Trivia Newsletter CLXXI Submission Form

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Note: Some folks like to share their guesses for all of the questions, but in order to submit this form, only your initials (the first question) and a guess on the last question are necessary.

For purposes of the Question #6 Leaderboard, please write below a THREE-LETTER initialism you'd like me to use to track your entries. (You might choose your initials, but doing so is not necessary.) *

Question #1 - Shigeru Ban, the winner of the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize, is celebrated for his innovative work with WHAT cheap and sustainable material? A cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand designed by him and named after this material is made up in part of 86 tubes of it.

Question #2 - The word around town is that the person born in 1930 who authored the thesis Line-of-Sight Guidance Techniques for Manned Orbital Rendezvous while earning his doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shares WHAT nickname with the author of the 1990 nonfiction book Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream?

Question #3 - Also a word describing you right now, a biweekly newspaper and media outlet with WHAT name describes itself as “Chicago’s alternative nonprofit newsroom”? It was the original home of the nationally syndicated question-and-answer column “The Straight Dope.”

Question #4 - “I am not a post-feminism feminist,” Rebecca Walker wrote in Ms. magazine in 1992, following the appointment of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court, in an article entitled “Becoming the Third” WHAT?

Question #5 - WHAT is the last name of the minimalist composer notable for operas such as Einstein on the Beach and Satyagraha? In addition to writing music for his cousin on This American Life on National Public Radio, he’s been nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Original Score, including for the 2002 film The Hours.

Question #6 - Each of the answers to Questions #1 through #5, when associated with WHAT other word, make up a finite list that is this newsletter’s theme? *

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