TNPG Question Thread

[chad1m]

Put these inventions in the order they debuted, starting with the earliest.
1) Typewriter
2) Mercury thermometer
3) Garbage disposal
4) Sundial

Answers

4) Sundial
2) Mercury thermometer
1) Typewriter
3) Garbage disposal

Put these albums in the order they debuted, starting with the earliest.
1) Thriller
2) Rubber Soul
3) *NSYNC
4) Billy Joel / Piano Man

Answers

2) Rubber Soul
4) Billy Joel / Piano Man
1) Thriller
3) *NSYNC

Put these famous names in the order of birth, starting with the earliest.
1) Spike Lee
2) Robert E. Lee
3) Peggy Lee
4) Bruce Lee

Spoiler

2) Robert E. Lee
3) Peggy Lee
4) Bruce Lee
1) Spike Lee

Put these novels in the order they debuted, starting with the earliest.
1)The Good Earth
2) Cold Mountain
3) The Bridge over the River Kwai
4) Under the Volcano

Answers + commentary

1)The Good Earth
4) Under the Volcano
3) The Bridge over the River Kwai
2) Cold Mountain

Had absolutely no idea and was running out of time, so put 4-3-2-1 and hoped for the best, but after realizing #1 was by Pearl Buck as I was punching the numbers in, I realized I was screwed. If I'd have remembered that, I think I would've put her first and the rest backwards and I would've made it to #5.

[SportsFan68]

Q4: Put these mountains in geographic order, starting in Asia and going west.
1. Mont Blanc
2. Mt. Shasta
3. Mt. Washington
4. Mt. Sinai

Spoiler

4132

Q5: Put these photographers in chron order, starting with the earliest.
1. Man Ray
2. Matthew Brady
3. Ansel Adams
4. Jacob Riis

Spoiler

2413

Both of these woulda killed me. Hmmm, closest to Asia . . . hmmmmmmmmm Bzzzzzzzzzt!

Ansel Adams is the only one of these I've heard of. Not that I ever get there . . . .

[takinover]

Q1. Put the nickname of famous poet in order

1. The
2. Of
3. Belle
4. Amherst

Spoiler

1324

As best as I can remember it

Q2. Put the following weather warnings in order starting with least severe

1. Storm Warning
2. Small Craft Warning
3. Hurricane Warning
4. Gale Warning

I think I went 1243. Not really sure. Oh well.

[VAdame]

Monday night, fat-fingered National Institutes Of Health.

Tuesday night, again......15th Century event:
1 The
2 Of
3 War (or Wars?)
4 Roses

I hit 1, "The..." Auuugghhh!

Should be

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3214

But tonight -- with speakerphone instead of the other one, it went much better

Fred was my friend tonight -- all my Q's were "earliest to most recent."

Q1 - a City: Salt Lake City, Utah

Q2 - Advertising methods, earliest to latest:

1 Sandwich Board
2 Television
3 Internet
4 Radio

Spoiler

1423

Q3 - Literary Characters, starting w/ earliest:

1 Peter Pan
2 Atticus Finch
3 Heathcliff (presumably the Wuthering Heights guy, not the cat!)
4 Lady MacBeth

Spoiler

4312 (Shakespeare, mid-19th Century, early 20th, 1960)

Q4 - Oscar-winning songs, starting earliest:

1 Arthur's Theme
2 Theme from Shaft
3 Let the River Run
4 My Heart Will Go On

Spoiler

2134 (1971, 1981, 1988, 1997) BTW, I'd never heard of #3, nor seen the movie (Working Girl), but figured there was a heckuva lot of room between 1981 and 1997, so it probably belongs there. It did.)

Q5 - Travolta Characters, starting w/ earliest: (Yay! Thanks, Fred!)

1 Tony Manero
2 Vincent Vega
3 Edna Turnblad (yes!)
4 Gov. Jack Stanton (woo hoo!)

Spoiler

1243 (Sat. Night Fever 1977, Pulp Fiction 1994, Primary Colors - late 90s, Hairspray 2007)

Leah's Qs:

Monday, Q1, movie title:

1 Bad
2 The
3 News
4 Bears

It was her first time playing, and she didn't realize exactly how fast "10 seconds" go by when you're staring at a phone instead of punching numbers! So she timed out, but it's

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2134

Tuesday, a respectable effort -- but I just realized I can't read her shorthand!

But her Q3 was the singers birth order perviously mentioned of:

1 Ricky Martin
2 Tina Turner
3 Adam Lambert (?)
4 Sting

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2413

Neither of us had a friggin' clue who #3 is. Recent gay dude from American Idol? Couldn't pick him out of a lineup of 2.

ETA: I just deciphered her Q2:

Religious capitals -- I think it might have been going east from the Pacific?

1 Rome
2 Jerusalem
3 Mecca
4 - S.L. -- possibly Salt Lake City??

I won't post an answer as I'm not sure of the starting point nor of #4.

[plasticene]

I'm out on Q4 tonight.

Q1: Movie title

1 You
2 While
3 Sleeping
4 Were

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2143

Q2: Literary characters from earliest

1 Willy Loman
2 Willy Wonka
3 Ichabod Crane
4 Hannibal Lecter

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3124

Q3 Disney songs from earliest

1 When You Wish Upon a Star
2 Colors of the Wind
3 Hakuna Matata
4 A Whole New World

Spoiler

1432

Q4 Religions by number of adherents from most to least

1 Roman Catholicism
2 Judaism
3 Islam
4 Hinduism

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3142
I thought Roman Catholicism had the most, but Islam apparently overtook it just a few years ago.

OperaSinger, however, made it through all 5 questions, and is in the pool for July 29!

Q1 Stages of a wave, from earliest to latest

1 Wave build
2 Hits beach
3 Returns to sea
4 Reaches peak

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1423

Q2 Works of literature from earliest

1 Mystic River
2 Wuthering Heights
3 Little House on the Prairie
4 A Midsummer Night's Dream

Q3 States from west to east

1 Alabama
2 Texas
3 Louisiana
4 Florida

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2314

Q4 Robert de Niro movies from earliest

1 Analyze This
2 Taxi Driver
3 Casino
4 Raging Bull

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2431

Q5 Musical groups from earliest

1 The B-52s
2 98 Degrees
3 10,000 Maniacs
4 Boyz II Men

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1342

[jarnon]

Out on a nasty Q1

Q1 Put in order to form a 19th century poetry collection
1) from
2) sonnets
3) Portuguese
4) the

Huh?

[slam]

Out on a nasty Q1

Q1 Put in order to form a 19th century poetry collection
1) from
2) sonnets
3) Portuguese
4) the

Huh?

Spoiler

"Sonnets from the Portuguese" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The most famous one begins "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."

[VAdame]

Out on a nasty Q1

Q1 Put in order to form a 19th century poetry collection
1) from
2) sonnets
3) Portuguese
4) the

Huh?

It's

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2143

.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. It contains the famous "How do I love thee?" poem. Robert's pet name for her was "My Little Portuguese" so that's the origin of the name.

But yeah, they're all EZ if ya know 'em!

[MVLease]

Well, I got as far as Q4 tonight.

Q1. Parts of a car, front to back:
1. Door lock
2. Windshield
3. Trunk
4. Headlights

Spoiler

4-2-1-3. Easy, just praying not to fat-finger....

Q2. Movies, theatrical release, starting with the earliest: (uh-oh... Movies and non-classical Music are easily my weakest categories)
1. Three Amigos
2. School of Rock
3. Knocked Up
4. Ghostbusters

Spoiler

4-1-2-3. I knew Ghostbusters (1984) was first, and Three Amigos (1986) not long after. And I knew I'd heard of Knocked Up (2007) not too long ago. No clue on School of Rock (2003), so I applied the "Gap Rule" and swagged it correctly.

Q3. Literary detectives, order of appearance in print, starting with the earliest:
1. Sam Spade
2. Inspector Javert
3. Sherlock Holmes
4. Kinsey Millhone

Spoiler

2-3-1-4. Not too hard, my wife is a fan of Sue Grafton's "alphabet" novels, featuring Kinsey Millhone, and I had a good idea when the others were (Spade, 1930-ish; Javert, 19th century; Holmes, late 19th/early 20th century; Millhone, 1980's/1990's).

Q4. Artists, by year of birth, starting with the earliest:
1. Grandma Moses
2. Peter Max
3. Mary Cassatt
4. Frida Kahlo

Spoiler

3-1-4-2. Cassatt (1844), Moses (1860), Kahlo (1907), Max (1937); I was on firm ground with Cassatt and Moses, but swapped Max and Kahlo through sheer cluelessness.

[Insert Pinky and the Brain dialogue here....]

-Mike

[littlebeast13]

Q2. Put these Singers in the order they were named American Idol starting with the starting with the most recent

1. Ruben Studdard
2. Jordan Sparks
3. Kris Allen
4 Taylor Hicks

Spoiler

3 2 41 it think i hit 3 4 2 1

My Mom got that Q tonight and bragged about it since she is the big AI fan..... not that it helped her get past Q4.....

lb13

[littlebeast13]

Crashed and burned on Q2.

1. Put these words in order to make the title of a Tom Cruise movie. 2 All 4. The 3. Right 4. Moves

This one got me.

Put these aviation milestones in order starting with the earliest.

1. Yeager breaks sound barrier
2. Wright Brothers flight at Kitty Hawk
3. first airline food
4. Concorde debuts

I put 2134 and heard Sad Fred.

Should be

Spoiler

2314. The first airline food came from United Airlines in 1936.

I think they served that same food on my TWA flight in 2001.....

lb13

[littlebeast13]

Excellent job lb!!!! I might well have screwed up your geography question, not realizing that

Spoiler

Moscow is closer to Beijing than is L.A.

That was a nasty one! Is the width of Russia shorter than the width of the Pacific? With a couple seconds to think about it?

True, but (not that I realized it at the time) had LA been closer than Moscow, it would have been 1-2-3-4, and that's a no-no.....

lb13

[Estonut]

Crashed and burned on Q2.

1. Put these words in order to make the title of a Tom Cruise movie. 2 All 4. The 3. Right 4. Moves

This one got me.

Put these aviation milestones in order starting with the earliest.

1. Yeager breaks sound barrier
2. Wright Brothers flight at Kitty Hawk
3. first airline food
4. Concorde debuts

I put 2134 and heard Sad Fred.

Should be

Spoiler

2314. The first airline food came from United Airlines in 1936.

Interesting. That's the same year they broke Woody Guthrie's guitar...

[earendel]

elwing had a rough night, flaming out on the very first question.

Q1. Put these words in order by the number of syllables they contain, starting with the fewest.
1 - strength
2 - syllable
3 - superhero
4 - <something>

Spoiler

Rather than writing down the words, she wrote the number of syllables, 1-3-4-2, then promptly keyed in 1324 rather than the correct 1423.

[MarleysGh0st]

Just out of curiosity, is there any advantage to qualifying earlier, other than the peace of mind?

In this particular Phone Game, no, it makes no difference, since all of the taping dates will be available every day of the Phone Game. (In past versions, there were sometimes tape dates that were only available early on, so they might not have gotten so many qualifiers choosing them as other dates.)

That peace of mind thing might get more important, as the days go by. Stay calm! Stay focused! Breathe!

[BackInTex]

From the other days, but wanted to get it in here for others:

1) 2007 Made for TV Movie-> Musical; School; High; 2 (

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3214

)
2) Groups 1st album released from the earliers_> Wilson Philips; Won ton %&^&*^&*; Wham!; Wings (

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4312

)
3) Parts of an elephant, front to back-> Tusk; Hind Legs; Ears; Tail (

Spoiler

1324

)
4) Caloric value of fruits from High to Low-> (all cups I think) Watermelon; Pineapple; Bannana; Cantalope (

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3241

)


1) Events from Earliest->Great Fire of London:Great Expectations Published:Great Wall of China Built:Great Muppet Caper movie released (

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3124

)

2) Movies, earliest to latest (Heathers (

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88

), Girl Interupted (

Spoiler

99

) , Edward Scissorhands (

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90

), Reality Bites(

Spoiler

94

)) (

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1342

)

[gsn309]

2) Movies, earliest to latest (Heathers (), Girl Interupted () , Edward Scissorhands (), Reality Bites())

too bad for me you didn't post these yesterday afternoon. this was the question I bombed out on last night (although it was a q3 last night)

[Im_Ace]

My questions from last night:

1. To easy to print

2. Put these forests in order from West to East:

1. Ozark
2. Tahoe
3. Ocala
4. Black

2,4,1,3

3. Put these dates in Alaska history in order, starting with the earliest:

1. Alaska becomes a state
2. The Alaska pipeline is opened
3. Exxon Valdez spill
4. Alaskan Gold Rush

4,1,2,3

4. Put these parts of the spine in order, stating at the neck:

1. Cervical
2. Lumbar
3. Sacreal
4. Thorasic

1,4,2,3

Spoiler

I knew it, and I just fucked it up. I'm pissed.

Some other questions from last night:

Put these TV characters in order by when they first appeared, starting with the earliest:

1. Izzy Stephens
2. Sydney Briscoe
3. Dr. House
4. Ross Geller

I got it wrong (4,2,3,1).... probably should be 4,2,1,3 but I don't know

Here's a Q1 that I have no idea:

Name the following place in the US:

1. National
2. Devil
3. Monument
4. Tower

WTF??????

Put these museums in order from East to West:

1. Metropolitan Museum of Art
2. Field Museum
3. Rock 'n Roll Museum (or was it Hall of Fame?)
4. Liberace Museum

1,3,2,4

and here's a Q5 :

Put these basketball movies in order of their release, starting with the most recent:

1. White Men Can't Jump
2. Hoosiers
3. Air Bud
4. Coach Carter

4,3,1,2

Oh boy, I get to play again tonight.

:::: rolling my eyes ::::

[gsabc]

Here's a Q1 that I have no idea:

Name the following place in the US:

1. National
2. Devil
3. Monument
4. Tower

WTF??????

Should be "Devil's" on #2.

Spoiler

2413

Think "Close Encounters of the Third Kind".

[MarleysGh0st]

2. Put these forests in order from West to East:

1. Ozark
2. Tahoe
3. Ocala
4. Black

2,4,1,3

I thought the Black Forest was in Germany?

Did they mean the Black Hills, perhaps?

[VAdame]

ETA: I just deciphered her Q2:

Religious capitals -- I think it might have been going east from the Pacific?

1 Rome
2 Jerusalem
3 Mecca
4 - S.L. -- possibly Salt Lake City??

I won't post an answer as I'm not sure of the starting point nor of #4.

Leah confirms that #4 was Salt Lake City -- she thinks it was going east from the Pacific Ocean but isn't 100% sure on that. If so, it's

Spoiler

4123

.

Her Q1 was cultural phenomena, s/w earliest -- choices included Elvis Presley and the World Wide Web. Can't quite decipher or remember the other 2 but #4 looks like it might be Borat. Regardless, it was EZ.

[Sir_Galahad]

Q2. Put these Singers in the order they were named American Idol starting with the starting with the most recent

1. Ruben Studdard
2. Jordan Sparks
3. Kris Allen
4 Taylor Hicks

Spoiler

3 2 41 it think i hit 3 4 2 1

My Mom got that Q tonight and bragged about it since she is the big AI fan..... not that it helped her get past Q4.....

lb13

Now that's hysterical. I thought I just posted the other day how this would be my ideal Q5.

[traininvain]

Here are my Q's from last night, I recorded the whole ugly affair on my phone.

Arrange the following words to form the title of a song from the musical Ain’t Misbehavin’:

The
Joint
Is
Jumping

Put these movies in the order of their first theatrical release beginning with the most recent:

Me, Myself & Irene
Thelma & Louise
Smokey & The Bandit
Bonnie & Clyde

Put the following in order by their average temperature starting with the hottest:

Sun’s core
Bolt of lightning
Boiling water
Summer’s day

I knew the answer, but reversed bolt & boiling. When I played it back I can then be heard saying, “Damn” & “I fat fingered”. I realized afterward that hadn’t fat fingered but just couldn’t read my own handwriting and had just punched the order in wrong.

Where’s that video camera?

[hf_jai]

Q4: Put these mountains in geographic order, starting in Asia and going west.
1. Mont Blanc
2. Mt. Shasta
3. Mt. Washington
4. Mt. Sinai

Spoiler

4132

Q5: Put these photographers in chron order, starting with the earliest.
1. Man Ray
2. Matthew Brady
3. Ansel Adams
4. Jacob Riis

Spoiler

2413

Both of these woulda killed me. Hmmm, closest to Asia . . . hmmmmmmmmm Bzzzzzzzzzt!

Ansel Adams is the only one of these I've heard of. Not that I ever get there . . . .

I THINK I would have gotten the first one, but only because I know that Shasta is in California, so I would have assumed Mt Washington is farther east. But it's really a bad question (assuming Fred didn't read the states). I looked it up, just to see, and Wiki shows 15 different Mts Washington (peaks, not towns) in the US, to include 4 in Washington State and one in Oregon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pe ... Washington), as well as one in British Columbia. One of those in WA and the one in BC are both farther east than Mt Shasta.

I would have missed the second one. Never heard of Riis or Man Ray. The name of the latter sounds very modern (like Mancow?), but I would have assumed they were both younger than Ansel Adams, who was pretty old when he died and that was over 20 years ago.

[megaaddict]

07/08/09 Qs

Q1 -- Phrase
1 - Kindness
2 - Of
3 - Milk
4 - Human

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3241

Q2 -- People beginning with the oldliest/earldest/garden of eden/big bang/what Fred said
1 - Jesse Jackson
2 - Frederick Douglass
3 - Rosa Parks
4 - Eleanor Roosevelt

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2431

Q3 -- Products [or perhaps Brands] in order of where used on body, starting at the head.
1 - Sure
2 - Scope
3 - Bausch & Lomb
4 - Huggies

Spoiler

3214

Commentary

Nerves kicked in here. I thought it might be better to write down body parts, but didn't want to miss Fast Freddie's next clue. So ended up scribbling a lot of gibberish and completely forgot and was unable to decipher what the first answer was. But my brain knew the bottommost, and topmost and correctly inserted 1 into the largest gap in between.

Q4 -- Literary Works [Books?] from the earliest.
1 - King Lear
2 - Driving Miss Daisy
3 - Proof
4 - Our Town

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1423

[Saved by Spock's Law]

Q5 -- TV shows in order of where they took place starting in the north.
1 - Cheers
2 - Family Ties
3 - Designing Women
4 - The Jeffersons

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1423

Commentary

I'll be the first to admit it was a softball stack, but by this time I was starting to sweat. I drew a complete blank on the Family Ties location. Fortunately, the Manhattan/Deep South gap was irresistible and I'm listening to Happy Legal Fred!

I'm in the increasingly popular last chance callback pool for the 8/4 tape date. Woohoo!

The Keatons lived...

... in suburban Columbus Ohio.