2017 Current Events Study Guide
Moderators: alietr, trainman, econgator, dhkendall
- Cat Hammarskjold
- Feline Secretary-General
- Posts: 1013
- Joined: Thu Nov 12, 2015 12:35 am
Re: 2017 Current Events Study Guide
Meanwhile, in a plague that might actually end up in history books, it is still not confirmed whether or not a strain of bubonic plague has successfully been confined to Madagascar, or whether it crossed over to Tanzania and could possibly ravage mainland Africa.
- Volante
- Harbinger of the Doomed Lemur
- Posts: 9254
- Joined: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:42 pm
Re: 2017 Current Events Study Guide
The last piece of Magritte's "The Enchanted Pose" has been found
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-belg ... SKBN1DE25V
Some time after painting 'The Enchanted Pose', Magritte cut up the canvas and painted over the top to make four smaller paintings. Modern tech helped researchers find the painting underneath, so basically they just solved a four piece x-ray jigsaw puzzle scavenger hunt.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-belg ... SKBN1DE25V
Some time after painting 'The Enchanted Pose', Magritte cut up the canvas and painted over the top to make four smaller paintings. Modern tech helped researchers find the painting underneath, so basically they just solved a four piece x-ray jigsaw puzzle scavenger hunt.
The best thing that Neil Armstrong ever did, was to let us all imagine we were him.
Latest movies (1-10): Everything Everywhere All at Once (10), Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken (6), Black Sunday /1960/ (6), Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (7)
Latest movies (1-10): Everything Everywhere All at Once (10), Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken (6), Black Sunday /1960/ (6), Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (7)
- Blue Lion
- Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much
- Posts: 1515
- Joined: Fri Jan 24, 2014 9:12 pm
- Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Re: 2017 Current Events Study Guide
Will it be called the World Cup NIT?9021amyers wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2017 11:29 pm Well, the U.S. Soccer Federation is thinking about inviting Italy, the Netherlands, Chile, and Ghana for a consolation tournament before the World Cup begins next year.
- Blue Lion
- Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much
- Posts: 1515
- Joined: Fri Jan 24, 2014 9:12 pm
- Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Re: 2017 Current Events Study Guide
Robert Mugabe, who has been president/virtual dictator of Zimbabwe since 1987 and before that, Prime Minister from 1980-87, was apparently deposed by the Zimbabwean military in a bloodless coup.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/14/africa/zi ... index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/14/africa/zi ... index.html
-
- Contributor
- Posts: 33
- Joined: Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:29 pm
Re: 2017 Current Events Study Guide
Leonardo da Vinci - Salvator Mundi sells for $400m, shattering auction record
4 time pool swimmer
-
- Also Receiving Votes
- Posts: 12895
- Joined: Sat Jul 02, 2011 1:39 pm
Re: 2017 Current Events Study Guide
Why was he unpopular? He made everyone in the country a trillionaire.Blue Lion wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2017 12:06 pm Robert Mugabe, who has been president/virtual dictator of Zimbabwe since 1987 and before that, Prime Minister from 1980-87, was apparently deposed by the Zimbabwean military in a bloodless coup.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/14/africa/zi ... index.html
-
- Newbie
- Posts: 9
- Joined: Fri Jan 10, 2014 12:33 pm
- Volante
- Harbinger of the Doomed Lemur
- Posts: 9254
- Joined: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:42 pm
Re: 2017 Current Events Study Guide
And possibly not even a Leonardo...
MLB awards:
AL RotY (poster's privilege, don't care!) - Aaron Judge, Yankees.
NL RotY - Cody Bellinger, Dodgers
Both unanimous.
AL Cy Young - Corey Kluber, Indians, 2nd. (Sale was robbed.)
NL Cy Young - Max Scherzer, Nationals, 3rd total, 2nd consecutive.
AL MVP - Jose Altuve, Astros. Judge was 2nd. (Trout, 4th!)
NL MVP - Giancarlo Stanton, Marlins. Lead all players with 59 HRs.
Judge is probably the only one they'll ask by name, but it'd be good to recognize Bellinger's on the Dodgers (CA bias)
The best thing that Neil Armstrong ever did, was to let us all imagine we were him.
Latest movies (1-10): Everything Everywhere All at Once (10), Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken (6), Black Sunday /1960/ (6), Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (7)
Latest movies (1-10): Everything Everywhere All at Once (10), Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken (6), Black Sunday /1960/ (6), Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (7)
- Volante
- Harbinger of the Doomed Lemur
- Posts: 9254
- Joined: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:42 pm
Re: 2017 Current Events Study Guide
Cause J! asks about these things:
Serena Williams (duh) marries Alexis Ohanian (Reddit cofounder) in New Orleans.
To maybe help remember, Serena's daughter (born ~3 months ago) is named Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr.
Serena Williams (duh) marries Alexis Ohanian (Reddit cofounder) in New Orleans.
To maybe help remember, Serena's daughter (born ~3 months ago) is named Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr.
The best thing that Neil Armstrong ever did, was to let us all imagine we were him.
Latest movies (1-10): Everything Everywhere All at Once (10), Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken (6), Black Sunday /1960/ (6), Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (7)
Latest movies (1-10): Everything Everywhere All at Once (10), Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken (6), Black Sunday /1960/ (6), Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (7)
-
- Also Receiving Votes
- Posts: 12895
- Joined: Sat Jul 02, 2011 1:39 pm
Re: 2017 Current Events Study Guide
Mel Tillis has died at 85.
- MinnesotaMyron
- JBOARDIE OF THE MONTH!
- Posts: 3427
- Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:53 pm
Re: 2017 Current Events Study Guide
The daughter is a Jr. named after her father. That's unusual.
- econgator
- Let's Go Mets!
- Posts: 10671
- Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:32 am
Re: 2017 Current Events Study Guide
And it's a different middle name, so you don't even really need the Jr.MinnesotaMyron wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2017 11:40 amThe daughter is a Jr. named after her father. That's unusual.
- Peachbox
- Sports Jeopardy! Contestant
- Posts: 683
- Joined: Fri Jun 20, 2014 5:25 am
Re: 2017 Current Events Study Guide
I don't know if this will ever come up on Jeopardy! or in Learned League, but this week in sports:
Martin Truex Jr. won his first NASCAR Cup Series championship after winning the race at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Nov. 19; that same race was the final one of Dale Earnhardt, Jr.'s career.
Earlier this week, Danica Patrick announced that she will retire from racing after the 2018 Indy 500. Her only win in IndyCar or NASCAR was at an IndyCar race in Japan in 2008.
Mattel announced its first hijab-wearing Barbie, modeled after fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad, who was the first U.S. athlete to compete in the Olympics (in Rio 2016) while wearing the hijab -- and also the first to win a medal, a bronze in Team Sabre.
Belgian-born weightlifter Naim Suleymanoglu of Turkey, known as Pocket Hercules, died at the age of 50. He won 3 Olympic gold medals and 7 world championships.
Martin Truex Jr. won his first NASCAR Cup Series championship after winning the race at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Nov. 19; that same race was the final one of Dale Earnhardt, Jr.'s career.
Earlier this week, Danica Patrick announced that she will retire from racing after the 2018 Indy 500. Her only win in IndyCar or NASCAR was at an IndyCar race in Japan in 2008.
Mattel announced its first hijab-wearing Barbie, modeled after fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad, who was the first U.S. athlete to compete in the Olympics (in Rio 2016) while wearing the hijab -- and also the first to win a medal, a bronze in Team Sabre.
Belgian-born weightlifter Naim Suleymanoglu of Turkey, known as Pocket Hercules, died at the age of 50. He won 3 Olympic gold medals and 7 world championships.
-
- Undefeated in Reruns
- Posts: 8937
- Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:31 am
Re: 2017 Current Events Study Guide
Charles Manson is dead at 83.
- MarkBarrett
- Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much
- Posts: 16467
- Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:37 am
- Location: San Francisco
Re: 2017 Current Events Study Guide
So far the J! writers have kept it simple with Rowling or Hogwarts. Anyway the sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will be out in about a year's time. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Eddie Redmayne: Newt Scamander
Johnny Depp: Gellert Grindelwald
Jude Law: Albus Dumbledore
Zoë Kravitz: Leta Lestrange
Eddie Redmayne: Newt Scamander
Johnny Depp: Gellert Grindelwald
Jude Law: Albus Dumbledore
Zoë Kravitz: Leta Lestrange
- alietr
- Site Admin
- Posts: 8978
- Joined: Thu Jun 30, 2011 1:20 pm
- Location: Bethesda, MD
Re: 2017 Current Events Study Guide
Teen heartthrob David Cassidy of The Partridge Family dies at 67.
- boson
- Trivial
- Posts: 1719
- Joined: Wed Jul 13, 2011 9:01 pm
- MinnesotaMyron
- JBOARDIE OF THE MONTH!
- Posts: 3427
- Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:53 pm
Re: 2017 Current Events Study Guide
MOVIE MEMORABILIA
Setting a new record, this item, which made its debut in the 1956 film Forbidden Planet, sold at auction in November 2017 for almost $5.4 million
Setting a new record, this item, which made its debut in the 1956 film Forbidden Planet, sold at auction in November 2017 for almost $5.4 million
Spoiler
- MarkBarrett
- Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much
- Posts: 16467
- Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:37 am
- Location: San Francisco
Re: 2017 Current Events Study Guide
Good one and I enjoyed the surprising long list of credits at the bottom:MinnesotaMyron wrote: ↑Thu Nov 23, 2017 10:56 pm MOVIE MEMORABILIA
Setting a new record, this item, which made its debut in the 1956 film Forbidden Planet, sold at auction in November 2017 for almost $5.4 million
Spoiler
Spoiler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_the_Robot
I had to check there when the article you linked dare not mention Lost in Space and I had no idea how much the thing got around.
I had to check there when the article you linked dare not mention Lost in Space and I had no idea how much the thing got around.
- econgator
- Let's Go Mets!
- Posts: 10671
- Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:32 am
Re: 2017 Current Events Study Guide
Unlikely to ever be asked, but ... UCF becomes the first team in college football history to go from a winless regular season one year to an unbeaten one the next.