Answers to Thursday, January 16, 2025
“Hey, They Were On ‘Grey’s Anatomy’!”: Questions about notable guest stars on the show “Grey’s Anatomy.” No knowledge of the show is required!
1. The troubled teen played by Demi Lovato in Season 6 is misdiagnosed with schizophrenia, but Lovato scored a Top 10 hit with what song named for a cardiac, not psychological, ailment in 2013?
“Heart Attack”
2. As if her deaths in “A Walk to Remember” and “This Is Us” weren’t tragic enough, viewers also got a multi-episode arc from what actor, playing an even unluckier woman who survives a shooting only to die in low-risk surgery?
Mandy Moore
3. In a Season 6 flashback, Meredith’s mother treats an early AIDS patient. In that episode, she’s played by what actor known for her 13 different “American Horror Story” roles, which have earned her five acting Emmy nominations over the years?
Sarah Paulson
4. Eight years before playing a pregnant teen on “Grey’s Anatomy,” Keke Palmer got her breakthrough starring in the title role in what spelling-focused Laurence Fishburne film?
“Akeelah and the Bee”
5. When we see Christina Ricci featured in “Grey’s,” it’s as a paramedic treating a WWII reenactor who was accidentally shot with what sort of anti-tank weapon that isn’t quite as pink and sweet as its bubblegum namesake?
Bazooka
Questions for
Friday, January 17, 2025
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: There are seven teams in the English Premier League 2024/2025 season that are based out of London. Name as many of those football clubs as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.
2. What movie star had a great 2021 when he was named an honorary Royal Navy commander in addition to going viral for saying, “Ladies and gentlemen, The Weeknd”?
3. Aquafaba is the liquid remaining after you drain a can of garbanzo beans. A French vegan discovered in 2014 that it’s almost a perfect one-to-one replacement for what animal-derived ingredient?
4. The Pritzker Prize is often described as the “Nobel Prize” of what field?
5. Today is January 17. On this date in 1962, Canadian actor Jim Carrey was born. He plays a character created by Japanese game designer Naoto Ohshima in a 2024 installment of what film and video game franchise?
1. West Ham, Chelsea, Tottingham, Arsenal (?), Crystal Palace (?)
"Come on Richmond" 😎
“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. Fulham
5. Sonic
Hard work will beat talent, if talent doesn't work hard.
1. Brentford
2) Daniel Craig
3) Eggs
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