24. In a list begun in 1925, luge is the shortest entry. What is the first entry?
My guess is the list is about olympic sports, what would be first alphabetically archery?
25. As an indirect homage to a hometown celebrity, vandals routinely add the letter d to a street sign in Portland, Oregon. What does the unadulterated sign say?
No idea
26. Which name in this list does not belong with the others?
27. Who wrote the only book on the NY Times bestseller list that has ever been been moved from the fiction to the non-fiction category?
Stephen Hawking?
28. The titles of a sixties bands's first and second Top Ten hits (totaling 5 words) used only 2 words between them. What was the band?
32. What 4 letter word should replace the question mark in the list below?
Luxembourg - Grand Duke Henri
Belgium - King Albert II
Spain - King Juan Carlos I
Netherlands - Queen Beatrix
Austria - Mozart
Ireland - ?
only guess would by hyde. First president of ireland and only name that I can think of that is 4 letters
34. What actress, under a pseudonym, recorded a song protesting John Lennon and Yoko Ono's nudity on the cover of the album Two Virgins?
No clue
36. Who is the only person to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Director whose full name (first and last) can be typed on asingle row of a keyboard?
No clue and if I start to think about this i will go insane
5. If a simply connected polyhedron has 92 vertices and 150 edges, how many faces does it have?
Sixty.
8. What common supermarket product can you get by filling in the same 3 letters ib both of these words, one set in reverse order of the other? S_ _ _ _ _ L _
Skim Milk.
10. All of the countries in the list on the left below have soething in common. Which one of the countries in the list on the right belongs with the countries in the list on the left?
Austria a. Brazil Bahrain b. Canada Denmark c. Sweden Indonesia d. Ukraine Japan Monaco Poland Singapore Switzerland Tonga Tunisa Turkey
Canada, as stated above.
11. The creator of a classic sitcome took a derisive swipe at the author of the "vast wasteland" speech by naming a doomed object in the sitcom after him. What was the show?
Gilligan's Island, as stated above.
12. Whose death was mourned in a national newspaper ad for Volkswagen that showed a cartoon VW bus with a teardrop falling from one of its headlights?
Jerry Garcia.
14. Change the first letter of one of these names to get a list in which every name still has something in common. Give the altered name for your answer.
16. What celebrity's brother was the original Mr. Hands in SNL's Mr. Bill films?
Ellen DeGeneres.
17. Who was the oldest British prime minister in office, and the only one to serve 4 separate times nonconsecutively?
William Gladstone.
18.What major corporation's name comes from its first success, a mechanical pencil invented by its founder?
Sharp Corporation.
19. The 6 words in the list on the left below have something in common. Which one of the words on the right belongs with those on the left?
collar a. circle kinetic b. meekly Mrs. c. rabbi pencil d. whisk tennis verge
Haven't got this one.
21. You're at a specific point in a country on a continent in the world. You're not on an island. If you were to travel in a straight line 300 kilometers (186 miles) in any direction, you would no longer be in the country you started from. What is the largest country in the world you could have started from?
Don't know either. I'm almost positive there's something bigger than Andorra that qualifies.
For #14...Aren't some of those guys guitarists? Harrison and Clinton are anyway...I don't know which of the others to change though and whether any of the other guys are guitarists either.
The One, The Only, The Incomparable Mercer Boy.
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Mercer Boy wrote:For #14...Aren't some of those guys guitarists? Harrison and Clinton are anyway...I don't know which of the others to change though and whether any of the other guys are guitarists either.
...close...change taft to raft and they are all famous georges
Mercer Boy wrote:For #14...Aren't some of those guys guitarists? Harrison and Clinton are anyway...I don't know which of the others to change though and whether any of the other guys are guitarists either.
...close...change taft to raft and they are all famous georges
Nice!
My guess for this one
21. You're at a specific point in a country on a continent in the world. You're not on an island. If you were to travel in a straight line 300 kilometers (186 miles) in any direction, you would no longer be in the country you started from. What is the largest country in the world you could have started from?
I'll post more later.
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