Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - June 19
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. What are you calculating if you subtract course rating from five scores, multiply each by 113, and then divide by the appropriate slope rating? golf handicap
2. The "Denmark Strait" is actually located over a thousand miles away from Copenhagen, and lies between what two islands? Greenland and Iceland
3. In the U.S., federal inmates in prison or on furlough must agree not to eat baked goods containing what (generally harmless) ingredient? poppy seeds?
4. Shale, limestone, and sandstone belong to which of the three basic categories of rock? sedimentary
5. What TV show's characters often repeat the slogan "Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose"? Friday Night Lights
6. On April 18, 1975, President Ford visited what building to light in one of its windows a lantern that still hangs there today? on the 200th anniversary of Paul Revere's Ride, could this be the Old North Church?
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these bands? Alabama, Backstreet Boys, the Beach Boys, the Dandy Warhols, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Kings of Leon, the Miracles, Rascal Flatts. since they are all bands and not a mix of solo performers and bands, I looked first at the band members and found a common thread. Each band includes members who are cousins.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What's the only Best Picture Oscar winner to spawn a hit TV series, lasting for eight seasons (1988 to 1995) on NBC and CBS? Crash was a fairly unsuccessful TV show (two seasons on Starz) but In the Heat of the Night became an actual, bona fide TV hit twenty years after winning its Oscar. correct
2. What word, sometimes explained by journalists as meaning "war of stones," is actually the Arabic for "shaking off"? "Intifada," more colloquially translated as "uprising" or something similar. ok, good to know
3. By what crimefighting name do comic book fans better know Kara Zor-El, a.k.a. Linda Lee? Kara Zor-El is the cousin of Jor-El's son Kal-El, but we know her better as Supergirl. correct
4. In 1921, a Utrecht phytopathologist named Bea Schwarz isolated what disease, which has since claimed over 200 million victims in the U.S. alone? Utrecht is in the Netherlands, which is why Dr. Schwarz's discovery is still called Dutch elm disease. correct
5. What U.S. state has the shortest coastline, a 13-mile stretch where you'd find the historic seaport of Portsmouth? New Hampshire. Delaware is in second place, by the way, with just 28 miles of coastline. correct
6. Followers of what religion build and worship at stupas? A stupa is one of those stone mounds that contain Buddhist relics. I guess pagodas are just the towers at Buddhist shrines. A good question because I learned something about a religion that is still mostly unfamiliar to me.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these countries and no others, listed in the correct order? Tunisia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Guatemala, Norway, Italy, Australia, Spain, China, Thailand, and Switzerland? These are the filming locations of the Star Wars films, in the chronological order they were visited by George Lucas's film crew. China, Thailand, and Switzerland, which appear briefly in the final film, were just second-unit visits to shoot background plates, since those three countries have strict no-Jar Jar immigration policies. I had a hunch that the list related to the settings for movies or a series of books. But I did not associate the countries with filming locations. This is kind of a weenie question.
1. What are you calculating if you subtract course rating from five scores, multiply each by 113, and then divide by the appropriate slope rating? golf handicap
2. The "Denmark Strait" is actually located over a thousand miles away from Copenhagen, and lies between what two islands? Greenland and Iceland
3. In the U.S., federal inmates in prison or on furlough must agree not to eat baked goods containing what (generally harmless) ingredient? poppy seeds?
4. Shale, limestone, and sandstone belong to which of the three basic categories of rock? sedimentary
5. What TV show's characters often repeat the slogan "Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose"? Friday Night Lights
6. On April 18, 1975, President Ford visited what building to light in one of its windows a lantern that still hangs there today? on the 200th anniversary of Paul Revere's Ride, could this be the Old North Church?
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these bands? Alabama, Backstreet Boys, the Beach Boys, the Dandy Warhols, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Kings of Leon, the Miracles, Rascal Flatts. since they are all bands and not a mix of solo performers and bands, I looked first at the band members and found a common thread. Each band includes members who are cousins.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What's the only Best Picture Oscar winner to spawn a hit TV series, lasting for eight seasons (1988 to 1995) on NBC and CBS? Crash was a fairly unsuccessful TV show (two seasons on Starz) but In the Heat of the Night became an actual, bona fide TV hit twenty years after winning its Oscar. correct
2. What word, sometimes explained by journalists as meaning "war of stones," is actually the Arabic for "shaking off"? "Intifada," more colloquially translated as "uprising" or something similar. ok, good to know
3. By what crimefighting name do comic book fans better know Kara Zor-El, a.k.a. Linda Lee? Kara Zor-El is the cousin of Jor-El's son Kal-El, but we know her better as Supergirl. correct
4. In 1921, a Utrecht phytopathologist named Bea Schwarz isolated what disease, which has since claimed over 200 million victims in the U.S. alone? Utrecht is in the Netherlands, which is why Dr. Schwarz's discovery is still called Dutch elm disease. correct
5. What U.S. state has the shortest coastline, a 13-mile stretch where you'd find the historic seaport of Portsmouth? New Hampshire. Delaware is in second place, by the way, with just 28 miles of coastline. correct
6. Followers of what religion build and worship at stupas? A stupa is one of those stone mounds that contain Buddhist relics. I guess pagodas are just the towers at Buddhist shrines. A good question because I learned something about a religion that is still mostly unfamiliar to me.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these countries and no others, listed in the correct order? Tunisia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Guatemala, Norway, Italy, Australia, Spain, China, Thailand, and Switzerland? These are the filming locations of the Star Wars films, in the chronological order they were visited by George Lucas's film crew. China, Thailand, and Switzerland, which appear briefly in the final film, were just second-unit visits to shoot background plates, since those three countries have strict no-Jar Jar immigration policies. I had a hunch that the list related to the settings for movies or a series of books. But I did not associate the countries with filming locations. This is kind of a weenie question.
