OK so we didn't do so well with Season 28. Didn't even bother with the playoffs. 
Season 29 finds us as "Rocket Surgeons" at Cobblestone and " Rule #5 there is no Rule #5"
We haven't started out so well but the season is 9 weeks long.

Do you know the last 14 states to join the union?

Let me know.

End of Season 27:  Kevin... ends up finishing 3rd at Cobblestone and Brian Dennehy Summer Tour 2012 finishes 3rd at Friscos. Neither of us has much time for the playoffs ( vacations you know ). So good luck to the teams in the playoffs.

Youngest to Oldest:

Daniel Radcliffe 7/23/89              Adam Sandler 9/8/66
Zac Efron   10/18/87                   Tiger Woods  12/30/75
Shia LeBeouf  6/11/86                Eddie Vedder  12/23/64
Keira Knightley  3/26/85             Johnny Depp   6/9/63
Carrie Underwood 3/10/83         Paula Abdul     6/19/63
Kelly Clarkson  4/24/82              Emma Thompson  4/15/59
Pink 9/8/79                                 Alec Baldwin     4/3/58
Angelina Jolie  6/4/75                  Tom Hanks   7/9/56
Luke Wilson 9/21/71                   Denzel Washington  12/28/54
Jake Gyllenhaal  12/19/80            Dennis Quaid     4/9/54
Ice Cube  6/15/69                       Liam Neeson     6/7/52
Renee Zellweger 4/23/68             Stevie Wonder   5/13/50
Jamie Foxx 12/13/67                   Paul McCartney  6/18/42


How about this:   15 #5's
I will give you 15 songs that made it as high as No. 5 on the Billboard Pop Chart by artists who also had,
at least, one  #1.  Name the artist and the year this song made No. 5


"Sing A Song"         "Sad Songs (Say So Much)"
"On The Radio"       "1,2,3,4 (Sumpin New)"
"Up On The Roof"    "With Every Beat of My Heart"
"I'm Coming Out"         "Hold The Line"
"When It's Love"        "People"
"Day Tripper"            "Fun,Fun.Fun"
"Big Love"               "Method of Modern Love"
"Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"

Good Luck!! I'll be back sooner than last time!

Middle of Week 3 Season 27: We are Kevin.... at Cobblestone. ( We won last night). And at Frisco's we are Brian Dennehy Summer Tour 2012.  This season is up in the air because the playoffs and championship are at times when different members of our teams will be on vacation so we are playing for the daily prizes of gift certificates.  At Cobblestone we are accumulating certificates so on the final night of the season we can all eat for free!!!! Hooray for Free Food!!

Answers to last post:
Elvis Costello and the Attractions                            
Florence and the Machine
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts                                  
 Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Little Anthony and the Imperials                             
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers   
 Paul McCartney and Wings
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers                            
 Echo and the Bunnymen


Here's a challenge!  Put the following celebrities in order of their age: from youngest to oldest.
As of May 23, 2012.

Paula Abdul                         Alec Baldwin                        Kelly Clarkson            
Johnny Depp                        Zac Efron                            Jamie Foxx                 
Jake Gyllenhaal                    Tom Hanks                          Ice Cube                             
Angelina Jolie                       Keira Knightley                    Shia LeBeouf
Paul McCartney                   Liam Neeson                        Pink                              
 Dennis Quaid                      Daniel Radcliffe                    Adam Sandler          
 Emma Thompson               Carrie Underwood                Eddie Vedder                   
 Denzel Washington             Luke Wilson                        Stevie Womder                
Tiger Woods                      Renee Zellweger


Good Luck with this!!!!

Season 26 is complete and Slow Children Ahead finishes first at Cobblestone, with a direct route to the Championship on May 5 at Padonia Station.  Here For The Food finishes 3rd with an invite to the playoffs on April 29 at Greene Turtle. We didn't go to the playoffs.  So we are headed to the championship. And boy! did we bomb at the champioship.  We ended with 16.5 points. We got 3 questions correct and 16 points at the half ( which was a worksheet with pictures of 20 television sidekicks.  Better luck in Season 27!!!

Solo Artists and their former bands:

1B. 2I. 3A. 4H. 5C. 6D. 7G. 8D. 9F. 10J. 11B. 12E. 


Name the bands associated with these artists:

Elvis Costello and the ?                                  Florence and the ?
Joan Jett and the ?                                          Bruce Springsteen and the ?
Little Anthony and the ?                                Smokey Robinson and the ?
George Thorogood and the ?                         Paul McCartney and ?
Tom Petty and the ?                                       Echo and the ?

Good Luck!!

After 6 weeks, Slow Children Ahead, is behind Cobblestone Crawlers by 2 points.  One week left.  It will be an interesting Week 7.  After 5 weeks, Here For The Food is in 4th place, behind by 87 points. Thats a lot to make up in 2 weeks.  Final questions have been too easy to have a lucky guess. And we guess wrong.

Here are the artists and the years when they won their multiple Record of the Year Grammys.

Henry Mancini  1961 and 1963
5th Dimension   1967 and 1969
Roberta Flack    1972 and  1973
Simon & Garfunkel  1968 and 1970
Eric Clapton     1992 and  1996
U2                2000 and 2001

And Paul Simon won as a solo performer in 1987 for Graceland

So match the solo artist with their former band:

1. Phil Collins                    A. Faces
2. Eric Clapton                  B. Genesis
3. Rod Stewart                   C. Go-Go's
4. Darius Rucker               D. Eagles
5. Belinda Carlisle            E. Fleetwod Mac
6. Don Henley                   F. Wham
7. Sting                              G. The Police
8. Glenn Frey                   H. Hootie and the Blowfish
9. George Michael           I. Cream
10.Annie Lennox              J. The Eurythmics
11.Peter Gabriel
12.Stevie Nicks

This should be fairly easy.

Its been too long again!   After 5 weeks of Season 26 Slow Children Ahead is in 1st place at Cobblestone by 6 points.  We have our work cut out for us in the final 2 weeks.  After 4 weeks at Frisco's, Here For The Food is in 2nd ( behind by 26 points).  Plenty of time.

Top 20 Countries of Origin for International Visitors to the US are:
1. Canada               6. France               11. China                16. Venezuela
2. Mexico               7. Brazil                12. India                 17. Argentina
3. UK                     8. South Korea      13. Spain                18. Switzerland
4. Japan                  9. Australia           14. Netherlands      19. Sweden
5. Germany           10. Italy                  15. Colombia         20. Ireland

Switzerland really!  390,500 visited.  Thats 5% of their population.!

From 1958 to 2010 there have been 6 performers ( solo or group ) that have won the Grammy for Recor of the Year more than once.  Can you name these performers?  Can you name the years and the songs???   

Good luck!!!

Into Week 2 Season 26 Showtime Trivia:  After 2 weeks ( 7 week season ), Slow Children Ahead are in 1st place at Cobblestone.  Here For The Food are in 3rd place at Frisco's.


11 Smallest States:
1. Rhode Island   1,545 sq.mi.
2. Delaware  2,489 sq.mi.
3. Connecticut  5,543 sq.mi.
4. New Jersey    8,743 sq. mi.
5. New Hampsire  9,349 sq.mi.
6. Vermont    9,616 sq.mi.
7. Massachusetts 10,554 sq.mi.
8. Hawaii  10,932 sq.mi.
9. Maryland 12,406 sq.mi.
10. West Virginia 24,230 sq.mi. 

Name the top 20 countries of origin for international visitors to the U.S. in 2009...

HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY !!!!

Begin Showtimetrivia Season 26 this week. We are now Slow Children Ahead  at Cobblestone.

I'll give updates as we progress.

How about some state trivia:
Name the 11 smallest states ( total square miles)

Answers to the best picture and other major winner:
1.   1945 - The Lost Weekend; Ray Milland, Actor              
2.   1974 - The Godfather Part II, Robert DeNiro, Sup.Actor
3.   1971 - The French Connection; Gene Hackman, Actor
4.   1941 - How Green Was My Valley; Donald Crisp, Sup. Actor
5.   1970 - Patton; George C. Scott, Actor (declined)
6.   1980 - Ordinary People; Timothy Hutton, Sup.Actor
7.   2010 - The King's Speech; Colin Firth, Actor
8.   1984 - Amadeus; F. Murray Abraham, Actor
9.   1996 - The English Patient; Juliette Binoche, Sup. Actress
10. 1964 - My Fair Lady; Rex Harrison, Actor
11. 1947 - Gentleman's Agreement; Celeste Holm, Sup. Actress
12. 1957 - The Bridge On The River Kwai; Alec Guinness, Actor
13. 1999 - American Beauty; KevinSpacey, Actor
14. 2007 - No Country for Old Men; Javier Bardem, Sup. Actor
15. 1988 - Rain Man; Dustin Hoffman, Actor
16. 1992 - Unforgiven; Gene Hackman, Sup. Actor
17. 1950 - All About Eve; George Sanders, Sup. Actor
18. 2001 - A Beautiful Mind; Jennifer Connelly, Sup. Actress
19. 1994 - Forrest Gump; Tom Hanks, Actor
20. 1966 - A Man For All Seasons; Paul Scofield, Actor
21. 1955 - Marty; Ernest Borgnine, Actor
22. 2011 - The Artist; Jean Dujardin, Actor

Good Luck!!

So, Fluffer Nutter, comes in 3rd out of 44 teams at the Showtime trivia Season 25 championship on 2/25.  We won $250. It was a great team accomplishment!  Season 26 starts next week.

Answers to female celebrity original names:

A.10  B.3  C.8  D.1  E.4  F.9  G.7  H.5  I.2  J.11 K.6

So how did you do with that one?

So how about some Oscars trivia?  I did watch the Academy Awards on Sunday and thought the whole show lacked a little pizzazz!  The memoriam section was way too laid back and did not pay proper tribute to those that have passed away in the last year.  Why couldn't they show clips of everyone so we could remember them as we knew them!  Huh, what's up? A DVR comes in real handy when you can skip the speeches and the commercials though.

Here is Oscar trivia:
In the following years, the best movie also won director and 1 other major categorie( actor, actress, sup. actor, sup. actress)(The other 3 categories going to other movies). I will give the year and winning director.  You name the movie and the other major category winner.

1.   1945, Billy Wilder                       2. 1974, Francis Ford Coppola       
3. 1971,William Friedkin                  4.   1941, John Ford
5. 1970, Franklin Shaffner                6.  1980,Robert Redford
7.   2010, Tom Hooper                      8.  1984, Milos Forman
9. 1996, Anthony Minghella           10. 1964, George Cukor 
11. 1947, Elia Kazan                       12. 1957, David Lean
13. 1999, Sam Mendes                    14. 2007,Joel & Ethan Coen
15. 1988, Barry Levinson                16. 1992, Clint Eastwood
17. 1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz     18. 2001, Ron Howard
19. 1994, Robert Zemeckis             20.  1966, Fred Zinnemann
21. 1955, Delbert Mann                  22. 2011, Michel Hazanavicius

In fact, I believe that is all of the movies that won best picture, director and one other of the major categories. ( Remember that the year coincides with when the movie was released, even though the awards were given early the following year, meaning that the 2011 awards were just awarded last Sunday night.)

Good Luck!

Any suggestions for the trivia team name for Season 26? 
Don't forget to check out Showtimetrivia.com        

Finished Season 25 at Cobblestone and we came in first for the season. Fluffr Nutr beat out Cobblestone Crawlers by 1 point.  We didn't do very well but there wasn't enough of a gap between our scores on the last night that the Crawlers had to get the final question correct to beat us and fortunately, of course, they anwered incorrectly. The championship is on Feb 25 at Padonia Station.  Tomorrow night we will make a try at coming in first at Frisco's.  We are in third place going into the final night of Season 25.  Only 15 points separate 1st and 4th place, so it's up for grabs. I know that we have already qualified for the championship but we are going to for broke.

Answers to male celebrity original names:
A.6  B.7  C.8  D.2  E.3  F.10  G.9  H.4  I.1  J.11  K.5

How well did you do?

Now female celebrity original names:

A. Chaka Khan                                             1.  Eleanora Fagan                   
B. Veronica Lake                                         2.  Kathryn Hudson
C.  Whoopi Goldberg                                   3.  Constance Ockleman
D.  Billie Holiday                                         4.  Eileen Regina Edwards
E.  Shania Twain                                          5.  Annie Mae Bullock
F.  Twiggy                                                    6.  Christina Ciminella
G.  Bo Derek                                                 7.  Mary Cathleen Collins
H.  Tina Turner                                             8.  Caryn Johnson
I.   Katy Perry                                               9.  Lesley Homby
J.   Jane Seymour                                         10. Yvette Stevens
K.  Wynonna Judd                                       11. Joyce Frankenberg

Good Luck!  And Good Luck to "There's No Crying In Trivia" at Frisco's. ( That's our team name at that location)

I know that it's been awhile since my last post.  Almost 2 months in fact.  Been playing a lot of trivia.
We are already in Week 6 of 7 in season 25.  At Cobblestone, we are in first place by 29.5 points. ( not a very large margin) .  At Frisco's we are in 3rd place, behind by 37 points. Can we do it?  We falter alot when we are in first place near the end. If you aren't in first when before the final then you have nothing to lose by going all out.

The answers to the last blog questions are:  The Grinch pole is 39 1/2 feet long.  Burl Ives supplies the voice of Sam the Snowman.  "Jingle All The Way" premiered in 1996.  The 3 Wise Men were Balthasar, Melchior and Jaspar.  And the shepherd boy says to the mighty king, "Do you know what I know?".

How about a little matching?  Here is a list of celebrities ( we'll do the guys first ) . Match the celebrity name with their original name.

A. Babyface                                                1.  Reginald Dwight
B. Moby                                                      2.  James Todd Smith
C. Jay-Z                                                      3.  Jeffrey Atkins
D. L.L.Cool J                                              4.  Marion Morrison
E. Ja Rule                                                    5.  Marshall Mathers
F. Tony Curtis                                             6.  Kenneth Edmonds
G. Meat Loaf                                               7.  Richard Melville Hall
H. John Wayne                                            8.  Shawn Carter
I.   Elton John                                              9.  Marvin Lee Aday
J.  Alice Cooper                                          10. Bernard Schwartz
K. Eminem                                                  11. Vincent Furnier

Good Luck?  I'll do the ladies next.