QUESTION: Science

What is the name for the chemical and electrical connections formed at the gaps between nerve cells?

ANSWER: Logos

An umbrella

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 460-394

QUESTION: Logos

In the Morton Salt logo, what is the girl holding?

ANSWER: Artists

Van Gogh

During his lifetime Van Gogh was never famous as a painter and struggled to make a living as an artist. Van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime The Red Vineyard. This painting sold in Brussels for 400 Francs only a few months before his death.

Vincent van Gogh died at the age of 37 bringing his career as a painter to an end, but beginning his legacy as the great painter of the future who inspired the world.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 459-394

QUESTION: Artists

What artist only sold one painting (Red Vineyeard, shown below) while he was alive?

ANSWER: Theme Songs

Black Gold, Texas Tea



Matt: CORRECT
Record: 458-394

QUESTION: Theme Songs

In the Beverly Hillbillies theme song, what two slang terms for oil are used?

ANSWER: Food

Lettuce

Lactucarium is the milky fluid secreted by several species of lettuce, especially Lactuca virosa, usually from the base of the stems. Lactucarium is known as lettuce opium because of its sedative and analgesic properties. It has been reported to promote a mild sensation of euphoria, but Lactuca virosa is poisonous, and at least one fatality has occurred during an attempt to use it for intoxication. Because it is a latex, Lactucarium physically resembles opium, in that it is excreted as a white fluid and can be reduced to a thick smokable solid.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 457-394

QUESTION: Food

What vegetable secretes a white fluid called lactucarium?

ANSWER: Sports

Boston Bruins

The league embarked on rapid expansion in the 1920s, adding the Montreal Maroons and Boston Bruins in 1924. The Bruins were the first American team in the NHL, while the Maroons played in the newly completed Montreal Forum that the Canadiens made famous in later decades. The New York Americans began play in 1925 after purchasing the assets of the Hamilton Tigers, and were joined by the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 457-393

QUESTION: Sports

Which hockey team was the first American team in the NHL?

ANSWER: U.S. States

Michigan

The 10-cent deposit traces its roots back to the Michigan Beverage Containers Law of 1976. Here's how it works: the consumer pays an additional dime up front, which will be refunded when the can or bottle is returned. The rule aims to curb litter, encourage recycling, and provide funding for environmental programs.

A five-cent difference may sound trifling, but the higher deposit helps make Michigan's recycling program wildly successful. Although it's tough to track fraudulent cans and bottles that come in from outside the state, the Michigan program has returned over 95 percent of the deposits it has taken in since the year 2000.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 456-393

QUESTION: U.S. States

Which state's bottle bill gives 10 cents, instead of 5, for used bottles?

ANSWER: Celebrities

And the Beat Goes On

Matt: WRONG
Record: 456-392

QUESTION: Celebrities

What song title is on Sonny Bono's headstone?

ANSWER: Video Games

Pauline

Pauline (initially known as Lady or the Lady in Japan) was Mario's original girlfriend and the original damsel-in-distress in the arcade game Donkey Kong who was captured by the original Donkey Kong. She is one of the few damsels in the Mario series who is not a princess, but simply a normal citizen of the world.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 456-391

QUESTION: Video Games

What is the name of Mario's girlfriend that is kidnapped in Donkey Kong?

ANSWER: Movies

Julius

Matt: WRONG
Record: 455-391

QUESTION: Movies

What is Dr. No's first name?

ANSWER: Music

1955




"The Ballad of Davy Crockett" is a song with music by George Bruns and lyrics by Thomas W. Blackburn.

The first recording of the song was made by Fess Parker, quickly followed by versions by Bill Hayes and Tennessee Ernie Ford (recorded February 7, 1955). All three versions made the Billboard charts: Hayes' version made #1 on the weekly chart (from March 26 through April 23, 1955) and #7 for the year, Parker's reached #6 on the weekly charts and #31 for the year, while Ford's peaked at #4 on the weekly country chart and #5 on the weekly pop chart and charted at #37 for the year. A fourth version, by bluegrass singer Mac Wiseman, reached #10 on the radio charts in May 1955.[2] The song also reached #1 on the Cash Box charts, from March 26 through May 14, 1955. A contemporary version also exists of the famous Western singing group the Sons of the Pioneers. Over ten million copies of the song were sold.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 455-390

QUESTION: Music

What year was The Ballad of Davy Crockett #1 on the charts?

ANSWER: Plays

Macbeth

The Three Witches or Weird Sisters are characters in William Shakespeare's play Macbeth (c. 1603–1607). Their origin lies in Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a history of England, Scotland and Ireland.

Shakespeare's witches are prophets who hail the general Macbeth early in the play with predictions of his rise as king. Upon committing regicide and taking the throne of Scotland, Macbeth hears the trio deliver ambiguous prophecies threatening his downfall. The witches' dark and contradictory natures, their "filthy" trappings and activities, as well as their intercourse with the supernatural all set an ominous tone for the play.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 454-390

QUESTION: Plays

Which Shakespeare play begins with a meeting of the Weird Sisters?

ANSWER: Candy

3...will also allow "world will never know"



Matt: CORRECT
Record: 453-390

QUESTION: Candy

According to the ad, how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?

ANSWER: Mythology

Jupiter

In the ancient Greek religion, Zeus was the "Father of Gods and men" who ruled the Olympians of Mount Olympus as a father ruled the family. He was the god of sky and thunder in Greek mythology. His Roman counterpart is Jupiter and Etruscan counterpart is Tinia.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 452-390

QUESTION: Mythology

What name is Zeus known as in Rome?

ANSWER: Comic Strips

1951

Dennis the Menace is a daily syndicated newspaper comic strip originally created, written and illustrated by Hank Ketcham. It debuted on March 12, 1951 in 16 newspapers and was originally distributed by Post-Hall Syndicate. It is now written and drawn by Ketcham's former assistants, Marcus Hamilton and Ron Ferdinand, and distributed to at least 1,000 newspapers in 48 countries and 19 languages by King Features Syndicate. The comic strip usually runs for a single panel on weekdays and a full strip on Sundays.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 451-390

QUESTION: Comic Strips

What year did Dennis the Menace debut in newspapers?

ANSWER: Geography/Animals

Galapagos

The Blue-footed Booby (Sula nebouxii) is a bird in the Sulidae family which comprises ten species of long-winged seabirds. The natural breeding habitat of the Blue-footed Booby is tropical and subtropical islands off the Pacific Ocean, most famously, the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador.

The name booby comes from the Spanish term bobo (which means 'stupid' or 'fool' or 'clown') because the Blue-footed Booby is (like other seabirds) clumsy on land. They are easily captured, killed, and eaten by humans.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 451-389

QUESTION: Geography/Animals

Most of the world's blue-footed boobies live on what islands?

ANSWER: Literature/Poetry

The Jabberwock

"Jabberwocky" is a nonsense verse poem written by Lewis Carroll in his 1872 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, a sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The book tells of Alice's adventures within the back-to-front world of a looking glass.

The word "vorpal" appears twice in the poem, which describes a young boy's quest to slay a monster called the Jabberwock:

He took his vorpal sword in hand:

And later,

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 450-389

QUESTION: Literature/Poetry

What fictional creature is killed with a vorpal blade?
(Hint: comes from a poem within a novel)

ANSWER: Shapes

Soccer Ball

The classic soccer ball is made of the collection of leather pieces of 12 regular pentagons (that are usually painted black) and 20 regular hexagons (painted white). The pentagons are placed at the vertices of imaginary icosahedron (one of the Platonic perfect solids), and separated one from another with the hexagons. The pentagons and hexagons border each other, and therefore have the same side sizes.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 450-388

QUESTION: Shapes

What item is usually made up of 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons?

ANSWER: Money

Peru

The nuevo sol is the currency of Peru. It is subdivided into 100 cents, called céntimos in Spanish. The ISO 4217 currency code is PEN. It is most commonly referred to just as sol

The name is a return to that of Peru's historic currency, the sol in use from the 19th century to 1985. Although the derivation of sol is the Latin solidus, the word also happens to mean sun in Spanish. There is a continuity therefore with the old Peruvian inti, which was named after Inti, the Sun God of the Incas.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 450-387

QUESTION: Money

What country's currency is the nuveo sol?

ANSWER: British Monarchy

George VI

George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death. He was the last Emperor of India, and the first Head of the Commonwealth.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 450-386

QUESTION: British Monarchy

Who was the last British monarch to also be an emperor?

ANSWER: Animals

Breaching (or lunging)

A breach or a lunge is a leap out of the water also known as cresting. The distinction between the two is fairly arbitrary: cetacean researcher Hal Whitehead chooses to define a breach as any leap in which at least 40% of the animal's body clears the water, and a lunge as a leap with less than 40% clearance. Qualitatively, a breach is a genuine jump with an intent to clear the water, whereas a lunge is the result of a fast upward sloping swim, perhaps as a result of feeding, that has caused the whale to clear the surface of the water unintentionally.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 449-386