Thursday, December 19, 2013

QUESTION: Music

Who sings the "I want my MTV" part on the Dire Strait's song, Money for Nothing?

ANSWER: Clothing

Guess

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 610-510

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

QUESTION: Clothing

What clothing line's logo is a question mark?

ANSWER: Music

Jazz Flute

Matt: CORRECT (even though I said be specific)
Record: 609-510

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

QUESTION: Music

What instrument does Ron Burgundy play? (be specific)

ANSWER: Animals

Eucalyptus

Matt: --
Record: 608-510

Monday, December 16, 2013

QUESTION: Animals

Most of a koala bear's diet consists of what type of leaf?

ANSWER: Gambling

36

The pockets of the roulette wheel are numbered from 1 to 36. In number ranges from 1 to 10 and 19 to 28, odd numbers are red and even are black. In ranges from 11 to 18 and 29 to 36, odd numbers are black and even are red. There is a green pocket numbered 0 (zero). In American roulette, there is a second green pocket marked 00. Pocket number order on the roulette wheel adheres to the following clockwise sequence in most casinos:

Single-zero wheel
0-32-15-19-4-21-2-25-17-34-6-27-13-36-11-30-8-23-10-5-24-16-33-1-20-14-31-9-22-18-29-7-28-12-35-3-26

Double-zero wheel
0-28-9-26-30-11-7-20-32-17-5-22-34-15-3-24-36-13-1-00-27-10-25-29-12-8-19-31-18-6-21-33-16-4-23-35-14-2

Matt: --
Record: 608-510

Friday, December 13, 2013

QUESTION: Gambling

What is the highest number on a standard roulette wheel?

ANSWER: Places

Lorraine Motel

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 608-510

Thursday, December 12, 2013

QUESTION: Places

In 1991, what motel reopened as the National Civil Rights Museum?

ANSWER: Pets

Cat


Matt: WRONG
Record: 607-510

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

QUESTION: Pets

What is the name of Audrey Hepburn's cat in Breakfast at Tiffany's?

ANSWER: Cars

DeLorean

The DMC-12 was the only model produced by the company which would go into liquidation as the US car market went through its largest slump since the 1930s. In 2007, about 6,500 DeLorean Motor cars were believed to still exist.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 607-509

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

QUESTION: Cars

What company only produced one car, the DMC-12?

ANSWER: Sports

Linebacker

The Butkus Award, instituted in 1985, is given annually to the top linebackers at the high school, collegiate and professional levels of football. The award, named in honor of College Football Hall of Fame and Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker, Dick Butkus, is presented by the Butkus Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports a number of health and wellness activities including the "I Play Clean" anti-steroid program. Traditionally, the award was given only to the top collegiate linebacker. The Butkus Award was expanded in 2008 to include high school and professional winners as part of a makeover by the Butkus family to help end anabolic steroid abuse among young athletes.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 606-509

Monday, December 9, 2013

QUESTION: Sports

What position does the football player that receives the Dick Butkus Award play?

ANSWER: Landmarks

Gateway Arch (St. Louis)

Matt: WRONG
Record: 605-509

Friday, December 6, 2013

QUESTION: Landmarks

Inside what landmark is there a plaque that reads "y = -127.7 ft x cosh (x/127.7 ft) + 757.7 ft"?

ANSWER: Books

A Tale of Two Cities

Matt: WRONG
Record: 605-508

Thursday, December 5, 2013

QUESTION: Books

What novel tells the story of a love triangle between Charles Darnay, Lucie Manette, and Sydney Carton?

ANSWER: Geography

Indian Ocean

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 605-507

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

QUESTION: Geography

If a person living anywhere in the contiguous United States were to tunnel through the center of the earth to the other side, what body of water would they come out in?

ANSWER: Music

Goat

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 604-507

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

QUESTION: Music

What type of animal is on the cover of the Beach Boys Pet Sounds album?

ANSWER: Awards

Canadian films

Genie Awards were given out to recognize the best of Canadian cinema by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. From 1949–1979, the awards were named the Canadian Film Awards (they were also known as the "Etrog Awards," for sculptor Sorel Etrog, who designed the statuette). In 1980 they were renamed The Genie Awards.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 603-507

Monday, December 2, 2013

QUESTION: Awards

What kind of movies compete for the Genie Awards?

ANSWER: Plays

Pygmalion

Matt: --
Record: 603-506

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

QUESTION: Plays

What play is named for a mythical sculptor that falls in love with his statue?

ANSWER: Sports

16 seconds (NFL play clock is 40, NBA shot clock is 24)

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 603-506

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

QUESTION: Sports

How many seconds longer than the NBA shot clock is the NFL play clock?

ANSWER: Anatomy

Vertabrae

Matt: WRONG
Record: 602-506

Friday, November 22, 2013

QUESTION: Anatomy

The sacral and coccygeal are the lowest types of what?

ANSWER: Opera

The Marriage of Figaro The Marriage of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) is set in Count Almaviva’s castle in Seville in the late 18th Century. It is based on Beaumarchais’s 1784 play La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro, a sequel to his earlier play, Le Barbier de Séville (The Barber of Seville), familiar to opera audiences through Rossini’s great opera (Mozart’s opera premiered in 1786; Rossini’s premiered in 1816).

Matt: WRONG
Record: 602-505

Thursday, November 21, 2013

QUESTION: Opera

Though written 30 years prior, what Mozart opera serves as a sequel to The Barber of Seville?

ANSWER: Comic Strips

Peppermint Patty

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 602-504

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

QUESTION: Comic Strips

Which Peanuts character's last name is Reichardt?

ANSWER: Colors

Vermilion

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 601-504

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

QUESTION: Colors

What shade of red is also the medical term for the red tissue of lips?

ANSWER: Television

Family Guy

Family Guy premiered in reruns on Adult Swim on April 20, 2003, and immediately became the block's top-rated program, dominating late-night viewing in its time period versus cable and broadcast competition, and boosting viewership by 239%. The complete first and second seasons were released on DVD the same week the show premiered on Adult Swim, and the show became a cult phenomenon, selling 400,000 copies within one month. Sales of the DVD set reached 2.2 million copies, becoming the best-selling television DVD of 2003 and the second-highest-selling television DVD ever, behind the first season of Comedy Central's Chappelle's Show. The third-season DVD release also sold more than a million copies. The show's popularity in DVD sales and reruns rekindled Fox's interest,and, on May 20, 2004, Fox ordered 35 new episodes of Family Guy, marking the first revival of a television show based on DVD sales.

Matt: --
Record: 600-504

Monday, November 18, 2013

QUESTION: Television

What was the first canceled TV show to be brought back due to high DVD sales?

ANSWER: Time Zones

Iceland & Portugal

Matt: WRONG
Record: 600-504

Friday, November 15, 2013

QUESTION: Time Zones

Besides the British Isles, what are the only two European countries on Greenwich Mean Time?

ANSWER: Music

Kris Kristofferson

"Me and Bobby McGee" is a song written by Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster, originally performed by Roger Miller. Others performed the song later, including Kristofferson himself, and Janis Joplin who topped the U.S. singles chart with the song in 1971 after her death, making the song the second posthumous number-one single in U.S. chart history after "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 600-503

Thursday, November 14, 2013

QUESTION: Music

Who wrote Janis Joplin's hit, Me & Bobby McGee?

ANSWER: Inventions

Popsicles

The ever-popular hot-weather treat known as the Popsicle was invented by Frank Epperson, when he was just eleven years old. Born in 1894 and raised in San Francisco, Epperson mixed a soft drink one winter night in 1905 made with soda water powder and water ­ a popular concoction at the time. He left a stirring stick in it and mistakenly left it on the porch overnight.

Epperson found the fruit-flavored substance frozen to the stick when he awoke the next morning, as temperatures had dropped to record lows during the night. Though he is said to have tasted it and shown it to his friends, he did little else with his accidental “invention” for a number of years.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 600-502

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

QUESTION: Inventions

What was invented in 1905, when Frank Epperson left a glass of homemade soda he was stirring on his porch overnight?

ANSWER: Events

World War 1 ended

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 599-502

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

QUESTION: Events

What happened on "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month"?

ANSWER: Airplanes

Orange

Matt: WRONG
Record: 598-502

Monday, November 11, 2013

QUESTION: Airplanes

The "black box" recorders in airplanes are not actually black, what color are they?

ANSWER: Movies

Dumbo

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 598-501

Friday, November 8, 2013

QUESTION: Movies

What title character leaves all the speaking to his sidekick, Timothy Q. Mouse, while never saying a word himself?