Author: Evelyn Beresford

Step 1 : Introduction to the question “Which neighborhood can be found in both London and New York City?” …Chelsea is a neighborhood on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The district’s boundaries are roughly 14th Street to the south, the Hudson River and West Street to the west, and Sixth Avenue to the east, with its northern boundary variously described as near the upper 20s or 34th Street. Chelsea is also an affluent area of South West London, bounded to the south by the River Thames. Chelsea is home to one of the largest communities…

Step 1 : Introduction to the question “The star of which sitcom shares his last name with a common type of wrench?” …Allen is a brand of hand tools, most widely recognized for its wrenches, known as “Allen wrenches”. The Allen wrench is used to drive bolts and screws with hexagonal sockets in their heads. This simple tool shares its name with the star of the TV sitcom “Home Improvement”, Tim Allen. Tim Allen found sitcom success with Home Improvement in 1991, fueling a Hollywood career that made him a featured player in The Santa Clause and Toy Story franchises. Allen later…

Step 1 : Introduction to the question “Which legendary actress has lost the Best Actress Oscar a whopping 18 times?” …Over the past four decades Meryl Streep has amassed 21 Oscar nominations, more than any performer in Academy Awards history. She won three of those races, making her a member of the exclusive three-timers club. However, there’s a unique downside to Meryl’s Oscar reign. Streep also has 18 Oscar failures on her hands, and holds the record as the biggest acting loser of all time. Streep’s losses straddle 39 years, including 15 as Best Actress and 3 as Best Supporting Actress. Her…

Step 1 : Introduction to the question “Which newspaper features distinctive portraits called “dot-drawings” instead of actual photos?” …The Wall Street Journal uses ink dot drawings called hedcuts, a method of illustration considered a consistent visual signature of the paper. The Wall Street Journal adopted the current form of this portraiture in 1979 when freelance artist Kevin Sprouls approached the paper with some ink dot illustrations he had created. The front page editor felt that the drawings complemented the paper’s classical feeling and gave it a sense of stability. Today, there are five hedcut artists employed by The Wall Street Journal. Each…

Step 1 : Introduction to the question “Which 1970s TV sitcom had its theme song reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart?” In 1975, John Sebastian, former member of the beloved 60s pop group the Lovin’ Spoonful, was asked to write and record the theme song for a brand-new television show with the working title Kotter. Sebastian had trouble finding rhymes for the word “Kotter” and ended up going with the more general “welcome back” theme. That song, “Welcome Back,” became the #1 song on the charts on this day in 1976. It also led producers to change the show’s title…

Step 1 : Introduction to the question “Which domain will redirect you to the Amazon website?” When Jeff Bezos was brainstorming names for his new venture in 1994, Relentless was the company name that came closest to making the cut. Friends warned Bezos that it sounded sinister, and Amazon was ultimately chosen to become the history-making name. But something about Relentless spoke to Bezos — so much so that he even registered a domain for the name. Type Relentless.com into a search bar today, and you will be redirected to Amazon’s website. Valued at nearly $1 trillion, Amazon is one of the…

Step 1 : Introduction to the question “Which was a real “Star Wars” based breakfast cereal sold in the 1980s?” …Introduced by Kellogg’s in 1984, C-3PO’s were similar to Cheerios in appearance, although they were shaped like the numeral eight. Television commercials featured C3P0 and his trusty sidekick, R2D2 engaged in various intergalactic adventures with a bowl of crunchy cereal bits always close at hand. Each box included some form of movie collectible, such as stickers of the film’s characters. Unfortunately, even with one of the most recognizable robots in history as a pitchman, it wasn’t enough to mask the fact that…

Step 1 : Introduction to the question “Which actor took his name from a street that leads up to the gates of Paramount Studios?” Paramount Studios is responsible for hit films such as “Titanic,” “Iron Man” and the “Transformers” franchise. The Bronson Gate at Paramount Pictures’ studio in Los Angeles is one of the most recognizable Hollywood landmarks. Many years ago a young actor named Charles Buchinski, decided to take his stage name from this gate, and became the more marketable Charles Bronson. He reportedly took his inspiration from the Bronson Gate at the studios of Paramount Pictures, situated on the corner…

Step 1 : Introduction to the question “Which television sitcom marked the acting debut of Jerry Seinfeld?” …In 1980, Jerry Seinfeld had a small recurring role on the sitcom Benson, playing Frankie, a mail-delivery boy who had comedy routines that no one wanted to hear. Seinfeld was abruptly fired from the show due to creative differences. Seinfeld has said that he was not actually told he had been fired until he turned up for the read-through session for an episode and found that there was no script for him. He would go on to create The Seinfeld Chronicles with Larry David in…

Step 1 : Introduction to the question “Julia Child’s show “The French Chef” was the first American TV show to include what?” …Closed captioning may be defined as transcribed text that runs simultaneously with video. Those who are hard of hearing, deaf, or speak a foreign language can benefit from the use of a captioning service. The first use of closed captioning occurred in 1976, on Julia Child’s PBS show The French Chef. PBS sought approval to use closed captioning on their programming to ensure that their deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences weren’t excluded from viewing. In 2014, the FCC updated their rules…