Dear Friends of the Pub Quiz,
For today’s newsletter, I am stealing wholesale from my wife Kate, the author in our family who best represents our children and our love for our children. As of this week, our children are all adults. Our kids are no longer kids.
This is what Kate wrote:
18 years ago, just after midnight, you made a peaceful entrance into the world. Looking into your eyes, I felt that we already knew each other. We immediately sensed that the nickname your sister had given you in utero fit you perfectly; you were our Cool Guy, right from the start.
A few years later, a friend noticed your remarkable compassion and concern for others and started affectionately calling you “Mr. Empathy.” Challenges early in your life sensitized you to the needs and feelings of others, and your sustaining emotional intelligence is one of our favorite things about you.
18 years have FLOWN by. For 6570 days (so far!), we have enjoyed your company, your humor, and your sweet Truman-ness. You plan our vacations, pick our movies, and loan us books to read. You decorate our home for every holiday and fill it with the soulful sounds of your dramatic monologues, and especially your saxophone.
As Cool as we thought you were on Day One, you are exponentially cooler on Day 6570. We declare it a pleasure and a joy to be your lucky parents. Happy, happy birthday, Truman! ❤️
As you can from the attached, Kate also takes better pictures than I do. Happy birthday to our youngest!
This week’s pub quiz will contain questions about computer ownership, divided centuries, defunct professional sport team names, jackets, seemingly haughty people, fast mammals, attorney generals, slides, socks, ulcers, capital letters, slow empires, record appearances, required reading, bell ringing, Olympic medalists, recovering supervisors, hydroelectricity, spices, dance moves, series starters, all the magazines, hammers, quant blogs, third billing actresses, unwelcome famous residents of small towns, repetitive cities, famous Kennedys, generous people, an average of just under four, cities near Pittsburgh, singer-songwriters, current events, books and authors, and Shakespeare.
Thanks to The far-flung Original Vincibles, as well as to Quizimodo, Summer Brains, The Outside Agitators, Gena Harper and others who support the Pub Quiz on Patreon. I appreciate your supporting this endeavor!
Best,
Dr. Andy
P.S. Here are five Pub Quiz questions, most of them from last week:
- Mottos and Slogans. “First in Flight” is the most popular license plate motto for what U.S. state?
- Sports. Who is the greatest-ever soccer player who had three instances of the letter A in his last name?
- Pop Culture: Music. What American rock band implored us to stop making sense?
- Science. After the discovery of the neutron, models for a nucleus composed of protons and neutrons were quickly developed by Dmitri Ivanenko and Werner Heisenberg. Was the neutron discovered around the time of the birth of Jakob Cash, Rosanne Cash’s son; around the time of the birth of Rosanne Cash; around the time of the birth of her father, Johnny Cash; or around the time of the birth of her grandfather, Ray Cash?
- Great Americans. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries recently traveled to Detroit in support of the auto workers strike. Leader Jeffries’ district is found in what state?
