Answers to Thursday, November 9, 2023
The Youngest Ever: Five questions about the youngest people to do a certain thing!
1. The youngest-ever Oscar winner in any category won for the 1973 movie “Paper Moon,” in which she appeared alongside her real-life father Ryan. What is her name?
Tatum O’Neal
2. Who became the youngest player in NBA history to score 25,000 points in 2015, at age 30?
LeBron James
3. What popular Puerto Rican actor reportedly became the youngest person ever to play a Bond henchman in 1989, when he appeared as Dario in “License to Kill” at age 21?
Benicio Del Toro
4. Who became the youngest person ever to be named Time's “Person of the Year” when she was selected in 2019, at age 16?
Greta Thunberg
5. At just a few hours old, what infant, born in January 2012 and credited as “B.I.C.,” became the youngest artist ever to appear on the Billboard charts, for her role in the song “Glory”?
Blue Ivy Carter
Questions for
Friday, November 10, 2023
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: The Texas Rangers have won the 2023 World Series. That leaves five teams in the MLB that have never won a World Series. Name as many of those teams as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any wrong.
2. The world’s best-selling rum brand is the Manila-based Tanduay. In the U.S., it’s what brand of rum that was founded in Cuba in 1862?
3. In 1571, Thomas Howard, 4th duke of Norfolk, was arrested for his role in the plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with what other monarch?
4. According to the United Nations World Tourism Organization, what European country saw the most tourists of any nation in the world in 2021?
5. Today is November 10. On this day in 1990, a film starring Macaulay Culkin had its world premiere. It became a huge hit, spawned a number of sequels, and became a TV staple during the holidays. Name that movie!
2. Bacardi
5. Home Alone
“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. Mary Queen of Scots
5. Home Alone
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
1. Milwaukee Brewers, Seattle Mariners, Tampa Bay Rays, Colorado Rockies, San Diego Padres.
4) France
Note: Due to inflation dirty deeds will no longer be done dirt cheap.
Answers to Friday, November 10, 2023
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: The Texas Rangers have won the 2023 World Series. That leaves five teams in the MLB that have never won a World Series. Name as many of those teams as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any wrong.
Seattle Mariners, Milwaukee Brewers, San Diego Padres, Colorado Rockies, Tampa Bay Rays
2. The world’s best-selling rum brand is the Manila-based Tanduay. In the U.S., it’s what brand of rum that was founded in Cuba in 1862?
Bacardi
3. In 1571, Thomas Howard, 4th duke of Norfolk, was arrested for his role in the plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with what other monarch?
Mary, Queen of Scots (Mary Stuart)
4. According to the United Nations World Tourism Organization, what European country saw the most tourists of any nation in the world in 2021?
France
5. Today is November 10. On this day in 1990, a film starring Macaulay Culkin had its world premiere. It became a huge hit, spawned a number of sequels, and became a TV staple during the holidays. Name that movie!
“Home Alone”
Questions for
Monday, November 13, 2023
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. The 2001 Heath Ledger movie “A Knight’s Tale” takes its title from a chapter of what longer 14th-century work?
2. The first rapper inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame was what Brooklyn-born mogul, who couldn’t attend the 2017 ceremony, but sent a video from President Obama in his place?
3. The Vanderbilt family provided the endowment that, in 1873, established Vanderbilt University in which state?
4. Shemp Howard, Joe Besser, and Joe De Rita were a few replacement members of what iconic comedy group that saw its start in the vaudeville era and continued into the 1970s?
5. Ground beef molded into the shape of a steak is named after a doctor who encouraged his patients to avoid grains and vegetables. Which is ironic, because today it’s usually served on mashed potatoes or noodles. Name that dish.
4. The Three Stooges
1. The Canterbury Tales
3. TN
“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. Salisbury steak?
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
2. Jay Z
Answers to Monday, November 13, 2023
1. The 2001 Heath Ledger movie “A Knight’s Tale” takes its title from a chapter of what longer 14th-century work?
“The Canterbury Tales”
2. The first rapper inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame was what Brooklyn-born mogul, who couldn’t attend the 2017 ceremony, but sent a video from President Obama in his place?
Jay-Z
3. The Vanderbilt family provided the endowment that, in 1873, established Vanderbilt University in which state?
Tennessee
4. Shemp Howard, Joe Besser, and Joe De Rita were a few replacement members of what iconic comedy group that saw its start in the vaudeville era and continued into the 1970s?
The Three Stooges
5. Ground beef molded into the shape of a steak is named after a doctor who encouraged his patients to avoid grains and vegetables. Which is ironic, because today it’s usually served on mashed potatoes or noodles. Name that dish.
Salisbury steak
Questions for
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What film series opens with Chrissie Watkins going skinny dipping on a beach off Amity Island?
2. What character was voted the “World’s Favourite BBC Character” in 2017 by viewers of the British Broadcasting Corporation?
3. What martial arts practice gets its name from the Japanese for “the soft art” and has spawned two other widely practiced forms of martial arts?
4. You can visit two National Parks in Montana. Name both of them.
5. In 1993, the U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed the country’s first female attorney general. What was her name?
1. Jaws
Hard work will beat talent, if talent doesn't work hard.
5. Janet Reno
Hard work will beat talent, if talent doesn't work hard.
4. Glacier and Yellowstone
4. Glacier, Yellowstone
3. Jiu-Jitsu
2. If it's not Benny Hill I demand a recount.
“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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GreyEagle…I’d demand that recount. It’s Sherlock Holmes! I was going to vote Dr Who.
Note: Due to inflation dirty deeds will no longer be done dirt cheap.
GreyEagle…I’d demand that recount. It’s Sherlock Holmes! I was going to vote Dr Who.
It has to be this guy. Has to be!! ?
“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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The top 10 favourite BBC characters are:
- Sherlock (29.7%)
- Doctor Who (17.6%)
- Luther (12.4%)
- Basil Fawlty (11.8%)
- The Stig (8.2%
- Patsy Stone (8.1%)
- Edmund Blackadder (7.4%)
- Hyacinth Bucket (6.1%)
- Vicar of Dibley (5.8%)
- The Daleks (5.6%)
Note: Due to inflation dirty deeds will no longer be done dirt cheap.
Basil Fawlty is definitely in my top 2.
“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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GreyEagle…I’d demand that recount. It’s Sherlock Holmes! I was going to vote Dr Who.
Those were the first 2 that came to mind.
Moriarty should be Top 10. ?
Answers to Tuesday, November 14, 2023
1. What film series opens with Chrissie Watkins going skinny dipping on a beach off Amity Island?
“Jaws”
2. What character was voted the “World’s Favourite BBC Character” in 2017 by viewers of the British Broadcasting Corporation?
Sherlock Holmes
3. What martial arts practice gets its name from the Japanese for “the soft art” and has spawned two other widely practiced forms of martial arts?
Jujutsu (or jiu-jitsu; judo and Brazilian jiu-jitsu are derived from it)
4. You can visit two National Parks in Montana. Name both of them.
Glacier, Yellowstone
5. In 1993, the U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed the country’s first female attorney general. What was her name?
Janet Reno
Questions for
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What piece of Olympic sporting equipment is manufactured by a single factory in Japan using Chinese goose feathers and rare Portuguese cork?
2. Olivia Colman won the Oscar for “Best Actress” for her 2018 portrayal of Queen Anne in what film?
3. What country — which includes Andean highlands, Amazon rainforest, tropical grasslands, and both Caribbean and Pacific coastlines — is considered by the World Wildlife Fund to be the most ecologically diverse country per square kilometer in the world?
4. On “The Simpsons,” Maggie has a nemesis named Gerald. What is Gerald’s most notable physical feature?
5. What sovereign Asian republic is the only place in the world where the country, its capital, and the island where it’s located all have the same name?
1. Shuttlecock for badminton
3. Colombia?
Hard work will beat talent, if talent doesn't work hard.
2) The Favorite
4) Baby Gerald has a dark unibrow
Note: Due to inflation dirty deeds will no longer be done dirt cheap.
5. Singapore?
Answers to Wednesday, November 15, 2023
1. What piece of Olympic sporting equipment is manufactured by a single factory in Japan using Chinese goose feathers and rare Portuguese cork?
Shuttlecock
2. Olivia Colman won the Oscar for “Best Actress” for her 2018 portrayal of Queen Anne in what film?
“The Favourite”
3. What country — which includes Andean highlands, Amazon rainforest, tropical grasslands, and both Caribbean and Pacific coastlines — is considered by the World Wildlife Fund to be the most ecologically diverse country per square kilometer in the world?
Colombia
4. On “The Simpsons,” Maggie has a nemesis named Gerald. What is Gerald’s most notable physical feature?
A unibrow
5. What sovereign Asian republic is the only place in the world where the country, its capital, and the island where it’s located all have the same name?
Singapore
Questions for
Theme Thursday, November 16, 2023
On the Cover of Rolling Stone: I’ll give you the date the issue came out, the headline, and a hint. You name the person who was on the cover.
Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. Whose six-pack abs were featured on the December 2009 cover under the headline “Teen Wolf”?
2. What HBO actor appeared on the April 2014 cover alongside the headline “The First Lady of Comedy”?
3. What athlete appeared on the July 2016 cover with the headline “The Greatest of All Time, 1942–2016”?
4. What man, born in Ottawa on Christmas Day, 1971, appeared on the August 2017 cover next to a headline that asked, “Why Can’t He Be Our President?”
5. What superstar rapper was almost eight months pregnant when she was photographed partially nude for the July 2018 cover, next to the headline, “A Hip-Hop Love Story”?
3. Muhammed Ali
2. Julia Louis-Dreyfus
4. Justin Trudeau
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
Ugh why do I know these.
1. Taylor Lautner
5. Cardi B
?the truth comes out…you’re Team Jacob!Ugh why do I know these.
1. Taylor Lautner
5. Cardi B
Note: Due to inflation dirty deeds will no longer be done dirt cheap.
Answers to Thursday, November 16, 2023
On the Cover of Rolling Stone: I’ll give you the date the issue came out, the headline, and a hint. You name the person who was on the cover.
1. Whose six-pack abs were featured on the December 2009 cover under the headline “Teen Wolf”?
Taylor Lautner
2. What HBO actor appeared on the April 2014 cover alongside the headline “The First Lady of Comedy”?
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
3. What athlete appeared on the July 2016 cover with the headline “The Greatest of All Time, 1942–2016”?
Muhammad Ali
4. What man, born in Ottawa on Christmas Day, 1971, appeared on the August 2017 cover next to a headline that asked, “Why Can’t He Be Our President?”
Justin Trudeau
5. What superstar rapper was almost eight months pregnant when she was photographed partially nude for the July 2018 cover, next to the headline, “A Hip-Hop Love Story”?
Cardi B
Questions for
Friday, November 17, 2023
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: The Great Basin is the largest endorheic, or “closed,” watershed in North America. It touches six U.S. states — none of which is Colorado. Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero total if you get any wrong.
2. What 1953 play, subtitled “A Tragicomedy In Two Acts,” contains just two characters named Estragon and Vladimir?
3. One of the earliest video game companies was founded by Nolan Bushnell in 1972. It gets its name from a Japanese exclamation used when playing the board game Go. What did Bushnell name the company?
4. In quantum mechanics, when a substance’s electrical resistance is reduced all the way down to zero, what 17-letter state has been achieved?
5. Today is November 17. Happy birthday to director Martin Scorsese! His only Academy Award win was for “Best Director” for what 2006 film?
3 Atari
4 Superconductivity
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
3. "Waiting for Godot" (thank you "Home Improvement")
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
5. The Departed
“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 Departed
One of the best movies ever.
I loved it, my wife hated it. From a gender perspective I suspect this sentiment is common.
“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. Nevada, Utah...
