Your hump day The Daily Dozen Trivia answers for this Wednesday October 18th, 2023, was a pretty friendly quiz to push you through the second half of your work week.
How did you do, Frank?: Missed two, which means they’ll like be a lot of perfect 9 blocks out there.
Here we go..
Subject: NFL
After leading the NFL in rushing yards with the Cowboys in 2014, this RB signed with the Eagles, lasting one season before getting traded to the Titans.
Answer: DeMarco Murray
Explanation: He was dynamic there for a good bit. Enough for a rushing title.
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Subject: College Football
Timmy Chang set an at-the-time NCAA record with 17,072 career passing yards while playing for this at-the-time WAC school from 2000-2004.
Answer: Hawaii
Explanation: When you see WAC, always guess Hawaii.
Subject: MLB
What American League East team lost in the ALCS back-to-back seasons in 2015 and 2016, losing to Kansas City and Cleveland?
Answer: Toronto Blue Jays
Explanation: That Royals championship doesn’t even feel real all these years later. When you throw in those Chiefs Super Bowls, KC has done well.
Subject: Books
In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald published this famous American novel set in the Jazz Age, depicting narrator Nick Carraway and his interactions with a mysterious millionaire.
Explanation: The Great Gatsby
Answer: Yeah, literature this and that, but we were all thinking DiCaprio and Spiderman partying against “No Church in the Wild”
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Subject: Celebrity Mashup
Answer: Kristen Bell and Stanley Tucci
Explanation: My Kristen crush and Tucci Tik Tok cooking videos gave it away.
Subject: Beverage
“The Most Interesting Man in the World” was an advertising campaign used by what brand of Mexican beer?
Answer: Dos Equis
Explanation: “Stay thirsty my friends”
Subject: Television
Keri Russell earned three Best Actress Emmy nominations for her lead role in this acclaimed FX period spy drama that ran from 2013-2018.
Answer: She wasn’t Felcity anymore after this one. Great show.
Subject: Movies
In the 2019 live-action remake of Aladdin, what Academy Award winning actor played the Genie?
Answer: Will Smith
Explanation: Might as well have been a free square.
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Subject: Music
What singer released the 2004 hit song “1, 2 Step” featuring Missy Elliott, along with other hits during that era such as “Goodies” and “Oh”?
Answer: Ciara
Explanation: Probably the perfect musical intersection between Gen Xers and Millenials.
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