Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - September 7
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. What is the largest Mediterranean island, both in terms of area and population? Crete, Sardinia or Sicily? I think it is Sicily
2. Name one of the two letters of the alphabet whose fingerspelling sign requires movement in the American Manual Alphabet. A complete guess - W
3. What metal is typically found in both sterling silver and bronze? bronze = tin + copper. I think that sterling silver has a little copper in it.
4. What title character of three hit films had the legal middle name "Danger"? Austin Powers
5. The AP Athlete of the Year award has only gone to a non-American man twice in the last fifty years, both times to a Canadian athlete. Name the two Canadian winners, both of whom came home from a highly anticipated Olympic appearance without a medal. Without a medal? One would have to be Wayne Gretzky. The greatest Canadian pro athlete ever. He had to have won AP Athlete of the Year sometime. I guess the other is Ben Johnson. Note the wording "came home without a medal." He won gold then had it stripped.
6. What's the only name shared by one of the original Care Bears and Disney's original Seven Dwarfs? jiminy cricket. Care Bears? KJ, this is weak. I would prefer to boycott this question. But I'll give it a shot based on one of these most likely answers - Happy or Bashful.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these songs? The Beatles' "Paperback Writer," Leonard Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat," Elvis Costello's "Jacksons, Monk, and Rowe," Eminem's "Stan," John Mayer's "3 x 5," Morrissey's "Will Never Marry," Nas's "One Love," William Shatner's "That's Me Trying," and Michelle Shocked's "Anchorage." Paperback Writer, Famous Blue Raincoat, Anchorage are all written as letters from one person to another. Is it that easy?
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. Both U.S. presidents who shared what first name were born in the Carolinas? Andrew Jackson and Andrew Johnson were two of our three Carolinan presidents. Andrew Jackson was so old-school that historians still aren't sure if he was born in North Carolina or South Carolina! True fact, it just *sounds* like a fat joke. But "Old Hickory" was no William Howard Taft; he was actually rather gaunt. correct
2. What rock band's fans have been called "Distiples"? Distiples = Michael Stipe fans = R.E.M. May also = "you wore a lot of eyeliner back around 1987." maybe this question would have been better asked around 1987.
3. What organization is currently led by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I? He's the current Archbishop of Constantinople, making him the religious leader of over 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide. Sort of weird that he's the first "Bartholomew" ever to hold the office. It must take guts to say, after two millennia of patriarch names, "Screw it, I'm going with Bartholomew." I am going to consider this correct.
4. What letter of the alphabet appears on Arthur Dimmesdale's tombstone, at the end of an 1850 novel? Dimmesdale is the conflicted boyfriend guy in The Scarlet Letter, so he got a big "A" on his tombstone. correct
5. "Sherlock Bones" was the most common entry in the two-year contest to name what TV ad mascot? McGruff the Crime Dog was named by contest. Take a bite out of crime! I think this is not a very interesting question without the additional information that "Sherlock Bones" was not selected as the mascot's name.
6. What objects have been predicted to emit Hawking radiation? Black holes. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these famous people? Dick Cheney, Cher, Richard Gephardt, Alan Keyes, Stephen King, Marie Osmond, Ally Sheedy, Cybill Shepherd. All these celebs have daughters who are out lesbians. Although I think Chastity Bono has legally been "Chaz Bono" for a couple months now, so we accepted just about any answer about LGBT kids. correct
1. What is the largest Mediterranean island, both in terms of area and population? Crete, Sardinia or Sicily? I think it is Sicily
2. Name one of the two letters of the alphabet whose fingerspelling sign requires movement in the American Manual Alphabet. A complete guess - W
3. What metal is typically found in both sterling silver and bronze? bronze = tin + copper. I think that sterling silver has a little copper in it.
4. What title character of three hit films had the legal middle name "Danger"? Austin Powers
5. The AP Athlete of the Year award has only gone to a non-American man twice in the last fifty years, both times to a Canadian athlete. Name the two Canadian winners, both of whom came home from a highly anticipated Olympic appearance without a medal. Without a medal? One would have to be Wayne Gretzky. The greatest Canadian pro athlete ever. He had to have won AP Athlete of the Year sometime. I guess the other is Ben Johnson. Note the wording "came home without a medal." He won gold then had it stripped.
6. What's the only name shared by one of the original Care Bears and Disney's original Seven Dwarfs? jiminy cricket. Care Bears? KJ, this is weak. I would prefer to boycott this question. But I'll give it a shot based on one of these most likely answers - Happy or Bashful.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these songs? The Beatles' "Paperback Writer," Leonard Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat," Elvis Costello's "Jacksons, Monk, and Rowe," Eminem's "Stan," John Mayer's "3 x 5," Morrissey's "Will Never Marry," Nas's "One Love," William Shatner's "That's Me Trying," and Michelle Shocked's "Anchorage." Paperback Writer, Famous Blue Raincoat, Anchorage are all written as letters from one person to another. Is it that easy?
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. Both U.S. presidents who shared what first name were born in the Carolinas? Andrew Jackson and Andrew Johnson were two of our three Carolinan presidents. Andrew Jackson was so old-school that historians still aren't sure if he was born in North Carolina or South Carolina! True fact, it just *sounds* like a fat joke. But "Old Hickory" was no William Howard Taft; he was actually rather gaunt. correct
2. What rock band's fans have been called "Distiples"? Distiples = Michael Stipe fans = R.E.M. May also = "you wore a lot of eyeliner back around 1987." maybe this question would have been better asked around 1987.
3. What organization is currently led by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I? He's the current Archbishop of Constantinople, making him the religious leader of over 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide. Sort of weird that he's the first "Bartholomew" ever to hold the office. It must take guts to say, after two millennia of patriarch names, "Screw it, I'm going with Bartholomew." I am going to consider this correct.
4. What letter of the alphabet appears on Arthur Dimmesdale's tombstone, at the end of an 1850 novel? Dimmesdale is the conflicted boyfriend guy in The Scarlet Letter, so he got a big "A" on his tombstone. correct
5. "Sherlock Bones" was the most common entry in the two-year contest to name what TV ad mascot? McGruff the Crime Dog was named by contest. Take a bite out of crime! I think this is not a very interesting question without the additional information that "Sherlock Bones" was not selected as the mascot's name.
6. What objects have been predicted to emit Hawking radiation? Black holes. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these famous people? Dick Cheney, Cher, Richard Gephardt, Alan Keyes, Stephen King, Marie Osmond, Ally Sheedy, Cybill Shepherd. All these celebs have daughters who are out lesbians. Although I think Chastity Bono has legally been "Chaz Bono" for a couple months now, so we accepted just about any answer about LGBT kids. correct
