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Post by cindra on Sept 13, 2024 22:36:27 GMT -5
Friday's questions 1. According to both Domino’s and the industry magazine Pizza Today, there are five days of the year that see the greatest number of pizza orders. Identify as many of those days as you can. 2. The energy conversion process known as photosynthesis takes place in which organelle, found only in plant cells? 3. In “Peanuts,” what German musician and composer of “Für Elise” is the hero of the character Schroeder? 4. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Paradise, Michigan, features the bell of what freighter, which sank in 1975? 5. Today is September 13. On this day in 1885, writer and philosopher Alain Locke was born. He is remembered as the “dean” or “father” of what cultural and artistic movement that took place in the 1920s and ’30s in Upper Manhattan? 1. super bowl, 4th of july, 2. chloroplasts 3. beethoven 4. edmund fitzgerald 5. harlem renaissance
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Post by nowhereman on Sept 14, 2024 21:13:10 GMT -5
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Post by nowhereman on Sept 15, 2024 22:34:20 GMT -5
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Post by mln59 on Sept 16, 2024 7:56:55 GMT -5
Friday's answers:
1. According to both Domino’s and the industry magazine Pizza Today, there are five days of the year that see the greatest number of pizza orders. Identify as many of those days as you can.
New Year’s Day, Super Bowl Sunday, Halloween, the day before Thanksgiving, New Year's Eve
2. The energy conversion process known as photosynthesis takes place in which organelle, found only in plant cells?
Chloroplasts
3. In “Peanuts,” what German musician and composer of “Für Elise” is the hero of the character Schroeder?
(Ludwig van) Beethoven
4. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Paradise, Michigan, features the bell of what freighter, which sank in 1975?
The Edmund Fitzgerald
5. Today is September 13. On this day in 1885, writer and philosopher Alain Locke was born. He is remembered as the “dean” or “father” of what cultural and artistic movement that took place in the 1920s and ’30s in Upper Manhattan?
Harlem Renaissance
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Post by mln59 on Sept 16, 2024 7:58:38 GMT -5
Monday's questions:
1. What city-state saw a 13 percent bump in tourism from the U.S. in 2018, thanks largely to a film starring Constance Wu released in August of that year?
2. A San Francisco State design student named Charles Prior Hall received a patent in 1971 for “liquid support for human bodies.” What was his invention later known as?
3. One of the most popular door lock manufacturers in the U.S. is a company founded in San Francisco whose seven-letter name is German for “slap.” What lock company is that?
4. “Me Against the World” is the third of four studio albums released during the lifetime of what rapper, before his death in 1996?
5. Two South American countries are named for Simón Bolívar. They are Bolivia and the Bolivarian Republic of BLANK, which is also the country of Bolívar's birth and where he spent much of his life. Fill in that blank.
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Post by gopherhim on Sept 16, 2024 8:09:38 GMT -5
1. Singapore 2. Water bed? 3. No hablo alemán 4. Tupac Shakur 5. Peru?
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Post by vbprisoner on Sept 16, 2024 8:31:32 GMT -5
Monday's questions: 1. What city-state saw a 13 percent bump in tourism from the U.S. in 2018, thanks largely to a film starring Constance Wu released in August of that year? 2. A San Francisco State design student named Charles Prior Hall received a patent in 1971 for “liquid support for human bodies.” What was his invention later known as? 3. One of the most popular door lock manufacturers in the U.S. is a company founded in San Francisco whose seven-letter name is German for “slap.” What lock company is that? 4. “Me Against the World” is the third of four studio albums released during the lifetime of what rapper, before his death in 1996? 5. Two South American countries are named for Simón Bolívar. They are Bolivia and the Bolivarian Republic of BLANK, which is also the country of Bolívar's birth and where he spent much of his life. Fill in that blank. 1. Singapore 2. waterbed? 3. Schlage 4. Tupac 5. Venezuela
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Post by nowhereman on Sept 16, 2024 8:44:13 GMT -5
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Post by nowhereman on Sept 16, 2024 8:45:19 GMT -5
Monday's questions: 1. What city-state saw a 13 percent bump in tourism from the U.S. in 2018, thanks largely to a film starring Constance Wu released in August of that year? 2. A San Francisco State design student named Charles Prior Hall received a patent in 1971 for “liquid support for human bodies.” What was his invention later known as? 3. One of the most popular door lock manufacturers in the U.S. is a company founded in San Francisco whose seven-letter name is German for “slap.” What lock company is that? 4. “Me Against the World” is the third of four studio albums released during the lifetime of what rapper, before his death in 1996? 5. Two South American countries are named for Simón Bolívar. They are Bolivia and the Bolivarian Republic of BLANK, which is also the country of Bolívar's birth and where he spent much of his life. Fill in that blank. 3. Schlage 5. Venezuela
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Post by cindra on Sept 16, 2024 9:35:50 GMT -5
Monday's questions: 1. What city-state saw a 13 percent bump in tourism from the U.S. in 2018, thanks largely to a film starring Constance Wu released in August of that year? 2. A San Francisco State design student named Charles Prior Hall received a patent in 1971 for “liquid support for human bodies.” What was his invention later known as? 3. One of the most popular door lock manufacturers in the U.S. is a company founded in San Francisco whose seven-letter name is German for “slap.” What lock company is that? 4. “Me Against the World” is the third of four studio albums released during the lifetime of what rapper, before his death in 1996? 5. Two South American countries are named for Simón Bolívar. They are Bolivia and the Bolivarian Republic of BLANK, which is also the country of Bolívar's birth and where he spent much of his life. Fill in that blank. 1. hong kong? 2. water bed 3. schlage 4. tupac 5. venezuelea
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Post by coahc21 on Sept 16, 2024 10:15:58 GMT -5
Monday's questions: 1. What city-state saw a 13 percent bump in tourism from the U.S. in 2018, thanks largely to a film starring Constance Wu released in August of that year? 2. A San Francisco State design student named Charles Prior Hall received a patent in 1971 for “liquid support for human bodies.” What was his invention later known as? 3. One of the most popular door lock manufacturers in the U.S. is a company founded in San Francisco whose seven-letter name is German for “slap.” What lock company is that? 4. “Me Against the World” is the third of four studio albums released during the lifetime of what rapper, before his death in 1996? 5. Two South American countries are named for Simón Bolívar. They are Bolivia and the Bolivarian Republic of BLANK, which is also the country of Bolívar's birth and where he spent much of his life. Fill in that blank. 1. Crazy Rish Asians was in Singapore I think...is that a city-state? 2. Waterbed 3. Schlage 4. Tupac 5. Venezuela
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Post by bbg95 on Sept 16, 2024 10:58:59 GMT -5
Friday's questions: 1. There are five MLB teams who have faced the New York Yankees in the World Series more than two times. Name as many of those teams as you can. 2. When Robert E. Lee lost the Civil War, he surrendered his army at Appomattox Court House. Who met him there to accept his surrender? 3. The FDA will often call for the recall of Lactuca sativa var. longifolia from grocery stores and restaurants due to contamination. By what name is that plant better known? 4. In July of 1965, Bob Dylan was booed for playing an electric guitar at a folk festival in what Rhode Island town? 5. Today is September 6. On this day in 1997, an estimated 2.5 billion people around the world tuned in to television broadcasts of a funeral that included a performance by Elton John. Whose funeral was it? 1. Dodgers, Giants, Cardinals I think are all locks. Not sure on the others. 2. Ulysses S. Grant 5. Has to be Princess Diana
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Post by bbg95 on Sept 16, 2024 11:04:00 GMT -5
Monday's questions: 1. What four words have ended the opening narration of almost every one of the 501 episodes of “Law & Order”? 2. According to a 2005 BBC News article, it’s estimated that one in 10 Europeans was conceived on a bed made by what company? 3. During a forced exile, what Florentine diplomat wrote “The Prince” and began work on “Discourses on Livy”? 4. Killarney National Park and Glenveagh National Park are two of eight national parks in what country? 5. What breakfast cereal, which was originally going to be called “Nutties,” was created in 1921 after a worker at a Minneapolis mill accidentally spilled wheat bran onto a hot stove? 1. "These are their stories" 3. Machiavelli
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Post by bbg95 on Sept 16, 2024 11:12:02 GMT -5
Tuesday's questions: 1. What website used a mascot named “The Roaming Gnome” in a series of commercials beginning in 2004? 2. Charlie writes “Not Penny’s Boat” on his palm in the Season 3 finale of what ABC drama series? 3. Which U.S. state capital is named after the “Father of the Constitution”? 4. Zach Braff won a Grammy Award for producing the soundtrack to what 2004 movie, which he also wrote, directed, and starred in? 5. What snack flavor is known as “Cool American” in parts of Europe? 1. Travelocity 2. Lost 3. Madison, WI 5. Cool ranch?
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Post by mikegarrison on Sept 16, 2024 11:48:00 GMT -5
1. Singapore? 2. waterbed? 3. Schlage? 4. 5.
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