Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - December 11
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. What instrument does Mary Stuart Masterson's character play in the John Hughes film Some Kind of Wonderful? no idea. have not seen the movie. saxophone?
2. What country's cabinet includes a Minister of Immigrant Absorption and a Minister of Information and Diaspora? sounds like Israel
3. The lateral malleolus, the bottom end of the fibula, forms the familiar bump on what part of your body? the bump on your ankle
4. What athlete's body is buried in eastern Pennsylvania, but rests in soil brought in from Prague, Oklahoma and Stockholm, Sweden? America's greatest athlete, Jim Thorpe
5. What does the letter 'H' stand for in "Preparation H"? hemorrhoid?
6. The world's two most populous metropolitan areas are only 700 miles apart. What are they? must be cities in China and/or India. how far apart are Beijing and Shanghai? Could be Mumbai and Kolkata. I'll go with Beijing and Shanghai
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these famous people? Gregg Allman, Patrick Duffy, James Ellroy, Kelsey Grammer, Paul Harvey, Jennifer Hudson, Michael Jordan, Little Richard, Dylan McDermott, Earl Warren. Wikipedia offers an answer - each had a parent who was murdered
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. Which U.S. state was almost called "New Wales" but was instead named not for its founder, but for his military hero father of the same name? Pennsylvania was named not for William Penn, but, confusingly, for another man of the same name. correct
2. Albert Einstein called what man, born at Pisa in 1564, the "father of modern science"? That was Pisa's favorite son, Galileo Galilei Figaro Magnifico, Esq. correct
3. What first name was shared by one of Bill Cosby's friends on Fat Albert and one of his kids on The Cosby Show? There was a Rudolph in the Cosby Kids and a Rudith in the Cosby kids, but both went by "Rudy." correct
4. What two careers for children ARE approved in the country classic, "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys"? Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such. correct
5. Who was the only Queen of England or Great Britain ever to be succeeded on the throne by her own child? Queen Victoria was succeeded by her son Edward VII. My thanks to Queen Elizabeth II for not dying this week, because that would have REALLY screwed up this question. correct
6. What literary character returned home to have thirteen children, including Elanor, Pippin, Rose, Hamfast, and Merry? Those are five of the thirteen children of the extraordinarily fertile Sam Gamgee, in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these movies? Hell's Angels, Mary Poppins, Nanook of the North, Nosferatu, Plan 9 from Outer Space, The Prince and the Showgirl, Psycho, Salt of the Earth. The making of each was depicted in another movie. Respectively, the behind-the-scenes movies are: The Aviator, Saving Mr. Banks, Kabloonak, Shadow of the Vampire, Ed Wood, My Week with Marilyn, Hitchcock, and One of the Hollywood Ten. correct! yay!
1. What instrument does Mary Stuart Masterson's character play in the John Hughes film Some Kind of Wonderful? no idea. have not seen the movie. saxophone?
2. What country's cabinet includes a Minister of Immigrant Absorption and a Minister of Information and Diaspora? sounds like Israel
3. The lateral malleolus, the bottom end of the fibula, forms the familiar bump on what part of your body? the bump on your ankle
4. What athlete's body is buried in eastern Pennsylvania, but rests in soil brought in from Prague, Oklahoma and Stockholm, Sweden? America's greatest athlete, Jim Thorpe
5. What does the letter 'H' stand for in "Preparation H"? hemorrhoid?
6. The world's two most populous metropolitan areas are only 700 miles apart. What are they? must be cities in China and/or India. how far apart are Beijing and Shanghai? Could be Mumbai and Kolkata. I'll go with Beijing and Shanghai
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these famous people? Gregg Allman, Patrick Duffy, James Ellroy, Kelsey Grammer, Paul Harvey, Jennifer Hudson, Michael Jordan, Little Richard, Dylan McDermott, Earl Warren. Wikipedia offers an answer - each had a parent who was murdered
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. Which U.S. state was almost called "New Wales" but was instead named not for its founder, but for his military hero father of the same name? Pennsylvania was named not for William Penn, but, confusingly, for another man of the same name. correct
2. Albert Einstein called what man, born at Pisa in 1564, the "father of modern science"? That was Pisa's favorite son, Galileo Galilei Figaro Magnifico, Esq. correct
3. What first name was shared by one of Bill Cosby's friends on Fat Albert and one of his kids on The Cosby Show? There was a Rudolph in the Cosby Kids and a Rudith in the Cosby kids, but both went by "Rudy." correct
4. What two careers for children ARE approved in the country classic, "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys"? Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such. correct
5. Who was the only Queen of England or Great Britain ever to be succeeded on the throne by her own child? Queen Victoria was succeeded by her son Edward VII. My thanks to Queen Elizabeth II for not dying this week, because that would have REALLY screwed up this question. correct
6. What literary character returned home to have thirteen children, including Elanor, Pippin, Rose, Hamfast, and Merry? Those are five of the thirteen children of the extraordinarily fertile Sam Gamgee, in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these movies? Hell's Angels, Mary Poppins, Nanook of the North, Nosferatu, Plan 9 from Outer Space, The Prince and the Showgirl, Psycho, Salt of the Earth. The making of each was depicted in another movie. Respectively, the behind-the-scenes movies are: The Aviator, Saving Mr. Banks, Kabloonak, Shadow of the Vampire, Ed Wood, My Week with Marilyn, Hitchcock, and One of the Hollywood Ten. correct! yay!
