Transcript Slide 1

1989
The Business
of Music
Showbiz
Spoilers
Beisbol
Eyes and Ears
She revealed in her
book, “First Father,
Who was
First Daughter,” that
Maureen
Reagan?
she had been
a victim
of marital abuse.
$100
It’s the “kingly” name
given to the shares
paid to a composer out
What
are royalties?
of the proceeds from
the performance or
sale of a work.
$100
“We’ll go on forever,
Pa, ‘cause we’re the
What is “The
people” is the last line
Grapes
of John
Wrath”?
of this 1940
Ford
film.
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In 1957 a team from
Mexico became the
What
is The
United
first from
outside
this
country
to
win
the
States?
Little League World
Series.
$100
The retina of the eye is
What are rods and
composed of these two
typescones?
of receptors.
This Watergate
chronicler reviewed his
Who was
childhood in the book
Carl Bernstein?
“Loyalties:
A Son’s
Memoir.”
A person with this title
is in charge of an
entertainer’s
business
Who
is a manager?
affairs; Col. Parker was
the King’s.
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At the end of this 1986
What Davis
is is
film, Geena
pregnant
with
a mutant
“The Fly”?
baby.
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The first Hispanic
elected to the Baseball
Who was Roberto
Hall of Fame, this
Clemente?
Pirates
slugger died in
a 1972 plane crash.
$200
The blind spot of the
retina has no receptors
What is the optic
because this nerve
nerve?
exits the
eye at that
location.
In March 1989 the US
agreed to help build
What
is Japan?
this nation’s FSX
fighter jet.
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Abbreviated “PD,” it’s
What is Public
the term for works not
Domain?
protected
by copyright.
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Near the end of this
What
is “North
1959 film,
Martin
Landau
falls
off
Mount
by Northwest”
Rushmore.
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Thanks to Jerry Reuss’
strained calf muscle,
Who
is Fernando
this
Mexican
hurler got
his
first
start
on
Valenzuela?
opening day of the
1981 season.
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When we say that
people have blue eyes,
brown eyes, or green
What is the iris?
eyes, we refer to the
color of this structure
surrounding the pupil.
Until “Batman” opened
is “Indiana
aWhat
few weeks
later, this
Spielberg-Lucas
film
Jones
and the Last
held the
one-day
gross
Crusade”?
record with $11.2 mil.
From the Greek for
“small voice,” it’s a
What is a
studio device that
microphone?
converts
sound waves
into analog signals.
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In this 1972 film based
on a play, Michael
What is
Caine’s last words are
“Sleuth”?
“Tell them
it was only a
bloody game.”
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The Chicago Cubs’
Sammy
Sosa
one of
Where
isisThe
many major leaguers
Dominican
to hail from San Pedro
de Republic?
Macoris in this
country.
$400
The hair cells
What is the
responsible
forbasilar
hearing
linemembrane?
this membrane in
the cochlea.
The A&R people at a
What
is artists and
record$500
label oversee
repertoire?
this.
At the end
of this
What
is 1952
film, Burt Lancaster
“Come
Back, Little
tells Shirley Booth,
Sheba”?
“It’s good
to be home.”
Just two years after
defecting from Cuba,
isMarlin
Livanwas
thisWho
Florida
named
MVP
of
both the
Hernandez?
NLCS and the World
Series.
What
arebones
the
These
three
hammer,
anvil,
connected to the
eardrum
the
stirrup
(or are
malleus,
smallest
bones
incus, andin the
human body.
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Chemists B. Stanley
Pons and Martin
What isclaimed
cold to
Fleischman
have devised
fusion?a room
temperature version of
this.
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stapes)?
Questions swiped from http://www.apple.com/games/articles/2002/01/thestation/index2.html#questions and http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/cep/Psychology/car_conf/questions.htm