Question: October 4, 2004 saw the claiming of the Ansari X Prize, which awarded $10,000,000 to the first private sector operation which could complete what two times within two weeks?
Answer: Launch a reusable spacecraft into space

Question: "We all fall down" is the last line of what nursery rhyme or playground singing game?
Answer: Ring Around the Rosie

Question: What does a chronometer measure?
Answer: Time

Question: Known by heir names of Mazaru (Mizaru), Kikazaru (Mikazaru), and Iwazaru (Mazaru), the three wise monkeys, respectively covering their eyes, ears, and mouth, embody the principle to do what three things?
Answer: See no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil

Question: At the start of a game of checkers, each player starts with how many pieces?
Answer: 12

Question: Immortalized in 2001 movie Black Hawk Down, the battle in what Somali city cost the list of 18 soldiers in an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid?
Answer: Mogadishu

Question: What can be a political concept, a bell, and a ship?
Answer: Liberty

Question: Oct 6, 1969 saw the introduction of what BBC show, featuring the talents of Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, and Terry Gillam, among others?
Answer: Monty Pythons Flying Circus

Question: October 2, 1950 saw the introduction of the "moderately famous" comic strip known as Peanuts. Who was the creative genius behind the long running strip?
Answer: Charles M. Shultz

Question: In music, what name is given to a note that is neither sharp nor flat?
Answer: Natural

Question: Finish this line from a popular kids song: There was a farmer had a dog, and ____ was his name-o!
Answer: Bingo

Question: For a point each, name the 6 countries to share a physical border with the Republic of India.
Answer: Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma, Bangladesh

Question: What long running PBS series features Norm Abram as Master Carpenter, Roger Cook as the Landscape contractor, Tom Silva as the General ContraCtor and Richard Trethewey as the Plumbing and Heating contractor?
Answer: This Old House

Question: Olfactory refers to which of the senses?
Answer: Smell

Question: Which nursery rhyme character is supposed to come blow his horn, since the sheep's in the meadow and the cows in the corn?
Answer: Little Boy Blue

Question: Oct 6, 1969 saw the introduction of what BBC show, generally regarded as one of the funniest tv series ever?
Answer: Monty Python's Flying Circus

Question: Anchored by the star Altair, what does the constellation Aquila represent?
Answer: An eagle

Question: What can be a work that is accepted as official in a fictional literary universe, a religious law, or a camera?
Answer: Canon

Question: How many players does each team have on the field in a Canadian Football League game?
Answer: 12

Question: Developed in Germany in the early 1800's by Dr. Franz Joseph Gall, phrenology is the study of what?
Answer: Bumps/fissures on the head

Question: From the Greek for color, what element, with an atomic number of 24, uses the symbol Cr?
Answer: Chromium

Question: According to Norse mythology, who is the wife of Odin?
Answer: Frigg

Question: What form of communication is an epistle?
Answer: a letter

Question: Known as Operation Enduring Freedom, what war began on Oct 7th, 2001?
Answer: Afghanistan war

Question: Dig 'Em Frog is the mascot for what brand of cereal?
Answer: Honey Smacks

Question: October 2, 1959 saw the introduction of the long running CBS TV series The Twilight Zone. Who hosted and created the series?
Answer: Rod Serling

Question: Daisywheel, dot-matrix, and laser are all types of what?
Answer: Printers

Question: Ken Burn's latest documentary debuted last Sunday on PBS. What subject matter does it cover?
Answer: Prohibition

Question: What long running comic strip, introduced on Oct 2, 1950, was drawn by the same cartoonist, Charles M. Schultz, during its' entire run?
Answer: Peanuts

Question: The rare semi-precious gemstone known as lapis lazuli is what color?
Answer: Blue

Question: Name the 1982 movie and character/actor that featured the quote 'To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.'
Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan the Barbarian in Conan the Barbarian

Question: On Oct 4, 1927, Idahoan Gutzon Borglum began carving on what South Dakota mountain that the Lakota Sioux called Six Grandfathers?
Answer: Mount Rushmore

Question: Pago Pago is the capital of what territory?
Answer: American Samoa

Question: What's missing: Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, Epcot, Typhoon Lagoon, Blizzard Beach
Answer: Magic Kingdom

Question: For a point each, name the 5 current ratings as dispensed by the Motion Picture Association of America
Answer: G, Pg, Pg-13, R, Nc-17

Question: What company described its products as Finger Lickin' Good?
Answer: Kentucky Fried Chicken

Question: Feta cheese is made primarily from the milk of what animal?
Answer: Sheep

Question: Commonly believed to have been started by a frisky bovine owned by Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, what city was devastated by a fire that start on Oct 8, 1871 and lasted for 2 days?
Answer: Chicago

Question: According to Shakespeare, brevity is the soul of what?
Answer: Wit

Question: Oct 9 celebrates what famed explorer, who brought the first Europeans known to have set foot in North America?
Answer: Leif Erikson

Question: Name the artist and the title of this 1965 #1 hit: “When I’m drivin’ in my car And the man comes on the radio He’s tellin’ me more and more About some useless information Supposed to drive my imagination”
Answer: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones

Question: According to the nursery rhyme, who lost their mittens, thereby obligating their mother to with hold pie?
Answer: Three Little Kittens

Question: Starring Sean Connery, who would later make his fame playing Zed in Zardoz, what was the name of the first James Bond movie, released on October 5, 1962?
Answer: Dr. No

Question: Which family lives at 742 Evergreen Terrace?
Answer: The Simpsons

Question: What is the name of the diamond stolen in the 1963 film, The Pink Panther?
Answer: The Pink Panther

Question: Finish this line from a popular kids’ song: “There was a farmer had a dog, and ____ was his name-o!”
Answer: Bingo

Question: A human with two X sex chromosomes is usually which gender?
Answer: Female

Question: What TV game show, which ran from 1965 to 2004, featured an array of celebrities seated in a tic-tac-toe board?
Answer: Hollywood Squares

Question: What unit of wave frequency is defined as 1 cycle per second?
Answer: Hertz

Question: The Rainbow Coalition and Operation PUSH were 2 non-profits founded by which activist and Baptist minister?
Answer: Jesse Jackson

Question: What is the minimum age required to become a member of the U.S. House of Representatives?
Answer: 25

Question: Which seven U.S. states are named in honor of kings and queens?
Answer: Georgia (King George II, England), Louisiana (King Louis XIV, France), Maryland (Henrietta Maria, Queen Consort of Charles I, England), North and South Carolina (King Charles I, England), Virginia and West Virginia Queen Elizabeth I, England).

Question: What New York based artist, who died of an alcohol related car crash at age 44 in 1956, was nicknamed "Jack the Dripper"?
Answer: Pantene shampoo

Question: Name the song and the singer of this 1984 song featuring the lyrics “Waving to the girls, feeling out of sight, spending all my money, on a Saturday night. Honey I just wonder what you do there in back of your…”
Answer: Pink Cadillac by Bruce Springsteen

Question: What country singer has been known as The Red Headed Stranger since the 1975 album of the same name went multi-platinum?
Answer: Willie Nelson

Question: The 26th amendment to the US constitution sets what?
Answer: minimum voting age to 18

Question: What is the planet that Superman came from?
Answer: Krypton