Saturday, August 31, 2013
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - July 16
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. What does one add to lemonade to make the (non-alcoholic) drink called an Arnold Palmer? iced tea
2. Actor Krishna Pandit Bhanji, born in Yorkshire in 1943, is better known by what stage name? Ben Kingsley?
3. The Log Cabin Republicans are a conservative U.S. lobbying organization advocating for what? gay rights
4. What Spanish word for "straight" is also a meteorological term for a straight squall line of thunderstorms? my Spanish fails me here.
5. Is This the Real Life? was a 2011 book telling "The Untold Story of" what band? Queen
6. In what country is Serengeti National Park? Kenya
7. What unusual distinction is shared by Jeb Bush, Edward VIII, George Foreman Jr., Connie Francis, Ira Gershwin, Captain Kirk, Liberace, Stuart Little, Telly Savalas, Ron Weasley, and Angus Young? I wish my brother George was here. All have brothers named George.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What world leader used to take an immense Bedouin tent wherever he went, which Central Park refused to let him erect there in 2009? The late Muammar Gaddafi eschewed hotel rooms in favor of his portable shelter. He erected it next to the Kremlin in 2008, but ran into permit problems the following year during a visit to the U.N. he's only been gone a year and the world has already forgotten about Gaddafi (well, I have)
2. "Forkies" are fans of what TV series that ran on CBS from 1978 to 1991, and was revived in 2012? Forkies are the Trekkies of Dallas, which took place at the Ewings' SouthFORK ranch. correct
3. In his first draft of a 1913 story for All-Story magazine, what author created a new character then called "Zantar"? Eventually, Edgar Rice Burroughs turned the syllables around and Zantar became Tarzan. that's a good question, a nice fact to know
4. According to Newton's second law of motion, the net force on an object is equal to its acceleration times what quantity? F=ma...or, in other words, force is equal to mass times acceleration. correct
5. Johnny Sylvester, a Long Island executive who died in 1990, was best known for having briefly met, while ailing from a childhood disease in October 1926, what famous man? Sylvester was the little boy who wanted Babe Ruth to hit him a homer in the 1926 World Series. Ruth hit three in that game, and Sylvester lived fifty-three more years. (That's almost 18 years / homer.) correct
6. What title ship of an 1878 operetta is skippered by Captain Corcoran, whose daughter Josephine wants to marry able seaman Ralph Rackstraw? Corcoran commands the HMS Pinafore. It's a Gilbert and Sullivan thing. I don't know, ask Aaron Sorkin, I didn't go to Yale. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these movies? After Earth, Armageddon, Bride Wars, Bully, Frances Ha, Igby Goes Down, Mirror Mirror, The Roommate. Each features the daughter of a rock musician in its cast. (Respectively, the music stars are Lenny Kravitz, Steven Tyler, Bill Hudson, John Phillips, Sting, Mick Jagger, Phil Collins, and Rick Dufay. Did you know Minka Kelly from Friday Night Lights was Rick Dufay's daughter? Yeah, me neither.) who is Rick Dufay?
1. What does one add to lemonade to make the (non-alcoholic) drink called an Arnold Palmer? iced tea
2. Actor Krishna Pandit Bhanji, born in Yorkshire in 1943, is better known by what stage name? Ben Kingsley?
3. The Log Cabin Republicans are a conservative U.S. lobbying organization advocating for what? gay rights
4. What Spanish word for "straight" is also a meteorological term for a straight squall line of thunderstorms? my Spanish fails me here.
5. Is This the Real Life? was a 2011 book telling "The Untold Story of" what band? Queen
6. In what country is Serengeti National Park? Kenya
7. What unusual distinction is shared by Jeb Bush, Edward VIII, George Foreman Jr., Connie Francis, Ira Gershwin, Captain Kirk, Liberace, Stuart Little, Telly Savalas, Ron Weasley, and Angus Young? I wish my brother George was here. All have brothers named George.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What world leader used to take an immense Bedouin tent wherever he went, which Central Park refused to let him erect there in 2009? The late Muammar Gaddafi eschewed hotel rooms in favor of his portable shelter. He erected it next to the Kremlin in 2008, but ran into permit problems the following year during a visit to the U.N. he's only been gone a year and the world has already forgotten about Gaddafi (well, I have)
2. "Forkies" are fans of what TV series that ran on CBS from 1978 to 1991, and was revived in 2012? Forkies are the Trekkies of Dallas, which took place at the Ewings' SouthFORK ranch. correct
3. In his first draft of a 1913 story for All-Story magazine, what author created a new character then called "Zantar"? Eventually, Edgar Rice Burroughs turned the syllables around and Zantar became Tarzan. that's a good question, a nice fact to know
4. According to Newton's second law of motion, the net force on an object is equal to its acceleration times what quantity? F=ma...or, in other words, force is equal to mass times acceleration. correct
5. Johnny Sylvester, a Long Island executive who died in 1990, was best known for having briefly met, while ailing from a childhood disease in October 1926, what famous man? Sylvester was the little boy who wanted Babe Ruth to hit him a homer in the 1926 World Series. Ruth hit three in that game, and Sylvester lived fifty-three more years. (That's almost 18 years / homer.) correct
6. What title ship of an 1878 operetta is skippered by Captain Corcoran, whose daughter Josephine wants to marry able seaman Ralph Rackstraw? Corcoran commands the HMS Pinafore. It's a Gilbert and Sullivan thing. I don't know, ask Aaron Sorkin, I didn't go to Yale. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these movies? After Earth, Armageddon, Bride Wars, Bully, Frances Ha, Igby Goes Down, Mirror Mirror, The Roommate. Each features the daughter of a rock musician in its cast. (Respectively, the music stars are Lenny Kravitz, Steven Tyler, Bill Hudson, John Phillips, Sting, Mick Jagger, Phil Collins, and Rick Dufay. Did you know Minka Kelly from Friday Night Lights was Rick Dufay's daughter? Yeah, me neither.) who is Rick Dufay?
