Michael D. "Stew" Stewart

QUESTIONS

1. The all-time baseball records are held by Mickey Mantle with 18, Babe Ruth with 15 and Yogi Berra with 12.  What record is this?
2. Homer’s “The Odyssey” contained a description of people who fed on a certain fragrant Asian flower and lived in a drugged, lethargic state. What were these people called?
3. Which woman was featured in Life Magazine articles at least once each decade from the 1930’s through the 1990’s?
4. Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, and John Leguizamo – three macho male actors played drag roles in which film?
5. On April 24, 1909, Harry Hillman and Lawson Roberts set the world record for this humorous athletic event, covering 100 yards in just 11 seconds.  Which event?
6. This “thing,” about 186 feet long, 66 feet high, is half human and half lion.  What is it?

ANSWERS

1. Home runs in World Series games.
2. Lotus eaters
3. Shirley Temple
4. To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
5. Three legged race
6. Sphinx

QUESTIONS

1. This town in the Pyrenees of southwest France is the site where the Virgin Mary appeared to a peasant girl named Bernadette in 1858.  The town is now a pilgrimage site with miraculous healing powers.  Also Madonna’s daughters name What is its name?
2. Which President’s name rhymes with one of Santa’s reindeers?
3. In 1800, Italian Alessandro Volta showed his amazing new invention to Napoleon, who liked it so much, Napoleon appointed him a count.  What was the invention?
4. Presidents’ states of birth: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson
5. In a lottery, million-dollar winners are paid over 20 years.  If a million dollar winner pays 28% tax, what is their net take-home each year?
6. The person in charge is often referred to by a slang term related to Mexican food.  What is it?
7. The Pennsylvania Dutch, Amish people make a pie with a filling of sweet molasses, and it’s so sweet and delicious you have a hard time keeping bugs away from it.  What is it called?

ANSWERS

1. Lourdes
2. Nixon / Vixen
3. First Electric Battery
4. Virginia, Kentucky, South Carolina
5. $34,000
6. The Big Enchilada
7. Shoofly Pie

QUESTIONS

1. Name two animated Disney films, in one of which the title animal’s father dies (1994), the other the title animal’s mother dies (1942)?
2. Name the author and main character of the popular 1950s novel about a sensitive but rebellious youth who runs away from his boarding school, “Catcher in the Rye”?
3. Which actress played which lead role in the 1964 Academy Award Winning film, “My Fair Lady”? Which actor played which role in that film?
4. The largest-selling single record of the 1980s was the 1981 hit with a one-word title recorded by a British born female with three names. Which song, which single?
5. Three questions about the 1941 classic film, Citizen Kane: Which 25-year old directed and starred in the film?  What was the name of the vast estate owned by Charles Foster Kane? What was the name of the sled – object of his affection?
6. Name four kinds of Italian cheese which begin with the letters P or R?

ANSWERS

1. LION KING / BAMBI
2. J.D. SALINGER / HOLDEN CAULFIELD
3. AUDREY HEPBURN / ELIZA DOOLITTLE, REX HARRISON / SIR HENRY HIGGINS
4. PHYSICAL / OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN) but lived in Australia
5. ORSON WELLES, XANADU, ROSEBUD
6. PARMESAN / PECORINO / PROVOLONE / RICOTTA / ROMANO

QUESTIONS

1. Which Japanese Technology Company’s named was inspired by the English phrase, Service and Games?
2. Which color flame burns hottest, red, white, or blue?
3. Which U.S. state’s official song comes from a Broadway musical?
4. In 1498, the Chinese invented a product that lead to a great improvement in personal hygiene and appearance.  Today you can easily buy one of these things for about a dollar.  What was it?
5. Reviewers considered this 1978 film one of the best rock-concert documentaries of all time.  The subject was the farewell concert of the musical group The Band, in November, 1976, and co-starred Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, and Eric Clapton.  What was the film title?

ANSWERS

1. Sega
2. Blue followed by white, yellow, orange, red (coolest)
3. Oklahoma
4. Toothbrush
5. The Last Waltz

QUESTIONS

1. Which country has a bill of rights for cows?
2. In which 1992 film did Tom Hanks play the role of a overweight, obnoxious baseball coach?
3. He was the victim of a disease that left him so grotesquely deformed that he spent most of his life as a carnival show freak.  His name was John Merrick, and a 1980 film about his life was nominated for eight Academy Awards.  What was the name of the film?
4. During the reign of King Francis I in the 16th century it was the palace of the king, but today it’s a famous museum.  What is it called?
5. Which Protestant sect was founded in England in the early 18th century, based on the principles of John and Charles Wesley?  (Not Wesleyan)

ANSWERS

1. India
2. A League of Their Own
3. Elephant man
4. Louvre
5. Methodist

QUESTIONS

1. What 1945 film won best picture, actor and director Oscars?
2. In the Beverly Hillbillies what was the name of Ellie’s Chimp?
3. When did the last dinosaurs roam earth? A. Over 100 million years ago B. Around 20 million years ago C. Around 65 million years ago.
4. This Pittsburgh radio station is considered to be the first to broadcast in the U.S. Do you know its call letters?
5. What game would you be playing if you were placing bombs and a flag on a field?

ANSWERS

1. The Lost Weekend
2. Cousin Bessie
3. C. Around 65 million years ago; A Triceratops may have been the last dinosaur standing, according to a new study that determined a fossil from Montana
4. KDKA – Pittsburgh
5. Stratego

QUESTIONS

1. What links Kelly, Highway, Block and Wales?
2. Marilyn Monroe was the model for which Disney Character?
3. If the population of a city grows at 10% per year, it will double in approximately how many years? (to nearest year)
4. What do the initials GUI stand for?
5. In which sport would you hear the terms side pushers, driver and G-Force?

ANSWERS

1. Clint Eastwood character Names
2. Tinker Bell
3. Seven
4. Graphical User Interface
5. Bobsled

QUESTIONS

1. Cheers exterior shots featured a real bar, what was its name?
2. Who are Mickey Mouse’s nephews?
3. What is the word for people who worship more than one god? Those than worship only one?
4. Which two people, in 1976, sold their VW van for $1,300 in order to raise money to build the first Apple Computer in their garage?
5. What is the fastest known traveling object?

ANSWERS

1. Bull & Finch
2. Mortie and Ferdie
3. Polytheism and Monotheism.
4. Steve Jobs / Steve Wozniak
5. Light or Space. Light – traditionally, but some scientists now say that space is expanding or moving faster than the speed of light.

QUESTIONS

1. On television what was Flipper?
2. What kind of creature was Sam, on the Muppet Show?
3. This 19th century American frontierswoman was a companion of Wild Bill Hickok. She dressed like a man and frequented bars in the Dakota Territory where she told stories of her adventures. By what name do we know her?
4. Where was Aristotle born?
5. If you were eating escargots in France, what would you actually be consuming?

ANSWERS

1. Dolphin
2. Eagle
3. Calamity Jane
4. Greece
5. Snails