A couple of recent commenters asked about the premise for these posts. Basically, I’m following the instructions Jennings includes every week: “As with all good trivia, it would take you about 30 seconds to Google the answers to the first six questions above. So you’re on the honor system here: no peeking, and only send in the answers you knew off the top of your head.” These posts record my answers, off the top of my head.
(And greetings, Google cheaters!)
1. What world leader began his plan to take power after the 1989 Caracazo riots?
I don’t know, but my guess: Hugo Chavez.
2. What play’s Broadway opening was the occasion for a tie-in advertising promotion by Hormel Foods?
Spamalot.
3. What are the “ten” being referred to when a surfer “hangs ten” on a wave?
toes — thank you, random surfing documentary!
4. Complete this film analogy: Before Sunset : Paris :: Before Sunrise : _____.
Vienna. (I love this question format — I may have to do a round like this.)
5. What was the last name of the seven Italian brothers whose company, in 1955, found a new household use for the agricultural pumps it was producing?
Something tells me it wasn’t “Sump,” which is my best guess right now.
6. Who was the most famous client of British lawyer Jonathan Harker?
He is…Dracula. (Nice way to phrase a question about such a famous figure: write it from the point of view of a less-well-known character.)
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these U.S states, and no others? Alaska, California, Delaware, Georgia, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
They’re the only states whose quarters don’t have a human figure on the obverse.
(Ha. I don’t actually know the answer to 7. But Ken can track down lazy Google cheaters now.)
