Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - July 21
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. Which U.S. national monument was administered by the country's Lighthouse Board until 1902? Alcatraz was a lighthouse for many years. I think it is a national monument.
2. How many planets of the solar system are, at their nearest approach, closer to the Earth than the Sun is? The Earth is 93 million miles from the sun. So how many planets are less than 93 million miles from the Earth? Definitely Mercury and Venus. I think that Jupiter, Saturn, etc. are outside that distance. The big question is Mars. How far is Mars from the Earth? I think it is closer than 93 million miles. So my guess is 3.
3. Who's the only Shakespearean title character to die before the halfway mark of the play? a gues - Julius Caesar
4. To explain their alien behavior, what nation did the Coneheads claim to come from? They are from Remulec, but said they were from France
5. What U.S. sports organization has trademarked the name "The Octagon" to describe where it holds its matches? Ultimate Fighting
6. What Brazilian mountain is named for a moulded, conical 19th-century product often imported from Brazil and sold in European stores? Brazilian mountain? I only know one elevated piece of earth in Brazil - Corcovado, the hill in Rio with the Jesus status on it. No idea how this relates to a conical 19th century product.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these actors? Don Cheadle, Ricky Gervais, Ed Helms, Eugene Levy, Steve Martin, Victor Mature, Laurence Olivier, Campbell Scott. Victor Mature and Steve Martin both played King Tut. I don't think that is the answer however.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What kind of animal did actress Heather DeLoach dress as in the 1992 video for Blind Melon's "No Rain"? Where were you in '92? Were you sick of seeing the "Bee Girl" video in constant rotation? Because I sure was. I never saw it so I guess I was not sick of it.
2. According to Herodotus, how many Spartans held the pass at the ancient battle of Thermopylae? As always, the movies are perfectly historically accurate: there were indeed 300 Spartans holding off the Persian army. correct
3. What religion's practitioners pray to spirits called Loa? Loa are big bad voodoo daddies. I learned something this week
4. What children's TV hit is produced by United Plankton Pictures, Inc.? SpongeBob SquarePants eats more plankton than all other children's TV shows put together. (Except for the Wiggles. Australian men eat plankton on everything.) correct
5. When does a white shirt with red polka dots indicate the "King of the Mountains"? That odd jersey is the "maillot a pois rouge" worn by the leader of the mountains competition in the Tour de France. correct
6. What appropriately named metal makes rubies red and emeralds green? Chromium is white, but it gets its name from the Greek for "color" because of the remarkable colors it produces in compounds. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these non-musical plays? The Diary of Anne Frank, The Dog Beneath the Skin, The Front Page, Inherit the Wind, Life with Father, The Male Animal, The Two Noble Kinsmen, You Can't Take It with You. All these works were collaborations between two different playwrights--commonplace for Broadway musicals, but pretty rare when it comes to comedies and dramas, especially nowadays. this was gettable, but I was looking for something more obscure.
1. Which U.S. national monument was administered by the country's Lighthouse Board until 1902? Alcatraz was a lighthouse for many years. I think it is a national monument.
2. How many planets of the solar system are, at their nearest approach, closer to the Earth than the Sun is? The Earth is 93 million miles from the sun. So how many planets are less than 93 million miles from the Earth? Definitely Mercury and Venus. I think that Jupiter, Saturn, etc. are outside that distance. The big question is Mars. How far is Mars from the Earth? I think it is closer than 93 million miles. So my guess is 3.
3. Who's the only Shakespearean title character to die before the halfway mark of the play? a gues - Julius Caesar
4. To explain their alien behavior, what nation did the Coneheads claim to come from? They are from Remulec, but said they were from France
5. What U.S. sports organization has trademarked the name "The Octagon" to describe where it holds its matches? Ultimate Fighting
6. What Brazilian mountain is named for a moulded, conical 19th-century product often imported from Brazil and sold in European stores? Brazilian mountain? I only know one elevated piece of earth in Brazil - Corcovado, the hill in Rio with the Jesus status on it. No idea how this relates to a conical 19th century product.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these actors? Don Cheadle, Ricky Gervais, Ed Helms, Eugene Levy, Steve Martin, Victor Mature, Laurence Olivier, Campbell Scott. Victor Mature and Steve Martin both played King Tut. I don't think that is the answer however.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What kind of animal did actress Heather DeLoach dress as in the 1992 video for Blind Melon's "No Rain"? Where were you in '92? Were you sick of seeing the "Bee Girl" video in constant rotation? Because I sure was. I never saw it so I guess I was not sick of it.
2. According to Herodotus, how many Spartans held the pass at the ancient battle of Thermopylae? As always, the movies are perfectly historically accurate: there were indeed 300 Spartans holding off the Persian army. correct
3. What religion's practitioners pray to spirits called Loa? Loa are big bad voodoo daddies. I learned something this week
4. What children's TV hit is produced by United Plankton Pictures, Inc.? SpongeBob SquarePants eats more plankton than all other children's TV shows put together. (Except for the Wiggles. Australian men eat plankton on everything.) correct
5. When does a white shirt with red polka dots indicate the "King of the Mountains"? That odd jersey is the "maillot a pois rouge" worn by the leader of the mountains competition in the Tour de France. correct
6. What appropriately named metal makes rubies red and emeralds green? Chromium is white, but it gets its name from the Greek for "color" because of the remarkable colors it produces in compounds. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these non-musical plays? The Diary of Anne Frank, The Dog Beneath the Skin, The Front Page, Inherit the Wind, Life with Father, The Male Animal, The Two Noble Kinsmen, You Can't Take It with You. All these works were collaborations between two different playwrights--commonplace for Broadway musicals, but pretty rare when it comes to comedies and dramas, especially nowadays. this was gettable, but I was looking for something more obscure.
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#1 - That's a good guess. I was assuming it was that big lighthouse-looking thing in New York harbor.
#3 - Great guess! I was clueless.
#6 - I think we call that mountain Sugarloaf, right?
#7 - Is it as easy as this? Because I think you could add Matthew Perry to that list as well. And Val Kilmer. And probably a lot of other people. So I'm probably missing something.
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#3 - Great guess! I was clueless.
#6 - I think we call that mountain Sugarloaf, right?
#7 - Is it as easy as this? Because I think you could add Matthew Perry to that list as well. And Val Kilmer. And probably a lot of other people. So I'm probably missing something.
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