Wednesday, July 04, 2012
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - July 3
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. The title family on TV's Party of Five shared what literary surname? Austen?
2. In what state is the Preakness Stakes, one third of horse racing's Triple Crown, run? Preakness is run at Pimlico in Baltimore -> Maryland
3. Who composed the 1905 Suite Bergamasque for piano, with a famous third movement inspired by a Paul Verlaine poem about moonlight? 1905 is too late for Tchaikovsky and much too late for Beethoven. Bergamasque is French. Debussy? I don't think I know any of his work other than Clair du Lune.
4. Which Kardashian is the oldest child of Robert and Kris Kardashian? I pay no attention to this stuff. Kim?
5. CQ, which organizes annual RTTY and DX contests, is the most popular magazine for American devotees of what hobby? Tough week with a lot of guessing. CQ probably = "something" Quarterly. Croquet?
6. How many oxygen atoms are there in a molecule of sulfuric acid? This one I know. H2SO4 --> 4 atoms
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these U.S. presidents, and no others? Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Polk, Taylor, Grant, Truman, and Carter? A lot of the early presidents plus a sprinkling of the more recent ones. The one that helped is Carter. I think that these presidents were farmers.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What reggae-inflected hit was the only a cappella song ever to top the Billboard Hot 100, in September 1988? This was "Don't Worry, Be Happy," a surprise pop hit for the one-of-a-kind jazz vocalist Bobby McFerrin. correct
2. Kosovo and Cyprus are the only two nations whose map can be found where? On their flags. I guess it's possible that, like, there's a map of the Vatican on its flag too, but it's just too small to see? an oddly worded question that would have been better as a Q7
3. According to a famous quote in Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, what will also gaze into you if you gaze too long at it? According to Nietzsche, the abyss gazes back. Well, the "Abgrund," actually, since he was German. I guess so. I'm not really familiar with this quote.
4. What two actors, currently playing the same character in one of the biggest movies of summer 2012, also played reluctant antagonists in the Best Picture-winning film of 2007? Josh Brolin and Tommy Lee Jones, who faced off in No Country for Old Men, are now both playing "Agent K" in the new Men in Black sequel. A collaborator definitely would have helped with this question. It was gettable.
5. What Elizabethan term for the lowest-paying members of a theater audience was appropriated by a legendary Los Angeles comedy troupe? Because these financially challenged theater fans had to watch the play from the dirt floor in front of the stage, they were called "groundlings." correct
6. In humans, over 90% of digestion and absorption takes place in what organ? The small intestine does the real heavy lifting. Quit hogging all the glory, stomach. guess the large intestine is mainly just an expressway from the stomach to the small intestine
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these Shakespearean characters? Coriolanus, Falstaff, Henry IV, Kent, Prospero, Romeo, Rosalind, Valentine. They're outcasts--B.O., probably. In their respective plays, all are banished from one court/city/state or another. Interesting.
1. The title family on TV's Party of Five shared what literary surname? Austen?
2. In what state is the Preakness Stakes, one third of horse racing's Triple Crown, run? Preakness is run at Pimlico in Baltimore -> Maryland
3. Who composed the 1905 Suite Bergamasque for piano, with a famous third movement inspired by a Paul Verlaine poem about moonlight? 1905 is too late for Tchaikovsky and much too late for Beethoven. Bergamasque is French. Debussy? I don't think I know any of his work other than Clair du Lune.
4. Which Kardashian is the oldest child of Robert and Kris Kardashian? I pay no attention to this stuff. Kim?
5. CQ, which organizes annual RTTY and DX contests, is the most popular magazine for American devotees of what hobby? Tough week with a lot of guessing. CQ probably = "something" Quarterly. Croquet?
6. How many oxygen atoms are there in a molecule of sulfuric acid? This one I know. H2SO4 --> 4 atoms
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these U.S. presidents, and no others? Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Polk, Taylor, Grant, Truman, and Carter? A lot of the early presidents plus a sprinkling of the more recent ones. The one that helped is Carter. I think that these presidents were farmers.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What reggae-inflected hit was the only a cappella song ever to top the Billboard Hot 100, in September 1988? This was "Don't Worry, Be Happy," a surprise pop hit for the one-of-a-kind jazz vocalist Bobby McFerrin. correct
2. Kosovo and Cyprus are the only two nations whose map can be found where? On their flags. I guess it's possible that, like, there's a map of the Vatican on its flag too, but it's just too small to see? an oddly worded question that would have been better as a Q7
3. According to a famous quote in Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, what will also gaze into you if you gaze too long at it? According to Nietzsche, the abyss gazes back. Well, the "Abgrund," actually, since he was German. I guess so. I'm not really familiar with this quote.
4. What two actors, currently playing the same character in one of the biggest movies of summer 2012, also played reluctant antagonists in the Best Picture-winning film of 2007? Josh Brolin and Tommy Lee Jones, who faced off in No Country for Old Men, are now both playing "Agent K" in the new Men in Black sequel. A collaborator definitely would have helped with this question. It was gettable.
5. What Elizabethan term for the lowest-paying members of a theater audience was appropriated by a legendary Los Angeles comedy troupe? Because these financially challenged theater fans had to watch the play from the dirt floor in front of the stage, they were called "groundlings." correct
6. In humans, over 90% of digestion and absorption takes place in what organ? The small intestine does the real heavy lifting. Quit hogging all the glory, stomach. guess the large intestine is mainly just an expressway from the stomach to the small intestine
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these Shakespearean characters? Coriolanus, Falstaff, Henry IV, Kent, Prospero, Romeo, Rosalind, Valentine. They're outcasts--B.O., probably. In their respective plays, all are banished from one court/city/state or another. Interesting.
