Friday, January 31, 2014

QUESTION: Movies

What movie takes place at the Sunny Shores retirement home?

ANSWER: Things

Kayak

Like the kayak, the traditional umiak was made from a driftwood or whalebone frame pegged and lashed together, sometimes with antlers or ivory, over which walrus or Bearded seal skins are stretched. Oil, usually from seals would be used to coat and waterproof the seams.A large umiak, 30 ft (9.1 m), would require about seven skins which would be sewn together, stretched over the frame and allowed to dry.Modern versions are essentially identical with the exception of using metal bolts and screws. The open umiak is significantly larger than the enclosed kayak which was built to carry one or two men while hunting. Normally 9 or 10 m (30 or 33 ft) the umiak would be anywhere from 6 to 10 m (20 to 33 ft) and 1.5–2 m (4 ft 11 in–6 ft 7 in) wide.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 615-518

Thursday, January 30, 2014

QUESTION: Things

An umiak is a larger version of what?

ANSWER: Inventors

Melvil

Matt: WRONG
Record: 615-517

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

QUESTION: Inventors

What was the first name of the man who invented the Dewey Decimal System?

ANSWER: Television Writers

The Alan Brady Show

Matt: WRONG
Record: 615-516

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

QUESTION: Television Writers

On the Dick Van Dyke show, what show was he (Rob) a writer for?

ANSWER: Sports

St. Louis Blues

The team is named after the famous W. C. Handy song "Saint Louis Blues", and plays in the 19,150-seat Scottrade Center in downtown St. Louis. The franchise was founded in 1967 as one of the expansion teams during the league's original expansion from six to twelve teams. The Blues are the oldest extant NHL team that has never won the Stanley Cup.

Matt: --
Record: 615-515

Monday, January 27, 2014

QUESTION: Sports

Which NHL team is named after a W.C. Handy song?

ANSWER: Monuments

Utah

The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is a U.S. National Monument protecting 1,880,461 acres (760,996 ha)of land in southern Utah. There are three main regions: the Grand Staircase, the Kaiparowits Plateau, and the Canyons of the Escalante - all of which are administered by the Bureau of Land Management as part of the National Landscape Conservation System. President Bill Clinton designated the area as a national monument in 1996 using his authority under the Antiquities Act. Grand Staircase-Escalante encompasses the largest land area of all U.S. National Monuments.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 615-515

Thursday, January 23, 2014

QUESTION: Monuments

What state is the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in?

ANSWER: Presidents

Gerald Ford

Since the list began, every serving President of the United States has been a Person of the Year at least once with the exceptions of Calvin Coolidge, in office at time of the first issue, Herbert Hoover, the next U.S. president, and Gerald Ford. Most were named Person of the Year either the year they were elected or while they were in office; the only one to be given the title before being elected is Dwight D. Eisenhower, in 1944 as Supreme Commander of the Allied Invasion Force, eight years before his election. He subsequently received the title again in 1959, while in office. Franklin D. Roosevelt is the only person to have received the title three times, first as President-elect (1932) and later as the incumbent President (1934 and 1941).

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 615-514

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

QUESTION: Presidents

Who is the only president since WWII to not be named Time's Person of the Year?

ANSWER: Movies

Gold

Matt: WRONG
Record: 614-514

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

QUESTION: Movies

What color is Bo Derek's bathing suit in the movie, 10?

ANSWER: Alcohol

Peach

Matt: --
Record: 614-513

Friday, January 17, 2014

QUESTION: Alcohol

What is the dominant fruit flavor in Southern Comfort?

ANSWER: Musicians

Freddie Mercury

Mercury was born on the British protectorate of Zanzibar, East Africa (now part of Tanzania). His parents, Bomi and Jer Bulsara, were Parsis from the Gujarat region of the then province of Bombay Presidency in British India. The family surname is derived from the town of Bulsar (also known as Valsad) in southern Gujarat. As Parsis, Mercury and his family practised the Zoroastrian religion. The Bulsara family had moved to Zanzibar so that his father could continue his job as a cashier at the British Colonial Office. He had a younger sister, Kashmira.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 614-513

Thursday, January 16, 2014

QUESTION: Musicians

Who is the only Zanzibari person in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

ANSWER: Animals

A jenny

A jenny is a female ass or donkey. Occasionally, a female mule is referred to as a jenny, but more often, the term "molly," "mare" or "mule mare" is used. In Ireland, the word jennet is used for a hinny. This usage was carried with immigrants to North America. In western Canada, the term "jennet" is sometimes used instead of "jenny." (The term Jennet usually refers to a type of horse popular in the Middle Ages.) One archaic term for a jenny was "she-ass." An intact male donkey is called a "Jack."

Matt: WRONG
Record: 614-512

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

QUESTION: Animals

What's a female donkey called?

ANSWER: Movies

Coruscant

Coruscant, originally called Notron, also known as Imperial Center or the Queen of the Core, was a planet located in the Galactic Core. It was generally agreed that Coruscant was, during most of galactic history, the most politically important world in the galaxy.

Matt: --
Record: 614-511

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

QUESTION: Movies

The Jedi Temple is on what planet?

ANSWER: Science

Thrust

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 614-511

Monday, January 13, 2014

QUESTION: Science

What's the term for a rocket's propulsive force is calculated by multiplying its exhaust velocity by the burn rate of its fuel?

ANSWER: Mergers

AOL

In 2000, AOL purchased Time Warner for US $164 billion. The deal, announced on January 10, 2000 and officially filed on February 11, 2000, employed a merger structure in which each original company merged into a newly created entity. The 2001 AOL merger was 'the biggest mistake in corporate history', believes Time Warner chief Jeff Bewkes.

Matt: --
Record: 613-511

Friday, January 10, 2014

QUESTION: Mergers

In 2000, what company purchased Time Warner for roughly $160 billion?

ANSWER: Newspaper

1956

Dear Abby’s first published column appeared on page 19 the San Francisco Chronicle on January 9, 1956:

Dear Abbey:* I have never written to a paper for advice before, but need help desperately and cannot talk to my family or friends about my problem. I am a private secretary to a well-known executive in the Bay Area. I have been employed by him for five years. You may think this sounds cheap, but we are deeply in love. His wife speaks to him only when she wants money and he has no respect or affection for her. He has told me repeatedly that I am the woman he loves but we can’t consider marriage because it would ruin him financially and socially. In addition to an excellent salary he has given me an automobile, a fur coat and he pays my rent. When he takes business trips I always go along. I am not getting any younger, yet feel one day he will make me his wife. What do you think? — CONFIDENT

DEAR CONFIDENT: I think your boss is a super salesman! He certainly did a terrific job when he convinced an intelligent girl like you to give up a decent respectable life of her own to be available when he whistles. Of course he won’t marry you. Why should he? He is getting the whole show for the price of the amusement tax.

Matt: --
Record: 613-511

Thursday, January 9, 2014

QUESTION: Newspaper

What year did the first "Dear Abby" column appear?

ANSWER: Television

Douglas

Dr. Douglas "Doogie" Howser is the son of David and Katherine Howser. As a child, he twice survived early-stage pediatric leukemia after his father—a family physician—discovered suspicious bruising. The experience contributed to Howser's desire to enter medicine. Possessing a genius intellect and an eidetic memory,Howser participates in a longitudinal study of child prodigies until his 18th birthday. He earned a perfect score on the SAT at the age of six, completed high school in nine weeks at the age of nine,[4] graduated from Princeton University in 1983[5] at age 10, and finished medical school four years later. At age 14, Howser was the youngest licensed doctor in the country. As a newspaper article stated, he "can't buy beer but can prescribe drugs".

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 613-511

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

QUESTION: Television

What was Doogie Howser's real first name? (the character, not the actor)

ANSWER: Sports

NY Mets

The Mets became the first expansion team to win a division title, a pennant, and the World Series, winning in their eighth year of existence. Two teams would later surpass that, as the Florida Marlins won the 1997 World Series in their fifth year (also becoming the first wild card team to win a World Series) and the Arizona Diamondbacks won the 2001 World Series in their fourth year of play. This was the first World Series since 1954 to have games played in New York which didn't involve the New York Yankees.

Matt: --
Record: 612-511

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

QUESTION: Sports

What was the first expansion team to win the World Series?

ANSWER: Games

Marven (Marvin on the board) Gardens

Marven Gardens is famous as a Yellow property on the original Atlantic City version of the Monopoly game board, although the game misspelled the name as Marvin Gardens. The misspelling was introduced by Charles and Olive Todd, who taught the game to Charles Darrow, its eventual patentee. His homemade Monopoly board was copied by Parker Brothers. In 1995 Parker Brothers acknowledged this mistake and formally apologized to the residents of Marven Gardens for the misspelling. It is the only property on the board that is not located within Atlantic City.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 612-511

Monday, January 6, 2014

QUESTION: Games

In Monopoly, what New Jersey housing area has been misspelled on the board for close to 80 years?

ANSWER: US States

Texas & New Mexico

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 612-510

Thursday, January 2, 2014

QUESTION: US States

What two U.S. states border Mexico's largest state, Chihuahua?

ANSWER: Music

Sting

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 611-510