I know the name, but not a single one of her songs.
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, April 14, 2023
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: There are four chemical elements with five-letter names. Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero total if you get any wrong.
Argon, Boron, Radon, Xenon
2. Eric Clapton, Pattie Harrison, and Yoko Ono are all credited as guest musicians on which Beatles album?
“The White Album” (“The Beatles”)
3. What former child actor is now the co-owner of Imagine Entertainment?
Ron Howard
4. There is only one woman mentioned by name in the Qur’an. She is also featured prominently in the New Testament. What is her name?
Mary/Maryam
5. Today is April 14. Happy 49th birthday to Shawntae Harris-Dupart, who became the first female solo rap act to receive a platinum certification for her 1994 album “Funkdafied.” What is her stage name?
Da Brat
Questions for
Monday, April 17, 2023
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. Beginning in 1870, what brand of beer was brewed using water from the river that flows through Amsterdam, until the company was bought out and relocated its main brewing facility in 1972?
2. If you see the acronym “EOE” in the classifieds, it probably means… what?
3. What is the surname of the famous literary brothers Dmitri, Ivan, and Alexei?
4. Who wrote, in the fifth century BCE, “I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel”?
5. Two U.S. states claim to be pioneers in the field of aviation, at least on their standard-issue license plates. One bears the motto “First in Flight,” while the other reads, “Birthplace of Aviation.” Name both states.
2. Equal Opportunity Employer
5. North Carolina (First in Flight) and Ohio (Birthplace of Aviation)
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
1. Amstel
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. Amstel
“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: Hippocrates
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
3. Karamazov
Answers to Monday, April 17, 2023
1. Beginning in 1870, what brand of beer was brewed using water from the river that flows through Amsterdam, until the company was bought out and relocated its main brewing facility in 1972?
Amstel
(it’s the Amstel River)
2. If you see the acronym “EOE” in the classifieds, it probably means… what?
Equal Opportunity Employer
3. What is the surname of the famous literary brothers Dmitri, Ivan, and Alexei?
Karamazov
4. Who wrote in the fifth century BCE, “I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel”?
Hippocrates
5. Two U.S. states claim to be pioneers in the field of aviation, at least on their standard-issue license plates. One bears the motto “First in Flight,” while the other reads, “Birthplace of Aviation.” Name both states.
North Carolina, Ohio
Questions for
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. “Street Fighter” combatant Dhalsim, “Adventure Time” hero Jake the Dog, Helen Parr from “The Incredibles,” and the current version of superhero Ms. Marvel all share what superhuman physical ability?
2. By what name is “The Decalogue” better known today?
3. In February 1885, President Chester A. Arthur dedicated what structure, which was the tallest in the world at the time?
4. Bigfoot, Grave Digger, and El Toro Loco are all examples of what kind of customized automobile?
5. Which is the only country on Earth that currently has an emperor?
2. Ten Commandments
4. Monster Truck
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
1) they can all stretch like rubber
5) Japan
Note: Due to inflation dirty deeds will no longer be done dirt cheap.
1. They can stretch
3. Washington Monument?
Answers to Tuesday, April 18, 2023
1. “Street Fighter” combatant Dhalsim, “Adventure Time” hero Jake the Dog, Helen Parr from “The Incredibles,” and the current version of superhero Ms. Marvel all share what superhuman physical ability?
Stretchiness (or elasticity)
2. By what name is “The Decalogue” better known today?
The Ten Commandments
3. In February 1885, President Chester A. Arthur dedicated what structure, which was the tallest in the world at the time?
Washington Monument
4. Bigfoot, Grave Digger, and El Toro Loco are all examples of what kind of customized automobile?
Monster trucks
5. Which is the only country on Earth that currently has an emperor?
Japan
Questions for
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What kind of wild animal killed Adonis in Greek mythology, killed Robert Baratheon in “Game of Thrones,” and was killed by Hercules as one of his legendary “12 Labors”?
2. What country were you born in if, like Rod Carew and John McCain, you identify as a “Zonian”?
3. Which is the “good” cholesterol: HDL or LDL?
4. Actor Matt Frewer has appeared in “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” and “Watchmen,” but he first found fame as what 1980s TV host and soft drink spokesperson, whose catchphrase was “C-c-c-catch the wave”?
5. What tube-shaped pasta gets its name from the Italian word for “ridged”?
2. Panama
3. HDL
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
1. Boar
4. Max Headroom
“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. Rigatoni
Answers to Wednesday, April 19, 2023
1. What kind of wild animal killed Adonis in Greek mythology, killed Robert Baratheon in “Game of Thrones,” and was killed by Hercules as one of his legendary “12 Labors”?
Boar
2. What country were you born in if, like Rod Carew and John McCain, you identify as a “Zonian”?
Panama
(It’s a term for people who lived in what was then called the Panama Canal Zone)
3. Which is the “good” cholesterol: HDL or LDL?
HDL
4. Actor Matt Frewer has appeared in “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” and “Watchmen,” but he first found fame as what 1980s TV host and soft drink spokesperson, whose catchphrase was “C-c-c-catch the wave”?
Max Headroom
5. What tube-shaped pasta gets its name from the Italian word for “ridged”?
Rigatoni
Questions for
Theme Thursday, April 20, 2023
Stoned on Screen: Five questions about stoner movies and TV shows, brah.
Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What 1998 movie had cameos from Willie Nelson as the “Historian Smoker,” Snoop Dogg as the “Scavenger Smoker,” and Jon Stewart as the “Enhancement Smoker”?
2. Ben Sinclair stars as The Guy, bike couriering weed man, on what HBO anthology series, where he delivers to everyday people as well as celebrities playing themselves like Martha Stewart, Lena Dunham, and Ira Glass?
3. Cheech and Chong made six stoner movies together. What was the title of the first one?
4. What 2008 stoner movie shares its name with a real strain of marijuana, as well as a train that tours the Dole plantation in Hawai’i?
5. Stoner best friends blow weed smoke in the faces of clinic protestors, smoke a “ginger blunt man,” and get high to remember where they left the TV remote on what beloved Comedy Central series?
3)Up in Smoke
4)Pineapple Express
5) Broad City (I asked “ a friend”) ?
Note: Due to inflation dirty deeds will no longer be done dirt cheap.
1. Half Baked
2. High Maintenance
3. Up In Smoke
Answers to Thursday, April 20, 2023
Stoned on Screen: Five questions about stoner movies and TV shows, brah.
1. What 1998 movie had cameos from Willie Nelson as the “Historian Smoker,” Snoop Dogg as the “Scavenger Smoker,” and Jon Stewart as the “Enhancement Smoker”?
“Half Baked”
2. Ben Sinclair stars as The Guy, bike couriering weed man, on what HBO anthology series, where he delivers to everyday people as well as celebrities playing themselves like Martha Stewart, Lena Dunham, and Ira Glass?
“High Maintenance”
3. Cheech and Chong made six stoner movies together. What was the title of the first one?
“Up in Smoke”
4. What 2008 stoner movie shares its name with a real strain of marijuana, as well as a train that tours the Dole plantation in Hawai’i?
“Pineapple Express”
5. Stoner best friends blow weed smoke in the faces of clinic protestors, smoke a “ginger blunt man,” and get high to remember where they left the TV remote on what beloved Comedy Central series?
“Broad City”
Questions for
Friday, April 21, 2023
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Actor Steve Buscemi appeared in five Coen Brothers movies in a row during the 1990s. Name as many of those movies as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any wrong.
2. There is just one country that touches both the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. Name it.
3. What is the last name of the man who founded Taco Bell in California in 1962?
4. What type of vehicle are you likely traveling in if it was made by the Blue Bird Company?
5. Today is April 21. Happy 91st birthday to Elaine May, the groundbreaking comedian, director, and screenwriter who broke out in comedy duo Nichols and May with Mike Nichols in the ’50s. They reunited in 1996 to write (May) and direct (Nichols) what English-language adaptation of the French farce “La Cage aux Folles”?
2 Saudi Arabia
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
3. Bell
4. School bus
“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.Fargo, The Big Lebowski...
5. "The Birdcage"
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
Answers to Friday, April 21, 2023
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Actor Steve Buscemi appeared in five Coen Brothers movies in a row during the 1990s. Name as many of those movies as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any wrong.
“Miller’s Crossing,” “Barton Fink,” “The Hudsucker Proxy,” “Fargo,” “The Big Lebowski”
2. There is just one country that touches both the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. Name it.
Saudi Arabia
3. What is the last name of the man who founded Taco Bell in California in 1962?
Bell
4. What type of vehicle are you likely traveling in if it was made by the Blue Bird Company?
A bus
(a school bus, specifically)
5. Today is April 21. Happy 91st birthday to Elaine May, the groundbreaking comedian, director, and screenwriter who broke out in comedy duo Nichols and May with Mike Nichols in the ’50s. They reunited in 1996 to write (May) and direct (Nichols) what English-language adaptation of the French farce “La Cage aux Folles”?
“The Birdcage”
Questions for
Monday, April 24, 2023
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. Rihanna was raised in Bridgetown, the capital of what West Indies island, measuring less than 200 square miles?
2. What is Wonder Woman’s civilian alter-ego?
3. Fill in the blank: A nautical mile is equal to 6,076 feet, or one BLANK of latitude.
4. Season 2 of “Schmigadoon!” is underway at Apple TV. The protagonists can’t find their way back to the town of Schmigadoon, and end up instead in what metropolis, named after a 1975 Broadway play?
5. What novelist coined the term "Beat Generation" in 1948?
1. Barbados
2. Diana Prince
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
3: 1/60th
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
3. Minute
5. Jack Kerouac
“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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Probably easier to phrase it that way... I missed that the question doesn't include "degree" in there. Oh well3. Minute
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
4) Chicago or Schmicago
Note: Due to inflation dirty deeds will no longer be done dirt cheap.
Answers to Monday, April 24, 2023
1. Rihanna was raised in Bridgetown, the capital of what West Indies island, measuring less than 200 square miles?
Barbados
2. What is Wonder Woman’s civilian alter-ego?
Diana Prince
3. Fill in the blank: A nautical mile is equal to 6,076 feet, or one BLANK of latitude.
Minute
4. Season 2 of “Schmigadoon!” is underway at Apple TV. The protagonists can’t find their way back to the town of Schmigadoon, and end up instead in what metropolis, named after a 1975 Broadway play?
“Schmicago”
(named after “Chicago”)
5. What novelist coined the term "Beat Generation" in 1948?
Jack Kerouac
Questions for
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What does the “C” in CBS stand for?
2. Thomas Edison spent most of his professional life in New Jersey, in a township that is now called Edison. What was it called when he lived there?
3. Nineteenth-century composer Edvard Grieg hated portions of his most famous composition. He said it “absolutely reeks of cow-pies, exaggerated Norwegian nationalism, and trollish self-satisfaction.” Name that work, which originally accompanied a production of the Ibsen play of the same name.
4. Which U.S. state experiences more earthquakes than any other state?
5. Boxer Rubin Carter was wrongfully convicted of three murders in 1967, with the conviction overturned in 1985. What was his nickname?
1: Columbia
2: Menlo Park
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
5. Hurricane
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
4. California?
3. Peer Gynt