Previous questions and answers
Here are the previous questions and answers.
Answer for the week of September 6, 2020
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio’s slogan is, “Ars Gratia Artis,” which is what when translated from Latin to English?
Art for Art’s Sake.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Question submitted by Dave Edwards (KE5DME)
Answer for the week of August 30, 2020
While only 2 of them have tiny hairs growing on them, how many eyes does a bee have?
Five.
Answer for the week of August 23, 2020
At over 822,000 square miles or 2,100,000 square kilometers, this is the world’s largest island.
Greenland.
Answer for the week of August 16, 2020
While testing a real-time translation app as part of preparing for an emergency exercise, I without hesitation said, “¿Dónde están mis pantalones?” to test Spanish to English. This is what English phrase that’s also the name of a popular Octan Studios TV show in The Lego Movie?
Where are my pants?
Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhaT7F7lMEY and https://translate.google.com/?hl=en&tab=TT#view=home&op=translate&sl=es&tl=en&text=%C2%BFD%C3%B3nde%20est%C3%A1n%20mis%20pantalones%3F.
Answer for the week of August 9, 2020
On this day (August 9) in 1974, U.S. President Richard Nixon resigned. Who was then appointed President, marking the first and only time in U.S. history that someone became President without being elected either President or Vice President?
President Gerald Ford.
Answer for the week of August 2, 2020
What world city is geographically located on two continents?
Istanbul.
Source: https://www.geographyrealm.com/transcontinental-cities/
Question submitted by Dave Edwards (KE5DME)
Answer for the week of July 26, 2020
Reaching as many as 24 million people per week, this radio broadcaster was known for telling his listeners the rest of the story.
Paul Harvey.
Answer for the week of July 19, 2020
For this “trivia question” I asked you to look up your Section Traffic Manager at http://www.arrl.org/sections, send them a radiogram to say hello, and then send me that radiogram’s number and date, along with the callsign of your STM.
Your STM plays an important role. Find out more about how your STM helps ensure orderly and efficient traffic flow at http://www.arrl.org/section-traffic-manager.
Answer for the week of July 12, 2020
If you do not indicate a time zone, what zone does the National Traffic System generally assume you are using?
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) or Zulu time
Answer for the week of July 5, 2020
What are the only words the Disney character Pluto ever spoke?
“Kiss me.”
Question submitted by William Gauzens (W4WYR)