Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - November 2
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. What does a "tasseomancer" read? tea leaves. Does "tasse" mean tea? Is that the origin for the company Tazo?
2. What music star's debut was a 2001 Christian pop album self-titled with her birth name, which she then changed to avoid confusion with actress Kate Hudson? Jennifer Hudson? did her career begin as early as 2001?
3. "The Rise and Fall of" what public figure are being told in a new documentary titled Client 9? Client 9 ---> Eliot Spitzer
4. What one river flows through the canyons for which two different U.S. national parks are named? Colorado? Grand Canyon and Canyonlands?
5. Last month, the U.S. Senate voted to have the FCC regulate, for the first time, the volume of what? it's the volume of either broadcast commercials or tv broadcasts. People have complained about being blasted when the volume changes from show to ad or vice versa
6. What *two* 1980 biopics reach their emotional climax with the protagonist bellowing, "I am not an animal!", despite both having animals in the titles? one I know - The Elephant Man. is the other Raging Bull? that came out in 1980
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these athletes in the four major North American sports associations, and no others? Barry Bonds, Billy Burch, Wilt Chamberlain, Eddie Collins, LeBron James, Moses Malone, and Alex Rodriguez? Is it a clue that there are no football players? Each of them notably jumped teams. Each has been successful and won awards, though not all have won championships (not yet, LeBron). Here is a potential pattern - win the MVP in the year before changing teams.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What national capital is the oldest European-founded city in the Western Hemisphere? Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, founded by Christopher Columbus's brother in 1496. In hindsight, that was a pretty tough question...kudos if you knew it. Correct. Kudos to me. But this was not hard.
2. What actress wrote a 1987 memoir subtitled "How I Went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind"? Lindsay Lohan, weirdly. No, this a book called The Making of The African Queen, by Katharine Hepburn. correct
3. Kali is the consort of which Hindu god? Kali, the death goddess, spends a lot of time, as you might expect, hanging out with the destroyer god, Shiva. good get, Alex
4. Now that the Texas Rangers are in the World Series, name either of the two remaining major league teams that have never played in one. Residents of either Washington feel this one particularly keenly: the Mariners and the Nationals are the only teams with such a sad resume. correct
5. The annual Orionid and Eta Aquariid meteor showers owe their existence to what well-known astronomical body? Meteor showers are caused by the Earth passing through the tail of a comet, and in the case of these two showers, Halley's Comet is the culprit. I was thinking asteroids. I guess I should have thought of comets.
6. A person can be described as "tow-headed" if they are very what? Tow is an old-timey word for flax, so a towhead has very blond hair. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these albums? The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, Diamond Dogs by David Bowie, Hotel California by the Eagles, Like Water for Chocolate by Common, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel by Mariah Carey, Please by Pet Shop Boys, Seal II by Seal, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles, Solitude Standing by Suzanne Vega, A Song for You by the Carpenters. Each includes a "reprise" in its tracklist--in other words, the same song twice. correct
1. What does a "tasseomancer" read? tea leaves. Does "tasse" mean tea? Is that the origin for the company Tazo?
2. What music star's debut was a 2001 Christian pop album self-titled with her birth name, which she then changed to avoid confusion with actress Kate Hudson? Jennifer Hudson? did her career begin as early as 2001?
3. "The Rise and Fall of" what public figure are being told in a new documentary titled Client 9? Client 9 ---> Eliot Spitzer
4. What one river flows through the canyons for which two different U.S. national parks are named? Colorado? Grand Canyon and Canyonlands?
5. Last month, the U.S. Senate voted to have the FCC regulate, for the first time, the volume of what? it's the volume of either broadcast commercials or tv broadcasts. People have complained about being blasted when the volume changes from show to ad or vice versa
6. What *two* 1980 biopics reach their emotional climax with the protagonist bellowing, "I am not an animal!", despite both having animals in the titles? one I know - The Elephant Man. is the other Raging Bull? that came out in 1980
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these athletes in the four major North American sports associations, and no others? Barry Bonds, Billy Burch, Wilt Chamberlain, Eddie Collins, LeBron James, Moses Malone, and Alex Rodriguez? Is it a clue that there are no football players? Each of them notably jumped teams. Each has been successful and won awards, though not all have won championships (not yet, LeBron). Here is a potential pattern - win the MVP in the year before changing teams.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What national capital is the oldest European-founded city in the Western Hemisphere? Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, founded by Christopher Columbus's brother in 1496. In hindsight, that was a pretty tough question...kudos if you knew it. Correct. Kudos to me. But this was not hard.
2. What actress wrote a 1987 memoir subtitled "How I Went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind"? Lindsay Lohan, weirdly. No, this a book called The Making of The African Queen, by Katharine Hepburn. correct
3. Kali is the consort of which Hindu god? Kali, the death goddess, spends a lot of time, as you might expect, hanging out with the destroyer god, Shiva. good get, Alex
4. Now that the Texas Rangers are in the World Series, name either of the two remaining major league teams that have never played in one. Residents of either Washington feel this one particularly keenly: the Mariners and the Nationals are the only teams with such a sad resume. correct
5. The annual Orionid and Eta Aquariid meteor showers owe their existence to what well-known astronomical body? Meteor showers are caused by the Earth passing through the tail of a comet, and in the case of these two showers, Halley's Comet is the culprit. I was thinking asteroids. I guess I should have thought of comets.
6. A person can be described as "tow-headed" if they are very what? Tow is an old-timey word for flax, so a towhead has very blond hair. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these albums? The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, Diamond Dogs by David Bowie, Hotel California by the Eagles, Like Water for Chocolate by Common, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel by Mariah Carey, Please by Pet Shop Boys, Seal II by Seal, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles, Solitude Standing by Suzanne Vega, A Song for You by the Carpenters. Each includes a "reprise" in its tracklist--in other words, the same song twice. correct
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#1 - Tasse means "cup" in French, so there you go.
#2 - I don't think it's Jennifer Hudson, but I don't know the answer. I'll think about it.
#7 - Nice catch! I was wondering why Wayne Gretzky wasn't on the list, but it turns out he was the MVP every year from 1980-1989 ... except the year before he was traded (1998).
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#2 - I don't think it's Jennifer Hudson, but I don't know the answer. I'll think about it.
#7 - Nice catch! I was wondering why Wayne Gretzky wasn't on the list, but it turns out he was the MVP every year from 1980-1989 ... except the year before he was traded (1998).
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