4. Take Me Home, Country Road - John Denver
“When your best friend is the son of God, you get tired of losing every argument.”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
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5. Fred Astaire
Hard work will beat talent, if talent doesn't work hard.
3. Figure skating?
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
4. Take Me Home, Country Road - John Denver
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'29, '40, '74, '76, '79, '02, & '03
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Demi
Short
Tall
Grande
Venti
Trenta
I’ll admit to looking up the right name for that last one. I thought it was Trevino. I drink too much coffee!
What have I got? I got no snacks and I got no respect.
Travis-age 6
2. Tig Notaro
I sorta did that once the ONE time I ever ordered Starbucks.
"I'd like the largest, blackest coffee you have."
They were honestly realllllly confused. I had to repeat myself.
When you tell somebody somethin', it depends on what part of the United States you're standin' in... as to just how dumb you are.
Answers to Friday, May 10, 2024
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Starbucks offers drinks in sizes with six names, ranging from 3 ounces to 30 ounces. Give as many of those six names as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any wrong.
Demi, short, tall, grande, venti, trenta
2. “Boyish Girl Interrupted” is the name of a 2015 stand-up special from what deadpan American comedian?
Tig Notaro
3. Axel Paulsen was a famed athlete and innovator of what sport, which he revolutionized at the national championships in 1882?
Figure skating
(he invented the jump that shares his first name)
4. “Almost Heaven” is a tourism slogan used in West Virginia. What 1971 song does that phrase come from?
“Take Me Home, Country Roads”
(by John Denver)
5. Today is May 10. On this day in 1899, the star of such musicals as “Swing Time,” “Top Hat,” and “Funny Face” was born in Omaha, Nebraska. Name that actor, who was listed at No. 5 on AFI’s ranking of the “Greatest American Screen Legends.”
Fred Astaire
Questions for
Monday, May 13, 2024
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What 1992 Brendan Fraser movie was retitled “California Man” when it was released in Europe?
2. Phylicia Rashad became the first Black woman to win the Tony Award for “Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play” for her 2004 appearance in what Lorraine Hansberry play?
3. A green-labeled drink in the Coca-Cola line of beverages debuted in 2013 and was discontinued in 2020. It had 35 percent fewer calories than regular Coke. What was that drink’s name?
4. The 18th Amendment to the Constitution prohibited the production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors. Who was president at the time it was ratified?
5. The TV series “Veronica Mars” served as a reunion for Alyson Hannigan and Charisma Carpenter, who originally appeared together on what late-’90s WB series?
1. Encino Man
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
3. Coca-Cola Life
5. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
4: Woodrow Wilson
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
Answers to Monday, May 13, 2024
1. What 1992 Brendan Fraser movie was retitled “California Man” when it was released in Europe?
“Encino Man”
2. Phylicia Rashad became the first Black woman to win the Tony Award for “Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play” for her 2004 appearance in what Lorraine Hansberry play?
“A Raisin in the Sun”
3. A green-labeled drink in the Coca-Cola line of beverages debuted in 2013 and was discontinued in 2020. It had 35 percent fewer calories than regular Coke. What was that drink’s name?
Coca-Cola Life
4. The 18th Amendment to the Constitution prohibited the production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors. Who was president at the time it was ratified?
Woodrow Wilson
5. The TV series “Veronica Mars” served as a reunion for Alyson Hannigan and Charisma Carpenter, who originally appeared together on what late-’90s WB series?
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”
Questions for
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What 1993 adventure comedy was subtitled “The Incredible Journey”?
2. In the late 1980s, a retired designer named Sam Farber noticed that his wife's arthritis made using their vegetable peeler difficult. This led him to create what line of kitchen utensils with a palindrome for a name?
3. “What Happened” is a 2017 memoir by what former presidential candidate?
4. If you’re standing at the southernmost latitude where the sun can be directly overhead, you’re standing on what line of latitude?
5. Long before he starred in “The Big Bang Theory,” actor Johnny Galecki played David Healy — the boyfriend who wouldn’t leave, and eventually moves in — on what ABC series?
3. Hillary Clinton
4. Tropic of Capricorn
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
5. Roseanne
2. OXO
1) the sap fest Homeward Bound.
What have I got? I got no snacks and I got no respect.
Travis-age 6
Answers to Tuesday, May 14, 2024
1. What 1993 adventure comedy was subtitled “The Incredible Journey”?
“Homeward Bound”
2. In the late 1980s, a retired designer named Sam Farber noticed that his wife's arthritis made using their vegetable peeler difficult. This led him to create what line of kitchen utensils with a palindrome for a name?
OXO
3. “What Happened” is a 2017 memoir by what former presidential candidate?
Hillary Clinton
4. If you’re standing at the southernmost latitude where the sun can be directly overhead, you’re standing on what line of latitude?
Tropic of Capricorn
5. Long before he starred in “The Big Bang Theory,” actor Johnny Galecki played David Healy — the boyfriend who wouldn’t leave, and eventually moves in — on what ABC series?
“Roseanne”
Questions for
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. The band Dead & Company is set to begin a residency this week at what Las Vegas landmark?
2. Arthur Wellesley was the first Duke of BLANK, who lent his name to his favorite boots, a beef dish, and the capital of an island nation. Fill in that blank!
3. In 1987, an anti-drug PSA titled “Frying Pan” aired for the first time. It was remade 10 years later starring Rachael Leigh Cook. Both versions compared the human brain to what kitchen staple?
4. Three cities in the Piedmont region of the southeastern United States make up an area known as the “Research Triangle” or, simply, “The Triangle.” Raleigh and Durham are two of those cities. Name the third.
5. The world’s first nuclear submarine shared its name with the submarine from “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” as well as a deep-sea cephalopod. Name that ship!
2. Wellington
4. Chapel Hill
3 Egg
5 Nautilus
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
1. The Sphere
When you tell somebody somethin', it depends on what part of the United States you're standin' in... as to just how dumb you are.
Answers to Wednesday, May 15, 2024
1. The band Dead & Company is set to begin a residency this week at what Las Vegas landmark?
The Sphere
2. Arthur Wellesley was the first Duke of BLANK, who lent his name to his favorite boots, a beef dish, and the capital of an island nation. Fill in that blank!
Wellington
3. In 1987, an anti-drug PSA titled “Frying Pan” aired for the first time. It was remade 10 years later starring Rachael Leigh Cook. Both versions compared the human brain to what kitchen staple?
An egg
4. Three cities in the Piedmont region of the southeastern United States make up an area known as the “Research Triangle” or, simply, “The Triangle.” Raleigh and Durham are two of those cities. Name the third.
Chapel Hill
(North Carolina)
5. The world’s first nuclear submarine shared its name with the submarine from “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” as well as a deep-sea cephalopod. Name that ship!
(USS) Nautilus
Questions for
Theme Thursday, May 16, 2024
“P-A-R” For the Course: The PGA Championship is being held this week. Here are five non-golf-related questions whose answers all begin with the letters “P-A-R.”
Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. A sport called goalball has been part of what quadrennial event since 1976?
2. What company’s logo is a painting that many believe depicts a mountain in Utah called Ben Lomond Mountain?
3. What nine-letter word means “extreme unwillingness to spend money”?
4. Freddie Mercury is one of the world's most famous people of what Zoroastrian ethnoreligious group?
5. What athletic activity derives its name from the French for “obstacle course”?
1. Paralympic Games
3. Parsimony
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
3: Parsimony
5: Parkour
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
2. Paramount
4) Parsee, or Persian. He was called a “packy” in the film, a slur against his family.
What have I got? I got no snacks and I got no respect.
Travis-age 6
4) Parsee, or Persian. He was called a “packy” in the film, a slur against his family.
MOST definitely a slur, but IIRC, that slur is mostly contained to European countries/peoples. Not often heard in North America.
When you tell somebody somethin', it depends on what part of the United States you're standin' in... as to just how dumb you are.
Answers to Thursday, May 16, 2024
“P-A-R” For the Course: The PGA Championship is being held this week. Here are five non-golf-related questions whose answers all begin with the letters “P-A-R.”
1. A sport called goalball has been part of what quadrennial event since 1976?
Paralympic Games
2. What company’s logo is a painting that many believe depicts a mountain in Utah called Ben Lomond Mountain?
Paramount
3. What nine-letter word means “extreme unwillingness to spend money”?
“Parsimony”
4. Freddie Mercury is one of the world's most famous people of what Zoroastrian ethnoreligious group?
Parsi
5. What athletic activity derives its name from the French for “obstacle course”?
Parkour
Questions for
Friday, May 17, 2024
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: The four largest global accounting and professional services networks in the world are known colloquially as “the Big Four.” Name as many of these four companies as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.
2. Bicycles used to be known by a Latin term meaning “fast feet.” What is that Latin term?
3. George Washington and his troops spent the Christmas of 1777 at what site, which is now a historical park in Pennsylvania?
4. According to Game Informer magazine, the greatest twist in video game history came at the end of a 1986 game, in which it’s revealed that Samus Aran has been a woman all along. What game was that?
5. Today is May 17. On this day in 1875, the first Kentucky Derby was run at Churchill Downs in what city?
2. Velocipede
3. Valley Forge
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
5 Louisville
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
1. Ernst & Young, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCooper, ???
Deloitte (plus of course back pre-Enron, Arthur Andersen)1. Ernst & Young, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCooper, ???
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
4) I want to say Metoride but I don’t think that’s it. I had a room mate who was obsessed with early video games…back when it was still pretty novel.
What have I got? I got no snacks and I got no respect.
Travis-age 6
Not quite, but pretty close on the name.4) I want to say Metoride but I don’t think that’s it. I had a room mate who was obsessed with early video games…back when it was still pretty novel.
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
Metroid?Not quite, but pretty close on the name.4) I want to say Metoride but I don’t think that’s it. I had a room mate who was obsessed with early video games…back when it was still pretty novel.
When you tell somebody somethin', it depends on what part of the United States you're standin' in... as to just how dumb you are.
Thats it!! I knew I was close.Metroid?Not quite, but pretty close on the name.4) I want to say Metoride but I don’t think that’s it. I had a room mate who was obsessed with early video games…back when it was still pretty novel.
What have I got? I got no snacks and I got no respect.
Travis-age 6
What’s the most populous country to never win an Olympic medal?
BangladeshWhat’s the most populous country to never win an Olympic medal?
What have I got? I got no snacks and I got no respect.
Travis-age 6
Answers to Friday, May 17, 2024
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: The four largest global accounting and professional services networks in the world are known colloquially as “the Big Four.” Name as many of these four companies as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.
Deloitte, EY (Ernst & Young), KPMG, PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers)
2. Bicycles used to be known by a Latin term meaning “fast feet.” What is that Latin term?
Velocipede
3. George Washington and his troops spent the Christmas of 1777 at what site, which is now a historical park in Pennsylvania?
Valley Forge
4. According to Game Informer magazine, the greatest twist in video game history came at the end of a 1986 game, in which it’s revealed that Samus Aran has been a woman all along. What game was that?
“Metroid”
5. Today is Friday, May 17. On this day in 1875, the first Kentucky Derby was run at Churchill Downs in what city?
Louisville
Questions for
Monday, May 20, 2024
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. Jessica Tandy is the oldest actor to win the “Best Actress” Oscar. She won it for her role in what 1989 movie?
2. Hussein, Fitzgerald, Baines, and Milhous are some of the middle names of what group of people?
3. Three Rivers Stadium was a stadium from 1970 to 2000 that served as the home of which MLB team?
4. SARS — severe acute respiratory syndrome — was not actually an influenza virus, but the 2002 outbreak was eventually traced to what cave-dwelling animal?
5. Rembrandt's 1662 painting “The Syndics of the Drapers' Guild” adorns every box of what tobacco product?
2. U.S. Presidents
3. Pittsburgh Pirates
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
1: Driving Miss Daisy
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
4. Bats
5. Dutchmaster's cigars
Hard work will beat talent, if talent doesn't work hard.