5. Marihuana
Answers to Thursday, June 30, 2022
1. What now 89-year-old singer was nominated for a Country Music Award in 2012 for the song “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die”?
Willie Nelson
2. Snoop Dogg also appeared on the song mentioned in question number 1. Fun fact: Cameron Diaz is pretty sure she bought weed from Snoop Dogg in high school. They both grew up in what Greater Los Angeles area city?
Long Beach
3. Which cast member of “The View” co-founded a cannabis brand in 2016 aimed at treating menstrual cramps?
Whoopi Goldberg
4. At what city’s summer Olympics did Michael Phelps win a record eight gold medals in 2008?
Beijing
5. The first federal law criminalizing cannabis was passed in 1937. Legislators called the drug “marijuana” as a way to implicate Mexican Americans in its proliferation. They didn’t spell it “marijuana,” though – what now-antiquated spelling did they use?
“Marihuana”
Questions for Friday, July 1, 2022
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Tuesday’s email.
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: The National Hockey League started with the Original Six teams in 1942. Name as many of those six still-playing teams as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any wrong.
2. America's first billionaire had a net worth of about 2 percent of the country's GDP at one point. His name inspired a Center in New York and Jay-Z's record label. Who was he?
3. Camila Cabello received a 2019 Grammy nomination for “Best Pop Vocal Album,” making her the first artist from what island nation ever nominated in that category?
4. What Catholic Saint, who lends his name to the U.S.’s second-densest city, is credited with creating the first Nativity scene?
5. Today is July 1. Happy Canada Day! “O Canada” was adopted as the national anthem of Canada on this day in 1980. What five words follow “O Canada” at the beginning of that song?
2. Rockefeller
5. Our home and native land
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
3. Cuba
- Toronto, Boston, Montreal, Detroit, Chicago, NY Rangers
- Toronto, Montreal, Boston, Detroit, New York Rangers, Chicago
4. St. Francis
Answers to Friday, July 1, 2022
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: The National Hockey League started with the Original Six teams in 1942. Name as many of those six still-playing teams as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any wrong.
Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs
2. America's first billionaire had a net worth of about 2 percent of the country's GDP at one point. His name inspired a Center in New York and Jay-Z's record label. Who was he?
John D. Rockefeller
3. Camila Cabello received a 2019 Grammy nomination for “Best Pop Vocal Album,” making her the first artist from what island nation ever nominated in that category?
Cuba
4. What Catholic Saint, who lends his name to the U.S.’s second-densest city, is credited with creating the first Nativity scene?
St. Francis
(San Francisco is named after him)
5. Today is July 1. Happy Canada Day! “O Canada” was adopted as the national anthem of Canada on this day in 1980. What five words follow “O Canada” at the beginning of that song?
“Our home and native land”
Questions for Tuesday, July 5, 2022
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. Which saint and former right-hand man to Jesus was the first pope?
2. Gloria Foster was a celebrated stage actor who passed away in 2001. Shortly before her death, she achieved worldwide fame for her role as “the Oracle” in what movie?
3. What word is Yiddish for “rendered chicken or goose fat,” and is also used today to describe music or movies that are deemed overly sentimental?
4. The 13th and 16th presidents were both born in log cabins. We know all about the 16th. What is the name of the 13th president—the last of the Whigs, who is primarily remembered for passing the buck on the issue of slavery after the Mexican-American War and inspiring the title of a political comic strip?
5. Is there a place in the Caribbean called “Kokomo”?
2. The Matrix
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.
- Peter
Going to a Catholic grade school finally paid off.
3 - Schmaltzy
“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. Millard Fillmore
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
4. Millard Fillmore
The Animaniacs Presidents song comes through again
5) There is a city named Kokomo in Indiana. I don't think there's one in the Caribbean.
4. Millard Fillmore
The Animaniacs Presidents song comes through again
It was my knowledge of obscure comic strips (Mallard Fillmore) that iced it for me.
Was that the strip where the ghost of Millard Fillmore haunted the White House? I could not remember the name of it and suspected President Fillmore was the answer.
“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. Millard Fillmore
The Animaniacs Presidents song comes through again
It was my knowledge of obscure comic strips (Mallard Fillmore) that iced it for me.
Was that the strip where the ghost of Millard Fillmore haunted the White House? I could not remember the name of it and suspected President Fillmore was the answer.
I was actually singing it when I answered so I didn’t have the video in my brain
Questions for Tuesday, July 5, 2022
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. Which saint and former right-hand man to Jesus was the first pope?
2. Gloria Foster was a celebrated stage actor who passed away in 2001. Shortly before her death, she achieved worldwide fame for her role as “the Oracle” in what movie?
3. What word is Yiddish for “rendered chicken or goose fat,” and is also used today to describe music or movies that are deemed overly sentimental?
4. The 13th and 16th presidents were both born in log cabins. We know all about the 16th. What is the name of the 13th president—the last of the Whigs, who is primarily remembered for passing the buck on the issue of slavery after the Mexican-American War and inspiring the title of a political comic strip?
5. Is there a place in the Caribbean called “Kokomo”?
5. Kokomo Beach in Curacao
Answers to Tuesday, July 5, 2022
1. Which saint and former right-hand man to Jesus was the first pope?
Peter
2. Gloria Foster was a celebrated stage actor who passed away in 2001. Shortly before her death, she achieved worldwide fame for her role as “the Oracle” in what movie?
“The Matrix”
3. What word is Yiddish for “rendered chicken or goose fat,” and is also used today to describe music or movies that are deemed overly sentimental?
Schmaltz
4. The 13th and 16th presidents were both born in log cabins. We know all about the 16th. What is the name of the 13th president—the last of the Whigs, who is primarily remembered for passing the buck on the issue of slavery after the Mexican-American War and inspiring the title of a political comic strip?
Millard Fillmore
(“Mallard Fillmore”)
5. Is there a place in the Caribbean called “Kokomo”?
No
(there is a county in Indiana, though)
Questions for Wednesday, July 6, 2022
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What is the U.S.’s largest island by area?
2. The Hays Code was implemented in the 1930s to curb so-called profanity in film. It radically changed what cartoon character, who, in pre-Code times, was shown in a short skirt that exposed her garter, dancing topless, and dating a dog named Bimbo?
3. Hydrated magnesium silicate is the softest known mineral in the world. What is its common four-letter name?
4. Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes are one of the preeminent bands in the genre of jizz-wail, using instruments such as the kloo horn and fanfar, in what 1970s film?
5. Finish this psychoanalytical analogy: Freud is to Oedipus as BLANK is to Elektra.
2 - Betty Boop ??
“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. The Big Island
3. Talc
4. Star Wars? (A New Hope)
5. Jung
Answers to Wednesday, July 6, 2022
1. What is the U.S.’s largest island by area?
Hawaiʻi
(The Big Island)
2. The Hays Code was implemented in the 1930s to curb so-called profanity in film. It radically changed what cartoon character, who, in pre-Code times, was shown in a short skirt that exposed her garter, dancing topless, and dating a dog named Bimbo?
Betty Boop
3. Hydrated magnesium silicate is the softest known mineral in the world. What is its common four-letter name?
Talc
4. Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes are one of the preeminent bands in the genre of jizz-wail, using instruments such as the kloo horn and fanfar, in what 1970s film?
“Star Wars: A New Hope”
5. Finish this psychoanalytical analogy: Freud is to Oedipus as BLANK is to Elektra.
Jung
Questions for Theme Thursday, July 7 2022
How Does Your Garden Grow? No, seriously, how does it grow? Five questions about plant biology.
Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What pigment allows plants to capture light and turn it into energy?
2. Butterfly gardens support butterflies and other pollinators by providing the types of plants they need throughout their life cycles. Monarch butterflies will only lay their eggs on what type of perennial flowers?
3. What garden staple comes in such varieties as “Green Zebra,” “Yellow Pear,” “Brandywine” and “Black Krim”?
4. About half of the world’s caloric intake comes from just three grains. Name two of them!
5. True or false: Mushrooms are plants.
1: Chlorophyll
5: False - mushrooms are fungi
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
2. Milkweed?
4. Rice and corn.
Edit: I only know #2 because the wildlife reserve near my house handed out free packages of milkweed seeds at an event a few years ago.
3) Tomato types
Note: Due to inflation dirty deeds will no longer be done dirt cheap.
4. Must be wheat
Answers to Thursday, July 7, 2022
1. What pigment allows plants to capture light and turn it into energy?
Chlorophyll
2. Butterfly gardens support butterflies and other pollinators by providing the types of plants they need throughout their life cycles. Monarch butterflies will only lay their eggs on what type of perennial flowers?
Milkweed
3. What garden staple comes in such varieties as “Green Zebra,” “Yellow Pear,” “Brandywine” and “Black Krim”?
Tomato
4. About half of the world’s caloric intake comes from just three grains. Name two of them!
Maize/corn, rice, wheat
5. True or false: Mushrooms are plants.
False
(mushrooms, like plants and animals, are their own kingdom)
Questions for Friday, July 8, 2022
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Joe Pesci has appeared in four films directed by Martin Scorsese. Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any wrong.
2. Gin and tonics glow under black light because tonic water contains trace amounts of what alkaloid, originally present in the drink as a prophylactic treatment against malaria?
3. In 2019, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denied a trademark for the word “okurrr,” pronounced with a trill at the end, which basically just means “OK.” What rapper had applied for that trademark?
4. Mr. Pennywhistle, Mr. Doodle, Wally, and the Town Clown were all characters created and performed by Bob Keeshan. But none were as popular as his best-known character, which was what children’s television character?
5. Today is July 8. On this day in 1896, what former congressman launched his doomed presidential run by railing against the gold standard in a speech remembered today as the “Cross of Gold Speech”?
2. Quinine
4. Captain Kangaroo
1. Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino, The Irishman.
3. Cardi B
5. William Jennings Bryan
4. Captain Kangaroo
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.
Answers to Friday, July 8, 2022
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Joe Pesci has appeared in four films directed by Martin Scorsese. Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any wrong.
“Raging Bull,” “Goodfellas,” “Casino,” “The Irishman”
2. Gin and tonics glow under black light because tonic water contains trace amounts of what alkaloid, originally present in the drink as a prophylactic treatment against malaria?
Quinine
3. In 2019, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denied a trademark for the word “okurrr,” pronounced with a trill at the end, which basically just means “OK.” What rapper had applied for that trademark?
Cardi B
4. Mr. Pennywhistle, Mr. Doodle, Wally, and the Town Clown were all characters created and performed by Bob Keeshan. But none were as popular as his best-known character, which was what children’s television character?
Captain Kangaroo
5. Today is July 8. On this day in 1896, what former congressman launched his doomed presidential run by railing against the gold standard in a speech remembered today as the “Cross of Gold Speech”?
William Jennings Bryan
Questions for Monday, July 11, 2022
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What Roman goddess was the subject of Botticelli’s most famous painting, which you might call “That One With the Naked Lady in the Clam Shell”?
2. What sea separates Ireland from Great Britain?
3. On March 22, 1933, Franklin Roosevelt signed the Cullen-Harrison Act. This act was the first loosening of rules surrounding prohibition and it permitted beer limited to what alcohol content?
4. What genus of conifer was named in 1847, most likely after the Cherokee leader who invented a writing system for the Cherokee language?
5. The Western Hemisphere’s tallest man-made monument is located in the United States. In 2018, it became the U.S.’s smallest National Park. What is it?
2 - Irish Sea
5 - St. Louis Gateway Arch ??
“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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3. 3.2% alcohol by volume (and MN is the only state to sell beer that is 3.2%, but that is by weight, not volume)
*edited to clarify the MN fact
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.
1. Venus
4. Sequoia
“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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