Radio Super Bonus

Section One: National Public Radio

Miscellany

1. Believed to be the largest monetary gift ever received by an American cultural institution, in November of 2003, NPR received over $200 million dollars from whom?

2. How did this benefactor come into a good portion of their money?

3. The bastard step-brother of NPR, Public Radio International (PRI) was founded in part because of NPR's decision not to pick up which still popular radio program?

4. NPR's Morning Edition and ABC's Nightline share a common heritage - what is it?

5. Who was the former host of The Connection and why did he leave?

6. What Tavis Smiley Show commentator is the political opposite of her more famous cousin?

7. Doug Berman sure gets around. He produces two of the NPR shows we're going to ask you about below, which ones?

8. Who walked out of a recent taping of Fresh Air after accusing host Terry Gross of being "pro-Al Franken"?

Car Talk

1. Per the legend, how did the Magliozzis get the Car Talk job?

2. When Tom and Ray decided to put their MIT degrees to good use, what type of business did they start?

3. Where/what is Our Fair City?

4. Everyone knows the Yugo is the worst car of all time. According to a listener survey, which car was second?

5. In which part of Car Talk is the new puzzler presented?

6. Congratulations! You're this week's puzzler winner. What do you get? Be specific.

7. Name the Car Talk Russian Chauffeur.

8. The best piece of advice on Car Talk is the last thing Tom and Ray say each week. What is it?

Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me!

1. This weekly news quiz features a rotating cast of 8 panelists. Name them, and their non-WWDTM claims to fame.

2. Listeners can participate in several of the quiz segments, and the prize they're competing for is always the same. What is it?

3. For Madeline Albright it was Playboy, for Al Franken it was Frederick's of Hollywood and for Jeff Corwin it was Mickey Spillane. Name the segment where famous people are quizzed on "things they know nothing about".

4. Carl Kasell, WWDTM's announcer/scorekeeper has slightly more prestigious day job. What is it?

This American Life

1. Host Ira Glass has said, "In radio, you have two tools, sound and silence." His life, an unbroken line between semiotics and radio, has taught him that pauses are dead air only in the hands of charlatans and hacks. Not surprisingly he is first cousin (once removed) of this composer.

2. Each week they choose a theme and invite different writers and performers to contribute items on the theme. These pieces are divided into segments called?

3. This American Life mainstay David Sedaris first came to the attention of NPR listeners in 1992 when his short story detailing his exploits at a part time job aired on NPR's Morning Edition. The segment was produced by Ira Glass. Name the story or the part time job.

4. While author Sarah Vowell is indeed a contributing editor of This American Life, she has a more exotic title in the show's credits. What is it?

5. Who is Torey Malatia?

6. TAL contributor (and former producer) Jonathan Goldstein is working to re-write what international bestseller

7. A TAL favorite, Dishwasher Pete has a mission. What is it?

Says You!

1. Says You! is a game of bluff and bluster, words and whimsy, A simple game with words played by two teams, the first of which sits,.

2. At the top of every show, host Richard Sher advises new listeners to,.

3. The house band on Says You! is who? (Bonus points if you can tell us the CD they've been hawking recently.) A. The Dactyls, Second Takes Are for Wimps

4. We'd like you to solve one of Says You's word puzzles. From the clues provided, please give the word indicated:
   1. This is often what ends a legal matter, comes from the Latin for "end".
   2. The Latin for "together" and "pledge" combine for this word meaning mutual adjustment.
   3. The Persian word for the game of Polo with all its maneuvering is the origin for this word for trickery.
   4. Our word for looking back with regret and longing, comes from the Greek for "regret" and "pain".
   5. When Greeks were talking in the marketplace about clandestine matters it was said they were talking of other things and this word from "other" and "marketplace" still means speaking about one thing while meaning another.

Weekend Edition Sunday

1. We can't resist a few more puzzles on our way out of the NPR section. Weekend Edition Sunday's puzzle master is who?

2. What's the puzzle master's other (perhaps more notable) job?

3. Take the letters of the word TEMPORARY. Arrange them in a 3 by 3 square so that each of the acrosses, downs and the two long diagonals spells a word. Each of the diagonals must read backward as well as forward, making 10 words to be spelled altogether. All the words are common and uncapitalized. What is this special square?

4. Name a famous singer whose last name has 9 letters. Four consecutive letters inside this name can be rearranged to spell a common 4-letter word. Remove these 4 letters, close up the hole, and the remaining 5 letters in order will spell a synonym of the four-letter word. Who is this singer and what are the words?

5. Ok you can't go to the web site and cheat on this one. I'll give you two clues. The answer to the first clue starts with the letter "e." To get the answer to the second clue, move the "e" to the end of the answer to the first clue.
   1. First, the leader of Kuwait. The second word is a bog or marsh.
   2. Fundamental beliefs of a culture. The second word, "the one yonder".
   3. Black in poetry, radius
   4. Dutch cheese, woman's title
   5. Something that can knock you out, yonder
   6. Cupid, gift on Valentine's Day

Section Two: Just Say No

1. The BBC banned both the Troggs' "I Can't Control Myself" and Donna Summer's "Love to Love You Baby" for the same reason. What?

2. What two Paul McCartney singles were banned in 1972?

3. One of the Rolling Stones' B-sides became a hit song because so many radio stations wouldn't play the official A-side. What was this two-sided single?

4. What seemingly innocuous #1 U.S. hit was banned in 1959 by the BBC because it insulted the British?

5. What song was so outrageous that it was banned by the BBC.... the weekly music charts were rigged to avoid acknowledging that it was the #1-selling single in England.... and even in its phony #2 position, the song's title and artist were deemed unprintable, and replaced with an unexplained black bar?

6. The BBC deemed several songs "unsuitable" for airplay during the 1991 Gulf War. We'll give you five of the artists-- please give us their unsuitable songs.
   1. The Bangles
   2. Phil Collins
   3. Donny Osmond
   4. The Animals
   5. Tears for Fears

7. Which two 1969-70 singles were banned by the BBC for mentioning Coca-Cola? What change was made to one of the songs to get it on the air?

8. Two early 1970s singles by Paul Simon got the BBC ban for advertising. Which two songs, and what were the products?

9. In order to get airplay, what song was edited by replacing the word "fucking" with "very"?

10. What song was edited to replace the word "joint" with "nnnnnnow"?

11. The Beatles' "I Am the Walrus" was banned by the BBC because it contained a certain word. "The Ballad of John and Yoko" was edited to remove a certain word. What were these two bad, bad Beatle words?

12. The band said it was about an airplane ride. But U.S. radio program directors thought it was a drug reference, and many of them wouldn't play it, likely costing it a #1 ranking. What's this early 1966 song?

13. What was the only instrumental (!) to be widely banned by U.S. radio stations?

14. Clear Channel, the USA's largest radio conglomerate, denied circulating a list of banned songs to their chain of stations after the 9/11 attacks. However, when company employees confirmed the list, Clear Channel amended their denial, saying that it all started with one rogue programmer, and anyway, they were only "suggesting" that the songs be removed from the playlists. We'll name ten artists, and you name their songs that weren't "banned," yet somehow stopped getting played by a whole lot of stations:
    1. Foo Fighters
    2. Dave Matthews Band
    3. The Pretenders
    4. Alanis Morissette
    5. Kansas
    6. Van Halen
    7. Talking Heads
    8. Jerry Lee Lewis
    9. Carole King
    10. Dave Clark Five

Section Three: Say That Again?

1. "W-w-w-wind up your radios"

2. "And that's the rest.... of the story."

3. "Mega-dittos."

4. "Cubs win! Cubs win!"

5. "Yankees win! Theeeeeeeeeee Yankees win!"

6. "Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars."

7. "Hello, Love!"

8. "I'll be back with the happy recap."

9. "Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. North and South America"

10. "YES! And it counts!"

11. "Hiya, Cousin!"

12. "Hey hey!"

Section Four: Old Time Radio

1. Convention (and unions) helped keep early radio 100% live. What was the first prerecorded thing to be played on network radio?

2. Who was the first star personality on radio?

3. What 1927 sporting event was host to the first live coast-to-coast broadcast, heard simultaneously across the country?

4. What was the major change made to the Popeye mythos, in the "Popeye" radio show sponsored by Wheatena?

5. Bud Collyer's voice was a distinctive element that made "The Adventures of Superman" a hit. What major addition was made to the Superman mythos (and later added to the comic books) when Collyer took a 2-week vacation?

6. Oddly, one of the biggest stars of radio was a ventriloquist. Despite the overwhelming lack of logic, he had a show for 20 years. Who?

7. Mel Blanc played several roles on "The Jack Benny Show," including Maxwell. Describe the character of Maxwell.

8. Frank Nelson was also a regular on Benny's show. For what one word was he best known?

9. In the mid-1930s, several radio demagogues such as Father Coughlin, Dr. Francis Townsend, and Reverend Gerald L. K. Smith got huge audiences by assailing the gold standard, Jews, and other equally obvious sources of all human misery. Their heyday faded, in part because the Roosevelt administration actually adopted one of their main causes, thereby defusing their rhetoric. The result is still around today. What is it?

10. The first major spinoff series based on a character from another comedy or drama was a radio show. Which?

11. What radio personality is credited with selling the most war bonds, over $60 million worth?

12. What show, still airing on TV today, began on NBC radio 65 years ago?

13. What performer revolutionized (purists still say "destroyed") the radio industry by prerecording his weekly show?

14. What was the most notable feature of Fibber McGee & Molly's home?

15. A pair of men's shoes, black, size 9, was the only damage claim ever paid out by the makers of what notorious radio program?

Section Five: Not-Quite-As-Old-Time Radio and Other Miscellany

1. What did Alan Freed try to copyright?

2. Jack Spector was one of the original 1960s "WMCA Good Guys." After they broke up that format, Spector worked at a number of different stations. What did he do on his last show?

3. Back when Top 40 ruled the format roost, WMCA's main competition was rival station WABC. Starting around 1964, by what call letters did WABC routinely identify itself?

4. What was the name of the most notorious "pirate radio" station ever? Where was their studio located?

5. What has been heard hourly on BBC Radio for almost 80 years?

6. What DJ had a #1 hit in the 1970s?

7. What sportscaster coined terms like "no-look pass," "garbage time," "air ball," "pressure cooker," "slam dunk," and "no harm, no foul"?

8. Where is Z-100 broadcast from, according to about 20 years of promos?

9. WCBS-FM is the top oldies station in the U.S. But they're experiencing an advertising dilemma caused by the "graying" of their audience, and are moving away from their 1950s playlist. For almost 30 years, WCBS-FM has assembled an annual "Top 500 Songs" list, which was played every Memorial Day and Thanksgiving weekend. What was the #1 song in every one of WCBS' dozens of surveys through 2002? What position did the song hold in the latest 2003 countdown?

10. Ron & Fez encourage their listeners to sign up for what card? What does it stand for?

11. Ron & Fez regularly host a segment in which callers try to top one another with quick jokes about the topic of the day. What do they call this?

12. If you phone Tom Leykis, and ask him, "How are you doing?" what will he invariably answer?

13. What Rock & Roll Hall of Famer hosts which weekly syndicated show?

14. For years, hundreds of phone callers to "The Howard Stern Show" said, apropos of nothing, "F Timmy." What did this mean?

15. What is the most common salutation from Stern callers nowadays? Where does it come from?

16. Howard Stern is the King of All Media. What is Fred Norris the King of?

17. What do WKRP news anchor Les Nessman and the rapper Nelly have in common?

18. What two U.S. radio stations have the same call letters as the cities from which they broadcast?

19. XM Radio offers one premium station at an extra charge in addition to their regular programming. Name it.

20. What nicknames has XM Radio given to their 2 satellites?

Section Six: And Now, A Word From Our Sponsor

1. If you order a Vermont teddy bear, you won't be speaking to a low-paid phone operator. Oh, no. What specific type of person will be handling your call?

2. What, truly, is the only appropriate way to request Park's Sausages?

3. We hope you'll answer this in the appropriately cheery tone: what attraction will you find in Englishtown, New Jersey?

4. Chock Full Of Nuts is the heavenly coffee, heavenly coffee, heavenly coffee. But they had to change their heavenly jingle early on. What word was taken out of the lyrics, and what word replaced it?

5. Whose prices were innnn-SANNNNE?

6. When ordering from 1-800-MATTRESS, what omission should you make and why?

7. What three words best describe Mr. Footlong Hot Dog Inventor, Mr. Bowling Shoe Giver Outer, Mr. Supermarket Deli Meat Slicer, Mr. Beach Metal Detector Guy, Mr. Parking Attendant Flashlight Waver, and Mr. Nudist Colony Activity Coordinator?

Section Seven: Misbehaving Jocks

1. Why were Opie & Anthony fired from their Boston station?

2. Why were Opie & Anthony fired from their New York station?

3. What wisecrack about Martin Luther King Day forced the Greaseman to issue a public apology in Washington D.C.?

4. Howard Stern's company was fined over $2 million by the FCC. The specific complaint included such republic-shaking offenses as Howard claiming he was sexually aroused by the image of Aunt Jemima on a box of pancakes. Another outrage (well, the FCC was outraged) was because of a specific musical performance on Stern's Christmas program. Describe it.

5. Beau Duran's short road to unemployment started during the 2002 baseball playoffs, when he called somebody on the air and asked whether they needed a date for the game. Who?

6. What stunt got Mancow Muller suspended from his San Francisco station?

Section Eight: "The Theater of the Mind," In the Theaters

1. DJ gets involved with a listener, is then stalked by her.

2. Freewheeling Army DJ clashes with brass.

3. Roving youth gang gets the Motown song "Nowhere to Run" dedicated to them by unseen DJ.

4. DJ denies his identity, while trying to foist off melting popsicles to a listener.

5. Soldier water-skis to a Rolling Stones song playing on the transistor radio.

6. Idiots commandeer a radio station, demand airplay for their song.

7. General confiscates all radios in advance of his apocalyptic plan.

8. Radio-carrying youth is killed by police, while a local DJ decries the violence.

9. A radio station's staff rebels, when they disapprove of the sponsors being signed up by the greedy new ad salesman.

10. Man exploits his resemblance to a tyrant to take his place and make a radio broadcast advocating world peace.

11. Atmospheric disturbance transforms ham radio into a device that communicates back through time.

12. Brash, abrasive talk show host starts getting death threats.

13. Super stud gets fired from his explicit late-night radio show.

14. Widower is tricked by his son into becoming a regular on a call-in show.

15. Sonny and Cher. Sonny and Cher. Sonny and Cher. Sonny and Cher. Sonny and Cher.

16. New kid in town becomes pirate DJ and sends his community into an uproar.

17. Shock jock's abuse of loser janitor turns janitor into local hero.

18. DJ's wife's water breaks onstage during AC/DC performance.

19. In "Airplane!" there is a quick scene where the plane knocks over a radio tower. What is the station's call letters and slogan? What do these call letters stand for?

20. Bill Murray plays a DJ in "All You Need is Cash," the story of the Rutles. What is his character name?

Section Nine: Not a Big Section, True, But One Close to Our Hearts

1. What is the only current WCFM program with the word "radio" in its title?

2. What's the only current WCFM program with a vegetable in its title?

Sa-Sa-Section Ten: Stern's Merry Misfits

At this time, the Radio Super Bonus signs off. If you don't hand the correct answers in by 8:00, you'll say, "It megahertz."