Good job. Two out of five. You get a nice Mouseketeer hat!
I’ll supply the answers below.:
What film is considered to be Mickey Mouse’s screen debut?
(CORRECT) STEAMBOAT WILLIE
What does the middle initial of Walter E. Disney’s name stand for?
ELIAS
What’s the name of the second theme park located next to Tokyo Disneyland?
TOKYO DISNEYSEA
Which character has the black nose and single tooth - Chip or Dale?
(CORRECT) CHIP
What major sports network does the Walt Disney Company own?
ESPN
I think you guys are trying to stump me now! 
I don’t know.
Damn. I’m so bad at this… 
I can’t think of anything! …Chopsticks?? Hah…
Oh man… I can’t answer this one, but early 1900’s is really all i can say!
42!
? What exactly do you mean?
? I don’t know this.
I don’t know this either…!
Oh no… “Go ahead. Make my day.” Is a line I know, but I don’t know the name of who said it! :smack:
…I don’t know.
I’m not sure?
DARN DARN DARN! :mad:
A ton of lead?
? I don’t know who he is.
Maybe… Monopoly?
Do you know the Presidents?
who was the first US President?
Who was President during the Civil War?
Who was President during WWII?
Which President invaded Iraq and Afghanistan?
B. Very close. “Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur. Happy kitty, sleepy kitty, purr purr purr”
III. You should add “Calvin & Hobbes Lore”.
4th. In scientific notation, there can only be one non-zero integer to the left of the decimal point. In engineering notation, the exponent the 10 is raised to can only be a multiple of 3.
||||| |. “Shamy” is a shortened name for the couple Sheldon Cooper and Amy Farrah Fowler. You should watch The Big Bang Theory.
g. Other than wearing a mask, Calvinball has different rules every time you play it. Again, your father has failed in teaching you about Calvin & Hobbes. This is not going to look very good on his Permanent Record. You might want to consider finding a replacement for him.
viii. Correctamundo!
Not quite! Endorsements here are political, the joke here being the idea that any politician who invokes Jesus’s name in a speech is probably full of crap. Still, you hit the main points; I’ll call this 1/2 right, zero points. (Also, Perry was a Republican primary presidential candidate)
Bingo! well done.
“Are you now, or have you ever been, a communist,” was the ‘catchphrase’ of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s House Unamerican Activities Committee. McCarthy’s HUAC was a congressional investigation allegedly intended to seek out communist agitators, but in reality designed to bolster McCarthy’s career and smear his enemies.
However, the comittee in the cartoon is asking “are you now, or have you ever been” to an empty suit. In other words, “been” means “existed” in this context.
Close enough! More precisely, rather than cut down on his own 400-plus item list, he expects the engineer to do all the work by including all 400 items AND making it easy to use! He’s missing the engineer’s criticism that anything, however well designed, will be hard to use with 400 different features.
“Progeny” means “offspring.” Calvin was trying to say he was a “child prodigy,” which means child genius, but he got the word wrong and instead said he was a child child–which most children are.
Two right, two wrong, one so-so; that puts me at a solid zero.
At this point, I’m neither trying to stump you nor trying to give you answers you can definitely answer. Rather, I’m asking about things you should know or you will enjoy knowing–learning is fun!
Don’t worry, sweetie, what you got here is a bunch of old farts asking you ?s about our time, and some legit history questions.
Here’s mine: If a female rock group called the Bangles wrote a song entitled “Bell Jar”, what famous poet would it be about?
I was hoping the anagram would help you.
“Old West Action” = Clint Eastwood
It’s all right. The odds of studying Japanese history in high school are slim to nil, this is mainly a hobby thing. Also, if this makes you feel better, I’m having to look up every single question myself in order to make sure I get the details right.
One Piece? New-fangled rubbish. The answer is of course Sazae-san, which has been running one a week continuously on Fuji TV since October of 1969. Sazae-san is a great litmus test; every single Japanese person knows it (and can sing the theme song, natch), but it’s almost unknown to foreign audiences - it separates Japan-hands from anime-fans.
That would be Prince Shotoku, son of Emperor Yomei, who had the brilliant idea of, ‘let’s us Japanese all just be Chinese now.’ It was during his time - the Asuka period (538-710) - that Japan gained its first written language - which, natch, was Chinese. Buddhism was also introduced at this time.
From most recent to least recent, Tokyo, Kyoto, Heian-kyo, Nara. Before that, the capital moved all the time.
That would be Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first Shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate. You can find a dramatization of his story in the book Shogun, by James Clavell. (But ask your parents first if you can read it; it has, ummm, kissing and stuff in it.)
Like all wars, the Boshin War was very complicated, but as a basic answer I would accept, ‘the centralized, Imperial government trying to take away the power of regional daimyos.’ Actually, that was the cause of five or six wars in Japanese history…
The Dutch! They had a government-sanctioned monopoly on the Japan trade. They were only allowed to set up shop on the island of Dejima, in the bay of Nagasaki - but they could leave every now and then to pay tribute to the Shogun.
That would be the Kojiki. Any guesses what language it was written in? (Chinese.) It was written 711-712, and documented the history of Japan from its mythological origins, to Emperor Jimmu, all the way to the present day. It is not quite as useful to scholars as the Nihon Shoki, though.
You are correct! Macross was totally re-packaged as Robotech. I loved it as a kid.
The three Crown Jewels of Japan are the Sword, the Mirror, and the Magatama - a kind of bead. Commoners like us are not allowed to see them; they are present in the Imperial Coronation only from inside paper parcels. They might not even exist.
Currently, it’s the Heisei era, under the rule of His Majesty Emperor Akihito. Once somebody becomes Emperor, though, they don’t really have a ‘name’ in the usual sense - they’re just referred to as ‘His Majesty the Emperor,’ or tenno heika, even in face-to-face conversation. Upon his death, the Emperor will be referred to at all times as ‘Emperor Heisei,’ just as nowadays they talk about his father, Emperor Showa.
You’re doing good, young lady. You’re surprising all of us with your education and intelligence.
The Chinese, Koreans, and Ainu were allowed to trade as well, though I think the Koreans and Ainu used a different port due to their location.
Question for Purin:
Nagasaki is/was a major Japanese trade port. However, it was not founded by the Japanese, people of what nationality founded the city of Nagasaki?
You got this one right - it’s Los Angeles. Here are the answers to the rest:
The coast redwood is the tallest tree - they grow to over 300 feet, and the tallest is about 379 feet. The heaviest is the giant sequoia, which can grow to over 2000 tons. The longest-lived tree is the bristlecone pine - the oldest known specimen has lived over 5000 years.
By convention, one spot in Greenwich is the starting point for measuring longitudes. The longitude that goes through this point is called the “prime meridian.” So, if you are at 73 degrees longitude west, that means you are 73 degrees west of Greenwich.
Greenwich is also the starting point for the world’s time zones. The time zone there is called "Greenwich Mean Time,’ or “Universal Time.”
A temperature of 134 degrees Fahrenheit (about 56.7 degrees Celsius) was recorded at Furnace Creek in Death Valley, California on July 13, 1910.
Fair enough, it might be my Midwesterness poking through here. But yeah, even though I’m not really keeping score here, “basil or maybe bay leaves” is close enough that I’m not going to call it wrong, even if it wasn’t the answer I was looking for.
Answers:
You have to go out of your way to find a car with manual transmission these days.Here’s some more, mostly generational gap stuff:
Name the musician known as The King, and the one known as The King of Pop.
The Lion King was “heavily inspired” by two other stories, one a play by Shakespeare, and one an anime. What were they?
What is Ecto Cooler?
What is That Scene in Bambi, the one everybody remembers?
What is the difference between a debit card and a credit card?
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Japanese culture, eh?
What do Masatoshi Shinomaki, Sumio Endo, Isao Inokuma, Yasuhiro Yamashita, and Shinobu Sekine have in common?
What is seppuku?
Count to five in Japanese.
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Full credit for numbers 2 and 3. Very good!
Masatoshi Shinomaki, Sumio Endo, Isao Inokuma, Yasuhiro Yamashita, and Shinobu Sekine each won the All Japan judo championships.
Regards,
Shodan
A quick one since Shodan’s stuff reminded me and I don’t want to forget:
6) What is natto, and why is it so controversial?
I don’t think that I deserve a rolleyes for pointing out that you have the wrong answer in a thread of trivia questions.
Yeah, the answer was flat-out wrong. Alan Mulally is the chief executive of Ford, as you noted, and is referred to as such in writing, such as this article in the NYTimes three days ago. I wouldn’t call your correction “pedantic” by any stretch here and, besides, even if it were, half this place’s raison d’être is pedantry cough precise language.
When, if visiting Japan, you jaywalk, why would you be struck dead even after looking left for traffic and seeing none?
As we’ve been so hard on you, here are a few questions even my dog could get right.
What was the surname of Alan -----, Partick Thistle and Scotland goalkeeper who played in the 1978 and 1982 World Cup tournaments?
What was the name given to the stiff pleated collar fashionable in Tudor England?
In bridge, what term is usually applied to the playing of a card of the trump suit when another suit was led (other than “trump”)?
What is the name given to that part of a golf course which, while not specially constructed as a trap, is neither fairway nor green?
In English slang, a woman who has a lover or boyfriend of a socially lower (possibly criminal) class is said to “have a bit of -----”?
What wading bird has the taxonomic name Philomachus pugnax?
“----- music” was the term applied to raucous noise which rural communities sometimes used to publicly shame wrongdoers.
Since I failed spectacularly with my literature questions, let me ask some geography a 15-year old might know.
Name two “maritime” provinces of Canada.
What is the capital of Montana?
What is an archipelago? What is the name of the archipelago at the southern tip of South America? Name at least two countries that are archipelagos.
What is the smallest continent? What is the second largest, after Asia?
Where is the Bering Strait?
What is a river delta? In what countries are the following river deltas located? a) Amazon b) Nile c) Yangtze d) Mississippi (give the state)
What is the largest desert in the world?
You did so well on my first question, maybe I should put in some more. 
Building off of Skammer’s questions, as a lark:
3(a): What is a reason islands might be a part of an archipelago, i.e. why would the islands near each other all have a common origin?
5(a): What was the Bering Strait before it was a Strait?
6(a): What’s one reason rivers form deltas where they meet the ocean or other large bodies of water?