The Collective Trivia Quiz: The Year We Make Contact

POSTED OCTOBER 17th, 2010

The Rules of the Game:

• You can use any resource to find your answers: Google, Wikipedia, books, magazines, crystal balls, bribes ... it's all good to me. Especially the bribes bit.
  
• Points are scored on a pari-mutuel basis. Each question is worth 100 points, divided by the number of correct answers for that question (rounded up).
  
• Do not post your answers here to the comment section of this blog! People will steal your answers and laugh at you. EMAIL your answers to me at vigilante407@gmail.com. Please make sure you number your answers correctly to correspond with the questions. Also, please send all your answers together in one email! (Otherwise, only the answers in the first email I get will count.)
  
• You do not have to answer ALL the questions to enter. Feel free to answer as many as you know or just guess. You never know when you'll pull the proverbial flying monkey out yer butt and get it right!
  
• By the way, if you want to find out the answers, you've got to enter. The answers will be emailed to everyone who enters after the contest is over.
  
• The contest will end in seven days (one week) at 11:59pm on Saturday October 23rd, 2010.
  
• And please remember that only you can prevent Forrest Tucker!
  

And here's this week's quiz, courtesy this week of Terry Wiegert:

1. The wording of this catchy 1976 ballad about a tragedy has been modified at recent live performances by its original writer/singer due to questionable accuracy of the original lyrics. Name the song.
   
2. Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger as governors, Sonny Bono as a mayor and Clint Eastwood as a sewer commissioner are obviously all natural fits as celebrities in office. But which football legend, at age 54, ran an unsuccessfully bid to become governor of the state in which he played his entire NFL career?
   
3. After the sewer explosion on Himrod Street, Ed is taken to Bushwick Hospital where Ralph graciously offers type A blood if a transfusion is needed. What room did Ed stay in?
   
4. What's the name of this Wisconsin born actor who had a short boom of stardom in the 1980's?
   
   
   
   
   
   
5. Froot Loops with Sprinkles cereal challenges you to "crack the code" to find out which Froot Loops® is like a "book". What's the nine letter code you've cracked when you've finished the game?
   
6. What controversial 1983 film opened on "Highway 74, twenty miles from Oklahoma City and four miles from Crescent"?
   
7. What two famous actors attended 4th grade together at Illinois' Evanston Elementary?
   
8. The guy pictured below was the first US born player to achieve what specific NHL milestone?





9. In November of 1986, what employee won $5000 in a contest for coming up with the name for their recently merged company beating out nine others who submitted the same name but later?
   
10. What's the name of the Mutual Network radio program, launched in 1948, that teamed a studio audience player with a home listener by phone to win up to 3 prizes for answering quiz questions correctly?
    

Good luck to everyone who plays this week!