What city name is shared by the capital of West Virginia and the largest city in South Carolina?

What Jane Austen title character has the last name Woodhouse?

What animal is called "cochon" in French and "cerdo" in Spanish?

Who has the Major League Baseball records for most home runs and most league MVP awards?

What Peacock TV series is named after the location of the Friday the 13th movie?

In what city is the Isabellla Stewart Gardner museum, site of a 1990 theft?

Who are two of the top five female artists with the most #1 Billboard hits?

What 1988 heist comedy earned an Academy Award for Kevin Kline?

What Nubian kingom had capitals in Kerma, Napata, and Meroë?

What color are Louboutin heels?

What team used to play in "The Igloo", but now plays in PPG Paints Arena?

Of what company was Elizabeth Holmes the CEO?

What "Waiting on the World to Change" singer has announced a residency in the Las Vegas Sphere?

What word for an online digital world was popularized by William Gibson in "Burning Chrome" and "Neuromancer" ?

What river flows from Lake Tanganyika and divides the cities Kinshasa and Brazzaville?

On what planet is Maxwell Montes?

What "Much Ado About Nothing" character says "I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior Benedick: nobody marks you." ?

What English scientist was an apprentice bookseller before discovering electromagnetic induction in 1831 ?

What brain structure shaped like a seahorse plays an important role in consolidating memory?

What is the correct spelling of a four-syllable word for a graveyard?

Who inspired a 1999 "costume" consisting of a sports bra and shorts when she celebrated a game-winning shot by removing her jersey?

What country celebrates Pangangaluluwa and Undás ?

What horror franchise mostly takes place in fictional Haddonfield, Illinois​​​​​​​?

I finally identified one of the songs from my first #peppy post!  It turns out not to be about death, but I won't take away any stars for that.

My three least-favorite parts of our trivia league are multiple-choice questions, toss-ups (random numbers), and the betting of up to 40 points on the last question.  Today my bet landed us in a three-way tie for first, and I didn't realize that we'd end up with another toss-up to resolve the tie.  It really does usually come down to all or nothing as the best bets.

What city is the home of Batman?

How many stars on the flag of China?

What creature has a hyperphagia contest in Katmai National Park?

What percentage of U.S. adults with ADHD were diagnosed as adults?

In what letter-shape does a chess knight move?

What Danish toy manufacturer recently promised not to use AI designs?

What Harry Belafonte song was involuntarily sung in  Beetlejuice ?

How much is the first-offence fine for physical contact with an official in the NFL?

What store changed their motto from "Always Low Prices" to "Save Money.  Live Better"?

What is the Italian name of mural painting on wet lime plaster?

What Aboriginal Australian wind instrument makes a droning sound?

What clothing and shoe brand is named after a kind of antelope?

What K-pop band's fans are called Blinks?

What company created an assistant called Clippy?

How many contestants out of 750 beat the Green Line train in a Boston race?

What 1994 film based on a Stephen King novella is #1 in the IMDB Top 250?

What 2026 film with a one-word title stars Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson?

In what pub does Harry Potter first taste butterbeer?  The Three Broomsticks, The Leaky Cauldron, or The Hog's Head?

What percentage of U.S. adults read at less than a 6th-grade level?

What British sketch comedy team considered silly walks and a dead parrot?

Whose final public performance was "Nessun Dorma" at the 2006 Olympics?

What German potato-and-egg casserole is also the name of a Dutch rum-and-egg drink?

What is the name of one of the two men who twice served as Continental Congress president?

At what age did Charles II of England die?

What is the first name of Fidel Castro's brother, who succeeded him as President of Cuba?

What brand of personal lubricant was invented for NASA to improve the heat transfer in the cooling system of the shuttle?

What French sculptor created The Thinker?

Who is the titular hero of a Babylonian epic poem about a king of Uruk?

What lake was created by flooding Glen Canyon on the Colorado River?

What city hosts the Tower of the Americas, built for the 1968 World's Fair?

What is the oldest Major League Baseball mascot, introduced in 1964?

What National Hockey League team plays in Little Caesars Arena?

What are the three types of sword used in fencing?

What was the original name of Caesar Augustus before he became emperor?

What word for a type of dog was the title of a 2010 FX comedy-drama about unlicensed private investigators?

What animal is the subject of a joke referenced in the title of a book by Lynne Truss: "Eats, Shoots & Leaves"?

What body of water is crossed by a 23-mile causeway between Mandeville and Metairie?

What is the highest of 8 taxonomic ranks, the lowest of which are genus and species?

What college football team defeated Stanford with "The Play", colliding with Stanford's celebrating band in the process?

What Egyptian god was judge of the dead and "First King of Egypt"?

In contrast to the semi-finals, this time we were out of the money in fourth place before the final question.  We still had a chance, though, and somehow won the game based on our knowledge of Banking.

What is the loudest land animal audible to humans, at approximately 140 decibels?

What is the only currently independent nation that is also a grand duchy?

What U.S. battleship had the most battle stars, serving in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and Lebanon?

What investment bank, founded as a dry-goods store in Alabama, caused the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history?

In honor of Talk Like A Pirate Day, "Argh!"  We were in qualifying position at 2nd place before the final pair of questions, which ruined us.

Who was the pirate born Edward Teach?

With what unit of distance does Han Solo measure his success at the Kessel Run?

Which of these is not one of 6 mysterious numbers in the series "Lost"?  4, 8, 17, 42

What percentage of U.S. households use GLP medications?

Who is the patron saint of Armenia and hopeless causes?

What actress was jailed multiple times starting in 2007 due to a DUI, and in 2011 was arrested for shoplifting jewelry?

In The Shawshank Redemption, how much did Andy steal from the Warden?

From what city does a "scouser" hail?

For what NFL running back is the NCAA FCS (1-AA) most outstanding offensive player award named?

What luxury brand was originally the Swallow Sidecar Company and more recently used the slogan "Copy Nothing"?

What 5 U.S. states are in the Eastern Time Zone and also one other time zone?

What soda brand is named after a word for indigestion?

What plant, also called "thunderwood" is Toxicodendron vernix?

Which of these has never been awarded the FIFA "Golden Boot" for most goals in the World Cup?  Pélé, Ronaldo, Müller, Kane?

What is the NFL team record number for most sacks in a season?

What did John Logie Baird invent?

What 7,100-pound statue, expressing optimism, was mysteriously dropped outside the New York Stock Exchange in 1989?

What is the only U.S. National Park centered on a manmade structure?

What are the Italian names for the following pastas?  "little worms", "ridged", "small wheels"?

What animals did the Australian Army fight in 1932?

What Tom Cruise movie had the tagline "Live. Die. Repeat." ?

What "baritenor" was born in 1979 in Mansfield, Missouri?

In what chronological order did the following occur?  Oxford University, Aztec Empire, Magna Carta?

What U.S. state was the home of the most losing presidential nominees?

What Roman equivalent of Cronus inspired the name of a day of the week?

What national animal of South Africa is the mascot for their rugby team?

What genetic disease whose symptoms include a red spot on the retina developed increased prevalance among Ashkenazi Jews, Cajuns, and French Canadians?

What job does a Foley artist perform in film production?

Nadja is a 1994 vampire movie starring Peter Fonda as Van Helsing.  So far, so good.  The film was written and directed by Michael Almereyda, but its $1M budget was financed entirely by David Lynch.  The whole thing is in black-and-white, but the "vampire-vision" point-of-view was obtained by using a literal Fisher-Price toy Pixelvision camera.  Here's my favorite quote sequence from the movie:

Nadja (holding Lucy's pet tarantula Bela):  "What does he eat?"

Lucy:  "Potatoes. Potato salad. Beer[?*]. I tried to teach him French but he wasn't interested."

Nadja:  "Maybe he has a learning disability."

[?*] That word is unclear.  Maybe it's actually "Deer"?  That makes even less sense, though.  Was this part actually scripted?  The actress playing Lucy is Galaxy Craze, and she reportedly said "I don't recommend people give their kids weird names."