Yesterday while I was catching up on my lovely Google Reader feeds, I came across this post from friend and fellow ward-goer Jana Riess.
Jana is a book editor for Publishers Weekly as well as the author of several books, including Mormonism for Dummies and What would Buffy do. She is in a heated race for the coveted title of “Most Famous Person that I know”, along with vaunted minor league broadcaster Jim Tocco.
Although Jim would I’m sure like me to point out that in the very important category of “Number of Wikipedia pages”, the result is
Jim: 1
Jana: 0
Anyway, that was a very long-winded way to mention that in reading Jana’s blog yesterday she showed a picture of Britney Spears holding a book with Jesus on the cover and wanted to know what the name of the book was. She offered a $15 Amazon GC to the first person to get the right answer.
So off I set. Actually to be fair, my Google-fu is not even the most powerful of anyone I know. There are a few other people I’d say would be better. But nevertheless, my Google-fu is…significant. First off I did a search for britney spears jesus book. 2nd result gave me this and in the comments I found the right answer. A quick search on Amazon found the same cover and the gift card was mine.
I emailed Jana afterwards, thanking her for the GC, and telling her that in the future that she could just email me as I enjoy opportunities to practice my Google-fu, and that next time I wouldn’t even charge her!! 🙂
So, dear readers, what about it? Do you think you can stump me? Bring it on. If you post a quest in the comments I’ll give it a whirl. But be fair – it has to be somewhere on the Internet or it’s cheating.
7 responses to “Bow to my Google-fu”
There was a politician that fell to his/her death because of a monkey attack recently. Tell me: The name of the politician, their birth date, whether or not they were married, how many children they had (bonus points for children’s names), and how long they had held the position they had when they died.
New Delhi Deputy Mayor Sawinder Singh Bajwa
He was married (Nimmy), and had one son, Arjun (though some sources indicated two sons)
He was elected to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi for the first time in April this year.
I didn’t get a birthdate but he was 52, making him born in either 1952 or 1951
where can i find a cd of appollo’s fire?
I believe you’re looking for
http://www.apollosfire.org/cds/cds.html
lyrics to UVM’s lame-o theme song that they sang at my graduation?
All I remember is that at one point it had the words “vermont, vermont, vermont”. Pretty, how you say, unoriginal.
Hmm that’s a tough one. Normally I’d expect a school’s Alma Mater to be sung at graduation. But I could not find any information indicating that UVM even HAS an alma mater song.
One interesting thing that I found out that I’m sure you probably already know is that UVM does not stand for University of VerMont, but instead for Universitas Virdis Montis, or University of the Green Mountains.
The UVM “fight song”, Vermont Victorious, has lyrics here . If you go to this site and scroll to #15, it does include the words Vermont twice in a row anyways.
I also looked for the official state song of Vermont, which is These Green Mountains which does not even include the word Vermont.
So I’m going to tentatively guess it was the UVM fight song. Let me know, and if that’s not it, I will keep digging. Any other details you can remember about the song would be appreciated, of course.
When is the death date of your 1st cousin? There is only one.