Ken Jennings trivia challenge

[Spam & Cookies-mmm]

LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS

1. Developer Tim Bray has suggested what appropriate number to be the Web's error code for pages "Unavailable for Legal Reasons" like government censorship? After Ray Bradbury's death, Bray proposed "Error 451" as the censorship code, as a node to Fahrenheit 451.

2. What occupation is practiced by the title characters of TV's "Bunheads"? They are (mostly bun-wearing) ballet dancers.

3. What's the lowest-numbered card in a pinochle deck? A pinochle deck is ace through nine.

4. What scientist is depicted in bronze, holding a compass and an armillary sphere, in front of the Staszic Palace in Warsaw? Copernicus, who developed a namesake sun-centered model of the Solar System, was Polish.

5. Since it was first proposed to Congress in 1983, "New Columbia" has been the name typically suggested for what? That was the proposed name for the District of Columbia, should the nation's capital ever become the nations's 51st state. I'm in favor, if it means the District will get rid of those annoying "Taxation Without Representation" license plates.

6. The band that has toured (for legal reasons) as Manzarek-Krieger actually performs nothing but hits from what rock group? Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger are two of the surviving members of the Doors. There is apparently no one alive who can write bad enough poetry for them to record *new* songs.

7. What unusual distinction is shared by these birds and no others? Dove, eagle, kookaburra, owl, and swallow? They're the only birds that have ever been Olympic mascots. It's not too late for Rio to pick a parrot though! Stay tuned.

[Spam & Cookies-mmm]

Per Ken Jennings' request, the trivia challenge discussed on this message board has the number seven question delayed by one week. This is to avoid easy googling of the question which is designed to foil those who would "cheat". If you know the current number seven question, please do not discuss it here.

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1. If you use the thread to help you get answers, do not submit those answers to the official game.
2. No googling until Sunday. No looking anything up anywhere (and posting it) before Sunday. No checking an article in a magazine you read last week. No checking some old notebook from college. No wikipedia. Not even snopes.com. No checking anything, anywhere - until Sunday. Only information that is stored in your brain, or in the brains of your non-snopester friends and family. But you can't use your family members as a work-around to looking up the information yourself.
3. If you google, don't post that information to the thread until Sunday. Not even as confirmation of the guesses of other posters. Someone else might still know the information on their own.
4. No guess is stupid, throw it out there.
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THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS

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 entertainers, and no others big names that I can find? Jeff Bridges, Sofia Coppola, Joshua Jackson, Bruce Lee, Hayley Mills, Liza Minnelli.

[Nick Theodorakis]

1. What part of the body can have an "epicanthic fold"?
Eyelid

2. What public figure is the title star of the new Lifetime reality series subtitled "Life's a Tripp"?
Linda Tripp? (WAG)

3. Australia's Rod Laver was the first person ever to become a career millionaire in what field?
Tennis? (Sounds like a trick question because he is well known as a tennis star)

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.
Mondale for one.

[Darth Credence]

1. What part of the body can have an "epicanthic fold"? The eyes

2. What public figure is the title star of the new Lifetime reality series subtitled "Life's a Tripp"? Bristol Palin (and Tripp, I assume)

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

4. What title object did John Keats call a "sylvan historian," an "Attic shape," and a "still unravish'd bride of quietness"? A Grecian Urn?

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. Walter Mondale

6. What macabre term do newspaper and magazine publishers use for the room where they store back issues and other old reference materials? The morgue


7. What unusual distinction is shared by these entertainers, and no others big names that I can find? Jeff Bridges, Sofia Coppola, Joshua Jackson, Bruce Lee, Hayley Mills, Liza Minnelli. I think they all have Hollywood relatives (not sure about Joshua Jackson, because I'm not sure who he is) but that isn't specific enough.

[Mateus]

1. What part of the body can have an "epicanthic fold"?
Eyelid
2. What public figure is the title star of the new Lifetime reality series subtitled "Life's a Tripp"?
Sigh... Bristol Palin, mother of Tripp Palin
3. Australia's Rod Laver was the first person ever to become a career millionaire in what field?
Tennis
4. What title object did John Keats call a "sylvan historian," an "Attic shape," and a "still unravish'd bride of quietness"?
Grecian Urn?
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.
Bob Dole was VP nominee in 1976, Presidential nominee in 1996
6. What macabre term do newspaper and magazine publishers use for the room where they store back issues and other old reference materials?
Morgue, I guess.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these entertainers, and no others big names that I can find? Jeff Bridges, Sofia Coppola, Joshua Jackson, Bruce Lee, Hayley Mills, Liza Minnelli.
Related to famous people? But that can't be it...

[GenYus234]

1. What part of the body can have an "epicanthic fold"? Eye (socket)

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

4. What title object did John Keats call a "sylvan historian," an "Attic shape," and a "still unravish'd bride of quietness"? Twee

[erwins]

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ETA: All of the answers I would have given have already been given up to no. 7.

For 7, I think they are all part of parent/child Hollywood pairs, but it's obviously more than that since, e.g. the Sheens (and Estevez) are quite well-known.

Jeff Bridges/Lloyd Bridges
Sofia Coppola/Francis Ford Coppola
Joshua Jackson/ ? Samuel L. Jackson?
Jason Lee/Bruce Lee
?/Haley Mills
Liza Minnelli/Judy Garland

I wonder if it has to do with Oscar wins or nominations? The only ones I'm pretty sure have wins though are Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation) and Francis Ford Coppola.

[bluestocking]

I believe Hayley Mills' father was the actor John Mills.

Joshua Jackson is not the son of Samuel L. Jackson, judging by their contrasting skin tones.

I don't have anything else to offer for question 7.

[erwins]

Oh. I have no idea who Joshua Jackson is--it was a very bad guess, I suppose.

[damian]

He was Pacey in Dawson's Creek.

[erwins]

I still don't know who that is. Also, for Bruce Lee, I meant Brandon Lee.

[Don Enrico]

1. What part of the body can have an "epicanthic fold"?

The eye-lid.

[Floater]

1. What part of the body can have an "epicanthic fold"?

Eyelid

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

Tennis

[Seaboe Muffinchucker]

Originally Posted by Spam & Cookies-mmm

THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS

1. What part of the body can have an "epicanthic fold"?

the eyelid

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

Tipper Gore--oh, wait, no R. Tripper Gore, then.

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

Tennis

4. What title object did John Keats call a "sylvan historian," an "Attic shape," and a "still unravish'd bride of quietness"?

Grecian Urn

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.

Nixon

6. What macabre term do newspaper and magazine publishers use for the room where they store back issues and other old reference materials?

The morgue

7. What unusual distinction is shared by these entertainers, and no others big names that I can find? Jeff Bridges, Sofia Coppola, Joshua Jackson, Bruce Lee, Hayley Mills, Liza Minnelli.

Well, if they hadn't thrown Bruce Lee in there, I was going to say they're Oscar winning offspring of Oscar winners (it was a good guess, even if it isn't true, so I'll stick with it).

Seaboe

[Kev]

Originally Posted by damian

He was Pacey in Dawson's Creek.

More recently he was/is (I don't know if the show is still on) on Fringe.

[UEL]

1. What part of the body can have an "epicanthic fold"?

A double chin.

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

The only Tripp I can think of is Linda Tripp, but I'm not sure I'd ever call her a public figure.

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

Base jumping

4. What title object did John Keats call a "sylvan historian," an "Attic shape," and a "still unravish'd bride of quietness"?

No clue whatsoever. I can't even come up with a campy guess.

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.

George HW Bush

6. What macabre term do newspaper and magazine publishers use for the room where they store back issues and other old reference materials?

The dead files.

7. What unusual distinction is shared by these entertainers, and no others big names that I can find? Jeff Bridges, Sofia Coppola, Joshua Jackson, Bruce Lee, Hayley Mills, Liza Minnelli.

Children of famous actors who were child stars and as adults became solid actors in their own right.

[Darth Credence]

Number 7 is really bugging me. It almost has to be related to the fact that everyone on the list has a Hollywood relation, but somehow does not also include Beau Bridges. I was thinking that it had to do with their first acting gigs being due to nepotism, but I think Beau Bridges would be included. Sofia Coppola was in a movie as a baby (The Godfather) - any possibility that the others were also?

ETA: The baby bit doesn't necessarily have anything to do with Hollywood relations, but if they are the children of directors or producers, they may have been selected since they were convenient. I don't know how Bruce Lee would fit in, since I know nothing about his life that wasn't in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. There was no reference to his parents being in film, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything.

[MacLloyd]

LAST WEEKS' ANSWERS

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 entertainers, and no others big names that I can find? Jeff Bridges, Sofia Coppola, Joshua Jackson, Bruce Lee, Hayley Mills, Liza Minnelli. Some, but not all, are offsprings of showbiz families. Some, but not all, were child actors. But all started their filmographies before they started potty-training. All made their screen debuts as babies.

[MacLloyd]

Per Ken Jennings' request, the trivia challenge discussed on this message board has the number seven question delayed by one week. This is to avoid easy googling of the question which is designed to foil those who would "cheat". If you know the current number seven question, please do not discuss it here.

The Rules of the Thread
1. If you use the thread to help you get answers, do not submit those answers to the official game.
2. No googling until Sunday. No looking anything up anywhere (and posting it) before Sunday. No checking an article in a magazine you read last week. No checking some old notebook from college. No wikipedia. Not even snopes.com. No checking anything, anywhere - until Sunday. Only information that is stored in your brain, or in the brains of your non-snopester friends and family. But you can't use your family members as a work-around to looking up the information yourself.
3. If you google, don't post that information to the thread until Sunday. Not even as confirmation of the guesses of other posters. Someone else might still know the information on their own.
4. No guess is stupid, throw it out there.
5. No Hinting. If you have a guess or a reasonable belief that you have the right answer, post it. If you are attempting to use hinting as a work-around to the no posting googled answers rule, don't.

And remember, this is an exhibition, not a competition, so please... no wagering.

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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. 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.

[MacLloyd]

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?

The Karate Kid???

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

WAG - Pioneer??? (or is it Voyager, no, I'm going with Pioneer)

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

WAG - Barcelona???

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?

One I know! Ear worm

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

Not sure, Japan maybe???

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

Skyrim

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.

Do not know.

Mac"back from a great two and a half week vacation"Lloyd