Night 9: May 29th, 2006

Category 1: Current Events
1. CBS settled out of court with which radio personality, following a breach of contract dispute?
A: >Howard Stern<
2. Angelina Jolie gave birth Saturday to a baby girl. To what country did she and Brad travel in order to avoid the paparazzi?
A: >Namibia<
3. Which famous site in Poland, where he spoke and led prayers, was Pope Benedict’s last stop on his tour of the country?
A: >Auschwitz<
4. The prestigious journal, Science, published two papers last week describing theoretical methods for creating what kind of sci-fi-seeming device?
A: >Cloaking device<
5. Barry Bonds is now ranked 2nd in career home runs in the major leagues. Who is ranked first?
A: >Hank Aaron<

Category 2: Puppets
1. What famous puppet made his first appearance in 1955 on a TV show called Sam & Friends?
A: >Kermit<
2. What show consisted largely of two sock puppets, voiced by Matt Crocco & Liam Lynch, having bizarre and meandering conversations, interspersed with recurring segments such as Rock Facts and A Word With Chester?
A: >Sifl and Olly<
3. What satirical British program, which ran from 1986 to 1994, showed often scathing puppet caricatures of public figures?
A: >Spitting Image<
4. What are the names of the two old men who sit in the box seats on The Muppet Show and heckle the performers? (2 points – one point each)
A: >Statler and Waldorf<
5. Which Sesame Street character has a pet worm Slimey, a pet elephant Fluffy, and lives in a garbage can?
A: >Oscar the Grouch<

Category 3: Prize winners
1. Who won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the photoelectric effect, helping to further explore the wave-particle duality of light?
A: >Albert Einstein<
2. Which actress has the most Academy Award nominations, with 13, and two wins (for Kramer vs Kramer & Sophie’s Choice)?
A: >Meryl Streep<
3. Which Hugo & Nebula award winning African-American writer was the first sci-fi author to receive the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” grant?
A: >Octavia E. Butler<
4. Which actress surprised many in 2005 by accepting in person the Golden Raspberry, or “Razzie”, award for Worst Actress while also clutching her 2002 Best Actress Oscar?
A: >Halle Berry<
5. Which humourist won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1988?
A: >Dave Barry<

Category 4: Celebrity Anagrams
1. Narcoleptic (music)
A: >Eric Clapton<
2. Docile or paranoid (acting)
A: >Leonardo DiCaprio<
3. Presbyterians (music)
A: >Britney Spears<
4. No aliens, darling (acting)
A: >Gillian Anderson<
5. No real charm beneath (acting)
A: >Helena Bonham Carter<

Category 5: Memorial Day
1. What is the earliest date in May that Memorial Day could be observed?
A: >May 25th<
2. The town of Waterloo in what state is generally considered the birthplace of Memorial Day?
A: >New York<
3. Memorial Day was formerly known as Decoration Day and honoured soldiers killed during which war?
A: >The US Civil War<
4. Memorial Day is a US holiday - many other countries honour their war dead on Remembrance Day. What date does it fall on, the same as Veteran’s Day in the US?
A: >November 11th<
5. A Congressional measure to return Memorial Day to its previously fixed date of May 30th has been introduced repeatedly since 1999 by Senator Daniel Inouye, the senior senator from which state?
A: >Hawaii<

Category 6: Chemistry
1. Freezing, for example, is the change of state from liquid to solid of a compound. What state change occurs in deposition?
A: >Gas to solid<
2. Which chemist won two Nobel Prizes – one jointly in Physics in 1903 for research into radiation phenomena and the other in Chemistry in 1911 for the discovery of the elements polonium and radium?
A: >Marie Curie<
3. If a solution is acidic, will it have a high or a low pH?
A: >Low (<7)<
4. Which element gets its symbol from the Latinized Greek word hydrargyrum, meaning “watery silver”?
A: >Mercury<
5. How many carbon atoms are found in a molecule of butane?
A: >4<

Category 7: The 50 States
1. What is the capital of Michigan?
A: >Lansing<
2. Which state’s nickname is the Granite State?
A: >New Hampshire<
3. Which state is the most populous, based on 2005 US Census estimates?
A: >California<
4. How many states share a land border (including rivers, not including lakes) with Canada?
A: >11 (WA, ID, MT, ND, MN, MI, NY, VT, NH, ME, AK)<
5. In which state is the geographic center of the 50 states?
A: >South Dakota (just west of Castle Rock)<

Category 8: Songs with Whistling
1. Walk Like An Egyptian
A: >The Bangles<
2. There It Go (The Whistle Song)
A: >Juelz Santana<
3. Patience
A: >Guns N’ Roses<
4. Games Without Frontiers
A: >Peter Gabriel<
5. Winds of Change
A: >The Scorpions<



The best average score was 22 points for a team of 2 people and was won by Katie & Kat. The second place team was Vrooooooooom with 29 points. First place was won by MC Escher with 30 points. Congratulations to the winning teams and thanks to everyone who played!