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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2020 19:12:06 GMT -5
Wolfgang is now the leader, with zero.
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Post by mikegarrison on Feb 21, 2020 19:29:11 GMT -5
1. What two-word term originated in England in the 1800s, when it was customary to give an unwanted houseguest an inferior and undercooked cut of roast? 2. Humans are the only primates without vibrissae. What are vibrissae more commonly called? 3. Prior to Hillary Clinton in 2016, the most successful female presidential candidate in a U.S. general election was a candidate who garnered 0.39 percent of the popular vote. Name her. 4. What two adjectives describe Sarah Witting, the title character of a 1985 Newbery Medal-winning children’s book? 5. What six-letter term for an "isolated or out-of-touch community" was originally the name of an Algonquin people who lived in a remote part of what is now Connecticut? 1. Cold shoulder 2. Don't know. 3. Claire Underwood 4. Plain and Tall 5. INDIAN By the way, "cold shoulder" has nothing to do with houseguests. To quote Wikipedia: The first recorded use of the expression was in 1816 by Sir Walter Scott in the Scots language, in The Antiquary. This expression is a mistranslation of the Latin phrase dederunt umerum recedentem from the Book of Nehemiah 9.29 from the Vulgate Bible, which actually means "stubbornly they turned their backs on you", which comes from the Septuagint Bible's Greek equivalent ἔδωκαν νῶτον ἀπειθοῦντα. Latin umerus (often misspelled humerus) means both "shoulder" and "back". It simply means to turn away from someone, showing your back to them as a means of demonstrating that you give no #$%&s about them or their issues.
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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 21, 2020 20:30:49 GMT -5
I guess "Ronan" is better than "Rodan."
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2020 11:02:14 GMT -5
2. Whiskers 3. Jill Stein 5. Podunk
Ronan Farrow's first name is Satchel.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2020 18:14:18 GMT -5
1. Actress Kerry Washington got her big break playing the character Chenille Reynolds in what 2001 movie—which gets its title from a 1960 doo-wop song by the Drifters?
2. A department store is typically divided into departments. (Duh.) Which of those departments gets its name from the Greek for “order in the universe”?
3. The Fibonacci Sequence goes on forever, so it doesn’t have a mean or a median. But it does have a mode. What is the Fibonacci Sequence’s mode?
4. The Sterkfontein Caves are often called the “Cradle of Humankind,” due the two-million-year-old remains that have been found there. In which African country are these caves located?
5. What fictional warthog shares his name with a fast-paced style of jazz?
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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 28, 2020 18:35:40 GMT -5
1. Actress Kerry Washington got her big break playing the character Chenille Reynolds in what 2001 movie—which gets its title from a 1960 doo-wop song by the Drifters? 2. A department store is typically divided into departments. (Duh.) Which of those departments gets its name from the Greek for “order in the universe”? 3. The Fibonacci Sequence goes on forever, so it doesn’t have a mean or a median. But it does have a mode. What is the Fibonacci Sequence’s mode? 4. The Sterkfontein Caves are often called the “Cradle of Humankind,” due the two-million-year-old remains that have been found there. In which African country are these caves located? 5. What fictional warthog shares his name with a fast-paced style of jazz? 1. She was in 12 Years a Slave. This is not the answer but this is the first movie I remember seeing her. She's okay in Scandal (the TV series) but her character is poorly written. She's supposedly someone who's an expert political strategist/fixer because of her instincts, but time after time, her instincts (her "gut") put her in all sorts of terrible predicaments. Her "gut" has become a joke between my wife and me. 2. Accounting. (Just a guess) 3. 1 4. I thought it was in France. 5. I know many jazz styles but I can't name a single fictional warthog.
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Post by vup on Feb 28, 2020 18:42:15 GMT -5
5. Sonic
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2020 19:08:13 GMT -5
1 is the only correct answer, so far. For the mode of the Fibseq.
I only knew the 2nd question's answer. Art history dad pays off again.
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Post by mln59 on Feb 28, 2020 19:14:25 GMT -5
2. cosmetics from kosmos
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2020 15:59:38 GMT -5
1. Save the Last Dance 4. South Africa 5. Bebop
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2020 16:08:06 GMT -5
ID these celebrity cheerleaders (OK, this is creepy in hindsight, but it was the category last night): a. b. c. d.
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Post by Wolfgang on Mar 5, 2020 16:54:58 GMT -5
a. Cameron Diaz b. Drew Barrymore c. Christian Bale d. ?
a and b were easy-peasy.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2020 17:54:40 GMT -5
Diaz is right, but b and c are wrong.
That's funny. One of my teammates thought that was Christian Bale, too. I knew who it was, although it was a different picture (he was wearing a hat), so not as easy as this one.
b and d are not easy, imo.
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Post by yoda on Mar 5, 2020 17:59:19 GMT -5
B - kid from American Housewife & Once Upon a Time in Hollywood...Julia Butters? C - Ryan Reynolds? D - Madonna?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2020 18:02:09 GMT -5
Madonna is correct. Very good.
b and c are not. c looks just like the guy and his cheerleading is fairly well-known, I thought.
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