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1) NAME the volcanic island territory in the Caribbean with a flag that displays the Union Jack as well as, perhaps surprisingly, a woman clutching a Celtic harp.
2) Viewers of a particular television show that aired from 1966 to 1968 repeatedly saw an iconic vehicle bearing license plate numbers such as TP-3567, BT-1, and BAT-1. That vehicle was designed by George Barris based upon an existing concept car called a Lincoln WHAT? (That’s pretty hard, so if you don’t know the answer, just give us an alternate answer of the fictional city the vehicle would most regularly be found.)
3) As listeners to a particular song released in 1983 may know, どうもありがとうミスター ロボット is a phrase that can be used to express gratitude. WHAT does ロボットmean in English? (Because this Question #3 may not show up correctly in your e-mail, below is an image of it.)
4) Seaweed No. 2 and (more notably) Red Canna are, as best we can tell, the only two works by a particular artist in the High Museum of Art, the largest museum for visual art located in its U.S. state. NAME that state, which shares its name with the artist.
5) The Vault Dweller, the Chosen One, the Lone Wanderer, and the Sole Survivor are the canonical titles for the playable characters in the mainline video games in the Fallout series. The applicable canonical title for the spinoff game Fallout: New Vegas is WHAT profession, since your character was in the employ of the Mojave Express?
6) Whether these characters are portrayed as princesses in their films or not, there are thirteen characters officially designated as “Disney Princesses” by Disney. Change one letter in the names of one of those thirteen princesses, and you get WHAT, another example of today’s theme?
Trivia Newsletter CCXIII Recap
1) La Belle Sauvage is the first work in a not-yet-complete trilogy by Philip Pullman known as “The Book of” WHAT? The trilogy is so named because it further explores a mysterious substance key to the plot of Pullman’s prior trilogy, His Dark Materials; so, if you read all of Pullman’s books, then to “it” you shall return.
This is “DUST.” The last part of the question was a clue referring to one of the more famous Bible passages:
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground, for out of it wast thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
2) A 1998 black comedy directed by Guy Ritchie that happens to represent Jason Statham’s feature-film acting debut and a 2005 black comedy starring Aaron Eckhart that happens to represent Jason Reitman’s feature-film directorial debut share WHAT word in their titles?
These films are Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Thank You for Smoking, so the common word was SMOKING.
3) “The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smouldering, unclean [BLANK], strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight,” Charlotte Gilman Perkins writes in her best-remembered short story, first published in 1892. WHAT word fills in the blank in the preceding passage?
The missing word is YELLOW, as Gilman wrote the enduring short story “The Yellow Wallpaper.”
4) The Caproni Ca.3 and Voisin III are two of the earliest examples of WHAT kind of aircraft? Other examples of this one-word aircraft type include the Gotha G.IV, Avro Lancaster, Junkers Ju 88, and Consolidated B-24 Liberator.
Each of these models is a type of BOMBER. We skipped examples made by Boeing, such as the B-17 Flying Fortress, which may have been more recognizable.
5) Stevie Nicks is represented by “lace” and Don Henley is represented by WHAT contrasting material in the title and lyrics of a 1981 duet by the two, a single from Nicks’s solo debut studio album Bella Donna?
The song is “LEATHER and Lace.”
The song was originally written for WHAT “outlaw” and his wife, who is not Lisa? The answer’s at the end of this newsletter.1
6) The answers to Questions #1 through #5 of this newsletter could precede WHAT sartorial word?
Dust, Smoking, Yellow, Bomber, and Leather are all words one might sensibly place before the word “JACKET.” Our newsletter title (G-Man or X-Man) featured a couple of examples of a letterman—like a letterman jacket.
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“Leather and Lace” was originally written for WAYLON JENNINGS and JESSI COLTER—Colter’s biggest hit was the 1975 song “I’m Not Lisa.”