Questions for
Friday, September 27, 2024Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: The 2016 reboot of “Ghostbusters” directed by Paul Feig stars four comedic actors that have received Emmy nominations for their acting work on “Saturday Night Live,” either as regular cast members or as host. Name as many of those actors as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.
2. What chef, the first to sell bottled stir-fry sauces in the U.S., also came up with the idea of a numbered menu to allow for easier communication between English-speaking and non-English speaking customers and staff at her Cambridge, Massachusetts restaurants?
3. Pop fans know Troye Sivan for hits like “My My My!” and “One of Your Girls.” Comics fans may know him from a 2009 role as the young version of James Howlett, better known as what superhero?
4. In physics, mass times acceleration equals force. What is obtained by multiplying mass times velocity?
5. Today is September 27. On this day in 1954, Steve Allen debuted as the host of what long-running TV program?
5. The Tonight Show
“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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4: Momentum
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
2) Joyce Chen
3) he was the young Wolverine
Note: Due to inflation dirty deeds will no longer be done dirt cheap.
1. Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones.
Answers to Friday, September 27, 2024
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: The 2016 reboot of “Ghostbusters” directed by Paul Feig stars four comedic actors that have received Emmy nominations for their acting work on “Saturday Night Live,” either as regular cast members or as host. Name as many of those actors as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.
Leslie Jones, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig
2. What chef, the first to sell bottled stir-fry sauces in the U.S., also came up with the idea of a numbered menu to allow for easier communication between English-speaking and non-English-speaking customers and staff at her Cambridge, Massachusetts restaurants?
Joyce Chen
3. Pop fans know Troye Sivan for hits like “My My My!” and “One of Your Girls.” Comics fans may know him from a 2009 role as the young version of James Howlett, better known as what superhero?
Wolverine (Logan)
4. In physics, mass times acceleration equals force. What is obtained by multiplying mass times velocity?
Momentum
5. Today is September 27. On this day in 1954, Steve Allen debuted as the host of what long-running TV program?
“The Tonight Show”
Questions for
Monday, September 30, 2024
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. Last week, bidding commenced online for an iconic baseball that was used in the 50th home run hit this season from which L.A. Dodger?
2. Following his 19th-century roaming to cities such as Adelaide, Petersburg, and Oodnadatta, the collar of folk hero Bob the Railway Dog is on display in what country’s National Railway Museum?
3. Given her first name, it’s fitting that actor January Jones portrayed what character in the movie “X-Men: First Class”?
4. “Find Your Magic” and “Spray More, Get More” are campaign slogans that have been used for what brand of deodorant?
5. True or false: Leonardo da Vinci and William Shakespeare were alive at the same time.
1.Shohei Ohtani
2 Australia
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
3. Emma Frost
5. False
4) Axe body spray. God, spray more must be the mantra of every teenage boy I’ve ever had the misfortune of being next too. I told my nephew one time up at our cabin…more Axe does not take the place of a shower 🤢
Note: Due to inflation dirty deeds will no longer be done dirt cheap.
Answers to Monday, September 30, 2024
1. Last week, bidding commenced online for an iconic baseball that was used in the 50th home run hit this season from which L.A. Dodger?
Shohei Ohtani
2. Following his 19th-century roaming to cities such as Adelaide, Petersburg, and Oodnadatta, the collar of folk hero Bob the Railway Dog is on display in what country’s National Railway Museum?
Australia
3. Given her first name, it’s fitting that actor January Jones portrayed what character in the movie “X-Men: First Class”?
Emma Frost
4. “Find Your Magic” and “Spray More, Get More” were campaign slogans for what brand of deodorant?
Axe (or Lynx)
5. True or false: Leonardo da Vinci and William Shakespeare were alive at the same time.
False
(Da Vinci died in 1519; Shakespeare was born in 1564)
Questions for
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. A “sociable” (or “side-by-side”) is a version of what kind of vehicle, which places its passengers beside each other, as opposed to the “tandem” variant?
2. The Gulf of Oman, the Kavir Desert, and Mount Damavand are all sites you might see on a visit to what country, the sixth largest in Asia by area?
3. On what website, aka “The Front Page of the Internet,” will you commonly find acronyms such as “AMA,” “TIL,” “AITA,” and “ELI5”?
4. The 1998 Tommy Lee Jones film “U.S. Marshals” is a sequel to what 1993 movie about an escaped con?
5. Internet users in Japan set a record during a 2013 TV broadcast of the animated movie “Castle in the Sky” by sending out 143,199 what per second?
4. The Fugitive
“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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2. Iran
3 Reddit
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
1) motorcycle
5) Tweets
Note: Due to inflation dirty deeds will no longer be done dirt cheap.
Answers to Tuesday, October 1, 2024
1. A “sociable” (or “side-by-side”) is a version of what kind of vehicle, which places its passengers beside each other, as opposed to the “tandem” variant?
Bicycle
2. The Gulf of Oman, the Kavir Desert, and Mount Damavand are all sites you might see on a visit to what country, the sixth largest in Asia by area?
Iran
3. On what website, aka “The Front Page of the Internet,” will you commonly find acronyms such as “AMA,” “TIL,” “AITA,” and “ELI5”?
4. The 1998 Tommy Lee Jones film “U.S. Marshals” is a sequel to what 1993 movie about an escaped con?
“The Fugitive”
5. Internet users in Japan set a record during a 2013 TV broadcast of the animated movie “Castle in the Sky” by sending out 143,199 what per second?
Tweets
Questions for
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. The Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area flows through eight counties in which U.S. state?
2. When the United States’ first self-service grocery opened in 1916, the store’s founder would be asked why he gave it the name he did. He would answer, “So people will ask that very question.” Name that rhyming store!
3. There are two kinds of domesticated camel: the dromedary and the Bactrian. Which is the two-humped kind?
4. It’s either a Chevrolet model manufactured from 1987 to 1996, or it’s the island birthplace of Napoleon. What is it?
5. What nickname was given to NBA player David Robinson as he played his pre-NBA basketball at the U.S. Naval Academy?
4. Corsica (Awful car!)
5. The Admiral
“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 Bactrian
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
1. Pennsylvania?
2. Piggly Wiggly?
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
3. Bactrian because B has two humps and D has one hump 😅
“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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1. Pennsylvania?
2. Piggly Wiggly?
My guesses, too.
I looked #1 up after I answered - Pennsylvania is correct. So, if Piggly Wiggly is correct, I knew the answers to all five questions today. I think that's the first time that's ever happened (for me, anyway).
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
4. Corsica (Awful car!)
5. The Admiral
I loved the Corsica! That car lasted through anything. Sold my first one to my brother when I got a new one, and when he got his truck, he sold Corsica1 to a buddy of his. Last we heard (obv this was decades ago), Corsica1 had topped 300K miles.
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.
4. Corsica (Awful car!)
5. The Admiral
I loved the Corsica! That car lasted through anything. Sold my first one to my brother when I got a new one, and when he got his truck, he sold Corsica1 to a buddy of his. Last we heard (obv this was decades ago), Corsica1 had topped 300K miles.
They lacked sex appeal, but they were actually pretty zippy for the time if you got a four speed auto, even more so if you managed to snag a 5 speed manual. Sub 10 second 0-60 was quick in the late 80s - early 90s, only really found on cars more than twice the price. They were also incredibly simple and easy to work on.
GM raked in the $$$ on cars like that and the Beretta back then. 10 year model run + No significant updates = Profit.
I always think of the scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and the fake Piggly Wiggly trucks. So ambiguous the government used them for covert operations 🤣2. Piggly Wiggly?
Note: Due to inflation dirty deeds will no longer be done dirt cheap.
Answers to Wednesday,
October 2, 2024
1. The Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area flows through eight counties in which U.S. state?
Pennsylvania
2. When the United States’ first self-service grocery opened in 1916, the store’s founder would be asked why he gave it the name he did. He would answer, “So people will ask that very question.” Name that rhyming store!
Piggly Wiggly
3. There are two kinds of domesticated camel: the dromedary and the Bactrian. Which is the two-humped kind?
Bactrian
4. It’s either a Chevrolet model manufactured from 1987 to 1996, or it’s the island birthplace of Napoleon. What is it?
Corsica
5. What nickname was given to NBA player David Robinson as he played his pre-NBA basketball at the U.S. Naval Academy?
The Admiral
Questions for
Theme Thursday, October 3, 2024
A Movie Most Fowl: Here are five questions about terrible films with an avian connection!
Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What 1986 box office bomb was the first theatrically released live-action Marvel adaptation, just barely making back its budget?
2. Though it became a sleeper hit at the box office, most reviews of “The Purge” were just as dark as the film itself. What Oscar-nominated actor and screenwriter starred in it as James Sandin?
3. What 1963 film’s sequel, released on Showtime in 1994 and subtitled “Land’s End,” was described as an embarrassment by actor Tippi Hedren, who appeared in both the sequel and the original?
4. Disney’s first-ever fully computer-animated film was also one of its worst received. What 2005 movie didn’t inspire critics, but did inspire Disney to purchase Pixar the next year?
5. What actor, better known for her TV roles in “Head of the Class” and “Riverdale,” has appeared in such poorly reviewed films as “Head of State,” “The Family that Preys,” and “God’s Not Dead 2”?
5. Robin Givens
“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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1) Howard the Duck
2) Ethan Hawke.
I’m embarrassed to admit I can answer all 5 of these bad film questions lol.
Note: Due to inflation dirty deeds will no longer be done dirt cheap.
I’m embarrassed to admit I can answer all 5 of these bad film questions lol.
LOL....I figured you were all over today's questions!
“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 Birds
4: Chicken Little
(helps to remember to read the theme before answering 
)
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
Answers to Thursday, October 3, 2024
A Movie Most Fowl: Here are five questions about terrible films with an avian connection!
1. What 1986 box office bomb was the first theatrically released live-action Marvel adaptation, just barely making back its budget?
“Howard the Duck”
2. Though it became a sleeper hit at the box office, most reviews of “The Purge” were just as dark as the film itself. What Oscar-nominated actor and screenwriter starred in it as James Sandin?
Ethan Hawke
3. What 1963 film’s sequel, released on Showtime in 1994 and subtitled “Land’s End,” was described as an embarrassment by actor Tippi Hedren, who appeared in both the sequel and the original?
“The Birds”
4. Disney’s first-ever fully computer-animated film was also one of its worst received. What 2005 movie didn’t inspire critics, but did inspire Disney to purchase Pixar the next year?
“Chicken Little”
5. What actor, better known for her TV roles in “Head of the Class” and “Riverdale,” has appeared in such poorly reviewed films as “Head of State,” “The Family that Preys,” and “God’s Not Dead 2”?
Robin Givens
Questions for
Friday, October 4, 2024
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Hollywood heartthrob Glen Powell has acted in four movies since his breakthrough role in 2022’s “Top Gun: Maverick.” Name as many of these films as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.
2. Daniel Inouye served as the president pro tempore of the Senate from 2010 until his death in 2012. That made him the highest-ranking Asian American politician in U.S. history before 2021, when that distinction was given to whom?
3. If you are a “cruciverbalist,” how do you enjoy spending your free time?
4, The first women’s rights convention in the U.S. was held in 1848 in what tiny, upstate New York town?
5. Today is October 4. On this day in 1941, horror author Anne Rice was born. Among her most notable works is what 1976 book that launched her best-selling “Chronicles” series and was adapted to film in 1994?
3 Doing crosswords
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
5. Interview with the Vampire
2. Guessing Kamala Harris
Hitman, Twisters, than one with Sidney Sweeney
4. Seneca Falls
1) Hitman, Twisters, Devotion, Anyone but You
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