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.