Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - September 22
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. In what U.S. state is Kent State University? Ohio
2. Most of the visible stars in the night sky take their names from what language? Greek
3. Andy Warhol factory members Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, Joe Dallesandro, Joe Campbell, and Jackie Curtis were the real people who inspired the five characters in what hit song? is this a song from the 1960s? I am running through Beatles, Stones songs. Maybe Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone?" I cannot get an acronym out of the initials either. Five characters? Who wrote songs with that many characters except for Dylan and Springsteen?
4. What huge American multinational does the business press sometimes call "the Blue Oval"? I have never heard IBM called the "blue oval." So it must be a different blue logo-ed company. I checked the bill for my cell phone. AT&T has a circular blue logo. I'll guess AT&T.
5. According to the Bible, what took seven months and seventeen days to arrive at "the mountains of Ararat"? Noah's ark
6. In 1527, who said, "There lies Peru with its riches; here, Panama, and its poverty. Choose, each man . . . for my part, I go to the south"? Pizarro who conquered the Incas
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these films? The Breakfast Club, The 400 Blows, The Full Monty, Gallipoli, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Hustler, The Lives of Others, Network, Ocean's Twelve, Thelma and Louise.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What kind of disease does an oncologist treat? Cancer; tumors of all kinds. Nothing like a nice cancer question to kick off the weekly trivia quiz on a jovial note. correct
2. Who was the last third-party U.S. presidential candidate to win any electoral votes at all? This could have been phrased less ambiguously, since I wanted the candidate who last earned ANY electoral votes at all. (By most definitions, a third-party candidate has ever won an entire count of the the entire Electoral College.) George Wallace, back in 1968, captured electoral votes from six Southern states (hint: the racist ones), and nobody's done it since. We also accepted John Hospers, the 1972 Libertarian candidate who actually won one vote from a faithless Virginia elector. Whatever, if Hospers had been a REAL Randian, he would have been all like, "I don't NEED your charity vote, Virginia!" I guess I needed to be more of a student of presidential history to know this.
3. What 2001 science-fiction movie had to add a subtitle when tests revealed that audience were mistaking its title for a popular condiment? Apparently Spielberg's movie A.I. had "Artificial Intelligence" added to its title so people would stop pronouncing it "A1." I'm not kidding. A1 Sauce is a condiment?
4. What British unit of weight is equal to fourteen pounds? Fourteen pounds is one "stone." Also, the landmark we in the U.S. call "Poundhenge," they refer to as "Stonehenge." Weird, huh? correct
5. The first two women to host 60 Minutes are currently both hosting morning shows on rival networks. Name them. CBS's 60 Minutes gave us ABC's morning host Diane Sawyer and NBC's morning host Meredith Vieira. ugh. I could not even remember Diane Sawyer who was just in the news replacing Charles Gibson. But I have no memory of Meredith Vieira on 60 Minutes.
6. What resort town, which will host most of the skiing at the 2010 Olympics, is named not for a painter but for the noises made by local marmots? Whistler, British Columbia is named for the "whistle pigs," or hoary marmots, that call it home. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these places? Agra, India; Baghdad; Easter Island; Puerto Rico; Raleigh, North Carolina; and Vietnam? Each place is the vertex on a famous geographical triangle (some more famous than others, admittedly). Just to save you a few minutes' Googling, they are: the Golden Triangle (of India tourism), the Sunni Triangle, the Polynesian Triangle, the Bermuda Triangle, the Research Triangle, and the Golden Triangle (of Southeast Asian opium). They have a fight, triangle wins, Triangle Man. nice question, even though I did not get it.
1. In what U.S. state is Kent State University? Ohio
2. Most of the visible stars in the night sky take their names from what language? Greek
3. Andy Warhol factory members Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, Joe Dallesandro, Joe Campbell, and Jackie Curtis were the real people who inspired the five characters in what hit song? is this a song from the 1960s? I am running through Beatles, Stones songs. Maybe Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone?" I cannot get an acronym out of the initials either. Five characters? Who wrote songs with that many characters except for Dylan and Springsteen?
4. What huge American multinational does the business press sometimes call "the Blue Oval"? I have never heard IBM called the "blue oval." So it must be a different blue logo-ed company. I checked the bill for my cell phone. AT&T has a circular blue logo. I'll guess AT&T.
5. According to the Bible, what took seven months and seventeen days to arrive at "the mountains of Ararat"? Noah's ark
6. In 1527, who said, "There lies Peru with its riches; here, Panama, and its poverty. Choose, each man . . . for my part, I go to the south"? Pizarro who conquered the Incas
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these films? The Breakfast Club, The 400 Blows, The Full Monty, Gallipoli, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Hustler, The Lives of Others, Network, Ocean's Twelve, Thelma and Louise.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What kind of disease does an oncologist treat? Cancer; tumors of all kinds. Nothing like a nice cancer question to kick off the weekly trivia quiz on a jovial note. correct
2. Who was the last third-party U.S. presidential candidate to win any electoral votes at all? This could have been phrased less ambiguously, since I wanted the candidate who last earned ANY electoral votes at all. (By most definitions, a third-party candidate has ever won an entire count of the the entire Electoral College.) George Wallace, back in 1968, captured electoral votes from six Southern states (hint: the racist ones), and nobody's done it since. We also accepted John Hospers, the 1972 Libertarian candidate who actually won one vote from a faithless Virginia elector. Whatever, if Hospers had been a REAL Randian, he would have been all like, "I don't NEED your charity vote, Virginia!" I guess I needed to be more of a student of presidential history to know this.
3. What 2001 science-fiction movie had to add a subtitle when tests revealed that audience were mistaking its title for a popular condiment? Apparently Spielberg's movie A.I. had "Artificial Intelligence" added to its title so people would stop pronouncing it "A1." I'm not kidding. A1 Sauce is a condiment?
4. What British unit of weight is equal to fourteen pounds? Fourteen pounds is one "stone." Also, the landmark we in the U.S. call "Poundhenge," they refer to as "Stonehenge." Weird, huh? correct
5. The first two women to host 60 Minutes are currently both hosting morning shows on rival networks. Name them. CBS's 60 Minutes gave us ABC's morning host Diane Sawyer and NBC's morning host Meredith Vieira. ugh. I could not even remember Diane Sawyer who was just in the news replacing Charles Gibson. But I have no memory of Meredith Vieira on 60 Minutes.
6. What resort town, which will host most of the skiing at the 2010 Olympics, is named not for a painter but for the noises made by local marmots? Whistler, British Columbia is named for the "whistle pigs," or hoary marmots, that call it home. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these places? Agra, India; Baghdad; Easter Island; Puerto Rico; Raleigh, North Carolina; and Vietnam? Each place is the vertex on a famous geographical triangle (some more famous than others, admittedly). Just to save you a few minutes' Googling, they are: the Golden Triangle (of India tourism), the Sunni Triangle, the Polynesian Triangle, the Bermuda Triangle, the Research Triangle, and the Golden Triangle (of Southeast Asian opium). They have a fight, triangle wins, Triangle Man. nice question, even though I did not get it.
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#3 -- No clue. Good idea to look at the initials, though! I'll think about it.
#4 -- These folks came to mind immediately.
#6 -- I would have guessed Cortes, but Pizzarro is a better answer.
#7 -- For once, I've actually seen a lot of these films! The 400 Blows, The Full Monty, Harry Potter, Ocean's Twelve, and Thelma and Louise. It doesn't actually appear to be helping, though.
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#4 -- These folks came to mind immediately.
#6 -- I would have guessed Cortes, but Pizzarro is a better answer.
#7 -- For once, I've actually seen a lot of these films! The 400 Blows, The Full Monty, Harry Potter, Ocean's Twelve, and Thelma and Louise. It doesn't actually appear to be helping, though.
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