Sunday, January 17, 2016

17 Jan, 2016: Day 33

Question 1:
What term is given to the border between the Central Alps and the Southern Limestone Alps? Answer: Periadriatic Seam.


Begin by inputting border Central Alps Southern Limestone Alps into the search field. Some the search results will contain the answer upon closer inspection.

Question 2:
On the flag of Angola, the symbol with a half circle shape is part of three symbols, collectively chosen to relate to the flag of what former county? Answer: Soviet Union.


This question would not be a challenge for those who were older than high school age after 1992. Begin by inputting flag angola meaning. If you dig around in the search results you'll see references to hammers and sickles, communist iconography from the Bolsheviks.

Question 3:
What is the stage name of the man who is the father of the actor who played the journalist Jane Craig was attracted to? Answer: Parkyakarkus.


"What was the pseudonym of the actor's father who had a crush on the female lead in Broadcast News?"

This is what Google wanted you to understand. If you have not noticed they presented a badly worded question. The obfuscatical leaps the writer took on this question tempted me to skip it if it was not for the fact they got it wrong.

In the movie Broadcast News Holly Hunter's character, Jane Craig, was the center of a love triangle between two men: Aaron Altman (Albert Brooks) and Tom Grunick (William Hurt). Both men were attracted to Craig, but Craig initially drawn to Grunick. The father of William Hurt worked in the US Department of State's Foreign Service. The correct answer, if you use my question, can be found on Aaron Altman's Wikipedia entry.

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