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