Are You Smarter Than Matt?

QUESTION: Islands

2012-02-13T07:29:00.000-05:00

Nearly all the world's lemurs live on what island?

NO QUESTION TODAY

2012-02-10T07:43:00.002-05:00

Questions will return Monday.

ANSWER: SPORTS

2012-02-10T07:37:00.000-05:00

Volleyball

On February 9, 1895, in Holyoke, Massachusetts (USA), William G. Morgan, a YMCA physical education director, created a new game called Mintonette as a pastime to be played preferably indoors and by any number of players. The game took some of its characteristics from tennis and handball.

After an observer, Alfred Halstead, noticed the volleying nature of the game at its first exhibition match in 1896, played at the International YMCA Training School (now called Springfield College), the game quickly became known as volleyball (it was originally spelled as two words: "volley ball").

Matt: WRONG
Record: 443-385

QUESTION: Sports

2012-02-09T06:39:00.000-05:00

What sport was known as Mintonette when originally created?

ANSWER: Food

2012-02-08T23:54:00.000-05:00

Pumpernickel

The philologist Johann Christoph Adelung states that the word has an origin in the Germanic vernacular where Pumpen was a New High German synonym for being flatulent, and Nickel was a form of the name Nicholas, commonly associated with a goblin or devil (e.g. "Old Nick", a familiar name for Satan), or more generally for a malevolent spirit or demon. (See also the metal nickel, probably named for a demon that would "change" or contaminate valuable copper with this strange metal that was much harder to work.) Hence, pumpernickel is described as the "devil's fart," a definition accepted by the Stopes International Language Database, the publisher Random House, and by some English language dictionaries, including the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

Matt: --
Record: 443-384

QUESTION: Food

2012-02-08T07:25:00.000-05:00

What bread's name, in German, means "devil's fart"?

ANSWER: People

2012-02-08T07:23:00.000-05:00

Salvation Army

William Booth (10 April 1829 – 20 August 1912) was a British Methodist preacher who founded The Salvation Army and became its first General (1878–1912). The Christian movement with a quasi-military structure and government founded in 1865 has spread from London, England to many parts of the world and is known for being one of the largest distributors of humanitarian aid.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 443-384

QUESTION: People

2012-02-07T07:24:00.000-05:00

What army was founded by "General" William Booth?

ANSWER: Games

2012-02-06T15:37:00.000-05:00

Yellow

1. Yellow
2. Blue
3. Red
4. Purple (pink in some ball sets)
5. Orange
6. Green
7. Brown or burgundy (tan in some ball sets)
8. Black
9. Yellow and white
10. Blue and white
11. Red and white
12. Purple and white (pink and white in some ball sets)
13. Orange and white
14. Green and white
15. Brown, or burgundy, and white (tan and white in some ball sets)

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 443-383

QUESTION: Games

2012-02-05T21:06:00.001-05:00

In a traditional billiards set, what color is the 1 ball?

ANSWER: Places

2012-02-05T21:06:00.000-05:00

San Francisco

The district generally encompasses the neighborhood surrounding Haight Street, bounded by Stanyan Street and Golden Gate Park on the west, Oak Street and the Golden Gate Park Panhandle on the north, Baker Street and Buena Vista Park to the east and Frederick Street and Ashbury Heights and Cole Valley neighborhoods to the south.

The street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: Pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight and Munroe Ashbury, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 1864 to 1870.

The Haight-Ashbury district is noted for its role as a center of the 1960s hippie movement, a post-runner and closely associated offshoot of the Beat generation or beat movement, members of which swarmed San Francisco's "in" North Beach neighborhood two to eight years before the "Summer of Love" in 1967. Many who could not find space to live in San Francisco's northside found it in the quaint, relatively cheap and underpopulated Haight-Ashbury. The 1960s era and modern American counterculture have been synonymous with San Francisco and the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood ever since.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 442-383

QUESTION: Places

2012-02-03T06:42:00.000-05:00

What city is famous Haight-Ashbury intersection located in?

ANSWER: Holidays

2012-02-02T19:38:00.000-05:00

1887

On Feb 2nd, 1887, Groundhog Day, featuring a rodent meteorologist, was celebrated for the first time at Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. According to tradition, if a groundhog comes out of its hole on this day and sees its shadow, there will be six more weeks of winter weather; no shadow means an early spring.

In 1887, a newspaper editor belonging to a group of groundhog hunters from Punxsutawney called the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club declared that Phil, the Punxsutawney groundhog, was America's only true weather-forecasting groundhog.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 441-383

QUESTION: Holidays

2012-02-02T07:02:00.000-05:00

What year did Punxsutawney Phil start his prediction of spring/winter?

ANSWER: Lakes

2012-02-01T14:39:00.000-05:00

Lake Michigan

Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one located entirely within the United States. The other four Great Lakes are shared by the US and Canada. It is the second largest of the Great Lakes by volume and the third largest by surface area, after Lake Superior and Lake Huron (and is slightly smaller than the U.S. state of West Virginia).

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 440-383

QUESTION: Lakes

2012-02-01T07:24:00.001-05:00

Which Great Lake has no Canadian water?

ANSWER: Movies

2012-02-01T07:24:00.000-05:00

Marcel Marceau

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 439-383

QUESTION: Movies

2012-01-31T07:35:00.000-05:00

Who has the only speaking part in Mel Brooks' Silent Movie?

ANSWER: Slogans

2012-01-31T07:33:00.000-05:00

Texaco

For many years, Texaco was the only company selling gasoline under the same brand name in all 50 states as well as Canada, making it the most truly national brand among its competitors. Its current logo features a white star in a red circle (a reference to the lone star of Texas), leading to the long-running advertising jingles "You can trust your car to the man who wears the star" and "Star of the American Road."

Matt: WRONG
Record: 438-383

QUESTION: Slogans

2012-01-30T07:26:00.000-05:00

What company's slogan is "Trust your car to the man that wears the star"?

ANSWER: Literature

2012-01-30T07:22:00.000-05:00

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Matt: WRONG
Record: 438-382

QUESTION: Literature

2012-01-27T07:23:00.000-05:00

What novel begins: "Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted...persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot."?

ANSWER: Politicians

2012-01-27T07:20:00.000-05:00

Willard

Romney was named after hotel magnate J. Willard Marriott, his father's best friend, and his father's cousin Milton "Mitt" Romney, 1925–1929 quarterback for the Chicago Bears.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 438-381

QUESTION: Politicians

2012-01-25T23:29:00.002-05:00

What is Mitt Romney's real first name?

ANSWER: Baseball

2012-01-25T23:23:00.000-05:00

Roger Maris

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 438-380

QUESTION: Baseball

2012-01-24T20:57:00.000-05:00

Who is the only (eligible) back to back MVP not in the Baseball Hall of Fame?

ANSWER: Comics/Cartoons

2012-01-24T15:53:00.000-05:00

Wendy

Matt: WRONG
Record: 437-380

QUESTION: Comics/Cartoons

2012-01-24T08:39:00.000-05:00

What is the name of Casper's "good little witch" friend?

ANSWER: Clothing

2012-01-23T18:31:00.001-05:00

Clergyman

The chasuble is the outermost liturgical vestment worn by clergy for the celebration of the Eucharist in Western-tradition Christian Churches that use full vestments, primarily in the Roman Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran churches, as well as in some parts of the United Methodist Church. In the Eastern Churches of Byzantine Rite, the equivalent vestment is the phelonion.

"The vestment proper to the priest celebrant at Mass and other sacred actions directly connected with Mass is, unless otherwise indicated, the chasuble, worn over the alb and stole". Like the stole, it is normally of the liturgical colour of the Mass being celebrated.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 437-379

QUESTION: Clothing

2012-01-22T22:12:00.001-05:00

Who wears an alb and chasuble over their clothes?

ANSWER: Geography

2012-01-22T22:12:00.000-05:00

Romania

Transylvania is a historical region in the central part of Romania. Bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountain range, historical Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains; however, the term sometimes encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also the historical regions of Crişana, Maramureş, and Romanian part of Banat.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 436-379

QUESTION: Geography

2012-01-20T07:24:00.000-05:00

Most of Transylvania is part of what country?

ANSWER: Flowers

2012-01-20T07:22:00.000-05:00

Kentucky Derby winner

In 1904 the red rose became the official flower of the Kentucky Derby. The tradition was strengthened when, in 1925, New York sports columnist Bill Corum, later the president of Churchill Downs, dubbed the Kentucky Derby the "Run for the Roses". The garland as it exists today was first introduced in 1932 for the 58th running won by Burgoo King.

Each year, a garland of 554 red roses is sewn into a green satin backing with the seal of the Commonwealth on one end and the twin spires and number of the running on the other. Each garland is also adorned with a "Crown" of roses, green fern and ribbon. The "Crown", a single rose pointing upward in the center of the garland, symbolizes the struggle and heart necessary to reach the winners' circle.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 435-379

QUESTION: Flowers

2012-01-19T07:31:00.000-05:00

Who is given 554 red roses on the first Saturday of every May?

ANSWER: Television

2012-01-19T07:27:00.000-05:00

The Ewings

The house was built in 1970 by Joe Duncan and was known as Duncan Acres, named after his family. The property was originally 200 acres (0.81 km2) in size. The "Mansion" at Southfork Ranch is actually a 4769 sq ft. house with a 957 sq ft (88.9 m2) enclosed garage that was turned into a den/card room.

The TV series' exteriors were shot on the ranch beginning with the second season (1978–1979) of Dallas, and shot there until 1989 when the series' production shifted entirely to Lorimar Studios (now Sony Pictures Studios) in California. The reunion movies J.R. Returns (1996) and War of the Ewings (1998) returned to the ranch, along with the reunion special Dallas Reunion: The Return to Southfork (2004). War of the Ewings in 1998 was the only time filming was done inside the real ranch for dramatic purposes (Return to Southfork in 2004 was a retrospective, and not a genuine "episode").

The ranch is currently an event and conference center, owned by Forever Resorts. Daily tours of the Ranch and Ewing Mansion are offered for an admission fee of $9.50 for adults.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 435-378

QUESTION: Television

2012-01-17T19:53:00.001-05:00

Who lived at Southfork Ranch?

ANSWER: Insects

2012-01-17T19:53:00.000-05:00

Royal Jelly

Royal jelly is a honey bee secretion that is used in the nutrition of larvae, as well as adult queens. It is secreted from the glands in the hypopharynx of worker bees, and fed to all larvae in the colony.

When worker bees decide to make a new queen, either because the old one is weakening, or was killed, they choose several small larvae and feed them with copious amounts of royal jelly in specially constructed queen cells. This type of feeding triggers the development of queen morphology, including the fully developed ovaries needed to lay eggs.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 434-378

QUESTION: Insects

2012-01-15T20:09:00.001-05:00

Due to the holiday yesterday, many didn't answer so this will also be today's question...

What is a young bee fed to ensure it becomes a queen?

ANSWER: Music

2012-01-13T15:20:00.000-05:00

I'll Be There

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 434-377

QUESTION: Music

2012-01-13T07:37:00.001-05:00

The Jackson 5 and Mariah Carey both had a #1 hit with what song?

ANSWER: Temperature

2012-01-13T07:37:00.000-05:00

-40°

On the Fahrenheit scale, the freezing point of water is 32 degrees Fahrenheit (°F) and the boiling point 212 °F (at standard atmospheric pressure). This puts the boiling and freezing points of water exactly 180 degrees apart. Therefore, a degree on the Fahrenheit scale is 1⁄180 of the interval between the freezing point and the boiling point. On the Celsius scale, the freezing and boiling points of water are 100 degrees apart. A temperature interval of 1 degree Fahrenheit is equal to an interval of 5⁄9 degrees Celsius. The Fahrenheit and Celsius scales intersect at −40 °F (−40 °F and −40 °C represent the same temperature).

Matt: WRONG
Record: 433-377

QUESTION: Temperature

2012-01-12T07:23:00.000-05:00

At what temperature do the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales intersect(represent the same temp.)?

ANSWER: Food

2012-01-11T14:27:00.000-05:00

Mahi Mahi

Dolphinfish is not related to dolphin the mammal. Dolphinfish is called mahi-mahi in the Pacific, and that name is often used when marketing the species at the retail and restaurant level.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 433-376

QUESTION: Food

2012-01-10T20:23:00.000-05:00

What name is given to dolphin fish on restaurant menus?

ANSWER: Broadway

2012-01-10T15:25:00.000-05:00

Baltimore

Matt: WRONG
Record: 432-376

QUESTION: Broadway

2012-01-10T07:20:00.001-05:00

What city is the musical Hairspray set in?

ANSWER: Logos

2012-01-10T07:20:00.000-05:00

Sirius Radio

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 432-375

QUESTION: Logos

2012-01-08T20:56:00.000-05:00

What media company's logo is a black dog with a star for a left eye?

ANSWER: Bible

2012-01-08T20:54:00.000-05:00

Naomi

Orpah is a woman mentioned in the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible. She was from Moab and was the daughter-in-law of Naomi and wife of Chilion. After the death of her husband, Orpah and her sister-in-law Ruth wished to go to Judea with Naomi. However, Naomi persuaded Orpah to return to her people and to her gods.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 431-375

QUESTION: Bible

2012-01-05T20:55:00.000-05:00

In the book of Ruth, who is Orpah's mother-in-law?

ANSWER: Random Facts

2012-01-05T12:49:00.000-05:00

Coffee

Matt: WRONG
Record: 431-374

QUESTION: Random Facts

2012-01-05T08:17:00.000-05:00

What is the most recognized smell in the world?

ANSWER: Games

2012-01-04T14:47:00.000-05:00

Bishop

The canonical chessmen date back to the Staunton chess set of 1849. The piece's deep groove symbolizes a bishop's (or abbot's) mitre. The groove originates from the original form of the piece, an elephant with the groove represented the elephant's tusks (see photo in the history section). The British chose to call the piece the bishop because the projections at the top resembled a mitre.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 431-373

QUESTION: Games

2012-01-03T20:52:00.000-05:00

Which chess piece was originally called "the elephant"?

ANSWER: Places

2012-01-03T15:43:00.000-05:00

Westward Ho!

Westward Ho! is a seaside village near Bideford in Devon, England. The A39 road provides access from the towns of Barnstaple, Bideford and Bude. It lies at the south end of Northam Burrows and faces westward into Bideford Bay, opposite Saunton Sands and Braunton Burrows.

The village name comes from the title of Charles Kingsley's novel Westward Ho! (1855), which was set in nearby Bideford. The book was a bestseller, and entrepreneurs saw the opportunity to develop tourism in the area.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 431-372

QUESTION: Places

2012-01-03T07:29:00.000-05:00

What's the only place in Britain that ends with an exclamation point?

ANSWER: Clowns

2012-01-03T07:27:00.000-05:00

Rodeo Clown

Typically, rodeo clowns work in groups of two or three, with two free-roaming rodeo clowns and sometimes a third, often more clownish-behaving team member, who is known as the barrel man. The barrel man uses a large padded barrel that he can jump in and out of easily, and the barrel helps to protect the rodeo clown from the bull.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 430-371

QUESTION: Clowns

2011-12-30T00:24:00.001-05:00

A "barrel man" is what kind of clown?

ANSWER: Cartoons

2011-12-30T00:24:00.000-05:00

Spongebob Squarepants

Goo Lagoon is a fictional underwater beach in Bikini Bottom in the animated television series, SpongeBob SquarePants. The characters swim and surf in it. Goo Lagoon is broken up into sections, which includes Mussel Beach, for weight-lifters, Goo Lagoon Sea Caves, the Snack Bar which sells burgers and drinks, and the Goo Lagoon Pier amusement park.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 429-371

QUESTION: Cartoons

2011-12-29T09:58:00.001-05:00

Who swims with his friends at Goo Lagoon?

ANSWER: News

2011-12-29T09:58:00.000-05:00

Vandalizing cars

Michael Peter Fay is an American who briefly shot to international notoriety when he was sentenced to caning in Singapore as an 18-year-old in 1994 for theft and vandalism. Caning is a routine court sentence in Singapore but most Americans were unfamiliar with it, and Fay's case was believed to be the first caning involving an American citizen.

The number of cane strokes in his sentence was reduced from six to four after U.S. officials requested leniency.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 428-371

QUESTION: News

2011-12-27T20:06:00.001-05:00

In 1994, Michael Fay was sentenced to be caned in Singapore for what offense?

ANSWER: Geography

2011-12-27T20:06:00.000-05:00

Sudan and Democratic Republic of the Congo

Matt: WRONG
Record: 428-370

QUESTION: Geography

2011-12-26T19:29:00.001-05:00

What two African countries border nine other nations, including each other?

ANSWER: Criminals

2011-12-26T19:29:00.000-05:00

Montana

In mid-1969, Kaczynski moved into his parents' small residence in Lombard, Illinois. Two years later, he moved into a remote cabin he built himself just outside Lincoln, Montana where he lived a simple life on very little money, without electricity or running water. Kaczynski worked odd jobs and received financial support from his family, which he used to purchase his land and, without their knowledge, would later use to fund his bombing campaign.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 428-369

QUESTION: Criminals

2011-12-23T07:25:00.001-05:00

What state was the Unabomber's cabin located in?

ANSWER: Comic Strips

2011-12-23T07:24:00.000-05:00

1941

Archibald "Archie" Andrews (Archi Gómez in the Spanish version of the comics) debuted in Pep Comics 22 (December, 1941). Decades later, Archie is still a lovable, though accident-prone, redheaded 17-year-old. He lives in Riverdale, attends Riverdale High and is the only son of Mary Andrews and mid-level business executive Fred Andrews. His earlier life is revealed in the "Little Archie" stories when he had a dog named Spotty.

Archie is a typical small-town teenager. Generous, well-mannered, but clumsy, he is genuinely liked by many of his friends. Archie goes crazy when he sees an attractive girl, but his two main crushes are Veronica Lodge and Betty Cooper, forming the love triangle driving the comic's plot-lines. He has the best intentions, but often comes into conflict with Veronica's father Hiram Lodge and Riverdale High's principal, Waldo Weatherbee. As the lead singer of The Archies, Archie performs with Betty and Veronica, as well as his rival Reggie, and best bud Jughead.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 427-369

QUESTION: Comic Strips

2011-12-22T07:30:00.000-05:00

What year did the Archie Andrews character debut?

ANSWER: Sports

2011-12-21T17:49:00.002-05:00

20 yards

The Canadian football field is 110 yards (101 m) long and 65 yards (59 m) wide with end zones 20 yards (18 m) deep. At each goal line is a set of 40-foot-high (12 m) goalposts, which consist of two uprights joined by an 181⁄2-foot-long (5.6 m) crossbar which is 10 feet (3 m) above the goal line. The goalposts may be H-shaped (both posts fixed in the ground) although in the higher-calibre competitions the tuning-fork design (supported by a single curved post behind the goal line, so that each post starts 10 feet (3 m) above the ground) is preferred. The sides of the field are marked by white sidelines, the goal line is marked in white, and white lines are drawn laterally across the field every 5 yards (4.6 m) from the goal line.[1] These lateral lines are called "yard lines" and are marked with the distance in yards from the nearest goal line, except for the yard line in the centre of the field, which is usually marked with a "C" for "Centre line" ."Hash marks" are painted in white, parallel to the yardage lines, at 1 yard (0.9 m) intervals, 24 yards (21.9 m) from the sidelines.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 427-368

QUESTION: Sports

2011-12-21T07:40:00.002-05:00

How deep is the end zone in the Canadian Football League?

ANSWER: DJs

2011-12-21T07:38:00.000-05:00

American Graffiti

Wolfman Jack

American Graffiti

— MOVIECLIPS.com

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 427-367

QUESTION: DJs

2011-12-20T07:34:00.000-05:00

Wolfman Jack made his film debut in what movie?

ANSWER: Composers

2011-12-20T07:33:00.000-05:00

Felix Mendelssohn

Mendelssohn's work includes symphonies, concerti, oratorios, piano music and chamber music. His most-performed works include his Overture and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Italian Symphony, the Scottish Symphony, the Hebrides Overture, his Violin Concerto, and his String Octet. After a long period of relative denigration due to changing musical tastes and anti-Semitism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, his creative originality has now been recognised and re-evaluated. He is now among the most popular composers of the Romantic era.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 426-367

QUESTION: Composers

2011-12-18T21:49:00.001-05:00

Reformation, Scottish, and Italian are all symphonies composed by who?

ANSWER: Movies

2011-12-18T21:49:00.000-05:00

The Graduate

Matt: --
Record: 426-366

QUESTION: Movies

2011-12-16T07:24:00.000-05:00

What classic movie uses the following tagline: This is Benjamin. He's a little worried about his future.

ANSWER: Board Games

2011-12-15T14:43:00.000-05:00

Short Line

The Monopoly Board is largely set in Atlantic City, New Jersey in the 1930's. Most of the streets have (or had) real life counterparts in the seaside vacation magnet.

There was no real railroad called the Short Line. A short line is actually a class of railroads with limited length of track connecting industries or larger railroads. Some reports indicate that the Short Line on the Monopoly board was actually supposed to represent a streetcar line or a bus company.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 426-366

QUESTION: Board Games

2011-12-14T19:42:00.001-05:00

Which Monopoly railroad is not named after an actual railroad?

ANSWER: Beverages

2011-12-14T19:42:00.000-05:00

Aquafina

Aquafina is a brand of bottled water products produced by PepsiCo, Inc., consisting of both unflavored and flavored water. The Aquafina brand name is also licensed for use on multiple skin care products, including lip balm and wrinkle cream.[1] It was first distributed in Wichita, Kansas in 1994, before becoming more widely sold across the United States, Canada, Lebanon, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Vietnam, Pakistan, India and Spain. As of 2009, Aquafina represented 13.4 percent of domestic bottled water sales in the United States, making it the number 1 bottled water brand as measured by retail sales.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 425-366

QUESTION: Beverages

2011-12-14T07:46:00.001-05:00

What brand of water is produced by Pepsi?

ANSWER: Measurements

2011-12-14T07:46:00.000-05:00

Tornadoes

The Fujita Scale is used to rate the intensity of a tornado by examining the damage caused by the tornado after it has passed over a man-made structure.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 424-366

QUESTION: Measurements

2011-12-13T07:46:00.002-05:00

What does the Fujita scale measure the power of?

ANSWER: Product Brands

2011-12-12T20:23:00.000-05:00

Black Flag

Roach Motel is a brand of a roach bait device designed to catch cockroaches. Although the term is the subject of a trademark registration by the insect control brand Black Flag, the phrase has come to be used as a reference to all traps that use a scent or other form of bait to lure cockroaches into a compartment in which a sticky substance causes them to become trapped.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 423-366

QUESTION: Product Brands

2011-12-11T19:22:00.001-05:00

What company manufactures the Roach Motel product?

ANSWER: Languages

2011-12-11T19:22:00.000-05:00

Polar Bear

In Inuit mythology, Nanook or Nanuq, which is from the Inuit language for polar bear, was the master of bears, meaning he decided if hunters had followed all applicable taboos and if they deserved success in hunting bears.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 423-365

QUESTION: Languages

2011-12-09T08:30:00.000-05:00

Nanook is the Inuit word for what predator?

ANSWER: Sports

2011-12-08T15:05:00.000-05:00

Deion Sanders

Sanders is considered one of the most versatile athletes in sporting history because he played two sports at multiple positions. In the NFL, he played primarily at cornerback, but also occasionally as a running back, wide receiver, kick returner, and punt returner.

During the 1989 season, he hit a major league home run and scored a touchdown in the NFL in the same week, the only player to ever do so. Sanders is also the only man to play in both a Super Bowl and a World Series.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 422-365

QUESTION: Sports

2011-12-08T07:48:00.001-05:00

Who is the only person that has played in a World Series and Super Bowl?

ANSWER: Photography

2011-12-08T07:48:00.000-05:00

1947

In 1947, Edwin Land invented the first of what would be come a historic line of cameras. Called the "Polaroid Land Camera Model 95," this leather-bound beauty produced instant prints inside the camera in about one minute. This would become the technology that would distinguish Polaroid cameras from 1947 to 1983. Early versions required two rolls of film be spooled inside the camera -- positive and negative.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 421-365

QUESTION: Photography

2011-12-07T06:14:00.001-05:00

What year did Polaroid produce the first commercial instant camera?

ANSWER: Christmas Music

2011-12-07T06:14:00.000-05:00

Beverly Hills

Irving Berlin's opening bars are often dropped in recordings, but are included on A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records, sung by Darlene Love, on Barbra Streisand's A Christmas Album, and on Libera's Christmas Album.

The sun is shining, the grass is green,
The orange and palm trees sway.

There's never been such a day
in Beverly Hills, L.A.
But it's December the twenty-fourth,—
And I am longing to be up North—
—Verse dropped from original version

Matt: WRONG
Record: 421-364

QUESTION: Christmas Music

2011-12-05T19:57:00.000-05:00

Irving Berlin's original "White Christmas" was set in what city?

ANSWER: Trigonometry

2011-12-05T19:56:00.000-05:00

Hypotenuse

The hypotenuse of a right triangle is the triangle's longest side, i.e., the side opposite the right angle. The word derives from the Greek hypo- ("under") and teinein ("to stretch").

The length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle can be found using the Pythagorean theorem.

Matt: --
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QUESTION: Trigonometry

2011-12-05T06:00:00.001-05:00

What is the longest side of a right triangle called?

ANSWER: Lawsuits

2011-12-05T06:00:00.000-05:00

Topeka, KS

In 1951, a class action suit was filed against the Board of Education of the City of Topeka, Kansas in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. The plaintiffs were thirteen Topeka parents on behalf of their twenty children.

The suit called for the school district to reverse its policy of racial segregation. Separate elementary schools were operated by the Topeka Board of Education under an 1879 Kansas law, which permitted (but did not require) districts to maintain separate elementary school facilities for black and white students in twelve communities with populations over 15,000.

Handed down on May 17, 1954, the Warren Court's unanimous (9–0) decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." As a result, de jure racial segregation was ruled a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. This ruling paved the way for integration and the civil rights movement.

Matt: CORRECT
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QUESTION: Lawsuits

2011-12-01T20:59:00.000-05:00

Brown v. Board of Education was a lawsuit against the Board of Education of what city?

ANSWER: Television

2011-12-01T14:04:00.000-05:00

Sydney & Los Angeles

Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 was a scheduled flight from Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles, California, United States, on a Boeing 777. On September 22, 2004, the airliner, carrying 324 passengers, deviated from its original course and disappeared over the Pacific Ocean. This is the central moment in the series Lost and the personal chronological beginning of the main characters' exploits on the Island.

Matt: CORRECT
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QUESTION: Television

2011-12-01T07:35:00.000-05:00

On Lost, what two cities was flight 815 flying between when it crashed?

ANSWER: Video Games

2011-11-30T17:51:00.000-05:00

Space Invaders is an arcade video game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, and released in 1978. It was originally manufactured and sold by Taito in Japan, and was later licensed for production in the United States by the Midway division of Bally. Space Invaders is one of the earliest shooting games and the aim is to defeat waves of aliens with a laser cannon to earn as many points as possible. In designing the game, Nishikado drew inspiration from popular media: Breakout, The War of the Worlds, and Star Wars. To complete it, he had to design custom hardware and development tools.

Matt: WRONG
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QUESTION: Video Games

2011-11-29T23:47:00.000-05:00

In the original Space Invaders, how many rows of aliens are there?