Thursday, December 27, 2012
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - December 18
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. What nation is the only nuclear power in the Muslim world? Pakistan
2. What literary character's name supposedly means "White Skin" in the made-up Mangani language? Moby Dick?
3. What phase is the moon always in during a solar eclipse? new moon?
4. Trumpet player Ben Cauley was the only survivor of the 1967 Wisconsin plane crash that killed what R&B legend? Otis Redding
5. Every time the American flag changes to reflect a new number of states, the re-designed flag traditionally flies first over what National Monument? Washington Monument?
6. What kind of social event first took place at Peet's Cafe in Beverly Hills in 1998, as the brainchild of Jewish Orthodox rabbi Yaacov Deyo? meetup group?
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these TV shows? The Donna Reed Show, Everybody Loves Raymond, Gimme a Break, In Living Color, The King of Queens, Kojak, Little House on the Prairie, Oz, SeaQuest DSV. is this something to do with the opening or closing credits?
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What instrument does Mary Stuart Masterson's character play in the John Hughes film Some Kind of Wonderful? "Watts" is a drummer--as you would have no reason whatsoever to know unless you were thirteen years old in 1987 like I was. Yes, I would have no reason to know this.
2. What country's cabinet includes a Minister of Immigrant Absorption and a Minister of Information and Diaspora? These are two of the thirty members of the Israeli cabinet. correct
3. The lateral malleolus, the bottom end of the fibula, forms the familiar bump on what part of your body? That's what makes that big bump on the outside of your ankle. correct
4. What athlete's body is buried in eastern Pennsylvania, but rests in soil brought in from Prague, Oklahoma and Stockholm, Sweden? Jim Thorpe, who was born in Oklahoma but achieved his greatest athletic glory at the Stockholm Olympics. (He's buried in Pennsylvania because his third wife, strapped for cash, stole his body from his own funeral and drove it up to a dying coal-mining town that had bought it for tourist revenue.) correct
5. What does the letter 'H' stand for in "Preparation H"? Hemorrhoids. If anybody remembers "Lazlo Toth," he was my source for this answer. correct
6. The world's two most populous metropolitan areas are only 700 miles apart. What are they? Tokyo and Seoul--but Mexico City is hot on Seoul's heels for second place. incorrect. Gosh, I was way off. Shanghai is 10th and Beijing is 19th.
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. Each had a parent, um, murdered. So not a real cheery way to conclude our parentally-themed trivia week then. Sorry about that. correct
1. What nation is the only nuclear power in the Muslim world? Pakistan
2. What literary character's name supposedly means "White Skin" in the made-up Mangani language? Moby Dick?
3. What phase is the moon always in during a solar eclipse? new moon?
4. Trumpet player Ben Cauley was the only survivor of the 1967 Wisconsin plane crash that killed what R&B legend? Otis Redding
5. Every time the American flag changes to reflect a new number of states, the re-designed flag traditionally flies first over what National Monument? Washington Monument?
6. What kind of social event first took place at Peet's Cafe in Beverly Hills in 1998, as the brainchild of Jewish Orthodox rabbi Yaacov Deyo? meetup group?
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these TV shows? The Donna Reed Show, Everybody Loves Raymond, Gimme a Break, In Living Color, The King of Queens, Kojak, Little House on the Prairie, Oz, SeaQuest DSV. is this something to do with the opening or closing credits?
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What instrument does Mary Stuart Masterson's character play in the John Hughes film Some Kind of Wonderful? "Watts" is a drummer--as you would have no reason whatsoever to know unless you were thirteen years old in 1987 like I was. Yes, I would have no reason to know this.
2. What country's cabinet includes a Minister of Immigrant Absorption and a Minister of Information and Diaspora? These are two of the thirty members of the Israeli cabinet. correct
3. The lateral malleolus, the bottom end of the fibula, forms the familiar bump on what part of your body? That's what makes that big bump on the outside of your ankle. correct
4. What athlete's body is buried in eastern Pennsylvania, but rests in soil brought in from Prague, Oklahoma and Stockholm, Sweden? Jim Thorpe, who was born in Oklahoma but achieved his greatest athletic glory at the Stockholm Olympics. (He's buried in Pennsylvania because his third wife, strapped for cash, stole his body from his own funeral and drove it up to a dying coal-mining town that had bought it for tourist revenue.) correct
5. What does the letter 'H' stand for in "Preparation H"? Hemorrhoids. If anybody remembers "Lazlo Toth," he was my source for this answer. correct
6. The world's two most populous metropolitan areas are only 700 miles apart. What are they? Tokyo and Seoul--but Mexico City is hot on Seoul's heels for second place. incorrect. Gosh, I was way off. Shanghai is 10th and Beijing is 19th.
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. Each had a parent, um, murdered. So not a real cheery way to conclude our parentally-themed trivia week then. Sorry about that. correct
