Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - July 22
THIS WEEK'S QUIZ
1. What literary title character of 1992 was based on Hungarian aristocrat Laszlo Almasy, who received the Iron Cross from Rommel for his military missions in North Africa? The English Patient
2. Who was the only one of TV's "Friends" never Emmy-nominated for their work on the hit sitcom? I believe all the women were nominated. I don't know if Matt LeBlanc ever was.
3. What group of over 100,000 people did President Jimmy Carter pardon in January 1977? US draft dodgers who fled to Canada
4. Whose company is run by CEO Lucius Fox? is the CEO's name a clue? or is this a know it or don't know it one?
5. Manolete and Juan Belmonte were among the world's most famous members of what profession? bull fighters - matadors
6. How many toes do most birds have on each foot? I think they have three
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these world capitals, and no others? Cairo, Lima, Montevideo, Rome, Sucre, Suva, Tokyo, Vaduz, and maybe Brazzaville.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What are the only two U.S. state capitals that have teams from all four major North American sports organizations playing within their city limits? Denver at Atlanta have all four. Boston and Phoenix nearly do, but the Patriots play in Foxboro and the Cardinals in Glendale. correct
2. What 1974 James Grady spy novel had its title literally chopped in half when Sydney Pollack made it into a movie? Six Days of the Condor somehow became Three Days of the Condor on its way to the screen. I blame budget problems...when PETA gets involved, those condor-days can run into money. had no idea
3. What's the only Western Hemisphere country that sings its national anthem in Dutch? Suriname, which was once Dutch Guiana. probably should have worked this out
4. What semi-controversial title is shared by the biggest hit song of two different singer/songwriters: Jill Sobule and Katy Perry? "I Kissed a Girl," currently (at this writing) the #1 single in America, in its second incarantion. guess I don't listen to top 40 radio anymore to know these things
5. What world religion is divided into the Theravada and Mahayana schools? Buddhism. I'll give myself credit for that one. I think I would have chosen Buddhism from my final two possible answers.
6. The American fighter pilots that volunteered for the French air force during the early days of World War I were known as whose "Escadrille"? They were the Lafayette Escadrille. Paybacks, Lafayette! is he making this stuff up?
7. Based on the unusual distinction they all share, name a TV show that could be added to this list of movies. The Butcher Boy, A Christmas Story, Inventing the Abbotts, Life Is Beautiful, Radio Flyer, A River Runs Through It, To Kill a Mockingbird, Young Sherlock Holmes. All these movies are narrated by an older, more adult version of one of the young characters, so the obvious answer was The Wonder Years, but we also accepted Everybody Hates Chris, How I Met Your Mother, and The Waltons.
1. What literary title character of 1992 was based on Hungarian aristocrat Laszlo Almasy, who received the Iron Cross from Rommel for his military missions in North Africa? The English Patient
2. Who was the only one of TV's "Friends" never Emmy-nominated for their work on the hit sitcom? I believe all the women were nominated. I don't know if Matt LeBlanc ever was.
3. What group of over 100,000 people did President Jimmy Carter pardon in January 1977? US draft dodgers who fled to Canada
4. Whose company is run by CEO Lucius Fox? is the CEO's name a clue? or is this a know it or don't know it one?
5. Manolete and Juan Belmonte were among the world's most famous members of what profession? bull fighters - matadors
6. How many toes do most birds have on each foot? I think they have three
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these world capitals, and no others? Cairo, Lima, Montevideo, Rome, Sucre, Suva, Tokyo, Vaduz, and maybe Brazzaville.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What are the only two U.S. state capitals that have teams from all four major North American sports organizations playing within their city limits? Denver at Atlanta have all four. Boston and Phoenix nearly do, but the Patriots play in Foxboro and the Cardinals in Glendale. correct
2. What 1974 James Grady spy novel had its title literally chopped in half when Sydney Pollack made it into a movie? Six Days of the Condor somehow became Three Days of the Condor on its way to the screen. I blame budget problems...when PETA gets involved, those condor-days can run into money. had no idea
3. What's the only Western Hemisphere country that sings its national anthem in Dutch? Suriname, which was once Dutch Guiana. probably should have worked this out
4. What semi-controversial title is shared by the biggest hit song of two different singer/songwriters: Jill Sobule and Katy Perry? "I Kissed a Girl," currently (at this writing) the #1 single in America, in its second incarantion. guess I don't listen to top 40 radio anymore to know these things
5. What world religion is divided into the Theravada and Mahayana schools? Buddhism. I'll give myself credit for that one. I think I would have chosen Buddhism from my final two possible answers.
6. The American fighter pilots that volunteered for the French air force during the early days of World War I were known as whose "Escadrille"? They were the Lafayette Escadrille. Paybacks, Lafayette! is he making this stuff up?
7. Based on the unusual distinction they all share, name a TV show that could be added to this list of movies. The Butcher Boy, A Christmas Story, Inventing the Abbotts, Life Is Beautiful, Radio Flyer, A River Runs Through It, To Kill a Mockingbird, Young Sherlock Holmes. All these movies are narrated by an older, more adult version of one of the young characters, so the obvious answer was The Wonder Years, but we also accepted Everybody Hates Chris, How I Met Your Mother, and The Waltons.
