Your life has reduced you to wielding a T-shirt cannon at Springfield Speedway, and you're feeling downright homicidal. You see Maude Flanders* in the last row of the bleachers, which rise at a 20-degree angle from horizontal. You know from experience that, with the perfect launch angle, a T-shirt launched from your cannon can just barely reach ( Read more... )

In a desperate attempt to bring life to a seemingly moribund social media platform (Should I get a Tumblr or something? Suggestions?), here's a classic puzzle ( Read more... )

In this week's episode of "Downton Abbey", Carson the butler develops a drinking problem ( Read more... )

You're bored one day, so you start writing out the names of the whole numbers in order ( Read more... )

Apropos to my previous post, Which US State Borders Have You Been Across?:

Which three state borders are purely maritime? (In other words, which three state borders lie entirely within an unbridgeable expanse of water?)

I've been to most of the 50 US states, but I've only ever flown into some of them, which feels like cheating. Here are the state borders I've crossed (while on foot or in a ground vehicle ( Read more... )

Here are some more trivia questions about unusual hit combinations! As in Baseball Trivia 65!, a/b/c/d refers to a game where a batter had a singles, b doubles, c triples, and d homers; for example 0/1/0/4 is a game with 1 double and 4 homers. The years of the games and teams of the batters are in white; all questions include at least one game ( Read more... )

I've always been fascinated by questions like "Has a batter ever had four doubles and a homer in the same game?" "How about two doubles, two triples, and a homer?" "How about six singles and a triple?" (The answers, by the way: "Yes", "No", and "Yes, but it took an extra-inning game ( Read more... )

The only MLB player older than I am (Latroy Hawkins retired after last season) just homered for the first time in his career! He took 31 seconds to round the bases.

If he can do it, so can I! Somebody sign me up!

Eleven batters have had games of 100+ BAGS during the postseason. Can you identify them from clues? The year and team are given in white. ( Here is an introduction to BAGS, if you don't know what I'm talking about ( Read more... )