1. Ansel Adams?
2: New England Confectionary COmpany
4: Chris Hemsworth
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
2. Northeastern Candy Company?
1. Ansel Adams?
One of my favorite artists. Have 4 of his prints from Glacier Nat’l Park at the house.
Keep your stick on the ice...
I know I am totally in the minority but I like candy hearts.
What have I got? I got no snacks and I got no respect.
Travis-age 6
Well, they're certainly better than candy corn.I know I am totally in the minority but I like candy hearts.
On par with each other, and I like them both.
And The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim is literally "The The Angels Angels of Anaheim." GREAT marketing there. 😀
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 know the franchise started as Los Angeles Angels, but I still prefer California Angels. The CA logo was dumb though.
I guess in the local market almost no one in the media says anything other than “The Angels” or “The Halos” and just leave any geographic identifier out of it.
I always heard it as the Halos or Angels.
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 Tuesday, November 29, 2022
1. What photographer was good friends with the inventor of the Polaroid camera, Edwin Land, and used a Polaroid to take many of his most famous black-and-white photos of Yosemite Valley?
Ansel Adams
2. The Massachusetts-based confectionery company NECCO was sold in 2018, which led to a pause in the sale of their chalky little Valentine’s Day heart candies. What does “NECCO” stand for?
New England Confectionery Company
3. Of the five Major League Baseball teams currently located in California, just two started out there. Name one of those two teams.
San Diego Padres, Los Angeles Angels
4. “Avengers: Endgame” was the first movie in history to gross a billion dollars in its opening week. What actor was the highest-paid Avenger in that film?
Robert Downey Jr.
5. What toy, invented in 1917, was called the “Liberty Coaster” until 1930, when its name was changed to honor Guglielmo Marconi and Charles Lindbergh?
Radio Flyer
(Marconi invented the radio; Lindbergh flew airplanes)
Questions for
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. Chiapas is the biggest coffee producing state in its country. That’s where you’ll find the coffee cooperatives in the autonomous Zapatista zone for over 20 years. Name that country!
2. What gas makes up the majority of the Earth’s atmosphere?
3. Actor Nichelle Nichols worked as a recruiter for NASA in the 1970s, and counted Sally Ride among her recruits. Prior to that, she was a cast member on what TV show?
4. Mark Allan is a videographer who has one very specific job: Every February since 1987, he has captured the classic shot of someone saying what five-word phrase? The first was Phil Simms.
5. Shakespeare wrote two plays whose titles contain a repeated word (not counting articles). Name one.
4 - I’m going to Disneyland/Disneyworld!
“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. Star Trek
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
1: Mexico
2: Nitrogen
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
5) Measure for Measure and All’s Well that Ends Well.
What have I got? I got no snacks and I got no respect.
Travis-age 6
Answers to Wednesday, November 30, 2022
1. Chiapas is the biggest coffee producing state in its country. That’s where you’ll find the coffee cooperatives in the autonomous Zapatista zone for over 20 years. Name that country!
Mexico
2. What gas makes up the majority of the Earth’s atmosphere?
Nitrogen
3. Actor Nichelle Nichols worked as a recruiter for NASA in the 1970s, and counted Sally Ride among her recruits. Prior to that, she was a cast member on what TV show?
“Star Trek”
(she played Lieutenant Uhura)
4. Mark Allan is a videographer who has one very specific job: Every February since 1987, he has captured the classic shot of someone saying what five-word phrase? The first was Phil Simms.
“I'm going to Disney World!”
5. Shakespeare wrote two plays whose titles contain a repeated word (not counting articles). Name one.
“Measure for Measure,” “All’s Well That Ends Well”
Questions for
Theme Thursday, December 1, 2022
The Number 12: Welcome to the 12th month of the year. Let’s learn more about the number 12!
Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. Twelve of something is called a dozen. What is 12 dozen called?
2. According to the Christmas song, on the 12th day of Christmas, my true love gave me 12 human beings doing what?
3. What 1967 war film starred Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, and Telly Savalas, and shares its name with an annual list published by the Environmental Working Group that highlights the year’s most pesticide-contaminated fruits and vegetables?
4. The Chinese Zodiac consists of 12 animals. When listed alphabetically, which comes 12th?
5. NBA Hall of Famer Karl Malone was known as “The Mailman” because he “delivered every day.” But that nickname would be better suited to his Hall of Fame teammate, considering he owns the NBA record for assists. Name that player, who wore jersey number 12 for the Utah Jazz.
1. Gross
2. Drumming
3. The Dirty Dozen
5. John Stockton
4) the Tiger
im a Pig☹️ Sometimes listed as a Boar. Either way, never sounds good.
What have I got? I got no snacks and I got no respect.
Travis-age 6
4) the Tiger
im a Pig☹️ Sometimes listed as a Boar. Either way, never sounds good.
But never, ever, a bore!
“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, December 1, 2022
1. Twelve of something is called a dozen. What is 12 dozen called?
A gross
2. According to the Christmas song, on the 12th day of Christmas, my true love gave me 12 human beings doing what?
Drumming
3. What 1967 war film starred Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, and Telly Savalas, and shares its name with an annual list published by the Environmental Working Group that highlights the year’s most pesticide-contaminated fruits and vegetables?
“The Dirty Dozen”
4. The Chinese Zodiac consists of 12 animals. When listed alphabetically, which comes 12th?
Tiger
5. NBA Hall of Famer Karl Malone was known as “The Mailman” because he “delivered every day.” But that nickname would be better suited to his Hall of Fame teammate, considering he owns the NBA record for assists. Name that player, who wore jersey number 12 for the Utah Jazz.
John Stockton
Questions for
Friday, December 2, 2022
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Maine is the only state in the contiguous U.S. to only border one other state. Three states border just two other states. Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero total if you get any wrong.
2. What is the newest cabinet-level department of the U.S. federal government, which was added in 2002 and is currently led by Alejandro Mayorkas?
3. What 1983 Christmas movie was set in a fictionalized version of Hammond, Indiana, the boyhood hometown of writer Jean Shepherd?
4. In humans, which lung tends to be smaller: the left, the right, or neither?
5. Today is December 2. On this day in 2010, as the “Imperial March” from “Star Wars” played in the background, the Quicken Loans Arena was filled with one of the loudest boos in NBA history. It occurred during the introduction of what visiting player?
2. Homeland Security
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
1: Washington, Vermont, Rhode Island
2: Department of Homeland Security
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
1. Washington, Florida, ???
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
3) 'A Christmas Story'.
Keep your stick on the ice...
5 - LeBron James ?
“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. Quit While You’re Ahead: Maine is the only state in the contiguous U.S. to only border one other state. Three states border just two other states. Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero total if you get any wrong.
Knew 2/3 off the top of my head and brainstormed the 3rd. Looked it up and was kinda surprised of who the 3rd was.
Keep your stick on the ice...
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Maine is the only state in the contiguous U.S. to only border one other state. Three states border just two other states. Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero total if you get any wrong.
Knew 2/3 off the top of my head and brainstormed the 3rd. Looked it up and was kinda surprised of who the 3rd was.
I knew WA and FL. I'm calling sieve on myself for not knowing RI - I was stationed there for 9 months after I received my commission in Uncle Sam's Canoe Club.
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
Though it's not Rhode Island. RI has a water border with New York state.
Keep your stick on the ice...
4. Left. (Notched for your heart)
Bah, I totally botched that one.
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
Bah, I totally botched that one.
Brings up a fun alternate trivia question.
“What state borders two states that only border two states?” ? ? ?
GeorgiaBah, I totally botched that one.
Brings up a fun alternate trivia question.
“What state borders two states that only border two states?” ? ? ?
Once I realized my first answer was wrong, and seeing the right answers... that one's easy.
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
@steve-mn I’ve shared this before but Alabama and Georgia are the only states that border each other AND whose postal codes (AL & GA) border each other on the periodic table.
Saw this this morning.
5 former Minnesota Vikings finished second in Heisman Trophy voting.
I will be VERY impressed if anyone can get all 5.
Ed Marinaro for sure
Adrian Peterson?
“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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Gino Toretta & Tommy Mason?
Gino Toretta & Tommy Mason?Nope. Toretta won the Heisman. However, Hershel Walker finished second a year after winning it, so he would be one of the five.
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
So far Ed Marinaro, Adrian Peterson and Hershel Walker.
Keep your stick on the ice...
I was at thinking someone like Ahmad Rashad, but I looked it up and no.
Keep your stick on the ice...
I was at thinking someone like Ahmad Rashad, but I looked it up and no.
what about Bobby Moore?
? ?
“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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Wasn’t Toby Gerhart a dynamo with Stanford or something?
Ed Marinaro
Bob Ferguson
Herschel Walker
Adrian Peterson
Toby Gerhart
Answers to Friday, December 2, 2022
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Maine is the only state in the contiguous U.S. to only border one other state. Three states border just two other states. Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero total if you get any wrong.
Florida, South Carolina, Washington
2. What is the newest cabinet-level department of the U.S. federal government, which was added in 2002 and is currently led by Alejandro Mayorkas?
Department of Homeland Security
3. What 1983 Christmas movie was set in a fictionalized version of Hammond, Indiana, the boyhood hometown of writer Jean Shepherd?
“A Christmas Story” (he’s the movie’s writer and narrator. Love Holiday Movies? Come to our theme night all December long!)
4. In humans, which lung tends to be smaller: the left, the right, or neither?
The left (leaving room for the heart)
5. Today is December 2. On this day in 2010, as the “Imperial March” from “Star Wars” played in the background, the Quicken Loans Arena was filled with one of the loudest boos in NBA history. It occurred during the introduction of what visiting player?
LeBron James (it was his first game back in Cleveland after he left to play with the Miami Heat)
Questions for
Monday, December 5, 2022
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What fictional city—which was originally modeled on Toronto when it first appeared in 1938—gets its name from the Greek for “Mother City”?
2. What is the only bird that can fly backwards as well as forwards?
3. Boris Yeltsin traveled to the U.S. to meet with Bill Clinton in 1994. According to Clinton, the first thing Yeltsin said upon his arrival was, “Do you think BLANK did it?” Fill in that blank.
4. In 1941, legendary boxer Joe Louis faced a younger, smaller boxer named Billy Conn. When reporters told Louis that Conn was faster than he was, Louis famously responded that there was something his opponent could do, and there was something he couldn’t do. What were the things that Conn could and couldn’t do?
5. Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world, is on the border of China and Nepal. The second-tallest mountain, K2, is located on the border of China and what other nation?