry Reid, Roy Scheider, and George Wallace. All were former boxers. Wouldn't you like to see Mandela and Tony Danza go head to head? Or, even better, Mandela and George Wallace? (It was Wallace the segregationist, by the way, not the stand-up comedian.) Yea!! I got a Q7 correct. Very uncommon for me.
