Gratuitous Use of the Word Belgium

January 13-14, 2006

Answers to the Sheep Hour Bonus

Notes: Lower scores than I thought for this section, but not much went down overall, usually just the hard question in each section. As expected, people generally did best on the first part.

The Silence of the Lambs

1 Plum Island [I think I gave at least partial credit for Lecter's creative nickname "Anthrax Island," which may have been the most popular answer here]
2 Noble Pilcher, one of the creepy guys from the lab
3 Louis Friend; it's an anagram of iron sulfide, a type of fool's gold [this was badly worded; I accepted Billy Rubin and Hester Moffet as well]
4 He eats the face of a security guard, mutilates his own face, and trades clothes with the guard
5 Clarice tries to run away from her adopted home on a farm, and tries to save one of the sheep, but it refuses to go with her

Lamb Chop's Play-a-Long

6 Shari Lewis
7 Charlie Horse
8 Captain Kangaroo
9 She once asked for Mr. Rogers's autograph
10 This is the song that never ends
Yes it goes on and on my friends
Some people started singin' and didn't know what it was
And they'll continue singin' it forever just because.
[Repeat... one team was awarded extra credit for writing out the lyrics several bazillion times]

Albino Black Sheep

11 exploding, falling into a hole, and being crushed by a narwhal
12 "The Llama Song"
13 "The Evil Strawberry"
14 He's the only rabbit who has had less sex than the singer
15 Chickens in choppers

Monty Python's Flying Circus

16 who's wearing their fake mustache
17 wolf's clothing [A lot of people said "an eyepatch," which is technically true, but not quite good enough for me]
18 Basil Cassidy and the Sundance Sheep
19 Plummet
20 A clever sheep

Sesame Street

21 Meryl Sheep.
22 Colambo.
23 Fire engines.

Additional Sheep TV

24 Shaun the Sheep
25 They pretend he's a sheep, making "baaa"ing sounds and all
26 A sheep exploding.
27 Serta mattresses.
28 Punched a timeclock.

Sheep Literaature

29 Charles and Mary Lamb
30 Tales From Shakespeare
31 A Midsummer Night's Dream
32 The Comedy of Errors
33 "Little Lamb"
34 William Blake
35 Songs of Innocence; let people get away with saying Songs of Innocence and Experience
36 A star on its hindquarters
37 Bonfire of the Vanities
38 she killed him with frozen lamb, then cooked the lamb and served it to the police

Sheep Art

39 Common title: "The Good Shepherd"
Century of creation (Hint: it's Italian): 5th century
40 Artist: Jan van Eyck
Title of larger work: Ghent Altarpiece
Title of this section: "Adoration of the Lamb"
41 Artist: Marc Chagall
The depicted Greek lovers: Daphnis and Chloe

Faculty

42 Jim Shepard
43 Karen Shepard
44 Stephen Sheppard
45 W. Anthony Sheppard
46 Lara Shore-Sheppard

Miscellaneous

47 Agnus Dei
48 The Black Sheep Squadron
49 The scientists used cells from the original sheep's mammary; she's named after Dolly Parton.
50 "Count Your Sheep"
51 He never moves his back row
52 Black Sheep Turks and White Sheep Turks
53 Gone astray
54 Moufflon
55 The Golden Fleece.
56 Frenching
57 Accept variants of: Why do we only eat matzoh?
Why do we eat bitter herbs?
Why do we dip our foods twice?
Why do we lean?
58 "Wooly Bully" by Sam the Sham
59 Little Bo Peep [Whoever said "The Shepherdess"...no, not quite good enough]
60 Reading "Mary Had a Little Lamb."

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