QFTCIUA Game 10, Rounds 7-8: rock & roll & funny & Jewish

[Mark Brader]

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* Game 10, Round 7 - Entertainment - 60th Anniversary of Rock'n'Roll

In 1954, Bill Haley & the Comets released "Rock Around the Clock"
and "Shake, Rattle & Roll", and a Tupelo truck driver named Elvis
recorded "That's Alright Mama". So for the sake of argument,
here's a 60th anniversary round on the birth of rock'n'roll.

1. Who scandalized the world by marrying Myra Gale Brown on
1957-12-12?

2. Which host had Elvis sing "Hound Dog" *to* a hound dog on his
network variety show?

3. Three big rock'n'rollers died tragically on 1959-02-02 in a
plane crash at Clear Lake, Iowa. Two of them eventually inspired
a popular movies about their lives, but which one did not?

4. Which music legend said in 1957 that "rock'n'roll is phony
and false, and sung, written, and played for the most part by
cretinous goons"? (Yeah, but what's your point?)

5. In 1956, which voluminous sitcom star said of Elvis, "He can't
last, I tell you flatly, he can't last"?

6. What was the name of the Memphis-based label run by Sam Phillips
that recorded Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Roy
Orbison?

7. Which subsequent abusive husband had a pre-marriage '50s hit with
"Rocket 88"?

8. The music died again in April, 1960, when this rock'n'roller
of "Summertime Blues" fame died in a car crash in Bath, England.
Name him.

9. From which US city did "American Bandstand" originate?

10. What then-shocking 1955 movie (starring Glenn Ford, Vic Morrow,
and Sidney Poitier) launched the song "Rock Around the Clock"?


* Game 10, Round 8 - Funny AND Jewish - Who Knew?

Our Jewish team member has given us this.

Sometimes stereotypes do fit -- there are lots of funny people who
happen to be Jewish. We'll read you a witty quotation and then
some clues about the person who said it (or at least allegedly
said it), from the following cheat-sheet list of famous Jews:

Shalom Aleichem | Nigel Lawson | Shimon Peres
Woody Allen | Fran Lebowitz | Yitzakh Rabin
Mel Brooks | Oscar Levant | Lionel de Rothschild
Lenny Bruce | Joe E. Lewis | David Steinberg
Benjamin Disraeli | Peter Malkin | Calvin Trillin
Sam Goldwyn | Groucho Marx | Henny Youngman
Henry Kissinger | Jackie Mason |
Ernie Kovacs | Golda Meir |

And you name that person. Answers do not repeat.

1. "My father never lived to see his dream come true of an
all-Yiddish-speaking Canada." (Stand-up comic, actor, director,
writer for the Smothers Brothers among other shows.)

2. "I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up. They have
no holidays." (Comedian and violinist, known for his
one-liners.)

3. "Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be
intolerable. So, for every 10 Jews beating their breasts,
God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast beaters.
By the time I was 5, I knew I was that one." (Comic, prolific
writer, director of zany cinema comedies, producer.)

4. "Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York, you're
Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be
goyim even if you are Jewish." (Stand-up comedian, social
critic, and satirist.)

5. "Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took
us 40 years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place
in the Middle East that has no oil!" (Fourth Prime Minister
of Israel.)

6. "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
(British political leader.)

7. "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want
to achieve immortality through not dying." (Neurotic comedian,
writer, prolific filmmaker.)

8. "Marriage is a wonderful institution. But who wants to live
in an institution?" (Comedian, film and television star,
known for his quick and acerbic wit.)

9. "Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well
done." (Innovative and absurdist early TV comedian.)

10. "A politician is a man who will double-cross that bridge when
he comes to it." (Pianist, composer, author, comedian, and
actor on radio and early TV.)

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[Dan Blum]

Mark Brader <m...@vex.net> wrote:

> * Game 10, Round 7 - Entertainment - 60th Anniversary of Rock'n'Roll

> 1. Who scandalized the world by marrying Myra Gale Brown on
> 1957-12-12?

Jerry Lee Lewis

> 2. Which host had Elvis sing "Hound Dog" *to* a hound dog on his
> network variety show?

Ed Sullivan

> 3. Three big rock'n'rollers died tragically on 1959-02-02 in a
> plane crash at Clear Lake, Iowa. Two of them eventually inspired
> a popular movies about their lives, but which one did not?

The Big Bopper

> 4. Which music legend said in 1957 that "rock'n'roll is phony
> and false, and sung, written, and played for the most part by
> cretinous goons"? (Yeah, but what's your point?)

Pat Boone

> 5. In 1956, which voluminous sitcom star said of Elvis, "He can't
> last, I tell you flatly, he can't last"?

Jackie Gleason

> 7. Which subsequent abusive husband had a pre-marriage '50s hit with
> "Rocket 88"?

Ike Turner

> 9. From which US city did "American Bandstand" originate?

Cleveland

> * Game 10, Round 8 - Funny AND Jewish - Who Knew?

> 1. "My father never lived to see his dream come true of an
> all-Yiddish-speaking Canada." (Stand-up comic, actor, director,
> writer for the Smothers Brothers among other shows.)

David Steinberg

> 2. "I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up. They have
> no holidays." (Comedian and violinist, known for his
> one-liners.)

Henny Youngman

> 3. "Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be
> intolerable. So, for every 10 Jews beating their breasts,
> God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast beaters.
> By the time I was 5, I knew I was that one." (Comic, prolific
> writer, director of zany cinema comedies, producer.)

Mel Brooks

> 4. "Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York, you're
> Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be
> goyim even if you are Jewish." (Stand-up comedian, social
> critic, and satirist.)

Lenny Bruce

> 5. "Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took
> us 40 years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place
> in the Middle East that has no oil!" (Fourth Prime Minister
> of Israel.)

Golda Meir

> 6. "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
> (British political leader.)

Benjamin Disraeli

> 7. "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want
> to achieve immortality through not dying." (Neurotic comedian,
> writer, prolific filmmaker.)

Woody Allen

> 8. "Marriage is a wonderful institution. But who wants to live
> in an institution?" (Comedian, film and television star,
> known for his quick and acerbic wit.)

Groucho Marx

> 9. "Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well
> done." (Innovative and absurdist early TV comedian.)

Ernie Kovacs; Jackie Mason

> 10. "A politician is a man who will double-cross that bridge when
> he comes to it." (Pianist, composer, author, comedian, and
> actor on radio and early TV.)

Oscar Levant

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[Marc Dashevsky]

In article <TfednUp_pJs9kFzJ...@vex.net>, m...@vex.net says...

> * Game 10, Round 7 - Entertainment - 60th Anniversary of Rock'n'Roll
>
> In 1954, Bill Haley & the Comets released "Rock Around the Clock"
> and "Shake, Rattle & Roll", and a Tupelo truck driver named Elvis
> recorded "That's Alright Mama". So for the sake of argument,
> here's a 60th anniversary round on the birth of rock'n'roll.
>
> 1. Who scandalized the world by marrying Myra Gale Brown on
> 1957-12-12?

Jerry Lee Lewis

> 2. Which host had Elvis sing "Hound Dog" *to* a hound dog on his
> network variety show?

Steve Allen (Allen was contemptuous of rock'n'roll)

> 3. Three big rock'n'rollers died tragically on 1959-02-02 in a
> plane crash at Clear Lake, Iowa. Two of them eventually inspired
> a popular movies about their lives, but which one did not?

J. P. Richardson

> 4. Which music legend said in 1957 that "rock'n'roll is phony
> and false, and sung, written, and played for the most part by
> cretinous goons"? (Yeah, but what's your point?)

Frank Sinatra (Nancy's songs were high on the falsity scale)

> 5. In 1956, which voluminous sitcom star said of Elvis, "He can't
> last, I tell you flatly, he can't last"?

Jackie Gleason

> 6. What was the name of the Memphis-based label run by Sam Phillips
> that recorded Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Roy
> Orbison?

Sun

> 7. Which subsequent abusive husband had a pre-marriage '50s hit with
> "Rocket 88"?

Ike Turner

> 8. The music died again in April, 1960, when this rock'n'roller
> of "Summertime Blues" fame died in a car crash in Bath, England.
> Name him.

Eddie Cochran

> 9. From which US city did "American Bandstand" originate?

Philadelphia

> 10. What then-shocking 1955 movie (starring Glenn Ford, Vic Morrow,
> and Sidney Poitier) launched the song "Rock Around the Clock"?

Blackboard Jungle

> * Game 10, Round 8 - Funny AND Jewish - Who Knew?
>
> Our Jewish team member has given us this.
>
> Sometimes stereotypes do fit -- there are lots of funny people who
> happen to be Jewish. We'll read you a witty quotation and then
> some clues about the person who said it (or at least allegedly
> said it), from the following cheat-sheet list of famous Jews:
>
> Shalom Aleichem | Nigel Lawson | Shimon Peres
> Woody Allen | Fran Lebowitz | Yitzakh Rabin
> Mel Brooks | Oscar Levant | Lionel de Rothschild
> Lenny Bruce | Joe E. Lewis | David Steinberg
> Benjamin Disraeli | Peter Malkin | Calvin Trillin
> Sam Goldwyn | Groucho Marx | Henny Youngman
> Henry Kissinger | Jackie Mason |
> Ernie Kovacs | Golda Meir |
>
> And you name that person. Answers do not repeat.
>
> 1. "My father never lived to see his dream come true of an
> all-Yiddish-speaking Canada." (Stand-up comic, actor, director,
> writer for the Smothers Brothers among other shows.)

David Steinberg

> 2. "I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up. They have
> no holidays." (Comedian and violinist, known for his
> one-liners.)

Henny Youngman

> 3. "Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be
> intolerable. So, for every 10 Jews beating their breasts,
> God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast beaters.
> By the time I was 5, I knew I was that one." (Comic, prolific
> writer, director of zany cinema comedies, producer.)

Mel Brooks

> 4. "Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York, you're
> Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be
> goyim even if you are Jewish." (Stand-up comedian, social
> critic, and satirist.)

Lenny Bruce

> 5. "Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took
> us 40 years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place
> in the Middle East that has no oil!" (Fourth Prime Minister
> of Israel.)

Golda Meir

> 6. "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
> (British political leader.)

Benjamin Disraeli

> 7. "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want
> to achieve immortality through not dying." (Neurotic comedian,
> writer, prolific filmmaker.)

Woody Allen

> 8. "Marriage is a wonderful institution. But who wants to live
> in an institution?" (Comedian, film and television star,
> known for his quick and acerbic wit.)

Groucho Marx

> 9. "Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well
> done." (Innovative and absurdist early TV comedian.)

Ernie Kovacs (I'm not sure Kovacs was Jewish)

> 10. "A politician is a man who will double-cross that bridge when
> he comes to it." (Pianist, composer, author, comedian, and
> actor on radio and early TV.)

Oscar Levant


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[Erland Sommarskog]

Mark Brader (m...@vex.net) writes:
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Entertainment - 60th Anniversary of Rock'n'Roll
>

> 1. Who scandalized the world by marrying Myra Gale Brown on
> 1957-12-12?

Chuck Berry

> 4. Which music legend said in 1957 that "rock'n'roll is phony
> and false, and sung, written, and played for the most part by
> cretinous goons"? (Yeah, but what's your point?)

Frank Sinatra

> 6. What was the name of the Memphis-based label run by Sam Phillips
> that recorded Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Roy
> Orbison?

Sun

> 7. Which subsequent abusive husband had a pre-marriage '50s hit with
> "Rocket 88"?

Ike Turner ("subsequent abusive husband" - that must be the hint of
the year!)

> * Game 10, Round 8 - Funny AND Jewish - Who Knew?
>
> Our Jewish team member has given us this.
>
> Sometimes stereotypes do fit -- there are lots of funny people who
> happen to be Jewish. We'll read you a witty quotation and then
> some clues about the person who said it (or at least allegedly
> said it), from the following cheat-sheet list of famous Jews:
>
> Shalom Aleichem | Nigel Lawson | Shimon Peres
> Woody Allen | Fran Lebowitz | Yitzakh Rabin
> Mel Brooks | Oscar Levant | Lionel de Rothschild
> Lenny Bruce | Joe E. Lewis | David Steinberg
> Benjamin Disraeli | Peter Malkin | Calvin Trillin
> Sam Goldwyn | Groucho Marx | Henny Youngman
> Henry Kissinger | Jackie Mason |
> Ernie Kovacs | Golda Meir |
>
> And you name that person. Answers do not repeat.
>
> 1. "My father never lived to see his dream come true of an
> all-Yiddish-speaking Canada." (Stand-up comic, actor, director,
> writer for the Smothers Brothers among other shows.)
>
> 2. "I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up. They have
> no holidays." (Comedian and violinist, known for his
> one-liners.)

David Steinberg

> 5. "Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took
> us 40 years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place
> in the Middle East that has no oil!" (Fourth Prime Minister
> of Israel.)

Golda Meir

> 6. "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
> (British political leader.)

Benjamin Disreali

> 7. "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want
> to achieve immortality through not dying." (Neurotic comedian,
> writer, prolific filmmaker.)

Woody Allen

> 10. "A politician is a man who will double-cross that bridge when
> he comes to it." (Pianist, composer, author, comedian, and
> actor on radio and early TV.)
>

Fran Lebowitz

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Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se

[Björn Lundin]

On 2015-01-22 15:48, Mark Brader wrote:

>
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Entertainment - 60th Anniversary of Rock'n'Roll
>
>

> 2. Which host had Elvis sing "Hound Dog" *to* a hound dog on his
> network variety show?

I've seen the clip, and it is funny.
I've no idea of the host name though

> 3. Three big rock'n'rollers died tragically on 1959-02-02 in a
> plane crash at Clear Lake, Iowa. Two of them eventually inspired
> a popular movies about their lives, but which one did not?

Buddy Holly

>
> 7. Which subsequent abusive husband had a pre-marriage '50s hit with
> "Rocket 88"?

Ike Turner

> * Game 10, Round 8 - Funny AND Jewish - Who Knew?
>
> Our Jewish team member has given us this.
>
> Sometimes stereotypes do fit -- there are lots of funny people who
> happen to be Jewish. We'll read you a witty quotation and then
> some clues about the person who said it (or at least allegedly
> said it), from the following cheat-sheet list of famous Jews:
>
> Shalom Aleichem | Nigel Lawson | Shimon Peres
> Woody Allen | Fran Lebowitz | Yitzakh Rabin
> Mel Brooks | Oscar Levant | Lionel de Rothschild
> Lenny Bruce | Joe E. Lewis | David Steinberg
> Benjamin Disraeli | Peter Malkin | Calvin Trillin
> Sam Goldwyn | Groucho Marx | Henny Youngman
> Henry Kissinger | Jackie Mason |
> Ernie Kovacs | Golda Meir |
>
> And you name that person. Answers do not repeat.
>

> 5. "Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took
> us 40 years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place
> in the Middle East that has no oil!" (Fourth Prime Minister
> of Israel.)

Shimon Peres

>
> 7. "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want
> to achieve immortality through not dying." (Neurotic comedian,
> writer, prolific filmmaker.)

Woody Allen

>

>
> 9. "Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well
> done." (Innovative and absurdist early TV comedian.)

Groucho Marx




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[Joshua Kreitzer]

m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:TfednUp_pJs9kFzJnZ2dnUU7-
fGd...@vex.net:

> * Game 10, Round 7 - Entertainment - 60th Anniversary of Rock'n'Roll
>

> 1. Who scandalized the world by marrying Myra Gale Brown on
> 1957-12-12?

Jerry Lee Lewis

> 2. Which host had Elvis sing "Hound Dog" *to* a hound dog on his
> network variety show?

Steve Allen

> 3. Three big rock'n'rollers died tragically on 1959-02-02 in a
> plane crash at Clear Lake, Iowa. Two of them eventually inspired
> a popular movies about their lives, but which one did not?

The Big Bopper

> 4. Which music legend said in 1957 that "rock'n'roll is phony
> and false, and sung, written, and played for the most part by
> cretinous goons"? (Yeah, but what's your point?)

Frank Sinatra

> 5. In 1956, which voluminous sitcom star said of Elvis, "He can't
> last, I tell you flatly, he can't last"?

Jackie Gleason

> 6. What was the name of the Memphis-based label run by Sam Phillips
> that recorded Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Roy
> Orbison?

Sun Records

> 7. Which subsequent abusive husband had a pre-marriage '50s hit with
> "Rocket 88"?

Ike Turner

> 8. The music died again in April, 1960, when this rock'n'roller
> of "Summertime Blues" fame died in a car crash in Bath, England.
> Name him.

Eddie Cochran

> 9. From which US city did "American Bandstand" originate?

Philadelphia

> 10. What then-shocking 1955 movie (starring Glenn Ford, Vic Morrow,
> and Sidney Poitier) launched the song "Rock Around the Clock"?

"The Blackboard Jungle"

> * Game 10, Round 8 - Funny AND Jewish - Who Knew?
>

> 1. "My father never lived to see his dream come true of an
> all-Yiddish-speaking Canada." (Stand-up comic, actor, director,
> writer for the Smothers Brothers among other shows.)

David Steinberg

> 2. "I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up. They have
> no holidays." (Comedian and violinist, known for his
> one-liners.)

Henny Youngman

> 3. "Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be
> intolerable. So, for every 10 Jews beating their breasts,
> God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast beaters.
> By the time I was 5, I knew I was that one." (Comic, prolific
> writer, director of zany cinema comedies, producer.)

Mel Brooks

> 4. "Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York, you're
> Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be
> goyim even if you are Jewish." (Stand-up comedian, social
> critic, and satirist.)

Lenny Bruce

> 5. "Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took
> us 40 years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place
> in the Middle East that has no oil!" (Fourth Prime Minister
> of Israel.)

Golda Meir

> 6. "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
> (British political leader.)

Benjamin Disraeli

> 7. "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want
> to achieve immortality through not dying." (Neurotic comedian,
> writer, prolific filmmaker.)

Woody Allen

> 8. "Marriage is a wonderful institution. But who wants to live
> in an institution?" (Comedian, film and television star,
> known for his quick and acerbic wit.)

Groucho Marx

> 9. "Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well
> done." (Innovative and absurdist early TV comedian.)

Ernie Kovacs

> 10. "A politician is a man who will double-cross that bridge when
> he comes to it." (Pianist, composer, author, comedian, and
> actor on radio and early TV.)

Oscar Levant

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[Jason Kreitzer]

Ed Sullivan

> 3. Three big rock'n'rollers died tragically on 1959-02-02 in a
> plane crash at Clear Lake, Iowa. Two of them eventually inspired
> a popular movies about their lives, but which one did not?

The Big Bopper

> 4. Which music legend said in 1957 that "rock'n'roll is phony
> and false, and sung, written, and played for the most part by
> cretinous goons"? (Yeah, but what's your point?)

Frank Sinatra?

> 5. In 1956, which voluminous sitcom star said of Elvis, "He can't
> last, I tell you flatly, he can't last"?

Jackie Gleason

> 6. What was the name of the Memphis-based label run by Sam Phillips
> that recorded Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Roy
> Orbison?

Sun Records

> 7. Which subsequent abusive husband had a pre-marriage '50s hit with
> "Rocket 88"?

Ike Turner

> 8. The music died again in April, 1960, when this rock'n'roller
> of "Summertime Blues" fame died in a car crash in Bath, England.
> Name him.

Eddie Cochran

> 9. From which US city did "American Bandstand" originate?

Philadelphia, PA

> 10. What then-shocking 1955 movie (starring Glenn Ford, Vic Morrow,
> and Sidney Poitier) launched the song "Rock Around the Clock"?

"The Blackboard Jungle"

>
> * Game 10, Round 8 - Funny AND Jewish - Who Knew?
>
> Our Jewish team member has given us this.
>
> Sometimes stereotypes do fit -- there are lots of funny people who
> happen to be Jewish. We'll read you a witty quotation and then
> some clues about the person who said it (or at least allegedly
> said it), from the following cheat-sheet list of famous Jews:
>
> Shalom Aleichem | Nigel Lawson | Shimon Peres
> Woody Allen | Fran Lebowitz | Yitzakh Rabin
> Mel Brooks | Oscar Levant | Lionel de Rothschild
> Lenny Bruce | Joe E. Lewis | David Steinberg
> Benjamin Disraeli | Peter Malkin | Calvin Trillin
> Sam Goldwyn | Groucho Marx | Henny Youngman
> Henry Kissinger | Jackie Mason |
> Ernie Kovacs | Golda Meir |
>
> And you name that person. Answers do not repeat.
>
> 1. "My father never lived to see his dream come true of an
> all-Yiddish-speaking Canada." (Stand-up comic, actor, director,
> writer for the Smothers Brothers among other shows.)
>
> 2. "I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up. They have
> no holidays." (Comedian and violinist, known for his
> one-liners.)

Henny Youngman

>
> 3. "Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be
> intolerable. So, for every 10 Jews beating their breasts,
> God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast beaters.
> By the time I was 5, I knew I was that one." (Comic, prolific
> writer, director of zany cinema comedies, producer.)

Ernie Kovacs

> 4. "Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York, you're
> Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be
> goyim even if you are Jewish." (Stand-up comedian, social
> critic, and satirist.)

Lenny Bruce

> 5. "Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took
> us 40 years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place
> in the Middle East that has no oil!" (Fourth Prime Minister
> of Israel.)

Golda Meir

> 6. "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
> (British political leader.)

Benjamin Disraeli

> 7. "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want
> to achieve immortality through not dying." (Neurotic comedian,
> writer, prolific filmmaker.)

Woody Allen

> 8. "Marriage is a wonderful institution. But who wants to live
> in an institution?" (Comedian, film and television star,
> known for his quick and acerbic wit.)
>
> 9. "Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well
> done." (Innovative and absurdist early TV comedian.)
>
> 10. "A politician is a man who will double-cross that bridge when
> he comes to it." (Pianist, composer, author, comedian, and
> actor on radio and early TV.)

Oscar Levant?

[Pete]

m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:TfednUp_pJs9kFzJnZ2dnUU7-
fGd...@vex.net:

> Note that Current Events 1-2 from the current season is still
> open as this is posted.
>
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-11-24,
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
> both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
> Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,
> based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
> the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
> the correct answers in about 3 days.
>
> All questions were written by members of Unnatural Axxxe, and are
> used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have
> been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information see
> my 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Entertainment - 60th Anniversary of Rock'n'Roll
>
> In 1954, Bill Haley & the Comets released "Rock Around the Clock"
> and "Shake, Rattle & Roll", and a Tupelo truck driver named Elvis
> recorded "That's Alright Mama". So for the sake of argument,
> here's a 60th anniversary round on the birth of rock'n'roll.
>
> 1. Who scandalized the world by marrying Myra Gale Brown on
> 1957-12-12?

Jerry Lee Lewis

>
> 2. Which host had Elvis sing "Hound Dog" *to* a hound dog on his
> network variety show?

Ed Sullivan

>
> 3. Three big rock'n'rollers died tragically on 1959-02-02 in a
> plane crash at Clear Lake, Iowa. Two of them eventually inspired
> a popular movies about their lives, but which one did not?

The Big Bopper

>
> 4. Which music legend said in 1957 that "rock'n'roll is phony
> and false, and sung, written, and played for the most part by
> cretinous goons"? (Yeah, but what's your point?)

Pat Boone; Louis Armstrong

>
> 5. In 1956, which voluminous sitcom star said of Elvis, "He can't
> last, I tell you flatly, he can't last"?

Jackie Gleason

>
> 6. What was the name of the Memphis-based label run by Sam Phillips
> that recorded Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Roy
> Orbison?

Sun

>
> 7. Which subsequent abusive husband had a pre-marriage '50s hit with
> "Rocket 88"?

Ike Turner

>
> 8. The music died again in April, 1960, when this rock'n'roller
> of "Summertime Blues" fame died in a car crash in Bath, England.
> Name him.

Cochran

>
> 9. From which US city did "American Bandstand" originate?

Philadelphia

>
> 10. What then-shocking 1955 movie (starring Glenn Ford, Vic Morrow,
> and Sidney Poitier) launched the song "Rock Around the Clock"?

Blackboard Jungle

>
>
> * Game 10, Round 8 - Funny AND Jewish - Who Knew?
>
> Our Jewish team member has given us this.
>
> Sometimes stereotypes do fit -- there are lots of funny people who
> happen to be Jewish. We'll read you a witty quotation and then
> some clues about the person who said it (or at least allegedly
> said it), from the following cheat-sheet list of famous Jews:
>
> Shalom Aleichem | Nigel Lawson | Shimon Peres
> Woody Allen | Fran Lebowitz | Yitzakh Rabin
> Mel Brooks | Oscar Levant | Lionel de Rothschild
> Lenny Bruce | Joe E. Lewis | David Steinberg
> Benjamin Disraeli | Peter Malkin | Calvin Trillin
> Sam Goldwyn | Groucho Marx | Henny Youngman
> Henry Kissinger | Jackie Mason |
> Ernie Kovacs | Golda Meir |
>
> And you name that person. Answers do not repeat.
>
> 1. "My father never lived to see his dream come true of an
> all-Yiddish-speaking Canada." (Stand-up comic, actor, director,
> writer for the Smothers Brothers among other shows.)

David Steinberg

>
> 2. "I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up. They have
> no holidays." (Comedian and violinist, known for his
> one-liners.)

Henny Youngman

>
> 3. "Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be
> intolerable. So, for every 10 Jews beating their breasts,
> God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast beaters.
> By the time I was 5, I knew I was that one." (Comic, prolific
> writer, director of zany cinema comedies, producer.)

Mel Brooks

>
> 4. "Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York, you're
> Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be
> goyim even if you are Jewish." (Stand-up comedian, social
> critic, and satirist.)
>
> 5. "Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took
> us 40 years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place
> in the Middle East that has no oil!" (Fourth Prime Minister
> of Israel.)

Golda Meir

>
> 6. "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
> (British political leader.)

Benjamin Disraeli

>
> 7. "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want
> to achieve immortality through not dying." (Neurotic comedian,
> writer, prolific filmmaker.)

Woody Allen

>
> 8. "Marriage is a wonderful institution. But who wants to live
> in an institution?" (Comedian, film and television star,
> known for his quick and acerbic wit.)

Groucho Marx

>
> 9. "Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well
> done." (Innovative and absurdist early TV comedian.)

Ernie Kovacs

>
> 10. "A politician is a man who will double-cross that bridge when
> he comes to it." (Pianist, composer, author, comedian, and
> actor on radio and early TV.)

Oscar Levant

>

Pete

[Bruce Bowler]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2015 08:48:00 -0600, Mark Brader wrote:

> Note that Current Events 1-2 from the current season is still open as
> this is posted.
>
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-11-24, and
> should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give both a
> right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty. Please post
> all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup, based only on
> your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote the questions and
> place your answer below each one.) I will reveal the correct answers in
> about 3 days.
>
> All questions were written by members of Unnatural Axxxe, and are used
> here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have been retyped
> and/or edited by me. For further information see my 2014-09-15
> companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Entertainment - 60th Anniversary of Rock'n'Roll
>
> In 1954, Bill Haley & the Comets released "Rock Around the Clock" and
> "Shake, Rattle & Roll", and a Tupelo truck driver named Elvis recorded
> "That's Alright Mama". So for the sake of argument, here's a 60th
> anniversary round on the birth of rock'n'roll.
>
> 1. Who scandalized the world by marrying Myra Gale Brown on
> 1957-12-12?

Jerry Lee Lewis

> 2. Which host had Elvis sing "Hound Dog" *to* a hound dog on his
> network variety show?

Ed Sullivan; Jack Paar

> 3. Three big rock'n'rollers died tragically on 1959-02-02 in a
> plane crash at Clear Lake, Iowa. Two of them eventually inspired a
> popular movies about their lives, but which one did not?

The Big Bopper

> 4. Which music legend said in 1957 that "rock'n'roll is phony
> and false, and sung, written, and played for the most part by
> cretinous goons"? (Yeah, but what's your point?)
>
> 5. In 1956, which voluminous sitcom star said of Elvis, "He can't
> last, I tell you flatly, he can't last"?
>
> 6. What was the name of the Memphis-based label run by Sam Phillips
> that recorded Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Roy Orbison?
>
> 7. Which subsequent abusive husband had a pre-marriage '50s hit with
> "Rocket 88"?
>
> 8. The music died again in April, 1960, when this rock'n'roller
> of "Summertime Blues" fame died in a car crash in Bath, England. Name
> him.
>
> 9. From which US city did "American Bandstand" originate?

Philadelphia, PA

> 10. What then-shocking 1955 movie (starring Glenn Ford, Vic Morrow,
> and Sidney Poitier) launched the song "Rock Around the Clock"?

Blackboard Jungle

> * Game 10, Round 8 - Funny AND Jewish - Who Knew?
>
> Our Jewish team member has given us this.
>
> Sometimes stereotypes do fit -- there are lots of funny people who
> happen to be Jewish. We'll read you a witty quotation and then some
> clues about the person who said it (or at least allegedly said it), from
> the following cheat-sheet list of famous Jews:
>
> Shalom Aleichem | Nigel Lawson | Shimon Peres
> Woody Allen | Fran Lebowitz | Yitzakh Rabin
> Mel Brooks | Oscar Levant | Lionel de Rothschild
> Lenny Bruce | Joe E. Lewis | David Steinberg
> Benjamin Disraeli | Peter Malkin | Calvin Trillin
> Sam Goldwyn | Groucho Marx | Henny Youngman
> Henry Kissinger | Jackie Mason |
> Ernie Kovacs | Golda Meir |
>
> And you name that person. Answers do not repeat.
>
> 1. "My father never lived to see his dream come true of an
> all-Yiddish-speaking Canada." (Stand-up comic, actor, director,
> writer for the Smothers Brothers among other shows.)
>
> 2. "I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up. They have
> no holidays." (Comedian and violinist, known for his one-liners.)

Jack Benny

> 3. "Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be
> intolerable. So, for every 10 Jews beating their breasts,
> God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast beaters.
> By the time I was 5, I knew I was that one." (Comic, prolific
> writer, director of zany cinema comedies, producer.)
>
> 4. "Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York, you're
> Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be goyim
> even if you are Jewish." (Stand-up comedian, social critic, and
> satirist.)

Lenny Bruce

> 5. "Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took
> us 40 years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in
> the Middle East that has no oil!" (Fourth Prime Minister of Israel.)

Yitzakh Rabin

> 6. "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
> (British political leader.)

Benjamin Disraeli

> 7. "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want
> to achieve immortality through not dying." (Neurotic comedian,
> writer, prolific filmmaker.)

Woody Allen

> 8. "Marriage is a wonderful institution. But who wants to live
> in an institution?" (Comedian, film and television star,
> known for his quick and acerbic wit.)

Groucho Marx

> 9. "Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well
> done." (Innovative and absurdist early TV comedian.)
>
> 10. "A politician is a man who will double-cross that bridge when
> he comes to it." (Pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor on
> radio and early TV.)

Ernie Kovacs

[Calvin]

On Friday, January 23, 2015 at 12:48:00 AM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:

> * Game 10, Round 7 - Entertainment - 60th Anniversary of Rock'n'Roll
>
> In 1954, Bill Haley & the Comets released "Rock Around the Clock"
> and "Shake, Rattle & Roll", and a Tupelo truck driver named Elvis
> recorded "That's Alright Mama". So for the sake of argument,
> here's a 60th anniversary round on the birth of rock'n'roll.
>
> 1. Who scandalized the world by marrying Myra Gale Brown on
> 1957-12-12?

Lewis

> 2. Which host had Elvis sing "Hound Dog" *to* a hound dog on his
> network variety show?

Ed Sullivan

> 3. Three big rock'n'rollers died tragically on 1959-02-02 in a
> plane crash at Clear Lake, Iowa. Two of them eventually inspired
> a popular movies about their lives, but which one did not?

The Big Boppa

> 4. Which music legend said in 1957 that "rock'n'roll is phony
> and false, and sung, written, and played for the most part by
> cretinous goons"? (Yeah, but what's your point?)

Elvis

> 5. In 1956, which voluminous sitcom star said of Elvis, "He can't
> last, I tell you flatly, he can't last"?
>
> 6. What was the name of the Memphis-based label run by Sam Phillips
> that recorded Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Roy
> Orbison?

Sun

> 7. Which subsequent abusive husband had a pre-marriage '50s hit with
> "Rocket 88"?

Turner?

> 8. The music died again in April, 1960, when this rock'n'roller
> of "Summertime Blues" fame died in a car crash in Bath, England.
> Name him.
>
> 9. From which US city did "American Bandstand" originate?

New York, Chicago

> 10. What then-shocking 1955 movie (starring Glenn Ford, Vic Morrow,
> and Sidney Poitier) launched the song "Rock Around the Clock"?

Lilies of the Field?

> * Game 10, Round 8 - Funny AND Jewish - Who Knew?
>
> Our Jewish team member has given us this.
>
> Sometimes stereotypes do fit -- there are lots of funny people who
> happen to be Jewish. We'll read you a witty quotation and then
> some clues about the person who said it (or at least allegedly
> said it), from the following cheat-sheet list of famous Jews:
>
> Shalom Aleichem | Nigel Lawson | Shimon Peres
> Woody Allen | Fran Lebowitz | Yitzakh Rabin
> Mel Brooks | Oscar Levant | Lionel de Rothschild
> Lenny Bruce | Joe E. Lewis | David Steinberg
> Benjamin Disraeli | Peter Malkin | Calvin Trillin
> Sam Goldwyn | Groucho Marx | Henny Youngman
> Henry Kissinger | Jackie Mason |
> Ernie Kovacs | Golda Meir |
>
> And you name that person. Answers do not repeat.
>
> 1. "My father never lived to see his dream come true of an
> all-Yiddish-speaking Canada." (Stand-up comic, actor, director,
> writer for the Smothers Brothers among other shows.)

Steinberg, Trillin

> 2. "I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up. They have
> no holidays." (Comedian and violinist, known for his
> one-liners.)

Steinberg, Trillin

> 3. "Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be
> intolerable. So, for every 10 Jews beating their breasts,
> God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast beaters.
> By the time I was 5, I knew I was that one." (Comic, prolific
> writer, director of zany cinema comedies, producer.)

Brooks

> 4. "Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York, you're
> Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be
> goyim even if you are Jewish." (Stand-up comedian, social
> critic, and satirist.)
>
> 5. "Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took
> us 40 years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place
> in the Middle East that has no oil!" (Fourth Prime Minister
> of Israel.)

Meir

> 6. "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
> (British political leader.)

Disraeli

> 7. "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want
> to achieve immortality through not dying." (Neurotic comedian,
> writer, prolific filmmaker.)

Allen

> 8. "Marriage is a wonderful institution. But who wants to live
> in an institution?" (Comedian, film and television star,
> known for his quick and acerbic wit.)

Steinberg, Trillin

> 9. "Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well
> done." (Innovative and absurdist early TV comedian.)

Bruce, Levant

> 10. "A politician is a man who will double-cross that bridge when
> he comes to it." (Pianist, composer, author, comedian, and
> actor on radio and early TV.)

Bruce, Levant

cheers,
calvin

[Peter Smyth]

Mark Brader wrote:

> Note that Current Events 1-2 from the current season is still
> open as this is posted.
>
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-11-24,
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
> both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
> Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,
> based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
> the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
> the correct answers in about 3 days.
>
> All questions were written by members of Unnatural Axxxe, and are
> used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have
> been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information see
> my 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Entertainment - 60th Anniversary of Rock'n'Roll
>
> In 1954, Bill Haley & the Comets released "Rock Around the Clock"
> and "Shake, Rattle & Roll", and a Tupelo truck driver named Elvis
> recorded "That's Alright Mama". So for the sake of argument,
> here's a 60th anniversary round on the birth of rock'n'roll.
>
> 1. Who scandalized the world by marrying Myra Gale Brown on
> 1957-12-12?

Little Richard, Chuck Berry
> 2. Which host had Elvis sing "Hound Dog" to a hound dog on his

> network variety show?
>
> 3. Three big rock'n'rollers died tragically on 1959-02-02 in a
> plane crash at Clear Lake, Iowa. Two of them eventually inspired
> a popular movies about their lives, but which one did not?

The Big Bopper

> 4. Which music legend said in 1957 that "rock'n'roll is phony
> and false, and sung, written, and played for the most part by
> cretinous goons"? (Yeah, but what's your point?)

Frank Sinatra

> 5. In 1956, which voluminous sitcom star said of Elvis, "He can't
> last, I tell you flatly, he can't last"?
>
> 6. What was the name of the Memphis-based label run by Sam Phillips
> that recorded Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Roy
> Orbison?
>
> 7. Which subsequent abusive husband had a pre-marriage '50s hit with
> "Rocket 88"?

Ike Turner

> 8. The music died again in April, 1960, when this rock'n'roller
> of "Summertime Blues" fame died in a car crash in Bath, England.
> Name him.
>
> 9. From which US city did "American Bandstand" originate?
>
> 10. What then-shocking 1955 movie (starring Glenn Ford, Vic Morrow,
> and Sidney Poitier) launched the song "Rock Around the Clock"?
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 8 - Funny AND Jewish - Who Knew?
>
> Our Jewish team member has given us this.
>
> Sometimes stereotypes do fit -- there are lots of funny people who
> happen to be Jewish. We'll read you a witty quotation and then
> some clues about the person who said it (or at least allegedly
> said it), from the following cheat-sheet list of famous Jews:
>
> Shalom Aleichem | Nigel Lawson | Shimon Peres
> Woody Allen | Fran Lebowitz | Yitzakh Rabin
> Mel Brooks | Oscar Levant | Lionel de Rothschild
> Lenny Bruce | Joe E. Lewis | David Steinberg
> Benjamin Disraeli | Peter Malkin | Calvin Trillin
> Sam Goldwyn | Groucho Marx | Henny Youngman
> Henry Kissinger | Jackie Mason |
> Ernie Kovacs | Golda Meir |
>
> And you name that person. Answers do not repeat.
>
> 1. "My father never lived to see his dream come true of an
> all-Yiddish-speaking Canada." (Stand-up comic, actor, director,
> writer for the Smothers Brothers among other shows.)

Trillin, Youngman

> 2. "I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up. They have
> no holidays." (Comedian and violinist, known for his
> one-liners.)

Trillin, Youngman

> 3. "Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be
> intolerable. So, for every 10 Jews beating their breasts,
> God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast beaters.
> By the time I was 5, I knew I was that one." (Comic, prolific
> writer, director of zany cinema comedies, producer.)

Brooks

> 4. "Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York, you're
> Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be
> goyim even if you are Jewish." (Stand-up comedian, social
> critic, and satirist.)

Mason

> 5. "Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took
> us 40 years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place
> in the Middle East that has no oil!" (Fourth Prime Minister
> of Israel.)

Meir

> 6. "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
> (British political leader.)

Disraeli

> 7. "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want
> to achieve immortality through not dying." (Neurotic comedian,
> writer, prolific filmmaker.)

Allen

> 8. "Marriage is a wonderful institution. But who wants to live
> in an institution?" (Comedian, film and television star,
> known for his quick and acerbic wit.)

Marx

> 9. "Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well
> done." (Innovative and absurdist early TV comedian.)

Bruce

> 10. "A politician is a man who will double-cross that bridge when
> he comes to it." (Pianist, composer, author, comedian, and
> actor on radio and early TV.)

Trillin, Youngman

Peter Smyth

[Mark Brader]

Mark Brader:

> > 3. Three big rock'n'rollers died tragically on 1959-02-02 in a
> > plane crash at Clear Lake, Iowa. Two of them eventually inspired
> > a popular movies about their lives, but which one did not?

"Calvin":
> The Big Boppa

Nonrhotic accents strike again!
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "Accuracy is many ways more important speed."
m...@vex.net | --David Kleinecke

[Rob Parker]

> * Game 10, Round 7 - Entertainment - 60th Anniversary of Rock'n'Roll
>
> In 1954, Bill Haley & the Comets released "Rock Around the Clock"
> and "Shake, Rattle & Roll", and a Tupelo truck driver named Elvis
> recorded "That's Alright Mama". So for the sake of argument,
> here's a 60th anniversary round on the birth of rock'n'roll.
>
> 1. Who scandalized the world by marrying Myra Gale Brown on
> 1957-12-12?

Jerry Lee Lewis

> 2. Which host had Elvis sing "Hound Dog" *to* a hound dog on his
> network variety show?

Ed Sullivan (?)

> 3. Three big rock'n'rollers died tragically on 1959-02-02 in a
> plane crash at Clear Lake, Iowa. Two of them eventually inspired
> a popular movies about their lives, but which one did not?

JP Richardson - aka The Big Bopper

> 4. Which music legend said in 1957 that "rock'n'roll is phony
> and false, and sung, written, and played for the most part by
> cretinous goons"? (Yeah, but what's your point?)

Frank Sinatra (?)

> 5. In 1956, which voluminous sitcom star said of Elvis, "He can't
> last, I tell you flatly, he can't last"?
>
> 6. What was the name of the Memphis-based label run by Sam Phillips
> that recorded Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Roy
> Orbison?

Sun Records

> 7. Which subsequent abusive husband had a pre-marriage '50s hit with
> "Rocket 88"?
>
> 8. The music died again in April, 1960, when this rock'n'roller
> of "Summertime Blues" fame died in a car crash in Bath, England.
> Name him.

eddie Cochrane

> 9. From which US city did "American Bandstand" originate?

Los Angeles; New York

> 10. What then-shocking 1955 movie (starring Glenn Ford, Vic Morrow,
> and Sidney Poitier) launched the song "Rock Around the Clock"?

Something about a high school - but I can't remember the name :-(

> * Game 10, Round 8 - Funny AND Jewish - Who Knew?
>
> Our Jewish team member has given us this.
>
> Sometimes stereotypes do fit -- there are lots of funny people who
> happen to be Jewish. We'll read you a witty quotation and then
> some clues about the person who said it (or at least allegedly
> said it), from the following cheat-sheet list of famous Jews:
>
> Shalom Aleichem | Nigel Lawson | Shimon Peres
> Woody Allen | Fran Lebowitz | Yitzakh Rabin
> Mel Brooks | Oscar Levant | Lionel de Rothschild
> Lenny Bruce | Joe E. Lewis | David Steinberg
> Benjamin Disraeli | Peter Malkin | Calvin Trillin
> Sam Goldwyn | Groucho Marx | Henny Youngman
> Henry Kissinger | Jackie Mason |
> Ernie Kovacs | Golda Meir |
>
> And you name that person. Answers do not repeat.
>
> 1. "My father never lived to see his dream come true of an
> all-Yiddish-speaking Canada." (Stand-up comic, actor, director,
> writer for the Smothers Brothers among other shows.)

Nigel Lawson; Oscar Levant

> 2. "I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up. They have
> no holidays." (Comedian and violinist, known for his
> one-liners.)

Ernie Kovacs; Henny Youngman

> 3. "Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be
> intolerable. So, for every 10 Jews beating their breasts,
> God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast beaters.
> By the time I was 5, I knew I was that one." (Comic, prolific
> writer, director of zany cinema comedies, producer.)

Mel Brooks

> 4. "Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York, you're
> Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be
> goyim even if you are Jewish." (Stand-up comedian, social
> critic, and satirist.)

Lenny Bruce; Shalom Aleichem

> 5. "Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took
> us 40 years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place
> in the Middle East that has no oil!" (Fourth Prime Minister
> of Israel.)

Shimon Peres; Yitzakh Rabin

> 6. "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
> (British political leader.)

Benjamin Disraeli

> 7. "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want
> to achieve immortality through not dying." (Neurotic comedian,
> writer, prolific filmmaker.)

Woody Allen

> 8. "Marriage is a wonderful institution. But who wants to live
> in an institution?" (Comedian, film and television star,
> known for his quick and acerbic wit.)

Groucho Marx

> 9. "Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well
> done." (Innovative and absurdist early TV comedian.)

Henny Youngman; Calvin Trillin

> 10. "A politician is a man who will double-cross that bridge when
> he comes to it." (Pianist, composer, author, comedian, and
> actor on radio and early TV.)

David Steinberg; Jackie Mason


Rob

[swp]

On Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 9:48:00 AM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:

> * Game 10, Round 7 - Entertainment - 60th Anniversary of Rock'n'Roll
>
> In 1954, Bill Haley & the Comets released "Rock Around the Clock"
> and "Shake, Rattle & Roll", and a Tupelo truck driver named Elvis
> recorded "That's Alright Mama". So for the sake of argument,
> here's a 60th anniversary round on the birth of rock'n'roll.
>
> 1. Who scandalized the world by marrying Myra Gale Brown on
> 1957-12-12?

jerry lee lewis

> 2. Which host had Elvis sing "Hound Dog" *to* a hound dog on his
> network variety show?

ed sullivan

> 3. Three big rock'n'rollers died tragically on 1959-02-02 in a
> plane crash at Clear Lake, Iowa. Two of them eventually inspired
> a popular movies about their lives, but which one did not?

j p richardson

> 4. Which music legend said in 1957 that "rock'n'roll is phony
> and false, and sung, written, and played for the most part by
> cretinous goons"? (Yeah, but what's your point?)

frank sinatra

> 5. In 1956, which voluminous sitcom star said of Elvis, "He can't
> last, I tell you flatly, he can't last"?

jackie gleason

> 6. What was the name of the Memphis-based label run by Sam Phillips
> that recorded Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Roy
> Orbison?

sun records

> 7. Which subsequent abusive husband had a pre-marriage '50s hit with
> "Rocket 88"?

ike turner

> 8. The music died again in April, 1960, when this rock'n'roller
> of "Summertime Blues" fame died in a car crash in Bath, England.
> Name him.

eddie cochran

> 9. From which US city did "American Bandstand" originate?

philadelphia, pa

> 10. What then-shocking 1955 movie (starring Glenn Ford, Vic Morrow,
> and Sidney Poitier) launched the song "Rock Around the Clock"?

blackboard jungle

> * Game 10, Round 8 - Funny AND Jewish - Who Knew?
>
> Our Jewish team member has given us this.
>
> Sometimes stereotypes do fit -- there are lots of funny people who
> happen to be Jewish. We'll read you a witty quotation and then
> some clues about the person who said it (or at least allegedly
> said it), from the following cheat-sheet list of famous Jews:
>
> Shalom Aleichem | Nigel Lawson | Shimon Peres
> Woody Allen | Fran Lebowitz | Yitzakh Rabin
> Mel Brooks | Oscar Levant | Lionel de Rothschild
> Lenny Bruce | Joe E. Lewis | David Steinberg
> Benjamin Disraeli | Peter Malkin | Calvin Trillin
> Sam Goldwyn | Groucho Marx | Henny Youngman
> Henry Kissinger | Jackie Mason |
> Ernie Kovacs | Golda Meir |
>
> And you name that person. Answers do not repeat.
>
> 1. "My father never lived to see his dream come true of an
> all-Yiddish-speaking Canada." (Stand-up comic, actor, director,
> writer for the Smothers Brothers among other shows.)

David Steinberg

> 2. "I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up. They have
> no holidays." (Comedian and violinist, known for his
> one-liners.)

Henny Youngman

> 3. "Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be
> intolerable. So, for every 10 Jews beating their breasts,
> God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast beaters.
> By the time I was 5, I knew I was that one." (Comic, prolific
> writer, director of zany cinema comedies, producer.)

Mel Brooks

> 4. "Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York, you're
> Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be
> goyim even if you are Jewish." (Stand-up comedian, social
> critic, and satirist.)

Lenny Bruce

> 5. "Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took
> us 40 years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place
> in the Middle East that has no oil!" (Fourth Prime Minister
> of Israel.)

Golda Meir

> 6. "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
> (British political leader.)

Benjamin Disraeli

> 7. "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want
> to achieve immortality through not dying." (Neurotic comedian,
> writer, prolific filmmaker.)

Woody Allen

> 8. "Marriage is a wonderful institution. But who wants to live
> in an institution?" (Comedian, film and television star,
> known for his quick and acerbic wit.)

Groucho Marx

> 9. "Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well
> done." (Innovative and absurdist early TV comedian.)

Ernie Kovacs

> 10. "A politician is a man who will double-cross that bridge when
> he comes to it." (Pianist, composer, author, comedian, and
> actor on radio and early TV.)

Oscar Levant


swp

[Dan Tilque]

Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Entertainment - 60th Anniversary of Rock'n'Roll
>
> In 1954, Bill Haley & the Comets released "Rock Around the Clock"
> and "Shake, Rattle & Roll", and a Tupelo truck driver named Elvis
> recorded "That's Alright Mama". So for the sake of argument,
> here's a 60th anniversary round on the birth of rock'n'roll.
>
> 1. Who scandalized the world by marrying Myra Gale Brown on
> 1957-12-12?

Jerry Lee Lewis

>
> 2. Which host had Elvis sing "Hound Dog" *to* a hound dog on his
> network variety show?

Ed Sullivan

>
> 3. Three big rock'n'rollers died tragically on 1959-02-02 in a
> plane crash at Clear Lake, Iowa. Two of them eventually inspired
> a popular movies about their lives, but which one did not?

The Big Bopper

>
> 4. Which music legend said in 1957 that "rock'n'roll is phony
> and false, and sung, written, and played for the most part by
> cretinous goons"? (Yeah, but what's your point?)

Frank Sinatra

>
> 5. In 1956, which voluminous sitcom star said of Elvis, "He can't
> last, I tell you flatly, he can't last"?

Jackie Gleason

>
> 6. What was the name of the Memphis-based label run by Sam Phillips
> that recorded Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Roy
> Orbison?
>
> 7. Which subsequent abusive husband had a pre-marriage '50s hit with
> "Rocket 88"?
>
> 8. The music died again in April, 1960, when this rock'n'roller
> of "Summertime Blues" fame died in a car crash in Bath, England.
> Name him.
>
> 9. From which US city did "American Bandstand" originate?

Las Vegas

>
> 10. What then-shocking 1955 movie (starring Glenn Ford, Vic Morrow,
> and Sidney Poitier) launched the song "Rock Around the Clock"?
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 8 - Funny AND Jewish - Who Knew?
>
> Our Jewish team member has given us this.
>
> Sometimes stereotypes do fit -- there are lots of funny people who
> happen to be Jewish. We'll read you a witty quotation and then
> some clues about the person who said it (or at least allegedly
> said it), from the following cheat-sheet list of famous Jews:
>
> Shalom Aleichem | Nigel Lawson | Shimon Peres
> Woody Allen | Fran Lebowitz | Yitzakh Rabin
> Mel Brooks | Oscar Levant | Lionel de Rothschild
> Lenny Bruce | Joe E. Lewis | David Steinberg
> Benjamin Disraeli | Peter Malkin | Calvin Trillin
> Sam Goldwyn | Groucho Marx | Henny Youngman
> Henry Kissinger | Jackie Mason |
> Ernie Kovacs | Golda Meir |
>
> And you name that person. Answers do not repeat.
>
> 1. "My father never lived to see his dream come true of an
> all-Yiddish-speaking Canada." (Stand-up comic, actor, director,
> writer for the Smothers Brothers among other shows.)
>
> 2. "I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up. They have
> no holidays." (Comedian and violinist, known for his
> one-liners.)

Henny Youngman

>
> 3. "Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be
> intolerable. So, for every 10 Jews beating their breasts,
> God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast beaters.
> By the time I was 5, I knew I was that one." (Comic, prolific
> writer, director of zany cinema comedies, producer.)

Mel Brooks

>
> 4. "Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York, you're
> Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be
> goyim even if you are Jewish." (Stand-up comedian, social
> critic, and satirist.)

Lenny Bruce

>
> 5. "Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took
> us 40 years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place
> in the Middle East that has no oil!" (Fourth Prime Minister
> of Israel.)

Golda Meir

>
> 6. "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
> (British political leader.)

Benjamin Disraeli

>
> 7. "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want
> to achieve immortality through not dying." (Neurotic comedian,
> writer, prolific filmmaker.)

Woody Allen

>
> 8. "Marriage is a wonderful institution. But who wants to live
> in an institution?" (Comedian, film and television star,
> known for his quick and acerbic wit.)

Groucho Marx

>
> 9. "Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well
> done." (Innovative and absurdist early TV comedian.)

Oscar Levant

>
> 10. "A politician is a man who will double-cross that bridge when
> he comes to it." (Pianist, composer, author, comedian, and
> actor on radio and early TV.)
>


--

Dan Tilque

[Mark Brader]

Mark Brader:

> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-11-24,

> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information

> see my 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the
> Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".


> * Game 10, Round 7 - Entertainment - 60th Anniversary of Rock'n'Roll

> In 1954, Bill Haley & the Comets released "Rock Around the Clock"
> and "Shake, Rattle & Roll", and a Tupelo truck driver named Elvis
> recorded "That's Alright Mama". So for the sake of argument,
> here's a 60th anniversary round on the birth of rock'n'roll.

> 1. Who scandalized the world by marrying Myra Gale Brown on
> 1957-12-12?

Jerry Lee Lewis. She was his 13-year-old cousin. 4 for Dan Blum,
Marc, Joshua, Pete, Bruce, Calvin, Rob, Stephen, and Dan Tilque.

> 2. Which host had Elvis sing "Hound Dog" *to* a hound dog on his
> network variety show?

Steve Allen. 4 for Marc and Joshua.

> 3. Three big rock'n'rollers died tragically on 1959-02-02 in a
> plane crash at Clear Lake, Iowa. Two of them eventually inspired
> a popular movies about their lives, but which one did not?

The Big Bopper (aka J.P. Richardson). 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Joshua,
Jason, Pete, Bruce, Calvin, Peter, Rob (the hard way), Stephen,
and Dan Tilque.

Gary Busey, as mentioned on "Jeopardy!" a few days after the original
game was played, starred in "The Buddy Holly Story" (1978); Ritchie
Valens has been the subject of several movies, notably "La Bamba"
(1987) starring Lou Diamond Phillips.

> 4. Which music legend said in 1957 that "rock'n'roll is phony
> and false, and sung, written, and played for the most part by
> cretinous goons"? (Yeah, but what's your point?)

Frank Sinatra. 4 for Marc, Erland, Joshua, Jason, Peter, Rob,
Stephen, and Dan Tilque.

> 5. In 1956, which voluminous sitcom star said of Elvis, "He can't
> last, I tell you flatly, he can't last"?

Jackie Gleason. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Joshua, Jason, Pete, Stephen,
and Dan Tilque.

> 6. What was the name of the Memphis-based label run by Sam Phillips
> that recorded Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Roy
> Orbison?

Sun Records. 4 for Marc, Erland, Joshua, Jason, Pete, Calvin,
Rob, and Stephen.

> 7. Which subsequent abusive husband had a pre-marriage '50s hit with
> "Rocket 88"?

Ike Turner. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Erland, Björn, Joshua, Jason,
Pete, Calvin, Peter, and Stephen.

> 8. The music died again in April, 1960, when this rock'n'roller
> of "Summertime Blues" fame died in a car crash in Bath, England.
> Name him.

Eddie Cochran. 4 for Marc, Joshua, Jason, Pete, Rob, and Stephen.

> 9. From which US city did "American Bandstand" originate?

Philadelphia. 4 for Marc, Joshua, Jason, Pete, Bruce, and Stephen.

> 10. What then-shocking 1955 movie (starring Glenn Ford, Vic Morrow,
> and Sidney Poitier) launched the song "Rock Around the Clock"?

"The Blackboard Jungle". 4 for Marc, Joshua, Jason, Pete, Bruce,
and Stephen.

> * Game 10, Round 8 - Funny AND Jewish - Who Knew?

> Our Jewish team member has given us this.

> Sometimes stereotypes do fit -- there are lots of funny people who
> happen to be Jewish. We'll read you a witty quotation and then
> some clues about the person who said it (or at least allegedly
> said it), from the following cheat-sheet list of famous Jews:

> Shalom Aleichem | Nigel Lawson | Shimon Peres
> Woody Allen | Fran Lebowitz | Yitzakh Rabin
> Mel Brooks | Oscar Levant | Lionel de Rothschild
> Lenny Bruce | Joe E. Lewis | David Steinberg
> Benjamin Disraeli | Peter Malkin | Calvin Trillin
> Sam Goldwyn | Groucho Marx | Henny Youngman
> Henry Kissinger | Jackie Mason |
> Ernie Kovacs | Golda Meir |

Apparently there was at least one ringer on that list: Ernie Kovacs
wasn't Jewish. Marc Dashevsky spotted the error while racking up
a perfect round for himself.

> And you name that person. Answers do not repeat.

> 1. "My father never lived to see his dream come true of an
> all-Yiddish-speaking Canada." (Stand-up comic, actor, director,
> writer for the Smothers Brothers among other shows.)

David Steinberg. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Joshua, Pete, and Stephen.
3 for Calvin.

> 2. "I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up. They have
> no holidays." (Comedian and violinist, known for his
> one-liners.)

Henny Youngman. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Joshua, Jason, Pete, Stephen,
and Dan Tilque. 2 for Peter and Rob.

> 3. "Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be
> intolerable. So, for every 10 Jews beating their breasts,
> God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast beaters.
> By the time I was 5, I knew I was that one." (Comic, prolific
> writer, director of zany cinema comedies, producer.)

Mel Brooks. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Joshua, Pete, Calvin, Peter, Rob,
Stephen, and Dan Tilque.

> 4. "Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York, you're
> Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be
> goyim even if you are Jewish." (Stand-up comedian, social
> critic, and satirist.)

Lenny Bruce. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Joshua, Jason, Bruce, Stephen,
and Dan Tilque. 3 for Rob.

> 5. "Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took
> us 40 years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place
> in the Middle East that has no oil!" (Fourth Prime Minister
> of Israel.)

Golda Meir. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Erland, Joshua, Jason, Pete,
Calvin, Peter, Stephen, and Dan Tilque.

> 6. "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
> (British political leader.)

Benjamin Disraeli. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Erland, Joshua, Jason,
Pete, Bruce, Calvin, Peter, Rob, Stephen, and Dan Tilque.

> 7. "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want
> to achieve immortality through not dying." (Neurotic comedian,
> writer, prolific filmmaker.)

Woody Allen. 4 for everyone -- Dan Blum, Marc, Erland, Björn, Joshua,
Jason, Pete, Bruce, Calvin, Peter, Rob, Stephen, and Dan Tilque.

> 8. "Marriage is a wonderful institution. But who wants to live
> in an institution?" (Comedian, film and television star,
> known for his quick and acerbic wit.)

Groucho Marx. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Joshua, Pete, Bruce, Peter,
Rob, Stephen, and Dan Tilque.

> 9. "Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well
> done." (Innovative and absurdist early TV comedian.)

Ernie Kovacs. 4 for Marc, Joshua, Pete, and Stephen. 3 for Dan Blum.

> 10. "A politician is a man who will double-cross that bridge when
> he comes to it." (Pianist, composer, author, comedian, and
> actor on radio and early TV.)

Oscar Levant. 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Joshua, Jason, Pete, and Stephen.
2 for Calvin.


Scores, if there are no errors:

GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
TOPICS-> Geo Can Art Sci Ent Mis FOUR
Joshua Kreitzer 26 19 38 20 40 40 144
Marc Dashevsky 24 8 36 20 40 40 140
Dan Blum 27 7 36 33 16 39 135
Bruce Bowler 26 16 32 31 16 16 105
Rob Parker 19 9 33 28 20 21 102
Dan Tilque 20 12 20 27 16 28 95
"Calvin" -- -- 40 8 16 21 85
Stephen Perry -- -- -- -- 36 40 76
Jason Kreitzer 8 0 0 8 32 24 72
Pete Gayde -- -- -- -- 32 36 68
Erland Sommarskog 12 12 20 24 12 12 68
Peter Smyth -- -- 3 23 12 22 60
Björn Lundin 8 4 20 12 4 4 44

--
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m...@vex.net | reasons. I think ideology sucks." -- Torvalds

[Mark Brader]

These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-11-24,
and should be interpreted accordingly.

On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,
based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
the correct answers in about 3 days.

All questions were written by members of Unnatural Axxxe, and are
used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have
been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information see
my 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".

* Game 10, Round 9 - Sports & Entertainment - What I Really Want to Do is Act

Many's the athlete who tried and failed to pad their resume
with an acting career -- we're looking at you, Joe Namath and
Shaquille O'Neal. But others were more successful. In each case,
name that athlete-turned-actor.

1. The star of shows like "St. Elsewhere" and "NCIS", he was
a starting quarterback for the UCLA Bruins in the early '70s,
leading his team to a 17-5 record over two seasons.

2. This Best Actor Oscar nominee for "The Last King of Scotland"
attended USC on a football scholarship and, fittingly enough,
played a high school football player in his movie debut "Fast
Times at Ridgemont High".

3. He's the patriarch of a family of duck hunters on TV, but he
was the starting quarterback at Louisiana Tech in the mid-'60s,
and was replaced after graduation by a guy named Terry Bradshaw.
Name that duck hunter. (As usual, the surname is sufficient.)

4. His dad, Rocky Johnson, was a Canadian pro wrestler and,
before following in pop's footsteps, he played football for
the Miami Hurricanes and briefly for Calgary Stampeders.
He recently played Hercules on screen.

5. Eventually he followed Aunt Rosemary and Uncle José Ferrer into
showbiz, but only after flaming out in minor-league baseball with
the Cincinnati Reds organization. Name this dreamy Oscar-winning
leading man.

6. His shows include "Married... with Children" and "Modern Family".
His athletic career included a football college scholarship and
an ill-fated invitation to the Pittsburgh Steelers' training
camp in 1969.

7. The artist sometimes known as Apollo Creed played 8 games for
the Oakland Raiders and 18 games for the BC Lions.

8. Before becoming a movie star, he was a star running back for
Florida State, and actually got to play football again with
his starring turn in the movie "The Longest Yard".

9. In 1973, he became the first player to rush for more than 2,000
yards in a season. His films include "The Cassandra Crossing",
"Capricorn One", "The Naked Gun", "The Naked Gun 2 1/2", and
"The Naked Gun 33 1/3".

10. He once held the professional middleweight karate championship
title. But some people know him better as a Texas Ranger on TV.
Name him.


* Game 10, Round 10 - Challenge - US Thanksgiving

This week is US Thanksgiving, so here is a round in appreciation
of our neighbors to the south.

A. Entertainment: American Music

A1. One of its slogans is "the Home of American Music".
It's been a weekly Nashville stage show since 1925 and one
of the longest-running broadcasts in radio history. Name it.

A2. The Blues might be the greatest American contribution to
music. Son House, Charley Patton, and Robert Johnson were
seminal performers of what specific regional style of blues?

B. History: Pre-"Cheers" Massachusetts

B1. Little known fact: the legendary "First Thanksgiving" at
Plymouth had nearly twice as many native guests as Pilgrims.
Since the natives are less famous, you can name *either*
their tribe, *or* their chief (who gave the settlers food
the previous winter), *or* the bilingual native who taught
them New World fishing and agriculture.

B2. The "shot heard round the world" to start the American
Revolution happened in a running skirmish on 1775-04-19, in
two towns that still argue about which one it took place in.
So name *both* towns.

C. Science: American Know-How

C1. From Franklin through Tesla and Edison, famous American
inventors have played with electricity. What ground-breaking
1947 invention was credited to three distinctly less famous
Bell Labs scientists -- Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain?

C2. Eli Whitney's cotton gin and Cyrus McCormick's mechanical
reaper were revolutionary agricultural innovations, but
which inventor's *literally* groundbreaking steel plow
helped open the prairies to farming?

D. Literature: Great American Novels

D1. John Updike's most famous work is a series of novels about
a middle-class American everyman with an unusual nickname.
What nickname?

D2. Name Philip Roth's novel, winner of a 1998 Pulitzer Prize,
that describes the life of the fictional Seymour "Swede"
Levov.

E. Geography: This Land is Your Land

E1. Yellowstone National Park is often called the first national
park in the world, signed into law by President Ulysses
S. Grant in 1872. In which US state is 96% of the park
located?

E2. The most visited national park, by a wide margin, is located
closer to eastern population centers. Great Smoky Mountains
National Park is located in two states; name *either*.

F. Sports: National Pastimes

F1. What is the most popular competitive sport for Americans
to *participate* in?

F2. In terms of the number of Americans identifying themselves
as *fans*, which is the 4th-most-popular American sport?
It follows football, baseball, and basketball, but comes
ahead of hockey.

--
Mark Brader "Great things are not done by those
Toronto who sit down and count the cost
m...@vex.net of every thought and act." --Daniel Gooch

[Erland Sommarskog]

Mark Brader (m...@vex.net) writes:
> * Game 10, Round 10 - Challenge - US Thanksgiving
>

> C1. From Franklin through Tesla and Edison, famous American
> inventors have played with electricity. What ground-breaking
> 1947 invention was credited to three distinctly less famous
> Bell Labs scientists -- Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain?

Transistor

> E1. Yellowstone National Park is often called the first national
> park in the world, signed into law by President Ulysses
> S. Grant in 1872. In which US state is 96% of the park
> located?

Wyoming

> E2. The most visited national park, by a wide margin, is located
> closer to eastern population centers. Great Smoky Mountains
> National Park is located in two states; name *either*.

North Carolina and Tennesee

> F1. What is the most popular competitive sport for Americans
> to *participate* in?

Baseball?

> F2. In terms of the number of Americans identifying themselves
> as *fans*, which is the 4th-most-popular American sport?
> It follows football, baseball, and basketball, but comes
> ahead of hockey.

Football, real football, that is.

[Björn Lundin]

On 2015-01-25 19:35, Mark Brader wrote:

>
>
> * Game 10, Round 9 - Sports & Entertainment - What I Really Want to Do is Act
>
> Many's the athlete who tried and failed to pad their resume
> with an acting career -- we're looking at you, Joe Namath and
> Shaquille O'Neal. But others were more successful. In each case,
> name that athlete-turned-actor.
>

>

> 6. His shows include "Married... with Children" and "Modern Family".
> His athletic career included a football college scholarship and
> an ill-fated invitation to the Pittsburgh Steelers' training
> camp in 1969.

Ed O'Neill

>
> 9. In 1973, he became the first player to rush for more than 2,000
> yards in a season. His films include "The Cassandra Crossing",
> "Capricorn One", "The Naked Gun", "The Naked Gun 2 1/2", and
> "The Naked Gun 33 1/3".

Leslie Nelson

> * Game 10, Round 10 - Challenge - US Thanksgiving
>
> This week is US Thanksgiving, so here is a round in appreciation
> of our neighbors to the south.
>

>

> B. History: Pre-"Cheers" Massachusetts
>
> B1. Little known fact: the legendary "First Thanksgiving" at
> Plymouth had nearly twice as many native guests as Pilgrims.
> Since the natives are less famous, you can name *either*
> their tribe, *or* their chief (who gave the settlers food
> the previous winter), *or* the bilingual native who taught
> them New World fishing and agriculture.

Pocahontas

> C. Science: American Know-How
>
> C1. From Franklin through Tesla and Edison, famous American
> inventors have played with electricity. What ground-breaking
> 1947 invention was credited to three distinctly less famous
> Bell Labs scientists -- Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain?

The transistor

>
> C2. Eli Whitney's cotton gin and Cyrus McCormick's mechanical
> reaper were revolutionary agricultural innovations, but
> which inventor's *literally* groundbreaking steel plow
> helped open the prairies to farming?

John Deere

>

>
> E. Geography: This Land is Your Land
>
> E1. Yellowstone National Park is often called the first national
> park in the world, signed into law by President Ulysses
> S. Grant in 1872. In which US state is 96% of the park
> located?

Utah

>
> E2. The most visited national park, by a wide margin, is located
> closer to eastern population centers. Great Smoky Mountains
> National Park is located in two states; name *either*.

West Virginia

> F. Sports: National Pastimes
>
> F1. What is the most popular competitive sport for Americans
> to *participate* in?

soccer (most likely not though)

>
> F2. In terms of the number of Americans identifying themselves
> as *fans*, which is the 4th-most-popular American sport?
> It follows football, baseball, and basketball, but comes
> ahead of hockey.

soccer (most likely not here either)


--
--
Björn

[Mark Brader]

Sorry, I inadvertently posted this in same thread as Rounds 7-8.
Here it is again. Feel free to respond in either thread.

These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-11-24,
and should be interpreted accordingly.

On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,
based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal

the correct answers in about 3 days (from the time of the original
posting about 4 hours before this one).

All questions were written by members of Unnatural Axxxe, and are
used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have
been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information see
my 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".

* Game 10, Round 9 - Sports & Entertainment - What I Really Want to Do is Act

Many's the athlete who tried and failed to pad their resume
with an acting career -- we're looking at you, Joe Namath and
Shaquille O'Neal. But others were more successful. In each case,
name that athlete-turned-actor.

1. The star of shows like "St. Elsewhere" and "NCIS", he was
a starting quarterback for the UCLA Bruins in the early '70s,
leading his team to a 17-5 record over two seasons.

2. This Best Actor Oscar nominee for "The Last King of Scotland"
attended USC on a football scholarship and, fittingly enough,
played a high school football player in his movie debut "Fast
Times at Ridgemont High".

3. He's the patriarch of a family of duck hunters on TV, but he
was the starting quarterback at Louisiana Tech in the mid-'60s,
and was replaced after graduation by a guy named Terry Bradshaw.
Name that duck hunter. (As usual, the surname is sufficient.)

4. His dad, Rocky Johnson, was a Canadian pro wrestler and,
before following in pop's footsteps, he played football for
the Miami Hurricanes and briefly for Calgary Stampeders.
He recently played Hercules on screen.

5. Eventually he followed Aunt Rosemary and Uncle José Ferrer into
showbiz, but only after flaming out in minor-league baseball with
the Cincinnati Reds organization. Name this dreamy Oscar-winning
leading man.

6. His shows include "Married... with Children" and "Modern Family".
His athletic career included a football college scholarship and
an ill-fated invitation to the Pittsburgh Steelers' training
camp in 1969.

7. The artist sometimes known as Apollo Creed played 8 games for
the Oakland Raiders and 18 games for the BC Lions.

8. Before becoming a movie star, he was a star running back for
Florida State, and actually got to play football again with
his starring turn in the movie "The Longest Yard".

9. In 1973, he became the first player to rush for more than 2,000
yards in a season. His films include "The Cassandra Crossing",
"Capricorn One", "The Naked Gun", "The Naked Gun 2 1/2", and
"The Naked Gun 33 1/3".

10. He once held the professional middleweight karate championship
title. But some people know him better as a Texas Ranger on TV.
Name him.

* Game 10, Round 10 - Challenge - US Thanksgiving

This week is US Thanksgiving, so here is a round in appreciation
of our neighbors to the south.

A. Entertainment: American Music

A1. One of its slogans is "the Home of American Music".
It's been a weekly Nashville stage show since 1925 and one
of the longest-running broadcasts in radio history. Name it.

A2. The Blues might be the greatest American contribution to
music. Son House, Charley Patton, and Robert Johnson were
seminal performers of what specific regional style of blues?

B. History: Pre-"Cheers" Massachusetts

B1. Little known fact: the legendary "First Thanksgiving" at
Plymouth had nearly twice as many native guests as Pilgrims.
Since the natives are less famous, you can name *either*
their tribe, *or* their chief (who gave the settlers food
the previous winter), *or* the bilingual native who taught
them New World fishing and agriculture.

B2. The "shot heard round the world" to start the American
Revolution happened in a running skirmish on 1775-04-19, in
two towns that still argue about which one it took place in.
So name *both* towns.

C. Science: American Know-How

C1. From Franklin through Tesla and Edison, famous American
inventors have played with electricity. What ground-breaking
1947 invention was credited to three distinctly less famous
Bell Labs scientists -- Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain?

C2. Eli Whitney's cotton gin and Cyrus McCormick's mechanical
reaper were revolutionary agricultural innovations, but
which inventor's *literally* groundbreaking steel plow
helped open the prairies to farming?

D. Literature: Great American Novels

D1. John Updike's most famous work is a series of novels about
a middle-class American everyman with an unusual nickname.
What nickname?

D2. Name Philip Roth's novel, winner of a 1998 Pulitzer Prize,
that describes the life of the fictional Seymour "Swede"
Levov.

E. Geography: This Land is Your Land

E1. Yellowstone National Park is often called the first national
park in the world, signed into law by President Ulysses
S. Grant in 1872. In which US state is 96% of the park
located?

E2. The most visited national park, by a wide margin, is located
closer to eastern population centers. Great Smoky Mountains
National Park is located in two states; name *either*.

F. Sports: National Pastimes

F1. What is the most popular competitive sport for Americans
to *participate* in?

F2. In terms of the number of Americans identifying themselves
as *fans*, which is the 4th-most-popular American sport?
It follows football, baseball, and basketball, but comes
ahead of hockey.

[Calvin]

On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 4:35:42 AM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:

> * Game 10, Round 9 - Sports & Entertainment - What I Really Want to Do is Act
>
> Many's the athlete who tried and failed to pad their resume
> with an acting career -- we're looking at you, Joe Namath and
> Shaquille O'Neal. But others were more successful. In each case,
> name that athlete-turned-actor.
>
> 1. The star of shows like "St. Elsewhere" and "NCIS", he was
> a starting quarterback for the UCLA Bruins in the early '70s,
> leading his team to a 17-5 record over two seasons.
>
> 2. This Best Actor Oscar nominee for "The Last King of Scotland"
> attended USC on a football scholarship and, fittingly enough,
> played a high school football player in his movie debut "Fast
> Times at Ridgemont High".

Whittaker

> 3. He's the patriarch of a family of duck hunters on TV, but he
> was the starting quarterback at Louisiana Tech in the mid-'60s,
> and was replaced after graduation by a guy named Terry Bradshaw.
> Name that duck hunter. (As usual, the surname is sufficient.)
>
> 4. His dad, Rocky Johnson, was a Canadian pro wrestler and,
> before following in pop's footsteps, he played football for
> the Miami Hurricanes and briefly for Calgary Stampeders.
> He recently played Hercules on screen.

Dwayne Johnson

> 5. Eventually he followed Aunt Rosemary and Uncle José Ferrer into
> showbiz, but only after flaming out in minor-league baseball with
> the Cincinnati Reds organization. Name this dreamy Oscar-winning
> leading man.
>
> 6. His shows include "Married... with Children" and "Modern Family".
> His athletic career included a football college scholarship and
> an ill-fated invitation to the Pittsburgh Steelers' training
> camp in 1969.
>
>
> 7. The artist sometimes known as Apollo Creed played 8 games for
> the Oakland Raiders and 18 games for the BC Lions.
>
> 8. Before becoming a movie star, he was a star running back for
> Florida State, and actually got to play football again with
> his starring turn in the movie "The Longest Yard".
>
> 9. In 1973, he became the first player to rush for more than 2,000
> yards in a season. His films include "The Cassandra Crossing",
> "Capricorn One", "The Naked Gun", "The Naked Gun 2 1/2", and
> "The Naked Gun 33 1/3".

Simpson

> 10. He once held the professional middleweight karate championship
> title. But some people know him better as a Texas Ranger on TV.
> Name him.

Norris

> * Game 10, Round 10 - Challenge - US Thanksgiving
>
> This week is US Thanksgiving, so here is a round in appreciation
> of our neighbors to the south.
>
> A. Entertainment: American Music
>
> A1. One of its slogans is "the Home of American Music".
> It's been a weekly Nashville stage show since 1925 and one
> of the longest-running broadcasts in radio history. Name it.

The Grand Ol' Opry

> A2. The Blues might be the greatest American contribution to
> music. Son House, Charley Patton, and Robert Johnson were
> seminal performers of what specific regional style of blues?

Cajun, Southern

> B. History: Pre-"Cheers" Massachusetts
>
> B1. Little known fact: the legendary "First Thanksgiving" at
> Plymouth had nearly twice as many native guests as Pilgrims.
> Since the natives are less famous, you can name *either*
> their tribe, *or* their chief (who gave the settlers food
> the previous winter), *or* the bilingual native who taught
> them New World fishing and agriculture.

Algonquin

> B2. The "shot heard round the world" to start the American
> Revolution happened in a running skirmish on 1775-04-19, in
> two towns that still argue about which one it took place in.
> So name *both* towns.
>
> C. Science: American Know-How
>
> C1. From Franklin through Tesla and Edison, famous American
> inventors have played with electricity. What ground-breaking
> 1947 invention was credited to three distinctly less famous
> Bell Labs scientists -- Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain?

Mobile phone, colour TV

> C2. Eli Whitney's cotton gin and Cyrus McCormick's mechanical
> reaper were revolutionary agricultural innovations, but
> which inventor's *literally* groundbreaking steel plow
> helped open the prairies to farming?
>
> D. Literature: Great American Novels
>
> D1. John Updike's most famous work is a series of novels about
> a middle-class American everyman with an unusual nickname.
> What nickname?

Run Rabbit Run

> D2. Name Philip Roth's novel, winner of a 1998 Pulitzer Prize,
> that describes the life of the fictional Seymour "Swede"
> Levov.
>
> E. Geography: This Land is Your Land
>
> E1. Yellowstone National Park is often called the first national
> park in the world, signed into law by President Ulysses
> S. Grant in 1872. In which US state is 96% of the park
> located?

Wyoming

> E2. The most visited national park, by a wide margin, is located
> closer to eastern population centers. Great Smoky Mountains
> National Park is located in two states; name *either*.

Virginia, West Virginia

> F. Sports: National Pastimes
>
> F1. What is the most popular competitive sport for Americans
> to *participate* in?

Bowling, golf
Not trivia then?

> F2. In terms of the number of Americans identifying themselves
> as *fans*, which is the 4th-most-popular American sport?
> It follows football, baseball, and basketball, but comes
> ahead of hockey.

Motor sport, wrestling

cheers,
calvin

[Dan Blum]

Mark Brader <m...@vex.net> wrote:

> * Game 10, Round 9 - Sports & Entertainment - What I Really Want to Do is Act

> 1. The star of shows like "St. Elsewhere" and "NCIS", he was
> a starting quarterback for the UCLA Bruins in the early '70s,
> leading his team to a 17-5 record over two seasons.

Mark Harmon

> 2. This Best Actor Oscar nominee for "The Last King of Scotland"
> attended USC on a football scholarship and, fittingly enough,
> played a high school football player in his movie debut "Fast
> Times at Ridgemont High".

Forrest Whitaker

> 3. He's the patriarch of a family of duck hunters on TV, but he
> was the starting quarterback at Louisiana Tech in the mid-'60s,
> and was replaced after graduation by a guy named Terry Bradshaw.
> Name that duck hunter. (As usual, the surname is sufficient.)

Robertson

> 4. His dad, Rocky Johnson, was a Canadian pro wrestler and,
> before following in pop's footsteps, he played football for
> the Miami Hurricanes and briefly for Calgary Stampeders.
> He recently played Hercules on screen.

Dwayne Johnson

> 5. Eventually he followed Aunt Rosemary and Uncle Jos? Ferrer into

> showbiz, but only after flaming out in minor-league baseball with
> the Cincinnati Reds organization. Name this dreamy Oscar-winning
> leading man.

George Clooney

> 7. The artist sometimes known as Apollo Creed played 8 games for
> the Oakland Raiders and 18 games for the BC Lions.

Mr. T

> 8. Before becoming a movie star, he was a star running back for
> Florida State, and actually got to play football again with
> his starring turn in the movie "The Longest Yard".

Burt Reynolds

> 9. In 1973, he became the first player to rush for more than 2,000
> yards in a season. His films include "The Cassandra Crossing",
> "Capricorn One", "The Naked Gun", "The Naked Gun 2 1/2", and
> "The Naked Gun 33 1/3".

OJ Simpson

> 10. He once held the professional middleweight karate championship
> title. But some people know him better as a Texas Ranger on TV.
> Name him.

Chuck Norris

> * Game 10, Round 10 - Challenge - US Thanksgiving

> A. Entertainment: American Music

> A1. One of its slogans is "the Home of American Music".
> It's been a weekly Nashville stage show since 1925 and one
> of the longest-running broadcasts in radio history. Name it.

Grand Old Opry

> A2. The Blues might be the greatest American contribution to
> music. Son House, Charley Patton, and Robert Johnson were
> seminal performers of what specific regional style of blues?

Delta

> B. History: Pre-"Cheers" Massachusetts

> B1. Little known fact: the legendary "First Thanksgiving" at
> Plymouth had nearly twice as many native guests as Pilgrims.
> Since the natives are less famous, you can name *either*
> their tribe, *or* their chief (who gave the settlers food
> the previous winter), *or* the bilingual native who taught
> them New World fishing and agriculture.

Sebaoh

> B2. The "shot heard round the world" to start the American
> Revolution happened in a running skirmish on 1775-04-19, in
> two towns that still argue about which one it took place in.
> So name *both* towns.

Lexington and Concord

> C. Science: American Know-How

> C1. From Franklin through Tesla and Edison, famous American
> inventors have played with electricity. What ground-breaking
> 1947 invention was credited to three distinctly less famous
> Bell Labs scientists -- Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain?

transistor

> C2. Eli Whitney's cotton gin and Cyrus McCormick's mechanical
> reaper were revolutionary agricultural innovations, but
> which inventor's *literally* groundbreaking steel plow
> helped open the prairies to farming?

Deere

> D. Literature: Great American Novels

> D1. John Updike's most famous work is a series of novels about
> a middle-class American everyman with an unusual nickname.
> What nickname?

Rabbit

> E. Geography: This Land is Your Land

> E1. Yellowstone National Park is often called the first national
> park in the world, signed into law by President Ulysses
> S. Grant in 1872. In which US state is 96% of the park
> located?

Wyoming

> E2. The most visited national park, by a wide margin, is located
> closer to eastern population centers. Great Smoky Mountains
> National Park is located in two states; name *either*.

Tennessee

> F. Sports: National Pastimes

> F1. What is the most popular competitive sport for Americans
> to *participate* in?

softball; basketball

> F2. In terms of the number of Americans identifying themselves
> as *fans*, which is the 4th-most-popular American sport?
> It follows football, baseball, and basketball, but comes
> ahead of hockey.

automobile racing

[Joshua Kreitzer]

m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in

news:MPWdnQP4Xosg71jJ...@vex.net:

> * Game 10, Round 9 - Sports & Entertainment - What I Really Want to Do
> is Act
>

> 1. The star of shows like "St. Elsewhere" and "NCIS", he was
> a starting quarterback for the UCLA Bruins in the early '70s,
> leading his team to a 17-5 record over two seasons.

Mark Harmon

> 2. This Best Actor Oscar nominee for "The Last King of Scotland"
> attended USC on a football scholarship and, fittingly enough,
> played a high school football player in his movie debut "Fast
> Times at Ridgemont High".

Forest Whitaker

> 3. He's the patriarch of a family of duck hunters on TV, but he
> was the starting quarterback at Louisiana Tech in the mid-'60s,
> and was replaced after graduation by a guy named Terry Bradshaw.
> Name that duck hunter. (As usual, the surname is sufficient.)

Richardson

> 4. His dad, Rocky Johnson, was a Canadian pro wrestler and,
> before following in pop's footsteps, he played football for
> the Miami Hurricanes and briefly for Calgary Stampeders.
> He recently played Hercules on screen.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

> 5. Eventually he followed Aunt Rosemary and Uncle José Ferrer into
> showbiz, but only after flaming out in minor-league baseball with
> the Cincinnati Reds organization. Name this dreamy Oscar-winning
> leading man.

George Clooney

> 6. His shows include "Married... with Children" and "Modern Family".
> His athletic career included a football college scholarship and
> an ill-fated invitation to the Pittsburgh Steelers' training
> camp in 1969.

Ed O'Neill

> 8. Before becoming a movie star, he was a star running back for
> Florida State, and actually got to play football again with
> his starring turn in the movie "The Longest Yard".

Burt Reynolds

> 9. In 1973, he became the first player to rush for more than 2,000
> yards in a season. His films include "The Cassandra Crossing",
> "Capricorn One", "The Naked Gun", "The Naked Gun 2 1/2", and
> "The Naked Gun 33 1/3".

O.J. Simpson

> 10. He once held the professional middleweight karate championship
> title. But some people know him better as a Texas Ranger on TV.
> Name him.

Chuck Norris

> * Game 10, Round 10 - Challenge - US Thanksgiving
>

> A. Entertainment: American Music
>
> A1. One of its slogans is "the Home of American Music".
> It's been a weekly Nashville stage show since 1925 and one
> of the longest-running broadcasts in radio history. Name it.

Grand Ole Opry

> A2. The Blues might be the greatest American contribution to
> music. Son House, Charley Patton, and Robert Johnson were
> seminal performers of what specific regional style of blues?

Delta blues

> B. History: Pre-"Cheers" Massachusetts
>
> B1. Little known fact: the legendary "First Thanksgiving" at
> Plymouth had nearly twice as many native guests as Pilgrims.
> Since the natives are less famous, you can name *either*
> their tribe, *or* their chief (who gave the settlers food
> the previous winter), *or* the bilingual native who taught
> them New World fishing and agriculture.

Squanto

> B2. The "shot heard round the world" to start the American
> Revolution happened in a running skirmish on 1775-04-19, in
> two towns that still argue about which one it took place in.
> So name *both* towns.

Lexington, Concord

> C. Science: American Know-How
>
> C1. From Franklin through Tesla and Edison, famous American
> inventors have played with electricity. What ground-breaking
> 1947 invention was credited to three distinctly less famous
> Bell Labs scientists -- Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain?

transistor

> D. Literature: Great American Novels
>
> D1. John Updike's most famous work is a series of novels about
> a middle-class American everyman with an unusual nickname.
> What nickname?

Rabbit

> D2. Name Philip Roth's novel, winner of a 1998 Pulitzer Prize,
> that describes the life of the fictional Seymour "Swede"
> Levov.

"The Plot Against America"

> E. Geography: This Land is Your Land
>
> E1. Yellowstone National Park is often called the first national
> park in the world, signed into law by President Ulysses
> S. Grant in 1872. In which US state is 96% of the park
> located?

Wyoming

> E2. The most visited national park, by a wide margin, is located
> closer to eastern population centers. Great Smoky Mountains
> National Park is located in two states; name *either*.

North Carolina

--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com

[Jason Kreitzer]

On Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 1:35:42 PM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-11-24,
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
> both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
> Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,
> based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
> the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
> the correct answers in about 3 days.
>
> All questions were written by members of Unnatural Axxxe, and are
> used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have
> been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information see
> my 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 9 - Sports & Entertainment - What I Really Want to Do is Act
>
> Many's the athlete who tried and failed to pad their resume
> with an acting career -- we're looking at you, Joe Namath and
> Shaquille O'Neal. But others were more successful. In each case,
> name that athlete-turned-actor.
>
> 1. The star of shows like "St. Elsewhere" and "NCIS", he was
> a starting quarterback for the UCLA Bruins in the early '70s,
> leading his team to a 17-5 record over two seasons.

Mark Harmon

> 2. This Best Actor Oscar nominee for "The Last King of Scotland"
> attended USC on a football scholarship and, fittingly enough,
> played a high school football player in his movie debut "Fast
> Times at Ridgemont High".

Forrest Whitaker

> 3. He's the patriarch of a family of duck hunters on TV, but he
> was the starting quarterback at Louisiana Tech in the mid-'60s,
> and was replaced after graduation by a guy named Terry Bradshaw.
> Name that duck hunter. (As usual, the surname is sufficient.)
>
> 4. His dad, Rocky Johnson, was a Canadian pro wrestler and,
> before following in pop's footsteps, he played football for
> the Miami Hurricanes and briefly for Calgary Stampeders.
> He recently played Hercules on screen.

"IF YOU SMELL WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKING..."

> 5. Eventually he followed Aunt Rosemary and Uncle José Ferrer into
> showbiz, but only after flaming out in minor-league baseball with
> the Cincinnati Reds organization. Name this dreamy Oscar-winning
> leading man.
>
> 6. His shows include "Married... with Children" and "Modern Family".
> His athletic career included a football college scholarship and
> an ill-fated invitation to the Pittsburgh Steelers' training
> camp in 1969.
>
> 7. The artist sometimes known as Apollo Creed played 8 games for
> the Oakland Raiders and 18 games for the BC Lions.

Carl Weathers

> 8. Before becoming a movie star, he was a star running back for
> Florida State, and actually got to play football again with
> his starring turn in the movie "The Longest Yard".

Burt Reynolds

> 9. In 1973, he became the first player to rush for more than 2,000
> yards in a season. His films include "The Cassandra Crossing",
> "Capricorn One", "The Naked Gun", "The Naked Gun 2 1/2", and
> "The Naked Gun 33 1/3".

OJ Simpson

> 10. He once held the professional middleweight karate championship
> title. But some people know him better as a Texas Ranger on TV.
> Name him.

Chuck Norris. Insert favorite joke here.

>
> * Game 10, Round 10 - Challenge - US Thanksgiving
>
> This week is US Thanksgiving, so here is a round in appreciation
> of our neighbors to the south.
>
> A. Entertainment: American Music
>
> A1. One of its slogans is "the Home of American Music".
> It's been a weekly Nashville stage show since 1925 and one
> of the longest-running broadcasts in radio history. Name it.

Grand Ole Opry

> A2. The Blues might be the greatest American contribution to
> music. Son House, Charley Patton, and Robert Johnson were
> seminal performers of what specific regional style of blues?

Delta Blues

> B. History: Pre-"Cheers" Massachusetts
>
> B1. Little known fact: the legendary "First Thanksgiving" at
> Plymouth had nearly twice as many native guests as Pilgrims.
> Since the natives are less famous, you can name *either*
> their tribe, *or* their chief (who gave the settlers food
> the previous winter), *or* the bilingual native who taught
> them New World fishing and agriculture.
>
> B2. The "shot heard round the world" to start the American
> Revolution happened in a running skirmish on 1775-04-19, in
> two towns that still argue about which one it took place in.
> So name *both* towns.
>
> C. Science: American Know-How
>
> C1. From Franklin through Tesla and Edison, famous American
> inventors have played with electricity. What ground-breaking
> 1947 invention was credited to three distinctly less famous
> Bell Labs scientists -- Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain?
>
> C2. Eli Whitney's cotton gin and Cyrus McCormick's mechanical
> reaper were revolutionary agricultural innovations, but
> which inventor's *literally* groundbreaking steel plow
> helped open the prairies to farming?
>
> D. Literature: Great American Novels
>
> D1. John Updike's most famous work is a series of novels about
> a middle-class American everyman with an unusual nickname.
> What nickname?

Rabbit

> D2. Name Philip Roth's novel, winner of a 1998 Pulitzer Prize,
> that describes the life of the fictional Seymour "Swede"
> Levov.
>
> E. Geography: This Land is Your Land
>
> E1. Yellowstone National Park is often called the first national
> park in the world, signed into law by President Ulysses
> S. Grant in 1872. In which US state is 96% of the park
> located?

Wyoming

> E2. The most visited national park, by a wide margin, is located
> closer to eastern population centers. Great Smoky Mountains
> National Park is located in two states; name *either*.

Tennessee

> F. Sports: National Pastimes
>
> F1. What is the most popular competitive sport for Americans
> to *participate* in?
>
> F2. In terms of the number of Americans identifying themselves
> as *fans*, which is the 4th-most-popular American sport?
> It follows football, baseball, and basketball, but comes
> ahead of hockey.

Soccer

[Mark Brader]

Jason Kreitzer:

> "IF YOU SMELL WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKING..."

WHAT?
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "We did not try to keep writing until
m...@vex.net | things got full." --Dennis Ritchie

[Bruce Bowler]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 12:35:41 -0600, Mark Brader wrote:

> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-11-24,
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give both a
> right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
> Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,
> based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote the
> questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal the
> correct answers in about 3 days.
>
> All questions were written by members of Unnatural Axxxe, and are used
> here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have been retyped
> and/or edited by me. For further information see my 2014-09-15
> companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 9 - Sports & Entertainment - What I Really Want to Do
> is Act
>
> Many's the athlete who tried and failed to pad their resume with an
> acting career -- we're looking at you, Joe Namath and Shaquille O'Neal.
> But others were more successful. In each case,
> name that athlete-turned-actor.
>
> 1. The star of shows like "St. Elsewhere" and "NCIS", he was
> a starting quarterback for the UCLA Bruins in the early '70s, leading
> his team to a 17-5 record over two seasons.

Mark Harmon

> 2. This Best Actor Oscar nominee for "The Last King of Scotland"
> attended USC on a football scholarship and, fittingly enough, played
> a high school football player in his movie debut "Fast Times at
> Ridgemont High".

Forest Whitaker

> 3. He's the patriarch of a family of duck hunters on TV, but he
> was the starting quarterback at Louisiana Tech in the mid-'60s, and
> was replaced after graduation by a guy named Terry Bradshaw. Name
> that duck hunter. (As usual, the surname is sufficient.)

Phil Robertson

> 4. His dad, Rocky Johnson, was a Canadian pro wrestler and,
> before following in pop's footsteps, he played football for the Miami
> Hurricanes and briefly for Calgary Stampeders.
> He recently played Hercules on screen.

Duane Johnson

> 5. Eventually he followed Aunt Rosemary and Uncle José Ferrer into
> showbiz, but only after flaming out in minor-league baseball with the
> Cincinnati Reds organization. Name this dreamy Oscar-winning leading
> man.

George Clooney?

> 6. His shows include "Married... with Children" and "Modern Family".
> His athletic career included a football college scholarship and an
> ill-fated invitation to the Pittsburgh Steelers' training camp in
> 1969.

Ed O'Neill

> 7. The artist sometimes known as Apollo Creed played 8 games for
> the Oakland Raiders and 18 games for the BC Lions.

Carl Weathers

> 8. Before becoming a movie star, he was a star running back for
> Florida State, and actually got to play football again with his
> starring turn in the movie "The Longest Yard".

Burt Reynolds

> 9. In 1973, he became the first player to rush for more than 2,000
> yards in a season. His films include "The Cassandra Crossing",
> "Capricorn One", "The Naked Gun", "The Naked Gun 2 1/2", and "The
> Naked Gun 33 1/3".

OJ Simpson

> 10. He once held the professional middleweight karate championship
> title. But some people know him better as a Texas Ranger on TV. Name
> him.

Chuck Norris

> * Game 10, Round 10 - Challenge - US Thanksgiving
>
> This week is US Thanksgiving, so here is a round in appreciation of our
> neighbors to the south.
>
> A. Entertainment: American Music
>
> A1. One of its slogans is "the Home of American Music".
> It's been a weekly Nashville stage show since 1925 and one of the
> longest-running broadcasts in radio history. Name it.

Grand ol' Oprey

> A2. The Blues might be the greatest American contribution to
> music. Son House, Charley Patton, and Robert Johnson were
> seminal performers of what specific regional style of blues?
>
> B. History: Pre-"Cheers" Massachusetts
>
> B1. Little known fact: the legendary "First Thanksgiving" at
> Plymouth had nearly twice as many native guests as Pilgrims.
> Since the natives are less famous, you can name *either* their
> tribe, *or* their chief (who gave the settlers food the previous
> winter), *or* the bilingual native who taught them New World
> fishing and agriculture.

Squanto

> B2. The "shot heard round the world" to start the American
> Revolution happened in a running skirmish on 1775-04-19, in two
> towns that still argue about which one it took place in. So name
> *both* towns.

Lexington & Concord

> C. Science: American Know-How
>
> C1. From Franklin through Tesla and Edison, famous American
> inventors have played with electricity. What ground-breaking
> 1947 invention was credited to three distinctly less famous Bell
> Labs scientists -- Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain?

The Transistor

> C2. Eli Whitney's cotton gin and Cyrus McCormick's mechanical
> reaper were revolutionary agricultural innovations, but which
> inventor's *literally* groundbreaking steel plow helped open the
> prairies to farming?

John Deere

> D. Literature: Great American Novels
>
> D1. John Updike's most famous work is a series of novels about
> a middle-class American everyman with an unusual nickname. What
> nickname?
>
> D2. Name Philip Roth's novel, winner of a 1998 Pulitzer Prize,
> that describes the life of the fictional Seymour "Swede" Levov.
>
> E. Geography: This Land is Your Land
>
> E1. Yellowstone National Park is often called the first national
> park in the world, signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant
> in 1872. In which US state is 96% of the park located?

Wyoming

> E2. The most visited national park, by a wide margin, is located
> closer to eastern population centers. Great Smoky Mountains
> National Park is located in two states; name *either*.

Tennessee

> F. Sports: National Pastimes
>
> F1. What is the most popular competitive sport for Americans
> to *participate* in?

Tennis; Basketball

> F2. In terms of the number of Americans identifying themselves
> as *fans*, which is the 4th-most-popular American sport?
> It follows football, baseball, and basketball, but comes ahead of
> hockey.

Car racing

[Peter Smyth]

Mark Brader wrote:

> * Game 10, Round 9 - Sports & Entertainment - What I Really Want to
> Do is Act
>
> Many's the athlete who tried and failed to pad their resume
> with an acting career -- we're looking at you, Joe Namath and
> Shaquille O'Neal. But others were more successful. In each case,
> name that athlete-turned-actor.
>
> 1. The star of shows like "St. Elsewhere" and "NCIS", he was
> a starting quarterback for the UCLA Bruins in the early '70s,
> leading his team to a 17-5 record over two seasons.
>
> 2. This Best Actor Oscar nominee for "The Last King of Scotland"
> attended USC on a football scholarship and, fittingly enough,
> played a high school football player in his movie debut "Fast
> Times at Ridgemont High".

Forest Whitaker

> 3. He's the patriarch of a family of duck hunters on TV, but he
> was the starting quarterback at Louisiana Tech in the mid-'60s,
> and was replaced after graduation by a guy named Terry Bradshaw.
> Name that duck hunter. (As usual, the surname is sufficient.)
>
> 4. His dad, Rocky Johnson, was a Canadian pro wrestler and,
> before following in pop's footsteps, he played football for
> the Miami Hurricanes and briefly for Calgary Stampeders.
> He recently played Hercules on screen.
>
> 5. Eventually he followed Aunt Rosemary and Uncle José Ferrer into
> showbiz, but only after flaming out in minor-league baseball with
> the Cincinnati Reds organization. Name this dreamy Oscar-winning
> leading man.
>
> 6. His shows include "Married... with Children" and "Modern Family".
> His athletic career included a football college scholarship and
> an ill-fated invitation to the Pittsburgh Steelers' training
> camp in 1969.
>
> 7. The artist sometimes known as Apollo Creed played 8 games for
> the Oakland Raiders and 18 games for the BC Lions.
>
> 8. Before becoming a movie star, he was a star running back for
> Florida State, and actually got to play football again with
> his starring turn in the movie "The Longest Yard".

OJ Simpson

> 9. In 1973, he became the first player to rush for more than 2,000
> yards in a season. His films include "The Cassandra Crossing",
> "Capricorn One", "The Naked Gun", "The Naked Gun 2 1/2", and
> "The Naked Gun 33 1/3".

OJ Simpson

> 10. He once held the professional middleweight karate championship
> title. But some people know him better as a Texas Ranger on TV.
> Name him.
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 10 - Challenge - US Thanksgiving
>
> This week is US Thanksgiving, so here is a round in appreciation
> of our neighbors to the south.
>
> A. Entertainment: American Music
>
> A1. One of its slogans is "the Home of American Music".
> It's been a weekly Nashville stage show since 1925 and one
> of the longest-running broadcasts in radio history. Name it.

Grand Ole Opry

> A2. The Blues might be the greatest American contribution to
> music. Son House, Charley Patton, and Robert Johnson were
> seminal performers of what specific regional style of blues?
>
> B. History: Pre-"Cheers" Massachusetts
>
> B1. Little known fact: the legendary "First Thanksgiving" at
> Plymouth had nearly twice as many native guests as Pilgrims.

> Since the natives are less famous, you can name either
> their tribe, or their chief (who gave the settlers food
> the previous winter), or the bilingual native who taught

> them New World fishing and agriculture.
>
> B2. The "shot heard round the world" to start the American
> Revolution happened in a running skirmish on 1775-04-19, in
> two towns that still argue about which one it took place in.

> So name both towns.

>
> C. Science: American Know-How
>
> C1. From Franklin through Tesla and Edison, famous American
> inventors have played with electricity. What ground-breaking
> 1947 invention was credited to three distinctly less famous
> Bell Labs scientists -- Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain?
>
> C2. Eli Whitney's cotton gin and Cyrus McCormick's mechanical
> reaper were revolutionary agricultural innovations, but

> which inventor's literally groundbreaking steel plow

> helped open the prairies to farming?
>
> D. Literature: Great American Novels
>
> D1. John Updike's most famous work is a series of novels about
> a middle-class American everyman with an unusual nickname.
> What nickname?
>
> D2. Name Philip Roth's novel, winner of a 1998 Pulitzer Prize,
> that describes the life of the fictional Seymour "Swede"
> Levov.
>
> E. Geography: This Land is Your Land
>
> E1. Yellowstone National Park is often called the first national
> park in the world, signed into law by President Ulysses
> S. Grant in 1872. In which US state is 96% of the park
> located?

Arizona

> E2. The most visited national park, by a wide margin, is located
> closer to eastern population centers. Great Smoky Mountains

> National Park is located in two states; name either.
Pennsylvania

> F. Sports: National Pastimes
>
> F1. What is the most popular competitive sport for Americans

> to participate in?
Basketball

> F2. In terms of the number of Americans identifying themselves

> as fans, which is the 4th-most-popular American sport?

> It follows football, baseball, and basketball, but comes
> ahead of hockey.

Soccer

Peter Smyth

[Pete]

m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in
news:MPWdnQP4Xosg71jJ...@vex.net:

Mark Harmon

>
> 2. This Best Actor Oscar nominee for "The Last King of Scotland"
> attended USC on a football scholarship and, fittingly enough,
> played a high school football player in his movie debut "Fast
> Times at Ridgemont High".
>
> 3. He's the patriarch of a family of duck hunters on TV, but he
> was the starting quarterback at Louisiana Tech in the mid-'60s,
> and was replaced after graduation by a guy named Terry Bradshaw.
> Name that duck hunter. (As usual, the surname is sufficient.)

Robertson

>
> 4. His dad, Rocky Johnson, was a Canadian pro wrestler and,
> before following in pop's footsteps, he played football for
> the Miami Hurricanes and briefly for Calgary Stampeders.
> He recently played Hercules on screen.
>
> 5. Eventually he followed Aunt Rosemary and Uncle José Ferrer into
> showbiz, but only after flaming out in minor-league baseball with
> the Cincinnati Reds organization. Name this dreamy Oscar-winning
> leading man.

George Clooney

>
> 6. His shows include "Married... with Children" and "Modern Family".
> His athletic career included a football college scholarship and
> an ill-fated invitation to the Pittsburgh Steelers' training
> camp in 1969.
>
> 7. The artist sometimes known as Apollo Creed played 8 games for
> the Oakland Raiders and 18 games for the BC Lions.
>
> 8. Before becoming a movie star, he was a star running back for
> Florida State, and actually got to play football again with
> his starring turn in the movie "The Longest Yard".

Burt Reynolds

>
> 9. In 1973, he became the first player to rush for more than 2,000
> yards in a season. His films include "The Cassandra Crossing",
> "Capricorn One", "The Naked Gun", "The Naked Gun 2 1/2", and
> "The Naked Gun 33 1/3".

O.J. Simpson

>
> 10. He once held the professional middleweight karate championship
> title. But some people know him better as a Texas Ranger on TV.
> Name him.

Chuck Norris

>
>
> * Game 10, Round 10 - Challenge - US Thanksgiving
>
> This week is US Thanksgiving, so here is a round in appreciation
> of our neighbors to the south.
>
> A. Entertainment: American Music
>
> A1. One of its slogans is "the Home of American Music".
> It's been a weekly Nashville stage show since 1925 and one
> of the longest-running broadcasts in radio history. Name it.

Grand Ole Opry

>
> A2. The Blues might be the greatest American contribution to
> music. Son House, Charley Patton, and Robert Johnson were
> seminal performers of what specific regional style of blues?

Mississippi Delta

>
> B. History: Pre-"Cheers" Massachusetts
>
> B1. Little known fact: the legendary "First Thanksgiving" at
> Plymouth had nearly twice as many native guests as Pilgrims.
> Since the natives are less famous, you can name *either*
> their tribe, *or* their chief (who gave the settlers food
> the previous winter), *or* the bilingual native who taught
> them New World fishing and agriculture.

Pocahantas

>
> B2. The "shot heard round the world" to start the American
> Revolution happened in a running skirmish on 1775-04-19, in
> two towns that still argue about which one it took place in.
> So name *both* towns.

Lexington and Concord

>
> C. Science: American Know-How
>
> C1. From Franklin through Tesla and Edison, famous American
> inventors have played with electricity. What ground-breaking
> 1947 invention was credited to three distinctly less famous
> Bell Labs scientists -- Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain?

Transistor

>
> C2. Eli Whitney's cotton gin and Cyrus McCormick's mechanical
> reaper were revolutionary agricultural innovations, but
> which inventor's *literally* groundbreaking steel plow
> helped open the prairies to farming?
>
> D. Literature: Great American Novels
>
> D1. John Updike's most famous work is a series of novels about
> a middle-class American everyman with an unusual nickname.
> What nickname?
>
> D2. Name Philip Roth's novel, winner of a 1998 Pulitzer Prize,
> that describes the life of the fictional Seymour "Swede"
> Levov.
>
> E. Geography: This Land is Your Land
>
> E1. Yellowstone National Park is often called the first national
> park in the world, signed into law by President Ulysses
> S. Grant in 1872. In which US state is 96% of the park
> located?

Wyoming

>
> E2. The most visited national park, by a wide margin, is located
> closer to eastern population centers. Great Smoky Mountains
> National Park is located in two states; name *either*.

North Carolina

>
> F. Sports: National Pastimes
>
> F1. What is the most popular competitive sport for Americans
> to *participate* in?

Soccer

>
> F2. In terms of the number of Americans identifying themselves
> as *fans*, which is the 4th-most-popular American sport?
> It follows football, baseball, and basketball, but comes
> ahead of hockey.

Auto racing

>

Pete

[Dan Tilque]

Burt Reynolds

>
> 9. In 1973, he became the first player to rush for more than 2,000
> yards in a season. His films include "The Cassandra Crossing",
> "Capricorn One", "The Naked Gun", "The Naked Gun 2 1/2", and
> "The Naked Gun 33 1/3".

OJ Simpson

>
> 10. He once held the professional middleweight karate championship
> title. But some people know him better as a Texas Ranger on TV.
> Name him.
>
>
> * Game 10, Round 10 - Challenge - US Thanksgiving
>
> This week is US Thanksgiving, so here is a round in appreciation
> of our neighbors to the south.
>
> A. Entertainment: American Music
>
> A1. One of its slogans is "the Home of American Music".
> It's been a weekly Nashville stage show since 1925 and one
> of the longest-running broadcasts in radio history. Name it.

Grand Ole Opry

>
> A2. The Blues might be the greatest American contribution to
> music. Son House, Charley Patton, and Robert Johnson were
> seminal performers of what specific regional style of blues?

Delta Blues

>
> B. History: Pre-"Cheers" Massachusetts
>
> B1. Little known fact: the legendary "First Thanksgiving" at
> Plymouth had nearly twice as many native guests as Pilgrims.
> Since the natives are less famous, you can name *either*
> their tribe, *or* their chief (who gave the settlers food
> the previous winter), *or* the bilingual native who taught
> them New World fishing and agriculture.

Squanto

>
> B2. The "shot heard round the world" to start the American
> Revolution happened in a running skirmish on 1775-04-19, in
> two towns that still argue about which one it took place in.
> So name *both* towns.

Lexington and Concord

>
> C. Science: American Know-How
>
> C1. From Franklin through Tesla and Edison, famous American
> inventors have played with electricity. What ground-breaking
> 1947 invention was credited to three distinctly less famous
> Bell Labs scientists -- Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain?

transistor

>
> C2. Eli Whitney's cotton gin and Cyrus McCormick's mechanical
> reaper were revolutionary agricultural innovations, but
> which inventor's *literally* groundbreaking steel plow
> helped open the prairies to farming?
>
> D. Literature: Great American Novels
>
> D1. John Updike's most famous work is a series of novels about
> a middle-class American everyman with an unusual nickname.
> What nickname?

Rabbit

>
> D2. Name Philip Roth's novel, winner of a 1998 Pulitzer Prize,
> that describes the life of the fictional Seymour "Swede"
> Levov.
>
> E. Geography: This Land is Your Land
>
> E1. Yellowstone National Park is often called the first national
> park in the world, signed into law by President Ulysses
> S. Grant in 1872. In which US state is 96% of the park
> located?

Wyoming

>
> E2. The most visited national park, by a wide margin, is located
> closer to eastern population centers. Great Smoky Mountains
> National Park is located in two states; name *either*.

Tennessee

>
> F. Sports: National Pastimes
>
> F1. What is the most popular competitive sport for Americans
> to *participate* in?

softball

>
> F2. In terms of the number of Americans identifying themselves
> as *fans*, which is the 4th-most-popular American sport?
> It follows football, baseball, and basketball, but comes
> ahead of hockey.

golf


--
Dan Tilque

[swp]

On Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 1:35:42 PM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:

> * Game 10, Round 9 - Sports & Entertainment - What I Really Want to Do is Act
>

> 1. The star of shows like "St. Elsewhere" and "NCIS", he was
> a starting quarterback for the UCLA Bruins in the early '70s,
> leading his team to a 17-5 record over two seasons.

mark harmon

> 2. This Best Actor Oscar nominee for "The Last King of Scotland"
> attended USC on a football scholarship and, fittingly enough,
> played a high school football player in his movie debut "Fast
> Times at Ridgemont High".

forrest whitaker

> 3. He's the patriarch of a family of duck hunters on TV, but he
> was the starting quarterback at Louisiana Tech in the mid-'60s,
> and was replaced after graduation by a guy named Terry Bradshaw.
> Name that duck hunter. (As usual, the surname is sufficient.)

phil robertson

> 4. His dad, Rocky Johnson, was a Canadian pro wrestler and,
> before following in pop's footsteps, he played football for
> the Miami Hurricanes and briefly for Calgary Stampeders.
> He recently played Hercules on screen.

dwayne 'the rock' johnson (hey! a question where johnson is actually the answer!)

> 5. Eventually he followed Aunt Rosemary and Uncle José Ferrer into
> showbiz, but only after flaming out in minor-league baseball with
> the Cincinnati Reds organization. Name this dreamy Oscar-winning
> leading man.

george clooney

> 6. His shows include "Married... with Children" and "Modern Family".
> His athletic career included a football college scholarship and
> an ill-fated invitation to the Pittsburgh Steelers' training
> camp in 1969.

ed o'neill (he was in the movie _dutch_ too)

> 7. The artist sometimes known as Apollo Creed played 8 games for
> the Oakland Raiders and 18 games for the BC Lions.

carl weathers

> 8. Before becoming a movie star, he was a star running back for
> Florida State, and actually got to play football again with
> his starring turn in the movie "The Longest Yard".

burt reynolds

> 9. In 1973, he became the first player to rush for more than 2,000
> yards in a season. His films include "The Cassandra Crossing",
> "Capricorn One", "The Naked Gun", "The Naked Gun 2 1/2", and
> "The Naked Gun 33 1/3".

orenthal james simpson

> 10. He once held the professional middleweight karate championship
> title. But some people know him better as a Texas Ranger on TV.
> Name him.

chuck norris

> * Game 10, Round 10 - Challenge - US Thanksgiving
>
> This week is US Thanksgiving, so here is a round in appreciation
> of our neighbors to the south.
>
> A. Entertainment: American Music
>
> A1. One of its slogans is "the Home of American Music".
> It's been a weekly Nashville stage show since 1925 and one
> of the longest-running broadcasts in radio history. Name it.

the grand ole opry

> A2. The Blues might be the greatest American contribution to
> music. Son House, Charley Patton, and Robert Johnson were
> seminal performers of what specific regional style of blues?

american delta blues
(the leading statement is incorrect. jazz is the greatest american contribution to music.)

> B. History: Pre-"Cheers" Massachusetts
>
> B1. Little known fact: the legendary "First Thanksgiving" at
> Plymouth had nearly twice as many native guests as Pilgrims.
> Since the natives are less famous, you can name *either*
> their tribe, *or* their chief (who gave the settlers food
> the previous winter), *or* the bilingual native who taught
> them New World fishing and agriculture.

massasoit

> B2. The "shot heard round the world" to start the American
> Revolution happened in a running skirmish on 1775-04-19, in
> two towns that still argue about which one it took place in.
> So name *both* towns.

lexington and concord

> C. Science: American Know-How
>
> C1. From Franklin through Tesla and Edison, famous American
> inventors have played with electricity. What ground-breaking
> 1947 invention was credited to three distinctly less famous
> Bell Labs scientists -- Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain?

transistors

> C2. Eli Whitney's cotton gin and Cyrus McCormick's mechanical
> reaper were revolutionary agricultural innovations, but
> which inventor's *literally* groundbreaking steel plow
> helped open the prairies to farming?

john deere

> D. Literature: Great American Novels
>
> D1. John Updike's most famous work is a series of novels about
> a middle-class American everyman with an unusual nickname.
> What nickname?

rabbit

> D2. Name Philip Roth's novel, winner of a 1998 Pulitzer Prize,
> that describes the life of the fictional Seymour "Swede"
> Levov.

american pastoral

> E. Geography: This Land is Your Land
>
> E1. Yellowstone National Park is often called the first national
> park in the world, signed into law by President Ulysses
> S. Grant in 1872. In which US state is 96% of the park
> located?

wyoming

> E2. The most visited national park, by a wide margin, is located
> closer to eastern population centers. Great Smoky Mountains
> National Park is located in two states; name *either*.

tennessee

> F. Sports: National Pastimes
>
> F1. What is the most popular competitive sport for Americans
> to *participate* in?

basketball

> F2. In terms of the number of Americans identifying themselves
> as *fans*, which is the 4th-most-popular American sport?
> It follows football, baseball, and basketball, but comes
> ahead of hockey.

soccer


swp

[swp]

clearly you are confused because he got the inflection wrong. it's:
IF YA SMEELLLLL<insert tongue wag here>LLLLL<and here>LLL. WHAT THE *ROCK!* <dramatic pause> is cookin'.

[swp]

see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr8glaM4ruM

[Mark Brader]

Mark Brader:

>> 4. His dad, Rocky Johnson, was a Canadian pro wrestler and,
>> before following in pop's footsteps, he played football for
>> the Miami Hurricanes and briefly for Calgary Stampeders.
>> He recently played Hercules on screen.

Stephen Perry:

> dwayne 'the rock' johnson (hey! a question where johnson is actually the
> answer!)

Yeah -- a pity it was in the question too. I should've noticed and
edited that out.

>> A2. The Blues might be the greatest American contribution to

>> music...

> ...incorrect. jazz is the greatest american contribution to music.

What, you mean it wasn't actually... oh, wait, she's Canadian.
Well, then... no, she's Canadian too. Then... oh, never mind.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "Abel was I ere I saw non-Abelian groups"
m...@vex.net | --Roland Hutchinson

[Rob Parker]

> * Game 10, Round 9 - Sports & Entertainment - What I Really Want to Do is
> Act
>

> 4. His dad, Rocky Johnson, was a Canadian pro wrestler and,
> before following in pop's footsteps, he played football for
> the Miami Hurricanes and briefly for Calgary Stampeders.
> He recently played Hercules on screen.

Johnson (!)

> 6. His shows include "Married... with Children" and "Modern Family".
> His athletic career included a football college scholarship and
> an ill-fated invitation to the Pittsburgh Steelers' training
> camp in 1969.

Ed O'Neil

> 10. He once held the professional middleweight karate championship
> title. But some people know him better as a Texas Ranger on TV.
> Name him.

Chuck Norris

> Round 10 - Challenge - US Thanksgiving
>

> A1. One of its slogans is "the Home of American Music".
> It's been a weekly Nashville stage show since 1925 and one
> of the longest-running broadcasts in radio history. Name it.

Grand Old Opry

> A2. The Blues might be the greatest American contribution to
> music. Son House, Charley Patton, and Robert Johnson were
> seminal performers of what specific regional style of blues?

delta blues

> C1. From Franklin through Tesla and Edison, famous American
> inventors have played with electricity. What ground-breaking
> 1947 invention was credited to three distinctly less famous
> Bell Labs scientists -- Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain?

transistor

> E1. Yellowstone National Park is often called the first national
> park in the world, signed into law by President Ulysses
> S. Grant in 1872. In which US state is 96% of the park
> located?

Wyoming

> E2. The most visited national park, by a wide margin, is located
> closer to eastern population centers. Great Smoky Mountains
> National Park is located in two states; name *either*.

North Dakota; New Hampshire

> F1. What is the most popular competitive sport for Americans
> to *participate* in?

bowling (ie. ten-pin bowling)

> F2. In terms of the number of Americans identifying themselves
> as *fans*, which is the 4th-most-popular American sport?
> It follows football, baseball, and basketball, but comes
> ahead of hockey.

car (ie. auto) racing


Rob

[Mark Brader]

Mark Brader:

> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-11-24,

> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information

> see my 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the
> Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".

Game 10 is over and by a margin of 8 points the winner is
JOSHUA KREITZER. Hearty congratulations!

> * Game 10, Round 9 - Sports & Entertainment - What I Really Want to Do is Act

> Many's the athlete who tried and failed to pad their resume
> with an acting career -- we're looking at you, Joe Namath and
> Shaquille O'Neal. But others were more successful. In each case,
> name that athlete-turned-actor.

> 1. The star of shows like "St. Elsewhere" and "NCIS", he was
> a starting quarterback for the UCLA Bruins in the early '70s,
> leading his team to a 17-5 record over two seasons.

Mark Harmon. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Jason, Bruce, Pete, and Stephen.

> 2. This Best Actor Oscar nominee for "The Last King of Scotland"
> attended USC on a football scholarship and, fittingly enough,
> played a high school football player in his movie debut "Fast
> Times at Ridgemont High".

Forest Whitaker (with no double letters, by the way). 4 for Calvin,
Dan Blum, Joshua, Jason, Bruce, Peter, and Stephen.

> 3. He's the patriarch of a family of duck hunters on TV, but he
> was the starting quarterback at Louisiana Tech in the mid-'60s,
> and was replaced after graduation by a guy named Terry Bradshaw.
> Name that duck hunter. (As usual, the surname is sufficient.)

Phil Robertson. 4 for Dan Blum, Bruce, Pete, and Stephen.
3 for Joshua.

> 4. His dad, Rocky Johnson, was a Canadian pro wrestler and,
> before following in pop's footsteps, he played football for
> the Miami Hurricanes and briefly for Calgary Stampeders.
> He recently played Hercules on screen.

Dwayne Johnson, aka "the Rock". 4 for Calvin, Dan Blum, Joshua,
Jason, Bruce, Stephen, and Rob.

> 5. Eventually he followed Aunt Rosemary and Uncle José Ferrer into
> showbiz, but only after flaming out in minor-league baseball with
> the Cincinnati Reds organization. Name this dreamy Oscar-winning
> leading man.

George Clooney. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Bruce, Pete, and Stephen.

> 6. His shows include "Married... with Children" and "Modern Family".
> His athletic career included a football college scholarship and
> an ill-fated invitation to the Pittsburgh Steelers' training
> camp in 1969.

Ed O'Neill. 4 for Björn, Joshua, Bruce, Stephen, and Rob.

> 7. The artist sometimes known as Apollo Creed played 8 games for
> the Oakland Raiders and 18 games for the BC Lions.

Carl Weathers. 4 for Jason, Bruce, and Stephen.

> 8. Before becoming a movie star, he was a star running back for
> Florida State, and actually got to play football again with
> his starring turn in the movie "The Longest Yard".

Burt Reynolds. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Jason, Bruce, Pete,
Dan Tilque, and Stephen.

> 9. In 1973, he became the first player to rush for more than 2,000
> yards in a season. His films include "The Cassandra Crossing",
> "Capricorn One", "The Naked Gun", "The Naked Gun 2 1/2", and
> "The Naked Gun 33 1/3".

O.J. Simpson. 4 for Calvin, Dan Blum, Joshua, Jason, Bruce, Peter,
Pete, Dan Tilque, and Stephen.

> 10. He once held the professional middleweight karate championship
> title. But some people know him better as a Texas Ranger on TV.
> Name him.

Chuck Norris. 4 for Calvin, Dan Blum, Joshua, Jason, Bruce, Pete,
Stephen, and Rob.

> * Game 10, Round 10 - Challenge - US Thanksgiving

> This week is US Thanksgiving, so here is a round in appreciation
> of our neighbors to the south.

> A. Entertainment: American Music

> A1. One of its slogans is "the Home of American Music".
> It's been a weekly Nashville stage show since 1925 and one
> of the longest-running broadcasts in radio history. Name it.

"Grand Ole Opry". 4 for Calvin, Dan Blum, Joshua, Jason, Bruce,
Peter, Pete, Dan Tilque, Stephen, and Rob.

> A2. The Blues might be the greatest American contribution to
> music. Son House, Charley Patton, and Robert Johnson were
> seminal performers of what specific regional style of blues?

(Mississippi) Delta Blues. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Jason, Pete,
Dan Tilque, Stephen, and Rob.

> B. History: Pre-"Cheers" Massachusetts

> B1. Little known fact: the legendary "First Thanksgiving" at
> Plymouth had nearly twice as many native guests as Pilgrims.
> Since the natives are less famous, you can name *either*
> their tribe, *or* their chief (who gave the settlers food
> the previous winter), *or* the bilingual native who taught
> them New World fishing and agriculture.

Wampanoag, Massassoit, Squanto (respectively). 4 for Joshua, Bruce,
Dan Tilque, and Stephen.

> B2. The "shot heard round the world" to start the American
> Revolution happened in a running skirmish on 1775-04-19, in
> two towns that still argue about which one it took place in.
> So name *both* towns.

Lexington, Concord. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Bruce, Pete, Dan Tilque,
and Stephen.

> C. Science: American Know-How

> C1. From Franklin through Tesla and Edison, famous American
> inventors have played with electricity. What ground-breaking
> 1947 invention was credited to three distinctly less famous
> Bell Labs scientists -- Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain?

Transistor. 4 for Erland, Björn, Dan Blum, Joshua, Bruce, Pete,
Dan Tilque, Stephen, and Rob.

> C2. Eli Whitney's cotton gin and Cyrus McCormick's mechanical
> reaper were revolutionary agricultural innovations, but
> which inventor's *literally* groundbreaking steel plow
> helped open the prairies to farming?

John Deere. 4 for Björn, Dan Blum, Bruce, and Stephen.

> D. Literature: Great American Novels

> D1. John Updike's most famous work is a series of novels about
> a middle-class American everyman with an unusual nickname.
> What nickname?

Rabbit. (Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom.) 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Jason,
Dan Tilque, and Stephen.

> D2. Name Philip Roth's novel, winner of a 1998 Pulitzer Prize,
> that describes the life of the fictional Seymour "Swede"
> Levov.

"American Pastoral". 4 for Stephen.

> E. Geography: This Land is Your Land

> E1. Yellowstone National Park is often called the first national
> park in the world, signed into law by President Ulysses
> S. Grant in 1872. In which US state is 96% of the park
> located?

Wyoming. 4 for Erland, Calvin, Dan Blum, Joshua, Jason, Bruce,
Pete, Dan Tilque, Stephen, and Rob.

The northern edge of the park is in Montana, and the western edge
in Montana and Idaho.

> E2. The most visited national park, by a wide margin, is located
> closer to eastern population centers. Great Smoky Mountains
> National Park is located in two states; name *either*.

North Carolina, Tennessee. 4 for Erland (the hard way), Dan Blum,
Joshua, Jason, Bruce, Pete, Dan Tilque, and Stephen.

> F. Sports: National Pastimes

> F1. What is the most popular competitive sport for Americans
> to *participate* in?

Bowling. 4 for Rob. 3 for Calvin.

> F2. In terms of the number of Americans identifying themselves
> as *fans*, which is the 4th-most-popular American sport?
> It follows football, baseball, and basketball, but comes
> ahead of hockey.

Auto racing. I accepted "motor sport". 4 for Dan Blum, Bruce,
Pete, and Rob. 3 for Calvin.

Scores, if there are no errors:

GAME 10 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 BEST
TOPICS-> Geo Can Art Sci Ent Mis Ent Cha SIX
Joshua Kreitzer 26 19 38 20 40 40 35 32 211
Dan Blum 27 7 36 33 16 39 32 36 203
Bruce Bowler 26 16 32 31 16 16 40 32 177
Marc Dashevsky 24 8 36 20 40 40 -- -- 168
Stephen Perry -- -- -- -- 36 40 40 40 156
Rob Parker 19 9 33 28 20 21 12 24 145
Dan Tilque 20 12 20 27 16 28 8 32 143
Jason Kreitzer 8 0 0 8 32 24 28 20 120
Pete Gayde -- -- -- -- 32 36 24 28 120
"Calvin" -- -- 40 8 16 21 16 14 115
Erland Sommarskog 12 12 20 24 12 12 0 12 92
Peter Smyth -- -- 3 23 12 22 8 4 72
Björn Lundin 8 4 20 12 4 4 4 8 56

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> * Game 10, Round 9 - Sports & Entertainment - What I Really Want to Do is Act
>
> Many's the athlete who tried and failed to pad their resume
> with an acting career -- we're looking at you, Joe Namath and
> Shaquille O'Neal. But others were more successful. In each case,
> name that athlete-turned-actor.
>
> 1. The star of shows like "St. Elsewhere" and "NCIS", he was
> a starting quarterback for the UCLA Bruins in the early '70s,
> leading his team to a 17-5 record over two seasons.

Mark Harmon

> 2. This Best Actor Oscar nominee for "The Last King of Scotland"
> attended USC on a football scholarship and, fittingly enough,
> played a high school football player in his movie debut "Fast
> Times at Ridgemont High".

Forrest Whitaker

> 3. He's the patriarch of a family of duck hunters on TV, but he
> was the starting quarterback at Louisiana Tech in the mid-'60s,
> and was replaced after graduation by a guy named Terry Bradshaw.
> Name that duck hunter. (As usual, the surname is sufficient.)

Robertson

> 4. His dad, Rocky Johnson, was a Canadian pro wrestler and,
> before following in pop's footsteps, he played football for
> the Miami Hurricanes and briefly for Calgary Stampeders.
> He recently played Hercules on screen.
>
> 5. Eventually he followed Aunt Rosemary and Uncle José Ferrer into
> showbiz, but only after flaming out in minor-league baseball with
> the Cincinnati Reds organization. Name this dreamy Oscar-winning
> leading man.

George Clooney

> 6. His shows include "Married... with Children" and "Modern Family".
> His athletic career included a football college scholarship and
> an ill-fated invitation to the Pittsburgh Steelers' training
> camp in 1969.
>
> 7. The artist sometimes known as Apollo Creed played 8 games for
> the Oakland Raiders and 18 games for the BC Lions.

Carl Weathers

> 8. Before becoming a movie star, he was a star running back for
> Florida State, and actually got to play football again with
> his starring turn in the movie "The Longest Yard".

Burt Reynolds

> 9. In 1973, he became the first player to rush for more than 2,000
> yards in a season. His films include "The Cassandra Crossing",
> "Capricorn One", "The Naked Gun", "The Naked Gun 2 1/2", and
> "The Naked Gun 33 1/3".

Jim Brown

> 10. He once held the professional middleweight karate championship
> title. But some people know him better as a Texas Ranger on TV.
> Name him.

Chuck Norris

> * Game 10, Round 10 - Challenge - US Thanksgiving
>
> This week is US Thanksgiving, so here is a round in appreciation
> of our neighbors to the south.
>
> A. Entertainment: American Music
>
> A1. One of its slogans is "the Home of American Music".
> It's been a weekly Nashville stage show since 1925 and one
> of the longest-running broadcasts in radio history. Name it.

Grad Ole Opry

> A2. The Blues might be the greatest American contribution to
> music. Son House, Charley Patton, and Robert Johnson were
> seminal performers of what specific regional style of blues?

Mississippi Delta

> B. History: Pre-"Cheers" Massachusetts
>
> B1. Little known fact: the legendary "First Thanksgiving" at
> Plymouth had nearly twice as many native guests as Pilgrims.
> Since the natives are less famous, you can name *either*
> their tribe, *or* their chief (who gave the settlers food
> the previous winter), *or* the bilingual native who taught
> them New World fishing and agriculture.
>
> B2. The "shot heard round the world" to start the American
> Revolution happened in a running skirmish on 1775-04-19, in
> two towns that still argue about which one it took place in.
> So name *both* towns.

Lexington and Concord

> C. Science: American Know-How
>
> C1. From Franklin through Tesla and Edison, famous American
> inventors have played with electricity. What ground-breaking
> 1947 invention was credited to three distinctly less famous
> Bell Labs scientists -- Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain?

solid state transistor

> C2. Eli Whitney's cotton gin and Cyrus McCormick's mechanical
> reaper were revolutionary agricultural innovations, but
> which inventor's *literally* groundbreaking steel plow
> helped open the prairies to farming?
>
> D. Literature: Great American Novels
>
> D1. John Updike's most famous work is a series of novels about
> a middle-class American everyman with an unusual nickname.
> What nickname?

Rabbit

> D2. Name Philip Roth's novel, winner of a 1998 Pulitzer Prize,
> that describes the life of the fictional Seymour "Swede"
> Levov.
>
> E. Geography: This Land is Your Land
>
> E1. Yellowstone National Park is often called the first national
> park in the world, signed into law by President Ulysses
> S. Grant in 1872. In which US state is 96% of the park
> located?

Wyoming

> E2. The most visited national park, by a wide margin, is located
> closer to eastern population centers. Great Smoky Mountains
> National Park is located in two states; name *either*.

Tennessee

> F. Sports: National Pastimes
>
> F1. What is the most popular competitive sport for Americans
> to *participate* in?

bowling

> F2. In terms of the number of Americans identifying themselves
> as *fans*, which is the 4th-most-popular American sport?
> It follows football, baseball, and basketball, but comes
> ahead of hockey.

tennis


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would have scored 28 points on each round for a final score of 196 and a
third-place finish instead for fourth.
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