“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.†So says Ken Jennings. These posts record my answers, off the top of my head.
1. Who was arrested over thirty times during a famous campaign of “hatchetations”?
Strong guess: Carrie Nation
2. What landlocked country has nevertheless won two America’s Cups?
No idea.
3. In the book and movie, what is the actual nationality of the so-called “English” Patient?
German.
4. The name of what Baptist missionary is only remembered today because he was shot by Chinese communists near Xi’an in 1945?
John Birch, I’m pretty sure.
5. What does the “J.” in “Homer J. Simpson” stand for?
Jay
6. How old is ABBA’s “Dancing Queen”?
Well she was just 17. You know what I mean?
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these vegetables? Eggplants, scallions, rutabagas, snow peas, summer squash, and zucchini.
They have popular alternate names borrowed from French. (Aubergines, ?, ?, mangetout, ?, courgette — I’m not 100% on the French part. Or the rest of this answer. But it’s the best I’ve got.)
2. Switzerland?
3. Pretty sure the English Patient was Hungarian.
These Ken Jennings quizzes hit just the right level of tip-of-my-tongue maddening. And I have never yet guessed correctly on a “what do these all have in common question.” But hope springs eternal.
I probably should’ve flagged “German” as a guess — I was going on a vague memory and the knowledge that in real life was a Nazi, or at least had Nazi ties. That doesn’t automatically = German, but that was my best triangulation without actually knowing.