QUESTION: Metals

What is added to copper to make bronze?

ANSWER: Fashion

Burberry

Burberry Group plc is a British luxury fashion house, manufacturing clothing, fragrance, and fashion accessories. Its distinctive tartan pattern has become one of its most widely copied trademarks. Burberry is most famous for its iconic trench coat, which was invented by founder Thomas Burberry. The company has branded stores and franchises around the world, and also sells through concessions in third-party stores. HM Queen Elizabeth II and HRH The Prince of Wales have granted the company Royal Warrants.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 322-277

QUESTION: Fashion

What company's famous plaid pattern is called "novacheck?"

ANSWER: Explorers

Ferdinand Magellan

The earliest human settlement occurred more than 10,000 years Before Present. The Yaghan people were some of the earliest known humans settling in Tierra del Fuego, with certain recognizable archeological sites at locations such as Navarino Island within the islands of Tierra del Fuego.

The name Tierra del Fuego derives from the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan sailing for the Spanish Crown, who was the first European to visit these lands in 1520. He believed he was seeing the many fires (fuego in Spanish) of the Yaghan, which were visible from the sea and that the "Indians" were waiting in the forests to ambush his armada. Originally called the "Land of Smoke," it was later changed to "Land of Fire."

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 322-276

QUESTION: Explorers

Who discovered Tierra del Fuego?

ANSWER: Movies

Alfred Hitchcock

Family Plot is a 1976 American dark comedy/thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, his final film. It stars Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, William Devane, and Karen Black. The film was screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition.

It is a lighthearted suspense film about a phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/private investigator boyfriend who encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 321-276

QUESTION: Movies

What director's last film was 1976's Family Plot?

ANSWER: People

Ernesto

Ernesto "Che" Guevara, commonly known as El Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, since his death, Guevara's stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol and global insignia within popular culture.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 320-276

QUESTION: People

What was Che Guevara's real first name?

ANSWER: Babies

Fontanelles

Fontanelles are soft spots on a baby's head which, during birth, enable the bony plates of the skull to flex, allowing the child's head to pass through the birth canal. The ossification of the bones of the skull cause the fontanelles to close over by a child's second birthday. The closures eventually form the sutures of the neurocranium. Other than the anterior and posterior fontanelles, the mastoid fontanelle and the sphenoidal fontanelle are also significant.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 320-275

QUESTION: Babies

What is the name of the diamond-shaped soft spots on a newborn's skull?

ANSWER: Presidents

John F Kennedy

The legal authority for federal programs regarding air pollution control is based on the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (1990 CAAA). These are the latest in a series of amendments made to the Clean Air Act (CAA). This legislation modified and extended federal legal authority provided by the earlier Clean Air Acts of 1963 and 1970.

The Air Pollution Control Act of 1955 was the first federal legislation involving air pollution. This Act provided funds for federal research in air pollution. The Clean Air Act of 1963 was the first federal legislation regarding air pollution control. It established a federal program within the U.S. Public Health Service and authorized research into techniques for monitoring and controlling air pollution. In 1967, the Air Quality Act was enacted in order to expand federal government activities. In accordance with this law, enforcement proceedings were initiated in areas subject to interstate air pollution transport. As part of these proceedings, the federal government for the first time conducted extensive ambient monitoring studies and stationary source inspections.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 319-275

QUESTION: Presidents

Who was president when Congress passed the first Clean Air Act?

ANSWER: Television

Padre

Matt: WRONG
Record: 319-274

QUESTION: Television

What did Colonel Potter call Father Mulcahy on M*A*S*H?

ANSWER: Replicas

Louisville

The World's Biggest Bat! Made of steel, it weighs 68,000 pounds and stands 120-feet tall. The Big Bat is an exact-scale replica of Babe Ruth's 34-inch Louisville Slugger. Bud Hillerich's signature is on the Big Bat, a tribute to the man who turned the company's first bat.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 319-273

QUESTION: Replicas

In what city is the Big Bat, a 120 foot tall replica of Babe Ruth's bat?

ANSWER: Flowers

Hips

The rose hip, or rose haw, is the fruit of the rose plant, that typically is red-to-orange, but ranges from dark purple to black in some species. Rose hips begin to form in spring, and ripen in late summer through autumn.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 318-273

QUESTION: Flowers

The fruit of the rose plant is also the name of a part of the body?

ANSWER: Food

Mashed Potatoes

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 318-272

QUESTION: Food

What traditionally tops the meat in shepherd's pie?

ANSWER: Geography

Sao Paulo

São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere, and the world's 7th largest metropolitan area. The city is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous Brazilian state. The name of the city honors Saint Paul. São Paulo exerts strong regional influence in commerce and finance as well as arts and entertainment. São Paulo is considered an Alpha - World City.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 317-272

QUESTION: Geography

What is the most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere?

ANSWER: Sports

Cincinnati Reds

In 1957, fans of the Cincinnati Reds stuffed the ballot box and elected 7 Reds players to start in the All-Star Game: Johnny Temple (2B), Roy McMillan (SS), Don Hoak (3B), Ed Bailey (C), Frank Robinson (LF), Gus Bell (CF), and Wally Post (RF). The only non-Red elected to start for the National League was St. Louis Cardinals' first baseman Stan Musial. While the Reds were a great offensive team, most baseball observers agreed that they did not deserve seven starters in the All-Star Game. An investigation showed that over half of the ballots cast came from Cincinnati. The Cincinnati Enquirer had printed up pre-marked ballots and distributed them with the Sunday newspaper to make it easy for Reds fans to vote often. There were even stories of bars in Cincinnati not serving alcohol to customers until they filled out a ballot.

Commissioner Ford Frick appointed Willie Mays of the New York Giants and Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves to substitute for Reds players Gus Bell and Wally Post, and took fan voting rights away in future games. Managers, players, and coaches picked the entire team until 1969, when the vote for starters again returned to the fans. To guard against ballot stuffing, since 1969 until the start of internet voting, each team has been given the same number of ballots to hand out. In 1998, that number was roughly 400,000 ballots.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 317-271

QUESTION: Sports

What team had seven of its eight starters on the 1957 National League All-Star team due to ballot stuffing?

ANSWER: Space

Liquid Hydrogen and Liquid Oxygen

The Space Shuttle main engines burn liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen from the Space Shuttle external tank. They are used for propulsion during its ascent, in addition to the two more powerful solid rocket boosters and partly the Orbital Maneuvering System. Each engine can generate almost 1.8 meganewtons (MN) or 400,000 lbf of thrust at liftoff. The engines are capable of generating a specific impulse (Isp) of 453 seconds in a vacuum, or 363 seconds at sea level (exhaust velocities of 4440 m/s and 3560 m/s respectively). Overall, a space shuttle main engine weighs approximately 3.2 t (7,000 lb). The engines are removed after every flight and taken to the Space Shuttle Main Engine Processing Facility (SSMEPF) for inspection and replacement of any necessary components. The cost of each SSME is approximately $40 million USD.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 317-270

QUESTION: Space

The space shuttle engines run on what two supercooled liquids?

ANSWER: Folk Songs

The Jordan River

Most people nowadays probably only know the refrain from this traditional song, which repeats "Michael row the boat ashore, Hallelujah" twice. The full song, however, talks about crossing the River Jordan, and Michael is the archangel Michael. While there are many versions of the song—due to the fact that it was passed down orally for a long time before being recorded—the lyrics basically talk about finding God and one's family on the other side of the river in the promised land.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 316-270

QUESTION: Folk Songs

In "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore", where is Michael rowing?

ANSWER: Movies

New York, New York

Praised for his commitment to roles, stemming from his background in method acting, De Niro gained 60 pounds and learned how to box for his portrayal of Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull; ground his teeth for Cape Fear; lived in Sicily for The Godfather, Part II; worked as a cab driver for a few weeks for Taxi Driver; and learned to play the saxophone for New York, New York.

De Niro's brand of method acting includes employing whatever extreme tactic he feels is necessary to elicit the best performance from those he is acting with. During the filming of The King of Comedy, for example, he directed a slew of anti-Semitic epithets at co-star Jerry Lewis in order to enhance and authenticate the anger demonstrated by his onscreen character. According to People magazine, the technique was successful. Lewis recalled, "I forgot the cameras were there... I was going for Bobby's throat.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 316-269

QUESTION: Movies

What film did Robert DeNiro learn to play the saxaphone for?

ANSWER: Miscellaneous

Aglet

An aglet is a small plastic or metal sheath typically used on each end of a shoelace, cord, or drawstring. An aglet keeps the fibers of the lace or cord from unraveling; its firmness and narrow profile make it easier to hold and easier to feed through the eyelets, lugs, or other lacing guides.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 316-268

QUESTION: Miscellaneous

What is the name of the plastic tag at the end of a shoelace?

ANSWER: US States

Nevada

The Black Rock Desert is an arid region in the northern Nevada section of the Great Basin with a lakebed that is a dry remnant of Pleistocene Lake Lahontan. The region is notable for its paleogeologic features, as an area of 19th-century Emigrant Trails to California, and as a venue for rocketry and land speed records (Mach 1.02 in 1997). It is also the location Burning Man is held at annually.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 316-267

QUESTION: US States

In what state is Black Rock Desert?

ANSWER: Spelling

Pennsylvania

The spelling of "Pennsylvania" was not yet standardized as we see it today. The Liberty Bell, Constitution, and even the original maps in Independence Hall all show the state name spelled "Pensylvania" with a single n.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 316-266

QUESTION: Spelling

What is spelled, unusually, with a single n on the Liberty Bell and US Constitution?

ANSWER: Smells

Almonds

The bitter almond is slightly broader and shorter than the sweet almond, and contains about 50% of the fixed oil that occurs in sweet almonds. It also contains the enzyme emulsin which, in the presence of water, acts on a soluble glucoside, amygdalin, yielding glucose, cyanide and the essential oil of bitter almonds, which is nearly pure benzaldehyde. Bitter almonds may yield from 4–9 mg of hydrogen cyanide per almond. Extract of bitter almond was once used medicinally, but even in small doses, effects are severe, and in larger doses can be deadly; the cyanide must be removed before consumption.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 315-266

QUESTION: Smells

Cyanide is said to have the bitter aroma of what?

ANSWER: College Sports

Alabama Crimson Tide

The elephant's association with Alabama dates back to the 1930 football season when the Crimson Tide was led by Coach Wallace Wade. There are two stories about how Alabama became associated with the elephant.
Officially, following the 1930 game versus Ole Miss, Atlanta Journal sports writer Everett Strupper wrote:

"At the end of the quarter, the earth started to tremble, there was a distant rumble that continued to grow. Some excited fan in the stands bellowed, 'Hold your horses, the elephants are coming,' and out stamped this Alabama varsity. It was the first time that I had seen it and the size of the entire eleven nearly knocked me cold, men that I had seen play last year looking like they had nearly doubled in size."

Another account attributes the Rosenberger's Birmingham Trunk Company for the elephant association. Alabama used the Birmingham Trunk Company's luggage to travel to the 1930 Rose Bowl. The luggage company's trademark was a red elephant standing on a trunk. When the football team arrived in Pasadena, the reporters greeting them associated their large size with the elephants on their luggage.

Despite these early associations of the elephant to the University of Alabama, the university did not officially accept the elephant as university mascot until 1979. Alabama's elephant mascot is known as "Big Al."

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 315-265

QUESTION: College Sports

What SEC football team's mascot is an elephant?

ANSWER: Music

Tiny Bubbles

Ho was originally signed to Reprise Records. Ho released his debut album, Don Ho Show, in 1965 and began to play high profile locations in Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe, and New York City. In 1966 he released his second album, a live compilation called Don Ho — Again!, which charted in the early part of that year. In the fall of 1966, Ho released his most famous song, "Tiny Bubbles", which charted on both the pop (#8 Billboard) and easy listening charts and caused the subsequent Tiny Bubbles LP to remain in the album Top 20 for almost a year.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 314-265

QUESTION: Music

What song about a glass of wine is Don Ho's signature song?