15 Jan, 2016: Day 32

Question 1:
In "Eats, Shoots and Leaves,” punctuation marks are compared to what highway safety device, because they keep words from banging together? Answer: traffic signals.

At first I thought that I could look for the passage in Google Books. After a few minutes in the book, finding everything and anything except the quote, I gave up and looked for what I needed using eats shoots and leaves punctuation marks highway safety. Buried in the results of the first page is a quote on the subject. “...punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.”

Question 2:
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 Cook.

Please see Day 7 for the explanation.

Question 3:
When Dan Marino's jersey number 13 was retired by the Dolphins in 2000, what was the only jersey number previously retired by the team? Answer: 12.

Insert retired jerseys number "Miami Dolphins" 2000 in the search bar. You have your choice of Wikipedia articles, but I didn't bother. I went to one of the fan sites instead.

26 Dec, 2015: Day 16

Question 1:
What is the most famous design in Rome by the architect credited with introducing High Renaissance style to the city? Answer: St. Peter's Basilica.

I must emphasize that Google is asking for the most famous design by the architect credited for introducing high Renaissance style to Rome. This is a two-part question. One, who is the architect that brought high Renaissance designed to Rome? Two, what was his masterpiece? Depending on how you phrase the question you could probably answer them both. Typing high renaissance architecture rome" into the search field will get you answer. Hint: look for Donato Bramante, who designed the Tempietto di San Pietro in Montorio.

Question 2:
What notable river was close by the campaign in which Lee defeated the much larger army led by Major General Joseph Hooker? Answer: Potomac.

Look up Robert Lee Joseph Hooker Civil War. On the first page of results you will have pages referring to the Battle of Chancellorsville. Take any web mapping service and find the Chancellorsville battlefield(for the neophytes that it is located in Spotsylvania County, Virginia). Expand out to you see a prominent river.

Question 3:
In "Eats, Shoots and Leaves", what analogy does the author say that grammarians use for the relationship of punctuation to words? Answer: stitching.

Apparently I'm not the only one looking for the answer to this question. The search parameters are not completely mine. Typing Eats Shoots and Leaves analogy basting(basting is a type of tack to be removed at a later time) will get page results that sufficient to answer this question.