1. Question: What actress developed a performance art piece "The Maybe" wherein she lived on display in a glass box for a week?
Answer: Tilda Swinton
Song: Ice Ice Baby
Artist: Vanilla Ice

2. Question: If the philosopher Immanuel Kant were to go to Switzerland, he would be looking for this, but he wouldn't be able to tell anyone about his quest.
Answer: Noumenal Yodelling
Song: Some Yodelling Song
Artist: Some Yodellers

3. Question: What do a lie detector, jet-pack fuel, a Geiger counter, a xylophone, shark repellent, a roulette wheel and pool table, a washing machine, a water pump, a telegraph, a battery recharger, soap (made from plant fats), lead radiation suits and make-up, a helium balloon (made with rubber raincoats sewn together), and shark repellent have in common with each other but not with a seaworthy raft?
Answer: Objects improvised by the Professor on Gilligan's Island
Song: Once in a Lifetime
Artist: Talking Heads

4. Question: What video game has one character (of 35) that is considered so powerful, owing to the high priority on moves such as mach tornado, and drill rush, that tournaments are moving to ban his use?
Answer: Super Smash Bros. series
Song: Video Games
Artist: Lana Del Rey

5. Question: Remembered for her much speculated-upon relationship with one great Romantic composer, discussed in a poem by Lisa Mueller, and her marriage to another, this woman was herself an successful pianist and composer.
Answer: Clara Schumann
Song: Heartbeats
Artist: The Knife

6. Question: Which HBO TV show takes as its premise the invention of a synthetic blood substitute?
Answer: True Blood
Song: Heartbeats
Artist: Knife

7. Question: Which location, visited less frequently than New York and slightly more than Kentucky, was temporarily replaced by a stock exchange in 1936?
Answer: Free Parking
Song: Big Yellow Taxi
Artist: Joni Mitchell

8. Question: This baseball team, owned by Ted Lerner, left RFK Stadium in 2007 to play in their namesake park, where, true to tradition, President George W. Bush threw the first pitch.
Answer: Washington Nationals
Song: Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Artist: Carly Simon

9. Question: This English femme fatale, who claims at the end of the novel that "we could have had such a damned good time together," is undermined by the narrator's response "Isn't it pretty to think so?"
Answer: Lady Brett Ashley
Song: Send Me on My Way
Artist: Rusted Root

10. Question: Who had a love interest with Madame Olympe Maxime, but to many fans disappointment, never married?
Answer: Rubeus Hagrid
Song: You and I
Artist: Lady Gaga

11. Question: This dessert was invented by Danish immigrant storekeeper Christian Kent Nelson when he tried to combine two treats as a special favour for a boy who wanted both but could only afford one.
Answer: Eskimo Pie
Song: Snow Miser Song
Artist: The Year Without a Santa Claus

12. Question: What movie features the quote: "There's an old joke. Umm, two elderly women are at a Catskill Mountain resort. And one of 'em says: 'Boy, the food in this place is really terrible.' The other one says: 'Yeah, I know. And such small portions.' Well, that's essentially how I feel about life. Full of loneliness and misery and suffering and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly..."?
Answer: Annie Hall
Song: Crazy in Love
Artist: Beyonce

13. Question: Which author wrote about a fictional actress who had recently starred in a wiener commercial in his collection Girl with Curious Hair?
Answer: David Foster Wallace
Song: Living with David Foster Wallace
Artist: Blammos

14. Question: Who was the guest on the most-censored talk show episode in history?
Answer: Madonna
Song: Ave Maria
Artist: Luciano Pavarotti
Note: It's painful to watch, but here's a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TgqquzI6-A

15. Question: Which 1999 LL Cool J movie features a very cool scene of Samuel Jackson getting his arm bitten off by a genetically engineered Mako Shark, which was created for the sake of curing Alzheimer's?
Answer: Deep Blue Sea
Song: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Artist: Deep Blue Something

16. Question: Google's 2008 pranks included the announcement that Google Book Search now allowed you to utilize what type of books?  Users were instructed to place the necessary organs next to their monitors and click "GO".
Answer: Scratch and Sniff
Song: Bump n' Grind
Artist: R. Kelly

17. Question: Which poem is about a "gleaner" watching "the latest oozings, hours by hours" by a "cider-press," during a "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness"?
Answer: "To Autumn" by John Keats
Song: Her Morning Elegance
Artist: Oren Lavie

18. Question: What have scientists tried and failed to do by locating a periodic wobble that is proportional to radius, the goal of the Kepler mission?
Answer: detection of extrasolar planets [or detection of exoplanets]
Song: Moonshadow
Artist: Cat Stevens

19. Question: What goddess, the favorite child of the Creator, ruled along with her husband in the period before that of the nine akhu?
Answer: Ma'at
Song: Venus
Artist: Bananarama
Note: Ma'at was the Egyptian goddess representing truth, balance, and order.

20. Question: Which artist painted a self-portrait in which red and green apples dangling from a branch appear behind his disembodied head?
Answer: Paul Gauguin
Song: All Around the World or the Myth of the Fingerprints
Artist: Paul Simon

21. Question: The daughter of the traitorous Calchas, this Trojan woman has been the subject of works by Bocaccio, Chaucer, Henryson, and Shakespeare.
Answer: Criseyde/Cressida/Crisseide (accept any variation)
Song: As Cool As I Am
Artist: Dar Williams

22. Question: What desert in Western China is bounded by the Kunlun, Pamirs, and Tian Shen Mountains, and the Silk Road passed through it?
Answer: Taklamakan Desert
Song: Ramblin' Man
Artist: The Allman Brothers Band

23. Question: What theory defended by which theorist analyzes the assumptions children make during the language acquisition process as evidence for innate principles shared by all languages?
Answer: The theory of universal grammar, from Noam Chomsky
Song: ABC
Artist: The Jackson 5

24. Question: This man is pictured handing his resignation to Thomas Mifflin in a painting located in the same building as a work by Constantino Brumidi in which he holds a sword and is surrounded by thirteen angels in heaven?
Answer: George Washington
Song: Rodeo: Hoedown
Artist: Aaron Copland
Note: The building is the US Capitol, and the Brumidi painting is a fresco on the ceiling of the rotunda.  In the other picture Washington is resigning his commission in the continental army, after the conclusion of the war.

25. Question: Which author of "The Ascent of Mount Ventoux" also wrote an epic poem about the victory at the battle of Zama by Scipio Africanus and humanist puns on the name of a woman he fell in love with on Good Friday in his poem "she used to let her golden hair fly free"?
Answer: Petrarch [or Francesco Petrarca]
Song: Laura
Artist: Frank Sinatra

26. Question: Which composer wrote a ballet which opens with a bassoon solo and caused riots at its 1913 Paris premiere?
Answer: Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
Song: The Rite of Spring
Artist: Igor Stravinsky

27. Question: Which character of which play decides to commit suicide to leave a $20,000 life insurance policy to his sons?
Answer: Willy Loman [prompt on Loman] Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
Song: Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
Artist: Marilyn Monroe

28. Question: Which singer has an alter ego, Bernard Shakey, who has made such films as Rust Never Sleeps and Silver & Gold?
Answer: Neil Young
Song: Teach Your Children
Artist: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

29. Question: Which actress' first appearance on TV was in a movie adaptation of Hans Christen Andersen's The Little Match Girl?
Answer: Sarah Jessica Parker
Song: Empire State of Mind
Artist: Jay-Z

30. Question: Which novel is about the holder of the job * "a millions girls would die for", though she is  frustrated with the antics and demands of her upscale fashion boss?
Answer: The Devil Wears Prada
Song: Material Girl
Artist: Madonna

31. Question: In an episode of Sesame Street, Bert established a "National Association" for the lovers of this letter, which Kermit the Frog lectured about until Cookie monster ate it.
Answer: W
Song: Whistle
Artist: Flo Rida

32. Question: Which TV star, after his most famous show, was an "expert" for Battlebots and currently hosts Stuff Happens?
Answer: Bill Nye
Song: The Scientist
Artist: Coldplay

33. Question: Which food item is featured in the Dutch Socialist Party logo?
Answer: tomatoes
Song: Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
Artist: Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

34. Question: Which film was the only success for Clara Blandick, Bert Lahr, and Ray Bolger?
Answer: The Wizard of Oz
Song: Carry On Wayward Son
Artist: Kansas

35. Question: Before The Simpsons, what was the only primetime animated series that lasted for more than two seasons?
Answer: The Flintstones
Song: We Will Rock You
Artist: Queen

36. Question: This tech celeberty has recently been known for his quirks, like Segway polo competition and dating Kathy Griffin.  Perhaps most notably, he was partnered with Karina Smirnoff on the eighth season of Dancing With the Stars.
Answer: Steve Wozniak
Song: Dancing in the Moonlight
Artist: Toploader

37. Question: On which holiday is the villain's name drowned out during a reading of the Megillah, during which participants give gifts of food after fasting the day before?
Answer: Purim
Song: Purim Song
Artist: The Maccabeats

38. Question: What manner of playing is best suited to Prokofiev's fourth piano concerto and Paul Wittgenstein?
Answer: playing with one hand [or playing with the left hand]
Song: One Hand, One Heart
Artist: West Side Story
Note: Paul Wittgenstein was a concert pianist who lost his right arm in World War I.  Afterwards, he commissioned a number of piano concerti for the left hand alone.

39. Question: Which man allegedly carried around a lantern during daylight to search for an honest man?
Answer: Diogenes of Sinope
Song: This Little Light of Mine
Artist: Gospel Dream

40. Question: Which character's hand is bitten off (by a loose seal wearing a yellow bow tie who had become accustomed to mammal blood after fighting with a cat) and replaced by a hook, which leads him to give very painful back massages?
Answer: Byron "Buster" Bluth
Song: Year 3000
Artist: Busted
Note: Byron "Buster" Bluth is a character on the series Arrested Developement.

41. Question: Which book was written as the first of a three-book contract for Seymour Lawrence, is dedicated to a taxi driver and has a climax when Edgar Denby is killed for stealing a teapot?
Answer: Slaughterhouse-Five
Song: Die Young
Artist: Ke$ha

42. Question: Which movie's title refers to The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, took much inspiration from Robert Altman's Chandler adaptation of The Long Goodbye, and includes 147 "man"s in the script?
Answer: The Big Lebowski
Song: Bridge Over Troubled Water (Live)
Artist: Paul Simon

43. Question: Which film has unicorn scenes in the director's cut version that were speculated to be  outtakes from the director's next film, Legend?
Answer: Blade Runner
Song: Running Up That Hill
Artist: Placebo

44. Question: Jon Voight has appeared in five of which man's films, including a role where he plays an antagonistic agent involved in surveillance alongside Will Smith in Enemy of the State?
Answer: Jerry Bruckheimer
Song: He's a Pirate
Artist: Klaus Badelt

45. Question: Peter Davison became the Fifth Doctor after his recurring role as Tristan on the show All Creatures Great and Small, named after the novels written by which veterinarian?
Answer: James Herriot
Song: Who Let the Dogs Out?
Artist: Baha Men
Note: James Herriot wrote a book for each line of the poem "All Things Bright and Beautiful".  Herriot's real name was Alf Wight, which he didnt use for fear of breaking rules about self-promotion by veterinarians in the UK.

46. Question: This Murakami novel follows a boy whose name translates as "Crow" as he flees home. The plot revolves around a flute made of the souls of cats, and is partly a retelling of the story of Oedipus.
Answer: Kafka on the Shore
Song: Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)
Artist: Counting Crows

47. Question: This team, permitted to compete in the World Lacrosse Championship despite not actually being any sort of political entity with established borders, since 1998 has never finished lower than fourth.
Answer: Iroquois Nationals
Song: The World's Greatest
Artist: R. Kelly

48. Question: The Bogomerom archipelago is located in this body of water, along with some notable floating islands.
Answer: Lake Chad
Song: Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Artist: Diana Ross

49. Question: What character dances around in a white dress at a ceremony during which the ghosts of the dead are supposed to be released from a cavern, leading her stepfather to banish her in one play?
Answer: Electra
Song: Electric Feel
Artist: MGMT

51. Question: During a constitutional crisis in which country did John Kerr dismiss Prime Minister Gough Whitlam when the opposition, in control of the Senate, deferred supply?
Answer: Commonwealth of Australia
Song: Can't Get You Out of My Head
Artist: Kylie Minogue

52. Question: The Spitzenkorper in this kind of organism is located near the plasma membrane and regulates growth.
Answer: Fungi [or fungus; prompt on mushrooms or yeast]
Song: Take Me Out
Artist: Franz Ferdinand

53. Question: In this thought experiment, argued against by Hilary Putnam, a mad scientist has removed a certain body part from the body, and is stimulating it with electrical currents to simulate reality.
Answer: brain in a vat
Song: Brain Stew
Artist: Green Day

54. Question: Which board game, created by Klaus Teuber (pronounced TOY-ber) in Germany, has players collect resources like brick and sheep to build roads and cities? Its expansions include Cities and Knights, Seafarers, and Traders and Barbarians.
Answer: The Settlers of Catan [or Die Siedler von Catan]
Song: 99 Luftballons
Artist: Nena

55. Question: Which man dreams of an epidemic that makes each person believe that he alone knows the truth?
Answer: Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov
Song: Unwell
Artist: Matchbox Twenty

57. Question: What poet advised a woman to "put as little trust as possible in tomorrow," and composed a work to be performed at games celebrating the end of the century?
Answer: Horace [or Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Song: Feel This Moment
Artist: Pitbull featuring Christina Aguilera

58. Question: To what phrase did Gary Larson apply the acronym TGIF, on a poster next to a man's bed above his shoes in a Far Side cartoon?
Answer: Toes Go in First
Song: Bubbly
Artist: Colbie Caillat

59. Question: The ritual of bi'ur, or burning, traditionally precedes the distribution of which object, which is traditionally stolen by children?
Answer: matzos [or matzahs; or matzot; or matzoth]
Song: It Will Follow the Rain
Artist: The Tallest Man on Earth
Note: Bi'ur is the buring of leavened foods which are forbidden for passover.

60. Question: Which pop singer was the first winner of the Gershwin prize, and, in 2002, recorded the track "Father and Daughter" as the theme song for The Wild Thornberrys Movie?
Answer: Paul Simon
Song: Rhapsody in Blue
Artist: George Gershwin

61. Question: Which French architect wrote the influential book Towards a New Architecture, the principles of which are exemplified in such buildings as the Notre Dame du Haut and the Villa Savoye?
Answer: Le Corbusier [or Charles-Edouard Jeanneret]
Song: Mr. Jones
Artist: Counting Crows

62. Question: This man was a contemporary critic of Anselm's ontological argument. His namesake island, which is the most perfect one that can be conceived, is the crux of his reductio ad absurdum refutation of Anselm's proof.
Answer: Gaunilo of Marmoutiers
Song: Birdhouse in Your Soul
Artist: They Might Be Giants

63. Question: Which particles appeared to be traveling in excess of the speed of light was one of the tau flavor of these leptons, which also have muon and electron varieties.
Answer: neutrinos
Song: The Lazy Song
Artist: Bruno Mars
Note: Two recent experiments, one by the MINOS group in Chicago in 2007 and one by the OPERA group in Switzerland in 2011, seemed to show that neutrinos travelled faster than the speed of light.  Both results were disputed and have since been withdrawn.  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light#Time_of_flight_of_neutrinos

64. Question: In which work does the adoption of an orphan lead to an epidemic of insomnia?
Answer: One Hundred Years Of Solitude [or Cien Anos De Soledad]
Song: Eleanor Rigby
Artist: The Beatles

65. Question: Which state's odder historical nicknames include the "Stubbed-Toe State"?
Answer: Montana
Song: Bloodbuzz Ohio
Artist: The National
Note: First seen in the 1922 edition of the World Almanac, the only explanation for Montana as the "Stubbed-Toe State" comes from the Dictionary of Americanisms, which asserts that the nickname refers to the mountainous region of western Montana where the multitude of rocks might pose a hazard to the novice hiker.

66. Question: In 1926, Alberto Gentili discovered 14 volumes of music by which composer, who included the "turtle dove" aria "Veni sequere fida" in his only surviving oratorio?
Answer: Antonio Lucio Vivaldi
Song: The Four Seasons: Winter
Artist: Antonio Vivaldi

67. Question: This American major general in command at Bunker Hill later participated in the retreat from Long Island and put down a mutiny at a now-namesake camp in Redding, Connecticut during the winter of 1778 to 1779.
Answer: Israel Putnam
Song: The General
Artist: Dispatch

68. Question: In court, which pickpocket, whose real name is Jack Dawkins, yelled, "I am an Englishman; where are my rights?"
Answer: The Artful Dodger
Song: One Way or Another
Artist: Blondie

69. Question: In this short story, the title protagonist attempts to assert his individuality by dancing with a ballerina on television before both are shot to death by Handicapper General Diana Moon Glampers.
Answer: "Harrison Bergeron"
Song: Such Great Heights
Artist: The Postal Service
Note: The story is by Kurt Vonnegut.

70. Question: Jackie Mason gets tortured, Moses gets mugged, the king is impersonated by the "pissboy" and Comicus is saved from Caeser's imperial goons by a horse named "miracle" in which movie?
Answer: History of the World, Part I
Song: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Artist: Dean Martin

71. Question: Who invested $7500 in the 1974 movie "Beauty Queens", claiming that the film was a "spoof of beauty contests"?
Answer: Phil Gramm
Song: Dancing Queen
Artist: ABBA
Note: "Beauty Queens" was a soft-core porno movie that was never completed.  This didn't stop Gramm from becomeing a Texas senator.

72. Question: Three Oxford colleges lay claim to being the University's oldest. Name the five oldest Oxford colleges.
Answer: Merton College, University College, Balliol College, Exeter College, and Oriel College.
Song: Itchycoo Park
Artist: Small Faces

73. Question: The works of this poet have been considered the worst poetry in the English language, including the lines, "Beautiful railway bridge of the Silvery Tay! With your numerous arches and pillars in so grand array. And your central girders that seem to the eye to be almost towering to the sky. The greatest wonder of the day and a great beautification to the River Tay"?
Answer: William McGonagal
Song: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Artist: Paul Dukas

74. Question: What is the one constant rule of Calvinball?
Answer: Never use the same rule twice.
Song: Hakuna Matata
Artist: The Lion King

75. Question: The Oscars switched from "And the winner is..." to "And the Oscar goes to...." for distributing awards in what year?
Answer: 1988
Song: Sweet Child o' Mine
Artist: Guns N' Roses
Note: The first ceremony with the new phrase was in 1989, when they gave awards to 1988 movies.

76. Question: Which first live-action/life-size puppet Saturday morning show done by Sid and Marty Krofft ran from 1969 to 1971, then appeared in repeats from 1972-73 and centered around a shipwrecked boy named Jimmy, who takes a ride on a mysterious boat to Living Island?
Answer: H. R. Pufnstuf
Song: Mr. Tambourine Man
Artist: Bob Dylan
Note: Reruns kept showing until 1985.  There's nothing else quite as trippy.

77. Question: Who, rather than assist Aule, became a servant of Darkness, often took the shapes of a Werewolf and Vampire, and slew Finrod Felagund with fell sorcery?
Answer: Sauron
Song: Eye of the Tiger
Artist: Survivor

78. Question: Vanilla Ice Cream, Toffee, chocolate syrup, and a cone that isn't a cone at all comprise which desert treat?
Answer: the Choco Taco
Song: Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell
Artist: Das Racist

79. Question: Whose works helped inspire the "Life In Hell" cartoon where Akbar and Jeff complain that their new apartment has great rent but clumsy neighbors, as well as the climax of "Labyrinth?
Answer: M.C. Escher
Song: Right Round
Artist: Flo Rida featuring Ke$ha

80. Question: In which game can you land on the first orange space, and take the Rainbow Trail, which means you avoid the Peppermint Forest and the Gooey Gumdrops?
Answer: Candyland
Song: Lollipop
Artist: Mika

81. Question: In what competition do men traverse a 780-foot course through water on sand, grass, and asphalt, and over two fences? The fastest man earns a woman's weight in lemonade as his prize.
Answer: The Finnish National Wife-Carrying Championships
Song: I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
Artist: The Proclaimers
Note: Major wife-carrying competitions are also held in Monona, Wisconsin, Minocqua, Wisconsin and Marquette, Michigan.

82. Question: What company, founded by Gary Comer, was incorporated in 1963 as a Chicago-based shop for yachting enthusiasts?
Answer: Lands' End
Song: The Long and Winding Road
Artist: #1 Beatles Now