Wednesday, June 08, 2011
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - June 7
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. What U.S. city is represented by a professional baseball and football team each named for a different bird? Baltimore (Orioles and Ravens)
2. The upcoming book Yossarian Slept Here is a memoir by the daughter of what American author? Joseph Heller
3. The "nine-banded" is the most widespread species of what Western Hemisphere mammal, the only surviving member of order Cingulata? banded makes me think of birds or reptiles. What mammal would be banded? armadillo?
4. Who did the media nickname "Lady Lindy" in 1928? Amelia Earhart? Nellie Bly?
5. In the 2007 film Juno, what was the title character's phone shaped like? no idea
6. What mountain range lent its name to the highest mountain ranges in both Australia and New Zealand? Alps
7. What unusual (and fairly specific) distinction is shared by these famous folks? Robert Evans, Frank Gifford, Dan Hicks, Les Moonves, Mike Nichols, Garry Trudeau, Alexandra Wentworth. All spouses are newscasters or media personalities. All morning show hosts, I believe. Phyllis George, Kathie Lee Gifford, Hannah Storm, Julie Chen, Diane Sawyer, Jane Pauley, George Stephanopolous.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What annual late-summer event is sometimes referred to using three punctuation marks--close parenthesis, apostrophe, open parenthesis--which resemble its famous symbol? I guess )'( looks a little like the titular effigy at Burning Man. If, you know, you're TOTALLY high. I guess I am not totally high.
2. According to the title of a 2006 film, what follows "the pledge" and "the turn"? Those are the three parts of a magic trick, according to The Prestige. I didn't know until recently that these aren't actual magic terms, just made-up ones for the story. um, ok
3. What are the two largest--and closest--members of the "Local Group"? The Local Group is part of your address: it's the galactic cluster where we live. At the center of it are the Milky Way and its nearest neigbor, the Andromeda Galaxy. Interesting factoid. Glad to learn that I live in the Local Group. Should I update my address?
4. What did Pope Urban II begin with his famous sermon at the 1095 Council of Clermont? He called for a serious of counter-productive, costly military campaigns to take back Jerusalem from the Turks. In other words: the Crusades. correct
5. What amusement park ride lent its name, during the 1980s, to a Dire Straits single and a Springsteen album? Tunnel of Love. Do they even have Tunnels of Love anymore? I think they might only exist in movies and TV, like gorilla suits and (see below) architects. correct
6. What poem's last word is "outgrabe"? "And the mome raths outgrabe," whatever that means, according to the first and last stanzas of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky." correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these TV shows? According to Jim, The Brady Bunch, Clarissa Explains It All, Family Ties, Fraggle Rock, How I Met Your Mother, The Invaders, The O.C., Once and Again, One Day at a Time. Each show has an architect character. I think architects are, like, ten times more common on TV than in real life. Even if you don't count the fake ones, like Art Vandelay. I knew that Mike Brady was an architect, but I would never have guessed that. Good one, Kmac!
1. What U.S. city is represented by a professional baseball and football team each named for a different bird? Baltimore (Orioles and Ravens)
2. The upcoming book Yossarian Slept Here is a memoir by the daughter of what American author? Joseph Heller
3. The "nine-banded" is the most widespread species of what Western Hemisphere mammal, the only surviving member of order Cingulata? banded makes me think of birds or reptiles. What mammal would be banded? armadillo?
4. Who did the media nickname "Lady Lindy" in 1928? Amelia Earhart? Nellie Bly?
5. In the 2007 film Juno, what was the title character's phone shaped like? no idea
6. What mountain range lent its name to the highest mountain ranges in both Australia and New Zealand? Alps
7. What unusual (and fairly specific) distinction is shared by these famous folks? Robert Evans, Frank Gifford, Dan Hicks, Les Moonves, Mike Nichols, Garry Trudeau, Alexandra Wentworth. All spouses are newscasters or media personalities. All morning show hosts, I believe. Phyllis George, Kathie Lee Gifford, Hannah Storm, Julie Chen, Diane Sawyer, Jane Pauley, George Stephanopolous.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What annual late-summer event is sometimes referred to using three punctuation marks--close parenthesis, apostrophe, open parenthesis--which resemble its famous symbol? I guess )'( looks a little like the titular effigy at Burning Man. If, you know, you're TOTALLY high. I guess I am not totally high.
2. According to the title of a 2006 film, what follows "the pledge" and "the turn"? Those are the three parts of a magic trick, according to The Prestige. I didn't know until recently that these aren't actual magic terms, just made-up ones for the story. um, ok
3. What are the two largest--and closest--members of the "Local Group"? The Local Group is part of your address: it's the galactic cluster where we live. At the center of it are the Milky Way and its nearest neigbor, the Andromeda Galaxy. Interesting factoid. Glad to learn that I live in the Local Group. Should I update my address?
4. What did Pope Urban II begin with his famous sermon at the 1095 Council of Clermont? He called for a serious of counter-productive, costly military campaigns to take back Jerusalem from the Turks. In other words: the Crusades. correct
5. What amusement park ride lent its name, during the 1980s, to a Dire Straits single and a Springsteen album? Tunnel of Love. Do they even have Tunnels of Love anymore? I think they might only exist in movies and TV, like gorilla suits and (see below) architects. correct
6. What poem's last word is "outgrabe"? "And the mome raths outgrabe," whatever that means, according to the first and last stanzas of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky." correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these TV shows? According to Jim, The Brady Bunch, Clarissa Explains It All, Family Ties, Fraggle Rock, How I Met Your Mother, The Invaders, The O.C., Once and Again, One Day at a Time. Each show has an architect character. I think architects are, like, ten times more common on TV than in real life. Even if you don't count the fake ones, like Art Vandelay. I knew that Mike Brady was an architect, but I would never have guessed that. Good one, Kmac!
