Question: How many Lucille Lortel Awards was In Transit nominated for?
Answer: four

Question: What is the name of the actor who played the subway beat boxer?
Answer: Chesney Snow

Question: What type of a cappella music is specific to American culture?
Answer: Barbershop music

Question: What did the a cappella organization founded in 1938 change its name to in 2004?
Answer: Barbershop Harmony Society

Question: How many people currently have membership to the BHS?
Answer: over 22,000

Question: What racial group was primarily involved in babershop a cappella in its earliest days?
Answer: African Americans

Question: What were the initials of the BHS before it changes its name in 2004?
Answer: S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A

Question: What is the name of the first female barbershop organization?
Answer: Sweet Adelines

Question: When did the Sweet Adelines change their name to acknowledge their international reach?
Answer: 1991

Question: How many women are members of the Sweet Adelines?
Answer: nearly 25,000

Question: Where is the Sweet Adelines HQ?
Answer: Tulsa, Oklahoma

Question: In what year did the Sweet Adelines become an international group?
Answer: 1953

Question: What is the name of the Swedish man known for being a large influence to a cappella across the world?
Answer: Eric Ericson

Question: Which music school began the implementation of high musical standards?
Answer: Adolf Fredrik's Music School

Question: What portion of the Swedish population engages in a cappella singing?
Answer: 5%

Question: Who describes the many reasons for Sweden's heavy involvement in a cappella?
Answer: Richard Sparks

Question: What is the previous name of oldest recorded college a cappella group?
Answer: RPI Glee Club

Question: What prominent composer was once a member of The Whiffenpoofs?
Answer: Cole Porter

Question: What is the name of the a capella group that was a parody of The Whiffenpoofs?
Answer: the Smiffenpoofs of Smith College

Question: What is the name of the college a capella event that's been held since 1975?
Answer: Georgetown Chimes' Cherry Tree Massacre

Question: What well-known musician was once part of the college a capella group The Counterparts?
Answer: John Legend

Question: Whas is the name of the ethnic a capella group founded at the University of Pennsylvania in 1996?
Answer: Penn Masala

Question: Among which group is a capella becoming more prominent?
Answer: South Asians

Question: What is the name of the first South Asian a capella group to accept both men and women?
Answer: Anokha

Question: What a capella competition is hosted at UC Berkeley?
Answer: Anahat

Question: What group hosts the a capella competition "Sa Re Ga Ma Pella"?
Answer: Maize Mirchi

Question: What popular a capella competition is not specific to college groups?
Answer: Harmony Sweepstakes

Question: Aside from the monetary reward, what was offered to the winner of The Sing-Off?
Answer: a recording contract with Epic Records/Sony Music

Question: What is the name of the group that won The Sing-Off?
Answer: Nota

Question: Who won The Sing-Off final season?
Answer: Pentatonix

Question: In The Sing-Off, where did the groups not from the United States come from?
Answer: Puerto Rico

Question: What do some a capella groups do other than sing words?
Answer: emulate instrumentation

Question: What a capella group is credited for being one of the earliest to adapt instrumental emulation?
Answer: The Mills Brothers

Question: What types of music did the Swingle Singers implement instrumental emulation for?
Answer: Baroque and Classical music

Question: What is the name of the ABC Family show whose theme is entirely a capella?
Answer: The New Addams Family

Question: What did the Swingle Singers primarily use to emulate musical instruments?
Answer: nonsense words

Question: What is another term for beatboxing?
Answer: vocal percussion

Question: What was used to make an a capella recording of The Who Sell Out?
Answer: a four-track recorder

Question: What car manufacturer hired Petra Haden to perform a capella songs in commercials for their car?
Answer: Toyota

Question: On what website can many a capella groups' music be listened to?
Answer: YouTube

Question: What is the Latin for Order of Preachers?
Answer: Ordo Praedicatorum

Question: What Pope approved of the Order of Preachers?
Answer: Pope Honorius III

Question: After the 15th century, what was the Order of Preachers known as?
Answer: the Dominican Order

Question: What religion does the Dominican Order belong to?
Answer: Roman Catholic

Question: What Spanish Priest founded the Order of Preachers?
Answer: Saint Dominic de Guzman

Question: During what time period did the Dominican Order do its best work?
Answer: the Middle Ages

Question: What was one reason why the Dominican Order was established?
Answer: to combat heresy

Question: The head of the Dominican Order is known as what?
Answer: Master of the Order

Question: Who is the current Master of the Order?
Answer: Bruno Cadoré

Question: What is the Order of Preachers known for?
Answer: its intellectual tradition

Question: During the Middle Ages, who was no longer expected to stay behind walls away from the common man?
Answer: Men of God

Question: How many orders of mendicant friars came out of the Middle Ages?
Answer: two

Question: Who led the Friars Minor order at this time?
Answer: Francis of Assisi

Question: Dominic of Guzman led what order of mendicant friars?
Answer: the Friars Preachers

Question: What two groups grew quickly during the Middle Ages?
Answer: the Dominicans and Franciscans

Question: The Dominican Order received influence from what monastic order?
Answer: the Benedictines

Question: What type of order was the Dominican Order?
Answer: a preaching order

Question: What did previous religious orders do for a living?
Answer: farms

Question: How did the Dominican Order earn money?
Answer: by begging

Question: How did Dominic inspire his followers?
Answer: with loyalty to learning and virtue

Question: What group especially benefited from the Dominican Order's mystical spirituality?
Answer: nuns

Question: In what country did Dominican Order nuns thrive in?
Answer: England

Question: What type of spirituality did Dominic want his followers to learn?
Answer: a "mixed" spirituality

Question: What subject did Dominic particularly love?
Answer: theology

Question: Why did Dominic sell his books?
Answer: to help his neighbors

Question: In what country did Dominic experience a great famine?
Answer: Spain

Question: At around what age was Dominic ordained as a Priest?
Answer: twenty-five

Question: After completing his studies, under whose rule did he become a regular canon?
Answer: St. Augustine

Question: With whom did Dominic travel with to Denmark?
Answer: Prior Diego de Acebo

Question: Who requested that Dominic travel to Denmark?
Answer: monarchy of Spain

Question: In 1203, what area was a stronghold of the Cathar?
Answer: south of France

Question: During what time period did the Albigensian Crusade occur?
Answer: 1209–1229

Question: Why did Dominic travel to Denmark in 1203?
Answer: to arrange the marriage between the son of King Alfonso VIII of Castile and a niece of King Valdemar II of Denmark

Question: How did Prior Diego think the members of the Holy Church acted?
Answer: with an offensive amount of pomp and ceremony

Question: Who did Prior Diego admire more than the Holy Church?
Answer: the Cathars

Question: How did the Cathars live?
Answer: in a state of self-sacrifice

Question: In order to change to a better way of life, what did the legates request of Diego?
Answer: a strong leader

Question: Who did Diego and Dominic try to convert?
Answer: the Albigensians

Question: In what year did Dominic establish a convent?
Answer: 1206

Question: What women did Dominic convert for his convent?
Answer: Albigensian

Question: What group are older than the Dominican Friars?
Answer: Dominican nuns