Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - June 24
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. The World Cup has been won three times--in 1954, 1974, and 1990--by a country that doesn't exist anymore. What country? West Germany
2. Joel Elias Spingarn, Myrlie Evers-Williams, Julian Bond, and Roslyn Brock have all chaired what organization? NAACP
3. Winners of what TV channel's annual awards show receive a kaleidoscope shaped like an orange blimp? Nickelodeon? What other channels have an annual awards show? I can think of ESPN, MTV, TV Land.
4. What longest-running American syndicated comic strip takes its name from a German word meaning "the wail of a cat"? The Katzenjammer Kids
5. Half of all surviving monuments in Egypt were built by what New Kingdom pharaoh, the second of his name? Rameses II?
6. The three axes of flight dynamics are pitch, roll, and what third kind of rotation, to the right or the left? pitch would be rotation around the y-axis, roll would be rotation around the z-axis. What would be left or right rotation around the x-axis? Horizontal rotation?
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these wars? The American Revolution, the Crimean War, the Napoleonic Wars, the Seven Years' War, the Spanish-American War. I am going to make a guess without doing any secondary research because I think I know this one. All of these wars ended with a Treaty of Paris.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. Founded in 1966, RIF is the largest and oldest literacy nonprofit in the U.S. What do the initials RIF stand for? Reading Is Fundamental! Extra credit for answering with this cool capitalization: Reading Is FUNdamental! correct
2. Comedian Jack Benny was actually a skilled musician on what instrument, which he often made a gag of playing badly in his act? He was a very good violinist pretending to be a very bad violinist. correct
3. In cruciform Gothic cathedrals, the long bar of the cross, or "nave," is crossed at right angles by what shorter part of the church, forming two wings? The transept. correct
4. Today, there are four Pacific nations that were granted their independence by the United States. Name any two of them. The Philippines, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau wer all administered by the U.S. immediately before gaining sovereignty. correct!
5. What platinum-selling West Coast rapper is also the featured artist on Robin Thicke's "Give It 2 U," Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive," and Alicia Keys's "It's On Again"? Kendrick Lamar, or K.Dot as we call him in Compton. no way I was getting this one
6. Piranhas are native to which continent? The piranha is a South American fish. If you are literally anywhere else right now, you are pretty safe. (From piranhas.) correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these TV shows? Airwolf, Battlestar Galactica (2004), Days of Our Lives, Game of Thrones, Lost, Mad Men, Oz, Pushing Daisies, Twin Peaks, The Walking Dead. Each has a character with only one eye/who wears an eyepatch. Weird how most of these are within the last 5-10 years. We are obviously living in a Golden Age of TV Eyepatches. Did I miss any old ones? I thought that a cartoon like Danger Mouse or Space Angel would give away the game. I had forgotten about Nadine on Twin Peaks and also Mikhail Bakunin on Lost. Maybe eye patches have lost their uniqueness if no one notices.
1. The World Cup has been won three times--in 1954, 1974, and 1990--by a country that doesn't exist anymore. What country? West Germany
2. Joel Elias Spingarn, Myrlie Evers-Williams, Julian Bond, and Roslyn Brock have all chaired what organization? NAACP
3. Winners of what TV channel's annual awards show receive a kaleidoscope shaped like an orange blimp? Nickelodeon? What other channels have an annual awards show? I can think of ESPN, MTV, TV Land.
4. What longest-running American syndicated comic strip takes its name from a German word meaning "the wail of a cat"? The Katzenjammer Kids
5. Half of all surviving monuments in Egypt were built by what New Kingdom pharaoh, the second of his name? Rameses II?
6. The three axes of flight dynamics are pitch, roll, and what third kind of rotation, to the right or the left? pitch would be rotation around the y-axis, roll would be rotation around the z-axis. What would be left or right rotation around the x-axis? Horizontal rotation?
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these wars? The American Revolution, the Crimean War, the Napoleonic Wars, the Seven Years' War, the Spanish-American War. I am going to make a guess without doing any secondary research because I think I know this one. All of these wars ended with a Treaty of Paris.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. Founded in 1966, RIF is the largest and oldest literacy nonprofit in the U.S. What do the initials RIF stand for? Reading Is Fundamental! Extra credit for answering with this cool capitalization: Reading Is FUNdamental! correct
2. Comedian Jack Benny was actually a skilled musician on what instrument, which he often made a gag of playing badly in his act? He was a very good violinist pretending to be a very bad violinist. correct
3. In cruciform Gothic cathedrals, the long bar of the cross, or "nave," is crossed at right angles by what shorter part of the church, forming two wings? The transept. correct
4. Today, there are four Pacific nations that were granted their independence by the United States. Name any two of them. The Philippines, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau wer all administered by the U.S. immediately before gaining sovereignty. correct!
5. What platinum-selling West Coast rapper is also the featured artist on Robin Thicke's "Give It 2 U," Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive," and Alicia Keys's "It's On Again"? Kendrick Lamar, or K.Dot as we call him in Compton. no way I was getting this one
6. Piranhas are native to which continent? The piranha is a South American fish. If you are literally anywhere else right now, you are pretty safe. (From piranhas.) correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these TV shows? Airwolf, Battlestar Galactica (2004), Days of Our Lives, Game of Thrones, Lost, Mad Men, Oz, Pushing Daisies, Twin Peaks, The Walking Dead. Each has a character with only one eye/who wears an eyepatch. Weird how most of these are within the last 5-10 years. We are obviously living in a Golden Age of TV Eyepatches. Did I miss any old ones? I thought that a cartoon like Danger Mouse or Space Angel would give away the game. I had forgotten about Nadine on Twin Peaks and also Mikhail Bakunin on Lost. Maybe eye patches have lost their uniqueness if no one notices.
