Sunday, February 28, 2010

Pronoun Problems - Random Trivia Answers

  • A1) Yes. The ten-minute song from the band's Close to the Edge classic album is split into four sections: "Cord of Life", "Eclipse", "The Preacher, the Teacher", and "Apocalypse".
  • A2) Yaz (known by their original name Yazoo in the U.K.). The album's name, You and Me Both, as well as the band's debut single, "Only You" from the previous year, almost fit the quiz's theme.
  • A3) Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine. The Cuban-American crossovers had at least four other songs that fit, or nearly fit, this week's theme: "Ay, Ay, I", "Here We Are", "Into You", and "You".
  • A4) Madonna. The Material Girl's first single was released on October 6, 1982, seven years before Black Box's "Everybody Everybody" (Billboard 100 #8) and fifteen years before the Backstreet Boys' "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" (Billboard 100 #4).
  • A5) The Beatles. The Fab Four's first charting U.S. single only peaked at #41 despite topping the British charts.
  • A6) Alexia and Double You. The solo singer Alessia Aquilani and the group composed of William Naraine, Franco Amato, and Andrea de Antoni teamed up for this Eurodance hit, Alexia's first single.
  • A7) Abba. Although the song from the group's final studio album, The Visitors, failed to crack the top 100 in the U.S., it reached #1 in Belgium, Germany, and Holland, and Ireland.
  • A8) Bryan Adams. The single from his Reckless album topped the Billboard Rock chart and reached #11 on the Hot 100. Depeche Mode had a minor hit by the same name only a few month earlier (in 1984).
  • A9) Paula Abdul. Neither song was a big hit from her Spellbound album although the latter was composed by Prince.
  • A10) Pink Floyd. Richard Wright wrote the longest song on their Dark Side of the Moon album for the 1969 movie Zabriskie Point as "The Violent Sequence", but director Michelangelo Antonioni chose not to use it.
  • A11) U2. The third track from The Joshua Tree was selected as one of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" by Rolling Stone magazine in 2004.
  • A12) Michel Buble. Stevie Wonder composed the final, non-bonus track of the It's Time album. Fleetwood Mac's 1987 Tango in the Night album ends with a song called "You and I, Part II", but there's no "You and I".

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Pronoun Problems - Random Trivia Questions

If you were dreading a grammar quiz, you'll be pleasantly surprised to learn that this week's theme is actually music. Each of the following song names feature pronouns, sometimes adorned by conjunctions and prepositions, but with nary a verb, noun, adjective, or adverb anywhere. Given just the titles and the years, can you identify the artists?

Pronoun Problems Questions

  • Q1) "And You and I", 1972
  • Q2) "Anyone", 1983
  • Q3) "Anything for You", 1987
  • Q4) "Everybody", 1982
  • Q5) "From Me to You", 1963
  • Q6) "Me & You", 1995
  • Q7) "One of Us", 1981
  • Q8) "Somebody", 1985
  • Q9) "To You" and "U", 1991
  • Q10) "Us and Them", 1973
  • Q11) "With or Without You", 1987
  • Q12) "You and I", 2005

Stick Substitute -- Quiz Quilt 163 Solution

Category Answers:
Entertainment
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Food
SANKAThe coffee's name comes from "sans caffeine" ("without caffeine").
Geography
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Nature
PROVOThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints founded the school as Brigham Young Academy in Provo, Utah in 1875.
Sports
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Games
MILLERDespite his clever opening monologues, the nine-year host of HBO's Dennis Miller Live did not return to the booth the next season.
Math
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Science
VOLTACount Alessandro Volta also invented the static electricity-generating electrophorus and discovered methane a quarter century earlier.
History
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Government
COOLIDGEIn a 1925 speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Calvin Coolidge's complete words were "The chief business of the American people is business."
Literature
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Arts
DERISIONHis school also taught Reeling and Writhing.

Quiz Quilt Answer: ROLLON (Third letters going up)

Two popular types of deodorant and antiperspirants are the stick and the roll-on.

Friday, February 26, 2010

Stick Substitute -- Quiz Quilt 163 Puzzle

Category Questions:
Entertainment
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Food
Who are the Japanese outcasts from the mountains of Honshu whose name is also a brand of decaffeinated coffee?
Geography
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Nature
In what city is Brigham Young University located?
Sports
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Games
What comedian joined the Monday Night Football broadcast team for the 2001-02 NFL season?
Math
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Science
What Italian professor of physics developed the first electric battery around 1800?
History
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Government
Which U.S. President reportedly declared, "The business of America is business"?
Literature
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Arts
According to Lewis Carroll's Mock Turtle, what is the fourth branch of mathematics along with Ambition, Distraction, and Uglification?

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Presidential Addresses, Part 2 - Random Trivia Answers

  • A1) Richard Nixon (January 20, 1973). Only a year and a half later, Tricky Dick would take responsibility for his actions and resign from office.
  • A2) John F. Kennedy (January 20, 1961). His request continued, "My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man" and ended, "Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on Earth God's work must truly be our own."
  • A3) Dwight Eisenhower (January 20, 1953). In his second inaugural address, he broached the same theme, requesting, "May we pursue the right - without self-righteousness."
  • A4) Franklin D. Roosevelt (January 20, 1941). It wouldn't be until the end of the year, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, that the U.S. would finally enter World War II.
  • A5) Ronald Reagan (January 20, 1981). During Reagan's two tenures, the national debt would rise by the highest rate in recent history.
  • A6) Lyndon Johnson (January 20, 1965). Johnson's single term would see the passing of the National Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968.
  • A7) Ronald Reagan (January 20, 1981). Four years later the Gipper would say, "There are those in the world who scorn our vision of human dignity and freedom. One nation, the Soviet Union, has conducted the greatest military buildup in the history of man, building arsenals of awesome offensive weapons."
  • A8) Barack Obama (January 20, 2009). His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was born in Kenya when it was still a colony of Great Britain.
  • A9) Bill Clinton (January 20, 1993). During his second inauguration, Clinton philosophically waxed, "The greatest progress we have made, and the greatest progress we have yet to make, is in the human heart. In the end, all the world's wealth and a thousand armies are no match for the strength and decency of the human spirit."
  • A10) George W. Bush (January 20, 2001). The younger Bush repeated the theme his second time around, saying, "In America's ideal of freedom, the public interest depends on private character - on integrity, and tolerance toward others, and the rule of conscience in our own lives. Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self. That edifice of character is built in families, supported by communities with standards, and sustained in our national life by the truths of Sinai, the Sermon on the Mount, the words of the Koran, and the varied faiths of our people. Americans move forward in every generation by reaffirming all that is good and true that came before - ideals of justice and conduct that are the same yesterday, today, and forever."
  • A11) Barack Obama (January 20, 2009). Although his father was "raised a Muslim" but a "confirmed atheist", our 44th President is a Christian.
  • A12) John F. Kennedy (January 20, 1961). He proceeded to pledge loyalty to our allies, help to new countries to remain free, and our best efforts to help those "struggling to break the bonds of mass misery".

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Presidential Addresses, Part 2 - Random Trivia Questions

From whose inaugural addresses are the following quotes? All of the answers to Part 2 are U.S. presidents sworn in from 1937 to 2009.

Presidential Addresses, Part 2 Questions

  • Q1) "A person can be expected to act responsibly only if he has responsibility. This is human nature. So let us encourage individuals at home and nations abroad to do more for themselves, to decide more for themselves. Let us locate responsibility in more places."
  • Q2) "And so my fellow Americans: Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."
  • Q3) "Give us, we pray, the power to discern clearly right from wrong, and allow all our words and actions to be governed thereby, and by the laws of this land. Especially we pray that our concern shall be for all the people regardless of station, race, or calling."
  • Q4) "In the face of great perils never before encountered, our strong purpose is to protect and to perpetuate the integrity of democracy. For this we muster the spirit of America, and the faith of America. We do not retreat. We are not content to stand still. As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God."
  • Q5) "It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed."
  • Q6) "Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, 'His color is not mine', or 'His beliefs are strange and different', in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation."
  • Q7) "My fellow citizens, our nation is poised for greatness. We must do what is right and do it with all our might. Let history say of us, 'Those were the golden years - when the American Revolution was reborn, when freedom gained new life, when America reached for her best.'"
  • Q8) "Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends - hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism - these things are old. These things are true. This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed - why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent Mall, and why a man whose father less than sixty years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath."
  • Q9) "Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America."
  • Q10) "Our public interest depends on private character, on civic duty and family bonds and basic fairness, on uncounted, unhonored acts of decency which give direction to our freedom."
  • Q11) "We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth; and because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace."
  • Q12) "We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and this place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage - and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and success of liberty."

Five-of-a-Kind -- Quiz Quilt 162 Solution

Category Answers:
History
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Government
EDWARDEdward VIII, the future Duke of Windsor abdicated for love in 1936 because his role as the head of the Church of England was incompatible with marrying divorcee Wallis Simpson.
Literature
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Arts
WILDEOscar Wilde's short story was published in 1890, five years before his play was published and performed.
Sports
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Games
ROSETen-time All-Star Pete Rose scrapped out 4,256 hits in 24 seasons.
Geography
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Nature
ANDORRAThe country has a temperate climate cooled by its altitude in the Pyrenees.
Entertainment
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Food
ANKAAs a singer, Paul Anka reached number one with the songs "Diana", "Lonely Boy", and "(You're) Having My Baby".
Math
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Science
PENTAGONBy coincidence, each interior angle measures 72 degrees.

Quiz Quilt Answer: DIONNE (Second letters)

The Dionne sisters, born on May 28, 1934, were the first quintuplets known to have survived infancy. The identical siblings became a major tourist attraction in Ontario, Canada.

Friday, February 19, 2010

Five-of-a-Kind -- Quiz Quilt 162 Puzzle

Category Questions:
History
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Government
Who was the shortest-reigning king of the United Kingdom in the last 400 years?
Literature
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Arts
What Irish author wrote the short story "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and the comedy play The Importance of Being Earnest?
Sports
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Games
What Major League Baseball player had the most career hits?
Geography
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Nature
What is the 181-square-mile autonomous principality located between Spain and France?
Entertainment
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Food
What Canadian composed The Tonight Show theme song "Here's Johnny"?
Math
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Science
What regular geometric figure's area is equal to 1.72 times the length of one side squared?

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Presidential Addresses, Part 1 - Random Trivia Answers

  • A1) John Adams (March 4, 1797). The elder Adams served as the United States Ambassador to Great Britain from 1785 to 1788.
  • A2) Thomas Jefferson (March 4, 1801). Four years later, Jefferson said, "In the transaction of your foreign affairs we have endeavored to cultivate the friendship of all nations, and especially of those with which we have the most important relations. We have done them justice on all occasions, favored where favor was lawful, and cherished mutual interests and intercourse on fair and equal terms. We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever found be inseparable from our moral duties."
  • A3) Andrew Jackson (March 4, 1833). Old Hickory's Jacksonian Democracy gave the right to vote to all white men rather than just landowners, embraced Manifest Destiny at the expense of Native Americans, and attempted to strengthen the Executive branch of the federal government and weaken the states.
  • A4) George Washington (April 30, 1789). The first presidential inauguration was also the latest in the year, giving Washington the shortest stint of any full two-term president. The standard inauguration date was changed to March 4 for his second term.
  • A5) Theodore Roosevelt (March 4, 1905). His paragraph concluded, "No weak nation that acts manfully and justly should ever have cause to fear us, and no strong power should ever be able to single us out as a subject for insolent aggression."
  • A6) Franklin D. Roosevelt (March 4, 1933). The Great Depression was in full swing when he offered his encouragement.
  • A7) James Monroe (March 4, 1817). Our fifth president's tenure is known as the Era of Good Feelings.
  • A8) Grover Cleveland (March 4, 1885). Our only president with non-consecutive terms used the term "weal" in the old sense of "welfare".
  • A9) Calvin Coolidge (March 4, 1925). Cal was a Republican and, mostly due to the country's prosperity, had easily overcome the splitting off of the Progressive Party to win election to a full term after succeeding Warren Harding.
  • A10) Woodrow Wilson (March 5, 1917). The U.S. would join World War I only one month after his Monday inauguration.
  • A11) Herbert Hoover (March 4, 1929). The stock market would crash less than eight months after these shortsighted claims.
  • A12) Abraham Lincoln (March 4, 1865). Just over a month later, the U.S. Civil War would officially end with General Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House.

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Presidential Addresses, Part 1 - Random Trivia Questions

No, we're not talking about 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue here. Rather, this week's quiz asks you to identify which U.S. President offered the following words to the American public during his inaugural address (bonus points for identifying the year for presidents elected to multiple terms). To help you a little, Part 1 contains only presidents inaugurated from 1789 to 1937.

Presidential Addresses, Part 1 Questions

  • Q1) "Employed in the service of my country abroad during the whole course of these transactions, I first saw the Constitution of the United States in a foreign country. Irritated by no literary altercation, animated by no public debate, heated by no party animosity, I read it with great satisfaction, as the result of good heads prompted by good hearts, as an experiment better adapted to the genius, character, situation, and relations of this nation and country than any which had ever been proposed or suggested."
  • Q2) "Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error or opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
  • Q3) "Great is the stake placed in our hands; great is the responsibility which must rest upon the people of the United States. Let us realize the importance of the attitude in which we stand before the world. Let us exercise forbearance and firmness. Let us extricate our country from the dangers that surround it and learn wisdom from the lessons they inculcate."
  • Q4) "I behold the surest pledges that as on one side no local prejudices or attachments, no separate views nor party animosity, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests, so, on another, that the foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens and command the respect of the world."
  • Q5) "Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities... While ever careful to refrain from wrongdoing others, we must be no less insistent that we are not wronged ourselves. We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness."
  • Q6) "This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
  • Q7) "To whatever object we turn our attention, whether it relates to our foreign or domestic concerns, we find abundant cause to felicitate ourselves in the excellence of our institutions. During a period fraught with difficulties and marked by very extraordinary events the United States have flourished beyond example."
  • Q8) "Today the executive branch of the government is transferred to new keeping. But this is still the government of all the people, and it should be none the less an object of their affectionate solicitude. At this hour the animosities of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat, and the exultation of partisan triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudging acquiescence in the popular will and a sober, conscientious concern for the general weal."
  • Q9) "Unless those who are elected under the same party designation are willing to assume sufficient responsibility and exhibit sufficient loyalty and coherence, so that they can cooperate with each other in the support of the broad general principles, of the party platform, the election is merely a mockery, no decision is made at the polls, and there is no representation of the popular will."
  • Q10) "We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the thirty months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back."
  • Q11) "We have reached a higher degree of comfort and security than ever existed before in the history of the world."
  • Q12) "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

Bruised Bruin -- Quiz Quilt 161 Solution

Category Answers:
Sports
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Games
BECKERThe German actress divorced Boris Becker in 2001 after he admitted fathering a child with a Russian model.
Geography
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Nature
COWSOther well-known breeds include the Beefmaster, Brahman, Hereford, Holstein, and Texas Longhorn.
History
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Government
LOOMThe Englishman's weaving machine helped spur the Industrial Revolution.
Literature
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Arts
MACBETHThe historical Macbeth ruled Scotland from August 14, 1040 to August 15, 1057.
Math
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Science
POLIOIn 1938, radio announcer and comedian Eddie Cantor urged his listeners to send their spare dimes to the White House to contribute to a fund for finding a cure.
Entertainment
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Food
PASSWORDThe clue-giving, word-guessing game ran for 2,655 episodes from 1961 to 1975.

Quiz Quilt Answer: BOOBOO (Diagonally from the top left corner)

Boo Boo Bear is Yogi Bear's best friend in the animated cartoon series.

Friday, February 12, 2010

Bruised Bruin -- Quiz Quilt 161 Puzzle

Category Questions:
Sports
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Games
What tennis player married Barbara Feltus on December 17, 1993?
Geography
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Nature
What animal has Guernsey and Jersey varieties?
History
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Government
What device did Edmund Cartwright develop a water powered version of in 1785?
Literature
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Arts
What king of Scotland seized the throne by killing Duncan I in battle and was the subject of a Shakespeare play?
Math
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Science
What disease was the March of Dimes founded to fight?
Entertainment
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Food
What TV game show's home edition sold two million copies for Milton Bradley in its debut year in 1962?

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Notable Numbers - Random Trivia Answers

  • A1) 4 ("four"). In Spanish, 5 ("cinco") fits the bill.
  • A2) 40 ("forty"). Among the ordinal numbers, only "first" is in alphabetical order. "One" is the only integer in reverse alphabetical order.
  • A3) 1,000 ("one thousand"). "One hundred and one" is not proper in the U.S., as the "and" should be omitted. The lowest integer spelled with two 'a's is 1,000,000,000,100,000 ("one quadrillion one hundred thousand"). [Correction: this should be 1,000,000,000,001,000 ("one quadrillion one thousand".]
  • A4) 1,000,000,000 ("one billion"). The first 'b' doesn't appear until we reach ten digits.
  • A5) 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ("one octillion"). The first 'c' doesn't appear until we reach twenty-eight digits. 100 ("one hundred") has the first 'd'.
  • A6) 1, 12, 2, and 11. 1+12=2+11 and "one+twelve" anagrams to "two+eleven" (this was noted by author Lewis Carroll, although I don't know if he was the first person to notice it).
  • A7) 8 ("eight"). "Eighteen" and "eighty" are the next two integers in the dictionary. "Eight" is still first if you expand the range to 1,000, although "eight hundred" would take over second place.
  • A8) 2 ("two"). "Twenty-two" and "twenty-three" are the previous two. "Zero", which is the only integer name with a 'z', beats them all if you expand the range by one on the low end. "Two hundred two" is last if you increase the high end to 1,000. Going up as high as we have names for, the last number is "two vigintillion two undecillion two trillion two thousand two hundred two".
  • A9) 1,005 ("one thousand five"). Just five above the first 'a', you get one 'a', two 'e's, one 'i', two 'o's, and one 'u'. You only need to add 20 to include a 'y' (1,025 is "one thousand twenty-five") or 79 higher to get the five vowels in alphabetical order (1,084 is "one thousand eighty-four"), but to get all six in alphabetical order requires an astonishing leap to 1,000,000,000,008,020 ("one quadrillion eight thousand twenty").
  • A10) 17 ("seventeen"). Only eight integers have this feature (2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, and 12 are the others).
  • A11) 88 ("eighty-eight"). 89 ("eighty-nine"), 90-anything ("ninety*"), 100 ("[one] hundred"), 1,000 ("[one] thousand"), and all the larger units from 1,000,000 on up (all "*illion"s) have at least one 'n'.
  • A12) 5,000 ("five thousand"). All of the other integers in the surprisingly short list are below 100: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 40, 46, 60, 61, 64, 80, and 84.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Notable Numbers - Random Trivia Questions

Other than when writing checks and playing word games, we seldom spell out numbers since the numerical forms are so much shorter. But today you need to think about the letters. Using the standard U.S. spellings of the positive integers, how many of these do you know, and how many can you figure out?

Notable Numbers Questions

  • Q1) What is the only integer whose value equals the number of letters in its name?
  • Q2) What is the only integer whose letters are in alphabetical order when spelled out?
  • Q3) What is the lowest positive integer whose standard name contains the letter 'a'?
  • Q4) What is the lowest positive integer whose standard name contains the letter 'b'?
  • Q5) What is the lowest positive integer whose standard name contains the letter 'c'?
  • Q6) What are the lowest positive integers A, B, C, and D such that A+B=C+D mathematically, and the letters in A and B can be anagrammed to form C and D?
  • Q7) Among the numbers from 1 to 100, which comes first in alphabetical order when spelled out?
  • Q8) Among the numbers from 1 to 100, which comes last in alphabetical order when spelled out?
  • Q9) What is the lowest positive integer that contains the five vowels in any order when spelled out?
  • Q10) What is the highest integer whose standard name only contains one of the five vowels (but repeated)?
  • Q11) What is the highest integer whose standard name does not contain the letter 'n' (ignore the nonstandard "googol" and "googolplex" for this question and the next)?
  • Q12) What is the highest integer whose name has no repeated letters anywhere ("zero" and "one" are the lowest with no repeated letters, and "three" and "seven" are the lowest with a repeated letter)?

Cough Creator -- Quiz Quilt 160 Solution

Category Answers:
Math
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Science
MARCONIKarl Ferdinand Braun, whose patents Guglielmo Marconi admitted to "borrowing", was also honored.
Geography
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Nature
EGYPTThe nation benefits from the river's waters and the especially fertile Nile delta region.
History
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Government
STEVENSONAdlai Stevenson's grandfather, whose name he shared, was Vice President of the U.S. under Grover Cleveland, and one of his cousins was actor McLean Stevenson.
Literature
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Arts
WELLSThe Time Machine was H.G. Wells's first novel in 1896, and The War of the Worlds followed two years later.
Sports
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Games
REACHThe inspirational tune from her Destiny album reached #6 on the pop charts.
Entertainment
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Food
STREEPNew Jersey native Meryl Streep played Anne Marie while Vanessa Redgrave starred in the title role.

Quiz Quilt Answer: PHLEGM (Diagonally from the bottom to the top left)

Phlegm is a mixture of saliva and respiratory discharge. Once coughed up, it becomes sputum.

Friday, February 5, 2010

Cough Creator -- Quiz Quilt 160 Puzzle

Category Questions:
Math
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Science
What Italian physicist shared the 1909 Nobel Prize for his development of wireless telegraphy?
Geography
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Nature
What country is called the Gift of the Nile?
History
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Government
What politician adjudged in a 1961 speech, "Flattery is all right as long as you don't inhale"?
Literature
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Arts
What English author wrote The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds?
Sports
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Games
What was Gloria Estefan's 1996 Olympics theme song?
Entertainment
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Food
What Academy Award-winning actress debuted with 61 seconds of screen time in Julia in 1977?