Totally Random Trivia

[Don Adams Wheel of Justice]

Today is the 10,000th day I've been alive!

Wish I'd seen this on Monday. Today is day number 15,003 for me.

[Dances With Gophers]

The words English owes to India

I always thought it was "i don't give a damn."

Take the entry for the Indian word dam. The dictionary defines it as: "Originally an actual copper coin. Damri is a common enough expression for the infinitesimal in coin, and one has often heard a Briton in India say: 'No, I won't give a dumree!' with but a vague notion what a damri meant."

That is the etymology of dam. But Yule and Burnell have more to say.

"And this leads to the suggestion that a like expression, often heard from coarse talkers in England as well as in India, originated in the latter country, and that whatever profanity there may be in the animus, there is none in the etymology, when such an one blurts out 'I don't care a dam!' in other words, 'I don't care a brass farthing!'"

30 words from India:
B - bandana, bangle, bazaar, bungalow
C - catamaran, char, cheroot, chintz, chit, chokey, chutney, cummerbund, curry
D - dinghy, dungarees
G - guru, gymkhana
H - hullabaloo
J - jodhpur, juggernaut, jute
K - khaki, kedgeree
L - loot
P - pariah, pundit, purdah, pyjamas
S - shampoo
V - veranda

[Zwak]

Interesting article (at least to me) on how one man's crusade ended up getting lawn darts banned.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/133320

Let's hope he doesn't learn about Beer Darts.

[Armadillo]

Interesting article (at least to me) on how one man's crusade ended up getting lawn darts banned.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/133320

Let's hope he doesn't learn about Beer Darts.

I feel horrible for his loss (even twenty-five years on), but dude: put the heavy dart-shaped objects where the kids can't get them.

[WPoS]

Interesting article (at least to me) on how one man's crusade ended up getting lawn darts banned.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/133320

Let's hope he doesn't learn about Beer Darts.

hey now!

W

[The Rube]

Interesting article (at least to me) on how one man's crusade ended up getting lawn darts banned.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/133320

Let's hope he doesn't learn about Beer Darts.

Interesting to me, since I own lawn darts that are federally banned to buy/sell (and you're urged to destroy sets like that).

[Armadillo]

Interesting article (at least to me) on how one man's crusade ended up getting lawn darts banned.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/133320

Let's hope he doesn't learn about Beer Darts.

Interesting to me, since I own lawn darts that are federally banned to buy/sell (and you're urged to destroy sets like that).

I'm telling.

[The Rube]

Interesting article (at least to me) on how one man's crusade ended up getting lawn darts banned.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/133320

Let's hope he doesn't learn about Beer Darts.

Interesting to me, since I own lawn darts that are federally banned to buy/sell (and you're urged to destroy sets like that).

I'm telling.

It's legal to own them. You just can't sell/buy them anymore. Mine were "hand-me-downs" from my grandparents. I even think the ones I have have lead in the tips.

[Armadillo]

I even think the ones I have have lead in the tips.

The FBI, DHS, and EPA will be VERY interested, Mr. Rube.

[The Rube]

I even think the ones I have have lead in the tips.

The FBI, DHS, and EPA will be VERY interested, Mr. Rube.

A little lead never hurt nobody.

Wait...

[WPoS]

saw some on Epay a while back....

My parents have a set someplace in the basement

W

[streakygopher]

Can we all agree that the good guys won the Civil War? Or after today's ruling, is that changing in some GPL'ers minds?

I've long held that the only thing the Confederacy did wrong was choosing which issue it was going to hitch its wagon to. If the Civil War were fought over taxation, land rights, basically anything BUT the systematic oppression of a race of people, the perception of that war would be very different.

Granted, that "only thing they did wrong" was a WHOPPER, and it was oh so very wrong.

The South feared the emergence of the North, the power of the Federal government, and a growing anti slavery sentiment popularized by a new President. Hell, several states seceded from the union before Lincoln took office. They were pretty much baked, because as they observed the thriving industrial, urban culture explode in the North, they were stuck in an antiquated culture of country gentlemen and southern belles, steeped in an agrarian economy that only made sense if the labor were free.Lincoln I think had the most difficult Presidency. Think about it. The fate of the nation was at stake, and the thought of mending the union must have seemed impossible.

Not sure the last time you have been down this way, but they are still living like that.

Been to the South many times. They still hate Yankees.

[Armadillo]

Been to the South many times. They still hate Yankees.

So do I, but Mets fans were worse.

[The Rube]

saw some on Epay a while back....

My parents have a set someplace in the basement

W

Want. Want. Want.

If you donate them to me, I will kindly make a donation to the WPoS Beer Fund.

[davescharf]

The number of mobile phone contracts in the world exceeds the number of toothbrushes sold in a given year.

[Zwak]

For you trivia dorks like me, Ken Jennings (of Jeopardy fame) sends out a weekly trivia quiz every Tuesday. You can sign up for it here.

http://ken-jennings.com/blog/

It typically consists of 7 questions with the 7th question being "google resistant'. Here is this week's quiz. I won't have the answers until next Tuesday but most of them (except 7) can easily be found on Google. I have a pretty good idea what the answer to #7 is.


1. Luckiest Man and Iron Horse are the title of two biographies of what athlete?
2. The world's only four countries without an airport are all located on which continent?
3. If you believe his nickname, the blues musician who made the song "Midnight Special" famous had a belly made of what?
4. What title character of a 2007 movie gets called "the cautionary whale" by her classmates at Dancing Elk High School?
5. What layer, lying below the stratosphere, is the lowest part of the Earth's atmosphere?
6. Hagiography is the study of what kind of people?
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these TV characters? Bamm-Bamm on Flintstones, Dexter on Dexter, Kutner on House, Lindsay on Arrested Development, Locke on Lost, Rachel on Glee, Rose on The Golden Girls, Steve on 90210, Sylar on Heroes, and Worf on Star Trek.

[Tee09]

1. Gehrig
2. Africa
3. No idea
4. No idea
5. Troposphere
6. Hags
7. No Idea

[davescharf]

1. Gehrig
2. Africa
3. No idea
4. No idea
5. Troposphere
6. Hags
7. No Idea

#2 is going to be Europe. I know Andorra and Vatican City don't have airports because of their size. I'd guess a place like Monaco or Liechtenstein would be other possibilities of ones that don't.

I was going to guess Gehrig for #1, Jelly for #3, Troposphere for #5, Saints for #6, and #7 something weird like they're all left handed.

[bonesaw]

For you trivia dorks like me, Ken Jennings (of Jeopardy fame) sends out a weekly trivia quiz every Tuesday. You can sign up for it here.

http://ken-jennings.com/blog/

It typically consists of 7 questions with the 7th question being "google resistant'. Here is this week's quiz. I won't have the answers until next Tuesday but most of them (except 7) can easily be found on Google. I have a pretty good idea what the answer to #7 is.


1. Luckiest Man and Iron Horse are the title of two biographies of what athlete?
2. The world's only four countries without an airport are all located on which continent?
3. If you believe his nickname, the blues musician who made the song "Midnight Special" famous had a belly made of what?
4. What title character of a 2007 movie gets called "the cautionary whale" by her classmates at Dancing Elk High School?
5. What layer, lying below the stratosphere, is the lowest part of the Earth's atmosphere?
6. Hagiography is the study of what kind of people?
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these TV characters? Bamm-Bamm on Flintstones, Dexter on Dexter, Kutner on House, Lindsay on Arrested Development, Locke on Lost, Rachel on Glee, Rose on The Golden Girls, Steve on 90210, Sylar on Heroes, and Worf on Star Trek.

2. Europe. Monaco, Vatican City, Liechtenstein, ????

You'll rue the day, davescharf!!

[Zwak]

1. Gehrig
2. Africa
3. No idea
4. No idea
5. Troposphere
6. Hags
7. No Idea

#2 is going to be Europe. I know Andorra and Vatican City don't have airports because of their size. I'd guess a place like Monaco or Liechtenstein would be other possibilities of ones that don't.

I was going to guess Gehrig for #1, Jelly for #3, Troposphere for #5, Saints for #6, and #7 something weird like they're all left handed.

My guess on #7 is that they are all adopted.

[davescharf]

1. Gehrig
2. Africa
3. No idea
4. No idea
5. Troposphere
6. Hags
7. No Idea

#2 is going to be Europe. I know Andorra and Vatican City don't have airports because of their size. I'd guess a place like Monaco or Liechtenstein would be other possibilities of ones that don't.

I was going to guess Gehrig for #1, Jelly for #3, Troposphere for #5, Saints for #6, and #7 something weird like they're all left handed.

My guess on #7 is that they are all adopted.

That's actually a great guess.

[greydogg]

1. Gehrig
2. Africa
3. No idea
4. No idea
5. Troposphere
6. Hags
7. No Idea

4. Juno (a personal fav)

[Zwak]

Here is the 7th question from last week. Definitely a toughy.

What unusual distinction is shared by all these movies? Avatar, The Freshman, Hud, In the Cut, Mildred Pierce, Monkeybone, No Country for Old Men, The Specialist, That's My Boy.

[Tee09]

For you trivia dorks like me, Ken Jennings (of Jeopardy fame) sends out a weekly trivia quiz every Tuesday. You can sign up for it here.

http://ken-jennings.com/blog/

It typically consists of 7 questions with the 7th question being "google resistant'. Here is this week's quiz. I won't have the answers until next Tuesday but most of them (except 7) can easily be found on Google. I have a pretty good idea what the answer to #7 is.


1. Luckiest Man and Iron Horse are the title of two biographies of what athlete?
2. The world's only four countries without an airport are all located on which continent?
3. If you believe his nickname, the blues musician who made the song "Midnight Special" famous had a belly made of what?
4. What title character of a 2007 movie gets called "the cautionary whale" by her classmates at Dancing Elk High School?
5. What layer, lying below the stratosphere, is the lowest part of the Earth's atmosphere?
6. Hagiography is the study of what kind of people?
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these TV characters? Bamm-Bamm on Flintstones, Dexter on Dexter, Kutner on House, Lindsay on Arrested Development, Locke on Lost, Rachel on Glee, Rose on The Golden Girls, Steve on 90210, Sylar on Heroes, and Worf on Star Trek.

2. Europe. Monaco, Vatican City, Liechtenstein, ????

You'll rue the day, davescharf!!

Does San Marino have an airport?

[bonesaw]

For you trivia dorks like me, Ken Jennings (of Jeopardy fame) sends out a weekly trivia quiz every Tuesday. You can sign up for it here.

http://ken-jennings.com/blog/

It typically consists of 7 questions with the 7th question being "google resistant'. Here is this week's quiz. I won't have the answers until next Tuesday but most of them (except 7) can easily be found on Google. I have a pretty good idea what the answer to #7 is.


1. Luckiest Man and Iron Horse are the title of two biographies of what athlete?
2. The world's only four countries without an airport are all located on which continent?
3. If you believe his nickname, the blues musician who made the song "Midnight Special" famous had a belly made of what?
4. What title character of a 2007 movie gets called "the cautionary whale" by her classmates at Dancing Elk High School?
5. What layer, lying below the stratosphere, is the lowest part of the Earth's atmosphere?
6. Hagiography is the study of what kind of people?
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these TV characters? Bamm-Bamm on Flintstones, Dexter on Dexter, Kutner on House, Lindsay on Arrested Development, Locke on Lost, Rachel on Glee, Rose on The Golden Girls, Steve on 90210, Sylar on Heroes, and Worf on Star Trek.

2. Europe. Monaco, Vatican City, Liechtenstein, ????

You'll rue the day, davescharf!!

Does San Marino have an airport?

Scharf got it, Andorra is the 4th. San Marino apparently has a single private airstrip.

[sunbone]

For you trivia dorks like me, Ken Jennings (of Jeopardy fame) sends out a weekly trivia quiz every Tuesday. You can sign up for it here.

http://ken-jennings.com/blog/

It typically consists of 7 questions with the 7th question being "google resistant'. Here is this week's quiz. I won't have the answers until next Tuesday but most of them (except 7) can easily be found on Google. I have a pretty good idea what the answer to #7 is.


1. Luckiest Man and Iron Horse are the title of two biographies of what athlete?
2. The world's only four countries without an airport are all located on which continent?
3. If you believe his nickname, the blues musician who made the song "Midnight Special" famous had a belly made of what?
4. What title character of a 2007 movie gets called "the cautionary whale" by her classmates at Dancing Elk High School?
5. What layer, lying below the stratosphere, is the lowest part of the Earth's atmosphere?
6. Hagiography is the study of what kind of people?
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these TV characters? Bamm-Bamm on Flintstones, Dexter on Dexter, Kutner on House, Lindsay on Arrested Development, Locke on Lost, Rachel on Glee, Rose on The Golden Girls, Steve on 90210, Sylar on Heroes, and Worf on Star Trek.

#3 is Lead Belly.

[monty]

#6 is the study of Saints

[Handyman]

#7 is that they are all adopted.

[Zwak]

15 Trivia questions that you will probably get wrong.

http://mashable.com/2012/07/18/trivia-questions-wrong/#

[g_manpucker]

15 Trivia questions that you will probably get wrong.

http://mashable.com/2012/07/18/trivia-questions-wrong/#

I got 4 of them right...the rest were well outside my realm of knowledge!

[Chris Eckes]

6 of them right, I feel great!

[psych]

6 of them right, I feel great!

5.

[h8red]

Here is the 7th question from last week. Definitely a toughy.

What unusual distinction is shared by all these movies? Avatar, The Freshman, Hud, In the Cut, Mildred Pierce, Monkeybone, No Country for Old Men, The Specialist, That's My Boy.

They all suck?

[Sioux/Bucky Hater]

Here is the 7th question from last week. Definitely a toughy.

What unusual distinction is shared by all these movies? Avatar, The Freshman, Hud, In the Cut, Mildred Pierce, Monkeybone, No Country for Old Men, The Specialist, That's My Boy.

They all suck?

What are the names of nine movies that have never been in my kitchen?

[Slap Shot]

Here is the 7th question from last week. Definitely a toughy.

What unusual distinction is shared by all these movies? Avatar, The Freshman, Hud, In the Cut, Mildred Pierce, Monkeybone, No Country for Old Men, The Specialist, That's My Boy.

They all suck?

Hud and NCfOM do not suck.

[Zwak]

Here is this week's Ken Jennings Trivia Quiz. The answer to #7 from last week is that they are all adopted.

1. What 2011 best-seller by Ernest Cline about 1980s geek culture takes its title from the phrase that opened many old coin-operated video games?

2. A tachyon is, by definition, a hypothetical particle that possesses what unusual ability?

3. The 2018 Winter Olympics are scheduled to be held at Pyeongchang, in what country?

4. An 1878 dispute near present-day Williamson, West Virginia, over the distinctive notches in a hog's ears was one of the earliest flare-ups in what American conflict?

5. BAO, the Benny Anderssons Orkester, is the latest project for a musician who owes his entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to his membership in what other band?

6. What country currently has the only pregnant CEO of any on the Fortune 500?

7. What unusual distinction is shared by these countries and, depending on your definitions, no others? Azerbaijan, Egypt, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Spain, and Turkey.

[psych]

Here is this week's Ken Jennings Trivia Quiz. The answer to #7 from last week is that they are all adopted.

1. What 2011 best-seller by Ernest Cline about 1980s geek culture takes its title from the phrase that opened many old coin-operated video games?

2. A tachyon is, by definition, a hypothetical particle that possesses what unusual ability?

3. The 2018 Winter Olympics are scheduled to be held at Pyeongchang, in what country?

4. An 1878 dispute near present-day Williamson, West Virginia, over the distinctive notches in a hog's ears was one of the earliest flare-ups in what American conflict?

5. BAO, the Benny Anderssons Orkester, is the latest project for a musician who owes his entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to his membership in what other band?

6. What country currently has the only pregnant CEO of any on the Fortune 500?

7. What unusual distinction is shared by these countries and, depending on your definitions, no others? Azerbaijan, Egypt, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Spain, and Turkey.

3. South Korea
4. Hatfields and McCoys

[Zwak]

Here is this week's Ken Jennings Trivia Quiz. The answer to #7 from last week is that they are all adopted.

1. What 2011 best-seller by Ernest Cline about 1980s geek culture takes its title from the phrase that opened many old coin-operated video games?

2. A tachyon is, by definition, a hypothetical particle that possesses what unusual ability?

3. The 2018 Winter Olympics are scheduled to be held at Pyeongchang, in what country?

4. An 1878 dispute near present-day Williamson, West Virginia, over the distinctive notches in a hog's ears was one of the earliest flare-ups in what American conflict?

5. BAO, the Benny Anderssons Orkester, is the latest project for a musician who owes his entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to his membership in what other band?

6. What country currently has the only pregnant CEO of any on the Fortune 500?

7. What unusual distinction is shared by these countries and, depending on your definitions, no others? Azerbaijan, Egypt, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Spain, and Turkey.

3. South Korea
4. Hatfields and McCoys

5. ABBA
6. USA (Yahoo)
7. Parts of their country are on two continents ?????

[dxmnkd316]

Here is this week's Ken Jennings Trivia Quiz. The answer to #7 from last week is that they are all adopted.

1. What 2011 best-seller by Ernest Cline about 1980s geek culture takes its title from the phrase that opened many old coin-operated video games?

2. A tachyon is, by definition, a hypothetical particle that possesses what unusual ability?

3. The 2018 Winter Olympics are scheduled to be held at Pyeongchang, in what country?

4. An 1878 dispute near present-day Williamson, West Virginia, over the distinctive notches in a hog's ears was one of the earliest flare-ups in what American conflict?

5. BAO, the Benny Anderssons Orkester, is the latest project for a musician who owes his entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to his membership in what other band?

6. What country currently has the only pregnant CEO of any on the Fortune 500?

7. What unusual distinction is shared by these countries and, depending on your definitions, no others? Azerbaijan, Egypt, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Spain, and Turkey.

2. Can't go slower than the speed of light. ISTHSMR.

[Beauner]

Here is this week's Ken Jennings Trivia Quiz. The answer to #7 from last week is that they are all adopted.

1. What 2011 best-seller by Ernest Cline about 1980s geek culture takes its title from the phrase that opened many old coin-operated video games?

2. A tachyon is, by definition, a hypothetical particle that possesses what unusual ability?

3. The 2018 Winter Olympics are scheduled to be held at Pyeongchang, in what country?

4. An 1878 dispute near present-day Williamson, West Virginia, over the distinctive notches in a hog's ears was one of the earliest flare-ups in what American conflict?

5. BAO, the Benny Anderssons Orkester, is the latest project for a musician who owes his entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to his membership in what other band?

6. What country currently has the only pregnant CEO of any on the Fortune 500?

7. What unusual distinction is shared by these countries and, depending on your definitions, no others? Azerbaijan, Egypt, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Spain, and Turkey.

3. South Korea
4. Hatfields and McCoys

5. ABBA
6. USA (Yahoo)
7. Parts of their country are on two continents ?????

#1 is Ready Player One. Friend of mine is reading it right now.

[Zwak]

Here is the Ken Jennings Trivia Quiz from today. I did not receive it the last two weeks so I haven't posted it. No idea at all on #7.

1. What part of the body can have an "epicanthic fold"?
2. What public figure is the title star of the new Lifetime reality series subtitled "Life's a Tripp"?
3. Australia's Rod Laver was the first person ever to become a career millionaire in what field?
4. What title object did John Keats call a "sylvan historian," an "Attic shape," and a "still unravish'd bride of quietness"? 5. Name one of the two American candidates since the Civil War to lose a presidential election both as president and vice president on a major-party ticket.
6. What macabre term do newspaper and magazine publishers use for the room where they store back issues and other old reference materials?
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these albums? All Things Must Pass by George Harrison, Electric Ladyland by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, 19 by Adele, Orange Blossom Special by Johnny Cash, Turn! Turn! Turn! by the Byrds, Up-Tight by Stevie Wonder, Use Your Illusion II by Guns N' Roses, The White Stripes by The White Stripes.

[Tee09]

2. Linda Tripp

[Snowcool08]

3. Tennis

Also 2 might be Bristol Palin. I believe Zwak asked that at trivia just a few weeks ago.

[Chris Eckes]

1. Brain?
5. Humphrey?
7. Double albums with a "live" album as the second record?

[Tee09]

3. Tennis

Also 2 might be Bristol Palin. I believe Zwak asked that at trivia just a few weeks ago.

Damn Palins can't name their kids something normal.

[sunbone]

5. One of them is Fritz Mondale.
6. The morgue.

Edit: I think the other answer for 5 is Bob Dole. I want to say he ran with Ford in '76 but can't remember.

[Beauner]

#1 is Eyes. Epicanthic folds are the skin folds around the eyes, traditionally seen in people of Asian heritage.

[Handyman]

7. Double albums with a "live" album as the second record?

That is incorrect since Use Your Illusions II is not a live album. It is the second half of a double album though

[bonesaw]

7. They all have a cover of a Bob Dylan song:

All Things Must Pass by George Harrison - "I'd Have You Anytime"
Electric Ladyland by the Jimi Hendrix Experience - "All Along the Watchtower"
19 by Adele - "Make You Feel My Love"
Orange Blossom Special by Johnny Cash - "It Ain't Me Babe", "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right", "Mama, You've Been on My Mind"
Turn! Turn! Turn! by the Byrds - "Lay Down Your Weary Tune", "The Times They Are a-Changin'"
Up-Tight by Stevie Wonder - "Blowin' in the Wind"
Use Your Illusion II by Guns N' Roses - "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
The White Stripes by The White Stripes - "One More Cup of Coffee"

[Tee09]

I've always thought that Dylan's tunes were way better when performed by somebody else who doesn't sound like a goat.

[Armadillo]

I've always thought that Dylan's tunes were way better when performed by somebody else who doesn't sound like a goat.

So Axl Rose is out...

[g_manpucker]

I've always thought that Dylan's tunes were way better when performed by somebody else who doesn't sound like a goat.

So Axl Rose is out...

Smoking a pack of Camel un-filtereds!

[Norm]

[quote="Chris Eckes"]5. Humphrey?
quote]
Humphrey won as VP in 64, lost to Nixon fror prez in 68.

[Handyman]

I've always thought that Dylan's tunes were way better when performed by somebody else who doesn't sound like a goat.

Me too...he has one of te worst voices I have ever heard. It sounds like someone is strangling him during each song!

[Zwak]

7. They all have a cover of a Bob Dylan song:

All Things Must Pass by George Harrison - "I'd Have You Anytime"
Electric Ladyland by the Jimi Hendrix Experience - "All Along the Watchtower"
19 by Adele - "Make You Feel My Love"
Orange Blossom Special by Johnny Cash - "It Ain't Me Babe", "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right", "Mama, You've Been on My Mind"
Turn! Turn! Turn! by the Byrds - "Lay Down Your Weary Tune", "The Times They Are a-Changin'"
Up-Tight by Stevie Wonder - "Blowin' in the Wind"
Use Your Illusion II by Guns N' Roses - "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
The White Stripes by The White Stripes - "One More Cup of Coffee"

Nice going. You're pretty smart for a band guy

[Zwak]

Here are the answers to last week's questions.

1. What part of the body can have an "epicanthic fold"? The eye--or the eyelid, to be more precise. This is the fold of skin that sometimes covers the upper inner part of some people's eyelids, most associated with people of Asian descent but present in all races to some degree.

2. What public figure is the title star of the new Lifetime reality series subtitled "Life's a Tripp"? Tripp Palin is the son of Lifetime's own Bristol Palin.

3. Australia's Rod Laver was the first person ever to become a career millionaire in what field? Professional tennis.

4. What title object did John Keats call a "sylvan historian," an "Attic shape," and a "still unravish'd bride of quietness"? These are cute little pet names for his famous "Grecian urn." Answers that came back with some variant of the old "Oh, about 20 drachmas an hour!" joke were counted wrong, burned, and then the ashes were re-burned just to be on the safe side.

5. Name one of the two American candidates since the Civil War to lose a presidential election both as president and vice president on a major-party ticket. Only two men have lost as vice president and then again as president, and both are fairly recent: Walter Mondale and Bob Dole.

6. What macabre term do newspaper and magazine publishers use for the room where they store back issues and other old reference materials? That's a newspaper's "morgue," even if the old newsprint doesn't roll out on slabs.

7. What unusual distinction is shared by these albums? All Things Must Pass by George Harrison, Electric Ladyland by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, 19 by Adele, Orange Blossom Special by Johnny Cash, Turn! Turn! Turn! by the Byrds, Up-Tight by Stevie Wonder, Use Your Illusion II by Guns N' Roses, The White Stripes by The White Stripes. These records all have one prominent (or more, in a couple cases) song that's a Bob Dylan cover. (I guess this is in honor of Bob's 35th album, out next month, said to be based around a 14-minute ballad about the sinking of the Titanic!) This isn't a SUPER-rare distinction, obviously, but I tried to pick some of the most prominent examples so that rock snobs could zero in on the trend. You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

[Zwak]

Here are this week's questions

1. What 1984 movie, after becoming a surprise hit (the #5 box office success of the year) spawned a sequel set almost entirely in Okinawa?

2. Between 1958 and 1978, the United States released 13 unmanned probes out into the solar system and beyond that shared what name?

3. Most of the greatest works of architect Antoni Gaudi are found in what city, where he died in 1926?

4. What word that originally referred to Helicoverpa zea, a moth larva that attacks corn crops, has more recently come to refer to a hard-to-forget song or melody?

5. What Asian country is home to over 2% of the world's population despite a smaller area than the state of West Virginia?

6. The latest installment in the Elder Scrolls video game franchise is set in what titular province of Tamriel?

7. Based on the unusual distinction shared by these cities and no others, what city is missing from the beginning of this list? Mexico City, Paris, Versailles, Berlin, Paris, San Francisco, Vienna, and Moscow.

[oldpirate33]

Here are this week's questions

1. What 1984 movie, after becoming a surprise hit (the #5 box office success of the year) spawned a sequel set almost entirely in Okinawa?

2. Between 1958 and 1978, the United States released 13 unmanned probes out into the solar system and beyond that shared what name?

3. Most of the greatest works of architect Antoni Gaudi are found in what city, where he died in 1926?

4. What word that originally referred to Helicoverpa zea, a moth larva that attacks corn crops, has more recently come to refer to a hard-to-forget song or melody?

5. What Asian country is home to over 2% of the world's population despite a smaller area than the state of West Virginia?

6. The latest installment in the Elder Scrolls video game franchise is set in what titular province of Tamriel?

7. Based on the unusual distinction shared by these cities and no others, what city is missing from the beginning of this list? Mexico City, Paris, Versailles, Berlin, Paris, San Francisco, Vienna, and Moscow.

1 is karate kid, 4 i think is earworm

[Tee09]

Is 5 Bangladesh?

[Kelly Red]

Here are this week's questions

1. What 1984 movie, after becoming a surprise hit (the #5 box office success of the year) spawned a sequel set almost entirely in Okinawa?

2. Between 1958 and 1978, the United States released 13 unmanned probes out into the solar system and beyond that shared what name?

3. Most of the greatest works of architect Antoni Gaudi are found in what city, where he died in 1926?

4. What word that originally referred to Helicoverpa zea, a moth larva that attacks corn crops, has more recently come to refer to a hard-to-forget song or melody?

5. What Asian country is home to over 2% of the world's population despite a smaller area than the state of West Virginia?

6. The latest installment in the Elder Scrolls video game franchise is set in what titular province of Tamriel?

7. Based on the unusual distinction shared by these cities and no others, what city is missing from the beginning of this list? Mexico City, Paris, Versailles, Berlin, Paris, San Francisco, Vienna, and Moscow.

#3 Barcalona

[davescharf]

Is 5 Bangladesh?

I believe so.

[greydogg]

I believe #2 is Pioneer

[psych]

4 has to be an earworm. I get those stupid things all the time.

[Chris Eckes]

Trying to figure out #7... is it treaties or something like that? Paris is on the list twice, so it has to be some sort of event that occurred in the city / to the city. I thought Voyager for #2 but that was just a guess.

[kmd]

6. Skyrim

[Tee09]

Trying to figure out #7... is it treaties or something like that? Paris is on the list twice, so it has to be some sort of event that occurred in the city / to the city. I thought Voyager for #2 but that was just a guess.

Specifically, I think they are treaties that ended wars in which the US fought. I don't know the one that should start the list though.

[kmd]

First one would probably be the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812. Technically it's the city the treaty was signed in, though most of them are just Treaty of <city>. But the one in Mexico City was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (Guadalupe is a basilica, and Hidalgo a villa, within Mexico City), ending the Mexican-American War. And it doesn't appear to strictly be treaties that end wars, but are in some way related to ending wars. Took me a while to find it, but the last one would be Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany, signed in 1990. Still not entirely sure which one corresponds to Vienna. I've ruled out the Korean War (never officially ended) and Vietnam (ended with the Paris Peace Accords).

[psych]

Trying to figure out #7... is it treaties or something like that? Paris is on the list twice, so it has to be some sort of event that occurred in the city / to the city. I thought Voyager for #2 but that was just a guess.

Specifically, I think they are treaties that ended wars in which the US fought. I don't know the one that should start the list though.

Ghent? That was the site of the treaty after the War of 1812 against Britain.

First one would probably be the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812. Technically it's the city the treaty was signed in, though most of them are just Treaty of <city>. But the one in Mexico City was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (Guadalupe is a basilica, and Hidalgo a villa, within Mexico City), ending the Mexican-American War. And it doesn't appear to strictly be treaties that end wars, but are in some way related to ending wars. Took me a while to find it, but the last one would be Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany, signed in 1990. Still not entirely sure which one corresponds to Vienna. I've ruled out the Korean War (never officially ended) and Vietnam (ended with the Paris Peace Accords).

You beat me to the punch. I was also confused by Vienna on the list once X/Tee09 pointed out what the cities correspond to.

[Tee09]

I've been poking around and can't figure out the Vienna one in between spurts of actually working. Is there a chance the order is wrong?

[kmd]

I've been poking around and can't figure out the Vienna one in between spurts of actually working. Is there a chance the order is wrong?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Vienna_(1955)

This one?

[dxmnkd316]

#7 might be Paris again... BUt it could also be Dayton. Depends on the way you look at it.

[Handyman]

If it was wars the US fought would Appomattox or Saratoga be missing?

[Zwak]

Cans of diet Coke float while cans of regular Coke do not. (I witnessed this last weekend)

[Zwak]

Tonight is my last night hosting trivia so I created the following question, thanks to DX

What word can mean "a hardened form of dental plaque" and also is a branch of mathematics.

[davescharf]

Tonight is my last night hosting trivia so I created the following question, thanks to DX

What word can mean "a hardened form of dental plaque" and also is a branch of mathematics.

Hmmm...I wonder *calculus cough*