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
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
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