Totally Random Trivia: 2022

Friday, January 7

Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday's email.

1. Quit While You're Ahead: Actor Catherine O’Hara has appeared in four mockumentaries directed by Christopher Guest. Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any wrong.

2. What is the name of the woodcarver who created Pinocchio?

3. What term did Mark Twain coin to describe the years of 1870-1900, because he believed it was a period of serious social problems glossed over by a relatively small number of very wealthy people?

4. What TV series, which originally ran from 1962 to 1971, memorably featured a 1921 Oldsmobile Model 46 Roadster in its title sequence?

5. Today is January 7. On this day in 1610, Galileo discovered Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, the four largest moons orbiting which planet?

5. [mention]Jupiter[/mention]

3. Gilded Age?

2. Guiseppi

Geppetto

1. Waiting for Guffman, Best In Show, A Mighty Wind, and For Your Consideration (??)

4) Beverly Hillbillies

Here are those 4 moons from a photo I took years ago...
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I knew it was Italian & started with a G. ?

And Figaro is the cat. Cleo is the fish if I recall corrctly

Marc-Andre Fleury made history last night becoming the first NHL goalie to beat all 32 teams

Answers to Friday, January 7

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Actor Catherine O’Hara has appeared in four mockumentaries directed by Christopher Guest. Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any wrong.

“WAITING FOR GUFFMAN,” “BEST IN SHOW,” “A MIGHTY WIND,” “FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION”

2. What is the name of the woodcarver who created Pinocchio?

GEPPETTO

3. What term did Mark Twain coin to describe the years of 1870-1900, because he believed it was a period of serious social problems glossed over by a relatively small number of very wealthy people?

THE GILDED AGE

4. What TV series, which originally ran from 1962 to 1971, memorably featured a 1921 Oldsmobile Model 46 Roadster in its title sequence?

“THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES”

5. Today is January 7. On this day in 1610, Galileo discovered Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, the four largest moons orbiting which planet?

JUPITER

(they’re known as the Galilean moons)

Monday, January 10

Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow's email.

1. When someone says the expression “by Jove!”, they are using an archaic form of the name of what Roman god?

2. In what war did “Sherman’s March to the Sea” occur?

3. The best friends and twin sisters Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield were featured in what series of young adult books?

4. What mass-less particle travels at nearly 300 million meters per second?

5. Angora wool doesn’t come from angora goats—they produce mohair. What type of animal does it come from?

2) United States Civil War

5. Rabbits

1. That'd be [mention]Jupiter[/mention] again.

4) Photon

3. Sweet Valley High. My daughter was a bookworm.

Karlsson wrote:

1. That'd be @Jupiter again.

What the hell is happening... :biggrin2:

Jupiter wrote:

Karlsson wrote:

1. That'd be @Jupiter again.

What the hell is happening... :biggrin2:

Just giving you the long overdue recognition you so rightly deserve.

Jupiter wrote:

Karlsson wrote:

1. That'd be @Jupiter again.

What the hell is happening... :biggrin2:

We are just moons in your orbit, sir.

Answers to Monday, January 10

1. When someone says the expression “by Jove!”, they are using an archaic form of the name of what Roman god?

JUPITER

2. In what war did “Sherman’s March to the Sea” occur?

THE CIVIL WAR

3. The best friends and twin sisters Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield were featured in what series of young adult books?

“SWEET VALLEY HIGH”

4. What mass-less particle travels at nearly 300 million meters per second?

PHOTON

(300 million m/s is the speed of light)

5. Angora wool doesn’t come from angora goats—they produce mohair. What type of animal does it come from?

RABBITS

Tuesday, January 11

Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow's email.

1. Home to over 75 percent of the world’s active and dormant volcanoes, the Ring of Fire encircles which ocean?

2. There are just two living members of the marine mammal family Monodontidae. One is the beluga whale. What is the other?

3. What word can either mean a powerful handgun or a bottle of champagne, among other things?

4. In the vast majority of English-language translations, what is the first word in the Bible?

5. What major train station is situated underneath Madison Square Garden in Manhattan?

1. Pacific

3. Magnum

5. Penn Station

4. In

2: Narwhal

Answers to Tuesday, January 11

1. Home to over 75 percent of the world’s active and dormant volcanoes, the Ring of Fire encircles which ocean?

PACIFIC

2. There are just two living members of the marine mammal family Monodontidae. One is the beluga whale. What is the other?

NARWHAL

(“monodon” means “single tooth”)

3. What word can either mean a powerful handgun or a bottle of champagne, among other things?

MAGNUM

4. In the vast majority of English-language translations, what is the first word in the Bible?

IN

(“In the beginning…”)

5. What major train station is situated underneath Madison Square Garden in Manhattan?

PENN STATION

Wednesday, January 12

Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow's email.

1. A wind from the west is known by what six-letter name, which derives from the name of a Greek wind god? Hint: it’s also the name of a New York State politician.

2. Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth. What neighboring peak is the second-highest?

3. What does the “VH” in VH1 stand for?

4. Of the American Institute of Architects' list of "America's Favorite Architecture," only one of the top 10 entries is on the West Coast. What is it?

5. Which side of a AA battery is positive: the knob or the flat side?

2) K2

1. Zephyr?

5. knob side

3 Video Hits, if I remember right

4 Golden gate bridge

A little more trivia related to the 'America's Favorite Architecture' 150 list:

1. One college hockey arena, and one college hockey-adjacent structure make the list. What are they?

2. Three structures from Minnesota make the list, and one made the honorable mention category. What are they?

3. What three structures on the list are now demolished?

4. What three state capitol buildings make the list?

4.2. Lift Bridge? Split Rock? IDS?

4.4. I really have no idea but wisconsin and Colorado are very, very nice and I'd think at least one is there.

4. My first guess is Albany, NY. Amazing building. I would also guess Annapolis due to it's historical significance. Final guess would be one of the unique, tall structure Art Deco capitols in FL, NE, ND, or LA.

College hockey arena - Princeton? I seem to recall this building has some significance but I can't recall exactly why.

Yost... lol!!!

I know IDS for sure. Maybe the Weisman Art Museum on campus?

Memorial Stadium? The Dome?

Hint: Questions 2 and 3 are not directly related (other than being about entries on the list in question)

I looked up the list to see what college hockey arena is on there... and from the picture, I can certainly understand why the rink that's there is.

Just looked at the list, of the top 20 the only one I have not been in/on or seen in person is the original World Trade Center.

Yay me!

I did the same and completely forgot about that arena.

4.3) The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center is one.

I misread it... ohhhhhhh well!!!

is it UVM?

Only one for me is the NC Biltmore. Been to the one in AZ though

I’m surprised you never saw the old WTC

I'll guess the arena is Yale's. Super cool looking by a really famous architect.

We have a winner. And agreed on the look of that building.

Designed by crossword puzzle celebrity Eero Saarinen.

I cheated and looked at the list. I _think_ I know what the hockey adjacent building is.

[hide]Well, there IS a trophy in the shape of the building in quesiton[/hide]

I had never been to NYC until last year.