What team coined the term "trust the process" in reference to losing for the chance at better draft picks?

In Greek mythology, what ancient city received wall-building assistance from Poseidon and Apollo for King Laomedon?

What three U.S. locations are active super-volcanos?

What two actors have had #1 films in each of the last six decades, based on U.S. box office receipts?

Who created the term "hply sjot" to express surprise that the Mammalians would qualify for the playoffs despite missing a couple of weeks?

This struck me first as a mistranslation; the Spanish reads, "There are no leaf blowers."  But then again, the English has no verb at all; the "allowed" is implied.  Or is it?

(urns out that the reason is that there's a mobile phone lab inside the building and they do not want any dust kicked up)

We were doing fine until the last four questions, the first of which led to contentiousness and recriminations and eventual apologies.  If it wasn't phrased more craftily than below, there are two possible answers.  We missed all of these:

How many levels are in Maslow's hierarchy of needs ?

Who was the longest-serving U.S. Supreme Court justice ?

What English name, possibly deriving from the Hebrew for "to behold", was the first-or second-most popular female baby name in the United States from 1981 to 1998 ?

What U.S. president was featured on a $5000 bill ?

I was just rabbit-holed into the Wikipedia articles on Fidonet, UUCP and other proto-internet systems, and it made me remember again a big thing I can’t remember – the reason I originally got a modem.

I didn’t need one for paying work and I didn’t yet have any friends who were online, such as it was at the time. I was a typesetter and starting to work with early page layout programs but nobody I knew was a programmer or even an amateur hacker. Moving files around was done with floppies, nobody was uploading or emailing files around yet. I didn’t tend to splash out on tech gadgets, either.

But with the modem I discovered BBSes, and through them, I met a circle of local folks who knew about Fidonet and “doors” and who were into Pyroto Mountain. 

One of these people offered to get some of us UUCP connections, and that was my first actual email address @ozrout.uucp.  Then I stumbled into Usenet and we all know how that went.

But why did I initially want a modem and what was I expecting? I have a good memory for so many things in my life, but not this. It feels like a weird gap as I’d expect if someone had done a Jedi mind trick on me.

Chatting yesterday with someone in an organization I do some work for, and he starts telling me that his son is getting married soon, congratulations and so on, and then goes on to say how happy his mother is, because the lad is marrying his cousin, who's also her grandchild. 

I know this is not unusual in many cultures but I realized I was at grips with an ingrained cultural taboo. I was relieved to find out that my acquaintance was not himself married to a cousin, but to a woman from outside his culture entirely. Hapsburg outcome avoided.

What is the oldest U.S. military award?

Who were Arabella and Anita, whose zero-gravity skills were tested on Skylab in 1973?

What American fashion designer, born in 1942, is known for closing her shows with a cartwheel ending in a split?

Who was the first American to win a Nobel Peace Prize, for mediating the end of a war between two nations?

Friend of a friend commission request. They selected this pose from the following thumbnails.

Definitely a fun one to work on. I'm tweaking the composition a bit to better fit the 8.5x11 format, but this is the general feel...

The thumbs:

I'm designing and typesetting a big book of Marxist commentary.

On second pass, they edited a mention of Taiwan to “China’s Taiwan region.”

I commented to the publisher, “That’s planting a flag, for sure.”

He responded, “Taiwan has always been part of China.”

It took all I had not to reply “Yes, and Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.”

What Madrid museum displays The Surrender of Breda by Velazquez and The Third of May 1808 by Goya?

What one-word title is shared by Justin Timberlake's debut solo album and a 2010 neo-western crime drama series on FX?

What nine-letter word describes one of several forms of the same chemical element, such as diamond, graphite, or buckminsterfullerene ?

In what countries are the following four-letter cities:  Lima, Giza, Cork, Cebu, Kano ?
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What composer's last opera was The Magic Flute ?

One of these days I’m going to gather together a lot of my people and collectively sue McDonald’s for bringing the “Mc” prefix into disrepute.