WAMC's Ian Pickus and resident quizzer Mike Nothnagel are all about the bouillon.
Last week's challenge
Start with the phrase COLD TURKEY. Change one letter to an M and you can rearrange the result to spell a two-word phrase (five letters in both words) for something a toy collector might have. What is it?
Answer: If you change the Y to an M, you can spell MODEL TRUCK.
THIS WEEK'S CATEGORY: GOLD
On-air questions: On December 5, 1848, President James K. Polk addressed Congress to confirm the discovery of gold in California. What came to be known as the California Gold Rush began on January 24, 1848, when gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill. (Ironically, Sutter himself was soon ruined, as his workers left to join the search and squatters took over his land, stealing his crops and cattle.) This week, we'll have a gold rush of our own, with some questions about all things – or at least five things – gold.
1. Developed in the 1960s at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, and named for the Yukon River in British Columbia, the Yukon Gold is a variety of what vegetable?
2. Goldfinger, the 1964 James Bond film based on the novel by Ian Fleming, is the third film in the Bond series, and also the third to star which actor as James Bond?
3. "The Gold-Bug" is an 1843 short story about William LeGrand, a man who becomes obsessed with a search for buried treasure after being bitten by a gold bug. Credited with helping to popularize cryptograms and secret writing, "The Gold-Bug" was written by what master of mystery and the macabre?
4. Appearing on television and in movies since the age of four, actress Tracey Gold is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Carol Seaver, younger sister to Kirk Cameron's Mike Seaver, on what popular sitcom that ran from 1985 to 1992?
5. Put these Olympians in order by the total number of gold medals they've won: speed skater Bonnie Blair, swimmer Michael Phelps, track and field star Carl Lewis.
Extra credit
1. Precious metals such as gold are weighed using a system in which a pound has 12 ounces, compared to the 16 ounces in an avoirdupois pound. After what city is this other system named?
2. Neil Young: Heart of Gold is a 2006 documentary about musician Neil Young, named for one of Young's most famous songs. The director of that documentary also directed the documentary Stop Making Sense, which chronicled a 1983 Talking Heads concert. Who is the director?
This week's challenge
Start with the phrase GOLD RUSH. Change one letter to a T and you can rearrange the result to spell a word that names things that, unfortunately, California has had many of over the years. What are they?
ANSWERS
On-air questions
1. Potato
2. Sean Connery
3. Edgar Allan Poe
4. Growing Pains
5. Phelps (18), Lewis (9), Blair (5)
Extra credit
1. Troy
2. Jonathan Demme
