Totally Random Trivia: 2022

2. Bronx and Manhattan

2. Manhattan and the Bronx?

I knew #1 at least haha.

3. Roller skates

5. The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

Answers to Wednesday, March 2, 2022

1. It’s Lent, which means it’s officially Filet-O-Fish season at McDonald’s. The Alaskan fish that McDonald’s uses in its Filet-o-Fish shares its name with a famous painter. Name that fish.

Pollock

2. Which two New York City boroughs are separated by the Harlem River?

Manhattan, The Bronx

3. The 1984 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical “Starlight Express” is famously produced with the cast in what type of footwear?

roller skates

4. What square-dancing song contains such lyrics as “I lost my partner, what’ll I do?” and “I’ll get another, pretty as you”?

“Skip to My Lou”

5. In 1797, Goethe wrote a poem titled “Der Zauberlehrling,” about a young man who doesn’t want to do his chores. It was popularized 143 years later when it was animated under what title?

“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”

(“Fantasia”)

Questions for

Theme Thursday, March 3, 2022

Spring “Training”: Spring training is delayed this year because of the MLB lockout. You can sustain yourself with these five “training” questions. Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.

1. Aspiring dog trainers may want to read the book “Cesar’s Way.” What is Cesar’s last name?

2. In the U.K., they’re called “stabilisers.” What do you call them in the U.S.?

3. In the U.K., they’re called “trainers.” What do you call them in the U.S.?

4. A personal trainer might teach you what nine-letter type of exercises, in which the muscle undergoes a static contraction without any movement in the joint? Examples include planks and wall sits.

5. Denzel Washington got his “Best Actor” Oscar for “Training Day.” His co-star in that movie was nominated for “Best Supporting Actor.” Name that supporting actor.

4. Isometric?

5. Ethan Hawke

5. Ethan Hawke

1. Millan

2. Training wheels

1. Millan AKA The Dog Whisperer

2. Training wheels?

I took too much time expanding # 1 so Karlson by a nose.

3. Athletic shoes. (I know this only because of the movie About a Boy)

Answers to Thursday, March 3, 2022

1. Aspiring dog trainers may want to read the book “Cesar’s Way.” What is Cesar’s last name?

Millan

2. In the U.K., they’re called “stabilisers.” What do you call them in the U.S.?

training wheels

3. In the U.K., they’re called “trainers.” What do you call them in the U.S.?

sneakers/basketball shoes

4. A personal trainer might teach you what nine-letter type of exercises, in which the muscle undergoes a static contraction without any movement in the joint? Examples include planks and wall sits.

isometric

5. Denzel Washington got his “Best Actor” Oscar for “Training Day.” His co-star in that movie was nominated for “Best Supporting Actor.” Name that supporting actor.

Ethan Hawke

Questions for

Friday, March 4, 2022

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

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: “Drive My Car,” like six films before it, has been nominated for both “Best Picture” and “Best International Feature Film” (formerly “Best Foreign Language Film”) in the same year. Name as many of those other six films as you can for one point each. Zero total if you get any wrong.

2. If someone is taking systolic and diastolic readings, what are they measuring?

3. “The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History” is the subtitle of a book about what European car brand, manufactured by the state-owned Zastava Motors in a country that no longer exists?

4. In 1904, progressive activist Elizabeth Magie invented a game she called “The Landlord's Game,” to showcase the evils of capitalism. The updated version of that game is known today as… what?

5. Today is March 4. The Baroque composer of the violin concertos known as “The Four Seasons” was born on this day in 1678. What is his name?

4. Monopoly

2. Blood pressure

2: Blood pressure

3: The Yugo

5. Vivaldi

1. Life Is Beautiful, Parasite and Roma

You could very easily make a case that the worst car ever created was the Trabant.

The Robin would be up (down?) there, too. From what I've seen that thing would tip over in a gentle breeze.

The Artist?

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Roma

Life is Beautiful

Parasite

I’m completely stumped on the other 2 :conf2:

Amelie?

I cheated and looked it up
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1. Roma

2. Life is Beautiful

3. Parasite

4. Crouching Tiger

5. Amour

6. Z

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So did I eventually. Honestly I’ve never heard of either one :conf2:

Oh a favorite of mine and I usually hate romance, This one is just so charming.

Le Car I thought was up there.

Great Top Gear moments involve the Reliant Robin.

Answers to Friday, March 4, 2022

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: “Drive My Car,” like six films before it, has been nominated for both “Best Picture” and “Best International Feature Film” (formerly “Best Foreign Language Film”) in the same year. Name as many of those other six films as you can for one point each. Zero total if you get any wrong.

“Z,” “Life Is Beautiful,” “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” “Amour,” “Roma,” “Parasite”

2. If someone is taking systolic and diastolic readings, what are they measuring?

Blood pressure

3. “The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History” is the subtitle of a book about what European car brand, manufactured by the state-owned Zastava Motors in a country that no longer exists?

Yugo (made in Yugoslavia)

4. In 1904, progressive activist Elizabeth Magie invented a game she called “The Landlord's Game,” to showcase the evils of capitalism. The updated version of that game is known today as… what?

Monopoly

5. Today is March 4. The Baroque composer of the violin concertos known as “The Four Seasons” was born on this day in 1678. What is his name?

(Antonio) Vivaldi

Questions for

Monday, March 7, 2022

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

1. Independence from what nation is celebrated somewhere in the world, on average, once per week?

2. Which lived more recently: the Stegosaurus, the Brachiosaurus, or the Tyrannosaurus Rex?

3. Recognizable for its distinctive yellow-and-black covers, and for covering topics from chess to sex to Canadian wine, what series of how-to books has produced more than 2,000 titles since its launch in 1991?

4. The fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, is the setting for almost all of the novels written by what Nobel Prize-winning American author?

5. A German doctor named Franz believed all living things are bound by a force he called “animal magnetism.” Thirty years after he died, another doctor turned his last name into a synonym for “hypnotize.” What was Franz’s last name?

1) Must be The United Kingdom / Great Britain

3) ______ For Dummies

1. Given how many countries they've invaded globally, but still a guess - England?

2. Also a guess but T Rex

4. Faulkner

5. Mesmer

This is correct. To put the timelines into perspective, the appearance of the first Tyrannosaurs is roughly as long ago for us as the last of the Brachiosaurs was to T Rex (Stegosaurs were around in the middle of the Brachiosaurs' time)

Answers to Monday, March 7, 2022

1. Independence from what nation is celebrated somewhere in the world, on average, once per week?

Great Britain/England

2. Which lived more recently: the Stegosaurus, the Brachiosaurus, or the Tyrannosaurus Rex?

T. Rex (by about 90 million years)

3. Recognizable for its distinctive yellow-and-black covers, and for covering topics from chess to sex to Canadian wine, what series of how-to books has produced more than 2,000 titles since its launch in 1991?

“For Dummies”

4. The fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, is the setting for almost all of the novels written by what Nobel Prize-winning American author?

William Faulkner

5. A German doctor named Franz believed all living things are bound by a force he called “animal magnetism.” Thirty years after he died, another doctor turned his last name into a synonym for “hypnotize.” What was Franz’s last name?

Mesmer (“mesmerize”)

Questions for

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

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

1. Lake Hylia, Kakariko Village, and Hyrule Castle are all landmarks in what video game franchise, originally released in 1986?

2. The woman known as “The Queen of Rock and Roll” renounced her U.S. citizenship in 2013 and has been living in Switzerland ever since. Her birth name is Anna Mae Bullock. What is her stage name?

3. Daylight Saving Time starts this weekend! There are currently two U.S. states that do not observe DST. Name one of them.

4. A survey of all the street names in the U.S. revealed that “First” is, ironically, not first on the list of most common street names. What is the most common street name in the U.S.?

5. What is, by far, the most popular American fast food chain in China, with more than twice as many locations as McDonald’s?

2) Tina Turner - We saw Tina! on Broadway last year, great play if you get the chance. She's an amazing woman.

3) Hawaii & Arizona

4. Second

4) Main?

Remembered 5 after a few more sips of coffee: KFC.

1: Legend of Zelda

Tina! Is coming to the Orpheum in their upcoming season

I’ve never seen so many KFCs! Japan too, they love it.

3. Arizona for sure and maybe Indiana?

This is correct.

The caveat being that the Navajo Nation within Arizona does use DST. Of course, the Hopi Nation (Located within the Navajo) doesn't. And, the bit of the Navajo within the Hopi does, and the small other area of Hopi within Navajo doesn't. I don't think there's a road that follows the right path, but there's a 100 mile stretch that, if you followed it in a straight line, would technically require seven clock changes.

Interesting.

Yeah. Yet another entry on the long list of reasons to get rid of DST altogether.

If I recall, this is correct. There's enough of a split between towns that call their main drag 'Main St.' or 'First St.'(Edit: Actually, I think a lot have ceremonial names too) that Second overtakes the two.

Indiana(mostly) did not observe DST until 2006, when the whole state switched over.

Yeah, I remember it being something like second is first, third is second, and first is third. Then Main ends up somewhere else in the top ten or so.