What’s your FIVE (5) favorite Robert Redford movies? [Hey, he had 48 as it turns out yay (acc. to Wikipedia)–I’ll have a voteoff poll for the final 5 later in the week]
You need to travel to an unfamiliar area, and the route is too long and complicated to memorize. You have access to a satellite navigation system (either built into your vehicle or on your phone). What map view do you prefer?
A bird’s-eye 2D map where north is always at the top
A bird’s-eye 2D map where my current heading is always at the top
A first-person 3D view
No preference because I can read any map view equally well
No preference because I rely exclusively on the system’s turn-by-turn voice or visual directions
No preference because I always navigate without using a satnav (e.g., pre-printed maps, handwritten directions, stopping to ask for directions, etc.)
You are a famous TV show host. You are informed by your bosses that you must make an on-air TV statement of some sort about Charlie Kirk. There will be consequences for not doing so, or saying “the wrong things” about him. What do you say?
Read a flat monotone script on-air that gives tepid praise to Kirk
Give a truthful, harsh critical statement about Kirk
Steadfastly refuse to say anything, good or bad, about Kirk
You are ordering/paying for something at an electronic kiosk. At the end of your transaction it asks you if you want to round up to the nearest dollar or donate a small amount of money to a charity. Do you:
I won’t pay. It’s a scam allowing a big corporation to pretend they are being charitable by giving my money.
I won’t pay. Can’t afford to give money to everyone that asks.
I won’t pay. I only give to charity if I can guarantee where the money is going.
I might pay. It depends on what charity and my mood.
I will pay. Why not? Every little bit helps.
What is an electronic kiosk? Never paid at one.
I refuse to play by your rules. None of your choices are 100% how I feel and I will not pick the closest one.
I knew Frank and Jesse immediately, and it was having them in my mind when I read “William and Henry” that made me think of the right pair.
Summary
They were all contemporaries, except for the early demise of Jesse.
ETA: I was trying to do the ‘spoiler blur’ but couldn’t find it. I guess the Summary (hide details) thingy does the same thing, and it was easy to find.
You are the official public statistician for New York City, tabulating crime figures for the year of 2001. There is a debate. One side argues that everyone who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11 should be classified as homicides, thus adding over 2,600 to the homicide statistics for NYC for that year. The other side argues that this is misleading and that 9/11 was a one-time anomaly and that adding the WTC death toll to the homicide tally would greatly skew the statistics and make it difficult to parse out and determine what the “normal baseline” amount of homicide was in NYC for that year. The decision is up to you.
The WTC victims were victims of homicide; add them to the 2001 statistics
Adding the WTC victims would skew things misleadingly; keep them off of the 2001 statistics
The following duos (and one trio) are perhaps best known by their first names, but here I’ve listed only their surnames. Which ones can you identify? Note, a few of them are fictional.
I’ll post the answer key in the discussion thread tomorrow.
Philbin & Gifford
Savage & Hyneman
Heidecker & Wareheim
Campbell & Algar
Preston & Logan
Odenkirk & Cross
Leonard & Carlson
Jillette & Teller
Isley & James
Elliott & Goulding
Magliozzi & Magliozzi
Fine, Howard, & Howard (or Feinberg, Horwitz, & Horwitz)
