Wednesday Night Trivia

1. In 1995, scandal struck CBS when what actress flashed David Letterman on the air?

2. Who shocked the audience at the 1999 VMAs when she copped a feel of Lil Kim’s exposed, pasty-covered breast while presenting an award?

3. At what Superbowl did Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction reveal her boob to a grateful nation?

4. What certified party girl and questionable actress showed the world her left boob when the strap of her gown slipped while on the red carpet for P. Diddy’s 2004 birthday bash?

5. Which leading lady from Sex and the City is the only one that never showed us her boobies on the TV series?

1. The Persistence of Memory, featuring melting clocks, was painted by what surrealist?

2. DaVinci’s famous work of art, La Gioconda, is also known by what name?

3. In Boticelli’s Birth of Venus, what is Venus standing on?

4. What Spanish artist founded the artistic movement known as Cubism with French artist Georges Braque?

5. Whose brain-teasing, mostly black and white, graphic art pieces include Waterfall, Drawing Hands and Relativity?

1. What American master of the short-story is being kicked in I am the Walrus?

2. On what show did the Beatles make their famous first live U.S. television appearance?

3. In what city are Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields located?

4. In what Beatles song do we heard the words “my heart went boom”?

5. What Beatles song is the most covered song of all time, with over 2,500 known versions?

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1. Due to her controversial role in the 2000 presidential election, Florida’s Secretary of State rose to national attention. What is her name?

2. The first in the series of Harry Potter movies was released in 2001. Before his death in 2002, who appeared as Albus Dumbledore the first and second films?

3. For what film did Halle Berry win the 2002 Best Leading Actress Academy Award, making her the first African American woman to receive the honor? (To this day, she is the only one.)

4. On February 1, 2003, when returning from its 28th flight, what space shuttle was destroyed during re-entry?

5. One of 11 military personnel ultimately convicted, what knocked up Army reservist was the poster child for torture and prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib?

1. In 2005, Jesse Jackson traveled to Florida to support and argue on behalf of the Schindler family, who was trying to keep what 41 year old woman on life support?

2. After much debate over the official definition for the term ‘planet’, Pluto was booted in 2006. At what prestigious, private research university in Baltimore was ‘The Great Planet Debate’ held?

3. While I was on my honeymoon in April 2007, the US witnessed the deadliest peacetime shooting incident by a single gunman in our history. At what university did this occur?

4. The year is 2008.  You’re sitting in front of your computer, researching something of surpassing depth and grave importance.  In your travels through cyberspace, you click a link to what you believe will be an informative piece for your knowledge quest, only to be suddenly victimized by a song and its accompanying music video called Never Gonna Give You Up.  What has just happened to you?

5. Almost one year ago, a US Airways pilot landed flight 1549 in the Hudson River. How do you spell his first name?

1. In what state, the last of the 48 adjoining continental states to enter the Union, is there a possible 25 year prison sentence for cutting down a cactus and a law against having more than two dildos in a house?

2. In what state, named by Ponce de Leon in 1513, is it not only illegal to sing in a public place while attired in a swimsuit, but is it illegal to fart in public after 6 PM?

3. In what state, the 42nd state admitted into the union, where it is illegal to pretend that one’s parents are rich, was a law banning public breast-feeding repealed in 2001?

4. In what state, which does not have a single straight line in its state boundary, can residents be fined for not owning a boat?

5. In what state, the most populus in New England, where no gorilla is allowed in the back seat of any car, was a law banning tattoos and body piercings repealed in 2000 because it violated First Amendment rights?

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