Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - April 20
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. The Treme neighborhood is part of what city's historic core? New Orleans
2. What famous inventor "plays the mamba," according to the lyrics of Starship's "We Built This City"? rated as the worst rock and roll song of all time. Why ask a question about this dreck? Does the inventor's name rhyme with mamba?
3. What modern nation was the birthplace of luger Nodar Kumaritashvili and dictator Joseph Dzhugashvili? Georgia.
4. The Central American basilisk lizard is sometimes nicknamed the "Jesus lizard" because it can do what? walk on water
5. Who claimed that his painting Woman in Three Stages inspired his famous countryman Henrik Ibsen to write When We Dead Awaken? Norwegian painter? I only know one. Edvard Munch.
6. The most common version of what item is coded "#2" in America, and "HB" in the rest of the world? pencils or pencil lead
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these movies? Annie Get Your Gun, Apocalypse Now, Back to the Future, Death of a Scoundrel, Elephant Walk, Elizabethtown, Panic Room, Shrek. I'm going to publish the other answers while I research this one.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. In 2009, meteorologists proposed that "asperatus" should be added as a new variety of what, the first new category discovered in over fifty years? There's finally a new kind of cloud! I guess they are not counting that one I discovered when I was nine, even though it TOTALLY looked like a Brontosaurus. correct
2. Who or what are you supporting if you're sporting a button that reads "Team Coco"? You are supporting Conan O'Brien, but I think you're a couple months too late. I read this in a headlined story in the LA Times last week, but I did not think that it was in the spirit of the game to change my answer based on that.
3. Whose speeches are collected in the 2007 book Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat? Winston Churchill was the cataloguer-of-bodily-fluids in question. correct
4. The U.S. contains six of them; last month, Russia dropped two of its own, and now only has nine. What are they? Facebook fans of Yakov Smirnoff. Just kidding; time zones. correct
5. What 2010 film's taxonomy includes Gronckles, Zipplebacks, Nadders, Nightmares, and Night Furies? These are among the title creatures being (spoilers!) trained in How to Train Your Dragon. not sure I can take credit for a correct answer here.
6. Who took his famous stage name in 1978 after a TV host marveled at how he dwarfed his fellow talk show guest, body builder Lou Ferrigno? This is how Terry Bollea became Hulk Hogan. If his fellow guest on that talk show had been Dick Van Patten, he would be called "Eight Is Enough Hogan" to this day. Incredible Hulk --> Hulk Hogan. Ok, now I get where this was supposed to go.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these books? Blindness, Hunger, Invisible Man, The Road, Sounder, The Time Machine, The Turn of the Screw, The Virginian. The main character in each book is never named, which is a pretty tough authorial trick, if you think about it. The phrase "this one dude" must appear a lot. I guess I could have included Rebecca in this list, though she at least gets a married name. correct
1. The Treme neighborhood is part of what city's historic core? New Orleans
2. What famous inventor "plays the mamba," according to the lyrics of Starship's "We Built This City"? rated as the worst rock and roll song of all time. Why ask a question about this dreck? Does the inventor's name rhyme with mamba?
3. What modern nation was the birthplace of luger Nodar Kumaritashvili and dictator Joseph Dzhugashvili? Georgia.
4. The Central American basilisk lizard is sometimes nicknamed the "Jesus lizard" because it can do what? walk on water
5. Who claimed that his painting Woman in Three Stages inspired his famous countryman Henrik Ibsen to write When We Dead Awaken? Norwegian painter? I only know one. Edvard Munch.
6. The most common version of what item is coded "#2" in America, and "HB" in the rest of the world? pencils or pencil lead
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these movies? Annie Get Your Gun, Apocalypse Now, Back to the Future, Death of a Scoundrel, Elephant Walk, Elizabethtown, Panic Room, Shrek. I'm going to publish the other answers while I research this one.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. In 2009, meteorologists proposed that "asperatus" should be added as a new variety of what, the first new category discovered in over fifty years? There's finally a new kind of cloud! I guess they are not counting that one I discovered when I was nine, even though it TOTALLY looked like a Brontosaurus. correct
2. Who or what are you supporting if you're sporting a button that reads "Team Coco"? You are supporting Conan O'Brien, but I think you're a couple months too late. I read this in a headlined story in the LA Times last week, but I did not think that it was in the spirit of the game to change my answer based on that.
3. Whose speeches are collected in the 2007 book Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat? Winston Churchill was the cataloguer-of-bodily-fluids in question. correct
4. The U.S. contains six of them; last month, Russia dropped two of its own, and now only has nine. What are they? Facebook fans of Yakov Smirnoff. Just kidding; time zones. correct
5. What 2010 film's taxonomy includes Gronckles, Zipplebacks, Nadders, Nightmares, and Night Furies? These are among the title creatures being (spoilers!) trained in How to Train Your Dragon. not sure I can take credit for a correct answer here.
6. Who took his famous stage name in 1978 after a TV host marveled at how he dwarfed his fellow talk show guest, body builder Lou Ferrigno? This is how Terry Bollea became Hulk Hogan. If his fellow guest on that talk show had been Dick Van Patten, he would be called "Eight Is Enough Hogan" to this day. Incredible Hulk --> Hulk Hogan. Ok, now I get where this was supposed to go.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these books? Blindness, Hunger, Invisible Man, The Road, Sounder, The Time Machine, The Turn of the Screw, The Virginian. The main character in each book is never named, which is a pretty tough authorial trick, if you think about it. The phrase "this one dude" must appear a lot. I guess I could have included Rebecca in this list, though she at least gets a married name. correct
