Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - March 15
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. What U.S. state has the largest state flower, with diameters up to 32 inches? Kansas, the Sunflower State
2. Hal Needham and Yakima Canutt are among the most famous examples of what Hollywood profession? stuntmen?
3. Before this week's NFL lockout, which was the most recent of the big four North American professional sports organizations to order a lockout? I asked this at the O'Brien's Quiz recently. NHL
4. What end product is produced by "tatting"? a cruciverbalist word - lace
5. What TV show's protagonist is a veteran of the King County, Georgia Sheriff Department, and a veteran of the Cynthiana, Kentucky Police Department in the original comics? Would not have an answer except for the comics reference - The Walking Dead
6. What ancient city was also known as Ilium? Troy
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these bands? Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Backstreet Boys, Hall & Oates (sorta), INXS, Judas Priest, Kool & the Gang, the New Pornographers, 'N Sync, Poison, and the Ramones.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What animal is pictured on the cover of the Black-Eyed Peas' 2003 album, but not the White Stripes' 2003 album? The records are Elephunk and Elephant, respectively. Elephunk features an elephant; but Elephant, sadly, features almost no elephunk. correct
2. A whopping 2,350 miles of the Tropic of Capricon runs through what nation? For pretty much half the length it crosses land, the Tropic of Capricorn is crossing Australia. at least I had the Southern Hemisphere correct. I discounted Australia because I don't think of it as a country. But he asked "what nation." That would have been a clue if I had noticed.
3. What author never got to live in his dream house, a mansion just north of San Francisco called "Wolf House" that burned down in 1913? Today the ruins of Wolf House are a highlight of Jack London State Park. correct
4. Who traveled the country on the "Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television" tour? Conan O'Brien is no longer prohibited by NBC from being funny, though it appears the network may still be exercising that restriction on Jay Leno. ah yes. I think I missed the Team Coco question too.
5. What website, one of the U.S's 100 most-visited, has a lot of users currently worried about outages due to its Libyan domain name? I had no idea until last week that the ".ly" in URL-shortening website "bit.ly" stood for "Libya." correct
6. What U.S. military slogan was originally half of a couplet, paired with the line "To hell with Spain?" At the personal request of King Juan Carlos I of Espana, we now cut it off at "Remember the Maine." correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these movies? Annie Hall, Better Off Dead, Cat Ballou, Enchanted, Holiday Inn, Jurassic Park, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Run Lola Run, Vertigo. All have cartoon segments--and not in the credits, some actual part of each movie switches to animation. (Better Off Dead is the only one with *Clay*mation, however.) Good one, Kmac and Alex!
1. What U.S. state has the largest state flower, with diameters up to 32 inches? Kansas, the Sunflower State
2. Hal Needham and Yakima Canutt are among the most famous examples of what Hollywood profession? stuntmen?
3. Before this week's NFL lockout, which was the most recent of the big four North American professional sports organizations to order a lockout? I asked this at the O'Brien's Quiz recently. NHL
4. What end product is produced by "tatting"? a cruciverbalist word - lace
5. What TV show's protagonist is a veteran of the King County, Georgia Sheriff Department, and a veteran of the Cynthiana, Kentucky Police Department in the original comics? Would not have an answer except for the comics reference - The Walking Dead
6. What ancient city was also known as Ilium? Troy
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these bands? Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Backstreet Boys, Hall & Oates (sorta), INXS, Judas Priest, Kool & the Gang, the New Pornographers, 'N Sync, Poison, and the Ramones.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What animal is pictured on the cover of the Black-Eyed Peas' 2003 album, but not the White Stripes' 2003 album? The records are Elephunk and Elephant, respectively. Elephunk features an elephant; but Elephant, sadly, features almost no elephunk. correct
2. A whopping 2,350 miles of the Tropic of Capricon runs through what nation? For pretty much half the length it crosses land, the Tropic of Capricorn is crossing Australia. at least I had the Southern Hemisphere correct. I discounted Australia because I don't think of it as a country. But he asked "what nation." That would have been a clue if I had noticed.
3. What author never got to live in his dream house, a mansion just north of San Francisco called "Wolf House" that burned down in 1913? Today the ruins of Wolf House are a highlight of Jack London State Park. correct
4. Who traveled the country on the "Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television" tour? Conan O'Brien is no longer prohibited by NBC from being funny, though it appears the network may still be exercising that restriction on Jay Leno. ah yes. I think I missed the Team Coco question too.
5. What website, one of the U.S's 100 most-visited, has a lot of users currently worried about outages due to its Libyan domain name? I had no idea until last week that the ".ly" in URL-shortening website "bit.ly" stood for "Libya." correct
6. What U.S. military slogan was originally half of a couplet, paired with the line "To hell with Spain?" At the personal request of King Juan Carlos I of Espana, we now cut it off at "Remember the Maine." correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these movies? Annie Hall, Better Off Dead, Cat Ballou, Enchanted, Holiday Inn, Jurassic Park, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Run Lola Run, Vertigo. All have cartoon segments--and not in the credits, some actual part of each movie switches to animation. (Better Off Dead is the only one with *Clay*mation, however.) Good one, Kmac and Alex!
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