Dear Friends of the Pub Quiz,
Why is the newsletter so late today? Because my morning has been filled up medical appointments in one of the most respected medical facilities in the world: The National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.
I was driven past the NIH a great number of times when I was a kid, but, luckily I suppose, I never had a chance to visit until much later, when doctors and medical researchers expressed significant interest in my son, Jukie. We know so much more about Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome today than we did when Jukie started visiting this place as a three-year-old, but the procedures for the visits are largely the same: individual meetings with experts in audiology, anesthesia, neuro-psychology, ophthalmology, and physiatry. We also talk to some of the foremost researchers who study Jukie’s syndrome. Such knowledge! Such support!
I also get to see this lovely city of Washington that I called home for the first couple decades of my life. The air is thick with fecund humidity, and the bird songs and cricket and cicada symphonies sound absolutely tropical. This past weekend I took some pictures of the old home at 2454 Tunlaw Road, and got to explore some of the neighborhoods that I knew as a child. They have all shrunk.
I have more to share, but will have to save that for after I have done some reflecting on the passing of the years. As Helen Keller said, “So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”
Tonight’s Pub Quiz will be hosted by Quizmaster James, for which I am grateful. Expect questions on the royal wedding, chastisement, periods of time, updated vision statements, research centers, shortened brevity, degrees, our golden state, Congressional testimony, hunger, various syndromes treated at the NIH, spelling words with a C or a K, fathers of things, official languages, Brexit, fictional countries, both a Hugh and a Hugo, medical topics, quotations from yesteryear, noodles and other foods, criminals, superheroes, sneaky entrances, dead wood, altitudinous greenery, soap operas, patents, lists that include beavers, valuable teams, and Shakespeare.
Have fun tonight at the Pub Quiz. I will return on Memorial Day for our next Quiz!
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Here are three questions from last week’s quiz:
- Four for Four. Which of the following animals, if any, were domesticated by 5,000 BCE? Cats, Dogs, Horses, Siamese Fighting Fish.
- Pop Culture – Television. What Andy Samberg TV show was recently cancelled after five seasons?
- Another Music Question. Whom did Rolling Stone describe as “the most revered jazz trumpeter of all time”?
P.S. “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” Mahatma Gandhi