You know, it may be a bit of both. I had also forgotten about his love of ramen, which is always drawn with the naruto(maki) in it so I probably assumed it after some prodding from Shonen Jump about puns and meanings. I stopped watching Naruto at about episode 100 so I’m not really up to date with it any more. I had high hopes for a lot of shonen shows but so many simply fall into the “big tournament so everyone can show off!” trope and “let’s shove as many characters into this so everyone can have a favorite and have a reason to keep watching”, both of which start to get boring/make me feel cynical.
Uzumaki, coincidentally, is the name of a great horror manga about spirals by Junji Ito. Now THAT I can recommend.
Yes! Very good! You also knew the constellation names of the Big and Little Dippers are Ursa Major and Minor, which was very good. You also knew that the proper name of the constellation name is Scorpius rather than the Zodiac sign name Scorpio. I think you might know some astronomy.
Yes and in correct order! Bonus points for Pluto, and I’m with you on planethood.
Yes, by a good bit!
Yes! Io is one of the four largest moons of Jupiter, called the Galilean moons because they were discovered by Galileo Galilei. The other three are Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. We’ve discovered 62 smaller moons since then.
I know you said you don’t go for movies, but maybe I can give a hint:
5a. This star loaned its name to a Tim Burton movie, which was named after a ghost who was the title character, who was played by Michael Keaton, and also starred Winona Rider. What was the movie?
5b. This bad guy from Batman Begins took his name from a star. Who was the bad guy?
5c. (not from movies) What’s the only star in the north sky that never moves? (Double hint: we use it to navigate)
Good job, a lot of people seem to think they’re just wrinkleberries or something, and putting them into context makes them a whole lot more appetizing (I really love me some prunes).
Sorry I used you as a guinea pig, Americans have only recently accepted the existence of a fifth taste and seeing it mentioned in an episode of Adventure Time made me wonder just how widely known it is these days. It’s “savory” by the way, and it comes from meat, mushrooms, tomatoes, and cheese, among other things.
I was looking for “oregano” but those are both good guesses, and I would have guessed the same. They’re all mainstays of Italian cooking, but basil is more of a foreground flavor while oregano tends to be something you notice when it’s not there and it should be. Fun fact, bay leaves are also “laurel leaves,” as in a “wreath of laurel” that Romans would wear on their heads, the same kind of laurels that you might rest on.
Fair enough, it’s not really well defined! “Herbs” are almost always leaves though, and “spices” are usually seeds, or else brown. Some things that are sometimes called “herbs and spices” aren’t either, at least in the case of garlic. I really have no idea what to call garlic other than a “seasoning” bececause it’s not really used in “vegetable” levels like onion is.
Yeah, sugar is the big one, and sugar in the raw is one variant. The main sweeteners used in the American kitchen are sugar, molasses, corn syrup, and honey. Sugar can be split into white/granulated, light brown, dark brown, raw/turbinado, and powdered/confectioner’s. Corn syrup is split into light and dark, and there’s a number of grades of molasses too. To be honest, I don’t think there’s any recipes that call for any of those that doesn’t also call for some kind of sugar, with the exception of some things that use honey, like “put honey on your cereal.” That’s probably because sugar does important things besides add sweetness, but that’s for another time.
This is fun! Here’s some more, no particular theme this time:
What kind of music goes “wubwubwubwubwubwub”?
Which creature is known for its love of drinking blood, which is known for its love of eating brains, and which is known for its love of eating maidens and princesses?
Name as many creatures as you can that will try to drink your blood in real life.
What does the clutch (leftmost pedal of the three) do in a car?
Not a reference, there is a supervolcano under Yellowstone, like a few others in the world, that has the potential of causing massive destruction and climate change if it erupts.
In the immortal words of Han Solo, “I know.” The answer was the T-Rex! (rawwr!)
Correct! Great Scott!
Yes, trying to throw you off with a too-obvious answer.
Yes, blue! And correct on the 3 shirt colors. Honestly I didn’t expect you to know Spock’s color, let along get the first bonus right. So proud. The 2nd bonus question was just to be ridiculous. Even casual fans might not know, but gold shirts are the helm’s crew, like the captain, navigator, etc. anyone who’s station is on the bridge. Blue is medical and science and general awesomeness. Red is DEATH!!! Actually it’s officers, security, engineering, and other misc. crew. Just don’t be wearing one if on an away team.
Is that a refusal or an answer? Hidee hidee hidee hoo!
New York is the most populous city in the U.S. What is the second-biggest city?
What type of tree grows the tallest? For bonus points, what type of tree grows to be the heaviest? For further bonus points, what type of tree lives the longest?
What is special about Greenwich, England?
What place holds the record for the hottest weather ever recorded?
… Cheese has a single syllable, which using the same transliteration you used there is pronounced chis. Writing it like that makes it look like you think it has two, CHI and es.
Jack Benny’s name came after great effort (Rochester was a black servant - that tells you how recent that show was).
If we are allowed a 4 liter container, the process would be to fill the 7, use it to fill the 5. Deposit the remaining 2 into the 4; repeat process.
Following are “classic rock” aka Old Fart’s Music:
There is a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold. What is she buying?
Stairway to Heaven
What is expected to happen when the moon is in the seventh house, and Jupiter is aligned with Mars?
Age of Aquarius
I’m free as a bird now. Can you change me?
No
I’ll try:
Who was Jack Kennedy?
Cities on which atomic bombs were dropped. Who dropped them?
What weather phenomenon is blamed for the current cold snap across the eastern section of North America?
This is an old joke in the UK, where Penguins are a well known band of chocolate biscuit [cookie] that come individually wrapped, these days in plastic. (It used to be foil backed paper, and one would say "They can’t get the silver paper off.)
4 Points for me. You got them all except for the fact that Brazil speaks Portuguese, not Spanish. The reason for this is that in 1493 the Pope divided the world between Portugal and Spain by drawing a line that gave Spain the New World. The caveat is a small portion of Brazil stuck out over that line allowing Portugal to colonize it. So, while the rest of central and South America speaks Spanish, Brazil speaks Portuguese. If you were on a standard curriculum instead of home schooled you’d be probably be learning this Sophomore year of high school.
The answer is also Franklin Delano. Presidents used to be inaugurated (sworn in) on March 4th. In 1937 the date was changed to January 20th to shorten the ‘lame duck’ period of both the succeeding and current presidents. Soo… 1933 was the last time a president was inaugurated on March 4th and that was FDR.
