2021 Current Events Study GUIDE. Study GUIDE.
Moderators: alietr, trainman, econgator, dhkendall
-
- Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much
- Posts: 1626
- Joined: Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:55 am
Re: 2021 Current Events Study GUIDE. Study GUIDE.
Afghanistan fell in record time after biden removed all support. Scary scenes of people falling from planes and posters of women getting whitewashed.
- cinemaniax7
- Humble Pi
- Posts: 1604
- Joined: Mon Jul 25, 2011 2:04 pm
- Location: Old Hickory, TN
Re: 2021 Current Events Study GUIDE. Study GUIDE.
In light of current events, this story is of little importance. But...
The Honus Wagner baseball card is once again the most expensive sports card ever sold.
The Honus Wagner baseball card is once again the most expensive sports card ever sold.
- triviawayne
- Hoping I don’t drown in this contestant pool
- Posts: 2677
- Joined: Tue Feb 17, 2015 9:50 pm
Re: 2021 Current Events Study GUIDE. Study GUIDE.
The Weekend's "Blinding Lights" has broken the record for most weeks in the Billboard Hot 100, previously held by Imagine Dragons "Radioactive".
The song has also spent the most total weeks in the top 10 on the chart.
On the discussion side, Dua Lipa's "Levitating" has been on the chart for 45 weeks at this point, is currently in the top 10, and has not been #1. Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas" was on the chart for 35 (non-consecutive) weeks before hitting #1, so this is a record to keep an eye on.
The song has also spent the most total weeks in the top 10 on the chart.
On the discussion side, Dua Lipa's "Levitating" has been on the chart for 45 weeks at this point, is currently in the top 10, and has not been #1. Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas" was on the chart for 35 (non-consecutive) weeks before hitting #1, so this is a record to keep an eye on.
Total game show career losings = $171,522
- alietr
- Site Admin
- Posts: 8980
- Joined: Thu Jun 30, 2011 1:20 pm
- Location: Bethesda, MD
Re: 2021 Current Events Study GUIDE. Study GUIDE.
Slight correction ... it's The Weeknd (no third 'e').triviawayne wrote: ↑Sun Aug 22, 2021 9:42 am The Weekend's "Blinding Lights" has broken the record for most weeks in the Billboard Hot 100, previously held by Imagine Dragons "Radioactive".
- morbeedo
- Loyal Jeopardista
- Posts: 3065
- Joined: Wed Jan 18, 2012 12:58 pm
Re: 2021 Current Events Study GUIDE. Study GUIDE.
Josephine Baker to Be Honored With a Panthéon Burial
Ms. Baker will be the first Black woman to be entombed in the Panthéon in Paris, a symbolic move amid racial tensions in France
Ms. Baker will be the first Black woman to be entombed in the Panthéon in Paris, a symbolic move amid racial tensions in France
- cinemaniax7
- Humble Pi
- Posts: 1604
- Joined: Mon Jul 25, 2011 2:04 pm
- Location: Old Hickory, TN
Re: 2021 Current Events Study GUIDE. Study GUIDE.
Charlie Watts, Rolling Stones Drummer, Dies at 80
NOTE: J! clues DO ask for Watts' name from time to time.
NOTE: J! clues DO ask for Watts' name from time to time.
- cinemaniax7
- Humble Pi
- Posts: 1604
- Joined: Mon Jul 25, 2011 2:04 pm
- Location: Old Hickory, TN
Re: 2021 Current Events Study GUIDE. Study GUIDE.
Man Photographed as Baby on ‘Nevermind’ Cover Sues Nirvana, Alleging Child Pornography
I'd be surprised if this didn't show up on J! in some shape or form.
I'd be surprised if this didn't show up on J! in some shape or form.
- cinemaniax7
- Humble Pi
- Posts: 1604
- Joined: Mon Jul 25, 2011 2:04 pm
- Location: Old Hickory, TN
- MarkBarrett
- Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much
- Posts: 16471
- Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:37 am
- Location: San Francisco
Re: 2021 Current Events Study GUIDE. Study GUIDE.
Going through the September (yes, subscribers get it before the actual month) issue of EW (and USA Today):
3/4s of an EGOT:
Jean Smart Emmy noms for Mare of Easttown and Hacks
JoJo Siwa will be first to have same-sex dance partner on Dancing with the Stars
Amazon Prime series: The Wheel of Time based on Robert Jordan novel
Hulu series: Y: The Last Man - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y:_The_La ... adaptation
Hulu series: Nine Perfect Strangers (people on retreat) based on Liane Moriarty novel (author of Big Little Lies and Sept. 2021 book - Apples Never Fall)
Hulu series: Only Murders in the Building starring Steve Martin, Selena Gomez and Martin Short as true crime fans
Showtime series: American Rust starring Jeff Daniels with book by Philipp Meyer
Starz series about indie wrestling: Heels (wrestling term for villain)
Movie - CODA (child of deaf adults)
Movie - Respect - Jennifer Hudson plays Aretha Franklin (Cynthia Erivo played her in Genius: Aretha)
Paula Hawkins book: A Slow Fire Burning (author of The Girl on the Train & Into the Water)
Disney+ remake: Doogie Kameāloha, M.D. - 16 year old female doctor
Other TV/movie remakes:
The Wonder Years
The 4400
Chucky
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Kanye West album: Donda
Kanye file papers to change his name to just: Ye
Album by (New Zealander) Lorde - Solar Power
Debbie Gibson album - The Body Remembers
Apologies for duplicating anything that has already been posted.
3/4s of an EGOT:
Spoiler
JoJo Siwa will be first to have same-sex dance partner on Dancing with the Stars
Amazon Prime series: The Wheel of Time based on Robert Jordan novel
Hulu series: Y: The Last Man - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y:_The_La ... adaptation
Hulu series: Nine Perfect Strangers (people on retreat) based on Liane Moriarty novel (author of Big Little Lies and Sept. 2021 book - Apples Never Fall)
Hulu series: Only Murders in the Building starring Steve Martin, Selena Gomez and Martin Short as true crime fans
Showtime series: American Rust starring Jeff Daniels with book by Philipp Meyer
Starz series about indie wrestling: Heels (wrestling term for villain)
Movie - CODA (child of deaf adults)
Movie - Respect - Jennifer Hudson plays Aretha Franklin (Cynthia Erivo played her in Genius: Aretha)
Paula Hawkins book: A Slow Fire Burning (author of The Girl on the Train & Into the Water)
Disney+ remake: Doogie Kameāloha, M.D. - 16 year old female doctor
Other TV/movie remakes:
The Wonder Years
The 4400
Chucky
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Kanye West album: Donda
Kanye file papers to change his name to just: Ye
Album by (New Zealander) Lorde - Solar Power
Debbie Gibson album - The Body Remembers
Apologies for duplicating anything that has already been posted.
- Volante
- Harbinger of the Doomed Lemur
- Posts: 9254
- Joined: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:42 pm
Re: 2021 Current Events Study GUIDE. Study GUIDE.
For the first time since the famine, the Republic of Ireland has a population over 5 million
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58399880
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58399880
The best thing that Neil Armstrong ever did, was to let us all imagine we were him.
Latest movies (1-10): Everything Everywhere All at Once (10), Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken (6), Black Sunday /1960/ (6), Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (7)
Latest movies (1-10): Everything Everywhere All at Once (10), Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken (6), Black Sunday /1960/ (6), Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (7)
- econgator
- Let's Go Mets!
- Posts: 10673
- Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:32 am
Re: 2021 Current Events Study GUIDE. Study GUIDE.
Today show weatherman Willard Scott dies at age 87
- BrigadierSolo13
- Double Double Machine
- Posts: 646
- Joined: Sat Dec 14, 2019 1:40 am
Re: 2021 Current Events Study GUIDE. Study GUIDE.
The World Cup qualifier between Morocco and Guinea has been postponed because of a coup d'etat in Guinea's capital of Conakry:
https://www.espn.com/soccer/fifa-world- ... coup-detat
https://www.espn.com/soccer/fifa-world- ... coup-detat
- cinemaniax7
- Humble Pi
- Posts: 1604
- Joined: Mon Jul 25, 2011 2:04 pm
- Location: Old Hickory, TN
Re: 2021 Current Events Study GUIDE. Study GUIDE.
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Star of Godard's 'Breathless,' Dies at 88
Belmondo appears just once as a correct response in the J! Archive, but his best-known film appears several times. You definitely should know Breathless and its director, Jean-Luc Godard.
Belmondo appears just once as a correct response in the J! Archive, but his best-known film appears several times. You definitely should know Breathless and its director, Jean-Luc Godard.
- earendel
- Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much
- Posts: 767
- Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 3:22 pm
- Location: mired in the bureaucracy
Re: 2021 Current Events Study GUIDE. Study GUIDE.
And the game between Brazil and Argentina was called off after it started because of violations of COVID protocols relating to international travel - some of the Argentine players are in the English Premier League and had to fly to South America. Evidently some of the answers they gave to questions were "false".BrigadierSolo13 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 7:13 pm The World Cup qualifier between Morocco and Guinea has been postponed because of a coup d'etat in Guinea's capital of Conakry:
https://www.espn.com/soccer/fifa-world- ... coup-detat
"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."
- RandyG
- Founder of the Royal House of JBoardie of the Month
- Posts: 2006
- Joined: Wed Jul 13, 2011 6:23 pm
- Location: Marana, AZ
- Contact:
Re: 2021 Current Events Study GUIDE. Study GUIDE.
On the last point, don't leave out knowing Belmondo's co-star in Breathless, Jean Seberg. I posed a question this past May in a Learned League "Neo-Noir" 1-day that combined the film, the director and two co-stars (55% get rate.) btw, Godard is still alive at 90, Seberg died in 1979 at 40.cinemaniax7 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 12:39 pm Jean-Paul Belmondo, Star of Godard's 'Breathless,' Dies at 88
Belmondo appears just once as a correct response in the J! Archive, but his best-known film appears several times. You definitely should know Breathless and its director, Jean-Luc Godard.
-
- Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much
- Posts: 2054
- Joined: Mon Aug 01, 2011 10:02 pm
- Location: Louisville KY
Re: 2021 Current Events Study GUIDE. Study GUIDE.
Actor Michael K. Williams, best known for playing Omar Little on The Wire and Chalky White on Boardwalk Empire, was found dead today at age 54.
Not many people can say they've lost four times on Jeopardy!.
- Volante
- Harbinger of the Doomed Lemur
- Posts: 9254
- Joined: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:42 pm
Re: 2021 Current Events Study GUIDE. Study GUIDE.
In that same vein, a copy of Amazing Fantasy #15 is now the most expensive comic book selling for $3.6 mil. It introduced to the world an obscure tights wearer named...*sticks finger in ear* Underoos. Wait, no, Spider-Man. The previous record holder was Detective Comics #27 at $1.5 mil. (Batman.)cinemaniax7 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 12:45 pm In light of current events, this story is of little importance. But...
The Honus Wagner baseball card is once again the most expensive sports card ever sold.
https://gizmodo.com/spider-mans-debut-i ... 1847645387
The best thing that Neil Armstrong ever did, was to let us all imagine we were him.
Latest movies (1-10): Everything Everywhere All at Once (10), Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken (6), Black Sunday /1960/ (6), Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (7)
Latest movies (1-10): Everything Everywhere All at Once (10), Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken (6), Black Sunday /1960/ (6), Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (7)
- Volante
- Harbinger of the Doomed Lemur
- Posts: 9254
- Joined: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:42 pm
Re: 2021 Current Events Study GUIDE. Study GUIDE.
2021 Ig Nobels
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09 ... el-prizes/
Some winners (click through above for the whole list as well as explanations that make "Huh?!" become "Huh.")
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09 ... el-prizes/
Some winners (click through above for the whole list as well as explanations that make "Huh?!" become "Huh.")
Biology Prize -- Citation: Susanne Schötz, "for analyzing variations in purring, chirping, chattering, trilling, tweedling, murmuring, meowing, moaning, squeaking, hissing, yowling, howling, growling, and other modes of cat–human communication."
Transportation Prize -- Citation: Robin Radcliffe, Mark Jago, Peter Morkel, Estelle Morkel, Pierre du Preez, Piet Beytell, Birgit Kotting, Bakker Manuel, Jan Hendrik du Preez, Michele Miller, Julia Felippe, Stephen Parry, and Robin Gleed, "for determining by experiment whether it is safer to transport an airborne rhinoceros upside-down."
Peace Prize -- Citation: Ethan Beseris, Steven Naleway, and David Carrier, "for testing the hypothesis that humans evolved beards to protect themselves from punches to the face."
Entomology Prize -- Citation: John Mulrennan Jr., Roger Grothaus, Charles Hammond, and Jay Lamdin, "for their research study 'A New Method of Cockroach Control on Submarines.'"
The best thing that Neil Armstrong ever did, was to let us all imagine we were him.
Latest movies (1-10): Everything Everywhere All at Once (10), Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken (6), Black Sunday /1960/ (6), Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (7)
Latest movies (1-10): Everything Everywhere All at Once (10), Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken (6), Black Sunday /1960/ (6), Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (7)
- econgator
- Let's Go Mets!
- Posts: 10673
- Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:32 am
Re: 2021 Current Events Study GUIDE. Study GUIDE.
Emma Raducanu defeats Leylah Fernandez to win her first US Open tennis title.
- MarkBarrett
- Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much
- Posts: 16471
- Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:37 am
- Location: San Francisco
Re: 2021 Current Events Study GUIDE. Study GUIDE.
Squaw Valley the site of the 1960 Winter Olympics has a new name: Palisades Tahoe