Questions Nate or Simon should know so JoEllen's team gets some points
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200
In Angela Lansbury's 1999 authorized biography Balancing Act she claims that Rosalind Russell and Patrick Dennis tried to stop the Broadway musical of this play from being done because they wanted to develop a TV series.
Auntie Mame
200
What name was shared by three English monarchs before the Norman Conquest (the Elder, the Martyr, and the Confessor) and by another eight English monarchs after the conquest?
Edward
200
rope
200
The plot of the original Star Wars film (Episode IV) involves plans to the Galactic Empire's Death Star being stolen by spies for the Rebel Alliance. Near the beginning of the film, these plans are hidden, by Alderaan Princess Leia Organa, where?
R2-D2
200
The Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem which appeared in his 1863 Tales of a Wayside Inn collection as "The Landlord's Tale" describes legendary (and largely fictional) exploits of what American hero?
Paul Revere
400
Name the basketball Hall of Famer who won the Michigan High School Class A Boys Basketball Championship in 1977, the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship in 1979, and his first NBA Finals in 1980.
Magic Johnson
400
Though perhaps associated most with rocker Ted Nugent, the pathogen Bartonella henselae is named after scientist Alberto Barton and lab technologist Diane Hensel. It causes a benign infectious disease which is best known colloquially as what?
Cat Scratch Fever
400
"Dear King Philip Came Over For Good Soup." In this mnemonic, the word "soup" stands in for what other word?
Species
400
Give the precise title (in English) of the smash bestselling novel by Haruki Murakami first published in Japanese in 2009, and English in 2011. The title is a play on the Japanese pronunciation of a George Orwell novel.
IQ84
400
A popular card game, whose object is not to hold the one unmatchable card in the deck at the end, is known in various countries as "Black Peter" (in native languages). What is this game's best-known English name?
Old Maid
600
Twin sons of Ares and Aphrodite, who were the Greek mythological personifications of fear and terror, gave their names (thanks to American astronomer Asaph Hall) to celestial objects that are most closely and uniquely associated with what other celestial object?
Mars
600
There are two rivers in Africa which each has two different countries named after it. Name one of these rivers.
Congo or Niger
600
In 2011, a low-calorie (specifically, a TEN-calorie) variety of what popular soft drink was released in the United States, with a marketing message aimed at men—most directly in its tagline, "It's Not for Women."?
Dr Pepper
600
Of the twelve studio albums released by the rock band Van Halen, two of them, released consecutively in the mid-1980s, have titles which are four-digit numbers. Please give either of those two numbers.
1984, 5150
600
The municipalities of Villa de Guadalupe in Mexico; Paris, France; Lourdes, France; and Fatima, Portugal most distinctively have what in common?
Apparitions of the Virgin Mary
800
Name the hurler, the winner of the National League Cy Young Award after the 1969, 1973, and 1975 seasons, who is the only member of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, whose plaque sports a New York Mets cap.
Tom Seaver
800
In finance and financial analysis, what feline term is used colloquially to describe a small and temporary phase of recovery that occurs during a prolonged period of decline, after which is a quick and sustained continuation of the downward trend?
Dead Cat Bounce
800
Provide the name that completes this list: Elmer Layden, Bert Bell, Austin Gunsel, Pete Rozelle, Paul Tagliabue.
Roger Goodell
800
There are exactly two elements represented in the periodic table by single letters whose standard names (in English) do not begin with those letters. What are those elements' names? (As a counterexample, Oxygen begins with its symbol, O.)
Potassium(K), Tungsten (W)
800
On the cover of the 1969 album palindromically titled Aoxomoxoa, the art displaying the band's name is an ambigram which, reportedly, can also be viewed as "we ate the acid." What is the band's name?
Grateful Dead
1000
Name the famous 1927 musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, regarded by some as the first successful, totally American operetta, which includes the classics "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "Make Believe", "Why Do I Love You", and "Ol' Man River".
Show Boat
1000
What unit of measurement is defined as the force needed to move a 1 kg object so that it accelerates at 1 m/s2? It is also used as a measure of weight, where one unit is the weight of a medium-sized apple, roughly.
A Newton
1000
The principality of Monaco is traditionally divided into four Quartiers: Monaco-Ville, La Condamine, Fontvielle, and what fourth?
Monte Carlo
1000
What expression, popular from the early days of WWII, is used to describe enemy sympathizers who may provide active assistance to invading forces? The term originates from the Spanish Civil War, when sympathizers supported a quartet of rebel battalions advancing on Madrid.
5th Column
1000
A special type of quadrilateral defined as having two pairs of sides, with each pair made up of adjacent sides that equal in length, is sometimes referred to as a deltoid, but is better known in geometry as, appropriately, a what?
Kite