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Post by bbg95 on Oct 17, 2024 11:51:48 GMT -5
Thursday's questions: Name-Name Game: Five questions about people with duplicate names. 1. What Hungarian socialite was Paris Hilton’s ex-step-great-grandmother, due to her four-year marriage to Conrad Hilton? 2. What French-born cello prodigy had performed for presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy by the time he was 7 years old? 3. The fifth-highest-paid woman actor in the world in 2016 was also China’s highest-paid actor from 2013 to 2017, according to Forbes. Name that actor, who made her Hollywood debut as Blink in “X-Men: Days of Future Past”. 4. Kofi Annan was the second secretary-general of the United Nations to come from Africa. Who was the first? 5. If you’re watching two best friends named Lenny Leonard and Carl Carlson, you’re watching what TV show? 5. The Simpsons |
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Post by nowhereman on Oct 17, 2024 12:52:33 GMT -5
Thursday's questions: Name-Name Game: Five questions about people with duplicate names. 1. What Hungarian socialite was Paris Hilton’s ex-step-great-grandmother, due to her four-year marriage to Conrad Hilton? 2. What French-born cello prodigy had performed for presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy by the time he was 7 years old? 3. The fifth-highest-paid woman actor in the world in 2016 was also China’s highest-paid actor from 2013 to 2017, according to Forbes. Name that actor, who made her Hollywood debut as Blink in “X-Men: Days of Future Past”. 4. Kofi Annan was the second secretary-general of the United Nations to come from Africa. Who was the first? 5. If you’re watching two best friends named Lenny Leonard and Carl Carlson, you’re watching what TV show? 4. Boutros boutros ghali - apologies for any misspelling |
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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 17, 2024 13:55:51 GMT -5
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2. Yo-Yo Ma
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4. Boutros Boutros-Ghali
5. Wild guess, Laverne and Shirley?
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Post by cindra on Oct 17, 2024 14:50:12 GMT -5
Thursday's questions: Name-Name Game: Five questions about people with duplicate names. 1. What Hungarian socialite was Paris Hilton’s ex-step-great-grandmother, due to her four-year marriage to Conrad Hilton? 2. What French-born cello prodigy had performed for presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy by the time he was 7 years old? 3. The fifth-highest-paid woman actor in the world in 2016 was also China’s highest-paid actor from 2013 to 2017, according to Forbes. Name that actor, who made her Hollywood debut as Blink in “X-Men: Days of Future Past”. 4. Kofi Annan was the second secretary-general of the United Nations to come from Africa. Who was the first? 5. If you’re watching two best friends named Lenny Leonard and Carl Carlson, you’re watching what TV show? 1. Zsa zsa gabor 2. Yoyo ma 3. 4. Boutros boutros ghali 5. |
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Post by mln59 on Oct 18, 2024 8:04:31 GMT -5
Thursday's answers:
1. What Hungarian socialite was Paris Hilton’s ex-step-great-grandmother, due to her four-year marriage to Conrad Hilton?
Zsa Zsa Gabor
(Correction Corner: Thank you to reader Jim, who noted that Zsa Zsa Gabor and Conrad Hilton were married for five years.)
2. What French-born cello prodigy had performed for presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy by the time he was 7 years old?
Yo-Yo Ma
3. The fifth-highest-paid woman actor in the world in 2016 was also China’s highest-paid actor from 2013 to 2017, according to Forbes. Name that actor, who made her Hollywood debut as Blink in “X-Men: Days of Future Past”.
Fan Bingbing
4. Kofi Annan was the second secretary-general of the United Nations to come from Africa. Who was the first?
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
5. If you’re watching two best friends named Lenny Leonard and Carl Carlson, you’re watching what TV show?
“The Simpsons”
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Post by mln59 on Oct 18, 2024 8:05:52 GMT -5
Friday's questions:
1. There are six naturally occurring elements on the periodic table that are classified as noble gasses. Name as many of those elements as you can.
2. Russia doesn’t have states. It has 22 republics, nine krais, four okrugs, three federal cities, and 47 of what type of geographic entity — a word typically translated into English as “region” or “province”?
3. Unless you’re an astrophysicist, it’s likely that you’ve only seen radio waves from a pulsar in association with what band, who used a visual representation of those waves as the artwork for their 1979 album “Unknown Pleasures”?
4. What ’90s competitive game show featured a strobe light and glitter-filled mountain named “The Aggro Crag”?
5. Today is October 18. On this day in 1851, Herman Melville published a book in London then titled “the Whale.” By what name is that book more commonly known today?
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Post by cindra on Oct 18, 2024 9:41:15 GMT -5
Friday's questions: 1. There are six naturally occurring elements on the periodic table that are classified as noble gasses. Name as many of those elements as you can. 2. Russia doesn’t have states. It has 22 republics, nine krais, four okrugs, three federal cities, and 47 of what type of geographic entity — a word typically translated into English as “region” or “province”? 3. Unless you’re an astrophysicist, it’s likely that you’ve only seen radio waves from a pulsar in association with what band, who used a visual representation of those waves as the artwork for their 1979 album “Unknown Pleasures”? 4. What ’90s competitive game show featured a strobe light and glitter-filled mountain named “The Aggro Crag”? 5. Today is October 18. On this day in 1851, Herman Melville published a book in London then titled “the Whale.” By what name is that book more commonly known today? 1. Neon, xenon, argon, radon, krypton, helium 2. Oblasts 3. Joy division 4. American gladiator? 5. Moby dick |
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Post by geddyleeridesagain on Oct 18, 2024 10:27:47 GMT -5
Friday's questions: 1. There are six naturally occurring elements on the periodic table that are classified as noble gasses. Name as many of those elements as you can. 2. Russia doesn’t have states. It has 22 republics, nine krais, four okrugs, three federal cities, and 47 of what type of geographic entity — a word typically translated into English as “region” or “province”? 3. Unless you’re an astrophysicist, it’s likely that you’ve only seen radio waves from a pulsar in association with what band, who used a visual representation of those waves as the artwork for their 1979 album “Unknown Pleasures”? 4. What ’90s competitive game show featured a strobe light and glitter-filled mountain named “The Aggro Crag”? 5. Today is October 18. On this day in 1851, Herman Melville published a book in London then titled “the Whale.” By what name is that book more commonly known today? 1. Helium, argon, neon… 2. Oblast 3. 4. Guts (Nickelodeon) 5. Moby Dick |
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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 18, 2024 12:13:10 GMT -5
1) Helium, Neon, Krypton, Argon, Zenon, Radon
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5) Moby Dick
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Post by bbg95 on Oct 18, 2024 14:40:09 GMT -5
Friday's questions: 1. There are six naturally occurring elements on the periodic table that are classified as noble gasses. Name as many of those elements as you can. 2. Russia doesn’t have states. It has 22 republics, nine krais, four okrugs, three federal cities, and 47 of what type of geographic entity — a word typically translated into English as “region” or “province”? 3. Unless you’re an astrophysicist, it’s likely that you’ve only seen radio waves from a pulsar in association with what band, who used a visual representation of those waves as the artwork for their 1979 album “Unknown Pleasures”? 4. What ’90s competitive game show featured a strobe light and glitter-filled mountain named “The Aggro Crag”? 5. Today is October 18. On this day in 1851, Herman Melville published a book in London then titled “the Whale.” By what name is that book more commonly known today? 1. Helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, radon 5. Moby Dick |
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Post by nowhereman on Oct 18, 2024 17:29:15 GMT -5
Friday's questions: 1. There are six naturally occurring elements on the periodic table that are classified as noble gasses. Name as many of those elements as you can. 2. Russia doesn’t have states. It has 22 republics, nine krais, four okrugs, three federal cities, and 47 of what type of geographic entity — a word typically translated into English as “region” or “province”? 3. Unless you’re an astrophysicist, it’s likely that you’ve only seen radio waves from a pulsar in association with what band, who used a visual representation of those waves as the artwork for their 1979 album “Unknown Pleasures”? 4. What ’90s competitive game show featured a strobe light and glitter-filled mountain named “The Aggro Crag”? 5. Today is October 18. On this day in 1851, Herman Melville published a book in London then titled “the Whale.” By what name is that book more commonly known today? 2. OBLAST - put it in all caps because I know this! Woo hoo. 5. Moby dick - managed to get through the entire book despite a former co worker warning me that I would be bored out of my mind. |
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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 18, 2024 18:19:43 GMT -5
Friday's questions: 1. There are six naturally occurring elements on the periodic table that are classified as noble gasses. Name as many of those elements as you can. 2. Russia doesn’t have states. It has 22 republics, nine krais, four okrugs, three federal cities, and 47 of what type of geographic entity — a word typically translated into English as “region” or “province”? 3. Unless you’re an astrophysicist, it’s likely that you’ve only seen radio waves from a pulsar in association with what band, who used a visual representation of those waves as the artwork for their 1979 album “Unknown Pleasures”? 4. What ’90s competitive game show featured a strobe light and glitter-filled mountain named “The Aggro Crag”? 5. Today is October 18. On this day in 1851, Herman Melville published a book in London then titled “the Whale.” By what name is that book more commonly known today? 2. OBLAST - put it in all caps because I know this! Woo hoo. 5. Moby dick - managed to get through the entire book despite a former co worker warning me that I would be bored out of my mind. I like the scene in Heathers where the sociopathic JD is choosing passages from Moby Dick to underline in order to make it seem like one of the Heathers is murderously suicidal. |
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Post by gopherhim on Oct 19, 2024 23:59:54 GMT -5
1. Argon, neon, xenon, helium, krypton, radon
2. Oblast
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5. Moby-Dick
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Post by mln59 on Oct 21, 2024 7:54:19 GMT -5
Friday's answers:
1. There are six naturally occurring elements on the periodic table that are classified as noble gasses. Name as many of those elements as you can.
Helium (He), Neon (Ne), Argon (Ar), Krypton (Kr), Xenon (Xe), Radon (Rn)
(Oganesson is sometimes considered a noble gas, but is not naturally occurring)
2. Russia doesn’t have states. It has 22 republics, nine krais, four okrugs, three federal cities, and 47 of what type of geographic entity — a word typically translated into English as “region” or “province”?
Oblast
3. Unless you’re an astrophysicist, it’s likely that you’ve only seen radio waves from a pulsar in association with what band, who used a visual representation of those waves as the artwork for their 1979 album “Unknown Pleasures”?
Joy Division
4. What ’90s competitive game show featured a strobe light and glitter-filled mountain named “The Aggro Crag”?
“Nickelodeon Guts” (or just “GUTS”)
5. Today is October 18. On this day in 1851, Herman Melville published a book in London then titled “the Whale.” By what name is that book more commonly known today?
“Moby-Dick”
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Post by mln59 on Oct 21, 2024 7:54:51 GMT -5
Monday's questions:
1. A rabbit named Buster, a monkey named Muffy, and a bulldog named Binky are all classmates of what animated title character?
2. Ravens are often seen as a symbol of bad luck in Western culture. In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven,” what is the name of the narrator’s lost love?
3. The McArabia is a sandwich available at McDonald's outlets in some Arab countries. What type of bread is used to make this sandwich?
4. “LDL” and “HDL” are acronyms you might find on a blood test at the doctor’s office measuring what substance in your body?
5. Earl was one of two alien rappers in a 1991 Sega Genesis game. What was the name of his partner?
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