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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! 

Strombo for the week of May 28 - June 1

George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight this week.
It's the last full week of TV tapings for the season. Final taping in on Monday June 4th.
Listen to The Strombo Show  May 27? No more likely June 3 for the winners of our Trivia Contest! We will announce the answers as we promised on the blog Monday May 28 regardless of schedule change. 


Monday May 28
Filmmakers Adrian Grenier and

 Tiffany Sudela-Junker

Journalist and author Misha Glenny

Tuesday May 29
Politician and twitter king, The Honourable  Tony Clement

British actress Juno Temple

Wednesday May 30
The Nature of David Suzuki

Thursday May 31
Actor and supporter of The Tema Conter Memorial Trust  Canada's own 
Enrico Colantoni

Singer Carole Pope

Friday June 1
Best of the week


Performance by 
Mother Mother

THE STROMBO SHOW, May 27, 2012

Got a crazy mad paced show tonight!  George talks to upcoming Mutek Music Festival curator Patti Schmidt - who will give us a sneak peak of some performers, who will be transcending on Montreal May 31- June 2.

Plus our Blend Segment gets beefed up when, Alex 'The Can Con Don' Narvaez drops in with 6 Mini Mixes from The Stylus Award nominees for Breakthrough DJ of The Year.

Plus as always - The Magnificent 7 Countdown of the Best New Music, 10 with Tom Waits, and the Big Lie Down (mellow tunes) to close the show out.

8pm - 11pm

CBC Radio 2
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www.cbc.ca/radio2

Listen Online or Get FM Frequency here
http://www.cbc.ca/frequency/index.html

Follow along on Twitter @strombo
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Your Website

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Strombo for the week of May 21-25

George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight this week.


Monday May 21
Rock legend guitarist Slash

Noah Richler is a journalist and author and yes, a son of  Mordecai Richler.

Tuesday May 22
Alan Doyle singer/songwriter with Great Big Sea and does some acting on the side.

Award winning author Russell Banks

Wednesday May 23
Actor Dominic Monaghan known for Lord Of The Rings and Lost.

American journalist, humorist, novelist Calvin Trillin

Thursday May 24
Oscar winning actress Olympia Dukakis

Iranian-Canadian Model, singer and human rights activist Nazanin Afshin-Jam

Friday May 25
Best of the week
and a performance by
Wintersleep

Don't forget to tune in Sunday  May 27th to The Strombo Show to find out who the two winners are of The How Well Do You Know Strombo Trivia Contest.  Happy 6th anniversary to this blog! Thank you to all the participants and readers that helped get the word out there. The answers will be posted Monday May 28th.

What @strombo can do with one tweet

While I was listening to The Strombo Show on Sunday night, I was reading my twitter feed and a trend started forming from a number of Canadian comedians I follow. They were tweeting a plea to go help a well known fellow comedian that you may be familiar with, Mike MacDonald. They posted a website to click on and learn more about supporting Mike and his family in their time of need. I checked it out, and read Mike's plight in his own words.  The total amount of donations was about $3,000 at that point and I felt that this was worthy of getting the word spread and helping out.

I knew that George Stroumboulopoulos checks his Twitter feed most of the time his radio show is playing. He sometimes responds to people tweeting about the show. I had hoped he saw any number of these tweets asking for help for Mike but I tweeted Strombo about it just in case. About 7 minutes later George posted this:
G. Stroumboulopoulos ‏ @strombo
Hi... Please check this out. Let's show our collective strength for a Canadian comedy legend, Mike Macdonald....http://gofundme.com/mikemacdonald

Please click the link and scroll down to read the situation in Mike's own words...

I marked George's tweet to check back on it later. The next morning I looked again at the tweet George posted and it had been re-tweeted over 50 times by other people. I looked at Mike MacDonald's link again and found that the total amount donated had more than doubled overnight. It's heartening how everyone has come together to stand up for one of Canada's favorite stand -up comic. 

Thanks for your contribution George. You do more than you know!

How well do you know Strombo? Please enter the contest now! http://notpaidbythehour.blogspot.ca/2012/05/try-little-strombo-trivia.html
Contest closes this Friday night.

Strombo's week May 14-18

George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight this week
This is the last week of the contest. Please review and enter now!


Monday May 14
From CNN, medical corespondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta

Activist for can-con, actor Art Hindle

Tuesday May 15
The Dictator played by actor, writer Sacha Baron Cohen See earlier post

Actor, writer, director, producer Ken Finkleman

Wednesday May 16
Best selling author is an understatement John Irving

Author and journalist Nahlah Ayed has her own story to tell

Thursday May 17
Medium John Edward returns to the show. 
*see extra online features after the show.

Red letter Christian, author Tony Campolo

Friday May 18
Best of the Week
Plus a performance by
Danielle Duval

Strombo Show May 13 2012

THE STROMBO SHOW

May 13 , 2012

Mother's Day Edition

Every Sunday is Mother's Day for The Strombo Show crew. We are all products of our Mother's and we celebrate that, by paying respects to all the Mother's out there with some music about mom's. We also have an interview with the oldest son of Bob, Ziggy Marley. So hug your Mom, and get Irie with us on the Strombo Show.

8pm - 11pm

CBC Radio 2
http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/
http://music.cbc.ca/#/radio2/playlogs/

Listen Online or Get FM Frequency here
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Follow along on Twitter @strombo
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Contributed by

Darby Wheeler

I don't mind Kermit promoting a movie in character...

George Stroumboulopoulos sits down with The Dictator, airing this Tuesday May 15th at 11:05pm.

Just like when the Trailer Park Boys all came in to do an interview in character...if you like that kind of thing.

George interviewed His Excellency, General Colonel Doctor Aladeen, Democratic President-For-Life, Invincible and All-Triumphant Commander, Chief Ophthalmologist, Brilliant Genius of Humanity, Excellent Swimmer Including Butterfly, and Beloved Oppressor and Ruthless Protector of the Precious and Expendable People of Wadiya, a.k.a. Sacha Baron Cohen, in a "secret" location in NYC earlier this month.

About The Film:

Sacha Baron Cohen stars as General Aladeen in The Dictator, the heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy never comes to the country he so lovingly oppresses. It is the first scripted starring role for Baron Cohen who has previously brought his signature characters Borat and Bruno to the big screen. The film comes out on the Wednesday May 16th.

Clip of the interview can be viewed here:  'The Dictator' Sacha Baron Cohen On Stephen Harper & Canada

The Supreme Leader spoke on topics ranging from (the lack of) Freedom of Speech in his home country of Wadiya, his love of Ronald Regan, mourning Kim Jong Il, is "current" unwelcome houseguest Muammar Gaddafi, the Ryan Seacrest fallout and who really killed Tupac (himself).

The General also addressed his relationship with Canada, claiming Stephen Harper isn't a real leader because he only has one wife. Don Cherry, Celine Dion and Justin Bieber were also covered in this Canadian exclusive.

Info and photo supplied to us by Strombo.com

Strombo Tonight is moving to 7 pm!

The CBC Fall Launch event is announcing all the changes that will be see this fall at the CBC. George Stroumboulopoulos just announced that George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight will air at 7pm a 30 minute show in early Prime Time, then air again later that night at 11:30 for those who enjoy their boyfriend later. Premiere is September 17 2012. I am also told GST will be live streaming their tapings simultaneously online. I don't have a lot more on this story. Look for developments here.

Try a little Strombo trivia!

Just a reminder the contest closes May 18th
As I posted before the prizes are fantastic!
Chances of winning are great!
A little research and you can nail those questions! I know you can!

Do you need more hints? What's the hesitation?

Contest questions

(Please read the contest rules below before playing. Do not answer in the comment section but feel free to leave comments. Good luck!)


1) What city is George's home away from home? (hint: he just came back from there)


2) Name two CBC tv shows, not including the news or Hockey Night In Canada, that George has appeared on as himself.


3) Name the 3 guests from George's favorite tv show that have appeared on George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight. (Hint: one was in the month of April 2012, in Vancouver.)


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?


5) Which occasional guest host on George’s CBC Radio 2 Spirit of Radio show
does a segment called “Mack and Cheese”? (Hint: he’s a radio host and producer on TSN 1050)

6) Name 3 Dragons from CBC’s “Dragon’s Den” have appeared on The
George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight show?

7) How can you help George, World Food Programme Ambassador, feed
hungry people around the world (and have fun with trivia)?


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


9)What do the red cups you see George and his guests sipping from represent?


10)What organization honored George with a membership in 2012?

All the answers are searchable somewhere on the internet. You have until 11:59 pm Friday May 18 2012.  Have fun!

Remember to include a SONG REQUEST for the Strombo Show.

CONTEST RULES

Overview:

The contest will commence Monday, April 23, 2012 and conclude Friday, May 18, 2012 at 11:59 pm EST

Participating in the contest:

1. entrants will be required to submit via email (stroumboulopouli@hotmail.com) the answers to ten (10) trivia questions.

2. Entries are to include the following:

• The entrant’s FIRST and LAST name
• Complete mailing address including postal/zip code
• The telephone number associated with the mailing address (for mailing purposes only)
• A valid email address
• Trivia answers clearly numbered 1-10
• A song request for The Strombo Show

3. Only one (1) entry per person will be accepted.

Prize description:

Some nice from Strombo merchandise to be sure.

How the winners will be determined:

• At the conclusion of the contest, the judging panel will review each eligible entry. The entry with the most number of correct answers will be deemed the winner.
• In the event of a tie, eligible entries will be placed in a drum and a random draw will occur. Winner(s) will be announced by George on The Strombo Show Sunday May 27, 2012

Notification:

• The winners of the contest will be posted on “The Stroumboulopouli” blog on Monday, May 28, 2012. Winners will be notified via email that same day.

Miscellaneous rules:

• The administration of this contest is solely the responsibility of the bloggers contributing to “The Stroumboulopouli”. Neither the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, nor any of its employees or affiliates assumes liability for this contest.
• Only entries submitted to stroumboulopouli@hotmail.com will be accepted. Entries to any other email address will be disqualified. Contest administrators are not responsible for lost, misdirected or incomplete email entries.
• Immediate family members (including spouses/partners, siblings, parents, children) or persons living under the same roof as “The Stroumboulopouli” bloggers are not eligible to participate in this contest.
• The decision of the judges is final.
• The winner accepts the prizes as awarded. There will be no substitutions.
• By entering the contest, winners agree that “The Stroumboulopouli” may post their FIRST name and general geographic location on the blog at the conclusion of the contest.
• All information is collected for the purposes of mailing out the contest prize. The personal information gathered will be used only for the purpose stated and outlined in the rules above and will be destroyed after the contest is over. It will not be shared, sold or used in any other fashion then stated above. If you have concerns regarding the use of your information please contact us at stroumboulopouli@hotmail.com

If you don't have all the answers enter with as many answers as you've got...

THE STROMBO SHOW, May 6 , 2012

The first Strombo Show of May pays tribute to The Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch, who passed away this week. 

 

 

 

 

We have a great Magnificent Seven Countdown and CBC Radio 3's Lana Gay visits to talk about the perfect "make out" mix-tape. 

 

 

8pm - 11pm

CBC Radio 2
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www.cbc.ca/radio2

Listen Online or Get FM Frequency here
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Follow along on Twitter @strombo
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Your Website

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May 7 -11 Strombo this week

George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight this week

Monday May 7
The Hulk! Actor  Mark Ruffalo

Healthiest Man alive Author A.J. Jacobs returns to the show

Tuesday May 8
Actress Kathleen Turner

Guitarist Buddy Guy

Wednesday May 9
Canadian Director Yung Chang

Also on the show
International children's right activists Craig and Marc Kielburger

Thursday May 10
Country music legend Charley Pride

Canadian actor Kevin Duran

Friday May 11
Best of the week
plus
Musical performance by
Edmonton's Poet Laureate and Canadian hip hop genius Cadence Weapon

Don't forget please enter the How Well Do You Know Strombo Trivia Contest... You have until May 18th!

Friday's show

Friday May 4th
Not only is Friday's show going to cover the best interviews of the week it also features an amazing performance by the very talented very charming
Measha Brueggergosman

Did I talk about the prizes yet?

It's our blog's 6th birthday but you get the gifts!
There is still time to enter the How Well Do You Know Strombo Trivia Contest. See previous post
We don't want you to do all that hard work researching the answers to the trivia questions without great reward! Enter the contest by following the instructions but include a song request that, if he likes it, will be played by George on the Strombo Show May 27 when he announces the two prize winners.
Here are some photos of the prizes.

Both first and second prize winners get a GST bag and included in that bag there is a GST mug (comes in a box wrapped in stress relieving bubble wrap)


That's pretty cool, but that's not all!

You will also find a GST notebook autographed by George!


The First prize winner gets an additional item...

 A Strombo (fighting moose logo) CBC t-shirt (size large). 


Monday May 28 the winners will get a confirmation email. Allow a few weeks for delivery of your prize.