Suite, Suite Lovin'
January, 2007
On-Air Questions and Songs
Unused questions are shown with gray text.
| Number | 1 |
| Realm | The ceremonial fake question |
| Subrealm | Hint---the answer is "Suite Suite Lovin'" |
| Question | When you're a freshman, they call it entry incest. But by the time you're an upperclassman, there's a much more fun name for it. What is this practice, common in coed hallways across campus? |
| Answer | Suite, suite lovin'. |
| Song | How Sweet it is To Be Loved By You |
| Artist | Marvin Gaye |
| Number | 2 |
| Realm | The ceremonial real question |
| Subrealm | Let the contest begin |
| Question | On "Grey's Anatomy," one patient's unhappy spouse grouses about her frequent heart surgeries and survival thereof. What particularly improbable event occurs during her final open-heart surgery, which she also survives? |
| Answer | Her heart spontaneously combusts |
| Song | Burnin' Love |
| Artist | Elvis Presley |
| Number | 3 |
| Realm | Fun |
| Subrealm | The "getting there" half |
| Question | Everybody knows that the way to get to Grandmother/father's House is to go "over the river and through the wood" and trust that "the horse knows the way to carry the sleigh." But which river is it? |
| Answer | Mystic River (of movie, not Williams-Mystic, fame) which is near to the actual House in Medford. |
| Song | Shake Ya Ass |
| Artist | Mystikal |
| Number | 4 |
| Realm | Foreign actions |
| Subrealm | Ones that at least some Americans care about |
| Question | What act was committed by Andres Escobar in 1994 and Cristian Ziccardo in 2006? What was the major difference between the results of these acts? |
| Answer | They both scored own goals against the US in World Cup play; however, Escobar was shot to death by Colombian soccer fans for doing so, while Ziccardo is still alive. |
| Song | Hey Man, Nice Shot |
| Artist | Filter |
| Number | 5 |
| Realm | Neither rain nor sleet nor ... |
| Subrealm | ...shipping errors? |
| Question | In the 1880s, the Austro-Hungarian prime minister Peter Allmayer-Beck ordered a large shipment of globes - mappa mundi in Latin- from the Papal Nuncio in Rome. Though the globes eventually arrived at his residence, the box in which they were shipped arrived in Vienna with what label? |
| Answer | Macaroni |
| Song | On Top of Spaghetti |
| Artist | Tom Glazer |
| Number | 6 |
| Realm | Missing letters |
| Subrealm | Not the digamma |
| Question | Last October, experts found the word "a" that had been missing from a famous phrase for decades. What phrase is it? |
| Answer | Sound experts located the "a" in Neil Armstrong's "This is one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." |
| Song | Lost in Time and Space |
| Artist | Euromotion |
| Number | 7 |
| Realm | Bad TV pilots |
| Subrealm | So bad they could only be fake |
| Question | In Pulp Fiction, what's the name of the failed TV show that Uma Thurman's character starred on? |
| Answer | Fox Force Five |
| Song | Superman (It's Not Easy) |
| Artist | Five For Fighting |
| Number | 8 |
| Realm | SoCal hippies |
| Subrealm | And the video games they inhabit |
| Question | What's the name of the GTA: San Andreas character who has a huge multi-colored van and sends CJ on weird missions like fetching a vial of green liquid? |
| Answer | The Truth |
| Song | Girl You Know It's True |
| Artist | Milli Vanilli |
| Number | 9 |
| Realm | Gladly welcomed imports |
| Subrealm | Horrific diseases |
| Question | In 2005 the swift outbreak of a disease in Germany baffled scientists, and forced a park in Hamburg to be closed in order to protect the public. Nonetheless, Australians eagerly awaited the arrival of the disease on their shores, and hoped it would eviscerate millions of victims. What was this disease? |
| Answer | Exploding Toad Syndrome |
| Song | Fall Down |
| Artist | Toad the Wet Sprocket |
| Number | 10 |
| Realm | Champion shred-meisters |
| Subrealm | Stephen Colbert |
| Question | On "The Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert periodically has segments devoted to the growth and development of "Stephen Jr." Who (or what) is "Stephen Jr."? |
| Answer | A baby eagle at the San Diego Zoo that he claims was named after him. |
| Song | Flying Without Wings |
| Artist | Ruben Studdard |
| Number | 11 |
| Realm | Multiple choice |
| Subrealm | Elections |
| Question | In Nevada's senatorial election this year, republican John Ensign defeated democrat Jack Carter. More interesting, though, was the third place finisher, which placed above a libertarian and another independent candidate. What was this ballot option that received 8,192 votes, or just about one percent of all votes cast? |
| Answer | "None of these candidates" |
| Song | Ain't No Other Man |
| Artist | Christina Aguilera |
| Number | 12 |
| Realm | Numbers |
| Subrealm | Am I detecting a pattern? |
| Question | Give the next two numbers in the following sequence: 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 14, 18, 20, 24, 30, 32, 38, 42, 44. |
| Answer | 48, 54. (The primes, plus one) |
| Song | One Jump Ahead |
| Artist | Aladdin |
| Number | 13 |
| Realm | Underworlds |
| Subrealm | Under-underworlds |
| Question | We all know Hades is the Greek underworld. But there's a realm even deeper in the earth than Hades, used to imprison the most dangerous creatures. What is its name? |
| Answer | Tartaros |
| Song | Brush Your Teeth |
| Artist | Raffi |
| Number | 14 |
| Realm | Chalk up a win for the little guy. |
| Subrealm | And a loss for Sly Sludge |
| Question | Under pressure from a British wildlife group, McDonald's has recently changed the design of one of its less environmentally friendly food containers. Name the container and the reason for the change |
| Answer | Hedgehogs were getting stuck in, and dying in, McFlurry lids. |
| Song | Critters Have Feelings Too |
| Artist | Hoodwinked |
| Number | 15 |
| Realm | Super-powers |
| Subrealm | But maybe not what you're thinking of |
| Question | If we asked you what group of super-heroes has people who can control the weather, shoot eye-beams, and turn things to ice, you'd probably recognize it was the X-Men, and if we said they had people who could turn invisible, set themselves on fire, and stretch their limbs you might recognize the Fantastic Four. But what group includes members who can change gender, teleport through reflective surfaces, and kill with their knees, among others? |
| Answer | Midnight's Children (from the Rushdie novel) |
| Song | After Midnight |
| Artist | Eric Clapton |
| Number | 16 |
| Realm | Baseball |
| Subrealm | More lighting trivia |
| Question | What was the first professional baseball team to use artificial light to play night games? |
| Answer | The Kansas City Monarchs (Negro Leagues; don't let anyone get away with claiming Cincinnati Reds for the MLB) |
| Song | Chocolate City |
| Artist | Parliament |
| Number | 17 |
| Realm | Congressional in-fighting |
| Subrealm | Particularly silly Congressional in-fighting |
| Question | In response to a major rule change by its Democratic leader in 2006 that allegedly punished success, many of the Republican members of one Congressionally-linked group seceded and formed a rival group headed by an aide to Speaker Dennis Hastert. What Congressional group had this major partisan split? |
| Answer | The Congressional Softball League |
| Song | All Your Base Are Belong to Us |
| Artist | (no artist needed) |
| Number | 18 |
| Realm | The SNES |
| Subrealm | And its annoying catchphrases |
| Question | In the original Street Fighter II, what does Sagat say when executing his signature punch? |
| Answer | "Tiger....uppercut!" |
| Song | Smack That |
| Artist | Akon featuring Eminem |
| Number | 19 |
| Realm | Astronomers |
| Subrealm | "J'accuse!" |
| Question | His eyes may have been the sharpest ever, but astronomer Tycho Brahe was decidedly wanting in other body parts. What did Brahe replace with a prosthesis, and why did it need replacing? |
| Answer | His nose, which he lost in a duel with a noble over who was a better mathematician |
| Song | That Smell |
| Artist | Lynard Skynard |
| Number | 20 |
| Realm | Controversial rappers |
| Subrealm | Like that adjective narrows down anything |
| Question | When he appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone, in what was the ever-humble Kanye West attired? |
| Answer | A crown of thorns |
| Song | Cruficy |
| Artist | Tori Amos |
| Number | 21 |
| Realm | Andy Roddick's tennis victories |
| Subrealm | That is, this question is not about Roger Federer |
| Question | Around the time of the US Open, there were a series of TV ads showing Andy Roddick taking on and beating a formidable opponent. Who was that opponent? |
| Answer | Pong (i.e., an AI white paddle from the arcade game) |
| Song | Wake Up |
| Artist | Arcade Fire |
| Number | 22 |
| Realm | Oh, I'm ready for it. |
| Subrealm | Come on. Bring it. |
| Question | The violence of "Snakes on a Plane" was perhaps made more palatable by showing that the first couple to die really deserved it. What three big no-nos did they commit? |
| Answer | They were having sex in the bathroom, smoking pot, and disabled the smoke detector. |
| Song | We Fly High |
| Artist | Jim Jones |
| Number | 23 |
| Realm | Not snakes |
| Subrealm | But still on a plane |
| Question | Though Samuel L. Jackson's "Snakes on a Plane" was making a buzz at the theatres this August, a more dangerous animal has actually been responsible for delays at several major airports for a much longer period of time. Indeed, one Burbank pest control company has even been called to the nearby airport twenty times to get rid of the problem, though it is this station's opinion that all that is needed is to send Samuel L. Jackson in once to clean up the mess for good. Call in and tell us the name of this intimidating animal that has been terrorizing the skies of the American southwest for the last decade. |
| Answer | Africanized honeybees |
| Song | Killer Queen |
| Artist | Queen |
| Number | 24 |
| Realm | Brains! |
| Subrealm | Smarty brains! |
| Question | In a notable episode of Futurama, an army of evil brains is on a mission to collect all of the information in the Universe and store it within the Infosphere, and when their work is completed they plan on destroying the Universe so that no new information can arise. Fry is sent to stop them, and he arrives just as the last facts are input into the Infosphere. What is the last fact about the Universe that the evil brains collect? |
| Answer | "For Quality Carpets visit Kaplan's Carpet Warehouse!" |
| Song | Magic Carpet Ride |
| Artist | Steppenwolf |
| Number | 25 |
| Realm | Obscure baseball terminology |
| Subrealm | Is there any better kind? |
| Question | In 1999, the media created a three-word phrase to describe the key play of the longest playoff game in baseball history. What was it? |
| Answer | "Grand Slam Single": Robin Ventura hit a game-ending grand slam for the Mets against the Braves, but was mobbed after he reached first base and was never able to proceed further. |
| Song | Don't Turn Around |
| Artist | Ace of Base |
| Number | 26 |
| Realm | Ne'er-do-wells |
| Subrealm | Really Ne'er-do-wells |
| Question | Many a man has tried to make his way in life as an author, musician, or artist, but then had to choose a less aesthetic path. One young man, accomplished student of philosophy, history, literature, and art, wrote a autobiographical novel Michael, rejected by every publisher, and two plays in verse, The Wanderer (about Jesus Christ) and The Lonesome Guest , neither of which was staged. He couldn't even get a job with the Berlin newspapers. Who was this young man who later used his fiction-writing skills to great effect? |
| Answer | Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister |
| Song | Just the Two Of Us |
| Artist | Dr. Evil |
| Number | 27 |
| Realm | Everyone gets their 15 minutes |
| Subrealm | Or less |
| Question | Ellen Burstyn caused major controversy in just a quarter-minute last summer. What did she do? |
| Answer | She acted in HBO's Mrs. Harris; her 15-second performance somehow won her an Emmy nomination. |
| Song | Word Up! |
| Artist | Cameo |
| Number | 28 |
| Realm | One, Two, Five |
| Subrealm | Three, Sir! |
| Question | The intro to the Ben Folds Five song, Underground, with lines like "I was never cool in school" and "Hand me my nose ring" was apparently inspired by a movie musical. Name it. |
| Answer | Jesus Christ Superstar (the 1973 one) (the scene with the Pharisees on scaffolding, according to one interview) |
| Song | Ghetto Superstar |
| Artist | Pras featuring Ol' Dirty Bastard and Mya |
| Number | 29 |
| Realm | Death |
| Subrealm | Not on the Orient Express |
| Question | The secret service initially began as a group designed to protect US currency before it began its more glamorous role of protecting the president. Perhaps true to its none-too-showy beginning, its first on-duty fatality was not altogether glamorous. For one point, tell us the location where this death occurred. For an additional point, tell us the circumstances of his death. This is yet another THREE-POINT-PLAY. |
| Answer | The town was Pittsfield, MA. Agent William Craig was killed on Sept 3, 1902 when Pittsfield railway car #29 struck a carriage carrying four people - including President T. Roosevelt. Officer Craig was killed when the carriage overturned. |
| Song | Runaway Train |
| Artist | Soul Asylum |
| Number | 30 |
| Realm | The obligatory Homestarrunner.com question |
| Subrealm | Vol. 34 |
| Question | Who are the sworn enemies of the Cheat Commandos? |
| Answer | Blue Lazer |
| Song | Blue |
| Artist | Eiffel 65 |
| Number | 31 |
| Realm | Greek temples |
| Subrealm | Most of which are at the British Museum |
| Question | The Parthenon has long been the standard-bearer for the wear and tear that millennia have on great architecture. Yet until the middle of the previous millennium it was remarkably well-preserved. Why did it deteriorate so quickly? |
| Answer | It served as the armory in a war between the Turks and Venetians, and a Venetian attack hit its store of gunpowder, blowing it up. |
| Song | Calm like a Bomb |
| Artist | Rage Against the Machine |
| Number | 32 |
| Realm | Lifestyles |
| Subrealm | Of the Rich and Batshit Crazy |
| Question | George Mercer, father of the socialites Dabney Mercer and Tinsley Mercer Mortimer, flipped out in July over Tinsley's choice of husband. He noted that "they have no Mortimer Street but there is a Mercer Street," "they only got that Standard Oil by marriage," "they're Yorkshire, we're London," and that "Topper married up, Tinsley married down." But what was his biggest zinger, an etymological observation about the Mortimers? |
| Answer | Their name means undertaker. ("You understand what Mortimer means? It means 'undertaker.'") |
| Song | The Cemetery |
| Artist | Architecture in Helsinki |
| Number | 33 |
| Realm | Embarrassing arm injuries |
| Subrealm | But nothing dirty |
| Question | One of the Detroit Tigers' top relievers had to sit out the ALCS this year due to swelling in his arm. However, these problems were not, in fact, caused by overdoing it on his fastballs. What caused his arm injury? |
| Answer | Playing the PlayStation game "Guitar Hero" |
| Song | PS I Love You |
| Artist | Beatles |
| Number | 34 |
| Realm | Dangerous books |
| Subrealm | So dangerous most of them are in your course catalog |
| Question | A panel consisting of Phyllis Schlafley and 14 other conservative commentators, professors, and think-tank fellows recently composed a list of the ten books they considered to have damaged society the most since 1800. For one point, name any five. For two, name eight. Yes, this is a THREE-POINT-PLAY! |
| Answer | 1. The Communist Manifesto- Marx and Engels 2. Mein Kampf- Hitler 3. Quotations from Chairman Mao (The Little Red Book)- Mao 4. The Kinsey Report (Sexual Behavior in the Human Male/Female)- Kinsey 5. Democracy and Education- Dewey 6. Das Kapital- Marx 7. The Feminine Mystique- Freidan 8. The Course of Positive Philosophy- Comte 9. Beyond Good and Evil- Nietzsche 10. General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money- Keynes |
| Song | Loonies of the Right |
| Artist | Capitol Steps |
| Number | 35 |
| Realm | Things that can be done without coffee |
| Subrealm | Dating |
| Question | In "Good Will Hunting," Skylar suggests that she and Will go out for coffee sometime. Will points out the randomness of using coffee as a generic social lubricant, and suggests what instead? |
| Answer | Going out for caramels |
| Song | Candy Shop |
| Artist | 50 Cent and Olivia |
| Number | 36 |
| Realm | Sex and death |
| Subrealm | But not from Snakes on a Plane |
| Question | During the second season of "Scrubs," JD was able to get laid at a patient's funeral. What was the nickname the hospital staff had given the person he slept with? |
| Answer | Tasty Coma Wife |
| Song | Fergalicious |
| Artist | Fergie |
| Number | 37 |
| Realm | Poorly-named platforms |
| Subrealm | The Nintendo Wii |
| Question | To celebrate the release of the new Nintendo Wii, we decided to ask an interesting, substantive question about it, and not something stupid like the name of the first guy who bought one. Our question is: what's the middle name of the first owner of a Wii? |
| Answer | Triforce (Isaiah Triforce Johnson) |
| Song | I've Got the Power |
| Artist | Snap |
| Number | 38 |
| Realm | More Wii trivia |
| Subrealm | And this time, someone on your team may legitimately know the answer |
| Question | No hints on this question, and you get one and only one shot at it-- a single wrong answer will leave you without the point on this question: name the five electronic sports that come packaged with the Wii. |
| Answer | Tennis, Golf, Bowling, Baseball, and Boxing. |
| Song | The Sporting Life |
| Artist | Decemberists |
| Number | 39 |
| Realm | It's tasty! |
| Subrealm | And it's mathematical! |
| Question | Its shape is a piece of a hyperbolic paraboloid, a surface that has nonzero curvature everywhere, which eliminates straight lines along which a crack could propagate. Also, this shape interlocks well for high-efficiency storage, and is said to have excellent human factors design. What is this marvelous piece of engineering? |
| Answer | A Pringles potato crisp. |
| Song | Mashed Potato Time |
| Artist | Dee Dee Sharp |
| Number | 40 |
| Realm | Quirky independent films |
| Subrealm | And the gay uncles who populate them |
| Question | In the movie "Little Miss Sunshine," Steve Carell's character is very adamant about being the best in the US at something, while the person who ended up with the man he was in love with is only the second-best. What is it? |
| Answer | He claims to be the nation's best-regarded Proust scholar. |
| Song | If I Could Turn Back Time |
| Artist | Cher |
| Number | 41 |
| Realm | Murder weapons |
| Subrealm | Of the horrorshow kind |
| Question | In "A Clockwork Orange," what does Alex use to kill "The Cat Lady"? |
| Answer | A statue of a giant phallus. |
| Song | Dick in a Box |
| Artist | Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake |
| Number | 42 |
| Realm | White rappers |
| Subrealm | Uglier than Bubba Sparxx |
| Question | The narrator of Weird Al's most recent hit single is a big hip-hop fan, despite being a geek. Who does he claim is his most-beloved MC? |
| Answer | MC Escher |
| Song | E=MC Hawking |
| Artist | MC Hawking |
| Number | 43 |
| Realm | Who needs AutoCAD |
| Subrealm | when there are superior weapons out there |
| Question | Researchers from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at the University College London have begun to use new software to do 3D visualizations of famous buildings, and even the architects are impressed with the quality of the renderings. In addition to visualizations of entire cities - such as London - they are also beginning to very accurate models of individual buildings, like Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater House. What software are they using? |
| Answer | The Half-Life 2 engine |
| Song | Sugar We're Going Down |
| Artist | Fall Out Boy |
| Number | 44 |
| Realm | More Fallingwater trivia |
| Subrealm | You'd almost think one of us visited it recently... |
| Question | Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater House (Kaufman house) near Mill Run, PA, was quickly accepted as an architectural masterpiece. While many have admired the structure for its aesthetic properties, few realize that it also pioneered the use of a new process invented only a couple of years before the building's construction, and previously only used in industrial or commercial spaces. What is it? |
| Answer | Florescent Lighting |
| Song | Livin' Thing |
| Artist | Electric Light Orchestra |
| Number | 45 |
| Realm | Ask |
| Subrealm | And It Shall Be Given You |
| Question | 5775254 wants "williams college in virginia." 307124 wants "fanfiction snape hermione." 23029422 wants to know about "dicks too long too have sex" and "men with two penis." Who are these severely misguided people and how do I know about their secret shames? |
| Answer | These are three of the five hundred thousand people whose search history was released by AOL in early August. (The data were quickly retracted but copies have proliferated so now it's out of anyone's control. The records are "anonymous" but many people have been identified by content of their searches.) |
| Song | I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For |
| Artist | U2 |
| Number | 46 |
| Realm | You can't do that on the radio |
| Subrealm | And you can't say $&^#@! |
| Question | Censorship is nothing new to us freedom-loving Americans, and besides oil, nothing is more important than our children. To that end, a children's show was RECENTLY heavily censored for depicting scenes of a certain act often designed to impress the ladies. Never mind the frequent animal abuse, bombs, and beatings... For credit, name both the show and the act in question. |
| Answer | The Tom and Jerry show was recently told to censor its depictions of smoking. |
| Song | Smoke Gets in Your Eyes |
| Artist | Jerry Garcia |
| Number | 47 |
| Realm | Gods and Goddesses |
| Subrealm | Richard Nixon |
| Question | Some time during the Nixon administration, an artificial island in the South Pacific was created and named after a classical deity. Which two internationally recognized nations hold territorial claims over this island? |
| Answer | Tonga and Fiji. The island is known by its creators as the "Republic of Minerva". |
| Song | Tradition |
| Artist | Fiddler on the Roof |
| Number | 48 |
| Realm | Poetry |
| Subrealm | An English major wrote this question. Sorry |
| Question | What is the name of the song that includes the following lines? In Pelham I did dwell, sir; But now I'm forced to leave that place Because I did rebel, sir |
| Answer | The Ballad of Daniel Shays |
| Song | Get Up Stand Up |
| Artist | Bob Marley |
| Number | 49 |
| Realm | Geographic landmarks that have provided significant literary inspiration |
| Subrealm | Surely there can only be one |
| Question | While Herman Melville was envisioning Moby Dick, he drew inspiration from a certain New England geographical feature. After completing the novel, he went to this feature to celebrate. What is this geographical entity? |
| Answer | Mount Greylock |
| Song | Purple Hills |
| Artist | Eminem |
| Number | 50 |
| Realm | Geographic landmarks that have provided significant literary inspiration |
| Subrealm | Apparently there are two |
| Question | What's the literary significance of Cave Hill, near Belfast, Ireland? |
| Answer | Evidently, from a certain angle, it looks "like the face of a giant lying in repose," inspiring Swift to write the Lilliput section of Gulliver's Travels. |
| Song | She's Actual Size |
| Artist | They Might Be Giants |
| Number | 51 |
| Realm | Mineral science |
| Subrealm | Fake mineral science |
| Question | In one 2006 movie, a particular well-known substance was identified, or rather misidentified, as a borosilicate with sodium, lithium, and fluorine. What substance was this? |
| Answer | Kryptonite |
| Song | Weak and Powerless |
| Artist | A Perfect Circle |
| Number | 52 |
| Realm | Children's literature |
| Subrealm | Cold War metaphors |
| Question | What crucial lifestyle difference separates the Yooks and the Zooks and causes them to engage in a massive arms race? |
| Answer | Which side they butter their bread on (Dr. Seuss's Butter Battle Book) |
| Song | "Both Sides Now" |
| Artist | Joni Mitchell |
| Number | 53 |
| Realm | Poles |
| Subrealm | Not the kind that get invaded |
| Question | Most magnets have ends designated "north" and "south" according to an arbitrary convention with regards to the direction of current that would produce the field in an electromagnet. There's one important exception, though. What is it? |
| Answer | Earth. The north pole of a magnet is the pole that points toward the north. Of course, by that convention, magnetic south pole of Earth is the north pole. |
| Song | Flowers |
| Artist | The Magnetic Fields |
| Number | 54 |
| Realm | Crappy reality shows |
| Subrealm | As described by crappy entertainment rags |
| Question | According to EW, what was the crappiest reality TV show of the past summer, and what reason did they have for declaring it to be so crappy? |
| Answer | "Flavor of Love"--one contestant defecated in the kitchen during the first episode. |
| Song | I Will Poop on You |
| Artist | Triumph the Insult Comic Dog |
| Number | 55 |
| Realm | Group deaths |
| Subrealm | Of the bizarre kind |
| Question | One is eaten by ants, one dies deciphering parchment, one is buried in his brother's grave, and seventeen of them are killed in retribution for the most famous one's guerrilla activities. Who are these people? |
| Answer | Characters named "Aureliano" in "One Hundred Years of Solitude" |
| Song | Solitude |
| Artist | Billie Holliday |
| Number | 56 |
| Realm | Horny Germans |
| Subrealm | If there's grass on the court . . . |
| Question | In 2001, paternity tests proved that tennis star Boris Becker had fathered a child with a German waitress. He insists that they never had sex. What does he suggest happened? |
| Answer | She performed oral sex on him in a bathroom, and she kept his semen and used it to impregnate herself. |
| Song | You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth |
| Artist | Meat Loaf |
| Number | 57 |
| Realm | More redundant realm names |
| Subrealm | Exploitive colonists |
| Question | When European explorers of the sixteenth century first traveled the world in search of riches, they also found a world of new creatures. In the true spirit of adventure, they decided that the best thing to do with these new animals was to eat them. One animal they encountered they called a "black goose," but it was no easy matter to prepare it for dinner. It had to be skinned instead of plucked. What animal was it? |
| Answer | A penguin |
| Song | When the Sun Goes Down |
| Artist | Arctic Monkeys |
| Number | 58 |
| Realm | Mensuration |
| Subrealm | Things are more complicated in physics |
| Question | A physical quantity with units of feet is a distance or displacement. What are the two kinds of physical quantity has units of slug smoot-squared per svedberg? |
| Answer | Action, angular momentum. |
| Song | She Blinded Me With Science |
| Artist | Thomas Dolby |
| Number | 59 |
| Realm | Mensuration |
| Subrealm | Things were more complicated in the 18th Century |
| Question | During the French revolution, a key estimate was made of the distance from the north pole to the equator through Paris. What was the purpose of this estimate? |
| Answer | French scientists divided it by ten million to derive the meter, setting the foundations of the metric system. |
| Song | Everybody Wants to Rule the World |
| Artist | Tears For Fears |
| Number | 60 |
| Realm | Dance shows |
| Subrealm | With a difference |
| Question | Perhaps in response to the success of shows like "So You Think You Can Dance?" and "Dancing With the Stars," this year, the music channel Fuse also introduced a dance competition show. However, what key feature separates the Fuse show from almost all other dance competition shows? |
| Answer | It's called "Pants Off Dance Off"; the contestants strip while dancing. |
| Song | You Can Leave Your Hat On |
| Artist | Joe Cocker |
| And now...the HORRIBLE SONG TRIO; this time with the special theme of "Being a celebrity doesn't give you the right to have a recording career." | |
| Number | 61 |
| Realm | Let them eat... |
| Subrealm | hospital food? |
| Question | Every year about a dozen Japanese are afflicted with a remarkable psychological disorder, some sufferers of which have believed that they are being attacked by microwaves, that their hotel rooms are bugged, or that they are King Louis XIV. What is the name of this disease? |
| Answer | "Paris Syndrome," so named for the poor Japanese tourists who need psychological treatment after dealing with rude Parisians. |
| Song | Stars Are Blind |
| Artist | Paris Hilton |
| Number | 62 |
| Realm | Hockey penalties |
| Subrealm | And funny terms for them |
| Question | What is the official NHL term that describes jabbing your opponent with the top of your hockey stick? |
| Answer | Butt-ending |
| Song | PopoZao |
| Artist | Kevin Federline |
| Almost through the Horrible Song Trio...only to overlap into the equally-dreaded "What do these things have in common" Trio! This question will be part of both. | |
| Number | 63 |
| Realm | What do these things have in common? |
| Subrealm | Part 1 |
| Question | What do the following have in common: cheerleader pom-poms, a Sharpie marker and a financial planner, The Bird Dance, a waiter's towel, an Allen Iverson wristband, and the Cowboys' logo? |
| Answer | Terrell Owens has incorporated all of them in touchdown celebrations |
| Song | I'm Back |
| Artist | Terrell Owens |
| Number | 64 |
| Realm | What do these things have in common? |
| Subrealm | Part 2 |
| Question | What do the cities and surrounding area of Salamanca, Tours, Hanover, and Omaha have in common? |
| Answer | Their dialects are considered the most accentless and closest to the standard speech of their respective countries. |
| Song | Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood |
| Artist | The Animals |
| Number | 65 |
| Realm | What do these things have in common? |
| Subrealm | Part 3 |
| Question | What do Anna Kournikova, homosexual waiters, New York's theater district, and Darth Vader have in common? |
| Answer | They provide nicknames for Texas Hold 'Em hands. |
| Song | The Gambler |
| Artist | Kenny Rogers |
| Number | 66 |
| Realm | More Texas trivia |
| Subrealm | Of the less sedentary kind |
| Question | The Odessa Permian Panthers are well-known for their dominance of Texas high school football. However, due to the large population of a particular minority on their team, they've begun an unusual pre-game ritual. What is it? |
| Answer | They perform a Tongan war dance, led by their 24 (!) Tongan members |
| Song | Island in the Sun |
| Artist | Weezer |
| Number | 67 |
| Realm | Batman |
| Subrealm | The Dark Knight Collects |
| Question | Name either of the two largest items in the Batcave's trophy room. |
| Answer | A giant penny and a dinosaur |
| Song | 20th Century Boy |
| Artist | T-Rex |
| Number | 68 |
| Realm | Appealing to our geek base |
| Subrealm | George Lucas's recurring images |
| Question | In the six Star Wars films, we count five incidents of characters getting their arms or hands cut off by lightsabers. Name them all. |
| Answer | Vader cutting off Luke's at the climax of ESB, Luke cutting off Vader's at the climax of ROTJ, Dooku cutting off Anakin's in AOTC, Anakin cutting off Dooku's in the beginning of ROTS, Obi-Wan cutting off Grievous's hands in ROTS |
| Song | Star Wars |
| Artist | Moosebutter |
| Number | 69 |
| Realm | What's that then? |
| Subrealm | Just a flesh wound. |
| Question | If you should ever be unlucky enough to lose an arm, you should know that there is at least one recently discovered, surprisingly effective way to keep it in good condition until it can be safely sewn on again. What is that way? |
| Answer | Have it sewn to your crotch. Spanish doctors had to do this to Israel Sarrio in October 2006 in order to keep his amputated arm alive and healthy during the days it took them to disinfect his wound. |
| Song | The Ding Dong Song (Ooh, You Touch My Tra La La) |
| Artist | Gunther |
| Number | 70 |
| Realm | Vanity |
| Subrealm | In the Ford-Lincoln-Mercury constellation |
| Question | Alfred P. Sloan was the president of General Motors, appeared on the cover of TIME magazine, and is credited with inventing "planned obsolescence" in automobile styles. But, in terms of having things named after you, he holds an impressive record. What is named after him that's so great? |
| Answer | The Sloan Great Wall, a collection of galaxies, is the largest structure observed in the universe. And you thought Amerigo Vespuci had it good with two continents. |
| Song | Intergalactic |
| Artist | Beastie Boys |
| Number | 71 |
| Realm | Throwing away alcohol |
| Subrealm | Seriously, what gives? |
| Question | John Green had already faced several alcohol-related charges by late 2004, but the most notorious came from throwing some of it away. What was his most notorious alcohol-related crime in late 2004? |
| Answer | He threw a cup of beer at Ron Artest during the infamous Pistons-Pacers brawl that led to Artest's attack on nearby Doug Overturf and some of the harshest suspensions in league history. |
| Song | Saturday Night's All Right For Fighting |
| Artist | Elton John |
| Number | 72 |
| Realm | "That is the sound of inevitability . . ." |
| Subrealm | "That is the sound of planned obsolescence" |
| Question | For the second installment of the "Matrix" series of movies, a company gave nearly three hundred cars to the film makers. Perhaps not surprisingly given the nature of the "Matrix" films, almost all of these vehicles were wrecked by the end of the shooting. More surprisingly, though, none of the principal characters ever drive that type of car. What corporation was responsible for (or should we say, irresponsible about) this donation? |
| Answer | Oldsmobile |
| Song | Little Deuce Coupe |
| Artist | Beach Boys |
| Number | 73 |
| Realm | Weird Competition Combinations |
| Subrealm | And you thought the biathalon was weird |
| Question | A Dutch comic artist nicknamed "The Joker" combined two games into one athletic competition in one of his works 15 years ago, alternating back and forth between the two. Since then the sport has taken off in popularity, leading to a World Association that sponsored the first world championship in it in 2003. What two competitions does it combine? |
| Answer | Chess and Boxing |
| Song | Seen All Good People/Your Move |
| Artist | Yes |
| Number | 74 |
| Realm | Big sinking ships |
| Subrealm | Dot-dot-dot dash-dash-dash dot-dot-dot |
| Question | When the Titanic went down, there were two wireless operators on board, but there was originally supposed to be a third qualified operator. Call in and tell us who figuratively jumped ship at the last minute in favor of another trans-Atlantic steamer and greeted one of the two surviving wireless operators in New York several days after the disaster. |
| Answer | Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of the wireless |
| Song | Radio Radio |
| Artist | Elvis Costello |
| Number | 75 |
| Realm | Children's shows |
| Subrealm | Children's shows on family sitcoms |
| Question | What was the name of Joey Gladstone's children's TV show, and what was the name of his puppet sidekick? |
| Answer | "Ranger Joe"; Mr. Woodchuck (this being, of course, from "Full House") |
| Song | Cotton-Eyed Joe |
| Artist | Rednex |
| Number | 76 |
| Realm | Kazakh exports |
| Subrealm | One of which probably is actually exported by Kazakhstan |
| Question | According to Borat, Kazakhstan's economy is based on the sales of a certain mineral, which is better in Kazhakstan than in the rest of Central Asia, and a crop which they grow much more prodigiously than elsewhere in the world. Name either. |
| Answer | Potassium and pubic hair (over 300 tons a year) |
| Song | Chocolate Salty Balls |
| Artist | South Park (Isaac Hayes) |
| Number | 77 |
| Realm | Things you won't find in Bill O'Reilly's kitchen |
| Subrealm | French wine |
| Question | The French wine region that lies between the Mediterranean on one side and the region around Toulouse on the other side, has a bipartite name. What is the literal translation of the first part of its name? |
| Answer | "Languedoc" means "language of yes", as "oc" was the word for "yes" in Occitan, which used to be the language of the South of France. The "langue d'oc" was in opposition to the northern "langue d'oïl". ("d'oïl" is pronounced "dweel".) |
| Song | Maps |
| Artist | The Yeah Yeah Yeahs |
| Number | 78 |
| Realm | Unexpected bonuses |
| Subrealm | Of the relatively worthless kind |
| Question | Several of the bonus cards in Monopoly award you specific amounts cash if you pull them. Of them, which card gives you the LEAST money? |
| Answer | "You get second prize in a beauty pageant!" ($10) |
| Song | I Feel Pretty |
| Artist | West Side Story |
| Number | 79 |
| Realm | A strange game |
| Subrealm | The only winning move is not to play |
| Question | Scientists working on DNA-based computers have recently mastered the first level of computation-based response, teaching the computers to respond to YES and AND operators. What is the most definitive task that the computers can perform with these tools? |
| Answer | They can tie or win any game of Tic-Tac-Toe |
| Song | XXXs and OOOs |
| Artist | Trisha Yearwood |
| Number | 80 |
| Realm | Muppets |
| Subrealm | High fantasy muppets |
| Question | During one scene in The Dark Crystal, the Gelfling Kira pulls her new-found species-mate Jen out of danger by suddenly spreading heretofore-unseen wings and flying them to safety. Jen is shocked, and asks how she has wings when he doesn't. What is her response? |
| Answer | "Of course not. You're a boy." |
| Song | Walk Like a Man |
| Artist | The 4 Seasons |
| Number | 81 |
| Realm | Publish |
| Subrealm | Unless you perish first |
| Question | No one can say that scientists are impatient. Right now at a university in Brisbane, Australia, one of the longest running, and perhaps dullest, scientific experiments in history is taking place. Begun eighty years ago by a professor of physics, each measurement for the experiment is taken about once every eight years, most recently in 2000. What is this experiment designed to measure, and what were the results, finally calculated after seventy-three years? |
| Answer | The viscosity of pitch; they found a viscosity 100 billion times that of water. |
| Song | Back in Black |
| Artist | AC/DC |
| Number | 82 |
| Realm | Remember, remember |
| Subrealm | The fifth of November |
| Question | "Remember, Remember" begins the famous adage about the "gunpowder treason and plot." However, when the gunpowder conspiracy failed in its objective the fleeing conspirators forgot one of the cardinal rules of dealing with their weapon of choice. Call in and tell us what this faux pas was. |
| Answer | The gunpowder had gotten wet, and they attempted to dry the gunpowder by the fireplace. Draw your own conclusions |
| Song | Boom Boom Boom! (I Want You In My Room) |
| Artist | Vengaboys |
| Number | 83 |
| Realm | Classic film |
| Subrealm | Classic film hobbies |
| Question | In Psycho, what's Norman Bates's chief hobby (besides dressing up as his mother and killing women he's attracted to)? |
| Answer | Avian taxidermy |
| Song | Shake a Tail Feather |
| Artist | Ray Charles |
| Number | 84 |
| Realm | Famous librettists |
| Subrealm | Tell me I'm perfect |
| Question | Listen carefully to the song we're about to play. As usual, we want to know the artist and title. But what person (whose name you almost certainly know) wrote the lyrics? |
| Answer | Shel Silverstein |
| Song | A Boy Named Sue |
| Artist | Johnny Cash |
| Number | 85 |
| Realm | Heroes |
| Subrealm | Al Gore's wet dream |
| Question | Call in and sing us the theme song from Captain Planet and the Planeteers, in its entirety. No credit if you don't sing. |
| Answer | http://www.turner.com/planet/credit-song.html |
| Song | Venus |
| Artist | Television |
| Number | 86 |
| Realm | "You can take our lives..." |
| Subrealm | "...but you can never take ... our potatoes!!" |
| Question | Everyone knows when the last time the British Isles were successfully invaded from the continent, 1066. England really hasn't been invaded all that much since then, so we find that boring. Ireland, however, has been invaded more recently by continental powers. Call in and tell us the name of the last continental nation that sent a large army to Irish soil and the battle at which they were defeated. |
| Answer | In 1795, the French sent over an army; they were defeated at Ballinamuck by the British |
| Song | Surrender |
| Artist | Ashlee Simpson |
| Number | 87 |
| Realm | Big choke artists |
| Subrealm | Even bigger than Tony Romo |
| Question | Among the great choke-jobs of all time was committed by Al Sanders, the perennial #3 in his national competition, in 2003. What competition does he play at, and how did Emile Zola cost him a guaranteed victory? |
| Answer | The National Crossword Puzzle Championship. Al was far ahead of Trip Payne and Tyler Hinman in the finals, but declared himself finished without realizing he had left two squares of the word "Zolaesque" blank, disqualifying his otherwise-correct puzzle. |
| Song | You're So Square |
| Artist | Buddy Holly |
| Number | 88 |
| Realm | Super-heroes |
| Subrealm | Lame super-heroes |
| Question | Who is the super-powered defender of justice in the comic "Non Sequitur"? |
| Answer | Obviousman |
| Song | You Oughta Know |
| Artist | Alanis Morrissette |
| Number | 89 |
| Realm | High fashion |
| Subrealm | High referring to altitude |
| Question | In the musical "The Producers," what accessory do all of Franz Liebkind's pigeons have? |
| Answer | Swastikas |
| Song | Nazi Punks Fuck Off |
| Artist | Dead Kennedys |
| Number | 90 |
| Realm | More magic realism |
| Subrealm | Written by recently-admitted SS members |
| Question | Oskar Matzerath, the protagonist of Gunter Grass's novel The Tin Drum, is a fairly unnatural person, standing only three feet tall and spending much of his time playing his drum. What's his most supernatural ability, though? |
| Answer | He can break glass with his voice. |
| Song | Walking On Broken Glass |
| Artist | Annie Lenox |
| Number | 91 |
| Realm | Ruining your childhood retroactively |
| Subrealm | First they change Cookie Monster's song, and now this |
| Question | An elementary school in Attleboro, MA recently banned a popular childhood pastime for fear of parental lawsuits. What game? |
| Answer | Tag |
| Song | Invisible Touch |
| Artist | Genesis |
| Number | 92 |
| Realm | Titular groups |
| Subrealm | This late, we figured "titular" would get a few laughs |
| Question | What titular group comprises: The way the addressee talks, his haircut, his driving, his staring, his combat boots, his mind-reading, the way he makes one rhyme, the way he's right, that he lies, and that he can make one laugh and cry? |
| Answer | "10 Things I Hate About You" |
| Song | I Hate Myself For Loving You |
| Artist | Joan Jett and the Blackhearts |
| Number | 93 |
| Realm | Good fences |
| Subrealm | Good neighbors |
| Question | Which two deceased musical men were next-door neighbors in London's Mayfair district, where their homes are jointly available for public display despite the two-hundred and twenty-five year separation between their respective epochs? |
| Answer | George Händel and Jimi Hendrix. |
| Song | Leper Messiah |
| Artist | Metallica |
| Number | 94 |
| Realm | Cute dogs |
| Subrealm | With unfortunate names |
| Question | What is the name of Prof. EJ Johnson's French spaniel, and where does that name come from? |
| Answer | Soane (after the British architect) |
| Song | We Built This City |
| Artist | Starship |
| Number | 95 |
| Realm | Athletic firsts |
| Subrealm | That haven't happened yet |
| Question | What are the Philadelphia Phillies expected to be the first professional sports team to do sometime around next July, though it might be put off until as late as September? |
| Answer | Barring a phenomenal season, they will be the first pro team to amass 10,000 losses in their history. |
| Song | Loser |
| Artist | Beck |
| Number | 96 |
| Realm | Invasions |
| Subrealm | When you least expect them |
| Question | A major news organization released a report in October of 2005 outlining predictions of what would happen if Pittsburgh were to suffer a full-scale attack from an especially dangerous foe. According to this source, Pittsburgh is especially at risk because its bridges and tunnels make an evacuation near-hopeless, because its emergency response services are poorly trained in response to this threat, and because thousands of its residents live close to cemeteries. What was the threat, and what was the news source? |
| Answer | A zombie infestation, as reported by the Onion |
| Song | Down Among the Dead Men |
| Artist | Bethans |
| Number | 97 |
| Realm | Everybody's gone surfing |
| Subrealm | Surfin' USA |
| Question | In winter, the shore is especially deserted due to snow and ice. In late fall, however, it becomes a surfer's mecca with ten-foot waves -- if one can deal with icicles clinging to one's wetsuit. Where is this surfers' paradise, a location whose closest surf shop is 285 miles away? |
| Answer | Cleveland, Ohio |
| Song | 3rd Movement of Vivaldi's Seasons |
| Artist | (none required) |
| Number | 98 |
| Realm | Good Idea-Giving your dog a bath |
| Subrealm | Bad Idea- Having your dog dry-cleaned |
| Question | What character starred in the Animaniacs Good Idea/Bad Idea sketches? |
| Answer | Mr. Skullhead |
| Song | Bones |
| Artist | The Killers |
| Number | 99 |
| Realm | Prognostication |
| Subrealm | How to make a million dollars |
| Question | Many interesting songs have topped the Billboard Hot 100 Singles. However, one of them had a uniquely self-referentially prescient title to do so with. What song was it? |
| Answer | "One Week", by the Barenaked Ladies, and it lasted one week. |
| Song | How Long? |
| Artist | Hinder |
| Number | 100 |
| Realm | How to conquer the world |
| Subrealm | In twelve steps |
| Question | The author of the book "Matter" announced that it would not be published for another six months after its original release date, partially blaming a certain addiction for his writer's block. For a point, call in and give us the name of this award-winning author and his reason for delaying publication. |
| Answer | Author Iain Bank's addiction to the Civilization turn-based-strategy game genre |
| Song | One of My Turns |
| Artist | Pink Floyd |
| Number | 101 |
| Realm | Critical thinking |
| Subrealm | With four limbs tied behind your back |
| Question | What was the first video game to be played using only thoughts? |
| Answer | Appropriately, Pong. Matt Nagle, a paraplegic, was implanted with a device which allowed him to control a cursor on a screen by thinking. |
| Song | I Sing the Body Electric |
| Artist | from Fame |
| Number | 102 |
| Realm | Plans |
| Subrealm | Made up as we go along |
| Question | In the movie "Apollo 13", astronauts Lovell, Swigert, and Haise are instructed to build a device to put a square CO2 filter into a round hole. Groan, but that's not the end of the bad metaphors. What were the three men then instructed to do as their first step towards solving this problem? |
| Answer | Rip the cover off the flight plan |
| Song | The Planets: Mercury |
| Artist | Holst |
| Number | 103 |
| Realm | Classical music |
| Subrealm | On the run |
| Question | What was on the program for the Berlin Philharmonic's last concert before evacuation in the second world war, and why is it ironic? |
| Answer | Brunhilde's immolation scene from Gotterdammerung; it's the scene where everything in the opera goes up in flames and the hall of the Norse gods is destroyed |
| Song | Disco Inferno (Burn Baby Burn) |
| Artist | The Trammps |
| Number | 104 |
| Realm | Proving our street credibility |
| Subrealm | By asking about feuds people barely cared about when they were happening two years ago |
| Question | The Game's best lyrical jab at rival 50 Cent was to claim at the beginning of a 15-minute diss track that 50 Cent reminded him of what fictional character? |
| Answer | Spongebob Squarepants |
| Song | Big Shot |
| Artist | Billy Joel |
| Number | 105 |
| Realm | British nannies |
| Subrealm | That is, Mary Poppins knock-offs |
| Question | At the beginning of the movie "Nanny McPhee," how do the children frighten away their 17th nanny, Mrs. Weston? |
| Answer | They (pretend to) cook and eat their baby sister Agatha (they put her clothes on various chicken parts that they consume). |
| Song | She Drives Me Crazy |
| Artist | Fine Young Cannibals |
| Number | 106 |
| Realm | African chants |
| Subrealm | Hint--you might want to find someone who graduated last year |
| Question | Ago! |
| Answer | Amay! |
| Song | Call and Answer |
| Artist | Barenaked Ladies |
| Number | 107 |
| Realm | Prolific authors |
| Subrealm | And you thought he only wrote those little kids' books |
| Question | When C. S. Lewis originally published "A Grief Observed", a book about his wife's death, he did so under a pseudonym. Something happened as a consequence of this that made him change his mind, however. What was it? |
| Answer | People kept on recommending it to him to help him cope with his wife's death. |
| Song | Fortress |
| Artist | Sister Hazel |
| Number | 108 |
| Realm | Priority |
| Subrealm | Not FedEx |
| Question | Who, besides Neal Stephenson, really cares about whether it was Isaac Newton or Gottfried Leibniz who invented calculus? Five centuries before the age of outsourcing tech jobs, the fundamentals of calculus were written up in this text that we want you to name. |
| Answer | Yuktibhasa (written by Jyesthedava of the Kerala School in 1530) |
| Song | 2gether - U + Me = Us |
| Artist | Calculus |
| Number | 109 |
| Realm | "You damn dirty ..." |
| Subrealm | "Reds!" |
| Question | 1919 was a bad year for Germany. The Treaty of Versailles had crippled Germany politically and economically, and Germany's largest state, Bavaria, was no better off. Hoping to escape the humiliating peace, revolutionaries in Bavaria overthrew the Weimar government there and established a new, supposedly more egalitarian one. When this short-lived government was crushed after its one-month existence, almost 2,000 were dead. What was this abortive Bavarian state called? |
| Answer | The Bavarian Soviet Republic (Bayrische Räterepublik) (sometimes the Munich Soviet Republic) |
| Song | White Riot |
| Artist | The Clash |
| Number | 110 |
| Realm | Nursery rhymes |
| Subrealm | Where we don't all fall dead |
| Question | In a John le Carre counter-spy novel, five members are given code names from an eight-word nursery rhyme. Three of the names were dropped. Which names were dropped, and why? |
| Answer | "Sailor" sounded too much like "tailor" (the code name for another agent), "Richman" was considered more appropriate for an anti-fraud operation and not a counter-spy one, "Thief" was dropped because there were only five suspects |
| Song | Son of a Son of a Sailor |
| Artist | Jimmy Buffett |