Monday Trivia #135 [Don Zeko wins!]
California, New York, Texas.
Florida, New York.
Alabama, Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia.
Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, DC, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin.
Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming.
Ed note: Due to a transcription error, New York was erroneously listed as having four when it only has three and Mississippi was left off.
Inequality?Report
Requirements for qualifying a citizen initiative to appear on a ballot?Report
NY doesn’t have citizen initiatives.Report
Number of 4-year state colleges and universities.Report
Number of currently extant marriages where the partners are of different races from one another?Report
States I’ve lived in followed by a long list of states I haven’t lived in
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Monday night hint: 4-3-2-1 and none. Puerto Rico has one, none of the other territories do.Report
Memorials to Milton Work.Report
Airports that fly out of the Americas?Report
Area code overlay zones?Report
Wednesday morning hint: It’s a place, a location, a campus, or a building.Report
US district courts?Report
Good guess!Report
I was thinking something along these lines, but with the Federal Reserve System but not the courts. Sadly, there are too few Federal Reserve Banks and too many federal reserve member banks. It’s got to be something that is at least correlated with population.Report
This is the closest guess so far.Report
Then it must simply be Federal judicial districts!Report
No, it can’t be. Tennessee has three Federal judicial districts.Report
Also, every state has at least one district.Report
Fun fact: there are 94 federal judicial districts but only 93 US Attorney offices. I tried to work that into a Monday Trivia, but couldn’t.Report
Aqueduct systems? California has four: the Los Angeles Aqueduct draining the eastern Sierra to water Los Angeles; the California Water Project distributing Delta water throughout the San Joaquin Valley and watering the rest of urban metro LA; the Hetch Hetchy system watering San Francisco and other cities in the Bay Area, and the All-American Aqueduct watering San Diego and its environs.
I know there are at least two major aqueduct systems watering NYC, maybe three, and maybe the Erie Canal counts as another? It seems inconceivable that the Dallas/Ft. Worth metro area is not watered from elsewhere despite native resources because they’re so big, and river and ground water seem like they wouldn’t be enough for either Houston or San Antonio so…
Anyway, that’s my guess.Report
don’t forget the Colorado River Aqueduct, the Central Valley Project, and the Mokelumne Aqueducts. (there are more systems, but these 7 are the most important ones.)
And the All-American Canal only irrigates Imperial County and the eastern side of the Coachella Valley in Riverside County. San Diego has talked about building a pipeline over the San Jacinto Mountains, but that’s just silliness it puts out every now and again to piss off the Metropolitan Water District.Report
Number of public universities and branch schools. This includes 2 year and 4 year systems and separates it. SUNY-Purchase is one school, SUNY-Stony Brook another, etc.Report
Could be. So how do we figure four for California? University of California system is one, California State University system is another, the junior college network would be a third… what’s the fourth? I think the Maritime Academy is part of CSU and Hastings COL is part of UC.
I know little about public universities in New York other than that there are a lot of campuses for SUNY and that NYC has either a big ol’ community college or its own four-year university, maybe both. But that gets us only to three systems in NY too… But again, I must admit a degree of ignorance.Report
Hmm… Colorado has eight public four-year schools when you count independent boards of regents/trustees (why we think we need eight, a couple with multiple campuses, is another question). How about number of universities or university systems (all campuses combined), with enrollments greater than Y for some appropriate value of Y? The University of Puerto Rico has a considerable number of students when all of its campuses are added together.Report
Just parsing the list for useful information… 56 of whatever it is when Puerto Rico is added to the original list. That may not be accurate, unless Mississippi is another zero, since that state doesn’t appear on the list (or perhaps Will has demoted them to territorial status?).Report
Ugh. I figured that since there were 56 of them and my list had 56 that there wasn’t an error. There were two errors that canceled one another out:
Mississippi has one.
New York only has three.Report
FBI Field Offices.Report
Win. Sorry if my error threw you off.Report
Nah, I hadn’t added up the number, so the whole colloquy there was quite helpful.Report
Our current lifetime leaderboard for Monday Trivia winners:
Don Zeko, today’s winner, has 4.Report
I am outraged by this level of inequality. The top 1% have literally infinitely times more wins than the bottom quintile, or even the median participant.
We need to redistribute these wins, lest Messrs Harris, Thompson, and Schilling find their heads on pikes.Report
The obvious solution is the Harrison Bergerson one, where people of greater capabilities are given handicaps to bring them down to the norm. Accordingly, those at the top will be given a forced diet of Rand, Nozick, and Rothbard.Report