a) Atlantis
b) Challenger
c) Columbia
d) Enterprise

The first five movies in the inspirational series ran from Rocky in 1976 to Rocky V in 1990, followed by a sixteen year gap before Rocky Balboa.

a) 3
b) 4
c) 5
d) 6

• A1) The Jeffersons. Actress Ja'net Du Bois, who played neighbor Willona Woods, performed the theme song with a gospel choir.
• A2) Twyla Tharp. The title track's Anthony and many other Long Islanders appear in the loosely connected plot. One unusual feature of this "musical" is that the actors don't sing and the singers don't act.
• A3) Douglas MacArthur. Mac did not disappoint his mom, graduating first out of 93 people in his class in 1903.
• A4) Illinois. The Great Communicator debuted as Andy McCaine in Love Is in the Air the same year.
• A5) Teflon. Polytetrafluoroethylene, abbreviated PTFE, has the lowest coefficient of friction of any known solid. The fluoropolymer is used to coat non-stick cookware but scratches and wears out fairly easily.
• A6) 40 miles per hour. The momentum of an object is its mass times its velocity, and the principle of conservation of momentum states that the sum of the incoming momentums equals the sum of the outgoing momentums (10*20 + 5*0 = 10*0 + 5*40).
• A7) Lagos. The decision to move the capital had been made fifteen years earlier, with the intervening time used to build the new city.
• A8) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The city housed the First and Second Continental Congresses and served as the U.S. capital under the Articles of Confederation from March 1, 1781 to June 21, 1783 and under the Constitution from December 6, 1790 to May 14, 1800.
• A9) Lithuania. The story about 19th-century Chicago publicized the horrible working conditions and helped spur the passing of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act that created the Food and Drug Administration.
• A10) California. The Joad family escapes the Dust Bowl only to find life just as difficult as sharecroppers.
• A11) Quebec. The Nordiques joined the WHA in 1972 and the NHL in 1979. The team won the Avco Cup in 1977 but never reached the Stanley Cup finals before moving.
• A12) Oakland Raiders. The team moved to Los Angeles in 1982, after owner Al Davis successfully sued the NFL to allow the relocation, but came back to Oakland in 1994. The franchise has won three Super Bowls, twice during its first stay in Oakland and once while in Los Angeles.

This week will be a very painless move as the old Trivia Why's blog at Blogstream completes its transition to the new and improved Trivia Why's blog at Blogger. Please update your bookmarks, and I'll see you there!

Moving Day Questions

• Q1) What sitcom's theme song was called "Movin' on Up"?
• Q2) What choreographer transformed Billy Joel's "Movin' Out" and 25 of his other songs into a Broadway musical in 2002?
• Q3) What future general's mother moved into an apartment overlooking his West Point dormitory to make sure he studied?
• Q4) What U.S. state was Ronald Reagan born and raised in before he moved to California and became an actor?
• Q5) What solid material is the easiest for an object to move across?
• Q6) In a frictionless, elastic collision between a 10-ounce ball moving at 20 miles per hour and a stationary 5-ounce ball with the same radius, how fast will the smaller ball move after a direct hit that brings the heavier ball to a stop?
• Q7) What was the capital of Nigeria before the government moved to Abuja in 1991?
• Q8) Which city served as the U.S. capital just before the government moved to Washington, D.C. in 1800?
• Q9) In Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, what country had the main couple moved to the U.S. from?
• Q10) What state does the main family in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath move from Oklahoma to?
• Q11) In what city did the Colorado Avalanche play hockey in before they moved to Denver in 1995?
• Q12) What was the only NFL team to move away from a city and then later return?

[Note: there is no new Quiz Quilt this week; the quilts are continuing on the new web site, although they do have some catching up to do.]