Tuesday, October 01, 2013
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - October 1
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. What famous American wrote the bestselling 1928 autobiography Marching Along: Recollections of Men, Women, and Music? Sousa
2. What's the only letter of the alphabet that appears in lowercase on a Boggle cube? never played Boggle so I have a 1 in 26 chance of guessing correctly. I'll guess "b" so that there is no confusion with "8".
3. In what country were hundreds killed in the June 16, 1976 Soweto uprising? South Africa
4. Since 1881, the standard unit of electrical current has been named for what French "father of electrodynamics"? Coulomb
5. In 1953, who was forced to find a new name for his magazine after legal threats were made by the men's adventure magazine Stag? Hefner
6. What ends on Eid al-Fitr? Ramadan
7. What increasingly unusual distinction is shared by these musicians? James Blunt, Johnny Cash, John Fogerty, Jerry Garcia, Hammer, Jimi Hendrix, Ice-T, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, Bjorn Ulvaeus. tax problems? name their guitars?
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. When education policymakers fret over America's struggle to compete in the acronymic "STEM" fields, what four fields are they talking about? Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. correct
2. What is by far the largest Greek island, more than twice as big as runner-up Euboea? Crete is the fifth-largest island in the Mediterranean. grrr
3. Rockatansky is the unusual last name of what iconic movie character who made his debut in 1979? Mad Max--soon returning to a theater near you in the form of a Tom Hardy remake. this is a fair question. I had heard it before.
4. What color is the cover of a current American passport? They were changed from green to blue in 1976 for the nation's Bicentennial. correct
5. Three of the NFL's four current oldest players, including 40-year-old Adam Vinatieri, play what position? They're placekickers. (And the fourth is a punter, Washington's Sav Rocca.) correct
6. What four-word sentence does Westinghouse factory worker Geraldine Hoff appear to be a saying in a famed 1943 propaganda poster by J. Howard Miller? She's the sexy Rosie the Riveter type flexing her bicep and saying, "We Can Do It!" I thought of the poster of Rosie, but I could not recall the phrase that went with it. Also I thought that the model for Rosie worked at the Kaiser Shipyard.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these animals? Antelope, buffalo, cod, deer, elk, moose, sheep, shrimp, squid. These are among the few animals--mostly seafood and game--where the preferred plural form is also the singular. When it comes to animals, either we catch and eat them, or we pluralize them. Not usually both. correct
1. What famous American wrote the bestselling 1928 autobiography Marching Along: Recollections of Men, Women, and Music? Sousa
2. What's the only letter of the alphabet that appears in lowercase on a Boggle cube? never played Boggle so I have a 1 in 26 chance of guessing correctly. I'll guess "b" so that there is no confusion with "8".
3. In what country were hundreds killed in the June 16, 1976 Soweto uprising? South Africa
4. Since 1881, the standard unit of electrical current has been named for what French "father of electrodynamics"? Coulomb
5. In 1953, who was forced to find a new name for his magazine after legal threats were made by the men's adventure magazine Stag? Hefner
6. What ends on Eid al-Fitr? Ramadan
7. What increasingly unusual distinction is shared by these musicians? James Blunt, Johnny Cash, John Fogerty, Jerry Garcia, Hammer, Jimi Hendrix, Ice-T, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, Bjorn Ulvaeus. tax problems? name their guitars?
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. When education policymakers fret over America's struggle to compete in the acronymic "STEM" fields, what four fields are they talking about? Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. correct
2. What is by far the largest Greek island, more than twice as big as runner-up Euboea? Crete is the fifth-largest island in the Mediterranean. grrr
3. Rockatansky is the unusual last name of what iconic movie character who made his debut in 1979? Mad Max--soon returning to a theater near you in the form of a Tom Hardy remake. this is a fair question. I had heard it before.
4. What color is the cover of a current American passport? They were changed from green to blue in 1976 for the nation's Bicentennial. correct
5. Three of the NFL's four current oldest players, including 40-year-old Adam Vinatieri, play what position? They're placekickers. (And the fourth is a punter, Washington's Sav Rocca.) correct
6. What four-word sentence does Westinghouse factory worker Geraldine Hoff appear to be a saying in a famed 1943 propaganda poster by J. Howard Miller? She's the sexy Rosie the Riveter type flexing her bicep and saying, "We Can Do It!" I thought of the poster of Rosie, but I could not recall the phrase that went with it. Also I thought that the model for Rosie worked at the Kaiser Shipyard.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these animals? Antelope, buffalo, cod, deer, elk, moose, sheep, shrimp, squid. These are among the few animals--mostly seafood and game--where the preferred plural form is also the singular. When it comes to animals, either we catch and eat them, or we pluralize them. Not usually both. correct
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Boggle has a cube with a "Qu" in which the "u" is lowercase. I probably would not have known about this except for Matt Gaffney's crossword contest.
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