Musings of a Dead Parrot

THIS WEEK'S QUIZ
1. What are the only two U.S. state capitals that have teams from all four major North American sports organizations playing within their city limits? Denver and Atlanta
2. What 1974 James Grady spy novel had its title literally chopped in half when Sydney Pollack made it into a movie?
3. What's the only Western Hemisphere country that sings its national anthem in Dutch? Aruba or Netherlands Antilles
4. What semi-controversial title is shared by the biggest hit song of two different singer/ songwriters: Jill Sobule and Katy Perry?
5. What world religion is divided into the Theravada and Mahayana schools? sounds like Hindu or Buddhism
6. The American fighter pilots that volunteered for the French air force during the early days of World War I were known as whose "Escadrille"?
7. Based on the unusual distinction they all share, name a TV show that could be added to this list of movies. The Butcher Boy, A Christmas Story, Inventing the Abbotts, Life Is Beautiful, Radio Flyer, A River Runs Through It, To Kill a Mockingbird, Young Sherlock Holmes.

LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What's the common name for speakers of the Romany language? Romany is spoken by (go figure) Roma, still more commonly known as gypsies. correct
2. What actress, who's had to deal with self-destruct computer countdowns in two different movies, now herself voices the self-destruct countdown computer in the film Wall-E? The countdown is voiced by Sigourney Weaver, who did battle with spaceship self-destruct countdowns in Alien and Galaxy Quest. I might have known this if I had seen the movie
3. Of the very few songs with three-letter titles ever to have topped the Billboard pop chart, who sang lead on three of them? Michael Jackson sang "Ben," "ABC," and "Bad." (The other non-Michael #1s are "Why," "War," "SOS," and "Low.") correct
4. What British mathematician is today commemorated with a stained-glass window in his Cambridge college, depicting three overlapping circles? John Venn, inventor of Venn diagrams. correct
5. If you're "intestate," what, by definition, do you not have? A last will and testament. No credit to smart-aleck answers like "a pulse." correct
6. What's the only nation with two territorial claims on Antarctica, despite being further from Antarctica than almost any other country on earth? Norway, thanks to early Antarctic explorers like Roald Amundsen. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these sports and hobbies? Baseball, birdwatching, car racing, cricket, darts, golf, poker, and soccer. Each has (or had) a World Series. Some of them are even more bogus in their global-ness than Major League Baseball's so-called "World" Series.

# posted by The O'Brien's Team @ 9:56 AM