Answers to Thursday, October 17, 2024
Name-Name Game: Five questions about people with duplicate names.
1. What Hungarian socialite was Paris Hilton’s ex-step-great-grandmother, due to her four-year marriage to Conrad Hilton?
Zsa Zsa Gabor
(Correction Corner: Thank you to reader Jim, who noted that Zsa Zsa Gabor and Conrad Hilton were married for five years.)
2. What French-born cello prodigy had performed for presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy by the time he was 7 years old?
Yo-Yo Ma
3. The fifth-highest-paid woman actor in the world in 2016 was also China’s highest-paid actor from 2013 to 2017, according to Forbes. Name that actor, who made her Hollywood debut as Blink in “X-Men: Days of Future Past”!
Fan Bingbing
4. Kofi Annan was the second secretary-general of the United Nations to come from Africa. Who was the first?
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
5. If you’re watching two best friends named Lenny Leonard and Carl Carlson, you’re watching what TV show?
“The Simpsons”
Questions for
Friday, October 18, 2024
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: There are six naturally occurring elements on the periodic table that are classified as noble gasses. Name as many of those elements as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.
2. Russia doesn’t have states. It has 22 republics, nine krais, four okrugs, three federal cities, and 47 of what type of geographic entity — a word typically translated into English as “region” or “province”?
3. Unless you’re an astrophysicist, it’s likely that you’ve only seen radio waves from a pulsar in association with what band, who used a visual representation of those waves as the artwork for their 1979 album “Unknown Pleasures”?
4. What ’90s competitive game show featured a strobe light and glitter-filled mountain named “The Aggro Crag”?
5. Today is October 18. On this day in 1851, Herman Melville published a book in London then titled “the Whale.” By what name is that book more commonly known today?
2 Oblast
5 Moby Dick
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4. Kofi Annan was the second secretary-general of the United Nations to come from Africa. Who was the first?Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Kofi Annan is a Macalester grad.
“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. Helium, Neon, Argon, Xenon, Radon, ???
3. Joy Division
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
I’ll never get that question right because I always convince myself that element doesn’t exist. Stupid comics.
And, I had to check the wording of the question, because there's 7 entries on the table, but Ununoctium isn't naturally occurring.
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4) Nickelodeon Gut
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Answers to Friday, October 18, 2024
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: There are six naturally occurring elements on the periodic table that are classified as noble gasses. Name as many of those elements as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.
Helium (He), Neon (Ne), Argon (Ar), Krypton (Kr), Xenon (Xe), Radon (Rn)
(Oganesson is sometimes considered a noble gas, but is not naturally occurring)
2. Russia doesn’t have states. It has 22 republics, nine krais, four okrugs, three federal cities, and 47 of what type of geographic entity — a word typically translated into English as “region” or “province”?
Oblast
3. Unless you’re an astrophysicist, it’s likely that you’ve only seen radio waves from a pulsar in association with what band, who used a visual representation of those waves as the artwork for their 1979 album “Unknown Pleasures”?
Joy Division
4. What ’90s competitive game show featured a strobe light and glitter-filled mountain named “The Aggro Crag”?
“Nickelodeon Guts” (or just “GUTS”)
5. Today is October 18. On this day in 1851, Herman Melville published a book in London then titled “the Whale.” By what name is that book more commonly known today?
“Moby-Dick”
Questions for
Monday, October 21, 2024
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. A rabbit named Buster, a monkey named Muffy, and a bulldog named Binky are all classmates of what animated title character?
2. Ravens are often seen as a symbol of bad luck in Western culture. In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven,” what is the name of the narrator’s lost love?
3. The McArabia is a sandwich available at McDonald's outlets in some Arab countries. What type of bread is used to make this sandwich?
4. “LDL” and “HDL” are acronyms you might find on a blood test at the doctor’s office measuring what substance in your body?
5. Earl was one of two alien rappers in a 1991 Sega Genesis game. What was the name of his partner?
2) Lenore
3) Pita bread…of course
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4. Cholesterol
“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. Arthur
5. Toejam
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 Monday, October 21, 2024
1. A rabbit named Buster, a monkey named Muffy, and a bulldog named Binky are all classmates of what animated title character?
Arthur
2. Ravens are often seen as a symbol of bad luck in Western culture. In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven,” what is the name of the narrator’s lost love?
Lenore
3. The McArabia is a sandwich available at McDonald's outlets in some Arab countries. What type of bread is used to make this sandwich?
Pita
4. “LDL” and “HDL” are acronyms you might find on a blood test at the doctor’s office measuring what substance in your body?
Cholesterol
5. Earl was one of two alien rappers in a 1991 Sega Genesis game. What was the name of his partner?
ToeJam
Questions for
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. Which is further east: the easternmost point of Japan, or the easternmost point of Australia?
2. What 1984 song — one of the best-selling singles Motown ever released — won the Academy Award for “Best Original Song” because it was written for the Gene Wilder movie “The Woman in Red”?
3. The United States is in second place in the all-time Winter Olympics medal count, with 330 total medals dating back to 1924. What 1994 host country is in first place with 405 medals?
4. Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive,” Rod Stewart’s “Maggie May,” and Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” are all examples of what kind of song hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100?
5. What former PBS television anthology series is noted for its animated opening and closing title sequences, illustrated by cartoonist Edward Gorey?
3 Norway
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4) they are all B-side releases. I remembered that about I Will Survive, her huge hit was the flip side song.
5) PBS Mystery!
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2. I just called to say I love
1. Australia
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
I just called to SAY I love YOU 😉2. I just called to day I love
Your answer reads like a drunk text!
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Answers to Tuesday,
October 22, 2024
1. Which is further east: the easternmost point of Japan, or the easternmost point of Australia?
Australia
2. What 1984 song — one of the best-selling singles Motown ever released — won the Academy Award for “Best Original Song” because it was written for the Gene Wilder movie “The Woman in Red”?
“I Just Called to Say I Love You”
3. The United States is in second place in the all-time Winter Olympics medal count, with 330 total medals dating back to 1924. What 1994 host country is in first place with 405 medals?
Norway
4. Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive,” Rod Stewart’s “Maggie May,” and Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” are all examples of what kind of song hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100?
B-sides
5. What former PBS television anthology series is noted for its animated opening and closing title sequences, illustrated by cartoonist Edward Gorey?
“Mystery!”
Questions for
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. The three races that make up the “Triple Crown of Motorsport” are the Indy 500, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and a Formula One Grand Prix held in what European microstate?
2. A “fifth” is a common quantity of alcohol. What is it a fifth of?
3. Yeardley Smith is one of the few voice actors on “The Simpsons” who only voices one main character. Which character does she voice?
4. When he turned 17, Buddy Valastro inherited a title from his baker father that he later used as the name of his first reality series, which premiered in 2009. What is that title?
5. “Hairy vine, no friend of mine,” and “berries white, run in fright,” are warnings against what natural irritant, which shares its name with an Uma Thurman character?
2. A gallon
3. Bart Simpson
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
1. Monoco
3. Lisa Simpson
“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 Monaco
5 poison ivy
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4. Cake Boss
Answers to Wednesday,
October 23, 2024
1. The three races that make up the “Triple Crown of Motorsport” are the Indy 500, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and a Formula One Grand Prix held in what European microstate?
Monaco
2. A “fifth” is a common quantity of alcohol. What is it a fifth of?
A gallon
3. Yeardley Smith is one of the few voice actors on “The Simpsons” who only voices one main character. Which character does she voice?
Lisa Simpson
4. When he turned 17, Buddy Valastro inherited a title from his baker father that he later used as the name of his first reality series, which premiered in 2009. What is that title?
“Cake Boss”
5. “Hairy vine, no friend of mine,” and “Berries white, run in fright,” are warnings against what natural irritant, which shares its name with an Uma Thurman character?
Poison ivy
Questions for
Theme Thursday, October 24, 2024
Sounds “Sus”: All answers this round will sound “sus” — meaning they each contain the letters “S-U-S” in that order.
Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What Roman statesman joined Caesar and Pompey in the political alliance known as the First Triumvirate?
2. In 2014, a 29-year-old woman named Kate Brandt made history when she was appointed the United States' first federal chief BLANK officer. Fill in that blank.
3. The first primate in space was sent on a sub-orbital flight in 1949. What kind of monkey was it?
4. Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton starred in a 2018 remake of what classic 1977 Italian horror film?
5. The area between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea is home to what mountain range?
3 Rhesus
5 Caucasus
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4) Suspiria
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1. Crassus
Hard work will beat talent, if talent doesn't work hard.
2. Sustainability
Answers to Thursday,
October 24, 2024
Sounds “Sus”: All answers this round will sound “sus” — meaning they each contain the letters “S-U-S” in that order.
1. What Roman statesman joined Caesar and Pompey in the political alliance known as the First Triumvirate?
Crassus
2. In 2014, a 29-year-old woman named Kate Brandt made history when she was appointed the United States' first federal chief BLANK officer. Fill in that blank.
Sustainability
3. The first primate in space was sent on a sub-orbital flight in 1949. What kind of monkey was it?
Rhesus (macaque)
4. Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton starred in a 2018 remake of what classic 1977 Italian horror film?
“Suspiria”
5. The area between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea is home to what mountain range?
Caucasus
Questions for
Friday, October 25, 2024
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Four U.S. presidents have won the Nobel Peace Prize. Name as many of those presidents as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.
2. The characters played by Matt Damon and Awkwafina in the “Ocean's” movie franchise are both skilled in what crime?
3. A Brooklyn basketball arena takes its name from what England-based bank, founded in the late 17th century by two goldsmith bankers on London’s Lombard Street?
4. In what post-apocalyptic country do the “Mad Max” films take place, following the Water Wars and the Oil Wars?
5. Today is October 25. On this day in 1984, what “Woman’s World” pop singer was born?
2 Picking pockets
3 Barclay's
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1. Wilson, Carter, Obama, ???
3. Barclays
“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. Australia
Answers to Friday, October 25, 2024
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Four U.S. presidents have won the Nobel Peace Prize. Name as many of those presidents as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.
Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt
2. The characters played by Matt Damon and Awkwafina in the “Ocean's” movie franchise are both skilled in what crime?
Pickpocketing
3. A Brooklyn basketball arena takes its name from what England-based bank, founded in the late 17th century by two goldsmith bankers on London’s Lombard Street?
Barclays
4. In what post-apocalyptic country do the “Mad Max” films take place, following the Water Wars and the Oil Wars?
Australia
5. Today is October 25. On this day in 1984, what “Woman’s World” pop singer was born?
Katy Perry
Questions for
Monday, October 28, 2024
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What chemical compound, which is prevalent in seawater and formerly used in sedatives, shares its name with a trite or cliché phrase?
2. Approximately two-thirds of Puerto Rico’s population live in the metro area of what city?
3. Africa’s first elected woman head-of-state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, was sworn in as the president of what country in 2006?
4. The American Revolution officially ended in 1783 with a treaty between Great Britain and the United States. It was named after the European city in which it was signed. Name that city!
5. What jazz pianist and prolific composer appears on Washington, D.C.’s commemorative quarter?
2 San Juan
4 Paris
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
1. Bromide
5) Duke Ellington
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3. Liberia
Retta (Ruby in Good Girls, Donna in Parks & Rec) is her niece.
“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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Answers to Monday, October 28, 2024
1. What chemical compound, which is prevalent in seawater and formerly used in sedatives, shares its name with a trite or cliché phrase?
Bromide
2. Approximately two-thirds of Puerto Rico’s population live in the metro area of what city?
San Juan
3. Africa’s first elected woman head-of-state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, was sworn in as the president of what country in 2006?
Liberia
4. The American Revolution officially ended in 1783 with a treaty between Great Britain and the United States. It was named after the European city in which it was signed. Name that city!
Paris
5. What jazz pianist and prolific composer appears on Washington, D.C.’s commemorative quarter?
Duke Ellington