Thanks to Patrick Iber, who has authored a few of our newsletters lately, for again writing today’s questions and helping us keep this show (mostly) on the road during a hectic summer!
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1) She was born Lesley Hornby in Neasden, Middlesex, in 1949. By 1966, when she weighed 51 kilograms, she was internationally famous. She retired in 1970, declaring “You can't be a clothes hanger all your life.” By WHAT NAME was she generally known?
2) The Max Weinberg 7 were to Conan O'Brien as WHAT is to Jimmy Fallon?
3) The volume of WHAT solid can be obtained by multiplying pi, the solid’s height, and the square of the radius of the solid’s base, and then dividing by three?
4) A musical revue ran on Broadway from 1937 to 1940 (and was revived in 1978) with the sponsorship of the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union. Many of the original cast were cutters, basters, and sewing machine operators, who became full-time actors as the musical experienced success. WHAT WAS THE THREE-WORD TITLE of the musical, which is often used to describe a usually transient and self-limited form of paresthesia?
5) WHAT is the full name (first and last) of the legendary baseball executive credited with originally developing the farm system as well as signing Jackie Robinson, famously telling Robinson that he was looking for a man who “had guts enough not to fight back”?
6) WHAT prominent Hollywood actor, who is 42 years old and who is perhaps best known for playing a role originated by another actor decades earlier, is most closely associated with the theme of this newsletter?
Trivia Newsletter CLI Recap
1) WHAT English name is the Swiss Neoclassical painter born in 1741 whose works include Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus and Miranda and Ferdinand typically known by? A friend of Joshua Reynolds and Jean-Paul Marat, she, together with Mary Moser, was one of two female painters among the founding members of the Royal Academy in London in 1768.
This is ANGELICA KAUFFMAN:
A child prodigy who was producing commissioned portraits in her early teens, Kauffman was trained by her father, the muralist Johann Joseph Kauffman (b. 1707, Schwarzenberg, Austria). During the early 1760s, she traveled through Switzerland, Austria, and Italy working as her father’s assistant. This transient life provided her the rare opportunity for a woman to see and copy many classical and Renaissance masterworks and to meet leaders of the popular new movement known as Neoclassicism.
During a three-year stay in Italy, Kauffman made her reputation as a painter of portraits; she also produced history paintings. Recognition of her accomplishments is indicated by her election to Rome’s Accademia di San Luca in 1765. In 1766, Kauffman moved to London, where she achieved immediate success as a portraitist. Over the next 16 years, she exhibited regularly at the prestigious Royal Academy and worked for a glittering array of aristocratic and royal patrons.
In 1781, Kauffman married the painter Antonio Zucchi, who succeeded her father as her business manager. By the time of her death, she had achieved such renown that her funeral was directed by the prominent Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova, who based it on the funeral of the Renaissance master Raphael.
2) NAME the individual who, in addition to competing in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, has published the following three books: Uncovering the Dome (about the construction of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome), The Senator Next Door: A Memoir from the Heartland, and Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age.
This is AMY KLOBUCHAR. “Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome” is a clue for Minnesota, which may have helped you get to the right answer—we talked about that a bit in the recap for Trivia Newsletter LXXXIV last year.
Plenty could be said about Klobuchar, but let’s go with this:
Besides wandering into the men's room, the other story Amy likes to tell about her first day as a U.S. senator is about the first lunch she attended with the Democratic caucus. “There I am,” she says in a car on the way to some event in the Minnesota sticks, “I've got eight senators at my table. I get some soup and salad, and I bring it back to the table, and I'm thinking, ‘I'm in the LBJ Room!’ I'm ready to dive into my soup. And Patty Murray [senator from Washington State] grabs my arm and says, ‘Amy, you just took the entire bowl of Thousand Island dressing, and you're about to eat it.’ And I said, ‘That's what we do in Minnesota!’”
3) The 1927 film Love, starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert and based on an 1877 novel, featured an alternate ending for some American audiences wherein, in lieu of the novel’s tragic ending, Garbo’s and Gilbert’s characters reunite. Garbo would play the same role in WHAT 1935 film that shares its name with the underlying novel and Garbo’s character?
This is ANNA KARENINA.
According to one source, the working title for the film Love was “Heat” (and not just, you know, Anna Karenina), but the filmmakers decided to go in a different direction in order to avoid confusion with the Al Pacino/Robert De Niro film released 68 years later.
Here is Wikipedia’s summary of the happy ending of Love:
For three years, the lovers do not see each other but Vronsky searches frantically for Anna. By chance, he reads in a newspaper that Anna's son is at the Military Academy in St. Petersburg and visits him, learning that Karenin has died and that Anna visits her son daily. They meet and are reunited.
4) Fashion designer Hannah Golofsky, better known by WHAT name, had her designs sold in hundreds of American department stores by the late 1970s? She was the only woman invited to participate in the historic Battle of Versailles fashion show in 1973.
This is ANNE KLEIN.
This piece on the Battle of Versailles seems incredibly thorough. Here’s a preview:
It was the press who dubbed Versailles a “battle.” Looking back, it’s clear that indeed the event was only fractionally about dresses, which is why it has continued to be analyzed and its significance has been best appreciated in hindsight. Versailles followed the lines of a hero’s tale, where the underdog comes out on top. It was also very much focused on a series of verses related not to good/evil or might/right, but culture clashes, both within the industry and society at large.
Versailles opposed the new world belief in meritocracy and the old world’s rigid, hierarchical, often monarchical class system. It also highlighted the divide between commerce (Seventh Avenue) and art (haute couture); ready-to-wear (which was aligned with more casual and liberated modes of living for women) and exclusive and time-intensive made-to-order. More than that, the event reflected some of the diversity of the U.S., and provided an international stage for the Black Is Beautiful movement, as 10 of the 36 models and one of the five designers on “team” red, white, and blue, were African-American.
The legacy of Versailles has been carefully considered in a book by Robin Givhan and a film by Deborah Riley Draper. Ahead of Ford’s cinematic interpretation of the event through extant garments, we trace the history of the event as reported in newspapers and periodicals at the time.
5) A girl was on fire when in 2008 the song “Like You’ll Never See Me Again” replaced “No One” at #1 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart; of course, it was not “Unthinkable” that WHAT artist, who performed both songs, would again be seen at #1?
This is ALICIA KEYS.
“Alicia Keys will be the first to tell you: There’s no secret ingredient, no magic elixir, no single product that will fix your skin — or your life, for that matter,” says this article, two paragraphs after hawking a specific skin-care product.
6) This newsletter alludes to WHAT connection shared by Guatemala, Haiti, Bolivia, and (specifically) Mozambique, and no other member states of the United Nations?
These are the four nations that have FIREARMS ON THEIR NATIONAL FLAGS. Each of the answers to Questions #1 through #5 had the initials “AK,” and Mozambique has an AK-47 on its flag:
The newsletter title, “Today Was a Good Day,” alluded to the same-named Ice Cube song, which includes the line “Today I didn't even have to use my AK.”
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