Mob Getting Smarter
Mob Getting Smarter by Roxanne McDonald
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I should know. It takes quite a sharp wit to recap a Q & A game show such as “1 vs. 100.” |
Hey, give me a break. Sometimes I need to go into relaxed mode, and sometimes you need the results of the equivalent of one of the best trivia games on TV.
Tonight, the mob of 100 contains three summa cum laudes, four professional wrestlers, nine beauty pageant winners,
eight Trekkies, and Sister Rose, a sweet and stoic nun who is playing for The Daughters of St Paul Retired Sisters Fund. There you go: there’s something I bet you never though of—how lay people live after “retirement”.
In addition, by the time the second contestant is on his fifth question, the mom is composed of 73% of the remaining 73 mobsters having college degrees. So you can feel for the man when he can’t seem to stump the mob all that easily.
Anyway, here are questions for both contestants this week.
1. Monique, returning from last week, is 1 vs. 68
What crime shares its name with the world’s best-selling video game series?
a) Breaking and Entering b) Grand Theft Auto c) Malicious Mischief
2. 1 vs. 68
The celebrity couple known by what name has not appeared in a movie together?
a) Brangelina b) TomKat c) Vaughniston
3. 1 vs. 65
If the Ancient Romans had a hit game show pitting one person against 100 strangers, what would its title be?
a) I vs. L b) I vs. X c) I vs. C
4. New contestant Jonathan, as 1 vs. 100
Ellen Degeneres was the voice of Dory in the 2003 animated hit featuring what?
a) fish b) toys c) monsters
5. 1 vs. 100
Which of the seven deadly sins is the game character Mz. Pacman most guilty of?
a) gluttony b) envy c) sloth
6. 1 vs. 95
In the classic Roald Dahl tale, a boy named James crawls inside a giant what?
a) fruit with a husk b) fruit with a pit c) fruit from a vine
7. 1 vs. 87
What is Judge Judy’s last name?
a) Sheindlin b) Hatchett c) Wapner
8. 1 vs. 73
Which is not one of the fifty ways to leave your lover listed by Paul Simon in his famous song?
a) slip out the back, Jack b) make a new plan, Stan c) hire an attorney, Ernie
9. 1 vs. 70
According to your GPS, you’re at 0 degrees longitude and 0 degrees latitude. Where are you?
a) North Pole b) Equator c) South Pole
10. 1 vs. 53
Which animal is not indigenous to Africa?
a) the mascot of Toys R Us b) the mascot of MGM c) the mascot of Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes
11. 1 vs. 47
Steve Miller’s “Fly Like an Eagle” would most likely be the theme song of what Greek character?
a) Icarus b) Oedipus c) Orpheus
1. b) Grand Theft Auto
2. b) Tom Kat
3. c) I vs. C [Monique asks the mob, goes with I vs. L, and loses all her dough.]
4. a) fish
5. a) gluttony [A big deal is made about Sister Rose getting it wrong, but as she tells us, she knows the 7 sins well but does not know who Mz. Pacman is.]
6. b) fruit with a pit [James and the Giant Peach]
7. a) Sheindlin
8. c) hire an attorney, Ernie
9. b) Equator
10. c) the mascot of Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes
11. a) Icarus [And with the mob being too smart to beat, Jonathan takes the money: $79,750.]
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