WAMC's Ian Pickus and resident quizzer Mike Nothnagel bring their "A" game.
Last week's challenge
Start with the name CASEY STENGEL. Change one letter to an R and you can spell a two-word phrase (5, 7) for something built for a play. What is it?
Answer: If you change the L to an R, you can spell STAGE SCENERY.
THIS WEEK'S CATEGORY: NAMES WITH "AA"
On-air questions: On June 10, 1947, a prototype car known as the Ursaab was unveiled at airplane manufacturer Saab AB's headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. The prototype led to production two years later of Saab's first automobile, the Saab 92. The Ursaab, along with many other Saab models, are currently on display at the Saab Car Museum in Sweden. To commemorate that original Saab prototype, this week our quiz is about people with a double A in their name.
1. Portrayed perhaps most famously by Sarah Brightman in Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 West End production, Christine Daaé is a young chorus girl who is mentored by a mysterious mask-wearing man named Erik who mentors her to replace the company's prima donna. By what name – which is also the title of the musical – is Erik more commonly known?
2. Actor Peter Sarsgaard portrayed chess grandmaster William Lombardy in the 2014 film Pawn Sacrifice. Lombardy coached and served as second to which other grandmaster, who beat Boris Spassky at the 1972 World Chess Championship, a meeting dubbed "The Match of the Century"?
3. Isaac Hayes was the third African-American person – after Hattie McDaniel in 1939 and Sidney Poitier in 1964 – to win an Academy Award in a competitive category. Hayes won the award for Best Original Song for his theme to what film?
4. Lilian Saarinen, wife of architect Eero Saarinen, was a sculptor and architect in her own right. She worked with her husband on many projects, but in her solo work she specialized in animal sculpture. One of her most prominent such works is a piece depicting a scene from what Rudyard Kipling collection of stories?
5. Late-night host Jack Paar is the second name in a list that begins in 1954 with Steve Allen and ends currently with whom?
Extra credit
1. Actor James Caan has appeared in two films that have won the Academy Award for Best Picture. He himself was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role in one of those films, in which he played who?
2. New York Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard acquired a nickname after posting a picture of himself dressed as a comic book superhero and commenting that the hero's home planet of Asgard was similar to his last name. What is Syndergaard's nickname?
This week's challenge
Start with the phrase SWEDISH CAR. Rearrange the letters into two five-letter words that can complete this sentence: As the basketball player's shot _____ through the air, he knew it would be a _____ .
ANSWERS
On-air questions
1. The Phantom of the Opera
2. Bobby Fischer
3. Shaft
4. The Jungle Book
5. Jimmy Fallon
Extra credit
1. Sonny Corleone
2. Thor
