Sunday, February 12, 2012
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - February 7
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. Who made the hejira to Medina in 622 AD? Mohammad
2. Room 237, a documentary at this year's Sundance Film Festival, looks at obsessive fans of what horror film? Blair Witch Project?
3. Which two judges on TV's The Voice have also appeared in Super Bowl halftime shows? guessing that Blake Shelton and Ceelo Green have not. Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine
4. Springs and neaps are extreme types of what phenomenon? tides
5. What's the only currently syndicated U.S. comic strip with an umlaut in its logo? Hagar the Horrible
6. Richard and Cuthbert Burbage owned half the shares of what building, built in 1599 but burned down in 1613? the Globe Theatre
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these movies? Barbarella, Catch-22, The Cider House Rules, Fighting, Lolita, Magnolia, Slither, Three Colors: White. They all have characters with two names. Durand Durand, Major Major, Rose Rose, Ray Ray, Humbert Humbert, Solomon Solomon, Grant Grant, and Karol Karol.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. A former Iowa attorney named Clyde Tolson is best known as the long-time assistant and protege of what famous man? Played by Armie Hammer in the recent Leonardo DiCaprio film, Tolson was the longtime right-hand man/partner/whatever-you-suspect of J. Edgar Hoover. ah ok
2. What number is both the number of people in Edward Hopper's Nighthawks and the number of timepieces in Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory? There are four melting clock faces in the Dali and four people (a counterman and three diners) in the Hopper. a fair question
3. Zoologically, what three-letter word can refer to a male swan, a small horse, or a spider? They're all cobs. The archaic spider meaning is where we get the word "cobweb." correct
4. In 2001, what influential music website was finally able to buy its Web domain name from a livestock company in Butte Falls, Oregon? For many years, Pitchfork's music reviews were found only at PitchforkMedia.com because an actual pitchfork-wielding company wouldn't sell Pitchfork.com. Pitchfork? Not a site that I had bookmarked. Not my kind of music, I guess.
5. Who famously made "the Guarantee" to a crowd at the Miami Touchdown Club on January 9, 1969? In response to a heckler, Joe Namath guaranteed he would win Super Bowl III in a huge upset, which his Jets proceeded to do. He also predicated, "I guarantee I will star in the little-seen 1970 film C.C. and Company with Ann-Margret, and I also guarantee I will be a lousy AFC color commentator during 1980s NFL games." Broadway Joe, everybody! correct
6. Which of the five basic tastes is added to a cocktail by mixing in Angostura, Regan's, or Peychaud's? These are among the most popular brands of bitters. correct
7. coming next week
1. Who made the hejira to Medina in 622 AD? Mohammad
2. Room 237, a documentary at this year's Sundance Film Festival, looks at obsessive fans of what horror film? Blair Witch Project?
3. Which two judges on TV's The Voice have also appeared in Super Bowl halftime shows? guessing that Blake Shelton and Ceelo Green have not. Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine
4. Springs and neaps are extreme types of what phenomenon? tides
5. What's the only currently syndicated U.S. comic strip with an umlaut in its logo? Hagar the Horrible
6. Richard and Cuthbert Burbage owned half the shares of what building, built in 1599 but burned down in 1613? the Globe Theatre
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these movies? Barbarella, Catch-22, The Cider House Rules, Fighting, Lolita, Magnolia, Slither, Three Colors: White. They all have characters with two names. Durand Durand, Major Major, Rose Rose, Ray Ray, Humbert Humbert, Solomon Solomon, Grant Grant, and Karol Karol.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. A former Iowa attorney named Clyde Tolson is best known as the long-time assistant and protege of what famous man? Played by Armie Hammer in the recent Leonardo DiCaprio film, Tolson was the longtime right-hand man/partner/whatever-you-suspect of J. Edgar Hoover. ah ok
2. What number is both the number of people in Edward Hopper's Nighthawks and the number of timepieces in Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory? There are four melting clock faces in the Dali and four people (a counterman and three diners) in the Hopper. a fair question
3. Zoologically, what three-letter word can refer to a male swan, a small horse, or a spider? They're all cobs. The archaic spider meaning is where we get the word "cobweb." correct
4. In 2001, what influential music website was finally able to buy its Web domain name from a livestock company in Butte Falls, Oregon? For many years, Pitchfork's music reviews were found only at PitchforkMedia.com because an actual pitchfork-wielding company wouldn't sell Pitchfork.com. Pitchfork? Not a site that I had bookmarked. Not my kind of music, I guess.
5. Who famously made "the Guarantee" to a crowd at the Miami Touchdown Club on January 9, 1969? In response to a heckler, Joe Namath guaranteed he would win Super Bowl III in a huge upset, which his Jets proceeded to do. He also predicated, "I guarantee I will star in the little-seen 1970 film C.C. and Company with Ann-Margret, and I also guarantee I will be a lousy AFC color commentator during 1980s NFL games." Broadway Joe, everybody! correct
6. Which of the five basic tastes is added to a cocktail by mixing in Angostura, Regan's, or Peychaud's? These are among the most popular brands of bitters. correct
7. coming next week
