Monday, August 31, 2009

QUESTION: Drinks

What is the main ingredient used to make mead?

ANSWER: Chemistry

Liquid


As energy in the form of heat is added to a solid, its molecules begin to vibrate more rapidly until they break out of their fixed positions and the solid becomes a liquid.

The change from solid to liquid is called melting and occurs at a definite temperature, the melting point. The molecules of a liquid are free to move throughout the liquid but are held from escaping from the liquid by intermolecular forces. This gives a liquid a definite volume but no definite shape.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 146-125

QUESTION: Chemistry

Which form of matter has a definite volume, but no definite shape?

ANSWER: Seinfeld

Eclair



Matt: WRONG
Record: 146-124

Thursday, August 27, 2009

QUESTION: Seinfeld

What food does George get caught eating out of the trash?

ANSWER: NYS Fair

1890


From 1842 to 1889 the fair traveled among 11 different cities—Albany, Auburn, Buffalo, Elmira, New York City, Poughkeepsie, Rochester, Saratoga Springs, Syracuse, Utica, and Watertown.

In February 1889 Syracuse Land Co donated to the Agricultural Society a 100-acre (40 ha) tract of land in Geddes (Onondaga Co) crossed by railways that facilitated exhibit transport. This parcel has served as the fair's permanent home since September 1890.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 146-123

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

QUESTION: NYS Fair

Since what year has Syracuse been the Fair's permanent home?

ANSWER: Plants

Marigold


Marigold is often used as a less-expensive substitute for saffron, fresh or dried petals give subtle flavor and golden color to seafood, soups, stews, puddings, rice, and omelets. The dried petals, softened in hot milk, can be added to the batters of cakes, breads, and cookies. The fresh, tender young leaves are good in salads.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 146-122

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

QUESTION: Plants

The golden petals of what plant can be used in the place of more expensive saffron in cooking?

ANSWER: Music

Lucille


Lucille is the name given to B. B. King's guitars. They are usually black Gibson guitars similar to the ES-355.

In the winter of 1949, King played at a dance hall in Twist, Arkansas. In order to heat the hall, a barrel half-filled with kerosene was lit, a fairly common practice at the time. During a performance, two men began to fight, knocking over the burning barrel and sending burning fuel across the floor. The hall burst into flames, which triggered an evacuation. Once outside, King realized that he had left his guitar inside the burning building. He entered the blaze to retrieve his beloved $30 guitar, a Gibson acoustic. Two people died in the fire. The next day, King learned that the two men were fighting over a woman named Lucille. King named that first guitar Lucille, as well as every one he owned since that near-fatal experience, as a reminder never again to do something as stupid as run into a burning building or fight over women.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 146-121

Monday, August 24, 2009

QUESTION: Music

What is the name of B.B. King's guitar?

ANSWER: World

Nepal


The national flag of Nepal is the only national flag that is not rectangular. The flag is a simplified combination of two single pennants. Its crimson red is the colour of the rhododendron, the country's national flower. Red is also the sign of victory in war. The blue border is the colour of peace. Until 1962, the flag's emblems, the sun and the crescent moon, had human faces. They were removed to modernize the flag. The faces remain on the sun and moon on the Royal Standard. The flag was adopted, with the formation of a new constitutional government, on December 16, 1962. The individual pennants had been used for the preceding two centuries and the double pennant since the 19th century. The flag borrows the basic design from the original Hindu design, which has been in use for more than 2,000 years.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 146-120

Sunday, August 23, 2009

QUESTION: World

What is the only country that has a non-rectangular flag?

ANSWER: Horse Racing

Maryland


The Preakness Stakes is a 1-3/16 mile (1.91 km) thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old horses, held on the third Saturday in May each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. The Preakness Stakes has been termed "The Run for the Black-Eyed Susans" because a blanket of Black-eyed Susans is traditionally placed around the winner's neck. The attendance at the Preakness Stakes ranks second in North America and usually surpasses the attendance of all other stakes races including the Belmont Stakes, the Breeders' Cup and the Kentucky Oaks.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 146-119

Thursday, August 20, 2009

QUESTION: Horse Racing

Where is the Preakness held? (what state)

ANSWER: Genealogy

Second cousin, once removed


Click HERE to view a chart that explains the relationships between people.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 145-119

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

QUESTION: Genealogy

What relation is your grandmother's cousin's son to you?

ANSWER: Musicals

My Fair Lady



Matt: CORRECT
Record: 145-118

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

QUESTION: Musicals

The song "Get Me To The Church On Time" is from what musical?

ANSWER: Body Piercing

Back


A corset piercing is a series of surface piercings done to emulate the appearance of the lacing on the back of a corset. Two rows of bilaterally symmetrical piercings are performed and can be composed of as few as four piercings (two in each row) or as many as the length of the area being pierced (usually the back) and the vertical space between piercings will allow space for. Due to the difficulty and risks associated with permanently healing single surface piercings, most corset piercings are intended to be temporary in nature.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 144-118

Monday, August 17, 2009

QUESTION: Body Piercing

A corset piercing is most commonly placed where on the body?

ANSWER: Weather

50,000°F


The air around a lightning strike is heated to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit (27,500 C).

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 144-117

Sunday, August 16, 2009

QUESTION: Weather

What is the temperature of a lightning bolt?

Thursday, August 13, 2009

DAY OFF

Due to conference duties and fatigue...questions will return Monday.

ANSWER: Television

Blue Moon Detective Agency


The show's storyline begins with the reversal of fortune of Maddie Hayes, a former model who finds herself bankrupt after her accountant embezzles all of her liquid assets. She is left saddled with several failing businesses formerly maintained as tax write-offs, one of which is the City of Angels Detective Agency, helmed by the carefree David Addison. Between the pilot episode and first episode, Addison persuades Hayes to keep the business and run it in partnership. The detective agency is renamed "Blue Moon Investigations" because Hayes was most famous as the spokesmodel for the (fictitious) Blue Moon Shampoo company. In many episodes, she was recognized as "The Blue Moon Shampoo Girl," if not by name.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 143-117

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

QUESTION: Television

What was the name of the detective agency in Moonlighting?

ANSWER: Places

1800


On June 11, 1800, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ceased to be the capital of the United States, as the new city of Washington in the District of Columbia became the country's official capital. The federal government moved its offices to Washington, D.C., in June. In November, President John Adams first slept in the unfinished Executive Mansion (now known as the White House) and Congress met for the first time in the U.S. Capitol building.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 143-116

QUESTION: Places

What year did Washington become the nation's capital?

ANSWER: Astronomy

Mercury and Venus


A moon is a natural satellite rotating around a planet. While moons vary in size, each moon is much smaller than its planet. Almost 140 moons are known in the Solar System.

Several moons are larger than the planet Pluto and two moons are larger than the planet Mercury. There also are many small moons that may be asteroids captured by their planets.

Only Mercury and Venus do not have any moons. By comparison, Earth has one moon and Mars has two. Jupiter has the most of any planet. Saturn is second.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 142-116

Monday, August 10, 2009

QUESTION: Astronomy

What are the only two planets in our solar system without moons?

ANSWER: Movies

The Jazz Singer


The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical film. The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of the "talkies" and the decline of the silent film era. Produced by Warner Bros. with its Vitaphone sound-on-disc system, the movie stars Al Jolson, who performs six songs. Directed by Alan Crosland, it is based on a play by Samson Raphaelson.

The story begins with young Jakie Rabinowitz defying the traditions of his devout Jewish family by singing popular tunes in a beer hall. Punished by his father, a cantor, Jakie runs away from home. Some years later, now calling himself Jack Robin, he has become a talented jazz singer. He attempts to build a career as an entertainer, but his professional ambitions ultimately come into conflict with the demands of his home and heritage.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 141-116

Sunday, August 9, 2009

QUESTION: Movies

The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue was released in 1927. What was the name of it?

ANSWER: Olympics

3



The winter games were held in Lake Placid, New York, in 1932, and again in 1980, then in Squaw Valley, California, in 1960. They were also held in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2002, but that wasn't during the 20th century. The four venues for the Summer Games were St. Louis in 1904, Los Angeles in 1932 and again in 1984, and Atlanta in 1996.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

QUESTION: Olympics

The USA hosted the Olympic games seven times in the 20th century. How many were winter games?

ANSWER: Old West

Missouri to California


The Pony Express was a fast mail service crossing the North American continent from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, from April 1860 to October 1861. It became the nation's most direct means of east-west communication before the telegraph and was vital for tying California closely with the Union just before the American Civil War.

NO QUESTION TODAY

Due to Dave Matthews. Questions will return tommorow.

Monday, August 3, 2009

QUESTION: Old West

What states did the Pony Express riders travel between?

ANSWER: Cars

Honda Accord


The Honda Accord is the series of mid-size automobiles manufactured by Honda since 1976, and sold in most automotive markets throughout the world. The Accord became the first Japanese car to be produced in the U.S in 1982, when production commenced in Marysville, Ohio at Honda's Marysville Auto Plant. It is also produced in Guangzhou, China since the 1999 inception of the Guangzhou Honda Joint Venture.

The Accord has achieved considerable success, especially in the United States, where it was the best-selling Japanese car for nearly 20 years (1982-97) topping its class in sales in 1991 and 2001, with around ten million vehicles sold. Numerous tests, past and present count the Accord as one of the world's most reliable vehicles.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 141-115

Sunday, August 2, 2009

QUESTION: Cars

What was the first Japanese car to be produced in the United States?

Saturday, August 1, 2009

ANSWER: US History

Tennessee


The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought on April 6 and April 7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. Confederate forces under Generals Albert Sidney Johnston and P.G.T. Beauregard launched a surprise attack against the Union Army of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. The Confederates achieved some initial success on the first day but were ultimately defeated on the second day.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 141-114