Grande Belgian Wombat Tarts

Number	1
Realm	Life is uncertain!
Subrealm	Eat dessert first!
Question	Imagine, for a moment, that you have hiked through the Tongan wilderness for a hundred miles. (Yes, we know none of Tonga's islands are that big. You're not very good at navigating and you've been walking in circles. Just go with it.) As you reach mile 101, you are sweaty, you are tired, and, most importantly, you are hungry, when you suddenly see a little shop in front of you. The sign reads "HALF-BAKED IDEAS: CREATIVE PASTRIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD." You enter the shop, and are faced with a display case full of options. There are tiny Peruvian llama pies. There are medium-sized Azerbaijani badger eclairs. But you want something big...something European...something marsupial...something that, purely coincidentally, happens to contain elements of the names of four teams that have previously won Williams Trivia. Tell us, what do you order?
Answer	Grande Belgian Wombat Tarts.
Song	All I Do Is Win
Artist	DJ Khaled [RADIO EDIT]
Hint	The answer to the first question is always the name of the team running Trivia.
Number	2
Realm	Archaeologists
Subrealm	Archaeologists who are actually terrible at their jobs.
Question	The coeds of Marshall College all adore their dreamiest professor, Indiana Jones. One girl who has it particularly bad sits in the front row of his class. Without saying a thing, how does she communicate her affection for him?
Answer	She writes the words "Love" and "You" on her eyelids, so that they're visible to him every time she blinks.
Song	Eyes Open
Artist	Taylor Swift
Hint	She must have been pretty good at doing something backwards.
Number	3
Realm	Sports and science
Subrealm	Revenge of the nerds?
Question	This season, a little-used bench player for the Houston Rockets is doing something that no NBA player has done regularly since George Johnson in the 1980s - even though what he's doing is recommended by all those who have scientifically studied basketball, and most players who do try it usually show swift, marked improvement. What is he doing?
Answer	Shooting free throws underhanded (or "granny-style"). Other players won't do it because they think it looks stupid, even though it can improve accuracy by ten percentage points.
Song	Little Old Lady from Pasadena
Artist	Jan & Dean[a]
Hint	Rick Barry did it, too, but probably would've gotten mocked if his games were all televised.
Number	4
Realm	Look! Up in the sky!
Subrealm	It's a bird! It's a plane! ...yeah, it's just a plane.
Question	The United States Air Force is, unsurprisingly, the largest air force in the world. What is the second largest air force in the world?
Answer	The U.S. Navy.
Song	Mr. Blue Sky
Artist	Electric Light Orchestra
Hint	They're mavericks.
Number	5
Realm	Evil twins
Subrealm	Just like the ones who wrote this realm/subrealm.
Question	James Franco was a recurring guest on "The Colbert Report." As a nod to Franco's guest-starring gig on "General Hospital," his evil twin also appeared for a segment. What was the name of James Franco's nefarious doppelganger?
Answer	Frank Jameso.
Song	Last First Kiss,
Artist	One Direction
Hint	Evil twins tend to be the other's mirror image.
Note	James Franco played the character "Franco" on General Hospital intermittently from 2009 to 2012. For a while it was believed that Franco had a twin brother.
Number	6
Realm	A series of unfortunate events
Subrealm	Besides us accidentally winning Trivia.
Question	We applaud those of you who passed up the opportunity to binge-watch A Series of Unfortunate Events on Netflix in order to join us tonight. Therefore, we'll make this next question easy for you: name any four legal guardians that Mr. Poe assigned to the Baudelaire children.
Answer	Count Olaf, Uncle Monty, Aunt Josephine, Sir, Vice Principal Nero, Jerome and Esme Squalor, and the Village of Fowl Devotees. (NOTE: The guardians from later books were not assigned by Mr. Poe, and thus do not count.)
Song	Poor Unfortunate Souls, from the Little Mermaid
Hint	nope
Number	7
Realm	The Age of Discovery
Subrealm	Apparently closely followed by the Age of Weird Ideas About Discoveries
Question	When the rings of Saturn were discovered in the 17th century, there were quite a lot of competing theories as to what exactly they were. One unique hypothesis, however, was that of the man in charge of the Vatican Library for much of the 1660s. According to at least one source, what did he believe the rings of Saturn to be?
Answer	He claimed that the rings were actually the foreskin of Jesus, known as the Holy Prepuce, which had ascended to heaven.
Song	The First Cut is the Deepest
Artist	Sheryl Crow
Hint	Jesus is supposed to have sustained a lot of injuries at the end of his life, obviously, but he also sustained one right at the beginning.
Note	The librarian in question was Leo Allatius. The existence of his treatise about the Holy Prepuce is described in an unconfirmed 19th-century source.
Number	8
Realm	Movie magic
Subrealm	Magic-killing magic
Question	Many of you may be fans of HBO's acclaimed show Westworld. Little might you know, however, that the somewhat less prestigious movie upon which the show was based has almost certainly had far more direct impact on your viewing life. It featured the debut of a special effects technique that, though boring enough in concept, has probably vexed you a few times over the ensuing years. What is it?
Answer	Pixelization - i.e. the technique that's now mostly used to censor cursing and boobs.
Song	Parklife
Artist	Blur
Hint	Considering how the technique in question is generally used, it's rather ironic that the show ended up on HBO.
Note	The pixelization was used to simulate an android's point of view. The process was described in a 2013 New Yorker article.
Number	9
Realm	Garnering bums
Subrealm	My favorite hobby!
Question	San Francisco Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner has one of the most well-known names in baseball, thanks both to his MVP performance in the 2014 World Series and to the fact that, objectively, "Madison Bumgarner" is a pretty memorable name. But he's not the only one with a memorable name - there's something very notable about his youthful sweetheart's name as well. Please tell us the name of the girl Madison Bumgarner dated as a teenager.
Answer	Madison Bumgarner.
Song	I Touch Myself
Artist	Divinyls
Hint	The area he grew up in, he admits, is extremely culturally homogeneous .
Note	Bumbarner is from a small town in North Carolina. 55 out of 305 people buried in the local Baptist cemetary are Bumgarners.
Number	10
Realm	Food varieties
Subrealm	Gotta catch'em all!
Question	The Japanese, famously, have different cultural tastes than Americans. For example, there is a certain food, originally from Switzerland, that we Americans mostly see only in one basic flavor and usually buy in convenience stores or supermarkets. In Japan, however, this food comes in hundreds of flavors, ranging from apple to wasabi to edamame--not to mention many seasonal variations, including a version covered in actual gold leaf--and is sold in high-end shops and standalone stores devoted to nothing but it. What is this food, Japan's favorite import?
Answer	Kit-Kats.
Song	Breakaway
Artist	Kelly Clarkson
Hint	For special occasions, we imagine that the Japanese might make a single one with a different flavor for each of the four parts.
Note	CBS News documented at least 50 different flavors of Japanese Kit-Kats.
Number	11
Realm	More fun Japanese trivia!
Subrealm	Possibly involving wasabi Kit-Kats!
Question	The Japanese language has many useful words for which there is no direct English equivalent, like "wabi-sabi" ("the art of finding beauty in imperfection"), or "komorebi" ("sunlight as it filters through the leaves of trees"). What useful concept is expressed by the Japanese verb "bushu-suru"?
Answer	"To vomit publicly" - derived, of course, from George H.W. Bush famously puking on the Japanese Prime Minister.
Song	Yakety Yak
Artist	The Coasters
Hint	It was inspired by a memorable moment in global politics.
Number	12
Realm	More fun linguistics trivia!
Subrealm	Now with at least 50% less barfing!
Question	If I were angry at you, I might say "reddihje." If I wanted to thank you for something, I might say "vadeesh." If I wanted to hit on you, I might say "unjandeboh." And if I were greeting you or bidding you farewell, I might say "sooll sooll" or "daag daag." What language would I be speaking?
Answer	Simlish, the nonsense language spoken by characters within the Sims franchise.
Song	Playing God
Artist	Paramore
Hint	You might speak it while drowning in a swimming pool or being burned alive by your stove.
Note	The creator of The Sims was inspired by the Navaho Code Talkers of World War II, and originally thought of making the language similar to Navaho. But because of the difficulty of finding Navaho voice actors, he decided that Simlish should be made up of gibberish words that can't be translated.
Number	13
Realm	Vicious, monstrous people
Subrealm	Canadians
Question	During this past holiday season, a Facebook post from the police department of a tiny town in the Maritime provinces of eastern Canada went viral after they threatened to force anyone they caught driving drunk to endure a punishment on their way to jail that many characterized as downright cruel and unusual. What was that punishment?
Answer	Having to listen to Nickelback.
Song	Change
Artist	J. Cole
Hint	Guess that's what happens when you get down to the bottom of every bottle.
Note	In November of 2016 an officer of Prince Edward Island's Kensington Police Service wrote a Facebook post threatening to play Nickelback to drunk drivers. It was picked up by news outlets around the world. On Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update, Colin Jost said "Let that be a lesson to all you drunk drivers out there. Make sure the crash kills you."
Number	14
Realm	Web negative-2.0
Subrealm	When emojis were just your face
Question	In the 21st century, apps like Facetime, Snapchat, Yo!, and even just good old-fashioned texting have revolutionized the way we communicate. In the 19th century, the electric telegraph was a similar hit, allowing fast, long distance communication for the first time in history. However, a different telegraph, developed by a French occultist in the 1850s, never really achieved the same level of popularity. What odd medium did this invention use, and why didn't it catch on?
Answer	It used snails. Called the pasilalinic-sympathetic compass, it was based on the pseudo-scientific hypothesis that snails create a permanent telepathic link when they mate. Needless to say, it didn't work.
Song	These Things Take Time
Artist	The Smiths
Hint	Even if it'd worked, transmission would probably have been really, really slow.
Note	The apparatus consisted of a scaffold of 10 foot long wooden beams supporting zinc bowls lined with a cloth soaked in a copper sulphate solution; the cloth was held in place by a line of copper. At the bottom of each of the 24 basins was a snail, glued in place, and each associated with a different letter of the alphabet. An identical second device held the paired snails. To transmit a letter the operator touched one of the snails. This was supposed to cause a reaction in the corresponding snail which could then be read by the receiving operator. The device also provided inspiration for the Japanese manga series One Piece, which includes Transponder Snails that can be attached to electronic equipment and function as telephones, fax machines, and surveillance cameras.
Number	15
Realm	Racketeering
Subrealm	What does that mean? Is it about tennis?
Question	Las Vegas is home to a museum devoted to the history of organized crime, stretching from its heyday in the early twentieth century to the present. However, because the traditional big families were mostly taken down by the 1990s, the museum has had to stretch beyond the obvious Mob subjects in covering our current century. These days, its final section is devoted to the Justice Department's efforts to bring to heel what nefarious international cartel?
Answer	FIFA.
Song	I Get a Kick Out of You
Artist	Dinah Washington
Hint	We don't think about them all that often in this country, but we're pretty sure most of the world has strong opinions on them.
Number	16
Realm	Large groups of people
Subrealm	That include me! Yay!
Question	Over seventy-odd years, this contradiction explicitly occurred five times--with Queen Elizabeth, Wallis Simpson, two Asian political figures, and half of all Americans--and implicitly occurred a few more before anyone bothered to fix it. Perhaps just as embarrassing, though, is the fact that the situation that the fix was designed to deal with has only explicitly occurred three more times in the eighteen years since. What contradiction is this?
Answer	Women being named as TIME's "Man of the Year." In 1999, the award became "Person of the Year," but only one individual woman (Angela Merkel) has won it since, and specific women have been named as "representatives" of large groups of people who have won, such as "The Good Samaritans," "The American Soldier," and "You," only twice in that time period. (Individual men, on the other hand, have won eleven times since 1999, and men have appeared as representatives on the magazine's cover in all but four of those eighteen years - and twice, that was because there were no human beings on the cover at all.)
Song	Girl Can't Be Herself
Artist	Alicia Keys
Hint	Many of us were hoping there would be another one at the end of this year. (Sigh.)
Number	17
Realm	Big parties
Subrealm	Fiestas grande!
Question	This past year, Mexico City staged its largest ever parade for the Day of the Dead. What highly traditional source did it use as its primary model?
Answer	The James Bond movie Spectre. The movie features a big Day of the Dead parade, even though the city hasn't usually held one. Apparently, tourists visiting the city expected a parade like the one in the movie, so the city organized it.
Song	Nobody Does it Better
Artist	Carly Simon
Hint	Sometimes life mimics art.
Number	18
Realm	Namesakes
Subrealm	Chrissakes!
Question	After the most recent Supreme Court vacancy, George Mason University decided to rename its law school in honor of the deceased judge. However, after announcing the law school's name, they quickly had to re-word it. Why?
Answer	The had named it the Antonin Scalia School of Law, which acronym-ed to ASSOL. (The new name is the Antonin Scalia Law School.)
Song	Say My Name
Artist	Destiny's Child
Hint	Left-of-center types thought the name fitting in a way George Mason didn't appreciate.
Number	19
Realm	We don't need no education!
Subrealm	But we do need to ask you another question about a grad school.
Question	As we learned in the last question, some graduate schools are named after famous practitioners of their subject, like the Antonin Scalia Law School. Sometimes, however, the connection between namesake and subject is a little more tenuous. For example, four years ago, one of the northeast's top colleges decided to rename its medical school after an alum (and that alum's spouse) who, while not an MD, was definitely known for being a doctor. What is the name of the school we're referring to?
Answer	Dartmouth's Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine. (And if that name doesn't immediately ring a bell, perhaps it would help if we mentioned that Theodor's full name is Theodor Seuss Geisel.)
Song	The Kids Are Alright
Artist	The Who
Hint	The school is progressive, but not so much as to admit cats, even if haberdashed.
Number	20
Realm	Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
Subrealm	And sometimes it's a poisoned cigar planted by shadowy government agents who want you dead!
Question	Not quite two months ago, age and time finally succeeded in doing something the CIA repeatedly failed to pull off: killing Fidel Castro. It's fairly well-known that during the 60s, the CIA tried to assassinate Castro in a variety of ways ranging from the traditional bombs and guns to rather more creative but equally ineffective ideas like poisoned cigars and exploding seashells. However, one of their plots, which involved putting a chemical in Castro's shoes, was never intended to kill him. What was the intended goal of this scheme?
Answer	Making Castro's beard fall out. (Obviously, the CIA failed at that one, too.)
Song	On the Chin
Artist	Kings of Leon
Hint	They might have taken a Biblical story about depriving a man of his power a bit too literally.
Number	21
Realm	Food, glorious food
Subrealm	It had better be friggin' glorious if it costs more than my rent.
Question	We've heard about the burgers coated in gold leaf and the caviar that's more expensive than platinum, but a recently-created Swedish snack may take "conspicuous consumption" to a whole new level. Premiering this past fall, the first production run of 100 boxes sold out immediately despite their seemingly exorbitant price. What food are we talking about, which cost each buyer 499 Swedish Kronor (or roughly $55) for exactly five items?
Answer	Potato chips. (That's right - $55 for five potato chips.)
Song	Lay Lady Lay
Artist	Bob Dylan
Hint	Bet you can't have just five!
Note	The chips were developed in 2016 in collaboration with the Swedish National Culinary Team for the brewery St:Erik to match perfectly with their India Pale Ale. They come in a fancy wodden box and have 5 different flavors, for instance, "Matsutake - With a taste similar to that of mature cheese, matsutake is one of the world's most sought-after species of mushrooms. The matsutake in the chips comes from pine forests in the northern region of Sweden and was picked by hand using cotton gloves in order to preserve their quality."
Number	22
Realm	Intriguingly-flavored things.
Subrealm	That probably cost less than those potato chips.
Question	This past September, a well-known company announced that they were adding a new flavor to their line of products: eggplant. And while eggplant may be tasty, people who spend a lot of time communicating via cell phone might be able to tell you that definitely wasn't why it was selected. Please tell us what the product is that you can now purchase in eggplant as well as previous options like apple, chocolate, strawberry, and banana.
Answer	Durex flavored condoms. Eggplant was added because the eggplant emoji is commonly used by sexters to mean "penis."
Song	Pictures of Your Dick
Artist	Rachel Bloom
Hint	Eggplants have recently acquired a new meaning.
Number	23
Realm	Pictures
Subrealm	But not of your dick.
Question	One of them depicts a rose and another a Chinese symbol. Two are circular bands, made as reminders of sexual assault. There used to be one of a wasp, but it was removed so as to hide the link to her online identity. But the biggest one is of a dragon. What are they?
Answer	The tattoos of Lisbeth Salander (a.k.a. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo").
Song	I've Got You Under My Skin
Artist	Franki Valli and the Four Seasons
Hint	This would be a harder question if the original title had been translated literally.
Number	24
Realm	Musical inspirations
Subrealm	Monkeying around
Question	Many of the Beatles' songs have well-known inspirations. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was purportedly based on a drawing by Julian Lennon (but was probably about LSD, c'mon), "Hey Jude" was actually about young Julian, and "Norwegian Wood" was supposedly about one of John's affairs. What Beatles tune was inspired by witnessing the activities of a couple of wild monkeys in India?
Answer	Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
Song	Let's Get It On
Artist	Marvin Gaye
Hint	Wild monkeys aren't known for their modesty.
Note	According to Sir Paul McCartney, while he was on a retreat in Rishikesh, India, "A male [monkey] just hopped on the back of this female and gave her one, as they say in the vernacular. Within two or three seconds he hopped off again and looked around as if to say 'It wasn't me!' and she looked around as if there'd been some mild disturbance ... And I thought ... that's how simple the act of procreation is ... We have horrendous problems with it, and yet animals don't."
Number	25
Realm	[Stefon voice] New York's hottest club is Question 25.
Subrealm	This place has everything: unicorns, dinosaurs, that thing of when we list a bunch of stuff...
Question	What do the following things have in common: a train, unicorns, Monday, several kinds of dinosaur, chocolate chip cookies, Starbucks coffee cups, Bigfoot, donuts, quite a few books, the color-changing dress, corn, and the notion of linear time?
Answer	All of them have had sex with the protagonists of Hugo-nominated "romance" author Chuck Tingle's stories.
Song	When Somebody Loves Somebody
Artist	Fabio (yes, that Fabio)
Hint	This truly horrific song is a double-match.
Note	Dr. Chuck Tingle is a pseudonymous author of gay niche erotica. He self-publishes his works through Amazon.com, primarily as ebooks. He began his career by writing dinosaur erotica, which is, apparently, a thing.
Number	26
Realm	People with something in common
Subrealm	Which is not getting banged in Chuck Tingle stories (at least as far as we know).
Question	What do the following Major League Baseball Hall of Famers have in common: Sparky Anderson, George Sisler, Tom Seaver, Babe Ruth, Rube Waddell and Ken Griffey, Jr.?
Answer	All of them have the first name George.
Song	Blow in Your Nose/Nose in Your Blow
Artist	Van Morrison
Hint	The singer you're hearing could be added to that list, although he's never played baseball.
Number	27
Realm	Great moments in space history
Subrealm	With some minor technical difficulties
Question	We all know that Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the moon, although you may not know that his "one small step" was actually a pretty large leap down onto the moon's surface because he didn't land the Eagle quite right. What was Buzz Aldrin the first person to do on the moon - and why did he have reason to be annoyed about that minor piloting error on Armstrong's part when he did it?
Answer	Urinate, which he did almost immediately after hopping out of the lunar module...only to discover that the unexpectedly high jump had broken his spacesuit's urine collector and he'd just peed in his own boot.
Song	Rocket Experience
Artist	Buzz Aldrin
Hint	Aldrin was pissed.
Number	28
Realm	Star-crossed lovers
Subrealm	Unlike a living helicopter and a billionaire stegosaurus, at least according to Chuck Tingle.
Question	A few years ago, a South Sudanese man named Charles tragically lost his wife, Rose, who is believed to have died after choking on a plastic bag in the streets of Juba. This event, however, was not the saddest aspect of Rose's marriage. Who was Rose, and why did she marry her husband?
Answer	Rose was a goat, whom Charles was forced to marry after he was caught engaging in bestiality with her.
Song	O Holy Night
Artist	A bunch of screaming goats (from All I Want for Christmas is a Goat)
Hint	Just listen to this lovely, lovely music.
Number	29
Realm	Scary things in New Jersey
Subrealm	For example: having to live in New Jersey
Question	This past summer, a New Jersey private school canceled its annual beach trip on account of what phenomenon, apparently anathema to New Jerseyans?
Answer	Sunshine. (The event was canceled due to worries about skin cancer.)
Song	Blinded by the Light
Artist	Bruce Springsteen
Hint	The only radiation allowed in Jersey is nuclear.
Number	30
Realm	Genuinely terrible events in Africa.
Subrealm	Even more terrible than giving us an excuse to play that goat song.
Question	During the multinational West African civil wars of the 1990s, the most reviled man in the region was a warlord who committed acts of human sacrifice and cannibalism to gain favor from the devil. He claimed to have killed over twenty thousand people, though he has since converted and now spreads the gospel. What was the nom de guerre of this very real, very terrible individual?
Answer	General Butt Naked. (He and his followers usually fought naked, in the belief that this would, somehow, make them immune to bullets.)
Song	Naked Man
Artist	Randy Newman
Hint	Familiarity with The Book of Mormon might help.
Note	Joshua Milton Blahyi was a commander of forces during the First Liberian Civil War in the early 1990s.
Number	31
Realm	Weird groups of people
Subrealm	Possibly in Currier basement
Question	Where might you see a dancing exhibitionist, a deaf sculptor, an aspiring songwriter, a yappy terrier, a suicidal lonely woman...and MURDER???
Answer	Out of the rear window of L.B. Jefferies' apartment in Rear Window.
Song	Come to My Window
Artist	Melissa Etheridge
Hint	You'd probably only see them if your leg were broken, you had a photographer's curiosity, and you had nothing else you could do for several days.
Number	32
Realm	That's enough about murder
Subrealm	Let's talk about architecture!
Question	The German one has a winter garden, the French and Italian ones have a veranda, the Japanese one has a sauna, and the Brazilian one includes a game room. It's common in many countries to have a music room, though the original Swiss version is the only one practical enough to include a bedroom and bathroom. The ones in the Anglophone world have all maintained the same nine rooms for seventy years. What type of home are we describing?
Answer	The mansion in which the board game Clue takes place. (And where poor old Mr. Boddy gets murdered. Sorry, we lied.)
Song	Mean Mr. Mustard / Polythene Pam
Artist	The Beatles
Hint	Get this right and maybe we'll send you a singing telegram.
Number	33
Realm	Not-so-delicious serials
Subrealm	You know...like the ones about murder! (Or Grape Nuts. That's pretty bad, too.)
Question	On the first season of Serial, we learned that the body of Hae-Min Lee was found in Leakin Park, a notoriously seedy area in Baltimore. In fact, one of the people interviewed for the show noted that anyone trying to bury a body at Leakin Park would likely run into a small difficulty. What was it?
Answer	You'd probably dig up a body buried by someone else.
Song	Bones
Artist	The Killers
Hint	Killing someone's not that original of an idea in the area.
Note	Serial is a podcast spinoff of the This American Life, hosted by Sarah Koenig. Its first season, about the conviction of Adnan Syed of Hae Min Lee's murder, was wildly popular and won a Peabody award.
Number	34
Realm	Okay, seriously, we're actually going to stop asking you questions involving murder now.
Subrealm	So here's a question involving unintentional violent deaths!
Question	Near the end of the nineteenth century, an event that had been advertised for months ahead of time brought so many people to one location in Texas that they temporarily created the second-largest city in the state. Unexpectedly (but in retrospect, not all that surprisingly) this event also led to several deaths and a multitude of injuries. What was this event?
Answer	A deliberate train wreck. 40,000 people gathered to watch the two trains crash into each other in the newly-formed (and aptly named) town of Crush, Texas. As it turns out, sometimes when two big steam engines smack into each other at high speed, their boilers explode. Oops.
Song	Crash Into Me
Artist	Dave Matthews Band [radio/shortened version]
Hint	Monster truck rallies had nothing on this.
Note	The crash took place on September 15th, 1896, and was the brainchild of passenger agent William George Crush. The trains were traveling approximately 45 miles per hour. Debris was blown hundreds of feet in the air, and landed among the spectators.
Number	35
Realm	All right, all right, no more death. We promise.
Subrealm	Just things that make you WISH you were dead.
Question	If you've ever had a kidney stone, you'll know that you'd do almost anything to get it to pass out of your system. This past September, a urologist published a study suggesting that a rather unconventional treatment for kidney stones could be remarkably effective. What was this treatment?
Answer	Riding roller coasters - specifically, riding Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disney World. (Even more specifically, sitting in the back of the train, where riders were shaken up enough that stones successfully made their way out of a model kidney 64% of the time!)
Song	Ride 'Em on Down
Artist	The Rolling Stones
Hint	It's probably more fun than most medical treatments.
Number	36
Realm	Great successes in golf
Subrealm	Besides the time I totally got the ball through the windmill blades and into the dinosaur's mouth on my first try!
Question	Here's a straightforward one for you sports fans: who holds the record for the longest successful televised putt during a professional golf tour event?
Answer	Michael Phelps, who managed to sink a putt from a whopping 159 feet away during the 2012 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.
Song	Celebrity Skin
Artist	Hole
Hint	This person is a VERY successful athlete.
Number	37
Realm	Possession is 9/10 of the law
Subrealm	We're pretty sure the other tenth is just saying random phrases in Latin.
Question	Two decades ago, three gentlemen from Yemen sued a US federal agency, which, they claimed, was trespassing by engaging in research on land that was rightfully theirs. Where exactly was the land in question?
Answer	Mars. (The Yemeni prosecutor threw their case against NASA out and threatened the plaintiffs with jail time...which didn't stop them from trying to sell "their" Martian land to investors a year later.)
Song	War
Artist	Edwin Starr
Hint	We're pretty sure they'd never actually visited "their" property.
Number	38
Realm	Secrets of New York
Subrealm	Such as where the hell to find a parking spot in Manhattan
Question	After much examination, the experts at RoadsideAmerica.com have determined that the location bearing this title is in upstate New York, in the middle of a pond a few miles southeast of Lake Oneida. It seats two people, and is only accessible by small boats. What is this notable destination?
Answer	The World's Smallest Church.
Song	Have a Little Faith in Me
Artist	John Hiatt
Hint	When it's been used, a third person stood in it, and some witnesses hung out in nearby boats.
Note	Roadside America has a long list of tiny churches competing for the title of Smallest Church. The Cross Island Chapel was built in 1989 on a wooden platform in the middle of a pond. It has a floor area of 51"x81". It is non-denominational.
Number	39
Realm	Helpful warnings
Subrealm	Like the kind we didn't give you before making you listen to those screaming goats earlier.
Question	In May of 2016, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Journal reported on the results of a survey of roughly a thousand Americans on the topic of food safety. 84% of respondents said that they supported mandatory labels on all genetically modified foods, and 80% said that they also believed that there should be similar warning labels on any food containing what substance?
Answer	DNA.
Song	Dem Jeans
Artist	Chingy
Hint	Most Americans have forgotten high-school biology.
Number	40
Realm	Eight-hour competitions
Subrealm	Probably with fewer questions about peeing, puking, and monkey sex.
Question	According to one historical account, about 150 years ago, a man named William Comstock participated in an eight-hour competition with another man, which he ended up losing 69 to 48, costing him $500 of prize money and another, arguably more valuable reward. What was the contest, and what was the reward?
Answer	A buffalo-killing contest, and the prize was the exclusive right to use a certain nickname. His competitor, of course, was also named William - but you probably know him better as "Buffalo Bill" Cody.
Song	For What It's Worth
Artist	Buffalo Springfield
Hint	Annie Oakley might've won if she'd gotten in on it, though she wouldn't want the title.
Number	41
Realm	Places where interesting things happen, if you know what I mean [with vocal equivalent of an eyebrow waggle]
Subrealm	Like in bed, or at a spa, or...uh...in a door?
Question	The first one happens coming out of an elevator. The second is in a jammed glass door. The third occurs in bed beside a lover. The fourth is on the steps in front of the court. And there's another, for good measure, at a spa table. What are they?
Answer	The places where Michael Corleone has the heads of the other four major crime families (plus Moe Greene) assassinated at the end of The Godfather.
Song	Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta
Artist	Geto Boys
Hint	Oh, and then there's the one with the car windshield a little afterward, and the one implied about the organizational traitor.
Number	42
Realm	Question 42
Subrealm	Trivia for hoopy froods like you
Question	Everyone knows that according to the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42. Since the supercomputer known as the Earth was unfortunately destroyed five minutes before it finished figuring out what the actual question was, what, based on Arthur Dent's random drawing of makeshift Scrabble tiles, is the most accurate version of the Ultimate Question we will ever know?
Answer	What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
Song	You Do the Math
Artist	Brad Paisley
Hint	Scrabble is a humanities major.
Note	In base 13, 6x9=42.
Number	43
Realm	Great parenting ideas
Subrealm	At least according to TV
Question	Prior to Mitchell and Cameron's introduction of their newly adopted daughter to the rest of the family on Modern Family, Jay, still distrustful of his son's homosexuality, suggests that the pair should not adopt a child because they are unready to be parents and that Cam, in particular, is too prone to melodrama, a charge Mitch staunchly denies. How does Cam subsequently introduce the baby to their extended family?
Answer	By entering in pseudo-African robes and holding her aloft while playing "The Circle of Life" in the background.
Song	Roar
Artist	Katy Perry
Hint	Since 1994, everyone has secretly wanted to do this with a new baby.
Number	44
Realm	Technological advances
Subrealm	Unintended consequences
Question	Nations at war are always striving for the newest and most advanced military technology, and World War II was no exception. It didn't always work out well, though, as one German U-boat captain by the name of Schlitt discovered when he had a little trouble with the newest feature on his submarine, ultimately leading to the boat sinking and the deaths of several members of his crew. What fancy high-tech gadget did Schlitt accidentally misuse?
Answer	The toilet. It had been specially designed to operate at greater depths than previous submarine toilets, but when Schlitt...uh...schlatt, it didn't quite work as intended, the wrong valve came open, and the sub started filling up with seawater and chlorine gas. When the crew tried to surface so they wouldn't suffocate, the sub was promptly spotted and bombed by Allied planes.
Song	Song for the Dumped
Artist	Ben Folds Five
Hint	This device causes trouble on pretty much every fancy vehicle whenever it's first added - but people really don't like to do without it.
Note	U-1206 was off the east coast of Scotland when a leak in the toilet flooded the ship's batteries, releasing the chlorine gas.
Number	45
Realm	Ambitious porn
Subrealm	Shoot as far as you can
Question	In 2015, Pornhub announced a fundraising campaign to raise money for a production in a rather unusual location. While they fell far short of their goals (receiving less than 10% of their target amount), a successful production would've marked a momentous first for the industry. What was the location planned for this groundbreaking feat of filmed fornication?
Answer	Outer space.
Song	Up Where We Belong,
Artist	Jennifer Warnes & Joe Cocker
Hint	It's a place where Newton's Third Law might, as many have theorized, cause some problems.
Number	46
Realm	Popular film
Subrealm	Really, really popular films
Question	Minneapolis's largest art museum frequently displays independent film projects of non-feature-length, like Christian Marclay's Trivia-super-bonus-gone-crazy The Clock. Five years ago, it devoted an outdoor, big-screen event to celebrating a particular genre of short film, but while most such events might draw only a few hundred guests, this one, to everyone's shock, attracted over ten thousand visitors, prompting it to become a regular feature of the museum's calendar. What, specifically, was the genre of short film the event celebrates?
Answer	Cat videos.
Song	Wild World
Artist	Cat Stevens
Hint	If they'd thought harder, they'd probably realize that these are the only short films that anyone actually watches, anyway.
Number	47
Realm	Games of telephone
Subrealm	We really hope the medium isn't the message
Question	Roughly ninety years ago, two Princeton researchers used electrodes, a vacuum tube amplifier, sixty feet of cable, a normal telephone receiver, and one more important item in order to create a very unusual telephone. Tell us, what was the missing ingredient, which served as the transmitting end of the telephone line?
Answer	A live cat. (An electrode was attached to its auditory nerve, so that one could speak into the cat's ear and have the sound transmitted to the telephone receiver sixty feet away in a soundproof room.)
Song	Hotline Bling
Artist	Drake
Number	48
Realm	Classical music
Subrealm	Because we're classy
Question	We're about to play a lovely classical composition for you. We'll tell you that it's being performed by the Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra of Klaipeda, Lithuania, under the direction of the piece's composer, also of Klaipeda, Lithuania. We'll even tell you that the piece was written specifically to highlight the talents of its featured soloist, a young American who received a fair amount of media buzz a few years ago. All we want you to tell us is the title of the piece and the identity of that featured soloist.
Answer	That was "CATcerto," by Mindaugas Piecaitis, with featured soloist Nora the piano cat.
Song	CATcerto
Artist	Nora, obviously. Since this question doesn't have a separate question and song point exactly, we can just give 'em two points if they get both parts of the answer.
Hint	Listen to the soloist's technique very carefully.
Note	Nora uses a variety of techniques for hitting the keys, but definietly seems to pick her notes carefully.
Number	49
Realm	Belgium! Our spiritual home!
Subrealm	And its questionable traditions
Question	Many cities have local holidays related to their public landmarks. In Ypres, Belgium, from the fourteenth century to the early nineteenth (and again, less frequently and in a more politically correct way, since the 1930s), the public gathered one Wednesday every year at the local tower to engage in what ceremonial ritual?
Answer	Throwing cats off the top of it. (Originally, this was done with live cats, to control the feral population. Don't worry, though: the cats they use today on Cats' Wednesday are plush toys.)
Song	Threw It On the Ground
Artist	The Lonely Island
Hint	This definitely doesn't have anything to do with the previous three questions!
Number	50
Realm	A question that definitely has nothing whatsoever to do with cats.
Subrealm	Pussy, galore!
Question	In unused footage from Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, we learn that femme fatale Alotta Fagina decides to adopt a new identity, so that hers will no longer be so suggestive. What is the more common female name that Ms. Fagina now bears?
Answer	Sandy
Song	You're the One That I Want
Artist	from Grease
Hint	It's only moderately less suggestive, but significantly more uncomfortable.
Number	51
Realm	Tourist attractions
Subrealm	Tourist extractions
Question	Americans abroad are notorious for getting themselves into trouble. In 2014, an American exchange student in Germany went climbing where he oughtn't have, and eventually needed to be saved by five squads of firefighters. Where did he get stuck?
Answer	Inside a giant vagina - specifically, a public-art vagina sculpture.
Song	She Don't Use Jelly
Artist	The Flaming Lips
Hint	Lots of guys want to go where he did, although most of them probably don't want to get stuck there.
Note	The Tübingen, Germany sculpture is called Chacán-Pi (Making Love), by the Peruvian artist Fernando de la Jara. Police confirmed that the firefighters turned midwives delivered the student "by hand and without the application of tools".
Number	52
Realm	Athletes and their weird records
Subrealm	No, we don't mean Shaq's rap albums
Question	In the NBA, this record is held by Kobe Bryant, by over 1000. In MLB, a similar mark was set by Pete Rose, with a similarly large lead. The nearest equivalent in the NFL is held by Brett Favre, who is more than 500 ahead of his nearest competitor. What records do they all hold?
Answer	Failure - that is, failed attempts at achieving their sport's core goals. Bryant has missed the most shots in NBA history, Rose has made the most outs, and Favre has thrown the most incomplete passes.
Song	Oops! ... I Did It Again
Artist	Britney Spears
Hint	When you're around long enough, you can't quite help it.
Number	53
Realm	More secrets of New York
Subrealm	But only temporarily
Question	In the early twentieth century, it was held by a bank for several years in New York as loan collateral. Since then, it's been kept for nearly a century in Atlanta, and rumor has it that its details are known to only two people on Earth, who are not permitted to travel together. What is it?
Answer	The secret formula for Coca-Cola.
Song	The Sweetest Taboo
Artist	Sade
Hint	It no longer includes hard drugs.
Number	54
Realm	Museum exhibits
Subrealm	For clean minds and dirty fingers
Question	This past year, the Folger Shakespeare Library hosted an exhibition called "Will & Jane" about the cultural footprint of Shakespeare and Jane Austen. While the showcases included many rare pieces contemporary to those two writers' lives which consequently required careful handling, the curators specifically said that they had stocked up on cleaning supplies to maintain one particular - and much more recent - display piece. Which one?
Answer	The shirt Colin Firth wore during the lake-diving scene in the BBC's adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, which apparently inspired female guests (and probably a few male ones) to get a bit handsy. Quoth the curators: "We will be giving the Folger some Windex, to be used in what we anticipate will be a daily wiping-down of lipstick marks."
Song	Rhythm of Love,
Artist	Plain White T's
Hint	Ask the female Jane Austen fans on your team.
Number	55
Realm	Cosmic questions
Subrealm	Not entirely about space makeouts
Question	Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens left us with many unanswered questions. What turned Kylo Ren to the Dark Side? Is Luke secretly Rey's dad? What combination of the three main stars will end up making out? For most of these answers, we'll have to wait for the next two movies. But one puzzling question has already been answered by a Star Wars comic book. The answer: it's in honor of an enemy RA-7 who'd made a life-saving sacrifice on his behalf. So, be good Jeopardy contestants and tell us - what's the question that this answers?
Answer	Why does C3PO have a red arm? (C3PO's arm was shot off on a mission. Omri, the RA-7, sacrificed himself in acid rain to send a distress signal that saved C3PO, and C3PO attached his discarded red arm as a tribute.)
Song	Love and Affection
Artist	Joan Armatrading
Hint	We'd just assume it was the result of hijinks similar to those the character got up to before the climax of Empire Strikes Back.
Number	56
Realm	Delightful escapist fantasy
Subrealm	Where children get burned alive and torn apart by dogs
Question	Pay attention to this question's rules carefully. By our count, of the forty most important human characters in the novel A Game of Thrones (as determined by number of mentions), fourteen have made it through the current five books of A Song of Ice and Fire and six seasons of the TV show Game of Thrones without getting killed. (Resurrected characters count as having been killed, but those only rumored to be dead or who have simply vanished are counted as alive.) When you're ready, tell your moderator you're making an official guess and name any five characters who meet those criteria. If you get them ALL right, you get one point and the opportunity to name another set of five. If you get those right, you'll get another point and a crack at the last four. But if ANY of your answers in any set is either someone who is not in the top 40 from A Game of Thrones or someone who has been killed during the book or television series, you will not get a point for the answer and, moreover, you will not be allowed to give any more answers. If you get all fourteen characters and the song - for which you don't need an artist, though you will need its title - you'll have a FOUR-POINT-PLAY. But be quick - the song is less than two minutes long.
Answer	(alphabetically by surname) Petyr Baelish (Littlefinger), Bronn, Sandor Clegane (The Hound), Theon Greyjoy, Cersei Lannister, Jaime Lannister, Tyrion Lannister, Jorah Mormont, Arya Stark, Bran Stark, Sansa Stark, Daenerys Targaryen (Khaleesi, also Dany), Samwell Tarly (Sam), and Varys.
Song	Rains of Castamere (Hodor Version)
Hint	The two most important families will get you six. Two more are on Essos. Five are at court. The other is further north.
Number	57
Realm	Good advice
Subrealm	Good advice that people will inevitably fail to take.
Question	This past year, the New York Times published an article whose text consisted simply of the word "No." What was the title of this article?
Answer	When I'm Mistakenly Put on an Email Chain, Should I Hit 'Reply All' Asking to Be Removed?
Song	Everything to Everyone
Artist	Everclear
Hint	If you're on the Trivia listserv--or belong to any other Williams groups, honestly--you've probably seen this happen.
Number	58
Realm	Great moments in American history
Subrealm	Involving fish guts
Question	Many events during his youth shaped the life of one of America's first great intellectuals, Benjamin Franklin, but one particularly influential one occurred while aboard a ship as a teenager, when he saw some fish being cut open and little fish falling from their stomachs. What philosophical insight did Franklin gather from this event?
Answer	That he was not ethically obligated to be a vegetarian anymore. In his words, "If you eat one another, I don't see why we mayn't eat you." (He himself admitted, however, that the larger impetus behind this "philosophical insight" may have been the fact that someone was frying fish at the time and it smelled pretty tasty.)
Song	Hungry Like the Wolf
Artist	Reel Big Fish
Hint	His tastebuds thanked him.
Number	59
Realm	Curses.
Subrealm	Curses!
Question	Baseball is full of superstitions, and it's become something of a tradition to blame any stretch of lousy years on a curse. The Red Sox, for example, had the Curse of the Bambino, and the Cubs had the Curse of the Billy Goat. What entity is believed to have cursed Japan's Hanshin Tigers for the last three decades?
Answer	Colonel Sanders. After their only Japan Series victory, excited fans stole a Colonel Sanders statue from in front of a local KFC and threw it in the river because they thought it looked kind of like their bearded American MVP. The team has been "cursed" ever since.
Song	Southern Man
Artist	Neil Young [if cut short]
Hint	Bearded Americans all look like a certain American icon to the Japanese.
Note	The MVP was former major-leaguer and current Oklahoma state senator Randy Bass.
Number	60
Realm	Fun childhood activities!
Subrealm	Dismemberment!
Question	There are some special rules for this question. We're putting you on the honor system: no using the internet, no getting the item in question to check - you can use your memories and ONLY your memories to answer this one. With that out of the way, the classic board game Operation contains thirteen body parts to be manipulated or removed. (The original version had twelve; Milton Bradley added a thirteenth about a decade ago.) THIS IS A THREE-POINT PLAY. For one point, name any five of those body parts. For two points, name any ten.
Answer	Adam's Apple, Ankle Bone Connected to the Knee Bone, Brain Freeze, Bread Basket, Broken Heart, Butterflies in Stomach, Charley Horse, Funny Bone, Spare Ribs, Water on the Knee, Wish Bone, Writer's Cramp, and Wrenched Ankle.
Song	Like a Surgeon
Artist	Weird Al Yankovic
Hint	Three are real body parts, though only two are human. Three are bad things that can happen to body parts. Three are metaphors involving body parts. Two are food products. One's from a song, and one's something you do for arthritis.
Number	61
Realm	Relationships
Subrealm	Breaking Up is Not THAT Hard to Do
Question	This season on the TV show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Rebecca decided she needed to befriend her recent ex Josh's previous girlfriend, Valencia. While Valencia initially loathed her (understandably, seeing as Rebecca had spent nearly the entire previous season trying to lure Josh away from her), the two women ended up expressing affection and admiration for each other after they engaged in what empowering, female-bonding activity to demonstrate how mutually over Josh they were?
Answer	Peeing on Josh's stuff.
Song	Ease on Down The Road
Artist	The Wiz
Hint	It wasn't particularly sexy, but it did give one of the women the chance to admire the other's "feminist pubic hair."
Number	62
Realm	Mysterious activities
Subrealm	Done by mysterious people
Question	In Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories, John Watson did something almost twice as often as Sherlock Holmes, Holmes did it twice as often as a minor character by the name of Phelps, and all of them did it several times as often as Mrs. St. Clair's husband. What action are we referring to?
Answer	Ejaculation. In fact, there are 23 ejaculations in total, with 11 belonging to Watson, who was known to ejaculate in the direction of both Holmes and his fiancee, while Mrs. St. Clair's husband ejaculated at her from a second-story window. (Obviously, we just mean they said something suddenly and with intensity. We don't know what YOU were picturing.)
Song	Hold On, I'm Comin'
Artist	Sam and Dave
Hint	Admit it, you giggle whenever it happens in any Victorian text.
Number	63
Realm	More great books
Subrealm	That you've never actually read
Question	The 1950s were a great period for American literature, producing such classics as On the Road, Invisible Man, and The Catcher in the Rye. Many contemporary intellectuals, though, felt the most significant American book of the decade was a groundbreaking work published by one of America's largest and most prestigious think tanks. What was their major literary contribution?
Answer	A Million Random Digits - which was 600 pages of exactly what the title implies. It was a significant scientific breakthrough, providing statisticians and other scientists who needed to generate random numbers with a legitimately random source for them.
Song	634-5789 (Soulsville U.S.A.)
Artist	Wilson Pickett
Hint	It wasn't an especially wordy book.
Note	The book was published by the RAND corporation in 1955. It was produced starting in 1947 by an electronic simulation of a roulette wheel attached to a computer.
Number	64
Realm	Giant prey animals
Subrealm	And the tiny apex predators who sit on them
Question	Over ninety years ago, a trainer who'd never successfully jockeyed before won a steeplechase at Belmont Park aboard a 20-1 underdog horse. That was something of a surprise, of course, but there was something even more surprising about his win. In fact, no other jockey before or since has won a race under quite the same circumstances. What was unique about his victory?
Answer	The jockey, Frank Hayes, was dead at the time. He had a heart attack during the race, but his horse still won by a head.
Song	Heart It Races
Artist	Architecture in Helsinki
Hint	He couldn't celebrate his distinction.
Note	The race was June 4th, 1923, and the horse's name was Sweet Kiss. She was nicknamed Sweet Kiss of Death for the rest of her life, and never raced again.
Number	65
Realm	Bad guys
Subrealm	The baddest guys
Question	Heroes are, perhaps, defined by the quality of their adversaries. Spider-Man has his Sinister Six; the Justice League has the Legion of Doom; the X-Men have the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. What heroes have had to foil the schemes of an incognito penguin, a robotic dog, the leporine cravings within, and a serial killer with a sweet tooth?
Answer	Wallace and Gromit.
Song	Flood
Artist	Jars of Clay
Hint	The only member of the team who actually speaks doesn't help all that much, to be honest.
Number	66
Realm	Weird political systems
Subrealm	Maybe even weirder than our electoral college
Question	What is the only country in the world with a reigning monarch who is democratically elected by the residents of an entirely different country?
Answer	Andorra. One of their two "co-princes" is always the current French president.
Song	Two Princes
Artist	Spin Doctors
Hint	Think of a small country. No, not that one. (We know you tried it already.)
Note	The other prince is the Bishop of Urgell, in Catalonia.
Number	67
Realm	Clerical errors
Subrealm	Not fixable by the Divine Intervention card
Question	In the kingdom of Lancre within Terry Pratchett's Discworld, it is an established rule that whatever the priest says at one's naming ceremony is officially and unalterably one's name. Due to this tradition (and her mother Queen Magrat's attempt to give her daughter a better name than her own), what is the full name of the current princess of Lancre?
Answer	Princess Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre. (But hey, at least she got off easier than some previous victims of this tradition, such as local farmer James What the Hell's That Cow Doing in Here Poorchick.)
Song	I Put a Spell on You
Artist	Joss Stone & Jeff Beck
Hint	"Magrat" sounds sort of like what would happen if someone butchered a more common name for some reason, doesn't it?
Number	68
Realm	British settlements
Subrealm	Non-colonial division
Question	Usually, big corporations make cash settlements with their customers only when they have been caught in some act of malfeasance. However, this past March and April, one of London's oldest companies--the world's largest in their particular field--rushed to offer several hundreds of thousands of pounds' worth of settlements to two dozen customers, even though some of them had only spent a few quid with the company and the company had admitted to breaking no laws. This included the largest cash payout the company had ever made to that point. What unexpected, high-profile development in the U.K. caused the company to scramble to buy off its customers?
Answer	Leicester City winning the British Premier League in soccer. Ladbrokes, the world's biggest bookie, had set them as 5,000-1 underdogs, putting them on the hook for tens of millions in payouts, so when it became clear Leicester were the favorites to win, they tried to reach smaller settlements with those who had bet on them.
Song	The Underdog
Artist	Spoon
Hint	Alas, they look unlikely to repeat the feat.
Number	69
Realm	Youtube videos
Subrealm	Surprisingly, not related to cats
Question	What is the only video to have been, at one point or another, the most viewed video on Youtube, the most liked video on Youtube, and the most disliked video on Youtube?
Answer	The music video for the song "Baby" by Justin Bieber ft. Ludacris.
Song	i hate u, i love u
Artist	Gnash
Hint	We hate it, hate it, hate it, oh!
Number	70
Realm	Stay in school, kids!
Subrealm	Or else you could end up like Bill Gates!
Question	As you probably know, Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard a few months into his junior year in order to form a little company called Microsoft. Accordingly, he only had time to publish one significant mathematics paper before leaving academia forever, but it was a pretty good one, because his solution to the problem in question remained unbeaten for thirty years. What was it that Gates figured out how to do more efficiently than anyone else?
Answer	Flip pancakes. (His paper was entitled Bounds for Sorting by Prefix Reversal, but it's really about flipping pancakes.)
Song	For Goodness Sakes, Look at Those Cakes
Artist	James Brown
Hint	Technically, it involves making binary switches to every item in a sequence past a certain point.
Note	The problem is about sorting a list of things when the only tool you have is the ability to reverse a prefix of the list. In other words, imagine having a stack of pancakes of different sizes. You need to sort them, but all you can do is stick your spatula into the stack somewhere and flip over the substack above it.
Number	71
Realm	Fashion
Subrealm	Fashion of the gods
Question	Meant to simulate the garb of an ancient tribal warrior leading his nation to battle, its elements were designed to give praise to the creator and the shark gods, to seek unity with nature through the emblem of the holy plover bird, and to celebrate the symmetry and beauty of the human body via the power of the coconut. Whose outfit are we talking about?
Answer	Pita Taufatofua, the famously oiled-up flagbearer for Tonga's Summer Olympic team.
Song	Tradition
Artist	Fiddler [shorten]
Hint	Specifically, the power of coconut oil slathered over sculpted pecs by Hoda Kotb.
Note	Taufatofua was an Olympian in taekwondo. He was eliminated in the first round when the score reached 16-1. But thanks to his opening ceremony appearance, he became an internet sensation.
Number	72
Realm	Good taste and refinement
Subrealm	TV shows where Saddam Hussein gets killed by farts before banging Satan
Question	On one episode of South Park, Kyle's dad vies with many other men to accomplish a particular record-setting achievement, but in the end, only he and the world's most famous rock-singer/philanthropist stand as true contenders. What is the record they are hoping to claim?
Answer	The largest defecation in world history.
Song	Constipation Blues
Artist	Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Hint	It isn't the usual kind of pissing contest that Kyle's dad gets into.
Number	73
Realm	More Olympics trivia
Subrealm	Sadly, with less glistening coconut oil
Question	If you watched the Rio Olympics, you no doubt saw many commercials and athlete profiles paying loving tribute to moms and dads. One swimmer at the Olympics had a particularly special show of appreciation, though. How did Canadian freestyler Santo Condorelli pay tribute to his father before every race?
Answer	By flipping him off. (But lovingly! His dad flips him off right back.)
Song	Like a Bird
Artist	Tiffany Trump
Hint	It's gotten him in trouble before, especially if he gets caught paying tribute on live TV.
Number	74
Realm	Medieval Times
Subrealm	My favorite class field trips
Question	The history of the Crusades is full of charismatic leaders getting their followers all fired up and ready to go kill some infidels. According to medieval historians, what unique leader inspired a group of peasants in the Rhine valley to join the German Crusade in 1096?
Answer	An "enchanted goose." (Man, geese really are jerks, aren't they?)
Song	Honk if You Love Jesus
Artist	One Voice [teams are not required to name artist here]
Hint	We kind of doubt the leader felt as strongly about slaughtering infidels as their followers did.
Number	75
Realm	Muses
Subrealm	With slightly easier names to remember than "Polyhymnia" or "Terpsichore."
Question	Barbara M. Roberts, resident of a small city in Wisconsin, has served as a model and muse to some of the most famous names in fashion. By what name is Ms. Roberts better known?
Answer	Barbie.
Song	Pink Cadillac
Artist	The Chipettes
Hint	If she were your close friend, what would you call her?
Number	76
Realm	Architecture
Subrealm	Money-making ventures
Question	What is the only building to appear on more than one denomination of U.S. paper currency, and on which bills is this building shown?
Answer	Independence Hall - the exterior is on the back of the $100 bill, and the interior is on the back of the $2 bill (which depicts Trumbull's Declaration of Independence).
Song	Philadelphia Freedom
Artist	Elton John
Hint	It is the most important building to celebrate that we have a national currency.
Number	77
Realm	We're not throwing away our shot
Subrealm	At asking you this question
Question	The musical Hamilton is steeped not only in American history, but musical theater history. For instance, Act II contains a direct reference to the other Tony-winning musical about the American Revolution, albeit with something of an addendum. What is the reference, and what was added?
Answer	Alexander Hamilton tells John Adams, "Sit down, John," which is the title of the opening number from the musical 1776. However, he adds, "you fat motherfucker."
Song	Flagpole Sitta
Artist	Harvey Danger
Hint	The line occurs as the Federalist party is beginning to implode.
Number	78
Realm	Things from Twin Peaks you never really understood
Subrealm	In other words, things from Twin Peaks
Question	Like geeks the world over, you may be excited that Twin Peaks is making its return this year on Showtime, with David Lynch directing and some of the original cast returning. However, since pre-production took so long, one absolutely vital cast member - Lynch's longest-tenured collaborator - passed away. Don't worry, though - all that person's scenes were already filmed. What character will be making a triumphant small-screen return this year?
Answer	The Log Lady, played by Catherine Coulson, who also did tech work on Lynch's earliest movies. (If you haven't seen Twin Peaks, the Log Lady is a lady who carries a log around everywhere and frequently strokes it. The log sees things. It does not always tell what it sees. It's kind of a bit part, but for the syndicated version, she introduces every episode, because the show's weird like that.)
Song	Danger Zone
Artist	Kenny Loggins
Hint	The character goes principally by a nickname
Number	79
Realm	It's good to be the king.
Subrealm	Unless you're Charles I. Or Edward II. Then it's not so good to be the king.
Question	King Henry V did it twice, as did Henry VIII. Richard the III, George III, and George VI only managed to do it once apiece. Henry II actually did it twice with the same person, but no other British king has done it at all. What did they do?
Answer	Earn the actors portraying them an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
Song	Golden Boy
Artist	Nadav Guedj
Hint	There's a reason none of the queens have done it (although some of them have done something very similar).
Number	80
Realm	Trendsetters
Subrealm	With lots of followers
Question	On her 15th birthday, Annie [b]Moore of County Cork, Ireland became the first person in the world to do this. Within a year, nearly 450,000 other people had done the same thing. What did Ms. Moore do?
Answer	She went through the immigration process at Ellis Island.
Song	A Whole New World
Artist	from Aladdin
Hint	Our grandparents did!
Number	81
Realm	Sports Rules
Subrealm	Creative ways to break them
Question	Most football penalties are well known to fans - clipping, false starts, face-masks, and the like. But this past season, a penalty was assessed to a Redskins player that had never been given in NFL history. What was it?
Answer	"Unsportsmanlike conduct - Shooting a bow and arrow." Josh Norman celebrated an interception by simulating archery. This is, apparently, viewed as similar to simulating shooting a gun, which is expressly forbidden in the rulebook.
Song	Follow Your Arrow
Artist	Kacey Musgraves
Hint	It's vaguely team-appropriate, though.
Number	82
Realm	knock knock knock
Subrealm	PENNY!
Question	Pretend, for a moment, that your moderator is an ill Sheldon Cooper. Do your best to put him to bed.
Answer	[The teams should produce, in some form, this soothing song Sheldon makes Penny sing him whenever he's sick.] "Soft kitty, warm kitty/ Little ball of fur/ Happy kitty, sleepy kitty/ Purr, purr, purr." [NOTE: Moderators should spam their teams with some variation on "Knock knock knock PENNY! Knock knock knock PENNY!" until the correct answer is produced. We'll put this one late enough in the contest that you should only have a team or two you have to knock-knock-knock at. :) ]
Song	Go the Fuck to Sleep Remix
Artist	Samuel L. Jackson
Hint	Hey, are there any topics you've heard a lot about tonight?
Number	83
Realm	Sponsorship
Subrealm	This contest has been brought to you by an enormous amount of caffeine
Question	Sometimes the sponsors of a show say a lot about its content, and sometimes they are totally at odds. What program is regularly sponsored by ketchup, biscuits, rhubarb pie, and English majors?
Answer	A Prairie Home Companion.
Song	Woe Be Gone
Artist	Ani DiFranco
Hint	Sadly, its originator has just retired.
Number	84
Realm	Quotable notables
Subrealm	And their notable quotes
Question	Several years ago, Jennifer Lawrence got into some hot water after an award acceptance speech, because many people in the audience didn't realize that she was just quoting a Bette Midler line from a film two decades prior. What comment was as relevant to celebrating an acting award win in the 1990s as today?
Answer	"I beat Meryl!" (Bette Midler says this about Goldie Hawn's Golden Globe in The First Wives' Club.)
Song	The Winner Takes It All
Artist	Meryl Streep [shortened]
Hint	It's an expression of what any woman trying to win an acting award has to do.
Number	85
Realm	Great moment in American history
Subrealm	Without fish guts this time
Question	In 1620, the passengers of the Mayflower landed in Massachusetts and founded the Plymouth colony. Most of us probably learned in elementary school how the next year, they were visited by a Native American who proceeded to befriend them, teach them how to plant corn, and show them how to make construction-paper turkeys shaped like their hands to send home to their mothers. (Okay, maybe we zoned out a little during elementary school history lessons.) Our history lessons, however, most likely skipped over the fact that that fellow wasn't the first Native American to make contact with the Plymouth colony - he was preceded by a man who strolled into the middle of the colony and proceeded to ask the colonists for something. What, specifically, did their actual first native acquaintance want from them?
Answer	Beer. (And presumably partially thanks to that beer, Samoset, the man in question, got along well enough with the colonists to introduce them to his acquaintance, Squanto, who did all that corn-teaching stuff. Beer: shaping American history since 1621!)
Song	Red Solo Cup
Artist	Toby Keith
Hint	What he wanted is traditionally seen as a good way to make new friends (although you might wish you hadn't in the morning).
Number	86
Realm	Everybody's talking about Fudge!
Subrealm	I could talk about Fudge all day!
Question	Harvard University. Benedict Cumberbatch. D'Brickashaw Ferguson. Donkey Teeth. Fudge. Individually, these all name real, important entities in our world. But collectively - along with some more outlandish compatriots - they name but a few of the participants in what far more important event?
Answer	They are the names of football players in Key & Peele's East-West Bowl.
Song	Formation
Artist	Beyonce
Hint	Other participants include Equine Ducklings, King Prince Chambermaid, Cartoons Plural, L'Carpetron Dookmarriot, Ladadadaladadadadada Dala-Dadaladaladalada, and God.
Number	87
Realm	Things you may have resolved to eat more of in the new year
Subrealm	Things you are totally not going to eat more of in the new year
Question	Early in 2016 a veggie burger was released at an organic chain store in Colorado that was billed as the ultimate meatless burger, and it proved to be so popular that the product was sold out in under an hour. The manufacturers of this burger had added one particular new ingredient designed to make the burgers more appealing to meat-eaters. What was this new ingredient, and what was its function?
Answer	Beet juice was added to make the burger "bleed."
Song	We Got the Beat
Artist	The Go-Gos
Hint	You can have them taste like they're raw, now.
Number	88
Realm	Hard-living war heroes
Subrealm	Underaged, hard-living war heroes
Question	After the death of his mother in 1942, he was taken in by a Polish woman living in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Tehran, where he made friends with the soldiers, who often gave him beer and cigarettes. Although he didn't even come close to meeting the minimum age requirement, he was drafted into the Polish Army shortly thereafter, where during his three years of service, he helped carry ammunition and was eventually promoted to corporal. There are numerous statues and memorials in his honor across Europe and Canada. Who was this beer-guzzling, cigarette-loving young soldier?
Answer	Wojtek the Syrian Brown Bear.
Song	Two Weeks,
Artist	Grizzly Bear
Hint	They couldn't bear not to honor him.
Number	89
Realm	Movies
Subrealm	Movies about transportation and the destruction thereof
Question	Your Saturday Night Live bonus features a subsection about films whose casts contain a former member of the SNL cast. Similarly, the casts of the movies Airplane!, Trainwreck, Conan the Destroyer, both Bad Boys movies, and Steel all include members of what organization?
Answer	The NBA. (Respectively, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, LeBron James, Wilt Chamberlain, John Salley, and Shaquille O'Neal.)
Song	Alley Oop
Artist	The Hollywood Argyles
Hint	They are the tallest people in their respective casts.
Number	90
Realm	More people with something in common
Subrealm	Still probably not banging Chuck Tingle's protagonists (but you never know!)
Question	What do the following artists have in common: U2, Metallica, Alanis Morissette, Ghostface Killah, Three Dog Night, Ringo Starr, Bustah Rhymes, The Bee Gees, and Creed?
Answer	All of them have recorded a song titled "One."
Song	Solo,
Artist	Frank Ocean
Hint	They may have a lot of things in common for all we know, but we're only looking for one thing.
Number	91
Realm	Connecticut living
Subrealm	WASP problems
Question	After spending a stressful day in Boston at a baby shower for Christopher's fiancee, the Gilmore Girls return to Stars Hollow and blow off steam by doing what to Rory's on-again-off-again boyfriend's newest purchase?
Answer	Deviled-egg his car.
Song	Egg Man
Artist	Beastie Boys
Hint	This is the WASPiest method of revenge.
Number	92
Realm	Southern belles
Subrealm	Well, I never!
Question	Strippers frequently go by pseudonyms, often along the lines of "Candy," "Brandy," or "Bambi." In A Confederacy of Dunces, one character puts together a Southern-belle striptease act. What is her pseudonym?
Answer	Harlett O'Hara.
Song	I Don't Give a Damn
Artist	Avril Lavigne
Hint	She might be stripping to make sure that she'll never go hungry again.
Number	93
Realm	Williamsiana!
Subrealm	Pretty much the only Williamsiana in this contest!
Question	For the historically-minded, the Town Clerk's office in Williamstown holds many of the town's archives and records. But the building itself also holds some historical interest for Ephs. What is notable about it with respect to college history?
Answer	It's the only former frat building the college didn't manage to recover. Phi Gamma Delta was so pissed off about the abolishment of fraternities that they refused to sell their building to the college, preferring to deal with the town instead.
Song	Texts from a Beta
Artist	[word for word consensual texts sent to a young woman by frat guys]
Hint	The building changed its ownership in the late 1960s.
Number	94
Realm	Things that are weird, deficient, and narcissistic.
Subrealm	Besides our next president (hey-o!)
Question	Some of them are smooth and practical. Others are rough, unusual, weird, or deficient. The friendly and amicable ones might be nice, but be careful of the ones that are vampiric or narcissistic. What are we talking about?
Answer	Numbers. (These are all classes of integers.)
Song	1234
Artist	Feist
Hint	Man, the geeks get weird when we leave them alone too long.
Note	Let m and n be whole numbers, and s(m) and s(n) be the sum of their proper divisors. Then n is: smooth if it is only divisible by small primes; rough if it is only divisible by large primes; practical if all smaller numbers can be written as the sum of divisors of n; unusual if its largest prime factor is greater than the square root of n; weird if the sum of its proper divisors is greater than n but no subset of those divisors sums to n; deficient if s(n) < n; friendly with m if s(n) / n = s(m) / m; amicable with m if s(n) = m and s(m) = n; vampiric if it is a composite natural number with an even number of digits d, that can be factored into two integers x and y each with d/2 digits and not both with trailing zeroes, where n contains precisely all the digits from x and from y, in any order, counting multiplicity; and narcissistic if it is the sum of its own digits each raised to the power of the number of digits.
Number	95
Realm	The best part of baseball
Subrealm	Meaningless statistics!
Question	Major League Baseball is well known for keeping track of any and all statistics related to the game and its players. Accordingly: Yankees pitcher Jim Bouton holds the World Series record for doing what 37 times in one game?
Answer	Having his hat fall off.
Song	You Can Leave Your Hat On
Artist	Tom Jones
Hint	He probably should've tightened it.
Number	96
Realm	Employment Perks
Subrealm	Not available to all employees
Question	Parking at UC Berkeley can be a little hard to come by. Even longtime faculty and staff must compete for parking spaces on campus, and permits to the most coveted central lot are awarded only to faculty who have met a certain requirement. What is this requirement, which only seven current faculty members have fulfilled?
Answer	Winning a Nobel Prize.
Song	Dynamite
Artist	Taio Cruz
Hint	If they hired Bob Dylan, he'd get to park there.
Number	97
Realm	Things from the 1980s that are popular again
Subrealm	We're still waiting for the big-budget CGI She-Ra
Question	The first three of them happened between 1984 and 1990: one was based on a popular duets album, one was an oddball variation on the Snow White story, and one simply filmed the star's visit to her family in the Appalachians. After a long hiatus, there have been two more in the past two years, forming an autobiographical sequence named for a 1971 song riffing on the book of Genesis. What are they?
Answer	Dolly Parton's musical holiday specials.
Song	Boobs
Artist	by Ruth Wallis
Hint	At some point, the Hallmark channel should just run them all from 9 to 5.
Note	The song is "Coat of Many Colors".
Number	98
Realm	Family feud
Subrealm	Show me "choking"!
Question	In New York this past fall, an assault case in which a son choked his mother drew surprised and confused eyes from around the world. Nothing about the case itself was especially different from the average aggravated choking incident, though, and neither victim nor perpetrator had lived a life worthy of public notice. What, then, caused so many people to come to the misguided notion that this was a newsworthy event?
Answer	The mother's name was Aretha Franklin (but not that Aretha Franklin), and her son was named Denzel Washington (but not that Denzel Washington), so the headlines displayed some variant of "Denzel Washington Chokes Aretha Franklin."
Song	Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Artist	Gary Portnoy ("from Cheers" is okay)
Hint	The mother decided to pass on a certain distinction her parents gave her onto her son.
Number	99
Realm	Emergency! Emergency! [in Russian accent]
Subrealm	Everyone to get from street!
Question	FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has an informal metric to determine how serious an emergency situation is, based on the activities taking place at a certain location in the affected community. What is the name of this disaster assessment system?
Answer	The Waffle House Index. (FEMA actually looks at how stores and restaurants in general are responding to the situation in question, but as the director of FEMA said, "If you get there and the Waffle House is closed? That's really bad.")
Song	Breakfast
Artist	Newsboys
Hint	It's most effective in the South, where just about every community has a common institution to check on.
Number	100
Realm	Crimean War trivia!
Subrealm	Not about Florence Nightingale
Question	Britain's victory in the Crimean War, particularly in the last major siege, led to greater influence over the Black Sea. However, an even longer-term effect may have come in the form of several artillery pieces captured during the siege. Why?
Answer	The cannons taken in the siege of Sevastopol have provided the metal for most of the Victoria Crosses awarded over the past century.
Song	Jump,
Artist	Kriss Kross
Hint	The Unknown Soldier received one.
Number	101
Realm	Secret identities
Subrealm	Not related to superheroes
Question	Is she a prominent Indian-American fashion designer? A British pop singer? A pastiche representing a certain kind of white girl? Or simply a fictional character? All of these are theories put forth to establish the true identity of...whom?
Answer	"Becky with the good hair," the implied mistress character from Beyonce's Lemonade.
Song	The Lemon Song
Artist	Led Zeppelin
Hint	We suggest that if you find this question difficult or unpleasant, you should remember a common saying that might help you make the best of it.
Number	102
Realm	Effete abominations inflicted upon nature by Europeans
Subrealm	The Centigrade scale
Question	How did Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius define the temperature scale he created? Or, to make this a little easier for you, why isn't the answer to this question quite as obvious as you think it is?
Answer	He put the boiling point of water at 0 degrees and the freezing point at 100 degrees, which is flipped compared to the scale that now bears his name.
Song	Temperature
Artist	Sean Paul
Hint	We find his approach a little topsy-turvy.
Number	103
Realm	Memorials
Subrealm	That don't tell you what they're memorializing
Question	A hero of the Battle of Saratoga is immortalized in a monument there that nowhere mentions this hero's name. To whom is the monument dedicated, and how is that person depicted in sculpture?
Answer	Benedict Arnold; only his boot is shown (as he was injured in the leg during the battle).
Song	I'm a Poached Egg (Without Toast)
Artist	Ella Fitzgerald
Hint	"War hero" isn't the top thing on his resume regarding the American revolution.
Number	104
Realm	Hung juries
Subrealm	Moderately hung juries
Question	On the "12 Angry Men" episode of Inside Amy Schumer, the final holdouts on the jury attempting to rule on whether Amy is hot enough for television are eventually won over when the other jurors can convince them to get...what?
Answer	A reasonable chub.
Song	Get Up, Stand Up
Artist	Bob Marley
Hint	They have to imagine it's late at night and that they're beer-goggled, though.
Number	105
Realm	All the colors of the rainbow
Subrealm	And brown. Also pink and silver.
Question	In the core group, there's a red one, three small blue ones, a black one, a white one, and a yellow one. They're sometimes joined by another, larger red one, a green one, an orange one, a pink one, a silver one, and an enormous brown and white one. Who are they?
Answer	The Angry Birds.
Song	Birdhouse in Your Soul
Artist	TMBG
Hint	Their enemies are all green.
Number	106
Realm	Incompetence
Subrealm	Police in love
Question	On "Brooklyn 9-9," Detective Boyle has perpetually carried a torch for Detective Diaz, only to be constantly rebuffed. However, he did manage to earn her respect by undertaking what reflexive self-sacrifice while on a mission to stop the Chief's stalker?
Answer	He took a bullet in the ass to save her life.
Song	What What in the Butt
Artist	Samwell
Hint	We might've played a Wesley Willis song here.
Number	107
Realm	The life of the mind
Subrealm	About half of the time, at least
Question	The Lyceum in Athens, where Aristotle once taught, was divided into two roughly equal portions. One half was a lecture hall. To what activity was the other half devoted?
Answer	Naked oil wrestling.
Song	Better Lying Down
Artist	Grace Slick
Hint	The Greeks and Romans painted it on vases, but we usually leave it to Pornhub.
Number	108
Realm	Legal subterfuge
Subrealm	The origins of affluenza and the Twinkie defense
Question	Roughly five hundred years ago in Burgundy, France, some hungry hooligans were brought to trial for stealing food from local villagers. While historical accounts differ on the details, they all agree that the pack of thieves repeatedly failed to appear in court, although the lawyer appointed to defend them offered up multiple explanations to justify their absence. Some stories say he argued that his clients had not all received the court's summons because they had no fixed abode, some say that he argued that certain among his clients were older and more infirm than the others and would therefore take longer to arrive, and some say he argued that the reputation of many others besides those specifically charged by the court was at stake and it was necessary to make sure they, too, were aware of the legal proceedings before the case could continue, but pretty much every story seems to agree on his final and ultimately successful argument as to why the defendants could not possibly appear. Who were the defendants, and what was the final argument that got them off the hook for their criminal deeds?
Answer	The defendants were rats. Their lawyer argued that, then as now, the court must be willing to ensure the personal safety of defendants on their way to trial, and that the paths to court from many of his clients' numerous residences were bound to be fraught with peril in the form of local cats and dogs.
Song	Me and My Shadow
Artist	Frank Sinatra & Sammy Davis Jr.
Hint	If they ever had come to court, they presumably would have been more than willing to snitch on each other.
Number	109
Realm	Customer service,
Subrealm	Adventures in
Question	Imagine that our Trivia contest becomes a worldwide phenomenon. To capitalize on its success, the Grande Belgian Wombat Tarts decide to offer in-contest purchases in order to get extra points. Suppose a contest participant pays to receive 25 points, and after failing to receive them, writes to Grande Belgian Wombat Tarts customer service to complain, only to be kept waiting for weeks. Following the lead of the most downloaded app of 2016, how should we finally respond to this troubled Trivia player?
Answer	r (This is the same response Niantic, the makers of Pokemon Go, gave to a customer after 35 days of waiting.)
Song	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
Artist	Veggie Tales
Hint	It's not an incredibly helpful response. It'd be a pretty good response if we waited until September 19th to give it, though!
Note	September 19th is International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Number	110
Realm	Things Americans used to be able to do in Cuba
Subrealm	Things most Americans still definitely can't do in Cuba
Question	In 1853, a law was passed by the U.S. Congress to grant one man permission to perform a specific task in Cuba. It was then and remains the only time this activity has been done outside the U.S. Six weeks later, the man in question died without ever having made any meaningful use of the privilege he had been granted. What was it that the law allowed him to do?
Answer	Take the Oath of Office as Vice President. The fellow in question, William R. King, had traveled to Cuba in an attempt to cure his tuberculosis. It didn't exactly work, considering he kicked the bucket only two days after returning to the U.S.
Song	This I Swear
Artist	The Skyliners
Hint	A century later, Lyndon Johnson might've needed to do it, but Castro would've minded.
Note	King County, Washington, which contains Seattle, was originally named for William King. In 2005 the county was "renamed" in honor of Martin Luther King.

January 13-14, 2017

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