Question: What was the full character name of the movie star on TVs Gilligan's Island?
Answer: Ginger Grant

Question: The NFL draft is upon us again. What player did the Seattle Seahawks select with their first round selection in 2009?
Answer: Aaron Curry

Question: That dietary staple of seafarers for over 400 years, hard tack is a type of what?
Answer: Biscuit

Question: April 25, 1939 saw DC comics introduce what major super hero, their second major, who debuted in issue 27 of Detective Comics.
Answer: Batman

Question: Dennis Tito, an engineer by trade, paid a reported $25 million to become the first tourist to do what?
Answer: ride on a space craft

Question: Capable of flattening mountains with a single blow, who wields a hammer known as Mjollnir?
Answer: Thor

Question: Name the 1989 movie and character/actor that featured the quote "If you build it, he will come"
Answer: Ray Liotta as Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams

Question: In the Rocky film franchise, what town does Rocky Balboa call home?
Answer: Philadelphia

Question: Known as the Gentle Giant, name the breed of dog that is recognized as the tallest of all dogs?
Answer: Irish Wolfhound

Question: Accounting for approximately 84% of the earths mass, what is the layer that falls between the core and the crust?
Answer: Mantle

Question: April 25, 1939 saw the introduction by Bob Kane of what major comic book character, one of the most popular of all times, in issue #37 of Detective Comics?
Answer: Batman

Question: A staple of the world's greatest sandwich, the Reuben, sauerkraut is made by fermenting what vegetable?
Answer: Cabbage

Question: What letter is The Scarlet Letter in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel of the same name?
Answer: A

Question: Steve Irwin, beloved Australian who died after a stingray mistook his chest for a dart board, was better known as whom?
Answer: The Crocodile Hunter

Question: Asgard is home to the gods of what culture?
Answer: Norse

Question: For a point each, name the 5 countries that share a physical border with Columbia.
Answer: Panama, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru

Question: What can be a language, a horn, and side spin?
Answer: English

Question: May 19, 1869 saw what two railroads meet at Promontory Summit, Utah, creating the first Transcontinental Railroad?
Answer: Union Pacific and Central Pacific

Question: Featuring prominently in the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie, the pirate Edward Teach is better known by what name?
Answer: Blackbeard

Question: Before scattering itself over Western Australia, May 14, 1973 saw the US launch what first ever space station, which orbited the earth for 6 years, even though it was only visited 3 times?
Answer: Skylab

Question: The hall of fame for what sport, located in Baltimore, MD, on the campus of Johns Hopkins University, covers all aspects of the sport, from its Native American origins to its present-day modern form?
Answer: Lacrosse

Question: Name the artist and the title of this 1986 #1 hit: “The lights are on, but you’re not home your mind is not your own your heart sweats, your body shakes another kiss is what it takes”
Answer: Addicted to Love by Robert Palmer

Question: If you are driving around the streets of Liberty City shooting people, which computer game series are you playing?
Answer: Grand Theft Auto

Question: Which cable station is home to Dirty Jobs, American Chopper, and Man vs. Wild, among many others?
Answer: Discovery

Question: May 15, 1940 saw brothers Richard and Maurice open their first restaurant in San Bernadino, CA, which later became what moderately famous fast food chain?
Answer: McDonalds

Question: May 15, 1928 saw the introduction of what iconic character, when the 6 minute short Plane Crazy was publicly introduced, co starring Clarabelle Cow?
Answer: Mickey Mouse

Question: Resulting in being tied to a rock and having his liver eaten on a daily basis by an eagle, the Greek Titan Prometheus stole what from the Greek Gods and gave it to mortals?
Answer: Fire

Question: What soft drink, invented by Charles Hires in 1866, is traditionally flavored with the root of the sassafras plant?
Answer: Root beer

Question: Usually consisting of 16 points, what is the name of the figure on a map or a chart that indicates the cardinal directions?
Answer: Compass Rose

Question: Last week we had a question on the passing of Frank Sinatr    A. Sporting one eye, what fellow Rat Pack member met his end on May 16, 1990?
Answer: Sammy Davis, Jr

Question: What company, the largest manufacturer of bb guns in the world, is famous for the Red Ryder line of lever action air rifles?
Answer: Daisy

Question: For a point each, name the 5 states surrounding Georgi    A.
Answer: South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, and North Carolina

Question: On this date in 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Where did he land?
Answer: Paris

Question: If you have a small red heart on your Washington State drivers license, what have you agreed to be a donor of?
Answer: Organs

Question: Often used in making pillows and comforters, what are the small feathers of the eider duck known as?
Answer: Down

Question: For a point each, name the states that made up the 13 original colonies.
Answer: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut,    Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island

Question: For a point each, name the 3 countries that share a physical border with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Answer: Columbia, Guyana, Brazil

Question: What was the name of the Dutch cargo fluyt that carried the Pilgrims from Plymouth England to Plymouth, Mass?
Answer: Mayflower

Question: What plastic drawing toy, produced by Hasbro, Inc, puts pen to paper to produce complex curves known mathematically as hypotrochoids and epitrochoids?
Answer: Spirograph

Question: Which actor, born in Winterset, Iowa on May 26th, 1907, holds the record as the actor with the most leading parts 142.
Answer: John Wayne

Question: May 22, 1859 saw the birth, in Edinburgh, Scotland, of what famed writer, creator of the world's only consulting detective?
Answer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Question: What 11 time Grammy award winner was born Robert Allen Zimmerman, in Duluth, MN, but took a stage name from a favorite Welsh poet?
Answer: Bob Dylan

Question: Bifrost is a burning rainbow bridge between Earth and what realm of the gods?
Answer: Asgard

Question: Known as The Magnolia State or The Hospitality State, what was the 20th state to join the union on Dec 10, 1817?
Answer: Mississippi

Question: On May 24, 1844, Alfred Vail received the message “WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT” in Baltimore, MD, sent via what means?
Answer: Telegraph

Question: May 26, 1868 saw the first impeachment trial in the US, when which US President, the 17th, was charged with illegally removing a cabinet member?
Answer: Andrew Johnson

Question: What famed comedic actor starred alongside Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour and went on the Road To Singapore, Zanzibar, Morocco, Utopia, Rio, Bali, and ended up in Hong Kong?
Answer: Bob Hope

Question: Oncology is the study of what?
Answer: Cancer

Question: Bass, Tom-tom, and Snare are all types of what?
Answer: Drums

Question: A group of street urchins, the Baker Street Irregulars are employed by whom?
Answer: Sherlock Holmes

Question: What comic strip, created by Dik Browne and now drawn by his son Chris, contains, among others, the wife Helga, a brilliant son named Hamlet, a bimbo-like daughter Helga, a duck Kvack, and a dog Snert?
Answer: Hagar the Horrible

Question: In the world of blood donations, O- types are considered to be universal donors (blood compatible with all types). What blood type is considered to be a universal recipient (can accept any blood type)?
Answer: Ab+