Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - February 12
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. According the the old nursery rhyme, on which day of the week did Solomon Grundy die? died on Saturday, buried on Sunday?
2. The man who coached Western Kentucky's football team from 1989 to 2002 is better known today because of his two sons. What is their last name? Harbaugh!! Jack, Jim and John
3. Israeli general Moshe Dayan and American glass sculptor Dale Chihuly are both well-known for wearing what unusual item? eye patch
4. In aerodynamics, two forces act on an airfoil due to motion: lift, that pushes the object upward, and what second force, which slows it down? drag
5. What movie title hero, according to his 1986 poster, "survived the most hostile and primitive land known to man--now all he's got to do is make it through a week in New York"? Encino Man?
6. The Virginia-based "Altria Group, Inc.", one of America's largest companies, was better known as what before a 2003 rebranding? Philip Morris - one of the biggest tobacco companies in the world
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these people? Johnny Cash, Johnnie Cochran, Booker T. Jones, Benoit Mandelbrot, David O. Selznick, Harry Truman. There is an important missing item from this list - Harry S Truman. All of these accomplished men have middle initials but not middle names.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. Name two adjectives that can each refer to a resident of certain U.S. state capital *or* a resident of a Mediterranean nation. (One nation is ancient, one is modern.) Phoenicians can come from Phoenix or (back in the day) Phoenicia; Albanians can come from Albany or Albania. correct
2. Scientist J. J. Thomson is well-known for proposing the "plum pudding" model of what? Thomson is the physicist who discovered the electron, and his "plum pudding" idea was an early model for how the atom might be structured. correct
3. The hornpipe is a traditional dance historically associated with what profession? Sailors are believed to have danced the first hornpipe, and they certainly made it famous. Old Popeye cartoons used to begin with "The Sailor's Hornpipe." correct
4. What's the only language ever to "die" as a spoken language and then be revived among a population of new first-language speakers? Hebrew was nobody's native language in the early 20th century when it was revived by the Zionist movement to be the official language of the State of Israel. Today it has over three million native speakers. neat fact to learn. Hebrew is prominent even in Reform services nowadays
5. Johnny Wakelin's hit songs "Black Superman" (1975) and "In Zaire" (1976) both celebrated what real-life figure? Muhammad Ali was "Black Superman." Which boxer was "Black Green Lantern"? Discuss. correct
6. What German car company was sued over its logo by the International Olympic Committee in 1995? The Audi four-rings logo was found to be substantially different from the five-ring Olympic logo. Case dismissed. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these cities, listed in this order? New York City, London, Barcelona, Paris, Rome, San Francisco. These are the metropolitan areas that have been the settings for Woody Allen's movies lately as he's moved overseas from Manhattan. I was talking with a friend last night about the location of Allen's last four films (London, Barcelona, Paris and Rome) and speculating where he might go next.
1. According the the old nursery rhyme, on which day of the week did Solomon Grundy die? died on Saturday, buried on Sunday?
2. The man who coached Western Kentucky's football team from 1989 to 2002 is better known today because of his two sons. What is their last name? Harbaugh!! Jack, Jim and John
3. Israeli general Moshe Dayan and American glass sculptor Dale Chihuly are both well-known for wearing what unusual item? eye patch
4. In aerodynamics, two forces act on an airfoil due to motion: lift, that pushes the object upward, and what second force, which slows it down? drag
5. What movie title hero, according to his 1986 poster, "survived the most hostile and primitive land known to man--now all he's got to do is make it through a week in New York"? Encino Man?
6. The Virginia-based "Altria Group, Inc.", one of America's largest companies, was better known as what before a 2003 rebranding? Philip Morris - one of the biggest tobacco companies in the world
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these people? Johnny Cash, Johnnie Cochran, Booker T. Jones, Benoit Mandelbrot, David O. Selznick, Harry Truman. There is an important missing item from this list - Harry S Truman. All of these accomplished men have middle initials but not middle names.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. Name two adjectives that can each refer to a resident of certain U.S. state capital *or* a resident of a Mediterranean nation. (One nation is ancient, one is modern.) Phoenicians can come from Phoenix or (back in the day) Phoenicia; Albanians can come from Albany or Albania. correct
2. Scientist J. J. Thomson is well-known for proposing the "plum pudding" model of what? Thomson is the physicist who discovered the electron, and his "plum pudding" idea was an early model for how the atom might be structured. correct
3. The hornpipe is a traditional dance historically associated with what profession? Sailors are believed to have danced the first hornpipe, and they certainly made it famous. Old Popeye cartoons used to begin with "The Sailor's Hornpipe." correct
4. What's the only language ever to "die" as a spoken language and then be revived among a population of new first-language speakers? Hebrew was nobody's native language in the early 20th century when it was revived by the Zionist movement to be the official language of the State of Israel. Today it has over three million native speakers. neat fact to learn. Hebrew is prominent even in Reform services nowadays
5. Johnny Wakelin's hit songs "Black Superman" (1975) and "In Zaire" (1976) both celebrated what real-life figure? Muhammad Ali was "Black Superman." Which boxer was "Black Green Lantern"? Discuss. correct
6. What German car company was sued over its logo by the International Olympic Committee in 1995? The Audi four-rings logo was found to be substantially different from the five-ring Olympic logo. Case dismissed. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these cities, listed in this order? New York City, London, Barcelona, Paris, Rome, San Francisco. These are the metropolitan areas that have been the settings for Woody Allen's movies lately as he's moved overseas from Manhattan. I was talking with a friend last night about the location of Allen's last four films (London, Barcelona, Paris and Rome) and speculating where he might go next.
