31 Jul 2018, Day 118 part B

Question 1:
The popular sitcom whose 100th episode was viewed by 15.83 million people, features what star who also portrayed a young Bette Midler in "Beaches"? Answer: Mayim Hoya Bialik.

The question is, who is the actress? The fastest way to this problem is to find the movie Beaches on iMDB, scan through the cast listings and find the actress who played the young CC Bloom.

Question 2:

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.

Please see Day 51 for the explanation.

Question 3:

In April of 1993, a team record was set by the New York Mets for the largest attendance on opening day as they played a shutout against what team? Answer: Colorado Rockies.

Please see Day 29 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.

17 Dec, 2015: Day 7

Question 1:
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.

oldest tortoise tonga will direct you straight to several pages describing the radiated tortoise and the gentleman who brought it to Tonga's royal family as a gift.

Question 2:
In season eight of "House", in the first episode after the holiday break, Foreman has to make a decision on whether or not to remove what device? Answer: ankle monitor.

This was a Wikipedia hack. I looked up a page that had a list of the television episodes for the series. Every episode had a plot description.

Question 3:
What Swedish taxonomist created binomial nomenclature? Answer: Carolus Linnaeus.

The fastest way to figure this out is inserting in the search bar: binomial nomenclature creator. You will have to play around with the name, so be sure to use LC Name Authority File for optional names. \(*_*)/