Challengers:
Shane Glynn (PHX): Probation officer
Kai-Ning Jan (Culver City): Pediatrician
JR:
STATE BIRDS
PICK THE OSCAR WINNER
RADIO CITIES
YOU’VE NEVER LOOKED LOVELIER
WINE
“MOTHER”, “FATHER”, “SISTER”, “BROTHER”
$200 “Mother”, “Father”, “Sister”, “Brother”:
Though he had no biological kids of his own George Washington was known by this paternal nickname.
Kai-Ning: “What is the father of his country?”
$400 “Mother”, “Father”, “Sister”, “Brother”:
Acc. to George Orwell he “is watching you”.
Shane: “Who is Big Brother?”
$600 “Mother”, “Father”, “Sister”, “Brother”:
Produced by certain mollusks it’s also known as nacre.
Kai-Ning: “What is mother of pearl?” ($800)
$800 “Mother”, “Father”, “Sister”, “Brother”:
Seattle has about 20 of these incl. Kobe, Mombasa & Gdynia.
TS: Sister cities
$1K “Mother”, “Father”, “Sister”, “Brother”:
In a Bertolt Brecht play she schlepped through the 30 Years’ War as her children were taken from her 1 by 1.
TS #2: “Mother Courage”
$200 Lovelier:
The beautiful Bathsheba was already married but that didn’t stop this king of Israel from pursuing her.
Kai-Ning: “Who is King David?” ($1K)
$400 Lovelier:
This beautiful queen’s affair w/ a knight of the roundtable foreshadowed the fall of King Arthur’s kingdom.
Kai-Ning: “Who is Queen Guinevere?” ($1400)
$600 Lovelier:
1 of the most beautiful women in antiquity this gal’s “bust” can be seen in the Egyptian Museum in Berlin.
Shane: “Who is Cleopatra?” (-$200)
Kai-Ning: “Who is Nefertiti?” ($2K)
$800 Lovelier:
Answer: DD.
This beautiful & enticing daughter of Leda would have to have lived around 1200 B.C.
“Who is Helen of Troy?”…Kai-Ning was correct again for another thou.
$1K Lovelier:
Theodosia, the daughter of this 3rd Vice-President, was a beautiful child prodigy who spoke 4 languages.
TS #3: Aaron Burr
$200 OSCAR Winner:
“Dreamgirls”: Beyonce, Jennifer Hudson, Eddie Murphy
Kai-Ning: “Who is Jennifer Hudson?” ($3200)
$400 OSCAR Winner:
“Gone with the Wind”: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland
Kai-Ning: “Who is Vivien Leigh?” ($3600)
$600 OSCAR Winner:
“Cold Mountain”: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger
Alex: “Who is Renee Zellweger?”
$800 OSCAR Winner:
“Paper Moon”: Madeline Kahn, Ryan O’Neal, Tatum O’Neal
Alex: “Who is Tatum O’Neal?” ($1400)
$1K OSCAR Winner:
Timothy Hutton, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch
TS #4: Timothy Hutton
$200 Wine:
To quickly chill a bottle add the rock type of this to ice & water, lowering the freezing point.
Alex: “What is salt?” ($1600)
$400 Wine:
An older or very tannic wine’s decanted to elim. this, also called lees.
TS #5: Sediment
$600 Wine:
France generally forbids making this light-bodied pink wine such as Anjou by mixing red & white.
Shane: “What is rose?” ($400)
$800 Wine:
Try my $3K 1976 bottle from Romanee-Conti, the most famous estate in this area- oops, there goes the cork.
Alex: “What is champagne?” ($800)
TS #6: Burgundy
$1K Wine (Sarah):
“To make this aspect of wine easier to define & discuss during tastings the wheel for it goes from general terms like earthy to specific terms like dusty mushroom.”
Alex: “What is the nose?” (aroma also acceptable)($1800)
$200 Radio City:
On a TV sitcom Jennifer (played by Loni Anderson) brightened up radio station “WKRP in” this city.
Kai-Ning: “What is ‘Cincinnati’?” ($3800)
$400 Radio City:
WABC & WCBS-880 are radio stations based in this metropolis.
Alex: “What is New York City?” ($2200)
$600 Radio City:
As “The Voice of” this city WGN radio covers news, weather & Cubs baseball.
Shane: “What is Chicago?” ($1K)
$800 Radio City:
This Pigeon Forge, TN-based theme park has its own radio station: WDLY.
Alex: “What is Dollywood?” ($3K)
$1K Radio City:
The 100K-watt voice of Georgia State Univ., WRAS in this city’s the most powerful all-student-run U.S. radio station.
Alex: “What is Atlanta?” ($4K)
$200 State Birds:
The common loon lives on the water so it’s not surprising it’s the state bird of this “Land of 10,000 Lakes”.
Alex: “What is Minnesota?” ($4200)
$400 State Birds:
The male of this state bird of Indiana’s 1 of the few all-red birds in North America.
Alex: “What is the cardinal?” ($4600)
$600 State Birds:
Darwin made a famous study of these birds but not the purple species- New Hampshire’s state bird.
Alex: “What is a finch?” ($5200)
$800 State Birds:
In 1933 the Tennessee Ornithological Society conducted a vote to select a state bird- this mimic barely won.
Shane: “What is a mockingbird?” ($1800)
$1K State Birds:
Until mating season this California state bird lives in coveys of up to 200 birds.
Shane: “What is a quail?” ($2800)
SOLE ATTEMPTED TS: $800 (Wine)
UNATTEMPTED LT: $4200
TOTAL LT: $5K
CS:
Alex: $5200/Kai-Ning: $3800/Shane: $2800
DJ!:
MIDWAY
THE MUSICAL ’90s
AMERICAN PLAYS
BORN IN TRANSYLVANIA
LET’S GET MARRIED
I LOVE “U”
$400 “U”:
Acc. to some legends this mythical beast missed the boat- Noah’s boat.
Alex: “What is the unicorn?” ($5600)
$800 “U”:
The highest elevation in this state’s 13,528ft.
Kai-Ning: “What is Utah?” ($4600)
$1200 “U”:
From the Latin for “usable” it’s a usable kitchen tool like a fork or ladle.
Shane: “What is a utensil?” ($4K)
$1600 “U”:
For insurance companies they calculate risk, set premiums & write pol…- sorry, dozed off for a second.
Kai-Ning: “What are underwriters?” ($6200)
$2K “U”:
Mt. Narodnaya & Mt. Karpinsk are 2 prominent peaks in this mountain range.
Alex: “What are the Urals?” ($7600)
$400 Married:
Their 1469 marriage was politically arranged to unite 2 Iberian kingdoms.
Kai-Ning: “Who are Ferdinand & Isabella?” ($6600)
$800 Married:
Anne Hathaway was 26 & pregnant when she married this 18-yr-old in 1582.
Kai-Ning: “Who is William Shakespeare?” ($7400)
$1200 Married:
This actress has been married to Jeff Goldblum & to director Renny Harlin.
Kai-Ning: “Who is Geena Davis?” ($8600)
$1600 Married:
Answer: Kai-Ning’s 2nd DD of this game.
This Baltimore divorcee’s marriage to an Englishman on Jun. 3, 1937 made headlines.
“Who is Wallis Simpson?”…right for $2K more.
$2K Married:
The marriage of this pair in 1614 brought peace between the Jamestown Colony & local Native Americans.
Kai-Ning: “Who are Pocahontas & John Rolfe?”– SWEEP ($12,600)
$400 Born in Transylvania:
A prince of Walachia he was known for impaling thousands at Bradsov in Transylvania.
Alex: “Who is Vlad the Impaler?” ($8K)
$800 Born in Transylvania:
Born near Timisoara this “TARZAN” actor claimed U.S. birth & swam for the U.S. in the Olympics.
Alex: “Who is (Johnny) Weissmuller?” ($8800)
$400 Musical ’90s:
She won a ’91 Grammy (her 1st) for best long-form music video for “Blonde Ambition World Tour Live”.
Kai-Ning: “Who is Madonna?” ($13K)
$1200 Born in Transylvania:
Gheorghe Muresan played big for this NBA team that was then called the Bullets.
Shane: “Who are Washington Wizards?” ($5200)
$1600 Born in Transylvania:
Born in what was then Hungary he gained fame on stage in a Bram Stoker adaptation & later acted in the film.
Kai-Ning: “Who is Bela Lugosi?” ($14,600)
$2K Born in Transylvania:
Jimmy Carter named this Nobel Peace Prize winner chair of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust.
Kai-Ning: “Who is Elie Wiesel?” ($16,600)
$400 Midway:
The nearly extinct Hawaiian species of this mammal uses Midway’s beaches to breed.
Shane: “What is a seal?” ($5600)
$800 Midway:
An order signed on Oct. 31, 1996 transferred Midway from the Navy to this cabinet dept.
Alex: “What is Interior?” ($9600)
$800 Musical ’90s:
This princess of Monaco was rumored to be the “mystery girl” in Michael Jackson’s ’92 hit “In the Closet”.
Kai-Ning: “Who is Princess Stephanie?” ($17,400)
$400 American Play:
This future Pres.’s 1948 senate race was the subject of the musical “The Winner” which premiered in Texas in ’07.
Kai-Ning: “Who is Lyndon Johnson?” ($17,800)
$800 American Play:
Kevin Spacey starred in a ’06 British revival of this playwright’s “A Moon for the Misbegotten”.
TS: Eugene O’Neill
$1200 American Play:
That answer completed a DD sweep for Kai-Ning.
The ’07 revival of this classic courtroom drama cast Christopher Plummer in the role inspired by Clarence Darrow.
“What is ‘The Scopes Monkey Trial’?”…that would deduct $1K- what was “Inherit the Wind”?
$1600 American Play (Sam Waterston):
“I received my 1st Emmy nomination for the television version of this play; I played Tom & Katherine Hepburn played my mother- Amanda Wingfield.”
TS #2: “The Glass Menagerie”
$2K American Play:
Famed for playing “Frasier’s” father this actor came back to Broadway in ’07 in “Prelude to a Kiss”.
Alex: “Who is (John) Mahoney?” ($11,600)
$1200 Musical ’90s:
His “Black Album” was heavily bootlegged before its official release in ’94.
TS #3: Prince
$1600 Musical ’90s:
He played the sax solo on Whitney Houston’s “All the Man That I Need”; he’s also had top 40 hits on his own.
Alex: “Who is (David) Sanborn?” ($10K)
Shane: “Who is Kenny G?” ($7200)
$2K Musical ’90s:
Every track from his album “Play” incl. “South Side” was licensed for use in a commercial or soundtrack.
Alex: “Who is Moby?” ($12K)
$1200 Midway:
In 1935 this airline built a prefab hotel on Midway as a rest stop for passengers flying on its China Clippers.
Alex: “What is Northwest?” ($10,800)
Shane: “What is PAN AM?” ($8400)
$1600 Midway:
Midway’s home to the world’s largest colony of the Laysan species of this “wandering” seabird.
TS #4: Albatross
$2K Midway:
In the 1950s & ’60s Midway was home to crews who flew radar aircraft in this Cold War detection line.
RD OVER AFTER THE $1200 CLUE: DEW
DJ! LT: $7200
Pre-Final S:
Alex: $10,800/Kai-Ning: $16,800/Shane: $8400
KAI-NING’S CORYAT: $17,200
FJ!: 19TH CENTURY ROYALTY
Imperial Adventurer, The Last Emperor & The Cactus Throne were books about this man who died at 34.
SHANE: “Who is Norton?” (BUSTED)
ALEX: “Who is the Shah of Iran?” ($6002) = $4798
KAI-NING: “Who was Pernell?” (Correct: Who was Emperor Maximillian?) = $11,999
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