Mars Rovers. 
Nope Taft
Edit: He was TR’s successor, though.
Descartes = I think; therefore, I am
Kant = Existence is not a predicate
Nietzsche = God is dead
At first I thought tis was gonna be easy, but now I’m not sure about Kant vs Nietzsche. Hmmf.
Pick any three days of the week(Monday, Tuesday, etc) and tell me who or what they’re named after. (3)
Many people know that septem, octo, novem and decem mean seven, eight, nine and ten in Latin. So why are September, October, November and December the ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth months of the year, respectively? (3)
What’s the rule for determining whether a year is a leap year? (3)
‘‘What does not kill me only makes me stronger’’ was said by Friedrich Nietzsche, not Napoleon, so I guess that’s a strike against me.
Hmm…
What U.S. City is known as the ‘‘Motor City Capital’’?
Difficulty 1
score -2
Damn, Taft was huge! TR, wasn’t exactly svelte though! 
OMG. You’re not going to believe this, but I was going to guess Nietz. Honestly.
Detroit, baby!
Woohoo! 3 points for me!
A sailor starts talking about a boomer. Do you know what he’d be talking about?
(I’m putting this at 1 point)
Match the psycho killer with the movie:
- Michael Myers
- Freddy Krueger
- Leatherface
- Captain Spaulding
- Jason Voorhees
- Buffalo Bill
- The Tall Man
- Pinhead
a. Silence of the Lambs
b. Friday the 13th
c. Phantasm
d. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
e. Halloween
f. Hellraiser
g. Nightmare on Elm Street
h. The Devil’s Rejects
Difficulty: 2 (I know it’s multiple choice, just forget the partial credit.)
My score: 0 (two right and two wrong on the first one)
Are we playing extra minus points for giving the wrong, urban legend, answer? (I told a kid last week that their history teacher was wrong, and that they should tell them so 
)
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Monday = Moon
Sunday = Sun
Saturday = Saturn -
Doesn’t this have something to do with having to add a couple new months to the calendar back in the day? Perhaps June and July named after the caesar and his wife perhaps? Yikes.
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Every 4 years (to make up for the 365.25 day year) we add a day. The year determined I believe has to be divisible by 4?
Good lord, to me, it could be anything. I’m guessing part of the ship. We talking a navy sailor, or something like a schooner? I’ll just say the Mast. :smack:
- Michael Myers = Halloween
- Freddy Krueger = Nightmare on Elm Street
- Leatherface = The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Captain Spaulding = The Devil’s Rejects
- Jason Voorhees = Friday the 13th
- Buffalo Bill = Silence of the Lambs
- The Tall Man = Phantasm
- Pinhead = Hellraiser
Ok, that was too easy to be a 3-point question. I’ll take one point for this and another two if you can name the origin of a fourth.
As you got 2 and 3 wrong, this puts me at -5.
Fri = Venus?
Out of curiosity, what’s the answers to the other two?
Well done. 2 points for me!
Rats.
Nope. A boomer is a strategic missile submarine, one of the subs that carries ICBMs.
Down to 2 points.
What was changed in Washington Quarters between 1964 and 1965?
(2 points)
Nope. Wrong culture entirely. The rest of the week is named after Norse gods.
Tuesday = Tyr’s Day
Wednesday = Woden(Odin)'s Day
Thursday = Thor’s Day
Friday = Frey(a)'s Day
The answer to 2 is that the start of the Roman calendar was marked by the new consuls taking power. A rebellion forced the new consuls to take power 2 months early in 153 BC, which caused a realignment of the calendar. That question was way too hard; I had the answer wrong myself before a looked it up.
Leap years are all years divisible by 400, or any year divisible by 4 but not 100. So 2000, 1996 and 1988 were all leap years while 1900 was not.
Edit: This drops me to -7.
I’m guessing the metal involved. Weren’t they changed to something-plated copper?
OOF! I had assumed the days where named after the roman gods. 
Yeh, that 2nd one was way over my head.
400! I knew it was to be a divisible… damn.