Answers to Monday, July 1, 2024
1. The corporate headquarters of Waffle House, Home Depot, and Delta Air Lines are all located in which state?
Georgia
2. What author was 16 years old when he had a daydream about a half-man, half-goat creature carrying a bundle of packages through the woods on a snowy day — an image he kept with him for decades, before finally writing it into a story at age 40?
C.S. Lewis
(“The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”)
3. The Straits of Mackinac is a body of water that separates the upper and lower parts of which state?
Michigan
4. In 1894, the U.S. Congress declared what holiday to honor the American worker, exactly 63 days from today?
Labor Day
5. In a 1997 NBA game, Violet Palmer became the first woman ever to perform what job at the highest level of a major U.S. professional sports league?
Referee
Questions for
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What catchphrase of Ed McMahon’s was uttered with a creepy cadence by Jack Nicholson in a 1980 film?
2. “Apocalypse Now,” “The Deer Hunter,” and “Platoon” all take place during what international conflict?
3. Former Hollywood stunt performer David Leitch directed Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling in what 2024 action comedy, loosely based on a 1980s TV series?
4. For the first official NBA game in 1946, the New York Knicks traveled northwest to take on the Huskies, a team that folded at the end of the season. Name their city, which wouldn’t get another NBA team until 1995.
5. In the 12th century, the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca peoples came together under the name Haudenosaunee, or "people of the longhouse." To colonialists, they were known as the "Five Nations" or the "BLANK Confederacy." Fill in that blank.
1. Here's Johnny!
2. Vietnam War
“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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3. "The Fall Guy"
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
4. Toronto
5. Iroquois
Answers to Tuesday, July 2, 2024
1. What catchphrase of Ed McMahon’s was uttered with a creepy cadence by Jack Nicholson in a 1980 film?
“Here’s Johnny!”
(“The Shining”)
2. “Apocalypse Now,” “The Deer Hunter,” and “Platoon” all take place during what international conflict?
Vietnam War
3. Former Hollywood stunt performer David Leitch directed Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling in what 2024 action comedy, loosely based on a 1980s TV series?
“The Fall Guy”
4. For the first official NBA game in 1946, the New York Knicks traveled northwest to take on the Huskies, a team that folded at the end of the season. Name their city, which wouldn’t get another NBA team until 1995.
Toronto
5. In the 12th century, the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca peoples came together under the name Haudenosaunee, or "people of the longhouse." To colonialists, they were known as the "Five Nations" or the "BLANK Confederacy." Fill in that blank.
Iroquois
Questions for
Theme… Wednesday? July 3, 2024
OK, Boomer: There’s no newsletter tomorrow for the Fourth of July, so we’re bringing you Theme Thursday a day early with five questions about fireworks around the world!
Answers in Friday’s email.
1. The earliest known firecrackers were rolled sheets of paper containing gunpowder and a fuse. Gunpowder is known as one of the “Four Great Inventions” of what ancient civilization?
2. One of the United States' largest annual fireworks displays draws around 650,000 visitors to Louisville in late April as a lead-up to what event?
3. A highlight of the nightly fireworks display at Disney World is a 750-foot flight from Cinderella Castle to Tomorrowland by what J.M. Barrie character?
4. The video for the Katy Perry song “Firework” was filmed in the capital of Hungary. What city is that?
5. People in the U.K. shoot off fireworks on November 5 to celebrate the foiling of a plot to kill King James I in 1605. What would-be assassin is the namesake of this holiday?
2. Kentucky Derby
3. Peter Pan
Hard work will beat talent, if talent doesn't work hard.
4. Budapest
5. Guy Fawkes
1. China
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
Answers to Wednesday, July 3, 2024
OK, Boomer: Five questions about fireworks around the world.
1. The earliest known firecrackers were rolled sheets of paper containing gunpowder and a fuse. Gunpowder is known as one of the “Four Great Inventions” of what ancient civilization?
China
(The other inventions are papermaking, printing, and the compass)
2. One of the United States' largest annual fireworks displays draws around 650,000 visitors to Louisville in late April as a lead-up to what event?
Kentucky Derby
3. A highlight of the nightly fireworks display at Disney World is a 750-foot flight from Cinderella Castle to Tomorrowland by what J.M. Barrie character?
Tinker Bell
4. The video for the Katy Perry song “Firework” was filmed in the capital of Hungary. What city is that?
Budapest
5. People in the U.K. shoot off fireworks on November 5 to celebrate the foiling of a plot to kill King James I in 1605. What would-be assassin is the namesake of this holiday?
Guy Fawkes
Questions for
Friday, July 5, 2024
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: There are five types of ships you must sink to win a game of Battleship. Name as many of those ships as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any wrong.
2. “Symbology” is a made-up academic discipline studied by Robert Langdon in “The Da Vinci Code.” Who wrote that book?
3. In a 2012 CBS series, Lucy Liu began appearing in a role that has, for the most part, been depicted as a man since the character’s 1887 debut. What is that character's surname?
4. An “event horizon” is known in astrophysics as the boundary of what mysterious cosmic object that shares a name with a 1995 graphic novel by Charles Burns?
5. Today is July 5. On this day in 2009, what tennis player won a record-setting 15th Grand Slam singles title as he defeated Andy Roddick at the Wimbledon Championships?
1 Submarine, Destroyer, cruiser, carrier, battleship
2 Dan Brown
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
3. Watson
4. Black hole
1 Submarine, Destroyer, cruiser, carrier, battleship
This might be a tricky one. I think these were renamed at some point. I remember playing with my then 10 year old nephew (now deployed on a submarine, funnily enough) and there was no cruiser. Instead the destroyer was a three square piece and the two square piece was now called a patrol boat.
I went with the version I grew up with, but, you're correct, they did shuffle that in 20021 Submarine, Destroyer, cruiser, carrier, battleship
This might be a tricky one. I think these were renamed at some point. I remember playing with my then 10 year old nephew (now deployed on a submarine, funnily enough) and there was no cruiser. Instead the destroyer was a three square piece and the two square piece was now called a patrol boat.
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
5. Roger Federer