Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - September 27
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. In the United States, what are Leavenworth, Lewisburg, and Lompoc? I believe they are/were US military forts or military bases
2. What did Alfred Butts first call "Alph" and "Criss-Cross" when he invented it in 1948? an additional clue would help. Is it a game? A consumer product? Electronic device? Something military?
3. What major U.S. company that went out of business in December 1991 shares its name with a new ABC TV series? Pan Am. I live 2 blocks from Sony Pictures Studio and there is a 20 foot high ad on the wall of one of the buildings for this show.
4. What industry was decimated in 2006 by a syndrome called colony collapse disorder? beekeeping
5. The world's largest sperm bank has just announced it will no longer accept donations from men with what easily apparent physical characteristic? I don't tend to pay attention to sperm bank news so this will be a guess. Easily apparent ---> red hair? Are gingers unpopular among people looking for sperm donors?
6. Joe Sumner, the bassist for the band Fiction Plane, is the son of what musician? Gordon Sumner, aka Sting
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these people, both real and fictional? George Bailey, Lewis Carroll, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Stephen Colbert, Holly Hunter, Jane Lynch, Yao Ming, Nico, the Wife of Bath, Brian Wilson. This really is an unusual distinction - each is deaf in one ear.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What two U.S. states' most populous cities share the same name? Lots of guesses for various Kansas Citys and Charlestons, but the correct answer is Maine and Oregon, both Portlands. correct
2. What kind of body tissue can be either "yellow" (fatty) or "red" (where blood cells are produced)? There are two kinds of marrow in your bones, if you haven't looked lately. correct
3. Cameron Crowe's new film Twenty is a documentary about what rock band, both a reference to the band's first album and the number of years since its release? It's been twenty years since Pearl Jam recorded Ten. Unfortunately, it's also been over ten years since they turned into a terrible jam band... correct
4. Before 1993, what was divided into a "Prince of Wales" half and a "Clarence Campbell" half? The NHL used to have frillier, more confusing names for its conferences. correct
5. In Rudyard Kipling's poem, what is Gunga Din's job with the British army? He was a water-carrier, or "bhishti." Also some light typing, filing. correct
6. What famous woman, who died in Cambridgeshire in 1536, was the youngest daughter of Columbus's patrons Ferdinand and Isabella? That's where Henry VIII's first wife, Catherine of Aragon, got the "of Aragon" part of her name. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these movies? Contempt, Fahrenheit 451, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Naked City, Nashville, She's Gotta Have It. In a very weird device you don't see much anymore, they all have somebody reading the credits OUT LOUD. I am sure that they are all worthy, but if you had to have actually seen the movies to know the answer I was not going to get this Q7.
1. In the United States, what are Leavenworth, Lewisburg, and Lompoc? I believe they are/were US military forts or military bases
2. What did Alfred Butts first call "Alph" and "Criss-Cross" when he invented it in 1948? an additional clue would help. Is it a game? A consumer product? Electronic device? Something military?
3. What major U.S. company that went out of business in December 1991 shares its name with a new ABC TV series? Pan Am. I live 2 blocks from Sony Pictures Studio and there is a 20 foot high ad on the wall of one of the buildings for this show.
4. What industry was decimated in 2006 by a syndrome called colony collapse disorder? beekeeping
5. The world's largest sperm bank has just announced it will no longer accept donations from men with what easily apparent physical characteristic? I don't tend to pay attention to sperm bank news so this will be a guess. Easily apparent ---> red hair? Are gingers unpopular among people looking for sperm donors?
6. Joe Sumner, the bassist for the band Fiction Plane, is the son of what musician? Gordon Sumner, aka Sting
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these people, both real and fictional? George Bailey, Lewis Carroll, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Stephen Colbert, Holly Hunter, Jane Lynch, Yao Ming, Nico, the Wife of Bath, Brian Wilson. This really is an unusual distinction - each is deaf in one ear.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What two U.S. states' most populous cities share the same name? Lots of guesses for various Kansas Citys and Charlestons, but the correct answer is Maine and Oregon, both Portlands. correct
2. What kind of body tissue can be either "yellow" (fatty) or "red" (where blood cells are produced)? There are two kinds of marrow in your bones, if you haven't looked lately. correct
3. Cameron Crowe's new film Twenty is a documentary about what rock band, both a reference to the band's first album and the number of years since its release? It's been twenty years since Pearl Jam recorded Ten. Unfortunately, it's also been over ten years since they turned into a terrible jam band... correct
4. Before 1993, what was divided into a "Prince of Wales" half and a "Clarence Campbell" half? The NHL used to have frillier, more confusing names for its conferences. correct
5. In Rudyard Kipling's poem, what is Gunga Din's job with the British army? He was a water-carrier, or "bhishti." Also some light typing, filing. correct
6. What famous woman, who died in Cambridgeshire in 1536, was the youngest daughter of Columbus's patrons Ferdinand and Isabella? That's where Henry VIII's first wife, Catherine of Aragon, got the "of Aragon" part of her name. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these movies? Contempt, Fahrenheit 451, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Naked City, Nashville, She's Gotta Have It. In a very weird device you don't see much anymore, they all have somebody reading the credits OUT LOUD. I am sure that they are all worthy, but if you had to have actually seen the movies to know the answer I was not going to get this Q7.
