2. Professor Langdon
2. Robert Langdon
Hard work will beat talent, if talent doesn't work hard.
4. Philadelphia, PA
5. Saltimbocca
Answers to Tuesday, July 29, 2025
1. What Greek muse of history is the namesake for awards given to exceptional design in the field of advertising?
Clio
(Clio Awards)
2. “The Secret of Secrets” is an upcoming book by Dan Brown in the same series as “Angels and Demons” and “The Da Vinci Code,” featuring what fictional Harvard symbologist?
Robert Langdon
3. Even the filmmakers acknowledged the “serious departure from scientific veracity” in adding an expanding neck frill and the ability to spit venom at Newman in their fanciful depiction of which original “Jurassic Park” dinosaur, whose name comes from the Greek for “two-crested lizard”?
Dilophosaurus
4. When the first U.S. Census was taken in 1790, the towns of Northern Liberties and Southwark ranked among the 10 most populous municipalities. They’ve since been absorbed into the city that ranked second at the time. Name that city.
Philadelphia
5. What Italian dish is made from veal or chicken wrapped in prosciutto, and has a name that means “leaps in the mouth”?
Saltimbocca
Questions for
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. If you’ve found yourself wanting to bake a replica of “Roach’s 40 Orange Glaze Cake” and listen to Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” on repeat, you’re probably a fan of what HBO Max pirate comedy, starring Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi?
2. Late-night colleagues David Letterman, Stephen Colbert, and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog were all on-hand to honor what TV host, writer, and 2025 recipient of the Mark Twain Prize For American Humor?
3. Most human-known examples of animals using tools are mammals or birds. However, some species of what insect will use leaves in order to better broadcast their mating call?
4. The science of medications, including their origin and how they behave in living organisms, or the properties and reactions of a particular drug, are the province of what 12-letter field of study?
5. What TV personality appears in drag on the cover of his 1995 memoir “Lettin’ It All Hang Out,” and ironically appears sans makeup and wig on his 2024 memoir “The House of Hidden Meanings”?
5. Ru Paul
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
2. Conan O'Brien
“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. Pharmacology
“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) Crickets
Keep your stick on the ice...
1. Our Flag Means Death
Answers to Wednesday, July 30, 2025
1. If you’ve found yourself wanting to bake a replica of “Roach’s 40 Orange Glaze Cake” and listen to Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” on repeat, you’re probably a fan of what HBO Max pirate comedy, starring Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi?
“Our Flag Means Death”
2. Late-night colleagues David Letterman, Stephen Colbert, and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog were all on-hand to honor what TV host, writer, and 2025 recipient of the Mark Twain Prize For American Humor?
Conan O’Brien
3. Most human-known examples of animals using tools are mammals or birds. However, some species of what insect will use leaves in order to better broadcast their mating call?
Cricket
4. The science of medications, including their origin and how they behave in living organisms, or the properties and reactions of a particular drug, are the province of what 12-letter field of study?
Pharmacology
5. What TV personality appears in drag on the cover of his 1995 memoir “Lettin’ It All Hang Out,” and ironically appears sans makeup and wig on his 2024 memoir “The House of Hidden Meanings”?
RuPaul
Questions for
Theme Thursday, July 31, 2025
Get Festive, but Safely!: Lollapalooza is this weekend! Whether you’re going or watching the YouTube stream in the comfort of your own home, here’s a round all about staying safe while having fun at summer music festivals.
Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. Be sure to apply strong sunscreen at least every 2–3 hours, more frequently if you’re sweating or moshing. When you reach for that bottle, remember that SPF stands for “sun protection”… what?
2. Make sure your water bottle is full! But if you want to participate in a viral activity from 2016, Dutch physicists figured out you’ll want it about a third full. Name that trend!
3. The most severe form of hyperthermia above heat exhaustion is marked by a body temperature of 104 degrees. What is it called?
4. If you’re setting a place where you’ll meet up with your group later, you might use what term, which means “present yourselves” in French?
5. Phone networks can be spotty when everyone’s trying to flood TikTok with their festival looks, but you can keep in touch using a device that was called a “packset” by its Canadian inventor in 1937. What cutesy rhyming nickname do we know it better as?
1 Factor
3 Stroke
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
5. Walkie talkie
2. Bottle flipping
4. Rendezvous
Answers to Thursday, July 31, 2025
Get Festive, but Safely!: Lollapalooza is this weekend! Whether you’re going or watching the YouTube stream in the comfort of your own home, here’s a round all about staying safe while having fun at summer music festivals.
1. Be sure to apply strong sunscreen at least every 2–3 hours, more frequently if you’re sweating or moshing. When you reach for that bottle, remember that SPF stands for “sun protection”… what?
“Factor”
2. Make sure your water bottle is full! But if you want to participate in a viral activity from 2016, Dutch physicists figured out you’ll want it about a third full. Name that trend!
Water bottle flipping
3. The most severe form of hyperthermia above heat exhaustion is marked by a body temperature of 104 degrees. What is it called?
Heatstroke
4. If you’re setting a place where you’ll meet up with your group later, you might use what term, which means “present yourselves” in French?
“Rendezvous”
5. Phone networks can be spotty when everyone’s trying to flood TikTok with their festival looks, but you can keep in touch using a device that was called a “packset” by its Canadian inventor in 1937. What cutesy rhyming nickname do we know it better as?
Walkie-talkie
Questions for
Friday, August 1, 2025
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Sylvester Stallone has appeared in three or more installments of four different film series. Name as many of those series as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.
2. A bright red cowboy hat adorns the top of a landmark in northeast Texas built by a local welders’ union in 1993 as a replica of what European edifice — the most visited monument with an entrance fee in the world?
3. Golfers with a handicap of zero are referred to with what name, sometimes also given to the devil?
4. A trio of fictional hockey goons and a ’90s pop-band trio all share what surname?
5. Today is August 1. On this day in 1981, MTV aired its first music video, an aptly titled hit from new wave band the Buggles, called what?
4. Hanson
5. Video Killed The Radio ?
“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) Rocky, Rambo…
Keep your stick on the ice...
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
2. Eifel Tower
2. Eiffel Tower
Hard work will beat talent, if talent doesn't work hard.
“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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