Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - December 10
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. The Dolomite mountain range is located in the northeastern part of what country? Italy
2. Shea Weber, currently the National Hockey League's highest paid player, plays for what franchise, the first to join the NHL during the league's late-'90s expansion? what were some of those expansion teams? Florida, Tampa, Nashville. Phoenix, Dallas and Carolina were not expansion teams, they were relocations. How about the Minnesota Wild.
3. Wrecking Crew, Blue Note, and Lucky Dan are the three racehorses whose finishes lead to the title twist in what Oscar-winning 1973 movie? The Sting
4. What famed Spaniard was assassinated by political rivals in 1541 and buried in the Lima Cathedral? Cervantes
5. Elements like silicon and arsenic that don't share all the properties of metals or nonmetals are classified by what name? transition metals
6. What fashion item did Mary Quant introduce in her "Youthquake" line of September 1965, naming it for her favorite British car? miniskirt?
7. What What unusual distinction is shared by all these European cities? Amsterdam, Angouleme, Bedford, Granada, London, Orleans, Plymouth, Stockholm, Toledo, York. Did each of them have a New city named for it in the US or Canada?
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. Who's the only recurring character on TV's The Simpsons always drawn with five fingers on each hand, rather than the usual four? In all nine episodes where He appears, God has one extra finger. (So does Jesus, though He appears less often.) correct
2. What porous mineral, often used with soil for gardens or potted plants, gets its name from the Latin for "to breed worms"? Vermiculite is that stuff you see in potting mixes. never heard of vermiculite, but vermicelli means little worms, doesn't it?
3. Republican senator Benjamin Wade was already selecting his Cabinet when he learned he would not be acceding to the U.S. presidency after all. Which president would he have replaced? Andrew Johnson, who faced impeachment in 1867. It's often said that Johnson's acquittal in the Senate was in large part due to senators who didn't want to see Benjamin Wade, a Radical Republican and president pro tempore of the Senate, assume the presidency. correct
4. Huarache sandals came to America from what country? Huaraches were immortalized in "Surfing U.S.A." just a few years after arriving from Mexico. meh
5. What musician's first daughter, Tulip Victoria, was born in 1971 to his wife "Miss Vicki"? Ukulele-strumming oddball Tiny Tim named his daughter after his biggest hit, "Tiptoe Through the Tulips." correct
6. Followers of the Rastafari movement fly the flag used by what nation before 1974? Rastafarians worship Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia until 1974. shoot, figured it had to be Jamaica or Ethiopia
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these writers? Emily Bronte, Robert Browning, Anthony Burgess, Robert Cormier, Alexander Pushkin, David Rakoff, Vikram Seth, Derek Walcott. Each wrote a verse novel, a novel-length work written in poetry, not prose. It's an unusual form, but some of these verse novels (Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, Walcott's Omeros, Seth's The Golden Gate) are great stuff. ok
1. The Dolomite mountain range is located in the northeastern part of what country? Italy
2. Shea Weber, currently the National Hockey League's highest paid player, plays for what franchise, the first to join the NHL during the league's late-'90s expansion? what were some of those expansion teams? Florida, Tampa, Nashville. Phoenix, Dallas and Carolina were not expansion teams, they were relocations. How about the Minnesota Wild.
3. Wrecking Crew, Blue Note, and Lucky Dan are the three racehorses whose finishes lead to the title twist in what Oscar-winning 1973 movie? The Sting
4. What famed Spaniard was assassinated by political rivals in 1541 and buried in the Lima Cathedral? Cervantes
5. Elements like silicon and arsenic that don't share all the properties of metals or nonmetals are classified by what name? transition metals
6. What fashion item did Mary Quant introduce in her "Youthquake" line of September 1965, naming it for her favorite British car? miniskirt?
7. What What unusual distinction is shared by all these European cities? Amsterdam, Angouleme, Bedford, Granada, London, Orleans, Plymouth, Stockholm, Toledo, York. Did each of them have a New city named for it in the US or Canada?
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. Who's the only recurring character on TV's The Simpsons always drawn with five fingers on each hand, rather than the usual four? In all nine episodes where He appears, God has one extra finger. (So does Jesus, though He appears less often.) correct
2. What porous mineral, often used with soil for gardens or potted plants, gets its name from the Latin for "to breed worms"? Vermiculite is that stuff you see in potting mixes. never heard of vermiculite, but vermicelli means little worms, doesn't it?
3. Republican senator Benjamin Wade was already selecting his Cabinet when he learned he would not be acceding to the U.S. presidency after all. Which president would he have replaced? Andrew Johnson, who faced impeachment in 1867. It's often said that Johnson's acquittal in the Senate was in large part due to senators who didn't want to see Benjamin Wade, a Radical Republican and president pro tempore of the Senate, assume the presidency. correct
4. Huarache sandals came to America from what country? Huaraches were immortalized in "Surfing U.S.A." just a few years after arriving from Mexico. meh
5. What musician's first daughter, Tulip Victoria, was born in 1971 to his wife "Miss Vicki"? Ukulele-strumming oddball Tiny Tim named his daughter after his biggest hit, "Tiptoe Through the Tulips." correct
6. Followers of the Rastafari movement fly the flag used by what nation before 1974? Rastafarians worship Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia until 1974. shoot, figured it had to be Jamaica or Ethiopia
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these writers? Emily Bronte, Robert Browning, Anthony Burgess, Robert Cormier, Alexander Pushkin, David Rakoff, Vikram Seth, Derek Walcott. Each wrote a verse novel, a novel-length work written in poetry, not prose. It's an unusual form, but some of these verse novels (Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, Walcott's Omeros, Seth's The Golden Gate) are great stuff. ok
