Friday, April 05, 2013
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - April 2
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. What's the name for the international movement, led by Theodor Herzl and other thinkers, that achieved its chief political goal in May 1948? Zionism
2. Ever since 1985, how many tournament wins has it taken every year to win an NCAA men's basketball championship? 6
3. What fraction is often used to estimate pi, since it computes to 3.142857 before repeating? 22/7
4. What rapper estimated to Time magazine last month that he's probably bought 3,000 items at thrift shops over the years? I don't know rappers or anything about them. Eminem? He dresses like he shops at thrift stores.
5. What rank discontinued in the U.S. Navy in the 1980s comes between captain and rear admiral in the British Navy? commodore?
6. Every year, over 5,000 letters arrive in Verona, Italy, requesting romantic advice from what literary character? It is certainly not Silvio Berlusconi. Romeo?
7. What unusual distinction is shared by each of these famous people? Otto van Bismarck, James Cameron, Lou Gehrig, Craig Heyward, Imelda Marcos, Margaret Thatcher, Mike Tyson and the Duke of Wellington. they all had "Iron" nicknames - Iron Horse, Ironhead, Iron Lady, Iron Mike, etc.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. The Onyx River, a seasonal stream just twenty miles long, is the longest river found where? It's the longest river in Antarctica, but that's not saying much. correct
2. Which of the year's four seasons boasts more U.S. federal holidays than any other? There are five in winter--six if you count Inauguration Day. correct
3. What Canadian is the only member of the Saturday Night Live house band ever to return to host the show? Paul Shaffer, of Letterman fame, played piano in the SNL band from 1977 to 1980. I had no idea but I asked two friends at the Pub Quiz and they both got it within 15 seconds
4. The trigeminal, vagus, and hypoglossal are three of the body's twelve cranial what? You've got a lot of nerves. correct
5. Over 50 U.S. kids caught salmonella in a mini-epidemic that resulted from imitating the crucial behavior in which Disney animated film? This 2009 outbreak was a result of little girls kissing frogs after seeing The Princess and the Frog. wow correct!
6. What word, recently much in the news, come from the Latin for "with a key," because of its association with a locked room? "Cum clavis" is where we get the word "conclave." doh, I should have given thought to conclave rather than sequester
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these U.S. states (and one district) in this order, and no others? New York, Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, Vermont, Texas. These are all the states (and district!) where the oath of office has been administered to a U.S. president. The latest outliers were Coolidge (sworn in by his father in a Vermont farmhouse after Warren Harding dead) and LBJ (sworn in aboard Air Force One in Dallas the day of the Kennedy assassination). this could be a good quiz question
1. What's the name for the international movement, led by Theodor Herzl and other thinkers, that achieved its chief political goal in May 1948? Zionism
2. Ever since 1985, how many tournament wins has it taken every year to win an NCAA men's basketball championship? 6
3. What fraction is often used to estimate pi, since it computes to 3.142857 before repeating? 22/7
4. What rapper estimated to Time magazine last month that he's probably bought 3,000 items at thrift shops over the years? I don't know rappers or anything about them. Eminem? He dresses like he shops at thrift stores.
5. What rank discontinued in the U.S. Navy in the 1980s comes between captain and rear admiral in the British Navy? commodore?
6. Every year, over 5,000 letters arrive in Verona, Italy, requesting romantic advice from what literary character? It is certainly not Silvio Berlusconi. Romeo?
7. What unusual distinction is shared by each of these famous people? Otto van Bismarck, James Cameron, Lou Gehrig, Craig Heyward, Imelda Marcos, Margaret Thatcher, Mike Tyson and the Duke of Wellington. they all had "Iron" nicknames - Iron Horse, Ironhead, Iron Lady, Iron Mike, etc.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. The Onyx River, a seasonal stream just twenty miles long, is the longest river found where? It's the longest river in Antarctica, but that's not saying much. correct
2. Which of the year's four seasons boasts more U.S. federal holidays than any other? There are five in winter--six if you count Inauguration Day. correct
3. What Canadian is the only member of the Saturday Night Live house band ever to return to host the show? Paul Shaffer, of Letterman fame, played piano in the SNL band from 1977 to 1980. I had no idea but I asked two friends at the Pub Quiz and they both got it within 15 seconds
4. The trigeminal, vagus, and hypoglossal are three of the body's twelve cranial what? You've got a lot of nerves. correct
5. Over 50 U.S. kids caught salmonella in a mini-epidemic that resulted from imitating the crucial behavior in which Disney animated film? This 2009 outbreak was a result of little girls kissing frogs after seeing The Princess and the Frog. wow correct!
6. What word, recently much in the news, come from the Latin for "with a key," because of its association with a locked room? "Cum clavis" is where we get the word "conclave." doh, I should have given thought to conclave rather than sequester
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these U.S. states (and one district) in this order, and no others? New York, Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, Vermont, Texas. These are all the states (and district!) where the oath of office has been administered to a U.S. president. The latest outliers were Coolidge (sworn in by his father in a Vermont farmhouse after Warren Harding dead) and LBJ (sworn in aboard Air Force One in Dallas the day of the Kennedy assassination). this could be a good quiz question
