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| Number | 1 |
| Realm | Are you ready to rumble? |
| Subrealm | That's too bad, since we were thinking of having a trivia contest instead. |
| Question | In Strong Bad Email #75, "Funny", what does Strong Bad suggest The Cheat use to clean up the ketchup on the computer? |
| Answer | Awesome Sauce |
| Song | Forever Blue |
| Artist | Awesome Sauce |
| Number | 2 |
| Realm | Indulgences |
| Subrealm | People you can eat |
| Question | The modern concept of a sandwich came into being in London in 1762, created by the 4th Earl of Sandwich, John Montagu, for what purpose? |
| Answer | to allow him to eat and gamble simultaneously |
| Song | Cheeseburger in Paradise |
| Artist | Jimmy Buffett |
| Number | 3 |
| Realm | Fresh meat |
| Subrealm | Fresh meat from Spain |
| Question | Before the famous final battle of Tenochtitlan, Hernán Cortés had already been chased out of that city after a battle where much of his army was killed. Remarkably, Cortés managed to escape. Why did the Aztecs leave him alive? |
| Answer | They wished to sacrifice him to their god of war, Huitzilopochtli. |
| Song | Sacrifice Theory |
| Artist | AFI |
| Number | 4 |
| Realm | Board Games |
| Subrealm | ... Ain't what they used to be |
| Question | Hasbro has recently decided to create a new "Here and Now" edition of Monopoly, replacing locations on the Atlantic City boardwalk with landmarks from throughout the country. While most of the board has not een set yet, one important decision has been made: What will be replacg the four raitroads in the new Monopply game? |
| Answer | Four airports: JFK, O'Hare, LAX, and Hartsfield-Jackson |
| Song | I Believe I Can Fly |
| Artist | Me First and the Gimme Gimmes |
| Number | 5 |
| Realm | Jungle beasts |
| Subrealm | Gone wild |
| Question | The fat-tailed dwarf lemur is one of very few primates to do what? |
| Answer | Hibernate |
| Song | Sleeping In |
| Artist | Postal Service |
| Number | 6 |
| Realm | Jungle Beasts |
| Subrealm | Gone to the Midwest |
| Question | What 1960s pop star attended Carleton College? |
| Answer | Peter Tork of The Monkees |
| Song | I'm a Believer |
| Artist | The Monkees |
| Number | 7 |
| Realm | People buried to the left of famous assassins |
| Subrealm | Or are they? |
| Question | What name is on the headstone to the left of Lee Harvey Oswald's? |
| Answer | Nick Beef |
| Song | Shake Hands with Beef |
| Artist | Primus |
| Number | 8 |
| Realm | Musicology |
| Subrealm | Comparative |
| Question | Babelfish very roughly translates its words as
To the light of auroraWhat is this new hit song? |
| Answer | Nuestro Himno (a somewhat loose interpretation of the National Anthem, in Spanish) |
| Song | Natural Anthem |
| Artist | Postal Service |
| Number | 9 |
| Realm | Old Songs |
| Subrealm | Old songs to which you wish you didn't know the words |
| Question | Please recite and/or sing the lyrics of the old G.l. Joe cartoon show (including the spoken part). |
| Answer |
Yo Joe! |
| Song | Danger Zone |
| Artist | Kenny Loggins |
| Number | 10 |
| Realm | Truth |
| Subrealm | In advertising |
| Question | A local bioterrorism scare occured in Palm Bay, Florida, in Spetember 2000, when a plastic container labeled "anthrax" was found belonging to a 19-year-old. What were the actual contents of the container? |
| Answer | Muscle enhancer, which the 19-year-old was trying to keep his friends from using. |
| Song | Do Fries Go With That Shake? |
| Artist | George Clinton |
| Number | 11 |
| Realm | Stating the Obvious |
| Subrealm | The Stuff You Already Know |
| Question | Identify, for lack of better words, the main character of Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash. |
| Answer | Hiro Protagonist |
| Song | Holding Out for a Hero |
| Artist | Bonnie Tyler |
| Number | 12 |
| Realm | Half People |
| Subrealm | Half Bicycles |
| Question | In Flann O'Brien's novel The Third Policeman, what is the philosopher de Selby's explanation for nighttime? |
| Answer | It is the accretion of "black air" |
| Song | I Believe in a Thing Called Love |
| Artist | The Darkness |
| Number | 13 |
| Realm | If At First You Don't Succeed |
| Subrealm | Then What? |
| Question | At the age of 42, Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima enlisted in the Ground Self-Defense Force and later formed the Tatenokai militia. How did he end his military career? |
| Answer | Seppuku, after he seized a military base as part of a coup d'etat plan only to he mocked by the soldiers there |
| Song | If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out! |
| Artist | Cat Stevens |
| Number | 14 |
| Realm | Bread and Cheese |
| Subrealm | Bread or Cheese |
| Question | There is a very important rye bread, from Aveyron, in southern France, of which only several thousand loaves are baked each year. What is its special purpose? |
| Answer | it is where the Penicillium roqueforti mold is grown, for roquefort cheese. |
| Song | The Air That I Breathe |
| Artist | Bread |
| Number | 15 |
| Realm | Literature |
| Subrealm | 0 Tenipore! 0 Mores! |
| Question | What is the major European literary work to include several minor "firsts" in European Literature, including a woman complaining of menopause and someone with an eating disorder? |
| Answer | Don Quixote de La Mancha |
| Song | Feel Good Inc. |
| Artist | Gorillaz |
| Number | 16 |
| Realm | Presidents |
| Subrealm | Cloned Presidents |
| Question | In the short lived TV show "Clone high," Abe Lincoln begins marketing a dietary supplement called "Xtreme Blu." What is "Xtreme Blu"? |
| Answer | Pancake batter and blue paint, combined in a squeeze tube. |
| Song | Tempted |
| Artist | Squeeze |
| Hint | It's not people. |
| Number | 17 |
| Realm | Belated Christmas presents |
| Subrealm | And you think coal is bad |
| Question | On January 17, 1966, a U.S. plane accidentally dropped this over Spain. |
| Answer | Hydrogene bombs. While flying over Palornares, Spain, a U.S bomber collided with another aircraft and dropped the four hydrogen bombs it was carrying. None of them were detonated, but 7 lbs of plutonium were released over 500 acres. |
| Song | Drop the Bomb |
| Artist | From the game "Dance Dance Revolution" |
| Number | 18 |
| Realm | Innovations in aviation |
| Subrealm | Innovations vehemently denied |
| Question | The New York Times recently reported that Airbus had a new plan to help Asian airlines maximize their prolits, although Airbus vehemently denied the allegations when the article was released. What was this alleged proposal? |
| Answer | Standing room only "seats" on airplanes. |
| Song | Stand |
| Artist | REM |
| Number | 19 |
| Realm | If we told you the realm, it'd give the answer away. |
| Subrealm | The answer is not "they all have to do with drugs" |
| Question | What do the following words have in common: 'surreal', 'irrational, 'transcendental', 'imaginary'? |
| Answer | They are all types of numbers |
| Song | Geeks in Love |
| Artist | Lemon Demon |
| Number | 20 |
| Realm | Google will not avail you now! |
| Subrealm | Flee like the cowards you are! |
| Question | What is the significance of the following sequence: Z, X, C, V? |
| Answer | They're the first four letters on the bottom row of a QWERTY keyboard. |
| Song | I Saw it on Your Keyboard |
| Artist | Hellogoodbye |
| Number | 21 |
| Realm | This question doesn't have anything to do with the previous one. |
| Subrealm | Except that it's evil. |
| Question | What is the significance of the following sequence: N, Z, Q, R, C? |
| Answer | They're the letters that stand for the basic types of numbers: natural numbers, integers, rationals, reals, and complex numbers. |
| Song | Hunt By Numbers |
| Artist | Jethro Tull |
| Hint | This question does have to do with the question before the last one, though. |
| Hint | N, Q, R, and C are the first letters of what they stand for. Q stands for something starting with R, and Z stands for something that starts with 1. |
| Number | 22 |
| Realm | People With Free Time |
| Subrealm | Helping other people not to |
| Question | What was the name of the man who invented the televison and where did he grow up? |
| Answer | Philo T. Farnsworth - Rigby, Idaho |
| Song | Addicted to Spuds |
| Artist | Weird Al Yankovic |
| Number | 23 |
| Realm | Stars |
| Subrealm | Your Mom is a Mass of Incandescent Glass |
| Question | The name of what star derives from an Arabic phrase meaning "the swooping eagle"? |
| Answer | Vega |
| Song | Viva Las Vegas |
| Artist | Elvis Presley |
| Number | 24 |
| Realm | Making your life a little easier. |
| Subrealm | The end of it, anyhow. |
| Question | In the early 20th century, Charles Justice died in a way that he probably ought to have foreseen. But 13 years earlier, he had done something that made it go a little easier. What did he do? |
| Answer | While doing cleanup duty in the Ohio State Penitentiary, he designed a more effective restraint system for the electric chair (metal clamps instead of leather straps). He was paroled, and later convicted of a robbery/murder, and sentenced to death by electric chair. |
| Song | Danger! (High Voltage) |
| Artist | Electric Six |
| Number | 25 |
| Realm | Obscure words |
| Subrealm | The letter p |
| Question | What word, invented by the California tax authorities, describes someone who lives with a non-family member of the opposite sex? |
| Answer | posslq (pronounced poss-il-cue) |
| Song | Rain, Tax (It's Inevitable) |
| Artist | Celine Dion |
| Note | POSSLQ stands for "Persons of opposite sex sharing living quarters". It was coined by the US Census Bureau, in the late 1970s. |
| Number | 26 |
| Realm | Chuck Norris |
| Subrealm | Chuck Norris needs no subrealm! |
| Question | Name at least four out of the eight main characters (villains included) mentioned in the opening sequence of the eighties cartoon show Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos. |
| Answer | Chuck Norris, Pepper, Too Much, Kirno, Reed, Tabe, The Claw, Super Ninja |
| Song | The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny |
| Artist | Lemon Demon |
| Number | 27 |
| Realm | Distinctions |
| Subrealm | Splitting hairs |
| Question | According to Private Donut of the popular web series Red Vs Blue, what color is his armor? |
| Answer | Lightish-Red (everyone else seems to be under the crazy impression it's pink) |
| Song | Blood Gulch Blues (Red Vs Blue theme song) |
| Artist | Trocadero |
| Number | 28 |
| Realm | Layoffs |
| Subrealm | Your position is no longer needed |
| Question | Nathanial, of the Williams graduating class of 1814, was the last person to hold what position? |
| Answer | Governor of the territory of Wisconsin. |
| Song | Cows With Guns |
| Artist | Dana Lyons |
| Note | This answer is not supported by Wikipedia (See "Wisconsin_Governors") |
| Number | 29 |
| Realm | That was close... |
| Subrealm | Too close |
| Question | What legal distinction separates the brother/sister indie rock duo The White Stripes From the brother/sister indie rock duo The Fiery Furnaces? |
| Answer | The White Stripes are actually a divorced couple |
| Song | Eleanor Put Your Boots On |
| Artist | Franz Ferdinand |
| Number | 30 |
| Realm | Celebrities |
| Subrealm | Ecclesiastical Hall of Fame |
| Question | What famous Catholic saint was a slave from age sixteen to age twenty-two? |
| Answer | St. Patrick. He was captured from his home in Scotland by Irish marauders and sold to the Chieftain Milchu in Dairiada (now Antrim) in Ireland |
| Song | The blood of Cuchulainn (main theme from The Boondock Saints) |
| Artist | Jeff and Mychaci Danmii (accept: The Boondocks Saints) |
| Number | 31 |
| Realm | Suspects |
| Subrealm | Not the usual ones |
| Question | Bruno is 5'9", twenty years old, lives in Sierra Leone, and is wanted in the death of cab driver Issa Kanu. Although he fled the scene, there probably isn't any danger of him taking on another identity or fleeing the country. Why? |
| Answer | Bruno is a chimpanzee. |
| Song | Wild Thing |
| Artist | The Muppets |
| Number | 32 |
| Realm | It hurts |
| Subrealm | Obscure words that start with 'P' |
| Question | What word sounds like a children's game but is actually an instrument of torture used to crush fingers? |
| Answer | pilliwinks (there are various pronounciations, so accept anything like it) |
| Song | Forgiven |
| Artist | Alanis Morissette |
| Number | 33 |
| Realm | Obscure Clouds |
| Subrealm | Obscure clouds hanging over mountains |
| Question | What do you call the kind of cloud that's formed when moist air rises to pass over a mountain and then condenses? |
| Answer | Orographic Stratus |
| Song | The Big Rock Candy Mountain |
| Artist | The Soggy Bottom Boys |
| Number | 34 |
| Realm | More bad ideas in aviation |
| Subrealm | Controlled Flight into Terrain |
| Question | In March 1994, an Aeroflot jet from Moscow to Hong Kong crashed into a Siberian mountain, killing everyone aboard. But when the black box was recovered, the last voice was not that of Captain Yaroclav Kudrinsky. What were the final live words spoken on the doomed flight? |
| Answer | "Daddy, can I turn this?" (The crew was letting their children fly the jet.) |
| Song | Children of the Grave |
| Artist | Black Sabbath |
| Number | 35 |
| Realm | Heart-shaped faces and sharp-taloned feet |
| Subrealm | It's like country music gone horribly wrong |
| Question | What bird has a distinctive heart-shaped face and will throw itself on its back and slash out with its sharp-taloned feet when cornered? |
| Answer | a Barn Owl |
| Song | Nice to be Here |
| Artist | Moody Blues |
| Number | 36 |
| Realm | Travel |
| Subrealm | You can bet that Sonic doesn't fly coach |
| Question | What is the name of the plane that belongs to Sonic the Hedgehog and Tails the two-tailed fox? |
| Answer | The Tornado or Winged Victory (renamed later on) |
| Song | Open your Heart (Super Sonic's theme) |
| Artist | Johnny Gioeli |
| Number | 37 |
| Realm | Odd numbers raised to the fourth power |
| Subrealm | Odd questions about them |
| Question | According to Celtic Legend, what animal has a lifespan 81 Limes that of a dog? |
| Answer | The eagle |
| Song | Fly Like an Eagle |
| Artist | Seal |
| Number | 38 |
| Realm | |
| Subrealm | |
| Question | What Hopi village is the oldest surviving settlement in the US? |
| Answer | Oraibi |
| Song | There is no Arizona |
| Artist | Jamie O'Neal |
| Number | 39 |
| Realm | Body Art |
| Subrealm | Your epidermis is showing |
| Question | US boxer Mike Tyson sports many tattoos, including one on his right arm of a man who he claimed had more guts than anyone in the world. Who was the man? |
| Answer | Chairman Mao Zedong |
| Song | China Grove |
| Artist | The Doobie Brothers |
| Number | 40 |
| Realm | Dance Dance Revolution |
| Subrealm | As performed by the Dance Dance Proletariat |
| Question | What is the dance traditionally associated with the Irish jig "Bryan O'Lynn"? |
| Answer | Pantomiming the action of planting crops with a "planting stick," a pointed stick with a handle at one end. |
| Song | Keep Your Hand on the Plow |
| Artist | unknown |
| Number | 41 |
| Realm | Seeing Red |
| Subrealm | a few AU's away |
| Question | What does a reddening of Jupiter's Great Red Spot indicate? |
| Answer | An increase in solar activity |
| Song | The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas |
| Artist | They Might Be Giants |
| Number | 42 |
| Realm | What do you believe? |
| Subrealm | I believe we have a winner! |
| Question | In 1917, in the midst of World War I, a national essay contest was held to create an American Creed. Who won the contest, and on what other famous creed was the winning document supposedly based? |
| Answer | William Tyler Page, the Apostle's Creed |
| Song | Higher |
| Artist | Creed |
| Number | 43 |
| Realm | Obscure words |
| Subrealm | the letter o |
| Question | What is the word for a market controlled by a small group of firms with limited competition causing prices to rise? |
| Answer | oligopoly |
| Song | Competition Song |
| Artist | Pennywise |
| Number | 44 |
| Realm | The Direst enemies of Ninjas |
| Subrealm | No, not Samurai |
| Question | Not known for his good taste or political correctness, what actor of TV and the silver screen in a 1996 film referred to the inhabitants of Zanzibar as "Zanzibarbarians"? |
| Answer | Gonzo, of Muppet fame |
| Song | Shiver My Timbers |
| Artist | The Muppets |
| Number | 45 |
| Realm | Not very Angelic |
| Subrealm | Downright Devious in fact |
| Question | What is the name of 343 Guilty Spark's equivalent on the new Halo in the video game Halo 2? |
| Answer | 2401 Penitent Tangent |
| Song | Halo Theme from Halo 2 |
| Artist | Steve Vai Or Composer: Marty O'Donnell |
| Number | 46 |
| Realm | Direction |
| Subrealm | If you're in the wrong hemisphere, you're just in trouble |
| Question | What constellation points to the SOUTH pole? |
| Answer | Crux, the Southern Cross |
| Song | Southern Cross |
| Artist | Mason Jennings |
| Number | 47 |
| Realm | Useless Change |
| Subrealm | It's the thought that counts |
| Question | What was the first U.S. coin to bear the motto "In God We Trust"? |
| Answer | The two-cent piece. |
| Song | My Opinion |
| Artist | The Exies |
| Number | 48 |
| Realm | Doppelgangers |
| Subrealm | Fluffy Doppelgangers |
| Question | Which Muppet was said to be most like Jim Henson himself? |
| Answer | Rowlf the dog |
| Song | Moving Right Along |
| Artist | The Muppets |
| Number | 49 |
| Realm | Dead languages |
| Subrealm | Or is that... undead languages? |
| Question | This word can be translated as "prayer", "prophecy", "command", "rationality", or "logic". It figures importantly into one Christian gospel, where it is translated as what? |
| Answer | "Word" |
| Song | Grease |
| Artist | The BeeGees |
| Number | 50 |
| Realm | What am I eating? |
| Subrealm | Funky names for common substances |
| Question | Phenylethylamine triggers the release of endorphins. What food has ten times more of this than chocolate? |
| Answer | Cheese |
| Song | There are no Cats in America (And the Streets are Paved with Cheese) |
| Artist | From the movie "American Tail" |
| Note | Artist is actually Nehemiah Persoff, John Guarnicri, and Warren Hays |
| Number | 51 |
| Realm | Your favorite fish |
| Subrealm | Back from the dead |
| Question | What species of fish was thought to be extinct since the Cretaceous period until a live one was found off the Coast of South Africa in 1938? |
| Answer | Coelacanth (pronounced see-la-canth) |
| Song | Sell Out |
| Artist | Reel Big Fish |
| Number | 52 |
| Realm | The art of violence |
| Subrealm | The violence of art |
| Question | How many forms of martial arts does the G.I. Joe, Snake Eyes, know? |
| Answer | 12 |
| Song | Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja |
| Artist | The Lostprophets |
| Number | 53 |
| Realm | Obscure words |
| Subrealm | the letter p |
| Question | What word describes the Hindu and Buddhist practice of walking clockwise around something? |
| Answer | pradakshina or pradakshna |
| Song | The Hindu Times |
| Artist | Oasis |
| Number | 54 |
| Realm | Blood Sucking Freaks |
| Subrealm | Not some kind of mutant caterpillars |
| Question | David Dolphin of the University of British Columbia thinks he has unlocked the origin of the vampire myth. What rare hereditary disease does Dolphin think forced many Transylvanian residents to drink blood and be generally creepy? |
| Answer | Congenital erythropoietic porphyria. It renders an enzyme in hemoglobin synthesis useless, and instead causes the production of a protein that makes teeth appear reddish-brown; patients also suffer from increased light sensitivity and have fang-like teeth. |
| Song | Bleed American |
| Artist | Jimmy Eat World |
| Number | 55 |
| Realm | Psychology |
| Subrealm | Sex |
| Question | This pioneer of psychology was the creator of rational emotive behavior therapy, and has an institute in New York City named after him. Yet Williams College students might be more interested in some of his other work. Name the author of Overcoming Procrastination and Sex Without Guilt. |
| Answer | Dr. Albert Ellis |
| Song | You Can Call me Al |
| Artist | Paul Simon |
| Number | 56 |
| Realm | "Time for some thrilling heroics" |
| Subrealm | The Hero of Canton has nothing on this dude. |
| Question | Last June, Nebraska resident John Somers performed an act that made him famous. What did he do? |
| Answer | He made a functional key from an x-ray of the swallowed original. |
| Song | Hungry like the Wolf |
| Artist | Duran Duran |
| Number | 57 |
| Realm | |
| Subrealm | |
| Question | What is the name for the clouds formed from the water vapor released by a wildfire? |
| Answer | Pyrocumulus |
| Song | Wildfire |
| Artist | P.O.D. (Payable on Death) |
| Number | 58 |
| Realm | Prince |
| Subrealm | The artist formerly known as "the artist formerly known as Prince". |
| Question | Though he is most commonly known as Prince, his parents had a more conventional name for him on his birth certificate. What is it? |
| Answer | Prince Rogers Nelson |
| Song | Simpson's theme |
| Number | 59 |
| Realm | Real Estate |
| Subrealm | Location, Location, Location |
| Question | Sterling Clark started his art collection in Paris in 1919. so what is the Clark Art Institute doing out here in the sticks? |
| Answer | The Clarks were afraid of their collection being destroyed in a nuclear war. (Also, some of the Clarks' relatives were Trustees of the college, but who cares about stuff like that?) |
| Song | 99 Luftballons (99 Red Balloons) |
| Artist | Nena |
| Number | 60 |
| Realm | Unnatural Insertions |
| Subrealm | Why Would You Put THAT in THERE? |
| Question | They are squeezed into bottles. Their urine and feces are removed through probes. They are fed with a kind of tube. They feed them chemicals to keep their bones soft and flexible. What are these horrors? |
| Answer | Bonsai Kittens (they don't actually exist, for the record) |
| Song | Kitten is Angry |
| Artist | Lemon Demon |
| Number | 61 |
| Realm | Fifth wheels |
| Subrealm | On the other hand - turtles? Ninjas? |
| Question | What is the name of the fifth and rather distinctive Ninja Turtle as introduced in the TV series from the late 90s? Also, what is so distinctive? |
| Answer | Venus, a female |
| Song | Turtle Power |
| Artist | M.C. Hammer |
| Number | 62 |
| Realm | Mutiny |
| Subrealm | on the Bounty |
| Question | In 1789, after Fletcher Christian mutinied and forced Captain Bligh into an open boat and the open Pacific Ocean, Bligh briefly came ashore on this island, which today is an autochthonous monarchy. |
| Answer | Tonga |
| Song | Swords Crossed |
| Artist | From "Pirates of the Carribean" |
| Number | 63 |
| Realm | Brought to you by the letter '0' |
| Subrealm | and the food 'fish'. |
| Question | What word describes the eating of delicacies, especially fish? |
| Answer | opsophagy |
| Song | Sweetness |
| Artist | Jimmy Eat World |
| Number | 64 |
| Realm | You're starry-eyed again |
| Subrealm | You're inane! |
| Question | Name the Greek patron of astronomy. |
| Answer | Urania |
| Song | Astronomy |
| Artist | Blue Öyster Cult |
| Number | 65 |
| Realm | Television |
| Subrealm | The Discovery Channel |
| Question | According to Bruce Bagemihl's 1999 book, lions use their front paws, vampire bats use their feet, walruses use their tails, and birds use tufts of grass to do what? |
| Answer | To masturbate |
| Song | I Touch Myself (cover) |
| Artist | Scala |
| Number | 66 |
| Realm | The Sixth Sense |
| Subrealm | Less Bruce Willis. more Yuri Danilov |
| Question | Dr. Yuri Danilov has described the Brainport as "a USB port to the brain." How does this device, which can help everyone from those with balance disorders to soldiers in the field, transmit information? |
| Answer | It transmits through a series of microelectrodes to the tongue. Some researchers described the sensation as similar to eating pop rocks. |
| Song | Taste of India |
| Artist | Aerosmith |
| Number | 67 |
| Realm | Acherontia |
| Subrealm | Styx |
| Question | Which movie employed the services of a moth wrangler yet surprisingly did not need a sheep wrangler? |
| Answer | The Silence of the Lambs |
| Song | Spaniolated |
| Artist | The Fiery Furnaces |
| Number | 68 |
| Realm | Clouds from Fantasia |
| Subrealm | Zeus has too much fun |
| Question | What is the official name for a thunderhead? |
| Answer | Cumuloninibus Incus |
| Song | Thunder and Lightning |
| Artist | Phil Collins |
| Number | 69 |
| Realm | Evil |
| Subrealm | But only 32 pixels tall! |
| Question | What is the name of the main boss in the game Super Mario Brothers? (full name please) |
| Answer | King Koopa Bowser |
| Song | Mario theme |
| Artist | Phish (they probably don't need to know this) |
| Number | 70 |
| Realm | Time for lunch |
| Subrealm | With a side of Huguenots |
| Question | Following a revolt in 1625, King Louis XIII of France revoked the Edict of Nantes and declared war against the Hugenots. The King's chief minister Cardinal Richelieu took charge, and acted as commander of the troops that besieged the Hugenots' strongest city, La Rochelle. In the midst of the fight, to prove their courage, a few soldiers set out deep into the trenches and, while bombarded by gunfire and assaulted by enemy Hugenots, had a fine luncheon served to them by their valets. Who were these brazen and hungry men? |
| Answer | The Three Musketeers (Athos, Porthos, and Aramis) |
| Song | My Back Pages |
| Artist | Bob Dylan |
| Number | 71 |
| Realm | Ministry of Magic |
| Subrealm | Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office |
| Question | Name this magical device that has the Hogwarts crest laser-engraved on it and which can store about 1.3 x 10^8 inches of parchment. |
| Answer | The Harry Potter Collector's iPod (the 30GB one, in particular) |
| Song | Lily's Eyes |
| Artist | Secret Garden Cast |
| Number | 72 |
| Realm | Similarities |
| Subrealm | The answer is not "Their last names both start with 'ho'". |
| Question | In addition to both being fictional characters that solve impossible mysteries, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Gregory House have one more thing in common. What is it? |
| Answer | Their address. They both live in 221B (accept 221). |
| Song | Our House |
| Artist | Madness |
| Number | 73 |
| Realm | Religious holidays |
| Subrealm | Santa Claus's less well-known coworkers |
| Question | Baron Saturday is a main character of what holiday/religious festival? |
| Answer | Mardi Gras. (He is more commonly known as Baron Samedi, the French for Baron Saturday.) |
| Song | Live and Let Die |
| Artist | Paul McCartney |
| Number | 74 |
| Realm | Unwieldy house pets |
| Subrealm | But the number of thefts in the neighborhood has dropped dramatically! |
| Question | Which main dinosaur seen in the movie Jurassic Park was misnamed as a smaller dinosaur from the same family? |
| Answer | The Velociraptor. In reality Velociraptors were only about 2.5 feet tall. The dinosaur seen in the movie more closely resembles a Deinonychus, a larger member of the same family. |
| Song | Hell Wit Ya |
| Artist | Pink |
| Number | 75 |
| Realm | SPRING BREAK!!!!! |
| Subrealm | WHOO! NO PARENTS!! |
| Question | College students this year flocked to "alternative' spring break projects, such as trips to rebuild the hurricane-ravaged south. Yet Skyler Bartels of Drake University decided to take an even stranger trip. Where did Bartels spend 41 hours of his spring break this year? |
| Answer | The Wal-Mart in Windsor Heights, Iowa |
| Song | One Headlight |
| Artist | The Wallflowers |
| Number | 76 |
| Realm | Towing the Company Line |
| Subrealm | A Line of Bloooood! |
| Question | In 1998, a PR representative for game developer Bungie Software was asked for the official company opinion on video game violence and its influence on America's youth. What was Bungie's reply? |
| Answer | "We think violence is cool." (The full answer is actually: "Here's our opinion: we think violence is cool. Obviously we could go into more detail, but that's about what it boils down to. If we didn't think violence in computer games was a good and entertaining thing, we probably wouldn't make violent games.") |
| Song | Violence |
| Artist | Blink 182 |
| Number | 77 |
| Realm | Body parts, strewn across campus |
| Subrealm | Modern art |
| Question | Discounting the two sandwiched between WCMA and Fayerweather, how many eyes are there in Louise Bourgeois's installation? |
| Answer | 14 |
| Song | Valentine |
| Artist | Toby Keith |
| Hint | The clusters of eyes each have a power of two number of eyes in them. |
| Number | 78 |
| Realm | Obscure words |
| Subrealm | the letter p |
| Question | Name the Aramaic word for "vigorous keen argumentation and debate among Rabbinical scholars on the subject of proper interpretation of Talmudic principles and rules particularly with respect to moral and religious matters." |
| Answer | pilpul |
| Song | Pretty Fly for a Rabbi |
| Artist | Weird Al Yankovic |
| Number | 79 |
| Realm | The Internet |
| Subrealm | Isn't just for porn anymore |
| Question | He's 30 years old and lives in Santa Monica, California. He's interested in reading, movies, karaoke, and WWI aviation. He graduated from UC Berkeley in 1997. Name this internet icon known for his networking skills. |
| Answer | Tom Anderson of Myspace.com |
| Song | Why Can't We Be Friends? |
| Artist | Smash Mouth |
| Number | 80 |
| Realm | The Cinema |
| Subrealm | Look out Casablanca! Look out Citizen Kane! |
| Question | What movie is set to debut on July 4th, 2007? |
| Answer | Transformers: The Movie (a new live action/cgi version) |
| Song | When Robots Attack |
| Artist | Lemon Demon |
| Number | 81 |
| Realm | Your Government At Work |
| Subrealm | Cannibalism |
| Question | What game was condemned in 2005 by the National Institute on Media and the Family and US Senator Joe Lieberman for encouraging children to become cannibals? Why did the developer of this game consider the accusations ill-founded? |
| Answer | The game was "Stubbs the Zombie in: Rebel Without a Pulse". Developer Wide Load Games claimed that the term 'cannibalism' did not apply, because the human flesh eater in question was, in fact, a zombie. (From a statement by Wideload Games founder Alexander Seropian: "Stubbs is a zombie... zombies eat brains. It's what they do. It's no surprise that the all-human media cartels resort to distortions and name-calling; their anti-zombie bias has been evident for decades.") |
| Song | Zombie (it's an acoustic version) |
| Artist | The Cranberries |
| Number | 82 |
| Realm | You're cool |
| Subrealm | But I guess you're not that hot |
| Question | Rock, folk, reggae, world music, blues, mysticism and a little Tolkien thrown in for good measure... What can't this band do? Release a number one single, apparently. Despite a series of chart-topping albums both at home and across the pond, this iconic quartet never had a #1 single in the US. Who are they? |
| Answer | Led Zeppelin |
| Song | AM Radio |
| Artist | Everclear |
| Number | 83 |
| Realm | It slices! It dices! |
| Subrealm | It removes hands quickly and cleanly! |
| Question | Out of the first five Star Wars movies produced, who is the only non-force-using character to wield a lightsaber? |
| Answer | Han Solo, to cut open the stomach of his Taun Taun to keep Luke warm |
| Song | The Asteroid Field |
| Artist | John Williams |
| Number | 84 |
| Realm | Radio Trivia |
| Subrealm | Radio Trivia Trivia |
| Question | There's only one town in the U.S. whose radio station's call numbers are the town's name. What is the town? |
| Answer | WACO |
| Song | Video Killed the Radio Star (cover) |
| Artist | Ben Folds Five |
| Note | There are actually three such towns. The others are Ware, Massachusetts and Wise, Virginia. |
| Number | 85 |
| Realm | You say you want a revolution |
| Subrealm | Happiness is a warm package of C4. |
| Question | On what famous day in history was there an attempt to blow up British Parliament. which would have resulted in not only the death of both Houses, but also the King and his family? |
| Answer | November 5th, 1605 (Guy Fawkes Day) |
| Song | November Has Come |
| Artist | Gorillaz |
| Number | 86 |
| Realm | Priorities |
| Subrealm | British priorities |
| Question | In August of 1814, British troops invaded the city of Washington, DC, and proceeded to burn much of it down. However, before they burned the White House, the British troops did this. |
| Answer | They ate the dinner that was laid out for forty guests. |
| Song | The War of l8l2 |
| Artist | Arrogant Worms |
| Number | 87 |
| Realm | Bathtime |
| Subrealm | Dove just doesn't cut it anymore |
| Question | The Yellow-shouldered Blackbird and the Puerto Rican Tanager share the unusual behavior of putting something on their body and feathers for about eight minutes at a time. What is it? |
| Answer | Ants (genis: Pheidole) |
| Song | Ants Marching |
| Artist | Dave Matthews Band |
| Number | 88 |
| Realm | Luke. I am ... |
| Subrealm | ... king of Zimunda! |
| Question | James Earl Jones and Madge Sinclair reigned as King and Queen of Zimunda in the Eddie Murphy classic Coming to America. In what film did these royals pair up for yet another performance together? |
| Answer | The Lion King |
| Song | Joe The Lion |
| Artist | David Bowie |
| Number | 89 |
| Realm | Boldly defying Western values |
| Subrealm | Not the same low prices. |
| Question | What are the only two countries in the world that do not use decimal-based currency? |
| Answer | Mauritania and Madagascar |
| Song | Bridging the Gap |
| Artist | Nas |
| Number | 90 |
| Realm | Obscure words |
| Subrealm | The letter p |
| Question | What is the technical term for loss of hearing in old age? |
| Answer | presbycusis |
| Song | Pour Some Sugar on Me |
| Artist | Def Leppard |
| Number | 91 |
| Realm | Twinkle, twinkle, little star |
| Subrealm | I'm a little teapot |
| Question | An asterism is a prominent group of stars within a constellation. What constellation contains an asterism that looks like a teapot? |
| Answer | Sagittarius |
| Song | Signs |
| Artist | Beyonce Knowles |
| Number | 92 |
| Realm | Hey, Kids! |
| Subrealm | Let's put on a show! |
| Question | The recent on-campus music video sensation "What a Feeling" featured mostly '06s, with four exceptions. Two were '09s. Who were the other two? |
| Answer | Morty Schapiro (or "the president") and Karen Marchegiani (or "the Eco Café woman") |
| Song | More Than a Feeling |
| Artist | Boston |
| Hint | purple sweater |
| Number | 93 |
| Realm | Censorship |
| Subrealm | We know it when we see it |
| Question | What is the only Star Wars movie that actually has nudity in it? Who? |
| Answer | Episode VI, Oola the dancer eaten by the rancor beast in Jabba's palace. As she fell, she had a wardrobe malfunction |
| Song | Star Wars Cantina |
| Artist | Richard Cheese |
| Number | 94 |
| Realm | Hot Hot hot |
| Subrealm | Boom boom boom |
| Question | This place in Guatemala, whose name means fire, is located at 14.5N, 90.9W. |
| Answer | Fuego, a volcano in Guatemala |
| Song | Fire Coming out of a Monkey's Head (a mountain called monkey that is) |
| Artist | Gorillaz |
| Note | More accurate coordinates: 14°28'58"N 90°52'58"W |
| Number | 95 |
| Realm | Proof? |
| Subrealm | Egyptians were good astronomers |
| Question | What Astrological feature do the Egyptian Pyramids at Giza correspond to? |
| Answer | Orion's Belt, part of the Orion Constellation |
| Song | Hunter |
| Artist | Björk |
| Number | 96 |
| Realm | |
| Subrealm | |
| Question | Luciferin and luciferase are two chemicals that occur in the bodies of some insects in order to initiate a chemical reaction specific to those insects. What is the insect? |
| Answer | a Firefly |
| Song | The Ballad of Serenity |
| Artist | Sonny Rhodes |
| Number | 97 |
| Realm | Science |
| Subrealm | I'm sorry, that was supposed to be "SCIENCE!" |
| Question | Science fiction shows Star Trek: The Next Generation, SeaQuest DSV, and Farscape all share references to the same fictional element. What is this element, and what does it do? |
| Answer | Froonium. Froonium. according to its creator Richard Manning (who wrote for all three series), is "the most useful stuff ever" - essentially a plot device, responsible for whatever technical malfunction or scientific impossibility is required for the story. |
| Song | Star Trek Rhapsody |
| Artist | Weird Al Yankovic |
| Number | 98 |
| Realm | A bunch of different celebrities walk into a bar... |
| Subrealm | The bartender says, what is this, a joke? |
| Question | What common interest (besides being richer and more famous than you'll ever be) unites Metallica, The Barenaked Ladies, Kevin Smith, Quentin Tarantino, Robin Williams, and Vin Diesel? |
| Answer | All play, or have in the past played, Dungeons and Dragons. |
| Song | Cloak of Elvenkind |
| Artist | Marcy Playground |
| Number | 99 |
| Realm | Your peers |
| Subrealm | Not actually bad role models |
| Question | Robert Engle was the first Eph to do what? |
| Answer | Win a Nobel prize |
| Song | TNT |
| Artist | ACDC |
| Note | Robert Engle won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2003. |
| Number | 100 |
| Realm | Mistakes |
| Subrealm | Mistakes not made by Awesome Sauce |
| Question | What band is incorrectly labeled as Spectre General in the credits and soundtrack of The Transformers: The Movie? |
| Answer | Kick Axe |
| Song | Nothing's gonna stand in our way |
| Artist | Kick Axe |
| Number | 101 |
| Realm | Unobscure words |
| Subrealm | Because who would waste a new word for that? |
| Question | What word describes a harvest of tea? |
| Answer | flush |
| Song | Crazy Game of Poker |
| Artist | Of A Revolution |
| Number | 102 |
| Realm | Dolphins |
| Subrealm | Not just a tasty treat anymore! |
| Question | Researchers working in Sarasota Bay, Florida with bottlenose dolphins recently found evidence leading them to believe dolphins have an amazing capability. They would be only the second animal species to be able to do this, the first being humans. What did these researchers notice about dolphins' whistling signals? |
| Answer | Dolphins can recognize their "names" in these whistles, even when voice cues are removed from the sound. |
| Song | Call on Me |
| Artist | Eric Prydz |
| Number | 103 |
| Realm | Sports Records |
| Subrealm | Lesser-known sports records |
| Question | Jack Quinn had held the record since June 1930, but it was broken this past April in a game between the New York Mets and San Diego Padres. Who broke the record and what did he do? |
| Answer | Julio Franco became the oldest major leaguer to hit a home run. He was 47. |
| Song | Forever Young |
| Artist | Youth Group |
| Number | 104 |
| Realm | Those Crazy Vikings |
| Subrealm | Not what you are thinking, you perv! |
| Question | After marriage, a Viking couple would spend the next month doing what? |
| Answer | Drinking mead, a honey-based ale, hence the term honeymoon |
| Song | Honeymoon in Beirut |
| Artist | Rick Springfield |
| Number | 105 |
| Realm | You know you'll see it |
| Subrealm | whattya gonna do? |
| Question | Sith Lords, crime lords, superheroes, and genetically engineered sharks. Samuel Jackson has faced them all. What will be his next great challenge to overcome? |
| Answer | Snakes On A Plane |
| Song | Tempted by the Fruit of Another |
| Artist | Squeeze |
| Number | 106 |
| Realm | Crazy people |
| Subrealm | On the other hand, THEY're probably asleep right now |
| Question | The Wings Across Carolina and Okra Society combines two important activities: flying kites and eating okra. Why did they choose to involve okra? |
| Answer | They needed an "0" so that their name would spell "WACKOS". |
| Song | Hollaback Girl |
| Artist | Gwen Stefani |
| Number | 107 |
| Realm | A Three Hour Tour |
| Subrealm | A Three hour Tour |
| Question | You're in an underground bunker with Eighties decor, the cursor on your Apple ][ is flashing, you hear insistent beeping, and a timer is counting down from four minutes. What do you do to save the world? |
| Answer | Enter "4 8 15 16 23 42" and press "Execute". ("Push the button" is not enough.) |
| Song | The Final Countdown |
| Artist | Europe |
| Number | 108 |
| Realm | Obscure words |
| Subrealm | the letter o |
| Question | What adjective describes a full, round, rich and articulate voice but has the connotation of pomposity? |
| Answer | orotund |
| Song | You Spin Me Right Round |
| Artist | Billy Idol |