New Date, New Time, New Winners!

Joey's Boyz II: Back by Popular Demand (280 points)
Longhorns and Thundercats (253)
Buff and Blue Balls (246)
Scott McClellan for VP (174)
I Married the Berlin Wall (122)
Jackie
Tamooo

Coverific Music Round

1. The New Pornographers - Dreams (Fleetwood Mac Cover)

2. Musiq Soulchild featuring Estelle - People Everyday (Arrested Development Cover)

3. Revolting Cocks - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?(Rod Stewart cover)

4. The National - Daytrotter Sessions, Pretty In Pink (Psychedelic Furs Cover)

5. The Zen Circus feat. Brian Ritchie - Wild Wild Life (Talking Heads Cover)

6. George Clinton - The Banana Boat Song (Harry Belafonte Cover)

7. Josh Joplin - Eye of the Tiger (Survivor Cover)

8. Bedtime For Toys - Don't Be Cruel (Bobby Brown cover)

Long Weekend Winners

Sex Drugs and House; or How I Learned to Stop Worryin and Love Cuddy (227 Points)
Derek Jeter's Dead Gay Son (221)
Rick is a Veteran and Still Had to Work Today (216)
Drink the Beer (205)
Pen 15 Club (151)
The Racing Presidents / Shorthanded (Tie)
Ramrod
Jay Poe

Question of the Week

(Famous Firsts) What was the first cable series to win an Emmy for Best Drama?

Remember, we ARE having trivia at Rock Bottom, today.

Also, JRs is moving trivia to Wednesday at 8PM.

Memorial Day Trivia

* Following the end of the Civil War, many communities set aside a day to mark the end of the war or honor those who had died. These observances eventually coalesced around Decoration Day, honoring the Union dead, and the several Confederate Memorial Days.

* It is believed the first memorial day was observed in 1865 by liberated slaves at the historic race track in Charleston. The site was a former Confederate prison camp as well as a mass grave for Union soldiers who had died while captive. A parade with thousands of freed blacks and Union soldiers was followed by patriotic singing and a picnic.

* The official birthplace of Memorial Day is Waterloo, New York which observed the day on May 5, 1866, and each year thereafter. General John Murray, a distinguished citizen of Waterloo, and General John A. Logan led the call for the day to be observed each year and helped spread the event nationwide.

* General Logan had been impressed by the way the South honored their dead with a special day and decided the Union needed a similar day. Reportedly, Logan said that it was most fitting; that the ancients, especially the Greeks, had honored their dead, particularly their heroes, by chaplets of laurel and flowers, and that he intended to issue an order designating a day for decorating the grave of every soldier in the land, and if he could he would have made it a holiday.

* Many of the states of the U.S. South refused to celebrate Decoration Day, due to lingering hostility towards the Union Army and also because there were very few veterans of the Union Army who lived in the South. A notable exception was Columbus, Mississippi, which on April 25, 1866 at its Decoration Day commemorated both the Union and Confederate casualties buried in its cemetery.

* The alternative name of "Memorial Day" was first used in 1882, but did not become more common until after World War II, and was not declared the official name by Federal law until 1967.

* The tradition of placing American flags on each of the 260,000+ gravestones at Arlington National Cemetery on the Thursday before Memorial Day was started in the 1950’s by the 1200 soldiers of the 3rd US Infantry began.

Dr Jones, I Presume?

In honor of the audio round clue, and the opening of the 4th movie:

* Indiana Jones' true name is Henry Walton Jones, Jr., after his father

* Jones is notable for his bullwhip, fedora, leather jacket, and fear of snakes.

* Tom Selleck was originally cast as Indiana Jones, but was not able to take the role because he was committed to "Magnum, P.I."

* Tom Selleck was Steven Spielberg's second choice for the role of Indiana Jones. Harrison Ford was his first, but George Lucas objected, since Ford had been in both American Graffiti (1973) and Star Wars (1977).

* In filming the Well of Souls sequence in Raiders of the Lost Ark, the producers scoured every pet shop in London and the South of England for every snake they could lay their hands on. Still, once all the snakes were on set, it became clear that there were not nearly enough of them, so Steven Spielberg had several hoses cut into lengths, and these were used as well.

* A sheet of glass separates Harrison Ford and the arched (and highly dangerous) cobra when he falls into the Well of Souls in Raiders; the snake actually did spray venom onto the glass.

* The opening scene of Raiders is partly based on a classic Disney comic adventure; exploring a lost temple, Donald Duck, his nephews, and Scrooge McDuck must evade a succession of booby traps, like flying darts, a decapitating blade, a huge boulder, and a tunnel flooded with a torrent of gushing water.

* Indiana Jones's hat came from the famous Herbert Johnson hat shop in Saville Row, London. The hat was the shop's Australian model. On the Bonus Features DVD, costume designer Deborah Nadoolman said that in order to properly age the hat, she grabbed and twisted the hat, then she and Harrison Ford both sat on it, and it eventually looked like "a very lived-in and well-loved" hat.

* Indiana Jones never loses his hat as an homage to the classic serials of the 1940s. In those serials, the heroes' hats stayed on heads through virtually any assault. Indy does, however, lose his hat once each in both Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).

* When Raiders was originally submitted for an MPAA rating, it was given a rating of "R" because of the sight of an exploding head. In order to lower the rating, flames were superimposed over this image. The rating was lowered to "PG" (at the time, the PG-13 rating did not exist).

* The infamous scene in Raiders in which Indy shoots a marauding and flamboyant swordsman was not in the original script. Harrison Ford was supposed to use his whip, but the food poisoning he and the rest of the crew had gotten made him too sick to perform the stunt. Instead, someone's off-handed remark, "Why doesn't he just shoot him and get it done and over with?" caused an immediate change in the script.

Need more Indy? Try the Indiana Jones Wikipedia

JR's Champions!

Is This the End of Serghiy's Boyz (324 points)
It's Not a Tumor, Oh Wait It Is (302)
Technical Virgins (296)
Penelope's Final Countdown (255)
Sugar Gliders (230)
Full House
Buff and Blue Balls
Give Us the Stools!
Big Brown
We Know Liars

There is Nothing More Patriotic Than Trivia

Attention all Rock Bottom Trivia Lovers:

We are ON for trivia this Monday. Yep, put that long weekend to good use and rest up for trivia!

Audio Round: Songs from Movies

1. Kate Capshaw - Anything Goes (Opening to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)

2. Los Straitjackets - My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme from Titanic)

3. Serena Ryder - Good Morning Starshine (Originally from Hair)

4. Swingin' Utters - Eddie's Teddy (Originally from Rocky Horror Picture Show)

5. Riders In The Sky - You've Got A Friend In Me (Originally from Toy Story)

6. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - I Wan'na Be Like You (Originally from The Jungle Book)

7. The Shins - New Slang ("You gotta hear this one song—it'll change your life." Featured in Garden State)

8. Sheryl Crow - Tomorrow Never Dies (From a James Bond movie. Which one...?)

It's a Tie!

False Trivia Idols / W does Dubai (322 points) Tie
Hillary's Last Stand (306)
Team Big Boner (266)
Drama Llamas (250)
Tina Turner Overdrive and the Last Crusade
The Case of the Mondays
Last Place for Sure
Drink the Beer
Team Chuck Todd is my Bitch
Hands Off my Intern
If I Made a Sex Tape with Britney Spears, I'd Lie and Say It Wasn't Me
Team Tom Green
Shave my Bauxxite
3's Company 2

Question of the Week

(Science) Bauxite Ore is mined so it can be processed into what metal?



Remember, every team that brings in old cell phones to recycle (this week only) will get 10 bonus points (10 points max per team, not for each phone).

A Brief History of Chess

Chess originated in India, with a game known as chaturanga, which translates as "four divisions of the military". These four divisions are infantry, cavalry, elephants, and chariots, represented respectively by pawn, knight, bishop, and rook. In Persia around 600 the name became shatranj and the rules were developed further. Shatranj was taken up by the Muslim world after the Islamic conquest of Persia, with the pieces largely retaining their Persian names. In Spanish "shatranj" was rendered as ajedrez and in Greek as zatrikion, but in the rest of Europe it was replaced by versions of the Persian shāh ("king").

The game reached Western Europe and Russia by at least three separate routes, the earliest being in the 9th century. By the year 1000 it had spread throughout Europe. Introduced into the Iberian Peninsula by the Moors in the 10th century, it was described in a famous 13th century manuscript covering shatranj, backgammon, and dice named the Libro de los juegos.


Around 1200, rules of shatranj started to be modified in southern Europe, and around 1475, several major changes rendered the game essentially as it is known today. These modern rules for the basic moves had been adopted in Italy and in Spain. Pawns gained the option of advancing two squares on their first move, while bishops and queens acquired their modern abilities. This made the queen the most powerful piece; consequently modern chess was referred to as "Queen's Chess" or "Mad Queen Chess". These new rules quickly spread throughout western Europe, with the exception of the rules about stalemate, which were finalized in the early nineteenth century.

This was also the time when chess started to develop a corpus of theory. The oldest preserved printed chess book, Repetición de Amores y Arte de Ajedrez (Repetition of Love and the Art of Playing Chess) by Spanish churchman Luis Ramirez de Lucena was published in Salamanca in 1497. Lucena and later masters developed elements of openings and started to analyze simple endgames.

In the eighteenth century the center of European chess life moved from the Southern European countries to France. Centers of chess life in this period were coffee houses in big European cities like Café de la Régence in Paris and Simpson's Divan in London.

As the nineteenth century progressed, chess organization developed quickly. Many chess clubs, chess books and chess journals appeared. There were correspondence matches between cities; for example the London Chess Club played against the Edinburgh Chess Club in 1824. Chess problems became a regular part of nineteenth century newspapers. In 1843, von der Lasa published his and Bilguer's Handbuch des Schachspiels (Handbook of Chess), the first comprehensive manual of chess theory.

For all things chess, visit you local Wikipedia

Babar the Elephant

Babar the Elephant is a popular French children's fictional character who first appeared in L'Histoire de Babar by Jean de Brunhoff in 1931, and enjoyed immediate success. English language versions, entitled The Story of Babar, appeared in 1933 in Britain and the United States. The story tells of a young elephant called Babar who leaves the jungle, visits a big city, and returns to bring the benefits of civilization to his fellow elephants.

Jean de Brunhoff published six more stories before his early death in 1937 at the age of 37. His son Laurent de Brunhoff was also a talented writer and illustrator and he carried on the series from 1946 with Babar et Le Coquin d'Arthur and many more.

Story of Babar
After Babar witnesses the slaughter of his beloved mother, he flees from the jungle and finds his way to Paris where he is befriended by the Old Lady. Babar eventually returns to the Elephant realm following the death of the previous King, who had eaten some poisonous mushrooms. Babar is crowned king, marries his 3rd cousin twice removed Celeste, and founds the city of Celesteville. Babar, who tends to wear a bright green suit, introduces a very French form of western civilization to the elephants, and causes them to dress in western attire.

Criticism
The books are written in what many would call a charming and appealing style with an large amount of attention to detail. Underneath, they could be seen as a justification for colonialism, with the benefits of French civilization being visited on the rustic African elephant kingdom. Some writers, including Herbert R. Kohl and Vivian Paley have argued that the books, although superficially delightful, are politically and morally offensive. Others argue that the French civilization described in the early books had already been destroyed by the Great War and the books were originally an exercise in nostalgia for pre 1914 France.

Learn all about your favorite elephant king.

Please Note the Credits Song

So, this is what "It's Raining Men", by the Weather Girls always makes me think of:

JR's Winn-Ohs!

Buff and Blue Balls (297 points)
Southern Belles (286)
Serbghiy's Boyz (279)
Jenna's Honeymoon Blackout (277)
Earthquake, Wind, and Fire Tour (267)
The Floor is Sticky and So Am I
Felcher for Hillary
Does this Sweater Vest Look Gay?
The Ballers
We're Just Here for the Beer!!!

Billy Joel, Twice in Two Weeks...?

1. The Longest Time (Billy Joel) covered by The Noteables

2. Save Tonight (Eagle Eyed Cherry) covered by The Noteables

3. Chain of Fools (Aretha Franklin) covered by Bluestockings

4. Dreaming with a Broken Heart (John Mayer) covered by Bluestockings

5. Say It Ain't So (Weezer) covered by The Amherst College DQ

6. It's Raining Men (The Weathergirls) by Media

7. The Warrior (Scandal) covered by BC Bostonians

8. All I need is a Miracle (Mike and the Mechanics) covered by BC Bostonians

9. This Charming Man (The Smith) covered by BC Bostonians

10.These Dreams (Heart) covered by BC Bostonians

Rock Bottom Winn-ahs!!!

Myanmar Relief Effort (276 points)
Sniffing Jason's Moist Panties (275 points)
Team TBA (273 points)
Dirty Seagulls (264 points)
Clemen's Concubine (214 points)
I Married Jenna Bush
Tina Turner Overdrive and the Temple of Doom
Suck It, Monkeys
The Charles Bronson Book Club
We're Building an Ark, Who's Coming With Us?
$2.50 Pints
Red Rockets
Fourths a Charm
Alias
Take Off, You Hosers
Sneaker Junkies
I drink 2 Dollar Beers
Crust

Question of the Week

(Animal Planet) According to Cat Fanciers’ Association registration statistics for 2007, this breed of cat is the most popular?

Also, our Trivia Master apparently has a side job as a teacher. Who knew? Anyway, some of the kids are doing a fundraiser at school; collecting cell phones to be turned in for money. If you have any old cell phones lying around and want them recycled, please bring them to trivia for the next two weeks. They can be broken or working.

Abbey Road

Specifically, the album cover photograph...

-At some point, the album was going to be titled "Everest", after a brand of cigarettes and the cover photo would show Geoffrey Emerick (a recording studio audio engineer) in the Himalayas.

-The famous photo was taken outside the studio, on 8 August 1969 by photographer Iain Macmillan, who was given only ten minutes to take the shot.

-A second version by Iain Macmillan was used on McCartney's solo album Paul Is Live. The man standing on the pavement in the background is Paul Cole, an American tourist who was unaware that he was being photographed until he saw the album cover months later.

-The zebra crossing, still a popular destination for Beatles fans, is no longer in the same location as it was in 1969, having been moved further East in the 1970s. Looking across the street in the direction the Beatles crossed it, the crossing was moved from the left side of the light pole on the destination side of the street to the right side of the pole.

-The Volkswagen Beetle parked next to the zebra crossing belonged to one of the people living in the apartment across from the recording studio. After the album came out, the number plate was stolen repeatedly from the car. In 1986, the car was sold at an auction for $23,000 and is currently on display at the Volkswagen museum in Wolfsburg, Germany.

-This cover has become one of the most famous and most imitated album covers in recording history. Bands who have used similar album covers include Red Hot Chili Peppers's The Abbey Road E.P. (in which the band appears nude, apart from some socks), Paul McCartney's live album Paul Is Live, Beatles parody The Rutles's Shabby Road, The Shadows's Live At Abbey Road LP and Kanye West's Live Orchestration DVD (recorded at Abbey Road studios).

-In Danny Boyle's Trainspotting the four main characters walk towards a climactic drug deal processing the "wrong" way across the famous crossing.

-The 1998 Walt Disney movie The Parent Trap featured a brief imitation - including a freeze frame to make it obvious.

I am Sam, which features covers of Beatles songs as its soundtrack, features a scene in which several characters walk across a zebra crossing carrying pink balloons.

-In The Simpsons, Homer's successful barbershop quartet The Be Sharps' second album Bigger Than Jesus included a parody of the cover with the four band members walking on water.

-There is an episode of The Powerpuff Girls called Meet the Beat-Alls, where four of the main villains unite as a super group of villains. At one point in the cartoon, they cross a street in Abbey Road cover art fashion.

-On the back cover of the textbook Molecular Biology of the Cell, third edition, the authors in alphabetical order cross Abbey Road on their way to lunch (including UCL professor Martin Raff without shoes). Much of this edition was written in a house just around the corner.

For more, see Wiki

Legend of the Octopus

The Legend of the Octopus is a sports tradition during Detroit Red Wings home games in which an octopus is thrown onto the ice surface for good luck during a playoff run. This tradition dates back to the 1952 playoffs when NHL teams played two best-of-seven series to capture the Stanley Cup. The octopus, having eight arms, symbolized the number of playoff wins necessary for the Red Wings to win the Stanley Cup.

The whole started on April 15, 1952 with Pete and Jerry Cusimano, brothers and storeowners in Detroit's Eastern Market. The team swept the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens en route to winning the championship, as well as winning two of the next three championships.

The tossing of octopuses is generally viewed as a successful symbol of good luck and has persisted each year. In one 1995 game, fans threw 36 octopuses, including a 30-pounder. The Red Wings' unofficial mascot is a purple octopus named Al, and during playoff runs two of these mascots are also hung from the rafters of the Joe Louis Arena, symbolizing the 16 wins now needed to win the Stanley Cup.



The octopus tradition has launched a couple of other object-tossing manias. During the 1996 Stanley Cup Playoffs, fans of the Florida Panthers threw thousands of toy rats on the ice whenever the Panthers scored, inspired by the octopus toss and the story of Scott Mellanby killing a rat in the Panthers' dressing room. The NHL eventually cracked down on the rat-tossing because of the lengthy delays they could cause, and it ceased altogether shortly after the Panthers' Cup Finals run ended.

The Wings' Central Division rivals, the Nashville Predators, have mocked this tradition by throwing catfish onto their home ice, in response to the Red Wings tradition.

See Wikipedia for all you could ever want to know about the Red Wings.

And Now For Something Completely Different

No audio round links this week, folks, but here are all the covers from the picture quiz:

Mmmmm... Newsies...

This Week's JRs Champions

1. Buff and Blue Balls
2. D.C.eased Madams
3. Serghiy's Boyz
4. If DC's rockin', don't come a knockin'
5. Honey I locked our kids in the basement...for 24 years
6. Oops I spilled my coffee
7. Newsies

Mmmmm... Bologna...

This Week's Rock Bottom Winners

My Bologna Has a First Name… (258 points)
The Tina Turner Overdrive Supports the Avengers Initiative (222)
The Racing Presidents (183)
Pillow Biters (167)
Mommy, What Does the Other Team Names Mean? (162)
Yankees Suck
Google is Better Than your Team at Trivia
Smarty Pants
Dirtay Seagulls / Chesterfield Willows (tied)
Two Dudes Just Hangin Out
I did Barbara Walters Too
Bar
The Winners
Team Wolf
Red Straight Curls and Co
Soylet Green is Delicious

Question of the Week

(Lyrically Speaking) The BBC once banned the Beatles’ “Come Together” for "advertising" what product in the lyrics?