Question: Anchored by the star Antares, the constellation Scorpius represents what animal?
Answer: Scorpion

Question: For a point each, name the countries that share a physical border with the Kingdom of Lesotho
Answer: South Africa

Question: Introduced by the Raytheon Corporation in 1947, what ubiquitous modern day convenience was originally sold under the name Radarange, based on its use of the magnetron, a major component of radar systems?
Answer: Microwave Oven

Question: In boxing, there are 4 primary punches. For a point each, name them.
Answer: jab, cross, hook, and uppercut

Question: Sept 7, 1963 saw the opening of what professional Hall of Fame, when 17 individuals, including “Slinging” Sammy Baugh, Harold “Red” Grange, George Halas, Don Hutson, Earl “Curly” Lambeau, and Bronco Nagurski were inaugurated?
Answer: Pro Football

Question: With an atomic number of 86, what element, the heaviest of the noble gasses, uses the symbol Rn?
Answer: Radon

Question: This year was the first in its 45 year history that Jerry Lewis did not host the annual labor day telethon, which raises money for which charity (2.45 billion to date)?
Answer: Muscular Dystrophy Association

Question: What's missing: Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, and The Dead Pool?
Answer: Dirty Harry

Question: For a point each, name the countries surrounding Austria.
Answer: Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein

Question: In golf, what is the opposite of a slice (a shot that curves toward the side of the swing)?
Answer: A hook

Question: Two letters in American Sign Language require movement. Name either one.
Answer: J and Z

Question: Name the artist and title of the 1975 billboard country #3 hit: "Well, I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison and I went to pick her up in the rain but before I could get to the station in my pickup truck she got runned over by a damned old train"
Answer: You Never Even Call Me By My Name by David Allan Coe

Question: Especially devastating in Seattle, what fast food chain was at the center of an E. Coli outbreak in 1993?
Answer: Jack in the Box

Question: The Pro Football Hall of Fame opened its doors on Sept 7, 1963, in what Midwestern city?
Answer: Canton, OH

Question: “There’s a sucker born every minute” is a phrase erroneously attributed to what famous showman?
Answer: PT Barnum

Question: On September 7, 1927, what American inventor demonstrated the world's first working television system with electronic scanning of both the pickup and display devices?
Answer: Philo T. Farnsworth

Question: Sept 10, 1963 saw the birth of what former Mariner, and Geico pitch man, known as The Big Unit?
Answer: Randy Johnson

Question: 44 years ago today, nerds everywhere found a new calling in life when what TV series debuted with the episode named “”The Man Trap””?
Answer: Star Trek

Question: What American folk hero is credited with creating the Grand Canyon, when he drug his axe behind him, Mt. Hood when he piled rocks to extinguish his camp fire, and dug the thousand lakes just to water his ox?
Answer: Paul Bunyan

Question: A poor workman always blames his what?
Answer: tools

Question: Whose labors include such tasks as slaying the Nemean lion, cleaning the Augean stables in a single day, and obtaining the Girdle of the Amazon Queen?
Answer: Hercules

Question: With 18 major championships, what golfer is nicknamed “The Golden Bear”?
Answer: Jack Nicklaus

Question: Making but a single flight, what was the real name given to Howard Hughes' birch plywood plane, the Spruce Goose?
Answer: Hercules

Question: Sailor Jack and Bingo are the mascots for what prize awarding snack food, now produced by Frito Lay?
Answer: Cracker Jack

Question: In the event that the President, Vice President, Speaker of the House, President pro tem of the Senate, the Secretaries of State, Treasury, and Defense, the Attorney General, and the Secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, and Commerce are unable to hold the office of president, who takes over?
Answer: Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis

Question: The world is a poorer place with the passing last week of what TV legend, who hosted the Star Hustler/Star Gazer series, which had been in production since September 1976?
Answer: Jack Horkheimer

Question: There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's what?
Answer: Mastercard

Question: In drinks, what ingredient is the difference between a White Russian and a Black Russian?
Answer: Milk

Question: The best selling comedy recording artist of all time, which comedian is best known for his "You might be a redneck" one liners?
Answer: Jeff Foxworthy

Question: Who was Captain America's sidekick during World War II?
Answer: Bucky

Question: What popular science fiction character, later to be the subject of a 1980s television series starring Gil Gerrard, was first introduced in the August, 1928 issue of Amazing Stories, which tells the tale of how he was put into a coma until the 25th century, when he awakens to rid the world of evil warlords and "Mongol" hordes?
Answer: Buck Rogers

Question: What television staple, developed by Beavis and Butt-head creator Mike Judge, is having its final episodes air this Sunday, following a 13 year run?
Answer: King of the Hill

Question: Erroneously thought to have only been shown from the waist up to protect the public from his mesmerizing hip gyrations (and probably a bit of wang waggling), what Rock n Roll legend made his Ed Sullivan Show debut on Sept 9, 1956, attracting upwards of 60 million viewers?
Answer: The King, Elvis Presley

Question: What company used the advertising slogan “because I’m worth it”?
Answer: L'Oreal

Question: The 22nd amendment to the US Constitution, ratified on Feb 27, 1951, concerns what?
Answer: Presidential term limits

Question: In poker, what is the name of a behavioral tick that gives away a players hand?
Answer: A tell

Question: At what Cuban battlefield did Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders attain fame, fortune, and glory during the Spanish American War?
Answer: Battle of San Juan Hill

Question: In what two-player Milton Bradley board game, introduced in 1961, do players try to capture the other player's flag on a 10Ă10 board?
Answer: Stratego

Question: If a female deer is known as a doe, what is the male known as?
Answer: Buck

Question: What financial “whiz” is known as “The Oracle of Omaha”?
Answer: Warren Buffett

Question: In the crappy celebrity kids names category, what Irish rocker, fomer head of the Boomtown Rats, named his kids Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches Honeyblossom, and Little Pixie?
Answer: Bob Geldof

Question: What Brandeis University professor attained instant fame by accusing Judge Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during his 1991 confirmation hearings?
Answer: Anita Hill

Question: What singer was backed by band known as Crazy Horse?
Answer: Neil Young

Question: To boldly go where no television series had gone before, what classic tv series had it's debut on NBC on Sept 8, 1966?
Answer: Star Trek

Question: Name the book and the Nobel Prize winning author: “It was Wang Lung’s marriage day. At first, opening his eyes in the blackness of the curtains about his bed, he could not think why the dawn seemed different from any other.”
Answer: Pearl Buck, The Good Earth

Question: For a point each, what are 3 CSI cities?
Answer: Las Vegas, New York, Miami

Question: In the Barry Manilow song “Copacabana”, who was the show girl?
Answer: Lola

Question: The Marquis of Queensberry rules govern what sport?
Answer: Boxing

Question: High tech companies Apple Inc, Microsoft, eBay, Expedia, and Google are traded on what stock exchange, the second largest in the world?
Answer: Nasdaq

Question: Translating as Fox from the Spanish, what is the more common name for the fictional character known as Don Diego del la Vega?
Answer: Zorro