Totally Random Trivia: 2022

Questions for
Friday, June 16, 2023

Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Carson City, Nevada, has two words in its name, both of which begin with the same letter. This is also true of three world capitals, or cities that are the capitals of their countries. Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any wrong.

2. What model of airplane got its name because it was the result of a government treaty between England and France?

3. What fruit is used in crème de cassis liqueur?

4. What ’90s grunge band was named after a Seattle public art installation consisting of 12 metal organ pipes that are played by the wind?

5. Today is June 16. Happy 85th birthday to what author of “You Must Remember This,” “Blonde,” “Black Water,” and one of the most notable Twitter accounts among Pulitzer finalists?

2.  The Concorde  ?? 

4. Sound Garden

1. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Phnom Penh, Cambodia. San Salvador, El Salvador. 

3) black currents.  Yummmmm

5) Joyce Carol Oates

Answers to Friday, June 16, 2023

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Carson City, Nevada, has two words in its name, both of which begin with the same letter. This is also true of three world capitals, or cities that are the capitals of their countries. Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any wrong. 

Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Phnom Penh (Cambodia), San Salvador (El Salvador)

2. What model of airplane got its name because it was the result of a government treaty between England and France? 

Concorde

3. What fruit is used in crème de cassis liqueur? 

Currants (specifically, blackcurrants)

4. What ’90s grunge band was named after a Seattle public art installation consisting of 12 metal organ pipes that are played by the wind? 

Soundgarden

5. Today is June 16. Happy 85th birthday to what author of “You Must Remember This,” “Blonde,” “Black Water,” and one of the most notable Twitter accounts among Pulitzer finalists?

Joyce Carol Oates

Questions for
Monday, June 19, 2023

Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.

1. Happy Juneteenth! Juneteenth celebrates when news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Texas. Did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation before, during, or after the Civil War? 

2. What first name was also the four-letter stock symbol for Golden Bear Golf Inc.? 

3. After Canada and the United States, what is the third-largest English-speaking nation in the Americas by population? 

4. What chemical element is added to steel to make it stainless?

5. What city was founded in 59 BCE by Romans, who gave it a Latin name meaning “blossoming”?

1.  During

4. Chrome

2. Jack?

Posted by: @norm

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4. Chrome

technically chromium. 

5.  Florence?

Posted by: @the-rube

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2. Jack?

Correct

3. Jamaica. 

Posted by: @dxmnkd316

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5.  Florence?

The original Latin name was Florentia, which eventually became Florence.  I just recently learned that while we were there.  And of course in Italian it is Firenze.

Taking a stab here, but guessing the word "flower" came from Florentia/etc that sort of thing, hence "blossoming."

Answers to Monday, June 19, 2023

1. Happy Juneteenth! Juneteenth celebrates when news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Texas. Did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation before, during, or after the Civil War? 
During

2. What first name was also the four-letter stock symbol for Golden Bear Golf Inc.? 
JACK
(after Jack Nicklaus)

3. After Canada and the United States, what is the third-largest English speaking nation in the Americas by population? 
Jamaica

4. What chemical element is added to steel to make it stainless?
Chromium (or chrome)

5. What city was founded in 59 BCE by Romans, who gave it a Latin name meaning “blossoming”? 
Florence

Questions for
Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.

1. Math! One chocolate bar costs $1. The candy store is running a special, where if you bring in three chocolate bar wrappers, you get a free bar. If you have $15, how many chocolate bars can you get?

2. Despite her general clumsiness, the Disney Channel character Lizzie McGuire excels at what sport, one of three women-only events at the Summer Olympics?

3. What chronic disease gets its name from the Greek for “puff up,” and used to be called “smoker’s lung”?

4. What 1960s singing duo were once known as “Caesar and Cleo” due to their hairstyles?

5. Which is the only U.S. state whose name ends with its own two-letter postal abbreviation?

4. Sonny and Cher

1. 22

5. Kentucky

1. 20

3. Emphysema?

@boats is correct. I failed to account for turning in the wrappers from the free bars.

Posted by: @mnnavy

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I failed to account for turning in the wrappers from the free bars.

NO chocolate for you! ?

And wouldn’t it be 21?  
$15 gets you 15 bars.  Those wrappers get you another 5=20. But you need 3 wrappers@ so you’d only get 1 more bar=21.  You’re short a wrapper.

$15 = 15 Bars

15 Wrappers = 5 Bars

5 Wrappers = 1 bar + 2 wrappers

2 Leftover wrappers + new wrapper = 1 bar

Yeah I stopped at 21 after forgetting the fact you have 3 wrappers after getting the final wrapper following:

5 Wrappers = 1 bar + 2 wrappers

I almost missed the remaining two from the first five plus the one new wrapper. Was tricky!

Posted by: @steve-mn

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$15 = 15 Bars

15 Wrappers = 5 Bars

5 Wrappers = 1 bar + 2 wrappers

2 Leftover wrappers + new wrapper = 1 bar

I never liked math?

Posted by: @kelly-red

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I never liked math? 

I hated those math puzzles in school! 

I have 3 envelopes...

You can find out then and there who hates math. 😀 

Answers to Tuesday, June 20, 2023

1. Math! One chocolate bar costs $1. The candy store is running a special, where if you bring in three chocolate bar wrappers, you get a free bar. If you have $15, how many chocolate bars can you get? 
22
(buy 15, use the wrappers to get five more, use three of those wrappers to get one more, add its wrapper to the two you had leftover to get one more. 15+5+1+1=22)

2. Despite her general clumsiness, the Disney Channel character Lizzie McGuire excels at what sport, one of three women-only events at the Summer Olympics?
Rhythmic gymnastics
(as of 2020, the other two are synchronized swimming and softball)

3. What chronic disease gets its name from the Greek for “puff up,” and used to be called “smoker’s lung”? 
Emphysema

4. What 1960s singing duo were once known as “Caesar and Cleo” due to their hairstyles? 
Sonny & Cher

5. Which is the only U.S. state whose name ends with its own two-letter postal abbreviation? 
Kentucky

Questions for
Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.

1. Trevor Noah was the third host of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central. Who was the first? 

2. Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and the Cayman Islands comprise 90 percent of the landmass in the West Indies, and are collectively known as the… what? 

3. Of the 79 people who have won the Oscar for “Best Actress,” two shared the same last name. What is that last name? 

4. What webcomic was read more than 20 million times before it was published in novel form in 2007 with the subtitle “Greg Heffley's Journal”?

5. What Canadian provincial capital is known unofficially as “The City that Rhymes with Fun”?

1.  Minnesota’s own Craig Kilborn

2. Greater Antilles

5. Regina, Saskatchewan

3.  Hepburn?

Posted by: @zwak

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3.  Hepburn?

Kate and Audrey!

4) Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Answers to Wednesday, June 21, 2023

1. Trevor Noah was the third host of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central. Who was the first? 
Craig Kilborn

2. Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and the Cayman Islands comprise 90 percent of the landmass in the West Indies, and are collectively known as the… what? 
Greater Antilles

3. Of the 79 people who have won the Oscar for “Best Actress,” two shared the same last name. What is that last name? 
Hepburn (go ahead and give yourself a bonus point if you knew Joan Fontaine’s real last name was “de Havilland” – she and her sister Olivia both have “Best Actress” Oscars, as well)

4. What webcomic was read more than 20 million times before it was published in novel form in 2007 with the subtitle “Greg Heffley's Journal”?
“Diary of a Wimpy Kid”

5. What Canadian provincial capital is known unofficially as “The City that Rhymes with Fun”? 
Regina, Saskatchewan

Questions for
Theme Thursday, June 22, 2023

You Give Corona a Bad Name: The word "corona" has suffered some damage to its reputation in recent years. Let's rehabilitate a beautiful word by talking about some of the world's better coronas.

Answers in tomorrow’s email.

1. In 1940, Corona became the first beer to print its label directly on the bottle. That label features two identical mythical creatures, which are, according to the company's website, the beer's "guardians." What kind of creature are they?

2. According to Paul Simon, the "Queen of Corona" is named... what?

3. According to Disney, the lost princess of the kingdom of Corona is named... what?

4. The plasma aura surrounding the sun is called its "corona." Is this region hotter or cooler than the surface of the sun?

5. Since the word "corona" has solar implications, it makes sense that the final level of a 2002 “Super Mario” game takes place in a volcano called Corona Mountain. What was that video game's title?

4: Hotter (MUCH hotter)

2. Rosie

1. Griffins (incoming gif from GE)

3. Rapunzel

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1. Griffins (incoming gif from GE)

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3. Of the 79 people who have won the Oscar for “Best Actress,” two shared the same last name. What is that last name? 
Hepburn (go ahead and give yourself a bonus point if you knew Joan Fontaine’s real last name was “de Havilland” – she and her sister Olivia both have “Best Actress” Oscars, as well)

deHavilland and Fontaine were only 14-15 months apart in age and apparently despised each other their whole lives.  

Answers to Thursday, June 22, 2023

You Give Corona a Bad Name: The word "corona" has suffered some damage to its reputation in recent years. Let's rehabilitate a beautiful word by talking about some of the world's better coronas.

1. In 1940, Corona became the first beer to print its label directly on the bottle. That label features two identical mythical creatures, which are, according to the company's website, the beer's "guardians." What kind of creature are they?
Griffins

2. According to Paul Simon, the "Queen of Corona" is named... what?
Rosie
(from "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard") 

3. According to Disney, the lost princess of the kingdom of Corona is named... what?
Rapunzel

4. The plasma aura surrounding the sun is called its "corona." Is this region hotter or cooler than the surface of the sun?
Hotter
(about 400x hotter)

5. Since the word "corona" has solar implications, it makes sense that the final level of a 2002 “Super Mario” game takes place in a volcano called Corona Mountain. What was that video game's title?
“Super Mario Sunshine”

Questions for
Friday, June 23, 2023

Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: The Beatles released four musical films between 1964 and 1968. Name them for one point each. Zero total if you get any wrong. 

2. Said once, it’s a song from “West Side Story.” Repeated, it’s a song by Smashing Pumpkins. And said thrice, it’s a song by Genesis. What word is it? 

3. Six of the 10 most populous cities in the U.S. are located in which two states? 

4. A style of boots, a steak preparation, and the world's southernmost national capital are all named after Arthur Wellesley, the first duke of what English village?

5. Today is June 23. Born on this day in 1912, Alan Turing was a hugely influential computer scientist and cryptographer. Among many other accomplishments, he cracked the code on what German cypher system during World War II?

5. Enigma

2. Tonight 

1. A Hard Day's Night

    Help!

   Magical Mystery Tour

   Yellow Submarine

3) California and Texas?

4.  Wellington