QUESTION: Clowns

A "barrel man" is what kind of clown?

ANSWER: Cartoons

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

Who swims with his friends at Goo Lagoon?

ANSWER: News

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

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

ANSWER: Geography

Sudan and Democratic Republic of the Congo

Matt: WRONG
Record: 428-370

QUESTION: Geography

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

ANSWER: Criminals

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

What state was the Unabomber's cabin located in?

ANSWER: Comic Strips

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

What year did the Archie Andrews character debut?

ANSWER: Sports

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

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

ANSWER: DJs

American Graffiti

Wolfman Jack




American Graffiti

— MOVIECLIPS.com

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 427-367

QUESTION: DJs

Wolfman Jack made his film debut in what movie?

ANSWER: Composers

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

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

ANSWER: Movies

The Graduate

Matt: --
Record: 426-366

QUESTION: Movies

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

ANSWER: Board Games

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

Which Monopoly railroad is not named after an actual railroad?

ANSWER: Beverages

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

What brand of water is produced by Pepsi?

ANSWER: Measurements

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

What does the Fujita scale measure the power of?

ANSWER: Product Brands

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

What company manufactures the Roach Motel product?

ANSWER: Languages

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

Nanook is the Inuit word for what predator?

ANSWER: Sports

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

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

ANSWER: Photography

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

What year did Polaroid produce the first commercial instant camera?

ANSWER: Christmas Music

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

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

ANSWER: Trigonometry

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: --
Record: 421-363

QUESTION: Trigonometry

What is the longest side of a right triangle called?

ANSWER: Lawsuits

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
Record: 421-363

QUESTION: Lawsuits

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

ANSWER: Television

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
Record: 420-363

QUESTION: Television

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

ANSWER: Video Games

5

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
Record: 419-363

QUESTION: Video Games

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

ANSWER: Medicine

Malaria

In April 1894, a Scottish physician Sir Ronald Ross visited Sir Patrick Manson at his house on Queen Anne Street, London. This visit was the start of four years of collaboration and fervent research which culminated in 1898 when Ross, who was working in the Presidency General Hospital in Calcutta, proved the complete life-cycle of the malaria parasite in mosquitoes; thus proving that the mosquito was the vector for malaria in humans. He did this by showing that certain mosquito species transmit malaria to birds. He isolated malaria parasites from the salivary glands of mosquitoes that had fed on infected birds. For this work, Ross received the 1902 Nobel Prize in Medicine. After resigning from the Indian Medical Service, Ross worked at the newly established Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and directed malaria-control efforts in Egypt, Panama, Greece and Mauritius. The findings of Finlay and Ross were later confirmed by a medical board headed by Walter Reed in 1900. Its recommendations were implemented by William C. Gorgas in the health measures undertaken during construction of the Panama Canal. This public-health work saved the lives of thousands of workers and helped develop the methods used in future public-health campaigns against the disease.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 419-362

QUESTION: Medicine

Walter Reed first discovered the transmission vector of what disease?

ANSWER: Bands

UB40

The name "UB40" was selected in reference to the document issued to people claiming unemployment benefit from the UK government's Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) at the time of the band's formation. The designation UB40 stood for Unemployment Benefit, Form 40.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 419-361

QUESTION: Bands

What band is named after a British form used for collecting unemployment benefits?

ANSWER: Movies

Bert & Ernie

Characters named Ernie and Bert appear in the film It's a Wonderful Life as a policeman and a taxi driver, respectively, but those behind Sesame Street claim that it is merely a coincidence. Jerry Juhl, a writer on many Henson-related projects, said, "Despite his many talents, Jim had no memory for details like this. He knew the movie, of course, but would not have remembered the cop and the cabdriver."

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 418-361

QUESTION: Movies

In It's a Wonderful Life, what are the names of the cop and taxi driver?

ANSWER: Cards

Nine

Pinochle is played with a deck of 48 cards. The four traditional suits of Spades, Diamonds, Clubs and Hearts are represented with 2 each of the following cards in each of the four suits.

ACE, TEN, KING, QUEEN, JACK, NINE

The ACE is the Highest ranking card followed by the TEN, etc., to the NINE, the lowest card in the deck.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 417-361

QUESTION: Cards

What is the lowest card of each suit in a pinochle deck?