Questions for
Theme Thursday, September 11, 2025
Bad “MF”s: Five questions about people whose initials are “M.F.”
Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. In 1977, a baker named Debbi opened her first cookie shop in Palo Alto, California. Today, her namesake store features around 250 locations worldwide, largely in malls and airports. What name is Debbi better known by?
2. What former “The Electric Company” actor earned his first Oscar nomination for the 1987 film “Street Smart,” 17 years before his first Oscar win for “Million Dollar Baby”?
3. On July 4, 1850, President Zachary Taylor cooled off after visiting the construction site of the Washington Monument by drinking cold milk and eating a large quantity of cherries. The combination likely gave him gastroenteritis, and he was dead within a week. Who was his vice president at the time?
4. What actor’s four biggest box office hits found her starring opposite CGI space robots in 2007 and 2009, and CGI turtles in 2014 and 2016?
5. What Nobel Prize-winning economist, who advised both Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, believed that, “underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself”?
4. Megan Fox
4. Megan Fox