It's all about 33 on this week's show, featuring resident quizzer Mike Nothnagel and WAMC's Ian Pickus.
Last week's challenge
Think of a four-letter word that starts with C that can precede SHOT to make a common two word-phrase. Change the vowel sound in that word, and you'll get a five-letter word starting with C that can also precede SHOT to make a common two word-phrase. What are the words?
Answer: The words are CHIP and CHEAP.
THIS WEEK'S CATEGORY: THIRTY-THREE
On-air questions: On April 19, 1981, a baseball game between the Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox was called at 4:07 a.m. after the 32nd inning ended with the teams tied at two. A 33rd inning would be played more than two months later, during which Pawtucket scored and, therefore, won what is still the longest game in professional baseball history. To commemorate those historic 33 innings, this week's quiz is about the number 33.
1. New York State Route 33 is the only state highway that directly connects Rochester to what other city in upstate New York some 70 miles away on the shores of Lake Erie?
2. “33” is the title of the first episode of the re-imagined version of what science-fiction series, named for the spaceship that leads a group of humans in their quest to find a fabled planet called Earth?
3. The number 33 appears on every bottle of a beer first brewed by the Pennsylvania-based Latrobe Brewing Company in 1939. What is the two-word alliterative name of this beer?
4. In the 1950s, the Pittsburgh Pirates retired jersey #33 in honor of which player, who appears on one of the rarest and most valuable baseball cards in the world, a copy of which sold for $2.8 million in 2007?
5. One of the shortest reigns of a pope was the 33-day period from August 26 to September 28, 1978. Which pope, who was immediately succeeded by another pope with the same two-word name, was it?
Extra credit
1. Club 33, a private (and, officially, a secret) club located in the New Orleans Square section of Disneyland, is the only location within that theme park that offers what to its patrons?
2. A group of revolutionaries called the Treinta y Tres Orientales ("thirty-three easterners"), began an insurrection in 1825 which culminated in the independence from Brazil of a region that is today part of what South American country that borders Brazil?
This week's challenge
Here's a challenge inspired by Oregon, the 33rd state: start with the phrase SALEM, OREGON. Change one letter to an N and rearrange the result to spell the names of two fruits. What are they?
ANSWERS
On-air questions
1. Buffalo
2. Battlestar Galactica
3. Rolling Rock
4. Honus Wagner
5. John Paul I
Extra credit
1. Alcoholic beverages
2. Uruguay
