WAMC's Ian Pickus and resident quizzer Mike Nothnagel look for joy in Mudville.
Last 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?
Answer: If you change the P to an A, you can spell EIGHT EARS.
THIS WEEK'S CATEGORY: FAMOUS CASEYS
On-air questions: On June 3, 1888, the poem "Casey at the Bat" was published in the San Francisco Examiner. Written by Ernest Thayer, the poem tells of the storied Mudville baseball team, who has a chance to come back from a two-run deficit in the ninth inning if their star hitter, Mighty Casey, can get up to bat. (Spoiler alert: Mighty Casey strikes out, and Mudville loses the game.) Let's turn the tables this week and put our listeners up to bat with a quiz about famous Caseys.
1. Actor Casey Affleck made his feature-film debut in 1995's To Die For. Two years later, he starred in two movies with his brother Ben: Chasing Amy and what film, for which Ben won an Oscar?
2. "Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars" was the signature sign-off of disc jockey Casey Kasem, host of the radio program American Top 40 for over 30 years. Kasem was also a noted voice actor, perhaps most notably providing the voice for which member of the mystery-solving gang in the Scooby-Doo cartoons?
3. William Casey served as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1981 to 1987. Prior to serving as CIA director, Casey was the campaign manager for, and served on the transition team of, which president?
4. Charles Dillon Stengel – better known as Casey Stengel – was a Major League outfielder from 1912 to 1925, and then a manager between 1934 and 1965. During his tenure as manager, Stengel became the first of four people to manage both the New York Mets and the New York Yankees. Name any one of the other three.
5. An article in a Jackson, Mississippi, newspaper from 1900 reported, "The south-bound passenger train No. 1 was running under a full head of steam when it crashed into the rear end of a caboose and three freight cars which were standing on the main track, the other portion of the train being on a sidetrack." The article is about the fatal crash that took the life of what famed engineer?
Extra credit
1. Portrayed by Peter Krause, Casey McCall was a co-anchor, along with Dan Rydell (played by Josh Charles), of a late-night show on what Aaron Sorkin series, which shares its name with the show-within-the-show?
2. Dwane Casey is currently the head coach of what NBA team, which made its first appearance in the Eastern Conference Finals, where they lost to the Cleveland Cavaliers?
This week's challenge
Start with the name CASEY STENGEL. Change one letter to an R and you can spell a two-word phrase (five letters, seven letters) for something built for a play. What is it?
ANSWERS
On-air questions
1. Good Will Hunting
2. Shaggy
3. Ronald Reagan
4. Yogi Berra, Dallas Green, Joe Torre
5. Casey Jones
Extra credit
1. Sports Night
2. Toronto Raptors
