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Current Events!

5 questions

1 point each

1. Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced yesterday to how many years in prison? (assuming the Clintons don't give her the Epstein or Aaron Hernandez treatment first!)

2. A man was convicted in Germany of 3,518 counts of accessory to murder on Tuesday for serving at a Nazi concentration camp during WWII - and sentenced to 5 years. How old is this man?

3. Top Gun: Maverick came in second at the weekend box office with a little less compensation than what one-word movie?

4. In 'food' news, Taco Bell announced a new partnership and is testing a new tostada in some California locations. Seasoned beef, reduced-fat sour cream, diced tomatoes, lettuce, and shredded cheddar cheese sit atop what well-known salty snack - but one that is 16x the normal size we're used to?

5. In what appears to have been a pat on the back at a grocery store -- accompanied with the friendly salutation "What's up scumbag?" -- who is heard here making a lot of hay of it?

Review your Current Events round answers:

1. Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced yesterday to how many years in prison? (assuming the Clintons don't give her the Epstein or Aaron Hernandez treatment first!)

2. A man was convicted in Germany of 3,518 counts of accessory to murder on Tuesday for serving at a Nazi concentration camp during WWII - and sentenced to 5 years. How old is this man?

3. Top Gun: Maverick came in second at the weekend box office with a little less compensation than what one-word movie?

4. In 'food' news, Taco Bell announced a new partnership and is testing a new tostada in some California locations. Seasoned beef, reduced-fat sour cream, diced tomatoes, lettuce, and shredded cheddar cheese sit atop what well-known salty snack - but one that is 16x the normal size we're used to?

5. In what appears to have been a pat on the back at a grocery store -- accompanied with the friendly salutation "What's up scumbag?" -- who is heard here making a lot of hay of it?

MYSTERY ROUND

Famous Trials

I'll give the date and some details, you give the name of the trial (or principal players).

For example, if the clue was 1925 High school teacher found guilty of teaching evolution in Tennessee - as if anyone there evolves!
You would answer Scopes Monkey Trial

1. 399 BC Found guilty of "failing to acknowledge the gods that the city acknowledges" and "introducing new deities" - sentenced to death by hemlock?

2. 1431 Found guilty of heresy and burned at the stake

3. 1692 19 guilty & executed by hanging, 1 person pressed to death, at least 5 others died in prison

4. 1893 resulted in one person acquitted of a double murder, quoted leaving the courthouse as being "the happiest woman in the world"

5. 1924 two wealthy students found guilty of kidnapping and murder - served as inspiration for Hitchcock's must watch movie starring James Stewart Rope

6. 1970-71 Several people found guilty of several killings, including Roman Polanski's wife

Review your Mystery round answers:

1. 399 BC Found guilty of "failing to acknowledge the gods that the city acknowledges" and "introducing new deities" - sentenced to death by hemlock?

2. 1431 Found guilty of heresy and burned at the stake

3. 1692 19 guilty & executed by hanging, 1 person pressed to death, at least 5 others died in prison

4. 1893 resulted in one person acquitted of a double murder, quoted leaving the courthouse as being "the happiest woman in the world"

5. 1924 two wealthy students found guilty of kidnapping and murder - served as inspiration for Hitchcock's must watch movie starring James Stewart Rope

6. 1970-71 Several people found guilty of several killings, including Roman Polanski's wife

MUSIC ROUND

Name the song title and artist - 1 point each

And name the theme that permeates these songs for a bonus point

Song 1

Song 2

Song 3

Song 4

Song 5

Song 6

What is the theme that permeates through all six of the songs?

Review your Music round answers:

PICTURE ROUND

In the city

It's the greatest city in the world - New York City! I'll show famous sights from NYC, you tell me what/where it is.

For example, where is this?
Answer: New York City Public Library

Picture 1

Picture 2

Picture 3

Picture 4

Picture 5

Picture 6

Review your Picture round answers:

GENIUS ROUND

Hard questions from all over

2 points each

1. What first name is shared by a woman on Wheaties boxes in the 80s, 90s, and 2010s, the only name in Lou Bega's terrible song not ending in A, and a famous mom?

2. Used on 17,000 people in the late 18th century, what device has nicknames that include The Regretful Climb, The Barber, The Fanlight, The Widow, The Silence Mill, The Half-Moon, and The Patriotic Shortener?

3. In a (big 4) sports first that took four years in the making, what two pro teams faced each other in the finals/championships every year from 2015-2018?

4. Many years the Grammy awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year go to the same song. But in 1972, what singer-songwriter was the first to win these awards for two different songs (also won two other Grammys that year)?

5. What drink has two circus (and curious) origin stories? One is that they ran out of water and wrung out soaking, dirty, colored clothes to make it - another is that someone dropped cinnamon candy into an existing drink to create the new one.

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