Wednesday, November 27, 2013
ANSWER: Sports
16 seconds (NFL play clock is 40, NBA shot clock is 24)
Matt: CORRECT
Record: 603-506
Matt: CORRECT
Record: 603-506
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Friday, November 22, 2013
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
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?
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
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
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
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
"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
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
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?
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
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Monday, November 11, 2013
QUESTION: Airplanes
The "black box" recorders in airplanes are not actually black, what color are they?
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?
ANSWER: Military
Iceland
Iceland's defences consist of the Icelandic Coast Guard which patrols Icelandic waters and airspace and other services such as the National Commissioner's National Security and Special Forces Units.Iceland is however the only NATO member which maintains no standing army, although there is no legal impediment to forming one and Icelandic services perform the operations fellow NATO allies relegate to their standing armies.
Matt: WRONG
Record: 597-501
Iceland's defences consist of the Icelandic Coast Guard which patrols Icelandic waters and airspace and other services such as the National Commissioner's National Security and Special Forces Units.Iceland is however the only NATO member which maintains no standing army, although there is no legal impediment to forming one and Icelandic services perform the operations fellow NATO allies relegate to their standing armies.
Matt: WRONG
Record: 597-501
Thursday, November 7, 2013
QUESTION: Military
What country is a member of NATO, despite the fact that they have no standing army?
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ANSWER: Football
10 yards
A kickoff is illegal unless it travels 10 yards OR is touched by the receiving team. Once the ball is touched by the receiving team or has gone 10 yards, it is a free ball. Receivers may recover and advance. Kicking team may recover but NOT advance UNLESS receiver had possession and lost the ball.
Matt: CORRECT
Record: 597-500
A kickoff is illegal unless it travels 10 yards OR is touched by the receiving team. Once the ball is touched by the receiving team or has gone 10 yards, it is a free ball. Receivers may recover and advance. Kicking team may recover but NOT advance UNLESS receiver had possession and lost the ball.
Matt: CORRECT
Record: 597-500
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
QUESTION: Football
During an onside kick, how many yards must an untouched football travel before it can be recovered by the kicking team?
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Monday, November 4, 2013
ANSWER: Bibles
Jezebel
According to the biblical accounts, Jezebel incited her husband King Ahab to abandon the worship of Yahweh and encourage worship of the deities Baal and Asherah instead. Jezebel is said to have persecuted the prophets of Yahweh, and to have fabricated false evidence of blasphemy against an innocent landowner who refused to sell his property to King Ahab, causing the landowner to be put to death. For these transgressions against the God and people of Israel, the Bible relates, Jezebel met a gruesome death - thrown out of a window by members of her own court retinue, and the flesh of her corpse eaten by stray dogs.
Matt: WRONG
Record: 595-499
According to the biblical accounts, Jezebel incited her husband King Ahab to abandon the worship of Yahweh and encourage worship of the deities Baal and Asherah instead. Jezebel is said to have persecuted the prophets of Yahweh, and to have fabricated false evidence of blasphemy against an innocent landowner who refused to sell his property to King Ahab, causing the landowner to be put to death. For these transgressions against the God and people of Israel, the Bible relates, Jezebel met a gruesome death - thrown out of a window by members of her own court retinue, and the flesh of her corpse eaten by stray dogs.
Matt: WRONG
Record: 595-499
Friday, November 1, 2013
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