Answers to Monday, June 13, 2022
1. What four-letter arboreal term is also used to describe the dark, crispy outer crust on barbecued ribs?
Bark
2. The person who has been named People magazine’s “Most Beautiful Woman in the World” a record five times shares her last name with the first-ever author inducted into the Romance Writers Hall of Fame. What is that last name?
Roberts
(Julia/Nora)
3. The winner of many of 2009’s “Game of the Year” awards was a “tower defense” game that pitted zombies against what seemingly harmless obstacles?
Plants
4. It’s kind of weird that what city is the southernmost state capital in the continental United States?
Austin
(“Keep Austin Weird” is the city’s unofficial slogan)
5. The gruff but wise Mr. Badger helps Mr. Toad save Toad Hall in what 1908 children’s novel by the British writer Kenneth Grahame?
“The Wind in the Willows”
Questions for Tuesday, June 14, 2022
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. The Bosporus is also known as the “Strait of Istanbul.” It connects two seas. Name one of them.
2. If you cross a blackberry, a raspberry, a loganberry, and a dewberry, you get a berry named after the Anaheim parks superintendent who discovered them in 1923. His first name was Rudolph. What was his last name?
3. The Roman goddess of wisdom is the counterpart of the Greek goddess Athena, and is commonly pictured with her pet owl. Name that Roman goddess.
4. What actor began her career in Broadway productions of “Les Misérables” when she was 8 years old, and later found fame as Rachel Berry on the Fox series “Glee”?
5. In “The Music Man,” Harold Hill visits a Midwestern state that is so stubborn its residents claim they could “stand touching noses for a week at a time and never see eye-to-eye.” Which state is that?
2. Lingen? (edit: I looked it up - Lingon is NOT correct)
5. Iowa
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
1 - Black Sea
“When your best friend is the son of God, you get tired of losing every argument.”
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2. Lingen? (edit: I looked it up – Lingon is NOT correct)
5. Iowa
2. Logan, I think.
Nope. Logan was one of the berries in the hybrid (blackberry, raspberry, loganberry, and dewberry).
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
4 - Lea Michele
2. Boysen
2. Lingen? (edit: I looked it up – Lingon is NOT correct)
5. Iowa
2. Logan, I think.
Nope. Logan was one of the berries in the hybrid (blackberry, raspberry, loganberry, and dewberry).
Oops, missed that. 🙁
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. Boysen
Found this interesting
“Boysen worked as Anaheim City Parks superintendent from 1921 to 1950. In 1923, his hybrid grafted successfully and grew to bear fruit. However, unable to make his new berry a commercial success, Boysen abandoned his crop after breaking his back in an accident. In 1927, he took specimens to Coolidge Rare Plant Nursery in Altadena. 3 Years later, a fellow grower named Walter Knott heard about the berry and tracked down Boysen. Knott was able to bring a few dying vines back to life at his farm, now known as Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California. He named the fruit after Boysen.“
1. I think it is Marmara, or something like that.
1 - Bosporus Strait connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara.
The Caspian Sea is cut off and has no outlet, the primary feeder being the Volga River. I suspect if your ship is small enough, you can go up far enough to connect to the Don River, which does lead into the Sea of Azov, then into the Black Sea.
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
Answers to Tuesday, June 14, 2022
1. The Bosporus is also known as the “Strait of Istanbul.” It connects two seas. Name one of them.
The Black Sea, Sea of Marmara
2. If you cross a blackberry, a raspberry, a loganberry, and a dewberry, you get a berry named after the Anaheim parks superintendent who discovered them in 1923. His first name was Rudolph. What was his last name?
Boysen
3. The Roman goddess of wisdom is the counterpart of the Greek goddess Athena, and is commonly pictured with her pet owl. Name that Roman goddess.
Minerva
4. What actor began her career in Broadway productions of “Les Misérables” when she was 8 years old, and later found fame as Rachel Berry on the Fox series “Glee”?
Lea Michele
5. In “The Music Man,” Harold Hill visits a Midwestern state that is so stubborn its residents claim they could “stand touching noses for a week at a time and never see eye-to-eye.” Which state is that?
Iowa
(the song is “Iowa Stubborn”)
Questions for Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. Major League Baseball ranked a 1992 Penny Marshall film as the second-best baseball movie of all time. It’s getting a reboot as a TV series later this summer. What is it?
2. When a battery forms that white crusty bit, that means it's leaking potassium hydroxide, and is probably dead. Potassium hydroxide is non-acidic and therefore lends what eight-letter adjective to most household batteries?
3. Simon’s first name is Paul. What is Garfunkel’s first name?
4. Baby bok choy is a smaller version of the Chinese cabbage commonly used in stir fries. It’s also the name of a DJ friend of what SNL “Weekend Update” correspondent?
5. What 1986 movie borrowed a rare 1961 Ferrari GT California to film close-up shots, but used a Modena Spyder California for the final shots, because it was too expensive to ruin a Ferrari?
1. "A League of Their Own"
3. Arthur
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
5. Ferris Bueller
2. alkaline
4. Stefon
Answers to Wednesday, June 15, 2022
1. Major League Baseball ranked a 1992 Penny Marshall film as the second-best baseball movie of all time. It’s getting a reboot as a TV series later this summer. What is it?
“A League of Their Own”
2. When a battery forms that white crusty bit, that means it's leaking potassium hydroxide, and is probably dead. Potassium hydroxide is non-acidic and therefore lends what eight-letter adjective to most household batteries?
Alkaline
3. Simon’s first name is Paul. What is Garfunkel’s first name?
Art
(or Arthur)
4. Baby bok choy is a smaller version of the Chinese cabbage commonly used in stir fries. It’s also the name of a DJ friend of what SNL “Weekend Update” correspondent?
Stefon
5. What 1986 movie borrowed a rare 1961 Ferrari GT California to film close-up shots, but used a Modena Spyder California for the final shots, because it was too expensive to ruin a Ferrari?
“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”
Questions for Theme Thursday, June 16, 2022
Divide It For Me: Five division problems for trivia nerds. All of the answers this round will be a number.
Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. Jay-Z’s problems, divided by Millie Bobby Brown's breakout role.
2. The weight of a human soul in grams, according to a 2003 Alejandro González Iñárritu film, divided by the number of laws that appear in Isaac Asimov’s short story “Runaround.”
3. The number of miles in a marathon (rounding down) divided by the number in the only non-sequel Tom Hanks movie with a number in its title to debut at No. 1.
4. The number of something, maybe a type of lizard, in Laura Les and Dylan Brady’s band name, divided by the number of minutes Madonna and Justin Timberlake have to save the world.
5. The jersey number shared by Magic Johnson, Jim Brown, and Sandy Koufax, divided by the regnal number of the last king of France before the French Revolution.
3. 2
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
“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: 2
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
Answers to Thursday, June 16, 2022
1. Jay-Z’s problems, divided by Millie Bobby Brown's breakout role.
9 (99/11)
(“99 Problems,” Eleven from “Stranger Things” – come to “Stranger Things” trivia in July!)
2. The weight of a human soul in grams, according to a 2003 Alejandro González Iñárritu film, divided by the number of laws that appear in Isaac Asimov’s short story “Runaround.”
7 (21/3)
(“21 Grams,” The Three Laws of Robotics)
3. The number of miles in a marathon (rounding down) divided by the number in the only non-sequel Tom Hanks movie with a number in its title to debut at No. 1.
2
(26/13) (26.219 miles, “Apollo 13”)
4. The number of something, maybe a type of lizard, in Laura Les and Dylan Brady’s band name, divided by the number of minutes Madonna and Justin Timberlake have to save the world.
25
(100/4) (100 gecs, “4 Minutes”)
5. The jersey number shared by Magic Johnson, Jim Brown, and Sandy Koufax, divided by the regnal number of the last king of France before the French Revolution.
2
(32/16) (Louis XVI)
Questions for Friday, June 17, 2022
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: There are four countries on the Horn of Africa. Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any wrong.
2. Warren Beatty’s older sister won an Oscar for her role in the 1983 film “Terms of Endearment.” What is her name?
3. What is the most populous island in any U.S. state?
4. Of the 10 best-selling apple cultivars in the U.S., three are named after people. Name two of those apples.
5. Today is June 17. On this day last year, Juneteenth National Independence Day became the first federal holiday established in the United States since what other holiday was created in 1983?
1. Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, ??
5. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
2 - Shirley McClain
3 - Long Island
“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. Granny Smith? No clue on the others unless McIntosh is also named after a person
Answers to Friday, June 17, 2022
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: There are four countries on the Horn of Africa. Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any wrong.
Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti
2. Warren Beatty’s older sister won an Oscar for her role in the 1983 film “Terms of Endearment.” What is her name?
Shirley MacLaine
3. What is the most populous island in any U.S. state?
Long Island
4. Of the 10 best-selling apple cultivars in the U.S., three are named after people. Name two of those apples.
Granny Smith, McIntosh, Cripps Pink (better known as “Pink Lady”)
5. Today is June 17. On this day last year, Juneteenth National Independence Day became the first federal holiday established in the United States since what other holiday was created in 1983?
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Questions for Monday, June 20, 2022
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What infectious disease, which was originally confused with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, was first diagnosed in a coastal Connecticut town in 1975?
2. Jekyll or Hyde: Which one was evil?
3. What elementary particle shares its name with a “Star Trek” character, a European dairy product, and a brand of design software, and was originally a nonsense word invented by author James Joyce?
4. “Where’s Papa going with that ax?” is the first line of what farm-based 1952 children’s novel, which got an animated adaptation in 1973 and a live-action one in 2006?
5. The Boeing Stratofortress made its maiden flight in 1952, and remains in active duty to this day. By what alphanumeric designation is the Stratofortress better known?
5 - B52
“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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- Lyme disease
2. Hyde
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
4. Charlotte's Web?
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
3. Quark
Answers to Monday, June 20, 2022
1. What infectious disease, which was originally confused with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, was first diagnosed in a coastal Connecticut town in 1975?
Lyme Disease (Old Lyme, CT)
2. Jekyll or Hyde: Which one was evil?
Hyde
3. What elementary particle shares its name with a “Star Trek” character, a European dairy product, and a brand of design software, and was originally a nonsense word invented by author James Joyce?
Quark
4. “Where’s Papa going with that ax?” is the first line of what farm-based 1952 children’s novel, which got an animated adaptation in 1973 and a live-action one in 2006?
“Charlotte’s Web”
5. The Boeing Stratofortress made its maiden flight in 1952, and remains in active duty to this day. By what alphanumeric designation is the Stratofortress better known?
B-52
Questions for Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What singer and actor got her big break as a backup dancer for New Kids on the Block in 1991, 11 years before she released a single claiming that she herself is “from the block”?
2. As N.K. Jemisin fans know, what is the geometric name for a three-dimensional ring—the classic donut shape?
3. What six-word greeting is traditionally answered, “And the rest of the day to yourself”?
4. What model of Chevrolet dates back to 1935, making it the granddaddy of SUVs?
5. What team became the first professional sports team ever to be valued over $3 billion, which it did in 2013?
4 - Suburban (??)
“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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- Jennifer Lopez
2: Torus (Who's NK Jesmin?)
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
3. Top of the morning to you.
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
5. Dallas Cowboys?
One of those European soccer teams... Too many to choose from... lol!!!
Keep your stick on the ice...
One of those European soccer teams… Too many to choose from… lol!!!
No - it’s the Cowboys.
The European soccer leagues haven’t figured out how to really maximize their value. One of the key guys who owns the Dodgers just led a consortium to buy Chelsea Football Club for a little more than $2B. In buying it he thinks they are massively undervalued and that they could be as valuable as teams in the NFL