WAMC's Ian Pickus and resident quizzer Mike Nothnagel are dressed to the nines....uh, 14s.
Last week's challenge
Start with the phrase POST OFFICE. Change one letter to an E and you can rearrange the result to spell the two-word name (6, 4) for things that you can probably find in most break rooms. What are they?
Answer: If you change the I to an E, you can spell COFFEE POTS.
THIS WEEK'S CATEGORY: FOURTEEN
On-air questions: On February 27, 1940, while working at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, physicist Martin Kamen and chemist Sam Ruben discovered the isotope known as carbon-14. Carbon-14 is used to help scientists determine the age of ancient objects through a method commonly called "carbon dating." To commemorate this scientific discovery, this week our quiz is all about the number 14.
1. The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution addresses, among other issues, citizenship rights and due process. The section on "equal protection of the laws" has been cited in many landmark Supreme Court cases, including a 2000 case about the U.S. presidential election between which two candidates?
2. While the Cincinnati Reds have effectively taken jersey number 14 out of circulation, they cannot retire it for the player who wore it from 1963 to 1978 and again in the 1980s, because that player is on Major League Baseball's banned players list after admitting to betting on MLB games. Which player are we talking about?
3. The "Fourteen Points" was a speech given on January 8, 1918, in which it was declared that World War I was being fought for a moral cause and called for post-war peace in Europe. It also laid out out the U.S.'s post-war goals, the only such statement to do so. Which U.S. president gave the "Fourteen Points" speech?
4. Those are the opening bars to the 1801 composition "Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor", popularly known as the "Moonlight Sonata." It is one of the most well-known compositions by what German composer?
5. Element number 14 on the periodic table is a metalloid whose use in circuitry is so integral to a sizable portion of modern technology, it lends its name to an area in California where many electronics companies have offices. What element is it?
Extra credit
1. The Stations of the Cross, a series of 14 images depicting Christ carrying his cross to his crucifixion, are often placed in sequence on the walls of Catholic churches. The process of visiting the stations in turn is most often performed on what Christian religious holiday?
2. The globular cluster Messier M14 is a collection of stars discovered by Charles Messier. It lies within what constellation, which is often mistakenly called "the 13th sign of the zodiac"?
This week's challenge
Start with the word CARBON. Add two of the same letter and you can rearrange the result to spell an eight-letter word that might describe something that is overly sentimental or trite. What is the word?
ANSWERS
On-air questions
1. George W. Bush, Al Gore
2. Pete Rose
3. Woodrow Wilson
4. Ludwig van Beethoven
5. Silicon
Extra credit
1. Good Friday
2. Ophiuchus
