3. The Little Prince
5) Jellycat. Our neighbor girl is obsessed with these, I’ve been introduced to all of them! 😀
Note: Due to inflation dirty deeds will no longer be done dirt cheap.
Answers to Wednesday, March 26, 2025
1. Lake Havasu, Lake Mead, and Lake Powell are all reservoirs located along what river?
Colorado River
2. Foods such as baklava and spanakopita are prepared using what thin, layered pastry, whose name comes from the Greek for “leaf”?
Filo
(also spelled "phyllo")
3. What 1943 novella takes place partially on an asteroid called “B-612”?
“The Little Prince”
4. Micky Dolenz is the last surviving member of what '60s band, which featured his vocals on hits like “Pleasant Valley Sunday” and “I'm a Believer”?
The Monkees
5. The latest TikTok fad are plushies, or “Amusables,” like Clyde Capybara, Bashful Bunny, and Mia Macaron made by what London-based company with an endearingly cute name?
Jellycat
Questions for
Theme Thursday, March 27, 2025
“B” Quiet: All answers this round are words containing a silent “B.” I’ll give you the definition, you tell me the word.
Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. Five letters: What Sampson bites in the opening scene of "Romeo and Juliet," or a type of wrestling.
2. Four letters: An upright piece or surface forming the side of a door; it comes from the French word for “leg.”
3. Nine letters: Human-made subterranean passageways used for religious purposes and burial of the dead, most famously beneath Paris.
4. Six letters: Not obvious. Or a type of knife, according to British author Philip Pullman.
5. Seven letters: A job title that comes from the Latin word for “lead,” held by the star of the best-selling video game franchise of all time.
2. Jamb
3. Catacomb
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
5. Plumber
4. subtle
1. Thumb
Answers to Thursday, March 27, 2025
“B” Quiet: All answers this round are words containing a silent “B.” I’ll give you the definition, you tell me the word.
1. Five letters: What Sampson bites in the opening scene of "Romeo and Juliet," or a type of wrestling.
Thumb
2. Four letters: An upright piece or surface forming the side of a door; it comes from the French word for “leg.”
Jamb
3. Nine letters: Human-made subterranean passageways used for religious purposes and burial of the dead, most famously beneath Paris.
Catacombs
4. Six letters: Not obvious. Or a type of knife, according to British author Philip Pullman.
Subtle
5. Seven letters: A job title that comes from the Latin word for “lead,” held by the star of the best-selling video game franchise of all time.
Plumber
(the video game franchise is "Mario")
Questions for
Friday, March 28, 2025
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Earlier this month, Lady Gaga released her seventh studio album, “Mayhem.” She has released six other solo studio albums. Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.
2. Designed in 1920 by political activist Marcus Garvey, the Pan-African flag has become a symbol of the African diaspora and its three colors have found their way into many other Black pride designs. What are those colors?
3. The largest Spanish-speaking nation in the world by area is located 6,615 miles southwest of Spain. Name that country!
4. Tupac Shakur had “Thug Life” tattooed on his stomach, below his chest tattoo of which Egyptian queen?
5. Today is March 28. On this day in 1930, the city of Constantinople was officially renamed to… what?
3) Mexico
Keep your stick on the ice...
5. Istanbul
“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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“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. The Fame, Born This Way, Artpop. That's all I got.
2) the pan African flag has 4 colors…red, green, black and yellow?
I see the one designed by Garvey has no yellow. Multiple flags described as Pan-African, but the question did say Garvey.
4) Nefertiti
Note: Due to inflation dirty deeds will no longer be done dirt cheap.
4. Tupac Shakur had “Thug Life” tattooed on his stomach, below his chest tattoo of which Egyptian queen?
$100 that @the-rube knows this one!!!
You lost $100. I never really got into Tupac.
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.
Answers to Friday, March 28, 2025
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Earlier this month, Lady Gaga released her seventh studio album, “Mayhem.” She has released six other solo studio albums. Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.
“Chromatica,” “Joanne,” “ARTPOP,” “Born This Way,” “The Fame Monster,” “The Fame”
2. Designed in 1920 by political activist Marcus Garvey, the Pan-African flag has become a symbol of the African diaspora and its three colors have found their way into many other Black pride designs. What are those colors?
Red, green, black
3. The largest Spanish-speaking nation in the world by area is located 6,615 miles southwest of Spain. Name that country!
Argentina
4. Tupac Shakur had “Thug Life” tattooed on his stomach, below his chest tattoo of which Egyptian queen?
Nefertiti
5. Today is March 28. On this day in 1930, the city of Constantinople was officially renamed to… what?
Istanbul
Questions for
Monday, March 31, 2025
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. Playing by the official rules of Monopoly, if you are sent to jail and you do not roll doubles on any of your next three turns, how much do you have to pay the bank to get out?
2. What full name belongs to both a nautical folklore figure and a founding member of The Monkees?
3. The ancient Maya city of Tikal is found in the northeast corner of what country, just 30 miles from its border with Belize?
4. Perhaps the most watched instance of skywriting in history occurred in 1984, when 2.5 billion people watched a pilot named Greg Stinis and his team create five identical characters in the sky over Los Angeles. For what event did they do this?
5. Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, and Paramore were all at one point signed to what tasty-sounding record label, co-founded by Less Than Jake drummer Vinnie Fiorello?
1. $50
2. Davy Jones
4. Summer Olympics ?
Presume they were the Olympic rings.
“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. Guatamala
Hard work will beat talent, if talent doesn't work hard.
5. Fueled by Ramen
Answers to Monday, March 31, 2025
1. Playing by the official rules of Monopoly, if you are sent to jail and you do not roll doubles on any of your next three turns, how much do you have to pay the bank to get out?
$50
2. What full name belongs to both a nautical folklore figure and a founding member of The Monkees?
Davy Jones
3. The ancient Maya city of Tikal is found in the northeast corner of what country, just 30 miles from its border with Belize?
Guatemala
4. Perhaps the most watched instance of skywriting in history occurred in 1984, when 2.5 billion people watched a pilot named Greg Stinis and his team create five identical characters in the sky over Los Angeles. For what event did they do this?
The Olympics
(he drew the Olympic rings)
5. Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, and Paramore were all at one point signed to what tasty-sounding record label, co-founded by Less Than Jake drummer Vinnie Fiorello?
Fueled by Ramen
Questions for
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What popular music producer won his third consecutive Producer of the Year award at the Grammy Awards in 2024, presumably for something involving Taylor Swift?
2. Last fall, what author published the widely panned ”Revenge of the Tipping Point,” to ostensibly revisit theories put forward in his first book, “The Tipping Point”?
3. An English land agent was surprised in 1880 when residents of an Irish community began refusing to work for him or serve him in their shops unless he stopped a planned round of evictions. What was that agent's surname?
4. In 2021, the NCAA changed its rules regarding the monetization of its student athletes' NIL. What does "NIL" stand for?
5. Which U.S. state capital is named for a fur trader whose surname was Chouteau?
3. Boycott
1. Jack Antonoff
5. Pierre, SD
2.Malcolm Gladwell
Hard work will beat talent, if talent doesn't work hard.
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.
Answers to Tuesday, April 1, 2025
1. What popular music producer won his third consecutive Producer of the Year award at the Grammy Awards in 2024, presumably for something involving Taylor Swift?
Jack Antonoff
2. Last fall, what author published the widely panned ”Revenge of the Tipping Point,” to ostensibly revisit theories put forward in his first book, “The Tipping Point”?
Malcolm Gladwell
3. An English land agent was surprised in 1880 when residents of an Irish community began refusing to work for him or serve him in their shops unless he stopped a planned round of evictions. What was that agent's surname?
Boycott
4. In 2021, the NCAA changed its rules regarding the monetization of its student athletes' NIL. What does "NIL" stand for?
“Name, image, and likeness”
5. Which U.S. state capital is named for a fur trader whose surname was Chouteau?
Pierre
(South Dakota)
Questions for
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What Nintendo game — which debuted in 1986, and whose latest installment was released in 2024 to great acclaim — was the first major console game release to allow players to save their games?
2. A Polynesian nation earns about one-twelfth of its gross national income by licensing its country code top-level domain to streaming giants such as Twitch. Websites for this country end in dot… what?
3. A 1974 newspaper column titled "Richard M. Nixon, Will You Please Go Now!" was written by what best-selling children's author as a parody of one of his own books?
4. In Greek mythology, who was the only Gorgon who wasn’t immortal, as confirmed by Perseus?
5. An element’s atomic number refers to the number of what in its nucleus?
3. Dr Suess
“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. Medusa
5. Protons
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
2 .tv. Tuvalu
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
1) Zelda?
Keep your stick on the ice...