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| Number | 1 |
| Realm | This contest presented by La Esponja Grande |
| Subrealm | This contest presented by LA ESPONJA GRANDE |
| Question | Hidden within a cave inside the sacred Giant Manatee Mating Grounds, where it was sought by Coronado de Cava, this artifact can only be activated by a special recipe of ingredients that enables it to suck up tremendous amounts of mystic evil, such as The Pox of LeChuck. What is this immensely absorbent, Hispanophone voodoo relic that one may find in the most recent game in the Monkey Island series? |
| Answer | La Esponja Grande. |
| Song | Pulling Mussels (From the Shell) |
| Artist | Squeeze |
| Number | 2 |
| Realm | All of these things are like the others |
| Subrealm | Handshakes, slightly less so. |
| Question | In Cincinnati, it's a pair of smokestacks. In Houston, it's a train. In Philadelphia, it's a bell. In one part of New York, it's an apple. Most recently, in Minnesota, it's a handshake. What shared functions do these things have? |
| Answer | Icons that light up in MLB stadiums when the home team hits a home run. |
| Song | Your Love |
| Artist | The Outfield |
| Number | 3 |
| Realm | Strangers with candy |
| Subrealm | Of which you should be wary |
| Question | Suppose a Kanamit invites you on a spaceship to take you to his home planet. Why should you resist? |
| Answer | Because they're going to serve you as dinner. (The Kanamits appeared in the "To Serve Man" episode of "The Twilight Zone") |
| Song | Gotta Serve Somebody |
| Artist | Bob Dylan |
| Number | 4 |
| Realm | Surprising news! |
| Subrealm | Some New York City cabbies are not actually on drugs! |
| Question | To receive a license to drive taxi cabs in New York City, applicants must first pass a drug test. In the 90's, an instructor noted that many drivers who were eating breakfast from street carts near the testing location were failing these screenings. What was going on? |
| Answer | These drivers had eaten poppy seed bagels. Opium and heroin are, of course, also derived from poppies, and some strains of the plant are potent enough that those few poppy seeds can show up as opiates on a drug screening. |
| Song | The Seed (2.0) |
| Artist | The Roots |
| Number | 5 |
| Realm | Idaho husbandry |
| Subrealm | and Idaho wifery |
| Question | It's not commonly known, but Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head have successfully reproduced. (We really don't want to know about what parts you have to stick on them for that.) What are the names of their children? |
| Answer | Brother Spud and Sister Yam. |
| Song | Addicted to Spuds |
| Artist | Weird Al Yankovich |
| Number | 6 |
| Realm | Teenaged crimes |
| Subrealm | We're not talking about reading Twilight |
| Question | Drugs aren't the only thing that can get kids in trouble with the law. According to several reports, up to 20% of American teenagers may possess what other type of contraband material that usually carries a sentence of five years in jail per item? |
| Answer | Sexted pictures of naked underage acquaintances, which qualify as child pornography in most states. |
| Song | Sex Over the Phone |
| Artist | The Village People |
| Number | 7 |
| Realm | Personal ads |
| Subrealm | Hopefully missed connection |
| Question | In January, an ad was posted on Craigslist's "Casual Encounters" section promising a meeting with a tall redhead who could go for an hour, though you'd have to pay extra if you wanted performance after midnight. Who posted that ad? |
| Answer | Conan O'Brien (in the midst of being kicked off "The Tonight Show") |
| Song | Want Ads |
| Artist | Honey Cone |
| Number | 8 |
| Realm | Unrelated things |
| Subrealm | Seriously, good luck |
| Question | Making convoluted, semi-legal moves to avoid red lights. Calling a cell phone to find its location. Using Graham's number in the Ackermann function. Determining arcane rules for how to step on tiles. What do these mean? |
| Answer | xkcd (As defined by comic 207). |
| Song | Geek in the Pink |
| Artist | Jason Mraz |
| Number | 9 |
| Realm | Things that suck |
| Subrealm | Things that suck really hard |
| Question | Sold into slavery on two separate occasions, this poor man spent the better part of a decade trying to make his way home to his village--becoming a valued guide and translator during that time--only to find, upon finally getting back, that all his friends and family had been killed by a plague. He is more famous for a meal he purportedly took part in a few years later. By what name do you know him? |
| Answer | Squanto. |
| Song | Apache |
| Artist | Sugarhill Gang |
| Number | 10 |
| Realm | The 1960s--when musicals were popular |
| Subrealm | The 1990s--when albums sold more than fifty copies each |
| Question | What multi-platinum 1990s album takes its name from a lyric out of a popular 1960s musical? And what is that musical? Yes, this is a three-point-play! |
| Answer | Oasis' (What's the Story) Morning Glory; the musical is Bye Bye Birdie. |
| Song | Midnight at the Oasis |
| Artist | Maria Muldaur |
| Number | 11 |
| Realm | Stop! |
| Subrealm | Hammer time! |
| Question | With the hammer, you slide through a port into the house, and freeze onto a rock to force the end. What are you doing? |
| Answer | Curling. |
| Song | Tournament of Hearts |
| Artist | The Weakerthans |
| Note | The only known song to use curling as a metaphor for love. |
| Number | 12 |
| Realm | Triumphant moments |
| Subrealm | Women's names |
| Question | On film, Mary Ellen Moffit is most famous for ensuring victory in what contest? |
| Answer | The scar-comparing contest in Jaws. (After one-upping each other with tales of thresher bites and eel stings, Hooper finally tops Quint by pointing to his chest and saying "Mary Ellen Moffit--she broke my heart.") |
| Song | Once Bitten, Twice Shy |
| Artist | Great White |
| Number | 13 |
| Realm | Daring escapes |
| Subrealm | Nice try |
| Question | Ricky Flowers, of Cleveland, scaled a thirty-foot-high fence in order to elude the police officers chasing him for driving without a license. Though he did successfully manage to ditch the pursuing officers, where did he find himself? |
| Answer | He broke INTO a prison. |
| Song | I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow |
| Artist | The Soggy Bottom Boys |
| Note | Song is from O Brother Where Art Thou. |
| Number | 14 |
| Realm | You might know how he feels |
| Subrealm | You will eventually. |
| Question | What was the one question to which Jamal Malik did not know the answer? |
| Answer | "After Porthos and Athos, who was the third musketeer?" (This was the final question in Slumdog Millionaire, which Jamal ends up guessing correctly.) |
| Song | Two Out of Three Ain't Bad |
| Artist | Meat Loaf |
| Number | 15 |
| Realm | He's the master of his domain! |
| Subrealm | Yadda yadda yadda? |
| Question | On New Year's Day, Twin Galaxies announced the breaking of a world record by otherwise unremarkable Connecticut man Pat Laffaye. A few days later, actor Jason Alexander issued a statement in response belittling the achievement. What was the record? |
| Answer | The Frogger high score - the George Costanza record had finally been broken. ("Congratulations," said Jason Alexander, "you beat a fictional record by a fictional character.") |
| Song | One Jump Ahead |
| Artist | Aladdin |
| Number | 16 |
| Realm | Government |
| Subrealm | IRS makes you dance for their amusement |
| Question | In New York State, dance companies such as ballet theatres get special tax breaks. Other dance organizations got wind of this, and began to apply for tax-exempt status as well. However, the New York tax appeal board ruled that a certain kind of dance company did not constitute a "dramatic or musical art," and therefore does not qualify for the tax break. What kind of company? |
| Answer | Strip clubs. |
| Song | You Can Leave Your Hat On |
| Artist | Joe Cocker |
| Number | 17 |
| Realm | Woohoo! More naked Trivia! |
| Subrealm | Um, we mean Trivia ABOUT naked people. Please, Dom, put the shorts back on. |
| Question | After retirement, lots of figures are remembered by having buildings and rooms named after them--for instance, former Williams president Morty Schapiro will give his name to the new South Academic Building. What other well-known figure will be remembered after his retirement in the name of the VIP room at the NYC strip club Scores? |
| Answer | Justice John Paul Stevens (for ruling that strip clubs were covered by the First Amendment and couldn't be banned by law). |
| Song | Where Did Our Love Go? |
| Artist | The Supremes |
| Number | 18 |
| Realm | Woohoo! More SCOTUS Trivia! |
| Subrealm | Somehow, that's just not as exciting as naked Trivia... |
| Question | Over the years, the Supreme Court has made many significant, controversial, or history-making decisions. Some, however, are a little less exciting than others. What vital legal issue was settled in Nix v. Hedden? |
| Answer | Whether a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable. (Botanically, it's a fruit; legally, it's a vegetable.) |
| Song | Let's Call the Whole Thing Off |
| Artist | Gershwin / Ella Fitzgerald |
| Number | 19 |
| Realm | Death |
| Subrealm | Pithy descriptions |
| Question | With what two words does the Lolita's lover describe the death of his parents? |
| Answer | "Picnic, lightning." (This is from Lolita) |
| Song | Don't Stand So Close To Me vs. Young Girl |
| Artist | Glee mashup |
| Number | 20 |
| Realm | I see dead people! |
| Subrealm | Yes, but did you count them? |
| Question | Without looking at moviebodycounts.com, tell us the name of the film which has had the largest number of on-screen VISIBLE body counts. And for an extra point, tell us which character in that movie had the greatest number of on-screen kills. |
| Answer | Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King; Aragorn (17) |
| Song | Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) |
| Artist | Beyonce Knowles |
| Number | 21 |
| Realm | Sometimes, one wonders about scientists' motives. |
| Subrealm | "I think we need to inspect this situation more closely...much more closely..." |
| Question | From the final decades of the 19th century into the first of the twentieth, scientists postulated that America faced a puzzling - and still largely unexplained - shortage of a particular natural resource that had been used by the vast majority of Americans and was widely thought to be vital to their health. What resource was America having trouble producing? |
| Answer | Breast milk. |
| Song | Express Yourself |
| Artist | Madonna |
| Number | 22 |
| Realm | Vroom vroom. |
| Subrealm | Vroom vroom vroom. (I want you in my room.) |
| Question | What company produces more vehicle tires each year than any other? |
| Answer | Lego. |
| Song | Step by Step |
| Artist | New Kids on the Block |
| Number | 23 |
| Realm | It's not Shakespeare. |
| Subrealm | Probably. |
| Question | Who are Greta, Peter, Tink, Lucy, and Flubber, and what are they most famous for writing? |
| Answer | They're the manatees who (according to South Park) write Family Guy. |
| Song | Family Affair |
| Artist | Mary J. Blige |
| Number | 24 |
| Realm | Awkward Family Situations |
| Subrealm | We don't mean living in your mother's basement |
| Question | The 19th century Yates sisters probably would've gotten along fine in any other situation, living a typical lifestyle with their respective husbands in rural North Carolina. However, some unusual circumstances made their relationship strained--particularly, we imagine, when becoming pregnant with and raising their many children -- causing an awkward estrangement later in life. What were their unusual circumstances? |
| Answer | They were the wives of Chang and Eng Bunker (the "Siamese Twins"). There must be a special category of "awkward" to describe nights in their custom-made four-person bed... |
| Song | Together Forever |
| Artist | Rick Astley |
| Number | 25 |
| Realm | This is one doodle that can't be undid, homeskillet! |
| Subrealm | Your eggo is preggo, no doubt about it! |
| Question | What beverage does Juno ingest in extremely large quantities so that she can take multiple pregnancy tests? |
| Answer | Sunny D. |
| Song | Soak Up The Sun |
| Artist | Sheryl Crow |
| Number | 26 |
| Realm | Body hair |
| Subrealm | On dudes and ladies |
| Question | In the 1970s, he had long hair and a thick beard, while her hair was chin length and noticeably present at the armpits. In the 2000s, not only were they colorized, but her body hair vanished and he was shorn so as to look somewhat more attractive and less greasily feral. Who are they? |
| Answer | The couple in the illustrations for the original and revised editions of The Joy of Sex. |
| Song | Joy to the World |
| Artist | Three Dog Night |
| Number | 27 |
| Realm | Geography |
| Subrealm | Tricky geography |
| Question | From Williams, Amherst is a bit to the south; and on a clear day you can see Holyoke, Vassar and Wellesley. Where are we? |
| Answer | College Fjord, Prince William Sound, Alaska. (All of the glaciers in the area are named after elite colleges.) |
| Song | Cold As Ice |
| Artist | Foreigner |
| Number | 28 |
| Realm | Wastes of time |
| Subrealm | Worse than trivia |
| Question | Hopefully, the number of people playing Williams Trivia is in the triple-digits at the moment. We are unlikely, however, to catch up in numbers with what game, astoundingly being played by nearly 85 million people right now? |
| Answer | FarmVille on Facebook (for perspective, that's about 1.25% of the world's population) |
| Song | She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy |
| Artist | Kenny Chesney |
| Number | 29 |
| Realm | My college roommates |
| Subrealm | Goodbye security deposit [I don't entirely understand this realm/subrealm...] |
| Question | What group of related films stars the following protagonists: an old man playing chess with himself, a girl trying to put a coin in a fountain, a mischievous magician's rabbit, a newly shorn sheep, an inept alien abductor, and an inept storm cloud? |
| Answer | The short films that precede Pixar's animated features. |
| Song | Short Shorts |
| Artist | The Royal Teens |
| Number | 30 |
| Realm | New Jersey |
| Subrealm | Land of childhood joy and/or death. |
| Question | What notoriously dangerous American theme park, closed after six fatalities over 19 years, featured a spring-fed pool whose cold waters induced one heart attack, a thrice-deadly wave pool, and a kayak ride with a live electrical current underwater? |
| Answer | Action Park (Vernon, NJ, closed 1996) |
| Song | Poor Unfortunate Souls |
| Artist | Jonas Brothers |
| Number | 31 |
| Realm | New Jersey |
| Subrealm | Armpit of America. |
| Question | In March of 2010, Newark, New Jersey celebrated a special calendar month, the first such month in forty-four years. What made that month different? |
| Answer | It was the first calendar month without a murder since 1966. |
| Song | Savin' Me |
| Artist | Nickelback |
| Number | 32 |
| Realm | New Jersey |
| Subrealm | Seriously, why haven't we just pushed it into the ocean already? |
| Question | One of the cast members of "Jersey Shore" has expressed a desire to have her own spin-off reality show. What is her official nickname, and what does she want the show to be called? |
| Answer | Snooki; "Snookin' for Love" |
| Song | That's Amore |
| Artist | Dean Martin |
| Number | 33 |
| Realm | Things that suck |
| Subrealm | Things that suck and are not, surprisingly, in New Jersey. |
| Question | Which two 2009 100-million-dollar-plus-grossing movies were inspired by South Africa's Apartheid era? |
| Answer | Invictus and District 9. |
| Song | We Belong Together |
| Artist | Mariah Carey |
| Number | 34 |
| Realm | Stars. |
| Subrealm | Stars who dance. |
| Question | Prior to a November 2009 game, Cincinnati wide receiver Chad Ochocinco planned to send a particular condiment to the defensive secondary of his team's arch-rivals, the Pittsburgh Steelers. Unfortunately for Ochocinco, the Bengals' head coach shut his plan down. What condiment was Ochocinco planning to send, and what was the rationale behind it? |
| Answer | Mustard, "since they'll never ketchup when we play Sunday." |
| Song | Message in a Bottle |
| Artist | The Police |
| Number | 35 |
| Realm | La Esponja Grande needs your credit card information! |
| Subrealm | No, seriously, give us your credit card information. |
| Question | Most everyone playing this contest has probably received an email from a purported Nigerian prince seeking to acquire money or bank account information so that he may escape his homeland, at which time you will be handsomely rewarded. This scam is part of a 200-year-old tradition of cons which are collectively known by what name? |
| Answer | The Spanish Prisoner |
| Song | My Commanding Wife |
| Artist | Los Rabanes |
| Number | 36 |
| Realm | Euclidean geometry |
| Subrealm | 2,340 degrees worth of it |
| Question | What group is symbolized by six circles and a triangle? |
| Answer | The Seven Samurai |
| Song | Theme from The Magnificent Seven |
| Artist | Elmer Bernstein |
| Number | 37 |
| Realm | The only violent people in Canada |
| Subrealm | Seriously, it's too cold for terrorism. |
| Question | Hopefully, by next Trivia, David Foster Wallace's posthumous, unfinished novel The Pale King will be released. In honor of that, tell us the most unusual feature of the members of the Canadian terrorist organization from his magnum opus, Infinite Jest. |
| Answer | They're all wheelchair-bound, having lost use of their legs in a game in which they jump across train tracks before an approaching locomotive. |
| Song | Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway (Again) |
| Artist | Wilco |
| Number | 38 |
| Realm | Catapulting cows. |
| Subrealm | I fart in your general direction! |
| Question | Of the 150 Knights of the Round Table, over one quarter died over a short period of time of the exact same cause. What? |
| Answer | Killed by Lancelot while trying to catch him schtupping Guinevere |
| Song | Wake Up Call |
| Artist | Maroon Five |
| Note |
Note: Ken Hodges '90, an Arthurian Scholar of some note, says this: The Round Table had 150 knights. When Launcelot is cornered in the queen's chamber, "at the fyrst buffet he slewe Sir Agrauayne, and twelue of his felawes after." (1:559; XX.4). The figures are repeated shortly after "I haue slayn this nyghte these knyghtes, I wote wel (as is Sire Agrauayne . . . and at the leste twelue of his felawes)" (1:561; XX.5). As a result of the midnight raid, Guinevere is tried for treason and sentenced to be burned. As a result, at least nineteen named knights are killed, and I think they were all members of the Round Table (1:564; XX.8). This massacre is less than one quarter, but it combined with the fight outside the queen's chamber might do it. The Grail quest was more catastrophic: "many of the Round Table were slayne and destroyed, more than half" (1:499; XVII.17). All references are to Caxton's Malory, 2 vol., ed. Spisak and Matthews (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983), cited first by page number and then (for the convenience of people with other editions) by Caxton's book and chapter numbers. |
| Number | 39 |
| Realm | Sports questions. |
| Subrealm | Flipper-approved sports questions. |
| Question | The Miami Dolphins' current stadium, built in 1987, was not around for the Dolphins' record-setting perfect season in 1973. However, last January, the stadium did become the fastest pro stadium to reach seven...what? |
| Answer | Names. Over the past 23 years, it has been named Joe Robbie Stadium, Pro Player Park, Pro Player Stadium, Dolphin Stadium, Dolphins Stadium, Land Shark Stadium, and now Sun Life Stadium. |
| Song | Changes |
| Artist | David Bowie |
| Number | 40 |
| Realm | Call your pretentious artsy friends! |
| Subrealm | It's a New Yorker question! |
| Question | What now-famous geographical feature, located within Forest Service land north of Signal, South Dakota, was first described a little over twelve and a half years ago in an issue of the The New Yorker? |
| Answer | Brokeback Mountain (The New Yorker published Annie Proulx's original story in October 1997) |
| Song | I Can't Quit Your Love |
| Artist | The Jackson 5 |
| Number | 41 |
| Realm | People as cool as Sid the Kid |
| Subrealm | Oh wait, the Habs knocked him out of the playoffs |
| Question | Who won a four-day staring contest with his reflection, has a mother with a "Son" tattoo, is too magnetic to carry credit cards, and has a beard that has experienced more than most men? |
| Answer | The Most Interesting Man in the World (from the Dos Equis commercials) |
| Song | Winner |
| Artist | Jamie Foxx featuring Justin Timberlake |
| Number | 42 |
| Realm | Sound effects |
| Subrealm | Easier to spell than onomatopoeia |
| Question | It's been called the "clang," the "gavel," the "cash register," the "doink doink," and the "ominous chung." What is it? |
| Answer | The "scene change" noise on "Law and Order." |
| Song | Watching the Detectives |
| Artist | Elvis Costello |
| Number | 43 |
| Realm | Foreign travel |
| Subrealm | Places I've been arrested |
| Question | On a road bike in the USA. On a New Zealand mountaintop. While skydiving over England. Underwater in Egypt at the famous Blue Hole. On a duck tour of Boston. On a mountain board in Japan. While rappelling in Austria. At these locations men are playing what "sport"? |
| Answer | Extreme Ironing. |
| Song | Smooth |
| Artist | Santana |
| Number | 44 |
| Realm | Things that are cuter than the average cute thing |
| Subrealm | And make economical use of the alphabet |
| Question | The first group had three brothers and three sisters whose names all begin with the letter "A." The second, by the same mother, had three brothers and two sisters whose names all begin with the letter "B." You've probably seen them. Who are they? |
| Answer | The Shiba Inu litters from Puppy Cam |
| Song | Puppy Love |
| Artist | Lil Bow Wow |
| Number | 45 |
| Realm | Things that are round and never stop opening their mouths. |
| Subrealm | No, not Rush Limbaugh. |
| Question | In a popular arcade game sequel from 1981, the main character's diet consists entirely of dots, ghosts, fruit, and just one other food commonly sold at snack carts. What is this snack food? |
| Answer | Pretzel. This is available in level 4 of Ms. Pacman. |
| Song | Pac-Man Fever |
| Artist | Brucker and Garcia |
| Number | 46 |
| Realm | The Fab Four |
| Subrealm | And Norah Jones |
| Question | Isn't it good? We're about to mellow y'all out with the ballad that features the first time a certain instrument was ever recorded by a rock band, played by George Harrison. For one point, tell us what all this has to do with Norah Jones. |
| Answer | The instrument is the sitar, and Norah Jones is the daughter of Ravi Shenkar, its most famous player at the time (and probably now), who explicitly inspired George Harrison's music. We'll probably accept any answer containing "Ravi Shenkar" and "sitar." |
| Song | Norwegian Wood |
| Artist | The Beatles |
| Number | 47 |
| Realm | Isn't it good? |
| Subrealm | Actual Norwegian wood. |
| Question | In the mid 16th century, people in northern Norway and Sweden would place pieces of rotting bark on the ground as they walked through forests. These specially chosen bark chunks could show travelers the way they had come, even at night. What is the colloquial term for the biological phenomenon that made these bark pieces good markers? |
| Answer | Foxfire. ("Bioluminescence" might come up, but it's not the colloquial term and foxfire is a more specific type.) |
| Song | Fireflies |
| Artist | Owl City |
| Number | 48 |
| Realm | How I Totally Failed To Actually Meet Your Mother At Any Point In The Last Five Seasons |
| Subrealm | I guess that title wasn't as catchy. |
| Question | Ted Mosby and Robin Scherbatsky's first date culminated with the theft of what object, which was only returned a season later? |
| Answer | The blue french horn mounted at the restaurant at which they ate. |
| Song | St. Louis Blues |
| Artist | Lena Horne |
| Number | 49 |
| Realm | People with bird names. |
| Subrealm | It's not Florence Nightingale, for once. |
| Question | Jane Wren's otherwise unremarkable career was most noted for playing one well-known stage role in a very popular play, beginning in the first decade of the twentieth century. Amazingly, she was still playing same role in revivals over fifty years later. What role was it, and why was her career so unremarkable otherwise? |
| Answer | Tinkerbell. Jane Wren doesn't actually exist--she was simply a name put in the program to give a more realistic feel to a character created solely using lights and sound effects. |
| Song | Clap Hands |
| Artist | Tom Waits |
| Number | 50 |
| Realm | Jellyfish. |
| Subrealm | Jellyfish with hooves. |
| Question | Perhaps the most dominant racehorse in American history was Man O' War, who only lost one race. What was the most coincidentally appropriate thing about that loss? |
| Answer | He lost to a horse named "Upset." |
| Song | Underdog |
| Artist | Sly and the Family Stone |
| Number | 51 |
| Realm | Family secrets |
| Subrealm | You might earn a black eye for bringing them up |
| Question | In the movie Goodfellas, about what previous career is Tommy especially sensitive? |
| Answer | Shoeshine boy. |
| Song | Goody Two Shoes |
| Artist | Adam Ant |
| Number | 52 |
| Realm | Neologisms |
| Subrealm | When a half million English words aren't enough to say it just right |
| Question | The 2001 Oxford English Dictionary added about 250 new entries to their definitive catalog of the English language, including "Bollywood," "mullet", and what other word, brought into the language by a well-known cartoon character? |
| Answer | D'oh. |
| Song | For The Love Of Money |
| Artist | The O'Jays |
| Number | 53 |
| Realm | The things we do for love. |
| Subrealm | The things we do for veggie burgers. |
| Question | The always classy PETA people have outdone themselves again! What was written on the sign that the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals placed on the lawn of Nadya Suleman -- aka the Octomom -- in exchange for $5000 and a month's supply of veggie burgers and vegan hot dogs? |
| Answer | "Don't Let Your Dog or Cat Become an Octomom. Always Spay or Neuter!" |
| Song | My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It) |
| Artist | En Vogue |
| Number | 54 |
| Realm | Transportation |
| Subrealm | Baby you can drive my nonmilitary automobile |
| Question | In the 1920s, what entity controlled the largest fleet of nonmilitary automobiles in the world? |
| Answer | The US Postal Service |
| Song | Sealed With A Kiss |
| Artist | The Lettermen |
| Number | 55 |
| Realm | Art restoration |
| Subrealm | It's a fishy business. |
| Question | When most major artworks are restored, the process involves highly trained specialists in art carefully cleaning centuries-old treasures. However, the recent restoration of what artwork, currently at the Met, featured an Australian fisherman and British ichthyologist among its main restorers? |
| Answer | Damien Hirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (aka "The Shark in a Tank")--the old shark had decayed and needed to be replaced by a newly-caught one. |
| Song | Maneater |
| Artist | Hall and Oates |
| Number | 56 |
| Realm | Tall guys |
| Subrealm | Guys who make sports fans excited |
| Question | Before each Cleveland Cavaliers home game, what signature move does LeBron James perform? |
| Answer | He blows white powder into the air, so that it looks like white smoke. |
| Song | Fire |
| Artist | The Ohio Players |
| Number | 57 |
| Realm | Second City |
| Subrealm | First in Savings |
| Question | In late 2008, a Chicago-area furniture store, LeatherCreations, took out a quarter-page ad in the Chicago Tribune to advertise their outrageously cheap prices on a specific furniture item. Their listed price, $1999, was only a fraction of the cost that a related model was dubiously being sold downstate. What was LeatherCreations selling? |
| Answer | Senate seats. |
| Song | Treat Me Nice |
| Artist | Rod Blagoyevich |
| Number | 58 |
| Realm | Victorian authors |
| Subrealm | Charles Dickens was a weird dude |
| Question | When Charles Dickens planned to visit the United States for the first time in 1842, he wanted to see two wonders in America. The first was the spectacular Niagara Falls. The other was a well-known site outside of Philadelphia. What was this second site? |
| Answer | The Eastern State Penitentiary. |
| Song | Back on the Chain Gang |
| Artist | Pretenders |
| Number | 59 |
| Realm | Vegetables |
| Subrealm | So many homonyms! |
| Question | "Chard" can be either a leafy vegetable or its homonym: the differently spelled word meaning "burned." Beets and leeks are also items of produce with one homonym each, but there is one vegetable that has three homonyms. What is it? And for an extra point, spell and define all three homonyms. |
| Answer | The carrot. The homonyms are Caret-editing mark, Karat-purity of gold, and Carat-gem weight. |
| Song | Suddenly I See |
| Artist | KT Tunstall |
| Number | 60 |
| Realm | Things that aren't profanity |
| Subrealm | Think of the children! |
| Question | What were the first words ever spoken by Mickey Mouse? |
| Answer | "Hot dogs!" |
| Song | Hot Meat |
| Artist | Nicholas Robertshaw |
| Note | Dave Letzler says: As a quick story--we couldn't find a good match for the Mickey-Mouse-hot-dogs question for quite a while, and Jonathan only added the match we used very late. Since we were running a bit slow-paced, and he wasn't confident in the song, he asked whether we should skip that one and move on. We decided not to skip it, since the question itself seemed pretty reasonable. And thankfully we did, or else we'd have never heard the wonder of Big Nick Robertshaw's "Hot Meat." Had we not been kicked out of the studio at 8:40, we'd have looped it a few more times while we finished the scores. |
| Number | 61 |
| Realm | Myth |
| Subrealm | Legend |
| Question | [READ DRAMATICALLY] This is the story of a time long ago. A time of myth and legend. When the ancient gods were petty and cruel, and they plagued mankind with suffering, only one man dared to challenge their power. [STOP READING DRAMATICALLY] So...what the heck are we talking about? |
| Answer | Hercules, The Legendary Journeys. |
| Song | You're a God |
| Artist | Vertical Herizon |
| Number | 62 |
| Realm | Jerks who make up names |
| Subrealm | Identification confusion |
| Question | The original name for this common substance was invented by a bunch of jerks in the late 19th century. But in America today, that name is only its fourth most popular. Instead, Midwesterners have one name for it, Easterners and Californians have another, and Southerners have still one more. What is this substance? You and your teammates may squabble over what to call it, but we'll accept any of the four most common names as our answer. |
| Answer | Soda, pop, coke, or phosphate. |
| Song | Bubbly |
| Artist | Colby Caillet |
| Number | 63 |
| Realm | Wait for it..... |
| Subrealm | Tonga question! |
| Question | Everyone's favorite tiny Pacific island nation not only has a special place in the game of Williams Trivia, but in the game of golf as well. What rule applies only when playing on the one and only golf course in Tonga? |
| Answer | There is no penalty if your ball is stolen by a monkey. |
| Song | Brass Monkey |
| Artist | Beastie Boys |
| Number | 64 |
| Realm | Comic books |
| Subrealm | No, wait, webcomics |
| Question | Every comic needs a superhero. The webcomic "Questionable Content" has one, although she doesn't show up very often. Who is she, and what is her only apparent superpower? |
| Answer | Pizza Girl, whose superpower is...delivering pizzas. |
| Song | "I'm No Superman" Lazlo Bane |
| Note | The song is the Scrubs theme. |
| Number | 65 |
| Realm | American women |
| Subrealm | I hope they stay away from me. |
| Question | Of the three women ever convicted of treason against the United States, two of them were convicted for their actions during World War II. Who were these women? |
| Answer | Tokyo Rose (Iva Toguri) and Axis Sally (Mildred Gillars). |
| Song | There Is Nothing Like A Dame |
| Artist | South Pacific |
| Number | 66 |
| Realm | Oh god, more seemingly unrelated stuff |
| Subrealm | Have fun! |
| Question | Famous titles, an album cover, "S"-words, Japan-US relations, and therapists all notably have what in common? |
| Answer | On SNL's "Celebrity Jeopady" sketches, Sean Connery has mispronounced them to make sexual puns. ("Famous titties," "Anal bum cover," "Swords," "Jap Anus Relations," and "The Rapists.") |
| Song | Pretty Irish Girl |
| Artist | Sean Connery |
| Number | 67 |
| Realm | Think fast |
| Subrealm | So much for my pro basketball career |
| Question | During a basketball game, players are often required to make many difficult, heads-up, reflex catches. Early in the 2009-2010 season, though, Spurs guard Manu Ginobili made a very unusual, impressive catch during a game. What was so notable about it? |
| Answer | A bat flew out onto the court during the game, disrupting play until Manu managed to pull it out of the air in his bare hands. |
| Song | Roundball Rock (Theme from NBA on NBC) |
| Artist | John Tesh. |
| Number | 68 |
| Realm | Novelty bands |
| Subrealm | Crime |
| Question | After Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement are mugged, what valuable dual-function item does Bret contact the muggers in order to reclaim? |
| Answer | Jemaine's "cameraphone" - i.e. Jemaine's phone, which Bret had duct-taped to a camera. |
| Song | Rhymenoceros vs. Hiphopopotamus |
| Artist | Flight of the Conchords |
| Number | 69 |
| Realm | Obscure locations |
| Subrealm | What else did you expect from trivia |
| Question | Bounded on the South by its namesake river, whose only bridge has been washed away, where in the USA can you find the Frenchman's mansion, an estate called The Hundred, a golf course with a tragic past, and the wooded Chicksaw settlement where the unkillable Ben lives? And who is listed as the owner and proprietor of this place? |
| Answer | Yoknapatawpha County; William Faulkner. |
| Song | Southern Man |
| Artist | Neil Young |
| Number | 70 |
| Realm | Useless international news |
| Subrealm | Thanks, American media |
| Question | In late April, a 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck near Taiwan, but so far off the coast that the damage caused was minimal and tsunamis were not feared. Nevertheless, the event received broad coverage and a slick moniker in the American media that day. Why? |
| Answer | Boobquake-the movement by Purdue students and followers intended to refute an Iranain cleric's assertions that immodest dress causes earthquakes-had in a sense backfired. |
| Song | Rock the Casbah |
| Artist | The Clash |
| Number | 71 |
| Realm | Just a little bit ableist |
| Subrealm | Don't worry it's not about ableism |
| Question | Cooper was a nationally-known wide receiver in high school, until a wasting disease forced him to quit sports and head for a career in a 9-to-5. This is still quite exceptional, but certain circumstances make him appear a little less so in context. Why? |
| Answer | His brothers Peyton and Eli Manning are both Super-Bowl-winning quarterbacks. (Their father was an NFL Pro-Bowler, too.) |
| Song | Eli's Coming |
| Artist | Laura Nyro |
| Number | 72 |
| Realm | Famous computer scientists |
| Subrealm | ...there are famous computer scientists? |
| Question | According to famed computer scientist Donald Knuth, what important Clay Millennium Problem will not be solved for another 38 years, or if not then, not until 2086 years from now? |
| Answer | P = NP; (AD 2048 or 4096 are 2^11 or 2^12, respectively) |
| Song | P. Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up) |
| Artist | Parliament Funkadelic |
| Number | 73 |
| Realm | Probably not in Queens |
| Subrealm | Probably not Ditmars Boulevard |
| Question | What current Emmy-winning TV show takes its name from a street in New York City? |
| Answer | "Mad Men" |
| Song | Angry |
| Artist | Matchbox 20 |
| Note | The Mad Men work on Madison Avenue. |
| Number | 74 |
| Realm | Sssssssshhhhh |
| Subrealm | A librarian question |
| Question | A 1992 survey of five thousand librarians across the US was withheld from publication for eighteen years because of a somewhat unexpected finding. What distinctly non-book-browsing activity did this survey find that nearly one in five librarians had done during their years of service? |
| Answer | "Engaged in sexual trysts among the stacks." |
| Song | The Book of Love |
| Artist | The Monotones |
| Number | 75 |
| Realm | Guilds |
| Subrealm | Not in World of Warcraft |
| Question | According to the by-rules of the Screen Actors Guild, what is one thing that every actor and actress is required to have that differentiates them from other guild members? |
| Answer | A unique name. |
| Song | You Know My Name |
| Artist | Chris Cornell's |
| Note | Song is from the non-Peter Sellers 'Casino Royale'. |
| Number | 76 |
| Realm | Watchmen |
| Subrealm | Who watches them? |
| Question | According to the comic book and film "Watchmen," who shot JFK? |
| Answer | The Comedian. |
| Song | The Joker |
| Artist | Steve Miller Band |
| Number | 77 |
| Realm | Degeekifying |
| Subrealm | Could be our hardest question |
| Question | Latka Gravas from Taxi, Steve Urkel on Family Matters, and Chuck Bartowski on Chuck are all big geeks. What common factor do they all have that mitigates their geekiness? |
| Answer | Suave alter egos (respectively, Vic Ferrari, Stefan Urquelle, and Charles Carmichael). |
| Song | Best of Both Worlds |
| Artist | Hannah Montana |
| Number | 78 |
| Realm | Cooking |
| Subrealm | Most delicious question yet |
| Question | It can be barbecued, boiled, broiled, baked, and sauted. You can make it in kabobs, creole, gumbo, and fry it three ways. It can be flavored with pineapple, lemon, coconut, or pepper, or made in a soup, stew, salad, burger, or sandwich--but that's about it. What is this versatile food? |
| Answer | Shrimp--according to Bubba in Forrest Gump |
| Song | Ms. New Booty |
| Artist | Bubba Sparrx |
| Number | 79 |
| Realm | Go Habs Go! |
| Subrealm | Wait, wrong sport |
| Question | In 1997, Major League baseball retired a uniform number from play, meaning no new uniforms would be assigned with that number. As of the beginning of the 2010 baseball season, only one active baseball player continued to wear that number. What was the retired number, and who is the only player still wearing it? |
| Answer | Mariano Rivera (NY Yankees), #42 (Jackie Robinson's number) |
| Song | Mrs. Robinson |
| Artist | Simon and Garfunkel |
| Number | 80 |
| Realm | Aarrrr! |
| Subrealm | Aaarrrrr! |
| Question | According to some sources, between twenty and fifty percent of all pirated videos come from what country? |
| Answer | Canada |
| Song | Pirates of the Saskatchewan |
| Artist | The Arrogant Worms |
| Number | 81 |
| Realm | Evolution |
| Subrealm | Charles Darwin is rolling in his grave. |
| Question | The Marvel superhero known as Darwin has the power of "reactive evolution" - his body automatically adapts to every situation to ensure his survival. So, for example, when he is trapped underwater, he develops gills; when he is thrown into space, he stops needing oxygen; and when he is set on fire, his skin becomes fireproof. Some situations are a little trickier than others, though. How exactly did Darwin's body adapt when he got into a fight with the Incredible Hulk? |
| Answer | It automatically teleported him the hell away from the Hulk. |
| Song | I Like To Move It |
| Artist | Reel 2 Reel |
| Number | 82 |
| Realm | Games |
| Subrealm | Games that don't sound like fun |
| Question | In what 19th century game did players attempt to progress across a checkerboard while landing on squares like "Industry" and "Bravery" and avoiding squares like "Prison," "Idleness", and "Suicide"? |
| Answer | The original Game of Life. |
| Song | Game of Love |
| Artist | Michelle Branch and Santana |
| Number | 83 |
| Realm | Childhood memories |
| Subrealm | Pooping on 'em |
| Question | One of the final episodes of what TV series featured one of its protagonists holding a child and looking out a window, adapting the verse structure of Goodnight Moon to say goodnight to a variety of addicts, dealers, and con men on the street below? |
| Answer | "The Wire" |
| Song | Good Morning Baltimore |
| Artist | Hairspray |
| Number | 84 |
| Realm | Baobab troubles |
| Subrealm | They're serious business |
| Question | What beloved title character falls in love with a rose and labors to protect her from baobab trees and sheep? |
| Answer | The Little Prince/Le Petit Prince |
| Song | Waiting For A Star To Fall |
| Artist | Boy Meets Girl |
| Number | 85 |
| Realm | It's not easy being green. |
| Subrealm | Faking it, on the other hand... |
| Question | In one European country, subsidies for solar energy are so high that it pays to generate solar power fraudulently. Recently, a scam was busted in which one company was using electricity from non-green energy sources to power arclights pointed at solar panels, and reaping a handsome profit from the subsidies. Unfortunately for the scammers, they didn't quite work out all the kinks in this plan. How did police detect the fraudulent green energy source? |
| Answer | The panels that they owned were generating electricity at night. |
| Song | Sunglasses at Night |
| Artist | Corey Hart |
| Number | 86 |
| Realm | Snow, cold, and flowers. |
| Subrealm | Things that actually do go together. |
| Question | The second one of the year was named Snow, and the last one will be Cold. The next one after tonight is Flower. What are they? |
| Answer | The names of the full moons. |
| Song | Werewolves of London |
| Artist | Warren Zevon |
| Number | 87 |
| Realm | Embarrassing stuff |
| Subrealm | That makes you want to poke an eye out |
| Question | Before being elected to the US House and then the Senate, what was West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd's first elected office, to which he was elected unanimously by the members of his organization? |
| Answer | An Exalted Cyclops of The Ku Klux Klan. |
| Song | Fiona |
| Artist | Lyle Lovett |
| Number | 88 |
| Realm | Calling all Boy Scouts! |
| Subrealm | Also all BDSM enthusiasts! |
| Question | Listen carefully! You have two ends of a rope. Take the left working end of the rope and cross it over the right working end. Now tuck the left working end under the right working end. Lastly, tuck the working end that now lies on the right side over and under the working end on the left side. Pull to tighten. What did you just make? |
| Answer | A square knot. |
| Song | Naughty Naughty |
| Artist | John Parr |
| Number | 89 |
| Realm | Alec Baldwin is a dreamboat |
| Subrealm | People who aren't actually Alec Baldwin |
| Question | On one episode of 30 Rock, it was revealed that Kenneth the Page sees the world just a little differently from everyone else. What is the most noticeable difference between the the world as seen by Kenneth and that seen by the rest of us? |
| Answer | In Kenneth's worldview, everyone is a Muppet. |
| Song | Master of Puppets [abridged] |
| Artist | Metallica |
| Number | 90 |
| Realm | Wrapped up like a douche! |
| Subrealm | Another rubber in the night! |
| Question | Somewhere in the Manfred Mann version of "Blinded By The Light" is a rendition of a simple tune you've definitely heard dozens of times before. Name this tune. |
| Answer | Chopsticks. |
| Song | Chinese |
| Artist | Lily Allen |
| Number | 91 |
| Realm | Less-than-great ideas |
| Subrealm | We're glad they didn't also include the extra features. |
| Question | Eight primary schools in Liverpool, England, have come up with a new way to teach young children about violence. What computer game have educators repurposed, to the point of putting screenshots on trading cards, in order to teach nine-year-olds about knife and gun violence? |
| Answer | Grand Theft Auto III (GTA 3) |
| Song | Get Outta My Dreams Get Into My Car |
| Artist | Billy Ocean |
| Number | 92 |
| Realm | I said a boom chica boom! |
| Subrealm | I said a boom chica rocka chica rocka chica boom! |
| Question | In Kill Bill, one of the Bride's victims attempts to end negotiations over how they will duel to the death by surreptiously pulling a gun and shooting at her. With what does she hide the gun as she pulls it out? |
| Answer | A box of "Ka-Boom" cereal. |
| Song | Boom Boom |
| Artist | John Lee Hooker |
| Number | 93 |
| Realm | Topiaries |
| Subrealm | Copper pigs |
| Question | $8 million in the red, this New York City landmark went bankrupt and shuttered on New Year's Eve 2009; two weeks later its contents went up for bid. The Tiffany glass ceiling sold for $180,000. The gilded copper pig weather vane left for quite a bit less. So did a topiary shaped like King Kong. But New York City successfully sued for ownership of the name, which was valued at $19 million and never went up for sale. What is this $19 million name? |
| Answer | Tavern On The Green. |
| Song | You Belong To The City |
| Artist | Glenn Frey |
| Number | 94 |
| Realm | The Life and Times of Sandra Bullock |
| Subrealm | Achievements |
| Question | In the 2010 awards season, Sandra Bullock achieved something that no actor or actress ever had before. What was it? |
| Answer | She won both a Best Actress Oscar and a Worst Actress Razzie. |
| Song | Cruel to Be Kind |
| Artist | Letters to Cleo |
| Number | 95 |
| Realm | Radioactivity in everyday life |
| Subrealm | Um, should we be nervous? |
| Question | How is the radioactive alkali cesium most directly involved in your everyday life? |
| Answer | The vibrational period of cesium-133 determines the official SI length of the second. |
| Song | Tik Tok |
| Artist | Ke$ha |
| Number | 96 |
| Realm | Dumb on the surface |
| Subrealm | Dumb all the way down? |
| Question | This event has only happened six times ever in Major League Baseball game, and over the past sixty years, Barry Bonds and Josh Hamilton are the only players to have achieved it. That makes sense, too, because on the surface, it's a really, really dumb move just about all the time. What is it? |
| Answer | An intentional, bases-loaded walk. |
| Song | Walk On |
| Artist | U2 |
| Number | 97 |
| Realm | Life imitates the movies. |
| Subrealm | On the bright side, we hear he has vewwy gweat fwiends in Rome? |
| Question | An ambassador to a middle eastern country was rejected in February of 2010 due to, of all things, his name. What was his name, and what was the problem that not one, not two, but three Arab countries had? |
| Answer | Akbar Zeb -- his name means "biggest dick" in Arabic. |
| Song | Will You Be There [theme from Free Willy] |
| Artist | Michael Jackson |
| Number | 98 |
| Realm | Chess Question! |
| Subrealm | One dude out there is super excited |
| Question | In chess, it is actually possible for black to win on the second move (against a fairly oblivious white, of course). What is the name of the opening which sees Black win after Pawn f5, Pawn e6, Pawn g5, Queen h4 checkmate? |
| Answer | Fool's mate. |
| Song | All the Right Moves |
| Artist | OneRepublic |
| Number | 99 |
| Realm | Things people know |
| Subrealm | Things people don't know |
| Question | Many people know that an important US city has formed where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers meet to form the Ohio. What many people don't know is that there is actually a fourth river that joins the Ohio at that location. What is the name of that river? |
| Answer | The Wisconsin Glacial Flow (an underground river which joins the other three at Point State Park in Pittsburgh). |
| Song | Once In A Lifetime |
| Artist | Talking Heads |
| Number | 100 |
| Realm | Organic chemistry question! |
| Subrealm | Or as I like to call it, nap time! |
| Question | Organic chemists, rejoice -- here is an opportunity for you to put your painfully-learned knowledge to good trivia use while your non-pre-med companions use google to find the answer. What kind of reaction is the cause of the sucking sound heard when a bottle of vegetable oil is opened after sitting on the shelf for a long time? |
| Answer | A (free) radical reaction. |
| Song | You Get What You Give |
| Artist | The New Radicals |
| Number | 101 |
| Realm | Kamehameha! |
| Subrealm | And other cool stuff |
| Question | What does the game Enslaved prominently have in common with Dragonball Z and The Forbidden Kingdom? |
| Answer | They're all based on the Chinese epic Journey Into the West. |
| Song | Into the West |
| Artist | Annie Lennox |
| Number | 102 |
| Realm | Visa |
| Subrealm | It's everywhere you want to be |
| Question | Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab originally obtained a multiple-entry US visa that was valid until June 2010. Quick-thinking State Department officials, however, were able to cancel his visa in early January when they realized that Abdulmutallab might possibly be a threat to US interests. Why wasn't this a great success for the State Department? |
| Answer | It was ten days after he allegedly tried to blow up an airplane. |
| Song | Snakes on a Plane |
| Artist | Cobra Starship |
| Number | 103 |
| Realm | Call your pretentious artsy friends again! |
| Subrealm | It's another New Yorker question! |
| Question | A famous cover of The New Yorker depicts, in its top half, the USA stretching from New Jersey to the Pacific Ocean. What takes up exactly as much space in the bottom half? |
| Answer | Three blocks of Manhattan. (It's called "A New Yorker's View of the World" or "A View of the World from 9th Avenue.") |
| Song | Boy From New York City |
| Artist | The Manhattan Transfer |
| Number | 104 |
| Realm | Ponzi is a funny word |
| Subrealm | Lies and trickery |
| Question | In late December 2009, everyone's favorite Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff was transferred to the prison infirmity to treat a non-life threatening condition. It was originally stated that the ex-financier was suffering from dizziness and hypertension. However, in typical Madoff fashion, the initial reports were fraudulent. What was the actual cause of Madoff's visit to the hospital infirmity? |
| Answer | Madoff was physically assaulted by another inmate to whom he owed money. |
| Song | Kick My Ass |
| Artist | Big and Rich |
| Number | 105 |
| Realm | Best question ever! |
| Subrealm | This trivia contest needs more Mario Lopez |
| Question | When Jessie Spano collapsed in a pill-induced fit of anxiety, panic, and despair, what song was she trying to sing, and what lyrics did she sing instead? |
| Answer | "I'm So Excited"; "I'm so excited/ I'm so...so...scared!" |
| Song | 19th Nervous Breakdown |
| Artist | Rolling Stones |
| Number | 106 |
| Realm | Oh, good, I'm a man after all! |
| Subrealm | I mean, um, heh heh... |
| Question | Quite a few cultures worldwide have particular rituals by which their boys ascend to manhood. Many anthropologists agree that one of the most unusual occurs in several tribes of New Guinea. What do their boys have to do to become men? |
| Answer | Receive their elders' sperm (either orally or anally), so that they may be imbued with their masculinity. |
| Song | Suck |
| Artist | Nine Inch Nails |
| Number | 107 |
| Realm | Cultural exchange |
| Subrealm | Immigration |
| Question | Though worshipped in Sumeria, Gozer is apparently of another nationality. What is it? |
| Answer | Gozerian (from Ghostbusters) |
| Song | The Ghost Of You |
| Artist | My Chemical Romance |
| Number | 108 |
| Realm | Have you been paying attention in school? |
| Subrealm | Who are we kidding, you're still up at 8 AM during finals week. |
| Question | If you're a good Williams undergrad, you ought to know the answer to this question. Whose family was chased across the Northern hemisphere by a fuku? |
| Answer | Oscar Wao (or Oscar de Leon); the family overall is named the Cabrals. (In case you non-students are wondering, Williams students ought to know this because the "Williams Reads" book for 2009-2010 was Junot Diaz's "The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.") |
| Song | Wondrous Love |
| Artist | Anonymous 4 |
| Number | 109 |
| Realm | Williamsiana |
| Subrealm | Obscure as heck Williamsiana |
| Question | The most famous Kentucky colonel is, of course, Colonel Sanders of KFC fame. What is less known is that Williams has its own Kentucky Colonel, math professor Frank Morgan. When some students found out that Professor Morgan's military rank was equivalent to O-6, what did they conspire to do in order to (quote) "make abstract algebra more accessible to the average non-math major" even though it is forbidden to drink and derive? |
| Answer | Asked for him to be transferred to the Kentucky navy, where his O-6 rank is "Captain." Who wouldn't like to learn math from Captain Morgan? |
| Song | Two Pina Coladas |
| Artist | Garth Brooks |
| Number | 110 |
| Realm | Television shows |
| Subrealm | Now with more moose |
| Question | The highest-rated Canadian-produced entertainment program of the past decade was the debut of a sitcom which dealt with small-town, rural life. However, despite this and the fact that its name resembles a popular American family show, we suspect it might not be popular with quite a few red-staters in America. What is the name of the show? |
| Answer | "Little Mosque on the Prairie." |
| Song | Arabian Dance |