Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - June 10
THIS WEEK'S QUIZ
1. The longbows that the English used to revolutionize warfare during the Hundred Years War were mostly made from what kind of wood? yew - pluck yew!
2. Both the sports movies on the AFI's "100 Years...100 Movies" list, ranking the greatest films ever, concern what sport? boxing (Rocky and Raging Bull)
3. What country has, despite its small size, produced the two fastest 100-meter sprinters in track history? Jamaica (the new record holder and Asafa Powell)
4. Who only stuck around, according to Horatio, Marcellus, and Bernardo, "while one with moderate haste might tell a hundred"? Julius Caesar??
5. The euro is divided into one hundred what? cents
6. Of the one hundred titles in a Scrabble game, how many are the only letter of their kind? I'll guess two - Q and X.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by, as far as I can tell, fewer than 20 people, including George Custer, Bette Davis, St. Dominic, Duke Ellington, William Halsey, Henry VIII, Douglas Macarthur, and Mozart? Could this have something to do with the titles of pop songs? I can think of "Betty Davis Eyes," "Sir Duke," "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey," "Rock Me, Amadeus." Maybe dead celebrities in the titles of #1 songs.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. Maltese, Westie, and Bichon Frise dog breeds all share what color of coat? White, if they've been washed lately. correct
2. What movie begins with a screen showing the dictionary definition of the word "replicant"? Replicants are what the androids are called in Blade Runner. correct
3. What island is home to Europe's largest volcano? Etna is located on the east coast of Sicily. correct
4. The tiny Yorkshire village of Loxley is most famous as the birthplace of what legendary figure? Robin Hood is called "Robin of Locksley" in some stories, after his alleged hometown. correct
5. What rock star recently recorded a new album with his old band Mudcrutch, which broke up in 1975? Some of Mudcrutch went on to become Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. The rest of Mudcrutch probably drives trucks or sells insurance. correct
6. In 1997, at South Africa's Pietermaritzburg Railway Station, Nelson Mandela awarded a posthumous honor on what other activist? Gandhi, who was famously set off on the road to social protest when he was kicked off a train in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa in 1893. guess I don't know much Gandhi history. I never knew that he travelled outside India.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these NBA stars, and no others? Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Nate Archibald, Charles Barkley, Wilt Chamberlain, Clyde Drexler, Julius Erving, Michael Jordan, Bob Lanier, Pete Maravich, Earl Monroe, Oscar Robertson, and Nate Thurmond. Each had a jersey number retired by two separate NBA teams--three, in Chamberlain's case. In Jordan and Maravich's cases, the numbers were retired by a second team they never even played for!
1. The longbows that the English used to revolutionize warfare during the Hundred Years War were mostly made from what kind of wood? yew - pluck yew!
2. Both the sports movies on the AFI's "100 Years...100 Movies" list, ranking the greatest films ever, concern what sport? boxing (Rocky and Raging Bull)
3. What country has, despite its small size, produced the two fastest 100-meter sprinters in track history? Jamaica (the new record holder and Asafa Powell)
4. Who only stuck around, according to Horatio, Marcellus, and Bernardo, "while one with moderate haste might tell a hundred"? Julius Caesar??
5. The euro is divided into one hundred what? cents
6. Of the one hundred titles in a Scrabble game, how many are the only letter of their kind? I'll guess two - Q and X.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by, as far as I can tell, fewer than 20 people, including George Custer, Bette Davis, St. Dominic, Duke Ellington, William Halsey, Henry VIII, Douglas Macarthur, and Mozart? Could this have something to do with the titles of pop songs? I can think of "Betty Davis Eyes," "Sir Duke," "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey," "Rock Me, Amadeus." Maybe dead celebrities in the titles of #1 songs.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. Maltese, Westie, and Bichon Frise dog breeds all share what color of coat? White, if they've been washed lately. correct
2. What movie begins with a screen showing the dictionary definition of the word "replicant"? Replicants are what the androids are called in Blade Runner. correct
3. What island is home to Europe's largest volcano? Etna is located on the east coast of Sicily. correct
4. The tiny Yorkshire village of Loxley is most famous as the birthplace of what legendary figure? Robin Hood is called "Robin of Locksley" in some stories, after his alleged hometown. correct
5. What rock star recently recorded a new album with his old band Mudcrutch, which broke up in 1975? Some of Mudcrutch went on to become Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. The rest of Mudcrutch probably drives trucks or sells insurance. correct
6. In 1997, at South Africa's Pietermaritzburg Railway Station, Nelson Mandela awarded a posthumous honor on what other activist? Gandhi, who was famously set off on the road to social protest when he was kicked off a train in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa in 1893. guess I don't know much Gandhi history. I never knew that he travelled outside India.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these NBA stars, and no others? Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Nate Archibald, Charles Barkley, Wilt Chamberlain, Clyde Drexler, Julius Erving, Michael Jordan, Bob Lanier, Pete Maravich, Earl Monroe, Oscar Robertson, and Nate Thurmond. Each had a jersey number retired by two separate NBA teams--three, in Chamberlain's case. In Jordan and Maravich's cases, the numbers were retired by a second team they never even played for!
