Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Ken Jennings Tuesday Trivia - January 18
THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. Who is the only Catholic saint to have been excommunicated by the church? Did the excommunication come before or after the sainthood? Who would have done something so heinous as to be excommunicated? Someone from the Reformation like Martin Luther or Henry VIII? I like this question, but no one comes to mind immediately.
2. Instead of the standard "IV," how is the number 4 typically represented in Roman numerals on clock faces? Must be IIII. Are there any other possible answers?
3. The house in which Bob Dylan recorded his "Basement Tapes" famously had siding of what color? The Band recorded the Basement Tapes with Dylan. Is this the reference from the album by The Band about the Big Pink?
4. What one-named celebrity recently "wrote" her first novel, titled A Shore Thing? Snookie
5. What is far and away the world's largest archipelagic (island) nation, at over 735,000 square miles? archipelagic island nation? Indonesia occupies a lot of islands, including some big ones.
6. What word in the title of a recent hit film is a computer term referring to outdated systems that nevertheless stay in use? The spirit of KJ TT says that you are not supposed to do research for Q1-6. But I am really tempted here. Kludge? Legacy? I wonder if this is another of those terms that he claims are common jargon but which I have never heard . . .Strike that last part. I just went the Arclight and realized that Tron: Legacy fits. If at first you don't succeed, tron, tron again.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these U.S. states, listed in this order? Delaware, Ohio, Hawaii, New York, New York, Texas, the District of Columbia, Colorado, Iowa, Washington. An eccentric grouping. NY listed twice. Includes Delaware and DC which make me think of something related to politics.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. The Barents and Beaufort Seas are part of which ocean? Located north of Russia and Canada, respectively, these two seas are part of the Arctic Ocean. correct
2. What singer has had two of his biggest hits legislatively proposed as new state songs for Colorado and West Virginia, respectively? The late John Denver, with the songs "Rocky Mountain High" and "Take Me Home Country Roads." I wonder if my native Washington State ever thought of switching over to "Leaving on a Jet Plane" in honor of Boeing. correct
3. What term for a chemical alkane usually refers to kerosene in the United Kingdom, but to a kind of wax in the U.S.? The Brits call kerosene "paraffin," which presumably means that wax lips in that country taste REALLY gross. correct
4. What annual event was informally dubbed, in its 2005 incarnation, the "Sidney Crosby Sweepstakes"? Current Penguins superstar Sidney Crosby was the NHL's hottest prospect that year; his sweepstakes was the draft lottery. (We accepted any hockey draft-related answer.) correct
5. In 1820, a British smuggler named Johnstone offered, for 40,000 pounds, to build a submarine and rescue what man from the South Atlantic? Johnstone offered the French to get Napoleon away from his exile on St. Helena, but the scheme never came to fruition. Good one, Alex
6. What Oscar-winning film originated in a 1976 script called "The Cut-Whore Killings"? By the time it finally got made over a decade later, it had been renamed Unforgiven, since movies without "Whore" in the title tend to have greatest commercial success. Ah, yes. The "other" movie besides LA Confidential about cut-whores and killings.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these famous people? Gary Cooper, Xavier Cugat, Marcel Duchamp, Dave Eggers, Federico Fellini, Fred Gwynne, Hugh Hefner, Emmett Kelly, Martin Landau, John Updike. A toughie: all these luminaries were aspiring cartoonists before they achieved fame in other fields. it is so tough that it is not even that interesting to know
1. Who is the only Catholic saint to have been excommunicated by the church? Did the excommunication come before or after the sainthood? Who would have done something so heinous as to be excommunicated? Someone from the Reformation like Martin Luther or Henry VIII? I like this question, but no one comes to mind immediately.
2. Instead of the standard "IV," how is the number 4 typically represented in Roman numerals on clock faces? Must be IIII. Are there any other possible answers?
3. The house in which Bob Dylan recorded his "Basement Tapes" famously had siding of what color? The Band recorded the Basement Tapes with Dylan. Is this the reference from the album by The Band about the Big Pink?
4. What one-named celebrity recently "wrote" her first novel, titled A Shore Thing? Snookie
5. What is far and away the world's largest archipelagic (island) nation, at over 735,000 square miles? archipelagic island nation? Indonesia occupies a lot of islands, including some big ones.
6. What word in the title of a recent hit film is a computer term referring to outdated systems that nevertheless stay in use? The spirit of KJ TT says that you are not supposed to do research for Q1-6. But I am really tempted here. Kludge? Legacy? I wonder if this is another of those terms that he claims are common jargon but which I have never heard . . .Strike that last part. I just went the Arclight and realized that Tron: Legacy fits. If at first you don't succeed, tron, tron again.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these U.S. states, listed in this order? Delaware, Ohio, Hawaii, New York, New York, Texas, the District of Columbia, Colorado, Iowa, Washington. An eccentric grouping. NY listed twice. Includes Delaware and DC which make me think of something related to politics.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. The Barents and Beaufort Seas are part of which ocean? Located north of Russia and Canada, respectively, these two seas are part of the Arctic Ocean. correct
2. What singer has had two of his biggest hits legislatively proposed as new state songs for Colorado and West Virginia, respectively? The late John Denver, with the songs "Rocky Mountain High" and "Take Me Home Country Roads." I wonder if my native Washington State ever thought of switching over to "Leaving on a Jet Plane" in honor of Boeing. correct
3. What term for a chemical alkane usually refers to kerosene in the United Kingdom, but to a kind of wax in the U.S.? The Brits call kerosene "paraffin," which presumably means that wax lips in that country taste REALLY gross. correct
4. What annual event was informally dubbed, in its 2005 incarnation, the "Sidney Crosby Sweepstakes"? Current Penguins superstar Sidney Crosby was the NHL's hottest prospect that year; his sweepstakes was the draft lottery. (We accepted any hockey draft-related answer.) correct
5. In 1820, a British smuggler named Johnstone offered, for 40,000 pounds, to build a submarine and rescue what man from the South Atlantic? Johnstone offered the French to get Napoleon away from his exile on St. Helena, but the scheme never came to fruition. Good one, Alex
6. What Oscar-winning film originated in a 1976 script called "The Cut-Whore Killings"? By the time it finally got made over a decade later, it had been renamed Unforgiven, since movies without "Whore" in the title tend to have greatest commercial success. Ah, yes. The "other" movie besides LA Confidential about cut-whores and killings.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these famous people? Gary Cooper, Xavier Cugat, Marcel Duchamp, Dave Eggers, Federico Fellini, Fred Gwynne, Hugh Hefner, Emmett Kelly, Martin Landau, John Updike. A toughie: all these luminaries were aspiring cartoonists before they achieved fame in other fields. it is so tough that it is not even that interesting to know
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#1 is Joan of Arc, #2 is III (because James V didn't even want an I to stand before him), #3 is pink. I think # is the list of states to raise their minimum wages.
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