Which brings us to the interactive portion of our blog - if anyone out there in Reader-Land has answers to these questions, you are invited to share them in the comments section. As always, creativity is appreciated more than accuracy. And as a special incentive, for this post only, the top prize is 100 free internets (wow! that sounds like a lot), so get your answers in quickly!!!!
Question #1: History
The question is in two parts (A) What competitions, exactly, were held during these games? and (B) How did the Bulgarian team do?
Question #2: Sports
Some questions are more existential (Mark uses this word a lot, but clearly does not understand what it means), like,
The painting above was found in the old city of Jerusalem. That is the sort of thing Anne and Mark expected to find there (well, most of the painting they expected to find in Jerusalem - with the only qualifier being the detail that eagle-eyed readers must have spotted by now was definitely not expected).
There are other things that were less expected in the places that they were found. Like this statute, found outside a restaurant located on the road between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
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| I wonder if they serve peanut-butter and banana sandwiches... |
Let's make this easy - Multiple choice format
Question #3: Art
What is the best title for the statue pictured above?
a. "A Whole Lotta Elvis Goin On"
b. "Bob's Big Boy Before He Ate All Them Burgers"
c. "Here's Looking at You, Kid"
d. other
Question #4: Foreign Languages/ Social Studies
The photo below is of a confessional found at a church in Bethlehem:
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| Why are the names of the languages both written in English? |
Which side hears the more interesting confessions?
Question #5: Mathematics
From Istanbul. Please solve the following:
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| Granted, this is ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. But come on, just above the bird, that kind of looks like the top of a TV with bunny ears.... I'm just sayin..... |
Please round your answer to the nearest... raven.
Question #6: Extremely Handsome Men
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| That guy stole our parachute |
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| Sorry ladies, he's taken. |
Extra Credit - Give yourself five extra points if you actually answered any of these questions.
Grades will be posted by the weekend.
If you have to ask, you are not ready to know what the Dirty Sports Funny Games entail. I was the grand master of this both my freshman and sophmore years of college (Kyle can confirm). But just think of it a PCU with a side of Beerfest (yes I just made a Beerfest reference) and you'll get the idea.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the posts, my day is always better when there is something new to read (yes I know, I lead a sad, pathetic existence).
Hutty
PCU - what a great movie...Beerfest ain't bad either.
ReplyDeleteAll of those questions are over my head. I only teach Jr. High.
#1 was already answered by Hutty, so I’ll concede points to him
ReplyDelete#2 The little girl is handing the boy with a backpack an ‘onion?’ with her left hand. This is not appropriate for a culture that lacked toilet paper and would reserve the use of the left hand for other tasks.
#3 I thought Big Boy before Elvis, so I’ll go with ‘b’
#4 In our high tech world, confessionals have come a long way. The person confessing has the ability to confess in English, but the confession is then translated into either a French or Arabic response (Hindi seems to be out of order, right now). Penance reflects the language, and certain sins may get better responses in certain languages.
#5 Hmm, a bird laying an egg under a caterpillar, carry one ladder… I got nothing
#6 I regret to inform you that as I was studying your picture with great care, my almost three-year-old son came up to me and said, “Daddy, it’s you!”
Heath, this is why you review such things without the innocents of a three year old around. I was afraid Brody would say the same thing, hence my reason for wasting time at work reviewing said pictures.
ReplyDeleteI had an epiphany last night about number 5. It is proof that Kurt Russell’s time travels were not a farce . . . the Stargate is real.