US vs. Good Time in Vegas
January 12-13, 2018
On-Air Questions and Songs
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| Number | 1 |
| Realm | Weird Lawsuits, Possibly Regarding Precious Bodily Fluids |
| Subrealm | The Answer To The First Question Is Always The Running Team’s Name |
| Question | Let us suppose for a moment that you are a paralegal for the U.S. Supreme Court. Let us further suppose that you are handed a Federal lawsuit against the late Stanley Kubrick and the makers of “Dr. Strangelove”. This lawsuit, for some reason, is titled: “United States vs. One .45 Caliber Automatic, Two Boxes of Ammunition, Four Days Concentrated Emergency Rations, One Drug Issue Containing Antibiotics, Morphine, Vitamin Pills, Pep Pills, Sleeping Pills, Tranquilizer Pills, One Miniature Russian Phrasebook and Bible, 100 Dollars in Rubles, 100 Dollars in Gold, Nine Packs of Chewing Gum, One Issue of Prophylactics, Three Lipsticks, and Three Pairs of Nylon Stockings”. You, being a reasonable person doing an unreasonable job, don’t want to type that entire case name every time you have to refer to the case. How might you abbreviate all that? |
| Answer | “U.S. vs. Good Time In Vegas”. |
| Song | Waking Up in Vegas |
| Artist | Katy Perry |
| Note | The line from Dr. Strangelove is, of course, "Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff." The original script included "Dallas" instead of "Vegas", but the city was changed because the movie came out a few months after President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. |
| Number | 2 |
| Realm | Look At Me |
| Subrealm | I'm Sandra Lee |
| Question | Sandra Lee has a YouTube channel where she shows off her skills to her many fans. These skills, which any teen can appreciate, have helped earn her a nickname. What is that nickname? |
| Answer | Dr. Pimple Popper. (Dr. Lee is a dermatologist who posts video of her most...er, productive sessions. Her YouTube channel has over 2.6 million subscribers!) |
| Song | Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' |
| Artist | Journey |
| Number | 3 |
| Realm | Fly The Friendly Skies |
| Subrealm | Check Out Their On-Time Record! |
| Question | USGlobal Airways, formerly Baltia Airways, has been around for almost 28 years, and are headquartered at Stewart International Airport in Newburgh, New York. They also hold a flight record that is almost unfathomable, especially for an airline that started in 1990. What is that record? |
| Answer | They have not yet flown a single commercial flight. (They are hoping to start service in March to Tel Aviv and Paris; analysts are understandably skeptical.) |
| Song | Gonna Fly Now (Theme From "Rocky") |
| Artist | Bill Conti |
| Note | There is some disagreement whether the airline is a big scam or merely the victim of an incredible series of bad business decisions. |
| Number | 4 |
| Realm | Fly The Friendly Skies |
| Subrealm | Gratuitous Hometown Shout-outs |
| Question | Our team captain, Ben, is from Denver. In his honor, please give us the name of the Denver news reporter who circumnavigated the globe in a single-engine aircraft in 2014. |
| Answer | Amelia Earhart. (She is not related to the other Amelia Earhart, although she grew up thinking she was.) |
| Song | One Flight Down |
| Artist | Norah Jones |
| Note | Ms. Earhart runs the "Fly with Amelia" foundation, which sponsors girls who want to obtain their private pilot's license. |
| Number | 5 |
| Realm | Fly the Really Friendly Skies |
| Subrealm | The World Is Their Etch-A-Sketch |
| Question | Since the advent of flight tracking apps that allow users to follow flight paths of every plane in the sky, some pilots have taken advantage of it by arranging their flights to draw patterns on the maps. A guy in Germany wrote “Hello” with his flight path; a pilot nicknamed “Flower Guy” specializes in floral sky patterns; and the test flight for the Boeing Dreamliner drew an outline of the plane over the Northwest. How did an Air Malta flight mark the wedding of two of the airline’s employees? |
| Answer | They drew two hearts over the Mediterranean. |
| Song | Radar Love |
| Artist | Golden Earring |
| Note | The employees were the pilot of the plane and one of the flight crew. Malta International Airport's arrivals board listed the flight’s status as “JUST MARRIED”. |
| Number | 6 |
| Realm | Brushes With Fame |
| Subrealm | But Not With Style |
| Question | Charles Duell, Commissioner of the US patent office, supposedly said "everything that can be invented has been invented" in 1899. Thankfully, this is untrue, as proven by the patent acquired by Frank and Donald Smith in 1975, for their great, er, procedure. What did they patent? |
| Answer | The combover. |
| Song | Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man) |
| Artist | Styx |
| Note | "To use the method of this invention, the hair around the bald area is divided into equal portions, generally three such sections will be used. The sections of hair used by this method generally will be to include equal sections on each side of the head and a third section on the back of the head." The patent is very detailed. |
| Number | 7 |
| Realm | Brushes With Fame |
| Subrealm | Wyatt’s Purple LSD from Argentina |
| Question | What do the following have in common? The introduction of LSD to the Beatles, the invention of the electric chair, Wyatt Earp’s rescue in Texas, the novel “Riders Of The Purple Sage”, and the presidency of Argentina for two months in 1973. |
| Answer | These were all accomplished by dentists. |
| Song | Novocaine for the Soul |
| Artist | Eels |
| Number | 8 |
| Realm | Let’s Cleave, So You Can Scan My Seed |
| Subrealm | Linguistics |
| Question | Bolt, cleave, scan, seed, and dust are all examples of what? (And don’t say verbs.) |
| Answer | Contronyms. |
| Song | Opposites Attract |
| Artist | Paula Abdul |
| Note | A contronym is a word with two opposite meanings. |
| Number | 9 |
| Realm | Classic Cinema |
| Subrealm | Overseas |
| Question | The Maltese Falcon is, by any measure, a classic film. Starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor and sitting at a 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it has had a major cultural impact in the United States. However, it has some influence in foreign markets as well. What major impact did The Maltese Falcon have in Japan in the years following its release? |
| Answer | The atomic bombs Little Boy and Fat Man got their name from the film. |
| Song | Weapon of Choice |
| Artist | Fatboy Slim |
| Number | 10 |
| Realm | Get To Work! |
| Subrealm | The Commute Isn't That Bad |
| Question | Apple, Peninsula Airways, Patagonia, Yankee Candle, mental_floss, and RuneScape are companies, a magazine, and a game, all of which were created where? |
| Answer | The creator’s parents' house while they were living there. |
| Song | Why Don't You Get A Job? |
| Artist | The Offspring |
| Number | 11 |
| Realm | I’m a little confused |
| Subrealm | I tried to put a plastic flamenco on my lawn |
| Question | We want to educate you Neanderthals, so let’s talk about classical music. Specifically, we want to talk about “Gran Vals”, a flamenco guitar composition written by Francisco Tarrega in 1902. You may wonder why we here at Good Time In Vegas are so enthralled by this lovely little piece that you don’t even know. But you DO know it! Where have you heard Francisco’s little ditty? |
| Answer | It’s the Nokia ringtone. (Play sample from here: http://www.whosampled.com/sample/84563/Nokia-Nokia-Tune-Francisco-T%C3%A1rrega-Gran-Vals/) |
| Song | Wild Thing |
| Artist | Tone-Loc |
| Number | 12 |
| Realm | Til Death Do Us Part |
| Subrealm | Psych! (in a bro-y voice) |
| Question | According to the CDC, the divorce rate for people 55-64 more than doubled between 1990 and 2012 and almost tripled over the same time frame in people over the age of 65. While changes in societal norms are believed to be a factor, what specific thing is largely responsible for the rise? |
| Answer | Viagra. (Huh huh huh, we said rise.) |
| Song | Harden My Dick |
| Artist | My Dick |
| Number | 13 |
| Realm | Call Your Physician If Your Trivia Lasts More Than Four Hours |
| Subrealm | Viagra |
| Question | Some of Viagra’s known side effects are also common side effects of other drugs: stuffy nose, dizziness, headaches, et cetera. One of them, though, is rather surprising: the inability to do what? |
| Answer | Tell the difference between blue and green. |
| Song | Couldn't Get It Right |
| Artist | Climax Blues Band |
| Note | Viagra tends to tint one's vision blue, making the artist a double match for the question. |
| Number | 14 |
| Realm | Not A Golf Question |
| Subrealm | But Still A Two-Stroke Penalty |
| Question | In the year preceding his death, civil rights activist Marcus Garvey suffered from two strokes. What was he doing at the time of the second one? |
| Answer | Reading his own obituary. (Some papers assumed that after the first stroke, he had died, and prematurely published the obituary.) |
| Song | You Only Live Once |
| Artist | The Strokes |
| Number | 15 |
| Realm | Math |
| Subrealm | Occasionally Useful Math |
| Question | Proven in 1910 by Alfred Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, this piece of mathematical information has been referred to as "occasionally useful." What is it? |
| Answer | 1 + 1 = 2. |
| Song | Add It Up |
| Artist | Violent Femmes |
| Note | Whitehead and Russell wrote a famous tome called Principia Mathematica, in an attempt to put all mathematics on a firm foundation. It starts with as few assumptions as possible. The proof of 1+1=2 appears on page 379. |
| Number | 16 |
| Realm | TV Math |
| Subrealm | Sometimes 1 + 1 = 5 |
| Question | The first episode of the first season of what seven season TV show starts with an introduction to the fifth season? |
| Answer | The League. |
| Song | Fantasy |
| Artist | Mariah Carey |
| Note | The League is about a fantasy football league. The first season of the show covers the fifth season of the fictional league. |
| Number | 17 |
| Realm | This Day In History |
| Subrealm | If Today Is February 16 |
| Question | What important, singular event in basketball history happened on February 16, 1996 in a Magic/Bucks game where the Bucks lost by 30? |
| Answer | Shaquille O’Neal scored his only three-pointer. |
| Song | Love Shack |
| Artist | The B-52's |
| Number | 18 |
| Realm | Some Say The World Will End Icy |
| Subrealm | Some Say Hot |
| Question | According to Jay Pharoah’s depiction on Saturday Night Live, how does Shaquille O’Neal use Icy Hot? |
| Answer | He puts it on Texas toast. |
| Song | Make It With You |
| Artist | Bread |
| Number | 19 |
| Realm | Are You Sure He’s Retired? |
| Subrealm | Shaquille O'Neal |
| Question | Shaquille O’Neal has been quite the busy guy over the last decade or so! Besides his basketball career, he has been a sheriff’s deputy, a U.S. Deputy Marshal, a rapper, an actor, a reality TV star, an NBA analyst, a real estate developer, and a part owner of the Sacramento Kings, among other jobs. But perhaps most surprising was the job he performed on February 3rd, 2008. What was it? |
| Answer | Jockey. It was for a Super Bowl ad, though. |
| Song | I'm Outstanding |
| Artist | Shaquille O'Neal |
| Note | Shaq wins by a nose in the Vitamin Water ad. |
| Number | 20 |
| Realm | Endless Songs about Someone Named Sara |
| Subrealm | Stevie Nicks |
| Question | Stevie Nicks is, inarguably, one of the most accomplished female music artists of all time. But there is only one song that went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on which she has a songwriting credit. That song topped the charts in 2001; what is it? |
| Answer | “Bootylicious” by Destiny’s Child. (The song samples “Edge of Seventeen”, hence the songwriting credit.) |
| Song | Party All the Time |
| Artist | Children of Bodom |
| Number | 21 |
| Realm | To boldly go |
| Subrealm | To grammar class |
| Question | At the 2013 Star Trek convention, attendees got to vote to determine the best Star Trek movies. Which one finished a surprise seventh in the voting? |
| Answer | Galaxy Quest. |
| Song | Space Oddity |
| Artist | William Shatner |
| Note | Galaxy Quest is not, of course, a Star Trek movie. Not really. Well, but sure, of course it is. "I see you managed to get your shirt off!" |
| Number | 22 |
| Realm | In the biggest shock of the night... |
| Subrealm | ...the mandatory horse racing question was NOT suggested by Steve Homer! |
| Question | In the late 18th century, a son of the great thoroughbred sire Eclipse, who won 34 of his 40 starts and also went on to success in the breeding shed, is a horse whose name is pronounced “Potatoes”. Please supply us with the correct spelling of this horse’s name. |
| Answer | Potoooooooo. (Scorers: also accept Pot-8-Os.) (Supposedly the groom wrote the horse name on the stall with 8 Os as a joke, and the owner liked it. At least it’s better than Horsey McHorseface, which of course was a real name given to a race horse recently in Australia!) |
| Song | People Are Strange |
| Artist | Edward Furlong |
| Note | Horsey McHorseface got his name after a public poll in Britain chose Boaty McBoatface as the most popular name for a $300 million polar research ship. |
| Number | 23 |
| Realm | You’re Going To Complete A Great Quest |
| Subrealm | But The Reward Was Inside You All Along |
| Question | Fallout can be a strange video game franchise. One of the weirder moments, though, comes during the Old World Blues add-on from Fallout: New Vegas, where you have to look for what three items that were stolen from you? |
| Answer | Your brain, your heart, and your spine. |
| Song | Where is My Mind |
| Artist | Boy Division |
| Note | If you grant that the spine represents courage, this is a Wizard of Oz reference. |
| Number | 24 |
| Realm | Absinthe |
| Subrealm | Makes The Heart Grow Fonder |
| Question | Two notable individuals are credited as playing the Green Fairy in Moulin Rouge! One of them is Kylie Minogue. Who’s the other? |
| Answer | Ozzy Osbourne. A scream of his is used when the Green Fairy screams. |
| Song | Fairies Wear Boots |
| Artist | Black Sabbath |
| Number | 25 |
| Realm | Referees |
| Subrealm | Like We Need Another Reason To Heckle Them |
| Question | Sometimes, referees make the wrong call, but Phil Luckett is a special case. In a memorable Thanksgiving game, what incorrect call did he make? |
| Answer | He miscalled the coin toss. |
| Song | Lyin' Eyes |
| Artist | Eagles |
| Note | The game was November 26th, 1998, in the Pontiac Silverdome, between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Detroit Lions. After regulation play ended in a tie, the teams met on the field to flip the coin for overtime. Steelers running back Jerome Bettis called the flip, and appeared to the naked ear to say "tails". But the referee announced that the coin came up tails and that heads had been called, awarding the ball to Detroit. The Lions marched down the field to kick a field goal and win the game. Enhanced audio later vindicated the referee: Bettis had called "hea-tails" in an attempt to have it both ways. The rules were changed the next year so that teams call the coin before it is flipped rather than while it is in the air. |
| Number | 26 |
| Realm | Day-o, Daaaaaay-o |
| Subrealm | Oops, We Meant Oo-day, Ooooooo-day |
| Question | Saddam Hussein, like some other Middle East dictators, had his own Fedayeen army - about 30,000 troops sworn to protect his regime, as well as Saddam himself. His troops were commanded by Saddam’s son Uday (pronounced ”oo-day”), who suggested their unusual headgear. What was unique about the Iraqi Fedayeen headwear? |
| Answer | They wore Darth Vader helmets. (Uday was a huge “Star Wars” fan.) |
| Song | On the Dark Side |
| Artist | John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band |
| Number | 27 |
| Realm | A Sith Lord, a Hunk, a Drug Dealer, and a Spy Walk Into a Bar |
| Subrealm | And Host a Williams Trivia Competition |
| Question | What do Emperor Palpatine, Gaston from Beauty and the Beast, Ma-Ma from Dredd, and Alex Trevelyan, among others, have in common? |
| Answer | They fall to their deaths. |
| Song | Wipe Out |
| Artist | The Surfaris |
| Number | 28 |
| Realm | Saturday Night Live |
| Subrealm | Beisbol been veddy veddy good to me |
| Question | You may have noticed that old-school Saturday Night Live alum Garrett Morris had a cameo in the Ant-Man movie as a cab driver. Why was Garrett given that cameo? |
| Answer | He was the first person to ever play Ant-Man (in a 1979 SNL sketch called “Superhero Party”). |
| Song | All The Small Things |
| Artist | Blink-182 |
| Number | 29 |
| Realm | If I were making a wish... |
| Subrealm | ...it would involve getting the heck out of West Virginia! |
| Question | In 1992, a group of kids from the Make-A-Wish Foundation were put on a boat on the Kanawha River in West Virginia to fulfill their wish, even though they were thousands of miles from where they should have been. What was their wish? |
| Answer | To finally get Gilligan off the island. (Bob Denver participated, and they succeeded.) |
| Song | Take Me Home, Country Roads |
| Artist | John Denver |
| Note | This might be the sweetest story ever to make its way into a Williams Trivia question. |
| Number | 30 |
| Realm | Rhythmus Maximus |
| Subrealm | This R&B Goes To Eleven |
| Question | What still-existing band used the slogan “Maximum R&B” in the 1960s? |
| Answer | The Who. |
| Song | I Got Rhythm |
| Artist | Ella Fitzgerald |
| Number | 31 |
| Realm | Minimum R&B |
| Subrealm | The Who |
| Question | What have the Who done 10 times, 9 times more than almost any other band that has done it? |
| Answer | Gone on a farewell tour. |
| Song | Every Time You Go Away |
| Artist | Paul Young |
| Note | The first Who farewell tour was in 1982. |
| Number | 32 |
| Realm | Middling R&B |
| Subrealm | Brian McKnight |
| Question | 1990s R&B crooner Brian McKnight branched out in 2012 by writing and performing the theme song for a website. For which website did Brian supply a theme? |
| Answer | YouPorn. (No, we're not allowed to play it.) |
| Song | Brian Wilson |
| Artist | Barenaked Ladies |
| Number | 33 |
| Realm | Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous |
| Subrealm | Pothead Rappers Not Included |
| Question | This venue is reportedly available to rent for $70,000. However, when Snoop Dogg tried to rent it to shoot a music video, he was turned down. What’s this picky location? |
| Answer | Liechtenstein. |
| Song | So Small |
| Artist | Carrie Underwood |
| Note | Says Liechtenstein property agent Karl Schwaerzler, "We've had requests for places and villages but never one to hire the whole country before. It would have been possible, but Snoop Dogg's management did not give us enough time." |
| Number | 34 |
| Realm | Liechtenstein Has Guards? Why? |
| Subrealm | Is Someone Going To Hide The Country Under Their Coat And Steal It? |
| Question | According to a historical account, what’s so unique about the time in the Austro-Prussian War when some Liechtensteiners guarded a mountain pass? |
| Answer | They came back with one more soldier than they left with. |
| Song | We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) |
| Artist | Tina Turner |
| Note | "During the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, Prince Johann II placed his soldiers at the disposal of the Confederation but only to “defend the German territory of Tyrol”. The Prince refused to have his men fight against other Germans. The Liechtenstein contingent took up position on the Stilfse Joch in the south of Liechtenstein to defend the Liechtenstein/Austrian border against attacks by the Italians under Garibaldi. A reserve of 20 men remained in Liechtenstein. When the war ended on July 22, the army of Liechtenstein marched home to a ceremonial welcome in Vaduz. Popular legend claims that 80 men went to war but 81 came back. Apparently an Austrian liaison officer joined up with the contingent on the way back." |
| Number | 35 |
| Realm | Gangs |
| Subrealm | Watch out, Bloods and Crips! |
| Question | In which locale would you find jacket-clad gangs with the names “The Hitchhikers”, “Black Death Crew”, “Jungle Cruisers” and “Main Street Elite”? |
| Answer | Disneyland. (Other gang names include “Triton’s Mermaids”, “The Wonderlanders” and “Hidden Mickeys”.) |
| Song | Uncle Walter |
| Artist | Ben Folds Five |
| Note | The gangs are not sponsored by Disney. They're just fans. |
| Number | 36 |
| Realm | Don't Believe The Hype |
| Subrealm | X Gonna Give It To You |
| Question | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame rap group Public Enemy’s original DJ was Terminator X, real name Norman Rogers, until he retired in 1999. What incredibly rap-free field did Terminator X go into after retirement? |
| Answer | Ostrich farming. |
| Song | Hooray For X |
| Artist | Big Bird |
| Note | Another double match on the song! |
| Number | 37 |
| Realm | Lawsuits |
| Subrealm | You're About To Get Trolled |
| Question | Do you remember the 1986 movie Troll? We don’t, either. The creators of this low budget movie claim that J.K. Rowling took some elements of their story and used them in the Harry Potter books. They point out that their movie features a boy who navigates a hidden world world full of witches, wizards, and magic to save his family from an evil being who has hidden his essence in someone close to the young hero, yadda yadda yadda. Eh, it sounds like the plot of half the books in the fantasy section of the bookstore. But there is one part of the Troll story for which they might have a legitimate case. What part is that? |
| Answer | The boy’s name in Troll is Harry Potter, Jr. |
| Song | Two Ghosts |
| Artist | Harry Styles |
| Number | 38 |
| Realm | More Lawsuits |
| Subrealm | Those Durn Foreigners |
| Question | In 1971, Gerald Mayo filed a lawsuit against an individual described by the court as a foreign prince. The court was ready to proceed with the case because the defendant had once filed an action of mortgage foreclosure in New Hampshire as a plaintiff, according to a written account. However, the case was dropped due to difficulty in serving process against the prince. Who was the prince? |
| Answer | Satan. (The “action of mortgage foreclosure” cited was the plot of the novel “The Devil and Daniel Webster”). |
| Song | I'll Sue Ya |
| Artist | "Weird Al" Yankovic |
| Number | 39 |
| Realm | Troll And The Deathly Hallows |
| Subrealm | Harry Potter |
| Question | Regarding house scoring, what Hufflepuff-related event never takes place in any of the Harry Potter books? |
| Answer | No member of Hufflepuff ever earns house points. |
| Song | Invisible |
| Artist | Alison Moyet |
| Number | 40 |
| Realm | The Dismal Science |
| Subrealm | Economics |
| Question | The Hemline or Skirt Length Theory is a failed economic indicator. But another unconventional economic indicator has proven to be more reliable. Which index, which involves restaurant servers, is this? |
| Answer | The Hot Waitress Economic Index. (It basically states that if even good-looking people are only finding service jobs, the economy is tanking.) |
| Song | I Know What Boys Like |
| Artist | The Waitresses |
| Number | 41 |
| Realm | War! Huuh! What is it Good For? |
| Subrealm | Trivia Questions! |
| Question | During the Ford administration, the 813-man Task Force Vierra (a group consisting of Americans and South Koreans) was deployed into the DMZ. What was Task Force Vierra’s goal? |
| Answer | To cut down a tree. (The 100-foot poplar blocked the view between two military outposts, so it was possible for North Korean forces to attack one without the other knowing.) |
| Song | This Land Is Your Land |
| Artist | Woody Guthrie |
| Note | Two Americans had earlier been killed by North Koreans while trimming the tree, which a North Korean commander claimed had been planted by Kim Il-sung himself. In response, Task Force Vierra was conceived as an overwhelming show of force, and included 813 men as well as helicopters, bombers, fighter jets, artillery, and the aircraft carrier USS Midway. |
| Number | 42 |
| Realm | Literature |
| Subrealm | For People Who Can't Count |
| Question | The books in a certain trilogy are entitled thusly: the first book is named after an item in the trilogy. The second book is named after a location in the trilogy. The third book is named after the subject of a very important question in the trilogy. The fourth book is named after a message provided in the first book. The fifth book is named after a description provided in the first book. The (disputed) sixth book is named after a line from the fourth book. Name the six book trilogy. |
| Answer | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. |
| Song | Marvin, I Love You |
| Artist | Marvin the Paranoid Android |
| Number | 43 |
| Realm | Movies |
| Subrealm | Documenting My Top Two Favorite World Wars |
| Question | World War II is all over the silver screen. Saving Private Ryan, Inglourious Basterds, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, as well as hundreds of others, are all set during the Second World War. However, World War I is the redheaded stepchild of cinematic world wars, appearing notably less frequently. What, then, is the highest-grossing World War I movie ever, not adjusted for inflation? |
| Answer | Wonder Woman. |
| Song | No You Girls |
| Artist | Franz Ferdinand |
| Note | Wonder Woman was released in Fall 2017, to great applause from comic book fans and feminists alike. |
| Number | 44 |
| Realm | Truth or Consequences, New Mexico |
| Subrealm | Mostly Consequences |
| Question | At the Trinity A-bomb testing site, Enrico Fermi took wagers among guards on whether what specific event would happen, which could have destroyed New Mexico or the world? |
| Answer | The explosion igniting the atmosphere. |
| Song | Fire on High |
| Artist | Electric Light Orchestra |
| Number | 45 |
| Realm | Your team won Williams Trivia! |
| Subrealm | Hold on, we announced the wrong winner… |
| Question | The Oscars? Eh, they might be sort of important. What we care about is something WAY more prestigious; the Best Kiss award given out by the MTV Movie Awards. TWO movies have won both MTV Best Kiss and the Best Picture Oscar. Name them! |
| Answer | Shakespeare In Love; Moonlight. |
| Song | Love Gun |
| Artist | Kiss |
| Number | 46 |
| Realm | Russian Nesting Dolls |
| Subrealm | American Edition |
| Question | THIS IS A THREE POINT PLAY. For one point, name both state capitals that contain the name of the state. For another point, name the only state where the name of the state contains the name of its capital. |
| Answer | Oklahoma City and Indianapolis; Rhode Island and Providence Plantations |
| Song | Within You Without You |
| Artist | The Beatles |
| Note | Rhode Island and Providence Plantations is also the longest official state name. |
| Number | 47 |
| Realm | It's So Little! |
| Subrealm | Not That! |
| Question | Measuring in at barely over 1200 square miles, Rhode Island, as we all know, is the smallest state in terms of land area. In addition, it’s also the smallest in terms of another metric. Out of all 50 states, what of Rhode Island’s is the smallest? |
| Answer | Its official state motto (Hope). (Note that Washington’s (Al-ki) is also four letters, but it’s not official. It also has a hyphen in the middle, so there’s that. And North Dakota’s is the longest.) |
| Song | State of Shock |
| Artist | The Jacksons |
| Note | North Dakota's motto is "Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable". |
| Number | 48 |
| Realm | Death |
| Subrealm | And Lots Of It |
| Question | What locale was cited by a 2012 BBC article as the murder capital of the world, with a murder rate 60% higher than that of #2 Honduras? |
| Answer | Cabot Cove, Maine - the setting for Murder, She Wrote. (During its 12-year run, the show killed off about 2% of its 3,560 fictional residents.) |
| Song | Building a Mystery |
| Artist | Sarah McLachlan |
| Number | 49 |
| Realm | Classic Sci-Fi Movie Scenes |
| Subrealm | John Is Busting Out All Over |
| Question | In the chestburster scene from the original Alien, the entire cast, other than John Hurt, received a stage direction of just three words. Name them. |
| Answer | The thing emerges. |
| Song | The Gospel of John Hurt |
| Artist | alt-J |
| Note | The surprise on the faces of the actors is real. |
| Number | 50 |
| Realm | A City That is Surprisingly Rugged |
| Subrealm | Portland, Oregon? |
| Question | This question is simple. Please tell us the identity of the grand marshal of the 2015 Portland, Oregon Starlight Parade. |
| Answer | The carpet from the Portland airport (accept PDX). (Weirdo Portlanders love the design, and have put it on everything from T-shirts to, of course, IPA beer labels.) |
| Song | It Wasn't Me |
| Artist | Shaggy |
| Note | The carpet's design represents the intersection of the north and south runways seen by air traffic controllers from the airport's tower at night. |
| Number | 51 |
| Realm | Let’s Talk About Grass |
| Subrealm | Sit Down, Mr. Dogg |
| Question | Aegilops. It’s the genus of some grasses in the Poaceae family, and sometimes the grasses are known as goatgrasses. What incredibly unique, length-based distinction is possessed by Aegilops? |
| Answer | It’s the longest English word to have its letters in alphabetical order. |
| Song | Be Near Me |
| Artist | ABC |
| Number | 52 |
| Realm | Getting Baked In Massachusetts |
| Subrealm | Stay Seated, Snoop |
| Question | The Nashoba Brook Bakery ran afoul of the FDA earlier this year by including a particular ingredient in their list of ingredients for their granola. Specifically, the FDA said this was “not a common or usual name of an ingredient and is considered to be intervening material.” What was the offending ingredient? |
| Answer | Love. |
| Song | Yummy, Yummy, Yummy |
| Artist | Ohio Express |
| Note | Which does make one wonder if Pepperidge Farms has paid off the FDA to allow them to list "Smiles" as the first ingredient of Goldfish crackers. |
| Number | 53 |
| Realm | Baseball |
| Subrealm | At Last, A Bill Voiselle Question! |
| Question | Bill Voiselle was a completely average pitcher in the 1940s for the Giants, Braves, and Cubs. However, he is unique in one way. Bill stands alone as the only Major League player to ever have the name of what on the back of his jersey? |
| Answer | His hometown - Ninety-Six, South Carolina. |
| Song | 96 Tears |
| Artist | ? and the Mysterians |
| Note | The origins of the name of the town of Ninety-Six, in Western South Carolina, are obscure. Voilselle received special permission from the National League to use the number. At the time it was the highest number ever worn by a major league player. |
| Number | 54 |
| Realm | CD players? |
| Subrealm | Go ask your grandparents what those are |
| Question | Which musical artist sold the most CDs in 2016? |
| Answer | Mozart. His 200 - yes, 200! disc box set sold over 6,200 copies; the 1.25 million total CDs are more than the #2 artist, Beyonce. |
| Song | Symphony of Destruction |
| Artist | Megadeth |
| Number | 55 |
| Realm | Video Games |
| Subrealm | A Tasteful Question At Last |
| Question | Besides being from video games, what do St. John’s Dairy Farm from The Walking Dead: Season 1, the Ultra Luxe Casino from Fallout: New Vegas, and Cuccina Donnacci from Dead Rising 2 all have in common? |
| Answer | They're all home to cannibals. |
| Song | Flavor of the Weak |
| Artist | American Hi-Fi |
| Number | 56 |
| Realm | This Question Is Great! |
| Subrealm | This Question Sucks! |
| Question | What’s the only movie to win at least one Academy Award and at least one Golden Raspberry? |
| Answer | Wall Street. |
| Song | For the Love of Money |
| Artist | The O'Jays |
| Note | Michael Douglas won the Oscar for Best Actor, but Daryl Hannah won the Razzie for Worst Supporting Actress. |
| Number | 57 |
| Realm | Speaking of Oscar Winners... |
| Subrealm | A Touching Tribute |
| Question | Steven Spielberg was the most commonly thanked person in Oscar acceptance speeches circa 2015. In fact, four of the top 5 were directors, and #6 was God. Who was fifth in that top 5? |
| Answer | Harvey Weinstein. |
| Song | Keep Your Hands to Yourself |
| Artist | The Georgia Satellites |
| Note | Harvey Weinstein's fall from grace was much in the news in the fall of 2017, when it spawned the #MeToo movement. |
| Number | 58 |
| Realm | Oscar Winners |
| Subrealm | The Most Original Question Of The Night |
| Question | What 1976 Academy Award-winning film was advertised with the tagline, “The most exciting original motion picture event of all time”? |
| Answer | The (Jessica Lange) remake of King Kong. (QUESTION PEOPLE: make sure they say remake). The Oscar it won was for Best Visual Effects, which it shared with Logan’s Run. It was truly a different time. Also, in keeping with the theme of original things that aren’t, this question was essentially asked as #58 of the January 1993 contest. So, Des, put down that phone. |
| Song | The Climb |
| Artist | Miley Cyrus |
| Number | 59 |
| Realm | Pocket Change |
| Subrealm | That An A-hole Would Have |
| Question | Let’s say you have four pennies, three quarters, and four dimes. Sure, you have $1.19. What’s so special about that collection of coins? |
| Answer | It’s the largest amount of money possible (in coins) that can’t be broken into a dollar. |
| Song | I Need a Dollar |
| Artist | Aloe Blacc |
| Number | 60 |
| Realm | Boxers |
| Subrealm | Boxers Named Wolfgramm |
| Question | At the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics, boxer Paea (pronounced pay-yuh) Wolfgramm won the Super Heavyweight silver medal. In winning his medal, what was the 325-pound Wolfgramm the first, and so far only, person to accomplish? |
| Answer | He’s the first and only person to win an Olympic medal for Tonga. |
| Song | King of Tonga |
| Artist | Art Garfunkel |
| Note | How has this song never before been heard in Williams Trivia!?! |
| Number | 61 |
| Realm | Alcoholism |
| Subrealm | In a Family-Friendly Format |
| Question | On Married With Children, what are the two ingredients of a Bundy mimosa? |
| Answer | Beer and Tang. |
| Song | C.R.E.A.M. |
| Artist | Wu-Tang Clan |
| Number | 62 |
| Realm | Alcoholism |
| Subrealm | Professional Alcoholism |
| Question | Famed comedic actor W.C. Fields, by his own account, was only drunk once in his life. When did that start, and when did that end? |
| Answer | The Spanish-American War; The New Deal. |
| Song | Hair of the Dog |
| Artist | Nazareth |
| Number | 63 |
| Realm | One-Hit Wonders from the 1990s |
| Subrealm | No, We haven’t Already Played Them All Tonight |
| Question | The 1990s song “I Got A Man” by Positive K features a duet. The male singer is Positive K. Who is the female vocalist? |
| Answer | It’s also Positive K. They used his voice, raised the pitch and lowered the speed. |
| Song | I Am Woman |
| Artist | Helen Reddy |
| Number | 64 |
| Realm | Computer Security |
| Subrealm | Discworld Style |
| Question | After science fiction mega-author Terry Pratchett died in 2015, he left instructions to take steps to ensure his unpublished works were never recovered from his computer and used by others. In 2017, his instructions were followed. What unusual measures did he take to get rid of his files? |
| Answer | He had his hard drive run over and crushed by a steamroller. |
| Song | Life Is a Highway |
| Artist | Rascal Flatts |
| Number | 65 |
| Realm | Love Me, Princess Hottie! |
| Subrealm | Sunshine Flower Dragon |
| Question | What do the following have in common: Sunshine, dragon, princess, flower, love me, and hottie? |
| Answer | These are some of the 25 worst computer passwords, according to the 2016 list released by SplashData. The very worst password remains “123456”, with “password” close behind. |
| Song | Let My Love Open the Door |
| Artist | Pete Townshend |
| Number | 66 |
| Realm | One Giant Leap For Mankind |
| Subrealm | And A Bigger Leap For Bureaucracy |
| Question | When the Apollo 11 astronauts returned from the Moon, they had to do lots of boring behind-the-scenes stuff like physical exams, debriefing, and paperwork. Among the paperwork they had to complete is a form now known as Form 7507. What’s that, and what did they need to put on the form? |
| Answer | It’s the customs declaration that travelers have to fill out upon returning to the United States from abroad. They declared their moon rocks and moon dust samples. |
| Song | Long, Long Way From Home |
| Artist | Foreigner |
| Number | 67 |
| Realm | Where No Man Has Gone Before |
| Subrealm | Is A Wildly Inaccurate Realm |
| Question | Elton John is occasionally inaccurately cited as the first to have this distinction, but Dennis Coffey was first and Gino Vanelli was second, leaving John in third. What is this distinction relating to a TV show? |
| Answer | They were the first three white musicians on Soul Train. |
| Song | Honky Cat |
| Artist | Elton John |
| Number | 68 |
| Realm | Can You Tell Me... |
| Subrealm | ...How To Get Off Sesame Street? |
| Question | According to Big Bird portrayer Carroll Spinney, what adventure was discussed for Big Bird in the 1980s, until it was discovered that a tall person in a bird suit wouldn’t fit in the allotted space? |
| Answer | He was a candidate for the doomed Challenger shuttle mission. (As if kids watching it weren’t traumatized enough the way it happened.) |
| Song | Live and Let Die |
| Artist | Wings |
| Note | NASA said the talks involved the Big Bird character as well as his teddy bear, Radar. NASA continued to collaborate with Sesame Street: Buzz Aldrin and Sally Ride appeared on the show, and in December 2014 NASA packed Slimey the Worm, Ernie's rubber ducky, a cookie from the Cookie Monster and Grover's cape aboard its Orion test capsule for an orbital flight test. |
| Number | 69 |
| Realm | College Sports |
| Subrealm | Mascots |
| Question | College mascots are their own weird thing. They run from the relatively normal Aubie the Tiger for Auburn and Sparty the Spartan for USC, to the slightly odd Brutus the Buckeye for Ohio State, to the really strange ones, like the Delta State Fighting Okra. But one mascot stands head and shoulders above the rest, or at least head - and that is the mascot, and team name, for the Rhode Island School of Design. What is their team name and mascot? |
| Answer | The team is the Nads, and the mascot is Scrotie, who is a penis with testicles. (Because of course it is. Also, that was question #69, huh huh huh.) |
| Song | I'll Be Good To You |
| Artist | The Brothers Johnson |
| Note | RISD's hockey team is the Nads, and its basketball team is the Balls. |
| Number | 70 |
| Realm | Self-Commentary |
| Subrealm | By Horror Directors |
| Question | According to George A. Romero, what was the scariest thing he ever worked on? |
| Answer | A short movie he did when he worked on the Mr. Rogers Show called “Mr Rogers Gets A Tonsillectomy”. (Yep, Romero started his career working for Mr. Rogers.) |
| Song | Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out |
| Artist | The Replacements |
| Note | Romero worked for Mr. Rogers for a long time, and he borrowed camera equipment from his boss's studio to film Night of the Living Dead, the first of his many zombie movies. |
| Number | 71 |
| Realm | Reviews |
| Subrealm | By Horror Directors |
| Question | Horror auteur Wes Craven directed such classics as the Scream series, the good Nightmare on Elm Street movies, and the good version of The Last House On The Left. But he had definite opinions on films by other directors. What reason did he give for walking out on Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs? |
| Answer | It was too violent. |
| Song | Scream |
| Artist | Michael Jackson & Janet Jackson |
| Number | 72 |
| Realm | Reviews |
| Subrealm | By The Pros |
| Question | We have lots of time tonight. Please fill some of it by giving us the entire review that Leonard Maltin wrote for the movie “Isn’t It Romantic?” |
| Answer | No. |
| Song | What I Like About You |
| Artist | The Romantics |
| Number | 73 |
| Realm | Reviews |
| Subrealm | With Fewer Words Than Leonard Maltin’s |
| Question | For the album Shine On by the band Jet, the entire online review from Pitchfork magazine was simply a web link to a video. What did the video show? |
| Answer | A chimp peeing in its own mouth. |
| Song | See You Again |
| Artist | Wiz Khalifa |
| Note | One of the singles from the album was "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is". |
| Number | 74 |
| Realm | Famous Video Games |
| Subrealm | Finally! A Packaging Question! |
| Question | The first several Pokémon games came in cartridges that were colors corresponding to the name of the game--Red came in a red cartridge, Blue came in a blue cartridge, et cetera. What’s the most recent game to follow this naming/coloring scheme? |
| Answer | Pokémon Black. (also accept Black 2) |
| Song | Pokémon Theme |
| Artist | Jason Paige |
| Number | 75 |
| Realm | TV Shows That Ran 7 Times As Long As Their Setting |
| Subrealm | M*A*S*H |
| Question | On the second episode of M*A*S*H, an inept North Korean pilot tries, and fails, to bomb the ammunition dump behind the 4077th the same time, every afternoon, by dropping a grenade from his plane. What do the doctors nickname the pilot? |
| Answer | Five O'Clock Charlie. |
| Song | 5 O'Clock World |
| Artist | Bowling For Soup |
| Number | 76 |
| Realm | Words To Live By |
| Subrealm | And Die By |
| Question | According to The Doctor, what’s the first rule of dying? |
| Answer | Don't. |
| Song | Heaven Can Wait |
| Artist | We the Kings |
| Number | 77 |
| Realm | Shock Rock |
| Subrealm | And Its Supporting Artists |
| Question | The film “Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies” is about the most successful poo-flinging band led by a clinically insane singer ever - GG Allin and the Murder Junkies. Because the director needed to raise funds for production, what well-known person volunteered to design some of the movie posters, which ended up selling for loads of money? |
| Answer | John Wayne Gacy (Jr.). (The posters sold for $12,000 each.) |
| Song | The Tears of a Clown |
| Artist | The English Beat |
| Note | Serial killer Gacy was known as the "Killer Clown" because of his charitable services at fundraising events, parades, and children's parties where he would dress as "Pogo the Clown", a character he had devised. |
| Number | 78 |
| Realm | What Are You Wearing? |
| Subrealm | No, Really, What Are You Wearing? |
| Question | What specific article of clothing was Stella Liebeck wearing on February 27, 1992? |
| Answer | (Cotton) sweatpants, which made the third-degree burns she got from McDonald’s coffee much worse. In the famous lawsuit, she was the 79-year-old who sued Mickey D’s after they gave her coffee heated to 190 degrees. |
| Song | Hot Legs |
| Artist | Rod Stewart |
| Note | Liebeck was in the passenger seat of her grandson's car when she spilled the full cup of coffee in her lap while trying to add cream and sugar. She spent 8 days in the hospital receiving skin grafts, and was permanently disfigured. She was awarded $640,000 as a result of her lawsuit, which became the poster child for tort reform. |
| Number | 79 |
| Realm | New Zealand |
| Subrealm | Sorry, Nothing To Do with Lord Of The Rings |
| Question | After decades of legal wrangling, the Whanganui of New Zealand finally won the legal rights of personhood in March of 2017. Why did it take 160 years for the Whanganui to finally be granted these basic human rights? |
| Answer | Because the Whanganui is a river. The river will now be represented by one Maori and one member of the Crown. |
| Song | How Deep Is Your Love |
| Artist | Bee Gees |
| Note | Whanganui River became the world's second (after Te Urewera) natural resource to be given its own legal identity, with the rights, duties and liabilities of a legal person. |
| Number | 80 |
| Realm | Fighting Words |
| Subrealm | Neither New Nor Radical |
| Question | In the New Radicals’ one hit “You Get What You Give”, Marilyn Manson is one of the celebs threatened with an ass kicking-in. But Marilyn, that lovable ragamuffin, was not offended by the implied violence. What was it in the song that actually did make him mad? |
| Answer | He was name checked in the same line as Courtney Love. |
| Song | This Is Not a Love Song |
| Artist | Public Image Ltd. |
| Number | 81 |
| Realm | Don't Mess With Texas |
| Subrealm | Okay, Mess With Texas - It's Easy and Fun! |
| Question | In the current 2-year session of the Texas House of Representatives, Tom Oliverson introduced House Concurrent Resolution 75, which urged people not to misuse the Texas flag in text messages, in what specific way? |
| Answer | By using the emoji for the flag of Chile instead. (Most standard emoji sets do not include a Texas flag, so people resort to use of the similarly colored but differently patterned Chilean flag.) |
| Song | Amazed |
| Artist | Lonestar |
| Number | 82 |
| Realm | Generic Knockoffs of Marvel Movies |
| Subrealm | Justice League |
| Question | Spoiler Alert! When Warner Brothers was forced to reshoot some of the Superman scenes for Justice League, they ran into an unexpected expense that reportedly was as high as 25 million dollars. What issue caused the big money expense? |
| Answer | They had to pay to digitally cover up Henry Cavill’s moustache that he had to keep because he was shooting another movie at the time. |
| Song | Shaving Cream |
| Artist | Benny Bell |
| Number | 83 |
| Realm | Actual Marvel Movies |
| Subrealm | Iron Man |
| Question | In the first Iron Man movie, Tony Stark kept asking for some Burger King after his escape from Afghanistan. That was not product placement. Why was that request in the movie? |
| Answer | Robert Downey, Jr. ad-libbed that part because that had been his biggest craving after he got out of drug rehab. |
| Song | Cheeseburger in Paradise |
| Artist | Jimmy Buffett |
| Number | 84 |
| Realm | For Those About To Rock |
| Subrealm | Try A Different Station |
| Question | Please complete this quote from AC/DC guitarist Angus Young: "I'm sick and tired of people saying that we put out 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact..." |
| Answer | ...We've put out 12 albums that sound exactly the same. |
| Song | The Song Remains The Same |
| Artist | Led Zeppelin |
| Number | 85 |
| Realm | The King of Rap |
| Subrealm | Yeah, Not So Much |
| Question | What bassist left his former band to pursue a rap career, releasing one flop album in the genre? |
| Answer | Dee Dee Ramone. |
| Song | Lose Yourself to Dance |
| Artist | Daft Punk |
| Number | 86 |
| Realm | More Gore Than Al’s Family Reunion |
| Subrealm | Game of Thrones |
| Question | “Lord Snow” and “The Bear and the Maiden Fair” are the only two episodes in Game of Thrones that share what distinction? |
| Answer | Nobody dies. |
| Song | Looks Like We Made It |
| Artist | Barry Manilow |
| Note | This was a fitting final song for the contest! |
| Number | 87 |
| Realm | Heads of State |
| Subrealm | Game of Thrones |
| Question | Spoiler Alert! But it’s from the first season, so tough luck! In a scene from Season One of Game of Thrones, kindly ol’ King Joffrey forces Sansa Stark to look at several of the severed heads on pikes, including her father’s. What is odd about one of the other severed heads? |
| Answer | It’s a fake head of George W. Bush. (The real one was unwilling to loan his head for the scene.) |
| Song | Where's Your Head At |
| Artist | Basement Jaxx |
| Number | 88 |
| Realm | Fun With Subtitles |
| Subrealm | Game of Thrones |
| Question | This is a THREE POINT PLAY! Dothraki is the language invented for Game of Thrones, and it comes complete with vocabulary and grammar rules. One such grammar rule involving use of tenses was invented by someone not only not involved with making Game of Thrones, but who is not even a real person. Who was it? And, for an extra point, please tell us why we chose the artist for the song we’re playing. |
| Answer | Dwight Schrute, from The Office. (In an episode, he suggested a change in tense for the term for “throat rip” and the Game of Thrones language consultant adopted the changes, calling it the “Schrutean compound”.) For the third point, the lead singer of The Waterboys is named Michael (or Mike) Scott. |
| Song | The Whole of the Moon |
| Artist | The Waterboys |
| Number | 89 |
| Realm | Computing Companies |
| Subrealm | What A Bunch Of Lightweights |
| Question | IBM created a version of this which was probably the world’s lightest one. It was made of 35 xenon atoms, and weighed a whopping 4595 AMU, which is about the same weight as 255 molecules of water. What item was this? |
| Answer | Their logo. |
| Song | All My Little Words |
| Artist | The Magnetic Fields |
| Number | 90 |
| Realm | Seal Team Six |
| Subrealm | Much Better Than Walrus Team Five |
| Question | After the team’s successful mission to kill bin Laden, which macho company attempted to copyright the term “Seal Team Six”, only withdrawing their bid after public outcry? |
| Answer | Walt Disney Company. |
| Song | Missed the Boat |
| Artist | Modest Mouse |
| Number | 91 |
| Realm | Our Favorite Countries That Start With “France” |
| Subrealm | France |
| Question | Please describe the French flag as used during the Bourbon Restoration. |
| Answer | A field of white. (No embellishments, just white. Do with that what you will.) |
| Song | I Surrender |
| Artist | Rainbow |
| Number | 92 |
| Realm | Terminator 2 |
| Subrealm | Ah-nold Boogaloo |
| Question | During the filming of Terminator 2, a woman wandered onto set, saw Arnold Schwarzenegger in his boxers, and asked what was going on. What was Mr. Schwarzenegger’s response? |
| Answer | It was male stripper night. |
| Song | Take It Off |
| Artist | Ke$ha |
| Number | 93 |
| Realm | Live Free |
| Subrealm | Or Don't Get A Sequel |
| Question | Because he had played the lead in a movie to which the source material was a sequel, the lead role of Die Hard - John McClane - was offered to, and turned down by, which Oscar-winning star? |
| Answer | Frank Sinatra. |
| Song | Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue |
| Artist | Crystal Gayle |
| Note | Die Hard is based on Roderick Thorp's 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever. That novel is a sequel to Thorp's 1966 Novel The Detective, which had been made into a Sinatra film. Because of that, the studio was legally obligated to offer the role of John McLane to Sinatra. |
| Number | 94 |
| Realm | Another U.S. States Question? |
| Subrealm | Yeah, Walmart Had A Clearance Sale On Maps |
| Question | This is a very simple question - what city is the only state capital on the Colorado River? |
| Answer | Austin, Texas. (It’s a different Colorado River.) |
| Song | Find the River |
| Artist | R.E.M. |
| Number | 95 |
| Realm | State Capitals |
| Subrealm | Next Time We Run Trivia, Expect A Montpelier Super Bonus |
| Question | Which state capital is located on the North Canadian River? |
| Answer | Oklahoma City. |
| Song | The Middle |
| Artist | Jimmy Eat World |
| Note | A seven-mile portion of the river flowing through Oklahoma City was renamed the Oklahoma River in 2004. |
| Number | 96 |
| Realm | Shopping At Target |
| Subrealm | If You Pronounce It “Tar-shay” We Will “Bar-fay” |
| Question | In 2013, a customer complained to Target because of the color name of the dress they were selling. Her complaint was regarding the store giving different names to dress colors of different sizes. The regular size dress was sold in a color called “Dark Heather Gray”. What was the same color called in plus sizes? |
| Answer | Manatee Gray. |
| Song | Shark In the Water |
| Artist | V V Brown |
| Note | According to Target spokesman Joshua Thomas, “Manatee Gray” is a standard color name used across Target products, plus-size and otherwise. Unfortunately there were two teams of buyers responsible for the two dresses, meaning they each chose different color names without consulting with one another. Right. |
| Number | 97 |
| Realm | Spelling Test |
| Subrealm | That You Should've Passed |
| Question | To commemorate the 2016 Scripps Spelling Bee, Google Drive released a list of the most frequently misspelled words in each state via data from Google. What was the most commonly misspelled word from Massachusetts? |
| Answer | Massachusetts. |
| Song | Alkaholik |
| Artist | Xzibit |
| Number | 98 |
| Realm | Stay Thirsty, My Friends |
| Subrealm | And Read The Label |
| Question | In 2011, the EU banned bottled water companies from saying their product caused what effect on users? |
| Answer | Prevented dehydration. |
| Song | Bring Me Some Water |
| Artist | Melissa Etheridge |
| Number | 99 |
| Realm | Boldly Going Where No Man Has Gone Before |
| Subrealm | Then Taking Pictures And Signing Them |
| Question | In 2015, Mark Showalter of SETI autographed a poster depicting Pluto and its moons for what rock band? |
| Answer | Styx. |
| Song | Four Sticks |
| Artist | Led Zeppelin |
| Note | Showalter discovered Pluto's faintest moon in 2012 and named it Styx. Showalter said to the band, “When Pluto’s moon was named, it was for the river Styx, but no kidding, we really had you guys in mind too.” "Come Sail Away" was playing during the meeting. |
| Number | 100 |
| Realm | Blood, Sweat |
| Subrealm | Marathoning |
| Question | In 2013, runner Meredith Fitzmaurice won her first marathon try in the Run For Heroes marathon in Canada, finishing 10th among all runners and qualifying for the Boston Marathon. Cool! But her family and friends didn’t show up to cheer her on at the finish line. Why not? |
| Answer | They were at the half-marathon finish line. Fitzmaurice was supposed to run the shorter distance, but missed the turnoff for the half-marathon and decided to keep going. |
| Song | Long Distance Runaround |
| Artist | Yes |
| Number | 101 |
| Realm | Musical Monikers |
| Subrealm | You mean “Slash” and “Sting” aren’t their real names? |
| Question | Paul Hewson became Bono. Robert Zimmerman became Bob Dylan. David Jones became David Bowie. Every rapper, ever. You get the idea. Lots and lots of musicians change their birth names. Then there’s indie musician Kurt Vile. Awesome name, dude! So what’s his real name? |
| Answer | His real name is… Kurt Vile. (His parents apparently had either a poor sense of musical history, or a great sense of humor.) |
| Song | Mack the Knife |
| Artist | Bobby Darin |
| Note | Kurt Vile's parents are also named Vile, and are not related to composer Kurt Weill. |
| Number | 102 |
| Realm | The Greatest Setlist Of All Time |
| Subrealm | That You Can’t Listen To |
| Question | Jackson Browne’s “Running on Empty”. Orleans’ “Still the One”. Foo Fighters’ “My Hero”. Van Halen’s “Right Now”. John Mellencamp’s “Our Country”. John Mellencamp’s “Pink Houses”. ABBA’s “Take a Chance on Me”. Heart’s “Barracuda”. Bon Jovi’s “Who Says You Can’t Go Home”. Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down”. What the heck do all these songs have in common? |
| Answer | The artists of all those songs requested that John McCain and Sarah Palin’s 2008 presidential campaign stop using those songs during their campaign. |
| Song | Runnin' with the Devil |
| Artist | Van Halen |
| Number | 103 |
| Realm | You're Looking Very Protein Today! |
| Subrealm | Amino Harm By That Statement |
| Question | Fungal cell walls, crustacean exoskeletons, and insect exoskeletons all contain what specific six-letter protein? |
| Answer | Chitin. |
| Song | Hard Out Here for a Pimp |
| Artist | Three 6 Mafia |
| Number | 104 |
| Realm | A 1980’s B-Movie and Japanimation |
| Subrealm | World Geography |
| Question | Be specific. The 1987 horror movie Blood Sisters isn’t set in Peru. Likewise, Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away isn’t set in Mexico. There are two things entitled “Blood Sisters” and “Spirited Away” set in those respective countries, though. What are they? |
| Answer | Halloween episodes of The Wild Thornberrys. |
| Song | Every Rose Has Its Thorn |
| Artist | Poison |
| Number | 105 |
| Realm | Trailers |
| Subrealm | Far Fewer Than 18 Wheels |
| Question | Out of the five fictional trailers featured in one movie, two were made into actual movies. Of those two, one of them got a sequel. Name the sequel. |
| Answer | Machete Kills. (The original is Grindhouse. The spinoffs are Machete and Hobo With a Shotgun.) |
| Song | Danny's Song |
| Artist | Anne Murray |
| Number | 106 |
| Realm | Terrorists |
| Subrealm | This Trivia Sucks |
| Question | While 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was being held in a secret CIA prison, he was somehow allowed to create his own design for something; the blueprints for this item are now permanently classified CIA documents. What did Khalid re-engineer? |
| Answer | The vacuum cleaner. He was allowed to design one as a hobby so he wouldn’t go insane. |
| Song | So Fresh, So Clean |
| Artist | Outkast |