March 5, 2024: Questions
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Here’s today’s list. If you want to know how you did before the key goes up tomorrow, email your answers to contact.troyale@gmail.com.
1. ‘I will call one of them Tina White and the other Sandra Irving,’ said author Stephen King when describing - in his bestselling memoir On Writing - the two often-bullied elementary school classmates he used as the basis for the iconic title character of what debut novel, originally released in 1974?
2. Historically used by NASA as a training ground for its Mars rovers, the driest place on earth – with an average of just .03 inches of rainfall per year – is located near the small city of Arica in the Chilean portion of what ~41,000 square mile hot desert?
3. In every single game he played over the course of his 15-year professional career, basketball legend Michael Jordan wore, underneath his team-issued NBA shorts – during his time with both the Chicago Bulls and Washington Wizards - his ‘lucky’ practice shorts from what alma mater, with whom he won the 1982 NCAA Championship?
4. Originally given the working title Hunter, what 1987 Oscar-nominated sci-fi action hit was, until the story was debunked in the early 2000s, popularly believed to have been inspired by a joke that the next logical step for the Rocky Balboa franchise to take after the boxer’s win over Soviet champion Ivan Drago in series’ fourth installment, would be to match him up against an alien?
5. Founded in Metzingen, Germany in 1923, what eponymous luxury fashion house – both of whose primary brands are named after its controversial founder - issued, in September 2011, a long-awaited apology for the company’s use of slave labor to manufacture uniforms for the Nazi Wehrmacht and SS in the 1930s and 40s?
6. The exact origin of the nickname now lost to history, the so-called ‘funny bone’ is not actually a bone at all, but rather a nerve that shares part of its name with what smallest of the three primary arm bones?
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