Question of the Week

(Comics Strips that Don’t Suck) What penguin starred in the comic strip Bloom County?

Question of the Week

(Fun and Games) What video game mascot engaged in epic battle with the villainous D. Robotnik?

Question of the Week

(Music) In Paul Simon’s famous video for his song “You Can Call Me Al,” featured this comedian lip-syncing the lyrics?

Question of the Week

(Famous Figures) Edward Teach, a.k.a. Edward Thatch, a.k.a Edward Drummond, captained the Queen Anne’s Revenge to pirate under what famous name?

Trivia is On at Rock Bottom this Week

There will be trivia this week at Rock Bottom.

Jason will not be gracing us with any Thanksgiving themes though.

Question of the Week

(HISTORY) In 1963, Kenya gained its independence from what occupying country?

Question of the Week

(Name Game) Perhaps the name Banana was already taken but in 2006, this actress named her second child Moses?

Why is 13 unlucky?

Here are a few possible reason:

- There were 13 people at the Last Supper. It’s said that Judas Iscariot – the one who betrayed Jesus – was the 13th man to take his place at the table.

- There’s a Norse legend that has 12 gods sitting down to a banquet when the 13th (uninvited) god, Loki, showed up. Loki killed one of the other gods, which led to events that eventually resulted in the death of many gods, a slew of natural disasters, and the eradication of everything on earth save for two human survivors.

- Traditionally there were 13 steps leading up the gallows.

- There is also a legend that a hangman’s noose traditionally contained 13 turns, but it’s actually more like eight.

- There was a mass arrest and execution of the Knights Templar on Friday, October 13, 1307.

- It was once believed that a coven was made up of exactly 13 members.

- In the late 1800s there was a group known a The Thirteen Club. Their purpose was to debunk the legend that 13 people at a table would result in the death of one of them within a year. They met on the 13th of the month and had dinner 13 people to a table. Members of the 13 Club included five U.S. presidents – Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and Chester A. Arthur. Two of these presidents were shot, one fatally.

Question of the Week

US CITIES: What Maine city is the hometown of Abraham Lincoln’s first vice president, Hannibal Hamlin, Bill Clinton’s defense secretary William Cohen, and is where Stephen King currently calls home?

Question of the Week

(Movies) What was the name of Drew Barrymore's character in the classic film ET?

Question of the Week

(Famous Firsts/Science/Inventions?) What type of wheel did French physicist and mathematician Blaise Pascal invent in a search for perpetual motion?

Jason (and scores) Are Back!

Answers from the cheap seats (351 points)
Hop Ons (345)
Matt Lancos Stole Our Team Name (340)
We rock the bottom (329)
Doc Holiday Inn (316)
Awkward silence II
Where are the wild things? In David Letterman's dressing room
Letterman's teeth …the only gap he has yet to fill
Landing Strip Olympics 2016
Top Ten Reasons Not to Sleep with David Letterman
15 yards for excessive celebration
David Letterman is the new Bob Barker
We feel like the maid we come every week and get screwed in the dinning room
The late blow with David Letterman
Cougar bait
The Real Lateshow is my pants
Th ashy larrys
Slagathor
Between the IOC and the Cubs, Chicago will never see good baseball?
Overooked Like a Flight to Atlanta
You can't fillet me but you can fellate me
Will Suck 4 Parole
Fat Kids Always Win at Seesaw
We're just here for the wings / Bring Back That Other Guy (Tie)
Miley cyrus 18 in 412 days
Detroit 2020
Vivian
Cole Hamels toe

Question of the Week

(Famous Firsts) Which city in the original 13 colonies boasts the first newspaper, the first public park, and the first public school?

Question of the Week

(Television) The cast of Seinfeld is reuniting on Larry David's HBO show, Curb Your Enthusiasm. It's been a long time since they've shared the screen, not since the last episode aired on May 14 of what year?

Bad Blogmistress

Hello all!

Just a quick note from your friendly blogmistress to apologize for the huge gap in content. Neil and I got married on the 19th so the week before and after that are mainly a blur. To make it up to you, please enjoy the below sampling of the questions we asked as part of our rehearsal dinner trivia last Friday. I will post answers next week, but feel free to leave your guesses in the comments.


1. What DC landmark recently reopened after major renovation following a large fire, and is a favorite place for the couple to spend a Saturday?

2. According to the “Arlington Rap”, what footwear is most common for the gentlemen of Arlington?

3. “Adirondacks” is an Anglicized version of the Mohawk “ratirontaks” meaning what?

4. Lake Placid hosted the Olympics in which two years?

5. What is the New York state motto?

6. What US President was in the Adirondacks when he technically took over the office?

7. What is the name of the highest of the Adirondack High Peaks, also the tallest point in New York State?

8. What famous award is named for Coach John, the first full-time coach and athletic director at Rice University in Houston?

9. Although the yellow rose of Texas is very well known, what is the actual state flower?

10. What is the Texas state motto?

11. What six flags have flown over Texas?

12. What soft drink was invented in Waco, Texas in 1885?

13. Texas possesses three of the top ten most populous cities in the United States. What are they?

14. Who was the officiant at the opening ceremonies of the 1980 Olympic Games, held in Lake Placid?

15. Who was the only athlete to win 5 gold medals at the 1980 Olympics?

16. Lake Placid is one of only two cities in the United States with an active bobsled track. What other city has this honor?

Bonus!!!

According to Homer Simpson, how does Webster’s Dictionary describe a “wedding”?

Complete this quote by the great religious thinker, Rev. Timothy Lovejoy; “…it would've never happened if the wedding would've been inside the church with God, instead of out here in the cheap showiness of __________.”

Spooky News!

SPOOKY quiz will be back this year! The Tuesday before Halloween is the annual SPOOKY quiz---all halloween/scary movie trivia. Costumes are encouraged and perhaps extra points will be granted....

Jason is (almost) back!

Jason will be back the first week of October so get ready...

Question of the Week

(Technology) This company, the world’s largest semiconductor chip maker by revenue, was to be named Moore Noyce, after its founders Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce. Unfortunately, the name sounded too much like “more noise,” not good for an electronics company. Instead they settled on this name.

Question of the Week

(Food and Film) The film Julie and Julia recounts the meal that Julia Child said was responsible for "an opening up of the soul and spirit for me." The meal contained the dish sole meunière (mern ‘yer), which is a fillet of sole cooked in a browned sauce of what common ingredient?

No, This Cannot Be Unseen

Question of the Week

(Comic Strips that Suck) Cookie and Alexander are the children of the title character of which comic strip created by a dude named Chic Young, which celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2005?

Question of the Week

(Famous Firsts) The very first Ferris Wheel was created by George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. as a landmark for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, held in this state?

Question of the Work

(Movies) The recent film (500) Days of Summer stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt who got his start playing Tommy Solomon in this sitcom that ran from 1996-2001?

Oh, Yellow Brick Road...

It was 70 years ago today that The Wizard of Oz premiered at The Strand Theatre in the little lakeside town of Oconomowoc, Wis.

In honor, here is some trivia:

- The title role was written with W.C. Fields in mind. MGM executive Arthur Freed wanted Fields, and offered him $75,000. Fields supposedly wanted $100,000.

- Ray Bolger was originally cast as the Tin Woodsman. However, he insisted that he would rather play the Scarecrow as his childhood idol, Fred Stone, had originated that role on stage in 1902.

- Buddy Ebsen had been cast as the Scarecrow but switched roles with Bolger. The aluminum powder makeup for the Tin Woodsman was toxic and Ebsen apparently had an allergic reaction to it as well. He left the picture, but his voice can still be heard in "Off to see the Wizard".

- Producer Mervyn LeRoy had originally intended to use MGM's Leo the Lion in the role of the Cowardly Lion and dub an actors voice in for the dialogue. However, that idea was dropped when Bert Lahr came up for consideration for the part.

- MGM had originally planned to incorporate a "stencil printing" process when Dorothy runs to open the farmhouse door before the film switches to Technicolor; each frame was to be hand-tinted to keep the inside of the door in sepia tone. This process-cumbersome, expensive, and ineffective-was abandoned in favor of a simpler and more clever alternative. The inside of the farmhouse was painted sepia, and the Dorothy who opens the door from the inside is not Judy Garland but her stand-in wearing a sepia-rinsed version of the famous gingham dress.

- Judy Garland's dress and blouse were in reality not white but pale pink. True white did not photograph properly in Technicolor and made the blue of her checked dress seem too bright.

- The movie's line "Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." was voted as the #62 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007.

- To compensate for the extreme make-up demands on this film, MGM recruited extra help from the studio mail room and courier service. As most of the Oz extras required prosthetic devices and application of prosthetics requires extensive training, make-up artists were each instructed in one area of prosthetic application and then formed an assembly line.

More at IMDB.

Question of the Week

(CELEBRITY ENDORSERS) Back in the 80s, OJ Simpson had a different reason to run, as he was seen racing through airports in a series of TV ads for what company?

Isn't It awful?

Offal (pronounced the same as "awful" by many speakers) is a culinary term used to refer to the entrails and internal organs of a butchered animal. The word does not refer to a particular list of organs, but includes most internal organs other than muscles or bones. Depending on the culture, some people shy away from offal as food, while others may make it everyday food or even delicacies.

Offal not used directly for human or animal food is often processed in a rendering plant, producing material that is used for animal feed, fertilizer, or fuel.

Need recipes? See Cook It Simply or Offal Good.

Enjoy!

Clown Week?!

There are several versions of who thought up National Clown week and who got Congress to pass the Proclamation. Here are the two versions of what happened.


Version I: Frank "Kelly the Clown" Kelly

In 1966 the first International Clown Week chairman, Frank "Kelly the Clown" Kelly, was appointed by Ray Bickford, president of Clown Club of America. In 1967 Clown Club of America members were urged to write to their congressmen and senators requesting a presidential proclamation naming August 1-7 as National Clown Week. In 1969 a resolution was introduced. After clowns met with Senator John McClellan of Arkansas who was chairman of the Senate subcommittee on Observances and Holidays success was finally achieved.


Version II. BILL "BOOM-BOOM" BAILY

Bill was an original member of Clowns of America when it was founded in 1967 and held membership number 81. He was named the U.S. Chairman of National Clown Week. Because each year a chairman had to be chosen in each state to ask their governor to issue a proclamation honoring National Clown Week, Bill pushed for National Clown Week publicity. He convinced Congressman Garmatz of Maryland and Congressman Myers of Indiana to introduce a joint resolution in Congress establishing National Clown Week as an annual event. He lobbied congress and organized a visit by clowns to the senate building in Washington, D.C. The joint resolution was signed into law by President Nixon on August 2, 1971.


For more, see the homepage for International Clown Week.

Question of the Week

(Geography) What is the name of the peninsula (a combo of three state names) that beaches such as Bethany Beach are located on?

Pangram-azing

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is a pangram or a phrase that contains all of the letters of the English alphabe). It has been used to test typewriters and computer keyboards, not to mention handwriting back when we did that sort of thing.

Due to its shortness and coherence, it has become widely known and is often used in visual arts.

See:

But Arbor Day is in the Fall...

The first Arbor Day took place on April 10, 1872 in Nebraska. It was the brainchild of Julius Sterling Morton (1832-1902), a Nebraska journalist and politician originally from Michigan.

Today all 50 states celebrate Arbor Day although the dates may vary in keeping with the local climate. At the federal level, in 1970, President Richard Nixon proclaimed the last Friday in April as National Arbor Day. Arbor Day is also now celebrated in other countries including Australia.

To see a list of when all 50 states celebrate the day, visit Arbor-Day.net

For example, Florida celebrates on the third Friday in January and Hawaii on the first Friday in November.

Question of the Week

(Kids Know) What is the name of Kermit the Frog's nephew?

Why Are Aspirin Bottles So Hard To Open?

Medications come in an array of shapes and sizes. This variety helps visually impaired folks distinguish one prescription from another, and also aids caregivers who regularly administer handfuls of the same pills to patients. However, that same rainbow of colors is also a tantalizing temptation to toddlers, and emergency rooms of the 1950s and 60s had a steady influx of tiny patients who thought they were eating candy.

Any parent knows that no matter how high out of reach you store medications, any child with even the most limited mobility can some how manage to find whatever you least want them to. Canadian pediatrician Henri Breault experimented with several types of child-resistant caps and in 1967 he patented what he felt was the best design, the “palm and turn.” The province of Ontario was the first to adapt the new cap on all medications, and just one year later pediatric poisoning cases had dropped an amazing 91 percent. The Poison Prevention Packaging Act was adopted in the United States in 1970, and took effect in 1972; the first aspirin bottles with the new caps debuted in August that year.

Thanks to MentalFloss

Question of the Week

(Food and Drink) What salad dressing does the 'special sauce' on a Big Mac most closely resemble?

Is Congress Surprised By Anything?

The sotomayority (344 points)
Tony romo's best play yet (339)
Is congress really surpised that cheney had a hit squad? (335)
Vitameatavegimite (323)
Winning While We Work (322)
I'm manny acta, would you like frieds with that?
Can I et a bottle of champagne pigmy style?
Slagathor
Rocy bottom and the half brewed pint
Magical muggles
Greg
Kamils coming out party
1711
Where are my friends?
I pooped in your cheerios
Hey Hermione want to see my magic trick...
Mj suffered a heart attack when he found boyz to men was a boy band and not a Delivery service

Question of the Week

(Disney) What cartoon character, considered by Disney to be among their five most popular, is the only one of the five who doesn’t wear human clothes?

Insert Inappropriate News Based Statement

She quit to make nalin palin II (348)
Buy 2 dead celebrities get 1 free billy mays (334)
The barbary beardmen (324)
Team name (310)
That is such a samantha thing to say (292)
Ginger - vitis
Department of redundancy department
Sarah palin for president…of Honduras
Finding Nemo's G-Spot
Spokies
She left to be mayor of bonecity
Celebrities die in sevens
I can see political obscurity from my house
Pashleaders
Steve mcnair needed that like he needed a hole in his head...
Slagathor
Wacky waving inflatale arm flailing tube man
Monkey pole
Palin sanford 2012

Question of the Week

(Question of the Week) What record company was formed in 1962 by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss?

Happy 4th - GI Joe

In 1963, noting the commercial success of the Barbie doll for girls, Stan Weston, a toy creator and licensing agent, came up with the idea of a line of Barbie-sized dolls with a military theme that would be marketed to boys.

Weston presented his idea to Don Levine, the creative director of toy manufacturer Hasbro, who saw the potential of the idea and approved development.

The prototypes were originally named "Rocky" (army soldier), "Skip" (the sailor), and "Ace" (the pilot), before Don Levine, inspired by the popular 1945 film The Story of G.I. Joe, decided on the generic name "G.I. Joe."

GI Joe was launched on February 2, 1964, with a World War II theme (although some of the clothes and other items were actually of Korean-war vintage). The G.I. Joe figures were approximately the same physical scale as Barbie dolls — 12 inches, or 305 mm, tall.

Highlights
* In 1965, a black G.I. Joe figure was introduced in select markets.
* In 1966, soldiers from other countries (France, Germany and the UK) joined the G.I. Joe line up. A Project Mercury-like space capsule and silver-suited astronaut figure was also added to the series.
* In 1967, Talking figures were introduced.
* The first female G.I. Joe, the Action Nurse, was produced in 1967. It was a commercial failure, and another 12" female would not be released for 30 years.

More at Wikipedia.

Question of the Week

(Current Events) What color has become the “color of protest” during the recent pro-democracy demonstrations in Iran?

In Honor of the Reopening

Eastern Market was designed by Adolf Cluss and was in continuous operation as a public market from 1873 until April 30, 2007 when it was damaged in a fire. It was the first in a larger city-owned public market system. The Market was expanded in 1908 with the addition of the Center and North Halls designed by Snowden Ashford. At the start of the 20th century, the Eastern Market was recognized as the unofficial "town center" of Capitol Hill. It is the last of the city's public markets still in operation.

The market nearly closed because of competition from grocery store chains and a decline in neighborhood investment. Local residents fought to keep it open, and the area has since been revitalized. Eastern Market continues to host a thriving farmers' market including fresh cuts of meats, baked goods and cheeses. Artisans and antiques dealers also sell their goods outside the market on weekends, making Eastern Market.

Eastern Market was badly damaged by an early-morning 3-alarm fire on April 30, 2007. The heaviest damage was in the South Hall of the market, the portion occupied by vendors' stalls, where the roof suffered a partial collapse. Following the fire, Washington D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty promised to rebuild the market. The outdoor weekend market was disrupted but never closed. Many of the food vendors re-opened for business within weeks of the fire, selling their products outside of the building. In August 2007, the city completed a temporary market annex, known as the "East Hall," on the opposite side of 7th Street, on the grounds of Hine Junior High School. This housed the vendors until the reopening of the market building, with a ribbon-cutting on June 26, 2009.

This weekend Eastern Market will be hosting a celebration of the reopening this Saturday from 10am to 5pm with live music and other events.

As always, thanks to Wikipedia.

Radar Love

Big Bird has a teddy bear named Radar, which is a nod to Walter "Radar" O'Reilly of M*A*S*H, who brought a teddy bear with him to war and was also lovably naive and innocent. Radar was given to Big Bird by Gary Burghoff (who played Radar on M*A*S*H) when he guest starred on the show. Later on, however, it was said that Big Bird got the bear as a gift from Mr. Hooper.

Need more? Enjoy the Muppet Wikipedia.

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

Let's Go back to Myspace so I can my my facebook in your twitter (335 points)
Unlike paris hilton, perez got what he deserved (320)
One man wolf pack (315)
All trivia scores tallied by ayatollahs (297)
This trivia is so rigged as an Iranian election (292)
Third place
Amy mickelson's hand is bigger than her face / Carla and friends (Tie)
Will I am smears the queer
We're sure that jews don't have horns
Check out the stms on jason
Better late than never
Jon and kate plus four each
Iranian Pollsters
Too much booty in da pants
Saddlebags
Heeeeeeeere's jesus
Team bob
Slagathor
We've upped our standards, so up yours
Team edward
Your mom and the reverse cowgirls

Question of the Week

(Fun and Games) What toy company launched the first ever action figure, GI Joe?

5 Father Facts

1. Halsey Taylor invented the drinking fountain as a tribute to his father, who died of typhoid fever after drinking from a contaminated public water supply in 1896.

2. George Washington, the celebrated “Father of Our Country,” had no children of his own. Researchers believe a childhood illnesses may have rendered him sterile.

3. A.A. Milne created Winnie the Pooh for his son, Christopher Robin. Pooh was based on the boy's teddy bear named Edward which Christopher had received as a gift for his first birthday, and on their father/son visits to the London Zoo, where the bear named Winnie was Christopher’s favorite.

4. The voice of Papa Smurf, Don Messick, also provided the voice of Scooby-Doo, Ranger Smith on Yogi Bear, and Astro and RUDI on The Jetsons.

5. The only father-daughter collaboration to hit the top spot on the Billboard pop music chart was the 1967 hit single “Something Stupid” by Frank & Nancy Sinatra.

From Mental Floss

If Moon Were Cookie

Iran So Far Away...

You can peek at her chew, but don't her mon unless you want scabies (336 points)
The fighting mongooses (316)
A headache is no excuse for not coming (308)
We rock that bottom (305)
Dudes in brown flipflops are douchebags (303)
IRAn…FROM BATON-WIELDING RIOT POLICE
Sasha slash marshall HEART
Specialty dark
We like our eggs overy…zy
Chrysler's last stand
Castillo's gold gloves
3 bells and a yankee
Korea. For those who have given up on getting laid in America.
Awful waffle
Xkcd
Abby normal
Letterman palin 2012
Ouched by a teacher
John and chainsaw minus nine
Slagathor
Free Beer please?
Better in dim lights

Question of the Week

(TV) ABC is bringing back this early 80s sci-fi show about aliens who are, beneath their human-like facade are actually...wait for it.... CARNIVOROUS REPTILES! What is the name of this show?

I Love When We All Get the Same Joke...

Chef pounderhard (290 Points)
New york airports 1, justices 0 (282)
Puck fittsburgh (255)
Saddle bags (211)
I'll Bet you 20 dollars that the audio round is covers (208)
Monkey knife fight
Sotomayor's broken cankle
Specialty dark
Cant wait till the oral round, happy six nine
Chicken grease
The tappers
Glass bottom boats
Still recorvering from last nights blackout
Abby normal
Zack galifinaks is in a elevator
White tshirt day
Slagathor
Thunderstorms make us wet
Break a Leg Not an Ankle
Touched by a teacher
Kobe raped the magic like that girl in Colorado

Question of the Week

(Animal Planet) What Chinese dog breed is known for its distinctive deep wrinkles and blue-black tongue?

Delicious Facts About Girl Scout Cookies

- Girl Scout Cookies were originally baked at home by troop members.
- The first Girl Scout cookie sale that we know of took place in Muskogee, Oklahoma, in a high school cafeteria in 1917.
- The cookies first started being commercially baked in 1934; the Girl Scouts of Greater Philadelphia were the first to sell cookies that were not home made.
- During WWII when there were shortages of sugar, butter and flour in the U.S., the Girl Scouts sold calendars instead.
- Girl Scout cookies are kosher.
- Only two bakers in America are licensed to make the cookies: ABC/Interbake Foods and Little Brownie Bakes.
- Thin Mints are the current best sellers, at 25 % of all sales. Samoas trail behind at 19 %, Tagalongs come in at 13%, Do-si-dos at 11% and Trefoils at 9%. The other 23% is made up of all of the other varieties.

For more, see MentalFloss

The Checkers Speech

- The Checkers speech was an address made by then United States Senator and Republican vice presidential candidate Richard Nixon on television and radio on September 23, 1952.
- Senator Nixon had been accused of improprieties relating to a fund established by his backers to reimburse him for his political expenses.
- His place on the Republican ticket now doubt, the senator flew to LA and delivered a half hour television address in which he defended himself, attacked his opponents, and urged the audience to contact the Republican National Committee (RNC) to tell it whether or not he should remain on the ticket.
- During the speech, he stated that regardless of what anyone said, he intended to keep one of his gifts - a black-and-white dog named Checkers - thus giving the address its popular name.
- Nixon's speech was heard by about 60 million Americans, and led to an outpouring of public support for him.
- Nixon was of course retained by the ticket, which swept to victory in November 1952, and Nixon would be elected President 16 years later.
- The Checkers speech was an early example of a politician using television to appeal directly to the electorate, but has since sometimes been mocked or denigrated.
- "Checkers Speech" has come more generally to mean any emotional speech by a politician.

More on Tricky Dick at Wikipedia.

Bo Knows

A shirt named bo (348 points)
Leaving on a jet plane (315)
Stephanie tanner is a reverse racist (263)
Alex's boyz (240)
3 tops and a bottom (189)
What a crappy marketing ploy for lost
Under the influenza
Things of that nature

More Teams Than...

These tables are tighter than a nun's rectory (355 points)
We are that guy (323)
Specialty dark (318)
It wouldn't have disappeared if it was air freedom / We prefer the fictional lost (308) Tie
We go down faster than air france
I can't wait to molest jason's new puppy
Drink the beer / The team behind me
No but I did stay at a holiday in express last night
Bo Obama is the new head of GM
Slagathor
Arlington swamprats
Bottom rockers
31st place / Can't stop won't stop (Tie)
Owego fire dept
All teas with a joke about the gm bankrupcy are hereby disqualified and their members should die in a fire of shame
Who wants a hummer now 1
The slapchops
Tony danza's colon
I want to be your new stepfather
Touched by a teacher
Harris Squires:fairfax county substitute toucher
Nicke and Jill Plus 4

Question of the Week

(MUSIC) What group from Oklahoma City, made a #1 album out of the soundtrack to the 1991 film New Jack City with songs such as “I Wanna Sex You Up”?

Score-ama

Buff an blue balls (327 points)
Tops by default (316)
Angry beavers (302)
Bobcats (298)
Latina justice (295)
Alex's boys
Farrah down the faucet
Prop 8 can bite it

Ever So Slightly Entertaining Team Names...

Ffinally some brown sugar on the supreme court (292 points)
Hairless paper cut (286)
God save the queen (252)
We put the man in NAMBLA (249)
DC (re) united (235)
The original pm
Obama really know how to fill an opening
Camelot-a-vagina
Dan Gantz got humped in the face by a dog
Oversized Frog Baby
2 girls and a garrett
John plus 8 on the weekends
Jerrell Po's Reading lessons
North Korea seismic inadequacies
Playground menaces
Team 14

Question of the Week

(Foreign language) Besides the letter ‘Z’, what is the only other letter in American Sign Language that requires motion to sign?

Trivial Scores

Hitchhiking in overalls (327)
Speciality Dark (324)
Red shirted ensigns / steel cage mcnuggets (290) Tie
Mr. mouse goes to washinton (289)
Abby normal
The revolution is comin in a teabag
Mother lovers
Nodder is cute. For a good time call 571 331 0500
I stuck your pen in my nose
Jason got his masters…in anal stimulation
I'm a Democrat but someone should waterboard nancy pelosi
Snow Pants or No Pants / frog baby strikes back (Tie)
Adam lambert stole my eyeliner
Anyone want my resume? No, really…
We're here because Jay makes us come every week

FYI

Trivia is happening this week but only on Tuesday. No Wednesday night trivia (just for this week only).

Question of the Week

(Animal Planet) Which breed of dog takes its name from the former name of the capital of China?

Those Poor Mules...

Beauty queen bigots (270 points)
Chandra levey is still dead (232)
Stephanie tanner vsgiant shark and giant squid (230)
Celtic cousins (welsh bitches) (218)
Buff and blue balls (217)
Alexs boyz
Boston bulldogs
Flacid mules

No, You're a Mother Lover

Kuwait kuwait (254 points)
Get these mother loving pets off my mother loving plane (252)
Sylvianna wont touch my feet (247)
Team token jew (242)
Anal is better with a bedshet (241)
Swine fluzies / abby normal / the small time players (Tie)
Menace to sobriety
Hopeless cause
Meet SpinDoctors.com
Butthole surfers
You're a mother lover
Puck the fenguins, lets go caps
Team stepdad: you hate us cuz we beat you
We know cats and we're not lion
Saskatoon suckers
Nacho baby mama

Question of the Week

(Foreign Cities) Which Western Austrian city was both the setting for the Sound of Music and the birthplace of Mozart?

Question of the Week

(Fashion) In men’s fashion, what is the other name of a double shirt cuff, which is twice as long as a regular cuff, and is worn folded back on itself?

Cinco de Trivia

John edwards retirement plan (320 points)
Bea arthur, dom deluise, and jack kemp-a threesome in heaven (310)
Dirty sanches (307)
Happy cinco de mayo, you can have your flu back (305)
Save chuck - buy a sub (291)
Cinco de ocho
Jes us pissed in my margarits
The Pittsburgh Pen 15s
Larsfest 09
We'd kill for beer pong
Cinco cervazas from being intoxicado
Jay Ray is all that is man
Somali Pirates / Twillers (Tie)
Dom Deluise, dead as detroit
5 mexicans 1 cup
Rock the hawk
Free round of drinks for everyone- on rockbottom
We're sure gonna winn- corinn

Dotcha Wish Your Grama...

Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder (lead vocals, guitar), Jeff Ament (bass guitar), Stone Gossard (rhythm guitar), and Mike McCready (lead guitar). The band's current drummer is Matt Cameron, formerly of Soundgarden, who has been with the band since 1998.

At one point the band was neamed Mookie Blaylock, in reference to the then-active All-Star basketball player. However, concerns about trademark issues necessitated a name change. In an early promotional interview, Vedder said that the name "Pearl Jam" was a reference to his great-grandmother Pearl, who was married to a Native American and had a special recipe for peyote-laced jam. In a 2006 Rolling Stone cover story however, Vedder admitted that this story was "total bullshit" although he did have a great-grandma named Pearl. Ament and McCready explained that Ament came up with "pearl", and that the band later settled on "Pearl Jam" after attending a concert by Neil Young, in which he stretched up his songs as improvisations of 15-20 minutes in length, a practice known as jamming.

More on Wiki.

William Sydney Who?

Yes, you have heard of him.

O. Henry was the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter whose short stories are known for their clever twist endings.

Among his most famous stories are:
* "The Gift of the Magi" about a young couple who are short of money but desperately want to buy each other Christmas gifts. Unbeknownst to Jim, Della sells her most valuable possession, her beautiful hair, in order to buy a platinum fob chain for Jim's watch; while unbeknownst to Della, Jim sells his own most valuable possession, his watch, to buy jeweled combs for Della's hair. The essential premise of this story has been copied, re-worked, parodied, and otherwise re-told countless times in the century since it was written.
* "The Ransom of Red Chief", in which two men kidnap a boy of ten. The boy turns out to be so bratty and obnoxious that the desperate men ultimately pay the boy's father $250 to take him back.
* "The Cop and the Anthem" about a New York City hobo named Soapy, who sets out to get arrested so he can avoid sleeping in the cold winter as a guest of the city jail. Despite efforts at petty theft, vandalism, disorderly conduct, and "mashing" with a young prostitute, Soapy fails to draw the attention of the police. Disconsolate, he pauses in front of a church, where an organ anthem inspires him to clean up his life—whereupon he is promptly charged for loitering and sentenced to three months in prison, exactly what he originally set to do.
* "After Twenty Years", set on a dark street in New York, focuses on a man named "Silky" Bob who is fulfilling an appointment made 20 years ago to meet his friend Jimmy at a restaurant. A beat cop questions him about what he is doing there. Bob explains, and the policeman leaves. Later, a second policeman comes up and arrests Bob. He gives Bob a note, in which the first policeman explains that he was Jimmy, come to meet Bob, but he recognized Bob as a wanted man. Unwilling to arrest his old friend, he went off to get another officer to make the arrest.

More on Wikipedia.

Why You Gotta Lie About Bacon?

Matthe shepard doesn’t care (342 points)
Alex's boyz (325)
Bufff and blue balls (322)
Jackie is as sick as bea arthur (275)
Bacon causes swine flu (218)
Welsh kings
This little piggy went to mexico
These nuts

Oh, that's a lot of misplaced pig jokes...

Specter plays for the other team (370 points)
Play to win (351)
Arlen specter gadget / Seriously swine flue team name sucks (306) Tie
I will smash your face into jelly / Eric just got back from Mexico and all he got us was this lousy swine flu (283) Tie
And in firs place…sicili's bitches
Swine flu, so now will you sleep with me?
It's a bird, its' a plane, it's airforce one
Frog baby tastes like chicken
Crack daze chandelier
Team cleve
How do you cure swine flu? "Oink ment"
Arlen specter: I'd rather have swine flue than be a republican
Da big time playas
2 alex's. 1 cup. Go caps
Syndrom of a down
Thank god my swine flu isn't contagious
Tarheels

Question of the Week

(Food and Drink) What restaurant chain is named after a Rolling Stones song?

You're So Literal

Common Literary References You Probably Make Every Day-

Big Brother - the name of the omnipresent dictatorship in George Orwell's "1984". This term has come to suggest the government is over-monitoring its people and is used quite commonly by pundants, but its origins are literary.

Catch 22 - Aka a situation where, no matter what choice you make, something bad is going to happen. Joseph Heller actually created this term when he wrote his novel "Catch-22". And, no, 22 does not have a specific meaning behind it. First he wanted to go with "18", but another World War II novel had already been printed with that number in the title (Leon Uris's "Mila 18"). Next Heller tried "11" but the Rat Pack movie "Ocean's 11" had just come out a year earlier. At some point he started randomly picking numbers and ended up with 22. Why any number at all? Heller wanted to say that, when bureaucracy gets bad enough to cause such extremem problems, it will also been giving those problems numbers.

Women; can't live with them, can't live without them - From "Lysistrata", a Greek comedy written by Aristophanes circa 411 BCE. While translations vary, the most common is "These impossible women! How they do get around us! How true the saying: 'Can't live with them, or without them.'"

Lolita - Using the word "Lolita" to describe a sexually-advanced underage girl actually comes from the novel "Lolita", written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1955.

Yahoo - Coined by Jonathan Swift in "Gulliver's Travels". The main character ends up in a country ruled by horses how boss around deformed, brutish, primitive humans, called Yahoos.

From 11points.com which is quickly becoming my new favorite site.

I Love the Smell of Trivia in the Morning...

Buff and blue balls (268 points)
Alex's boy (251)
Stephanie tanner (235)
Boyles villagers (207)
Katie's Crabs (144)
Kris allen's boyfriend
The Killers

It's My Earth Day Too, Yeah Yeah

Earth Day - celebrated April 22 - is a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the environment. It was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teaching event.

The United Nations celebrates an Earth Day each year on the March equinox, which is often March 20, a tradition which was founded by peace activist John McConnell in 1969.

Senator Nelson chose the date of April 22nd in order to maximize participation on college campuses for what he conceived as an environmental "teach-in". This date did not fall during exams or spring breaks and did not conflict with religious holidays such as Easter or Passover. More students were likely to be in class, and there would be less competition with other events mid-week, so he chose Wednesday, April 22.

When asked whether he had purposely chosen Lenin's 100th birthday, Nelson explained that as a year had only 365 days a year and more than 3.7 billion people in the world, every day was the birthday of ten million living people. “On any given day, a lot of both good and bad people were born,” he said. “A person many consider the world’s first environmentalist, Saint Francis of Assisi, was born on April 22.“[ "The Man from Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Gaylord Nelson", University of Wisconsin Press]

April 21 was the birthday of John Muir, who founded the Sierra Club.

April 22 is also the birthday of Julius Sterling Morton, the founder of Arbor Day which was started in 1872. Arbor Day became a legal holiday in Nebraska in 1885, to be permanently observed on April 22.

Learn more on Wikipedia or Take Action at Earth Day Network.

Oh Witty Team Names, How I Love You!

Capt. Watermellon (291 points)
Ruck the fangers, go caps (272)
Sloan blazer (252)
The gravy robbers (239)
If that somali pirate is legal then so is your sister (228)
Tina turner overdrive comeback tour
Hey snyder, keep campbell. We'll give you a dirty sanchez for free
Is that ibrophen in your panties or are you happy to see me
Off to men
Abby Normal
Obama 1 pirates 0
Craigslist not so happy ending
Boooooooooo
Is it football season yet?
Watching the nationals is torture enough
Grilled maji taco
Etting runk on the reg
Superior mediocrity
Has Bo Paid All His Taxes?
Playground Menaces
Last place wannabes
Kings

Question of the Week

(Famous Tourist Traps) In what American city would I find Faneuil Hall?

Question of the Week

We will be having trivia this week. Woo hoo!

Here is your question of the week:

(Movies) In what 2002 film did Kate Bosworth star as a surfer girl determined to rule at the Pipemaster's Invitational?

Where Do Tweedledee and Tweedledum Come From?

The words Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee make their first appearance in print in an epigram by John Byrom (1692–1763);
Some say, compar'd to Bononcini
That Mynheer Handel's but a Ninny
Others aver, that he to Handel
Is scarcely fit to hold a Candle
Strange all this Difference should be
'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!

Starting in the early nineteenth century, collections of nursery rhymes began to include:
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Agreed to have a battle;
For Tweedledum said Tweedledee
Had spoiled his nice new rattle.
Just then flew down a monstrous crow,
As black as a tar-barrel;
Which frightened both the heroes so,
They quite forgot their quarrel.


The third (and only source I knew of prior to today) is Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass. Carroll, having introduced two fat little men named Tweedledum and Tweedledee, quotes the above nursery rhyme, which the two brothers then go on to enact. The Tweedle brothers never contradict each other, even when one of them, according to the rhyme, "agrees to have a battle". Rather, they complement each other's words.

More at Wikipedia.

On This Day in History

The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad or the first modern olympics were held in Athens, Greece, from April 6 to April 15, 1896.

The Games had the largest international participation of any sporting event to that date. Panathinaiko Stadium, the first big stadium in the modern world, overflowed with the largest crowd ever to watch a sporting event. The most successful competitor of 1896 was German wrestler and gymnast Carl Schuhmann, who won four gold medals.

Events at the first modern Olympics included cycling, fencing, gymnastics, shooting, swimming (held in the open ocean because the organizers had refused to spend the money for a specially constructed stadium), tennis, weightlifting, and wrestling.

The first place winners in each event received silver medals, an olive branch and a diploma. Athletes who placed second received copper medals, a branch of laurel and a diploma. Third place winners did not receive a medal.

The concept of national teams was not a major part of the Olympic movement until 10 years later. As such, there is some conflict with regard to which nations competed. The following 14 are most likely to have been recognized by the Olympic Committee: Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Chile, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States.

More on Wikipedia.

Reminder: No Trivia This Week

Just a friendly reminder: there is no trivia this week!

See you next week!

An Easter Related Questions

Why are eggs and bunnies associated with Easter?

Religious implications aside, Easter is essentially a celebration of springtime – a time in which big rabbits make a whole lot of little rabbits and birds lay a whole lot of eggs, thus symbolizing rebirth.

The more complicated question is, why does the Easter bunny lay eggs? This strange story originated as an Anglo-Saxon legend in which Eostre (the goddess of spring) turned a frozen bird into a hare to help it survive the harsh winter. The story was passed down through generations, and by the 1700s, Dutch settlers in America were telling their children that if they were good, the Easter bunny would come to their house and lay a beautiful nest of colorful eggs. No one is sure why, but these kids really wanted colored eggs, so they went to great lengths to lure the magical bunny into their hones to lay her nest. Eventually, this led to our current celebration Easter.

Thanks to MentalFloss. More Easter related trivia to come.

A Plethora of Teams

H I Jay Ray L M N O P (314)
MK and Pete won't find better friends in Colorao (278)
Sham pow…you know cause he punched a hooker / better watch your ass tomorrow--april Fool's beyotch (272) Tie
My Girlfriend gave me Conflicker (267)
At least fargo aint pregnant
New Eastern Mostors Pitchman - Barack Obama
The original team
You'll love my nuts
Pants!!!
Tag teaming the Jonas Brothers
Jayhawks
G7
Check please
For sale
Kate can't drive
Paid to do it 72 times
Tiger's like my herpes, he's making a stong comback
My Friday Nights are finally free now that BSG is over
Deadly accurate pecota projections
Marshmellow Peeps
You can't derelict my balls el bcapitain
Polar Bear and Astronauts
Totes McGotes
Team Rockbottom doesn't know how to keep reservations

Question of the Week

(Name Game) In 1962, the changing times prompted the Crayola Crayon company to re-name one of their colors to the word “peach”. What five-letter name did peach replace?

No Trivia on April 7th

FYI - we will NOT be having trivia on April 7th as Jason will be out of town. There will be trivia this week. YAY!

Still Crazy Covers

a. Human (The Killers) – Curtis Santiago featuring Mickey Facts
b. Rag Doll (Aerosmith) – Ted Nugent
c. Still Crazy After All These Years (Paul Simon) – Deertick
d. Wild World (Cat Stevens) – Beth Orton
e. Slow (Kylie Minogue) – Tricky
f. Robocop (Kanye West) – The Jazz Guys
g. Not the Same (Ben Folds) – The Spartones
h. Everywhere (Michelle Branch) – Yellowcard
i. Damn, I wish I was Your Lover (Sophie B. Hawkins) – Eels or Guster
j. You Get What You Give (New Radicals) – Tim Raisanen

Less Package Jokes Than You Might Expect...

Big Tittied Monkeys (297 points)
Specialty dark (292)
We put the sensual in the non consensual (284)
For the love of jay ray (282)
5 guys and a bitch (269)
Queen groupie and the sorrow suckers
Insert Topical Reference here
Short bus bowlers
Piggly wiggly
Sure britney's in town but we're THAT committed to trivia
Double dutch rudder
Murray's Monsters
Feelin the vibe
Stimulating geitner's package
Spectacular Abortion Survivor's Society
Poppin cherry blossoms
Da Big Time Playas
ABC easy as ichi nee san
Banana Boats
Will give answers for food
Burns When I poop
March sadness

Lucky Charmer

Lucky Charms is a brand of breakfast cereal produced by the General Mills that is 25% multi-colored marshmallow bits and know for its leprechaun mascot, Lucky.

The cereal was created in 1963 by Paul Bunyon. An advertising company employed by General Mills suggested marketing the new cereal around the idea of charm bracelets. Following launch, the General Mills marketing department found that sales performed dramatically better if the composition of the marshmallows changed periodically.

The first boxes of Lucky Charms cereal contained pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, and green clovers. The lineup has changed first to include blue diamonds in 1975, then purple horseshoes in 1984, followed by red balloons in 1989, rainbows in 1992, pots of gold in 1994, leprechaun hats in 1996, shooting stars in 1998, and hourglass in 2008. Generally when new shapes are added, older marshmallows are phased out. The first shape to be removed were the yellow moons and blue diamonds.

In 2006, the assortment had changed to purple horseshoes; red balloons; blue moons; orange and white shooting stars; yellow and orange pots of gold; pink, yellow, and blue rainbows; two-tone green leprechaun hats; pink hearts (the only shape to survive since the beginning); with the most recent addition being the return of the clovers in 2004. In early June 2006, General Mills introduced a new Lucky Charms marshmallow, Magic Mirror marshmallows. In 2008, yellow and orange hourglass marshmallows were introduced.

For all things Lucky, see Wiki.

Question of the Week

(Corporate Mascots) Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, and Jessica Simpson shared an advertising campaign pushing this product?

Welcome Back, Doug

Bailout bonuses (313 points)
Alex boyz plus the return of doug (308)
The racing presidents (256)
We hate theme trivia (246)
Buff and blue balls (204)
Bones of contention
Fabulous foursome
The hung leprechauns
Drews gaping asshole

Insert Dirty Irish Joke

You can polish my shalaylay (300 point)
Protestants can catholic my balls (285)
I'm gonna pooop green tomorrow (277)
Curdy (266)
I found a pot of gold in jason's anus (257)
Irish I were blarney stoned
I wanna know where the gold at?
Got pinched?
Clover? I hardly know her
Magically Deliscious
Big time playas
Shamrock obama
My jameson hats gives me super drinking power
I Just F'd a lepechaun and boy is my fist tired
Everyone who's seen a leprechaun say yeah
I don't know dick cheney about ireland
Elmer fudd and daffy duck
Two cheers for green beers
The green monsters
My team ditched me?
Who wants to see my lucky charms
Whatzit
Four leaf camel toes

Happy St Patty's Day!!!

Enjoy it!!

Question of the Week

(Music) You all know Bono is the lead singer of U2; give me 2 other members (first and last name)?

Get to Know Your Government

From sinatrafan103 at Etsy:



You can purchase as series of, helping you to "Get to Know Your Government."

Each card is 2.5" x 3.5" signed and dated on the back, with a little bio of the subject of the art card.

FYI... study help for trivia?

Tie Breaker? Dance Off!!!

The classic love of a turtle for your shoe (346 points)
-----Link is not approved for all ages
Nonreal numbers (319)
I hate man boobs (297)
Chuck Norris turned 69 today (274)
Shake and bake (268)
The Chinese geriatrics / Da Big time playas (Tie)
I gave up Jason's balls for lent
Schwa / Thank god American Idol is on, otherwise I wouldn't be able to get a seat (Tie)
Morehead state has a cunnin linguist department / So long ben mead (Tie)
Chocolate flavored dvds
Not so bullet proof bible
Victorinan poppycock
Down with the GOP you know me
Co naked UNO
It took 3 rolls of quarters to get a Kentucky
Rosie seven
The doors
Playground menances
Patrick weighs more than me 22 131
Celtoid 23 130
Pick up sticks 24 124
Broken molars 25 79

Question of the Week

(Money Matters/Animal Planet) What animal is featured on the back Kentucky's state quarter?






Hint hint... scroll down...

Quarterrific

The 50 State Quarters program was the release of a series of commemorative coins by the United States Mint. Between 1999 and 2008, it featured each of the 50 individual U.S. states on unique designs for the reverse of the quarter and will feature the District of Columbia and five of the nation's territories in 2009.

The program was conceived in hopes of creating a new generation of coin collectors. Roughly half of the U.S. population collected the coins, either casually or as a serious pursuit. Thus far, the U.S. federal government has made a profit of $4.6 billion from collectors taking the coins out of circulation.

See all the designs at Wikipedia.

Plymouth Rockz

Plymouth Rock is the traditional site of disembarkation of the Mayflower Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony in 1620. The rock is not referred to in the Journal Of Plymouth Plantation in fact the first reference to the Pilgrims landing on a rock is found 121 years after it happened. The rock is currently located on the shore of Plymouth Harbor in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

The location of the Plymouth Rock (a glacial erratic) at the foot of Cole's Hill is said to have been passed from generation to generation. When plans were started to build a wharf at the Pilgrim's landing site in 1741, a 94 year old Elder of the church named Thomas Faunce (also the town record keeper), identified the precise rock his father had told him was the first solid land the Pilgrims set foot upon.

When the townspeople of Plymouth decided to move the rock in 1774, it was split into two halves. The bottom portion was left behind at the wharf and the top half was relocated to the town's meeting-house.

That Man, He is a Cold Hearted Snake

a. Cold Hearted Snake (Paula Abdul) – SBach
b. Superstition (Stevie Wonder) – Estelle
c. Fresh Prince of Bel Aire (Will Smith) – Kay Pettigrew
d. Ride wit Me (Nelly) – I Call Shotgun
e. Downtown (Petula Clark) – Petty Booka
f. Lovefool (Cardigans) – The Morning Benders
g. Video Killed the Radio Star (The Buggles) – Handsome Hank and the Lonesome Boys
h. Joey (Concrete Blond) – Sometymes Why
i. Last Night (The Strokes) – The Detroit Cobras
j. All for Leyna (Billy Joel) - Hussalonia

What, No Snuggies?

Issaac's boys (346 points)
Buff and blue balls (331)
Wildcards (302)
Alex zora's facebook friends (247)
Katies krusty coochie (246)
Stephanie tanner

Snuggie Backlash 2009!

Dow 3600! (351 points)
Hooray Beer (350)
The name o the game is don't drop the soap (347)
Gay porn is sucking the fun outta me (335)
Vertically challenged (322)
Nobody Puts Steve in the Corner
I haven't seen this much snow since Marion Barry
Our zelek is prettier than yours
Jason's a douche
Bullwinkle died from auto erotic asphyxiation / Gun control? More like fun control (Tie)
Bar brawlers
Jeff 8
What is albert hayneworth
Last place
Snuggies suck
One of your group members has died of dysentery
I don't do coke I just like the way it smells
Will drop pant for points
Someone is third wheeling
Da big time playas
It sucks to be late
What do the Dow and snow have in common?
I like eating little girls cookies only $3.50 a box
Ram Rod

Question of the Week

(Science) Most snowflakes have six sides but there is a varying degree in their actual shapes--some have long dendrite arms while some are more like hexagons. Which of the following factors is most relevant in determining a snowflakes shape?
a. Wind direction
b. temperature of the air
c. height of the clouds
d. how fast it falls

Kermit's Namesake

Extra trivia for yah, I just thought this was neat:

Theodore Kermit Scott Jr. was an American and professor of philosophy and also happened to be the childhood friend of Muppets creator, Jim Henson.

Kermit Scott grew up in Mississippi right alongside Jim Henson. They were said to have been close friends who spent a lot of time at the creek.

Henson eventually moved away from his hometown and lost contact with Scott. It was not until years later that Scott learned Henson had named one of his most famous Muppets, Kermit the Frog, after his childhood friend. Scott was reportedly "delighted" but never sought to gain publicity from the connection.

JR's Stylish Snuggies

Suck this Bobby Jindal (323 points)
Nancy pelosis' stylish green snuggies (204)
Alex's boyz (194)
Stephanie tanner (165)
Something better (152)
Team without representation
Cock juggling thundercunts
Jimmys sitdowns
Wolftards

Snuggie Scores

Homo loving commies sons o guns (312 points)
Kate Winslet is one hot nazi (301)
Give us your beads (287)
Sham wow and the snuggies (189)
Best Support Zombie (185)
Wow! Room to breath
Who the F is Totes?
You May Recognize Me from SnuggieSightings.com / Our bead are bigger than yours (Tie)
Is it just me or did Sofia Loren look like an Italian handbag?
If you liked em then you should have put some beads on 'em
Joaquim's meth lab
The liscene plates said Fresh and there were dice in the mirror
Waiting for CJ
She went down like the dow (that's a new low)
Big time playas

Question of the Week

(food and drink): Which of the following are not shapes of Peeps available at some point during the year; jack-o-lanterns, skeletons, tulips, snowmen.

With Apologies to Ishtar

Ishtar was nominated for Worst Picture in the 1987 Golden Raspberry Awards. The movie received extremely negative reviews, and holds a 19% rating on RottenTomatoes.com. "Ishtar" has since became synonymous with "box office flop".

In one of the great Gary Larson's "The Far Side" comic strips, captioned "Hell's Video Store", the entire store display nothing but copies of the movie Ishtar. Larson later apologized, saying "When I drew the above cartoon, I had not actually seen Ishtar. ... Years later, I saw it on an airplane, and was stunned at what was happening to me: I was actually being entertained. Sure, maybe it's not the greatest film ever made, but my cartoon was way off the mark. There are so many cartoons for which I should probably write an apology, but this is the only one which compels me to do so."

More on Ishtar at Wikipedia.

JR' Needs To Explain Their Team Names to Me...

Alex boy (315 Points)
Buff and blue balls (311)
The bad news burris (274)
Killer chimps (267)
Jackie is a slow as a manatee (262)
Germany
The curious case of Benjamin's butt / Shift to the Left (Tie)
Rumple foreskin and the shining helmet heads

Mmmmmm... Covers!

a. Better Man (Pearl Jam) – Patricia O'Callaghan
b. Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover (Sophie B. Hawkins) – Ben Marwood
c. Tear Us Apart (INXS) – The Get Up Kids
d. Take On Me (A-Ha) – A.C. Newman
e. Mad World (Tears for Fears) – Sara Hickman
f. Our House (Crosy, Stills, & Nash) – The Sarcastic Dharma Society
g. Road to Nowhere (Talking Heads) – The Editors
h. Super Trooper (ABBA) – Camera Obscura
i. Don't Ease Me In (Grateful Dead) – Steep Canyon Rangers
j. Electric Avenue (Eddy Grant) – Woodhands

Scores-O

McDonald's Slumdog Menu-are (319)
My Left one is bigger than your right one (281)
Not yet bankrupt (260)
I'm no ta gynecoogist but I'll take a look (259)
Habitat for huge manatees (249)
Son of Frog Baby
Slump busters
Big time playas 
Our stimulus package is huge
Sawyer and jin's reunion made me cry
Playground Menaces
give peace a chance
I should have eloped
E = MC Hammer
Don't warn the tadpoles! (we have frog fear)
Pp pp ppppp power wheels
Gary Coleman's five dollar footlong
The downfall duo
Her best friend leslie says she just being miley
No reservations
Your mom plays trivia
Dip set
Help me feed my 14 children
Chris brown's boxing club
Goodfellas

Question of the Week

Manatees obviously live in the waters of Florida but where are manatees NOT found...
a. Coast of Mexico
b. Amazon river
c. Rivers in Western Africa
d. South Africa

Carl & Lenny Together Forever

Carl Carlson (MPhys)
-Homer's co-worker
-Sometimes identified as Homer's supervisor
-Likes to call himself "an urban Lenny"
-Icelandic-African-American
-Buddhist
-Frequently said to be among the most attractive men in Springfield
-Suffers from Schizophrenia

Lenford "Lenny" Leonard (MPhys)
-Friend and co-worker of Homer Simpson
-Despite appearing in the First Church of Springfield, is a Buddhist
-Born in Chicago, he is also a war hero and a three-time juror
-Grandmother spent 20 years in a Soviet work camp, hinting that Lenny is at least half Russian
-Shown to be an adept guitar player
-Member number 12 of the Springfield chapter of the Stonecutters
-Had plastic surgery after upswing in the price of power plant stock
-Drives a green two-door hatch back; liscence plate reads "DUI GUY"
-His mother, who likes Carl and Moe more

Enjoy more at Simpsons Wikipedia.

Oh, I Guess the 2nd One Doesn't Need to Be Spell Checked...

JR's Scores!!!
Alex's boy (323 points)
The stimulanus butt package project (294)
Crouching homo, hidden dildo (249)
Buff and blue balls (240)
Domestic Disturbia (215)
She had it coming
Aids camp

Question of the Week

(Holidays) Last week we celebrated (?) Groundhog's Day. There have been many famous groundhogs celebrated on February 2 such as Punxsutawney Phil, Spanish Joe, and Staten Island Chuck. One of the most famous Canadian groundhogs is known as Balzac Billy, named after the village of Balzac which is located 15 miles north of Calgary. In what Canadian province will we find Balzac Billy?

JRs is Frackin' Excellent

Evan's birthday bitches (310)
Buff and Blue Balls (284)
Alex's boyz (219)
Cock Suckers and Pussy Munchers / Ting Tongs (177) Tie
Frackin' Excellent
Tea for 2

Scores Among Us

All you trivia belongs to us (317 points)
Good night and big ball / They Lost our reservation and now we can't hear what's Going on (288 - Tie)
Team 10 (282)
Cut her off at 14 (275)
We bought our reservation from gov. blagoyavich (270)
Playground Menaces / I went to the inauguration and all I got was this lousy cabinet (Tie)
Nub city
I don't say "evasion" I say "avoison"
I before e except after queef
We smoke up with Michael Pheps
No nation like donation
Tim Need a shower
Big Time Players
Chicken wings
We're gonna rock that bottom / by the grace of obama (Tie)
Think Long and Hard
Amy's big can drive
Bruck Springstein's crotch powerslide
Happy bday stephanie

Question of the Week

(Movies and Technology) What 3 letter "hi-fidelity sound reproduction standard" used in many movie theaters was developed by Lucasfilm, and shares its name with George Lucas's first full-length film?

Did Anyone Have to Go to Work Today?

Buff and blue (336 points)
Alex boy (311)
Please Stimulate Our Score Sheet (307)
Daniel Dozier Dirty Dung Hole (295)
Dildo Town (265)
Whatever You Want
Rugger Buggers
Ice Queens
The M Word

7 Gables vs Green Gables

The House of the Seven Gables is a novel written in 1851 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is a recognized classic of American literature.
*Anne of Green Gables is a book by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery published in 1908. It was written as fiction for readers of all ages, but in recent decades has been considered a children's book.

The House of the Seven Gable centers on a gloomy New England mansion, haunted from its foundation by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft, and sudden death. The current resident, the dignified but desperately poor Hepzibah Pyncheon, opens a shop in a side room to support her brother Clifford, who is about to leave prison after serving thirty years for murder. She refuses all assistance from her unpleasant wealthy cousin Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon. A distant, lively relative, the pretty young Phoebe, turns up and quickly becomes invaluable, charming customers and rousing Clifford from depression. A delicate romance grows between Phoebe and the mysterious lodger Holgrave, who is writing a history of the Pyncheon family.
*Anne of Green Gables is a young orphan girl who, similar to orphan Annie, is mistakenly taken in by a family who wanted a little boy. The book is set on Prince Edward Island and the majority of the tale center's on the girl schooling, her budding literary ambitions and her friendships

C'mon Snow Day Scores

Pfizer stock: Can't Keep It Up (372 points)
Jason's Better Than a Misc Stuffed  Shirt (371)
Maryland: The Cheapskating on Ice State (359)
Freezing Rain is Like Ashburn: Bad Traffic But No Fun (350)
BTC Right Here Right Now (342)
Snitches and Bitches of Eastwick
Barely Licrous 
Not Even 2 Inches
Fuck Blankets, I love Snuggies
Chesterfield Willows
Yellow Snow: Won't Fill You Up, Never Lets You Down
I Saw Michelle Hook Up with a Porn Star
Losers Always Whine About Their Best
El Jefe
#7
I'm Not Feeling Very Creative
Where is My Valentine
Happy Dday Kansass
Michelle Made Out With a Pornstar and That Was the 2nd Time She Got Crabs
Yo Quiero Taco Bell
Flo - U

Updates on the Wintry Minx

According to our wonderful Trivia Master we are still on for tonight at Rock Bottom!

Please drive safe!

Question of the Week

(World Capitals) Which capital city has a name which translates from Spanish to mean “Fair Winds” in English?

FYI due to a call for weather of the wintry mix variety trivia may be canceled on Tuesday. If this happens, Jason will send out an email and update the Facebook page. In addition, this blog will be updated.

Today's Random Film Clip

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. is a 1953 musical fantasy film. The film is best known for being the only feature film ever written by Dr. Seuss who was responsible for the story, screenplay, and lyrics.



The film tells the story of Bart Collins, who believes his hated piano lessons to be evil and, while hammering away at his lessons, the boy dozes off and enters a fantastical musical dream, similar to that in The Wizard of Oz.

More at IMDB and Wikipedia.

Audio Roundage

Many of the songs found in the last two weeks of trivia can be found here.

According to Jason, he will not be using any of them in the next few weeks so it's not that much of a leg up, though knowing his penchant for covers...

I'm just saying read ahead people!

This week's answers:
a. Unpretty (TLC) – David Swinburn
b. Let's Talk About Sex (Salt n Pepa) – Man Like Me
c. Livin' On A Prayer (Bon Jovi) – The Boat People
d. In the Air Tonight (Phil Collins) - Nightwaves
e. Crazy (Gnarles Barkley) – 27
f. We're Not Gonna Take It (Twisted Sister) - Hellsongs
g. 2 of Hearts (Stacy Q) – Electric Valentine
h. Dafodil Lament (Cranberries) - Lisa Cuthbert
i. Self Control (Laura Branigan) – Project Jenny
j. Urgent (Foreigner) – DVAS

Inaugural Scores

I would Have Gone to Inauguration But I Had a Life (326 points)
Frog Babies (323)
Stromp (312)
Just the Beef Tips (306)
Union Jack's Trivia Sucks (304)
Laura Bush's Peepshow
Na Na Na Na, Na Na Na Na, Hey Hey Hey Goodbye
Four More Beers
A Volcanic Eruption of Hope
Team  912
SPaceManSpiff
Chico and The Man
LID

Question of the Week

Question of the Week:
What model made one of her only film appearances opposite Billy Baldwin in the 1995 action film “Fair Game”?

Rock Bottom Announcements

1. We are having trivia Tuesday.

2. Reservations - as teams are supposed to be no more than 6 people, Rock Bottom will no longer take trivia team reservations for more than that.

3. If you are not there by 7:30pm for your reservation, your table may be given up to another team.

4. Reminder - cell phones and other devices are no allowed during trivia. Please do not use them to look up answers during trivia.

5. Jason is seeking pens/pencils for folks to use during trivia. This could be a good way to get your marketing materials out there...

Covers in the Dark

1. Dancing in the Dark (Bruce Springsteen) - ELF
2. Pinball Wizard (The Who) – The Loose Acoustic Trio
3. Don't Stop the Music (Rhianna) – The Bird and The Bee
4. Wicked Games (Chris Isaak) – The Model
5. I Want to Sex You Up (Color Me Bad) – Charlie ASH
6. Sex and Candy (Marcy's Playground) – La Chansons
7. Somebody Watching Me (Rockwell) – Saar & Sky
8. The Chain (Fleetwood Mac) – Pin Me Down
9. Orange Crush (REM) - Editors
10. Only You (Yaz/Yazoo) - Freezepop

What Was With that Poetry Question?!

John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821) was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement during the early nineteenth century. He is know for his elaborate word choice and sensual imagery.

By 1820, Keats was showing serious signs of tuberculosis, a disease which had plagued his family. He moved to the warmed climate of Italy and died there. Keats was buried in the Protestant Cemetery of Rome.

His last request was to be buried under a tombstone reading only, "Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water." He did not want his name to appear at all. Despite this requests friend added the epitaph: "This Grave contains all that was mortal, of a young English poet, who on his Death Bed, in the Bitterness of his heart, at the Malicious Power of his enemies, desired these words to be Engraven on his Tomb Stone" along with the image of a lyre with broken strings.

For all you never wanted to know about Keats, see Wikipedia.

Score-O-Rama

Stop the Bus and Let My Brother, Jack, Off (311 points)
Jason's Delicious Inaugural Balls (299)
Remove Your Bush In 7 Days / Racing Presidents (288)
Team 7 (245)
Barack-O-Rama (245)
Burris Can Sit at Our Table 7
Slumdog Dollar Menu-aires
Who the Hell Let Marisa On This Team? / Thanks for the Votes, Virginia, Now Stay Home
Casey Makes Me Wet
Jeffery + Patrick = One Real Man
Just the Tip
Bootysweat
Playground Menaces
Hymens in the Muff
Guerilla Warfare is Just Bananas
Nowhere to Go But Up
Chesterfield Willows
Team Clemson
Fancy Pant
Geedubs
Shake n Bake

Question of the Week

(Lyrically Speaking) What person was the inspiration behind Paul McCartney’s song “Let It Be” ?

If It's In the News It Can Be On the Blog...

* Gu Gu, a beloved Giant Panda who lives at the Beijing Zoo, just bit his third visitor.
* His most recent victim was 28-year-old Zhang Jiao, who entered the panda pen to try and retrieve his son's toy on January 7th.
* Amazingly, when Gu Gu attacked and sunk his teeth into Zhang's left and right legs, the man did not fight back out of respect for the national treasure. * Gu Gu first came to fame (or infamy) on September 19, 2006 when he bit an inebriated Chinese man who jumped into his enclosure and tried to hug him.
* Zhang Xinyan, 35, did retaliate by biting the panda on its back. However, he found he fur here was too thick for the bear to take notice.
* A second incident occurred on Tuesday October 23, 2007, when 15 year old Li Xitao jumped the barrier and climbed into the panda exercise area while Gu Gu and another bear were being fed.
* The bear was startled and bit the boy on both legs, ripping chunks from both of them.
* According to medical officials, Li was so viciously attacked that his bones were showing, and chunks of flesh were left behind in the ambulance.
* The attack was reported by witnesses to have lasted 3 to 4 minutes.

Want more on Giant Pandas?

2008: The Musical

Enjoy it all again, in convenient mash up form here!

By DJ Earwormm, this is the annual "United States Of Pop" megamash of 25 of the biggest hits of last year. It includes vocals and/or music from One Republic, Pink, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Madonna, Lil Wayne, Katy Perry, Alicia Keys, and many more.

Or, enjoy the video.

Alright 2009! Whoot!

Presidential Shoe-marang (329 points)
Congress is Back in Recession (323)
2008? I Know This Like it Was Last Week (311)
The BCS is a Total Joke (300)
Gunter und Dieter (296)
The Directors
Chesterfield Willows
Team Licorce Bears
Playground Menaces
Rocks vs Rockets
The A Team
4.78 Percent
Slim Tims
Ricky Rubio is Number One 
I'm Good Enough I'm Smart Enough and Gosh Darn it People Like Me / Pee Shy (Tie)
Jizz and Zazoo Power Hour
Hulkmaniacs
The Team White People Like
To Get Her 
Crab Dribblers
Riders of Lohan
George the Third

Here's a Kick Start for You...

Question of the Week

This week of trivia will be the 2008 year in review, so study up...

(TV) In the Fall of this year, she won the seventh and most recent season of Dancing with the Stars?

Last Trivia Scores of 2008!

T Minus 2 Day for Glennon (335 points)
Fa La La la la la la Cha Ching (328)
NAMBLA (North America Marlon Brando Look Alike Association) (325)
I Hope Teshara Gets Alber Belle Disease (319)
Lowering the Bar (318)
Redskins: Superbowl 43 Champs
Is It Too Late to Unbuckle Your Mistletoe Belt and Jingle Your Bells ?
The Slumdog Widowmakers
Balls-ton Lickers
TKO
Hey Baby What's Your Sign?
We Prefer Trivia in a Taxi
Jorts
Bleck Opedia
My Best Friend Dan Said Oh I'm Just Being Miley
Sugah Babies
Carpet Colored Schnoodle
Have Shoes Will Throw
Feeny Five
Beefys Angels
Sean Taylor Would Have Gotten Us In the Playoffs
Generally Unfriendly and Mean