Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - April 10
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. The record-selling album subtitled "Songs from District 12 and Beyond" is the soundtrack to what? Is this a reference to a movie or stage play? The Bodyguard is the top selling soundtrack of all time. Would not be a Glee soundtrack, would it?
2. Name one of the two current U.S. state capitals that was once the nation's capital as well (that is, Congress met there). Philadelphia and NYC are not current state capitals. Gosh, I don't really know. A guess - Annapolis.
3. Which composer wrote many of his best-known works while biting a metal road attached to the soundboard of his piano? Beethoven (perhaps he needed to bite the rod to feel the sound because he was deaf)
4. Kentucky's Final Four win moves it within three titles of what school's record for having won the NCAA basketball championship a record 11 times? U clap-clap-clap C clap-clap-clap L clap-clap-clap A clap-clap-clap U-C-L-A fight fight fight!
5. Lodz is the largest city in what country not to lie on the Vistula River? Poland
6. What electrical quantity is meaured by an ohmmeter? ohm is a measure of resistance
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these big movies, and no others that I'm aware of? The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Friday the 13th, Ice Age, Jackass, Jaws, Madagascar, Men in Black, Spy Kids, Toy Story, Transformers. Something about 3-D sequels? Sequels with 3-D in the title?
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What artist calls her fans Little Monsters, a nod to her 2009 album The Fame Monster? Little Monsters love the big monster, Lady Gaga. correct
2. Oyster, hedgehog, lobster, and abalone are, besides being animals, all types of what food? They're types of mushrooms. Try the hedgehog ones on pizza, you can really taste the hedgehog. correct
3. What historical event led to the summer months being renamed Messidor, Thermidor, and Fructidor? These were among the 12 renamed months of the French Republican calendar, unveiled after the French Revolution. Turns out nobody wanted a ten-day week, not even Enlightenment revolutionaries. Barbara Tuchman could have written The Guns of Fructidor. Daisy Duck's nieces would have been April, May and Messidor. The Decemberists would have recorded Thermidor, Thermidor!
4. The 2010 book Sterling's Gold, collecting the title character's "Wit and Wisdom," is a spinoff of what TV show? Sterling's Gold is the name of the rambling memoir by adman Roger Sterling on AMC's Mad Men. "I always liked chocolate ice cream, but my mother made us eat vanilla..." correct
5. What classic 1916 stage comedy ends with the author's note that "Galatea never does quite like" the title character, since "his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable"? In Greek myth, Galatea is the statue sculpted by Pygmalion, for whom Shaw named his famous play. correct
6. From 1960 to 1973, who won 24 women's singles tennis Grand Slam titles, still a lifetime record? Nobdody has won more Grand Slams than the aptly named Margaret Court--not Graf, not Navratilova, not nobody. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these countries? Egypt, Estonia, France, Germany, Malaysia, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, United States. These are all the countries that have been home to the world's tallest building (according to one definition of "building" anyway--I didn't count mostly uninhabitable towers) at one point or another in the Earth's history. Saudi Arabia should be added to the list in just a few years. this is actually kind of interesting. I did not know about the church in Estonia
1. The record-selling album subtitled "Songs from District 12 and Beyond" is the soundtrack to what? Is this a reference to a movie or stage play? The Bodyguard is the top selling soundtrack of all time. Would not be a Glee soundtrack, would it?
2. Name one of the two current U.S. state capitals that was once the nation's capital as well (that is, Congress met there). Philadelphia and NYC are not current state capitals. Gosh, I don't really know. A guess - Annapolis.
3. Which composer wrote many of his best-known works while biting a metal road attached to the soundboard of his piano? Beethoven (perhaps he needed to bite the rod to feel the sound because he was deaf)
4. Kentucky's Final Four win moves it within three titles of what school's record for having won the NCAA basketball championship a record 11 times? U clap-clap-clap C clap-clap-clap L clap-clap-clap A clap-clap-clap U-C-L-A fight fight fight!
5. Lodz is the largest city in what country not to lie on the Vistula River? Poland
6. What electrical quantity is meaured by an ohmmeter? ohm is a measure of resistance
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these big movies, and no others that I'm aware of? The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Friday the 13th, Ice Age, Jackass, Jaws, Madagascar, Men in Black, Spy Kids, Toy Story, Transformers. Something about 3-D sequels? Sequels with 3-D in the title?
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What artist calls her fans Little Monsters, a nod to her 2009 album The Fame Monster? Little Monsters love the big monster, Lady Gaga. correct
2. Oyster, hedgehog, lobster, and abalone are, besides being animals, all types of what food? They're types of mushrooms. Try the hedgehog ones on pizza, you can really taste the hedgehog. correct
3. What historical event led to the summer months being renamed Messidor, Thermidor, and Fructidor? These were among the 12 renamed months of the French Republican calendar, unveiled after the French Revolution. Turns out nobody wanted a ten-day week, not even Enlightenment revolutionaries. Barbara Tuchman could have written The Guns of Fructidor. Daisy Duck's nieces would have been April, May and Messidor. The Decemberists would have recorded Thermidor, Thermidor!
4. The 2010 book Sterling's Gold, collecting the title character's "Wit and Wisdom," is a spinoff of what TV show? Sterling's Gold is the name of the rambling memoir by adman Roger Sterling on AMC's Mad Men. "I always liked chocolate ice cream, but my mother made us eat vanilla..." correct
5. What classic 1916 stage comedy ends with the author's note that "Galatea never does quite like" the title character, since "his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable"? In Greek myth, Galatea is the statue sculpted by Pygmalion, for whom Shaw named his famous play. correct
6. From 1960 to 1973, who won 24 women's singles tennis Grand Slam titles, still a lifetime record? Nobdody has won more Grand Slams than the aptly named Margaret Court--not Graf, not Navratilova, not nobody. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these countries? Egypt, Estonia, France, Germany, Malaysia, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, United States. These are all the countries that have been home to the world's tallest building (according to one definition of "building" anyway--I didn't count mostly uninhabitable towers) at one point or another in the Earth's history. Saudi Arabia should be added to the list in just a few years. this is actually kind of interesting. I did not know about the church in Estonia
