1. 30 Rock?
4. Internet Explorer
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
3. Hawaii
5. Gertrude Stein
Answers to Wednesday, June 25, 2025
1. Aaron Sorkin took a shot from Tina Fey over his failed show “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” during a 2011 cameo on what thematically similar NBC sitcom, which also debuted in the fall of 2006?
“30 Rock”
2. In 2018 and 2019, there was a movement some not entirely accurately called “The Red State Revolt,” which saw workers in what profession engaging in strikes and walkouts in Illinois, Kentucky, West Virginia, Oklahoma, and more?
Teachers
3. Actor Tia Carrere played a rocker in “Wayne's World,” but in real life she's won two Grammy awards for Best Album in a musical genre named for which U.S. state?
Hawai'i
4. In 1993, Marc Andreessen co-authored a program called Mosaic. It was later licensed by Microsoft, who announced in 2022 that they were finally pulling the plug on it after nearly 30 years. What did Microsoft call their version of this program?
Internet Explorer
5. What writer and poet — whose last name means “stone” — was Ernest Hemingway parodying when he wrote, “A stone is a rock is a boulder is a pebble”?
Gertrude Stein
(she’s famous for the quote “a rose is a rose is a rose”)
As people who dislike cheese, @jupiter and I will not be participating today.
Questions for
Theme Thursday, June 26, 2025
In the Name of Cheeses: June is Dairy Month! Five questions about the names of popular cheeses.
Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. In the late 1800s, a California man named David became famous for selling a food item he acquired from a group of friars who lived near a bay south of San Jose. What was his surname?
2. As the singer of “Bubbly” and “Fallin' For You” might be able to tell you, Wisconsin's proposed official state cheese takes what name from the central Wisconsin town where it was invented?
3. In Europe, cheese produced in the region near the city of Bern is known as Emmental. What is it more commonly called in the U.S.?
4. What product, which was officially declared not a “pasteurized process cheese spread” by the FDA in 2002, was marketed as a health food in the 1930s and is named for its easy spreadability?
5. A small village in Somerset, England lends its name to what cheese, which also shares its name with a financial news network whose content often airs on gas pump TV screens?
5. Cheddar
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
3: Swiss
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
4. sounds like Velveeta
1) Jack ??
“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. Colby