Musings of a Dead Parrot

THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1. Eighty-five percent of the population of the Horn of Africa lives in which of the region's four countries? South Africa
2. What psychedelic 1960s rock group sometimes performed, due to legal battles over their band name, as The Melvilles? Psychedelic? Melvilles --> Moby Dick --> Moby Grape
3. The only two one-word quotes on the AFI's list of 100 movie quotes are from Citizen Kane and The Graduate, respectively. Name them. Rosebud and Plastics
4. What was unique about the "Buffalo Soldiers" of the 19th-century U.S. army? I think they were all black. Or were they Indians? or both?
5. The "LPG gas" sometimes used to power vehicles is a mixture of what two simple alkanes? methane and ethane. I guess propane is a possibility
6. The Potato Sack is a suite of games designed to promote what 2011 video game release? I know nothing about video games. LA Noire is the only recent release I have heard of.
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these famous duos? Hope and Crosby, Johnny Knoxville and Steve-O, Laurel and Hardy, Lunt and Fontanne, Morgan and Stanley, Axl Rose and Slash, John Smith and Pocahontas, Watson and Crick. This one is pretty easy. One of the pair was born in the US and the other in Britain.

LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1. What NBA team was the last stop in the careers of both Pete Maravich and Shaquille O'Neal? The Boston Celtics were the elephant graveyard of Shaq and co. correct
2. What cancelled historical event, to have been led by Captain Richard F. Gordon, has lent its name to a They Might Be Giants album and an upcoming horror film? Apollo 18 was cancelled due to lack of funding--or, if you believe the trailer for the forthcoming horror movie, due to aliens or ghosts or alien ghosts or something. correct
3. In the U.S., what are selected via "voir dire"? "Voir dire" comes from the Latin for "to tell the truth," and the terms has come to refer to the process of jury selection. correct.
4. What large U.S. metropolitan area deposits 90% of its human burials in above-ground vaults, a higher percentage than any other world city? These are the famous "cities of the dead" in New Orleans, Louisiana--though, contrary to popular belief, the practice is more attributable to the traditions of the city's French and Spanish founders than flooding issues. correct
5. What involuntary movement of the orbicularis oculi muscle do adult humans perform over 15,000 times per day? You blink a lot. Unless you are Sir Michael Caine. (YouTube it if you don't know what I'm talking about.) correct
6. What TV and movie actor published the memoir Just One More Thing: Stories from My Life in 2006? "Just one more thing" was the Columbo-era catchphrase of the late great Peter Falk. correct
7. What unusual distinction is shared by these historical figures? Julius Caesar, Thomas Chatterton, Cleopatra, James Cook, Lady Jane Grey, Leonardo da Vinci, Jean-Paul Marat, Montezuma, Horatio Nelson, Socrates. All these people's deaths were depicted in famous paintings. You could also add Elvis, I guess, if you count the "King Is Dead" acrylic canvas I produced in my 10th-grade art class. Brad nailed it. Nice job!