Saturday, July 05, 2014
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - July 1
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. How many bytes are there in a petabyte? terabyte is 10 to the 9th power. I think petabyte is 10 to the 12th power.
2. What are the only two neighboring countries in the world that start with the same letter AND whose capital cities begin with the same letter? (Two different letters, one for the nations and one for the capitals.) this is really tough. First you have to think of adjacent countries with the same first letter like Bolivia and Brazil, Zambia and Zimbabwe, Iraq and Iran, Latvia and Lithuania. But none of them have capitals that begin with the same letter.
3. An antimacassar is a cloth usually placed on the back of what? anitmacassar sounds like something used in the Catholic Church. Is this something that is worn by a priest?
4. What first breed of beef cattle ever developed in the U.S. was named in honor of its forebears, cattle imported from India beginning in 1854? brahma?
5. The fictional European republic of Zubrowka was the setting for a 2014 Ralph Fiennes film about an establishment named for what real European city? Budapest (Grand Budapest Hotel)
6. What surname is shared by these celebrity brothers: Skip, a sportswriter and ESPN analyst, and Rick, a Chicago restaurateur? Bayless
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these world countries and no others? Denmark, Finland, Great Britain, Ireland, Luxembourg (sometimes), Poland, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey? Only European countries and Luxembourg (sometimes). This is very cryptic. Since it is World Cup, Wimbledon and Tour de France season, I might think of something related to sports. Or the EU. But I cannot find a pattern.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
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 no longer exists. Well, it does, of course. It's just been reunified with its less sociopolitically successful counterpart. correct
2. Joel Elias Spingarn, Myrlie Evers-Williams, Julian Bond, and Roslyn Brock have all chaired what organization? They've all led the NAACP. Spingarn did so despite the handicap of being white. correct
3. Winners of what TV channel's annual awards show receive a kaleidoscope shaped like an orange blimp? That's what a Kids' Choice award looks like, given by Nickelodeon. I was in the ball park
4. What longest-running American syndicated comic strip takes its name from a German word meaning "the wail of a cat"? The Katzenjammer Kids are apparently now in their 117th year, despite the fact that no one has read it since 1940. correct
5. Half of all surviving monuments in Egypt were built by what New Kingdom pharaoh, the second of his name? Ramesses the Great was pretty big on himself, even by the descended-from-the-sun-god standard of ancient Egyptian pharaohs. correct
6. The three axes of flight dynamics are pitch, roll, and what third kind of rotation, to the right or the left? Rotation of an airplane around the vertical axis--which you often don't want, hot tip--is called yaw. I have heard of yaw but did not recognize it as axial 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. Each was finally ended by a Treaty of Paris. Paris is to peace treaties as Brooklyn is to zines. correct!
1. How many bytes are there in a petabyte? terabyte is 10 to the 9th power. I think petabyte is 10 to the 12th power.
2. What are the only two neighboring countries in the world that start with the same letter AND whose capital cities begin with the same letter? (Two different letters, one for the nations and one for the capitals.) this is really tough. First you have to think of adjacent countries with the same first letter like Bolivia and Brazil, Zambia and Zimbabwe, Iraq and Iran, Latvia and Lithuania. But none of them have capitals that begin with the same letter.
3. An antimacassar is a cloth usually placed on the back of what? anitmacassar sounds like something used in the Catholic Church. Is this something that is worn by a priest?
4. What first breed of beef cattle ever developed in the U.S. was named in honor of its forebears, cattle imported from India beginning in 1854? brahma?
5. The fictional European republic of Zubrowka was the setting for a 2014 Ralph Fiennes film about an establishment named for what real European city? Budapest (Grand Budapest Hotel)
6. What surname is shared by these celebrity brothers: Skip, a sportswriter and ESPN analyst, and Rick, a Chicago restaurateur? Bayless
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these world countries and no others? Denmark, Finland, Great Britain, Ireland, Luxembourg (sometimes), Poland, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey? Only European countries and Luxembourg (sometimes). This is very cryptic. Since it is World Cup, Wimbledon and Tour de France season, I might think of something related to sports. Or the EU. But I cannot find a pattern.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
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 no longer exists. Well, it does, of course. It's just been reunified with its less sociopolitically successful counterpart. correct
2. Joel Elias Spingarn, Myrlie Evers-Williams, Julian Bond, and Roslyn Brock have all chaired what organization? They've all led the NAACP. Spingarn did so despite the handicap of being white. correct
3. Winners of what TV channel's annual awards show receive a kaleidoscope shaped like an orange blimp? That's what a Kids' Choice award looks like, given by Nickelodeon. I was in the ball park
4. What longest-running American syndicated comic strip takes its name from a German word meaning "the wail of a cat"? The Katzenjammer Kids are apparently now in their 117th year, despite the fact that no one has read it since 1940. correct
5. Half of all surviving monuments in Egypt were built by what New Kingdom pharaoh, the second of his name? Ramesses the Great was pretty big on himself, even by the descended-from-the-sun-god standard of ancient Egyptian pharaohs. correct
6. The three axes of flight dynamics are pitch, roll, and what third kind of rotation, to the right or the left? Rotation of an airplane around the vertical axis--which you often don't want, hot tip--is called yaw. I have heard of yaw but did not recognize it as axial 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. Each was finally ended by a Treaty of Paris. Paris is to peace treaties as Brooklyn is to zines. correct!
