Requiem for the Blue Civic

Number	1
Realm	Beginnings and endings
Subrealm	The circle of Life
Question	The day after the last Williams Trivia contest was a sad one in our house, because our beloved 1990 Honda was donated to charity. If we'd had a church choir handy, what song would we have sung?
Answer	Requiem for the Blue Civic
Song	Roadhouse Blues
Artist	The Doors
Hint	T1. Traditionally, the answer to the first question is the name of the team running the contest. A1. Suppose a famous French building became a senior citizen. S1. The title is a word in the answer to the trivia.
Note	The song was originally supposed to be "Blue" by Eiffel 65, but a change was made at the last minute. Roadhouse Blues is a good choice too, except that it was scheduled to be played later. Oh well.
Number	2
Realm	It's like a Warner Brothers cartoon.
Subrealm	With Zombies
Question	In 1961 Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, and Daffy Duck, fell into a coma. What were the first words he said coming out of the coma?
Answer	"What's up Doc?"
Song	Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect
Artist	The Decemberists
Hint	A1. The Band had a feud with Stephen Colbert. A2. The band is from Portland, OR. A3. The band's name refers to a revolt in Russia in 1825. S1. The song title is about a person who wants to design buildings. T1. It was something Mel had said many times before.
Number	3
Realm	Poor Choices
Subrealm	In retrospect
Question	Architect Michael Graves designed a teapot for a new home goods line at JC Penney. When it appeared in profile in advertisements, it caused some controversy and was briefly pulled from shelves. What was the problem with the teapot's design?
Answer	When viewed from the right angle, it looks a little like Hitler. No shit, it really does. http://www.cnbc.com/id/100798938
Song	Bubble Tea
Artist	Ninjas
Hint	T1. The handle looks like wavy hair and a mustache. T2. Why would that be a problem? S1. What do you drink with big straws? A1. Not pirates, but...
Number	4
Realm	Relics
Subrealm	And their misuse
Question	What is said to be special of Mary Queen of Scotts' Croquet Bat?
Answer	It is made of petrified narwhal
Song	Looking Glass
Artist	Hypnogaja
Hint	S1. The song has the same name as a band who had a song named "Brandy". T1. It was ivory, but not from an elephant. T2. What else has tusks? A1. Part of the band's name is a Sanskrit name for elephant. A2. So an elephant which mesmerizes people would be a ...
Number	5
Realm	Movie Records.
Subrealm	Very specific Movie Records.
Question	Christopher Reeve first gained the record for playing the same comic book character in multiple major American motion pictures, by playing Superman four times. Who currently holds that record?
Answer	Hugh Jackman
Song	Iron Man
Artist	Black Sabbath
Hint	T1. Keep Guessing A1. Robert Downey Jr. wore a T-Shirt from this band in The Avengers.
Number	6
Realm	From the past
Subrealm	The things we bring with us
Question	How has the Hebrew letter Shin left its mark on 20th century sci-fi pop culture?
Answer	As a boy, Leonard Nimoy witnessed a ceremony in his synagogue in which men made the shape of shin with their hands. Years later, when he needed to greet another Vulcan, he made it into the official Vulcan salute.
Song	The USS Make Shit Up
Artist	Voltaire
Hint	T1. Shin is shaped kind of like a V. T2. In cermonies, sometimes people make the shape with their fingers. A. The artist has the same name as a famous French author. S1. The song title is the name of a ship. S2. It has an abbreviation followed by a phrase meaning "to lie".
Number	7
Realm	The Best
Subrealm	Of the worst
Question	In 1974 Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan installed a sculpture of a working pendulum with a 42-inch steel ball on the end of a cable. It was moved outside in 1995. Why was it abruptly removed and put in storage in September 2013?
Answer	Students had begun riding it naked, and filming their own versions of Miley Cyrus' Wrecking Ball video to be posted online.
Song	Wrecking Ball
Artist	King Wilkie
Hint	S1. The song title is closely related to the question. A1. The band name is the same as the name of a famous Victorian novelist, if he were monarch. A2. We don't need the novelist's last name, but he shares it with a drink made from gin, lemon juice, sugar, and seltzer. T1. The ball was big enough to ride on.
Number	8
Realm	Sports everyone can play.
Subrealm	If they are insanely rich and live on the Atlantic Ocean.
Question	The America's Cup, like Williams Trivia, is an elite competition for the best in the world. Also like Williams Trivia, the rule in the America's Cup is that the winner gets to host the next challenge. So tell us, why were two of the last three America's cup yacht challenges not held in the nation of the defending champions?
Answer	Because the champions were from Switzerland, which is a landlocked country. They auctioned off the location of the challenges, which were held in Valencia, Spain.
Song	If I had a Boat
Artist	Lyle Lovett
Hint	T1. The winners had a lot of cheese, watches, chocolate, and banks. A1. The artist used to be married to Julia Roberts.
Number	9
Realm	Food
Subrealm	You are what you eat
Question	What is the first ingredient listed on packages of Pepperidge Farm goldfish?
Answer	Smiles.
Song	Build me up Buttercup
Artist	The Foundations
Hint	T1. This ingredient is actually on the goldfish, not in them. A1. The band name is like the first layer of makeup.
Number	10
Realm	Alcohol
Subrealm	Disturbing Drinks
Question	2013 was an interesting year for news. One particular Canadian man paid 500 dollars for an unusual alcoholic shot. The 500 dollars was not the cost of the shot however, but the penalty for swallowing the garnish. What was this unusual garnish, and what was the name of the shot?
Answer	A human toe. (At the Sour Toe cocktail Club in Dawson City, Yukon, you can pay extra to have a mummified human toe dipped in your drink.)
Song	Jack Johnson
Artist	Bubble Toes
Hint	T1. You might dip your own in the water before swimming. S1. The song would be appropriate if the drink were champagne. A1. The artist has the same name as the first African American heavyweight champion of the world.
Number	11
Realm	Video games
Subrealm	The Endurance Of
Question	Penn and Teller once created a video game that has been called the most boring game ever written. Nevertheless, its popularity has grown tremendously. What is the game, what are the rules, and what is the record high score?
Answer	Desert Bus. The objective is to drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas in real time. Nothing interesting happens during this time, and It requires 8 hours continuous play to score 1 point. The record high score without cheating is 14.
Song	Bus Stop Bitties
Artist	RJD2
Hint	T1. There are many games where you do the same operation, but this is closer to real life. T2. What's the most boring job you can think of? T3. What's the dullest place to do it? A1. Thae artist's name is one character different from the name of a droid. S1. The Song Title refers to old women waiting for public transportation.
Number	12
Realm	Going Places
Subrealm	Church
Question	Facing the downturn of attendence in recent years, the First Christian Church of Portland Oregon has begun offering what to their patrons, much as churches did in the middle ages?
Answer	Beer.
Song	Church on Sunday
Artist	Green Day
Hint	T1. It's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning. A1. The band took their name because of their fondness for marijuana. S1. The song title is related to the question.
Number	13
Realm	Television
Subrealm	Colbert
Question	Who is the only one of Stephen Colbert's guests to arrive via a window above his fireplace?
Answer	Cookie Monster
Song	Fortune Cookie
Artist	Pizzicato Five
Hint	T1. The guest tried to eat Colbert's Peabody award, which is shaped like a round medallion. T2. He's blue. A1. What do you call playing the violin with your fingers instead of a bow? S1. How do you end a meal at a Chinese restaurant.
Number	14
Realm	Impossible Actions
Subrealm	That are still illegal
Question	In 2009, on the 30th anniverary of a certain event, a radio station in California paid a 400 dollar fine to the government of Esperance in Western Australia, on behalf of the United States. What was the fine for?
Answer	The fine was for littering, issued after parts of the first US space station Skylab fell to earth in Australia.
Song	The Land Down Under
Artist	Men At Work
Hint	T1. Something fell. T2. It was big and American. A1. You might see the band's name on a sign at a construction site.
Number	15
Realm	Unintention Confusion
Subrealm	Caused intentionally
Question	What movie features the following song lyrics, set as a beautiful love song: "When I clean my room / I can't find anything / Where are you going in such a hurry/ To the soccer game"
Answer	The 40-Year-Old Virgin. This is the English translation of the "Guatemalan love song" Jane Lynch sings to Steve Carell. The actress says the lyrics were actually a practice dialogue that she remembered from a high school Spanish class.
Song	Heat of the Moment
Artist	Asia
Hint	T1. The actress who sang these words is best known for her role on a show where almost everyone except her sings. A2. The band is a continent.
Number	16
Realm	Television
Subrealm	Bones
Question	Temperence Brennan, the heroine of the TV show Bones, is a novelist as well as a forensic anthropologist. What is the name of the heroine of her books, and why is that name significant?
Answer	Kathy Reichs. Kathy Reichs is a real person (in our world) who is a forensic anthropologist who writes novels with a heroine named Temperence Brennan. They were the inspiration for the Bones TV show.
Song	Fake it
Artist	Seether
Hint	T1. The TV show was based on a book. A1. If you were a person who was angry all the time but never let it out, you would be a... S1. Until you make it, you might...
Number	17
Realm	Money
Subrealm	And how to lose it
Question	Many people get arrested in malls on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. But one such man in Minnesota this past November didn't stab anyone for an X-Box or trample anyone to get into Wal-Mart. What did he do during a musical performance of "Let it Snow" to land in jail?
Answer	Serge Vorobyov threw his last 1000 dollars, in one dollar bills, off of a balcony in the Mall of America. He was arrested for disorderly conduct.
Song	If I Had a Million Dollars
Artist	Barenaked Ladies
Hint	T1. What he did would ostensibly make people happy, especially while they were shopping. A1. You might see the band name on a marquee in a seedy part of town.
Number	18
Realm	One Upmanship
Subrealm	And how to win
Question	Williams College of course has an extremely active (some would say "relentless") alumni society, which holds events and raises money. It has chapters all over the United States and around the world, including outposts in Beijing, Japan, Naples, and even Kansas City. But what university has an official alumni chapter farthest from home, and how did the chapter come to be?
Answer	The University of Michigan alumni society has an official chapter on the Moon. It was created by the astronauts of Apollo 15, all Michigan alumni, who read a charter aloud while on the lunar surface and left behind a plaque.
Song	to the moon and back
Artist	Savage Garden
Hint	T1. The chapter has only 3 members. S1. The song is close to something Jackie Gleason used to say to his wife on The Honeymooners
Number	19
Realm	Television
Subrealm	It was a thing.
Question	One of the most famous scenes in the 1990 series Twin Peaks was the first time Agent Cooper is visited in his dreams by spirits that inhabit the town, including a midget in a red room and his cousin who looks like Laura Palmer. They speak English, but their voices are so strange that they needed to be subtitled. How did director David Lynch make the voices sound that way?
Answer	He had the actors read their lines phoenetically backwards, and then reversed the recording so that the sounds come out in the right order. (But they sound really strange.)
Song	She's Actual Size
Artist	They Might Be Giants
Hint	T1. It's like looking in a mirror. T2. It really was intelligible English, it just sounded very strange. A1. If "Our Gang" grew up and moved to London, the band name is what we would call their apartments.
Number	20
Realm	Discovery
Subrealm	Industry Shortcuts
Question	The 2010 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded for the discovery of graphene, a material made of carbon just one atom thick, that has incredible conductive and strength properties. How did the physicists who discovered it manage to make it so thin?
Answer	They were using scotch tape to clean their surfaces, and found that the tape contained a thinner layer than any they had made before.
Song	Scotch tape
Artist	Rustan and Indi Leino
Hint	T1. The answer to the trivia and the song title are the same. T2. You've probably used it to wrap packages. A1. If Kanga's son started an Islamic state, what would it be called? A2. What device was used to type in newspaper copy before computers?
Number	21
Realm	Geography
Subrealm	U.S. States
Question	Where is the only border between US states made from an arc of a circle, and what are its center and radius?
Answer	The border between Delaware and Pennsylvania. It is a circle of radius 12 miles centered at New Castle, Delaware.
Song	Strange Wound
Artist	A Perfect Circle
Hint	T1. Something George Washington did in a boat. A1. The artist is related to the trivia. S1. If you got stabbed in an unusual place, what would that be?
Number	22
Realm	Sports
Subrealm	Baseball
Question	In 1999 Homer Bush of the Toronto Blue Jays set an all-time single-season major league record, eclipsing one previously set in 1906. What was it?
Answer	Most homers by a player named Homer. (Previous record holder was Homer Smoot, who hit 4 homers in 1903 and 1906. Homer Bush hit 5 in 1999.)
Song	It's Raining Men
Artist	The Weathergirls
Hint	T1. The season was quite an Oddyssey. S1. This is Homer Simpson's favorite song. A1. THe band is named after a group of people you can watch on cable TV every hour of every day.
Number	23
Realm	Popes
Subrealm	The Best Pope
Question	It's been speculated by some recently that Pope Francis has been sneaking out of the Vatican at night to do what?
Answer	Give money to the poor.
Song	Give It Away
Artist	Red Hot Chili Peppers
Hint	T1. Something rich people are always encouraged to do. S1. The title of the song is related to the trivia. A1. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.
Number	24
Realm	Geography
Subrealm	Vanity
Question	General Wesley Clark, Senator Russ Feingold, News Anchor Rachel Maddow, Ambassador Susan Rice, and President Bill Clinton are all recipients of a scholarship named after what English businessman who was a founder of the diamond company De Beers? And what two African nations were created in the late twentieth century from the country named after that businessman?
Answer	Cecil Rhodes, Zimbabwe and Zambia
Song	In a Big Country
Artist	Big Country
Hint	T1. All of them lead to Rome. A1. The USA and Russia, for example. S1. This is the band's signature song.
Number	25
Realm	Advertising
Subrealm	Jingles
Question	This is a THREE-POINT-PLAY. Tom McFaul is a classically trained musician who studied music and musicology at the University of Illinois. Later he recorded with Bob Dylan and worked with a number of contemporary composers. In 2001 he completed a Mass in C Minor for 5 soloists. In between, he became a legend in the advertising world by writing some of the best known jingles in the world, including one that received the highest rating in the history of the standard Burke test of commercial recall. For one point, tell us the product that goes with that jingle. FOR A SECOND POINT: your chat host will shortly be typing a phone number into the chat room. Call us on that number and sing the jingle.
Answer	The Meow Mix Theme: Meow meow meow meow, meow meow meow meow, meow meow meow meow, meow meow meow meow.
Song	Pay Me my Money Down
Artist	Bruce Springsteen
Hint	T1. The product's users are not human. No hints on the music! It is very gettable.
Number	26
Realm	Space Traffic
Subrealm	Honk if Pluto's still a planet
Question	Pluto, as we all know, was demoted from planethood in 2006. The discovery of what larger body the year before spelled the beginning of the end for Pluto, and what did the astronomers who found it originally name it?
Answer	Eris was discovered in January 2005, and originally named Xena.
Song	Witherspoon
Artist	Jupiter for Sarah
Hint	T1. Planets need to be named for mythological figures. T2. The final name is the goddess who caused the Trojan War. T3. The original name was "faux" mythology. A1. The artist wrote the music for Toy Story.
Number	27
Realm	Television
Subrealm	Psych
Question	Shawn's sidekick Gus on Psych is a smooth talker, but not quite as smooth as he thinks he is. When he meets an attractive woman, what's his favorite pickup line?
Answer	"Did you hear about Pluto? That's messed up, right?"
Song	Twisted
Artist	Joni Mitchell
Hint	T1. Think about the last question. A1. The artist wrote a song about Woodstock. S1. The song title sounds like a movie with Helen Hunt.
Note	Played from vinyl
Number	28
Realm	Holy Places
Subrealm	Everyone deserves to be loved
Question	What is the Karni Mata temple in Rajastan most famous for?
Answer	The thousands of rats that live there in harmony with people.
Song	Nobody's Business But My Own
Artist	Taj Mahal
Note	Played from vinyl
Number	29
Realm	Television
Subrealm	Saturday Night Live
Question	Who are the only father-daughter pair to both be cast members on Saturday Night Live?
Answer	Chris Elliott and Abby Elliott. Chris's father, Bob Elliott of the comedy team Bob and Ray also appeared on an SNL show in the 70s, making three generations of Elliotts.
Song	King Tut
Artist	Steve Martin
Hint	T1. The father of the pair user to appear on David Letterman frequently. T2. Later he was in the movie Groundhog Day. A1 The artist was the most frequent SNL host, until passed by Alec Baldwin.
Note	Played from vinyl
Number	30
Realm	All questions from now on will be about Cecil Rhodes
Subrealm	He's just that good
Question	Cecil Rhodes left a huge chunk of money in his will to fund the Rhodes scolarships. But an earlier version of his will designated that money for another purpose. What was it?
Answer	A secret society for the purpose of reuniting all former British colonies, including the United States, under British rule.
Song	Refugee
Artist	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Hint	T1. He was very British. T2. He was still upset about the Boston Tea Party. No hints on the music!
Note	Played from vinyl
Number	31
Realm	Television
Subrealm	Mystery Science Theater 3000
Question	Mystery Science Theater 3000 was a TV show about a man forced to watch cheesy movies while trapped in a satellite with several robots of his own making. The robots, who often act like children, are Gypsy (a girl), Crow and Tom Servo (who are boys), and Cambot, who never speaks because he's the camera. When asked to describe his relationship with the pseudo-children, series creator Joel Hodgson describes the bots as represeting the id, and himself representing the superego. What Christmas movie did Joel and the bots watch in December 1991, and what did Gypsy and Crow tell Joel they wanted for Christmas?
Answer	They watched "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians". Gypsy wanted a pony, and Crow wanted "to decide who lives and who dies".
Song	This is Halloween
Artist	The Nightmare Before Christmas / Danny Elfman
Hint	T1. It's a classic bad Christmas movie. T2. It was Pia Zadora's first role. S1. The song is from a movie about Christmas and another holiday.
Note	Played from vinyl
Number	32
Realm	Williamsiana
Subrealm	Old friends
Question	When BOMO ran the Trivia contest in December of 1976, they sent a letter to all Williams freshmen inviting them to play. You can find the letter on the Trivia archive site. One line describing the contest was this: "It's as much an institution as Yo Yo, and it commands almost as much reverence." Obviously, this was a reference they expected all Williams students to understand. What did it mean?
Answer	Yo Yo was a dog who used to live on campus. He could often be found lounging on one of the benches in the Baxter Hall Snack Bar, and after he died, his picture was hung on the wall there. You will find it in the Lee Snack Bar in Paresky today. The caption reads, "Faithful canine friend to generations of Williams students."
Song	Snoopy vs. the Red Baron
Artist	The Royal Guardsmen
Hint	T1. He's still there, in the snack bar in Paresky. A1. The band is named after British people with fuzzy hats.
Note	Was supposed to be played from Vinyl, but we forgot to bring a 45 adapter ring. So we played a recording of the 45 we had made earlier.
Number	33
Realm	Video Games
Subrealm	Memetic Knowledge
Question	This is a THREE-POINT-PLAY: What is the code that gives you thirty lives in Ninendo's Contra, and for a bonus point, what is the connection to this song?
Answer	Up up down down left right left right b a start
Song	The Invader Zim Theme
Artist	(none needed)
Note	Played from vinyl
Number	34
Realm	Lists
Subrealm	Of People
Question	Who are The Mayor, Adam, Glory, Warren, and The First?
Answer	The main villains from seaons 3 thru 7 respectively of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Song	Friend of the Devil
Artist	Grateful Dead
Hint	T1. None of them were vampires. A1. The band is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. A2. They were one of the most influential bands of the 60s.
Note	Played from vinyl
Number	35
Realm	Movies
Subrealm	Home Alone
Question	What does Kevin give the Pigeon Lady in Home Alone 2 to thank her for her help, and where did he get it?
Answer	A turtle-dove shaped Christmas ornament, which he got from Mr. Duncan the toy store owner. (You can buy them on E-Bay!)
Song	Tom's Diner
Artist	Suzanne Vega
Hint	T1. Something you would typically have two of around Christmas A1. Artist shares her name with a cheap Chevy from the 70s and a nearby star
Note	Played from vinyl
Number	36
Realm	Movies
Subrealm	The Lion King
Question	What are the names of Simba's 3 best friends and what types of animals are they?
Answer	Timon is a Meer Cat, Pumbaa is a warthog, and Nala is a lioness
Song	Gumboots
Artist	Paul Simon
Hint	A1. The song was on a famous album recorded in South Africa. S1. The title is kind of like the nickname for North Carolinians. S2. If the Kookaburra wore shoes, they would be...
Note	Played from vinyl
Number	37
Realm	Literature
Subrealm	(You may disagree)
Question	What is the name of Edward and Bella's daughter in the Twilight series, and why was she named that?
Answer	Renesmee, which is a combination of her grandmothers' names, Renee and Esme.
Song	Baba O'Riley
Artist	The Who
Hint	T1. Call up your favorite Twilight fan NOW! S1. The song title is not in the lyrics. S2. It's the names of 2 people, one of the Irish.
Note	Played from vinyl
Number	38
Realm	Literature
Subrealm	Hunger Games
Question	Who foreshadows the arena of the 75th Quarter Quell to Katniss and what does he/she use to do so?
Answer	Plutarch Heavensbee, the new Head Gamemaker. He shows her his watch, which has a mockingjay on it.
Song	Psycho Killer
Artist	Talking Heads
Hint	T1. The help was unexpected. T2. Call your favorite Hunger Games fan NOW! A1. The artists were from RHode Island School of Design, before they mage it big at CBGB's in New York.
Note	Played from vinyl
Number	39
Realm	Movies
Subrealm	Titanic
Question	Titanic was awful. Let's face it, but we've gotta give James Cameron some credit on the re-release. Before the recent 3D re-release of the film Titanic, Neil Degrasse Tyson had one piece of advice for Mr. Cameron, to which Mr. Cameron obliged. What was it?
Answer	James Cameron replaced the starscape that was used for the film with the proper one for the time and place of the sinking.
Song	I Feel the Earth Move
Artist	Carole King
Hint	A1. The artist was one of the most influential songwriters of the 60s. A2. Neil Sedaka wrote a song about her, with her name in the title. T1. Cameron got lots of details right in the movie, but he forgot this one, which is completely reconstructable.
Note	Played from vinyl
Number	40
Realm	Constructive Critisism
Subrealm	Is always ignored
Question	When astronomer Neil DeGrasse Tyson appeared on The Daily Show, what one criticism did he have for John Stewart?
Answer	The globe shown in the show's intro is spinning in the wrong direction.
Song	You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
Artist	Dead or Alive
Hint	T1. What do we see at the beginning of every episode of the Daily Show? A1. The band's name might have appeared on a wanted poster in the Old West.
Number	41
Realm	Industrial Giants
Subrealm	Rubber
Question	What corporation is the world's largest producer of tires?
Answer	Lego
Song	Tire Swing
Artist	Kimya Dawson
Hint	T1. They make the most tires, but they don't use the most rubber. A1. The artist shares her name with a teanage soap opera of the 2000's. A2. Her first name is the name of a cartoon character whose sidekick is named Ron.
Number	42
Realm	Trick Questions
Subrealm	We Will Rock You
Question	What famous American rock supergroup has four members, none of whom sing?
Answer	Mount Rushmore
Song	Misty Mountains
Artist	"Richard Armitage" or "The Hobbit"
Hint	T1. Like we said, it's a trick question. S1 The song is from a movie whose sequel came out recently. S2. The title is the name of a location in the movie.
Number	43
Realm	Sports
Subrealm	Hockey
Question	What do Detroit Red Wings fans often throw on the ice, and why?
Answer	Octopi, because a team used to need to win 8 games to win the Stanley Cup.
Song	Run, Run Away
Artist	Slade
Hint	T1. They probably don't shout "release the kraken" when they throw them. A1. The band used to misspell all their song titles, like "Cum on feel the noiz".
Number	44
Realm	Disease
Subrealm	Inter-species contact
Question	Europeans brought many diseases with them to the New World. Most were transmitted to Native American humans, but one was transmitted from humans to a different species in Texas, which is now the primary repository of the disease. What disease, and what species?
Answer	Leprosy, to armadillos
Song	Party At The Leper Colony
Artist	Weird Al Yankovic
Hint	T1. The song is a clue to the trivia. T2. The animal is found all over Texas and Florida.
Number	45
Realm	Mammals
Subrealm	Who get leprosy
Question	The armadillo is unique among mammals in its reproductive process. In what way?
Answer	It gives birth to four identical offspring from each egg
Song	I Can't Help Myself
Artist	The Four Tops
Hint	T1. The name of the artist figures prominently in the answer to the trivia. T2. How do mammals NOT usually reproduce? A1. The lead singer of the band also did the voice of the alien plant in Little Shop of Horrors.
Number	46
Realm	Government secrets
Subrealm	Go ahead, Google this one. We dare you.
Question	In Dr. Strangelove, the code required to launch nuclear missiles was "OPE". But the actual code on all actual safes that held actual Minuteman nuclear warheads from 1962 to 1977 was numeric. What was the code?
Answer	00000000. This was called the Permissive Action Link code.
Song	It's the End of the World as We Know It
Artist	REM
Hint	T1. It was kind of a null code.
Number	47
Realm	Music
Subrealm	Songwriting
Question	Who were the first mother and son who each wrote a Billboard number one hit single, and what were the two songs?
Answer	Mae Axton wrote Heartbreak Hotel, performed by Elvis, and Hoyt Axton wrote Joy to the World, performed by Three Dog Night.
Song	Joy To The World
Artist	Three Dog Night
Hint	T1. This is one of the number 1 songs. T2. The mother wrote an even more famous one, for a very prolific singer.
Number	48
Realm	Names
Subrealm	First Ladies
Question	Who are the only two United States first ladies who did not change their last names when they married?
Answer	Hillary Rodham and Eleanor Roosevelt. Hillary changed her name some years after her marriage to Bill Clinton, and Eleanor didn't need to change her name, because it was already Roosevelt. She married her cousin.
Song	Kissin' Cousins
Artist	Elvis
Hint	No hints on the trivia! Let 'em guess. S1. Why did one of the first ladies not need to change her name?
Number	49
Realm	Movies
Subrealm	Vampire Movies
Question	What film, of German origin, first introduced the concept of a vampire being susceptible to daylight?
Answer	Nosferatu
Song	Burn My Shadow
Artist	Unkle featuring Ian Astbury
Hint	T1. It's a famous movie.
Number	50
Realm	Going Fast
Subrealm	On Saturday Morning Cartoons
Question	The actor, Jaleel White, is known best for his playfully obnoxious roll as Steve Urkel. He is, however, also responsible for voicing what speed-demon title character in a popular Sega tv adaptation.
Answer	Sonic the Hedgehog
Song	Sonic the Hedgehog - Remix
Artist	(none needed)
Hint	T1. HE BLUE. S1. The song is related to the trivia.
Number	51
Realm	Geography
Subrealm	Surrounded!
Question	There are several places in the United States where if you go due East, due South, due West, or due North until you enter another state, that other state is the same in all 4 directions. Most such places are the result of a boundary river which makes a horseshoe bend. We want you to tell us at least two places that are "surrounded" by a different state, and NOT because of a bend in a river.
Answer	Rock Island, Wisconsin, off the end of the Door Peninsula in Lake Michigan. All four directions lead to Michigan. Southwestern Connecticut - all four directions lead to New York.
Song	A Chat with your Mother
Artist	Lou and Peter Berryman
Hint	T1. Get out your maps and look! T2. One is in the Northeast, and one is in the Midwest. A1. If you gathered small fruit for a living, what would they call you? S1. The title of the song is the kind of conversation that the singer is unhappy about.
Number	52
Realm	Music
Subrealm	The Wall
Question	What is the name of the disturbed semi-autobiographical rock star created by Roger Waters in the double album rock opera The Wall?
Answer	Pink
Song	Gangham Style
Artist	PSY
Hint	T1. Who was the barber on the Andy Griffith Show? It's not that.
Number	53
Realm	Animal Control
Subrealm	Fish
Question	Kolgrafafjorour, West Iceland, needed to scare a number of herring out of their fjord. Scientists attempted to and failed, using what method?
Answer	Playing The Rolling Stones into the Fjord.
Song	Cover of the Rolling Stone
Artist	Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
Hint	T1. The fish probably enjoyed the show. A1. If Peter Pan's nemesis had gotten an advanced degree, what would you call him?
Number	54
Realm	Disney buys a science fiction franchise.
Subrealm	It is not Star Wars.
Question	What is the name of the human-animal hybrid, created in the 1970's, who will be starring, this summer, in Disney's latest Space Opera, and what was his first mission in the original comic book?
Answer	Rocket Raccoon, whose first mission was to find a Gideon Bible.
Song	Rocky Raccoon
Artist	The Beatles
Hint	T1. The song and question are related. T2. What did Rocky Raccoon find in his hotel room?
Number	55
Realm	Movies
Subrealm	Arithmetic
Question	In David Mamet's movie State and Main, a movie director, played by William H. Macy, wants to get a gift for an actor played by Alec Baldwin. "What does he like?", the director asks his assistant. "He likes 14-year-old girls", comes the response. Thinking that inappropriate, what does the director suggest they get instead?
Answer	Half a 28-year old girl.
Song	Hold on Tight
Artist	ELO
Hint	T1. It's an arithmetic problem. A1. This band's lead singer was one of the Travelling Wilburys.
Number	56
Realm	Williamsiana
Subrealm	Legacies
Question	In 1865 the future mother of a Famous British Person bestowed an enormous gift on Williams College. It's no exaggeration to say that nearly every Williams student since then has been influenced by that gift. Who was she, and what was the gift?
Answer	She was Jennie Jerome, who later became Lady Randolph Churchill, the mother of Winston Churchill. Upon hearing that the Williams baseball team was about to play Harvard but did not have an official color, Jennie and her cousin purchased some purple ribbon to decorate the players. Williams won the game, and purple has been the college color ever since.
Song	London Calling
Artist	The Clash
Hint	T1. She donated something that nearly every college has now, but Williams didn't. T2. Some people think her son saved England from being conquered. A1. The band was one of the most important punk groups of the 70s and 80s.
Number	57
Realm	Programming languages
Subrealm	Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Question	What property do the 4 main commands of the SQL database language share with the original name of the language?
Answer	They all have six letters. SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE are the commands, and the original name of the language was SEQUEL.
Song	Fresh Prince
Artist	Jimmy Fallon
Hint	T1. The last name of the artist also has this property. T2. It makes statements line up on the page. A1. It's not Neil Young!
Number	58
Realm	Beer
Subrealm	And Pretzels
Question	University of Michigan professor Donald Glaser spent many evenings in a bar in downtown Ann Arbor call the Pretzel Bell. The Pretzel Bell is gone but for a building that bears its name, but it will live on in history because of an idea Prof. Glaser had while staring at his beer there. What was the idea?
Answer	Prof. Glaser invented the Bubble Chamber, which for many years was the best way for physicists to see elementary particle interactions. The invention won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1960.
Song	The Pretzel Store
Artist	The Laurie Berkner Band
Hint	T1. What does beer have a lot of? T2. What do you call classical music played by 3 people in a small room? S1. The title of the song is related to the trivia. A1. The artist's name sounds like the county where Williamstown is.
Number	59
Realm	Television
Subrealm	Saturday Night Live
Question	On May 8, 2010, Betty White became the oldest person to host Saturday Night Live, at 88 and a half years old. She had last been on live TV in 1955, and her choice as host was the result of a massive petition drive on Facebook. In her monologue she thanked Facebook, and explained that she didn't know what Facebook was before the campaign. Now that she understands it, though, she thinks... what?
Answer	"What a huge waste of time!"
Song	Too Much Time on My Hands
Artist	Styx
Hint	T1. If you had to come up with one phrase to describe Facebook, what would it be? A1. The band is named for a fictional river.
Number	60
Realm	Things one does on the weekend...
Subrealm	With their junk.
Question	This high jump technique used by Dick Fosbury to take the Gold in High Jump at the 1968 Olympics is now considered the standard for the high jump.
Answer	Fosbury Flop
Song	Jump in the Line
Artist	Harry Belefonte
Hint	No hints needed here.
Number	61
Realm	hands only
Subrealm	everyone's got rhythm
Question	What song does the red cross suggest you use to establish a proper rhythm for performing hands only CPR?
Answer	The classic Disco song Stayin' Alive
Song	I Will Survive
Artist	Gloria Gaynor
Hint	T1. Well, you're not dead. A1. The artist shares her first name with a famous Latin singer. A2. Her last name sounds like a genre of black and white movies with drag queens smoking cigarettes.
Number	62
Realm	Geography
Subrealm	Remote Viewing
Question	In 2008 while impersonating Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey famously said "I can see Russia from my house." So wickedly acccurate was Fey's impersonation that the quote stuck to Palin, whose house in Wasilla is more than 700 miles from Russia. In fact Palin had said a pair of true things: "You can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska." Assuming that neither Tina Fey nor Sarah Palin is interested in island living, in what Alaskan community ON THE MAINLAND might they build a house from which Russia could be seen?
Answer	Wales (citation: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/24238078)
Song	I Can See Clearly Now
Artist	Johnny Nash
Hint	T1. Not the one in Great Britain. A1. If you change one letter in the artist's name, you get a much more famous singer who was played by Joaquin Phoenix on film.
Number	63
Realm	Radio
Subrealm	Classics
Question	In the 1930s, the most popular children's radio program on WOR in New York was The Lone Ranger. It was the highlight of the day for lots of kids, including the mother of one of your hosts, who ate dozens of boxes of Kix cereal one summer so she could send each one in for a chance to win the colt who was the son of the Lone Ranger's horse Silver. Following The Lone Ranger on WOR came another kids' program called Uncle Don. Uncle Don's show was a little like Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, with jokes, songs, and advice to kids. Whereas Mister Rogers was acting as himself, though, Uncle Don showed that he was not one day, at the end of one of his programs, when he had signed off sweetly and thought the microphone had been turned off. What did he say?
Answer	There! I guess that'll hold the little bastards.
Song	The William Tell Overture
Artist	George Bedard and the Kingpins
Hint	A1. The artist's first name is the name of 3 presidents of the United States, one whom we remember fondly and one whom we don't. A2. If your sleeping surface was too stiff, your complaint about it might sound like his last name. T1. He really didn't like children. T2. He called all his fans' parentage into question.
Number	64
Realm	Music
Subrealm	Disturbing Music
Question	The following song belongs to what aptly named genre?
Answer	Industrial Musicals.
Song	My Bathroom is a Private Kind of Place
Artist	American Standard
Hint	T1. A Broadway equivalent for the working man. A1. The artist is a corporation whose name almost all men read frequently, and almost all women don't.
Number	65
Realm	Americana
Subrealm	Southern style
Question	What is the Peabody hotel in Memphis famous for, and what's the title of the person in charge of this feature?
Answer	The Peabody ducks, who live in a penthouse on the roof and take the elevator down to the lobby each day to play in the fountain. Their handler is known as the duckmaster.
Song	Meet Me in Memphis
Artist	Jimmy Buffett
Hint	T1. What do you do when you see a projectile flying towards your head? A1. The artist is know for living in a place much farther South - as far south as you can go in the Continental US.
Number	66
Realm	Toys
Subrealm	Barbie
Question	In 1992 Mattel issued a talking Barbie doll, who said certain phrases like "Party dresses are fun" and "Do you have a crush on anyone?" when you pulled the string on her back. But one phrase caused an outrage and sparked a recall. What was it?
Answer	"Math class is TOUGH"
Song	Math Suks
Artist	Jimmy Buffett
Hint	T1. The song is a pretty good hint. A1. The artist should seem eerily familiar...
Number	67
Realm	Music
Subrealm	Where are they now?
Question	Jeffery "Skunk" Baxter, guitarist for Steely Dan, and The Doobie Brothers, moved onto what unexpected career?
Answer	Defense Contractor.
Song	Fire in the Hole
Artist	Steely Dan
Hint	T1. He's the opposite of a rebel now. S1. You shout this before an explosion.
Number	68
Realm	Trivia
Subrealm	Williams Trivia
Question	In May, 1972, for the first time, the Williams Trivia contest didn't end after 8 hours. That's because at 8:00 there was a tie between two teams, The Bayonnettes and The Grand Duchy of Fenwick. The Bayonettes won the tiebreaker when future famous independent filmmaker John Sayles, Williams class of '72, answered the tiebreaker question. What was the question, and what was the contribution of Sayles' teammate PJ Morello to the win?
Answer	The question was "What was the last line of the movie 'The Time Machine'." While Sayles gets all the credit for having answered the question, it was his teammate PJ who identified the song, which is the one we just played for you. PJ is playing in this contest here tonight, 42 years later, and it's about time he got some of the credit for that victory!
Song	Crying in the Chapel
Artist	Sonny Till and the Orioles
Hint	T1. It was about a science fiction movie. T2. How do you think we chose this song? A1. The band has the same name as a baseball team.
Number	69
Realm	Advertising
Subrealm	Music
Question	Leonard Nimoy and Zachary Quinto recently made a car commercial together. What song is Leonard Nimoy singing while he's driving?
Answer	"The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" (the greatest little hobbit of them all)
Song	Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Artist	William Shatner
Hint	T1. Go watch the video now!!!
Number	70
Realm	Literature
Subrealm	and Music
Question	What is the connection between William Blake's book "Heaven and Hell" and the band we are about to play?
Answer	Heaven and Hell inspired the title of Aldous Huxley's book "The Doors of Perception", which in turn inspired the name of the band The Doors.
Song	Roadhouse Blues
Artist	The Doors
Hint	T1. Where did this band get its name? S1. The song could have been played in a Patrick Swayze movie.
Number	71
Realm	Movies
Subrealm	Odd Pairings
Question	What great American actor/director's last role was as a giant robot, and what was the movie?
Answer	Orson Welles, in The Transformers Movie
Song	I'm a Transformer
Artist	Gnarls Barkley
Hint	T1. It was his voice that made it work. A1. The artist's name sounds like a former NBA player. S1. The song is related to the trivia.
Number	72
Realm	Science Fiction
Subrealm	The Collective Unconcious
Question	What late 90's sci-fi film, drawing heavily from Apple and its history, deals with the meaning of the self, our definition of reality and what it means to be "human"?
Answer	Serial Experiments: Lain
Song	Duvet
Artist	Boa
Number	73
Realm	Ways to hurt you
Subrealm	That you can't pronounce
Question	Walk into the club like "What up, I got a big apa'apai." What do I have, and where does this hail from?
Answer	An apa'apai is a war club from Tonga.
Song	Thrift Shop
Artist	Maclemore Feat. Ryan Louis
Hint	T1. It's not a friendly item. S1. What do you call a store that has bargains? A1. If a Frenchman loved his Apple computer, what would he say?
Number	74
Realm	Landmarks
Subrealm	Not Football
Question	You are in downtown Philadelphia. Your friend calls and says "meet me at the eagle." Where do you go to meet them?
Answer	The Grand Court in Macy's (formerly Wanamaker's), next to the giant bronze eagle.
Song	Tequila Sunrise
Artist	The Eagles
Number	75
Realm	Television
Subrealm	At its best
Question	Cory Monteith of Glee died on July 13, 2013, of a combination of heroin and alcohol. What was the subject of his final tweets to fans?
Answer	Sharknado! (which was airing on the SyFy channel that night. Maybe he died happy.)
Song	End of the Line
Artist	Traveling Wilburys
Hint	T1. A very silly fictional disaster, perhaps foreshadowing his personal one.
Number	76
Realm	Religion
Subrealm	In the North
Question	What unique and nearly unprecedented challenge did the large Muslim community of Tromso, Norway, face this past summer, and how did they resolve it?
Answer	Tromso is above the Arctic Circle. This year the month of Ramadan, when devout Muslims must fast from dawn to dusk, was during the summer, when the sun never sets. To avoid starving, the community obtained a fatwa allowing them to use the times of sunrise and sunset in Mecca to determine their fast.
Song	When I'm Up I Can't Get Down
Artist	OysterBand
Hint	T1. A religious observation that is normally difficult enough, got a lot tougher. T2. What do devout Muslims do during Ramadan?
Number	77
Realm	Meeting of the Absurd
Subrealm	Inconceivable!
Question	In the 1950s Samuel Beckett, Nobel-prize-winning author of "Waiting for Godot", while living outside Paris, used to drive his friend Boris's 12-year-old son to school in his truck. Who was the son, and why did he need a ride?
Answer	Boris's son was Andre the Giant, of wrestling and Princess Bride fame. He needed a ride because he was too big to fit on the school bus.
Song	Happy Together
Artist	The Turtles
Number	78
Realm	High Class
Subrealm	Low Class
Question	James Lipton, host of Inside the Actors' Studio, is of course a very cultured and well-connected man. But in 1951, while living in Paris, how did he make his living?
Answer	He was a "macquereau" for a bordello. That's a high-class pimp.
Song	Start Wearing Purple
Artist	Gogol Bordello
Hint	T1. It was hard out there. A1. The band is the "namesake" of a character played by Kal Penn
Number	79
Realm	Sports
Subrealm	Baseball
Question	In the first inning of the first game of the American League championship series last fall, Detroit Tigers pitcher Anibal Sanchez accomplished a seemingly impossible feat, which had last been done in the postseason in 1908 by Orville Overall of the Chicago Cubs. What was it?
Answer	He struck out four batters in the first inning. (One made it to first base when the catcher dropped the ball.)
Song	Swing, Swing, Swing
Artist	Glenn Miller
Number	80
Realm	Music
Subrealm	Rock and Roll
Question	On December 8, 2013, Metallica played a show to a small but appreciative crowd of scientists and tourists at the Argentine base Carlini Station. Though small in terms of audience, what world record did this concert set?
Answer	With this show, Metallica became the first band ever to play shows on all seven continents in one year (Carlini Station is in Antarctica). According to Rolling Stone, "In order to meet international Antarctic protocol to preserve the fragile local environment, Metallica played the whole show with no amplification. The sound was instead transmitted to the audience through headphones."
Song	Seven Nation Army
Artist	The White Stripes
Hint	T1. There were possibly some penguins in attendance.
Number	81
Realm	Toys
Subrealm	Food
Question	What two things does every package of Pay-Doh say about the consumability of the product? If you put them together, what can you conclude?
Answer	"Non-toxic" and "Fun to play with, but not to eat." Thus it's OK to eat Play-Doh, it's just not fun.
Song	Toxic
Artist	Britney Spears
Number	82
Realm	Cartoons
Subrealm	It's bigger on the inside than on the outside
Question	Sometimes cartoon characters seem to carry large objects in small pockets, for instance when a weasel reaches into Jessica Rabbit's cleavage and gets his hand caught in a bear trap. ("Nice booby trap" is how the hero compliments her.) What name have cartoon fans coined for this extra-dimensional space that contains anything a toon might need?
Answer	Hammerspace (or Malletspace)
Song	If I Had a Hammer
Artist	Peter Paul and Mary
Hint	T1. What's the most common thing a cartoon might need? T2. The word was coined by fans of the anime Ranma 1/2.
Number	83
Realm	Cold
Subrealm	Canadians
Question	Why was the world's largest mobile refrigeration unit brought to Ann Arbor, Michigan in late December 2013?
Answer	To build the ice rink for the NHL "Winter Classic" outdoor hockey game between the Detroit Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs, held in Michigan Stadium on Jan. 1, 2014.
Song	Hot n Cold
Artist	Los Colorados
Hint	T1. They needed it to make a whole lot of ice
Number	84
Realm	Television
Subrealm	Treking Stars
Question	This particularly flamboyant star of one of televisions biggest sci-fi hits of the previous century has recently released his name slapped on a new cologne. Who is the star, and what is the name of the cologne?
Answer	George Takei. Eau My.
Song	My Oh My
Artist	Aqua
Hint	T1. Lions. T2. Tigers T3. Bears
Number	85
Realm	Cosmetic Enhancements
Subrealm	You're embarred to find attractive
Question	Unhappy with your nipples? A bit of ink might be just the thing. You can have the perfect nipples in no time with this new and bizarre trend.
Answer	Tittooing.
Song	All The Things She Said (Remix, Russian Version)
Artist	Tatu
Number	86
Realm	Advertising
Subrealm	Pushing the Envelope
Question	What furniture company had its advertising banned by the British Advertising Standards Authority in 2012, and why?
Answer	Sofa King, because their slogan was that their prices were "Sofa King Low"
Song	Aqua Teen Hunger Force Theme
Artist	Schoolly D, but no artist needed
Number	87
Realm	Education
Subrealm	That trains us to fail
Question	The most watched TED talk of all time is by Sir Ken Robinson, an education consultant, about how schools kill creativity. He tells a story about a 6-year old girl who was not very interested in school, but who one day began to open up when asked to draw a picture. When the teacher asked her what she was drawing, she said, "I'm drawing a picture of God." "But nobody knows what God looks like", rebuked the teacher. What did the little girl reply?
Answer	"They will in a minute!"
Song	Build God, Then We'll Talk
Artist	Panic at the disco
Hint	T1. She was very confident in her abilities.
Number	88
Realm	Literature
Subrealm	Harry Potter
Question	"If anyone were looking for some stuff..." what should they do?
Answer	Follow the spiders
Song	The Spider Man Theme
Artist	The Ramones
Hint	T1. Ron would have preferred butterflies
Number	89
Realm	Aminals
Subrealm	Zoos
Question	We think of polar bears as white, but sometimes they turn a different color in zoos. What color, and what makes them do that?
Answer	Polar bear hairs are hollow, to contain water for insulation. In warmer climates, algae gets in the hairs and turns them green.
Song	Five O'Clock World
Artist	The Vogues
Hint	A1. Think of a small British car T1. The color is one you see a lot of in warmer climares, but not in the arctic. S1. The title is something you might have on a salad.
Note	This was originially Green Onions by Booker T. & The M.G.S, but because it played just after 5am it was replaced by Five O'Clock World.
Number	90
Realm	Movies
Subrealm	Horse movies
Question	What actor who appeared in the 1944 film National Velvet is famous for, among other things, having 8 spouses.
Answer	Mickey Rooney. Note: Rooney's costar Elizabeth Taylor was also married 8 times, but she only had 7 spouses, because she married Richard Burton twice.
Song	Henry the Eigth
Artist	Herman's Hermits
Hint	T1. He was a man, not a mouse
Number	91
Realm	Junior High School
Subrealm	We wish it was this amusing
Question	"America the Book" by Jon Stewart and the Daily Show is designed to look very much like a middle school social studies textbook, down to the stamp on the inside of the front cover with lines for students to write in their names. The only clue that it's not real is a line at the bottom of the stamp which prohibits students from entering three particular names. What are they?
Answer	"We are fully aware that Dick Hertz, I.P. Freely and Heywood Jablome are not real people, so please exclude them."
Song	Love Hurts
Artist	Nazareth
Number	92
Realm	Forest Maintenance
Subrealm	By the government
Question	In Florida's Ocala National Forest, storms sometimes cause large trees to fall, blocking the recreational waterways. The Forest Protection Act prohibits the use of chainsaws in wilderness areas, so what does the forest service use instead to clear the waterways?
Answer	Dynamite
Song	Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
Artist	Tom Lehrer
Hint	T1. Even louder than a chainsaw
Number	93
Realm	Communication
Subrealm	Drums
Question	In the 18th century, long before Europeans had telegraphs, people in West Africa had a long-distance communication network. Using a set of two drums, they could transmit messages of many sentences that nearly anyone within earshot could understand. How was this possible, given that they had no written language and no experience with cryptography, and the most sophisticated messages Europeans could transmit this way were simple commands, like "charge"?
Answer	The languages spoken by the West African drummers are tonal, meaning that syllables have a high or low pitch. Drummers used one drum for high pitch and one for low, and translated speech directly into drumbeats. (Accept anything close.)
Song	Pata Pata
Artist	Miriam Makeba
Number	94
Realm	Work
Subrealm	And this meeting counts, right?
Question	In August, 2012, a group of workers in California began starting work 39 minutes later each day than they did the day before. Why?
Answer	They are the Curiosity Mars Rover team, and they were working on Martian time instead of Earth time. They switched back after 3 months because everyone felt jetlagged.
Song	Life On Mars
Artist	David Bowie
Number	95
Realm	Food
Subrealm	Japan
Question	A Japanese fast food chain recently did a bit of soul searching and found that their best selling burger was not particularly favored by their female patrons. The fast food chain saw a whopping 213 percent rise in sales of this burger after they started offering what to female customers.
Answer	An extended wrapper for the burger which hides their mouths while they ate.
Song	Wrapping Paper
Artist	Cream
Hint	T1. It was a large burger. T2. Eating it was embarrassing. A1. This band had both Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker.
Number	96
Realm	Anime
Subrealm	Sailor Moon
Question	The first season of Sailor Moon featured a pair of villains who were clearly a couple, Zoisite and Kunzite. Why was this an issue when the anime was dubbed in English, and how did the dubbers deal with it?
Answer	Zoisite and Kunzite were both men in the original anime. In the English version, Zunzite looks the same but is female.
Song	Lola
Artist	The Kinks
Hint	T1. It was deemed controversial for kids in the 1990s.
Number	97
Realm	Bartending
Subrealm	Sweetness
Question	A half oz of Bailey's and a half oz of butterscotch schnapps give you what popular shot?
Answer	a Slippery Nipple
Song	You Can Leave Your Hat On
Artist	Joe Cocker
Hint	T1. Howard asked Penny for one when she was practicing bartending
Number	98
Realm	Toys
Subrealm	Television
Question	Introduced in 1952, the first toy product ever advertised on television was?
Answer	Mr. Potato Head
Song	Couch Potato
Artist	Weird Al Yankovic
Number	99
Realm	Botany
Subrealm	Latin
Question	The Corpse Flower is the worlds largest flower. How might its latin name be translated?
Answer	Its latin name means "giant misshapen phallus"
Song	Penis Song
Artist	Eric Idle
Number	100
Realm	Transportation
Subrealm	and how to pay for it
Question	This year, A new ticket machine has been introduced at the Moscow subway that accepts what in lieu of payment?
Answer	30 squats
Song	Ticket to Ride
Artist	The Beatles
Hint	T1. You don't know diddly...
Number	101
Realm	Science
Subrealm	Time Travel
Question	In 2009 how did Stephen Hawking try to test for the existence of time travelers?
Answer	He threw a party and sent out the invitations after the party had happened.
Song	The Party Song
Artist	Blink 182
Number	102
Realm	Space
Subrealm	Moons
Question	What is unique about the moons of Uranus as compared to all the other moons fo our solar system?
Answer	They are named after Shakespearean characters, rather than Greek or Roman gods.
Song	Moondance
Artist	Van Morrison
Hint	T1. Look for them on a midsummer night
Number	103
Realm	War
Subrealm	Who not to mess with
Question	When Kaiser Wilhelm asked the President of Switzerland what his quarter-million Swiss troops would do if invaded by a half-million Germans, what answer did a nearby Swiss militiaman give?
Answer	"Shoot Twice"
Song	Shoots and Ladders
Artist	Korn
Number	104
Realm	Things that Aren't Jokes
Subrealm	The answer to this question.
Question	What gunslinger's last line was the same as the first line of what famous play? (Also give us the line!)
Answer	Billy the Kid, Hamlet: "Who's there?"
Song	Who's There
Artist	Smash Mouth
Number	105
Realm	Trivia
Subrealm	Color Trivia
Question	You may have noticed that the colors of the Trivia website have been changing all night long. There were in fact 11 different color schemes. The question is, how did we pick the color schemes for the website? And for an extra point, name the sources of all 11 schemes IN ORDER.
Answer	They are the color schemes of the 11 NESCAC schools. In order: Connecticut, Bates, Hamilton, Bowdoin, Colby, Tufts, Middlebury, Trinity, Wesleyan, Amherst, Williams
Song	City of New Orleans
Artist	Arlo Guthrie

January 17-18, 2014

On-Air Questions and Songs