1. The Canary Islands are named for what animal?
2. Which is further west: Reno, or Los Angeles?
3. Einstein won his Nobel Prize in Physics for what?
4. How much liquid can you fit in a 10 gallon hat?
5. Where was Chinese Checkers invented?
6. When was the first USA presidential debate?
7. What color is a purple finch?
8. What is a camel hair brush made of?
9. Will 2100 be a leap year?
10. What is Michael J. Fox's middle name?

1. Name a song the first 20 words of whose lyrics are all different.

2. The words of "The Marine Hymn" can be sung to the tune of a well-known ditty with different words and music but the same metrical structure. Name that other song.

3. Now, movie music:

a) Everyone remembers classical music in the score of _2001: A Space Odyssey_, including the stirring opening bars of Richard Strauss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra" and the space station music ("The Blue Danube") of Johann Strauss. But can you identify a piece of *popular* music that was also heard in the movie?

b) To what tune was "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf" sung in the movie of that name? (Bonus points: who sang it?)

c) In _Nashville_ there is a song about a certain state, with the state's name in the title. What state?

d) _The Lord of the Rings_ trilogy won a total of 17 Oscars, two for the score and one for an original song. Who composed the score?

4. Let's move on to Broadway. In what musical were the following sung (Broadway has always been rather self-referential):

a) "There's No Business Like Show Business."
b) "Give My Regards to Broadway"
c) "Lullaby of Broadway."
d) "Another Opening, Another Show."

5. Match these names:
A) Roberta Joan Anderson
B) Anna Mae Bullock
C) Eleanora Fagan
D) Frances Ethel Gumm
E) Ruth Lee Jones
F) Freda Josephine McDonald

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<Probably the song he had in mind is not one of the two given.> Right again: Paul McCartney, "Yesterday."

I *knew* the answer to only one of these questions. No, 2100 will not be a leap year. Since a solar year is ~365.2522 days long, having a leap year every four years would soon distort the calendar. Therefore all centennial years in which the century is not divisible by four are *not* leap years, and this includes 2100.

Everything else I must confess I had to look up (except where I merely offer a response that seems to align with the quiz' theme). In any case, the answers are amusing.

1. You mean to say you didn't know a canary was a dog? ;-)

Neither did I, although once I read that the bird was named after the islands rather than vice-versa, Latin might have led me to it.

2. Since our theme is the unexpected, I will say Reno. (Also, I may just possibly have read this somewhere else before.)

3. According to Wikipedia, the prize was awarded for his discovery of the photoelectric effect.

It's a bit curious. We would find it ironic that he got the prize for this instead of special/general relativity, but since the p/e effect led to quantum theory, this discovery could possibly end by having a greater impact on physics than special/general relativity.

4. About three quarts (again credit Wikipedia).

5. As such, it was invented in Germany. However, it was based a similar game using a square board called Halma (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halma), which was invented in the U.S., but which in turn was based on the English game Hoppity.

6. Astoundingly, according to /ibid./, this appears, formally, to have been the (in)famous (depending on your political leanings) 1960 matchup between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, now also held up as an example of the first time television might have determined the winner of a presidential race.

Informally, however, we might count the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858 (which were more what I had in mind). Less national exposure these might have had, but some might say they were rather more substantive.

7. Interesting question. /Ibid./ calls them "raspberry red," but I think their color is closer to magenta or fuchsia.

8. Goat, pony, sheep, squirrel, others. (This according to Wiki Answers.)

9. Vide supra.

10. Andrew. What else? ;-)

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Off to starboard, daylight comes up fast

Now I'm restless for the open water

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Sorry for the misinterpretation....I don't know if your question has an official answer. But if it did have one, in my opinion it would be EXACTLY the same time. And if one time were to be equated with another, the equation would work thus:

During summer months, PST becomes MST but is called PDT. So California time merely becomes Arizona time for over half of the year.

Colorado and New Mexico become CST but call it MDT; Texas and Illinois become EST but call it CDT, etc.

"I was totin' my pack along the dusty Winnemucca road,

When along came <a> semi with <a> high an' canvas-covered load"