WAMC's Ian Pickus and resident quizzer Mike Nothnagel try not to be a boar.
Last week's challenge
Start with the words TRAY TABLE. Change one letter to an O and you can rearrange the letters to spell two common cereal grains. What are the words?
Answer: Change a T to an O and you can spell OAT and BARLEY.
THIS WEEK'S CATEGORY: PIGS
On-air questions: On May 27, 1933, United Artists released the animated short The Three Little Pigs. Produced by Walt Disney, and based on the fairy tale of the same name, the $22,000 film grossed over $250,000 at the box office. It also won the 1934 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film (the category was called "Short Subjects, Cartoons" at the time). It's time to see if this show will fly as we have a quiz about pigs.
1. A 30-foot inflatable pig flying over Battersea Power Station appears on the cover of the 1977 album Animals by what band, which released it between 1975's Wish You Were Here and 1979's The Wall?
2. "That would be like putting lipstick on a pig" is what broadcaster Ron Lyons said in 1985 when a board of supervisors in San Francisco asked if, instead of using a $20,000 donation by radio station KNBR to help fund a new baseball stadium, they could use it to help renovate what iconic ballfield?
3. Pigasus, an actual pig, was nominated for U.S. President in 1968 by the Youth International Party – a group commonly known as the Yippies – as a political protest. The Yippies held their own nominating convention outside the Democratic National Convention being held at the International Amphitheatre in what Midwestern city?
4. In George Orwell's novel Animal Farm, when a boar named Old Major dies, two other pigs compete for leadership over the animals after the farmer is forced to leave. One of those pigs is named Snowball, who advocates to continue the revolution against the humans. Named for a famous emperor, what is the name of Snowball's rival, who succeeds in ostracizing Snowball and assumes dictatorial power?
5. Captain Link Hogthrob, First Mate Piggy, and Dr. Julius Strangepork are the three main crew members who explored the galaxy on the USS Swinetrek in 32 episodes of what recurring sketch on The Muppet Show, which debuted during the shows' second season?
Extra credit
1. Hamm, a wisecracking piggy bank, voiced by John Ratzenberger, first appeared in what 1995 film?
2. "For words that begin with vowel sounds or a silent letter, one just adds 'yay' to the end." is one of the rules of what?
This week's challenge
Start with the phrase THREE PIGS. Change one letter to an A and you can rearrange the result to spell a two-word phrase (five letters, four letters) for what four pigs have. What is the phrase?
ANSWERS
On-air questions
1. Pink Floyd
2. Candlestick Park
3. Chicago
4. Napoleon
5. Pigs in Space
Extra credit
1. Toy Story
2. Pig Latin
