The Who Quiz

Who indeed.

Who knows?

Who cares?

Who put that silverfish in my salad?

Whodunit?

Whoooooo! Whooooo!

Who has caught on as to the topic of this week's quiz? That's right, you either guessed it, read the title at the top of the page or had it beaten into your brain courtesy of the above who-heavy list.

This week's quiz is about who, but not just one particular who. There are far too many famous and important whos, who each deserve a quiz of their very own, for the QM to focus on just one who. She decided instead, to focus on the word itself -who- and write a quiz where: the answer to a question somehow involves the word who; or, the answer to a question is a who; or, the actual question involves uses the word who. It's the embodiment of Who quiz, the quiz of Who essence, the Who's Who of Who quizzes - it's The Who Quiz, and all you whos are encouraged to give it a try!

Get your answers in by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday. You can bring them in to the office, email them to news.letter@jhu.edu, or fill out the quiz online (at http://www.jhunewsletter.com). The winner gets $10 worth of goodies from our sponsors, Eddie's Market and Eddie's Liquors on the 3100 block of St. Paul.

1. A: Look, you gotta first baseman?

B: Certainly.

A: Who's playing first?

B: That's right.

A: When you pay off the first baseman every month, who gets the money?

B: Every dollar of it.

A: All I'm trying to find out is the fellow's name on first base.

B: Who.

Who is the comedy duo responsible for this famous miscommunication (which, of course, is much longer in full - what you have here is a mere sample)?

2. What is the name of the above routine?

3. Now that it seems that anyone might receive an envelope brimming with anthrax spores along with their bills and Victoria's Secret catalog, the American public is clamoring after vaccines and antibiotics like never before. Seriously - since when do pharmacies experience runs on anything except Oxycontin? In any case, it seems, to the QM at least, that at this stage in the game, antibiotics (which help one get well after one is already infected) might be more important that vaccines (which prevent one from getting infected in the first place), because how many of us are really 100 percent sure we haven't been exposed to anthrax? The QM herself recently had an anthrax scare, after discovering what appeared to be a nasty case of subcutaneous anthrax on the back of her elbow (closer inspection proved the "infection" to be nothing more than a scab covered in oil paint). The earliest vaccine, as you premeds should be well-aware, was Penicillin, which was discovered completely by accident. Who was the scientist whose petri dishes became infested with what would prove to be the most serendipitous mold the world has ever known?

4. Who hated the Whos down in Whoville?

5. What was the real name of the writer who brought us the Whos down in Whoville?

6. As the more astute readers may have guessed, the QM is not the greatest fan of popular music. Sure, Britney has had a few catchy tunes, and the boy bands are, if nothing else, easy to make fun of, but precious few of the acts that make it to TRL have enough musical chops to truly satiate a ravenous music-lover like the QM, who is a fan of the classic and the classical. Paganini and Pink Floyd, Rachmaninoff and the Rolling Stones - those are the sounds that are familiar to the QM's stereo. Perhaps her all-time favorite band is The Who, who not only fit this week's quiz topic amazingly well, but who rock today just as much as they did back in the 1960s and '70s (if not more). The QM could enumerate the reasons why she worships at the alter of Pete Townsend, but she knows that despite her best attempts at brevity, such a list would only stop once she had listed every song The Who ever played as their own. As such, she has decided to let the readers do the listing - list the original members of The Who, please, in the following order: singer, guitarist, bassist, drummer.

7. Who was the title character of The Who's first rock-opera, which went up in Arellano Theater last spring?

8. For the first 20 and 1/2 years of her life, the QM lived with a deep and unsettling fear. Curled on the couch watching television, browsing the stacks on D level, stopping at fast food joint for a greasy burger and fries - no matter what she was doing or who she was with, the QM was always looking over her shoulder, around corners, and under the bed, never knowing when the person she feared would crash her reality and bring her worst nightmares to life. And then, last spring, the QM read "A Room of One's Own," and realized that Virginia Woolf wasn't terribly scary - just not very exciting. The QM's lifelong fear of Virginia Woolf stemmed partially from a (deeper and more unsettling) fear of wolves, and partially from the movie "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," which the QM had never seen, but which she figured could only have been made if there was indeed a good reason to fear Virginia Woolf. Who was the playwright who first penned "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

9. Who shot JR?

10. Who was voted Time Magazine's Person of the Century?

Tie breaker: Remember that list at the beginning of the quiz? Who knows, who cares, whodunit? Construct a list of your own, comprised of common language snippets that make use of the word 'who.' Longest list wins!

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