Sunday, June 05, 2011
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - May 31
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. What annual late-summer event is sometimes referred to using three punctuation marks--close parenthesis, apostrophe, open parenthesis--which resemble its famous symbol? This is what KJ described - )'(. Late summer makes me think of an event in September. A sporting event? US Open tennis?
2. According to the title of a 2006 film, what follows "the pledge" and "the turn"? I have no idea what this refers to.
3. What are the two largest--and closest--members of the "Local Group"? I have no idea what this refers to.
4. What did Pope Urban II begin with his famous sermon at the 1095 Council of Clermont? the Crusades? This seems too early to be the Inquisition.
5. What amusement park ride lent its name, during the 1980s, to a Dire Straits single and a Springsteen album? Tunnel of Love
6. What poem's last word is "outgrabe"? Jabberwocky
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.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What can be made Montreal-style (with egg and poached in honey-water) or New York-style (preferably using Brookyln water, supposedly superior)? Those are two varieties of bagel. I've never had the Montreal kind but...egg? Really? correct
2. Last fall, Reggie Bush became the first person in history to voluntarily return what? His Heisman, as a result of an NCAA investigation into his eligibility. Also, some overdue library books. correct
3. To streamline meetings at his local church, what American general published an influential 1876 book on parliamentary procedure? Nobody remembers Brigadier General Henry Robert's bravery in combat, but everyone loves his Rules of Order! I like this question. A good one.
4. What 2011 film features a doubles match against two tennis players portrayed, in cameos, by former SNL cast members Melanie Hutsell and Nancy Carell? Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph are also SNL vets, of course--the movie is Bridesmaids. correct
5. What name is shared, coincidentally, by Canada's equivalent of the Grammy Awards, and by the beach that Canadian forces took on D-Day? They're both called Juno. What is up with you and Juno, Canada? Still jealous that we got Alaska? correct
6. Green Lantern's power ring has historically been vulnerable to objects of what color? Yellow, which wouldn't be so bad except that all his enemies knew about it, so they were always attacking him with giant lemons and stuff. The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets would be his least favorite college team. And every team from Pittsburgh.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these nations and no others? Albania, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Zambia, and probably Zimbabwe. Those are all the countries with an eagle on their flags. (The Zimbabwe flag has an 11th-century statue of a bird that's probably based on an eagle.) I just checked and the "Team Zissou" flag from Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic doesn't have an eagle, in case you were wondering. But it does have an octopus.
1. What annual late-summer event is sometimes referred to using three punctuation marks--close parenthesis, apostrophe, open parenthesis--which resemble its famous symbol? This is what KJ described - )'(. Late summer makes me think of an event in September. A sporting event? US Open tennis?
2. According to the title of a 2006 film, what follows "the pledge" and "the turn"? I have no idea what this refers to.
3. What are the two largest--and closest--members of the "Local Group"? I have no idea what this refers to.
4. What did Pope Urban II begin with his famous sermon at the 1095 Council of Clermont? the Crusades? This seems too early to be the Inquisition.
5. What amusement park ride lent its name, during the 1980s, to a Dire Straits single and a Springsteen album? Tunnel of Love
6. What poem's last word is "outgrabe"? Jabberwocky
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.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What can be made Montreal-style (with egg and poached in honey-water) or New York-style (preferably using Brookyln water, supposedly superior)? Those are two varieties of bagel. I've never had the Montreal kind but...egg? Really? correct
2. Last fall, Reggie Bush became the first person in history to voluntarily return what? His Heisman, as a result of an NCAA investigation into his eligibility. Also, some overdue library books. correct
3. To streamline meetings at his local church, what American general published an influential 1876 book on parliamentary procedure? Nobody remembers Brigadier General Henry Robert's bravery in combat, but everyone loves his Rules of Order! I like this question. A good one.
4. What 2011 film features a doubles match against two tennis players portrayed, in cameos, by former SNL cast members Melanie Hutsell and Nancy Carell? Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph are also SNL vets, of course--the movie is Bridesmaids. correct
5. What name is shared, coincidentally, by Canada's equivalent of the Grammy Awards, and by the beach that Canadian forces took on D-Day? They're both called Juno. What is up with you and Juno, Canada? Still jealous that we got Alaska? correct
6. Green Lantern's power ring has historically been vulnerable to objects of what color? Yellow, which wouldn't be so bad except that all his enemies knew about it, so they were always attacking him with giant lemons and stuff. The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets would be his least favorite college team. And every team from Pittsburgh.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these nations and no others? Albania, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Zambia, and probably Zimbabwe. Those are all the countries with an eagle on their flags. (The Zimbabwe flag has an 11th-century statue of a bird that's probably based on an eagle.) I just checked and the "Team Zissou" flag from Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic doesn't have an eagle, in case you were wondering. But it does have an octopus.
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