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Mark Brader wrote:
> * Game 5, Round 4 - Entertainment - "Billboard" Songs of the Year
> 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.
La Macarena
> 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?
irene
> 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.
Barenaked Ladies
> 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.
Happy
> * Game 5, Round 5 - Audio - Plays
> 1. Name the Shakespeare play.
Richard III
> 2. Name the Shakespeare play.
Macbeth
> 3. Name the play or the author.
Tennessee Williams
> 4. Name the play or the author.
A Man For All Seasons
> 5. Name the play or the author.
Death of a Salesman
> 6. Name the play or the author.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
> 8. Name the play or the author.
Tom Stoppard
> 9. Name the play or the author.
Christopher Marlowe
> 10. Name the play or the author.
Pygmalion
> * Game 5, Round 6 - Science - Trees
> 1. Canada has just 234 species of native trees. The country with
> the most species boasts *37 times* that number at 8,715.
> Name any of the world's top three countries by number of native
> tree species.
Indonesia
> 2. This quote from Richard Powers's novel "The Overstory" poses
> the question you need to answer: "If you carved your name four
> feet high in the bark of a beech tree, how high would it be
> after half a century?"
four feet
> 3. "Prometheus", a Great Basin bristlecone pine aged 4,900 years,
> was cut down by accident in 1964. That left another bristlecone
> pine in California to hold the world record for a living tree,
> at 4,800 years. What is the biblical name given to this tree?
Methuselah
> 4. The tallest coniferous tree species in Eastern Canada, its
> straight trunk made it economically important in the 1800s as
> a source for ship masts, and its irregular wind-swept profile
> made it artistically important in the 1900s as a romantic symbol
> of eastern Canada's upland forests. Oh, and it's the official
> tree of Ontario. Name the species, in English or Latin.
Douglas fir
> 5. The oldest known tree in Ontario is growing on the Escarpment
> near Lion's Head, and is believed to be over 1,300 years old.
> Several others of the same species are over 1,000 years old,
> by far exceeding the longevity of the second-oldest species.
> What type of tree is the oldest in Ontario? (Exact species
> not required this time.)
spruce
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