WAMC's Ian Pickus and resident quizzer Mike Nothnagel return to an annual October tradition: the series.
Last week's challenge
Start with the phrase HEARING AIDS. Rearrange the letters to spell a two-word phrase (four letters, seven letters) for something that happens during a brainstorming session. What is it?
Answer: The phrase is IDEA SHARING.
THIS WEEK'S CATEGORY: SERIES #4
On-air questions: It is once again World Series time. Tonight is Game Three, and as we do every year, we wish whichever teams are in the Series good luck and hope that, dear listeners, the team you want to win will win. And, as we also do every year, it's time once again for our annual quiz on series. To refresh everyone's memory: I'll read a list of items that form a series (or part of one), with one item missing. Your job is to determine what item goes in the blank.
1. Stephen Breyer, John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, _______
2. Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Coming Up For Air, _______, Nineteen Eighty-Four
3. Skies, grain, majesties, plain, _______, thee, brotherhood, sea
4. "Here's looking at you, kid.", "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.", "You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.", "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.", _______
5. _______, Annapolis, Atlanta, Augusta, Austin
Extra credit
1. The Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, _______, Earth
2. Jack, Stan, Roy, _______, Lee
This week's challenge
Start with the phrase STRIKE OUT. Change one letter to an M, and you can rearrange the result to spell a four-letter word for something that flies and a five-letter word for an event during which it might be hard to fly that thing. What are the words?
ANSWERS
On-air questions
1. Elena Kagan (Five most recent appointees to the U.S. Supreme Court)
2. Animal Farm (Novels by George Orwell)
3. America (Last words of the lines of the first verse of "America the Beautiful")
4. "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." (Top five quotes on AFI's list of 100 Movie Quotes)
5. Albany (First five U.S. capitals, alphabetically)
Extra credit
1. Neptune (Largest objects in the solar system by volume)
2. Gus (Names mentioned in the chorus of Paul Simon’s "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover")
