19 Jul 2018, Day 106

Question 1:
In November of 2011, on the soap "General Hospital", Dante puts an engagement ring on Lulu's finger as she is doing what kitchen chore? Answer: baking.

Start by looking with this search: November 2011 "General Hospital" Dante engagement Lulu. Hint: the answer is there, buried somewhere in the results on the first page. What is Lulu baking? Let me know in the comments.

Question 2:
The youngest child of Amasa Coleman Lee based a book character on which of her childhood friends? Answer: Truman Capote.

Please see Day 5 for the explanation.

Question 3:
Of the Maya ruins on Mexico's Caribbean coast, which is the most remote and best known for it's series of huge stucco masks? Answer: Kohunlich.

Place this in the search field: Mayan ruins stucco masks. You see many references to the ruins associated with the Temple of the Masks.

23 Feb, 2016: Day 70

Question 1:
What was Robert Brown looking at through a microscope when he found evidence of the 1827 scientific concept named in his honor? Answer: grains.

Google was being fairly difficult on this question, knowing that observing pollen through a microscope could mean looking at grains or spores. The concept that he witnessed is known as Brownian motion. When looking for the answer it's better to head to Wikipedia to see the biography of Robert Brown. Pay close attention to the Brownian motion portion.

Question 2:
Who, along with his wife, gave Harper Lee the gift of a year's wages so that she could quit her job "to write whatever you please"? Answer: Michael Brown.

Please see Day 51 for the explanation..

Question 3:
Who presented Tonga's royal family with the animal that, when he died, was believed to be one of the longest-living animals on record? Answer: Captain James Cook.

Please see Day 7 for the explanation.

22 Feb, 2016: Day 69

Question 1:
Because he was born out of wedlock, what is the surname of the man who led the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista? Answer: Castro.

Look up the answer using Fulgencio Batista overthrow. Embedded is the answer for who overthrew Batista, though some history geeks could hazard a guess.

Question 2:
What was the middle name of the individual upon whom the fictional character Atticus Finch is based? Answer: Colman.

Try as your search query Atticus Finch based.

Question 3:
As Marlow approaches, what are Kurtz's final words? Answer: The horror.

Please see Day 55 for the explanation.

4 Feb, 2016: Day 51

Question 1:
Who, along with his wife, gave Harper Lee the gift of a year's wages so that she could quit her job "to write whatever you please"? Answer: Michael Brown.

Take the quote "to write whatever you please" and use it as your search query. If we all had friends as nice as they.

Question 2:
In what Broadway musical did the wife of the star of "Ferris Bueller" have the lead role for one year, beginning in 1979? Answer: Annie.

Assuming you are a fan of Sex in the City or of Ferris Bueller then you would know that the star, Matthew Broderick, is married to Sarah Jessica Parker. From there it's just sarah jessica parker broadway 1979 to find out that she played the spunky ginger girl in the musical.

Question 3:
What is the binomial name of the tiny mammal of the family Craseonycteridae, genus Craseonycteris and species C. thonglongyai that is "hog-nosed"? Answer: Craseonycteris thonglongyai.

A quick cheat: it will work most of the time with taxonomic nomenclature. If you have the genus you usually have the first part of the binomial name. But let's look it up if you didn't know that: family Craseonycteridae genus Craseonycteris species C. thonglongyai and you will come across the Kitti's hog-nosed bat, a.k.a. the bumblebee bat.

15 Dec, 2015: Day 5

Question 1:
The north end of what footbridge is very near the magnificent baroque cathedral that is famous for the dome added by restorer Christopher Wren? Answer: Millennium Bridge.

baroque cathedral and Christopher Wren. That will get St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London. Replace the previous search with St. Paul Cathedral footbridge. Several articles on the Millennium Bridge.

Question 2:
What is the birth name of the man interviewed by the chairman and CEO of OWN in the debut episode of "Next Chapter?”  Answer: Steven Victor Tallarico.

OWN is the Oprah Winfrey Network, operated by Oprah Winfrey. Her television show was called Next Chapter. next chapter oprah debut is which you want to put in the search field. In oprah.com there is an article describing her show's premiere with Aerosmith's Steven Tyler. That was considered the wrong answer, though I double checked it using the Library of Congress. Under LC Name Authority File rules his stage name supersedes his legal one(like Mark Twain supersedes Samuel Clemens), but Google was being an asshole. I had asked for the first letters on this one, went to Wikipedia to answer the rest. 

Question 3:
The youngest child of Amasa Coleman Lee based a book character on which of her childhood friends? Answer: Truman Capote.

Amasa Coleman Lee was the father of author Harper Lee. harper lee mockingbird friend based and the fourth result from biography.com yields the name Truman Capote.