Ohio Players

May 13-14, 2011

On-Air Questions and Songs

Number 1
Realm Good Evening!
Subrealm The Ohio Players will ROCK YOUR WORLD for the next 8 hours!
Question This band formed in Dayton, Ohio as the Ohio Untouchables before changing their name. They have had such members as Wes Boatman, Junie Morrison, Pee Wee Middlebrooks, Satch Satchell, and Diamond Williams. They had two big #1 songs in the 1970s. Who are these Midwest masters of funk?
Answer The Ohio Players!
Song Fire
Artist The Ohio Players
Number 2
Realm Not Masters Of Funk
Subrealm Just Midwest
Question What popular early-2000s TV show featured not one, not two, not 108, but THREE main actors who were all from Dayton, Ohio?
Answer The West Wing. (The Daytonites are Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, and Rob Lowe)
Song Yummy Yummy Yummy
Artist The Ohio Express
Number 3
Realm Ohio
Subrealm Players
Question Before home games, the Ohio State band always marches in the famed "Script Ohio" formation, which unsurprisingly forms the word "Ohio". The player of what instrument traditionally dots the "I" in "Ohio"?
Answer The sousaphone.
Song Vehicle
Artist Ides of March
Number 4
Realm Ohio
Subrealm Is not mentioned in this question
Question On April 15, 1940, composer Igor Stravinsky used an unconventional major seventh chord in his arrangement of the Star-Spangled Banner that was performed in Boston. What was the unexpected result of his reinterpretation?
Answer He was arrested by Boston police (for violating a federal law that prohibited the reharmonization of the National Anthem).
Song The Anthem
Artist Good Charlotte
Number 5
Realm One-Hit Wonders
Subrealm Unlike the Ohio Players
Question "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" by Edison Lighthouse, "Beach Baby" by The First Class, "My Baby Loves Lovin" by White Plains and "United We Stand" by The Brotherhood Of Man all were hits in the early 1970s. What other common element did they all share?
Answer They all have the same lead singer (Tony Burrows).
Song Me, Myself, and I
Artist De La Soul
Number 6
Realm Punch
Subrealm It In
Question Joe Louis was not the first black heavyweight champion. But he WAS the first African-American to achieve another sporting first. What was it?
Answer He was the first African-American man to play in a PGA Tour event.
Song Driver 8
Artist R.E.M.
Number 7
Realm Music
Subrealm Music That Won't Be Played Tonight
Question We were sorting through some of our albums recently, including Nada Surf's "If I Had a Hi-Fi," Santana's "Aoxomoxoa," and Soundgarden's "Satan, Oscillate My Metallic Sonatas," as well as lesser-known bands like Milk's "So Many Dynamos," Eastern Seaboard's "Won't Lovers Revolt Now?" and the Kabeedies' "Ten Animals I Slam in a Net." Suddenly, a realization occurred to us. No, not about our terrible taste in music. It's that all of those albums have something in common. But what?
Answer All the album titles are palindromes.
Song S.O.S.
Artist ABBA
Number 8
Realm Mountains Near Williamstown
Subrealm Quite A Hike
Question What American record is held by Mount Monadnock, in southwestern New Hampshire?
Answer It's the most hiked mountain in the US ("climbed" is acceptable as well).
Song You'll Never Walk Alone
Artist Perry Como
Number 9
Realm Valuable Viking finds
Subrealm Other Than Brett Favre's texts
Question Described by one scientist as "in its own way, it's as valuable as the Crown Jewels", this one-of-a-kind item was discovered by archaeologists excavating a Viking settlement near York, England in 1972. Since then, it's been on display, quote, "delighting generations of awestruck children". While on display, some clumsy oaf dropped this priceless artifact and broke it into three pieces! What am I talking about?
Answer The Lloyds Bank Coprolite, the largest piece of fossilized human feces ever discovered. (The actual quote by Andrew Jones, who appraised the coprolite for insurance purposes, was "This is the most exciting piece of excrement I've ever seen. In its own way, it's as valuable as the Crown Jewels.")
Song Pick Up the Pieces
Artist Average White Band
Number 10
Realm Presidents From Ohio
Subrealm Don't Blink Or You'll Miss Him
Question The glorious 28-week Presidency of James Garfield was first class all the way. His assassin Charles Guiteau put tremendous thought into selecting the precise firearm he would use to shoot the President: a .44 Webley British Bulldog with an elegant silver handle. Why was Guiteau so careful about choosing his weapon?
Answer He wanted it to look nice when they put it in a museum.
Song Major Tom
Artist Shiny Toy Guns
Number 11
Realm War Is Hell
Subrealm It's Unbearable
Question In October 2010, a monument to Polish World War 2 hero "Private Wojtek" was dedicated in Edinburgh. Why did "Private Wojtek" uniquely merit such an honor?
Answer He was a brown bear who helped the Polish Army fight Nazis by unload artillery shells at the Battle of Cassino in 1944. (After the war, he retired to the Edinburgh zoo.) (Note: battle and year not needed for answer.)
Song Last Song
Artist Edward Bear
Number 12
Realm Children's Literature
Subrealm Lame Plot Twists
Question In the eighth book of a beloved children's series, a formerly mute character begins talking. The explanation? He just hadn't felt like talking before. Who is it?
Answer Toto (from "The Wizard of Oz").
Song Bark At The Moon
Artist Ozzy Osbourne
Number 13
Realm Shirt And Shoes Required, Teeth Optional
Subrealm NASCAR
Question NASCAR driver Brian Conz has a unique sponsor for his Busch Series car. Who is it?
Answer The Freemasons. (also accept Scottish Rite or Masons)
Song Turn To Stone
Artist ELO
Number 14
Realm We Hate Censorship
Subrealm All Mention of It Should Be Banned
Question In 2010, the Menifee Union School District in California pulled all copies of a certain book from classrooms, because it had come to the attention of school officials that it contained "age-inappropriate" words and phrases. What was the offending book?
Answer Merriam-Webster's Dictionary. (Webster's Dictionary is acceptable)
Song Words
Artist Missing Persons
Number 15
Realm The Governator
Subrealm He Should Have Outlawed Bad Impressions Of His Accent
Question At the 2004 Republican National Convention, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said that it was while watching the 1968 Presidential debate between Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey that he first realized he was a Republican. Which specific moment from the debate made the strongest impression on a young Arnold?
Answer None; Nixon and Humphrey never debated.
Song Whatever Became of Hubert?
Artist Tom Lehrer
Number 16
Realm Hollywood
Subrealm Deaths
Question What unique, death-related Hollywood record is held by actor Bill Paxton?
Answer He's the only actor to be killed by a Terminator, a Predator, and an Alien.
Song Die, Die, Die
Artist The Avett Brothers
Number 17
Realm Sports
Subrealm Hated Rivals
Question In January 1971, at the University of Tennessee, a basketball team won a thrilling game by a score of 100-99. They left the court to tumultuous booing, and their coach agreed, "It was like killing Santa Claus." What unpopular team won the game?
Answer The Washington Generals. (It's the last time they beat the Harlem Globetrotters.)
Song Finally
Artist CeCe Peniston
Number 18
Realm Jobs
Subrealm Nice Work If You Can Get it
Question A contract with the Washington Generals. The starring role in a porn film. The general manager's job directing the wrestlers on "Monday Night Raw." A service job at Mrs. Fields Cookies. A sidekick slot on a morning zoo radio show in Fargo, North Dakota. A show on the Jewish Life TV network. A one-episode guest spot as an IRA terrorist. An internship at CrunchGear.com. And they say it's a bad job market. What do all these positions have in common?
Answer They're job offers made to Conan O'Brien after NBC ended his "Tonight Show" run.
Song Supermodel (You Better Work)
Artist RuPaul
Number 19
Realm Cover Your Toddler's Eyes
Subrealm Here be Monsters!
Question In 2007, the first seasons of a certain show were released in England on DVD, complete with a warning label that read: ""These early episodes are intended for grown-ups, and may not suit the needs of today's preschool child." Which child-scarring show was this?
Answer Sesame Street. (The label was used because of Cookie Monster's cookie addiction, and Oscar The Grouch's obvious depression).
Song Mean Street
Artist Van Halen
Number 20
Realm Congress
Subrealm Everybody Loves C-SPAN
Question Whose 2002 Congressional testimony before the Education Appropriations Subcommittee received the most media coverage?
Answer Elmo.
Song Slap And Tickle
Artist Squeeze
Number 21
Realm Mr. Coffee
Subrealm Say It Ain't So, Joe
Question We know about Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak. But the bum blew it. How did Joe throw away $10,000 by being unable to extend his hitting streak for one more game?
Answer Heinz had promised him a bonus if he could reach 57 games, so they could use the milestone to promote "Heinz 57".
Song Message In A Bottle
Artist The Police
Number 22
Realm Authors
Subrealm They Shore Are Interesting
Question The following is an excerpt from a 2011 novel: "He had an okay body. Not fat at all. And naturally toned abs. She could pour a shot of tequila down his belly and slurp it out of his navel without getting splashed in the face." Please name the accomplished author of this prose.
Answer Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi (Also accept just "Snooki"). It's from her magnum opus "A Shore Thing".
Song Stupid Girl
Artist Garbage
Number 23
Realm Airports
Subrealm Tarmac Shakur
Question Seen from the air, what shape is formed by the runways at Denver International Airport?
Answer A swastika.
Song Airplanes
Artist B.o.B.
Number 24
Realm California
Subrealm So, what's shakin'?
Question During the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake, authorities and emergency organizations received hundreds of phone calls asking about a strange silver cloud and whether it had played any role in causing the quake. In fact, it had not. What was this troubling silver cloud?
Answer The Milky Way. (Residents were seeing it because their power had gone out.)
Song Might be Stars
Artist The Wannadies
Number 25
Realm Unfair Taxes
Subrealm I'd Drink Too If I Lived In Pennsylvania
Question For over 70 years, Pennsylvania lushes have been stuck with an 18% tax, on all alcohol, that was originally 10% and was supposed to be a temporary tax to pay for this. What?
Answer Damage from the Johnstown Flood.
Song Damn, I Wish I Was your Lover
Artist Sophie B. Hawkins
Number 26
Realm This Is Why We'd Drink If We Lived In Pennsylvania
Subrealm Sorry, No Miners Admitted
Question An underground fire struck a mining town in central Pennsylvania in 1962. How did firemen put the fire out?
Answer They didn't; the fire in Centralia, PA is still burning today.
Song Fire Down Below
Artist Bob Seger
Number 27
Realm Check It Out
Subrealm Studying For Our Boards
Question The 2009 class for the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame included one honoree that never played amateur or pro hockey. Who is this person?
Answer Frank Zamboni, inventor of the machine that resurfaces ice rinks.
Song Freeze Frame
Artist The J. Geils Band
Number 28
Realm I'm Steely Dan
Subrealm But You're Not
Question Before they formed Steely Dan, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen went to Bard College and fronted two college bands, The Bad Rock Group and The Leather Canary. Who was their drummer in these two bands?
Answer Chevy Chase.
Song Vacation
Artist The Go-Go's
Number 29
Realm Nevada Politics
Subrealm Where Everyone's A Prostitute
Question In Nevada's 1976 Republican House primary, the winning candidate got 47% of the vote. Unfortunately, they were unable to run for the seat in November. Who was the winner?
Answer "None of These Candidates." (Nevada state law includes this ballot option.)
Song Who Do You Love
Artist George Thorogood
Number 30
Realm Running Afoul Of the Law
Subrealm A Hit And Run Crime
Question Although this is OK now, it was considered illegal all the way up to 1921, when Ruben Berman was arrested and held overnight for refusing to give this item back to its legal owner at the time. After a court case, Ruben was exonerated and it became not only legal, but traditional, to keep this item if captured. What item?
Answer A foul ball at a Major League game.
Song Pop
Artist N'Sync
Number 31
Realm Clean socks?
Subrealm Count us out!
Question Where would you find all of these together: "Clean socks", "Swiss Army knife", "Bowling Ball", "Cast Iron Skillet", "Do cardio", and "Bounty paper towels"?
Answer These are some of the 33 rules followed by "Columbus" in the movie Zombieland.
Song Re: Your Brains
Artist Jonathan Coulton
Number 32
Realm Getting Presidential
Subrealm Vote For Trivia!
Question The first 15 Presidents were elected without having this. The 16th was, too, but he acquired it before being sworn in. Then, nine out of the next ten Presidential elections were won by men who had it... and so did Chester A. Arthur, who became President without winning an election himself. However, following that streak, not a single President has had it since 1913. What?
Answer Facial hair.
Song I've Just Seen A Face
Artist The Beatles
Number 33
Realm Jews
Subrealm Serving As Trivia Answers for the last 5,771 years
Question Moment magazine recently published a list of the "Top Ten Non-Jews Often Misidentified as Jews". THIS IS A THREE POINT PLAY! Be a mensch and identify any three goyim for one point, or any five for two points, bubala!
Answer Bruce Springsteen; Charlie Chaplin; Alan Alda; Milton Hershey; Ringo Starr; Rupert Murdoch; Ethel Merman; Mike Myers; "Weird Al" Yankovic; Joy Behar.
Song You Won't Succeed On Broadway If You Don't Have Any Jews
Artist Spamalot!
Number 34
Realm Sports Videogames
Subrealm Sorry, We Were Busy Playing Madden 2011
Question Who is the only athlete to be included in three different videogames in three different sports?
Answer Brock Lesnar (NFL football, WWE wrestling, UFC mixed martial arts).
Song Shout At The Devil
Artist Mötley Crüe
Note This is Brock's current UFC entrance music
Number 35
Realm ESPN
Subrealm Your sports network, except when they're not
Question We're not saying that ESPN2 is a dumping ground for unwatchable programming. We're just saying that the worldwide leader in sports actually broadcast these hard-hitting championship tournaments for three years' running, from 1998 to 2000. Name the, um, sport?
Answer Magic: The Gathering.
Song The Wizard
Artist Black Sabbath
Number 36
Realm Not that surprising...
Subrealm After all, his dad WAS President
Question According to a poll conducted by Public Policy Polling in March 2011, Sarah Palin trails what currently undeclared Presidential candidate for the 2012 election by 41-36 percent among independent voters?
Answer Charlie Sheen.
Song Winning
Artist Santana
Number 37
Realm Our Future President
Subrealm Winning, duh!
Question In the comedy classic "Major League", in an effort to drive attendance down in order to excuse moving the team, evil owner Rachel Phelps acquires the worst collection of has-beens and never-weres ever assembled on a fictional baseball diamond. What league did "Wild Thing" Ricky Vaughn play in before coming to the Indians?
Answer California Penal.
Song Folsom Prison Blues
Artist Johnny Cash
Number 38
Realm Musicans Get All The Ladies
Subrealm Well, Usually
Question If the stories are true--and for the purposes of this question, we will assume they are--the band Nothing Painted Blue holds a unique place in music history. They never sold a million albums, and they never had a Top Ten hit, but another mathematical distinction is reportedly theirs. What?
Answer Every member of the band had a perfect SAT score.
Song Sat In Your Lap
Artist Kate Bush
Number 39
Realm Ronald
Subrealm McDonaldowitz
Question Only two countries in the world have kosher McDonalds restaurants. THIS IS A TWO-POINT PLAY! In the spirit of generosity, we will give you ZERO points to name one of the countries, and ONE point for the other!
Answer For zero points: Israel. For one point: Argentina (it's in Buenos Aires).
Song Pork And Beans
Artist Weezer
Number 40
Realm Lean Mean Fighting Machine
Subrealm Except On Shabbos
Question In March 2010, the Israeli military suddenly called off a planned attack on a West Bank village. Why?
Answer An Israeli soldier had posted details of the raid on his Facebook page.
Song I Like It
Artist Enrique Iglesias
Number 41
Realm Online Agreements
Subrealm Maybe You Should Read Them
Question On April Fool's Day, 2010, video game website GameStation added a clause to their usual terms and conditions for online buyers. What item did the buyers grant to the game company?
Answer Their immortal soul.
Song You Belong To Me
Artist Carly Simon
Number 42
Realm Old-Time Hockey
Subrealm All The Excitement, Twice The Dentures
Question Travel with us now, through the mists of sports history, to Madison Square Garden and the deciding game of the 1938 Stanley Cup semi-finals between the Chicago Blackhawks and the New York Americans. With the game tied in the third period, Chicago defenseman Alex Levinsky scored the go-ahead goal that would win the series... or did he? Because the red light that indicates a goal did not light up. Why not?
Answer Fans were restraining the goal judge's hands, so he couldn't turn the light on.
Song The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia
Artist Vicki Lawrence
Number 43
Realm Artistic License
Subrealm Is a Slippery Slope
Question Creator Ric Silver is upset that his grand creation is being violated by amateurs who do it incorrectly, especially on weekends. He's so upset he has filed DMCA takedown notices against YouTube users, and has taken other legal actions to preserve the artistic integrity of his creation. What did he invent?
Answer The Electric Slide.
Song Gimme Three Steps
Artist Lynyrd Skynyrd
Number 44
Realm Disgruntled Frenchmen
Subrealm ...but I Repeat Myself
Question Noted writer Guy de Maupassant called the Eiffel Tower "a giant and disgraceful skeleton... an unavoidable and horrid nightmare." And yet he ate regularly at the Tower's restaurant. Why?
Answer It was the only place in Paris where he couldn't see the Eiffel Tower.
Song Don't Look Back in Anger
Artist Oasis
Number 45
Realm The most magical phrase in the English language
Subrealm Great Googly Moogly!
Question In a famous Snickers ad, a football stadium groundskeeper has just finished painting the end zone, when it is brought to his attention that he's misspelled the team's name, leading him to utter the immortal phrase, "Great Googly Moogly!" What did the end zone writing spell out, and what was it SUPPOSED TO spell out?
Answer Chefs, and Chiefs.
Song Don't You (Forget About Me)
Artist David Cook
Number 46
Realm Great Googly Moogly!
Subrealm Somebody stop me!
Question The immortal phrase "Great Googly Moogly!" is also the catchphrase of what animated denizen of Nowhere Land?
Answer The Ferocious Beast (from Maggie and the Ferocious Beast)
Song Maggie May
Artist Rod Stewart
Number 47
Realm Beast Catchphrases , Part Deux
Subrealm Alas, the answer is not "Great Googly Moogly!"
Question As we previously learned, the catchphrase of The Ferocious Beast is "Great Googly Moogly!" However, the Marvel comics character The Beast (of Avengers and X-Men fame) has a different favorite catchphrase ... what is it?
Answer "Oh, my stars and garters!"
Song White Rabbit
Artist Blue Man Group
Number 48
Realm Spanning the Globe
Subrealm To bring you the constant variety of trivia
Question What starts at Boston, and includes such far flung locales as San Francisco, Death Valley and Toledo, before finally reaching Honolulu?
Answer They are the cities listed on the signpost at the 4077th MASH unit.
Song Like A Surgeon
Artist "Weird Al" Yankovic
Number 49
Realm Tsu, What's New?
Subrealm Yama Don't Want To Know
Question The next time you think you're having a bad week, we want you to think of Tsutomu Yamaguchi. Yamaguchi had a really bad week in August 1945. Tell us how.
Answer He survived the atomic bomb blast at Hiroshima. Then he went back to his hometown: Nagasaki. (He said that two of his co-workers had the same experience, but Japan only recognizes Yamaguchi.)
Song Boom Boom
Artist John Lee Hooker
Number 50
Realm Question for my Holmeboys
Subrealm Play It Again, Sam
Question What well-known literary phrase first appeared in the P.G. Wodehouse novel P. Smith, Journalist in 1915?
Answer "Elementary, my dear Watson". (The exact phrase never appears in any of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories.)
Song Baker Street
Artist Gerry Rafferty
Number 51
Realm OK, this guy never was famous
Subrealm But I'll bet you've seen him before
Question Who is Sean McCartin, and why was his career choice of preacher oddly appropriate?
Answer He was the "lucky boy" in Animal House who shouted "Thank you, God!" when the woman gets thrown into his bedroom during the final parade scene.
Song She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
Artist Joe Cocker
Number 52
Realm Here come da judge!
Subrealm Somebody block him!
Question Alan Page, Hall of Fame defensive tackle with the great Minnesota Vikings teams of the 1970's, has had equally stellar post-football success in the field of law, rising to the position of Associate Justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court. He also has one unique connection to the Pro Football Hall of Fame itself that no other member can claim. Name it.
Answer He worked on its construction while still in high school in Canton, OH
Song Build Me Up Buttercup
Artist The Foundations
Number 53
Realm Such descriptive language!
Subrealm It must be a high class product!
Question This product is described in a 2007 Chicago Tribune article thusly: "It is amber-colored and translucent, with tiny bubbles. The texture is soft and sturdy, pliable and complex, with ridges of multihued solid chunks looking like a jagged lunar landscape. Colored bits of foam the size of coarse bread crumbs are added, in red, yellow, 'natural,' and two shades of brown." Wow! What item are they describing so lushly?
Answer Fake vomit. (The person creating the mixture is called the vomitmaster!)
Song Here You Come Again
Artist Dolly Parton
Number 54
Realm Musical Instruments
Subrealm Hands Up!
Question What 20th century weapon was named after a musical instrument?
Answer The bazooka. (It's an African horn.)
Song Chew Chew Chew (Your Bubble Gum)
Artist Ella Fitzgerald
Number 55
Realm Cat Scans
Subrealm Stop staring at me, Garfield!
Question Sir Godfrey Hounsfield was able to get funding that enabled him to invent the CT Scanner, and win the 1979 Nobel Prize for Medicine, largely thanks to the efforts of one group of people. Which group?
Answer The Beatles. (Their success enabled EMI Records to invest in Hounsfield's work.)
Song Photograph
Artist Ringo Starr
Number 56
Realm Timeless Film Classics
Subrealm Yep, Cartoons
Question What highly unusual thing happens at the end of the cartoon "Soup or Sonic"?
Answer Wile E. Coyote catches the Road Runner. (Alas, poor Wile has been shrunk down to pea size.)
Song At Last
Artist Etta James
Number 57
Realm Number Sequences
Subrealm Decide If You Like This Question
Question It went from 6 to 7 to 9 to 10 to 9 to 8 to the current 9. What is it?
Answer The Supreme Court.
Song The Man in Black
Artist Johnny Cash
Number 58
Realm More Supreme Court Trivia
Subrealm Anita Hill Votes Nay To This Question
Question Why was February 22, 2006 a significant date in the career of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas?
Answer It is the most recent date that he asked a question during an oral argument.
Song Enjoy the Silence
Artist Depeche Mode
Number 59
Realm TV Spinoffs
Subrealm Coming Soon To This Network - Question 59, The Early Years!
Question In television, imitation is the sincerest form of programming. Hence the spinoff. From "Melrose Place" to "Angel," from "The Colbert Report" to "Baywatch Nights", they have been comfortingly familiar. But only one spinoff has a title which is an anagram for the TV series it came from. Name those two shows.
Answer "Torchwood," which came from "Doctor Who."
Song Substitute
Artist The Who
Number 60
Realm Here it is! The SAMOA question!
Subrealm Wait ... what do you mean it's supposed to be about Tonga?
Question The Girl Scouts of America use two different baking companies to produce their cookies, each of whom has their own set of names for the standard Girl Scout brands. The cookies known as "Samoas" by one company are called what by the other?
Answer Caramel De-lights
Song Groove Is In The Heart
Artist Dee-lite
Number 61
Realm Books
Subrealm Unpopular Books
Question Writer Christopher Hitchens called this "the single worst review any novelist has ever had." What was it?
Answer The Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa declaration against Salman Rushdie.
Song I Ran (So Far Away)
Artist A Flock Of Seagulls
Number 62
Realm I'm Chip
Subrealm You're Chipper
Question What does writer and Harvard graduate Jerome Vered have in common with a cluster of ninety IBM Power 750 servers that run 2880 POWER7 processor cores using a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 operating system, and no one or nothing else?
Answer They are the only two Jeopardy! contestants to have played in a game against both Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter (the "cluster", of course, is Watson the supercomputer.)
Song Play The Game
Artist Queen
Number 63
Realm Watson
Subrealm I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords
Question Watson, the Jeopardy!-playin' supercomputer, uses an avatar which is a picture of a globe with a bunch of thought lines that activate when he is "thinking" about a question. How many thought lines are on the avatar, and why that number?
Answer There are 42 lines, as a tribute to Douglas Adams.
Song So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish
Artist The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
Number 64
Realm Science Geniuses
Subrealm Drop An Apple On His Head
Question Sir Isaac Newton described the laws of motion, explained how gravitation guides planetary motion, built the first reflecting telescope, and led the development of calculus. His work is of incalculable value to humanity. But he also did something nice for kitty cats. What?
Answer He is credited with inventing the swinging cat door.
Song Inside Out
Artist Phil Collins
Number 65
Realm Joe Quesada
Subrealm Is An Evil Doofus
Question Mary Jane Watson dies in the series "Spider-Man: Reign." What is the cause?
Answer She gets cancer from Peter Parker's radioactive sperm.
Song Don't Come Around Here No More
Artist Tom Petty
Number 66
Realm iPhone and iPad?
Subrealm iDont care!
Question The Chinese company that produces iPhones and iPads for Apple has a worker agreement that forbids employees to do this. Do what?
Answer Commit suicide.
Song Hanginaround
Artist Counting Crows
Number 67
Realm Movie trivia
Subrealm Don't yell out the answer
Question In the long-forgotten 1951 movie Distant Drums, a group of soldiers is wading through a swamp, when suddenly one of them is bitten and dragged underwater by an alligator. What did that soldier do that has affected moviemaking ever since?
Answer The soldier's scream (known as the "Wilhelm Scream") has since been used in over 200 movies.
Song I Put A Spell On You
Artist Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Number 68
Realm Logic Problems
Subrealm At This Time Of Night, We'd All Fail Them
Question The Tufts Psychology Department conducted a series of experiments in which participants were tested on logic problems. The study showed that making one physical change to the test-taking environment resulted in higher scores. It's something that you might also see in comic strips. What was the brain-improving change?
Answer Adding a lightbulb over the subjects' heads.
Song Switch
Artist Will Smith
Number 69
Realm The Desert
Subrealm It's Hard Out Here For A Tree
Question Located in the Sahara Desert, the Tree of Ténéré (ten-er-ray) was once the world's most isolated tree. No other tree grew within 250 miles in any direction. Why is the tree no longer there?
Answer A truck driver crashed into it.
Song Timber
Artist Neko Case
Number 70
Realm Highly Acclaimed Movies
Subrealm With Naughty Bits
Question Five X-rated movies have gotten Oscar nominations. Name four of them.
Answer Midnight Cowboy, M*A*S*H, Last Tango in Paris, A Clockwork Orange, and Cabaret. (Only "A Clockwork Orange" retains its X rating today.)
Song Dirrty
Artist Christina Aguilera
Number 71
Realm We Haven't Read It...
Subrealm But We'd Bet It's Better Than Snooki's Book
Question It's always important to appreciate those closest to you. To whom did Mark Wahlberg dedicate his 1992 memoir?
Answer His penis.
Song Ding Dong Ding Dong
Artist George Harrison
Number 72
Realm Comic Books
Subrealm Not Yet Ruined By Joe Quesada
Question Who was the first comic book superhero to have the power to fly?
Answer The Sub-Mariner.
Song Sugar, We're Goin' Down
Artist Fall Out Boy
Number 73
Realm Who Moved My Cheese?
Subrealm The goggles - they do nothing!
Question A Sardinian delicacy, the cheese known as "Casu Marzu" literally translates to "rotten cheese", and is considered the world's most dangerous cheese. It is recommended you wear eye protection when enjoying a piece - why?
Answer The live maggots residing in the cheese are known to jump onto people's eyeballs.
Song Fly
Artist Sugar Ray
Number 74
Realm All-Star Jewish Catchers Who Were Spies
Subrealm Moe Berg
Question Before he played in the major leagues, Moe Berg was the catcher for Princeton University's championship baseball team. Berg devised an ingenious way to openly pass along baserunning signals and other information without opposing teams being able to find out what they were. But he was unable to use this method in the majors. Describe Berg's method.
Answer He just shouted directions out loud, but in Latin.
Song Pictures of Matchstick Men
Artist Status Quo
Number 75
Realm Comic Strips
Subrealm No Joe Quesada Insults Required... But He Still Stinks
Question In "The Wizard of Id," the kingdom's most persistent criminal is the Lone Haranguer, who rides past the King's window shouting treasonous abuse. Specifically, what is the five-word phrase he shouts?
Answer "The King is a fink!"
Song Short People
Artist Randy Newman
Number 76
Realm Williams Trivia's Glorious Island Paradise
Subrealm Yeah, we've never been there either
Question On the beautiful islands of Tonga, education is a little different. All Tongan schools offer a class which is rarely available in American schools. However, the class is only for girl students. What is Tonga's all-female curriculum?
Answer Juggling.
Song Red Rubber Ball
Artist The Cyrkle
Number 77
Realm The Olympics
Subrealm Modern Sportsmanship
Question The Olympics are all about the triumph of the human spirit, as athletes push their bodies to the limit to overcome adversity. This... is not one of those stories. At the 1984 Olympics, Puerto Rico's Madeleine de Jesus badly injured herself in the long jump, but was due to run the second leg of the team's 4x400 relay. She just couldn't let her teammates down. How did she recover in time?
Answer Madeleine's twin sister secretly took her place. (The Puerto Rican coach discovered the switch and pulled his team from the event.)
Song Are We Ourselves?
Artist The Fixx
Number 78
Realm Modern Sportsmanship
Subrealm Yeah, Right
Question Throughout the years, athletes such as Mark McGwire, the 1919 Black Sox, Marion Jones, and Rosie Ruiz have brought shame on themselves and their sports through various cheating scandals. One such group of cheaters was uncovered by Spanish undercover reporter Carlos Ribagorda. What sports scandal did he reveal?
Answer Ribagorda became an undercover member of the Spanish gold-medal winning basketball team at the 2000 Paralympic Games in Sydney. Later, Ribagorda blew the whistle on the team for competing illegally, as no one on the team had any disability whatsoever. They were forced to surrender their medals. (Phone people: accept general idea of answer)
Song It's A Sin To Tell A Lie
Artist Brent Spiner
Number 79
Realm Here's To The Winners
Subrealm Time For Geim
Question What did Andre Geim win in 2000, and what did he win in 2010?
Answer The Ig Nobel Prize (in Physics), and the actual Nobel Prize (in Physics).
Song Dynamite
Artist Taio Cruz
Number 80
Realm A Question About Nothing
Subrealm Seinfeld
Question In the episode titled "The Contest," Jerry, George, Kramer and Elaine compete to see which of them can take a "hands-off" approach to their sexuality longer than the others. What specific new erotic temptation does each character face?
Answer Jerry-- dating a virgin who is deciding whether to make Jerry her first;
George-- watching a woman's silhouetted sponge baths at the hospital;
Kramer-- seeing a naked woman in a window across the street;
Elaine-- John F. Kennedy Jr. joins her gym class.
Song I Can't Wait
Artist Nu Shooz
Number 81
Realm Not Part of "The Contest" Episode
Subrealm Sex In A Box
Question The company that produced this product was accused of selling "sex in a box." What was it?
Answer Twister (the board game).
Song Bent
Artist Matchbox Twenty
Number 82
Realm Short, Neurotic New Yorkers
Subrealm Other Than Steve Homer
Question Woody Allen's athletic career began in 1966. Woody Allen's athletic career ended less than 2 minutes later. Thankfully, Woody Allen's short but glorious athletic career was fully documented for television. In what sport did Woody compete, and who was his opponent?
Answer He boxed a kangaroo. (YouTube it!)
Song At the Hop
Artist Danny and The Juniors
Number 83
Realm Woody Allen
Subrealm Yes, This Question Is Of Legal Age
Question Everybody in every Woody Allen film has problems. But only Robin Williams' character in "Deconstructing Harry" suffers from this unusual condition. What?
Answer He is out of focus.
Song Girls And Boys
Artist Blur
Number 84
Realm British Spy Stories
Subrealm Somebody Call John Le Carre
Question MI9 was in charge of helping British POWs to escape prison camps during World War 2. They enlisted the printer John Waddington Ltd. to print secret maps on silk, and then get those maps to prisoners. How did they successfully sneak the maps into the German camps?
Answer John Waddington Ltd. was also the British printer of Monopoly games. They hid them inside the boards. (The boards also included compasses, metal files, and genuine German currency hidden underneath the Monopoly money. Approximately 10,000 troops escaped using the doctored Monopoly games.)
Song Under The Boardwalk
Artist The Drifters
Note DJ, play a PSA to add more time here
Number 85
Realm What A Wonderful World
Subrealm Especially If You're High
Question Although he claimed otherwise, Louis Armstrong was misbehavin', at least according to federal drug smuggling laws. The well-travelled Satchmo was able to sneak some marijuana past airport security and customs by hiding it in a certain place, and getting somebody else to unwittingly carry it. Where did Pops hide his weed, and who was his bagman?
Answer Inside his trumpet; Richard Nixon.
Song It's Tricky
Artist Run DMC
Number 86
Realm And now for something completely different ...
Subrealm Yes, it's a Python question
Question If you're taking part in this contest, surely you must be fan of Monty Python! (Not necessarily, and don't call me Shirley ... wait, wrong comedy). Anyway, in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", King Arthur has many knights who serve him, one of whom is "Sir Not Appearing in this Film". However, he does appear, or at least a picture of him does. Who plays "Sir Not Appearing in this Film"?
Answer The infant son of Michael Palin (William Palin, name not needed for answer)
Song Sweet Child O' Mine
Artist Sheryl Crow
Number 87
Realm Fighting Nerds
Subrealm Hit 'em with your slide rule!
Question In March, the DC Comics blog was forced to discontinue their comments section after an online dispute got out of hand regarding what age-old debate?
Answer Who would win a race between The Flash and Superman.
Song The Ultimate Showdown Of Ultimate Destiny
Artist Lemon Demon
Number 88
Realm Deadbeat Outlaw Peril
Subrealm Ricochet Corpse
Question What is the literary connection of the following words: deadbeat, outlaw, peril, ricochet and corpse?
Answer They are some of the words used in the titles of Sue Grafton's "alphabet mysteries".
Song Building a Mystery
Artist Sarah MacLachlan
Number 89
Realm More Endless Book Series
Subrealm Harry Potter
Question In the sixth Harry Potter book, out of nowhere, J.K. Rowling suddenly pulled the idea of a horcrux out of her butt, to create false drama and drag out the story... er, we mean, it was at this point that the ultimate secret of the saga was revealed at last. We won't ask you to name the seven horcruxes; that would be far too straightforward. Instead, we ask you to name the seven characters who destroy each of the horcruxes.
Answer Harry Potter; Hermione Granger; Ron Weasley, Albus Dumbledore; Lord Voldemort; Neville Longbottom; Vincent Crabbe.
Song Search and Destroy
Artist Iggy Pop (also accept The Stooges)
Number 90
Realm Here come the Vikings!
Subrealm Not the Minnesota variety this time
Question Snorri Thorfinnsson, despite being named "Snorri" is not one of the Seven Dwarfs. He was, however, instrumental in introducing Christianity to Iceland, so he's got that going for him, which is nice. In addition to that historical feat, there is another reason that ol' Snorri has been remembered to the present day ... what is it?
Answer Snorri Thorfinnsson was born in the Viking settlement of Vinland in the early 11th century, making him the first child born in the Americas of European parents. (phone people - only basic fact about first Euro-American birth needed)
Song New World Man
Artist Rush
Number 91
Realm Championship Cities, Please Step Forward
Subrealm Not So Fast There, Cleveland
Question Ten North American cities have won more than 10 championships in the four major sports (that is, baseball, football, basketball and hockey). THIS IS A THREE-POINT PLAY! For 1 point, name five of the cities. For two points, name eight.
Answer New York (53); Boston (36); Los Angeles (25); Montreal (24-- all hockey); Chicago (23); Detroit (22); Philadelphia (16); Toronto (15); Pittsburgh (14); St. Louis (12).
Song Raise Your Glass
Artist Pink
Number 92
Realm Raunchy Teen Sex Comedies
Subrealm Oscar Bait, For Sure!
Question What teen comedy from the 1980's features, not one, not two, but three (count 'em ... THREE) future Best Actor Oscar-winners in early film roles?
Answer Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Sean Penn, Forrest Whitaker, and Nicolas Cage, billed as Nicolas Coppola for the only time)
Song Moving in Stereo
Artist The Cars
Note This song was prominently played during a famous scene in the movie
Number 93
Realm People Who Won't Be Hosting Next Year's Golden Globes
Subrealm Ricky Gervais
Question In 2009, a group of thieves attempted to transfer hundreds of thousands of dollars from comedian Ricky Gervais' bank account. Fortunately, suspicions were aroused by a counterfeit passport. What tipped bank authorities off to the scam?
Answer The passport featured a cardboard photo of Gervais, which had been cut off the cover of "The Office" DVD.
Song Stuck Like Glue
Artist Sugarland
Number 94
Realm Baseball Records
Subrealm If You Know Bill James, Wake Him Up
Question Red Sox catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia has a career .248 batting average, with 23 lifetime home runs and 95 RBI heading into the 2011 season. Those are pretty mediocre statistics. But Jarrod does hold one all-time Major League record - what is it?
Answer He has the longest last name in Major League Baseball history.
Song Abc-Def-Ghi
Artist Big Bird
Number 95
Realm DC Comics
Subrealm We Can't Blame Joe Quesada This Time
Question In the long pantheon of crappy backup villains, DC Comics' Calendar Man stands out, but only for his stupid secret identity. Who is behind the mask of Calendar Man?
Answer Julian Gregory Day.
Song Valotte
Artist Julian Lennon
Number 96
Realm Roadside America
Subrealm We saw a 53-foot one, huh huh huh!
Question We here in the Midwest spend a lot of time on roads and highways. So we know that something seen every day on the highway has a standard length of 53 feet. Many of them even have the length written on them! What is this common 53-foot item?
Answer A standard tractor-trailer.
Song I'm Eighteen
Artist Alice Cooper
Number 97
Realm Censorship
Subrealm It Really Bleeps
Question Some right wing blogs that wanted to expose Barack Obama as a dangerous socialist found their accusations blocked by the WordPress content filter. Was this another liberal conspiracy to silence the truth? Well, sure. But what was the even bigger reason WordPress censored accounts of Obama's socialism?
Answer Because the word "socialism contains the word "Cialis."
Song Easy To Be Hard
Artist Three Dog Night
Number 98
Realm Censorship
Subrealm This Question Has Been Redacted
Question According to the American Library Association, what is the subject matter of the #1 most-banned book of 2009?
Answer Gay penguins. ("And Tango Makes Three" tells the sexy true story of two male penguins at the Central Park Zoo.)
Song Tuxedo Junction
Artist Glenn Miller
Number 99
Realm Red Sox Stars
Subrealm Just Jackie Being Jackie
Question Red Sox outfielder Jackie Jensen won back-to-back RBI titles, then retired. Why?
Answer He was afraid of flying, and teams had begun using airplanes instead of trains.
Song Grounded
Artist Pavement
Number 100
Realm I Wanna Rock!
Subrealm Plymouth Rock
Question The original Pilgrims did not arrive at their planned destination. What was the primary reason they decided to land at Plymouth Rock when they did?
Answer They were running low on beer.
Song Sober
Artist Tool
Number 101
Realm Hollywood
Subrealm Quickies
Question Actress Ellen Burstyn did something for 14 seconds in 2005. What happened to her afterwards?
Answer She was nominated for an Outstanding Supporting Actress Emmy, for a role in which she had two lines of dialogue and 14 seconds of screen time.
Song Nice Work If You Can Get It
Artist Fred Astaire
Number 102
Realm This Question Is Sufficient
Subrealm But We're Deficient
Question Deficiencies, efficiencies and sufficiencies are each two-time violators. Of what?
Answer Each word breaks the "i before e except after c" rule... TWICE.
Song Weird Science
Artist Oingo Boingo
Number 103
Realm Football Blowouts
Subrealm Surprisingly, Not A Bengals Loss
Question The most lopsided score in NFL history came in the 1940 championship game, when the Bears beat the Redskins 73-0. The score could have been 1 point higher, because after its 11th touchdown, the Bears decided not to kick the easy extra point. Why not?
Answer They were running out of footballs. (The referees asked them to stop kicking balls into the stands.)
Song Backfield In Motion
Artist Mel and Tim
Number 104
Realm Splattering Poop
Subrealm Sexytime!
Question We're going to have to try this during Winter Study. What animal attracts potential mates by violently urinating and defecating while twirling its tail like a propeller, thus splattering in all directions?
Answer The hippopotamus.
Song Angels On The Moon
Artist Thriving Ivory
Number 105
Realm The Royal Wedding
Subrealm We Only Attend Tongan Ones
Question William and Kate's guest list had quite a few surprising snubs on it. Former Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were not invited, nor were President and Michelle Obama. But the guest list DID include one important actor, a close friend of Prince Charles. Who is this grand thespian?
Answer Rowan Atkinson.
Song All The Above
Artist Beanie Sigel
Number 106
Realm Summer's Coming
Subrealm Time For Disco
Question Donna Summer's #2 hit single "Love to Love You Baby" was a charting record that set a record, with 23 of these. 23 what?
Answer Simulated orgasms.
Song Make 'Em Say Uhh!
Artist Master P
Number 107
Realm Marvel
Subrealm We Still Hate Joe Quesada
Question Other than certain parts of fanboys' anatomies when Kitty Pryde hit puberty, what are officially the two hardest substances in the Marvel Universe?
Answer #2: Wolverine's adamantium skeleton. Hardest: Captain America's shield.
Song Tuff Enuff
Artist the Fabulous Thunderbirds
Number 108
Realm Final Question
Subrealm Thanks For Playing!
Question In 1842, the registrar general of Great Britain estimated that more than 10% of all childhood deaths were caused by this, something that rarely appears on death certificates these days. What?
Answer Teething.
Song Mouth
Artist Bush

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