Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - March 12
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. What does a phlebotomist collect? blood
2. What Rhode Island peninsula had its name immortalized in the semicircular prefab structures that the U.S. Army built there during World War II? quonset sounds like a good name for a peninsula in RI
3. By what name do reality TV viewers better know Alana Thompson? Honey Boo Boo. Please do not make me ever type that name again.
4. What type of Javanese cloth is colored using traditional wax-and-dye techniques? batik?
5. What magazine credits its production to "The Usual Gang of Idiots"? Mad?
6. The Wright Brothers promised their father, Bishop Milton Wright, that they would never do what, a rule they broke only once in their aviation career, on May 25, 1910? fly on the same plane
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these famous folks? Richard Burton, Jefferson Davis, Lyndon Johnson, Carly Simon, Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Stiller. They each married someone named "Taylor."
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What color are the helmets typically worn by U.N. peackeeping forces? Blue--the same lightish blue as the United Nations flag, actually that clue would have helped. I don't see too many UN peacekeepers in California. Or on tv or in the paper.
2. Solo Star and Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams are the first two albums from a singer still perhaps best known as the little sister of whom? "Solo Star" and "Sol-Angel" are both nicknames for Solange Knowles, aka Beyonce's little sister. Who? I have never heard of this woman
3. What mammals have the only horns in nature made not from bone but entirely of keratin, the protein that hair and nails are made from? Most horns and antlers in the animal kingdom have a bony core, but a rhino horn is keratin all the way down. correct
4. "Traceurs" are participants in what urban sport founded by David Belle and the Yamakasi group in Lisses, France in the 1980s? David Belle, inspired by his father Raymond, a French military and firefighting veteran, invented parkour. correct
5. Protagoras, Gorgias, and Hippias were members of what school of Greek philosophy renowned for their rhetorical skill? They were sophists, back before that necessarily meant a bad thing. correct
6. A capital-C Corvette is a car, but a small-c corvette is what mode of transportation? A corvette is a small warship. any interesting factoid to know
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these nations, listed in this order? Peru, the United States, (the Philippines), Nepal, (Pakistan, Iraq), Egypt, Greece, China, India, (Canada, Portugal), Italy, Austria, Germany, Turkey, (Cuba, Mexico), Brazil. These are all the different countries visited, in order, by Indiana Jones in his four movies (or three, if you're still in denial about Crystal Skull). The nations in parentheses are only visited as a dot on an airplane map route; there weren't any scenes set there. man, that is tough! I had no idea that first scene in Raiders was set in Peru. I had thought it was some Central American country.
1. What does a phlebotomist collect? blood
2. What Rhode Island peninsula had its name immortalized in the semicircular prefab structures that the U.S. Army built there during World War II? quonset sounds like a good name for a peninsula in RI
3. By what name do reality TV viewers better know Alana Thompson? Honey Boo Boo. Please do not make me ever type that name again.
4. What type of Javanese cloth is colored using traditional wax-and-dye techniques? batik?
5. What magazine credits its production to "The Usual Gang of Idiots"? Mad?
6. The Wright Brothers promised their father, Bishop Milton Wright, that they would never do what, a rule they broke only once in their aviation career, on May 25, 1910? fly on the same plane
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these famous folks? Richard Burton, Jefferson Davis, Lyndon Johnson, Carly Simon, Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Stiller. They each married someone named "Taylor."
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What color are the helmets typically worn by U.N. peackeeping forces? Blue--the same lightish blue as the United Nations flag, actually that clue would have helped. I don't see too many UN peacekeepers in California. Or on tv or in the paper.
2. Solo Star and Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams are the first two albums from a singer still perhaps best known as the little sister of whom? "Solo Star" and "Sol-Angel" are both nicknames for Solange Knowles, aka Beyonce's little sister. Who? I have never heard of this woman
3. What mammals have the only horns in nature made not from bone but entirely of keratin, the protein that hair and nails are made from? Most horns and antlers in the animal kingdom have a bony core, but a rhino horn is keratin all the way down. correct
4. "Traceurs" are participants in what urban sport founded by David Belle and the Yamakasi group in Lisses, France in the 1980s? David Belle, inspired by his father Raymond, a French military and firefighting veteran, invented parkour. correct
5. Protagoras, Gorgias, and Hippias were members of what school of Greek philosophy renowned for their rhetorical skill? They were sophists, back before that necessarily meant a bad thing. correct
6. A capital-C Corvette is a car, but a small-c corvette is what mode of transportation? A corvette is a small warship. any interesting factoid to know
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these nations, listed in this order? Peru, the United States, (the Philippines), Nepal, (Pakistan, Iraq), Egypt, Greece, China, India, (Canada, Portugal), Italy, Austria, Germany, Turkey, (Cuba, Mexico), Brazil. These are all the different countries visited, in order, by Indiana Jones in his four movies (or three, if you're still in denial about Crystal Skull). The nations in parentheses are only visited as a dot on an airplane map route; there weren't any scenes set there. man, that is tough! I had no idea that first scene in Raiders was set in Peru. I had thought it was some Central American country.
