My hat is off to first time players -- and dark horse -- Queso Fantastico!, who charged back from third place in the penultimate round to finish with 116 points. Well done, gentleman, although your song request calls your musical tastes into suspicion... suspicion of excellence.
The rest of the cast:
Struggle Fest 101
The Most Interesting Team in the World 97
The Planeteers 95
Scientific Seduction 94
Just Married 77
Wooglin 69
Last night's questions (highlight to see the answers):
PIECE OF CAKE
1. Nicknamed “Chocolatetown, USA”, the town of Derry Church, PA was renamed what in 1906? A: Hersey, PA
2. What antacid used the slogan “Plop! Plop! Fizz! Fizz! Oh what a relief it is?” A: Alka Seltzer
3. Prior to World War II, several counties across southern Oregon and northern California proposed forming a new state named after what U.S. president? A: Jefferson
4. Which of the following is NOT a Stone Temple Pilots song: “Plush”, “Big Empty”, “Personal Jesus,” or “Sex Type Thing”? A: "Personal Jesus"
SUCK IT, TREBEK!
1. In it’s 35th and latest season, what TV show earned its 126th Emmy nomination, surpassing E.R. for the all-time record? A: SNL
2. The popular bumper sticker simply displaying the numbers “26.2” indicates a driver with an interest in what activity? A: running (Specifically, marathons.)
3. Which of the following words does NOT refer to one of the four lobes of the brain’s cerebral cortex: frontal, occipital, medial, parietal, or temporal? A: medial
4. Ras Hafun, the easternmost point of Africa, can be found in what country? A: Somalia (Might want to double-check this, though; the caveat on the page this links to says this fact is from the 1979 Great Soviet Encyclopedia and might "outdated or ideologically biased".)
WHOEVER SPELT IT, DEALT IT
1. pronounced uh-SEE-sis and meaning "strict self discipline" A: ascesis
2. pronounced BLOW-vee-eight and meaning "to speak pompously" A: bloviate
3. pronounced kah-kuh-STOCK-ruh-see and meaning "a government run by its worst citizens" A: kakistocracy
4. pronounced NO-sint and meaning "harmful or injurious" A: nocent
5. pronounced fih-LOLL-uh-gee and meaning "the study or literary texts or linguistics" A:philology
6. pronounced tuh-MEE-sis and meaning "the interpolation of one or more words between parts of a compound word; e.g., be thou ware" A: tmesis
7. pronounced DES-uh-kate and meaning "to dry thoroughly" A: desiccate
SHAPE UP
1. Four blue trapezoids are arranged at right angles to each other in the Chase bank logo, forming what shape? A: Octogon
2. A triangle can be said to be degenerate if it has an interior angle of how many degrees? A: 180 (I also accepted zero)
3. What is the primary practical reason most modern manhole covers are round? A: they can’t be dropped into the manhole (they cost up to $500 each)
4. The US Bank Tower on 5th and Burnside in Portland appears narrow from certain angles and wide from others as a result of its footprint being this shape? A: Rhombus (As the picture below illustrates, the tower has three "columns" of windows on one face and four on another, which, if they're all of the same size, technically makes it a rhomboid, but somehow busting out a tape measure and walking 30 blocks didn't seem worthwhile for this question. I accepted both answers. N.B.: While the answer "parallelogram" is also correct, it's not specific enough; the description also applies to squares and rectangles, which the building certainly isn't.)
And now you know more about this goddamn building than you ever wanted to.
STUMPED IN STUMPTOWN
1. Opened in 1905, what North Portland saloon -- now owned by McMenamins -- is also said to be one of Portland’s most haunted buildings? A: White Eagle
2. What two letters were swapped out of the Montgomery Park sign in 1989, giving it its present appearance? A: W & D (the building it sits atop was originally a Montgomery Ward distribution center)
3. According to the Office of Neighborhood Involvement, nine officially recognized Portland neighborhoods include the word “wood” in their names; how many can you name? A: Crestwood, Maplewood, Woodlawn, Hollywood, Hazelwood, Woodland Park, Brentwood-Darlington, Sellwood-Moreland, Woodstock (I gave three points for each correct name. There was a fair amount of plausible alternates turned in, though; for example, Sherwood and Maywood Park. The former is a suburban town rather than a neighborhood; see below for the explanation on the latter.)
4. Originally a neighborhood in NE Portland, Maywood Park, Oregon, became a separate city in 1967 in an effort to thwart the development of what highway project? A: Interstate 205 (They didn't stop it, obviously, but their efforts resulted in the freeway being sunken below grade and surrounded with a concrete sound berm.)
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