Came across this on Twitter. Whoa.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GB17cgFXQAATbtt?format=jpg&name=medium
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 Wednesday, December 20, 2023
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?
Nintendo Switch
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?
As hidden tracks
3. Who is the most recent U.S. president to have more than one vice president during their tenure in office?
Richard Nixon
(Spiro Agnew, Gerald Ford)
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?
Black-eyed peas
5. The Nickelodeon show “Go, Diego, Go!” was a 2005 spin-off of what other popular series?
“Dora the Explorer”
Questions for
Theme Thursday, December 21, 2023
Doubleplusgood: Five questions about impressive accomplishments that came in twos.
Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. In 2001, Jennifer Lopez became the first woman to simultaneously top the weekly record charts and box office, with her album "J.Lo" and what romantic comedy co-starring Matthew McConaughey?
2. In 2021, the third most populous country in the EU became the first to win both the UEFA European Football Championship and the Eurovision Song Contest in the same year. Name that country.
3. In 2015, what former MVP and current activist celebrated both her third WNBA title and her third championship in the Women's Chinese Basketball Association, where she was nicknamed “The Invincible Queen”?
4. Who is the only actor to win an Academy Award and a Golden Raspberry in the same year?
5. In 1998, the top-grossing computer animated films produced by Pixar and DreamWorks both featured what species of animal as their title characters?
4: Halle Berry EDIT: Nope
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
4: Halle Berry EDIT: Nope
not going to lie, I deleted part of the question as it made it WAY too easy.
I knew she won both, but it was in different years. Credit to her (and the person that is the correct answer here) for showing up in person to accept the Razzie, too.4: Halle Berry EDIT: Nope
not going to lie, I deleted part of the question as it made it WAY too easy.
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
5. Ants ("Antz" - Dreamworks, and "An Ants Life" - Pixar)
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
4) Sandra Bullock. And she showed up to collect it!
When people tell me I’ll regret not having kids, I say that’s okay I know a really good place to cry. It’s my vacation home.
4: Halle Berry EDIT: Nope
not going to lie, I deleted part of the question as it made it WAY too easy.
“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) The Wedding Planner
Keep your stick on the ice...
3) Maya Moore
Keep your stick on the ice...
Answers to Thursday, December 21, 2023
Doubleplusgood: Five questions about impressive accomplishments that came in twos.
1. In 2001, Jennifer Lopez became the first woman to simultaneously top the weekly record charts and box office, with her album "J.Lo" and what romantic comedy co-starring Matthew McConaughey?
“The Wedding Planner”
2. In 2021, the third-most populous country in the EU became the first to win both the UEFA European Football Championship and the Eurovision Song Contest in the same year. Name that country.
Italy
3. In 2015, what former MVP and current activist celebrated both her third WNBA title and her third championship in the Women's Chinese Basketball Association, where she was nicknamed “The Invincible Queen”?
Maya Moore
4. Who is the only actor to win an Academy Award and a Golden Raspberry in the same year, for "The Blind Side" and "All About Steve," respectively?
Sandra Bullock
5. In 1998, the top-grossing computer animated films produced by Pixar and DreamWorks both featured what species of animal as their title characters?
Ants
("A Bug's Life" and "Antz")
Questions for
Friday, December 22, 2023
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Tuesday’s email.
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: General Motors currently produces cars and trucks under four brand names in the United States. Name as many of those brands as you can for one point each. Zero total if you get any wrong.
2. What cold soup’s name identifies it as being from a city in central France, although Julia Child insisted it was really an American invention?
3. In 1990, Penny Marshall directed “Awakenings,” which earned an Oscar nomination for “Best Picture.” It was based on a book of the same name by what legendary British neurologist, who passed away in 2015?
4. What nine-letter word means “rock oil” in Latin?
5. Today is December 22. On this day, President Barack Obama signed legislation to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the policy regarding the service of LGBTQ+ individuals in the military. In what year did he sign that legislation, which took effect the following year?
1: Chevrolet, GMC, Cadillac, Buick
4: Petroleum
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
1. Cadillac, Buick, GMC, Chevrolet
I think I can spell this correctly…
2. Vichyssoise
3) Oliver Sacks
When people tell me I’ll regret not having kids, I say that’s okay I know a really good place to cry. It’s my vacation home.
When people tell me I’ll regret not having kids, I say that’s okay I know a really good place to cry. It’s my vacation home.
I think I can spell this correctly…
2. Vichyssoise
But can you pronounce it correctly? 😜
Does cold French soup 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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Answers to Friday, December 22, 2023
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: General Motors currently produces cars and trucks under four brand names in the United States. Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero total if you get any wrong.
Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC
2. What cold soup’s name identifies it as being from a city in central France, although Julia Child insisted it was really an American invention?
Vichyssoise
3. In 1990, Penny Marshall directed “Awakenings,” which earned an Oscar nomination for “Best Picture.” It was based on a book of the same name by what legendary British neurologist, who passed away in 2015?
Oliver Sacks
4. What nine-letter word means “rock oil” in Latin?
“Petroleum”
5. Today is December 22. On this day, President Barack Obama signed legislation to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the policy regarding the service of LGBTQ+ individuals in the military. In what year did he sign that legislation, which took effect the following year?
2010
Questions for
Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. In 1967, the first Black justice to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court was sworn in. What was his name?
2. One of the world’s earliest known sedatives may have been cultivated by the Sumerians in Mesopotamia as early as 3400 BCE. Name that flower.
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau are closely associated with what 19th-century literary and philosophical movement, which emphasizes self-reliance and a connection to nature?
4. What SciFi Channel series, which ran from 1999 to 2003, was produced by the Jim Henson Company, whose Creature Shop created many of the show’s aliens?
5. What breakfast dish — originally made with bacon and toast — is said to be named for a Wall Street broker who went to the Waldorf Hotel in 1894 looking for a fatty dish to cure his hangover?
1. Thurgood Marshall
3. Transcendentalism
5. Eggs Benedict (or as Kay's Kitchen in St. Joseph, MN calls it; Eggs Us)
“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. The poppy
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
Answers to Tuesday, December 26, 2023
1. In 1967, the first Black justice to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court was sworn in. What was his name?
Thurgood Marshall
2. One of the world’s earliest known sedatives may have been cultivated by the Sumerians in Mesopotamia as early as 3400 BCE. Name that flower.
Poppy (Opium)
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau are closely associated with what 19th-century literary and philosophical movement, which emphasizes self-reliance and a connection to nature?
Transcendentalism
4. What SciFi Channel series, which ran from 1999 to 2003, was produced by the Jim Henson Company, whose Creature Shop created many of the show’s aliens?
“Farscape”
5. What breakfast dish — originally made with bacon and toast — is said to be named for a Wall Street broker who went to the Waldorf Hotel in 1894 looking for a fatty dish to cure his hangover?
Eggs Benedict
Questions for
Wednesday, December 27, 2023
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What tangerine-grapefruit hybrid, sometimes referred to as a “honeybell,” is easily distinguished from other citrus fruits by the characteristic knob at the top?
2. Inscribed on what U.S. landmark can you find a poem titled “The New Colossus”?
3. Leeks, like onions, garlic, chives, scallions, and shallots, are a member of what plant genus, which derives its name from the Latin for “garlic”?
4. What 1996 Disney movie features a palm-reading scene, during which the palm reader declares that she can’t see any “monster lines”?
5. The 1889 World’s Fair in Paris was highlighted by the construction of the Eiffel Tower. What attraction, common at fairs today, debuted at the 1893 fair to compete with the Eiffel Tower?
2 The Statue of Liberty
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
5. Ferris wheel?
Hard work will beat talent, if talent doesn't work hard.
1.Tangello
3. Allium
4) The Hunchback of Notre Dame
When people tell me I’ll regret not having kids, I say that’s okay I know a really good place to cry. It’s my vacation home.
Answers to Wednesday, December 27, 2023
1. What tangerine-grapefruit hybrid, sometimes referred to as a “honeybell,” is easily distinguished from other citrus fruits by the characteristic knob at the top?
Tangelo
2. Inscribed on what U.S. landmark can you find a poem titled “The New Colossus”?
Statue of Liberty
3. Leeks, like onions, garlic, chives, scallions, and shallots, are a member of what plant genus, which derives its name from the Latin for “garlic”?
Allium
4. What 1996 Disney movie features a palm-reading scene, during which the palm reader declares that she can’t see any “monster lines”?
“The Hunchback of Notre Dame”
5. The 1889 World’s Fair in Paris was highlighted by the construction of the Eiffel Tower. What attraction, common at fairs today, debuted at the 1893 fair to compete with the Eiffel Tower?
The Ferris wheel
Questions for
Theme Thursday, December 28, 2023
Sew It Up: Every answer this round will contain the name of a fabric or textile.
Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. Who is currently serving as the junior U.S. senator from Arkansas?
2. What type of cake is typically made with food dye today, but was originally prepared with non-processed cocoa, which contained ruddy pigments?
3. What fabric shares its name with a verb that means “to obtain a great deal of money, typically by overcharging”?
4. “‘I’ve always wanted a friend.’ ‘Me too!’ said Lisa, and gave him a big hug.” That’s the last page of what 1968 children’s book?
5. What feline coloration pattern is known as “mi-ke,” or “triple fur,” in Japanese, and “lapjeskat,” or “patches cat,” in Dutch?
2 Red Velvet
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
4. The Velveteen Rabbit? NOPE
5. Calico?
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
3. Fleece
Hard work will beat talent, if talent doesn't work hard.
4) Corduroy. A teddy bear
When people tell me I’ll regret not having kids, I say that’s okay I know a really good place to cry. It’s my vacation home.
Answers to Thursday, December 28, 2023
Sew It Up: Every answer this round will contain the name of a fabric or textile.
1. Who is currently serving as the junior U.S. senator from Arkansas?
Tom Cotton
2. What type of cake is typically made with food dye today, but was originally prepared with non-processed cocoa, which contained ruddy pigments?
Red velvet cake
3. What fabric shares its name with a verb that means “to obtain a great deal of money, typically by overcharging”?
Fleece
4. “‘I’ve always wanted a friend.’ ‘Me too!’ said Lisa, and gave him a big hug.” That’s the last page of what 1968 children’s book?
“Corduroy”
5. What feline coloration pattern is known as “mi-ke,” or “triple fur,” in Japanese, and “lapjeskat,” or “patches cat,” in Dutch?
Calico
Questions for
Friday, December 29, 2023
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Tuesday’s email.
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: While there are many sources of renewable energy available, there are five that are, by far, the most commonly used in the United States. Name as many of these five renewable energy sources as you can for one point each. Zero total if you get any wrong.
2. What product was being advertised in the 1972 commercial that popularized the phrase, “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing”?
3. What critically acclaimed HBO series, which ran from 2002 to 2008, was set in the city of Baltimore?
4. What common legal term is Latin for “under penalty”?
5. Today is December 29. Happy 51st birthday to actor Jude Law! In 2004, he portrayed what fictional author of “The Bad Beginning,” “The Reptile Room,” and “The Wide Window” in a film adaptation of those works?
1. Solar, Wind, Hydro, ??, ??
2. Alka Seltzer
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
1. Bio fuels, like ethanol?
4. Subpoena. I knew that law school education would pay off some day and it's finally here
5. Lemony Snicket
Not sure where to put this, but whoa. And @Jupiter https://theconversation.com/astronomers-just-saw-a-star-eat-a-planet-an-astrophysicist-on-the-team-explains-the-first-of-its-kind-discovery-205265
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.
Not sure where to put this, but whoa. And @Jupiter https://theconversation.com/astronomers-just-saw-a-star-eat-a-planet-an-astrophysicist-on-the-team-explains-the-first-of-its-kind-discovery-205265
“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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