MIND GAMES
Focus! What single word serves as the name of a children’s handclap game, a memory card game, a short-lived British quiz show, and a U.S. game show, one version of which was hosted by Alex Trebek?
Concentration
!!!DAILY DOUBLE!!!
At a 2001 spring training game in Tucson, Arizona, a dove exploded into a puff of feathers when athlete Randy Johnson accidentally struck the bird with an object traveling at around 100 miles per hour. Although he and his team won the championship title that year, he says he gets more questions about the bird than about clinching the trophy. With what object did Johnson strike the unfortunate dove?
Which band is probably most famous for their 1976 single; "(Don't Fear) The Reaper"
Blue Oyster Cult
About someone drowning their sorrows, and originally by Neil Diamond, UB40 recorded a cover version of which song in 1983?
Red Red Wine
Here’s a story,
Of a lovely lady,
Who was bringing up three very lovely girls.
All of them had hair of gold,
Like their mother,
The youngest one in curls.
The Brady Bunch
What book, set in the fictional town of Chamberlain, Maine, was the debut novel for a multi-Bram Stoker Award-winning novelist often hailed as the most distinguished author of their genre? The 1974 novel became a New York Times Bestseller in 1976, catching fire just weeks after its film adaptation was released in theaters.
Carrie
Jimmy Jump, a popular Catalonian streaker in the world of international sports, is known for having interrupted various sporting events with his antics. Moments before the start of the 2010 FIFA World Cup final (Spain vs. Netherlands), he dashed onto the field toward the World Cup trophy and attempted to place a barretina on it before being intercepted by security. What is a barretina?
Red Hat
Which organization was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize during WWll?
The Red Cross
Neil Young, with backing band Crazy Horse, recorded a song about what type of spiced girl in 1969?
Cinnamon (Girl)
Making your way in the world today
Takes everything you’ve got;
Taking a break from all your worries
Sure would help a lot.
Wouldn’t you like to get away?
Cheers
This 1995 American show was among the first cartoon series to feature Dolby surround sound, spawned 65 episodes and two video games, and won multiple Emmy and Annie awards. The character designs for its namesake duo were conceived when a Warner Bros. animator sketched caricatures of two producers of another show on the network, one of whom is noted as having frequently used interjections like Egad! and Narf! What show was this?
Pinky and the Brain
At Comiskey Park in July of 1979, the Chicago White Sox faced off against the Detroit Tigers in a doubleheader baseball event. At the start of the second game, a “demolition” riot erupted when a crate full of vinyl records was detonated; fans rushed from the stands, threw firecrackers, and celebrated as radio DJ Steve Dahl drove around the field in a jeep. By order of the American League president, the game was forfeited to the Tigers due to Chicago’s failure to provide “acceptable playing conditions.” The events of this protest were sparked by backlash against what then popular musical genre?
Disco
What color is in the title of a Dr. Seuss book, written after his editor dared him to write a book using fewer than fifty different words?
Green
On her sixth studio album, Talk That Talk, Rihanna sings about what type of cake?
Birthday (Cake)
Now, the world don’t move to the beat of just one drum,
What might be right for you, may not be right for some.
A man is born, he’s a man of means.
Then along come two, they got nothing but their jeans.
Different Strokes
Cells that nourish neurons are called
A. Ions
B. Mitochondria
C. Glia
D. Fovea
C. Gila
The 1973 exhibition tennis match between Billie Jean King, representing female empowerment, and Bobby Riggs, representing the male counter-perspective, is the most famous tennis match to be dubbed with what nickname?
Battle of the Sexes
Which character from the Street Fighter video games, first appeared in Super Street Fighter II as the second female fighter in the series?
Cammy White
Taken from their 1993 album Siamese Dream, the Smashing Pumpkins released a song named after which condiment?
Mayonnaise
I bet we’ve been together- for a million years-,
And I’ll bet we’ll be together for a million more-.
But it’s like I started dreaming
Of the night we kissed.
And I can’t remember what I ever did before.
Family Ties
!!!DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Another name for sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia
In 1993, a heavyweight boxing match between Riddick Bowe and another well-known fighter was interrupted when parachutist James Miller, AKA “Fan Man,” descended unexpectedly onto the ring in the middle of the fight. Bowe’s opponent that night had reigned as undisputed champion in multiple weight divisions, and was the first boxer in history to win a version of the heavyweight title four times, reasserting his title as the “Real Deal.” Who is he?
Evander Holyfield
Which large forested mountain range in south-west Germany is famous for cuckoo clocks?
The Black Forest
The penultimate track and fourth single from Viva La Vida by Coldplay, features what red fruit in the title?
Strawberry (Swing)
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
Schlemile, Schlemozzle, Hausenfeffer Incorporated.
We’re gonna do it.
Give us any chance we’ll take it,
Leave us any rule we’ll break it.
Laverne and Shirley