14 Nov 2017, Day 87

Question 1:
What was the jersey number of the center-fielder who led the Phillies to their fifth National League pennant in 1993? Answer: 4.

You might have the temptation to look at the Philadelphia Phillies team positions during the playoffs. I figured they won before the era of Sabermetrics popularity, so I looked for the outfielder using 1993 Philadelphia Phillies roster. Within the list you will find the outfielder Lenny Dykstra.

Question 2:
What album was released three years after the death of the artist that’s tattooed on the upper left arm of the actor who played "Irish" Micky Ward in a 2010 film? Answer: Legend.

Please see Day 78 for the explanation.

Question 3:
Early in Conrad's 1903 novella, Marlow makes a comment "one of the dark places on earth". About what place does he say this? Answer: London.

Please see Day 67 for the explanation.

13 Nov 2017, Day 86

Question 1:
What former Baltimore Colt inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1968, published an autobiography in 1987? Answer: Art Donovan.

Please see Day 15 for the explanation.

Question 2:
What traffic circle with a "square" name is located just south of the site where the author lived while writing "The Seven Pillars"? Answer: Smith Square.

Please see Day 19 for the explanation.

Question 3:
Besides the Gorilla Press, what famous finishing move did the face-painted “Warrior” famously use on Hulk Hogan to end the match on April 1, 1990? Answer: splash.

Please see Day 33 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.

10 Nov, 2017: Day 84

Question 1:
What "character" did Plato use in his writing to convey his own views? Answer: Socrates.

This is an answer I already knew, it helps to be somewhat familiar with Plato and his student Aristotle. Typing in the search field Plato characters gets a page of his many characters and the most famous of those is of Plato’s teacher. You could brute force your way to the answer, but going down the page you would see his name pop up time again in various work (ie, Republic, Symposium, etc.)

Question 2:
In the teachings of Lao Tzu, what is seen as the creative force in the universe through which all things are connected? Answer: The Tao.

Typing lao tzu unifying force gives you a page about the Tao Te Ching. Tao translates from Chinese to “the Way”. If you type Tao (which is the correct answer) into A Google A Day you will receive an error. Only with westernizing Tao with the article “the” does A Google A Day consider it correct.

Question 3:
What name did the stylist, who employed Brad Goreski until October 2010, choose for her first child? Answer: Skyler.

Look up “Brad Goreski” and you will find his website, which contains his bio. When you look up his biography you will see the name of one of his employers in the fashion world. Using “Rachel Zoe" oldest child you would see the answer.

06 Jan, 2017: Day 83

Question 1:
Richard Petty Motorsports created a team for Michael Annett to compete in the 2012 Nationwide Championship, with what chain of truck stops sponsoring his car? Answer: Pilot Flying J.

Please see Day 9 for the explanation..

Question 2:
What was the name of the first literary character that Truman Capote modelled after his friend, Harper Lee? Answer: Idabel Thompkins.

Please see Day 75 for the explanation..

Question 3:
What was the English translation of the Arabic nickname that the oldest son of Saddam Hussein's gave himself? Answer: wolf.

The fastest way I found the answer was the most inelegent: type son of Saddam Hussein within the search field. Hint: Uday and Odai are the same person, but you want to look for the former if you want to answer this question.