Answers to Monday, February 3, 2025
1. What board game, which entered the Toy Hall of Fame in 2021, had a special release in France in 1999 with the subtitle “Édition Napoléon”?
Risk
2. What West Coast island was once nicknamed “Devil's Island,” and gets its official name from a Spanish word for “pelican”?
Alcatraz
3. In 2018, comedian Ego Nwodim became the first woman of Nigerian heritage to join the cast of what long-running TV show?
“Saturday Night Live”
4. What band got their acronym name from a translated expression meaning “Bulletproof Boy Scouts,” although they adapted an English backronym when they got popular?
BTS
5. In the 1870s, a U.S. Army officer was put in charge of a meeting at his church. The meeting went so poorly that he decided to write a book to ensure that it never happened again. His first name was Henry. What was his surname?
Robert
("Robert's Rules of Order")
Questions for
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. A U.S. president who was assassinated in 1881 and a cartoon character from Muncie both share what name?
2. In 1998, Parker Brothers changed the illustration on the Monopoly card titled “Bank Pays You Dividend of $50.” What did they remove from that card?
3. What Chilean island is home to 7,700 people, most of whom call the island “Rapa Nui”?
4. Which sign of the astrological zodiac is represented by a decapod?
5. The car designer whose 1964 Pontiac GTO is often called the first muscle car left General Motors to launch his own automotive brand in 1973. Name that brand, which was immortalized in a 1985 movie.
5. DeLorean
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
1) Garfield
Keep your stick on the ice...
1. Garfield
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
A man smoking a cigar?
3. Easter Island
4. Cancer
Answers to Tuesday, February 4, 2025
1. A U.S. president who was assassinated in 1881 and a cartoon character from Muncie both share what name?
Garfield
2. In 1998, Parker Brothers changed the illustration on the Monopoly card titled “Bank Pays You Dividend of $50.” What did they remove from that card?
Mr. Monopoly’s cigar
3. What Chilean island is home to 7,700 people, most of whom call the island “Rapa Nui”?
Easter Island
4. Which sign of the astrological zodiac is represented by a decapod?
Cancer
5. The car designer whose 1964 Pontiac GTO is often called the first muscle car left General Motors to launch his own automotive brand in 1973. Name that brand, which was immortalized in a 1985 movie.
DeLorean
Questions for
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. 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?
2. In 1995, most daytime soap operas in the U.S. were taken off of the air for nine straight months due to networks covering what event?
3. The 2015 jukebox musical “On Your Feet” adapts the life story of what pair of Miami-based Grammy and Presidential Medal of Freedom winners?
4. By what name is the compact Mazda MX-5 better known in the U.S.?
5. It happened in 2011 for the 305th time since the beginning of the Common Era. It happened again in 2017. And the next time it will happen will be 2027. What is it?
1. "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" section of "Fantasia"
2. OJ Simpson trial
2. O.J. Trial
3. Gloria Estefan and ...
4. Miata
“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 Wednesday, February 5, 2025
1. 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”)
2. In 1995, most daytime soap operas in the U.S. were taken off of the air for nine straight months due to networks covering what event?
The O.J. Simpson Trial
3. The 2015 jukebox musical “On Your Feet” adapts the life story of what pair of Miami-based Grammy and Presidential Medal of Freedom winners?
Gloria and Emilio Estefan
4. By what name is the compact Mazda MX-5 better known in the U.S.?
Miata
5. It happened in 2011 for the 305th time since the beginning of the Common Era. It happened again in 2017. And the next time it will happen will be 2027. What is it?
The year is a prime number
Questions for
Theme Thursday, February 6, 2025
That Sounds Delicious: I’ll describe an instrument and a food item whose names share a word in common. Answer with that shared word. For example: “A coiled brass instrument. A style of deep-fried potato. What word do they share?” Answer: “French,” because the first item is a French horn, and the second item is French fries.
Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. An instrument popular among Peruvian musicians. A style of pizza introduced by Pizza Hut in 1980. What word do they share?
2. A piano with 6-to-10-foot strings. A meal consisting of two pancakes, two eggs, two strips of bacon, and two sausage links. What word do they share?
3. A stringed instrument invented in Hawai'i and common in blues music. A grain cut into pieces smaller than a whole groat, but bigger than a meal. What word do they share?
4. Another name for timpani. The second-largest natural potato chip brand in the U.S. What word do they share?
5. A reduplicatively named drum found in a standard drum kit. A cocktail made from gin, lemon juice, sugar, and carbonated water served in a tall, narrow glass. What word do they share?
2. Grand (grand piano / grand slam)
4. Kettle (kettle drum / kettle chips)
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
2. Grand
5. Tom Tom and Tom Collins
1. Personal pan and pan flute
3. Steel
(steel guitar/steel cut oats)
Answers to Thursday, February 6, 2025
That Sounds Delicious: I’ll describe an instrument and a food item whose names share a word in common. Answer with that shared word. For example: “A coiled brass instrument. A style of deep-fried potato. What word do they share?” Answer: “French,” because the first item is a French horn, and the second item is French fries.
1. An instrument popular among Peruvian musicians. A style of pizza introduced by Pizza Hut in 1980. What word do they share?
Pan
(Pan flute, pan pizza)
2. A piano with 6-to-10-foot strings. A meal consisting of two pancakes, two eggs, two strips of bacon, and two sausage links. What word do they share?
Grand
(grand piano, Denny’s Grand Slam)
3. A stringed instrument invented in Hawai'i and common in blues music. A grain cut into pieces smaller than a whole groat, but bigger than a meal. What word do they share?
Steel
(steel guitar, steel-cut oats)
4. Another name for timpani. The second-largest natural potato chip brand in the U.S. What word do they share?
Kettle
(kettledrums, Kettle Chips)
5. A reduplicatively named drum found in a standard drum kit. A cocktail made from gin, lemon juice, sugar, and carbonated water served in a tall, narrow glass. What word do they share?
Tom
(tom-tom, Tom Collins)
Questions for
Friday, February 7, 2025
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: There are four U.S. states that call themselves commonwealths. Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.
2. American businessman Harland Sanders published an autobiography in 1974 titled “Life as I Have Known It Has Been BLANK BLANK Good.” What two words fill those blanks?
3. What popular Belgian beer gets its name from the French word for “raspberry”?
4. What international competition traces its origins to 1948, when a neurologist at England’s Stoke Mandeville Hospital organized an archery competition for his war veteran patients?
5. Today is February 7. On this date in 1934, producer and legendary saxophonist King Curtis was born. In 1967, he performed the sax solo heard in what hit Aretha Franklin cover of an Otis Redding song?
2. Finger Licking
“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. Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, ???
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
5. Respect
“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. Framboise
4) Paralympic Games
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 Friday, February 7, 2025
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: There are four U.S. states that call themselves commonwealths. Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.
Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia
2. American businessman Harland Sanders published an autobiography in 1974 titled “Life as I Have Known It Has Been BLANK BLANK Good.” What two words fill those blanks?
“Finger Lickin’”
3. What popular Belgian beer gets its name from the French word for “raspberry”?
Framboise
4. What international competition traces its origins to 1948, when a neurologist at England’s Stoke Mandeville Hospital organized an archery competition for his war veteran patients?
The Paralympic Games
5. Today is February 7. On this date in 1934, producer and legendary saxophonist King Curtis was born. In 1967, he performed the sax solo heard in what hit Aretha Franklin cover of an Otis Redding song?
“Respect”
Questions for
Monday, February 10, 2025
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. After humans, the land mammal that is generally considered to have the longest lifespan belongs to the order Proboscidea. What is it?
2. The first-ever Google Doodle showed up on August 30, 1998, as a way for Google's founders to let users know they were attending what Nevada festival?
3. As Alison Brown and Béla Fleck could tell you, what stringed instrument's most common tuning is, from the fifth to the first strings, G, D, G, B, D?
4. Which league is known as the “senior circuit” in Major League Baseball?
5. James Bond’s gadget supplier is known as “Q.” That stands for what 13-letter military post, whose job it is to distribute supplies and provisions to soldiers?
5. Quartermaster
2. Burning Man
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.
1. Elephant
3. Banjo
4. National League
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
Answers to Monday, February 10, 2025
1. After humans, the land mammal that is generally considered to have the longest lifespan belongs to the order Proboscidea. What is it?
Elephant
2. The first-ever Google Doodle showed up on August 30, 1998, as a way for Google's founders to let users know they were attending what Nevada festival?
Burning Man
3. As Alison Brown and Béla Fleck could tell you, what stringed instrument's most common tuning is, from the fifth to the first strings, G, D, G, B, D?
Banjo
4. Which league is known as the “senior circuit” in Major League Baseball?
National League
5. James Bond’s gadget supplier is known as “Q.” That stands for what 13-letter military post, whose job it is to distribute supplies and provisions to soldiers?
Quartermaster
Questions for
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. “Hurry Up Tomorrow” is slated to be the last album released by Abel Tesfaye under what stage name and everyone’s reason for working?
2. George Gershwin composed “Rhapsody in Blue” in 1924. Since the ’80s, it has become sonically synonymous with what commercial airline?
3. The first book in a Jenny Han-penned trilogy and a teen drama TV series starring Troian Bellisario share what word in their titles?
4. In the 1920s, MGM Studios made actor Lucille LeSueur change her name. She became a star of films like "Mildred Pierce" and "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" under what screen name, which she thought made her sound like a shellfish?
5. The invisible demarcation that sets the boundary between opposing football teams at the start of a play is known as what?
2 United
5 line of scrimmage
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
1. The Weekend?
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
4. Joan Crawford
3) Pretty
The Summer I Turned Pretty and Pretty Little Liars
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 Tuesday, February 11, 2025
1. “Hurry Up Tomorrow” is slated to be the last album released by Abel Tesfaye under what stage name and everyone’s reason for working?
The Weeknd
2. George Gershwin composed “Rhapsody in Blue” in 1924. Since the ’80s, it has become sonically synonymous with what commercial airline?
United
3. The first book in a Jenny Han-penned trilogy and a teen drama TV series starring Troian Bellisario share what word in their titles?
“Pretty”
(“The Summer I Turned Pretty,” “Pretty Little Liars”)
4. In the 1920s, MGM Studios made actor Lucille LeSueur change her name. She became a star of films like "Mildred Pierce" and "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" under what screen name, which she thought made her sound like a shellfish?
Joan Crawford
5. The invisible demarcation that sets the boundary between opposing football teams at the start of a play is known as what?
Line of scrimmage
Questions for
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. There are two planets in our Solar System with no moons. Name either of them.
2. The 2006 film “Ultraviolet” concerns the 9-year-old clone of the president of the world, who is abducted by a vampire super soldier played by what Ukrainian “Fifth Element” actor?
3. “2πr” is the formula used to find the circumference of what 2D shape?
4. What famously Bronx-based musician released her debut album "On the 6" in the summer of 1999?
5. Though the title references a Memphis street, what 1974 James Baldwin novel, adapted to film by Barry Jenkins in 2018, takes place mostly in Harlem?
1 Mercury, Venus
3 Circle
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
5. "If Beale Street Could Talk"
2) Milla Jovovich. 5th Element is my brother and my fav trash movie. My nephew is named Korbin after Korbin Dallas.
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. Jennifer Lopez
Answers to Wednesday, February 12, 2025
1. There are two planets in our Solar System with no moons. Name either of them.
Venus, Mercury
2. The 2006 film “Ultraviolet” concerns the 9-year-old clone of the president of the world, who is abducted by a vampire super soldier played by what Ukrainian “Fifth Element” actor?
Milla Jovovich
3. “2πr” is the formula used to find the circumference of what 2D shape?
Circle
4. What famously Bronx-based musician released her debut album "On the 6" in the summer of 1999?
Jennifer Lopez
5. Though the title references a Memphis street, what 1974 James Baldwin novel, adapted to film by Barry Jenkins in 2018, takes place mostly in Harlem?
“If Beale Street Could Talk”