5. Pride and Prejudice
3. There are more than one but calcium and magnesium are the most common. That's why our faucets have white crusts on them.
3. There are more than one but calcium and magnesium are the most common. That's why our faucets have white crusts on them.
so those of us in the apple valley/Burnsville area should live forever then eh?!
Answers to Tuesday, December 12, 2023
1. Green papaya salad is a national dish of Thailand, as well as what neighboring landlocked country whose capital is Vientiane?
Laos
2. What 1987 PG romantic comedy features such settings as the “Cliffs of Insanity” and the “Fire Swamp”?
“The Princess Bride”
3. The Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica boasts an unusually high number of centenarians, partially because they drink some of the hardest water in the world. What beneficial element is prevalent in hard water?
Calcium (also magnesium)
4. The “beer that made Milwaukee famous” was originally called “Krug.” What is that beer known as today?
Schlitz
5. Mr. Bennet is the sarcastic and wise father of five daughters — including Lizzie, his favorite — in what Jane Austen novel?
“Pride and Prejudice”
Questions for
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What candy gets its name from a contraction of the German word for "peppermint," as it used to come exclusively in mint flavor?
2. A millimeter of mercury, abbreviated mmHg, is a unit roughly equal to 133 pascals that is commonly used by doctors and nurses to measure your… what?
3. In 2017, Pope Francis recorded an 18-minute video titled “Why the Only Future Worth Building Includes Everyone.” This made him the first pope in history to deliver what kind of speech?
4. Inventor Whitcomb Judson introduced his “clasp-locker” at the 1893 World’s Fair. By what name do we know it today?
5. Model Heidi Klum has received nine Emmy nominations in the category “Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program” for her work on what TV show?
4. Zipper
“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.Pez from Pfefferminz
5. Project Runway
Hard work will beat talent, if talent doesn't work hard.
2. Blood pressure
3. A TED Talk?
Answers to Wednesday, December 13, 2023
1. What candy gets its name from a contraction of the German word for "peppermint," as it used to come exclusively in mint flavor?
PEZ
(pfefferminz)
2. A millimeter of mercury, abbreviated mmHg, is a unit roughly equal to 133 pascals that is commonly used by doctors and nurses to measure your… what?
Blood pressure
(or intracranial pressure, or cerebrospinal fluid pressure, but those are far less common)
3. In 2017, Pope Francis recorded an 18-minute video titled “Why the Only Future Worth Building Includes Everyone.” This made him the first pope in history to deliver what kind of speech?
A TED Talk
4. Inventor Whitcomb Judson introduced his “clasp-locker” at the 1893 World’s Fair. By what name do we know it today?
Zipper
5. Model Heidi Klum has received nine Emmy nominations in the category “Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program” for her work on what TV show?
“Project Runway”
Questions for
Theme Thursday, December 14, 2023
You Bread-er Believe It: It’s cold. Time to bake a nice loaf of bread and settle in with these five carb-heavy questions.
Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What U.S.-based brand, manufactured in Mexico by Grupo Bimbo, was one of the first to sell sliced bread in 1930?
2. Naan, lavash, and sheermal are all flatbreads traditionally baked in what type of cylindrical clay oven?
3. What Jewish egg bread, a part of the weekly Sabbath service, is only ritually acceptable if a portion of the dough has been set aside as an offering?
4. What type of Italian bread, often topped with rosemary, olives, or cheese, gets its name from the Latin for “hearth”?
5. The official bread of South Dakota is made by many different Native American tribes with differing proportions of flour, sugar, salt, and fat. What is it called?
2. Tandoor
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
3: Challah
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
1. Wonder
4. Focaccia
Saw this one today in a different email:
If Virginia does indeed get the Capitals and Wizards it will no longer be the most populous state without a major league franchise (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL) playing within its borders.
Question: Which state will take Virginia's place?
My guess would be one of Alabama or South Carolina and I'd probably guess AL (assuming the University of Alabama doesn't count ? ).
“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. Frybread
5. Frybread
It took till 1:11 to answer that one... I should've looked earlier. Growing up next to the rez. we had frybread and Indian Taco's all the the time.
Keep your stick on the ice...
There’s a relatively new mini-golf place in Bemidji about a five minute walk from the Sanford Center that has great fry bread tacos. In fact, everything we’ve tried there is much better than you’d expect from a mini-golf snack bar.
Answers to Thursday, December 14, 2023
You Bread-er Believe It: It’s cold. Time to bake a nice loaf of bread and settle in with these five carb-heavy questions.
1. What U.S.-based brand, manufactured in Mexico by Grupo Bimbo, was one of the first to sell sliced bread in 1930?
Wonder Bread
2. Naan, lavash, and sheermal are all flatbreads traditionally baked in what type of cylindrical clay oven?
Tandoor
3. What Jewish egg bread, a part of the weekly Sabbath service, is only ritually acceptable if a portion of the dough has been set aside as an offering?
Challah
4. What type of Italian bread, often topped with rosemary, olives, or cheese, gets its name from the Latin for “hearth”?
Focaccia
5. The official bread of South Dakota is made by many different Native American tribes with differing proportions of flour, sugar, salt, and fat. What is it called?
Frybread
Questions for
Friday, December 15, 2023
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Soccer player David Beckham won league titles in four different countries. Name as many of those countries as you can for one point each. Zero total if you get any wrong.
2. Michael Flatley is a dancer and flutist from Chicago who formerly held the Guinness World Record for fastest tap dancing speed. What theatrical production did he debut in 1994?
3. The caffè sospeso, or “suspended coffee,” is an Italian tradition of buying two coffees but drinking only one, so that someone later who can’t afford a coffee can get one for free. It began in Italy’s third-largest city by population, after Rome and Milan. Name that city.
4. What convenient item was added to the Crayola Crayon box of 64 crayons when it debuted in 1958?
5. Today is December 15. On this day, a romance film starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable set in the American South during the Civil War premiered in 1939. Name that film.
5. Gone With The Wind
2. Riverdance
5. "Gone With the Wind"
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
4. Sharpener
3. I believe that’s Naples.
1. Manchester United, Real Madrid, LA Galaxy, Paris Ssint-Germain
England, Spain, USA, France ?1. Manchester United, Real Madrid, LA Galaxy, Paris Ssint-Germain
Answers to Friday, December 15, 2023
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Soccer player David Beckham won league titles in four different countries. Name as many of those countries as you can for one point each. Zero total if you get any wrong.
England, Spain, United States, France
2. Michael Flatley is a dancer and flutist from Chicago who formerly held the Guinness World Record for fastest tap dancing speed. What theatrical production did he debut in 1994?
“Riverdance”
3. The caffè sospeso, or “suspended coffee,” is an Italian tradition of buying two coffees but drinking only one, so that someone later who can’t afford a coffee can get one for free. It began in Italy’s third-largest city by population, after Rome and Milan. Name that city.
Naples
4. What convenient item was added to the Crayola Crayon box of 64 crayons when it debuted in 1958?
Crayon sharpener
5. Today is December 15. On this day, a romance film starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable set in the American South during the Civil War premiered in 1939. Name that film.
“Gone With the Wind”
Questions for
Monday, December 18, 2023
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. By what more informal name is hypertension also known?
2. What basic cable channel rebranded in 2004 to focus on sitcoms and reality TV, using the slogan “Very funny”?
3. What popular household product, which was introduced 93 years ago, uses a modified Wallace tartan pattern for its packaging design?
4. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter pardoned an unprecedented 209,517 people in a single day. What crime had they been accused of?
5. If you go to MentalHealth.gov, you’ll visit a website administered by which U.S. Cabinet department?
1 High Blood Pressure
3 Scotch Tape
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
“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. Evading the Vietnam war.
Hard work will beat talent, if talent doesn't work hard.
5. Health and Human Services
2. TBS
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 Monday, December 18, 2023
1. By what more informal name is hypertension also known?
High blood pressure
2. What basic cable channel rebranded in 2004 to focus on sitcoms and reality TV, using the slogan “Very funny”?
TBS
3. What popular household product, which was introduced 93 years ago, uses a modified Wallace tartan pattern for its packaging design?
Scotch tape
4. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter pardoned an unprecedented 209,517 people in a single day. What crime had they been accused of?
Dodging the draft
5. If you go to MentalHealth.gov, you’ll visit a website administered by which U.S. Cabinet department?
Health and Human Services
Questions for
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. “Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda” is a 2015 young adult novel about a closeted teenager who falls in love with an anonymous classmate on their school’s Tumblr page. It was made into a movie under what title?
2. What Hockey Hall of Famer, who retired from the NHL in 1999, won more regular-season MVP awards during his career than any other athlete in the four major U.S. men’s sports leagues?
3. According to USDA estimates, China and Mexico are ranked second and third in the world’s production of oranges. The leading producer of oranges grows more than those two countries combined. What country is that?
4. What treat, which can be made with either twisted dough or piped choux pastry, gets its name from the Dutch for “to curl”?
5. The world's deepest lake is also the world's oldest lake. What lake is it?
2. Wayne Gretzky
5. Lake Baikal
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
3. Brazil
5. Cruller?
Answers to Tuesday, December 19, 2023
1. “Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda” is a 2015 young adult novel about a closeted teenager who falls in love with an anonymous classmate on their school’s Tumblr page. It was made into a movie under what title?
“Love, Simon”
2. What Hockey Hall of Famer, who retired from the NHL in 1999, won more regular-season MVP awards during his career than any other athlete in the four major U.S. men’s sports leagues?
Wayne Gretzky
3. According to USDA estimates, China and Mexico are ranked second and third in the world’s production of oranges. The leading producer of oranges grows more than those two countries combined. What country is that?
Brazil
4. What treat, which can be made with either twisted dough or piped choux pastry, gets its name from the Dutch for “to curl”?
Cruller
5. The world's deepest lake is also the world's oldest lake. What lake is it?
Lake Baikal
Questions for
Wednesday, December 20, 2023
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. If you played “Splatoon 2,” “Xenoblade Chronicles 2,” and “Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker” on your last road trip, you’re probably the owner of what handheld gaming console?
2. “Her Majesty” by the Beatles, “Train in Vain” by the Clash, “All By Myself” by Green Day, and “Can't Take My Eyes Off You” by Lauryn Hill are all songs that were released in what unconventional way?
3. Who is the most recent U.S. president to have more than one vice president during their tenure in office?
4. On New Year’s Day, many people in the American South get it started with Hoppin’ John, a dish said to promote prosperity. It’s often made with rice and what colorfully named and Fergalicious legume?
5. The Nickelodeon show “Go, Diego, Go!” was a 2005 spin-off of what other popular series?
3. Richard Nixon
“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) Nixon?
Keep your stick on the ice...
5. Dora the Explorer
2. They are "hidden tracks" from the albums
4. Black-eyed peas
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman