Question: That totally bad-assed mariner known as Popeye sports tattoos of what on his massive forearms?
Answer: Anchors

Question: Taking her stage name from a Queen song, what singer was born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta in 1986?
Answer: Lady Gaga

Question: Name the year: The Euro becomes official currency; Mandalay Bay opens in Vegas; Columbine; SpongeBob SquarePants debuts; Lance Armstrong wins his first Tour de France; WTO riots paralyze Seattle;
Answer: 1999

Question: For a point each, name the states bordering Iowa (6).
Answer: South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois

Question: Qualcomm stadium is the home to what NFL team?
Answer: San Diego Chargers

Question: What is the shoemakers model of the human foot called?
Answer: A Last

Question: Former Representative from the 5th district, Rahm Emanuel was born on Nov 29, 1959. What government position does he hold?
Answer: White House Chief of Staff

Question: Currently the 3rd most popular search engine, what is the name of Microsoft's competitor to Google?
Answer: Bing

Question: What product was advertised with the slogan: Like a rock?
Answer: Chevrolet

Question: According to the Christmas carol, who looked out over the feast of Stephan?
Answer: Good King Wenseclas

Question: Which famous bodybuilder advertised his ability to transform a "97 pound weakling" into a muscle man?
Answer: Charles Atlas

Question: Who's missing? Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer ,John G. Roberts, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor. A bonus point if you can tell me why the missing person is missing.
Answer: John Paul Stevens

Question: Who wrote the above mentioned books?
Answer: Stephanie Meyer

Question: For a point each, name the books in that shitty goth-vampire-fantasy-romance series, Twilight
Answer: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn

Question: March 3, 1991 saw George Holliday videotaped what event that eventually lead to a series of riots that resulted in 53 deaths?
Answer: The beating of Rodney King

Question: Doctor Julius Hibbert is the resident General Practitioner on what TV series?
Answer: The Simpsons

Question: The role that would eventually become synonymous with Peter Falk, Lt. Columbo, was originally offered to what legendary crooner, who turned it down?
Answer: Bing Crosby

Question: What American actor, born on Dec 8, 1936, was equally famous for his role as Caine on TVs Kung Fu and for dying in a Bangkok hotel closet in a case of autoerotic asphyxiation gone awry?
Answer: David Carradine

Question: In the board game Operation, which ailment requires the removal of a small, plastic wrench?
Answer: Wrenched Ankle

Question: What 1984 slasher film featured a fedora wearing main villain wearing a red and green sweater with a metal-clawed brown leather glove on his right hand?
Answer: A Nightmare on Elm Street

Question: Dec 7, 1941 saw the attack on the US Naval facilities at Pearl Harbor, HI. The sinking of what battleship, now the site of a major memorial, accounted for over half the loss of life during the attack when 1,177 sailors died?
Answer: USS Arizona

Question: Born on Dec 9, 1886, which Brooklyn, NY resident invented the process of flash freezing food to prevent damage to the food?
Answer: Clarence Birdseye

Question: Name the 1989 movie and character/actor that features the quote "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."
Answer: Robin Williams as John Keating in Dead Poets Society

Question: According to a once-popular myth, oysters could only be eaten in months containing what letter in their names?
Answer: R

Question: What long running PBS staple features a purple, anthropomorphic Tyrannosaurus Rex known for his "I love you" song?
Answer: Barney and Friends

Question: Featuring Steven Van Zandt, Nils Lofgren, and Patti Scialfa, what is the name of the group that backs up Bruce Springsteen?
Answer: E Street Band

Question: From the Greek for a district in Thessaly, what element, whit the atomic number of 12, uses the symbol Mg?
Answer: Magnesium

Question: As portrayed in the 1984 movie Amadeus, what classical composer is accused of having had a hand in the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, on Dec 5, 1791?
Answer: Antonio Salieri

Question: December 7, 1863 saw the birth of what businessman, who along with business partner Alvah C Roebuck, opened their first store in Chicago in 1886?
Answer: Richard Warren Sears

Question: For a point each, name the 2 countries surrounding the Republic of Equatorial Guinea.
Answer: Cameroon, Gabon

Question: Sperm, beluga, and pilot are all types of what?
Answer: Whales

Question: Who's missing: Jason, Mary Ellen, Erin, Ben, Jim-Bob, Elizabeth
Answer: John-Boy

Question: On December 5, 1492, Christopher Columbus became the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola. What two current countries occupy that island?
Answer: Dominican Republic and Haiti

Question: Played by both James Doohan and Simon Pegg, what is the name of the chief engineer aboard the USS Enterprise?
Answer: Montgomery “Scotty” Scott

Question: The continental divide, the point at which watersheds tend to drain to the Pacific, instead of the Atlantic, lies principally along which mountain range?
Answer: The Rocky Mountains

Question: According to the nursery rhyme, who is to blow his horn, because the sheeps in the meadow and the cows in the corn?
Answer: Little Boy Blue

Question: Which company is responsible for "The Gun that Won the West"?
Answer: Winchester Repeating Arms

Question: What New Orleans Jazz Legend was commonly known as Satchmo, short for Satchelmouth?
Answer: Louis Armstrong

Question: There are no member countries of the United Nations that begin with the letter x or what other letter?
Answer: W

Question: According to the modern NFL rules, what is the range of numbers that a quarterback can wear?
Answer: 1-19

Question: On December 10, 1906, which totally badassed US president won the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating an end to the Russo-Japanese War, the first American ever to win a Nobel Prize?
Answer: Teddy Roosevelt

Question: The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons, the story (and movie) about a boy/man who ages in reverse, was written by what great Jazz Age writer?
Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question: What drink consists of equal parts of stout beer and champagne, usually served in a champagne flute?
Answer: Black Velvet

Question: The current IMDB rating for what 1984 movie is a solid 8.0 out of 11?
Answer: This is Spinal Tap

Question: Name the artist and the title of this 2005 hit that peaked at #8: “Am I more than you bargained for yet I’ve been dying to tell you anything you want to hear Cause that’s just who I am this week Lie in the grass, next to the mausoleum I’m just a notch in your bedpost But you’re just a line in a song”
Answer: Sugar We're Going Down by Fall Out Boy

Question: Which famous Vice Admiral, who died on December 7, 1817, is famous for navigating a life boat 3,618 nautical miles to the island of Timor, having been put overboard by mutineer Fletcher Christian?
Answer: William Bligh

Question: Poseidon, the god of the sea in Greek mythology, was known by what name in Roman mythology?
Answer: Neptune

Question: A bone is joined to a muscle by what tough band of inelastic fibrous tissue?
Answer: Tendon

Question: Which president’s policy was to “speak softly and carry a big stick”?
Answer: Teddy Roosevelt

Question: What famous Christmas icon was created by Montgomery Ward employee Robert L. May in 1939 for one of their catalogs?
Answer: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

Question: Who authored the 1823 immortal poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas"?
Answer: Clement Moore

Question: What is the name of the Coca Cola Company’s competitor to PepsiCo’s Mountain Dew?
Answer: Mellow Yellow