| # | Category | Friday - Jun 19 2026 | Answer | |
| 1-1 | TV CHARACTERS | ON "BREAKING BAD", HOW WAS HANK SCHRADER RELATED TO WALTER WHITE? | BROTHER-IN-LAW [HE WAS MARRIED TO WALT'S WIFE'S SISTER] | |
| 1-2 | MOVIE PLOTS | WHAT 2018 COMEDY STARS ED HELMS, JON HAMM, JEREMY RENNER, JAKE JOHNSON, AND HANNIBAL BURESS AS FRIENDS WHO HAVE CARRIED ON AN ELABORATE, DECADES-LONG VERSION OF A CHILDHOOD GAME? | TAG | |
| 1-3 | TRIALS | THIS AUGUST WILL SEE THE START OF A TRIAL IN A WRONGFUL DEATH LAWSUIT BROUGHT AGAINST DUANE "KEEFE D" DAVIS, FOR THE MURDER OF WHAT RAPPER SOME 30 YEARS AGO? | 2PAC | |
| 2-1 | HISTORICAL PEOPLE | WHAT BEER NAMESAKE SUCCEEDED JOHN HANCOCK AS GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS IN 1793? | SAMUEL ADAMS | |
| 2-2 | CLASSIC ROCK |
ON PINK FLOYD'S "THE WALL" ALBUM, THERE ARE THREE DIFFERENT PARTS TO THE SONG "ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL". WHICH PART WAS THE HIT SINGLE:
PT. I … PT. II … or PT. III? |
PT. II | |
| 2-3 | SCIENCE!! | WHILE O2 IS BREATHABLE OXYGEN, WHAT IS THE COMMON NAME FOR O3? | OZONE | |
| 3-1 | BASEBALL | IF A BASEBALL PLAYER HAS A TRIPLE, TWO DOUBLES, A SINGLE, AND A WALK DURING A GAME, HOW MANY TOTAL BASES IS HE CREDITED FOR THAT GAME? | 8 [ONLY HITS ARE COUNTED -- A WALK DOES NOT COUNT AS A BASE] | |
| 3-2 | CLASSIC MOVIES | AT THE END OF THE FIRST SEGMENT OF THE SCI-FI FILM "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY", WHAT DOES AN APE-MAN THROW INTO THE AIR, WHICH THEN CUTS TO A SHOT OF A SATELLITE IN SPACE? | A BONE | |
| 3-3 | SCHOOLS | WHAT SCHOOL IS ALSO KNOWN AS "THE MILITARY COLLEGE OF SOUTH CAROLINA"? | THE CITADEL | |
| H | IT'S ELEMENT-ARY! | ALPHABETICALLY BY NAME, WHAT ARE THE FIRST FOUR CHEMICAL ELEMENTS WHOSE NAMES ARE TWO SYLLABLES? | ARGON … BISMUTH … BORON … BROMINE | |
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4-1 | CLASSIC VIDEO GAMES | THE 1982 VIDEO GAME "TIME PILOT" FEATURED DIFFERENT MODES OF AVIATION IN DIFFERENT STAGES, INCLUDING BIPLANES AND BLIMPS IN 1910, MONOPLANES AND B-25 BOMBERS IN 1940, AND WHAT IN 1970? |
HELICOPTERS | TEAMTRIVIA.COM
the 1980s stage featured jet planes and B-52's, and the UFO stage was set in 2001 |
| 4-2 | AMERICAN HISTORY | PRIOR TO THE PASSING OF THE CABLE ACT IN 1922, AN AMERICAN WOMAN COULD LOSE WHAT IF SHE MARRIED A FOREIGNER? | (AMERICAN) CITIZENSHIP | |
| 4-3 | DR. SEUSS | WHAT ANTI-WAR BOOK BY DR. SEUSS CONCERNS THE YOOKS, WHO EAT THEIR BREAD BUTTER-SIDE UP, AND THE ZOOKS, WHO EAT THEIRS BUTTER-SIDE DOWN? | THE BUTTER BATTLE BOOK | |
| 5-1 | CAST PARTY |
WHAT MOVIE FROM WITHIN THE LAST 10 YEARS FEATURES ALL THREE OF THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE?:
BRAD PITT … LIV TYLER … TOMMY LEE JONES |
AD ASTRA | |
| 5-2 | WORLD CAPITALS | ON DECEMBER 12, 1911, NEW DELHI REPLACED WHAT CITY AS THE CAPITAL OF INDIA, THOUGH IT WASN'T FORMALLY INAUGURATED AS SUCH UNTIL NEARLY 20 YEARS LATER? | CALCUTTA / KOLKATA | |
| 5-3 | SOUTH PARK | WHAT IS THE BETTER KNOWN NICKNAME OF "SOUTH PARK" KID LEOPOLD STOTCH? | BUTTERS | |
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6-1 | #1 SONGS | WHAT #1 SONG BY CARLY RAE JEPSEN WAS NAMED BY BILLBOARD MAGAZINE AS THE TOP SUMMER SONG OF 2012? |
CALL ME MAYBE | HINT OF THE WEEK - Billboard's top summer songs to date, it is her only U.S. #1 song |
| 6-2 | DANCE | WHAT TYPE OF CLASSIC FOLK DANCING IS THE OFFICIAL STATE DANCE OF OVER 20 U.S. STATES? | SQUARE DANCE | |
| 6-3 | PROTESTS | IN 1766, THE "BUTTER REBELLION", THE FIRST RECORDED STUDENT PROTEST IN AMERICA, TOOK PLACE AT WHAT COLLEGE? | HARVARD [OVER THE RANCID STATE OF THE BUTTER SERVED DURING MEALS] | |
| F | MUSIC HEADLINES |
WHICH TWO OF THE FOLLOWING MUSIC HEADLINES OCCURRED IN THE 2010S [2010-2019]:
A) TAYLOR SWIFT OCCUPIES ALL THE TOP 10 SPOTS ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100 CHART SIMULTANEOUSLY B) THE FIASCO OF THE HIGHLY PROMOTED FYRE FESTIVAL C) KENDRICK LAMAR WINS A PULITZER PRIZE FOR MUSIC D) PRINCE PERFORMS THE SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW, WIDELY LAUDED AS ONE OF THE BEST HALFTIME SHOWS EVER E) GUNS N' ROSES RELEASES THEIR LONG-AWAITED ALBUM "CHINESE DEMOCRACY", THEIR FIRST STUDIO ALBUM IN 15 YEARS |
B) 2018 … C) 2018, FOR HIS 2017 ALBUM "DAMN."
[SWIFT WAS NOV. 5, 2022 … PRINCE WAS 2007 … GUNS N' ROSES WAS 2008] | Pulitzer is pronounced "PULL-itser" |
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| T | FOOD RECORDS | ACCORDING TO GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS, THE WORLD'S LARGEST BUTTER SCULPTURE, CREATED IN DALLAS, TEXAS IN 2013, WEIGHED HOW MANY POUNDS? |
4,077 lbs. 13.54 oz.
[A 55-FOOT TALL STATUE OF "BIG TEX", THE LONGTIME SYMBOL OF THE TEXAS STATE FAIR] |
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| R-1 | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS | FOR TWO POINTS EACH, WHAT THREE COUNTRIES DID PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH REFER TO AS THE "AXIS OF EVIL" IN JANUARY 2002? … AND FOR AN ADDITIONAL TWO POINTS, NAME ONE OF THE THREE COUNTRIES FUTURE U.N. AMBASSADOR / NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR JOHN BOLTON ADDED TO THAT LIST FOUR MONTHS LATER. |
"AXIS OF EVIL" -- IRAQ, IRAN, NORTH KOREA
"BEYOND THE AXIS OF EVIL" -- CUBA, LIBYA, SYRIA | **ALTERNATE HALFTIME** |
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| R-2 | ADVERTISING | WHAT NOW-DEFUNCT AIRLINE USED THE AD SLOGAN, "GO - THERE'S NOTHING STOPPING YOU"? | AIRTRAN AIRWAYS | accept simply "AirTran" | |
| R-3 | ANATOMY | ARRANGED IN TWO ROWS, EIGHT SMALL CARPAL BONES MAKE UP WHAT PART OF THE HUMAN BODY? | WRIST | do not accept "hand" | |
| R-4 | CABLE TV | THE FIRST MADE-FOR-CABLE MOVIE, 1983's "THE TERRY FOX STORY", WAS A PRODUCTION OF WHAT CABLE CHANNEL? | HBO | |
| R-5 | TEXTING, TEXTING | WHAT DOES "TLDR" STAND FOR IN TEXTING LINGO? | TOO LONG; DIDN'T READ | |
| R-6 | ROYALTY | KING GYANENDRA WAS THE LAST KING OF WHAT ASIAN COUNTRY, WHICH ABOLISHED ITS MONARCHY IN 2008? | NEPAL | pronounced "j'ahn-EN-drə" or "gyahn-EN-drə" | |
| R-7 | PSYCHOLOGY | A MAN'S UNCONSCIOUS FEMININE SIDE, CALLED THE "ANIMA", IS CENTRAL TO WHAT TYPE OF ANALYSIS NAMED FOR A FAMOUS PSYCHOLOGIST? | JUNGIAN [AFTER CARL JUNG] | you may accept "Jung" … pronounced "yoong", with a short 'oo' as in "push" … a woman's unconscious masculine side is the "animus" | |
| R-8 | FOOD INNOVATIONS | WHAT BUTTER SUBSTITUTE WAS FIRST CREATED IN FRANCE IN 1869, IN RESPONSE TO A CHALLENGE ISSUED BY EMPEROR NAPOLEON III? | MARGARINE / OLEOMARGARINE | you may accept simply "oleo" | |
| R-9 | SOUL MUSIC | WHAT SOUL LEGEND, WHO PASSED AWAY IN 2008, RELEASED THE 1969 ALBUM "HOT BUTTERED SOUL", FEATURING EPIC RENDITIONS OF THE SONGS "WALK ON BY" AND "BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX"? | ISAAC HAYES |