3. Ear
5. Theodore Roosevelt
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
1. Navy
4 askjeeves.com
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
2. Nigeria
4) Ask Jeeves
oh good grief, I didn’t read far enough. The one I knew ?
What have I got? I got no snacks and I got no respect.
Travis-age 6
3. Ear
5. Theodore Roosevelt
Doh! Forgot TR was younger than JFK when taking the oath after McKinley's death.
“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 Tuesday, March 14, 2023
1. The modern use of “happy hour” to describe a scheduled period of revelry derives from what branch of the U.S. military, as dramatized in such films as “On the Town” and “Hail, Caesar!”?
Navy
2. Which African country—whose largest ethnic groups are the Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba—is home to the continent’s largest economy?
Nigeria
3. In which part of your body can you find three bones known as the hammer, the anvil, and the stirrups?
Ear
(middle ear, specifically)
4. The website Ask.com was founded in 1996 under what longer name? It returned to its roots as a question-and-answer site in 2010 after a decade in the search engine game.
Ask Jeeves
5. Who was the youngest U.S. president ever sworn into office?
Theodore Roosevelt
(John F. Kennedy was the youngest elected president; Roosevelt took office after an assassination)
Questions for
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. John Baldwin was the bass player for Led Zeppelin. He’s better known by what stage name, which he shares with the “Father of the American Navy”?
2. Amazon has Alexa. Apple has Siri. Who has Cortana?
3. There are three three-lettered animals in the Chinese zodiac. Name them for one point each.
4. In 1998, Helen Hunt became the first woman to win both an Oscar and an Emmy for a lead performance in the same year. Name the movie and the TV show for which she won those awards.
5. Which U.S. state has the most representatives in the U.S. House?
1. John Paul Jones
4. Mad About You & As Good As It Gets
“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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5. California
2. Microsoft
3. Rat, Dog, and Pig
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
2. Microsoft
Answers to Wednesday, March 15, 2023
1. John Baldwin was the bass player for Led Zeppelin. He’s better known by what stage name, which he shares with the “Father of the American Navy”?
John Paul Jones
2. Amazon has Alexa. Apple has Siri. Who has Cortana?
Microsoft
3. There are three three-lettered animals in the Chinese zodiac. Name them for one point each.
Rat, dog, pig
4. In 1998, Helen Hunt became the first woman to win both an Oscar and an Emmy for a lead performance in the same year. Name the movie and the TV show for which she won those awards.
“As Good As It Gets,” “Mad About You”
5. Which U.S. state has the most representatives in the U.S. House?
California
Questions for
Theme Thursday, March 16, 2023
X-Persons: All answers this round will also be the name of a mutant from the X-Men comics.
Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What is the most populous state capital in the United States?
2. In the Bible, it’s the end of the seven-year cycle of shmita, when debts are forgiven and slaves are freed. In England, it recognizes the anniversary of a monarch’s reign. What is it?
3. Betty Friedan made waves in 1963 with the publication of her book “The Feminine BLANK.” Fill in that blank.
4. The title of the Emma Lazarus sonnet that is engraved on the Statue of Liberty describes the statue as “The New BLANK.” Fill in that blank.
5. The armored car that the president of the United States rides in has a nickname that it shares with an animated Disney character. What is it?
4. The New Colossus
1. Phoenix
“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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5. The Beast
3. Mystique
2: Jubilee
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
Answers to Thursday, March 16, 2023
X-Persons: All answers this round will also be the name of a mutant from the X-Men comics.
1. What is the most populous state capital in the United States?
Phoenix
2. In the Bible, it’s the end of the seven-year cycle of shmita, when debts are forgiven and slaves are freed. In England, it recognizes the anniversary of a monarch’s reign. What is it?
Jubilee
3. Betty Friedan made waves in 1963 with the publication of her book “The Feminine BLANK.” Fill in that blank.
Mystique
4. The title of the Emma Lazarus sonnet that is engraved on the Statue of Liberty describes the statue as “The New BLANK.” Fill in that blank.
Colossus
5. The armored car that the president of the United States rides in has a nickname that it shares with an animated Disney character. What is it?
Beast
Questions for
Friday, March 17, 2023
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: There are seven Sandra Bullock movies that have a number in their title (not counting “Murder By Numbers”). Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero total if you get any wrong.
2. What is the only state in the United States with an AAPI plurality?
3. What fictional land is defined as “all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea”?
4. English Reformed Protestants who sought to remove Catholic influences from the Church of England in the 16th and 17th centuries are better known by what one-word term?
5. Today is March 17. Happy 26th birthday to the world record holder in the women's 800- and 1500-meter freestyle, and the second-most awarded woman in Olympic swimming. Who is she?
2. Hawai'i
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
1. Ocean's 8
1. Ocean’s 8, Speed 2, Miss Congeniality 2
(Still thinking of more)
4. Puritans
1) 28 Days-Two Weeks Notice-Love Potion #9
What have I got? I got no snacks and I got no respect.
Travis-age 6
5) Katie Ladecky (sp?)
Keep your stick on the ice...
3. Narnia
1) Two if by Sea! Old and a piece of crap lol
What have I got? I got no snacks and I got no respect.
Travis-age 6
Guarantee 95% plus people couldn’t tell you where Fairleigh Dickinson University is without Google… lol!!!
Keep your stick on the ice...
Close, that was at Emily DickensonIsn't there Fawn Lebowitz died in a kiln explosion?
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
Saw this, and just...still a gut punch...:(
From the “Let that sink in” files.. this team has been the Dallas Stars 4 years longer than they were the Minnesota North Stars..
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, March 17, 2023
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: There are seven Sandra Bullock movies that have a number in their title (not counting “Murder By Numbers”). Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero total if you get any wrong.
“Two If By Sea,” “28 Days,” “Two Weeks Notice,” “Miss Congeniality 2,” “Speed 2,” “Love Potion #9,” “Ocean’s Eight”
2. What is the only state in the United States with an AAPI plurality?
Hawai’i
(plurality = larger than any other ethnic group, but not a full majority)
3. What fictional land is defined as “all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea”?
Narnia
4. English Reformed Protestants who sought to remove Catholic influences from the Church of England in the 16th and 17th centuries are better known by what one-word term?
Puritans
5. Today is March 17. Happy 26th birthday to the world record holder in the women's 800- and 1500-meter freestyle, and the second-most awarded woman in Olympic swimming. Who is she?
Katie Ledecky
Questions for
Monday, March 20, 2023
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. In the Old Testament, what five-letter word appears between “Noah” and “Shem,” between “Abraham” and “Isaac,” and between “Jacob” and “Joseph”?
2. Leslie David Baker played an office worker in OfficeMax commercials before he landed a role on “The Office,” playing what grumpy office worker?
3. KFC recently announced a re-release of what 2010 sandwich, which replaced the bread with two pieces of fried chicken?
4. What British game show was hosted by journalist Anne Robinson from 2000 to 2012, a gig that earned her the nickname “The Queen of Mean”?
5. Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot by Gavrilo Princip, a 19-year-old anarchist, in what Bosnian city?
1. Begat
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
2. Stanley Hudson
3. Double Down
4. The Weakest Link
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
5. Sarajevo
Answers to Monday, March 20, 2023
1. In the Old Testament, what five-letter word appears between “Noah” and “Shem,” between “Abraham” and “Isaac,” and between “Jacob” and “Joseph”?
“Begat”
2. Leslie David Baker played an office worker in OfficeMax commercials before he landed a role on “The Office,” playing what grumpy office worker?
Stanley Hudson
(and check out “The Office” Trivia all this month!)
3. KFC recently announced a re-release of what 2010 sandwich, which replaced the bread with two pieces of fried chicken?
The Double Down
4. What British game show was hosted by journalist Anne Robinson from 2000 to 2012, a gig that earned her the nickname “The Queen of Mean”?
“The Weakest Link”
5. Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot by Gavrilo Princip, a 19-year-old anarchist, in what Bosnian city?
Sarajevo
Questions for
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What 2010 documentary, which was later turned into a TV series, gets its name from something commercial fishermen dump into cod tanks to keep them active? It’s also the nickname of an eight-time All-Star pitcher for the A’s and Yankees.
2. What superhero—first played on the big screen by Ben Affleck—is known by such epithets as “The Man Without Fear” and “The Devil of Hell’s Kitchen”?
3. What disorder’s full name contains the word “mellitus,” which comes from the Latin for “sweetened with honey,” because people going untreated for this condition have sweet-tasting urine?
4. She appeared on “The Simple Life” as Paris Hilton's personal stylist and organizer. She later surpassed Hilton at her own game, becoming the highest paid reality television personality in 2015. Who is she?
5. What famous polka is played during the seventh-inning stretch during Brewers games and at halftime during Bucks games?
5. Beer Barrel Polka
“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. Daredevil
3. Diabetes
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
1) Catfish Hunter
Keep your stick on the ice...
3. Sweet tasting urine? Who was the taste tester for this one?
I remember taking courses for lab and hearing the stories. I said I draw the line if that was still a practice.
Keep your stick on the ice...
4. Nicole Ritchie
