Pop Culture
The combined box office earnings of all of last year’s Academy Award nominees for Best Picture was less than the earnings of what film?
The Last Jedi (611 million > 609 million)
GRAMMAR! In the sentence, “My talents include origami, scrimshaw, and trick Dachshund riding,” what part of speech is the word “riding”?
A popular event in the highland games is the caber (KAY-BURR) toss. What is a caber?
A 19.5-foot wooden pole weighing roughly 175 pounds
The Pharisees had so much animosity toward Jesus that they actually hatched a plot to kill a man who had already died. Who was it?
What country’s name contains the longest sequence of alternating vowels and consonants?
What company had to issue a statement affirming the safety of their products following a 2018 episode of the television show, This is Us?
MATH! If Pastor Brian eats 75% of a key lime pie that is 8 inches wide, what is the area of the pie Chris ate?
Roughly 37.68 sq. inches of key lime pie
Roughly how many miles of yards were gained by all NFL teams combined in 2017?
97.18 miles, or roughly 171,044 yards
When Absalom, King David’s traitorous son, was fleeing David in battle, what captured him?
His own (awesome) hair. It got tangled in a tree.
What superhero’s Old English name might have been FlittermouseMan?
Wakanda, the fictional home of Marvel’s Black Panther, may have been partially inspired by this African country, the only one not to colonized by Europeans.
HOME ECON! What is the name of the process where a yeast dough is allowed to rise after leavening but before it is shaped into its final form?
Bench proofing
In curling, how much is a perfect round worth?
Eight points, also known as an eight-ender or a snowman, and about as rare as a perfect game in baseball.
When a group of teenagers mocked the prophet Elisha for being bald, he prayed to God for justice. What did God provide?
Two bears, who mauled 40 of the teenagers.
Based upon the chronology established by J.K. Rowling in her Harry Potter series, what birthday will Harry celebrate on July 31, 2018?
His 38th Birthday