Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - February 28
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. What southern stew takes its name for the Bantu word for "okra"? got to be gumbo
2. Dr. Jill Biden and Dr. Bill Cosby both earned their doctorates in what field? education
3. "Escape," the biggest hit for singer-songwriter Rupert Holmes, is better known by the name of what mixed drink? It is the Pina Colada Song
4. The symbol on what country's national flag is two congruent blue equilateral triangles, overlapping each other? wow. no idea whatsoever. Is this a nation that has two different parts like New Zealand?
5. What state is the setting for the TV shows Community, Dynasty, and Everwood? Was Dynasty about the oil business and set in Denver? I often confuse it and Falcon Crest which I believe was set at a Napa winery. I am going to go with Colorado.
6. Where does a pyroclastic flow come from? volcanoes.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these U.S. political figures? Jeb Bush, John Kerry, Dennis Kucinich, Mitch McConnell, Donald Trump, and Jim Webb. I believe that each of them is married to a woman who was born outside the US. Mexico, Mozambique, Britain, Taiwan, Slovenia, Vietnam.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What's usually kept in a humidor? A humidor is some room or container with constant humidity (hence the name). I guess if you wanted to, you could keep your baseball card collection, or boxes of Craisins, or your victims' bodies, or the Ark of the Covenant in such a place. But generally it's for cigars and other smoking paraphernalia. correct
2. Barron Hilton still denies naming what pro sports team in honor of a credit card company he owned, Carte Blanche? Many people assumed the charge-card tycoon named the San Diego Chargers after his business empire, but he insists he had the horse in mind. correct
3. The members of what musical act attempted a 1990 comeback using the name Fab & Rob? Fab Morvan and the late Rob Pilatus were Milli Vanilli. At least in the videos, anyway. correct
4. What kind of facilities are Britain's historic Ealing, Pinewood, and Shepperton? They're the most famous movie studios in Britain, where big-budget international films are still being made today. correct
5. What piece of classical music is based on a Goethe poem that ends, "Back now, broom, into the closet! Be thou as thou wert before! Until I, the real master, call thee forth to serve once more!"? "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," later immortalized by Mickey Mouse and Nicolas Cage, started out life as a Goethe poem. In fact, I hear that's why Nic Cage took the role. Dude's a big Goethe fan. correct
6. The Barbary lion and the Atlas bear are extinct predators that were last seen in the wild in what nation? The most remote parts of the Barbary coast and the Atlas Mountains are both in the same country: northern Morocco. why did I read "nation" and think "continent"? If I had read the question correctly, I probably would have answered Morocco or Libya.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these TV series, and virtually no others? American Horror Story, Arrested Development, Brothers & Sisters, Downton Abbey, Falcon Crest, Harry's Law, Hazel, Mad About You, Reasonable Doubts, Saving Grace. These shows all have or had a cast member who was also a Best Actress Oscar winner. The "virtually" in the question was to suggest that the correct answer had to specify actresses only, while allowing for the fact that I didn't include The Loretta Young Show (for obvious reasons) or a handful of too-obscure failed series. correct!
1. What southern stew takes its name for the Bantu word for "okra"? got to be gumbo
2. Dr. Jill Biden and Dr. Bill Cosby both earned their doctorates in what field? education
3. "Escape," the biggest hit for singer-songwriter Rupert Holmes, is better known by the name of what mixed drink? It is the Pina Colada Song
4. The symbol on what country's national flag is two congruent blue equilateral triangles, overlapping each other? wow. no idea whatsoever. Is this a nation that has two different parts like New Zealand?
5. What state is the setting for the TV shows Community, Dynasty, and Everwood? Was Dynasty about the oil business and set in Denver? I often confuse it and Falcon Crest which I believe was set at a Napa winery. I am going to go with Colorado.
6. Where does a pyroclastic flow come from? volcanoes.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these U.S. political figures? Jeb Bush, John Kerry, Dennis Kucinich, Mitch McConnell, Donald Trump, and Jim Webb. I believe that each of them is married to a woman who was born outside the US. Mexico, Mozambique, Britain, Taiwan, Slovenia, Vietnam.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What's usually kept in a humidor? A humidor is some room or container with constant humidity (hence the name). I guess if you wanted to, you could keep your baseball card collection, or boxes of Craisins, or your victims' bodies, or the Ark of the Covenant in such a place. But generally it's for cigars and other smoking paraphernalia. correct
2. Barron Hilton still denies naming what pro sports team in honor of a credit card company he owned, Carte Blanche? Many people assumed the charge-card tycoon named the San Diego Chargers after his business empire, but he insists he had the horse in mind. correct
3. The members of what musical act attempted a 1990 comeback using the name Fab & Rob? Fab Morvan and the late Rob Pilatus were Milli Vanilli. At least in the videos, anyway. correct
4. What kind of facilities are Britain's historic Ealing, Pinewood, and Shepperton? They're the most famous movie studios in Britain, where big-budget international films are still being made today. correct
5. What piece of classical music is based on a Goethe poem that ends, "Back now, broom, into the closet! Be thou as thou wert before! Until I, the real master, call thee forth to serve once more!"? "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," later immortalized by Mickey Mouse and Nicolas Cage, started out life as a Goethe poem. In fact, I hear that's why Nic Cage took the role. Dude's a big Goethe fan. correct
6. The Barbary lion and the Atlas bear are extinct predators that were last seen in the wild in what nation? The most remote parts of the Barbary coast and the Atlas Mountains are both in the same country: northern Morocco. why did I read "nation" and think "continent"? If I had read the question correctly, I probably would have answered Morocco or Libya.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these TV series, and virtually no others? American Horror Story, Arrested Development, Brothers & Sisters, Downton Abbey, Falcon Crest, Harry's Law, Hazel, Mad About You, Reasonable Doubts, Saving Grace. These shows all have or had a cast member who was also a Best Actress Oscar winner. The "virtually" in the question was to suggest that the correct answer had to specify actresses only, while allowing for the fact that I didn't include The Loretta Young Show (for obvious reasons) or a handful of too-obscure failed series. correct!
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