2 Copper
1. Shredder - TMNT
Answers to Monday, September 22, 2025
1. What comic book and cartoon character was created in 1984, and was originally named “Grate Man,” because he was inspired by a cheese grater?
Shredder
(from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
2. What chemical element is typically added to silver to make sterling silver?
Copper
3. Magical dust that allows humans to fly was added to the script of what 1904 stage play after reports of children going home and injuring themselves jumping off of their beds?
“Peter Pan (or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up)”
4. What name is shared by a Greek poet, a fictional safety inspector, and the mascot of the country’s largest home improvement retailer?
Homer
5. Refried beans are usually made with what type of bean, which means “painted” in Spanish?
Pinto
Questions for
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. Long, short, flat, irregular, and sesamoid — these are, according to physiologists, the five types of… what?
2. In 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a road trip across the United States, which he later turned into a best-selling nonfiction book. What was the name of his travel companion?
3. Fallout shelter signs were a common sight across much of the Western world during the Cold War. What two colors were most often used in fallout shelter signs, as Wiz Khalifa fans might know?
4. How many spaces are on a standard chessboard?
5. The Denmark Strait separates two landmasses. Neither of them is Denmark, though one is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Name both of them.
4. 64
5. Iceland, Greenland
5. Bones?
3. Black and yellow
3. Yellow and black
Hard work will beat talent, if talent doesn't work hard.
2. Charley
Answers to Tuesday, September 23, 2025
1. Long, short, flat, irregular, and sesamoid — these are, according to physiologists, the five types of… what?
Bones
2. In 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a road trip across the United States, which he later turned into a best-selling nonfiction book. What was the name of his travel companion?
Charley
(his standard poodle; the book is “Travels with Charley”)
3. Fallout shelter signs were a common sight across much of the Western world during the Cold War. What two colors were most often used in fallout shelter signs, as Wiz Khalifa fans might know?
Black and yellow
4. How many spaces are on a standard chessboard?
64
5. The Denmark Strait separates two landmasses. Neither of them is Denmark, though one is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Name both of them.
Iceland, Greenland
Questions for
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. The “Palm Dog” is a special award given out to the year’s best canine performers during what French film festival, playing on the name of its top prize?
2. What plant has a 13-letter name that means “golden flower” in Greek, though it is often shortened to just its last three letters?
3. Shipping magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt provided the initial $1 million endowment to create Vanderbilt University, despite never having set foot in what state capital where it is located?
4. If the markings on your cat's forehead looks like the letter “M,” what kind of cat do you have?
5. In 1742, an Englishman and card game aficionado named Edmond published “A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist.” What was Edmond’s surname?
3. Nashville, Tennessee
5. Hoyle
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
1. Cannes
2. Chrysanthemum
4. Bengal
Answers to Wednesday, September 24, 2025
1. The “Palm Dog” is a special award given out to the year’s best canine performers during what French film festival, playing on the name of its top prize?
Cannes
(their grand prize is the Palme d’Or)
2. What plant has a 13-letter name that means “golden flower” in Greek, though it is often shortened to just its last three letters?
Chrysanthemum
3. Shipping magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt provided the initial $1 million endowment to create Vanderbilt University, despite never having set foot in what state capital where it is located?
Nashville
4. If the markings on your cat's forehead looks like the letter “M,” what kind of cat do you have?
Tabby
5. In 1742, an Englishman and card game aficionado named Edmond published “A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist.” What was Edmond’s surname?
Hoyle
Questions for
Theme Thursday, September 25, 2025
“Oh” My!: Sometimes we call it “zero.” Sometimes we call it “oh.” These questions are about those second times.
Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. One story claims that it was named for the inventor’s wife’s birthday. Another story claims it is from the inventor’s area code. Another claims it’s based on the number of compounds the inventor tested. Name that cleaning product.
2. James Bond is called “007” because he is the seventh active MI6 agent to possess a “00” designation. What does that designation allow him to do?
3. Actor Grant Show played motorcycle enthusiast Jake Hanson on the TV shows “Models Inc.,” “Melrose Place,” and what other soapy ’90s hit, establishing all three shows as part of the same television universe?
4. Fans of such songs as 2008's “DONTTRUSTME” and “Starstrukk” can probably figure out the area code of Boulder, Colorado — it's right in the name of the biggest band to come out of that city in decades. What band is that?
5. Actor Kam Fong was an officer with the real-life Honolulu Police Department for nearly two decades before he played Detective Chin Ho Kelly on what show, which launched in 1968 and got a reboot in 2010?
1. Formula 409
2. License to kill
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
5 Hawaii Five- Oh
3. Must be Beverly Hills 90120
“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. Beverly Hills, 90210
4. 303 (3OH!3)
Answers to Thursday, September 25, 2025
“Oh” My!: Sometimes we call it “zero.” Sometimes we call it “oh.” These questions are about those second times.
1. One story claims that it was named for the inventor’s wife’s birthday. Another story claims it is from the inventor’s area code. Another claims it’s based on the number of compounds the inventor tested. Name that cleaning product.
Formula 409
2. James Bond is called “007” because he is the seventh active MI6 agent to possess a “00” designation. What does that designation allow him to do?
Kill
(as in, “License to kill”)
3. Actor Grant Show played motorcycle enthusiast Jake Hanson on the TV shows “Models Inc.,” “Melrose Place,” and what other soapy ’90s hit, establishing all three shows as part of the same television universe?
“Beverly Hills, 90210”
4. Fans of such songs as 2008's “DONTTRUSTME” and “Starstrukk” can probably figure out the area code of Boulder, Colorado — it's right in the name of the biggest band to come out of that city in decades. What band is that?
3OH!3
5. Actor Kam Fong was an officer with the real-life Honolulu Police Department for nearly two decades before he played Detective Chin Ho Kelly on what show, which launched in 1968 and got a reboot in 2010?
“Hawaii Five-0”
Questions for
Friday, September 26, 2025
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Six MLB players are members of the 40-40 Club, meaning they’ve hit 40 home runs and stolen 40 bases in a single season. The first time anyone achieved this feat was in 1988, and the last time was in 2024. Name as many players in the 40-40 Club as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.
2. The skincare brand Aveeno takes its name from the scientific name for what edible ingredient, which appears in all of the company’s products?
3. What garment element comes in such styles as batwing, lantern, raglan, and leg-of-mutton?
4. What actor, who played the object of Cate Blanchett's affections in “Carol,” takes her first name from her mother's family, who founded the Pittsburgh Steelers, and surname from her father's family, who founded the New York Giants?
5. Today is September 26. On this day in 1933, what gangster — not to be confused with an ex-fiancé of Megan Fox — was captured by FBI agents in Memphis, Tennessee?
3. Sleeve?
4. Mara Rooney
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
1. I know Jose Conseco was in '88, after that....
5. Machine Gun Kelly
“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 Oats
3. Sleeve?
4. Mara Rooney Rooney Mara
I will sieve myself on this one...
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
1) I thought one of them would be Craig Biggio, though he isn’t. Though he was 50/50… 50 stolen bases and 50 dbls in a season.
1. I know Jose Conseco was in '88, after that....
Canseco won the MVP that year.
Same season Kirby Puckett hit .356, 21 HR, 121 RBI and finished third in MVP.
Answers to Friday, September 26, 2025
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Six MLB players are members of the 40-40 Club, meaning they’ve hit 40 home runs and stolen 40 bases in a single season. The first time anyone achieved this feat was in 1988, and the last time was in 2024. Name as many players in the 40-40 Club as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.
Jose Canseco, Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Alfonso Soriano, Ronald Acuña Jr., Shohei Ohtani
2. The skincare brand Aveeno takes its name from the scientific name for what edible ingredient, which appears in all of the company’s products?
Oats
3. What garment element comes in such styles as batwing, lantern, raglan, and leg-of-mutton?
Sleeves
4. What actor, who played the object of Cate Blanchett's affections in “Carol,” takes her first name from her mother's family, who founded the Pittsburgh Steelers, and surname from her father's family, who founded the New York Giants?
Rooney Mara
5. Today is September 26. On this day in 1933, what gangster — not to be confused with an ex-fiancé of Megan Fox — was captured by FBI agents in Memphis, Tennessee?
Machine Gun Kelly (George Kelly)
Questions for
Monday, September 29, 2025
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What watch company introduced the concept of a “second watch” — something fun and less formal than your regular watch — when it launched in 1983?
2. What simple tool and sometimes weapon was likely the first human-made object to break the sound barrier?
3. When celebrities attempt to censor photos they don't want the public to see, this often results in even more people seeking out the photos than would otherwise see them. This is known as the “BLANK Effect,” after an actor who tried to get a photo of her house removed from the internet in 2003. Name that reclusive star.
4. What early-’90s rapper got his stage name while working for the Oakland Athletics, whose players said he looked like Hank Aaron?
5. What 2,800-year-old epic shares its name with the second-highest rated minivan on the market, according to U.S. News and World Report?
1 Swatch
3 Barbara Streisand
5. Oddysey
“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. MC Hammer
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
2. Whip
2. Whip
Real good.
“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 Monday, September 29, 2025
1. What watch company introduced the concept of a “second watch” — something fun and less formal than your regular watch — when it launched in 1983?
Swatch
(its name is a contraction of “second watch”)
2. What simple tool and sometimes weapon was likely the first human-made object to break the sound barrier?
Whip
3. When celebrities attempt to censor photos they don't want the public to see, this often results in even more people seeking out the photos than would otherwise see them. This is known as the “BLANK Effect,” after an actor who tried to get a photo of her house removed from the internet in 2003. Name that reclusive star.
Barbra Streisand
(it's called “The Streisand Effect”)
4. What early-’90s rapper got his stage name while working for the Oakland Athletics, whose players said he looked like Hank Aaron?
MC Hammer
(Hank Aaron’s nickname was “The Hammer”)
5. What 2,800-year-old epic shares its name with the second-highest rated minivan on the market, according to U.S. News and World Report?
Odyssey
Questions for
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. With Beaux-Arts buildings that reflect its colonial history, The Bund is a historic district in what Chinese megacity?
2. The woman dubbed the “Queen of Rock and Roll” renounced her U.S. citizenship in 2013, living in Switzerland until her death in 2023. Her birth name was Anna Mae Bullock, but she was better known by what name?
3. France’s most populous overseas region is an island in the Indian Ocean. Its name means “meeting” or “gathering” in French, and its English-language cognate also describes a gathering that typically takes place every decade or so. Name that island.
4. What is the name of Meghan Markle’s Netflix cooking show, which has been called “unrelatable” and an “exercise in narcissism” by critics?
5. If you’re a ruminant, you regurgitate food from your stomach into your mouth for a second round of digestion. What is that half-digested food called?
2 Tina Turner
5. Cud
5) Cud? For a cow atleast.
3. Reunion Island (thank you Grand Tour!)
“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. Shanghai
Answers to Tuesday, September 30, 2025
1. With Beaux-Arts buildings that reflect its colonial history, The Bund is a historic district in what Chinese megacity?
Shanghai
2. The woman dubbed the “Queen of Rock and Roll” renounced her U.S. citizenship in 2013, living in Switzerland until her death in 2023. Her birth name was Anna Mae Bullock, but she was better known by what name?
Tina Turner
3. France’s most populous overseas region is an island in the Indian Ocean. Its name means “meeting” or “gathering” in French, and its English-language cognate also describes a gathering that typically takes place every decade or so. Name that island.
Réunion
4. What is the name of Meghan Markle’s Netflix cooking show, which has been called “unrelatable” and an “exercise in narcissism” by critics?
“With Love, Meghan”
5. If you’re a ruminant, you regurgitate food from your stomach into your mouth for a second round of digestion. What is that half-digested food called?
Cud
Questions for
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. Beyoncé sings a cover of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” and a snippet from the Italian opera aria “Caro mio ben” on what 2024 album?
2. What berry is known regionally as an “alligator pear” or “butter fruit”?
3. In 2004, a man falsely accused of murder was released when footage of him at a Dodgers game emerged that confirmed his alibi. That footage was shot for “The Car Pool Lane,” an episode of what HBO comedy?
4. The capital of Lebanon has been called “The Paris of the Middle East.” Name that city.
5. If you look north while taking a boat through the Straits of Mackinac, you'll see Michigan. If you look south, you'll see which state?