Musings of a Dead Parrot

THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. Where on your body would you wear brogues, Bluchers, or Balmorals? these are shoes. most people wear them on their feet.
2. What's the only U.S. metropolis to have over half its population--a whopping 60.6%--made up of foreign-born residents? a guess - Honolulu (as we learned at the quiz a few weeks ago, also the only state capital that contains over half of its state's population)
3. What was the real first name shared by two icons of 1950s childhood: Dr. Seuss and Beaver Cleaver? Theodore
4. Name any one of the three movie soundtracks to be the year's top-selling album during the 1990s. The Bodyguard. If the question is best selling soundtrack, I always answer The Bodyguard.
5. What famous quote is the first half of a 1964 couplet that ends, "Your hands can't hit what your eyes can't see"? Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
6. The president of France is, by law, also the "co-prince" of what other nation? Andorra?
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these films? Donnie Darko, Gas Food Lodging, Good Will Hunting, Grand Hotel, Mo' Better Blues, Say Anything..., The Royal Tenenbaums, Young Guns. This has to something with siblings appearing together - Gyllenhals, Ione Skye and Donovan Leitch, Afflecks, Barrymores, Lees (Spike and his sister Joie), Cusacks, Wilsons, Estevez/Sheen. If that is correct, this was a pretty easy Q7.

LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What brief title is shared by an 1895 verse often voted as Britain's favorite poem, and a Bread song that went to #1 in the U.K. but not Stateside? That title would be "If." "If a picture paints a thousand words, then why can't I paint you?" as Kipling once asked. correct
2. According to one contemporary source, whose famous last words may actually have been "I think it the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his Commander-in-Chief"? That's how one British officer wrote down the last words of Nathan Hale. I'm glad the rewrite desk turned that into "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Shoot. I tried to think of military men involved in mutiny or insubordination. Did not think of spies.
3. In July 1997, who was murdered in Miami and buried in Milan, a funeral watched by millions of viewers worldwide? Gianni Versace, the slain fashion designer. correct
4. Who was the final player chosen in the inaugural draft of the Israel Baseball League in 2007, by a team manager who argued, "It's been 41 years between starts for him"? Legendary Yom Kippur-observing hurler Sandy Koufax, who was by then 71 and working on 14,875 days' rest. correct
5. What's the only Best Picture-winning film based directly on newspaper articles, a series of New York Sun pieces that prefix the film's title with the word "Crime"? On the Waterfront was based on a series of exposes called "Crime on the Waterfront." Out of Africa was NOT based on a series of exposes called "Crime out of Africa." correct
6. What is made up of units called nucleotides? DNA...or RNA. Any NA, really. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these world leaders, past and present? Australia's Julia Gillard, Canada's John A. MacDonald, Germany's Adolf Hitler, Greece's George Papandreou, Ireland's Eamon de Valera, and Israel's Shimon Peres. Each was born outside the country he or she eventually led. Secretly born in KENYA, most likely! correct