Musings of a Dead Parrot

THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS
1.  Who got his most famous nickname after Frank Galluccio attacked him with a knife in 1917 at a Brooklyn nightclub?  Scarface
2.  What world airline uses the callsign "SHAMROCK"?  Aer Lingus
3.  Frito-Lay is now selling "Cheesy Poofs" at Wal-Mart to celebrate the 15th anniversary of what?  South Park.  I love cheesy poofs, You love cheesy poofs.  If we didn't eat cheesy poofs, We'd be lame.
4.  What's the only type of radiation on the electromagnetic spectrum that has a shorter wavelength than X-rays?   Infrared?
5.  Which Las Vegas casino has a $9 million lion habitat in its lobby?  Luxor?
6.  What 85-year-old recently became the oldest artist by far ever to top the Billboard album chart?  A question I was going to ask at O'Briens on my next quiz.  You might think it would be Cher, but it is Tony Bennett.
7.  Among non-European countries, what unusual distinction is shared by these and no others?  Canada, Costa Rica, East Timor, Egypt, Israel, Japan, Liberia, Sout Africa, South Korea, USA.  East Timor, Egypt and Israel definitely are giveaways.  The only non-European countries with Nobel Peace Prize winners.

LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
1.  What was the day job of Francis Scott Key at the time he wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner"?  He was a lawyer.  In fact, the only reason Key was around to watch the Battle of Fort McHenry is because he'd been invited aboard a British ship that night to negotiate some prisoner releases.  As you know if you've ever tried to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner," he may actually have been a better lawyer than he was a poet.
2.  What film franchise followed the character Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh? Those are the Lethal Weapon partners.  Murtaugh is the guy who is getting too old for this.  Riggs is the slightly unhinged one who thinks that the Jews started every war in world history.  correct
3.  What island's official language is Kalaallisut?  Kalaallit Nunaat is the official name of the island you probably call Greenland. correct
4.  What recently became the first college football team to top the AP poll 100 times?  The Oklahoma Sooners had their 100th #1 week last month sometime.  correct.  Boomer Sooner!
5.  What novel's second sentence is, "Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail a little and see the watery part of the world"?  The first sentence is "Call me Ishmael," so this is...Marley and Me.  No, wait.  It's Moby-Dick.  good call, Alex.  you picked up on the clue which was to figure out the opening sentence
6.  What is the only dwarf planet of the inner solar system?  Ceres, the largest asteroid in the belt between Mars and Jupiter, is so big that it's now classified as a dwarf planet, just like Pluto and company.  correct
7.  What unusual distinction is shared by all these albums?  Tori Amos's Little Earthquakes, Arcade Fire's Funeral, Elvis Costello's Trust, Bob Dylan's Desire, Field Mob's Light Poles and Pine Trees, the Grateful Dead's Shakedown Street, Roxy Music's Avalon, Sinatra's Come Fly with Me, James Taylor's Gorilla, Kim Wilde's Select.  Each includes a song that shares its name with a country.  Respectively: China, Haiti, Luxembourg, Mozambique, Georgia, France, India, Brazil, Mexico, and Cambodia.  correct.  Fine with me to include more Arcade Fire in future Q7s