Musings of a Dead Parrot

THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS 1.  What word for an order of mammals is also a religious title for the highest-ranking bishop in some country or ...

THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS 1.  What relic was holding an apple in its left hand when peasant Yorgos Kentrotas discovered it on a namesake Aeg...

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 ...

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. ...

THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS 1.  Founded in 1966, RIF is the largest and oldest literacy nonprofit in the U.S.  What do the initials RIF stand ...

THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS 1.  The new book by French economist Thomas Piketty recalls the title of an 1867 text as it considers the implicat...

THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS 1.  What novelist is the subject of 1999's biography Mary Poppins, She Wrote? PL Travers 2.  In 2013, who did ...

THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS 1.  What color is the bullseye in the middle of a competitive archery target?  this gets asked regularly at trivia...