3. Total Recall
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
2. Wontons?
5. Trevor Noah
1 - Sea of Galilee
2 - Pupu Platter ??
PuPu platter is correct. I can still remember my mom getting mad at my 10 yr old brother because he kept saying PuPu. I’m sorry, but that’s catnip to a boy lol. It didn’t help that my dad found it hilarious also ?
When people tell me I’ll regret not having kids, I say that’s okay I know a really good place to cry. It’s my vacation home.
1 - Sea of Galilee
2 - Pupu Platter ??
PuPu platter is correct. I can still remember my mom getting mad at my 10 yr old brother because he kept saying PuPu. I’m sorry, but that’s catnip to a boy lol. It didn’t help that my dad found it hilarious also ?
I saw a werewolf sipping a Pina Colada at Trader Vic’s.
His hair was perfect!
“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 - Sea of Galilee
2 - Pupu Platter ??
PuPu platter is correct. I can still remember my mom getting mad at my 10 yr old brother because he kept saying PuPu. I’m sorry, but that’s catnip to a boy lol. It didn’t help that my dad found it hilarious also ?
I saw a werewolf sipping a Pina Colada at Trader Vic’s.
His hair was perfect!
I was gambling in Havana, I took a little risk.Send lawyers, guns and money, dad, get me out of this.
Oops wrong song
4. Kennedy
Answers to Monday, January 2, 2023
1. The Dead Sea is the lowest-elevation saltwater lake on Earth. The lowest-elevation freshwater lake is about four hours to the north, and is a significant setting in the Bible. Name that freshwater lake, which is also commonly known as a “sea.”
The Sea of Galilee
(also known as Tiberias or Kinneret)
2. Trader Vic’s was one of the first American restaurants to serve what appetizer assortment—which is usually associated with Chinese restaurants, but gets its name from the Hawaiian word for “shell,” which came to be used to mean “hors d'oeuvres”?
Pu-pu platter
3. What Mars-set 1990 movie, which was remade in 2012, is loosely based on a Philip K. Dick story titled “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale”?
“Total Recall”
4. What former MTV VJ now hosts her own show on the Fox Business channel?
Kennedy
5. What 38-year-old is the author of a memoir titled “Born a Crime,” and worked as a “Senior International Correspondent” before he started the job he was most famous for, which he just quit?
Trevor Noah
(recent host of “The Daily Show”)
Questions for
Tuesday, January 3, 2023
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. The 1968 marriage of incoming first daughter Julie Nixon drew comparisons to an American royal wedding. What is her husband’s last name?
2. What apparel company, whose logo is a stylized version of Half Dome in Yosemite, named itself after the most inhospitable area on a mountain?
3. “Laverne & Shirley” was a spin-off of what other hugely popular series, which was also set in Milwaukee during the late 1950s?
4. Casement, transom, and double-hung are all styles of what element of a building?
5. Ikaria, Greece, is named after the myth of Icarus, who fell into the nearby sea after flying too close to the sun. According to that story, Icarus began his flight from what other, much larger Greek island?
1. Eisenhower
3. Happy Days
3: Happy Days
4: Windows
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
2 - The North Face
“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) North Face
Keep your stick on the ice...
5. Crete
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
Answers to Tuesday, January 3, 2023
1. The 1968 marriage of incoming first daughter Julie Nixon drew comparisons to an American royal wedding. What is her husband’s last name?
Eisenhower
2. What apparel company, whose logo is a stylized version of Half Dome in Yosemite, named itself after the most inhospitable area on a mountain?
The North Face
3. “Laverne & Shirley” was a spin-off of what other hugely popular series, which was also set in Milwaukee during the late 1950s?
“Happy Days”
4. Casement, transom, and double-hung are all styles of what element of a building?
Windows
5. Ikaria, Greece, is named after the myth of Icarus, who fell into the nearby sea after flying too close to the sun. According to that story, Icarus began his flight from what other, much larger Greek island?
Crete
Questions for
Wednesday, January 4, 2023
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What actor was written out of “House” so he could take a job in the White House in 2010—a job he quit a year later to join the cast of “How I Met Your Mother”?
2. Which South American country’s name derives from a mythical mountain of silver that early explorers believed was located there?
3. Art, Charles, Aaron, Cyril, and Ivan founded a singing group in New Orleans in 1977. What last name do they all share?
4. In 1968, Frank Sinatra starred in a movie called “The Detective,” based on a book of the same name. When the studio adapted its sequel in 1988, they were contractually obligated to offer the lead to Sinatra, who was 73 at the time. He said no, so they gave the role to a up and coming TV star. Name that movie!
5. The word “National” in “NHL” originally referred to Canada, but that changed in 1924 when what still-active hockey team joined the league?
3. Neville
3 - Neville
Edit - just a little late...
“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. Kal Penn
2. Just a guess, but Argentina?
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
5) Boston?
Keep your stick on the ice...
4) Die Hard!! ?
When people tell me I’ll regret not having kids, I say that’s okay I know a really good place to cry. It’s my vacation home.
“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) Die Hard!! ?
I used my editorial power and rewrote the last part of the question to make it a little harder. It originally said
”He said no, so they gave the role to the guy from “Moonlighting” instead. Name that movie!”
“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 Wednesday, January 4, 2023
1. What actor was written out of “House” so he could take a job in the White House in 2010—a job he quit a year later to join the cast of “How I Met Your Mother”?
Kal Penn
2. Which South American country’s name derives from a mythical mountain of silver that early explorers believed was located there?
Argentina
(“Argentum” is Latin for “silver”)
3. Art, Charles, Aaron, Cyril, and Ivan founded a singing group in New Orleans in 1977. What last name do they all share?
Neville
4. In 1968, Frank Sinatra starred in a movie called “The Detective,” based on a book of the same name. When the studio adapted its sequel in 1988, they were contractually obligated to offer the lead to Sinatra, who was 73 at the time. He said no, so they gave the role to the guy from “Moonlighting” instead. Name that movie!
“Die Hard”
5. The word “National” in “NHL” originally referred to Canada, but that changed in 1924 when what still-active hockey team joined the league?
Boston Bruins
Questions for
Theme Thursday, January 5, 2023
Anagram Time: I’ll briefly describe two words that are anagrams of one another. You answer with both anagrams. Example: If I said, “What a king carries, and what Aretha wants,” you’d answer “scepter” and “respect.”
Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. There are 48 of these in a cup, and a metamorphic rock used in carving.
2. What “all the men and women merely” are, and a green herb.
3. A movement led by General Organa, and genealogies.
4. What MJ did at his Hall of Fame induction, and what “town” Flanders says you’re in if it’s “tangy and brown.”
5. A city in Egypt known for its archaeological importance, and a Cylon on “Battlestar Galactica,” informally.
1: Teaspoon, Soapstone
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
3. Resistance, Ancestries
2. Players, Parsley
4. Cried, cider
I think I finally got it.
5. Rosetta, Toaster
Answers to Thursday, January 5, 2023
1. There are 48 of these in a cup, and a metamorphic rock used in carving.
Teaspoons, soapstone
2. What “all the men and women merely” are, and a green herb.
Players, parsley
3. A movement led by General Organa, and genealogies.
Resistance, ancestries
4. What MJ did at his Hall of Fame induction, and what “town” Flanders says you’re in if it’s “tangy and brown.”
Cried, cider
5. A city in Egypt known for its archaeological importance, and a Cylon on “Battlestar Galactica,” informally.
Rosetta, Toaster
Questions for
Friday, January 6, 2023
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.
1. Six U.S. presidents had last names that ended with the letter "R." Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero total if you get any wrong.
2. AMS agents Thomas Rogan and "G" are sent to stop Dr. Roy Curien and his evil plot to raise an army of the undead. This is the premise of what 1996 Sega arcade game, which has since been given four sequels, nine spin-offs, and two theatrical adaptations?
3. How many U.S. states share a border with Mexico?
4. Ketchup is a decent source of what carotenoid, which is prized for its antioxidant properties and is often used as a natural red food coloring?
5. Today is January 6. Born on this day in 1968, what director became the youngest person ever nominated for the “Best Director” Oscar for his 1991 film “Boyz n the Hood”?
3. Four
1 - Carter, Hoover, Tyler, Taylor,…
“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. Lycopene
“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: House of the Dead
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
5) that would be John Singleton.
When people tell me I’ll regret not having kids, I say that’s okay I know a really good place to cry. It’s my vacation home.
Answers to Friday, January 6, 2023
1. Six U.S. presidents had last names that ended with the letter "R." Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero total if you get any wrong.
John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, Chester A. Arthur, Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter
2. AMS agents Thomas Rogan and "G" are sent to stop Dr. Roy Curien and his evil plot to raise an army of the undead. This is the premise of what 1996 Sega arcade game, which has since been given four sequels, nine spin-offs, and two theatrical adaptations?
“The House of the Dead”
3. How many U.S. states share a border with Mexico?
Four
(California, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico)
4. Ketchup is a decent source of what carotenoid, which is prized for its antioxidant properties and is often used as a natural red food coloring?
Lycopene
5. Today is January 6. Born on this day in 1968, what director became the youngest person ever nominated for the “Best Director” Oscar for his 1991 film “Boyz n the Hood”?
John Singleton
Questions for
Monday, January 9, 2023
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What 1966 Elizabeth Taylor movie—adapted from a stage play written four years earlier—had just four cast members, all of whom were nominated for Academy Awards for their roles?
2. What DC Comic superhero shares a name with the proper term for a female fox, not to mention a famous ungulate?
3. What government agency was created when Richard Nixon signed the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970?
4. What breakfast cereal was invented in 1936 by the Ralston Purina Company—which explains how the cereal got its name?
5. The first welfare state in modern history was created in 1889 by a world leader nicknamed “The Iron Chancellor.” Name that leader.
2. Vixen
5. Otto von Bismarck
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
1) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Just about the scariest example of toxic relationships ever! She and Richard Burton were both terrific and terrifying!
When people tell me I’ll regret not having kids, I say that’s okay I know a really good place to cry. It’s my vacation home.
3 - OSHA
“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) Chex?
Keep your stick on the ice...
Keep your stick on the ice...
Answers to Monday, January 9, 2023
1. What 1966 Elizabeth Taylor movie—adapted from a stage play written four years earlier—had just four cast members, all of whom were nominated for Academy Awards for their roles?
“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
2. What DC Comic superhero shares a name with the proper term for a female fox, not to mention a famous ungulate?
Vixen
(one of Santa’s reindeer)
3. What government agency was created when Richard Nixon signed the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970?
OSHA
(Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
4. What breakfast cereal was invented in 1936 by the Ralston Purina Company—which explains how the cereal got its name?
Chex
(so-named because the Purina logo is a checkerboard pattern)
5. The first welfare state in modern history was created in 1889 by a world leader nicknamed “The Iron Chancellor.” Name that leader.
Otto von Bismarck