Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - January 8
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. Never Say Never Again, Sean Connery's 1983 return to James Bond, was a remake of what other 007 film? This is a good question that I should know because I have heard it before. Thunderball?
2. What's the only member of today's European Union ever to have a U.N. peacekeeping mission sent there, in 1964? probably not one of the Iron Curtain countries. The Soviet Union would not have allowed it. Peacekeeping implies some type of uprising or instability. Spain? Greece?
3. Gumbo, New Orleans' NFL football mascot, is a dog of what large breed? large --> St. Bernard?
4. Economist Adam Smith's most influential work was 1776's "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of" what? the Wealth of Nations
5. What author created genetically altered species like tracker jackers and jabberjays? were these created on The Island of Dr. Moreau by HG Wells? he was engaging in some weird experiments there
6. Ted Fujita and Allen Pearson are best known for studying what weather phenomenon? hurricanes or tornadoes. I think the answer is hurricanes
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these musical acts? Air Supply, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Goo Goo Dolls, Grand Funk Railroad, Hootie and the Blowfish, Ludacris, Madonna, New Kids on the Block, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Steely Dan, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Yo La Tengo.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. In the flagship version of the Angry Birds video game, players launch their birds at what type of animal? Have you seen the little piggies, crawling in the dirt? apparently no I have not
2. What two U.S. states each have 41.2% of their area covered by water, more by far than any other state of the union? Michigan and Hawaii. A couple New England states--Rhode Island and Massachusetts--are in third and fourth place, with 32% and 26% respectively. Michigan is very counter-intuitive
3. Robotics professor Masahiro Mori coined what name for the unexpected dip in a graph of comfort level caused by simulated humans beginning to look more and more like real humans? When a CG-animated movie character or weird Japanese sex robot weirds you out with its almost-but-not-quite human affect, you are navigating the "uncanny valley." now I have some insight into the pub quiz team named Uncanny Valley
4. What current TV show about the Braverman family is loosely based on a 1989 movie about the Buckman family? Ron Howard insists that all installments in the Parenthood franchise center around the B-something-man family. correct
5. The Brazilian company Embraer is one of the world's largest manufacturers of what? Embraer is short for "Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica," and it makes aircraft. correct
6. Anzac Day every April commemorates the over 10,000 Australian and New Zealand soldiers who lost their lives in what 1915 military campaign against the Ottoman Empire? Australia and New Zealand entered World War I at Gallipoli. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these movies, listed in this order? Rocky, Scary Movie 3, Coraline, They Won't Forget, Jaws, Stand By Me, Frequency, Where the Truth Lies, The Ice Storm, A Christmas Story. These movies are set around, respectively, the ten U.S. annual federal holidays. Rocky's match with Apollo Creed is slated for New Year's Day, Scary Movie 3 is set the week of Martin Luther King's birthday, and so on through Christmas. this seems to me to have been one of the hardest Q7s in a while
1. Never Say Never Again, Sean Connery's 1983 return to James Bond, was a remake of what other 007 film? This is a good question that I should know because I have heard it before. Thunderball?
2. What's the only member of today's European Union ever to have a U.N. peacekeeping mission sent there, in 1964? probably not one of the Iron Curtain countries. The Soviet Union would not have allowed it. Peacekeeping implies some type of uprising or instability. Spain? Greece?
3. Gumbo, New Orleans' NFL football mascot, is a dog of what large breed? large --> St. Bernard?
4. Economist Adam Smith's most influential work was 1776's "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of" what? the Wealth of Nations
5. What author created genetically altered species like tracker jackers and jabberjays? were these created on The Island of Dr. Moreau by HG Wells? he was engaging in some weird experiments there
6. Ted Fujita and Allen Pearson are best known for studying what weather phenomenon? hurricanes or tornadoes. I think the answer is hurricanes
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these musical acts? Air Supply, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Goo Goo Dolls, Grand Funk Railroad, Hootie and the Blowfish, Ludacris, Madonna, New Kids on the Block, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Steely Dan, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Yo La Tengo.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. In the flagship version of the Angry Birds video game, players launch their birds at what type of animal? Have you seen the little piggies, crawling in the dirt? apparently no I have not
2. What two U.S. states each have 41.2% of their area covered by water, more by far than any other state of the union? Michigan and Hawaii. A couple New England states--Rhode Island and Massachusetts--are in third and fourth place, with 32% and 26% respectively. Michigan is very counter-intuitive
3. Robotics professor Masahiro Mori coined what name for the unexpected dip in a graph of comfort level caused by simulated humans beginning to look more and more like real humans? When a CG-animated movie character or weird Japanese sex robot weirds you out with its almost-but-not-quite human affect, you are navigating the "uncanny valley." now I have some insight into the pub quiz team named Uncanny Valley
4. What current TV show about the Braverman family is loosely based on a 1989 movie about the Buckman family? Ron Howard insists that all installments in the Parenthood franchise center around the B-something-man family. correct
5. The Brazilian company Embraer is one of the world's largest manufacturers of what? Embraer is short for "Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica," and it makes aircraft. correct
6. Anzac Day every April commemorates the over 10,000 Australian and New Zealand soldiers who lost their lives in what 1915 military campaign against the Ottoman Empire? Australia and New Zealand entered World War I at Gallipoli. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these movies, listed in this order? Rocky, Scary Movie 3, Coraline, They Won't Forget, Jaws, Stand By Me, Frequency, Where the Truth Lies, The Ice Storm, A Christmas Story. These movies are set around, respectively, the ten U.S. annual federal holidays. Rocky's match with Apollo Creed is slated for New Year's Day, Scary Movie 3 is set the week of Martin Luther King's birthday, and so on through Christmas. this seems to me to have been one of the hardest Q7s in a while
