Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - January 7
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. What character represents the digit "15" in hexadecimal numbers? F
2. The hit 1980s sitcoms ALF and Full House both followed families with what last name in common? I don't know much about either show. Is Full House the show with Alan Thicke and Kirk Cameron? One of them was Mike Seaver. Is that the answer - Seaver?
3. What nation was born 100 years ago last week, with a January 1, 1913 declaration by the British uniting the (mostly Muslim and Hausa) north with the (mostly Christian and Yoruba) south? this is a good question. Sudan?
4. What geometric shape is a piece of Crispix cereal? hexagon
5. What daily newspaper for members of the U.S. military dates back to a Civil War-era paper published in Bloomfield, Missouri? Stars and Stripes
6. Brisés, battements, bourrées, and balancés are elements of what art form? fashion design? is that an art form? or are those architectural components?
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these terms? Axis of evil, cyberspace, Generation X, global village, kerosene, midlife crisis, palliative care, peacekeeping were all of them Words of the Year at one time? kerosene is really an outlier in this group
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. American Indian environmental activist Winona LaDuke is best-known for serving as the running mate of what presidential candidate during both of his two most successful campaigns? She was Ralph Nader's running mate in 1996 and 2000. correct
2. The original stadium used by baseball's New York Giants was first built to host what other sport? The Giants played at the Polo Grounds--which were, yup, built for polo. I would have answered this correctly if I had taken the time to actually read the question instead of rushing through it
3. The title of what mega-selling young adult novel by John Green is a nod to Cassius's claim in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar that humans are helpless "underlings" to cosmic fate? "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves," according to Shakespeare. The John Green novel (soon to be a major motion picture!) is The Fault in Our Stars. never heard of it
4. In physics, a collision between two objects in which no overall kinetic energy is lost is said to be "totally" what? These are totally elastic collisions. Boooooing. In totally INelastic collisions, the two bodies stick together like Silly Putty. correct
5. Shona, Swahili, and Zulu are the most widely spoken languages of what branch of the Niger-Congo language family? Most Niger-Congo language speakers speak one of the Bantu languages. correct
6. For what 2013 movie was Samantha Morton cast as the title character but then replaced--remarkably--AFTER principal photography was already complete? Scarlet Johansson is the new voice of the title operating system in Her. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these famous people? Alexander the Great, Ludwig van Beethoven, Truman Capote, Charlie Chaplin, Che Guevara, Franz Haydn, Abraham Lincoln, Groucho Marx...and St. Nicholas himself. All these people had their bodies/remains stolen from their final resting place after death. In some cases, like Lincoln's, the desecrations were politically motivated. In others, like Chaplin's, they were extortion schemes. St. Nicholas's bones were stolen by Italian pirates in 1087 for religious reasons: the holy skeleton was said to exude myrrh! The government of Turkey, Santa's original resting place, has recently petitioned Italy for the return of the remains. wow. Abraham Lincoln's remains were stolen?!?
1. What character represents the digit "15" in hexadecimal numbers? F
2. The hit 1980s sitcoms ALF and Full House both followed families with what last name in common? I don't know much about either show. Is Full House the show with Alan Thicke and Kirk Cameron? One of them was Mike Seaver. Is that the answer - Seaver?
3. What nation was born 100 years ago last week, with a January 1, 1913 declaration by the British uniting the (mostly Muslim and Hausa) north with the (mostly Christian and Yoruba) south? this is a good question. Sudan?
4. What geometric shape is a piece of Crispix cereal? hexagon
5. What daily newspaper for members of the U.S. military dates back to a Civil War-era paper published in Bloomfield, Missouri? Stars and Stripes
6. Brisés, battements, bourrées, and balancés are elements of what art form? fashion design? is that an art form? or are those architectural components?
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these terms? Axis of evil, cyberspace, Generation X, global village, kerosene, midlife crisis, palliative care, peacekeeping were all of them Words of the Year at one time? kerosene is really an outlier in this group
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. American Indian environmental activist Winona LaDuke is best-known for serving as the running mate of what presidential candidate during both of his two most successful campaigns? She was Ralph Nader's running mate in 1996 and 2000. correct
2. The original stadium used by baseball's New York Giants was first built to host what other sport? The Giants played at the Polo Grounds--which were, yup, built for polo. I would have answered this correctly if I had taken the time to actually read the question instead of rushing through it
3. The title of what mega-selling young adult novel by John Green is a nod to Cassius's claim in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar that humans are helpless "underlings" to cosmic fate? "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves," according to Shakespeare. The John Green novel (soon to be a major motion picture!) is The Fault in Our Stars. never heard of it
4. In physics, a collision between two objects in which no overall kinetic energy is lost is said to be "totally" what? These are totally elastic collisions. Boooooing. In totally INelastic collisions, the two bodies stick together like Silly Putty. correct
5. Shona, Swahili, and Zulu are the most widely spoken languages of what branch of the Niger-Congo language family? Most Niger-Congo language speakers speak one of the Bantu languages. correct
6. For what 2013 movie was Samantha Morton cast as the title character but then replaced--remarkably--AFTER principal photography was already complete? Scarlet Johansson is the new voice of the title operating system in Her. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these famous people? Alexander the Great, Ludwig van Beethoven, Truman Capote, Charlie Chaplin, Che Guevara, Franz Haydn, Abraham Lincoln, Groucho Marx...and St. Nicholas himself. All these people had their bodies/remains stolen from their final resting place after death. In some cases, like Lincoln's, the desecrations were politically motivated. In others, like Chaplin's, they were extortion schemes. St. Nicholas's bones were stolen by Italian pirates in 1087 for religious reasons: the holy skeleton was said to exude myrrh! The government of Turkey, Santa's original resting place, has recently petitioned Italy for the return of the remains. wow. Abraham Lincoln's remains were stolen?!?
