Hawaii Threads Trivia Contest: Game 3

[scrivener]

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Hawaii Threads Trivia Game: Day 26!
Here are today's questions!

1. Category: No Way Are You Getting This
   Where are you most likely to see this symbol? For a half-point bonus: What is it?
   
   
   
   
2. Category: Lost in Honolulu
   What Honolulu neighborhood do you live in if your street address says Dickson Circle?
   
   
3. Category: Tuvalu Ra Tuvalu Ra Yay!
   What is island nation Tuvalu's unique contribution to the Internet?

Please send your answers to me as a PRIVATE MESSAGE by 9:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 13! Good luck, and have fun!

[scrivener]

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Hawaii Threads Trivia Game: Day 26!
Here are today's answers!

Category: No Way Are You Getting This
Where are you most likely to see this symbol? For a half-point bonus: What is it?

I knew this was going to be tough, but I also know that there are discussion boards on the Web where if I posted this as a trivia question, I'd be laughed out of town. Almost everyone I hung out with in high school would have gotten this, too, which takes us back to the question of what trivia really is.

This symbol is the signature of artist Derek Riggs, who did the artwork for most of the classic Iron Maiden albums. The logo is hidden somewhere on almost every Maiden album from the first part of their career. The logo you see at Riggs's website is the symbol he uses now, a simplified version of what was a mirrored D, an R, and a few extra lines and circles thrown in for looks.

Congratulations to nobody for getting it right!

Category: Lost in Honolulu
What Honolulu neighborhood do you live in if your street address says Dickson Circle?

Did you know I was a military brat? I was, and I once lived in the military housing area known as Catlin Park. I believe "Camp Catlin" is what that area was called before it became a housing area, but I'll take that as an answer, too, since I know some people still call it that. Moto, Surfingfarmboy, and Mel got that right.

Category: Tuvalu Ra Tuvalu Ra Yay!
What is island nation Tuvalu's unique contribution to the Internet?

Tuvalu's country code top-level domain is .tv, which for obvious reasons could be considered by some, including Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper, to be a desirable domain. Masters of their own domains include Moto, helen, Surfingfarmboy, mel, and Palama Kid, who got that right.


Here are the current standings!

65: Surfingfarmboy
51.5: Palama Kid
41: Moto
34.5: mel
30.5: helen
29: Leo Lakio
23.5: pzarquon
9: Erika Engle, Cranberee, localgrl
6: SouthKona
4: manoasurfer123
3: Mike_Lowery
2: tutusue
1.5: jdub
1: Madazza, craigwatanabe

New questions, next post!

[scrivener]

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Hawaii Threads Trivia Game: Day 27!
Here are today's questions!

1. Category: Ladies First
   What are the next three names in a list that includes Florence, Grace, Lou, Anna, and Elizabeth, in that order?
   
   
2. Category: Poll Vault
   In the state of Hawaii, what can a registered voter do if he or she cannot present a picture I.D.?
   
   
3. Category: It's Not a Mike Salta Pontiac
   What animal would old Mother Goose ride upon, according to the popular nursery rhyme?

Please send your answers to me as a PRIVATE MESSAGE by 9:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 14! Good luck, and have fun!

[scrivener]

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Hawaii Threads Trivia Game: Day 27!
Here are today's answers!

Category: Ladies First
What are the next three names in a list that includes Florence, Grace, Lou, Anna, and Elizabeth, in that order?

Sheesh. I thought this would be more challenging than apparently it was. Yes, it's a list of first names of United States First Ladies:
Florence Kling Harding
Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge
Lou Henry Hoover
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace Truman
Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy
Claudia Taylor Johnson

I was hoping "Elizabeth" and "Lou" would throw people off, since nobody thinks of Bess Truman as Elizabeth, but oh well. Surfingfarmboy, moto, helen, mel, Leo Lakio, and Palama Kid got that one.

Category: Poll Vault
In the state of Hawaii, what can a registered voter do if he or she cannot present a picture I.D.?

If you can recite your birthdate and the address to which the voter registration card was mailed, you're good to go. I've worked the polls several times, and so I know this one for sure. Surfingfarmboy, Moto, and Leo Lakio got that one!

Category: It's Not a Mike Salta Pontiac
What animal would old Mother Goose ride upon, according to the popular nursery rhyme?

Old Mother Goose,
When she wanted to wander,
Would ride through the air
On a very fine gander.

Surfingfarmboy, Palama Kid, Mel, and Leo Lakio got that one!

And here are the current standings!
68: Surfingfarmboy
53.5: Palama Kid
45: Moto
34.5: mel
32: Leo Lakio
31.5: helen
23.5: pzarquon
9: Erika Engle, Cranberee, localgrl
6: SouthKona
4: manoasurfer123
3: Mike_Lowery
2: tutusue
1.5: jdub
1: Madazza, craigwatanabe

New Questions, Next Post!

[scrivener]

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Hawaii Threads Trivia Game: Day 28!
Here are today's questions!

1. Category: I Just Had One and it Was Heavenly!
   You put down a slice of bread. Then you lay some roast turkey on the bread, then some sliced ham on the turkey, then some Swiss cheese on top of that. You cover it with another slice of bread and dip the entire thing in an egg batter and grill or deep-fry it. You serve it with maple syrup or grape jelly. What delicious dish have you just assembled?
   
   
2. Category: Jingle-Jangle Mornin'
   What local business boasted in its many commercials that it "served you right here in town?"
   
   
3. Category: All the Marbles
   What popular board game is played with marbles on a six-pointed star?

Please send your answers to me as a PRIVATE MESSAGE by 9:00 p.m. on Friday, September 15! Good luck, and have fun!

[scrivener]

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Hawaii Threads Trivia Game: Day 28!
Here are today's answers!

Category: I Just Had One and it Was Heavenly!
You put down a slice of bread. Then you lay some roast turkey on the bread, then some sliced ham on the turkey, then some Swiss cheese on top of that. You cover it with another slice of bread and dip the entire thing in an egg batter and grill or deep-fry it. You serve it with maple syrup or grape jelly. What delicious dish have you just assembled?

How is it that so many of you knew about this little bit of heaven AND NEVER TOLD ME ABOUT IT? I had my first last night at Kenny's in Kalihi and it blew me away. Now I want to eat every Monte Cristo in sight. In fact, I'm walking across the parking lot as soon as I've put up tonight's questions and having another. Extra grape jelly to SouthKona, helen, Palama Kid, moto, Surfingfarmboy, and Leo Lakio for their excellent knowledge of sandwichology.

Category: Jingle-Jangle Mornin'
What local business boasted in its many commercials that it "served you right here in town?"

Amazing. I thought this was going to be the easy one, and nobody got it! Several of you remembered that it was a car-dealership, but no, it wasn't Windward Nissan ("right here in town?") or Honolulu Ford (two guesses for that one!) or Cutter Ford. It was Downtown Honda, as in "Downtown Honda, yeah! Serves you right here in town!"

Category: All the Marbles
What popular board game is played with marbles on a six-pointed star?

Chinese Checkers. Not a game I ever thought was very difficult, but it could be kinda fun if you had more than three people playing. Big ups to SouthKona, helen, Palama Kid, moto, Surfingfarmboy, mel, and Leo Lakio for getting that one right.

So with three days left to play, the current standings are:
70: Surfingfarmboy
55.5: Palama Kid
47: Moto
35.5: mel
34: Leo Lakio
33.5: helen
23.5: pzarquon
9: Erika Engle, Cranberee, localgrl
8: SouthKona
4: manoasurfer123
3: Mike_Lowery
2: tutusue
1.5: jdub
1: Madazza, craigwatanabe

New questions, next post!

[scrivener]

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Hawaii Threads Trivia Game: Day 29!
Here are today's questions!

1. Category: Owner of a Lonely Art
   A world-famous author was on his way to donating his vast collection of Asian prints to the Metropolitan Museum of Art when a grouchy policeman gave him a hard time about parking and then wrote the author a ticket. Some years later, the same author was in another city, where a very helpful policeman helped him find parking near another famous museum. The author decided then to bequeath his collection to this second museum. Who is the author, and where did this amazing collection finally find its home?
   
   
2. Category: Axe Me No Questions; I'll Tell You No Lies
   What annual game between long-time college rivals awards a handle-less axe to the winning side?
   
   
3. Category: Camptown Races
   On a certain mountain in Haleiwa, teenaged summer residents of one campground are said to test their mettle by sneaking over to another campground on the same mountain. What are the names of these two campgrounds, and who are the summer residents of each?

Please send your answers to me as a PRIVATE MESSAGE by 9:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 16! Good luck, and have fun!

[scrivener]

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There are nights when I am not exactly proud of either the quality of the questions as they're written or the interestingness of the questions; this is one of those rare instances where I'm quite pleased with both. There's a certain, well, flair, I guess you could call it, that I strive for here. I'm very satisfied with the interestingness of these questions and I think the way they're written is exactly what I usually shoot for. That doesn't happen often, as I don't always have the thirty minutes or so it generally takes to come up with three good ones and to write them this way.

I'm saying this not to toot my own horn ('though I certainly would if I could, as Letterman says all the time) but to say that I really appreciate your participation in this silly game. The challenge of writing the questions is the main appeal for me, like a kind of mental gymnastics exercise that gets rewarded by your answers in pmail and the nice comments many of you leave me. So thanks.

[helen]

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How is it that so many of you knew about this little bit of heaven AND NEVER TOLD ME ABOUT IT? I had my first last night at Kenny's in Kalihi and it blew me away. Now I want to eat every Monte Cristo in sight. In fact, I'm walking across the parking lot as soon as I've put up tonight's questions and having another.

I never knew the sandwich existed until you possed the question last night. From the description you gave it sounded like some version of French Toast, maybe the original for all I know. Looked up French Toast in Wikipedia and sure enough there was an entry for it.

[Surfingfarmboy]

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Some RI trivia about the Monte Cristo sandwich: Around these parts of the woods, currant jelly is most commonly served with the sandwich.

[scrivener]

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Hawaii Threads Trivia Game: Day 29!
Here are today's answers!

Category: Owner of a Lonely Art
A world-famous author was on his way to donating his vast collection of Asian prints to the Metropolitan Museum of Art when a grouchy policeman gave him a hard time about parking and then wrote the author a ticket. Some years later, the same author was in another city, where a very helpful policeman helped him find parking near another famous museum. The author decided then to bequeath his collection to this second museum. Who is the author, and where did this amazing collection finally find its home?

James Michener and the Honolulu Academy of arts. Read about it here. As Surfingfarmboy so nicely puts it, "This demonstrates that a little aloha spirit, no matter where one is at or where one lives, can go a long way...let NYC take that as a hard-learned lesson!"

Free parking for SouthKona and Surfingfarmboy, who don't even live close enough to visit this excellent collection.

Category: Axe Me No Questions; I'll Tell You No Lies
What annual game between long-time college rivals awards a handle-less axe to the winning side?

Of course it's The Big Game between Stanford and Cal-Berkeley. The Axe goes to the winning team, and if you don't know anything about the Axe, click the link. I was howling with laughter when I read this. The way it was first stolen and then the way it was stolen back is the stuff of movies. They should make a movie about this history of the Axe. Here's video of The Play, probably the greatest play in football history, which of course happened at the end of the 1982 Game.

Cheerleader hugs and kisses to SouthKona, Surfingfarmboy, Leo Lakio, Moto, Palama Kid, manoasurfer123, and Mel for getting that one right!

Category: Camptown Races
On a certain mountain in Haleiwa, teenaged summer residents of one campground are said to test their mettle by sneaking over to another campground on the same mountain. What are the names of these two campgrounds, and who are the summer residents of each?

Camp Pupukea (Boy Scouts) and Camp Paumalu (Girl Scouts). Everyone always talks about sneaking over to Paumalu from Pupukea, and everyone says he knows someone who did it, but I have never heard anyone say he actually did it. This is the basis for a novel I wrote for NaNoWriMo two years ago and hope to publish someday. The summer someone actually does it.

Marshmallows and graham crackers to SouthKona, Surfingfarmboy, Palama Kid (half a point), manoasurfer123 (half a point), and Mel (half a point).

Here are the current standings with two days left to play!
73: Surfingfarmboy
57: Palama Kid
48: Moto
36.5: mel
35: Leo Lakio
34: helen
23.5: pzarquon
11: SouthKona
9: Erika Engle, Cranberee, localgrl
5.5: manoasurfer123
3: Mike_Lowery
2: tutusue
1.5: jdub
1: Madazza, craigwatanabe

New questions: Next Post!

[scrivener]

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Hawaii Threads Trivia Game: Day 30!
Here are today's questions!

1. Category: What's the Good Word?
   4777332777733
   What word is represented by this series of numbers?
   
   
2. Category: Names and Faces in Crazy Places
   Whose name could complete the list beginning with Fran Tarkenton, John Ritter, Freddie Mercury, [insert name here], and Alec Cooke? A lot of names could do it, so submit a name and explain your choice!
   
   
3. Category: He's Steel the One
   What American subject of many a tall tale could be called a sort of Paul Bunyan for steelworkers?
   (please note: "steelworkers," not "steel-drivers")

Please send your answers to me as a PRIVATE MESSAGE by 9:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 17! Good luck, and have fun!

[damontucker]

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this was supposed to be a pm!!!

So sorry scrivener

[scrivener]

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Hawaii Threads Trivia Game: Day 30!
Here are today's questions!

Category: What's the Good Word?
4777332777733
What word is represented by this series of numbers?

If you're text-messaging someone on a regular 10-key phone keypad, you hit the 4 key once for G. Then you hit the 7 key three times for R. Then it's the 3 key twice for E...keep going, and you find that GREASE is the word! Geez. Only Surfingfarmboy was brave enough to guess a word: "Sunshine." There were two guesses for "the numbers on Lost" (hello! the question asks what WORD is represented!) and a few "I have no ideas." So nobody gets this one. I'm going to ask my high-schoolers tomorrow and see how many get it.

Category: Names and Faces in Crazy Places
Whose name could complete the list beginning with Fran Tarkenton, John Ritter, Freddie Mercury, [insert name here], and Alec Cooke? A lot of names could do it, so submit a name and explain your choice!

Nobody got this one, either, so I'm going to extend it until tomorrow and add a hint: John Ritter is on this list only because of the name of the character he played on Three's Company.

Category: He's Steel the One
What American subject of many a tall tale could be called a sort of Paul Bunyan for steelworkers?
(please note: "steelworkers," not "steel-drivers")

This would be Joe Magarac, who once defeated a rail-making machine in a contest by squeezing molten steel through the spaces betwee his fingers! manoasurfer123, Surfingfarmboy, Leo Lakio, Palama Kid, and mel got that one right!

Here are the current standings with one day left to play!
74: Surfingfarmboy
58: Palama Kid
48: Moto
37.5: mel
36: Leo Lakio
34: helen
23.5: pzarquon
11: SouthKona
9: Erika Engle, Cranberee, localgrl
6.5: manoasurfer123
3: Mike_Lowery
2: tutusue
1.5: jdub
1: Madazza, craigwatanabe

New questions: Next Post!

[mel]

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I would have never gotten the 1st one since I don't own and never plan to own a cell phone. No text me$$aging for me.