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January 24-25, 2020

On-Air Questions and Songs

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Number 1
Realm Graffiti
Subrealm For Accuracy
Question What two-word phrase is commonly featured in Wikiffiti?
Answer [citation needed]
Song Everything Right Is Wrong
Artist They Might Be Giants
Hint The first question's answer is always the team's name
Note [citation needed] is the standard challenge when someone quotes a fact you are unconconvinced of.
Number 2
Realm New World Order
Subrealm Those Black Helicopters Have To Land Somewhere
Question What building has been rumored to serve as Illuminati headquarters, has a laser-eyed horse statue that killed its creator, and contains a talking gargoyle that discusses more conspiracies?
Answer Denver International Airport
Song Rocky Mountain High
Artist John Denver
Hint It's a well-traveled hub
Note The Airport itself has a web page about the many conspiracy theories that have been proposed. They seem to have embraced the attention.
Number 3
Realm Your Tax Dollars At Work
Subrealm Our Stamp of Approval
Question In 2016, the IRS saved approximately 700 lives via the US Post Office. What did they send out?
Answer Reminders to sign up for health insurance
Song How to Save A Life
Artist The Fray
Hint They jogged memories of a new tax law
Note The letter was intended for all 4.5 million Americans who were fined for not meeting the Obamacare health insurance mandate. It explained the fine they were paying and pointed them toward resources where they could sign up for health insurance. But 600,000 people, randomly selected, were left off the mailing list due to budgetary constraints. That made the exercise a rigorous scientific experiment with a very large sample size. An analysis of the outcomes showed that people who received the letter were more likely to sign up for medical insurance, and that signing up was correlated with a 12% decrease in mortality in a 2 year period. So the scientific evidence that 700 lives were saved is very strong.
Number 4
Realm Saab Stories
Subrealm An Autobody Experience
Question In Kurt Vonnegut's 2004 essay "Have I Got A Car For You", he credits his poor management of a Saab dealership as the reason he never recieved what?
Answer Nobel Prize for Literature
Song Non Stop
Artist Lin Manuel Miranda
Hint Bob Dylan has one
Note From the essay: I used to be the owner and manager of an automobile dealership in West Barnstable, Massachusetts, called "Saab Cape Cod." It and I went out of business 33 years ago. The Saab then as now was a Swedish car, and I now believe my failure as a dealer so long ago explains what would otherwise remain a deep mystery: Why the Swedes have never given me a Nobel Prize for Literature. Old Norwegian proverb: "Swedes have short dicks but long memories."
Number 5
Realm Fan Fiction
Subrealm Words Words Words
Question A popular Super Smash Bros. fan fiction The Subspace Emissary's World Conquest held a record for a long time before being overtaken by another fanfic called Ambience: A Fleet Symphony. What was the reocrd?
Answer Longest works of fiction EVER
Song Unwritten
Artist Natasha Bedingfield
Hint You'd expect this record to go to War and Peace or Shakespeare
Note The Subspace Emissary was at 4,102,217 words and counting as of June 2018, when it was overtaken. That's approximately 9000 pages.
Number 6
Realm Unemployment
Subrealm For Fictional Characters
Question With the release of Animal Crossing: Horizons, one of the characters lost their job because of a technical advancement. Who was the character?
Answer Mr. Resetti
Song Digging In The Dirt
Artist Peter Gabriel
Hint This character is usually mad at you when you see him
Note The character was there to stop game resetting, but with auto saving as a feature, his job was no longer necessary.
Number 7
Realm Around the World
Subrealm Picking Up "Souvenirs"
Question What was known as the "French Disease" in Italy, the "Italian Disease" in France, the "Polish Disease" in Russia, and the "Spanish Disease" in Holland?
Answer Syphilis
Song Around the World
Artist Daft Punk
Hint It's an STD
Note The true origins of syphillis are disputed, but it definitely existed in the Americas before Columbus arrived, and the first recorded outbreak in Europe occurred in 1494 in Naples. So do the math. The Europeans brought many diseases to the Americas; it's nice to think we returned the favor.
Number 8
Realm I See You Shiver With Antici...
Subrealm Pation!
Question When filming "Rocky Horror Picture Show", set designers forgot to put in a door to the lab for the wheelchair-using character Dr. Scott. How does Dr. Scott get into the lab?
Answer Burst through a wall
Song Break on Through (to the Other Side)
Artist The Doors
Hint He came in like a wrecking ball
Number 9
Realm Vexing Vexillogy
Subrealm Raising our Standards
Question What is the only sovereign nation whose flag does not feature the color red, white, or blue?
Answer Jamaica
Song Jamaica Mistaica
Artist Jimmy Buffett
Hint It's green, black, and yellow
Number 10
Realm Is this question 10?
Subrealm Cuz it's the only 10-I-See!
Question The Memphis Pyramid in Tennessee is the tenth-largest pyramid in the world at 98 meters tall. While it was originally built as an arena, what does it house now?
Answer Bass Pro Shop
Song The Hunting Song
Artist Tom Lehrer
Hint You could buy hunting gear there
Note The Memphis Grizzlies moved out in 2004, and Bass Pro Shops signed a 55-year lease in 2010. From Wikipedia: "One million people visited the Bass Pro Pyramid between the grand opening in April 2015 and July 8, 2015. Due in part to this large success, Bass Pro is considering adding a zip-line and a second hotel to the Pyramid."
Number 11
Realm Skeletons on Parade
Subrealm The Walking Dead
Question Mexico City holds a large parade in celebration of Dia de Muertas, or Day of the Dead. However, this parade has only been a tradition since 2016. What film inspired this now-yearly event?
Answer SPECTRE
Song Welcome to the Black Parade
Artist My Chemical Romance
Hint Bond. James Bond
Note The 2015 movie SPECTRE opens with a chase scene through the rooftops of Mexico City while a Dia de Muertas parade clogs the streets below. However, while the holiday has been celebrated all over Mexico since the days of the Aztecs, there was actually no such parade in Mexico City before the movie.
Number 12
Realm Questing Bitch Face
Subrealm Animals that come out at Knights
Question The Questing Beast is a monster from Arthurian legend, described as having the neck of a snake, the body of a leopard, the haunches of a lion and the feet of a hart. The current consensus is that the frightening Questing Beast was actually what?
Answer Giraffe
Song Circle of Life
Artist The Lion King
Hint They're native to Africa
Note The generic name for giraffe is "Camelopardalis", meaning half camel and half leopard.
Number 13
Realm Trivia Questions
Subrealm For Utter Morons Like You
Question There are hundreds of "For Dummies" books, teaching dummies like you to do all sorts of things. What skill did the original "For Dummies" book teach?
Answer DOS
Song Computer World
Artist Kraftwerk
Hint It was related to early computers
Note DOS for Dummies was published in 1991. There are now more than 2500 Dummies titles, with 200 million copies in print.
Number 14
Realm If You Like Piña Coladas
Subrealm And Songs Stuck In Your Head
Question Rupert Holmes's hit song "Escape" (also known as the Piña Colada Song) is well-known and loved by all for its chorus of "If you like Piña Coladas". But that was not the original lyric, as Holmes stated in an interview. What did the protagonist of the song originally like?
Answer Humphrey Bogart
Song Heavy Rain
Artist Hall & Oates
Hint It's a famous actor
Note Rupert Holmes says: The original lyrics said, "If you like Humphrey Bogart and getting caught in the rain." As I was getting on mic I thought to myself, I’ve done so many movie references to Bogart and wide-screen cinema on my earlier albums, maybe I shouldn’t do one here. I thought, What can I substitute? Well, this woman wants an escape, like she wants to go on vacation to the islands. When you go on vacation to the islands, when you sit on the beach and someone asks you if you’d like a drink, you never order a Budweiser, you don’t have a beer. You’re on vacation, you want a drink in a hollowed-out pineapple with the flags of all nations and a parasol. If the drink is blue you’d be very happy. And a long straw. I thought, What are those escape drinks? Let’s see, there’s daiquiri, mai tai, piña colada… I wonder what a piña colada tastes like? I’ve never even had one. I thought that instead of singing, "If you like Humphrey Bogart," with the emphasis on like, I could start it a syllable earlier and go, "If you like piña-a coladas."
Number 15
Realm Seeing the Forest For the Trees
Subrealm Breaking Traditionss
Question At 17 million acres, what is the largest National forest in the United States?
Answer Tongass
Song Out of the Woods
Artist Taylor Swift
Hint It has a Williams Trivia-relevant name
Note The Tongass National Forest is in Southeast Alaska.
Number 16
Realm Do You Remember?
Subrealm Because I sure as hell don't
Question In 2014, the band Earth, Wind, and Fire recorded a new version of their hit song "September" that was identical in every way except for one word. What did they change the word to?
Answer December
Song O Come All Ye Faithful
Artist Twisted Sister
Hint It was for a Christmas album
Note From Wikipedia: Using a chord progression written by Earth, Wind & Fire guitarist Al McKay, vocalist Maurice White and songwriter Allee Willis wrote the song over one month. Willis was initially bothered by the gibberish "ba-dee-ya" lyric White used through the song, and begged him to rewrite it: "I just said, 'What the fuck does 'ba-dee-ya' mean?' And he essentially said, 'Who the fuck cares?' I learned my greatest lesson ever in songwriting from him, which was never let the lyric get in the way of the groove."
Number 17
Realm Going for Baroque
Subrealm Prone to Violins
Question One of the top concert halls in the world, Boston Symphony Hall, has plaques above the stage for the names of notable musicians. Name all of the musicians listed.
Answer Beethoven
Song Ride of the Valkyries
Artist Richard Wagner
Hint They couldn't agree on a lot of musicians
Note From the BSO website: Beethoven is the only composer whose name was inscribed on one of the plaques that trim the stage and balconies; the other plaques were left empty since it was felt that only Beethoven's popularity would remain unchanged.
Number 18
Realm Cool Politicians
Subrealm Politicians Who Swear
Question What did Calvin Coolidge do immediately after being sworn in as president by his father?
Answer Go back to bed
Song Enter Sandman
Artist Metallica
Hint It happened in the middle of the night
Note From Wikipedia: On August 2, 1923, President Harding died unexpectedly from a heart attack in San Francisco while on a speaking tour of the western United States. Vice President Coolidge was in Vermont visiting his family home, which had neither electricity nor a telephone, when he received word by messenger of Harding's death. The new president dressed, said a prayer, and came downstairs to greet the reporters who had assembled. His father, a notary public and justice of the peace, administered the oath of office in the family's parlor by the light of a kerosene lamp at 2:47 a.m. on August 3, 1923; President Coolidge then went back to bed.
Number 19
Realm Wild Things
Subrealm And Where to Find Them
Question "Where The Wild Things Are", the classic children's book by Maurice Sendak, was originally going to be called "Where the Wild Horses Are". Why did he change it?
Answer He couldn't draw horses
Song WIld Horses
Artist Rolling stones
Hint It would have been really hard to illustrate the book if he had kept them as horses.
Number 20
Realm Kids Movies
Subrealm That Make You Cry
Question Who is the only real-life historical figure portrayed in a Pixar animated film?
Answer Frida Kahlo
Song Burn it Blue
Artist Caetano Veloso
Hint She appeared in Coco as a skeleton
Number 21
Realm Pilots of the Caribbean
Subrealm The War on Drugs
Question In 1996, Jamaican police shot at a small seaplane they believed was smuggling marijuana. What was the plane actually carrying at the time?
Answer Jimmy Buffett and Bono
Song It's Five O' Clock Somewhere
Artist Alan Jackson
Hint It was carrying people, one of whom wrote a song about the incident
Note Buffett was the pilot. His song about the incident, "Jamaica Mistaica", was played with question 9.
Number 22
Realm Things That Go Boom
Subrealm But Very Politely
Question In 1917, a ship carrying explosives accidentally detonated in Halifax Harbour. The city of Boston was a major help in the rescue and rebuilding efforts. Halifax thanks them to this day by providing what annually?
Answer The Boston Christmas tree
Song Smokin'
Artist Boston
Hint It's an annual December gift
Number 23
Realm Early Video Games
Subrealm Crashing and Burning
Question As the 1990 video game Wing Commander was in development, the game would give an error message whenever it was closed. As a workaround, one of the programmers the error message to say what instead?
Answer Thank your for playing Wing Commander.
Song Closing Time
Artist Semisonic
Hint He wanted to say goodbye to the player
Note Wing Commander was a space-flight simulator game first released in 1990. According to Wikipedia: As development for Wing Commander came to a close, the EMM386 memory manager the game used would give an exception when the user exited the game. It would print out a message similar to "EMM386 Memory manager error..." with additional information. The team could not isolate and fix the error and they needed to ship it as soon as possible. As a work-around, one of the game's programmers, Ken Demarest, hex-edited the memory manager so it displayed a different message. Instead of the error message, it printed "Thank you for playing Wing Commander."[6] However, due to a different bug the game went through another revision and the bug was fixed, meaning this hack did not ship with the final release.
Number 24
Realm Classic Sayings, Part II
Subrealm Says Who?
Question Who originally said "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few"?
Answer Spock
Song 1-800-273-8255
Artist Logic
Hint It was from a movie
Note From Start Trek II, The Wrath of Khan: "Logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."
Number 25
Realm One Realm, Two Realm
Subrealm Red Realm, Subrealm
Question What was Dr. Seuss's very first book? Published in 1931, it is a collection of humorous anecdotes and illustrations.
Answer The Pocket Book of Boners
Song My Ding-a-Ling
Artist Chuck Berry
Hint If you're in middle school, you'll laugh
Note At the time of its writing, the term "boner" was commonly used to mean a silly mistake, without any sexual connotation. The book was one of the most popular paperbacks of World War II, and had sold 1.34 million copies by 1945. It was actually a compendium of 4 books: "Boners," "More Boners", "Still More Boners", and "Prize Boners for 1932."
Number 26
Realm Swedish Bands
Subrealm ABBA wasn't just a fluke
Question The Swedish band Caramba released one eponymous album in 1981. What's unusual about it?
Answer All nonsense words
Song Prisencolinensinainciusol
Artist Adriano Celentano
Hint They don't sing in Swedish, or English for that matter
Note Many famous Swedish musicians are rumored to have participated in the recording, which is hilarious. The track "Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot" reached number 1 in Sweden.
Number 27
Realm Bringing the 60s back!
Subrealm Flowers, Drugs, Political Scandals
Question Remember the 1968 Hanna-Barbera kid's show Banana Splits? Well they made a movie last year! What wacky antics do Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper, and Snorky get up to in The Banana Splits Movie?
Answer Murder!
Song Buffalo Soldier
Artist Bob Marley
Hint The genre of the movie is different from the show
Note From Wikipedia: The plot follows a family attending a live taping of The Banana Splits television series and trying to survive when the titular characters go haywire upon learning of their show's cancellation, starting a killing spree around the studio.
Number 28
Realm Wisconsin Trivia
Subrealm Surprisingly Not About Cheese
Question Let's say you were meeting a friend in the town of Springfield, Wisconsin. Why might you have trouble finding it?
Answer There's five of them
Song Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego
Artist Rockapella
Hint Springfield is a popular town name
Note There are Springfields in Dane County, Jackson County, Marquette County, St. Croix County, and Walworth County. There are a total of 38 Springfields in the US; Wisconsin leads the pack but there are also 2 in New Jersey and 2 in Texas.
Number 29
Realm Wisconsin Trivia
Subrealm Again, not about cheese
Question In 1978, Mark Gubin decided to paint a sign on his roof welcoming everyone who was flying into Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee. What did the sign say?
Answer Welcome to Cleveland
Song Funky Worm
Artist The Ohio Players
Hint It was meant to trick people
Note The sign keeps being rediscovered by the media every few years. Gubin worries about wearing out the joke, but so far, it's still funny. (Flight attendants who need to explain it to nervous passengers who press the call button are less amused than the rest of us.)
Number 30
Realm Let Pythons Be Pythons
Subrealm A Pain in the Asp
Question Long long ago, snakes used to have legs, until a specific gene evolved them away. What is the name of this gene?
Answer Sonic Hedgehog
Song Footloose
Artist Kenny Loggins
Hint These snakes gotta go fast
Note The hedgehog gene (hh) was first identified in the fruit-fly Drosophila melanogaster in 1980. The name comes from the fact that when a fruit-fly loses the gene, it becomes covered with small spiky projections like a hedgehog. Investigators subsequently found three homologous genes in vertebrates. The first two were named after species of hedgehogs (desert hedgehog and Indian hedgehog). Postdoc Robert Riddle named the third after a character in one of his daughter's comic books.
Number 31
Realm The Middle of Nowhere
Subrealm Is Great This Time of Year
Question On September 20, 2019, hundreds of people swarmed the small town of Rachel, Nevada, with some camping overnight. What were they all there to (allegedly) do?
Answer Storm Area 51
Song E.T.
Artist Katy Perry
Hint They were responding to a popular Facebook event
Note The Facebook event was created by Matty Roberts on June 27, 2019. The idea was for a large number of people to enter Area 51 to search for extra-terrestrial life. More than 2 million people responded "going" and 1.5 million "interested" on the event's page, which made it a popular conversation topic in the summer of 2019. But only 150 people showed up on the appointed day, and none gained access to the base. It was fun while it lasted.
Number 32
Realm Shoot This Guy In The Face
Subrealm Pointlessly Point Blank
Question In the video game Borderlands 2, there is a character that gives you the mission "Shoot This Guy in the Face". You complete this mission by shooting him in the face. What is this character's name?
Answer Face McShooty
Song Shotgun
Artist George Ezra
Hint It sounds like the Internet voted on the name
Note To quote the character: SHOOT ME IN THE FACE! IN THE FAAAAAAAACE! DO IT! SHOOT ME IN THE FACE! FACE FACEFACEFACEFACE! NOW! BULLETS IN THE FACE! WANT EM! NEED EM! GIMMEGIMMEGIMME! AT THE SOUND OF THE BELL IT WILL BE FACESHOOTING O'CLOCK! BONGGGGG! KNOCK KNOCK WHO'S THERE SHOOT ME IN THE FACE! END OF JOKE! I'M GONNA SING A SONG! SHOOT ME AT THE END OF IT! DA DA DA DA DA DA DA! BONG!! ...I NOTICE YOU HAVEN'T SHOT ME IN THE FACE! CURIOUS AS TO WHY! Maybe you're weighing the moral pros and cons but let me assure you that OH MY GOD SHOOT ME IN THE GODDAMNED FACE!! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!?!
Number 33
Realm War!
Subrealm No More Mr. Ice Guy
Question Iceland is usually regarded as a peaceful country, but they've been known to fight. The only wars Iceland has fought in as a nation were over what?
Answer Cod Fishing Grounds
Song War
Artist Edwin Starr
Hint They were fighting over specific areas
Note The Cod Wars were a series of confrontations between Iceland and the United Kingdom. Some number them at 3 and some at 10, but either way the last ended with an agreement in 1976. Icelend acieved most of what it wanted.
Number 34
Realm Famine!
Subrealm Back and Hungry for More!
Question In late 2011, Norway was gripped by a nationwide "smør-panikk". A shortage of what food caused this crisis?
Answer Butter
Song Hungry Like The Wolf
Artist Reel Big Fish
Hint You might see it on toast
Note Heavy rains during the summer affected the grazing of cows and reduced milk production during the summer months by about 5,300,000 gallons, which led to increased butter prices. At the same time, demand increased rapidly – a 20 percent increase in sales in October 2011 with a further 30 percent rise in November. An acute shortage resulted in prices soaring. A half-pound of butter sold for the equivalent of 50 US dollars.
Note The word Somrgasbord means, literally, "buttered goose table."
Number 35
Realm Pestilence!
Subrealm Avoid It Like the Plague!
Question Which doctor was famous for curing Dried-Out-atosis, Stuck-Prop-a-tosis, and The Dark-Willies?
Answer Doc McStuffins
Song Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)
Artist Robert Palmer
Hint She's a TV doctor
Note Doc McStuffins is a American/Irish cartoon that aired on the Disney Channel from 2012 to 2018. The protagonist is a 6-year old girl, Dottie McStuffins, who fixes broken toys with her magic stethoscope.
Number 36
Realm Death!
Subrealm Going Out With A Bang!
Question The Netflix show Black Mirror has an alleged record for the most deaths in a single episode. In Season 3's "Hated in the Nation" a confirmed 387,036 people die. How do they all go out?
Answer Robot Bees
Song (Don't Fear) The Reaper
Artist Blue Öyster Cult
Hint They're man-made pollinators
Note The episode premiered on Netflix on October 21, 2016. But, I mean, in the Arrowverse's Crisis on Infinite Earths, just a month before this contest, the entire universe was destroyed and everyone killed. (They got better later.)
Number 37
Realm Scary Stories
Subrealm Ghostwriters! OoOoOoOoh!
Question H.P. Lovecraft was commisioned to ghostwrite the 1924 short story "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" featuring what real-life person as the main character?
Answer Harry Houdini
Song Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
Artist Rupert Holmes
Hint It's someone known for escaping
Note Houdini and Lovecraft collaborated on the project, but it was credited solely to Houdini for many years, and is written in his first-person voice. Set in 1910, in Egypt, Houdini finds himself kidnapped by a tour guide, who resembles an ancient pharaoh, and thrown down a deep hole near the Great Sphinx of Giza. While attempting to find his way out, he stumbles upon a gigantic ceremonial cavern and encounters the real-life deity that inspired the building of the Sphinx.
Number 38
Realm Hot and Spicy Trivia
Subrealm With a Side of Ranch
Question The National Buffalo Wing Festival, a multi-day event featuring wing-eating contests, dance-offs, 5Ks and more, has been held in Buffalo, New York for the last 17 years. What movie directly inspired its founders to organize the festival?
Answer Osmosis Jones
Song Your Body is a Wonderland
Artist John Mayer
Hint The movie stars Bill Murray
Note The film was a bomb, but it spawned the animated series Ozzy & Drix. It contained a festival scene which inspired the NBWF.
Number 39
Realm Scariest words in the English language
Subrealm The wifi is down
Question THIS IS A THREE-POINT PLAY. Because of an event that occured on January 20, 2019, this country lost their internet for 11 days. Name the event and the country.
Answer Undersea cable severed; Tonga
Song Bad Moon Rising
Artist Credence Clearwater Revival
Hint It's a weird Williams Trivia question involving a country. There's one obvious answer.
Number 40
Realm Butt Stuff
Subrealm Legally Speaking
Question On July 1st, 1976, the state of Washington repealed some outdated laws. Among them was 9.79.100, which forbade sodomy. What unintended consequence did repealing this law have?
Answer Bestiality was legalized
Song Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)
Artist Big & Rich
Hint The inadvertantly made a crime legal
Note The same statute covered both sodomy and bestiality, thus the difficulty. Bestiality remained legal until 2005, when a Boeing engineer received fatal injuries after having sex with a horse multiple times. The legislature then proceeded to make bestiality illegal again. The horse was unharmed, at least physically.
Number 41
Realm Butte Stuff
Subrealm The Highest Form of Flattery
Question Explorer John Kitchen named at least 7 peaks, 1 butte, and several other geological features in Utah. He either named them after his wife, or a street prostitute, depending on which sources you believe, but all were given the exact same name. What is it?
Answer Mollie's Nipple
Song Friend of the Devil
Artist Grateful Dead
Hint He must've been attracted to a certain part of this woman
Note Mollie was indeed John Kitchen's wife's name, but Molly was also slang for prostitute. So it may be a bit of whitewashing to attribute all the names to John and his wife.
Number 42
Realm Mistaken Identities
Subrealm Nametags of the Rich and Famous
Question French composer and New York Philharmonic conductor Pierre Boulez once misnamed Paul Simon and his wife at a party. What song did this incident inspire?
Answer You Can Call Me Al
Song Call Me
Artist Blondie
Hint We played this song earlier
Note Boulez also referred to Simon's wife Peggy as Betty.
Number 43
Realm Game of Thrones Cameos
Subrealm No, Not Ed Sheeran
Question Ed Sheeran wasn't the first musician to cameo in Game of Thrones. At the famous "Red Wedding" in season 3, the drummer for what band appears in the wedding band?
Answer Coldplay
Song Ice Ice Baby
Artist Vanilla Ice
Hint They sang "Viva la Vida"
Note Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody also appeared as a soldier in GOT, earlier in season three.
Number 44
Realm Could Jurassic Park Get Any Cooler?
Subrealm You Bet Jurassic Can!
Question What real life event happened during the filming of Jurassic Park and had footage of it included in the film?
Answer Hurricane Iniki
Song Storm Warning
Artist Hunter Hayes
Hint It was a natural disaster
Note Hurricane Iniki is the most powerful hurricane to strike Hawaii in recorded history. Iniki struck the island of Kauai on September 11, 1992 at peak intensity. It had winds of 145 mph (235 km/h), and was a Category 4. The helicopter pilot that rescued the cast and crew of Jurassic Park from Hurricane Iniki was Fred Sorenson, whose sole movie role was that of Jock, the seaplane pilot who rescues Indiana Jones at the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark. When the storm was over, "I Survived Hurricane Iniki" shirts were handed out to the cast and crew. The shirt "Hurricane Iniki: Survivor '92" is worn by comic character Derrick in Return to Jurassic Park V and Return to Jurassic Park VI.
Number 45
Realm Super Pet-Owners
Subrealm Super-duper Pooper Scoopers
Question Superheroes love their pets. Superman has Krypto the Superdog, Batman has Ace the Bat-Hound, and Supergirl has Streaky the Supercat. What unorthodox pet does Wonder Woman canonically care for?
Answer Jumpa the Kanga (not a kangaroo!)
Song Jump in the Line
Artist Harry Belafonte
Hint It's not a real animal
Note From Wikipedia: The Kangas are a fictional species of kangaroos in the DC Multiverse. In Pre-Crisis continuity, Kangas were alien beings brought to Paradise Island by a tribe of star-faring Amazons who called themselves the Sky Riders of Nebulosa.
Number 46
Realm This question sucks!
Subrealm Booooooooooooooo!
Question Who (appropriately) was the Greek god of theatrical criticism?
Answer Pan (Get it?)
Song Go the Distance
Artist Michael Bolton
Hint He could also be the Greek God of kitchen equipment and bisexuals
Number 47
Realm Boxer Briefings
Subrealm All Up In Your Grill
Question Big George Foreman, boxing legend and grill entrepreneur, has five sons. What unusual feature do they all have in common with their father?
Answer They're all named George Foreman
Song Do You Really Want to Hurt Me
Artist Culture Club
Hint He gave them something at birth
Note "I named all my sons George Edward Foreman so they would always have something in common," Foreman wrote on his website.
Number 48
Realm Kidz Bop!
Subrealm You can tell they're cool because of the 'z'
Question Here's an easy one: What's the very first song covered on the very first Kidz Bop album?
Answer "All Star" by Smash Mouth
Song Tik Tok
Artist Kidz Bop
Hint The song has achieved meme status after being the opening song to a Dreamworks film
Note The Kidz Bop Kids were Billboard's No. 1 Kids' Album Artist of 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017. 22 Kidz Bop albums have reached the top 10 on the Billboard 200 chart, which places them 4th all time, higher than Madonna and Bruce Springsteen.
Number 49
Realm Non-Christmas Carols
Subrealm Thanksgiving Tunes
Question People (meaning me) often complain that there are no Thanksgiving carols to sing. But there is one! Written by James Pierpont in 1857, the song describes an Autumn ride through Medford, Massachusetts. Do you know it?
Answer Jingle Bells
Song Feliz Navidad
Artist David Hasselhoff
Hint This song is now more associated with another holiday
Number 50
Realm Money
Subrealm of the Future...
Question In 2013, as part of redesigning their money, Canada redesigned their $5 bill to make it harder for people to do this not technically illegal act?
Answer Turn the portrait into Spock
Song Intergalactic
Artist The Beastie Boys
Hint People were drawing on them
Note The Canadian five dollar bill features a picture of Canada’s seventh prime minister, Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Star Trek fans have taken to coloring in hair and ears to make him look like Mr. Spock. According to the Bank of Canada "Spocking" is not illegal, just illogical.
Number 51
Realm Dogs in Space!
Subrealm Laika Boss!
Question What dog is NASA's official safety mascot?
Answer Snoopy
Song Drop It Like It's Hot
Artist Snoop Dog
Hint This dog is a famous aviator.
Note NASA issues a Silver Snoopy award to employees that promote flight safety.
Number 52
Realm Behind the Hits
Subrealm Under the Covers
Question In the official music video for Weezer's cover of "Africa", Weezer does not actually appear, replaced by stand-ins. Who "performs" the song instead?
Answer Weird Al
Song You Can Call Me Al
Artist Paul Simon
Hint It was really weird
Note Weezer covered Africa after persistent requests from a fan. The single became their first hit in a decade. Toto returned the favor by covering Weezer's song "Hash Pipe."
Number 53
Realm Two Birthdays?
Subrealm Twice the Presents!
Question Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and husband of Queen Elizabeth II, was born in Greece on June 10, 1921. Orrrrrrrr he was born in Greece on May 28, 1921. Why is there a discrepency?
Answer Greece was still using the Julian calendar at the time
Song The Times They Are A-Changin'
Artist Bob Dylan
Hint It has to do with how the dates were recorded
Note Greece switched to the Gregorian calendar on 16 February/1 March 1923. The Julian calendar is still used in the Orthodox churches of Eastern Europe, and by the Berbers of northern Africa. This most notably affects the calculation of the date of Easter.
Number 54
Realm I Streamed A Stream
Subrealm Customer Complaints
Question Thousands of Christians complained to Netflix about the miniseries adaption of Neil Gaiman's and Terry Prachett's "Good Omens". Why were these complaints unsuccessful in changing anything?
Answer It's an Amazon Prime show
Song The Show Must Go On
Artist Queen
Hint They were a bit misinformed about the series
Note "Good Omens" is comedy about the son of Satan, who has been growing up on earth, and the end of the world.
Number 55
Realm Running Like Hell
Subrealm The Route of All Evil
Question The Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race is a 52-day ultramarathon held annualy, and holds the record for the world's longest certified foot race. What route do participants run for these 3100 miles?
Answer One City Block in Queens, NY
Song Step by Step
Artist New Kids on the Block
Hint You're definitely not taking the scenic route
Note Runners run around the same block 5,649 times. They have 52 days to complete the race, running from 6AM to midnight each day. The prize is typically a T-shirt, a DVD, or a small trophy.
Number 56
Realm Smart Phone?
Subrealm More Like DUMB Phone!
Question On April 3, 1973, Motorola researcher Martin Cooper made the very first mobile telephone call. Who did he call?
Answer Bell Labs, his rival
Song I Just Called To Say I Love You
Artist Stevie Wonder
Hint He wanted to brag about his achievement
Note From Wikipedia: Standing on Sixth avenue near the New York Hilton, Cooper made the first handheld cellular phone call in public from the prototype DynaTAC. The call connected him to a base station Motorola had installed on the roof of the Burlington House (now the AllianceBernstein Building) and into the AT&T land-line telephone system. Reporters and onlookers watched as Cooper dialed the number of his chief competitor, Dr. Joel S. Engel at AT&T. "Joel, this is Marty. I'm calling you from a cell phone, a real handheld portable cell phone."
Number 57
Realm War
Subrealm War never changes
Question In 2015, West Point banned this seemingly harmless activity after 30 cadets were injured.
Answer Pillow Fights
Song Seven Nation Army
Artist White Stripes
Hint Boot camp is like one giant slumber party
Note The pillow fight was an annual tradition at West Point until the incident in 2015. 24 cadets had concussions, one had a broken nose and one a fractured cheek. One was found unconscious.
Number 58
Realm No Man's Land
Subrealm Can I Have It?
Question The Bir Tawil Triangle is a piece of unclaimed land between Egypt and Sudan. What's interesting about its name?
Answer It's a quadrilateral
Song Walk Like an Egyptian
Artist Bangles
Hint The name isn't accurate
Note The name comes from a larger neighboring piece of disputed land called the Hala'ib Triangle, which is indeed mostly triangular. Hala'ib is claimed by both Egypt and Sudan, Bir Tawil is claimed by neither.
Number 59
Realm Alfa Bravo
Subrealm Word Nerds
Question THIS IS A THREE-POINT PLAY. India is the only letter of the phonetic alphabet that is also a country. However, you can anagram two other phonetic letters to get two additional countries. What are they?
Answer Mali and TONGA
Song Tango: Maureen
Artist Rent
Hint One is a landlocked African nation
Note Lima becomes Mali and Tango becomes Tonga. The hint makes reference to the origin of the Tonga tradition in Williams Trivia, an impressive bit of research by [citation needed].
Number 60
Realm Williams Trivia Trivia
Subrealm Let's Get Meta
Question Did you know that Williams Trivia may be the oldest continuously running contest of its kind? Because the exact date of the first Williams Trivia contest is unknown (sometime spring semester, 1966), what other trivia contest claims to hold this title?
Answer Great Midwest Trivia Contest
Song Don't Ask Me No Questions
Artist Lynyrd Skynyrd
Hint It's hosted by Lawrence University
Note the date of the first Great Midwest Trivia Contest was April 29, 1966.
Number 61
Realm Violent Video Games
Subrealm What does this button do?
Question The 2014 first-person shooter Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare contained an interesting mechanic. During a somber funeral scene, players could press the F button to do what?
Answer Pay Respects
Song R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Artist Aretha Franklin
Hint It's what you usually do at a funeral
Note In the game, paying respects means putting yout hand on the coffin momentarily.
Number 62
Realm Classic Sayings
Subrealm And What They Say
Question Who originally said "When one door closes, another one opens"?
Answer Alexander Graham Bell
Song Call Me Maybe
Artist Carly Rae Jepsen
Hint This name should ring a bell.
Note The Quote Investigator website worked on the provenance of this quote in 2018. The investigation was inconclusive, but "when one doore is shut the other openeth" appears in a 1586 translation of an influential picaresque Spanish novella titled “La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades” with an anonymous author published by 1554. And "Where one door is shut another is opened" appears in 1620 translation of Don Quixote by Cervantes. Alexander Graham Bell, Helen Keller, and Johann Richter are also sometimes credited with a longer verstion of the quote. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/12/03/open-door/
Number 63
Realm Unpack Your Adjectives
Subrealm Short-Tempered
Question What are Snoopy, Goopy, Crabby, Flabby, Thrifty, Shifty, Deafy, and Awful?
Answer Rejected 7 Dwarfs names
Song Working In A Coal Mine
Artist Devo
Hint They're proposed names for certain characters
Note Other dwarf names rejected by Disney included Jumpy, Dizzey, Hickey, Gabby, Nifty, Sniffy, Swift, Puffy, Stuffy and Burpy. At least 16 dwarfs were drawn before being left out of the film.
Number 64
Realm Rules Were Meant To Be Broken
Subrealm Gavels, too
Question The US Senate used an ivory gavel from its founding until 1954, when it broke. Who broke it?
Answer Richard Nixon
Song Ebony and Ivory
Artist Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder
Hint He's the only president to resign
Number 65
Realm Transformers!
Subrealm The Name "Decepticons" Wasn't A Red Flag?
Question The Hasbro Transformers toys have inspired numerous shows and movies. Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots, transforms into a semi trailer. What did the original Megatron toy transform into?
Answer A Gun
Song Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Artist Pat Benatar
Hint Like most toys in the eighites, it was pretty unsafe
Note Yup, it was a straight-up gun. They used to sell candy cigarettes, too.
Number 66
Realm Colleges With Really Good Marching Bands
Subrealm And Sports, I Guess
Question In August of 2019, The Ohio State University tried to trademark a certain word to use on their apparel. What word?
Answer The
Song This Is The Day
Artist The The
Hint This is a pretty common word. It's hard to write a clue for it without naming it.
Note Lots of people made fun of Ohio State when this story broke in the summer of 2019. The University of Michigan, for instance, tweeted a picture of a small M and a giant OF: https://twitter.com/UMich/status/1161736458350129152
Number 67
Realm You Know The Type
Subrealm Capital Punishment
Question Which world leader required that whenever his name appeared in print, it would be presented either in bold or in a larger font than the rest of the sentence?
Answer Kim Jung-Il
Song Time to Get Ill
Artist Beastie Boys
Hint His son took over for him
Note A certain American president received many (as of yet) incorrect guesses.
Number 68
Realm Nice
Subrealm Nice Guys
Question The phrase "Nice guys finish last" was coined in 1946. Who were the "nice guys" the original speaker was referring to?
Answer The 1946 New York Giants
Song The Greatest
Artist They Might Be Giants
Hint It's a sports team
Note The speaker was Leo Durocher, manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. When asked by a reporter why he couldn't be a nice guy for a change, Durocher replied, “Nice guys! Look over there. Do you know a nicer guy than Mel Ott? Or any of the other Giants? Why, they’re the nicest guys in the world! And where are they? In seventh place! Nice guys! I’m not a nice guy – and I’m in first place.” After pacing up and down the visitors’ dugout, the Dodger manager waved a hand toward the Giants’ dugout and repeated, “The nice guys are all over there, in seventh place.”
Number 69
Realm The Most Popular Walmart
Subrealm And the Most Popular Singer
Question In 2012, Walmart held a contest to get people to like individual stores' Facebook pages. The store with the largest amount of likes would get a concert hosted by Pitbull. Which city hosted that concert?
Answer Kodiak, Alaska
Song Cold As Ice
Artist Foreigner
Hint It was part of a campaign to exile Pitbull as far as possible
Note This was part of an internet campaign to #ExilePitbull, and the campaign got 10 times the number of votes that there were people in the city. But to his credit, Pitbull went and gave the concert in Kodiak, to hundreds of people, and invited the prankster who started the campaign to come along. Afterward he tweeted a picture of himself alongside Alutiiq dancers with the caption, "Thank U Kodiak ... I am honored, truly."
Number 70
Realm Common Denominators
Subrealm Sounds Like A Good Time In Vegas
Question What do Chewbacca, King Kong, The Matrix, a Twinkie, and the rapper Shaggy have in common?
Answer Legal Defenses
Song I Fought The Law
Artist The Clash
Hint You might hear them in court
Note A Chewbacca defense is where a defense lawyer tries to confuse the jury rather than refute the case of the prosecutor. It comes from an episode of South Park that parodied the OJ trial. The King Kong defense was used unsucessfully by the owners of the Pirate Bay file sharing site, who argued that if a user named King Kong downloaded files, the authorities should go after him, not the providers of the medium. The Matrix defense is where the defendant claims that he commited a crime only because he believed it didn't matter because he was, in fact, in the matrix and not the real world. The Twinkie defense was used by Harvey Milk's killer, who said that eating a twinkie left him in an unbalanced mental state. The Shaggy defense, inspired by Shaggy's 2000 single "It wasn't me", is where you deny that you are the one in the video. The term was coined to describe R. Kelly.
Number 71
Realm Famous people
Subrealm Do Some Research!
Question What word describes the names of the president of Nintendo of America, the COO of Starbucks, the 2003 World Series of Poker champion, and the bass singer of *NSYNC?
Answer Aptronyms
Song The Name Game
Artist Shirley Ellis
Hint Their last names are important
Note An aptronym is a name that is particularly appropriate. The president of Nintendo is Doug Bowser, and Bowser is the name of Mario and Luigi's main antagonist. The COO of Starbucks is Rosalind Brewer. The 2003 World Series of Poker champion was Chris Moneymaker. And the bass player of *NSYNC was Lance Bass.
Number 72
Realm The Name Game
Subrealm Five of a Kind
Question What do Julia Roberts, Austin Powers, Bela Lugosi, Count Basie, Greg Louganis and Chuck Mangione have in common?
Answer Supervocalics
Song Mysterious Ways
Artist U2
Hint You don't have to do any research about them - except maybe to spell their names correctly
Note A supervocalic is a word that contains all 5 vowels exactly once each.
Number 73
Realm Bad Ideas for Questions
Subrealm Self-Referential Subrealms
Question What do the following things have in common: Question 7 of Ken Jennings' weekly trivia quiz, round 1 of Only Connect, a Tribond card, and the previous three questions?
Answer They ask you what a group of things have in common
Song Glory
Artist Common
Hint They all ask for the same thing
Note Every card in the game TriBond asks the user what three things have in common. Only Connect is a British TV show with a similar goal.
Number 74
Realm CrossFit
Subrealm For Superstars
Question Christianity's fourteen Stations of the Cross depict the trials and tribulations of Jesus's crucifixation. What same event befalls Jesus in three of these stations?
Answer He falls down
Song Tubthumping
Artist Chumbawamba
Hint The cross is apparently really heavy
Number 75
Realm First Rule of Trivia
Subrealm Never Shut Up About Trivia
Question What organization's first rule is "Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked"?
Answer Church of Satan
Song I Will Follow Him
Artist Sister Act soundtrack
Hint Their symbol is a pentagram
Number 76
Realm 5th Grade US History
Subrealm State the Obvious
Question Which US State was the 39th to enter the union?
Answer One of the Dakotas - we don't know which
Song Wakko's 50 State Capitols
Artist Animaniacs
Hint Two states wanted to be first
Note Both Dakotas entered the union on the same day: November 2, 1889.
Number 77
Realm The Funny Pages
Subrealm Stripper Names
Question Which famous comic strip featured minor characters named Truffles, Tapioca Pudding, and 555 95472, along with his twin sisters 444 and 333?
Answer Peanuts
Song Charlie Brown
Artist The Coasters
Hint You can see 555 dancing in a christmas movie
Note 555 is usually just called "5" for short. 95472 is his last name, which was in reality Charles Schultz's zip code when the character was introduced. As "5" explains to Charlie Brown in the strip from October 1, 1963, his father, morose and hysterical over the preponderance of numbers in people's lives, changed all of his family's names to numbers. Asked by Lucy if it was Mr. 95472's way of protesting, "5" replies that this was actually his father's way of "giving in." "5" also has two sisters named "3" and "4". ("Nice feminine names," in Charlie Brown's sarcastic assessment.) He has to keep explaining to the teacher that the accent is on "4" in his surname.
Number 78
Realm Rated T for Trivia
Subrealm Some Questions May Be Difficult for Young Children
Question What movie is responsible for the creation of the PG-13 rating, due to its more violent sequences?
Answer Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Song Dr. Jones
Artist Aqua
Hint It features a controversial scene with monkey brains
Note Stephen Spielberg suggested the PG-13 rating after hearing objections to Indiana Jones and Gremlins receiving PG ratings. The new rating was introduced July 1, 1984, and Red Dawn was the first movie to receive it.
Number 79
Realm Donning Our Gay Apparel
Subrealm No Ho-Ho-Homo
Question Michael Buble's hit 2011 Christmas album includes a cover of "Santa Baby". Not wanting to come on to Santa, Buble makes several lyrical changes, including swapping out "baby". What three Saint Nicknames does he use?
Answer Buddy, Pally, and Poppy
Song Last Christmas
Artist Wham!
Hint They all sorta sound like baby
Number 80
Realm SPAAAAACE
Subrealm In space, no one cares
Question Space is a cool place to be, and it's a lot of fun to do things in low gravity. In August 2019, veteran astronaut Anne McClain made headlines by being the first person to do what in space?
Answer Commit a Crime
Song Elektronik Supersonik
Artist Santo Cilauro/Zlad!
Hint She did something wrong
Note Ms. McClain was involved in a bitter separation and parenting dispute with her wife, a former Air Force intelligence officer named Summer Worden. Ms. Worden discovered that Ms. McMlain had been accessing her bank account from space, and filed a complaint with the FTC and NASA's inspector general.
Number 81
Realm Dating Sims
Subrealm For When You're Too Chicken To Date Real People
Question In 2019, the production company Psyop released a dating sim video game. You could romance all sorts of anime tropes, but who was the star of the dating sim?
Answer Colonel Sanders
Song Chicken Fried
Artist Zac Brown Band
Hint He was tall, dark, and made with eleven herbs and spices
Note Says one anonymous user on the internet: The Colonel Sanders dating simulator was a life changing experience. The design and graphics of this game parallel masterpieces such as Hunie Pop, and other games I treasure dearly. The emotional connection between the characters may remind one of classical literature such as Wuthering Heights, however this game surely surpasses these comparisons in every aspect. The developers should be praised, nay, worshiped, for their ability to craft code into an artistic masterpiece that will continue to be relevant in pop culture throughout the roaring 20's and maybe even beyond. Colonel Sanders forced me to prioritize what matters to me in my life, and after careful consideration I've decided that this game trumps all else. I can't go to sleep at night without the comforting gaze of Colonel Sanders lulling me into a deep sleep. Be warned, this game is not for the faint of heart. You will become connected to the colonel in a way you never could've imagined. Insanity burns through my body as I realize, as I do every day, that our love is confined to the world of this virtual dating simulator and I will never feel the warm embrace of Colonel's touch, with his hands warm as his signature mashed potatoes and gravy. This game will move you to tears.
Number 82
Realm Achievements in Anime
Subrealm Ash's Bizarre Adventure
Question On September 15, 2019, in the 1080th episode of Pokemon: The Series, what happened for the very first time?
Answer Ash became a Pokemon League Champion
Song Best of You
Artist Foo Fighters
Hint His quest was to be the very best
Number 83
Realm Charity Events
Subrealm Blowing Up In Their Faces
Question On September 27, 1986, a massive number of what descended upon Cleveland, Ohio, causing multiple traffic collisions, an airport shutdown, and lawsuits seekin millions in damages?
Answer Balloons
Song 99 Red Balloons
Artist Nena
Hint They were attempting to set a record
Note From Wikipedia: Balloonfest '86 was a 1986 event in which the United Way of Cleveland in Ohio set a world record by releasing almost one-and-a-half million balloons. The event was intended to be a harmless fundraising publicity stunt, but the balloons drifted back over the city, Lake Erie, and landed in the surrounding area, and caused problems for traffic and a nearby airport. The event also interfered with a United States Coast Guard search for two boaters who were later found drowned. In consequence, the organizers and the city faced lawsuits seeking millions of dollars in damages, and cost overruns put the event at a net loss.
Number 84
Realm Life's a Beach
Subrealm It's a Shore Thing
Question What was the original codename for Juno, one of the beaches in the Normandy landing on D-Day?
Answer Jelly
Song Everybody Jam
Artist Scatman John
Hint It was named after a "fish"
Number 85
Realm Censorship is [REDACTED]
Subrealm Our freedom cannot be [REDACTED]
Question THIS IS A THREE-POINT PLAY. When a web page is censored by the government, what error status code is returned? Who is this in honor of?
Answer 451, Ray Bradbury
Song Burnin' Up
Artist Jonas Brothers
Hint It references a book about censorship
Note Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel about censorship, named for the temerature at which paper burns.
Number 86
Realm Sports!
Subrealm The Nosebleed Section
Question Coors Field is the home field of the Colorado Rockies, located in Denver. All the seats there are painted green except for the 20th row of the upper deck, which is painted purple. Why?
Answer Exactly One Mile Elevation
Song Because I Got High
Artist Afroman
Hint The Nosebleeds is an accurate name
Number 87
Realm Hostile Nations
Subrealm of the Smaller Varieties
Question In 2017, one Australian senator complained that government buildings were flying the flag of a hostile nation. The comment seemed absurd at the time, but he was actually correct. What country was the flag from?
Answer The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Islands
Song The Rainbow Connection
Artist The Muppets
Hint The flag had another meaning
Note In 2004 a group of activists declared The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands on Australia's external overseas Territory of the Coral Sea Islands, a group of uninhabited islets east of the Great Barrier Reef. The formation was in protest of Australia's failure to recognize same-sex marriages, and the new kingdom quickly declared war on Australia. Its flag was a rainbow pride flag, the same one flown at an Australian Department of Finance building in February 2017, prompting the senator's complaint. The kingdom was dissolved on November 17, 2017, when the Australian people finally voted to legalize gay marriage.
Number 88
Realm Size Doesn't Matter
Subrealm It's How It Tastes
Question What food has sizes including large, jumbo, extra jumbo, colossal, super colossal, mammoth and super mammoth?
Answer Olives
Song Ana Ng
Artist They Might Be Giants
Hint You might see them on a pizza
Note It takes between 41 and 45 super mammoth olives to weigh a pound.
Number 89
Realm Size Does Matter
Subrealm Biblically Speaking
Question Speaking of sizes, what product has sizes such as Balthazar, Jeroboam, Salmanazar and Nebuchadnezzar?
Answer Wine Bottles
Song Red Red Wine
Artist UB40
Hint They're containers
Note A Nubuchadnezzar is 15 liters or about 4 gallons of wine (= 20 regular bottles).
Number 90
Realm The MCU
Subrealm McDonald's Cinematic Universe
Question McDonald's introduced a character known as Captain Crook in the 70s that was very similar to the Hamburglar. But rather than hamburgers, what did he steal?
Answer Filet O' Fishes
Song Panini
Artist Lil Nas X
Hint He stole something nautical
Number 91
Realm Kaiju!
Subrealm They're Big In Japan
Question The climax of the 2019 movie Godzilla: King of All Monsters features a fierce battle between Godzilla and Ghidorah at what famous historical landmark?
Answer Fenway Park
Song Sweet Caroline
Artist Neil Diamond
Hint It's just the place you would expect to see a giant Green Monster
Number 92
Realm The Color Out Of Space
Subrealm Hue Cares?
Question A team of astronomers from John Hopkins University averaged the spectral ranges from more than 200,000 galaxies and determined the average color of the universe. What is the name of this color?
Answer Cosmic Latte
Song The Coffee Song
Artist Frank Sinatra
Hint It was sorta brownish
Number 93
Realm Biological Warfare
Subrealm Like Open-mouth Sneezing
Question One of the earliest known forms of biological warfare was when Mongols would catapult what over city walls during sieges?
Answer Plague-infected corpses
Song Die Young
Artist Ke$ha
Hint They were trying to get their enemies infected
Number 94
Realm Music
Subrealm Group Projects
Question In Lil Dicky's song "Earth", over thirty celebrities voice various creatures. For example, Justin Bieber is a baboon, and Ariana Grande is a zebra. Who does Kevin Hart voice?
Answer Kanye West
Song Go West
Artist Pet Shop Boys
Hint It wasn't an animal
Number 95
Realm Media Circus
Subrealm Featuring Trained SEALS
Question One of the first public leaks of Osama Bin Laden's death, before any news media reported it, was through a tweet reading "Just got word that will shock the world - Land of the free...home of the brave DAMN PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!" Who tweeted the leak?
Answer Dwayne The Rock Johnson
Song I Wanna Rock
Artist Twisted Sister
Hint Nobody knows how he got that information, perhaps he could smell what they were cooking
Number 96
Realm More Copyright Trivia
Subrealm More Like Copywrong
Question Also in August of 2019, NBA superstar Lebron James tried to trademark what phrase related to his favorite food?
Answer Taco Tuesday
Song Despacito
Artist Luis Fonsi
Hint If successful, it would have been devestating to mexican restaurants everywhere
Number 97
Realm Sweet Home Chicago
Subrealm The Crappiest Place on Earth
Question August 8th, 2004. Tourists board a river cruise on the majestic Chicago River. As they pass under the Kinzie Street Bridge, 800 pounds of human waste is dropped directly onto them. Where did this poop come from?
Answer The Dave Matthews Band's Tour Bus
Song Dirty Water
Artist The Standells
Hint A vehicle emptied its toilet
Number 98
Realm Things That Divided Germany
Subrealm Them's Fightin' Words
Question The Antiqua-Fraktur Dispute bitterly divided Germany in the 19th and early 20th centuries, with Adolf Hitler personally advocating for the Antiqua faction against Otto von Bismarck's Fraktur support. What were the Germans getting so worked up about? (Note that for this song identification, we just need the instrument being played.)
Answer What is the most Germanic font
Song *Typewriter*
Artist Boston Typewriter Orchestra
Hint It was concerning how things were written
Number 99
Realm Amazing Sports Plays
Subrealm That Don't Work
Question On August 28, 1987, Williamsport Bills catcher Dave Bresnahan made an amazing play that got out a runner coming home. He was released from the team shortly afterwards for doing it. What did he do that caused him to be released from the team?
Answer He threw a potato instead of the ball.
Song Hot Potato
Artist The Wiggles
Hint He snuck something onto the field
Note In August of 1987, Bresnahan, then a 25-year-old second-string catcher with the Williamsport (Pennsylvania) Bills of the Class-AA Eastern League, decided to liven up a meaningless late-season home game. Before the game, Bresnahan peeled and sculpted a potato in the shape of a baseball. Behind the plate in the fifth inning, with the potato concealed in his mitt and a runner on third base, he threw the potato wildly past his third baseman, hoping the runner would think he made an errant pick-off throw. The play worked to perfection. The runner at third trotted home, and Bresnahan tagged him out with the baseball. An umpire retrieved the potato and awarded the runner home for Bresnahan’s deception. The following day, Bresnahan was fined by his manager and then released by the Bills’ parent club, the Cleveland Indians, for what they perceived as an affront to the integrity of the game. But he became an instant celebrity, and the next year the Bills had a ceremony to retire his number.
Number 100
Realm 'Smore Trivia
Subrealm (Minus the tasty parts)
Question Presbyterian minister Sylvester Graham invented the graham cracker in order to help prevent blindness and insanity. Why did he think that this would work?
Answer It was part of a diet to help people stop masturbating.
Song I Touch Myself
Artist The Divinyls
Hint He had a very religious view on personal time
Number 101
Realm Chainsaws!
Subrealm (Make chainsaw noises)
Question The earliest version of the chainsaw was developed in 1830 by Bernhard Heine. But it wasn't invented to cut down trees. What was the original chainsaw used to cut?
Answer Bones
Song Spooky Scary Skeletons
Artist Andrew Gold
Hint There's 206 of them
Number 102
Realm Musical Geniuses
Subrealm What a jerk
Question Comedian Steve Martin is a funny guy. In fact he's won 2 Grammys for comedy albums. But he's won three more Grammys by playing what instrument?
Answer Banjo
Song King Tut
Artist Steve Martin
Hint He's good at strumming
Number 103
Realm Musical Theater
Subrealm L'Chaim!
Question "A Shoggoth on the Roof" is a full-length, song-for-song parody of "A Fiddler on the Roof" featuring songs like "If I Were A Deep One" and "Victim of Victims". Whose works inspired this parody?
Answer H.P. Lovecraft
Song If I Were A Rich Man
Artist Fiddler On the Roof
Hint Cthulhu's in the musical
Number 104
Realm Diseases
Subrealm Avoid them like the plague
Question In an effort to make people more prepared for natural disasters, what specific disaster did the CDC warn people about in a blog post on May 16, 2011?
Answer Zombie Apocalypse
Song The Walking Dead Theme
Artist ...
Hint It's a proably usually seen in horror movies
Note You can still find the Zombie Preparedness Blog on the CDC website.
Number 105
Realm Jeopardy!
Subrealm Questioning Your Answers
Question In 2011, Watson, a supercomputer developed by IBM, appeared on Jeopardy! against former champion Brian Rutter and Ken Jennings. Although Watson ultimately won, what incorrect response did it give to the Final Jeopardy category of U.S. Cities?
Answer What is Toronto?????
Song American Idiot
Artist Green Day
Hint Watson's response was very wrong for the category
Number 106
Realm Peppa Pig Trivia
Subrealm The Unrated Version
Question Arkansas banned an episode of the children's show Arthur because it showed a gay marriage. Australia banned an episode of Peppa Pig for what reason?
Answer Encouraged kids to pick up spiders
Song Theme from Spider Man
Artist Aerosmith
Hint It was to protect them from Autralian wildlife
Number 107
Realm The Book Was Better
Subrealm And Completely Different
Question Richard Kelly, the screenwriter of Donnie Darko, wrote the original movie script for what book adaptation? It went unused because it changed several elements of the book, like setting it in a post-nuclear war dystopia, adding a plague, and killing several characters who didn't originally die.
Answer Holes
Song Dig A Little Deeper
Artist The Princess And The Frog
Hint The movie stars Shia Lebouef
Number 108
Realm As American as
Subrealm Dutch Apple Pie
Question German Chocolate Cake was invented in America in 1852 by an American baker, and has nothing to do with Germany. So why's it called German Chocolate Cake?
Answer His name was Samuel German
Song The Distance
Artist Cake
Hint It has to do with the man who invented it
Number 109
Realm Pets
Subrealm Man's best friend
Question Name the only breed of dog that can't bark
Answer Basenji
Song The Sounds of Silence
Artist Simon & Garfunkel
Hint They're an African hunting dog
Note Basenjis yodel instead of barking.
Number 110
Realm Six Feet Under
Subrealm And Inside
Question Food storage technician Fredric Baur requested that his ashes be placed in one of these objects which he designed, and his family honored his wishes.
Answer Pringles can
Song Six Feet Under
Artist Billie Eilish
Hint You may have gotten your hand stuck in one
Note https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pringles-urn/
Number 111
Realm Traditional Japanese Architecture
Subrealm Traditional Japanese Heroes
Question On the grounds of the Kanucha Bay Resort in Okinawa, Japan is an exact replica of what American building?
Answer Bill Clinton's House
Song Don't Stop
Artist Fleetwood Mac
Hint It's a presidential residence
Note The house is a replica of Bill Clinton's childhood home in Hope, Arkansas. Clinton has never been there, and it's a bit of a mystery why it was ever built.
Number 112
Realm Thomas The Tank Engine Fanfic
Subrealm The Musical!
Question "Starlight Express" is a rock musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the most successful musical in Germany, and the eighth longest-running musical on Broadway. It's about sentient trains. What interesting thing do all of the actors wear to better portray train engines?
Answer Roller Skates
Song Starlight Express
Artist Andrew Lloyd-Webber
Hint The actors move like trains
Number 113
Realm Where Are They Now?
Subrealm Where Were They Then?
Question Which actor from the TV show Full House went on to have the titular role an iconic 1997 sports movie, which got him nominated for a Kids Choice Award and spawned several sequels and spinoffs?
Answer Air Buddy
Song Who Let The Dogs Out
Artist Baha Men
Hint He wasn't a human
Number 114
Realm Grammy Award Noms
Subrealm Comemerative Plaque
Question What celebrity recorded a Grammy-nominated album that raised awareness of tooth decay among children and featured Frank Sinatra?
Answer Muhammad Ali
Song Punched in the Teeth by Love
Artist Motley Crue
Hint He's better known in the ring
Note The album was titled "The Adventures of Ali and His Gang vs. Mr. Tooth Decay". Ali later boxed against Mr. Tooth Decay during Dental Hygiene for Children Day in Washington, D. C. in January 1980.
Number 115
Realm Accounted for Inflation
Subrealm And Inflated Egos
Question Who is reportedly the highest-paid athlete of all time, earning over 11 billion dollars, adjusted for inflation?
Answer Gaius Appuleius Diocles
Song Chariots of Fire
Artist Vangelis
Hint It's not a basketball or baseball player
Note Gaius Appuleius Diocles was born in 104 AD and competed as a charioteer in Rome for 24 years. His winnings totaled the equivalent of 26,000 kg of gold.

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