TNPG Question Thread

[Bob Juch]

5. Put these steps in the beer-making process in order, starting with the earliest:

1. Germination of barley
2. fermentation
3. Mashing
4. Pasteurization

Spoiler

Apparently, it's 1342. Who knew you would pasteurize before you ferment? Doesn't seem very hygienic to me. I put in 1324.

Spoiler

Sure, you don't want anything else fermenting (including batertia) besides the yeast you add.

[hf_jai]

Night 5

First question-put words in order to make an American holiday tradition 2 Macy's 3. Thanksgiving 1 Day 4. Parade. EZ.

On to question 2: Put these military schools in order by location, starting out West.

1. Annapolis (Navy)
2. West Point (Army)
3. Colorado Springs (Air Force)
4. New London (Coast Guard)

It's not 3214, which I put in. I heard Sad Fred again.

Yikes, that was a tough one for a Q2. I looked up the towns in Wiki and got the following lattitudes:

1. Annapolis (Navy) -- 76°30′4.17″W
2. West Point (Army) -- 74°2′34″W
3. Colorado Springs (Air Force) -- didn't bother
4. New London (Coast Guard) -- 72°05′58″W

So that would make it 3124. I would not have thought Annapolis was farther west than West Point.

[chad1m]

My mother's first night playing TNPG:

Put these laundry cycles in order, starting with the first:
1) Presoak
2) Spin
3) Wash
4) Rinse

Answers

1) Presoak
3) Wash
4) Rinse
2) Spin

Put these authors in order of birth, starting with the earliest:
1) Norman Mailer
2) Ralph Waldo Emerson
3) John Grisham
4) Robert Louis Stevenson

Answers

4) Robert Louis Stevenson
2) Ralph Waldo Emerson
1) Norman Mailer
3) John Grisham

Put these words in order to form the title of a James Bond movie song:
1) Your
2) For
3) Only
4) Eyes

Answers

2) For
1) Your
4) Eyes
3) Only

Put these dancing movies in order of release.
1) Footloose
2) Save the Last Dance
3) Saturday Night Fever
4) Singin' in the Rain

Answers + commentary

We're fairly certain he said "starting with the earliest", so we punched in the correct answer which would be:
4) Singin' in the Rain
3) Saturday Night Fever
1) Footloose
2) Save the Last Dance

We were declared wrong, even though the screen display confirms we punched in the right order. Either a) the answers were put in incorrectly or b) he may have actually said "starting with the most recent", which means the answer was actually:

2) Save the Last Dance
1) Footloose
3) Saturday Night Fever
4) Singin' in the Rain

, either way.

[hcethatsme]

I forgot to call in yesterday... we were on the road. Tonight:

1 Rap group:

1. Run
2. C
3. D
4. M

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1342

2 Battles earliest to recent:

1 Hastings
2 Gettysburg
3 Bunker Hill
4 Iwo Jima

Spoiler

1324

3 Ailments head to toe:

1 Laryngitis
2 Appendicitis
3 Bronchitis
4 Retinitis

Spoiler

4132

4 Journalists by birthdate, recent to older:

1 Walter Cronkite
2 Tom Wolfe (? I think - wrote Wolfe)
3 William Randolph Hearst
4 George Will

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I thought I answered 4213 but got Sad Fred. So either I fat-fingered it or it wasn't Tom Wolfe, because from what I can tell that would be correct (Cronkite 1916, Wolfe 1931, Hearst 1863, Will 1941.

[plasticene]

SPLASH!!! Everything was straightforward tonight. What a relief!

Q1: Arrange the letters to form the name of a popular weekly news magazine

1 I
2 T
3 M
4 E

Spoiler

2134

Q2: Songs from movie musicals, from earliest

1 Can You Feel the Love Tonight
2 Hopelessly Devoted to You
3 We're Off to See the Wizard
4 Singin' in the Rain

Spoiler

3421

Q3: Events in history, from earliest

1 First Crusade
2 Paul Revere's Ride
3 The Spanish Inquisition [I wasn't expecting that!]
4 Cromwell's dissolution of Parliament

Spoiler

1342

Q4: South American cities, from North to South

1 Buenos Aires, Argentina
2 Caracas, Venezuela
3 Quito, Ecuador
4 La Paz, Bolivia

Spoiler

2341

Q5: TV Characters, from earliest

1 Brandon Walsh
2 Felicity Porter
3 Liz Lemon
4 Tootie Ramsey

Spoiler

4123

I originally mistyped the answer to Q5 as

Spoiler

4132

[goongas]

For TV characters I think it is 4123. 30 Rock came after Felicity.

[Bob78164]

Fat-brained a Question 1.

Question 1:

Place the following observances in the order of their length, starting with the shortest.

1. Kwanzaa
2. Lent
3. Good Friday
4. Ramadan

Spoiler

3142, not 3124.

Five days down, five to go. --Bob

[gailmail5]

This is from Thursday night - OTC, finally!

1 # of seats starting with least:

1 Car
2 Bicycle
3 Stadium
4 Airplane

Spoiler

2143

2 # of English-speakers, starting with most:

1 US
2 Jamaica
3 UK
4 Canada

Spoiler

1342

3 Year of the document starting with earliest:

1 Emancipation Proclamation
2 UN charter
3 Bill of Rights
4 Magna Carta

Spoiler

4312

4 Movie release date starting with earliest:

1 Sixth Sense
2 Men in Black
3 In The Line of Fire
4 Usual Suspects

Spoiler

3421

5 Sci Fi writers birth, starting with earliest (Spock's Law saved me on this one!):

1 McCaf-something - didn't know the writer
2 Jules Verne
3 HG Wells
4 Ray Bradbury

Spoiler

2341

OTC for 7/31!

[MVLease]

THUD! Man, it hurts when you try to jump into the pool and find it drained of water!

Q1 Arrange words to form the title of a book
1. Excellence
2. In
3. Of
4. Search

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2-4-3-1. In Search of Excellence, only thing I worried about was the ol' fat-finger!

Q2 Arrange these diet soft drinks in order of their introduction, starting with the earliest
1. Fresca
2. Diet Coke
3. Pepsi One
4. Tab

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4-1-2-3. Tab and Fresca were really close (1963) from what I was able to find, but I guessed correctly that Tab came first. Diet Coke and Pepsi One were easy.

Q3 Arrange these terms in the order they came into popular use, starting with the earliest
1. Rock & Roll
2. Drive-in
3. Latte
4. Microbrew

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Apparently it was 2-1-4-3. I put 2-1-3-4, and got Sad Fred. Drive-in was 1930s, Rock & Roll 1940s, Microbrew was 1970's (I thought it was later than that), and Latte I haven't been able to pin down, but I presume it was relatively recent.

Sigh.... Well, with speakerphone on and a quiet house (I was up later than everyone else), the cordless handset wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Still, I'll do Sunday night on from work again; I like that better.

-Mike

[Bob78164]

1 McCaf-something - didn't know the writer
2 Jules Verne
3 HG Wells
4 Ray Bradbury

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2341

OTC for 7/31!

Congratulations! The first answer choice is probably Anne McCaffrey. --Bob

[zachhoran1]

I got my five on THursday, Can't remember the questions. I do recognize a few of the questions from either this board or years ago for WWTBAM or SUperBAM qualifying. July 20th.

[Phil Ken Sebbin]

Q5: Novels from the time period portrayed, from earliest
1. The Sun Also Rises
2. Red Badge of Courage
3. Catcher in the Rye
4. The Age of Innocence

Shouldn't this be 2-4-1-3?

I think bazodee is correct. According to wiki, it should go

Red Badge of Courage (Civil War - 1860s)
The Age of Innocence (1870s)
The Sun also Rises (1920s)
Catcher in the Rye (I'm a bit fuzzy on this on but I think current day when it was written so 1940s)

[Bob78164]

I got my five on THursday, Can't remember the questions. I do recognize a few of the questions from either this board or years ago for WWTBAM or SUperBAM qualifying. July 20th.

Congratulations! Which tape date? Please add yourself to the OTC List thread. --Bob

[VAdame]

rmadilo's questions, best she can remember:

Q1 - Birth, s/w earliest:

1 Charlemagne
2 Charlie Chaplin
3 Prince Charles
4 Charles II of England

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1423

Q2 Novels, s/w earliest:

1 The Color Purple
2 Ann of Green Gables
3 Runaway Jury (huh, that's not a color!)
4 Somthing with a "C"

Spoiler

2413

Q3 - Lifespans, shortest to longest

1 Mouse
2 Elephant
3 Goat
4 Chimp
She says it was

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1324

-- but I'd have to question that. Elephants and chimps can both live pretty long but I thought the record for elephants was in the mid-80s and chimps only to the mid-70s (Cheeta.)

Q4 - Screen couples kiss, s/w earliest

1 Michael and Fredo
2 Jack and Rose
3 Harry and Sally
4 Someone starting w/ "R" (I bet is was Rhett and Scarlett!)

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4132

Q5 - Bands, earliest US debut:

1 Supremes
2 Black Crows
3 Outkast
4 Culture Club

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1423

(Pretty EZ Q5 if ya ask me -- which no one did )

[Kazoo65]

Me and Fred aren't getting along.

1. Put these historic quotes in order, starting with the earliest.

1. four score and seven years ago
2. give me liberty or give me death
3. 1000 points of light
4 Et tu, Brute

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4213

2. Put these animals in order by average adult weight starting with the heaviest (this is where I goofed up).

1. beaver
2. kangaroo rat
3. white tailed deer
4. pilot whale.

I put in 4321 but got Sad Fred-again. I think it should be 4312.

[mrkelley23]

Sigh.

1. Put these words in order to form a musical work:

1. In
2. B
3. Mass
4. Minor

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3124

2. Put these parts of a dog in anatomical order starting with the head:

1. Muzzle
2. tail
3. loin
4. withers

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1432

3. Put these cartoon characters in order of their first television appearance starting with the most recent:

1. Charlie Brown
2. Wilma Flintstone
3. Bart Simpson
4. Fat Albert

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Apparently Wilma predates Charlie Brown. Who knew? I put in 3421 and got Sad Fred.

[gsabc]

Q5: Novels from the time period portrayed, from earliest
1. The Sun Also Rises
2. Red Badge of Courage
3. Catcher in the Rye
4. The Age of Innocence

Shouldn't this be 2-4-1-3?

You're right. Ignorance as well as incorrect fingering, then.

[heyrocky]

For all those that want to feel better about their evening, try this Q1:

Arrange these phrases in order to form the title of a children's book:
1. Red Fish
2. One Fish
3. Two Fish
4. Blue Fish

I was showing my ten year old daughter the phone game, and for some reason stopped writing after One Fish when I realized I wasn't sure of the answer. My daughter told me the title, but I wasn't sure how Two and Blue fit in slots three and four. As you have undoubtedly figured out, I guessed wrong.

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2314, in case you don't have kids...

[gsabc]

Regressing, but at least legitimately. Seemed a bit tough for a Q2.

Q1: Words by # of syllables, from fewest
1. Syllable (cute one, Fred)
2. Strength
3. Summer
4. Superhero

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2314. Fortunately I remembered what the first word was, because I sure couldn't read it.

Q2. Wonders of the Modern World, from earliest
1. Panama Canal
2. Astrodome
3. Golden Gate Bridge
4. Empire State Building

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1432. Thought the Golden Gate (1937) was older than the Empire State (1931).

I'll see if I can at least film my video tomorrow, in the midst of all the other Sunday chores. Sure hope I can learn Windows Movie Maker quickly.

[NellyLunatic1980]

Night #5

Put the following levels of the volcanic explosivity index in order of intensity, starting with the lowest:
1. gentle
2. supercolossal
3. severe
4. cataclysmic

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WTF kind of a first question is this?!

I punched 1-3-2-4 and heard Sad Fred cackle, "Ha ha ha! Wrong again, loser! Try 'Wheel of Fortune' instead!"

Apparently, cataclysmic is less intense than supercolossal.

[drjoe1e6]

I think we need a correction...

Q3 - Technological advances from earliest
1- Electric fan
2- mercury thermometer
3-helicopter
4- cotton gin

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4213

And I also might have put the mercury thermometer before the cotton gin.

Hbomb, your instincts are correct. I got this one as Q3 tonight, entered the order listed above, and got Sad Fred.
A little research shows Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer in 1724. Eli Whitney got his patent in 1794.

Corrected answer is

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2413

Bummer, I was cruising with Edna St Vincent Millay as Q1, and had a cupcake for Q2... next time, for sure!!
-Dr Joe

[hcethatsme]

1 Timepieces in order of invention, earliest first:

1 Pendulum clock
2 Digital watch
3 Waterproof watch
4 Sundial

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4132

2 Animals in order of weight, heaviest first:

1. Kangaroo rat
2. Beaver
3. Pilot whale
4. White-tailed deer

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3421

3 Keys on a computer keyboard, left to right:

1 w
2 e
3 p
4 q

Aaargh--I am terrible with answering spatial questions quickly. I had a keyboard right here and made the mistake of looking at it. I should have "typed" the letters to myself. I won't do it again... don't remember what I answered, but got Sad Fred. Should have been

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4123

. Kicking myself that I didn't think fast enough--really a very easy question! Not that many days left, either...

[ToLiveIsToFly]

Friday night I was at a bachelor party and suddenly realized I hadn't tried for the day. I got to question 4 but I was a bit tipsy and have no idea where the paper I was scribbling on ended up or what the questions were.

Saturday night:

Q1. Put the following stages in human development in order, starting with the earliest:
1. embryo
2. infant
3. adult
4. adolescent

Spoiler

1-2-4-3

Q2. Put the following sections of a book published in the United States in order, starting with the front:
1. title page
2. front cover
3. foreward
4. back cover

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2-1-3-4

Q3. Put the following poets in chronological order of their births, starting with the earliest:
1. Sappho
2. John Milton
3. Maya Angelou (this made me feel lucky - I had a category about her on Jeopardy)
4. Emily Dickinson

Spoiler

1-2-4-3, again

Q4. Put the following cities in order by their distance from Beijing, starting with the closest:
1. Tokyo
2. Los Angeles
3. Moscow
4. Washington, DC

Spoiler

1-3-2-4

Q5. Put the following states in order by the dates of their statehood, starting with the earliest:
1. Arizona
2. Ohio
3. Delaware
4. Kansas

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3-2-4-1

So I think I'm in the pool (what the hell does OTC stand for anyway), but see the thread I created for more (possibly shitty) details. I selected 7/31 as my taping date. Maybe I can meet BBs while I'm there if I get called, but I grew up in Northern NJ, which means I have a lot of family and friends there, so my free time is usually overscheduled with minimal input from me.

We could really use it, though. Margy was laid off back in November, and the more time she spends home with Frankie, the less she wants to ever go back to work, I have a nonprofit job that I love to death but which doesn't pay that well, Chicago ain't that cheap, and Frankie won't be an only child come February.

[Estonut]

what the hell does OTC stand for anyway

I've been assuming it's "on the clock."

[Estonut]

Questions are paraphrased as well as memory and chicken scratches allow.

Friday night (7/10/09):

Q1. Put the following words in order to form the name of a place:
1. Dakota
2. South
3. City
4. Rapid

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4-3-2-1

Q2. Put the following literary detectives in the order of their first appearance in print, starting with the earliest:
1. Kinsey Millhone (looked up spelling of last name later)
2. Sherlock Holmes
3. Sam Spade
4. Javert

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4-2-3-1 I was hesitant punching this in, and I think I stutter-punched #3 twice