Round Two – Answers

Wow.  You obviously have the hang of the questions now.  I’m not sure round three will be hard enough now, but round four will be for sure.  Here are the answers to Round Two:

1. There are six Jims in the bunch, but only one Tom, Dick, and Harry. What are the last names of those three? (2 points)
   The Jims, are of course the six US Presidents named James.  So Tom is Jefferson, Dick is Nixon, and Harry is Truman.
2. I recently did an online image search for a word, and these are some of the images that were returned in the results. Can you tell me what the word was? (3 points)
   SPROCKET (or Sprockets) Clockwise from upper-left: Sprocket the dog from Fraggle Rock, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Mike Myers (The Sprockets – SNL Sketch), and of course, a sprocket.
3. In what two movies will you find talking animals, with their lines recorded by Albert Einstein? (2 points)
   Actor Albert Brooks was born Albert Lawrence Einstein.  He lent his voice to Marlin, the father of the title character in Finding Nemo, and Jacob the Tiger in Dr. Dolittle (the 1998 remake).
4. How can I go from Liverpool to Edinburgh to Hamburg to Rome to Perth and back to Liverpool and travel less than 700 miles? (3 points)
   You can drive that circle around the state of Indiana.  That’s the only state that I could find those cities (with those spellings) within a 700 mile range.
5. If #18 and #10 are tragic lovers from an answer in the first round, what dances are #6 and #20? (2 points)
   Foxtrot and Tango.  Click here for the explanation if you missed this one.
6. Steve Miller may be the king of bad lyric rhymes (“Abracadabra”-”Reach out and grab ya”, “facts is” – “Texas”), but who is responsible for trying to rhyme “in a” with the name of a bald, Russian-born actor? (2 points)
   Tim Rice was the answer I was looking for, but I also accepted any of the performers who released recordings of “One Night in Bangkok”
7. Name the movie from which this still frame is taken: (3 points)
   A Scanner Darkly. If you haven’t seen this yet, do yourself a favor and check it out.
   
8. While putting together the question about mothers for Round One, I found some interesting info about siblings. For example, there is an Olympic gold medalist who has a sister who starred in a TV sitcom. That sister’s son on the show has a sister who played one of three daughters on another sitcom. That actress married a famous hockey player whose brother was also a star in the NHL – and both were Olympians. Can you tell me the names of all three pairs of siblings? (3 points)
   Olympic gold medal winner Donna de Varona’s sister, Joanna Kearns played ‘mom’ to Kirk Cameron on Growing Pains.  Kirk’s sister, and Full House star, Candace married hockey player Valeri Bure, brother of NHL star Pavel.
9. In what US town will you find a radiograph signed by both the patient AND the man in this photo? (3 points)
   
   The guy in the photo is Jacksonville, Illinois native Ken Norton.  He broke Muhammad Ali’s jaw in a championship fight in 1973.  The autographed xray is exhibited in a mini museum within a used car dealership in Hookset, NH.
10. Martin, Goldberg, Martin, Crystal, Rock, Stewart, DeGeneres, Stewart, Jackman, ________. What two names complete this sequence? (2 points)
    In a list of past Oscar hosts, the two names that complete the list are Martin and Baldwin.  Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin shared the hosting duties in March.

Round Two Scores

1. Cat A. * – 26
2. The Joe Craven Experience – 25
3. Matt Grecco – 25
4. The Lowes – 25
5. Chad McCue – 25
6. Amy Reynolds – 25
7. Dan Naumovich – 23
8. Chris Wagner – 23
9. William St. Hilaire – 23
10. Nick Rogers – 22
11. Dan Mounce – 22
12. Jeff Dare – 17
13. Malcolm Bondon – 17
14. John Stearns – 13

I’ll have a scoreboard with running totals set up soon.