Skeleton Trivia for Thursday, 2024-09-12
Skateboards call it “goofy” instead of “southpaw”, which I really like
Hiya Skeleton Crew,
Yesterday’s answers were I guess ya could call ’em a tribute to one a’ the greats, Mr. James Earl Jones, RIP.
Answers to Last Time
The doctrine a’ clear and present danger got contrived by Oliver Wendell Holmes in the rulin’ for Schenck v. United States. It also happens to be the title a’ one a’ those Tom Clancy adaptations that Mr. Jones was in.
Haustorial, proteoid, adventitious, buttress, an’ pneumatophore are all different types a’ roots. Roots was the name a’ that famous teevee miniseries where Mr. Jones portrayed author Alex Haley.1
Today’s Trivias
Trivia 1
Kinda incredibly, James Earl Jones was only ever nominated for one competitive Oscar, that’d be Best Actor in The Great White Hope. It’s a boxin’ movie that’s based on the real-life story a’ what boxer, the first African American heavyweight champion, who was nicknamed the “Galveston Giant”? His 1910 fight against James Jeffries was I think the first boxin’ match a’ the 20th century to be nicknamed “The Fight of the Century”.
This fella shares his name with a Billboard Top 100–chartin’ singer-songwriter who was actually on track to becomin’ a full-time pro surfer ... at least, ’til he got a gnarly skull fracture surfin’ the Banzai Pipeline, a surf break off the North Shore a’ O'ahu where he grew up.
Trivia 2
When a boxer boxes, they can put their right or left foot forward; which one they do is called their stance.
Lefties typically go with a southpaw stance, meanin’ they’ve got their right hand ’n’ foot forwards. The correspondin’ stance that’s most typical for righties, i.e. where the left foot’s out front, is sometimes called “northpaw”, but I think more typically it’s called what word that makes it sound like these folks take boxin’ seriously enough that it’s kinda like a religion for ’em?
OK then
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Some a’ youse guys picked up on the Tom Clancy connection but guessed cell for Q2, as in Splinter Cell. That was a good guess! Sorry ’bout the mislead, that was unintentional on my part.