Round 5 at the Old Pequliar on March 3, 2009
Average score: 7.54/11 (14 teams)
Each of these audio clips comes from the cover version of a pop song. For a half point each, name the artist performing the song in the clip, and the original artist.
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Round 6 at the Old Pequliar on May 6, 2008
Average score: 6.33/10 (12 teams)
1) In Toy Story, the little green aliens who live at Pizza Planet believe they’re destined be chosen to go to a better place — by what?
2) If you’re using a MetroCard vending machine, you’re probably planning to take public transit in what metro area?
3) “I hitched a ride with a vending machine repair man” is the opening lyric to what 1996 Sheryl Crow song?
4) If you travel to Japan to indulge your buru-sera fetish, you might be disappointed to discover that it’s against the law to stock vending machines with what?
5) Contestants competed to create the best amuse buche using $10 worth of ingredients from vending machines on an episode of what reality show?
6) You can buy black-and-white photos wrapped in cellophane from the original Art-O-Mat machine, a vintage vending machine that originally sold what?
7) AltaVista’s translation service takes its name from what small, yellow, highly improbable creature sold in vending machines in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?
8) What 1927 Edward Hopper painting is set in a restaurant where you could buy an entire meal from vending machines?
9) In the movie Airport, just before boarding an airplane with a bomb in a briefcase, D.O. Guerrero buys what from an airport vending machine?
10) Last week, over 700,000 people watched a video on YouTube of Hillary Clinton attempting to do what with a machine in a convenience store?
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1) What is actor Jaleel White’s most famous role, which he played from 1989-1998?
2) It’s been covered by Ringo Starr, Iron Butterfly, and Sheryl Crow, but the song “White Room” was originally a hit for what band?
3) Inspired by the United States’ conquest of the Philippines, what poet wrote “The White Man’s Burden” in 1899?
4) Which Stephen King novel deals with the unusual life of the White family?
5) What short, frequently cited writing guide was co-authored by E.B. White?
6) In 1963, the White Revolution kicked off a series of 19 reforms, eventually halted by a revolution in 1979, in what country?
7) Betty White met her future husband Allen Ludden when she appeared on what game show that he hosted?
8) Don DeLillo wanted to name his novel White Noise something else, a word derived from Greek and Latin meaning “all sound.” The word was already trademarked by the Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co. What brand name is it?
9) In 1948, photographer Margaret Bourke-White became the last journalist to interview what world leader?
10) What’s the actual title of the Beatles’ album popularly known as The White Album?
Round 6 at the Old Pequliar on Sept. 4, 2007.