So, this week was fun! Slow for Talula, but two new teams for trivia, so we made up for it.
For trivia this week we had a picture section, but I'll post that later. I need to head back to Talula for the arbeit now.

the answers are in white so highlight the area after the "Answers" to see the answers.

This week in History
1) What militant abolitionist is thought to have participated in the killing of five pro-slavery settlers in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856?
2) The impeachment trial of what president came to an end in 1868, having been found not guilty by one vote?
3) What bridge was opened to pedestrian traffic in 1937 as the world’s longest suspension bridge at the time, but has since been surpassed by 8 other bridges?
4) What Julliard trained actor was paralyzed from the neck down after a horseback riding accident?
5) What State was entered into the Union as the 30th state in 1848? May 29th


Answers
1) John Brown
2) Andrew Johnson
3) The Golden Gate
4) Christopher Reeve
5) Wisconsin!


Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

INTERPOL NEWS FLASH! A national treasure, the Night Watch by Rembrandt, has been stolen from the Rijksmuseum! You have till five pm Sunday to find and arrest the thief!

*bonus* where is the Rijksmuseum?
1) Guards say they saw a suspicious brown haired lady speaking about visiting the source of the Nile and the tallest mountain in Africa. Which country is she headed to?
2) Your suspect was overheard practicing conversational Spanish and preparing to bird watch in what she said was the most biologically diverse country in the world. She might be headed there because of its lack of armed forces which were abolished after the 1949 Civil war.
3) Other bird watchers said they saw a tall woman reading a academic article about Quipus and speaking quechua. Others overheard her trying to find a guide to the “lost city of the Incas”. Where is she going?
4) A local detective spotted your suspect planning a study of the recently uncovered iconography at Hagia Sophia in the former capital of the Ottoman Empire. Where is she headed?
5)Your sources tell you that a woman was seen changing all of her money to Wons and speaking of visiting the headquarters of Samsung. Where is she headed?

Answers
*bonus* The Netherlands
1) Tanzania
2) Costa Rica
3) Machu Pichu, Peru
4) Istanbul, Turkey
5) Seoul, South Korea

Current events
1) Obama finally named his choice for the vacant supreme court position. Administration officials said this woman would bring more judicial experience to the court than any justice confirmed in the past 70 years. Whom did he choose?
*bonus* Which justice will she be replacing?
2) What county successfully tested a nuclear bomb this week?
3) A 47 year old never-been-kissed shocked what british talent show when she sang better than any karaoke singer you’ve ever heard? And shocked american’s when Simon Cowell actually apologized for the way he spoke to her.
*bonus* What is the woman’s name?
4)What oil company is going to trial on Friday for its alleged human rights abuses. Specifically their involvement with the hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa the founder and leader of MOSOP(Movement for the survival of the Ogoni people).
5) Scientist in Oslo have gone public with a fossil that they believe is the missing link in human evolution. Where was Ida the lemur human ancestor found?


Answers
1) Sonia Sotomayor
*Bonus* David Souter
2) North Korea
3) Britain’s got talent
*Bonus* Susan Boyle
4) Shell
5) Germany, Frankfurt



Baseball
1) What nation has the most Olympic medals in Baseball?
2) Who was the first to pitch a perfect game for a world series?
*Bonus* What year?
3) Who holds the highest career batting average?
4) Who was the first team that Hank Aaron played for?
5) Who has played the most consecutive games in baseball?


Answers
1) Cuba
2) Don Larsen
*bonus* 1956
3) Ty Cobb
4) Milwaukee Braves
5) Cal Ripkin Jr



One hit wonders

1) In the Tommy Tutone song, what is Jenny’s number?
2) What group declared, “it’s raining men”?
3) What was Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s big song that was used in Zoolander to help hypnotize Derek into killing the prime minster?
*Bonus* Prime minister of what country?
4) Who told the white boy to play that funky music?
5) Sir Mix-a-lot had his one hit wonder with what song about a certain part of the female anatomy?


Answers
1) 8675309
2) The Weather Girls
3) Relax
*bonus* Malaysia
4) Wild Cherry
5) Baby Got Back



Losers

1) Which republican primary loser returned to his prior acting career in a guest appearance on Life on Mars?
2) Which AFL team is the only to win four consecutive AFL championships, but lose all four superbowls?
*Bonus* Which other two teams have lost four Super Bowls?
3) Beck’s song “Loser” is from what album?
4) Adam Lambert, American Idol loser is in a feud with what other 2003 American Idol loser who said Lambert’s singing made his ears bleed?
5) France has a long history of losing wars… What colony did France lose to Toussaint L’Ouverture and other rebels?

Answers
1) Fred Thompson
2) Buffalo Bills
*Bonus* Vikings Broncos
3) Mellow Gold
4) Clay Aiken
5) Haiti



Random

1) Alcohol is from what language?
2) Norma McCorvey was the anonymous woman behind what important supreme court case?
3) What was Julius Henry Marx best known for?
4)Freemen Godsen and Charles Corell stared in what situational comedy radio program based on stereotypes of African Americans?
5) What was U2’s first album?


Answers
1) Arabic
2) Roe vs. Wade
3)The character Groucho Marx
4) Amos n Andy
5) Boy



What have they done for me lately? The Beatles

1) Photojournalist just released pictures for the first time of John and Yoko doing what forty years ago?
2) Paul McCartney is set to collaborate with what legendary American rocker this summer?
3) It seems the summer blockbusters are all about bro-mance. The writers of what recently released movie claim that the friendship between the main characters is based on the friendship of John and Paul? Two very different people who bonded because they shared such a large loss so early in life?
4) What car celebrated its 50th birthday by producing a contemporary version of George Harrison’s pimped out version of the 1966 model of the car? All four of the beatles were given this model car by their manager.
5) What is the name of Ringo Starr’s band?

Answers
1) Staging a bed-in for peace- Accepted “protesting”
2) Bob Dylan
3) Star Trek, Spock and Kirk
4) Mini Cooper
5) All- Starr band


Epigraphs of novels

1)
One flew east, one flew west,
One flew
2) The Epigraph to Chinua Achebe’s Things fall apart:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart, the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
was written by whom?
*Bonus* What hip-hop group has an album titled “Things fall apart”?
3) What famous crime novel begins, “Behind every great fortune there is a crime”?
4) This island of Pianosa lies in the Mediterranean Sea eight miles south of Elba. It is very small and obviously could not accommodate all of the actions described. Like the setting of this novel, the characters, too, are fictitious.
5) If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. - – Juan Ramón Jiménez Novel by Ray Bradbury

Answers
1) One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest
2) WB Yeats, The second Coming
*Bonus* The Roots
3) The god father
4) Catch 22
5) Fahrenheit 451

Next week in Trivia

As usual, next week we will be featuring:

This week in History
Current Events
What have they done for me lately *New Category to be a weekly feature
Geography/Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego *New Category to be a weekly feature

The audience choices for next week:

Baseball
One Hit Wonders

If I decide the other four categories before sunday (when I plan to finish the questions) I will post them. If not, it will remain a mystery until tuesday when you come in.

May 16th Trivia

So, this week Raine/Neil/Margo won trivia. Hard core fun times!
They won with 37 points! A record at Talula!
Here are the questions from this past trivia and the answers immediately after in white, so you can see them if you highlight.

Sidekicks

1) The lone ranger was one of ABC’s first hits in the 1950’s. Who is the lone ranger’s sidekick?
2) On home improvement Tim Taylor had a sidekick who was much more adept than he. What was his name?
3) Villians can have sidekicks too! What sidekick and would be girl friend was introduced in Batman the Animated Series as a companion to the Joker?
*Bonus* When the first robin left Batman, he assumed a new identity to fight crime. What was his new name?
4) What is the name of Mario’s sidekick/ride?
5) Who is Johnny Quest’s side kick with telekinetic powers? Sim-sim-salabim!


Answers (in white, highlight to see):
1) Tonto
2) Al Borland
3) Harley Quinn
*Bonus* Night Wing
4) Yoshi
5) Hadji

Sci-Fi Films
1)What is Godzilla’s name in Japanese?
*Bonus* What was Godzilla's first film in Color?
2) In the 1986 version of the fly, as the main character starts to morph into a combination of a human and a fly he calls his new merged form what?
3) Predator starred two future Governors. Who are they?
4) In the film Contact, SETI receives a signal from a distant star. Scientist eventually decode it. What does it contain?
*bonus* Contact is based on a book of the same name by what author?
5) In planet of the apes, the apes are divided into strict class system. What position do the Gorilla’s take?

Answers-
1)Gojira *Combo of Gorira (Gorilla) and Kujira (whale)
*Bonus* King Kong Vs Godzilla
2) Brundlefly
3) Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger
4) Plans to build something. (A ship/wormholecreater/fwt?)
*Bonus* Carl Sagan
5) Military/Police/Hunters


Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

INTERPOL NEWS FLASH! A national treasure, the Stephen Colbert Portrait, has been stolen from Washington DC! You have till five pm Sunday to find and arrest the thief!

1)Your sources at the Smithsonian tell you that a suspicious woman changed all of her money to Rands and spoke loudly about wanting to visit the Limpopo river. Where is your suspect headed?
2)Your suspect was overheard talking about geography of the Iberian peninsula and wanting to punch Luis Figo in his damned face because of how dirty their whole team played, but especially for his headbutt against dutch player van bronckhorst in the last world cup. Where is your suspect heading?
3)A local detective spotted your suspect wearing an impressive ruby neckless btw, and planning on a field study of orangutangs. She was also spotting reading the Koran.
4)Your sources tell you that they witnessed a brown haired woman speaking Urdu and practicing conversational phrases such as, “I like to play tennis”. She also spoke of scaling K2.
5)Your suspect was seen driving away from a library in a convertible waving a red white and blue flag. She also checked out a book on monotremes.

Answers
1)South Africa
2)Portugal
3)Indonesia
4)Pakistan
5)Australia

Current Events

1) What Belgian town has claimed to be the first European town to not eat meat for one day of the week every week? In an effort to combat cruelty to animals, obesity and global Warming?
2) Craigslist is being forced to close what category of its web listings?
3) A new study found that the air of what capital city is laced with at least five different drugs, the most prominent being Cocaine. The others are LSD, Opiates, Amphetamines and Cannaboids.
4) What government declared victory in a civil war against the Tamil Tigers?
5) What horse won the Preakness this past weekend?
*Bonus* Her jockey became the first in history to win the first to jewels of the triple crown on different mounts. What was his name?

Answers

1) Ghent
2) Adult Services
3) Madrid
4) Sri Lanka
5) Rachel Alexandra
*Bonus* Calvin Borel


This Week in History

1) In 1939 the Princeton Tigers played the Colombian Lions on the first ever televised sporting event. What sport did they face off at?
2) In 1896 The US supreme court ruled on Plessy vs. Ferguson which decided what?
3) May 19th, 1946 is the birthday of what French wrestler?
4) May 20th 1932, What woman embarked on what was to become the first around the world solo flight by a woman?
*Bonus* Who was the first man to make that flight? Embarking on the same day just five years earlier?
5) In 1936 what airline was founded by the Irish Government as the official airline of Ireland?

Answers
1) Baseball
2) Separate But Equal is Constitutional
3) Andre the Giant
4) Emilia Earhart
*Bonus* Charles Lindberg
5) Aer Lingus

Sports - Retired Numbers



1) Hank Aaron held the record for most career homeruns for 33 years until being surpassed by Barry Bonds in 2007. What was his number?
2) Reggie White was named all-pro 13 of his 15 seasons. His number was retired by both the packers and the eagles. What was his number?
3) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar holds the NBA career record for most points, and minutes played. What is his number?
4) What was Babe Ruth’s number?
5) The Seattle Seahawks retired the number 12 in 1984. Whose jersey number is it?

Answers
1) 44
2) 92
3) 33
4) 3
5) The 12th man - The Fans


What have they Done for me Lately? Star Trek!



1) A spinoff of the practice, Boston Legal has four former Star Trek actors on it. Who are they?
2) This next question is easy, because he is my personal hero, so I’ll give you all a point. What member of TNG also hosted a children’s tv show promoting literacy?
3) What two actors reprised their roles of TOS in the new film? Hint: One of the two has been involved in every reincarnation of Star Trek thus far.
4) What former star trek actor is now the spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign “Coming Out Project”?
5) Many former Star Trek stars do a lot of Voice acting now adays. Who voices CIA Deputy Director Avery Bullock on American Dad?
*Bonus: Who voiced I.M. Weasel?

Answers
1) William Shatner (Kirk), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Armin Shimmerman (Quark), Ethan Phillips (Neelix)
2) LeVar Burton
3) Leonard Nemoy (Spock, duh) and Majel Barrett (The Voice of the Ship's Computer. She died last year but had finished all the voice work to the film a month before passing.)
4) George Takei
5) Patrick Stewart
*bonus* Michael Dorn

Science


1) What is the SI unit for current, named after a French mathematician who also made important contributions to chemistry?
2) What is the SI unit for electrical resistance, named after a German Physicist?
3) The SI unit of force was named after what English Scientist in recognition of his work Classical Mechanics?
4) What is the SI derived unit of density?
5) The SI unit for thermodynamic temperature is what?

Answers
1)Ampere
2) Ohm
3) Newton
4) Kilogram/m^3
5) Kelvin


Literature


1) What is the name of Harry Potter’s defense against the dark arts teacher in The Prisoner of Azkaban?
2) Name one of C S Lewis’ books from his Ransom/Space trilogy.
3) My fair lady was inspired by what George Bernard Shaw play?
4) Rosencratz and Guildenstern are from what famous play. That is not Rosenkratz and Guildenstern are dead?
5) My favorite piece of poetry ever, “White man’s burden” was written by what English Poet?

Answers
1) Professor Lupin
2) Out of Silent Planet, Perelandria, That Hideous Strength
3) Pygmalion
4) Hamlet
5) Rudyard Kipling

Random

1) What does CV stand for?
2) In 1945, this African-American US Army Lieutenant refused to move to the back of a military transport bus when told to by a driver whom he outranked. He was court martialled, won his case, and thus sped the process of military integration. However, you probably know him better for his integration of major league baseball.
3) Whose tombstone credits him with being the "author of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom" and as "Founder of the University of Virginia", but does not mention that he was the third President of the United States?
4) The term "heavy metal" was first commonly used to describe this band, perhaps best known for the song "Stairway to Heaven".
5) Who was the first president to be born outside of the thirteen original colonies?


Answers
1) Curriculum Vitae
2) Jackie Robinson
3) Thomas Jefferson
4) Led Zeppelin
5) Lincoln

Since I'm now done with school, I will be able to devote all my free time to... completely pointless crap! Including doing a blog for trivia. Warning: I may get bored and stop doing this. No promises!
I'm not going to start posting the questions and answers until after next week because apparently blogger hates the new word. Maybe as much as I do!
But for those of you who will see this, which I'm guessing will be... Raine and Neil... Here are some of the topics for next week:

As usual, we will have Current Events and This Week in history. As usual, read the guardian and wiki like an obsessive crazy person and you'll be fine.

Starting this next week I'm starting a hopefully regular segment, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego! It's geography but I make the questions like they did in the old game. Example:
Q: Your sources in Kathmandu tell you that a suspicious woman changed all her money to dollars and spoke loudly about wanting to go over Montmorency Falls in a barrel. Where is your suspect headed?
A:Montreal, Canada

You can practice your Carmen catching skills here:
http://dosdose.com/game/13/where_in_the_world_is_carmen_sandiego/
Its the old DOS game! SWEET!

It's going to be AWESOME!

Then we will also have a sci-fi films category since that is always popular.
And We will be doing Sidekick trivia since that was requested two weeks ago and I forgot to make it last week...

If anything else random comes up, I will post.