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Here are the answers to the How Well Do You Know Strombo Trivia Contest

Listen next Sunday June 3, to The Strombo Show to find out who the two winners are, and what song they would like George to play on the show.

1) What city is George's home away from home?
Los Angeles, California.

2) Name two CBC tv shows, not including the news or Hockey Night In Canada, that George has appeared on as himself.
He has been on Being Erica, The Rick Mercer Report, Just For Laughs, Battle Of The Blades, Cover Me Canada, The Greatest Canadian...bonus points if you name some more.

3) Name the 3 guests from George's favorite TV show that have appeared on George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight.
From The Wire: Michael Kenneth Williams (Omar), Lance Reddick (Lt. Daniels), and Idris Elba (Stringer Bell).

4) George often asks the following, particularly to British guests, during rapid-fire Answerpology. What is the correct answer (and there IS a correct answer according to him ) – Stones or Beatles?
The Rolling Stones

5) Which occasional guest host on George’s CBC Radio 2 Spirit of Radio show
does a segment called “Mack and Cheese”?
Bob Mackowycz Jr. 

6) Name 3 Dragons from CBC’s “Dragon’s Den” have appeared on The
George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight show?
Arlene Dickinson, Robert Herjavec, Jim Treliving, Kevin O’Leary

7) How can you help George, World Food Programme Ambassador, feed
hungry people around the world (and have fun with trivia)?
By playing Free Rice http://freerice.com/content-group/george-stroumboulopoulos

8)When did the Strombo Show make its debut on Radio 2?

November 8, 2009.

9)What do the red cups you see George and his guests sipping from represent?
The World Food Programme. The campaign is called the Red Cup Campaign.

10)What organization honored George with a membership in 2012?
The World Economic Forum's  Youth Global Leaders class of 2012


Thanks to all who participated. Congratulations to the winners! 

I have a question for you.

It's spring!  It's time to add new colour to the garden and add new links and pictures to this blog. 

Maybe you want to add new politicians to Ottawa in this tulip festival time or you may prefer the ones already rooted there. Please participate in the poll right there on the sidebar. Are you going to vote (in this poll) and in the Federal election on May 2nd ?

I added a link on the sidebar to George's Insongnia page so you can check out his latest late night song dedication and all his previous late night or very early morning song choices.

There are a few more website links we added to the list as well including Freerice.com, the WFP and the Strombo Show Chat blog.

If you have suggestions for that link list or pictures you want to share please feel free to email us. We will check the Stroumboulopouli@hotmail.com email box for your George photo or link or blog post idea. Keep it clean okay!

Boo! The week starting October 31st!

Happy Hallowe'en readers! Hopefully your Hallowe'en is as spooky as you want it to be! As someone who works with elementary school aged children, I see Hallowe'en as both a blessing and a curse: where the fun & excitement of dressing up meets the inevitable change in behaviour caused by a week-long sugar high! :-) Good times indeed...

While welcoming ghosts, ghouls and fairy princesses to your door, be sure to tune in to The Strombo Show. As George loves Hallowe'en (it IS his favourite 'high holiday', after all), I am sure that this week's episode will be quite special.

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Coming up on George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight:

Monday, November 1st

Lieutenant-General, the Honourable Roméo A. Dallaire (retired)

Tuesday, November 2nd

Filmmaker Danny Boyle.

Wednesday, November 3rd

Award winning journalist, author and war correspondent Chris Hedges.

Thursday, November 4th

Interior design guru Debbie Travis.

Friday, November 5th

Filmmaker Edgar Wright.

and a musical performance by Sweet Thing.

In other news...

Have some free time on your hands? Check out George's Free Rice group homepage. The Free Rice concept is pretty simple: for each question answered correctly, ten grains of rice will be donated through the World Food Programme to help end hunger.