Category Archives: Question of the Week

Last night I spent a couple of minutes chatting with a homeless guy named Moses outside of Old Nelson. In the course of conversation he stumped me with a damn good question I thought would make for a solid question of the week: What is the creature with the binomial name turritopsis nutricula better known as?

What shortlived band did David Bowie found in 1971, releasing a single called Moonage Daydream? (question submitted by Ray)

What 1933 film was shot in Alaska and starred actor Ray Mala?

Certainly our biggest loss in 2011 was Kim Jong-il, the greatest golfer in world history. In 1994, while playing golf for the first time, he hit how many hole-in-ones?

He starred as young George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life, and in 1993 was a production assistant in the Dennis Rodman vehicle, Demolition Man.

This video game, released in 2007, it puts the player in the role of Jack, a plane crash survivor who must explore the underwater city of Rapture.

This former Japanese army intelligence officer fought in World War II, and refused to surrender until 1974, when he was discovered in the Phillipines.

Cynthia Albritton was a rock groupie with a rather unusual hobby. What KISS song commemorated her talents?

Baby kangaroos are joeys. Baby cats are kittens. What are baby turkies referred to as?

Probably the worst music group in the world to emerge in the 2000s (if not in the history of recorded music), this group released the 2009 album, “I’m Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It.”

What Lenape Chief  is honored with a statue at Front and Market, and said that the Lenni-Lenape and colonists would “live in peace as long as the waters run in the rivers and creeks and as long as the stars and moon endure”?