Request from the Trivia Master

From Jason himself:

"Hello kids-

Some folks have constructively suggested I make mention that some teams are just WAY too big for a fair trivia team. In the past I was strict with team sizes. No more than six people per team. Then I started slacking a bit and saying six-ish. But the past few weeks we've had teams at over 10 people per team. A LITTLE too big for a trivia team.

Truthfully, with everything else I'm doing, it's hard for me to police team sizes, just as it is hard for me to make sure people aren't using their cell phones. I have an honor system and believe if you need to cheat at trivia, then you have bigger issues in your life.

So here's the deal, please TRY to keep your teams around six players, no more. Again, I'm not going to police people on this but for everyone's enjoyment and spirit of fairness, please try to respect this suggested size."

A Snoopy Family

Over the course of the Peanuts strip run, it was revealed that Snoopy had been born and raised at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm. His father used to run with hunting dogs, but would secretly run ahead and warn the rabbits.

Before they were sold, Snoopy and his brothers and sister made a band and one by one each was sold. Snoopy's original owner was a little girl named Lila, who had to return him to Daisy Hill after her family moved to an apartment. Snoopy was then selected by Charlie Brown's parents as a companion for him after another child threw sand in his face while they were playing in a sandbox.

Snoopy is usually depicted as having seven siblings, five of whom appear at some point in the strip: Andy, Belle, Marbles, Olaf, and Spike. Most often seen is Spike, who lives in the desert. Spike is very thin, wears a fedora and has long whiskers (and also shares his name with one of Schulz's childhood pet dogs.)


Andy looks like a disheveled version of Snoopy. Olaf, who wears a fur cap, is round in both body and face. Marbles is the smartest in the group. He has spots on his fur (making him look somewhat like a Dalmatian), wears shoes, and considers some of Snoopy's behavior very odd. Belle, who looks like Snoopy with long eyelashes, is most notable in that there was a Belle stuffed animal available for many years.

Although Snoopy often mentions that he was one of eight puppies, the two other siblings never appeared in the comic strip. According to the animated special Snoopy's Reunion, they are named Molly and Rover.

For everything Snoopy, see Wikipedia

a. Space Oddity – Emile Simon (David Bowie)
b. Man in the Mirror – Alex Arrowsmith (Michael Jackson)
c. That's Life – James Brown (Frank Sinatra)
d. F--k and Run – Cassettes Won't Listen (Liz Phair)
e. The Wind Cries Mary – Cassandra Williams (Hendrix)
f. Stars are Blind – AJ Draper (Paris Hilton)
g. Say it Right – Bloc Party (Nelly Furtado)
h. Lucky – My Brightest Diamond (Radio Head)

Torrance High School, I Looked It Up

Torrance High School, the oldest of four high schools in the Torrance Unified School District in California, is one of the oldest high schools in continuous use in the state and a popular location for television and motion picture production.

It was founded in 1917, sharing its campus with an elementary school. It is most known for its appearance in high-profile television shows, including Beverly Hills 90210 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.



And the team name was a nod to last week's picture quiz.

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Random Trivia Wednesday: The Nobel Prize

1. Robert Lucas, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on the theory of “rational expectations,” split his $1 million prize with his ex-wife, based on a clause in their divorce settlement from seven years earlier: “Wife shall receive 50 percent of any Nobel Prize.”

2. Physicist Lise Meitner, whose work helped lead to the discovery of nuclear fission, was reportedly nominated for the Nobel Prize 13 times without ever winning.

3. In 2007, two winners had a combined age of 177. At 90, professor Leonid Hurwicz is the oldest person to ever win (one-third of the Prize in Economics); at 87, writer Doris Lessing is the oldest woman (Literature).

4. DNA expert Kary Mullis – 1993 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry – was scheduled to be a defense witness in O.J. Simpson’s murder trial. However, Simpson lawyer Barry Scheck felt the prosecution’s DNA case was already essentially destroyed, and he didn’t want Mullis’ personal life to distract jurors (he’d expressed an affinity for LSD).

5. In the last ten years, the Nobel Prize in Literature has gone for the first time to authors in Portugal, China, Trinidad & Tobago, Hungary, Austria and Turkey

6. Nobel Laureates include: Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa, Elie Wiesel, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nelson Mandela, Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, Jimmy Carter, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Beckett, Pierre & Marie Curie, Max Planck and Albert Einstein.

7. Big names who never won: Leo Tolstoy, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Mangesh Hattikudur, Mark Twain, Gertrude Stein, Paul Tagliabue, Henrik Ibsen, Thomas Edison and Mahatma Gandhi.

8. As part of his divorce settlement, Einstein’s Nobel Prize money went to his ex-wife, Mileva Maric.

9. The first Nobel Laureates collected 150,800 Swedish kronor (about $15,420 today). The stakes have been raised. This year’s prize was $1.5 million – shared in the case of multiple winners.

10. The Curie family is a Nobel Prize machine, winning five: Pierre and Marie for Physics in 1901; Marie solo for Chemistry in 1911; daughter Irene and her husband Frédéric Joliot-Curie for Chemistry in 1935; and Henry Labouisse – Irene’s daughter Eve’s second husband – accepted on behalf of UNICEF in 1965.

11. Alfred Nobel – inventor of dynamite – may have been inspired to create the Nobel Prize after a premature obituary in a French newspaper called him a “merchant of death.”

Rock Bottom Winners

Moneyshots (330 points)
Lance Armstrong Must Have Gotten Tired of Riding Matthew McConaughey (301)
The Racing Presidents (291)
Bristol Palin Baby Daddy / Bullwinkle Died of Autoerotic Asphyxiation (286) Tie
Drink the Beer
Torrance HS - Look It Up
This Space Intentionally Left Blank
Sara Palin was for Brady's Knee Before She Was Against It
Sofa King Awsomer Than Your Mom
Premature E-Jack -o-lantern
Burned Activist Association of America
Rashid's Angel
Is Kim Jong "Ill"
We're Really Great With Kids, the Police Just Disagree

Question of the Week

(Business/Corporations) What does the “E” stand for in the name of the insurance company – GEICO?

My State Capital is Smaller Than Your State Capital

Smallest US State Capitals:
Vermont (Montpelier) - 8,035
South Dakota (Pierre) - 13,876
Maine (Augusta) - 18,560
Montana (Helena) - 25,780
Kentucky (Frankfort) - 27,741
Alaska (Juneau) - 30,987
Delaware (Dover) - 32,135
Maryland (Annapolis) - 36,217
Missouri (Jefferson City) - 39,636

JRs Scores

Joey's Boyz (281 points)
Buff and Blue Balls (261)
Brian (191)
And the Secret Word is -- Abstinence (183)
Shirley Temple of Doom (123)
Matthew Assisted by Ricky

Rock Bottom Scores

Money Shots (324 points)
Jason's Mom is Always the Answer (284)
Racing Presidents (241)
Alaskan Love Children (230)
The Future Mr. Palin (225)
Grandma Palin and the Kids
The Products of Abstinence Only Education