Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - December 3
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
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? God
2. What porous mineral, often used with soil for gardens or potted plants, gets its name from the Latin for "to breed worms"? peat? but that is not a mineral
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? Was Wade the president pro tem of the Senate while Johnson was going through impeachment proceedings?
4. Huarache sandals came to America from what country? Peru?
5. What musician's first daughter, Tulip Victoria, was born in 1971 to his wife "Miss Vicki"? Tiny Tim
6. Followers of the Rastafari movement fly the flag used by what nation before 1974? red, yellow, green - are those colors in Jamaica's flag?
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. Research has not revealed anything close to a common thread.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. The smallest bone and muscle in the human body are both found where? The stapes, or stirrup bone, is just 4mm long and is stabilized by a similarly tiny muscle called the stapedius. Both are found in the inner ear. correct
2. Surprisingly, the second most destructive earthquake in world history did not take place along the Pacific "Ring of Fire," but struck what country on January 12, 2010? Over three million people were affected by the 2010 earthquake that struck just west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. correct
3. The world's largest restaurant company is not McDonald's, but the PepsiCo spin-out Yum! Brands, which operates what three large global fast food chains? Yum! owns KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell, which explains why sometimes two or even all of these restaurants are found amalgamated under one stomach-churning roof. Pizza Hut - doh! Or more appropriately - dough!
4. The fact that some West African frogs will spontaneously undergo gender transition in same-sex environments is a major plot point in what 1993 movie? This explains how an all-female population of cloned dinosaurs begins reproducing in the novel and movie of Jurassic Park. ok
5. Probate courts administer what type of legal documents? Contested wills go to probate. correct
6. Ronaiah Tuiasosopo became famous this year for his unusual friendship with whom? Tuiasosopo is the man who fell so hard for his family friend Manti Te'o that he pretended to be a woman named Lennay Kekua to woo the Notre Dame linebacker. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these occupations, among (less prominently) others? Attorney, census worker, college student, emergency rescuer, fighter pilot, grocery clerk, hockey player, novelist, talent agent, tennis pro. These are the most notable of the forty-odd jobs tried out by Snoopy, in his rich fantasy life as documented over fifty years of Charles Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. Here's the World Famous Trivia Email Writer bidding you farewell for another week. I was right that it was a literary character, but I was thinking of someone like Walter Mitty.
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? God
2. What porous mineral, often used with soil for gardens or potted plants, gets its name from the Latin for "to breed worms"? peat? but that is not a mineral
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? Was Wade the president pro tem of the Senate while Johnson was going through impeachment proceedings?
4. Huarache sandals came to America from what country? Peru?
5. What musician's first daughter, Tulip Victoria, was born in 1971 to his wife "Miss Vicki"? Tiny Tim
6. Followers of the Rastafari movement fly the flag used by what nation before 1974? red, yellow, green - are those colors in Jamaica's flag?
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. Research has not revealed anything close to a common thread.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. The smallest bone and muscle in the human body are both found where? The stapes, or stirrup bone, is just 4mm long and is stabilized by a similarly tiny muscle called the stapedius. Both are found in the inner ear. correct
2. Surprisingly, the second most destructive earthquake in world history did not take place along the Pacific "Ring of Fire," but struck what country on January 12, 2010? Over three million people were affected by the 2010 earthquake that struck just west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. correct
3. The world's largest restaurant company is not McDonald's, but the PepsiCo spin-out Yum! Brands, which operates what three large global fast food chains? Yum! owns KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell, which explains why sometimes two or even all of these restaurants are found amalgamated under one stomach-churning roof. Pizza Hut - doh! Or more appropriately - dough!
4. The fact that some West African frogs will spontaneously undergo gender transition in same-sex environments is a major plot point in what 1993 movie? This explains how an all-female population of cloned dinosaurs begins reproducing in the novel and movie of Jurassic Park. ok
5. Probate courts administer what type of legal documents? Contested wills go to probate. correct
6. Ronaiah Tuiasosopo became famous this year for his unusual friendship with whom? Tuiasosopo is the man who fell so hard for his family friend Manti Te'o that he pretended to be a woman named Lennay Kekua to woo the Notre Dame linebacker. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these occupations, among (less prominently) others? Attorney, census worker, college student, emergency rescuer, fighter pilot, grocery clerk, hockey player, novelist, talent agent, tennis pro. These are the most notable of the forty-odd jobs tried out by Snoopy, in his rich fantasy life as documented over fifty years of Charles Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. Here's the World Famous Trivia Email Writer bidding you farewell for another week. I was right that it was a literary character, but I was thinking of someone like Walter Mitty.
