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Obama Set It and Forget It (184)
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Where is that Chicken Dinner?

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Rock Bottom Virgins
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Yes , and…?
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Question of the Week

(Food and Drink) These candies were the first wrapped penny candy in America.

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

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No Gay Republicans (163)
We Hate Jackie (121)

Random Trivia Friday: Cartoons!

9 Legendary Cartoon Voices

Nancy Cartwright
Nancy Cartwright, AKA Bart Simpson, has also been the voice of Rufus on Kim Possible, Kip Kangaroo on Shirt Tales and, for a few episodes, Chuckie on Rugrats.

Billy West
For five shows, Billy West gave Stimpy a voice on Nickelodeon’s Ren and Stimpy; he’s been Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Pepe Le Pew and Elmer Fudd on various projects since the 1996 movie Space Jam; and he was the voice of Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan, Leo Wong and President Richard Nixon’s Head on Futurama. He’s also the current voice of Buzz, the Honey-Nut Cheerios Bee.

Eleanor Audley
Eleanor Audley is the voice of the psychic whose head is floating in the crystal ball at the Magic Kingdom’s Haunted Mansion. In addition, she supplied the voice for Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty and Lady Tremaine, the wicked stepmother, in Cinderella.

Verna Felton
Verna Felton is another voice actress the Disney company frequently employed. She was one of the fairy godmothers in Sleeping Beauty (Flora), Aunt Sarah in Lady and the Tramp, the fairy godmother in Cinderella, and the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland.

Patrick Warburton
Patrick Warburton has played Kronk from The Emperor’s New Groove, Joe Swanson, the cop on Family Guy, Brock Samson from the Venture Brothers, Buzz Lightyear in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command.

Daws Butler
Daws Butler is probably best known for being the voice of Yogi Bear, but he was also Elroy Jetson, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, Peter Potamus and Wally Gator. He also provided the voices for both Cap’n Crunch and Snap of elf trio Snap, Crackle and Pop. For a time he held an actor’s studio out of his home, where one of his students was none other than Nancy Cartwright.

Tress MacNeille
Chip and Gadget, of TV's Rescue Rangers, were both voiced by the same person – Tress MacNeille. She now voices more than 17 characters on The Simpsons including Mrs. Skinner, Dr. Hibbert’s wife, Apu’s wife, the crazy cat lady, Lunchlady Doris and Plopper, and the pig from The Simpsons Movie. She was also Babs the Bunny on Tiny Toon Adventures and Dot on Animaniacs.

Information from the ever fabulous Mental Floss

Flock of Covers

a. 1979 (Young Love) – Smashing Pumpkins
b. The Power of Love (The Pigeon Detectives) – Huey Lewis & the News
c. Wake Me Up Before You Go Go (Shawn Mullins) – Wham!
d. Best of You (Stereophonics) – Foo Fighterss
e. Gloria (The Dan Band) – Laura Branigan
f. Here I Go Again (Julian Velrad) – White Snake
g. Fight the Power (Barenaked Ladies) – The Public Enemy
h. I Ran (Tori Amos) – Flock of Seagulls

Winners of Fake America

Racing Presidents (328 points)
Off Night for the Nachos (320)
Wilbert Arenas (311)
I Saw Dan's Penis and All I Got Was This Lousy Case of Syphilis (307)
Say Hi to Your Motha for Me (298)
Our Score Counted By Acorn
Beouwulf Grundel
Fake Virginia Will Soon Have 2 Senators
Proud to be a fake american
Bear Cubs for Obama
Hotter in Person
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner
Nova Commies
Touched by an Uncle
Palm Strike
I am Joe the Plumber
Electric Dream Machine
The Mr. Miagi Experience

Question of the Week

(Sports) What Washington Wizard’s All Star still bears the misplaced ‘w’ in his name from a birth certificate typo?

Help out the Trivia Master

As some of you guys know, Jason is an elementary teacher and in an attempt to help motivate his students, he is looking for small prizes to give them (i.e. stuff from the dollar bin, stickers, McDonald's toys).

Please do not go out and buy anything, but if you have any swag at your home just collecting dust and want to make some third graders happy, please feel to bring it to trivia.

God Only Knows Where He Gets These Songs

a) God Only Knows (Giant Drag) – Beach Boys
b) Redemption Song (Chris Cornell) – Bob Marley
c) Losing My Religion (Daphne) – REM
d) Ghostbusters (Atta Boy Skip) – Ray Parker JR
e) Head Over Heels (Katy Perry) – Tears for Fears
f) I Want a New Drug (Glen Phillips) –Huey Lewis and the News
g) Beds are Burning (D-Sailors) – Midnight Oil
h) St. Elmo's Fire (Inspection 12) – John Parr
i) Self Esteem (Veronica Maggio) – The Offspring
j) Easy Lover – Phil Collins

Halloween Trivia: The Originial Frankenstein Film

* Released in November of 1931

* Bela Lugosi was offered the role of the monster, but refused on the grounds that his character would not speak (he eventually played the role in 1943).

* After bringing the monster to life, Dr. Frankenstein uttered the famous line, "Now I know what it's like to BE God!" When the movie was re-released in the late '30s, censors demanded it be removed on the grounds that it was blasphemy. A loud clap of thunder was substituted on the soundtrack.

* Boris Karloff (who play the monster) offered to remove his partial bridgework as part of the monster make-up process to create the sunken cheek look.

* The machines used to show sparks flying over the monster were later used in the comedy Young Frankenstein (1974).

* The method of animating the creature is never discussed in Mary Shelley's novel; Dr. Frankenstein refuses to divulge how he did it so no one can re-create his actions. However, the use of lightning to resurrect the monster has become the accepted methodology and appears in virtually every Frankenstein movie since.

* At one point the movie was to have included a line of dialogue giving the Monster the name Adam. This was cut when audiences began referring to the monster by the name Frankenstein.

* The Monster in this film does not physically resemble Mary Shelley's character. It was make-up artist Jack P. Pierce who came up with his characteristic movie look. He did keep one detail from the book: the monster was to have yellow skin.

* What are commonly called bolts on the neck of the monster are in reality electrodes.

* The movie's line "It's alive! It's alive!" was voted as the #49 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).

* Director James Whale happened to spot Boris Karloff in the Universal commissary and offered him a screen-test. Karloff later joked that he was offended by being viewing as such an ugly character, especially since that day he had been wearing his most elegant suit.

* The monster make-up design by Jack P. Pierce is under copyright to Universal through the year 2026, and licensed by Universal Studios Licensing, Inc.

For more, visit IMDB.

Armadillo Facts

Least you think badly of them:
-Contrary to popular belief, the nine-banded armadillo cannot roll itself into a ball to escape predators; only one of the twenty-odd varieties of armadillos (three-banded) is able to roll up. The other types are covered with too many bony plates to allow them to curl.
-Armadillos always give birth to four identical young and are the only mammal known to do so.
-All four young develop from the same egg and share the same placenta.
-Female armadillos can delay implantation of the fertilized egg during times of stress. -Armadillos like to swim, and are very good at it. When they need to float, they gulp air into their intestines to make them more buoyant.
-Like most insect eating mammals, armadillos have a very long, sticky tongue to slurp up bugs as quickly as possible.
-Armadillos have a very low metabolic rate, which means they don't waste a lot of energy producing heat.
-Baby armadillos have soft shells, like human fingernails. They get harder as the animal grows, depositing bone under the skin to make a solid shell.

Information thanks of Armadillo Central

Wait, Do Armadillos Really Carry Leprosy?

Leprosy has been around since ancient times. Still, it is not easy to study because the bacillus that causes it (Mycobacterium leprae) can not be grown in the lab. Because of this, scientists remain unsure as to how people catch the disease.

At one time it was thought that only humans could get leprosy. However, in the late 1960s researchers speculated that armadillos might be a good test animal for leprosy research because the bacillus thrives in cooler parts of the body (feet, nose, ears, etc.) and armadillos have a relatively low body temperature for mammals, they live 12 to 15 years and have litters of almost identical quadruplets. So, several nine-banded armadillos were inoculated with leprosy and came down with full-blown cases of the disease. It was during this research that scientists discovered something odd: some armadillos already had leprosy.

Nine-banded armadillos (there 30 to 50 million in the U.S.) are believed to be the only significant natural reservoir of leprosy apart from humans.

While suspected instances of armadillo-to-human transmission have been reported, leprosy remains uncommon in North America and is in decline worldwide. Fewer than 5 percent of wild armadillos have it.

Information Courtesy of The Straight Dope

JRs... The Few, The Proud...

The Faker McFakersons: the fake team That makes it look like we have more teams so Matt doesn't fire Jason for not having enough teams for trivia tonight (232,538 points?!)
Buff and Blue Balls (311)
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Guy Richer (238)

Happy F-ing Birthday

Claudia, whoever you are, I think I speak for the entire trivia blogging community when I say:

Happy F-ing Birthday!

RB Scores

Does This Barrel Make Me Look Fat? (323 points)
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Money Shots (294)
Mavericks (260)
Five Dollar Four Inchers (252)
Fozzy Bear Goes Wacka Wacka
Can Someone Tell Jamie Lyn Spears That Breast Feeding Is Not a Form of Birth Control ?!
These Wings Give Me Gas
Grasping at Straws
It's Claudia's F-ing Bday
Your Mom Wants My Hog

Question of the Week Clarification

To clarify the question of the week:
Tere are several Mark Twain Museums but Jason is looking for Twain's boyhood home & museum.

Question of the Week

(Literature/Famous Tourist Traps) Mark Twain's boyhood home and museum is located in what state?

It's Time to Meet the Muppets...

The Muppet Show took place at the Muppet Theater, and featured both on-stage acts and frantic backstage activity.

Kermit the Frog served as host of The Muppet Show, and was also the director, assisted by Scooter. The show's orchestra was conducted by Nigel, and musical acts ranged from solo musicians such as Rowlf the Dog, the always enjoyable Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.


Because it was a puppet show, The Muppet Show had the advantage of being able to include an endless array of characters with only a small number of performers. Recurring figures included Sam the Eagle; Camilla the Chicken; Robin the Frog, (aka Kermit's nephew); and Link Hogthrob, the captain of The Swinetrek, among with hundreds of others, for example:

Beauregard
The lovable janitor at the Muppet Theater (who took over for George the Janitor). Although he tries to be helpful, his efforts result in disaster more often than not. Beauregard's appeared in The Great Muppet Caper as a taxi driver and brought Kermit, Fozzie and Gonzo to the Happiness Hotel.

Janice
The lead guitar player in the Electric Mayhem, Janice also portrays Nurse Janice in Veterinarian's Hospital, and appears in various other sketches. In Michael Frith's original sketch of the character Janice was intended to be a male character, a takeoff on Mick Jagger's emaciated frame. Her name is probably a reference to Janis Joplin.

Jim
The banjo player for the Country Trio, which performed in variety show appearances in the mid 70s and occasionally on The Muppet Show, Jim is based on Jim Henson. His band mates (Frank and Jerry) are likewise based on muppet performers.

Sweetums
A grotesque, hairy ogre, Sweetums who towers above his human and Muppet co-stars. His bulldog-like lower jaw, thick eyebrows, shabby brown shirt, and threatening expression belie his more or less genial nature. Sweetums first appeared on the television special The Frog Prince in 1971. In 1976, Sweetums joined the cast of The Muppet Show and had a featured part in The Muppet Movie. Sweetums' performer uses his right arm to either operate the mouth or the right arm: when the right arm moves, the mouth can't move on its own, and vice versa. The eyes and eyebrows move by remote control.

For all thing Muppet, be sure to visit the Muppet Wikipedia

Hmmmm... What Would Jack Daniels Do?

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Too Late to Care (250)
That One
Lipstick on a Pig
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What Would Jack Daniels Do?
The Incredible Edible Wheat
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Palin's Pro-life Lines

Rock Bottom Winners; Now With More Political Commentary

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It is Over the Line to Talk About Palin's Vote Stealing Baby?
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Winner Winner Chicken Dinner
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Honorable Mention
Team Carl
Chocolate Starfish
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Droppin the G's, Doggone It
I May Not Answer the Questions the Way You Want Me To
Even After 30 Kids, Sarah Palin Still Has Better Tits Than My Girlfriend
Praggy All Stars

Question of the Week

(Geography) What capital city’s old section centers on a place called the Gates of the Sun or, in the local language, the Puerta del Sol?

C-c-c-covers

a. Pictures of You (The Cure) – Angie Hart
b. Glycerin (Bush) – Melissa Ferrick
c. Cruel to Be Kind (Nick Lowe) - The Bleeding Hearts
d. Free Bird (Lynard Skynard) – Cat Power
e. Champagne Supernova - Oasis
f. Wuthering Heights (Kate Bush) – China Drum
g. Everyday I write the book (Elvis Costello) – Alison Browne
h. One Angry Dwarf (Ben Folds) - VanVelzen

Random Trivia: Famous Missing Body Parts

Happy Almost Halloween!

John Wilkes Booth’s Neck Bones
A mere 12 days after shooting President Abraham Lincoln, Booth was shot in the back of the neck and killed. His body was eventually buried in an unmarked grave at Baltimore’s Green Mount Cemetery. Howeever, his third, fourth, and fifth vertebrae were all removed during the autopsy in order to grant access to the bullet. They can now bee seen at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C.

Einstein’s Brain
Before his death, Einstein considered donating his body to science but as he never committed this wish to writing, his family and friends made plans to cremate him following his death in 1955. The pathologist who performed the autopsy, Dr. Thomas Harvey chose on his own to first remove the famous brain and then tell the family about it later. Naturally, Einstein’s loved ones weren’t thrilled when they found out, but they eventually for scientific study ton continue and the brain was sliced into 240 sections then disbursed to researchers. Today, many of the cerebral sections remain in scientific institutions, with the bulk held at Princeton Hospital. Einstein’s body was cremated as planned and his ashes were scattered in a secret location.

"Stonewall" Jackson’s Arm
Confederate general Thomas Jackson earned his nickname for the way he sat his horse; "like a stone wall" even when bullets were flying during the Civil War. That might be the reason why, during the Battle of Chancellorsville, Jackson was accidentally shot in the arm by one of his own men. The arm was amputated and then buried in the nearby Virginia town of Ellwood. Only eight days later, Stonewall died of pneumonia and the rest of him was buried in Lexington, Va.

Saint Francis Xavier’s Hand
Francis Xavier was a Spanish missionary who was sent to Asia in the 16th century by the king of Portugal. There he became wildly popular, and after his death in 1552, so did his relics. So much so that his body was regularly exhumed in order to obtain more. Today, half his left hand is in Cochin, India, while the other half is in Malacca, Malaysia. One of his arms resides in Rome, and various other cities lay claim to his internal organs.

Saint Catherine of Siena’s Finger
After this holy woman died in 1380, her body became an object of veneration. Pilgrims believed touching her miraculously preserved flesh could heal illnesses and bring them closer to God. Eventually, the Catholic Church laid Catherine to rest but not before one of her followers removed a finger as well as a few teeth and other various body parts. Pope Urban VI took her head. Today, both finger and head are on display at San Domenico Church in Siena, Italy. The rest of her rest beneath the main altar at Santa Maria Sopra Minerva Church in Rome.

Oliver Cromwell’s Head
Oliver Cromwell was an English military and political leader best known for his involvement in making England into a republican Commonwealth. Cromwell died in 1658, but two years later, the reinstated English monarchy exhumed, tried, and hanged his body, then dumped it in an unmarked grave. In addition, as a warning to would-be killers, his head was placed on a pike in Westminster Hall, where it remained for 20 years.

Thomas Hardy’s Heart
In his will, English novelist Thomas Hardy specifically requested to be buried with his beloved first wife. His friends, however, lobbied to have him buried in Poet’s Corner at Westminster Abbey instead. An ugly fight between Hardy fans and family ensued, until they reached a compromise. The author’s heart was removed and buried with his wife; his ashes were preserved in a bronze urn inside the Abbey.

For more famous body parts visit Neatorama. Information Originally from MentalFloss.