Unused questions are shown with gray text.
| Number | 1 |
| Realm | You Stupid Turlingdromes... |
| Subrealm | [BLEEP BLEEP] |
| Question | Back in May of 2000, the running team began Trivia with a question bragging that they were "the only Williams Trivia champions who can't even say their own team name over the radio." While they still maintain this distinction, one team has now shattered their record for sheer foulness of word choice. There is one word so revolting that its publication or broadcast is almost completely forbidden in all parts of the galaxy... except on one little planet in sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, where no one knows what it really means. So, were we on any more civilized planet, what team would have the distinction of the most utterly inappropriate name in Trivia history? |
| Answer | Gratuitous Use of the Word "Belgium." |
| Song | Can't Say That on the Radio |
| Artist | Trick Pony |
| Number | 2 |
| Realm | Buy Me Some Peanuts and Crackerjack, I Don't Care If I Ever Get Back |
| Subrealm | No, Seriously, I Don't Think I'm Ever Getting Back |
| Question | The entire Opening Day outfield of the 1992 Los Angeles Dodgers was the only threesome in major league history to each accomplish this before the age of 40. What? |
| Answer | Get cancer. (LF Eric Davis, CF Brett Butler, and RF Darryl Strawberry.) |
| Song | Lump |
| Artist | The Presidents of the United States of America |
| Number | 3 |
| Realm | The Very First Board Game You Ever Played |
| Subrealm | Me, My First Game Was Diplomacy, But Then, I'm Gifted |
| Question | The board game Candyland has several topographic regions and features. Name any four for 1 point, or all six for 2 points. |
| Answer | Rainbow Trail, Gumdrop Pass, Gooey Gumdrops, Lollipop Woods, Molasses Swamp, Candy Castle. |
| Song | I Want Candy |
| Artist | Good Charlotte |
| Number | 4 |
| Realm | Music in the Movies |
| Subrealm | Karaoke, Wayward Son |
| Question | In "10 Things I Hate About You," Heath Ledger serenades Julia Stiles with "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" from the bleachers on the football field. In "Not Another Teen Movie," what romantic song does Chris Evans sing to Chyler Leigh from the bleachers? |
| Answer | "Janie's Got a Gun" (the Aerosmith classic about a girl who kills her father for molesting her). |
| Song | Janie Jones |
| Artist | The Clash |
| Number | 5 |
| Realm | [Imitate a dolphin] Ee-ee-Ee-ee-ee! |
| Subrealm | Holy Mackerel! |
| Question | The dolphins of Epcot Center have always been amazing performers. However, researchers at New College of Florida have recently taught some of them a groundbreaking act. What is the dolphins' newest talent? |
| Answer | They can sing the "Batman" theme song, in the first demonstration that animals can recognize and reproduce musical rhythms. |
| Song | Holding Out for a Hero |
| Artist | Frou Frou |
| Number | 6 |
| Realm | TV Interviews |
| Subrealm | And Not Just the Usual Face-to-Lap Format |
| Question | Barbara Walters' reputation as a suck-up interviewer was never more ironic than during her 1999 exclusive with Monica Lewinsky. It was the highest-rated news program ever, and among the tasteful, totally coincidental ads to run during the hour were one for Victoria's Secret lingerie, another for the "Cleopatra" TV movie (which hyped "When she was 20, she seduced the most powerful leader in the world"), and a Maytag ad which said, "It actually has the power to remove stains." There was also an ad for a personal hygiene product. Which one? |
| Answer | The Oral-B toothbrush. |
| Song | Yummy Yummy Yummy I've Got Love in My Tummy |
| Artist | The 1910 Fruitgum Company |
| Number | 7 |
| Realm | Crazy Internet Cults |
| Subrealm | No Virgin Sacrifice Required |
| Question | While Internet cults may be a dime a dozen, the summer of 2005 saw the rise of a new cultlike group that got a surprising amount of press: the Harmonians. What is the central dogma of the Harmonians? |
| Answer | That Harry Potter and Hermione Granger should be a romantic couple. |
| Song | I'm Just Wild About Harry |
| Artist | Al Jolson |
| Number | 8 |
| Realm | Money, Money, Money |
| Subrealm | Numismatic Personae |
| Question | Who is the only woman ever to have appeared on a US currency note? |
| Answer | Martha Washington. She appeared on $1 Silver Certificates, Series 1886, 1891, and 1896. |
| Song | Georgy Girl |
| Artist | The Seekers |
| Number | 9 |
| Realm | Famous People On Currency, Part Two |
| Subrealm | Mo' Money, Mo' |
| Question | Only three people have ever appeared on Scottish bank notes while they were still alive. Who are they? |
| Answer | The Queen, the Queen Mother, and Jack Nicklaus. |
| Song | Four |
| Artist | Lit |
| Number | 10 |
| Realm | Williamsiana |
| Subrealm | Infamous Alumni |
| Question | This nefarious alumnus has been accused of many crimes, including worshipping false idols, invading Poland, and tipping poorly. Name him and the act most associated with him. |
| Answer | Wilbur; sucking. |
| Song | Start Wearing Purple |
| Artist | Gogol Bordello |
| Number | 11 |
| Realm | Sports |
| Subrealm | Partially Fictional Sports |
| Question | According to the TV show "Cheers," this distinction belonged to Coach Pantusso, but in the real world it belongs to Craig Biggio. What is it? |
| Answer | The Major League Baseball record for being hit by pitches. |
| Song | Ouch |
| Artist | The Rutles |
| Number | 12 |
| Realm | Sports |
| Subrealm | Entirely Fictional Sports |
| Question | Since it opened in 1992, Oriole Park at Camden Yards has had two real Presidents throw out the first ball - and four fake Presidents do the same. This is a THREE POINT PLAY! For zero points, we'll tell you that the real Presidents were Bush I and Clinton; for one trivia point, tell us three of the actors who threw out the first pitch as President in movies or on TV. For the extra point, name all four actors. |
| Answer | Kevin Kline (in "Dave"); Martin Sheen (in "The West Wing"); Chris Rock (in "Head Of State") and Geena Davis (in "Commander In Chief"). |
| Song | I Can't Catch You |
| Artist | Sixpence None the Richer |
| Number | 13 |
| Realm | Sports |
| Subrealm | Completely Ridiculous Sports |
| Question | In all of Calvin and Hobbes' many games of Calvinball, the actual score has been mentioned only twice. Give either score. |
| Answer | Oogy to boogy, or Q to 12. |
| Song | Play the Game |
| Artist | Queen |
| Number | 14 |
| Realm | Smoking Policy |
| Subrealm | States That You Shouldn't Smoke Within 25 Feet of a Building |
| Question | A French woman recently appeared in an Australian court after fumbling with a door so she could step outside and have a smoke. While Sadrine Sellies may have been trying to obey the law, neither those around her nor the judge trying the case thought her actions were warranted, and she was slapped with a $1000 fine. What did Ms. Sellies do in order to have a cigarette? |
| Answer | She tried to open the emergency exit door of an airplane. |
| Song | Steppin' Out |
| Artist | Cream |
| Number | 15 |
| Realm | Titles |
| Subrealm | Subtitles |
| Question | Through 2005, actors have been Oscar-nominated for roles in 9 different languages. There've been seven performances in French, 9 in Italian, 4 in Swedish, 3 in Spanish, and a few in English. That leaves four languages which have been represented by a single Academy Award-nominated role apiece. Name three of these foreign tongues that licked Oscar. |
| Answer | Czech (Ida Kaminska, "The Shop on Main Street," 1966)| Lakota Sioux (Graham Greene, "Dances with Wolves," 1990)| Portuguese (Fernanda Montenegro, "Central Station," 1998)| Japanese (Ken Watanabe, "The Last Samurai," 2003). |
| Song | What'd I Say |
| Artist | Ray Charles |
| Note | Callers only have to name the languages, not the actors/movies.) |
| Number | 16 |
| Realm | Little Bitty Squares |
| Subrealm | Our Sweet Sixteenth Question |
| Question | In college basketball, the "Sweet Sixteen" is the third round of the NCAA tournament. What is the Sweet Sixteen in Scrabble? |
| Answer | It's the 16 words that can be played if you have the Q tile, but no U. |
| Song | Without You |
| Artist | Nilsson |
| Number | 17 |
| Realm | Booty! |
| Subrealm | Stick Figure Booty! |
| Question | In the webcomic "Order of the Stick," rogue Haley Starshine loots an entire chamber, fills a bag several times larger than herself with treasure, labels it "Haley's Loot," and leaves it in plain sight. Nonetheless, her companions are so afraid of what she tells them is lurking in the bag that they decide to let her keep it without looking inside or asking any treasure for themselves. What does Haley say that the bag is full of? |
| Answer | Feminine products. |
| Song | I'm a Woman |
| Artist | Smokey Joe's Café |
| Number | 18 |
| Realm | Executive Orders |
| Subrealm | God Bless America |
| Question | What were Jed Bartlett's first words on "The West Wing"? |
| Answer | "I am the Lord your God, and you shall have no other God before me." |
| Song | Hang On to Your Ego |
| Artist | The Beach Boys |
| Number | 19 |
| Realm | Dick Cheney, Freddie Mercury, and Dumbo the Elephant |
| Subrealm | Satanic, Manic, and Aerodynamic! |
| Question | What notable distinction has been earned by Dick Cheney, Freddie Mercury, and Dumbo the elephant, among others? |
| Answer | They've had species of animals named after them (respectively, a slime mold beetle, an East African isopod, and a leiodid beetle). |
| Song | Original of the Species |
| Artist | U2 |
| Number | 20 |
| Realm | [sung] Over There! |
| Subrealm | Over... Where? |
| Question | During World War II, the Allies were unconvinced that even a full assault on the French coast would succeed against the German army. To help the chances of success, they had a plan including National Geographic, local newspapers, and silver foil. What was it? |
| Answer | They created an entire elaborate "fake army" that looked to be stationed for an attack on Calais instead of Normandy. The Germans didn't send in their full strength to defend Normandy even after the attack started, because they thought THAT was the decoy. |
| Song | Surrender |
| Artist | Cheap Trick |
| Number | 21 |
| Realm | The #1 Talk Show Host After Midnight |
| Subrealm | Of Course, He Only Had to Beat Out Jimmy Kimmel, Craig Ferguson, and Carson Daly |
| Question | Conan O'Brien's desk was renovated last year. What device was put into it, and what does it do? |
| Answer | A lever which, when pulled, plays random clips of "Walker Texas Ranger." |
| Song | Alive and Kicking |
| Artist | Simple Minds |
| Number | 22 |
| Realm | Maybe Fabio Will Be On The Cover |
| Subrealm | He's Certainly Greasy Enough |
| Question | In November, Harlequin Romances announced a partnership with an unlikely ally; they will begin producing themed romance novels featuring this partner starting in mid-2006. With whom did they team up? |
| Answer | NASCAR. |
| Song | She Drives Me Crazy |
| Artist | Fine Young Cannibals |
| Number | 23 |
| Realm | Wild Hot Kinky Puppet Sex! |
| Subrealm | You'd Be Pretty Kinky Too If You Had a Hand Stuck Up Your Rear End All the Time. |
| Question | In "Avenue Q," Kate Monster arrives at ex-boyfriend Princeton's apartment after he's had a torrid one-night stand with Lucy the Slut. When Princeton leaves the room, Lucy bares her back to Kate and asks how bad the scratch marks on her back are. What does Kate say about them? |
| Answer | "They spell out 'Help me!'" |
| Song | Backwater |
| Artist | The Meat Puppets |
| Number | 24 |
| Realm | Pushing the Envelope of Human Psychosis |
| Subrealm | Home on Derange |
| Question | The AHA accepted a new type of trauma-related disorder called PEST in 2004. What is PEST? |
| Answer | Post-Election Selection Trauma, a term for people who experienced trauma upon the re-election of President Bush. |
| Song | Oh No Not You Again |
| Artist | the Rolling Stones |
| Number | 25 |
| Realm | Violent Videogames |
| Subrealm | After All the Splatter, A Little Quiet Time |
| Question | What is the final image in the end-movie of the original Doom? |
| Answer | An impaled bunny's head |
| Song | If You Don't Want Me to Destroy You |
| Artist | Super Furry Animals |
| Number | 26 |
| Realm | American Lit |
| Subrealm | Heller's for Children |
| Question | In Catch-22, what relationship does Milo Minderbinder have with the Assistant Governor General of Malta, the caliph of Baghdad, the Imam of Damascus, the Vice-Shah of Oran, and the Sheik of Araby, among others? |
| Answer | He manages to simultaneously hold all of these posts. |
| Song | Why Don't You Get a Job |
| Artist | The Offspring |
| Number | 27 |
| Realm | It's Not Easy Being Green |
| Subrealm | Especially When All Your Potatoes Are Rotted and Your Blood Alcohol Level is 14% |
| Question | What is the correct response to the Irish greeting "Top of the morning to you"? |
| Answer | "And the rest of the day to yourself." |
| Song | Irish Drinking Song |
| Artist | Da Vinci's Notebook |
| Number | 28 |
| Realm | Heroes in the Half Shell |
| Subrealm | Turtle Power! |
| Question | The theme song to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon described the team roles of each of the four turtles. For one point, name each of these roles, quoting from the song; for two points, sing it. |
| Answer | Leonardo leads, Donatello does machines, Raphael is cool but rude, Michelangelo is a party dude. |
| Song | Unforgettable |
| Artist | Jackie Chan and Ani DiFranco |
| Number | 29 |
| Realm | Russian Paper-Pushers |
| Subrealm | The Bureaucrat Potemkin |
| Question | Grigory Potemkin was one of the most important Russian military commanders and provincial administrators during the reign of Catherine the Great, and lent his name to a famous battleship. But at Catherine's court, what was his most important administrative task? |
| Answer | He served as Catherine's unofficial pimp, getting attractive young officers to come have sex with her. |
| Song | Back in the Saddle Again |
| Artist | Aerosmith |
| Number | 30 |
| Realm | King Of The Queso |
| Subrealm | Phenom Of The Fromage |
| Question | This cheese gourmand's recommendations carry plenty of weight. His 1993 recommendation of a cheese from Yorkshire, England turned a struggling, local cheese maker into a $50 million dollar-a-year business. Who is this? |
| Answer | Wallace, of Wallace and Gromit. |
| Song | Invisible |
| Artist | Clay Aiken |
| Number | 31 |
| Realm | [British accent] Not Even Wensleydale? |
| Subrealm | Because You Can Never Have Too Much Wallace and Gromit Trivia |
| Question | Wallace and Gromit prided themselves on being able to humanely save a small town from a lapine infestation. However, on the weekend of their US box office debut, they proved unable to save themselves from an even greater danger. What happened that weekend to the various little claymation sheep, cheese, and penguins that the pair have dealt with throughout their careers? |
| Answer | All the sets and props from their first three movies were burned in a fire. Shaun the Sheep, we weep for you! |
| Song | I'll Melt with You |
| Artist | Modern English |
| Number | 32 |
| Realm | Rappers |
| Subrealm | White Rappers |
| Question | What location is mentioned on every track on the Beastie Boys' breakthrough album, "Licensed To Ill"? |
| Answer | White Castle. |
| Song | Slide It In |
| Artist | Whitesnake |
| Number | 33 |
| Realm | Vonnegut |
| Subrealm | Ask Your Doctor If It's Right For You |
| Question | In the book Cat's Cradle, the prophet Bokonon lists four things a Republic should create before it writes its Constitution. Name any two. |
| Answer | A chain of grocery stores, a chain of drug stores, a chain of gas chambers, and a national game. |
| Song | Chains |
| Artist | The Cookies |
| Number | 34 |
| Realm | Two-Way Players |
| Subrealm | He's the Head of His Class |
| Question | Who is the only man in both the Baseball and Fishing Halls of Fame? |
| Answer | Ted Williams. |
| Song | Cold As Ice |
| Artist | Foreigner |
| Number | 35 |
| Realm | Geographic Tributes |
| Subrealm | My Country 'Tis of Thee |
| Question | The most recently deceased person to have a US county named after him died in 1968. Who is this man, where is his county located, and what was its previous name? |
| Answer | Martin Luther King Jr.; King County, Washington; King County, Washington (after Vice President William Rufus King). |
| Song | I Feel the Earth Move |
| Artist | Carole King |
| Number | 36 |
| Realm | Comparative Religion |
| Subrealm | What Can Compare to a Beer Volcano? |
| Question | According to any devout follower of the FSM, what were the first things created on this planet? |
| Answer | Some trees, a mountain, and a midget. |
| Song | My Beloved Monster |
| Artist | The Eels |
| Number | 37 |
| Realm | Thin Air |
| Subrealm | Thinner Premises |
| Question | What creature has recently taken up residence on the Colletto Fava mountain in Italy, and is expected to remain there till 2025? |
| Answer | A 200-foot-long pink stuffed rabbit. Artists designed it there and hope that hikers will climb it and rest on its giant belly. |
| Song | Misty Mountain Hop |
| Artist | Led Zeppelin |
| Number | 38 |
| Realm | Fish |
| Subrealm | Wrap |
| Question | What periodical currently bills itself as "The World's Only Reliable Newspaper"? |
| Answer | The Weekly World News. |
| Song | Making It Up As We Go Along |
| Artist | Vigilantes of Love |
| Number | 39 |
| Realm | Dr. Awkward |
| Subrealm | Yo, Banana Boy! |
| Question | Aside from having a silly name for us to laugh at, what do we owe to Sotades the Obscene of Maronea? |
| Answer | He invented the palindrome. |
| Song | Back and Forth |
| Artist | Aaliyah |
| Number | 40 |
| Realm | Location, Location |
| Subrealm | Location |
| Question | On the show "Yes, Prime Minister," Dorothy Wainwright, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister, at one point explains the vital position of her office in properly advising the Prime Minister. What politically crucial room is across the hall from her office? |
| Answer | The men's loo. (Obviously, accept "men's bathroom" etc.) |
| Song | Oh Me, Oh My |
| Artist | Lulu |
| Number | 41 |
| Realm | Good Omens |
| Subrealm | He'll Get You, My Pretties |
| Question | According to the Malleus Malificarum, a good way to identify a witch is to shave her head and look for Satanic totems on her scalp. According to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a good way to identify a witch is to see whether she weighs more than a duck. But according to Sergeant Shadwell of the Witchfinder Army, the best way to identify a witch is...what? |
| Answer | Count the nipples! |
| Song | My Humps |
| Artist | The Black Eyed Peas |
| Number | 42 |
| Realm | Exotic Cuisine |
| Subrealm | Packed Tight for Freshness |
| Question | In the movie "Clue," Mrs. Peacock reveals that dinner is one of her favorite recipes. This gives away that the cook once worked for her, because the meal is something a bit exotic. What is it? |
| Answer | Monkey Brains. |
| Song | Fire Coming Out of a Monkey's Head |
| Artist | Gorillaz |
| Number | 43 |
| Realm | [whiny] You Started It! |
| Subrealm | [whinier] No, YOU Started It! |
| Question | The United States has to be the first at everything. So our government was miffed when Spain declared war on us in 1898 before we had a chance to declare war. What was Congress's response? |
| Answer | To declare war, then backdate the document. |
| Song | Yesterday Once More |
| Artist | The Carpenters |
| Number | 44 |
| Realm | Beisbol Been Veddy Veddy Good To Me |
| Subrealm | So, I Quit! |
| Question | Boston Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein resigned his post in October after his contract negotiations turned ugly. Yet the day he resigned, he managed to make it out of Fenway Park and past a throng of reporters without being bothered. How did he escape? |
| Answer | He wore a gorilla suit and just walked by everyone (he resigned on Halloween). |
| Song | I Go Ape |
| Artist | Neil Sedaka |
| Number | 45 |
| Realm | The Joyce of Sex |
| Subrealm | Bloom, Bloom, Bloom, Let's Go Back to My Room |
| Question | In Ulysses, Leopold Bloom first passes Stephen Dedalus at a Dublin art museum. What is Bloom doing there? |
| Answer | He's looking to see if goddesses have anuses. |
| Song | No Way Out |
| Artist | Stone Temple Pilots |
| Number | 46 |
| Realm | Red Tape |
| Subrealm | Bureaucrats With a Sense of Humor |
| Question | In early December, the town of Biritiba Mirim, Brazil discovered that Brazilian federal regulations made it impossible to expand its municipal cemetery, which was nearly at full capacity. What unusual step did town officials take to address the problem? And, for an extra point, please tell us what this song needs. |
| Answer | They proposed a ban on death - and, more cowbell! |
| Song | Don't Fear the Reaper |
| Artist | Blue Oyster Cult |
| Number | 47 |
| Realm | What the World Needs Now is Love, Sweet Love |
| Subrealm | You F'ing Cracker |
| Question | In "Chasing Amy," Hooper X gives an impassioned speech about racism in comics and science fiction before promoting his new, empowering comic book. What is the name of the comic? |
| Answer | "White-Hatin' Coon." |
| Song | United We Stand |
| Artist | The Brotherhood of Man |
| Number | 48 |
| Realm | Strong |
| Subrealm | Bad |
| Question | When Strong Bad first met Homestar Runner, he ended up acquiring a giant egg. What two things were in that egg? |
| Answer | A lifetime supply of fishsticks, and his very own The Cheat. |
| Song | He Is Not Dead Yet |
| Artist | Spamalot |
| Number | 49 |
| Realm | The Corruption and Degradation of British Youth |
| Subrealm | Their Minds, Not Their Teeth |
| Question | In early 2005, a minor controversy broke out in Britain over a television show usually thought to be aimed at children and adolescents. This controversy concerned an episode featuring a graphic torture scene, and a ban was instituted on DVD sales of the episode to children under 12. Who was the torturer in this episode, and who was his or her victim? |
| Answer | The torturer was Doctor Who, and the victim was a Dalek. |
| Song | Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand |
| Artist | Primitive Radio Gods |
| Number | 50 |
| Realm | Legends of the Cinema |
| Subrealm | Mostly Urban Legends |
| Question | The actor John Reynolds has become a well-known name in cinemaphile circles despite only appearing in two films and tragically dying of a drug overdose within months of completing shooting of his only starring role. What was the role that secured Reynolds's legacy, and in which other famous film was he an uncredited extra? |
| Answer | Reynolds's starring role was as Torgo in "Manos: Hands of Fate." (He was also an uncredited extra in "Plan 9 From Outer Space.") |
| Song | Science Fiction Double Feature |
| Artist | Rocky Horror Picture Show |
| Number | 51 |
| Realm | Obfuscation |
| Subrealm | How to Eschew It |
| Question | The Educational Testing Service has often come under fire for making their standardized tests intentionally confusing. An example is a GRE Biology Test question which described a common animal as an "exothermic tetrapod amniote." Name the animal. |
| Answer | A lizard. |
| Song | Cold Blooded Old Times |
| Artist | Smog |
| Number | 52 |
| Realm | Sing Along with Trivia! |
| Subrealm | What, You Worry? |
| Question | Please call in and sing the theme composed by Alfred Newman in 1933 and revised in 1954. |
| Answer | The Twentieth-Century Fox fanfare music |
| Song | Looking for a Fox |
| Artist | The Blues Brothers |
| Number | 53 |
| Realm | Things That Follow Jon Stewart |
| Subrealm | Other Than the Inevitable Critical Backlash |
| Question | Stephen Colbert, host of "The Colbert Report," has allegedly written several best-selling books. One of them was "Don't Buy This Book if You Don't Have the Balls," which was such a huge success that it inspired a sequel. What was the followup book called? |
| Answer | "Don't Buy This Book if You Don't Have the Balls -- For Kids." |
| Song | Fighting in a Sack |
| Artist | the Shins |
| Number | 54 |
| Realm | Computer Science |
| Subrealm | Great Literature |
| Question | Call in and recite any two lines of the original Waka Waka poem. |
| Answer | The Waka Waka poem, attributed to Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese of
Calvin College, is a poem written entirely with punctuation marks:
<>!*''#
^@`$$-
!*'$_
%*<>#4
&)../
|{~~SYSTEM HALTED
In English:
Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash, Caret at back-tick dollar dollar dash, Bang splat tick dollar under-score, Percent splat waka waka number four, Ampersand right-paren dot dot slash, Vertical-bar curly-bracket tilde tilde CRASH. |
| Song | 96 Tears |
| Artist | ? and the Mysterians |
| Number | 55 |
| Realm | Tennis Titans |
| Subrealm | Leaving It All On the Court |
| Question | On his way to the 1996 US Open title, Pete Sampras won an all-around gutsy match against Alex Corretja, ending in a fifth set tie-break. What was the gutsier thing Sampras did during the tie-break? |
| Answer | Vomit on the court between points |
| Song | Coming Up Roses |
| Artist | Elliot Smith |
| Number | 56 |
| Realm | Fashion Tips |
| Subrealm | That Go Unheeded |
| Question | What was the sartorial Achilles heel of Dynaguy, Metaman, Splashdown, Stratogale, and Thunderhead? |
| Answer | Capes. (All are supers that were killed in "The Incredibles" because their capes became caught in things that caused their deaths.) |
| Song | Snag It |
| Artist | King Oliver |
| Number | 57 |
| Realm | Literature for the Handicapped |
| Subrealm | No, Not Maya Angelou |
| Question | Since it's narrated by an autistic boy, the mystery novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime has several peculiar structural properties. What's odd about the layout of the chapters? |
| Answer | Instead of being numbered with the regular counting numbers, they're numbered by primes. |
| Song | Prime of Your Life |
| Artist | Neil Young |
| Number | 58 |
| Realm | Chinese Checkmate |
| Subrealm | There Are No Windows in the Great Wall |
| Question | In June of 2005, it was discovered that Microsoft's new Chinese Internet portal had banned two words from parts of its website in order to avoid offending Beijing's political censors. What were the two common nouns that Microsoft banned? |
| Answer | "Democracy" and "freedom." |
| Song | Shut Your Mouth |
| Artist | Garbage |
| Number | 59 |
| Realm | Aviation History |
| Subrealm | The Wright Stuff |
| Question | In 1903, Orville Wright piloted the first successful powered flight in history. Poor brother Wilbur had to settle for being the second. But in 1908, Wilbur got to be the man to achieve a different aviation first. What? |
| Answer | He was the pilot responsible for the world's first airplane fatality. |
| Song | Live and Let Die |
| Artist | Wings |
| Number | 60 |
| Realm | Boob Tube Trivia |
| Subrealm | Dumb Moments in TV History |
| Question | It first happened on TV, by accident, on Faye Emerson's talk show in 1950. It first happened deliberately on the miniseries "Roots" in 1977. Yet everyone got extremely upset when it happened in January of 2004. What is it? |
| Answer | A bare breast was exposed on network TV. |
| Song | Whoomp! There It Is! |
| Artist | Tag Team |
| Number | 61 |
| Realm | Comic Strips for the Angry |
| Subrealm | Although Ziggy Makes Me Taste My Own Blood |
| Question | In "The Boondocks," Russell Simmons got a reality show based on "The Apprentice." What was it called? |
| Answer | "Can a Nigga Get a Job?" |
| Song | Working For A Living |
| Artist | Huey Lewis and The News |
| Number | 62 |
| Realm | Biology |
| Subrealm | Biology You Didn't Really Want To Know |
| Question | For years, it has been a mystery to scientists how there could be so much life on the floor of the ocean when tests of ocean sediment from all over the world routinely turned up only half the amount of organic material needed to sustain an ecosystem. Recently, however, a group of researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium has discovered the missing food source, which is extremely fragile and breaks apart as soon as it is touched by most machines. What is this substance? |
| Answer | Mucus. (In shallower levels of the ocean, animals called giant larvaceans build webs of mucus to help them filter out food small enough for them to eat, and after the larvacean moves out, the web sinks down to the bottom along with all the organisms that got stuck in it.) |
| Song | Boogie Fever |
| Artist | The Sylvers |
| Number | 63 |
| Realm | Law and Order |
| Subrealm | I'm Not Telling You Nothing, Flatfoot |
| Question | What is unique about San Francisco police officer Brendan O'Smarty? |
| Answer | He's a wooden puppet. |
| Song | Be Stiff |
| Artist | Devo |
| Number | 64 |
| Realm | Musical Problems |
| Subrealm | Rock and Roll Never Sublets |
| Question | If you're a successful rock star, it might be best to stay away from the apartment at #12 Curzon Place in London. Why? |
| Answer | Mama Cass and Keith Moon both died in that apartment. (Not together, though.) |
| Song | Apothecary Dream |
| Artist | The Sound Sandwich |
| Number | 65 |
| Realm | Games People Play |
| Subrealm | And You Thought Magic: the Gathering Was Bad. |
| Question | In what card game might you find such cards as "Controlled By Ferrets," "Win a Dream Date with Chewbacca," and "[NAME OF TEAM CURRENTLY IN SECOND PLACE]"? |
| Answer | 1000 Blank White Cards. |
| Song | Untitled |
| Artist | R.E.M. |
| Number | 66 |
| Realm | Presidents Named After Cartoon Cats |
| Subrealm | What, Nobody Remembers President Felix? |
| Question | Despite all the far, far better candidates, it turned out that the most famous Williams alumnus to be assassinated was James Garfield. At his killer's trial, what unusual piece of evidence was introduced in court, and even passed around to the jurors? |
| Answer | Garfield's spine. |
| Song | I Want You Back |
| Artist | The Jackson 5 |
| Number | 67 |
| Realm | Movie Characters |
| Subrealm | Movie Characters 5% Hairier Than Robin Williams |
| Question | In Peter Jackson's King Kong, Carl Denham casts vaudeville actress Ann Darrow in his film because its star had dropped out at the last minute, and most of the other actresses in town wouldn't fit into her costumes. He does think of one who would, though. Who is she, and why can't he cast her? |
| Answer | "Fay," because she's making a movie with RKO; that is, Fay Wray, who at the time the new King Kong movie is set was filming the original King Kong with RKO. |
| Song | Silhouettes |
| Artist | The Rays |
| Number | 68 |
| Realm | Pork |
| Subrealm | The Other Seriously Disturbing White Meat |
| Question | Recently, many Australians had a bit of a problem with their pork chops. A worried caller to a Sydney radio station was the first to call Australia's attention to this phenomenon, but other people's pork chops soon followed suit. What rather worrying thing was their pork doing? |
| Answer | The pork chops were glowing in the dark. |
| Song | Radiation Vibe |
| Artist | Fountains of Wayne |
| Number | 69 |
| Realm | And Now, The Moment You've Been Waiting For |
| Subrealm | For No Reason Whatsoever |
| Question | Tui Malila, a former resident of the island of Tonga, died in 1965. What was Tui's main claim to fame? |
| Answer | It's the oldest animal ever, as recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records. Tui Malila was a tortoise presented to the Royal Family by Captain Cook in 1773 or 1777. It passed away at the age of either 188 or 192.. |
| Song | Happy Together |
| Artist | The Turtles |
| Number | 70 |
| Realm | Overdone Trivia Topics |
| Subrealm | Not Involving Tonga |
| Question | In the Moxy Fruvous song "My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors," which prominent author starts a food fight? |
| Answer | Michael Ondaatje (author of The English Patient). |
| Song | King of Spain |
| Artist | Moxy Fruvous |
| Number | 71 |
| Realm | Commonalities |
| Subrealm | Uncommon Commonalities |
| Question | What do the supporting casts of the Dark Is Rising books, The Da Vinci Code, the movie "Foul Play," and "The Princess Bride" notably have in common? |
| Answer | They all include albinos. |
| Song | A Whiter Shade of Pale |
| Artist | Procul Harem |
| Number | 72 |
| Realm | Environmental Degradation |
| Subrealm | It's Not Our Fault, Honest! |
| Question | In 1990, a set of amendments to the Clean Air Act tried to put strict caps on SO2 emissions among United States factories. But these amendments did nothing to stop the country's top offender, which since its "grand opening" in 1983 has spewed nearly 6,000 times more sulfur dioxide into the air per day than any factory in the US. Give the name of this inveterate polluter, which is responsible for its home state having the highest asthma death rate in the country. |
| Answer | Kilauea. |
| Song | Volcano |
| Artist | The Band |
| Number | 73 |
| Realm | Sex with Animals |
| Subrealm | It's Not Just a Perk for Zoo Interns Anymore |
| Question | A madam trains a bear to couple with young girls so the girls will not be attached to their patrons. A group of samurai have sex with the daughter of a dead colleague. All manner of erotic, if not necessarily amorous, activities abound, including with deer, in a recent novel from the pen of what man? |
| Answer | Lewis "Scooter" Libby |
| Song | Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear |
| Artist | Scooter and Fozzie |
| Number | 74 |
| Realm | Places to See Graham Chapman Naked |
| Subrealm | Besides My Nightly Dreams |
| Question | In Monty Python's "Life of Brian," what is the first schism among the disciples of the title character? |
| Answer | Followers of the gourd versus followers of the sandal. |
| Song | Boogie Shoes |
| Artist | KC |
| Number | 75 |
| Realm | Rob Zombie and Jimmy Carter |
| Subrealm | The Devil's Rejects and History's Worst Monster |
| Question | In King of the Hill, Bobby mistakes Jimmy Carter for this man, while Octavio claims that a Rob Zombie tattoo is of him. Who is he? |
| Answer | Jesus |
| Song | All The Things She Said |
| Artist | t.A.T.u. |
| Number | 76 |
| Realm | Things You Keep Inside Your Pants |
| Subrealm | People Who Should Stay Inside Their Pants |
| Question | It is a little-known fact that Minnesota and Colorado are at war - well, sort of. Although governors Tim Pawlenty and Bill Owens have been trading diplomatic insults over the national airwaves for years now, the conflict escalated to new levels when Pawlenty asserted that Owens had "disrespected our great state, and I don't think that can go unanswered" and called for a "showdown." Owens's retort -- "He's always been jealous that I have the second-best Republican governor's body in the country!" -- caused some in the blogosphere to call for UN intervention in the conflict. What exactly is it that Minnesota and Colorado are fighting over? |
| Answer | Their respective state quarters. Owens has derided the Minnesota quarter as "an example of what not to do with a quarter," while Pawlenty alleges that there are subliminal messages in the Colorado quarter depicting Owens in the nude. |
| Song | Jingle Jangle |
| Artist | The Archies |
| Number | 77 |
| Realm | 1788 and the Battle of Karansebes |
| Subrealm | Yeah, NOW You Want Tonga Trivia Back, Don't You, Bitch? |
| Question | At the Battle of Karansebes in 1788, an Austrian army was severely thrashed in an attempt to defend something very critical to the army. What were they defending, and who were they defending it from? |
| Answer | They were defending a barrel of peach schnapps from their own army. |
| Song | Peaches and Cream |
| Artist | Beck |
| Number | 78 |
| Realm | Financially Bankrupt Hollywood |
| Subrealm | As Opposed to the Usual Morally Bankrupt Kind |
| Question | Forbes Magazine calculated the most expensive films ever made by Hollywood, as re-calculated into 2005 dollars. (So we'll brook none of that "Batman Begins outgrossed Gone With the Wind" revisionism!) The most expensive eight are all near or above the $200 million mark. For one point, name any three of these costly, costly movies. For two points, name any five. |
| Answer | 1. Cleopatra (1963) - $286.4 million;| 2. Titanic (1997) - $247 million;| 3. Waterworld (1999) - 229 million;| 4. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) - $219 million;| 5. Spider-Man 2 (2004) - $210 million;| 6. King Kong (2005) - $207 million;| 7. Wild Wild West (1999) - $203.8 million;| 8. Speed 2 (1997) - $198.8 million. |
| Song | Low Budget |
| Artist | The Kinks |
| Number | 79 |
| Realm | Computer Hockey |
| Subrealm | Online and Offsides |
| Question | Yahoo Sports has thousands of webpages listing players' career statistics. Each of these pages is assigned a number, but we suspect it isn't a totally random process. For example, hockey page #001 belongs to Wayne Gretzky. What NHL player gets Yahoo page #666? |
| Answer | Miroslav Satan. |
| Song | Devil in Disguise |
| Artist | Elvis Presley |
| Number | 80 |
| Realm | Magazines That Have Never Been More Relevant |
| Subrealm | Rolling Stone |
| Question | Rolling Stone published an article entitled "Football Season Is Over" this past summer. It's filled with improper punctuation, fragmentary sentences, and rambling thoughts. What makes it publication-worthy? |
| Answer | It's Hunter S. Thompson's suicide note. |
| Song | Duke of Earl |
| Artist | Gene Chandler |
| Number | 81 |
| Realm | Back to Africa |
| Subrealm | And Off Comedy Central |
| Question | On Chappelle's Show, there was a sketch where representatives of various ethnicities drafted celebrities of mixed or uncertain background into their own races as full members. It was agreed by all parties that the Asians got the biggest steal of the night. Who did they select to become 100% Asian? |
| Answer | The entire Wu Tang Clan |
| Song | Turning Japanese |
| Artist | The Vapors |
| Number | 82 |
| Realm | Kids' Bedtime Reading |
| Subrealm | Night Lights, Big City |
| Question | Two classic title characters from children's literature were practically next-door neighbors! One lived on East 87th Street in Manhattan, the other on East 88th Street. Who are they? |
| Answer | Harriet the Spy - E. 87th Street, and Lyle Lyle Crocodile - E. 88th Street. |
| Song | See You Later Alligator |
| Artist | Bill Haley |
| Number | 83 |
| Realm | Harold |
| Subrealm | Kumar |
| Question | In the movie "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle," who steals the title characters' car and uses it to pick up strippers? |
| Answer | Neil Patrick Harris (of Doogie Howser fame), playing himself. |
| Song | Calling Doctor Love |
| Artist | Kiss |
| Number | 84 |
| Realm | Shock |
| Subrealm | Awe |
| Question | The Bush White House has recently gotten a lot of bad press regarding its relationship with newspapers and reporters. Which paper received a "cease and desist" notice from the White House last fall demanding that they no longer display the Presidential seal in their publication? |
| Answer | The Onion. (They were asked to stop using the Presidential seal in their parodies of Bush's weekly radio addresses.) |
| Song | Crazy |
| Artist | Seal |
| Number | 85 |
| Realm | Baseball Benchmarks |
| Subrealm | Needlemania! |
| Question | On April 12th and 13th of 2004, big-headed Barry Bonds tied, then surpassed, Willie Mays' career total of 660 home runs. What was unusual about where home runs #660 and #661 both ended up? |
| Answer | They were caught by the same person - Larry Ellison, a guy paddling a kayak in McCovey Cove. |
| Song | Splish Splash |
| Artist | Bobby Darin |
| Number | 86 |
| Realm | The Brits Against The Hindus, Round 2 |
| Subrealm | Shiva Me Timbers! |
| Question | In November, a 68-pence stamp issued by the United Kingdom caused an outcry from the Hindu community, as it showed a Hindu man and woman engaged in what questionable act? |
| Answer | Worshipping (the infant) Christ |
| Song | American Jesus |
| Artist | Bad Religion |
| Number | 87 |
| Realm | Is the Derivation Aramaic? |
| Subrealm | Could I Hear It in a Parable? |
| Question | In The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Marcy, while having a deep spiritual/spelling crisis, gets a special visit from Jesus. What are Jesus's final words to her? |
| Answer | "Just remember: I really don't care about things like this." |
| Song | We Care a Lot |
| Artist | Faith No More |
| Number | 88 |
| Realm | People |
| Subrealm | People Who Need Mystic Totems of Power |
| Question | What is Mecha-Streisand's weakest point? |
| Answer | Her nose. |
| Song | Plastic Fantastic Lover |
| Artist | Jefferson Airplane |
| Number | 89 |
| Realm | Seeing Is Believing |
| Subrealm | And Vice Versa |
| Question | Blindness has been a well-known medical condition for millennia. Yet Gabriel Anton identified a whole new class of blind people a century ago. What's notable about these people? |
| Answer | People with Anton's disease don't think they're blind; their brains generate entire fake visual perceptions for them. |
| Song | Just My Imagination |
| Artist | The Cranberries |
| Number | 90 |
| Realm | Videogames |
| Subrealm | Push Left, Up, Right, Down, A, B, Left to Use the Hidden Cannibal Move |
| Question | In Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, there's an Eastern European boxer named "Soda Popinksi." That, however, wasn't his original name. What were the programmers originally going to call him? |
| Answer | "Vodka Drunkenski." |
| Song | Absolutely |
| Artist | Nine Days |
| Number | 91 |
| Realm | Britannia Sub-Realm: What's All This Then? |
| Question | He was portrayed as a wealthy, disaffected heir who does good deeds with the aid of super-technology, a disguise, and a hidden lair 35 years before Batman comics, and he carved an S after accomplishing his aims 15 years before Zorro books. This is very different from the alleged rapist and murderer he was to earlier generations. Who is this man of many faces? |
| Answer | Spring-Heel Jack. |
| Song | More Bounce to the Ounce |
| Artist | Zapp and Roger |
| Number | 92 |
| Realm | I Don't Feel I Have to Wipe Everybody Out. Just My Enemies. |
| Subrealm | A Man in My Position Can't Afford to be Made to Look Ridiculous! |
| Question | In the novel The Godfather , what notable similarity exists in the descriptions of the deaths of Luca Brasi and Carlo Rizzi? |
| Answer | Puzo graphically describes the relaxation of the anus for both. |
| Song | A Pair of Brown Eyes |
| Artist | The Pogues |
| Number | 93 |
| Realm | Those Crafty, Crafty Jews |
| Subrealm | Time for Plan B |
| Question | A March 2001 fatwa from Saudi Arabia's highest religious authority officially banned a hidden Zionist plot that was threatening to bewitch the young, and overthrow Islam. Name this failed scheme. |
| Answer | Pokemon. |
| Song | Collecting Things |
| Artist | Yann Tierson |
| Number | 94 |
| Realm | Simpsons Road Rage |
| Subrealm | The Notorious S.U.V. |
| Question | On one episode of "The Simpsons," Marge is trying to chase a runaway Lisa and Bart in her car, but can't see around all of the SUVs in front of her. Homer points out that she doesn't need to worry about the SUVs much longer. Why? |
| Answer | "There's a gentle curve ahead!" (over which all of the SUVs plummet) |
| Song | Roll Over, Beethoven |
| Artist | Carl Perkins |
| Number | 95 |
| Realm | Love |
| Subrealm | Actually |
| Question | In the movie "Love Actually," what role does Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson's daughter get in the nativity play? |
| Answer | The First Lobster |
| Song | Go Back |
| Artist | Crabby Appleton |
| Number | 96 |
| Realm | Ride 'Em, Cowboy! |
| Subrealm | If You'll Fit... |
| Question | The USDA keeps a posse of 59 cowboys, armed with guns and whips, near the Rio Grande to look for a specific foe. What foe? |
| Answer | Ticks. (The "tick riders" spend all day hunting down ticks to prevent crop disasters.) |
| Song | Sucker MCs |
| Artist | Run-DMC |
| Number | 97 |
| Realm | Not-So-Great Literature |
| Subrealm | Well, It Might Come in Handy If You Lose Your Strunk and White... |
| Question | Mark Dunn's latest novel purports to be a rather unconventional biography of three-legged circus performer Jonathan Blashette. What exactly distinguishes this novel from, well, pretty much any book that's ever been written before? |
| Answer | The novel (Ibid: A Life) is composed entirely of footnotes. |
| Song | Looking Down |
| Artist | Audiovent |
| Number | 98 |
| Realm | 100 Years of Greatness |
| Subrealm | The Chicago Cubs |
| Question | In addition to having led the Chicago Cubs to four NL pennants and two world championships, he also has the lowest career ERA of any pitcher to have thrown more than 3000 innings. No wonder he was Mr. Burns's first choice to pitch for the nuclear plant softball team! Name him. |
| Answer | Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown |
| Song | No Matter What |
| Artist | Badfinger |
| Number | 99 |
| Realm | Look Out Below! |
| Subrealm | Incoming! |
| Question | What damage was caused by the first bomb dropped on Berlin by the Allies in World War II? |
| Answer | The Berlin zoo's only elephant was killed. |
| Song | You Dropped a Bomb On Me |
| Artist | The Gap Band |
| Number | 100 |
| Realm | What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas |
| Subrealm | Especially When It's 65 Tons |
| Question | For Las Vegas' centennial on May 15th, 2005, an army of 500 volunteers worked for 14 hours to construct the world's largest birthday cake, which measured 102 feet by 52 feet and weighed 130,000 pounds. However, as they quickly discovered, there's really not very much you can do with a 130,000 pound birthday cake. How did this noble pastry meet its end? |
| Answer | It was fed to the swine at a nearby farm. They finished it in about a week. |
| Song | Babe |
| Artist | Styx |
| Number | 101 |
| Realm | Twitchy, Greasy, Bug-Eyed Sleazebags in Film |
| Subrealm | Shockingly Enough, Steve Buscemi |
| Question | In the opening scene of "Reservoir Dogs," what does Mr. Pink claim not to believe in? |
| Answer | Tipping waitresses. |
| Song | Serve the Servants |
| Artist | Nirvana |
| Number | 102 |
| Realm | Science on Trial |
| Subrealm | But Not What You Think |
| Question | A new book argues that Galileo's prosecution for Copernican theories was actually a way for Galileo to avoid prosecution for another scientific belief, one that would have been punished much more harshly. What was it, and why was the Catholic Church so angry about it? |
| Answer | Galileo also believed in the atomic theory, which was declared heresy by the church because it invalidated the transformation of bread and wine into the blood and body of Christ. |
| Song | Snack Attack |
| Artist | Godley and Creme |
| Number | 103 |
| Realm | Interdimensional Trade |
| Subrealm | Not This NAFTA |
| Question | What does Scotty give to the twentieth century engineer in Star Trek IV in exchange for help transporting the whale? |
| Answer | Information on how to make transparent aluminum |
| Song | I'm Looking Through You |
| Artist | The Beatles |
| Number | 104 |
| Realm | The Trojan Wars |
| Subrealm | No, the Wood We're Talking About Isn't Part of a Horse. |
| Question | Recently, Sonett Ehlers of South Africa invented a new type of prophylactic that she feels will revolutionize the sex lives of people in her nation. What is this invention called, and why won't South African men be lining up outside their local pharmacies to try it? |
| Answer | The device is called the Rapex condom. It is a female condom that, if intercourse is attempted, will latch onto the attacker via a hook and barb system and must be surgically removed. |
| Song | Stuck in the Middle With You |
| Artist | Stealer's Wheel |
| Number | 105 |
| Realm | Middle School Companions |
| Subrealm | In the Era Before Classmates.com |
| Question | At age 14, Ludwig Wittgenstein left home to study math and science at the Realschule in Linz, Austria-Hungary. But the philosopher's secondary school was also that of an equally influential personage of the twentieth century. Who was Wittgenstein's agemate, albeit one who was two years behind him? |
| Answer | Adolf Hitler |
| Song | The Next Big Thing |
| Artist | The Dictators |