4. Mac and Me
1) Avatar
2) Hunger Games…a complete rip off of Battle Royale
When people tell me I’ll regret not having kids, I say that’s okay I know a really good place to cry. It’s my vacation home.
Your definition of sequel is too narrow. Think of the Jurassic Park films, technically sequels but different characters, different timeframes.Using the word "sequel" is not appropriate, IMO, even when paired with "unofficial."
When people tell me I’ll regret not having kids, I say that’s okay I know a really good place to cry. It’s my vacation home.
5. Rear Window
Recently watched this again. I don’t think another human could ever be as stunning as Grace Kelly in this movie.
5. Rear Window
Recently watched this again. I don’t think another human could ever be as stunning as Grace Kelly in this movie.
My wife and I just watched this movie along with 'To Catch a Thief' after we visited Monaco earlier this year. Grace Kelly is stunning in both films. Great movies too
'29, '40, '74, '76, '79, '02, & '03
GPL's Resident Cabin Enthusiast & Cadets Hockey Fan
5. Rear Window
Recently watched this again. I don’t think another human could ever be as stunning as Grace Kelly in this movie.
When he awakens from his nap to find her over him, the camera switches to his point of view for a magical cinematic moment.
Rear Window is a masterpiece. Or Grace in High Society! Another classic I love is Roman Holiday. Romantic, funny, it has all the touch points.
When people tell me I’ll regret not having kids, I say that’s okay I know a really good place to cry. It’s my vacation home.
Answers to Thursday, November 14, 2024
Movie Plot Deja Vu: Five questions about movies whose plots were wholesale rip-offs of other movies.
1. What 2009 “Best Picture” nominee was accused by numerous film critics of ripping off the plot of “FernGully”?
“Avatar”
2. The plot of what blockbuster film series bears an awfully close resemblance to a Japanese horror movie from 2000 called “Battle Royale”?
“The Hunger Games”
3. What 2006 Pixar movie was accused of ripping off its plot from the 1991 Michael J. Fox classic “Doc Hollywood”?
“Cars”
4. What “E.T.” rip-off bombed at the box office when it was released in 1988, and is more notorious today for being the subject of a running gag whenever Paul Rudd does an interview with Conan O’Brien?
“Mac and Me”
5. DreamWorks was sued in 2008 by a group claiming the movie “Disturbia” was an unlicensed adaptation of a short story called “It Had To Be Murder.” What 1954 movie was also based on this short story?
“Rear Window”
Questions for
Friday, November 15, 2024
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: In the past 10 years, five women have been nominated for “Best Director” at the Academy Awards. Name as many of those directors as you can (including the two that won the award) for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.
2. What 18th-century American newspaper publisher wrote a series of popular gossip and advice columns under a variety of pen names, including Silence Dogood and “The Busy-Body”?
3. On what piece of clothing will you find an aglet?
4. Batman's butler is named Alfred. What is his last name?
5. Yesterday was November 14. On that day in 1840, painter Claude Monet was born. He was best known for spearheading what artistic movement, characterized by visible brushstrokes and spontaneously recording contemporary life and the ephemeral nature of light?
3 Shoes (the laces in particular)
4 Pennyworth
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
2. Ben Franklin
5. Impressionism
“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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Greta Gerwig for Ladybird
Chloe Zhao for Nomadland- Won
Emerald Fennell for Promising Young Woman
Jane Champion for Power of the Dog- Won
Justine Triet for Anatomy of a Fall
When people tell me I’ll regret not having kids, I say that’s okay I know a really good place to cry. It’s my vacation home.
Answers to Friday, November 15, 2024
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: In the past 10 years, five women have been nominated for “Best Director” at the Academy Awards. Name as many of those directors as you can (including the two that won the award) for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.
Jane Campion, Emerald Fennell, Greta Gerwig, Justine Triet, Chloé Zhao
2. What 18th-century American newspaper publisher wrote a series of popular gossip and advice columns under a variety of pen names, including Silence Dogood and “The Busy-Body”?
Benjamin Franklin
3. On what piece of clothing will you find an aglet?
Your shoes/shoelaces
(OR hoodie, sweatpants, anything with a drawstring. It’s the piece of plastic or metal on the end)
4. Batman's butler is named Alfred. What is his last name?
Pennyworth
5. Yesterday was November 14. On that day in 1840, painter Claude Monet was born. He was best known for spearheading what artistic movement, characterized by visible brushstrokes and spontaneously recording contemporary life and the ephemeral nature of light?
Impressionism
Questions for
Monday, November 18, 2024
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. Netflix experienced an outage last Friday night while streaming a hotly anticipated fight between YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul and what heavyweight?
2. Singer Tessanne Chin impressed Adam Levine and topped the iTunes sales charts with her performance of “Bridge Over Troubled Water” on a 2013 episode of what reality competition show?
3. What manmade waterway reduced the shipping distance between the United Kingdom and India almost by half when it opened in 1869?
4. "The Custom-House" is an introductory section to what Nathaniel Hawthorne novel?
5. The maxilla and the mandible are the upper and lower components of what part of the body?
3. Suez Canal
4. The Scarlet Letter
“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. The jaw.
1. Netflix experienced an outage last Friday night while streaming a hotly anticipated fight between YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul and what heavyweight?
1. 2020s Mikle Tyson and 1980s bandwidth
“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: The Voice
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
Answers to Monday, November 18, 2024
1. Netflix experienced an outage last Friday night while streaming a hotly anticipated fight between YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul and what heavyweight?
Mike Tyson
2. Singer Tessanne Chin impressed Adam Levine and topped the iTunes sales charts with her performance of “Bridge Over Troubled Water” on a 2013 episode of what reality competition show?
“The Voice”
3. What manmade waterway reduced the shipping distance between the United Kingdom and India almost by half when it opened in 1869?
Suez Canal
4. "The Custom-House" is an introductory section to what Nathaniel Hawthorne novel?
“The Scarlet Letter”
5. The maxilla and the mandible are the upper and lower components of what part of the body?
Jaw
Questions for
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. Which Ernest Hemingway novel, which shares a title with a Metallica track, is about a dynamiter in the Spanish Civil War named Robert Jordan?
2. This year was the 70th anniversary of a catch made in Game 1 of the World Series that is now known simply as “The Catch.” Name the New York Giants center fielder who made “The Catch.”
3. Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed the country’s first national monument in 1906. It is located in Wyoming, and its Lakota name means “bear lodge.” Under what name was it designated a national monument?
4. What adjective, which comes from the Latin for “footprints” by way of French, refers to parts of the human body that are remnants of evolutionary history, such as the coccyx in humans?
5. What school has won the NCAA D1 women’s basketball tournament 10 times since 2000?
2. Willie Mays
3. Devil's Tower
1 For whom the bell tolls
5 UConn
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
4. vestige
Hard work will beat talent, if talent doesn't work hard.
“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 Tuesday, November 19, 2024
1. What Ernest Hemingway novel, which shares a title with a Metallica track, is about a dynamiter in the Spanish Civil War named Robert Jordan?
“For Whom the Bell Tolls”
2. This year was the 70th anniversary of a catch made in Game 1 of the World Series that is now known simply as “The Catch.” Name the New York Giants center fielder who made “The Catch.”
Willie Mays
3. Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed the country’s first national monument in 1906. It is located in Wyoming, and its Lakota name means “bear lodge.” Under what name was it designated a national monument?
Devils Tower
4. What adjective, which comes from the Latin for “footprints” by way of French, refers to parts of the human body that are remnants of evolutionary history, such as the coccyx in humans?
Vestigial
5. What school has won the NCAA D1 women’s basketball tournament 10 times since 2000?
University of Connecticut
Questions for
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. In 2017, The New York Times reported the wedding of a New York woman who, when she met her future husband, was unaware that he was actually an African prince. This is eerily similar to the plot of what 1988 movie?
2. The country singer and guitarist famous for such recordings as “Rhinestone Cowboy” and “Wichita Lineman” passed away in 2017 at age 81. Name him!
3. Bagatelle is a tabletop game invented in King Louis XIV’s court that involves getting billiard balls past a series of wooden pins. It’s the inspiration for both pinball and what “The Price Is Right” game?
4. A video-sharing website launched in 2017, a funk band fronted by vocalist Larry Blackmon, and a style of carved jewelry all share what name?
5. True or false: Major League Baseball umpires have uniform numbers.
1. Coming to America
3. Plinko ??
“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. Glen Campbell
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
5. True
I looked up #5. Heard of the band but would never have identified it by the person named, and I've never heard of the video website nor the style of jewelry.
4. Cameo
Answers to Wednesday, November 20, 2024
1. In 2017, The New York Times reported the wedding of a New York woman who, when she met her future husband, was unaware that he was actually an African prince. This is eerily similar to the plot of what 1988 movie?
“Coming to America”
2. The country singer and guitarist famous for such recordings as “Rhinestone Cowboy” and “Wichita Lineman” passed away in 2017 at age 81. Name him!
Glen Campbell
3. Bagatelle is a tabletop game invented in King Louis XIV’s court that involves getting billiard balls past a series of wooden pins. It’s the inspiration for both pinball and what “The Price Is Right” game?
Plinko
4. A video-sharing website launched in 2017, a funk band fronted by vocalist Larry Blackmon, and a style of carved jewelry all share what name?
Cameo
5. True or false: Major League Baseball umpires have uniform numbers.
True
Questions for
Theme Thursday, November 21, 2024
Native American Heritage: November is Native American Heritage Month. Here are five questions about Indigenous North Americans!
Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. In 2021, the White Earth Nation of Ojibwe filed a lawsuit against the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources on behalf of manoomin. What is the English-language name of that plant?
2. What Osage Nation citizen was the first prima donna of United States ballet, gaining attention for her leading role in 1949’s “The Firebird” and raising “The Nutcracker” to the level of a classic through her performance of the Sugar Plum Fairy?
3. In 2018, Sharice Davids of Kansas became one of the first two Native women elected to the House of Representatives. Before focusing on politics, she earned a record of 1–1 while competing professionally in what sport?
4. Approximately half of the states in the U.S. have names that are derived from Indigenous languages. Of those states, which one has the longest name?
5. The city of Cahokia sits just outside present-day St. Louis. At its height in the 12th century, it is estimated to have had more residents than London did at the time. Today, its location is marked by more than 80 of what type of structure?
1. Guessing Wild Rice
“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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I had to look it up (thus not posting myself) and this is correct.1. Guessing Wild Rice
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
4. Might be Connecticut?
4 has to be Massachusetts.
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.
2. Maria Tallchief
5. Mounds
One of the questions above made me think of a place in Ohio with 109 statues…
what are the statues of?
Answers to Thursday, November 21, 2024
Native American Heritage: November is Native American Heritage Month. Here are five questions about Indigenous North Americans!
1. In 2021, the White Earth Nation of Ojibwe filed a lawsuit against the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources on behalf of manoomin. What is the English-language name of that plant?
Wild rice
2. What Osage Nation citizen was the first prima donna of United States ballet, gaining attention for her leading role in 1949’s “The Firebird” and raising “The Nutcracker” to the level of a classic through her performance of the Sugar Plum Fairy?
Maria Tallchief
3. In 2018, Sharice Davids of Kansas became one of the first two Native women elected to the House of Representatives. Before focusing on politics, she earned a record of 1–1 while competing professionally in what sport?
Mixed Martial Arts
4. Approximately half of the states in the U.S. have names that are derived from Indigenous languages. Of those states, which one has the longest name?
Massachusetts
5. The city of Cahokia sits just outside present-day St. Louis. At its height in the 12th century, it is estimated to have had more residents than London did at the time. Today, its location is marked by more than 80 of what type of structure?
Mounds
Questions for
Friday, November 22, 2024
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Since 2020, author Emily Henry has written five novels in the adult romance genre that have appeared on the New York Times Best Sellers list. Name as many of those books as you can for one point each. Zero points if you get any incorrect.
2. A “canard” is a deliberately false or misleading story. On fancy restaurant menus, however, it truly is what kind of animal?
3. If you’re holding a glass of sake and giving a toast to your dinner guests, you might end it with what six-letter Japanese word, which literally means “dry your glass”?
4. The Mexican athlete and actor known as El Santo appeared in more than 50 films, but only revealed his face in a single TV appearance less than a month before his death. What form of entertainment was he best known for?
5. Today is November 22. Happy 40th birthday to Scarlett Johansson, who won a Tony Award for “Best Featured Actress in a Play” in 2010 and made her debut as Natasha Romanoff that same year in what sequel?
5 Iron Man 2
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
3. Kanpai
“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. Duck
4. Professional Wrestling
4. Professional Wrestling
I had no idea who El Santo was but my first thought was he could have been one of the guys running around whatever the wacky show is on Univision; maybe the guy in the bee costume that The Simpson's paradies. 🤣
“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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Book Lovers And Beach Read. That’s all I know.
When people tell me I’ll regret not having kids, I say that’s okay I know a really good place to cry. It’s my vacation home.
Answers to Friday, November 22, 2024
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Since 2020, author Emily Henry has written five novels in the adult romance genre that have appeared on the New York Times Best Sellers list. Name as many of those books as you can for one point each. Zero points if you get any incorrect.
“Beach Read,” “People We Meet on Vacation,” “Book Lovers,” “Happy Place,” “Funny Story”
2. A “canard” is a deliberately false or misleading story. On fancy restaurant menus, however, it truly is what kind of animal?
Duck
3. If you’re holding a glass of sake and giving a toast to your dinner guests, you might end it with what six-letter Japanese word, which literally means “dry your glass”?
“Kanpai”
4. The Mexican athlete and actor known as El Santo appeared in more than 50 films, but only revealed his face in a single TV appearance less than a month before his death. What form of entertainment was he best known for?
Lucha Libre (Wrestling)
5. Today is November 22. Happy 40th birthday to Scarlett Johansson, who won a Tony Award for “Best Featured Actress in a Play” in 2010 and made her debut as Natasha Romanoff that same year in what sequel?
“Iron Man 2”
Questions for
Monday, November 25, 2024
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. A one-of-a-kind baseball card for National League “Rookie of the Year” Paul Skenes is at the top of many collectors’ holiday wish lists, because the lucky fan that pulls that card will get seats behind home plate of PNC Park for 30 years, among other things. PNC Park is the home of which MLB team?
2. Martin Van Buren was the only U.S. president who did not speak English as his first language. He was born in Kinderhook, New York, and primarily spoke what language growing up?
3. What extremely popular early 20th-century product was nicknamed the “Flivver,” the “Leaping Lena,” and the “Tin Lizzie”?
4. Native to hot, dry regions in the U.S. and Mexico, what plant is the main ingredient in tequila?
5. Michael Buffer was a used car salesman and part-time model when he got his first job as an announcer in 1982. Ten years later, he trademarked what five-word catchphrase, which has, to date, earned him more than $400 million?