January 18, 2022 Answers

 January 18 Answers

 

1.    It: They all end in the word it: Beat It, Whip It, Push It, Armageddon it, Do it, Rumour Has it.

2.    Double Negatives: All song lyrics played contain a double negative: (I can’t get no) Satisfaction, Don’t Come Around Here No More, (I don't want) No Scrubs, You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet, Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone, Another Brick in the Wall (“We don’t need no thought control”)

3.    Year: The title is or has a year in it:1979, December 1963, 1999, Summer of 69

4.    Warholm, Karston: 400m Hurdles record shatterer in the most recent Olympics.

5.    Engineer: Rowan Atkinson, Nick Whalen, Dolph Lundgren, Bill Nye, James Hong, Donald Sutherland, Julie Payette all are engineers

6.    Jakarta. FYI: Indonesia has a new capital city forthcoming, called Nusantara. ***Oops on this one – it is 102 points owing to the double letter J***

7.    Bonobo: great ape, named mistakenly for Bolobo. Also, Bonobo starts with Bono

8.    Seven-ten split: The toughest shot in 10-pin bowling. Other than last year, no one had made one on TV since the early 90s. Nicknamed “goal posts”, found in many sports

9.    Mouse Trap. Aka “The Mouse Trap Game”. Turn the crank, the boot kicks the bucket, the seesaw, the bathtub, the diver and the cage at the end are all parts of the game. Played it recently and it still holds up. 

10. Cheese: When taking a picture, the photographer asks you to “Say Cheese”. Or in other languages: “whiskey”, “sag omelett”, “sig appelsin”, “khbiz”, or “zele”…and many other examples. Also, you find variations of “watch the birdie”. 

11. Guinness. Mmmmm… beer beard.

12. Fortissimo. symbol in music is ff. All of these have prominent double letters: BB King, George RR Martin, LL Bean, ZZ Top, SS Minnow

13. Zenith

14. Thing: (Thing (Addams Family), The Thing (Movie), The Thing (Fantastic Four), Thingamajig (Masked Singer), Athing Mu (Olympic champion). Thing 1 and 2 (Cat in the Hat)

15. Xavi and Xabi: Xavi Hernandez is current manager for Barcelona and Xabi Alonso is current manager for Real Sociadad B. Both Spanish players.

16. Quicksilver: Quicksilver from X-Men Franchise, Marvel Franchise, Kevin Bacon in Quicksilver, Roger Daltry singer of Quicksilver Lightning and Logo for Quicksilver Surf Clothing

17. Hand in My Pocket: by Alanis Morrissette. She sings: I’ve got one hand in my pocket, and the other one is “givin’ a high five”, “flickin’ a cigarette”, “givin a peace sign”, “playing the piano” and “hailing a taxicab” in five successive choruses. Love this question. 

18. Parton, Dolly: Won Grammys with Pentatonix, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, For King and Country, Zach William. Thanks to Mitchell Thomas for the write-in question. 

19. Uhura

20. Victor: The pictures combine NATO phonetic letters and Roman Numerals. They are pictures of the NATO call letters of Roman numerals, in descending order. The Roman Numerals are MDCLXVI. The pictures are Mike (Tyson), (Mississippi) Delta, Charli (XCX), Lima (Bean), X-ray (Specs). Next in line is Victor. 

21. Ozymandias: Title of sonnets by Percy Shelley and Horace Smith in 1918; and Beauty and the Beast and Breaking Bad episodes

22. Real time: The show and films happen in synch with actual time. 

23. Nervy: Start with 26 letters of the alphabet. Past participle of WILL is WOULD. Mischievous rascal” is a SCAMP. A battle or contest is FIGHT. 11 letters left to choose from (BEJKNQRVXYZ): Stopping sudden/cooking style is JERKY, leaving BNQVXZ to make a word that is _ER_Y. The only option is NERVY.

24. Alliteration: Zinedine Zidane, Damhnait Doyle, Gal Gadot, Danny Devito, Amy Adams, Harry Hibbs, Eddie the Eagle Edwards

25. Ludacris. Ludicrous means “bizarre” or “preposterous”. First half – LUDA – is the start of his last album: Ludaversal. Second half – CRIS – is inspired by his real first name, Chris. And he has appeared in most of the Fast and the Furious movies as Tej Parker.

26. Kyrgyzstan: All are members of the Commonwealth of Independent States: Uzbekistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Armenia