I’m doing something different today. Actually, I’m planning on doing it at least this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday as well as next. Instead of doing my usual five questions on a topic I’m trying to study, I’m going to follow the Geeks Who Drink model and offer a round of eight questions. I’m also going to try to capture some of the GWD voice in my categories and questions. It’s just a thing I’m trying.
So please enjoy these questions about people named Jim, gymnasiums, and gen stones.
- What film pits the average Joes of Average Joe’s Gym against White Goodman and his team of ringers representing Globo Gym?
- This All-American athlete played professional football, baseball, and basketball. He also earned two gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon in the 1912 Olympics.
- Hester Prynne earned her scarlet letter for an act of adultery that produced a preternaturally bratty daughter named what?
- Jim Parsons plays Dr. Sheldon Cooper on The Big Bang Theory. At what real university do Sheldon and his friends supposedly work?
- Dorothy’s ruby slippers were a great addition to film’s Technicolor Oz, but in the original novel her shoes were made of what less photogenic but still valuable substance?
- This chain of fitness centers is headquartered in Dallas, Texas not, as you might expect, near Fort Knox Kentucky.
- Jim Henson’s Muppet Babies, which ran for eight seasons on CBS, was inspired by a sequence from what feature film?
- A 182-carat gemstone mined in Sri Lanka and later given as a gift to his wife by Douglas “best husband ever” Fairbanks is the namesake of what potent potable?
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- Dodgeball
- Jim Thorpe
- Pearl
- California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
- silver
- Gold’s Gym
- The Muppets Take Manhattan
- Bombay Sapphire
