Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - July 24
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. What 2011 best-seller by Ernest Cline about 1980s geek culture takes its title from the phrase that opened many old coin-operated video games? no idea. All Your Base Are Belong To Me?
2. A tachyon is, by definition, a hypothetical particle that possesses what unusual ability? We had a question about tachyons at the Dreambuilder quiz a few years ago but I cannot recall exactly its unique property. No mass?
3. The 2018 Winter Olympics are scheduled to be held at Pyeongchang, in what country? South Korea
4. An 1878 dispute near present-day Williamson, West Virginia, over the distinctive notches in a hog's ears was one of the earliest flare-ups in what American conflict? American conflict in WVa ---> Hatfields and McCoys
5. BAO, the Benny Anderssons Orkester, is the latest project for a musician who owes his entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to his membership in what other band? ABBA
6. What country currently has the only pregnant CEO of any on the Fortune 500? Marissa Meyer is the pregnant CEO for Yahoo
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these TV characters? Bamm-Bamm on Flintstones, Dexter on Dexter, Kutner on House, Lindsay on Arrested Development, Locke on Lost, Rachel on Glee, Rose on The Golden Girls, Steve on 90210, Sylar on Heroes, and Worf on Star Trek. Bamm-Bamm and Rachel are the keys that helped to unlock this one. All are adopted.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. Luckiest Man and Iron Horse are the title of two biographies of what athlete? Lou Gehrig, the self-proclaimed "luckiest man on the face of the earth." correct
2. The world's only four countries without an airport are all located on which continent? When you think about it, a country has to be very small indeed to do without an airport--and the four airport-free countries are where you'd expect to find tiny little made-up countries: Europe. (The four nations are Vatican City, Monaco, Andorra, and Liechtenstein.) I was thinking of countries that might not have the infrastructure to support an airport
3. If you believe his nickname, the blues musician who made the song "Midnight Special" famous had a belly made of what? Huddie William Ledbetter was nicknamed "Lead Belly." correct
4. What title character of a 2007 movie gets called "the cautionary whale" by her classmates at Dancing Elk High School? I'm sorry, I can't answer this question, I'm on my hamburger phone. This is Juno MacGuff, the pregnant title character of Juno. correct
5. What layer, lying below the stratosphere, is the lowest part of the Earth's atmosphere? We all live in the troposphere. correct
6. Hagiography is the study of what kind of people? Hagiography means "writing of the holy" and is used to refer to the lives of the saints. silly me. I should have realized that Hagia Sofia probably means St Sofia. Hagia = saint.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these movies? Avatar, The Freshman, Hud, In the Cut, Mildred Pierce, Monkeybone, No Country for Old Men, The Specialist, That's My Boy. A toughie: these are movies that had two stars with the same initials. For the record: Sam Worthington and Sigourney Weaver, Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick, Paul Newman and Patricia Neal, Joan Crawford and Jack Carson, Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda, Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem, Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone, Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg. yes, that was a toughie especially if you only know one or two of those movies
1. What 2011 best-seller by Ernest Cline about 1980s geek culture takes its title from the phrase that opened many old coin-operated video games? no idea. All Your Base Are Belong To Me?
2. A tachyon is, by definition, a hypothetical particle that possesses what unusual ability? We had a question about tachyons at the Dreambuilder quiz a few years ago but I cannot recall exactly its unique property. No mass?
3. The 2018 Winter Olympics are scheduled to be held at Pyeongchang, in what country? South Korea
4. An 1878 dispute near present-day Williamson, West Virginia, over the distinctive notches in a hog's ears was one of the earliest flare-ups in what American conflict? American conflict in WVa ---> Hatfields and McCoys
5. BAO, the Benny Anderssons Orkester, is the latest project for a musician who owes his entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to his membership in what other band? ABBA
6. What country currently has the only pregnant CEO of any on the Fortune 500? Marissa Meyer is the pregnant CEO for Yahoo
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these TV characters? Bamm-Bamm on Flintstones, Dexter on Dexter, Kutner on House, Lindsay on Arrested Development, Locke on Lost, Rachel on Glee, Rose on The Golden Girls, Steve on 90210, Sylar on Heroes, and Worf on Star Trek. Bamm-Bamm and Rachel are the keys that helped to unlock this one. All are adopted.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. Luckiest Man and Iron Horse are the title of two biographies of what athlete? Lou Gehrig, the self-proclaimed "luckiest man on the face of the earth." correct
2. The world's only four countries without an airport are all located on which continent? When you think about it, a country has to be very small indeed to do without an airport--and the four airport-free countries are where you'd expect to find tiny little made-up countries: Europe. (The four nations are Vatican City, Monaco, Andorra, and Liechtenstein.) I was thinking of countries that might not have the infrastructure to support an airport
3. If you believe his nickname, the blues musician who made the song "Midnight Special" famous had a belly made of what? Huddie William Ledbetter was nicknamed "Lead Belly." correct
4. What title character of a 2007 movie gets called "the cautionary whale" by her classmates at Dancing Elk High School? I'm sorry, I can't answer this question, I'm on my hamburger phone. This is Juno MacGuff, the pregnant title character of Juno. correct
5. What layer, lying below the stratosphere, is the lowest part of the Earth's atmosphere? We all live in the troposphere. correct
6. Hagiography is the study of what kind of people? Hagiography means "writing of the holy" and is used to refer to the lives of the saints. silly me. I should have realized that Hagia Sofia probably means St Sofia. Hagia = saint.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these movies? Avatar, The Freshman, Hud, In the Cut, Mildred Pierce, Monkeybone, No Country for Old Men, The Specialist, That's My Boy. A toughie: these are movies that had two stars with the same initials. For the record: Sam Worthington and Sigourney Weaver, Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick, Paul Newman and Patricia Neal, Joan Crawford and Jack Carson, Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda, Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem, Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone, Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg. yes, that was a toughie especially if you only know one or two of those movies
