“Ca$h Cab” 11/14/19

G1: Domenick, Alex, Beatrice & Nick (Carnegie Hall)(BtG: 24)

R1:
#1: twitter & Instagram verify users of public interest by awarding ’em a checkmark next to their username that’s what color?
Blue
#2: Created in ’59 what aluminum-packaged popcorn brand’s marketed w/ the slogan “As much fun to make as it is to eat”?
Jiffy Pop
#3: What animals have been used to maintain the grounds of Google’s headquarters & O’Hare Airport?
Goats
#4: Not long after her 1st flying lesson Amelia Earhart bought an airplane & named it after what bird due to its bright shade of yellow?
Canary

R2:
#1: Thomas Dewey was unexpectedly defeated in 1948 by what President?
SMS
FDR
#2: As of this yr. the U.K. National Health Service accounted for 10% of the world’s supply of what one-way telecom service?
Pager/beeper
#3: HI recently announced it would become the latest state to issue driver’s licenses identifying non-binary gender w/ what letter?
X
#4: In ’11 what singer briefly upstaged her sister thanks to an epic elevator smackdown w/ her brother-in-law Jay-Z?
Solange

R3:
#1: What lifesaving hormone’s patent was originally sold at the Univ. of Toronto for just $1 Canadian?
Epinephrine (A: Insulin)
#2: Greystones in Chicago like the ones seen here were made w/ what building material?
Other Shoutout: Man w/ glasses
Sandstone (A: Limestone)

G2: Sydney & Matt (Comedy Cellar at MacDougal & 3rd)(BtG: 27)

R1:
#1: What DC COMICS superhero was depicted nude for the 1st time in a 2018 comic?
BATMAN
#2: This yr. Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities attempted to halt a Christie’s auction of an ancient statue depicting what boy king?
Tutankhamun 
#3: If you have anosmia you’ve lost what sense?
Smell
#4: This English explorer’s standing watch over a NYC parkway, bridge & river that were all named after him- who is he?
Hudson

R2:
#1 (Melissa Gorga- “The Real Housewives of New Jersey”): “New Jersey’s most famous duel happened way back in 1804 when Aaron Burr shot which famous Founding Father?”
Hamilton
#2: Introduced this yr. Canada’s bill banning the captivity of dolphins & whales got its name from what popular ’90s movie?
“FREE WILLY”
Cash App RLC: Acc. to the moms at popsugar.com Baba is #4 of the top ten most common 1st words among babies- name seven of the other nine.
Dadda, mamma, ball, dog, cat, hi & bye (Didn’t need: No & nana)
#3: One of the most banned books of the ’90s Leslea Newman was the author of the acclaimed children’s book Heather Has Two what?
Daddies (A: Mommies)
#4: In 2005 a hiker found & returned the wallet of a Uruguayan rugby player who had lost it during the ’72 crash of Flight 571 in what mtn. range?
Andes

R3:
#1: For yrs. who had the bestselling jersey for Minor League Baseball’s Birmingham Barons even though he played in only 127 games before returning to the NBA?
Michael Jordan
#2: What 18th President once got pulled over for speeding while riding a horse-drawn carriage?
SMS
Grant
#3: Before being linked to “Georgia on My Mind” who was the 1st performer inducted into Georgia’s Music Hall of Fame in ’79?
Ray Charles
#4: Though the show’s goblets were mostly filled w/ wine “Game of Thrones” has been credited w/ a resurgence of what medieval beverage also known as honey wine?
Mead
FQ: What New England state’s the only U.S. state that has NEVER elected a woman to Congress?
Other Shoutout: Casey James Salengo
FA: VT ($1750)