Weekday Pandemic Trivia

Sports & Other Games
443

Florida
Scald
Clams
Honda
Delhi
Creme Brule
Vodka?
Heat
Hard
Murder on the Orient Express?
?
brain
Clemente?
TTYL
?
?
Amanda Seigfried and Channing Tatum?
Pamela Anderson
Broad City
?

444
  1. ?
  2. Scald
  3. clams?
  4. Honda?
  5. Beijing?
  6. Creme Brulee
  7. Brandy?
  8. Heat
  9. Hard
  10. ?
    11.?
  11. Lobe (of brain)
  12. Alex Rodriguez?
  13. What Facebook way of saying goodbye to a pal was an Oxford English Dictionary Word of the Year in 2009?
  14. ?
    16.Round the way girl?
  15. ?
  16. Pamela Anderson?
  17. ?
  18. The Allman Bros.
445

Wow, I should have just guessed “Bronies,” I didn’t think they actually titled the doc that.

1. Florida?
2. Scald
3. Clam
4. Honda
5. Beijing?
6. Creme Brulee
7. Margarita
8. Energy?
9. Hard
10. No idea
11. Oliver?
12. Lobe
13. Roberto Clemente?
14. TTYL?
15. Uh… the Soggy Bottom? I don’t know
16. No idea. “Mama Said Knock You Out”?
17. My wife tells me “I think it’s Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried.”
18. Pamela Anderson Lee Rock
19. Broad City
20. Allman Brothers Band

446

Answers from last night

  1. University of Florida
  2. Scald
  3. Clams
  4. Honda
  5. Bangkok
  6. Crème Brule
  7. Margarita
  8. Heat
  9. Hard
  10. Knives Out
  11. Oliver!
  12. Lobe
  13. Roberto Clemente
  14. Unfriend
  15. Guppy
  16. Goin’ Back to Cali
  17. Amanda Seyfried and Channing Tatum
  18. Pamela Anderson
  19. Broad City
  20. Allman Brothers
447

  1. In May 1990, Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk entered into negotiations to end apartheid in what country?

  2. What Showtime drama series starred Michael C. Hall as a vigilante serial killer in South Florida?

  3. The 1989 film Steel Magnolias features a red velvet wedding cake in the shape of what animal?

  4. On July 4, 1997, NASA’s Pathfinder probe landed on the surface of what?

  5. What is the traditional number of witches in a coven?

  6. What political commentator and lead strategist for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign is known as the “Ragin’ Cajun”?

  7. Who starred as the title character in ABC’s 2000 made-for-TV musical Geppetto?

  8. What legal term for a type of decision is from Old French for “to speak the truth”?

  9. John Steinbeck originally called what 1937 short novel “Something That Happened”?

  10. William the Conqueror led the Normans to victory over the English army at what October 14, 1066, battle?

  11. What former professional wrestler was elected Governor of Minnesota?

  12. Who played the title character in the 2019 box office hit Captain Marvel?

  13. In the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, Luke is challenged to eat 50 of what food in an hour?

  14. What instrument was depicted in the January 11, 2019, Google Doodle honoring musician Earl Scruggs?

  15. What MLB player had 1406 career stolen bases?

  16. On May 25, 1992, who succeeded Johnny Carson as the host of The Tonight Show?

  17. Who was sworn in for a second term as President of Russia in 1996?

SEX DRUGS ROCK N ROLL

  1. Comparing sex and playing cards, comedienne Mae West proclaimed "If you don’t have a good partner, you’d better have a good (What?)”

  2. Tracy Morgan, Mike Epps and Cypress Hill all appeared in what 2001 stoner movie?

  3. Tom Keifer was the vocalist & front man for what triple platinum selling rock band?

448

South Africa
Dexter
Cat?
Mars
3?
James Carville
Robin Williams?
Don’t know
Of Mice and Men
Hastings
Jesse Ventura
Brie Larson
Eggs
Guitar
Rickey Henderson
Jay Leno
Boris Yeltsin
Hand?
Nothing I can think of fits the time frame
No idea.

449
  1. South Africa
  2. Dexter
  4. Mars
  5. 3
  6. James Carville
  9. The Grapes of Wrath
  10. Agincourt
  11. Jesse Ventura
  12. Brie Larson
  13. Eggs
  14. Banjo
  15. Rickey Henderson
  16. Jay Leno
  17. Boris Yeltsin
  18. Hand
  19. Half-Baked
450
  1. South Africa
  2. Dexter
  3. Fox
  4. Moon
  5. 13
  6. Carville
  8. Verdict
  9. Of Mice and Men
  10. Hastings
  11. Ventura
  12. Bree Larson
  13. Hot dogs
  14. Trumpet
  15. Henderson
  16. Leno
  17. Yeltsin
  18. Hand
  19. Hot Tub Time Machine
451

South Africa
Dexter
?
Mars
4? (at least that is how many they needed in The Craft)
Carville
Hailey Joel Osmond?
can’t believe as a lawyer I don’t know this - edit: looked up the answer, and not sure how this is a decision.
Grapes of Wrath
Hastings
Jesse Ventura
?
hard boiled eggs
Sax?
Rickey Henderson
Leno
whoever was between Gorbachev and Putin
hand?
How High?
?

452

“Unfriend” isn’t “saying goodbye to a pal,” it’s more like saying “Go fuck yourself.”

1. South Africa
2. Dexter
3. No idea. Horse?
4. Mars?
5. I feel like I always see witches in groups of three, but my wife thinks it’s six. I don’t really know.
6. James Carville
7. No idea. Richard Dreyfuss?
8. Couldn’t come up with this one
9. Of Mice and Men?
10. Hastings?
11. Jesse Ventura
12. Brie Larson
13. Eggs
14. Don’t know. Trumpet?
15. Rickey Henderson
16. Jay Leno
17. Boris Yeltsin
18. Hand
19. How High?
20. No clue

453

South Africa
Dexter
?
Mars
3
James Carville
?
Voir dire
Of Mice and Men?
Battle of Hastings
Jesse “The Body” Ventura
Brie Larson
Hard-boiled eggs
Banjo?
Rickey Henderson
Jay Leno
Boris Yeltsin
Hand
?
?

454

I thought it was verdict, which I think is pretty clearly a decision. Was it supposed to be something else?

455

It’s voir dire - which is the process by which prospective jurors are questioned to see if they will be chosen for the jury (it also applies to the questioning of expert witnesses to see if they are qualified to be an expert). Based on their answers to in the voir dire, jurors can be challenged by either side and the judge will decide whether to seat them, but my understanding is that the voir dire only means the questioning process.

456

It can’t be voir dire. Voir means “to see” and dire means “to speak”. There is nothing about truth in the etymology. Also it makes no sense for the reason you said. Verdict on the other hand has the correct etymology and is a decision. From wikipedia:

The term “verdict”, from the Latin veredictum , literally means “to say the truth” and is derived from Middle English verdit , from Anglo-Norman: a compound of ver (“true”, from the Latin vērus ) and dit (“speech”, from the Latin dictum , the neuter past participle of dīcere , to say).

I guess the only problem is wiki says it comes from Anglo-Norman instead of Old French as in the question.

EDIT: actually the voir in voir dire is not “to see” and is closer to truth. Still think verdict makes sense as an answer.

EDIT2: apparently Anglo-Norman is technically an old dialect of French.

457

You clearly know more about language than I do, so won’t try to argue that aspect at all.

I had just googled “Old French ‘to speak the truth’” and got voir dire, so that was my only basis.

458

Voir Dire was my first instinct too. Felt wrong because, as you say, it’s not a decision. Prob took me another 5 min to think of verdict.

459

I actually said voir dire based on the meaning, then I realized I didn’t read the entire question. Verdict has to be right.

460
  1. South Africa
  2. Dexter
  3. Armadillo
  4. Mars
  5. ------------- Will take any number, I was looking for 13 though.
  6. James Carville
  7. Drew Carey (lol, apparently this was a running gag on whose line)
  8. Verdict (Voir Dire works too)
  9. Of Mice & Men
  10. Battle of Hastings
  11. Jesse Ventura
  12. Brie Larson
  13. Eggs (hard-boiled)
  14. Banjo
  15. Ricky Henderson
  16. Jay Leno
  17. Boris Yeltsin
  18. Hand
  19. How High
  20. Cinderella
461

  1. “Friend Like Me” is a big production number in the stage version of what Disney film?

  2. In the Stephen King novel Christine, what was the title character?

  3. What band had a No. 1 hit with a reggae version of "Red Red Wine”?

  4. What metal used in making control rods for nuclear reactors has the chemical symbol Cd?

  5. What 1 syllable 8 letter word is a poker hand with consecutive numbers?

  6. Robert Carradine & Anthony Edwards played Lewis & Gilbert in what 1984 film?

  7. A royal house gives its name to what complicated knot style for a necktie?

  8. What 2 movie stars had a sexy romance scene molding clay in the film Ghost?

  9. What novel by Zora Neale Hurston tells the story of Janie Crawford & her 3 marriages?

  10. Fill in the blank with a color to name a band. __________ Jumpsuit Apparatus.

  11. Yeast can trigger what process which produces ethyl alcohol & carbon dioxide?

  12. Who is Justify the horse’s legendary trainer?

  13. Darkness triggers production of what hormone isolated in 1958?

  14. “Once More, with Feeling” was an acclaimed musical episode of what supernatural TV series?

  15. The Channel Tunnel connects England with what nation?

  16. The first sequel to what film was subtitled “Freddy’s Revenge”?

  17. What Kentuckian was an early political reporter for Rolling Stone magazine?

SEX DRUGS ROCK N ROLL

  1. The young woman in Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne, was forced to wear what letter of the alphabet as a badge of dishonor?

  2. The bark of what type tree is responsible for the pain reliever, aspirin?

  3. What’s the name of Southside Johnny’s backup band?

462

Aladdin
?
UB40
Cadmium
Straight
Revenge of the Nerds
Windsor
Patrick Swayze & Demi Moore
?
Orange?
Fermentation
Bob Baffert?
Melatonin
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
France
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Hunter S. Thompson
A
?
?