Week #5: Trivia Quiz & a Lino Print
Mac & cheese, a steaming head, Queer cinema, & more
It’s the fifth edition, so here are 5 trivia questions! This week’s accompanying visual artwork is a linocut print of my favorite comfort food to go along with Question #1.
About this trivia series: If you don’t know what this whole weekly-trivia-thing I’m doing is, here’s a little overview. Each question I write comes from something that I learned this past week accompanied by some kind of artwork I make relating to one of the questions. Many facts come from social media content - which I link to in the answer key and always fact check!
As always, best of luck & let me know how you do when you’re done!
the Trivia Questions:
Question #1
In an interview, Fred Armisen told a story of approaching one of his favorite musicians at a party hosted by the musician after being on SNL, at which there was a mac-and-cheese bar. After Armisen told him, “I think you are the greatest,” the musician replied with, “you know what I think the greatest is? This macaroni and cheese.” Who is this musical artist?
Question #2
A recent viral video showed steam rising from a woman’s head. Though met with lots of skepticism, the cause of this phenomenon has widely been determined to be a common symptom of what physiological process that happens to people in their 40s or 50s, on average?
Question #3
Videos are going around on TikTok of people driving around and projecting words and images as a form of protest onto the perfectly-flat backside of a certain widely-hated car created by a company led by a widely-hated & widely-hateful man. What is the make and model of this car?
Question #4
In a clip from an interview, an internationally renowned Italian filmmaker says (iconically), “I think every great movie is gay… there is not a movie that is not gay if it is great. Or at least Queer.” He elaborates that by “Queer,” in this case, he means that the film would be “really off the center of things.” Who is this filmmaker, who came out with two major films last year, but is maybe most famous for his 2017 film adaptation of an Andrê Aciman novel?
Question #5
While going down a TikTok rabbit hold about the Great Wall of China, I came across lots of controversy about whether the Great Wall of China or a a different defensive structure (of which now only remnants remain due to destruction by British soldiers) was the largest ever created. The structure’s namesake is a kingdom that is now within the borders of a certain West African nation. The kingdom shares a name with a bordering nation, not the nation it is currently within the borders of. What is this historic structure?
*Careful scrolling! Answers are below!*
The Answers
1. Prince. Below, find Fred Armisen telling the story.
2. Menopause. Watch the original video by clicking here.
3. Tesla Cybertrucks. Check out videos from the self-proclaimed “cybertruck hunters” here. It’s pretty cool.
4.Luca Guadagnino. Click here to watch the clip.
5. The Benin Moat / The Walls of Benin. There isn’t just one video or webpage that I feel provides a very good idea of what this was/is, but I recommend you do your own deep dive because it’s very interesting! Just beware of British propaganda.
I got all but the last one. Apparently I am EXTREMELY ONLINE.