Current events
1) Conan O’brian took over the tonight show this week, for which he had to move to where?
Bonus – Who is the leader of the Conan’s Tonight Show band?
2) Which motor vehicle producer – the second largest in the world – filed for bankruptcy this week?
3) An Airplane disappeared while making its voyage across the Atlantic, which airline was the plane from?
4) Kim Jong-Il named who was to be his successor as the leader of the North Korean Communist State. Who did he name?
5) A Doctor, George Tiller was shot dead in a church this past weekend. He was targeted because he is one of the few doctors in the country that will perform what procedure?

Answers
1) LA
Bonus – Max Weinberg
2) GM
3) Air France
4) His son – Kim Jong-Un
5) late term Abortion




Sports - Finals
1) What team won the Champions league final last Wednesday?
2) What team won the Super-14 rugby championship?
3) The NBA Finals will be taking place later this week. Which two teams will be competing?
4) Who won the Indy 500?
Bonus-Who was the highest placed American?
5) What two NHL teams will be playing their third game for a best of seven to win the Stanely Cup?

Answers
1) Barcelona
2) South Africa Bulls
3) LA Lakers, Orlando Magic
4) Helio Castronovez of Brazil
Bonus – Danica Patrick 3rd
5) Detroit Red-Wings, Pittsburgh Penguins




Literature
1) What reclusive author has been baited into some heavy litigation over the use of his intellectual property rights of his character Holden Caulfield by a first time novelist?
2) Author Christopher Paolini wrote what novel (the beginning of a series) at the age of 15?
3) What Novel by Paulo Coelho was originally written in Portuguese and is, according to the Guiness Book of World Records, the most translated book by a living author? And one of the best-selling novels of all time?
4) What book by John Stewart and the cast of the daily show is one of the top 150 best selling fiction books of the past 15 years?
5) Although the HP series is done, JK Rowling had a book on Amazon’s best seller list for 2008. What was it?

Answers
1) JD Salinger
2) Eragon – Inheritance series
3) The Alchemist
4) America (the book)
5) Tales of the Beedlebard




David Bowie
1) To who is David Bowie married?
2) In the Labyrinth, what was the name of Bowie’s character?
Bonus – Who directed the Labyrinth?
3) The life Aquatic with steve Zissou featured david bowie songs sung in Portuguese by what artist?
4) Bowie achieved crossover success onto the American charts with his song, Fame, which was co-written by what famous artist?
5) David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” album was a major stepping stone for what blues guitar virtuoso who is featured heavily on the album?

Answers
1) Iman Abdulmajid
2) Jareth
Bonus – Jim Henson
3) Seu Jeorge
4) John Lennon
5) Stevie Ray Vaughan



This week in History
1) On june 1, 1204 King Phillip Augustus of France conquered what French city which is also the city where Joan of Arc was burnt to death in may 30th 1431?
2) On june 1 1812, President James Madison asked the congress to declare war on what country?
3) Today in 2004, what contestant began his 74 game winning streak on Jeopardy?
4) June 5th 1968 Robert F. Kennedy was shot and died the following day by whom?
5) On June 1 2008, what Algerian born French fashion designer died of Brain Cancer? Earlier this year there was a lot of hub-bub about the auction of his possessions.

Answers
1) Rouen
2) Britain
3) Ken Jennings
4) Sirhan Sirhan
5) Yves Saint Laurent




Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego
INTERPOL NEWS FLASH! A national treasure, the great pyramid of Giza, has been stolen from Egypt! You have till five pm Sunday to find and arrest the thief!

1) Your sources tell you that your suspect was planning on buying stock in Nokia, and studying the influence of 1980’s glam rock pioneering group Hanoi Rocks on the American Band Guns’n’roses. Where is she headed?
2) Your suspect was looking for a copy of Darwin’s Origin of Species and speaking of researching the endemic marine Iguana.
3) Your suspect was seen exchanging all of her cash into Bahts and speaking of wanting to shop in Siam Square for more fashionable clothing.
4) A local detective saw your suspect reading a brochure about Saint Basil’s Cathedral and the Kremlin. Where is she headed?
5) Your suspect was seen wearing a winter Olympics 2006 t-shirt and a FIAT hat. Where is your suspect heading?

Answers
1) Finland
2) Galapagos Islands
3) Bangkok, Thailand
4) Moscow
5) Turin/Torino





Famous movie quotes
1) “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”
2) “Get Busy livin or get busy dyin. (That’s god damned right)”
3) “Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye. »
4) “Hasta La Vista, Baby.”
5)” I can't believe I gave my panties to a geek.”

Answers
1) Casablanca
2) Shawshank Redemption
3) 2001 Space Odyssey
4) Terminator 2
5) 16 candles



Random
1) Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly shot JFK from the 6th story of what building?
2) Skull and bones is a secret society from what Ivy League school?
3) What was the real name of the Orca who played Willy in Free Willy?
4) Almost Famous is Cameron Crowe’s account of working for what magazine?
5) Our president is the first to have two grammy’s while in office. What did he receive them for?



Answers
1) The Texas School Book Depository
2) Yale
3) Keiko
4) Rolling Stone
5) Spoken word album, dreams of my father, audacity of hope

Science
1) What noble gas is represented by the letters Ar?
2) Dolphins have extremely good eyesight, but to find prey they primarily use their sense of sound (or rather vibration sensing) like a radar. This sense is also known as what?
3) Which of the following has been used as an active ingredient in Nail polish remover?
a) ethanol b) acetone c) Limonene
4) Vulcans, like some mollusks have green blood. This is because they have a different oxidizing agent than humans. What is the oxidizing agent that makes blood green?
5) Flowering plants, or angiosperms, while making up a majority of the plants alive today haven’t been around that long. They first appeared during the same period that the T-rex, Triceratops and Pteradon lived. In what period of the Mesozoic did flowering plants appear?

Answers
1) Argon
2) Echolocation
3) a) acetone
4) Copper
5) Cretaceous

Cover Songs
1) Who first performed and wrote Aretha Franklin’s RESPECT?
2) The Jimi Hendrix Experience covered All Along the Watchtower originally written and performed by whom?
3) What famous country singer did a cover of NIN’s “Hurt”?
4) Though co-written by Bowie, China girl was originally performed by whom?
5) Limp Bizkit destroyed what Who song when they did a horribly atrocious cover?

Answers
1) Otis Redding
2) Bob Dylan
3) Johnny Cash
4) Iggy Pop
5) Behind Blue Eyes