Hi—due to real-life and work obligations, we’re a bit slowed down lately. Trivia Newsletter CXXIX will be released on Thursday, March 16th. Today, as a placeholder, here are six general-knowledge trivia questions from our cutting-room floor. There is no theme, this set won’t count for the Question #6 Leaderboard, and we haven’t set up a submission form; this set is just something to tide you over, similar to what we’ve done in the past (Pack 1, Pack 2, Pack 3).
1) Top Gun: Maverick and All Quiet on the Western Front are the first films to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture that have all five vowels (A, E, I, O, U) in their titles since WHAT film, directed by a person who also has all five vowels in their name?
2) The comic strips Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem and Patty Jo ‘n’ Ginger were created by WHAT artist, also an inductee of the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame, who is generally credited as being the first female African-American cartoonist?
3) DJ Bauer, Michael Beller, Lukas Harkins, Joe Lunardi, and Jerry Palm are among the most famous practitioners of WHAT twelve-letter predictive science, so to speak, that is particularly in vogue in March of each year?
4) In 2008, Apple introduced its iPhone 3G model. Last year, the iPhone 14 was introduced. Between 3 and 14, WHAT is the only number that Apple “skipped” in the naming of its iPhone models? (For purposes of this question, you can count the iPhone X as the “iPhone 10.”)
5) The U.S. State Department’s requirements relating to a K-1 nonimmigrant visa provide the basis of WHAT television show that has been airing since 2014 and which has had over a dozen spinoffs, such as Pillow Talk, Just Landed, and Self-Quarantine?
6) Nettilling Lake is generally recognized as the world’s largest lake (by area) that is on an island. NAME the island on which Nettilling Lake is located; the island is named after an English explorer known for seeking out the Northwest Passage.
Trivia Newsletter CXXVIII Recap
We’ll have more to say about Trivia Newsletter CXXVIII next time, but the solution to the Wordle grid was “CRANE.”
Question #6 Leaderboard
The Question #6 leaderboard can be viewed at this link. [We’ll again be one newsletter behind, but we’ll be caught up by Thursday.]