What is Grounation Day anyway?
1. Which American author wrote the
1962 book “Travels With Charley” about an extended road trip with his pet poodle? A) Ernest Hemingway B) Jack Kerouac C) John Steinbeck D) Tom Wolfe
2. Peru's Yanacocha mine is among the world's top 10 producers of what ore?
A) Copper B) Gold C) Nickel D) Uranium
3. In the 1940s, Duke of Iron, Lord Invader and Macbeth the Great were men with what occupation?
A) Calypso singers
B) Circus performers C) Professional wrestlers D) Spies
4. The eastern half of New Guinea is the independent nation of Papua New Guinea; the western half is a province of what country?
A) Australia
B) China
C) Indonesia
D) Malaysia
5. In 1934, Georgia O'Keeffe was commissioned to paint (but did not complete) a mural for the ladies' room in what prominent building?
A) Art Institute of Chicago
B) Ford's Theatre C) New Mexico State Capitol
D) Radio City Music Hall
6. The Rastafarian observance of Grounation Day celebrates what man's visit to Jamaica in 1966?
A) Steve Biko
B) Marcus Garvey
C) Martin Luther King Jr. D) Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
Answers
1) John Steinbeck wrote the 1962 book “Travels With Charley.”
2) Peru's Yanacocha mine is among the world's topproducing gold mines. 3) Calypso singers. 4) Indonesia.
5) Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
6) The Rastafarian observance of Grounation Day celebrates Emperor Haile Selassie's visit.
FACTS OF THE DAY
• German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer didn't much care for people in general and women in particular. He was, however, a great fan of poodles and owned several of them throughout his adult life — all males, all named Atma.
• Borneo is the third-largest island by area on Earth after Greenland and New Guinea. It's big enough to be part of three different countries. The southern portion of the island is part of Indonesia. Most of the north — about one-third of the island — is part of Malaysia, except for the 2,200 square miles that comprise the independent monarchy of Brunei Darussalam, “the abode of peace.”
• Known for her paintings of the American southwest, Georgia O'Keeffe spent the last 40-plus years of her life at her home and studio in Abiquiu, New Mexico. Before that, she lived in New York City and traveled extensively, including a nine-week visit to Hawaii in 1939 to produce two paintings that would be used in ads for Dole pineapple. Those two paintings, “Crab's Claw Ginger, Hawaii” and “Pineapple Bud,” are now in private collections.