Season 20, Day 18 - "Block Party"

It's Head week, and today's quiz is inspired by "blockhead."

“Blockhead”

“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.” —Benjamin Franklin

“Blockhead” is a word for a stupid person. The word probably comes from the head-shaped block of wood once used by wigmakers and milliners. In Charles Schulz’s beloved comic strip Peanuts, Lucy commonly hurls the insult at Charlie Brown. Fans of the boy band New Kids on the Block call themselves Blockheads. The Blockheads (one of 26 pictured above) are the main antagonists of the claymation character Gumby.

Season 20, Day 18 - "Block Party"

[Q1] THE “BLOCK” TYPE OF THESE FUNDING GIFTS FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ARE AWARDED TO STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS FOR A GENERAL PURPOSE (WHETHER OR NOT THE 18th PRESIDENT IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE)

[Q2] THE FIRST VERSE OF JENNIFER LOPEZ’S AUTOBIOGRAHPICAL HIT “JENNY FROM THE BLOCK” BEGINS: “FROM” THIS SKETCH COMEDY SHOW (WHERE SHE APPEARED AS ONE OF THE DANCERS KNOWN AS THE FLY GIRLS) “TO MOVIE SCRIPTS…”

[Q3] THE RIGGING ON A SAILBOAT IS ONE PLACE WHERE YOU’D FIND A BLOCK AND TACKLE, WHICH IS REALLY JUST A SYSTEM OF TWO OR MORE OF THIS ONE OF THE 6 SIMPLE MACHINES OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS

[Q4] A POPULAR RHODE ISLAND SUMMER DESTINATION, BLOCK ISLAND WAS VISITED BY THIS PIRATE SHORTLY BEFORE HE WAS HANGED IN 1701, WHICH EXPLAINS WHY IT’S RUMORED TO BE A HIDING SPOT FOR HIS LONG SOUGHT-AFTER BURIED TREASURE

[Q5] HERBERT BLOCK, A VENERATED POLITICAL CARTOONIST FOR THE WASHINGTON POST, SIGNED HIS WORK USING THIS ONE-WORD NAME