Friday, August 30, 2013
Thursday, August 29, 2013
QUESTION: Television
Erik Estrada was the star of CHiPs, but who played the other motorcycle cop for the first five seasons?
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
ANSWER: Days
Friday
Lincoln: Good Friday, April 14, 1865
McKinley: Friday, September 6, 1901
Kennedy: Friday, November 22, 1963
Matt: CORRECT
Record: 580-489
Lincoln: Good Friday, April 14, 1865
McKinley: Friday, September 6, 1901
Kennedy: Friday, November 22, 1963
Matt: CORRECT
Record: 580-489
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
ANSWER: Psychiatry
Electra Complex
In Neo-Freudian psychology, the Electra complex, as proposed by Carl Gustav Jung, is a child’s psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father. In the course of her psychosexual development, the complex is the girl's phallic stage; formation of a discrete sexual identity, a boy's analogous experience is the Oedipus complex.
Matt: WRONG
Record: 579-489
In Neo-Freudian psychology, the Electra complex, as proposed by Carl Gustav Jung, is a child’s psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father. In the course of her psychosexual development, the complex is the girl's phallic stage; formation of a discrete sexual identity, a boy's analogous experience is the Oedipus complex.
Matt: WRONG
Record: 579-489
Monday, August 26, 2013
Friday, August 23, 2013
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013
ANSWER: Measurements
Buttons
In the 9th century the term ligne came into use to measure the diameter of buttons. The consensus definition was that a ligne was the measurement of a round wick, folded flat. In this sense it measures 1⁄40 of an inch, but not exactly. Such a measurement became the American measurement called "line," being one-fortieth of the US-customary inch.
Matt: WRONG
Record: 579-487
In the 9th century the term ligne came into use to measure the diameter of buttons. The consensus definition was that a ligne was the measurement of a round wick, folded flat. In this sense it measures 1⁄40 of an inch, but not exactly. Such a measurement became the American measurement called "line," being one-fortieth of the US-customary inch.
Matt: WRONG
Record: 579-487
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
ANSWER: Books/Movies
Bag End
"In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a Hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."
Matt: CORRECT
Record: 579-486
Matt: CORRECT
Record: 579-486
Monday, August 19, 2013
ANSWER: Children's Television
Captain Kangaroo
The show was conceived and the title character played by Bob Keeshan, who based the show on "the warm relationship between grandparents and children." Keeshan had portrayed the original Clarabell the Clown on The Howdy Doody Show when it aired on NBC. Captain Kangaroo had a loose structure, built around life in the "Treasure House" where the Captain (the name "kangaroo" came from the big pockets in his coat) would tell stories, meet guests, and indulge in silly stunts with regular characters, both humans and puppets.
Matt: CORRECT
Record: 578-486
The show was conceived and the title character played by Bob Keeshan, who based the show on "the warm relationship between grandparents and children." Keeshan had portrayed the original Clarabell the Clown on The Howdy Doody Show when it aired on NBC. Captain Kangaroo had a loose structure, built around life in the "Treasure House" where the Captain (the name "kangaroo" came from the big pockets in his coat) would tell stories, meet guests, and indulge in silly stunts with regular characters, both humans and puppets.
Matt: CORRECT
Record: 578-486
Thursday, August 15, 2013
ANSWER: Languages
E pluribus unum
Less unique than it sounds, America's original national motto, e pluribus unum, was plagiarized from an ancient recipe for salad dressing.
The term made its first appearance in Virgil's poem "Moretum" to describe salad dressing. The ingredients, he wrote, would surrender their individual aesthetic when mixed with others to form one unique, homogenous, harmonious, and tasty concoction.
As a slogan, it really nailed that whole cultural melting pot thing we were going for. And while it continues to appear on U.S. coins, "In God We Trust" came along later (officially in 1956) to share the motto spotlight.
Matt: WRONG
Record: 577-486
Less unique than it sounds, America's original national motto, e pluribus unum, was plagiarized from an ancient recipe for salad dressing.
The term made its first appearance in Virgil's poem "Moretum" to describe salad dressing. The ingredients, he wrote, would surrender their individual aesthetic when mixed with others to form one unique, homogenous, harmonious, and tasty concoction.
As a slogan, it really nailed that whole cultural melting pot thing we were going for. And while it continues to appear on U.S. coins, "In God We Trust" came along later (officially in 1956) to share the motto spotlight.
Matt: WRONG
Record: 577-486
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
QUESTION: Languages
What well known Latin phrase comes from a poem (formerly attributed to Virgil) about salad?
ANSWER: People
4 (Taxi, Who's the Boss, Hudson Street, and The Tony Danza Show (1997, not to be confused with The Tony Danza talk show in 2004))
Matt: WRONG
Record: 577-485
Matt: WRONG
Record: 577-485
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
QUESTION: People
Tony Danza played fictional characters named Tony in how many different television shows?
Monday, August 12, 2013
QUESTION: Organizations
The World Wresting Federation changed its acronym to WWE after a lawsuit from what organization?
ANSWER: Art
Sfumato
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sfumato(from Italian sfumare, “to tone down” or “to evaporate like smoke”), in painting or drawing, the fine shading that produces soft, imperceptible transitions between colours and tones. It is used most often in connection with the work of Leonardo da Vinci and his followers, who made subtle gradations, without lines or borders, from light to dark areas; the technique was used for a highly illusionistic rendering of facial features and for atmospheric effects.
Matt: --
Record: 576-484
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sfumato(from Italian sfumare, “to tone down” or “to evaporate like smoke”), in painting or drawing, the fine shading that produces soft, imperceptible transitions between colours and tones. It is used most often in connection with the work of Leonardo da Vinci and his followers, who made subtle gradations, without lines or borders, from light to dark areas; the technique was used for a highly illusionistic rendering of facial features and for atmospheric effects.
Matt: --
Record: 576-484
Friday, August 9, 2013
QUESTION: Art
What translucent, multi-layer painting technique was used in the creation of the Mona Lisa?
ANSWER: Instruments
Piccolo
The piccolo is easily confused with with the fife, and basically the only difference between them is one of pitch. The piccolo is even higher in pitch than the fife and is normally in D, a full octave above the concert flute.
Matt: --
Record: 576-484
The piccolo is easily confused with with the fife, and basically the only difference between them is one of pitch. The piccolo is even higher in pitch than the fife and is normally in D, a full octave above the concert flute.
Matt: --
Record: 576-484
Thursday, August 8, 2013
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Wednesday, August 7, 2013
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