Friday, August 30, 2013

QUESTION: People

What college did Martin Luther King, Jr. graduate from?

ANSWER: Television

Larry Wilcox

Matt: --
Record: 580-489

Thursday, August 29, 2013

QUESTION: Television

Erik Estrada was the star of CHiPs, but who played the other motorcycle cop for the first five seasons?

ANSWER: Cities

Los Angeles

Matt: --
Record: 580-489

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

QUESTION: Cities

What city are you from if you're an "Angeleno"?

ANSWER: Days

Friday

Lincoln: Good Friday, April 14, 1865

McKinley: Friday, September 6, 1901

Kennedy: Friday, November 22, 1963

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 580-489

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

QUESTION: Days

Lincoln, McKinley, and Kennedy were all assassinated on what day of the week?

ANSWER: Psychiatry

Electra Complex

In Neo-Freudian psychology, the Electra complex, as proposed by Carl Gustav Jung, is a child’s psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father. In the course of her psychosexual development, the complex is the girl's phallic stage; formation of a discrete sexual identity, a boy's analogous experience is the Oedipus complex.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 579-489

Monday, August 26, 2013

QUESTION: Psychiatry

What is the female counterpart of the Oedipus complex called?

ANSWER: Movies

Godfather

Matt: --
Record: 579-488

Friday, August 23, 2013

QUESTION: Movies

In what movie was a race horse named Khartoum killed?

ANSWER: Hockey

Montreal Canadiens

Matt: WRONG
Record: 579-488

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

QUESTION: Hockey

Who won the 100th Anniversary Stanley Cup? (1993)

ANSWER: Measurements

Buttons

In the 9th century the term ligne came into use to measure the diameter of buttons. The consensus definition was that a ligne was the measurement of a round wick, folded flat. In this sense it measures 1⁄40 of an inch, but not exactly. Such a measurement became the American measurement called "line," being one-fortieth of the US-customary inch.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 579-487

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

QUESTION: Measurements

What item does a tailor measure in lignes?

ANSWER: Books/Movies

Bag End
"In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a Hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 579-486

Monday, August 19, 2013

QUESTION: Books/Movies

What's the name of Frodo and Bilbo Baggins' hobbit hole?

ANSWER: Children's Television

Captain Kangaroo

The show was conceived and the title character played by Bob Keeshan, who based the show on "the warm relationship between grandparents and children." Keeshan had portrayed the original Clarabell the Clown on The Howdy Doody Show when it aired on NBC. Captain Kangaroo had a loose structure, built around life in the "Treasure House" where the Captain (the name "kangaroo" came from the big pockets in his coat) would tell stories, meet guests, and indulge in silly stunts with regular characters, both humans and puppets.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 578-486

Thursday, August 15, 2013

QUESTION: Children's Television

What children's TV character lived in the Treasure House?

ANSWER: Languages

E pluribus unum

Less unique than it sounds, America's original national motto, e pluribus unum, was plagiarized from an ancient recipe for salad dressing.

The term made its first appearance in Virgil's poem "Moretum" to describe salad dressing. The ingredients, he wrote, would surrender their individual aesthetic when mixed with others to form one unique, homogenous, harmonious, and tasty concoction.

As a slogan, it really nailed that whole cultural melting pot thing we were going for. And while it continues to appear on U.S. coins, "In God We Trust" came along later (officially in 1956) to share the motto spotlight.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 577-486

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

QUESTION: Languages

What well known Latin phrase comes from a poem (formerly attributed to Virgil) about salad?

ANSWER: People

4 (Taxi, Who's the Boss, Hudson Street, and The Tony Danza Show (1997, not to be confused with The Tony Danza talk show in 2004))

Matt: WRONG
Record: 577-485

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

QUESTION: People

Tony Danza played fictional characters named Tony in how many different television shows?

ANSWER: Organizations

World Wildlife Federation

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 577-484

Monday, August 12, 2013

QUESTION: Organizations

The World Wresting Federation changed its acronym to WWE after a lawsuit from what organization?

ANSWER: Art

Sfumato

sfumato(from Italian sfumare, “to tone down” or “to evaporate like smoke”), in painting or drawing, the fine shading that produces soft, imperceptible transitions between colours and tones. It is used most often in connection with the work of Leonardo da Vinci and his followers, who made subtle gradations, without lines or borders, from light to dark areas; the technique was used for a highly illusionistic rendering of facial features and for atmospheric effects.

Matt: --
Record: 576-484

Friday, August 9, 2013

QUESTION: Art

What translucent, multi-layer painting technique was used in the creation of the Mona Lisa?

ANSWER: Instruments

Piccolo

The piccolo is easily confused with with the fife, and basically the only difference between them is one of pitch. The piccolo is even higher in pitch than the fife and is normally in D, a full octave above the concert flute.

Matt: --
Record: 576-484

Thursday, August 8, 2013

QUESTION: Instruments

Which instrument in an orchestra is the highest pitched?

ANSWER: Slogans

Maxwell House



Matt: CORRECT
Record: 576-484

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

QUESTION: Slogans

What brand's slogan is "Good to the last drop"?

ANSWER: Animated Television

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 575-484