Trivia Tuesday

~ As always, the night the English teacher is away is the night we get a really difficult English question.  However, when the least English-y person on the team guesses the right answer, and you learn by text message that the English teacher has no idea, you get very excited!  (For the record a rhopalic sentence is one where each word has one more letter than the word previous. - I've never heard this word before and most likely will never again...)

~ Deciding to read James and the Giant Peach a few weeks ago, was very much the correct Roald Dahl story to read.  Yay for children's lit questions!

~ Lo Stivale translates to boot in Italian.  I feel this will come in handy when I finally get to Italy as they're known for their leather goods, and what's better to buy in leather form than los stivales?

~ Who would have thought that all the jokes that were made at Melania Trump's expense - after she stole Michelle Obama's speech last week - would help us answer a question about famous alumni from Princeton?  Apparently, the Trump's are good for something...

~ The Detroit Redwings play at Joe Louis Arena.  You won't get half points for the Joe if you guess Joe Fraser, which is unfortunate.

~ The only opera I know anything about is La Boheme - seeing as Rent was based on it.  Thankfully, when asked question on A Night at the Opera, it was about La Boheme.  Yay Puccini! Your opera was the basis for one of the best musicals ever AND it helped us get points.

~ An Aviation Thermobaric Something Something Something bomb weighs a whole-stinking-lot.  If you attempt to posit that thermobaric means hot air and maybe it doesn't weigh much, you'll get no where and win no shots.

~ Tennis is apparently the only sport where it pays to be a woman rather than a man (or in the case of this final question, a horse.) The US Open Women's Tennis champion made $3.4 million,  while the US Open Men's Golf Champion made $1.8 million and the Derby winner made $1.24 million. I really should have taken up tennis...

~ I couldn't tell you where Iran on its surrounding countries were on a map, but I could tell you what Joe Cocker says his girlfriend should leave on and what sort of suit was mentioned in a swing song and a Who song.  (Hat & Zoot)  I feel my brain cells are not being used efficiently.