2. Paper Moon
4. Geometry
5. In which province or territory will you find the westernmost point in Canada, along its border with the U.S.?
Took Canadian History in the 5th grade... Took Montana History in 8th grade... Really didn't study American History besides all the elementary stuff K-8 you learn until High School.
Keep your stick on the ice...
I think #1 is Pasha
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
I think #1 is Pasha
I would second 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.
4. What field of mathematics studies the relationships between the side lengths and angles of triangles?
4. Trigonometry
Answers to Monday, November 7, 2022
1. What five-letter honorary title means “head” or “president” in Turkish, and was given to high-ranking rulers and dignitaries throughout the Ottoman Empire, similar to British knighthood?
Pasha
2. Tatum O’Neal, the youngest person ever to win a competitive Oscar, won it for her 1973 performance in what film?
“Paper Moon”
3. A baby named Rerun Van Pelt was added to one of America’s most popular comic strips in 1973. What are his two older siblings’ names?
Linus and Lucy
(from “Peanuts”)
4. What field of mathematics studies the relationships between the side lengths and angles of triangles?
Trigonometry
5. In which province or territory will you find the westernmost point in Canada, along its border with the U.S.?
Yukon
(Specifically the Yukon-Alaska border)
Questions for
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. A “Fata Morgana” is an elaborate form of what type of optical phenomenon, in which light rays bend to produce a displaced image of distant objects?
2. The NFL gives its annual “Man of the Year” award to a player who has done exceptional volunteer and charity work. Since 1999, it’s been named for what late running back, the all-time leading rusher in Chicago Bears history?
3. What queen’s nicknames included “Gloriana,” “Good Queen Bess,” and “The Virgin Queen”?
4. The fictional Overlook Hotel in “The Shining” was inspired by the historic Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, near Longs Peak. In which state is the Stanley Hotel located?
5. Quaker Oats cereals dropped what cartoon character as their advertising mascot in the 1990s, after the Quaker church complained that his love of fighting contradicted their pacifist beliefs?
1: Mirage
2: Walter Payton
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
2. Walter Payton
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
4. Colorado
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
3. Elizabeth I
5. Popeye the Sailor Man
Answers to Tuesday, November 8, 2022
1. A “Fata Morgana” is an elaborate form of what type of optical phenomenon, in which light rays bend to produce a displaced image of distant objects?
Mirage
2. The NFL gives its annual “Man of the Year” award to a player who has done exceptional volunteer and charity work. Since 1999, it’s been named for what late running back, the all-time leading rusher in Chicago Bears history?
Walter Payton
3. What queen’s nicknames included “Gloriana,” “Good Queen Bess,” and “The Virgin Queen”?
Elizabeth I
4. The fictional Overlook Hotel in “The Shining” was inspired by the historic Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, near Longs Peak. In which state is the Stanley Hotel located?
Colorado
5. Quaker Oats cereals dropped what cartoon character as their advertising mascot in the 1990s, after the Quaker church complained that his love of fighting contradicted their pacifist beliefs?
Popeye
Questions for
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What five-letter biblical term is today usually defined as making unethical loans, but originally referred to the practice of charging interest of any kind?
2. What food company was founded in 1899, took its name from a dianthus flower, and famously advertised that its products came from “contented cows”?
3. The self-proclaimed “Countdown Capital of the World” has a pretty appropriate area code: 321. Name that city.
4. Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce and Kate Bishop share what avian nickname?
5. What group’s cult-like practices were the subject of a 2015 HBO exposé titled “Going Clear”?
1. Usury
4. Hawkeye
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
2) Carnation
Keep your stick on the ice...
5: Scientology
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
3. Cape Canaveral?
Answers to Wednesday, November 9, 2022
1. What five-letter biblical term is today usually defined as making unethical loans, but originally referred to the practice of charging interest of any kind?
Usury
2. What food company was founded in 1899, took its name from a dianthus flower, and famously advertised that its products came from “contented cows”?
Carnation
3. The self-proclaimed “Countdown Capital of the World” has a pretty appropriate area code: 321. Name that city.
Cape Canaveral, Florida
4. Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce and Kate Bishop share what avian nickname?
Hawkeye
(from “M*A*S*H” and Marvel Comics)
5. What group’s cult-like practices were the subject of a 2015 HBO exposé titled “Going Clear”?
Scientology
Questions for
Theme Thursday, November 10, 2022
Cinnamon Life: Trivia Mafia’s calendar for holiday parties for your family, workplace, or friend group is filling up! Here’s an example of a round of questions from our holiday parties last year. Interested? Start a conversation with our Private Events team today. And either way, let’s spice things up with five questions about our favorite spice.
Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. Cinnamon, as well as its relative spice, cassia, are both harvested from trees. What part of the tree gives us the spice?
2. Mike and Ikes are chewy, fruit-flavored candies. What are their cinnamon-flavored counterparts called?
3. Rajesh Koothrappali owns a Yorkshire Terrier named “Cinnamon” on what CBS series—which has a huge following in China thanks to a trend there called diaosi, or “hip loser”?
4. One of the earliest written records of cinnamon comes from what famed female Greek poet, who lived 2,600 years ago on the island of Lesbos?
5. Whether it’s made with rice, sesame, or tiger nuts, what plant-milk beverage is almost always flavored with cinnamon?
1. The bark
2. Hot Tamales
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
3 - The Big Bang Theory
“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. Sappho?
5. Horchata
Answers to Thursday, November 10, 2022
1. Cinnamon, as well as its relative spice, cassia, are both harvested from trees. What part of the tree gives us the spice?
The bark
2. Mike and Ikes are chewy, fruit-flavored candies. What are their cinnamon-flavored counterparts called?
Hot Tamales
3. Rajesh Koothrappali owns a Yorkshire Terrier named “Cinnamon” on what CBS series—which has a huge following in China thanks to a trend there called diaosi, or “hip loser”?
“The Big Bang Theory”
4. One of the earliest written records of cinnamon comes from what famed female Greek poet, who lived 2,600 years ago on the island of Lesbos?
Sappho
5. Whether it’s made with rice, sesame, or tiger nuts, what plant-milk beverage is almost always flavored with cinnamon?
Horchata
Questions for
Friday, November 11, 2022
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Just three states have no natural borders—i.e., each of their borders appears on the map as a perfectly straight line. Name as many of those states as you can for one point each. Zero total if you get any wrong.
2. What quotable catcher holds the record for most career hits in baseball’s World Series?
3. What stone fruit gets its name from the fabled Greek drink of eternal life, enjoyed by the Olympian gods?
4. Homer Simpson, Bart Simpson, Philip Fry, Bullwinkle Moose, Rocky Squirrel, and Elmer Fudd all share the same middle initial. What is it?
5. Today is November 11, or Veterans Day. Until 1954, this holiday was called “Armistice Day” in the U.S., to observe the end of what war?
2. Yogi Berra
3. Nectarine
Edit: but for Zwak's request that we answer no more than two, I could have run the table today
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
5. WWI
1 - CO, WY, UT (shot in the dark)
5 - WW1
“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 - J
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
“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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Fun fact: The J in Michael J Fox means nothing. His middle name is Andrew. Michael Fox was taken, didn’t like Michael A Fox. Picked J as a tribute to Michael J Pollard. (That one stood for “John”)
Fun fact: The J in Michael J Fox means nothing. His middle name is Andrew. Michael Fox was taken, didn’t like Michael A Fox. Picked J as a tribute to Michael J Pollard. (That one stood for “John”)
Jeepers…. ?
“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 Friday, November 11, 2022
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Just three states have no natural borders—i.e., each of their borders appears on the map as a perfectly straight line. Name as many of those states as you can for one point each. Zero total if you get any wrong.
Utah, Colorado, Wyoming
2. What quotable catcher holds the record for most career hits in baseball’s World Series?
Yogi Berra
3. What stone fruit gets its name from the fabled Greek drink of eternal life, enjoyed by the Olympian gods?
Nectarine
4. Homer Simpson, Bart Simpson, Philip Fry, Bullwinkle Moose, Rocky Squirrel, and Elmer Fudd all share the same middle initial. What is it?
J
5. Today is November 11, or Veterans Day. Until 1954, this holiday was called “Armistice Day” in the U.S., to observe the end of what war?
World War I
Questions for
Monday, November 14, 2022
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. The last former mayor of New York who did not later run for president served as mayor from 1990 to 1993. What is his name?
2. A paving stone that has been quarried and shaped is called a “Belgian block” or a “sett.” A paving stone that is left in its naturally occurring and less-uniform shape, meanwhile, is known as a… what?
3. Since the NCAA Championship of Women's Ice Hockey began in 2001, every championship team has been from one of four states. Name two of them.
4. Mexico's unofficial national dish is turkey served with what type of sauce?
5. A popular segment titled “Local on the Eights” airs dozens of times each day on what cable network?
3. MN and WI
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 - The Weather Channel
“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. David Dinkins
3. MN and WI
Well tOSU won last year so Ohio.
MN lost a title game a few years to ago to a NY team...St. Lawrence? Clarkson?
“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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It was Clarkson, so the fourth is NY.
4. Mole
Answers to Monday, November 14, 2022
1. The last former mayor of New York who did not later run for president served as mayor from 1990 to 1993. What is his name?
David Dinkins
2. A paving stone that has been quarried and shaped is called a “Belgian block” or a “sett.” A paving stone that is left in its naturally occurring and less-uniform shape, meanwhile, is known as a… what?
Cobblestone
3. Since the NCAA Championship of Women's Ice Hockey began in 2001, every championship team has been from one of four states. Name two of them.
Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Wisconsin
4. Mexico's unofficial national dish is turkey served with what type of sauce?
Mole, specifically mole poblano
(Did you know that? Come to Food Trivia!)
5. A popular segment titled “Local on the Eights” airs dozens of times each day on what cable network?
The Weather Channel
Questions for
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What seven-letter French-derived word can either describe a diplomatic official, or the briefcase that diplomat might be carrying?
2. The first conversation in the Old Testament takes place in Genesis 3, between which two figures?
3. Of the countries in the world that drive on the left, which is the largest by area?
4. Colin Kaepernick hasn’t played NFL football in six years. When he did play NFL football, he did so with which team?
5. The psychoactive hallucinogen mescaline comes from what type of spineless cactus, native to Mexico and southwestern Texas?
1. Attaché
2. Eve and the serpent
4. San Francisco 49ers
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
5. Peyote
3 - Australia ??
“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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@greyeagle I would think Australia is larger (land-wise) than India. But India isn’t small.
Edit: it is twice as large. Good guess.
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@greyeagle I would think Australia is larger (land-wise) than India. But India isn’t small.
Edit: it is twice as large. Good guess.
They were my finalists.
I think South Africa still drives on the wrong side, too, but bet India is larger than SA.
“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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India is nearly three times the size of South Africa, and then Australia is more than double the size of India@greyeagle I would think Australia is larger (land-wise) than India. But India isn’t small.
Edit: it is twice as large. Good guess.
They were my finalists.
I think South Africa still drives on the wrong side, too, but bet India is larger than SA.
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
Kenya and Thailand round out the top five. ?