13 Jul 2018, Day 102

Question 1:
Of the five NASA space shuttles, which one flew the most missions? Answer: Discovery.

Please see Day 90 for the explanation.

Question 2:
Who is known as the "father" of the country whose national drink is a strong alcoholic beverage made from pomace? Answer: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

Please see Day 36 for the explanation.

Question 3:
The Indian river basin that includes approximately 25% of the country's area is bound by what mountain range to the south? Answer: Vindhya.

Please see Day 40 for the explanation.

17 Nov 2017, Day 90

Question 1:
A few weeks after the birth of Michelangelo, his family returned to an Italian city that is the capital of the what region? Answer: Tuscany.

Please see Day 11 for the explanation.

Question 2:
What is the source of the pressure that has caused coyotes, which were once essentially diurnal, to adjust to a more nocturnal behavior? Answer: humans.

There's not much in the world that humans have not placed some pressures on nature, coyotes being adaptable are no exception. For the quick answer, try coyote nocturnal pressure.

Question 3:
Of the five NASA space shuttles, which one flew the most missions? Answer: Discovery.

I don't know if it's AGoolgeADay that is prompting an answer to this question or what. Nonetheless, use space shuttle most missions.

03 Jan, 2016: Day 24

Question 1:
What left-handed outfielder, pinch-hitter and first baseman, with a colorful nickname, played his final game in September of 1963? Answer: Whitey Herzog.

This one required me to look at some reference websites to answer this. Okay first, I need a website that has stats of baseball players. Yea, I could use Wikipedia, except some of their information is going to be incomplete(like is a player left or right handed). Instead, let's use baseball-reference.com and have Google search it for the answer. Type left outfielder pinch-hitter and first baseman 1963 site:baseball-reference.com. In the first page of search results there are two candidates: Whitey Herzog and Tito Francona. I tried the former, which ended it right there.

Question 2:
If the names of NASA's space shuttles are listed alphabetically, how many missions were flown by the fourth one on the list? Answer: 39.

I'm getting tired from my dig in class notes for sports reference sites. This time I'm going to use Wikipedia to answer this. You need a list of orbiters, finding any information will draw you to a general page: Space Shuttle orbiter. There you find a list of orbiters in sequence of construction: Enterprise, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. Going to the Wikipedia page of the correct orbiter and looking at the number of completed missions will give you an answer.

Question 3:
What poem title did T. S. Eliot say he created by combining the titles of a romance by William Morris with the title of a Rudyard Kipling poem? Answer: The Hollow Men.

Type TS Eliot poem William Morris title Rudyard Kipling into the search field. Now we have the title of this literary chimera.