Saturday, March 15, 2014
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - March 11
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. What famed race horse was named in honor of his sire, Hard Tack? Sea Biscuit
2. Carolyn Hax and Amy Dickinson are modern descendants of the famed Friedman twins, in that they also write what? advice columns
3. In a complete insect metamorphosis, what state comes between the larva and the imago? pupa?
4. In what 2008 movie does the protagonist say, "What I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career"? Taken. Too bad Liam Neeson was not on the Singapore Airlines plane.
5. What food item, of which 4.8 billion are consumed every year, comes in four shapes, called the bell, the ball, the boot, and the bone? I am thinking of a snack food, something like Cheetos
6. The elephant appears on the coat of arms of two African nations. One is Swaziland; what, unsurprisingly, is the other? Zimbabwe?
7. What What unusual distinction is shared by these famous people? Tim Allen, Charles S. Dutton, Stephen Fry, Merle Haggard, O. Henry, Don King, Tony Sirico, Mark Wahlberg. I believe each has served time in prison
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. Despite the fact that they come from South America, the rodent also called the cavy is better known by the name of what African country? For reasons that no one's too clear on, the South American guinea pig is named for a country over 4,000 miles away. correct
2. The boy band One Direction leapt to fame after finishing third on what British reality show in 2010? They were on the hit British forerunner of Simon Cowell's American non-hit, The X Factor. correct
3. What was the only U.S. state with no National Park Service unit until 2013, when a new National Monument was created around the Old New Castle Courthouse and along Brandywine Creek? Delaware was, for many years, the only state without a Park Service destination, on the silly grounds that there is nothing at all interesting to see there. correct
4. Whose nemeses included the Trinity Killer, the Brain Surgeon, the Ice Truck Killer, and the Doomsday Killer? These are among Dexter Morgan's serial killer rivals on the recently (and non-optimally) concluded Showtime series Dexter. correct!
5. According to the Chinese zodiac, we are currently in the year of what animal? 2014 is the year of the horse. If you eat at a lot of Chinese buffets, or your age is a multiple of twelve this year, congrats on getting this one right! not correct
6. What did ancient Greek city-states call their central gathering places, a word mostly used today in reference to people who *dislike* public spaces? Modern cities don't really have an "agora" like Greek ones did. We just have agoraphobes. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these musical acts, in this order? ABBA, Queen, Billy Joel, the Bee Gees, the Beach Boys, Elvis Presley, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Green Day, the Shirelles, Patsy Cline. Each had their music re-purposed as a "jukebox musical"--a stage musical whose score is drawn from a pop artist, like Mamma Mia! (ABBA) or Jersey Boys (the Four Seasons). Fun thought experiment: imagine the sad, cookie-cutter "jukebox musical" they will be staging about your favorite band in a decade or two! correct
1. What famed race horse was named in honor of his sire, Hard Tack? Sea Biscuit
2. Carolyn Hax and Amy Dickinson are modern descendants of the famed Friedman twins, in that they also write what? advice columns
3. In a complete insect metamorphosis, what state comes between the larva and the imago? pupa?
4. In what 2008 movie does the protagonist say, "What I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career"? Taken. Too bad Liam Neeson was not on the Singapore Airlines plane.
5. What food item, of which 4.8 billion are consumed every year, comes in four shapes, called the bell, the ball, the boot, and the bone? I am thinking of a snack food, something like Cheetos
6. The elephant appears on the coat of arms of two African nations. One is Swaziland; what, unsurprisingly, is the other? Zimbabwe?
7. What What unusual distinction is shared by these famous people? Tim Allen, Charles S. Dutton, Stephen Fry, Merle Haggard, O. Henry, Don King, Tony Sirico, Mark Wahlberg. I believe each has served time in prison
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. Despite the fact that they come from South America, the rodent also called the cavy is better known by the name of what African country? For reasons that no one's too clear on, the South American guinea pig is named for a country over 4,000 miles away. correct
2. The boy band One Direction leapt to fame after finishing third on what British reality show in 2010? They were on the hit British forerunner of Simon Cowell's American non-hit, The X Factor. correct
3. What was the only U.S. state with no National Park Service unit until 2013, when a new National Monument was created around the Old New Castle Courthouse and along Brandywine Creek? Delaware was, for many years, the only state without a Park Service destination, on the silly grounds that there is nothing at all interesting to see there. correct
4. Whose nemeses included the Trinity Killer, the Brain Surgeon, the Ice Truck Killer, and the Doomsday Killer? These are among Dexter Morgan's serial killer rivals on the recently (and non-optimally) concluded Showtime series Dexter. correct!
5. According to the Chinese zodiac, we are currently in the year of what animal? 2014 is the year of the horse. If you eat at a lot of Chinese buffets, or your age is a multiple of twelve this year, congrats on getting this one right! not correct
6. What did ancient Greek city-states call their central gathering places, a word mostly used today in reference to people who *dislike* public spaces? Modern cities don't really have an "agora" like Greek ones did. We just have agoraphobes. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these musical acts, in this order? ABBA, Queen, Billy Joel, the Bee Gees, the Beach Boys, Elvis Presley, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Green Day, the Shirelles, Patsy Cline. Each had their music re-purposed as a "jukebox musical"--a stage musical whose score is drawn from a pop artist, like Mamma Mia! (ABBA) or Jersey Boys (the Four Seasons). Fun thought experiment: imagine the sad, cookie-cutter "jukebox musical" they will be staging about your favorite band in a decade or two! correct
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