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