The Questions…
1. What do you call the whitish area at the base of your fingernails and toenails next to the cuticle?
2. Pixar Animation Studios, winner of 26 Academy Awards, was founded in 1979, but they didn’t get into the movie business until Toy Story in 1995. Before 1995, what did Pixar do?
3. What is the middle name of actor Michael J. Fox?
4. Which world capital stands at the highest elevation? Which stands at the lowest?
5. In Edouard Manet’s 1852 painting “A Bar at the Folies Bergère,” bottles of beer are shown of a brand that is still going strong today. What brand is it?
The Answers…
1. That’s the lunula (plural lunulae), the visible part of the root of the nail. Nails are surprisingly complex, consisting of eight components, including the lunulae.
2. Pixar started out building imaging computers for government agencies and the medical industry. Then they began making computer-animated TV commercials. Their ads for Listerine (1993), Life Savers (1994), Levi Strauss (1995), and Hallmark (1997) all won a Gold Clio, the ad industry’s top award.
3. Andrew. He decided to use a middle initial to avoid confusion with another actor named Michael Fox, but he didn’t like the way A. sounded, so he picked J.
4. The highest is La Paz, Bolivia, located in the Andes Mountains at 11,913 feet above sea level. The lowest is Baku, Azerbaijan, on the Caspian Sea at 29 feet below sea level.
5. Bass Pale Ale, easily identified by the red triangle logo. Manet signed the painting on one of the bottles.
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