Alpaca Farm (beta)

Questions On Turning Thirty-Two by KlionskyG

Champion(s):

DreyfusB

Runner(s)-Up:

RalliP

Quiz Description

I turn 32 years old on February 12th on the solar calendar and on the 8th of Adar I (which technically doesn't exist this year, but the day to celebrate is sunset of February 19th to 24 hours later) on the Hebrew calendar, so here are some questions about the number 32.

If you don't submit the quiz, you'll never find out the fun fact at the end of it!

Shout-out for the idea to RobinJRichards for doing this when turning 43 and 44.

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Money Value (% Incorrect): 36 26 23 65 84 91 99 13 65 62 99 88 00
1 DreyfusB 510 98 32
36 		32
26 		32
 32
65 		00
 00
 00
 32
 32
65 		32
62 		00
 00
 32
2 RalliP 507 95 32
36 		32
 32
 00
00 		00
 00
 00
 32
 32
65 		32
62 		00
 32
88 		32
3 dklee 501 91 32
36 		32
26 		00
 00
 00
 00
 00
 32
 32
65 		32
62 		00
 32
88 		32
4 HortonR 420 88 32
36 		00
 32
23 		32
65 		00
 32
91 		00
 32
13 		00
 00
 00
 00
 32
5 ecpekkle 413 85 00
 32
26 		32
23 		32
65 		00
 00
 00
 32
13 		32
 32
62 		00
 00
 32
6 WeikleB 400 82 32
36 		32
 32
 32
65 		00
 00
 00
 32
13 		00
00 		32
62 		00
 00
 32
7 McGeeDean 383 79 32
 32
26 		32
23 		32
65 		00
 00
 00
 32
13 		32
 00
00 		00
 32
 32
8 BoyerA 378 75 32
36 		00
 32
23 		32
65 		00
 00
00 		00
 32
 00
 32
62 		00
 00
 32
9 KonkelT 374 72 32
36 		32
26 		32
23 		32
65 		32
 00
00 		00
 32
 00
 00
 00
 00
 32
10 MattK 371 69 32
36 		32
26 		32
23 		00
 00
 00
00 		00
 32
 32
 32
62 		00
 00
 32
11 GoodmanDL 339 62 32
36 		32
26 		32
23 		00
00 		00
 00
 00
 32
 00
 32
62 		00
 00
 32
11 ShapiroA 339 62 00
 32
26 		00
 32
65 		00
 00
00 		00
 32
 00
00 		00
 00
 32
88 		32
11 KesslerA2 339 62 32
36 		32
26 		32
23 		00
 00
 00
 00
 00
 32
 32
62 		00
 00
00 		32
14 DouglasLovesVixey 332 54 32
36 		32
26 		32
 32
65 		00
 00
 00
 32
13 		00
 00
 00
 00
00 		32
14 benwick 332 54 32
36 		32
26 		32
 00
 00
 00
00 		00
 32
13 		32
65 		00
 00
 00
 32
16 MrObvious 316 50 32
36 		32
26 		32
 00
 00
 00
00 		00
00 		32
 00
 32
62 		00
 00
 32
17 groug 313 46 32
36 		00
00 		32
23 		00
 32
 32
 00
 00
00 		00
 32
62 		00
 00
 32
18 EggCzar 300 43 00
 32
26 		32
23 		00
 00
 32
91 		00
 32
 00
 00
00 		00
00 		00
 32
19 RobinJRichards 281 40 32
36 		32
 32
23 		00
 00
 00
00 		00
 00
00 		00
 32
62 		00
 00
 32
20 JoeM 264 37 00
 32
26 		32
 32
65 		00
 00
 00
 32
13 		00
00 		00
00 		00
 00
 32
21 szeb 261 33 00
 00
 32
23 		00
00 		32
 00
00 		00
 32
13 		32
65 		00
 00
 00
 32
22 Zippy 248 30 00
 32
 32
23 		00
00 		00
 00
00 		00
 32
 32
65 		00
 00
 00
00 		32
23 JME1 229 27 00
 00
 32
23 		00
00 		00
 00
 00
 32
13 		32
65 		00
00 		00
 00
 32
24 SokolM 222 24 00
 32
26 		32
23 		00
 32
 00
00 		00
 32
13 		00
 00
00 		00
 00
 32
25 KPope 213 20 32
36 		32
26 		32
23 		00
 00
 00
 00
 00
 00
 00
00 		00
 00
00 		32
26 MoskowitzJim 209 17 32
36 		32
 00
 00
00 		32
 00
00 		00
 32
13 		00
00 		00
 00
 00
 32
27 LynchT 203 14 32
36 		32
26 		00
00 		00
 00
 00
 00
 32
13 		00
 00
 00
00 		00
 32
28 CoenM 200 11 32
36 		00
 32
23 		00
 00
 00
 00
 32
13 		00
00 		00
00 		00
 00
 32
29 BlomE 174 8 00
 00
00 		00
 32
65 		00
 00
 00
 32
13 		00
 00
 00
00 		00
00 		32
30 SaraNorcott 135 4 00
 32
26 		00
 00
00 		00
 00
00 		00
 32
13 		00
 00
 00
00 		00
 32
31 KCrest 77 1 00
 00
 00
00 		00
00 		00
 00
 00
 32
13 		00
 00
00 		00
 00
00 		32

Questions:

Question 1

The 32nd President and 32nd Vice President of the US were inaugurated together in 1933 (the last pair for which the ordinal numbers so matched).

Like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his VP also had three names. His first name is the most common Vice-Presidential name and he shares his last name with the man who managed the Milwaukee Brewers, Detroit Tigers, and Houston Astros for all or part of 15 seasons in the 1990s and 2000s.

Who was this VP?

Click to Reveal Answer
John Nance Garner

Question 2

The chemical element with atomic number 32 is among the several dozen elements named for places or regions. The accuracy of Mendeleev's prediction of this "eka-silicon" increased chemists' confidence in the periodic table when Clemens Winkler isolated this element from a chunk of argyrodite in 1886 near Freiburg.

What element is it?

Click to Reveal Answer
Germanium

Question 3

Who is pictured in this photograph, which was not taken on October 6, 1965?

Click for additional information

Click to Reveal Answer
Sandy Koufax

Question 4

How many gallons is 32 teaspoons?

Give the answer as a fraction or in words.

Click to Reveal Answer
1/24 (one twenty-fourth) of a gallon

Question 5

Identify the word redacted (in grey) from these three recent covers. The biannual publication was co-founded in 2003 and George David Clark has been Editor-in-Chief since 2011, during which time the publication added a Contributors’ Marginalia section (featuring writing out of the titular format).

Click for additional information

Click to Reveal Answer
Poems [Full title: 32 Poems]

Question 6

You probably knew that Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. In what specific genre did he write 32 pieces, including a "Tempest", a "Cookoo", and a "Waldstein".

Unlike in most works of this form, the 32nd (among several others) has only two movements.

Click to Reveal Answer
Piano Sonata [this ought to keep you busy for a while: http://bit.ly/BeethovenPianoSonatas]

Question 7

Sets of 32, part I:

"Yokel Hero", by the Martins, is an upcoming item in what set, of which there are now 32?

Click to Reveal Answer
Seasons of "The Simpsons"

Question 8

Sets of 32, part II:

What has been removed from this set of 32?

{8 incisors, 4 cuspids, 8 bicuspids, __________ }

Click to Reveal Answer
12 molars (or 8 molars & 4 wisdom teeth) (hopefully you have only had the latter 4 removed from your set of 32)

Question 9

I lived one mile north of the 32nd North parallel -- actually at 32.0187°N -- for three months, in the same city as approximately half of the worldwide population of Samaritans.

Name either:

  • the city I lived in, OR
  • the namesake of the international airport six miles away where the 32nd North crosses two of the three runways.

    • Click for additional information

    Click to Reveal Answer
    Holon, David Ben-Gurion

    Question 10

    The Major League Baseball franchise located in the 32nd US state (admitted 1858) began its 32nd season in that state as the defending World Series champion.

    Which team is it?

    Click to Reveal Answer
    Minnesota Twins (first MN season 1961 after moving from DC, defending champs at start of 1992 season)

    Question 11

    Your second-annual world-record question!

    32 hours, 32 minutes, and 32 seconds. This was the length of the world record set by two University of Oklahoma students in October 2015 for doing what?

    (The record has subsequently been extended by several hours.)

    Click to Reveal Answer
    (marathon) hugging

    Question 12

    1) Til hamingju með afmælið
    2) Wszystkiego najlepszego z okazji urodzin
    3) Palju õnne sünnipäevaks

    I've just wished myself a happy birthday in three languages, each of which has a 32-letter alphabet.

    Name all three languages in the order they appear above.

    Click to Reveal Answer
    Icelandic, Polish, Estonian

    Question 13

    Don't money this one!

    Got anything I should know about being 32? Want to complain that there are three baseball questions or that US units are a pain to work with? Ideas for future Mystery Themes or other quizzes? That you studied up on your vice presidents and chemical elements before opening this quiz?

    Feel free to sign your name or not. (Answers to this question are displayed separately from answers to all other questions, so even if you sign your name here, I won't know what else you submitted on the other questions.)

    Thanks for playing!

    Click to Reveal Answer
    Turning 32 means that I have by definition already had my "golden" birthday, the day on which my age in years is equal to the day of the month on which my birthday falls (that is: 12, in my case, because my birthday is 2/12). ※ But my birthday is a palindrome this year! When written in DD/MM/YYYY format as 12/02/2021, it's the same forwards and backwards! ※ Putting these two things together, Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln, who were both born on February 12, 1809, are celebrating a sort of palindromic golden birthday as they "turn" 212 on 2/12/2021: a SURPRISE DOUBLE PALINDROME GOLDEN BIRTHDAY!