18 Jul 2018, Day 105

Question 1:
In the 219th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, what planet's borders were said to be recognizable from space? Answer: Earth.

Please see Day 61 for the explanation.

Question 2:
What is the name of the facility where Holly goes each week to visit Salvatore Tomato? Answer: Sing Sing.

Please see Day 31 for the explanation.

Question 3:
What is the last line of the poem in which the famous line about "Mistah Kurtz" is used as an epigraph? Answer: Not with a bang but a whimper.

Please see Day 85 for the explanation.

11 Nov 2017, Day 85

Question 1:
In the biography, "From Genesis to Growing Up", Chapter 14 discusses Surrealism in what Peter Gabriel song? Answer: Sledgehammer.

This is going to be a bit tedious, so bear with me. Type biography "From Genesis to Growing Up" into the search field to find the book written by Sarah Hill. Google Books has a copy scanned online for quick research. Go the book preview and in the "search in this book" field type Chapter 14, which is called "Plasticine Music: Surrealism in Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer'". If you never seen the video you can watch it here. It's a wonder and fun example of pop culture surrealism.

Question 2:
Who was appointed to the High Court of Australia on the same day that the first woman was appointed to that bench? Answer: John Toohey.

Please see Day 10 for the explanation..

Question 3:
What is the last line of the poem in which the famous line about "Mistah Kurtz" is used as an epigraph? Answer: Not with a bang but a whimper.

The question provided all the clues for a one line query. Type poem "Mistah Kurtz" epigraph into the search field. The answer is T.S. Eliot's poem, The Hollow Men. The poem is within one of the links on the search page, scrol to the end of the 98 line work for the answer.

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.