I’m sorry to have let you down. I hope you’ll be back tomorrow to try digging out of the hole.
Hopefully your knowledge of (vice)presidents indicates some familiarity with the general subject.
So here goes:
For 1 point: how many senators are there in the US Senate?
For 3 points: what is the lowest possible number of total congresspeople (representatives and senators) for a state?
For 3 points: are there an states that have that number?
For 7 points: how many total members of congress are there? (Senate and House of Representatives).
For 10 points: how many electoral votes does a candidate need to be elected president?
(3) How many primary teeth (aka, baby teeth) do humans normally develop in infancy?
(2) How many permanent teeth come in after we shed our primaries?
(4) What is the dental term for your two front teeth?
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100
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3 Two senators and one representative
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Yes. Vermont for one, I believe there are others.
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535 voting members, and one non-voting member from Washington D.C. AFAIK, Peurto Rico doesn’t even have that much representation.
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268 - a simple majority in the Electoral College, which has exactly as many members as the combined voting membership of the House and Senate.
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I think 8, but I wouldn’t wager much on it, myself.
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32, with wisdom teeth being a joker in the deck, allowing some people to end up with as many as 36 teeth.
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Incisors. I see you’ve been trained in comparative anatomy, to think of teeth groupings in terms of half a jaw.
Hmmmm…i’ll try some logic riddles.
1 pt - I have two coins in my hand. Together they total 30 cents. One of them is not a nickel. What are the two coins?
2 pt - a man builds a four-sided house. Each side has a southern exposure. A bear walks by. What color is the bear?
3 pt - A man and his guest are sitting in a living room. The guest notices a painting of a person and asks the man who it is. The man replies “The father of the person in the portrait is my father’s son, but I have no brothers or sons.” Who is it?
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One is a quarter, the other is a nickel. After all, you’ve only said that one of the coins wasn’t a nickel.
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The bear is white, aka a polar bear, since the man built his house on the North Pole.
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The portrait is of the host’s daughter?
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Nope… it’s 20.
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Gah! No, the wisdom teeth are part of the package deal. You did initially say 32, and if you would have stopped yourself there, you would’ve been right. But I’ll take the hit rather than arguing for half credit.
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Yes!
One step forward, two steps back…
cmyk = +2
What historically significant event occurred on these dates:
July 20, 1969?
June 22, 1941?
April 14, 1865?
(Out of ten points)
3 points: Of the following, which parts of a chicken are considered dark meat and which are white meat?[ul][li]Wing[/li][li]Leg[/li][li]Thigh[/li][li]Breast[/li][/ul]
4 points: What school of art is typically associated with Pablo Picasso?
2 points: Of longitude or latitude, which lines run north to south?
1 point: What are the three flavors of Neapolitan ice cream?
4 points: Name the two biggest comic book publishers in the US and at least one character owned by each.
2 points: How many diagonals does a pentagon have?
4 points: The binary number 100 is equal to what decimal number?
Don’t forget to mark your difficulty ratings!
I’d like to know the point values for these.
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Wasn’t that the first moon landing?
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I’m guessing that’s when the Atlantic Charter was signed between Churchill and Roosevelt.
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Again, a guess, but I’m thinking that’s the date of the surrender at Appomatox.
3 points, What was the name of the privateer who was arrested by the British for sacking Panama and killing all its inhabitants, but was knighted instead of punished?
1 point, How many innings does a typical Major League Baseball game last?
3 points, Who was the first winner of American Idol?
3 points, What popular rap artist made “parachute pants” popular?
5 points, Who wrote the famous tragedy Faust?
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- Yes. (Off the top of my head, I believe that North Dakota, Alaska, and possibly Montana also have three, although I could be completely off base here).*
- Yes.
- Aaah! Almost exactly right, except you forgot that D.C. is alloted three electoral votes by the 23rd amendment. This sets the size of the electoral college at 538, with a simple majority of 270.
I believe that’s a net score of 4 for me, leaving me with 2.
*And maybe Wyoming.
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(1pt) True or False: Pineapples grow on trees.
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(2pts) The common name for this character: &
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(3pts) What’s an asterism?
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(4pts) To what year did Marty McFly travel to, on that fateful day of his first leap through time?
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Wing - white
Leg - dark
Thigh - dark
Breast - white -
Longitude
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Vanilla, Chocolate and Strawberry
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DC, who owns Batman; and Marvel, who owns Captain America
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I’m taking this to mean diagonals between vertices on the pentagon, not including the lines used to describe the boundary of the pentagon - so five. (Otherwise ten, I think.)
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100 base 2 is equal to 4 base 10
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False
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That’s an ampersand
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I have no idea. The term for the act of adding an asterix to a word?
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Yup.
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Yupp.
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Damn… no, it’s any pattern of stars that may or may not be a constellation (but it’s usually smaller than a constellation). Although, there is this!
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Great Scott! Maybe that was too easy?
That leaves me with a balance of 4, giving me
cmyk = +6
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I know Henry Morgan sacked Panama, but he didn’t kill all the inhabitants. (A large number, yes - but not all. Of course the fire did for many of the fatalities, and that was started by the governor.) I know there were other sacks, but this is the only one I can think of. ETA: Making it clear I’m naming Henry Morgan as my answer here.
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er… The only name I know with respect to American Idol is Simon. And I don’t think he won anything.
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No clue again. P. Diddy?
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Goethe.
All correct. However, you didn’t answer the second question, so I’ll repeat it:
4 points: What school of art is typically associated with Pablo Picasso?
16 points (pending answer to the above.)