Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - August 5
THIS WEEK'S QUIZ
1. Who was known as Ras Tafari Makonnen before taking power in 1930? Hailie Selassie is the only name that I can think of that fits the clue
2. What 11-letter word is a violation in basketball, but perfectly legal--in fact, a crucial skill--in ice hockey?
3. Big Diomede Island and Little Diomede Island, separated by the International Date Line, belong respectively to what two nations? what countries are out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? Australia and New Zealand. or what countries have interests out there. Peru and Ecuador?
4. Morels, puffballs, oyster, and wood ear are all types of what? mushrooms
5. What two cast members of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction re-teamed to portray a married couple in a 2007 film? The way the question is written I think of a gay married couple. But I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry had Adam Sandler.
6. What century-old song ends, in English, with the line "We stand on guard for thee"? I think of hockey games - O Canada
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these musicians? Sheryl Crow, Art Garfunkel, Bryan Ferry, Roberta Flack, Ezra Koenig, Kris Kristofferson, Gene Simmons, Sting.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. In Greek myth, whose son drowned in the Icarian Sea? Daedalus...his son Icarus flew too close to the sun, and drowned in the sea today named for him. correct
2. From what port city did the Mayflower pilgrims finally leave England on September 6, 1620? Plymouth Rock was so named because Plymouth, England was the Mayflower's last stop in the Old World. (The voyage had originally left from Southampton, but had to return to port twice for repairs.) well I am a moron. I could not even associate the Mayflower with Plymouth Rock. The early Alzheimers is definitely evident.
3. What first line of Sam Cooke's song "Wonderful World" also names a 1990 bestseller about cultural literacy? "Don't know much about history..." correct
4. Who are the five "Fuwa": Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, and Nini? These are the sort-of-creepy looking mascots (formerly "Friendlies," in English) for the upcoming Beijing Olympics. good luck selling those mascot names to American kids. How about this - a horror movie where Olympic mascots come to life. Izzy from Atlanta games would be freaky evil in the hands of someone like Rod Serling.
5. What medical procedure is a type of keratomileusis, which lends it the 'K' in its name? Now you know what the 'K' stands for in LASIK. correct
6. What name did Austrian-born draftsman Moses Teichman adopt in the 1920s when he devised a series of paper footprints he could sell by mail? Selling paper footprints by mail is how Arthur Murray, of dance lesson fame, got started. barely heard of this guy. Never thought of him.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these newspaper comics strips? Apartment 3-G, Blondie, The Born Loser, The Captain and the Kids, Hagar the Horrible, Hi and Lois, Mary Worth, The Wizard of Id, and Ziggy. All were continued by the creator's son when the original cartoonist left the strip.
1. Who was known as Ras Tafari Makonnen before taking power in 1930? Hailie Selassie is the only name that I can think of that fits the clue
2. What 11-letter word is a violation in basketball, but perfectly legal--in fact, a crucial skill--in ice hockey?
3. Big Diomede Island and Little Diomede Island, separated by the International Date Line, belong respectively to what two nations? what countries are out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? Australia and New Zealand. or what countries have interests out there. Peru and Ecuador?
4. Morels, puffballs, oyster, and wood ear are all types of what? mushrooms
5. What two cast members of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction re-teamed to portray a married couple in a 2007 film? The way the question is written I think of a gay married couple. But I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry had Adam Sandler.
6. What century-old song ends, in English, with the line "We stand on guard for thee"? I think of hockey games - O Canada
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these musicians? Sheryl Crow, Art Garfunkel, Bryan Ferry, Roberta Flack, Ezra Koenig, Kris Kristofferson, Gene Simmons, Sting.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. In Greek myth, whose son drowned in the Icarian Sea? Daedalus...his son Icarus flew too close to the sun, and drowned in the sea today named for him. correct
2. From what port city did the Mayflower pilgrims finally leave England on September 6, 1620? Plymouth Rock was so named because Plymouth, England was the Mayflower's last stop in the Old World. (The voyage had originally left from Southampton, but had to return to port twice for repairs.) well I am a moron. I could not even associate the Mayflower with Plymouth Rock. The early Alzheimers is definitely evident.
3. What first line of Sam Cooke's song "Wonderful World" also names a 1990 bestseller about cultural literacy? "Don't know much about history..." correct
4. Who are the five "Fuwa": Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, and Nini? These are the sort-of-creepy looking mascots (formerly "Friendlies," in English) for the upcoming Beijing Olympics. good luck selling those mascot names to American kids. How about this - a horror movie where Olympic mascots come to life. Izzy from Atlanta games would be freaky evil in the hands of someone like Rod Serling.
5. What medical procedure is a type of keratomileusis, which lends it the 'K' in its name? Now you know what the 'K' stands for in LASIK. correct
6. What name did Austrian-born draftsman Moses Teichman adopt in the 1920s when he devised a series of paper footprints he could sell by mail? Selling paper footprints by mail is how Arthur Murray, of dance lesson fame, got started. barely heard of this guy. Never thought of him.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these newspaper comics strips? Apartment 3-G, Blondie, The Born Loser, The Captain and the Kids, Hagar the Horrible, Hi and Lois, Mary Worth, The Wizard of Id, and Ziggy. All were continued by the creator's son when the original cartoonist left the strip.
