1. Jim, Pam, Dwight, Angela, Kevin, & Stanley
Answers to Friday, April 25, 2025
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: According to IMDb, six characters on “The Office” appeared in more episodes than any other characters, at 188 episodes. Name as many of those characters as you can for one point each (just first name is fine). Zero points total if you get any incorrect.
Angela, Dwight, Jim, Kevin, Pam, Stanley
(There’s still time to catch our last few “The Office” theme nights!)
2. The last week of April is Sky Awareness Week. What layer of atmosphere is located between the troposphere and the mesosphere?
Stratosphere
3. If you've just purchased a house using red, orange, and white currency called "Simoleons" that sometimes literally grows on trees, you're probably playing what video game franchise?
“The Sims”
(or “SimCity”)
4. Ontario borders two Canadian provinces. Name both of them!
Manitoba, Quebec
5. Today is April 25. On this day in 1944, activists and education professionals Frederick Patterson, William J. Trent, and Mary McLeod Bethune founded what organization to benefit students attending institutions such as Howard, Spelman, and Morehouse?
United Fund
(United Negro College Fund, UNCF)
Questions for
Monday, April 28, 2025
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. "The Book of the Marvels of the World" is a book written around 1300 by Rustichello da Pisa, who based it on the fabulous tales he was told by a fellow inmate he met in a Genoese prison. Who was that inmate?
2. Sandi Toksvig is a British-Danish comedian most famous for hosting a quiz show beginning in 2016 and co-presenting a competitive reality show from 2017 to 2020. Name either of those shows!
3. A star on “Love and Hip Hop: New York” with a husband named Papoose shares a name with a film rodent following a dream. What is that shared name?
4. “Behind the mail truck” was the answer to the question posed in the title of what 2000 movie?
5. The round seed capsule produced by the cotton plant is known by what name, which sounds similar to but is spelled differently from a common cotton product?
1 Marco Polo
“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. Dude, Where’s My Car?
5. Boll
3) Remy
I had no clue about Love and Hip Hop, but I know the name of the rat in Ratatouille.
Dorothy: Who’s that?
Scarecrow: A man with an axe and a can of lube. I’ll ask if he wants to join us.
Answers to Monday, April 28, 2025
1. "The Book of the Marvels of the World" is a book written around 1300 by Rustichello da Pisa, who based it on the fabulous tales he was told by a fellow inmate he met in a Genoese prison. Who was that inmate?
Marco Polo
2. Sandi Toksvig is a British-Danish comedian most famous for hosting a quiz show beginning in 2016 and co-presenting a competitive reality show from 2017 to 2020. Name either of those shows!
“QI,” “The Great British Bake Off”
3. A star on “Love and Hip Hop: New York” with a husband named Papoose shares a name with a film rodent following a dream. What is that shared name?
Remy
(Remy Ma, and the protagonist of “Ratatouille”)
4. “Behind the mail truck” was the answer to the question posed in the title of what 2000 movie?
“Dude, Where's My Car?”
5. The round seed capsule produced by the cotton plant is known by what name, which sounds similar to but is spelled differently from a common cotton product?
Boll
Questions for
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. The first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity shares what steady-sounding name with an "occult detective" from DC Comics, who has been played onscreen by Keanu Reeves?
2. What famous baseball player was portrayed on film by Art LaFleur, John Goodman, and William Bendix, as well as appearing as himself in the Lou Gehrig biopic “The Pride of the Yankees”?
3. In a 1982 movie, Captain James T. Kirk is told over his communicator that he will be left to die, marooned deep inside a dead planet called Regula. What name does he scream into the comms device in response?
4. In the summer of 2021, the White Earth Nation of Ojibwe filed a lawsuit against the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources on behalf of manoomin. What is the English-language name of that plant?
5. What pioneering rock music magazine founded in 1966 by Paul Williams was named after a music venue in England, not a boiled crustacean you'd eat at the Breaux Bridge Festival?
2. Babe Ruth
4. Wild Rice
“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 Constantine
3 Kahn.
5. Crawdaddy
3. Khan
Answers to Tuesday, April 29, 2025
1. The first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity shares what steady-sounding name with an "occult detective" from DC Comics, who has been played onscreen by Keanu Reeves?
Constantine
2. What famous baseball player was portrayed on film by Art LaFleur, John Goodman, and William Bendix, as well as appearing as himself in the Lou Gehrig biopic “The Pride of the Yankees”?
Babe Ruth
3. In a 1982 movie, Captain James T. Kirk is told over his communicator that he will be left to die, marooned deep inside a dead planet called Regula. What name does he scream into the comms device in response?
“Khan!”
4. In the summer of 2021, the White Earth Nation of Ojibwe filed a lawsuit against the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources on behalf of manoomin. What is the English-language name of that plant?
Wild rice
5. What pioneering rock music magazine founded in 1966 by Paul Williams was named after a music venue in England, not a boiled crustacean you'd eat at the Breaux Bridge Festival?
Crawdaddy
Questions for
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. According to Scottish myth, a kelpie is a shape-shifting water creature whose natural form is typically said to resemble what domesticated animal?
2. Before perishing in victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Horatio Nelson scored another big win against the Navy of the French Republic in 1798, triumphing in a battle in the Mediterranean Sea’s Abū Qīr Bay. This battle is commonly named after what river?
3. Translated as “Women Don’t Cry Anymore,” “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran” is the ongoing world tour of what one-named pop star?
4. Four of the world’s top five tea-producing countries are located in Asia. The fifth is in Africa. Name that African country.
5. Who was president of the United States during a major eruption of Mount St. Helens, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?
1 Horse
2 Nile
5. Jimmy Carter
4. My WAG is Kenya.
“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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Looking it up now, you're correct. They come in 3rd behind China and India, and ahead of Sri Lanka and Turkey4. My WAG is Kenya.
Thanks. The topography and climate seem like they are similar to tea growing regions in Sri Lanka & India.
YE has traveled to Sri Lanka & Kenya (on different trips) to visit college buds and I sort of recall him talking about the similarities of tea plantations in both places....
“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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When I saw your answer, it made sense, but I had to look it up to actually know anything. Similar climate to places like Sri Lanka and a lot more landmass to work with, definitely fit.Looking it up now, you're correct. They come in 3rd behind China and India, and ahead of Sri Lanka and Turkey4. My WAG is Kenya.
Thanks. The topography and climate seem like they are similar to tea growing regions in Sri Lanka & India.
YE has traveled to Sri Lanka & Kenya (on different trips) to visit college buds and I sort of recall him talking about the similarities of tea plantations in both places....
3. Shakira
Looking it up now, you're correct. They come in 3rd behind China and India, and ahead of Sri Lanka and Turkey4. My WAG is Kenya.
My coworker is from Sri Lanka and given me Sri Lankan specialty teas… 👍 👍 👍
Sri Lankan teas are some of the finest in the world. Dilmah is my personal favorite. Toured their plantation in Sri Lanka. Such a great country.
'29, '40, '74, '76, '79, '02, & '03
GPL's Resident Cabin Enthusiast & Cadets Hockey Fan
My co worker says House of Curry is the most authentic Sri Lankan restaurant in the Twin Cities if your wife want to come to Rosemount. They have buffet on Sundays (11-2pm), which I really like. Get to some of every thing.... Spicy Cauliflower, Chicken/Lamb Curry, Deviled Shrimp are just some of the entrees I recall on the buffet line.
Answers to Wednesday, April 30, 2025
1. According to Scottish myth, a kelpie is a shape-shifting water creature whose natural form is typically said to resemble what domesticated animal?
Horse
2. Before perishing in victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Horatio Nelson scored another big win against the Navy of the French Republic in 1798, triumphing in a battle in the Mediterranean Sea’s Abū Qīr Bay. This battle is commonly named after what river?
Nile
3. Translated as “Women Don’t Cry Anymore,” “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran” is the ongoing world tour of what one-named pop star?
Shakira
4. Four of the world’s top five tea-producing countries are located in Asia. The fifth is in Africa. Name that African country.
Kenya
5. Who was president of the United States during a major eruption of Mount St. Helens, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?
Jimmy Carter
Questions for
Theme Thursday, May 1, 2025The Bees Are Back in Town: Bees are back! All answers will contain the word “bee” in them somewhere.
Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. In the Khoekhoe language, it’s called a “gnu." What is this wild animal called in Afrikaans?
2. “The Whole ‘Being Dead’ Thing,” “Say My Name,” and “Jump In the Line (Shake, Senora)” are three songs from the musical adaptation of what 1988 film?
3. In 2007, Moira Cameron became the first woman in history to become a Yeoman Warder, a job better known by what nickname?
4. In 1948, a man named Fred Morrison started traveling to fairs to sell something that he told crowds was “free, but the invisible wire is a dollar.” What was he selling?
5. What kind of wood, which is basically flavorless, does Budweiser use to speed up the aging process while brewing their beer?
1 Wildebeest
5 Beechwood
2 Beetlejuice
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.
3. Beefeater
4) he invented the Frisbee
Dorothy: Who’s that?
Scarecrow: A man with an axe and a can of lube. I’ll ask if he wants to join us.
Answers to Thursday, May 1, 2025
The Bees Are Back in Town: Bees are back! All answers will contain the word “bee” in them somewhere.
1. In the Khoekhoe language, it’s called a “gnu." What is this wild animal called in Afrikaans?
Wildebeest
2. “The Whole ‘Being Dead’ Thing,” “Say My Name,” and “Jump In the Line (Shake, Senora)” are three songs from the musical adaptation of what 1988 film?
“Beetlejuice”
3. In 2007, Moira Cameron became the first woman in history to become a Yeoman Warder, a job better known by what nickname?
Beefeater
4. In 1948, a man named Fred Morrison started traveling to fairs to sell something that he told crowds was “free, but the invisible wire is a dollar.” What was he selling?
Frisbee
5. What kind of wood, which is basically flavorless, does Budweiser use to speed up the aging process while brewing their beer?
Beech
Questions for
Friday, May 2, 2025
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: There are four countries in the Land of Oz, plus the Emerald City in the middle. Name as many of those countries as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.
2. The lowest temperature ever recorded on Earth occurred in July 1983 at the Vostok Station in Antarctica. It occurred 13 months after the premiere of what sci-fi horror film set at an Antarctic research station?
3. “The Sound of the Shell” is the title of the first chapter of what classic 1954 coming-of-age novel?
4. Our planet is home to 89 living species of cetaceans. What is the largest of those species?
5. Today is May 2. On this day in 1970, Diane Crump became the first woman jockey to compete in what race, held in Louisville?
5. Kentucky Derby
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
3. The Thing
4. Blue whale
2. The Thing
Edit: I focused in on numbers to determine what was remaining to be answered, so I didn’t realize 2 was actually answered already. Luckily, I know the answer to 3 as well 😆
3. Lord of the Flies
1) I LOVE the Oz books! The four countries are Winkie Country in the West, Munchkin Country (or Munchkinland) in the East, Quadling in the South and Gilikin in the North. Each Country also had a predominate color. Emerald City was smack in the middle.
Dorothy: Who’s that?
Scarecrow: A man with an axe and a can of lube. I’ll ask if he wants to join us.
Answers to Friday, May 2, 2025
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: There are four countries in the Land of Oz, plus the Emerald City in the middle. Name as many of those countries as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.
Munchkin, Gillikin, Winkie, Quadling
2. The lowest temperature ever recorded on Earth occurred in July 1983 at the Vostok Station in Antarctica. It occurred 13 months after the premiere of what sci-fi horror film set at an Antarctic research station?
“The Thing”
3. “The Sound of the Shell” is the title of the first chapter of what classic 1954 coming-of-age novel?
“Lord of the Flies”
4. Our planet is home to 89 living species of cetaceans. What is the largest of those species?
Blue whale
5. Today is May 2. On this day in 1970, Diane Crump became the first woman jockey to compete in what race, held in Louisville?
Kentucky Derby
Questions for
Monday, May 5, 2025
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. In the 1800s, a citrus fruit was first exported to the United States out of a port city in Morocco. What name was given to these fruits?
2. In 1989, Metromedia founder John Kluge snagged the top spot on Forbes’ list of the richest people in the U.S., after what big box store entrepreneur divided his fortune amongst his four children?
3. The original Bop It game, released in 1996, required players to do one of three things to “it.” One, of course, was “Bop it.” Name one of the other two commands.
4. What science fiction author created the “Three Laws of Robotics,” the first of which states that “A robot may not injure a human being”?
5. Half of all chameleon species, three-quarters of all baobab trees, and every specimen of the now-extinct elephant bird are endemic to what island — the fourth-largest in the world by area?
2. Sam Walton
4. Isaac Asimov
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
5 Madagascar
1. Tangerine
3. Twist It. Pull It.
Answers to Monday, May 5, 2025
1. In the 1800s, a citrus fruit was first exported to the United States out of a port city in Morocco. What name was given to these fruits?
Tangerines
(named after Tangier)
2. In 1989, Metromedia founder John Kluge snagged the top spot on Forbes’ list of the richest people in the U.S., after what big box store entrepreneur divided his fortune amongst his four children?
Sam Walton
3. The original Bop It game, released in 1996, required players to do one of three things to “it.” One, of course, was “Bop it.” Name one of the other two commands.
“Twist it,” “Pull it”
4. What science fiction author created the “Three Laws of Robotics,” the first of which states that “A robot may not injure a human being”?
Isaac Asimov
5. Half of all chameleon species, three-quarters of all baobab trees, and every specimen of the now-extinct elephant bird are endemic to what island — the fourth-largest in the world by area?
Madagascar
Questions for
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. If you’re attending the Wood Memorial Stakes or visiting Flushing Meadows Park, you’re in which New York City borough?
2. "Shoeless Joe" by W.P. Kinsella is a novel that was adapted to what 1989 film starring Kevin Costner?
3. What hotdish ingredient is sometimes called “Lutheran Binder” in Midwestern cookbooks?
4. What Cleveland, Ohio company uses the advertising slogan “Cover the Earth,” as well as a logo that shows their product doing just that?
5. Unaged tequila bottled after distillation is called “blanco,” translating to “white,” or “plata,” which translates to what element on the periodic table?
1. Queens
2. Field of Dreams
“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 Sherwin-williams
5 Silver
3. Cream of Mushroom soup
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman