Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - October 13
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. The American one has been around for 220 years, but the British one met for the very first time one week ago, because of a suspected Syrian terrorist. What name is shared by these bodies? 220 years ---> 1789. An institution established at the start of the nation. Supreme Court?
2. What part of the body does a "reflexologist" most commonly focus on? the foot
3. What nickname has the media given to Nadya Suleyman? OctoMom
4. What two U.S. animated TV hits have produced spin-off soundtrack CDs called "The Yellow Album"? Yellow makes me think of The Simpsons and SpongeBob
5. A church in Daresbury, England has an odd stained-glass window featuring a rabbit, dodo, and a lizard, because what man was born there in 1832 while his father was parson there? Dodo, White Rabbit ---> Charles Dodgson or Lewis Carroll. Not sure about the lizard unless this is the Jabberwock.
6. What nation's recent naming led to Greek complaints that Greece's heritage was being compromised by the name? How recent is "recent"? Sometimes for KJ this could be within the last 10-20 years. What are new nations or nations with new names? Eritrea, Myanmar, the Russian republics. Greece is the Hellenic Republic. Something that sounds like Hellas?
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these famous people? Osama bin Laden, John Ehrlichman, Davis Love III, Tracy Nelson, Philip Pullman, Priscilla Presley, Gabrielle Reece, and Cokie Roberts. I think I have found the common element - they all had parents who died in plane crashes. Hale Boggs (Roberts' dad) is presumed to have perished in a plane crash though they never found the plane.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. The U.S., Liberia, and Myanmar are the only three nations that have not officially adopted what? The metric system! It's great to be in such lofty company, isn't it? Think how many kilodays it's been since the rest of the world got on the SI bandwagon! correct
2. Name either one of the two former People Sexiest Men Alive who are no longer, uh, alive. RIP JFK Jr.; RIP Patrick Swayze. Now he is truly...like the wind. correct
3. What kind of animal travels in pods? Any kind of cetacean would have done here: whales, dolphins, etc. Or a human raised by a family of whales. correct
4. What popular novel claims to be an abridgment of a 19th-century work by one "S. Morgenstern"? That's the device William Goldman used in The Princess Bride. Which leads many readers to annoy their local librarian or bookstore owner asking for "the unabridged version." People, please. THERE ISN'T ONE. as previously discussed, we did not like this question very much. You know it or you don't. We did not know it.
5. What was the last continent to host two consecutive Summer Olympics? London 1948 and Helsinki 1952: both in Europe. Madrid was hoping to repeat this feat by succeeding London in 2016, but it didn't work out that way. Blame it on Rio. correct
6. What 1982 song hit #56 on the pop charts when the New Power Generation re-recorded it at the turn of the millennium? This was a little easier if you know that the New Power Generation backed up Prince. The song is "1999." correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these world cities? Hanoi, Vietnam; Indianapolis, Indiana; Jinan, China; Khartoum, Sudan; Kimberley, South Africa; Shreveport, Louisiana; St. Petersburg, Russia; Tacoma, Washington; and Winnipeg, Manitoba? All these cities lie on or near to a river with a colorful name: Red, Orange, Yellow, White, Green, etc. Weirdly, there's no "Blue River" on the list, apart from the Blue Nile in Khartoum. You'd think blue would be to go-to color for naming a river, right? correct! Still not sure the name of St. Petersburg's color river unless Neva translates to a color.
1. The American one has been around for 220 years, but the British one met for the very first time one week ago, because of a suspected Syrian terrorist. What name is shared by these bodies? 220 years ---> 1789. An institution established at the start of the nation. Supreme Court?
2. What part of the body does a "reflexologist" most commonly focus on? the foot
3. What nickname has the media given to Nadya Suleyman? OctoMom
4. What two U.S. animated TV hits have produced spin-off soundtrack CDs called "The Yellow Album"? Yellow makes me think of The Simpsons and SpongeBob
5. A church in Daresbury, England has an odd stained-glass window featuring a rabbit, dodo, and a lizard, because what man was born there in 1832 while his father was parson there? Dodo, White Rabbit ---> Charles Dodgson or Lewis Carroll. Not sure about the lizard unless this is the Jabberwock.
6. What nation's recent naming led to Greek complaints that Greece's heritage was being compromised by the name? How recent is "recent"? Sometimes for KJ this could be within the last 10-20 years. What are new nations or nations with new names? Eritrea, Myanmar, the Russian republics. Greece is the Hellenic Republic. Something that sounds like Hellas?
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these famous people? Osama bin Laden, John Ehrlichman, Davis Love III, Tracy Nelson, Philip Pullman, Priscilla Presley, Gabrielle Reece, and Cokie Roberts. I think I have found the common element - they all had parents who died in plane crashes. Hale Boggs (Roberts' dad) is presumed to have perished in a plane crash though they never found the plane.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. The U.S., Liberia, and Myanmar are the only three nations that have not officially adopted what? The metric system! It's great to be in such lofty company, isn't it? Think how many kilodays it's been since the rest of the world got on the SI bandwagon! correct
2. Name either one of the two former People Sexiest Men Alive who are no longer, uh, alive. RIP JFK Jr.; RIP Patrick Swayze. Now he is truly...like the wind. correct
3. What kind of animal travels in pods? Any kind of cetacean would have done here: whales, dolphins, etc. Or a human raised by a family of whales. correct
4. What popular novel claims to be an abridgment of a 19th-century work by one "S. Morgenstern"? That's the device William Goldman used in The Princess Bride. Which leads many readers to annoy their local librarian or bookstore owner asking for "the unabridged version." People, please. THERE ISN'T ONE. as previously discussed, we did not like this question very much. You know it or you don't. We did not know it.
5. What was the last continent to host two consecutive Summer Olympics? London 1948 and Helsinki 1952: both in Europe. Madrid was hoping to repeat this feat by succeeding London in 2016, but it didn't work out that way. Blame it on Rio. correct
6. What 1982 song hit #56 on the pop charts when the New Power Generation re-recorded it at the turn of the millennium? This was a little easier if you know that the New Power Generation backed up Prince. The song is "1999." correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these world cities? Hanoi, Vietnam; Indianapolis, Indiana; Jinan, China; Khartoum, Sudan; Kimberley, South Africa; Shreveport, Louisiana; St. Petersburg, Russia; Tacoma, Washington; and Winnipeg, Manitoba? All these cities lie on or near to a river with a colorful name: Red, Orange, Yellow, White, Green, etc. Weirdly, there's no "Blue River" on the list, apart from the Blue Nile in Khartoum. You'd think blue would be to go-to color for naming a river, right? correct! Still not sure the name of St. Petersburg's color river unless Neva translates to a color.
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#6 - I'm thinking Macedonia, a country which has nothing to do with the historic Macedonia. (If this is right, thank you, The Onion's "Our Dumb Planet"!)
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