Challengers:
Josh Fry (orig. from Peachtree Corners): Software developer
Aaron Lemos (Northridge): High school video production teacher
JR:
CAPITALS & THEIR AIRPORTS
BUNNY LIT
WELL, THAT HAPPENED
TIME FOR SOME DRUGS
DUETS W/ DADS
FIND “OUT”
$400 Bunny Lit:
When this character got stuck in a rabbit hole Rabbit said “I shall go and fetch Christopher Robin”.
Adriana: “Who is Winnie-the-Pooh?”
$600 Bunny Lit:
In a 1917 story by Thornton Burgess Peter Rabbit decided to change his name to this, also the name of the bunny in an Easter song.
Adriana: “What is Peter Cottontail?” ($1K)
$800 Bunny Lit:
While writing this 1972 novel Richard Adams consulted R.M. Lockley’s natural history study The Private Life of the Rabbit.
Adriana: “What is Watership Down?” ($1800)
$1K Bunny Lit:
This vampire rabbit created by James Howe & his wife Deborah had fangs & sucked the juice out of vegetables.
Adriana: “What is Bunnicula?” ($2800)
$200 Bunny Lit:
In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland this bunny’s 1st words were “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!”.
Adriana: “What is the White Rabbit?” ($3K)- SWEEP
$200 “Out”:
A lopsided sports loss or a flat tire
Aaron: “What is a blowout?”
$400 “Out”:
This military command means to turn clockwise 180°.
Josh: “What is about face?”
$600 “Out”:
The unpleasant effects after something bad has happened- hopefully not after a nuclear explosion.
Josh: “What is fallout?” ($1K)
$800 “Out”:
Adjective for someone very enthusiastic in support or very religious.
Aaron: “What is devout?” ($1K)
$1K “Out”:
Type of vessel w/ a distinctive feature for extra stability (which shares its name w/ a resort co.).
Aaron: “What is outrigger?” ($2K)
$200 Capitals & Their Airports:
It’s about 25 miles from Sphinx International.
Adriana: “What is Cairo?” ($3200)
$200 That Happened:
Hey dummy! Brea, Cal. PD had 2 words for the man who used the carpool lane w/ 1 of these in the passenger seat- “nice try”.
Adriana: “What is a crash test dummy?” ($3K)
Josh: “What is a mannequin?” ($1200)
$800 Duet W/ Dad:
Here was this Italian tenor & his son Matteo w/ whom he recorded the duet called “Fall On Me”.
Adriana: “Who is Bocelli?” ($3800)
$1K Duet W/ Dad:
25yrs after his death Nat King Cole duetted w/ daughter Natalie on this Grammy-winning hit, remember?
Josh: “What is ‘Unforgettable’?” ($2200)
$600 Duet W/ Dad:
In the “Hannah Montana” movie they sang “Butterfly Fly Away”.
Josh: “Who are Billy Cyrus &…Billy Ray Cyrus & Miley Cyrus?” ($2800)
$800 Capitals & Their Airports:
The 1st answer of the 2nd half is: a TDD.
King Khalid International’s its gateway.
“What is Amman?”…no, sir- what’s Riyadh, Saudi Arabia?
$1K Capitals & Their Airports:
Its main airport’s fittingly called El Alto & breathing may be hard upon landing.
Aaron: “What is Lima?” ($1K)
Josh: “What is Quito?”
Adriana: “What is Buenos Aires?” ($2800)
TS: La Paz, Bolivia
$600 Capitals & Their Airports:
Ninoy Aquino International’s nearby.
Josh: “What is Manila?” (-$400)
$400 Capitals & Their Airports:
It’s served by Incheon International.
Aaron: “What is Seoul?” ($1400)
$400 Duet W/ Dad:
He’s not only duetted w/ wife Faith Hill but w/ daughter Gracie as well.
Aaron: “Who is Tim McGraw?” ($1800)
$200 Drugs:
Carbonate of this element’s the active ingredient in TUMS which can be used to treat a deficiency of it.
Adriana: “What is magnesium?” ($2600)
Aaron: “What is sodium?” ($1600)
TS #2: Calcium
$400 Drugs:
Drugs like Claritin work by reducing the effects of this natural chemical in the body.
Aaron: “What is histamine?” ($2K)
$600 Drugs:
Before penicillin bacterial infections were treated w/ these 5-letter drugs still used for eye infections & acne.
TS #3: Sulfa
$400 That Happened:
A fossil of a 4-legged whale that fed like a raptor- a walking whale raptor?! Yipes- was dug up in this north African desert.
Josh: “What is the Sahara?”
$800 That Happened:
France was furieuse as Australia killed a $66B deal for conventional these & turned to the U.S. & U.K. for nuclear ones.
Aaron: “What is a submarine?” ($2800)
$600 That Happened:
“Groove Is In the Heart” sampled Eva Gabor singing “I” (before “get allergic smelling hay”) from the theme of this ’60s sitcom.
Josh: “What is ‘Green Acres’?”
$1K That Happened:
Prince Harry & Meghan named their daughter this- Harry’s granny’s family nickname.
Aaron: “What is Charlotte?” ($1800)
Adriana: “What is Lilibet?” ($3600)
$200 Duet W/ Dad:
For a compilation album in ’18 Lisa Marie recorded an emotional reimagined duet, “Where No One Stands Alone”, w/ him.
Adriana: “Who is Elvis Presley?” ($3800)
$1K Drugs:
It’s the active ingredient in the “pens” used to treat anaphylaxis.
Aaron: “What is ephedrine?” ($800)
Josh: “What is epinephrine?” ($1600)
$800 Drugs:
The tranquilizer Diazepam began being sold under this name in 1963; a few years later it was “mother’s little helper”.
Adriana: “What is Xanax?” ($3K)
Aaron: “What is Valium?” ($1600)
ATTEMPTED LT: $1200
SOLE UNATTEMPTED TS: $600 (Time For Some Drugs)
TOTAL LT: $1800
CS:
Adriana: $3K/Men: $1600 EACH
DJ!:
SENATE HISTORY
ANIMAL KINGDOM
MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS
THERE’S GOLD IN YOUR FUTURE
THEY DIRECTED THEMSELVES
EMOTIONS (clues read by Tony Hale, who’s the voice of Fear in “Inside Out 2”)
$400 Directed Themselves:
In “Maestro”
Josh: “Who is Bradley Cooper?” ($2K)
$1600 Directed Themselves:
In “Tropic Thunder”
Josh: “Who is Ben Stiller?” ($3600)
$1200 Directed Themselves:
In “Fences” for which he received a Best Actor OSCAR nomination.
Adriana: “Who is Denzel Washington?” ($4200)
$800 Directed Themselves:
In “Yentl”
Aaron: “Who is Barbra Streisand?” ($2400)
$2K Directed Themselves:
In “The Monuments Men”
Adriana: “Who is George Clooney?” ($6200)
$400 Emotions:
“You know something good is coming from that EU prefix as in the sweet sound of the euphonium or this blissed-out feeling.”
Aaron: “What is euphoria?” ($2800)
$800 Emotions:
“Some of the meanings of this word are a hit song by New Order, the horse that won the Kentucky Derby in 1915 & the agonizing misery of bad decisions in your past.”
Adriana: “What is regret?” ($7K)
$1200 Emotions:
“It’s not exactly fear; it’s kind of pre-fear- it covers a group of psychological disorders & in the ’40s W.H. Auden wrote his longest poem called ‘The Age of’ it.”
TS: “Anxiety”
$1600 Emotions:
“The personified ancient Greek spirits of fear & dread share their names with these 2 moons of Mars.”
Adriana: “Who are Phobos & Deimos?” ($8600)
$2K Emotions:
“At the start of Act III Ophelia despairs over Hamlet acting crazy & uses this 3-word phrase that starts with a 3-letter emotion to describe her pain.”
Josh: “What is ‘Woe is me’?” ($5600)
$1200 Animal Kingdom:
The Santa Cruz Mountains are home to this yellow mollusk- the mascot for UC Santa Cruz.
Adriana: “What is the banana slug?” ($9800)
$800 Monuments & Memorials:
Begun in 1885 & inaugurated in 1911 the Victor Emmanuel II monument commemorates the unification of this country.
TS #2: Italy
$1200 Monuments & Memorials:
Answer: the 1st of 2 DDs.
The Washington, D.C. memorial to this service branch depicts a flag-raising on Mount Suribachi.
“What is the Marines?”…or Marine Corps, right for $1.5K & a new total of $11,300.
$2K Monuments & Memorials:
A memorial to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was dedicated in 2023 on Washington Place in the heart of this NYC area.
Aaron: “What is the Flatiron District?” ($800)
TS #3: Greenwich Village
$1600 Monuments & Memorials:
A field of 168
Aaron: “What is Oklahoma City?” ($2400)
$400 Monuments & Memorials:
Known simply as the Monument a 200ft London landmark was built in the 1670s- the decade after this event it commemorates.
Josh: “What is the Great Fire of London?” ($6K)
$1600 Gold:
A poem by Carol Ann Duffy about “the woman who married the fool who wished for gold” was titled “Mrs.” this mythic king.
Josh: “What is ‘Midas’?” ($7600)
$2K Gold:
Today in a temple of this capital city on the Chao Praya River the Golden Buddha contains 5½ tons of pure gold.
Aaron: “What is Bangkok?” ($4400)
$1200 Gold:
The 2024 Gold Wing motorcycle from this Japanese manufacturer feat. an 1833cc liquid-cooled engine.
Aaron: “What is YAMAHA?” ($3200)
Josh: “What is Kawasaki?” ($6400)
TS #4: Honda
$800 Gold:
On Jan. 7, 2024 Emma Stone won 1 of these awards for her performance in “Poor Things”.
Adriana: “What is a Best Actress OSCAR?” ($10.5K)
Josh: “What is a Golden Globe?” ($7200)
$1600 Senate:
On Nov. 15, 1919 after 2 months debating the Treaty of Versailles a fed-up Senate applied this rule for the 1st time.
Aaron: “What is filibuster?” ($1600)
TS #5: Cloture
$1600 Animal Kingdom:
Answer: there it is, the other DD.
Rats must gnaw constantly because these teeth whose name means “cutter” grow their whole lives around 4-5 inches per yr.
“What is incisors?”…Josh just put $1.5K in his bank, which is upped to $8700.
$2K Senate:
On Oct. 25, 2001 the Senate approved this act by a vote of 98-1 w/ Wisconsin’s Russ Feingold as the lone dissenter.
Adriana: “What is the Patriot Act?” ($12.5K)
$1200 Senate:
In 1834 the Senate censured President Jackson for putting all federal money out of this.
Adriana: “What is the gold standard?” ($11,300)
TS #6: Bank of the United States
$400 Gold:
From Canada to your supermarket the Yukon Gold’s a variety of this w/ smooth skin & yellow flesh.
Josh: “What is a potato?” ($9100)
$800 Animal Kingdom:
The name of the wallaroo sounds like it’s a mashup of these 2 marsupials but it’s not.
Josh: “What are a wallaby & a kangaroo?” ($9900)
$800 Senate:
In 1935 Charles Watkins became the 1st official 1 of these experts who advise the Senate on its rules & procedures.
Adriana: “What is parliamentarian?” ($12,100)
$400 Senate:
The only 1 of these to have been chosen by the Senate under the 12th amendment was Richard M. Johnson in 1837.
Josh: “What is a Vice-President?” ($10,300)
$400 Animal Kingdom:
Named for an Aztec god the axolotl is found in the wild only in this world capital.
Josh: “What is Mexico City?” ($10,700)
ATTEMPTED LT: $6K
UNATTEMPTED LT: $4K
TOTAL DJ! LT: $10K
Pre-Final S:
Adriana: $12,100/Aaron: $1600/Josh: $10,700
CORYAT SCORES:
Adriana: $11,800/Josh: $12,600
FJ!: NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWS
In 1958 a review of this book now considered a classic called it repulsive, disgusting & “highbrow pornography”.
AARON: “What is Portnoy’s Complaint?” (by Philip Roth)(BUSTS)
JOSH: “What is The Catcher in the Rye?” ($1401) = $9299
ADRIANA: “What is Lolita?” (by Vladimir Nabokov)($9.5K) = $21,600 $204,700
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