ANSWER: Military

Star-Spangled Banner


The weekend of December 6 and 7, 1941, promised to be a great time for the sailors who had returned to Pearl. There wasn't the slightest hint of trouble; even the weather seemed to be smiling on the tropical port. When the sun rose on Sunday morning young sailors from around the United States had little opportunity to be homesick; there was too much to see and do.

As the hour neared the 8 o'clock muster and the raising of the colors, all was peaceful and relaxed.A large number of sailors gathered on the beach for an outdoor morning chapel service. On the USS Nevada the band was beginning the first strains of the National Anthem for the hoisting of the flag.

It was 7:53 A.M. and events were about to unfold that would propel the United States into a World War that would ultimately cost more than a quarter-million American men and women their lives. On this day alone more than 2,400 men, women and children would die in Paradise.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 10-5

QUESTION: Military

What song was the Navy band playing at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked?

ANSWER: Presidential

Woodrow Wilson


High-denomination currency was prevalent from the very beginning of U.S. Government issue (1861). $500, $1,000, and $5,000 interest bearing notes were issued in 1861, and $10,000 gold certificates arrived in 1865. There are many different designs and types of high-denomination notes.

The high-denomination bills were issued in a small size in 1929, along with the $1 through $100 denominations. The designs were as follows:

* The $500 bill featured a portrait of William McKinley
* The $1,000 bill featured a portrait of Grover Cleveland
* The $5,000 bill featured a portrait of James Madison
* The $10,000 bill featured a portrait of Salmon P. Chase
* The $100,000 bill featured a portrait of Woodrow Wilson

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 10-4

QUESTION: Presidential

What president's mug graces a $100,000 bill?

ANSWER: Math

Twenty


An icosahedron is any polyhedron having 20 faces, but usually a regular icosahedron is implied, which has equilateral triangles as faces.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 9-4

QUESTION: Math

How many equal sides does an icosahedron have?

ANSWER: Baseball

Middle Finger


The curveball has a sideward spin that causes it to break inward. Hold the ball with your wrist bent at a 90-degree angle. Your palm should be facing in, toward your body. Your grip is simple: the second and middle fingers should lay across two seams of the ball. Spin is given by applying pressure with your middle finger as you flick your wrist downward. The pitch is thrown with an outward snap of your wrist that causes the back of your hand to face the batter.


The slider is nothing more than a fast curveball. It even looks like a fastball until it starts to break. Sliders are often thrown sidearm, and because of that, the grip is slightly different from that of a curve. Hold the ball with your wrist bent at a 45-degree angle, with your palm half facing in toward you. Your index and middle fingers should be placed along the seam on the two-seam side of the ball. The middle finger should be cut across the center axis of the baseball, turned toward you. This may sound like a contortionist act, but when you pick up a baseball you will discover it's not very difficult at all. And when you throw the pitch you'll find it breaks less than a conventional curveball and moves down and across on an even plane.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 9-3

QUESTION: Baseball

Which finger on a pitcher's throwing hand controls a curve ball and slider?

ANSWER: Food

Twelve




Each cookie has 12 flower shaped designs on them. Each flower has 4 petals.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 8-3

QUESTION: Food

How many flowers are in the design stamped on each side of an Oreo cookie?

ANSWER: Literature

Sam Clemens



Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel,and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is also known for his quotations. During his lifetime, Twain became a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists and European royalty. Twain enjoyed immense public popularity, and his keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. American author William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature."

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 8-2

QUESTION: Literature

What was Mark Twain's real name?

ANSWER: Nature

Green



Emu are quite prolific, each mature breeding pair producing 20 to 50 eggs per year. The eggs are dark avocado green, about 5 in. long and weigh on average 600 grams. The hen lays an egg every third day during the laying season ( Nov. - May). In the wild, the male incubates the eggs and raises the chicks. The eggs hatch in 52 days, producing a chick which will walk within hours and run within days.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 7-2

QUESTION: Nature

What color are emu eggs?

ANSWER: Movies

Calvin Klein



Matt: CORRECT
Record: 6-2

QUESTION: Movies

What brand of underwear does Marty McFly wear in Back to the Future?

ANSWER: Bible/Religion

Brazil



There are an estimated 137 million Catholics in Brazil - the highest number of any country in the world, representing 74% of the Brazilian population. There are over 250 dioceses and other territorial jurisdictions in the country.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 5-2

QUESTION: Bible/Religion

What country boasts the largest number of Catholics?

ANSWER: Places

I-90



Interstate 90 (I-90) is the longest interstate highway in the United States at nearly 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers). It is the northernmost east-to-west, coast-to-coast interstate. Its western terminus is in Seattle, Washington, at 4th Avenue S. next to Safeco Field and Qwest Field, and its eastern terminus is in Boston, Massachusetts, at Route 1A near Logan International Airport.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 5-1

QUESTION: Places

What interstate highway connects Boston and Seattle?

ANSWER: Music

Zero..Zilch..None



Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the British rock band The Beatles. Recorded over a 129-day period beginning on 6 December 1966, the album was released on 1 June 1967 in the United Kingdom and the following day in the United States. It was one of the first rock albums to open like a book and to print all of the song lyrics. No singles were released from it; it is intended to be listened to as a whole.

Sgt. Pepper's is often described as The Beatles' magnum opus, and one of the most influential albums of all time by prominent critics and publications. It was ranked the greatest album of all time by Rolling Stone in 2003.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 4-1

QUESTION: Music

How many songs from the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band were released as singles?

ANSWER: Olympics

Innsbruck, Austria



The Olympic Winter Games were held in Innsbruck twice, first in 1964, then again in 1976, when the Denver, Colorado voters rejected a bond referendum to finance the games. Along with St. Moritz, Switzerland and Lake Placid, New York in the United States, it is one of three places which have twice hosted the Winter Games. It also hosted the 1984 and 1988 Winter Paralympics. It is now bidding for the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 3-1

QUESTION: Olympics

What alpine city hosted the Winter Olympics in 1964 and 1976?

ANSWER: History

Michael Collins



Selected as part of the third group of fourteen astronauts in 1963, he flew in space twice. His first spaceflight was Gemini 10, when he and command pilot John W. Young performed two rendezvous with different spacecraft and Collins undertook two EVAs. His second spaceflight was Apollo 11 where he served as the command module pilot. While he orbited the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin performed the first manned landing on the lunar surface. He is one of only 24 men to have flown to the Moon.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 3-0

QUESTION: History

Who was stuck in the spacecraft while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin moon-walked?

ANSWER: Television

David Letterman



Letterman began his career as a radio talk show host on WXLW (AM), and on Indianapolis television station WLWI (now called WTHR) as a local anchor and weatherman. He received recognition for his unpredictable on-air behavior, which included jokingly calling attention to state borders missing from the weather map, and predicting hail stones "the size of canned hams". (Because this upset his bosses, to this day he occasionally gives out canned hams on his show.) One night he reportedly upset his bosses when he congratulated a tropical storm for being upgraded to a hurricane.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 2-0

QUESTION: Television

What Indianapolis weatherman of the 1970's once forecast hail "the size of canned hams"?

ANSWER: General Science

Centimeter



Technically, 1 centimeter is equal to about 0.393700787401575 inches (1 inch is equal to 2.54 centimeters exactly)

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 1-0

QUESTION: General Science

What unit of measure do you multiply by .39 to convert it to inches?