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Science and technology
1) All mammals except sloths and manatees have the same number of cervical vertebra. Which is how many?
2) Who are the two Steves that founded Apple Computer?
3) Which geologic period ended in the largest extinction event?
4) What creature, also the state fossil of Wisconsin, which had previously thrived finally went extinct in that event?
5) What does RAM stand for?

Answers
1) Seven
2) Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs
3) The Permian
4) Trilobite
5) Random Access Memory


 
This week in History
1) What roman Emperor committed suicide today in 68 AD after having been deposed by the Senate?
2) What Alabama governor stood in front of the door to Foster auditorium at the University of Alabama to block two black students from registering for classes in 1954?
3) June 12th 1939, the baseball hall of fame opened in what city?
4) 1967, Lyndon B Johnson nominated what man to become the first African American Supreme court justice?
5) What manmade lake almost completely drained after a dike wall eroded in Wisconsin last year?

Answers
1) Nero
2) George Wallace
3) Cooperstown, New York
4) Thurgood Marshall
5) Lake Delton


 
Barack also beats Paper
1) Who succeeded Barack as Illinois’ senator?
2) Barack’s Father was a member of what Ethnic group?
3) Obama opted to keep Bush’s secretary of defense on his cabinet. Who is Obama’s republican secretary of defense?
4) Where was Obama born?
5) Obama was the first black president of what legal journal?

Answers
1) Roland Burris
2) Luo
3) Robert Gates
4) Honolulu
5) Harvard Law Review


 
Random
1) Madison is sometimes described as the city of four lakes. What are the four lakes on the Yahara River chain?
2) What is a hippophobe afraid of?
3) Who was the first US astronaut to orbit the earth?
4) In the Peanuts comic strip who are the siblings of Lucy Van Pelt?
5) NYC Is composed of how many Boroughs?

Answers
1) Monona, Mendota, Waubesa, Kegonsa
2) Horses
3) John Glenn
4) Linus and Rerun
5) 5
 
Movies
1) Who directed the 1996 movie Girl 6?
2) In the 2000 movie, Castaway, What type of Ball is Wilson?
3) What animated movie directed by Don Bluth, featured an anthropomorphized Apatosaurus and was produced by Spielberg and George Lucas?
4) What was the title of the 1992 Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner film?
5) Disney’s first cell animated film will be released later this year, it’s first since 2004 and the first Disney movie featuring African Americans. What is the name of the film?

Answers
1) Spike Lee
2) Volley Ball
3) The Land Before Time
4) The Bodyguard
5) The Princess and the Frog


 
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego
Interpol News Flash! A national treasure, the Louvre has been stolen from france.
1) Witnesses saw your suspect buying stock in Shell oil and overheard her talking about the the peace palace, the headquarters of the International Court of Justice.
2) Your suspect was seen wearing a Toronga Zoo T-shirt and overheard saying she wanted to see the opera house created by the Danish architect Jorn Utzon
3) Your suspect was overheard practicing conversational Spanish, and speaking about the Sagrad Familia church. Current champions of the Uefa Champions league
4) Your suspect was seen reading a book about the new seven wonders of the world and took particular interest in the Christ Redeamer. She was listening to Girl from Ipanema on her Ipod.
5) A local detective overhead your suspect talking about visiting the city with the most Michelin stars in the world at 191, twice as many as it’s nearest competitor.

Answers
1) Den Haag
2) Sydney
3) Barcelona
4) Rio De Janeiro
5) Tokyo
 
Current Events
1) Who won the French Open?
2) The two American journalists caught sneaking into North Korea have been sentenced how many years of hard labor?
3) A Seven day gay pride festival was held for the first time in what Chinese city?
4) Omar Bongo, the longest serving president/dictator of an African country died this week. What country was he president of?
5) Dozens of children died in a fire at a child care center this week in what country?

Answers
1) Roger Federer
2) 12
3) Shanghai
4) Gabon
5) Mexico

 
Literature
1) How many lines are in a sonnet?
2) What letter is the Scarlet Letter in Hawthorne’s novel?
3) How many levels of hell are there in Dante’s inferno?
*bonus* Name them
4) In which book in the New Testament do the Four Horsemen appear?
5) What Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright wrote a screenplay for The Postman Always Rings Twice.

Answers
1) 14
2) A
3) 9
*Bonus* Limbo, the Lust level, the Glutton level, the Greedy level, the Wrathful and Slothful level, the Heretic level, the Violent level, the Fraudulent level, and the Traitor level.
4) Revelations
5) David Mamet


 
Sports
1) From what yard line do NFL teams attempt extra point conversions?
2) What sports hall of fame was Charles M Schultz inducted into?
3) What Green Bay kick returner was the MVP of Super Bowl XXXI in 1997
4) In Soccer the Referee is assisted by how many assistant referees?
5) What baseball player holds the most MVP awards?

Answers
1) 2-yard line
2) Hockey and figure skating
3) Desmond Howard
4) 2
5) Barry Bonds


 
Music
Name the band that these people are in
1) Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ian Stewart, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts
2) Billy Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool
3) Jon Taylor, Roger Taylor, Nick Rhodes, Simon Le Bon
4) Rob Thomas, Kyle Cook, Brian Yale, Paul Doucette, Adam Gaynor
5) Jimmy Page (guitar), Robert Plant (vocals), John Paul Jones (bass guitar, keyboards) and John Bonham (drums).

Answers
1) Rolling Stones
2) Green Day
3) Duran Duran
4) Match Box 20
5) Led Zeppelin