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I loved how every episode started off with a brief prologue scene of some crazy ass shit going down, then the music hits and you're just like WTF

GallisOTK posted...

Was the "avoiding nuclear war" one during the Cuban Missile Crisis when Fidel Castro basically begged the Soviets to nuke the U.S. to save his ass? Or was it some other time during the cold war?

During the CMC

What does CE think?

DevsBro posted...

Oh I see.

But I still never had enough reference for the size of Pluto for this to matter.

It's more just the idea that a single country can compare to a (dwarf) planet, is all.

DevsBro posted...

None of these tbh.

The Russia one doesn't even make sense. How thick a layer of Russia are we talking? Also how big is Pluto?

Perhaps the wording is unclear. Don't think of a solid ball, but more of a hollow sphere. The surface area of Russia is what we're talking about here.

Antifar posted...

Cleopatra was born in 69 BC

Yeah I totally flubbed that one. It's supposed to be the Great Pyramid of Giza, not Cleopatra. >_<

CORRECTION: THE FACT ABOUT JESUS SHOULD READ "GREAT PYRAMID OF GIZA," NOT CLEOPATRA. MY MISTAKE!

Bump!

cmiller4642 posted...

I think he probably would have just dealt with the US had we remained neutral

Like a "we're an ocean apart; you do you, we'll do us" sort of thing?

What do y'all think?

DuranOfForcena posted...

this was fun, but a bit too much pop culture stuff and not enough more scholarly categories

Well done, and I appreciate the feedback. I actually have a bank of more questions/categories that I compiled. If this gets decently well-received, I'll do another one and try to make it more balanced.

ALLITERATIVE ACTRESSES

$100: Israeli actress and fashion model who played Wonder Woman in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice Gal Gadot
$200: New Zealand-born star of Xena: Warrior Princess Lucy Lawless
$300: In 1975, she co-starred with the equally alliterative Barry Bostwick in The Rocky Horror Picture Show Susan Sarandon
$400: Her last name became rather appropriate when she helped Bill Paxton chase down tornadoes in Twister Helen Hunt
$500: In the TV sitcom Mike & Molly, she co-stars alongside Billy Gardell Melissa McCarthy

BEFORE & AFTER (e.g., a legendary Spanish womanizer + a president of Argentina = "Don Juan Peron")
$100: Channing Tatum's male stripper title character & the actor who plays Austin Powers Magic Mike Myers
$200: Roseanne's ex-husband and the "Austrian Oak" who co-starred with him in True Lies Tom Arnold Schwarzenegger
$300: The 14th president of the United States & the James Bond actor who said "the world is not enough" Franklin Pierce Brosnan
$400: Little Richard's title character who has "everything that Uncle John needs" & the actress who played the mother in Mrs. Doubtfire Long Tall Sally Field
$500: Author of The Turn of the Screw & the inventor of basketball Henry James Naismith

MISCELLANEOUS TRIVIA

$100: Ashton Kutcher Tweeted "what's the square root of 6.25?" as a hint that he was replacing Charlie Sheen on this TV show Two and a Half Men
$200: In ancient times, it was believed that this violet-colored gem could cure or prevent drunkenness; in fact, its name derives from the Greek for "not intoxicated" amethyst
$300: The two #1 songs in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 charts with "la vida" in their title are Ricky Martin's "Livin' La Vida Loca" and this song by Coldplay "Viva La Vida"
$400: Although it's associated with the punk genre, Manhattan's former music club CBGB actually took its name from these three genres country, bluegrass & blues
$500: This type of "radiation" causes the blue glow in an underwater nuclear reactor, it occurs when subatomic particles such as electrons travel faster than light in a given medium, producing the equivalent of a "sonic boom" for light Cherenkov radiation

For the sake of intellectual integrity, please do not cheat by using any resources other than yourself. There are no errors for an incorrect answer; if you get a question right, that dollar value is added to your score.

There are six categories. The highest possible score is $9,000.

Post your results!

CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

$100: Late-night TV host and car enthusiast who embraced his sizable jawline by releasing an autobiography titled Leading With My Chin Jay Leno
$200: This Tall, Dark & Gruesome leading man starred in films such as Dracula and The Wicker Man, but Star Wars fans know him as Count Dooku Christopher Lee
$300: After leaving the boy band, this singer, whose last name describes his own vocal range, released an aptly-titled autobio called Out of Sync Lance Bass
$400: This legendary pornographic actor nicknamed "the Hedgehog" released an autobiography amusingly titled The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz Ron Jeremy
$500: "Saintly" actor who played James Bond in several films and vowed My Word Is My Bond Roger Moore

FRENCH & LATIN PHRASES
$100: If you're leaning over the side of the ship because you're feeling nauseated, you're suffering from this, what the French call "mal de mer" seasickness
$200: The Latin equivalent of "my bad" mea culpa
$300: The English translation of "Laissez les bon temps rouler," a Cajun French phrase associated with New Orleans and Mardi Gras "Let the good times roll"
$400: This Latin term, meaning "blank slate," is used by psychologists and philosophers to refer to the belief that a child's mind is free of innate ideas tabula rasa
$500: The RSVP at the bottom of an invitation stands for this French phrase meaning "please reply" rpondez s'il vous plat

SPORTS VOCABULARY (name the sport)

$100: Lateral, touchback, two-point conversion American football
$200: Battery, infield fly rule, RBIs baseball
$300: Apron, condor, mulligan golf
$400: Address, anchor, Woolworth bowling
$500: Cesta, fronton, pelota jai alai

Thoughts?