Questions for Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. Math! If two chimps can type two pages in two minutes, how many chimps will it take to type 18 pages in 6 minutes?
2. Fans of Marvel Comics, Norse mythology, and Idris Elba know that the rainbow bridge called the Bifrost is watched over by what god?
3. Virginia is home to more vanity license plates than any other state. Most of them also include the state’s tourism motto, which is… what?
4. In 2015, Tic Tacs released a limited-edition banana flavor, with such names as “Kevin,” “Bob,” and “Stuart” printed on the box. This was a promotion for what movie?
5. The Beatles’ first U.K. hit was released on this day in 1962. Paul and John wrote it when they were 16, and it featured John on the harmonica. What was its three-word title?
5. Love Me Do
3 - Virginia Is For Lovers
“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. I believe the correct answer is 6
4. Minions?
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
2 Heimdall
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
Answers to Wednesday, October 5, 2022
1. Math! If two chimps can type two pages in two minutes, how many chimps will it take to type 18 pages in 6 minutes?
6
2. Fans of Marvel Comics, Norse mythology, and Idris Elba know that the rainbow bridge called the Bifrost is watched over by what god?
Heimdall
3. Virginia is home to more vanity license plates than any other state. Most of them also include the state’s tourism motto, which is… what?
“Virginia Is For Lovers”
4. In 2015, Tic Tacs released a limited-edition banana flavor, with such names as “Kevin,” “Bob,” and “Stuart” printed on the box. This was a promotion for what movie?
“Minions”
5. The Beatles’ first U.K. hit was released on this day in 1962. Paul and John wrote it when they were 16, and it featured John on the harmonica. What was its three-word title?
“Love Me Do”
Questions for Theme Thursday, October 6, 2022
Hardcore Punctuation: Five questions about marking up your marks.
Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. “Interrobang” is the name for a punctuation mark that combines what two more commonly used punctuation marks?
2. If you’re joining together two words to make a compound, such as “run-down” or “great-grandmother,” should you use a dash or a hyphen?
3. The punctuation mark known as an “octothorpe” became a lot more prominent with the rise of social media. Please write an octothorpe.
4. In the U.K., they don’t call that thing at the end of a sentence a “period.” What do they call it instead?
5. If you put a comma before the final “and” when listing things, you’re a fan of what kind of comma, named after the oldest university in the English-speaking world?
3. #
1: ?!
5: Oxford
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
2. Hyphen. There's a reason they're called hyphenated words.
4. Full stop
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
1: ?!
5: Oxford
Yes, I own this shirt:
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: ?!
5: Oxford
Yes, I own this shirt:
/p>
Do, you really?
“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 Thursday, October 6, 2022
1. “Interrobang” is the name for a punctuation mark that combines what two more commonly used punctuation marks?
Question mark and exclamation point
2. If you’re joining together two words to make a compound, such as “run-down” or “great-grandmother,” should you use a dash or a hyphen?
Hyphen
3. The punctuation mark known as an “octothorpe” became a lot more prominent with the rise of social media. Please write an octothorpe.
#
4. In the U.K., they don’t call that thing at the end of a sentence a “period.” What do they call it instead?
Full stop
5. If you put a comma before the final “and” when listing things, you’re a fan of what kind of comma, named after the oldest university in the English-speaking world?
Oxford comma
(also known as a “serial comma”)
Questions for Friday, October 7, 2022
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Oprah Winfrey has acted in six theatrically released live-action movies. Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any wrong.
2. Who was the last U.S. president to not attend college? His highest degree was a diploma from Independence High School.
3. What popular song, composed in 1806, describes a process that scientists call “astronomical scintillation”?
4. What five-letter word was coined by an engineer named Fred Billingsley in 1965 to describe the smallest element of a picture?
5. Today is October 7. Happy 69th birthday to Tico “The Hitman” Torres, who has been the drummer for what band since 1983, as well as a backup vocalist on “Born to Be My Baby” and “Love for Sale”?
2 - 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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4 Pixel
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
5. Bon Jovi
3. Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
1. The only one I know is "The Color Purple."
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
1: ?!
5: Oxford
Yes, I own this shirt:
/p>
Do, you really?
I do. I saw it, and couldn't pass it up
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.
5. Today is October 7. Happy 69th birthday to Tico “The Hitman” Torres, who has been the drummer for what band since 1983, as well as a backup vocalist on “Born to Be My Baby” and “Love for Sale”?
Today is also my dad’s (David Gates) 72nd bday. He’ll be in town the end of this month till the end of April if you want to meet him and have him sign any of your ‘Bread’ albums.
Keep your stick on the ice...
Today is also the 106th Anniversary of the biggest blowout in sports history:
The 1916 Cumberland vs. Georgia Tech football game was the most lopsided in the history of college American football, with Georgia Tech winning 222–0.
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.
In the immortal words of Warner Wolf. If you had Cumberland and 221 points, YOU LOST!!!
Today is also the 106th Anniversary of the biggest blowout in sports history:
The 1916 Cumberland vs. Georgia Tech football game was the most lopsided in the history of college American football, with Georgia Tech winning 222–0.
I doubt Alabama could put up 222 on Crown College or even Eden Prairie HS.
Keep your stick on the ice...
Today is also the 106th Anniversary of the biggest blowout in sports history:
The 1916 Cumberland vs. Georgia Tech football game was the most lopsided in the history of college American football, with Georgia Tech winning 222–0.I doubt Alabama could put up 222 on Crown College or even Eden Prairie HS.
I'd actually take that bet, assuming Alabama went 100% the whole game.
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.
Today is also the 106th Anniversary of the biggest blowout in sports history:
The 1916 Cumberland vs. Georgia Tech football game was the most lopsided in the history of college American football, with Georgia Tech winning 222–0.I doubt Alabama could put up 222 on Crown College or even Eden Prairie HS.
Pffft.....I've been told 'bama couldn't even take down ndsu let alone Crown!
?
“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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Also on this date in 1990, the Bears punted for a first down:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1578363762762973184
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.
I think you meant that according to UND fans, UND hockey could beat Crown and EP 222-0.
Keep your stick on the ice...
I think you meant that according to UND fans, UND hockey could beat Crown and EP 222-0.
Per wiki:
During qualification for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Slovakia defeated Bulgaria 82–0. This win is the most lopsided in the history of the IIHF. The Slovaks outshot Bulgaria 142–0, averaging a goal on 58.9 percent of its shots. Slovakia averaged one goal every 44 seconds.
The NFL record is 73-0, with the Bears beating the Redskins.
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.
Today is also the 106th Anniversary of the biggest blowout in sports history:
The 1916 Cumberland vs. Georgia Tech football game was the most lopsided in the history of college American football, with Georgia Tech winning 222–0.I doubt Alabama could put up 222 on Crown College or even Eden Prairie HS.
Pffft.....I've been told 'bama couldn't even take down ndsu let alone Crown!
?
Such wonderful delusion from the worlds most obtuse fan base.
'29, '40, '74, '76, '79, '02, & '03
GPL's Resident Cabin Enthusiast & Cadets Hockey Fan
Such wonderful delusion from the worlds most obtuse fan base.
Crown or NDSU?!?!?!
😉
Keep your stick on the ice...
Such wonderful delusion from the worlds most obtuse fan base.
Crown or NDSU?!?!?!
😉
Funny! But yeah definitely NDSU
'29, '40, '74, '76, '79, '02, & '03
GPL's Resident Cabin Enthusiast & Cadets Hockey Fan
Answers to Friday, October 7, 2022
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Oprah Winfrey has acted in six theatrically released live-action movies. Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any wrong.
“The Color Purple,” “Native Son,” “Beloved,” “The Butler,” “Selma,” “A Wrinkle in Time”
2. Who was the last U.S. president to not attend college? His highest degree was a diploma from Independence High School.
Harry Truman
(from Independence, Missouri)
3. What popular song, composed in 1806, describes a process that scientists call “astronomical scintillation”?
“Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”
4. What five-letter word was coined by an engineer named Fred Billingsley in 1965 to describe the smallest element of a picture?
Pixel
5. Today is October 7. Happy 69th birthday to Tico “The Hitman” Torres, who has been the drummer for what band since 1983, as well as a backup vocalist on “Born to Be My Baby” and “Love for Sale”?
Bon Jovi
Questions for Monday, October 10, 2022
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! Los Angeles’ inaugural Indigenous Peoples Day celebration in 2018 was headlined by what rock band, whose 1970s hits included “Come and Get Your Love” and “Wovoka”?
2. The world’s highest-producing dairy animals were originally bred in what region of northern Germany?
3. There are three sections of vertebrae before arriving at the sacrum. Which is closest to the skull: the cervical, lumbar, or thoracic spine?
4. The musical “Funny Girl” has been in the news lately, as Lea Michele replaced Beanie Feldstein as the lead in the Broadway revival. “Funny Girl” is based on the real life of what comedian and actor, who was a huge star of stage, screen, and radio from the 1910s through 1940s?
5. The U.N. has main offices in Geneva, Nairobi, Vienna, and The Hague, but its headquarters are in what city?
1 - Redbone
5- New York
“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. Holstein
4. Fanny Brice
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
3. Cervical
Answers to Monday, October 10, 2022
1. Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! Los Angeles’ inaugural Indigenous Peoples Day celebration in 2018 was headlined by what rock band, whose 1970s hits included “Come and Get Your Love” and “Wovoka”?
Redbone
2. The world’s highest-producing dairy animals were originally bred in what region of northern Germany?
Holstein
3. There are three sections of vertebrae before arriving at the sacrum. Which is closest to the skull: the cervical, lumbar, or thoracic spine?
Cervical
4. The musical “Funny Girl” has been in the news lately, as Lea Michele replaced Beanie Feldstein as the lead in the Broadway revival. “Funny Girl” is based on the real life of what comedian and actor, who was a huge star of stage, screen, and radio from the 1910s through 1940s?
Fanny Brice
5. The U.N. has main offices in Geneva, Nairobi, Vienna, and The Hague, but its headquarters are in what city?
New York City
Questions for
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. Only two countries in South America don't border Brazil. Name one of them.
2. What French term is defined by the International Equestrian Federation as “the highest expression of horse training”?
3. In what 1995 movie does Chris Farley greet Rob Lowe with the line, “Brothers don’t shake hands, brothers gotta hug”?
4. In 2007, Todd Davis ran TV ads showing his own Social Security number in order to prove how effective his fraud protection company was. He quickly became the victim of 13 cases of identity theft. He was the CEO of what company?
5. How many bumps are on the bottom of every Red Delicious apple?
1. Chile
3) Tommy Boy
Keep your stick on the ice...
4) LifeLock
Keep your stick on the ice...
2 - Dressage ??
“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. Chile
+Argentina
1. Ecuador
1. Chile
+Argentina
Argentina and Brazil share an 700 mile border, so no.
1. Chile
+Argentina
Argentina and Brazil share an 700 mile border, so no.
Was trying to picture it in my head so oops. ?
5. 5
2 - Dressage ??
Definitely correct. My aunt boarded horses, and mom is a big horse show fan, so I grew up knowing a little about horses/racing/shows.
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 - Dressage ??
Definitely correct. My aunt boarded horses, and mom is a big horse show fan, so I grew up knowing a little about horses/racing/shows.
I think my niece does dressage with her horse but when she starts droning on about horses and horses shows I tune out in a hurry.
“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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