Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - January 25
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. What kind of geographic feature can have a "calving face"? icebergs
2. Hip-hop star Wiz Khalifa dedicated his recent hit "Black and Yellow" to the sports teams of what city, his hometown? I cringed when I read "hip hop star." However it's a sports question. Pittsburgh
3. Gabrielle Giffords' survival of the recent shooting in Arizona means that the last sitting U.S. Congressman to be assassinated is still Leo Ryan, killed on November 18, 1978 as part of what tragic news story? Jonestown massacre
4. The largest cathedral in New Orleans shares its name with what other large U.S. city? St. Paul?
5. What company announced last week that its products would now be available in a new, larger size: the "Trenta"? Starbucks
6. What late TV star's wife once joked that his headstone would read "Here Lies Mr. C. -- Who Used to Be Mr. B."? Tom Bosley, aka Howard Cunningham or Mr. C. Aayyyyy.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these films? Chaplin, Contact, The Day of the Locust, Elephant, The King's Speech, Pearl Harbor, The Rocketeer, Zelig.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. Who is the only Catholic saint to have been excommunicated by the church? I had read that Joan of Arc was the only recipient of this, surely God's most dramatic flip-flop. But I'm informed that a recently canonized Australian named Mary McKillop also makes the cut. Interesting that Joan of Arc was not beatified until 500 years after her death. Took a while to build up a good PR campaign.
2. Instead of the standard "IV," how is the number 4 typically represented in Roman numerals on clock faces? It's usually "IIII," for reasons that no one is really clear on. correct. maybe the story about James V not wanting I to stand before his is apocrophal
3. The house in which Bob Dylan recorded his "Basement Tapes" famously had siding of what color? Dylan and his backup band called the house "Big Pink" due to its siding, which is why The Band's debut album is called Music from Big Pink. correct
4. What one-named celebrity recently "wrote" her first novel, titled A Shore Thing? Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi from Jersey Shore...and it's now a bestseller! Well done, America. correct
5. What is far and away the world's largest archipelagic (island) nation, at over 735,000 square miles? Indonesia is more than three times bigger than the next runner-up, Madagascar. (Australia doesn't count because of its continent-ness, but if it did, it would be much, much bigger than either.) correct
6. What word in the title of a recent hit film is a computer term referring to outdated systems that nevertheless stay in use? The subtitle of Tron: Legacy is (among other things) a computer-ese joke about "legacy" systems. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these U.S. states, listed in this order? Delaware, Ohio, Hawaii, New York, New York, Texas, the District of Columbia, Colorado, Iowa, Washington. These are the home states of the people who currently lead the line of presidential succession in the U.S.: Vice President Biden first, then Speaker of the House John Boehner, than President Pro Tempore of the Senate Daniel Inouye, and so on down through the cabinet. I was on the right track, just did not do the research to get the correct answer.
1. What kind of geographic feature can have a "calving face"? icebergs
2. Hip-hop star Wiz Khalifa dedicated his recent hit "Black and Yellow" to the sports teams of what city, his hometown? I cringed when I read "hip hop star." However it's a sports question. Pittsburgh
3. Gabrielle Giffords' survival of the recent shooting in Arizona means that the last sitting U.S. Congressman to be assassinated is still Leo Ryan, killed on November 18, 1978 as part of what tragic news story? Jonestown massacre
4. The largest cathedral in New Orleans shares its name with what other large U.S. city? St. Paul?
5. What company announced last week that its products would now be available in a new, larger size: the "Trenta"? Starbucks
6. What late TV star's wife once joked that his headstone would read "Here Lies Mr. C. -- Who Used to Be Mr. B."? Tom Bosley, aka Howard Cunningham or Mr. C. Aayyyyy.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these films? Chaplin, Contact, The Day of the Locust, Elephant, The King's Speech, Pearl Harbor, The Rocketeer, Zelig.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. Who is the only Catholic saint to have been excommunicated by the church? I had read that Joan of Arc was the only recipient of this, surely God's most dramatic flip-flop. But I'm informed that a recently canonized Australian named Mary McKillop also makes the cut. Interesting that Joan of Arc was not beatified until 500 years after her death. Took a while to build up a good PR campaign.
2. Instead of the standard "IV," how is the number 4 typically represented in Roman numerals on clock faces? It's usually "IIII," for reasons that no one is really clear on. correct. maybe the story about James V not wanting I to stand before his is apocrophal
3. The house in which Bob Dylan recorded his "Basement Tapes" famously had siding of what color? Dylan and his backup band called the house "Big Pink" due to its siding, which is why The Band's debut album is called Music from Big Pink. correct
4. What one-named celebrity recently "wrote" her first novel, titled A Shore Thing? Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi from Jersey Shore...and it's now a bestseller! Well done, America. correct
5. What is far and away the world's largest archipelagic (island) nation, at over 735,000 square miles? Indonesia is more than three times bigger than the next runner-up, Madagascar. (Australia doesn't count because of its continent-ness, but if it did, it would be much, much bigger than either.) correct
6. What word in the title of a recent hit film is a computer term referring to outdated systems that nevertheless stay in use? The subtitle of Tron: Legacy is (among other things) a computer-ese joke about "legacy" systems. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these U.S. states, listed in this order? Delaware, Ohio, Hawaii, New York, New York, Texas, the District of Columbia, Colorado, Iowa, Washington. These are the home states of the people who currently lead the line of presidential succession in the U.S.: Vice President Biden first, then Speaker of the House John Boehner, than President Pro Tempore of the Senate Daniel Inouye, and so on down through the cabinet. I was on the right track, just did not do the research to get the correct answer.
