
Oh no! Did you miss
the game show? Well, here are the 160 questions we used... um, but you're
on your own for the answers. You really should have shown up! (And congrats
to Dan Katz of SETEC Astronomy, our grand prize winner!)
- What companys
founder invented the safety razor?
- What famous play
includes the line "Hell is other people"?
- What canine character
first appeared in a 1938 short story by Eric Knight?
- What New York
City thoroughfare is known as the Advertising Capital of the World?
- What is the name
given to an alcoholic drink taken at the very end of the day?
- What 1998 Tony-winning
musical was based on a book by E.L. Doctorow?
- What is the name
of the most recent Kevin Costner movie to deal with the subject of
baseball?
- What celery-like
vegetable can also be a word meaning "heated controversy"?
- What musical
direction means to play in a smooth, connected manner?
- What is the scientific
term for one billionth of a second?
- The real name
of the hospital on St. Elsewhere was St. what?
- What repeated
demand did Moses make of the Pharaoh of Egypt?
- What trademarked
name has come to be synonymous with "petroleum jelly"?
- What is the chemical
name for laughing gas?
- When he died
in 1989, it was found his heart was two and a half times larger than
that of the average horse. Who?
- What 1951 George
Pal movie featured astral companions Bellus and Zyra?
- Who played the
title character of "Dr T." in the 2000 movie Dr. T and
the Women?
- Who is said to
have "fiddled while Rome burned"?
- According to
the nursery rhyme, who was the Pipers Son?
- Who, with 73
electoral votes, tied with Thomas Jefferson in the 1800 presidential
election, in a race that was ultimately decided by Congress?
- The first attempt
at adapting a cinematic Lord of the Rings was directed by the
same person who brought you Fritz the Cat, the first X-rated
cartoon. Who was he?
- What present-day
television series takes place in Stuckeyville, Ohio?
- When hes
not hurling racial epithets, John Rocker hurls for what baseball team?
- What Web site
shares its name with a race of beings from Gullivers Travels?
- What is the name
of Diana Rosss last solo #1 hit, which topped the charts in
1980?
- According to
the song, what hometown does The Music Mans Professor
Harold Hill claim as his own?
- What modern-day
storytellers monologues have been turned into films like Swimming
to Cambodia and Monster in a Box?
- On which Hawaiian
island is Pearl Harbor located?
- What 1964 Sidney
Lumet film ended with the atomic bombing of New York City by the US
Air Force?
- Henry Sullivan
was the fourth man, but the first American, to swim what body of water?
- In Bill &
Teds Excellent Adventure, the two main characters bounced
around time in a time machine that looked like what?
- What is the one-word
stage name of Cassandra Peterson?
- When keeping
track of baseball players in a scorecard, what fielder is designated
with the number 6?
- What actor and
regular on The Simpsons is about to be divorced from actress
Helen Hunt?
- What is the British
term for elevator?
- What city is
the capital of Alaska?
- Billy Preston
has had two #1 hit singles in his career. The first was "Will
it Go Round in Circles." Whats the second?
- What Nabisco
product is also the name of a novel by R.D. Blackmore?
- Who is the creator
of both NYPD Blue and Hill Street Blues?
- What gas do cows
emit in large amounts, possibly contributing to global warming?
- Which John Steinbeck
novel focuses on the Joad family?
- Who directed
Bill Murray in Meatballs, Stripes, and Ghostbusters?
- What type of
orbit, first suggested by Arthur C. Clarke, keeps a satellite over
the same spot on the earths surface?
- What NASA spacecraft
was sent to Jupiter in 1989, where it has been in orbit since 1995?
- "Or What
You Will" is the subtitle of what play by William Shakespeare?
- What maximum
security prison, formerly known as "Sing-Sing," is located
about 35 miles north of New York City?
- What was Anton
Chekhovs first full-length drama?
- What young actor
co-starred with a homicidal Macaulay Culkin in The Good Son?
- On The Odd
Couple, who was Felix Ungers roommate?
- Charles Sherwood
Stratton became better known as what General?
- In what movie
did Marlon Brando star as an ex-boxer named Terry Malloy?
- Who wrote the
novel Billy Budd?
- Whats the
British word for traffic circle?
- What German military
man inspired the nickname "The Iron Chancellor"?
- The spoken language
of what Indian tribe was used as a code by the US government in World
War II?
- What snack food
was invented in 1893 by Louis and F.W. Ruckheim?
- What was Union
General William Shermans middle name?
- What drink is
traditionally made from seltzer, milk, and chocolate syrup?
- Who is the Egyptian
goddess of nature?
- What foreign
moviemakers final film was La Voce della luna, or the
Voice of the Moon?
- Who were the
losers of the most recent Super Bowl?
- In a classic
series of murder mystery novels by Harry Kemelman, what occupation
does lead character David Small have?
- What Biblical
character stood six cubits and a span tall-over 9 feet high by todays
measurement?
- Which movie took
home the Best Picture Oscar at the 1998 Academy Awards?
- What Italian
dish is traditionally made with Arborio rice?
- Which baseball
team plays in Pac Bell Park?
- In 1958, Vince
DeDomenico of San Francisco created what ubiquitous boxed side dish?
- V-E day occurred
on May 8, 1945. What does V-E stand for?
- What Oscar winner
for West Side Story also starred in the 1970s children show,
The Electric Company?
- What Issac Asimov
novel introduced Hari Seldon, psychohistory, and the successor to
the Galactic Empire?
- What philosophical
theory states that the simplest explanation is generally the correct
one?
- How many planets
are currently inside the orbit of Pluto?
- A person with
O-negative blood - who can therefore give blood to any recipient -
is called a what?
- Whose predictions
were made while staring into a bowl of water, and consist of sections
call quatrains?
- What is the term
for a unit of electrical resistance?
- Who started his
daredevil career by charging $500 to jump over two cars on his motorcycle?
- On a Risk board,
what territory is due north of Mongolia?
- What physicist
is credited with creating the first atomic pile, at the University
of Chicago?
- What is the name
of filmmaker Michael Moores cable TV show?
- In Hebrew its
the Tanakh, but Christians call it the what?
- Who was nominated
for a Best Supporting Actor award for his work in Forrest Gump?
- "Three Musketeers"
candy bars consist of chocolate coating over what sweet stuff?
- While the command
module orbited the moon, the Apollo astronauts went to the surface
in the LEM. What does LEM stand for?
- On The Simpsons,
what is the first name of Barts blue-haired best friend?
- On Usenet, alt.toys.lego
is an example of what kind of online discussion area?
- What unit of
currency can be divided up into 100 kopecks?
- What famous 1972
childrens book and album was produced by Marlo Thomas?
- What underground
cartoonists oeuvre includes the "Keep on Truckin
Man"?
- What country
is completely surrounded by South Africa?
- The first line
to what Beatles song is "I once had a girl, or should I say she
once had me?"
- What Greek playwright
wrote Medea?
- What word meaning
"a seducer of women" comes from a fictional character in
a 1703 play?
- Who had a voiceover
on Michael Jacksons hit single, "Thriller"?
- What university
does "the Fighting Irish" fight for?
- On the television
show Roseanne, who played daughter Darlene?
- What musical
question was the biggest hit for Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers?
- The Beverly Hills
Hotel and the Beverly Wilshire are on either end of what famous street?
- If you walked
southeast from the famous "Four Corners" junction, what
state would you be in?
- What term is
given to a wrestling match where two wrestlers take turns in the ring?
- What 1977 war
movie featured Gene Hackman, Sean Connery, and Ryan ONeal?
- What famous fictional
mongoose was created by Rudyard Kipling?
- Vincent Price
guest-starred on the 60s series "Batman" as
what villian?
- Whose musical
"project" had its biggest hit in 1982, with "Eye in
the Sky?"
- What product,
in a recent television ad campaign, warned consumers: "Buy any
other beverage and you could be making a terrible mistake"?
- What 1997 Oliver
Stone movie starred Sean Penn and Jennifer Lopez?
- What chocolate
company was founded in 1926 by Joseph Draps?
- What duet between
Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson went to #1 in 1983?
- What hit song
by the Platters later went on to be the title of a 1994 movie starring
Marisa Tomei?
- On the periodic
table of elements, what is the symbol for iron?
- What is the Spanish
word for Spanish?
- Comedy Central
is presently running a game show entitled Dont Forget Your
what?
- What six-letter
word is the motto of California?
- What word, when
taken as a noun, is a kind of seafood, and when taken as a verb means
to bake in a sauce and cover in bread crumbs?
- What musical
instrument is associated with jazz musician Toots Thielman?
- Fred Durst is
a member of what rock band?
- Whose organization
makes use of the vessels Calypso, Calypso II, and Alcyon?
- When he went
solo, Bruce Waynes sidekick Dick Grayson dumped the name "Robin"
and became who?
- Who played actor
Richard Hatchs father on Battlestar Galactica?
- What word can
mean either a drink made with Kahlua and cream, or a large hat?
- What golden oldie
singer had a voice that earned him the nickname, "The Velvet
Fog"?
- What Benjamin
Hoff book connected Asian philosophy to a certain childrens
literary character?
- Who is actress
Isabella Rosellinis mother?
- What clothing
companys logo consists of a question mark inside a triangle?
- What interjection
was first used during parachute jumps at Fort Benning, Georgia, in
1940?
- What 1999 animated
film was loosely based on a 1968 childrens science fiction novel
by Ted Hughes?
- What word can
mean either "remarkable" or "unresolved"?
- In Roman numerals,
what is C minus XCVI?
- What boxer did
Mike Tyson famously bite in 1997?
- What hunter appears
in the northeastern American sky in fall and winter?
- What turn-of-the-century
baseball player was nicknamed "The Georgia Peach"?
- What do you call
a follower of radical capitalist Ayn Rands philosophy?
- What is the common
measure for the decay or transmutation of a radioactive element?
- In the science
of sleep, what does REM stand for?
- What 1995 movie
had Dustin Hoffman attempting to contain the fictional "Mutaba"
virus?
- What Japanese
video-game giant started its life in 1889 making playing cards?
- What literary
genre is William Gibsons Neuromancer often credited with ushering
in?
- What car company
made the Gloria, the Spitfire, the Dolomite, and the TR7?
- Whats the
Latin phrase meaning "of many, one"?
- What state borders
Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, and Iowa?
- What car company
makes the Testerossa?
- Together, Minneapolis
and St. Paul are known as the what?
- The boxed game
is called Othello, but whats the generic name for the "game
of dramatic reversals"?
- According to
the Bible, what is Sodoms sister city?
- What movie, in
theaters now, has the tag line "No one gets away clean"?
- What was the
name of the character played by Desi Arnez on "I Love Lucy"?
- What sign follows
Scorpio on the zodiac chart?
- What childrens
singers albums include "Evergreen Everblue," "Bananaphone,"
and "Everything Grows"?
- What French
writer is quoted as saying, "If God did not exist, it would be
necessary to invent him"?
- Who played Joe
Pescis cousin, who stands accused of murder, in My Cousin
Vinny?
- In Fahrenheit
451, what was the occupation of Guy Montag?
- Although it took
place in November, thanks to their use of the old style Julian calendar,
in what month do Russians celebrate the Bolshevik revolution?
- What country
is on the northeastern tip of the African continent?
- What constellations
name translates to "the great bear"?
- In Greek mythology,
who fell in love with his own reflection?
- In IBMs
OS/2, what does the "OS" stand for?
- What kind of
alcohol is added to gasoline to create "gasohol"?
- Whether she actually
used it or not, what murder weapon was under Sharon Stones bed
at the end of Basic Instinct?
- In a 1969 hit
for Three Dog Night, who is "coming"?
- What Norton Juster
novel featured Rhyme, Reason, Milo, Tock, and the kingdoms of Dictionopolis
and Digitopolis?
- What Elmore
Leonard novel was turned into a 1998 movie starring George Clooney
and Jennifer Lopez?
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