From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 4/8/24 07:23, Mark Brader wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 5, Round 4 - Entertainment - "Billboard" Songs of the Year   
   >   
   > Since 1946, "Billboard" has crowned a song of the year in the   
   > three categories of Pop, R&B (which has broadened to take in Soul   
   > and HipHop) and Country.  These questions deal with songs of the   
   > year in all three categories.   
   >   
   > 1. Only two songs performed in a language other than English have   
   >     been top Pop singles of the year, one in 1958, sung in Italian   
   >     by Dominic Modugno; the other in 1996, sung in Spanish by Los   
   >     del Rio.  Name either song.   
   >   
   > 2. Numerous singles have claimed both the Pop and R&B titles in the   
   >     same year, but only one artist has taken both titles in the same   
   >     year with different songs.  The year was 1957.  Name the artist.   
      
   Elvis Presley   
      
   >   
   > 3. In the top Country song of 1968, "Folsom Prison Blues", the   
   >     singer claims, "I shot a man in Reno...."  Why did Johnny Cash   
   >     shoot that man?   
      
   "just to watch him die."   
      
   >   
   > 4. In the top Pop song of 1950, who do the Weavers say goodnight to?   
   >   
   > 5. Two Toronto-born artists scored double wins, their singles   
   >     claiming both the Pop and R&B/hiphop crowns in the years 2018   
   >     and 2020 respectively.  Name either artist.   
   >   
   > 6. The top Pop singles of 1991 and 2016 were recorded by Canadian   
   >     male vocalists who were not answers to question 5.  The top Pop   
   >     single of 2002 was recorded by a Canadian group.  Name any of   
   >     the three performers.   
      
   Bryan Adams   
      
   >   
   > 7. In 2013's top Pop and R&B/HipHop single, "Thrift Shop" by   
   >     Macklemore and Ryan Lewis (featuring Wanz), how much money does   
   >     the singer have in his pocket?   
   >   
   > 8. The title of this 2014 Pharell Williams song presumably reilects   
   >     the singer's sentiments about having the #1 Pop and R&B song   
   >     of the year.  Name the song.   
   >   
   > 9. Only twice has the same song been both the top Pop and the top   
   >     Country single of the year.  The first time was in 1959, with a   
   >     song about an American Civil War event.  The second was in 2023.   
   >     Name *either* song or *either* artist.   
      
   Battle of New Orleans   
      
   (nitpick: that was the War of 1812, not the Civil War)   
      
   >   
   > 10. The Beatles had, in all, 20 "Billboard" #1 Pop songs of the   
   >     week.  Of those, two achieved top Pop single of the year honors,   
   >     the first in 1964, the second in 1968.  Name either.   
      
   Love Me Do   
      
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 5, Round 5 - Audio - Plays   
   >   
   > And once again we have an audio round without the audio.   
   >   
   > For the first two clips, name the Shakespeare play.  For all other   
   > clips, name *either* the play or its author.  In questions #3-10,   
   > no authors repeat.  All clips are in English; none are translations.   
   > Note that we want the title of the original play, not any musical   
   > version.   
   >   
   > 1. Name the Shakespeare play.   
   >   
   >     Man: "Well now, our joy, although our last and least, to whom   
   >     the vines of France and milk of Burgundy strive to be interessed,   
   >     what can you say to draw a third more opulent than your sisters?   
   >     Speak."   
   >   
   >     Woman: "Nothing, my lord."   
   >   
   >     Man: "Nothing?"   
   >   
   >     Woman: "Nothing."   
   >   
   >     Man: "Nothing will come of nothing, heh.  Speak again."   
   >   
   >     Woman: "Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave my heart into my   
   >     mouth.  I love your Majesty according to my bond, no more   
   >     nor less."   
      
   King Lear   
      
   >   
   > 2. Name the Shakespeare play.   
   >   
   >     Man: "I dare do all that may become a man.  Who dares do more   
   >     is none."   
   >   
   >     Woman: "(Laughing) What beast was't, then, that made you break   
   >     this enterprise to me?  When you durst do it, then you were a   
   >     man; and to be more than what you were, you would be so much   
   >     more the man.  I have given suck, and know how tender 'tis to   
   >     love the babe that milks me.  I would, while it was smiling   
   >     in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and   
   >     dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this."   
   >   
   >     Man: "If we should fail--"   
   >   
   >     Woman: "We fail?  But screw your courage to the sticking place   
   >     and we'll not fail."   
      
   MacBeth   
      
   >   
   > For the rest of the round, you may name either the play or the   
   > author.  There will be no more Shakespeare, and no answers repeat.   
   >   
   > 3. Name the play or the author.   
   >   
   >     Woman: "I've been to a doctor in Memphis, a gynecologist.   
   >     I've been completely examined, and there is no reason why we   
   >     can't have a child whenever we want one.  Are you listening   
   >     to me?  Are you listening to me?"   
   >   
   >     Man: "Yeah, I hear you, Maggie.  But how in hell on Earth do   
   >     you imagine you're going to have a child by a man who can't   
   >     stand you?"   
   >   
   >     Woman: "That's a problem that I will have to work out."   
      
   Tennessee Williams   
      
   >   
   > 4. Name the play or the author.   
   >   
   >     Man 1: "Oh, confound all this, I'm not a scholar.  I don't know   
   >     whether the marriage was lawful or not.  But, damn it, Thomas,   
   >     look at these names!  Why can't you do as I did, and come with   
   >     us, for fellowship?"   
   >   
   >     Man 2: "And when we die, and you are sent to Heaven for doing   
   >     your conscience, and I am sent to Hell for not doing mine,   
   >     will you come with me, for fellowship?"   
   >   
   >     Man 1: "So those of us whose names are there are damned,   
   >     Sir Thomas?"   
   >   
   >     Man 2: "I have no window to look into another man's conscience.   
   >     I condemn no one."   
      
   A Man for All Seasons   
      
   >   
   > 5. Name the play or the author.   
   >   
   >     Woman: "Willy?"   
   >   
   >     Man: "It's all right, I came back."   
   >   
   >     Woman: "Why, what happened?  Did something happen?"   
   >   
   >     Man: "No, nothing happened."   
   >   
   >     Woman: "You didn't smash the car, did you?"   
   >   
   >     Man: "I said nothing happened.  Didn't you hear me?  I'm tired   
   >     to death.  Couldn't make it, just couldn't make it."   
   >   
   >     Woman: "Where were you all day?  You look terrible."   
   >   
   >     Man: "I got up as far as a little above Yonkers.  I stopped   
   >     for a cup of coffee.  Maybe it was the coffee, and the car kept   
   >     going off the road onto the shoulder, you see?"   
   >   
   > 6. Name the play or the author.   
   >   
   >     Woman 1: "Fix the kids a drink, George.  What would you like   
   >     to drink, dear?"   
   >   
   >     Man 1: "Honey... what would you like?"   
   >   
   >     Woman 2: "Oh, I don't know, dear... a little brandy, maybe.   
   >     Never mix, never worry."   
   >   
   >     Man 1: "Brandy, just brandy, simple, simple.  What about you,   
   >     uh, uh, uh,.."   
   >   
   >     Man 2: "Bourbon on the rocks, if you don't mind."   
   >   
   >     Man 1: "Mind?  I don't mind.  I don't *think* I mind.  Martha,   
   >     rubbing alcohol for you?"   
   >   
      
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