Monday morning quiz quarterbacking

[calimac]

Jon Carroll's Christmas quiz.

His answers.

This year's quiz was grizzly; just miserable for me. No wonder I found something else more cheerful to offer.

Questions I got part of: 5, 11, 17. The general location of the Jewish Autonomous Region and what "Santa Cruz" means are the only questions on the entire quiz I could answer without hesitation. I knew who "John the Posthumous" was, but I'd never heard him called that. I had not heard that his uncle murdered him, nor need he have; infant mortality was very high in those days. (Interesting fact about John the Posthumous: he was the 13th king of the Capetian dynasty and the last in an unbroken father-to-son succession that had lasted 13 generations, so far as I know the longest such in European royal history.)

Question I got part of, but should have gotten all of: 9. Hell 'n Maria, I forgot about Charles G. Dawes!

Question I got, but wasn't entirely sure I had: 13.

Question I sort of vaguely got: 6. I'd have said "he was a local farmer or something."

Question I got wrong: 10. I knew Reagan had never won an acting award, but really, exactly who got the Oscar for "An Inconvenient Truth" is an Oscar question, not a Vice President question.

Questions I didn't get at all, but should have: 1, 3, 12.

Question I didn't get at all, but knew in what field of knowledge the answer lay: 4.

Question I didn't get at all, but at least knew that I knew nothing about the subject: 2. I never watched that show.

Question I didn't get at all, and am stunned that anybody would: 7.

Other questions I didn't get at all: 14, 15, 16.

Question I still don't get, even after reading the answer: 8.

Comments

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

"cobbler": type of dessert made with fruit and pastry, not as organized as a pie. See Eileen Gunn's "ideologically labile fruit crisp" in the first Tiptree cookbook, The Bakery Men Don't See.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Yes, thank you, I have heard of that kind of cobbler. I have also heard of people who work on shoes, and "Grunt, Slump, Buckle and Sonker" (which sounds like the name of a law firm of trolls) offers me no clue as to which kind of cobbler it might be. "Buckle" indeed is a part of some footwear, and for all I know the others are too, so Jon's answer really didn't help.

[anderyn.livejournal.com]

I've seen a "blackberry buckle" in some old cookbooks, and I think I've maybe seen a reference to a "slump", but the other names were totally non-meaningful to me. So on that basis, I would not have gotten that question.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

You're still way ahead of me there. I can't recall ever having seen reference to either "buckle" or "slump" in any cookbooks. Now if what Eileen made was called a "crisp", if that had been in the list, it might have helped a little.