Forbidden Fruit
What is a star?
Name the one that is not a hardwood
a. beech
b. cherry
c. oak
d. pine
What is d. Pine?
This US President was nicknamed "Shrub" by his detractors
Who is George W. Bush?
This is where Barry Manilow says that "music and passion were always the fashion"
What is the Copacabana?
This is what Pokemon means in Japanese
What is Pocket Monster?
This news program's name is also a measurement of visual acuity
What is 20\20?
This rapper started the Apple Bottom clothing line
Who is Nelly?
This is the state with the tallest trees in the world
What is California?
This state is known as the "Show Me" state
What is Missouri?
One of these pageants is older. Name the older pageant
Miss America
Miss USA
What is Miss America?
This was the first video game character to have a figure in the Hollywood Wax Museum
Who is Mario?
This MSNBC personality hosted ESPN's SportsCenter for several years
Who is Keith Olbermann?
Apple Computer alluded to this classic novel in its launch commercial for Macintosh
What is 1984?
Who is Arnold Schwarzenegger?
This large animal goes by the Latin name Ursus Arctos Horribilis
What is the grizzly bear?
This soap opera ran for an unprecedented 72 years before its cancellation in 2009
What is Guiding Light?
This game was so violent that Nintendo required blood be changed to swear before releasing it in Super NES
What is Mortal Kombat?
This 60 Minutes commentator has published books including Common Nonsense and Not That You Asked
Who is Andy Rooney?
These two US states hosted the first Apple Stores
What are California and Virginia?
This is the color in which two roads diverged in Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken"
What is Yellow?
Write Daniel Handler is better known as who
Who is Lemony Snicket?
This is the shelf life of a Hostess Twinkie
a. 25 days
b. 5 weeks
c. 4 years
What is 25 days?
This name is shared by F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife and a "Legendary" Nintendo princess
What is Zelda?
This was the Dateline NBC series set up to identify and arrest individuals who sought inappropriate contact with minors
What is To Catch a Predator?
According to Greek mythology, this war was sparked by a golden apple inscribed "to the fairest"
What is the Trojan War?
Baseball player Sammy Sosa was ejected from a game after this substance was found in his shattered bat
What is cork?
This NBA All-star was known as "Round Mound of Rebound"
Who is Charles Barkley?
This mystery novelist wrote stories featuring private eye Mike Hammer
Who is Mickey Spillane?
Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto said this accessory could probably measure a person's weight more accurately than a scale
What is a balance board?
NBC displayed this color-coded graphic on the ice skating rink at Rockefeller Plaza for the first time during the 2004 presidential election
What is a map?
Name either school that competes in the annual Apple Cup college football game
What are the University of Washington and Washington State University?
Actor Woody Harrelson defended his altercation with a TMZ photographer saying he mistook him for this
a. hitman
b. alien
c. zombie
What is c. Zombie?
Before they were Pearl Jam the band named itself for this basketball player
Who is Mookie Blaylock?
This began as a scantily-clad Super Bowl halftime alternative on pay-per-view but then became a league of its own
What is the Lingerie Football League? (featuring teams such as the Miami Caliente)
Nintendo is the majority owner of this Major League Baseball team
Who are The Seattle Mariners?
This newscaster's encounter with a deranged person inspired REM's song "What's the Frequency Kenneth?"
Who is Dan Rather? (in 1986 Rather was attacked by a man who asked "Kenneth, what is the frequency"