6/6!
1. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage garnered the most votes in the by-election held on August 13, 2026, to represent the constituency of Clacton in the UK Parliament. What candidate came in second?
Correct Answer: COUNT BINFACE
Your Answer: Binface
Points Assigned: 1
Correct Answer: COUNT BINFACE
Your Answer: Binface
Points Assigned: 1
This was a great story to follow. Should play easy.
2. The golden age of cattle drives and the open range in the U.S. frontier began right after the Civil War in 1866 and hit its steep decline by the mid-1880s, a decline accelerated by Joseph Glidden's 1874 patent for what product, which was nicknamed "the devil's rope"?
Correct Answer: BARBED WIRE
Your Answer: Barbed wire
Points Assigned: 0
2. The golden age of cattle drives and the open range in the U.S. frontier began right after the Civil War in 1866 and hit its steep decline by the mid-1880s, a decline accelerated by Joseph Glidden's 1874 patent for what product, which was nicknamed "the devil's rope"?
Correct Answer: BARBED WIRE
Your Answer: Barbed wire
Points Assigned: 0
Gimmie?
3. Lee J. Cobb, George C. Scott, Dustin Hoffman, Brian Dennehy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Wendell Pierce, and Nathan Lane have all played the title role on Broadway in what 1949 play, which won the Tony Award for Best Play that year and the Tony for Best Revival of a Play four times (1984, 1999, 2012, and 2026)?
Correct Answer: DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Your Answer: Death of a Salesman
Points Assigned: 2
3. Lee J. Cobb, George C. Scott, Dustin Hoffman, Brian Dennehy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Wendell Pierce, and Nathan Lane have all played the title role on Broadway in what 1949 play, which won the Tony Award for Best Play that year and the Tony for Best Revival of a Play four times (1984, 1999, 2012, and 2026)?
Correct Answer: DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Your Answer: Death of a Salesman
Points Assigned: 2
Total guess, as I know nothing about theatre, but I could picture all of those men in that role.
4. What 1994 film was made for roughly $27,000 in production costs, and shot primarily in the Leonardo, New Jersey convenience store where its filmmaker worked?
Correct Answer: CLERKS
Your Answer: Clerks
Points Assigned: 2
4. What 1994 film was made for roughly $27,000 in production costs, and shot primarily in the Leonardo, New Jersey convenience store where its filmmaker worked?
Correct Answer: CLERKS
Your Answer: Clerks
Points Assigned: 2
This was right in my sweet spot as I grew up in NJ and was an aspiring filmmaker in high school when it came out.
5. In 1930, a baker for the Continental Baking Company outside Chicago named James Alexander Dewar, in seeking a use for the company's shortcake pans when strawberries weren't in season, invented what food, which moved away from its original banana-flavored filling due to shortages during World War II?
Correct Answer: TWINKIES
Your Answer: Twinkie
Points Assigned: 1
5. In 1930, a baker for the Continental Baking Company outside Chicago named James Alexander Dewar, in seeking a use for the company's shortcake pans when strawberries weren't in season, invented what food, which moved away from its original banana-flavored filling due to shortages during World War II?
Correct Answer: TWINKIES
Your Answer: Twinkie
Points Assigned: 1
Shortcake with a different filling. It just made sense.
6. With over 8 million copies sold in the U.S. alone, what artist's 1976 double live album, though containing previously released tracks, sold substantially more units than all of the artist's other releases (before and after) combined?
Correct Answer: PETER FRAMPTON
Your Answer: Peter Frampton
Points Assigned: 3
6. With over 8 million copies sold in the U.S. alone, what artist's 1976 double live album, though containing previously released tracks, sold substantially more units than all of the artist's other releases (before and after) combined?
Correct Answer: PETER FRAMPTON
Your Answer: Peter Frampton
Points Assigned: 3
I knew Frampton Comes Alive was incredibly popular. I had it on vinyl.
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